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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27,1917. Established 1891.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Lodge Locals.
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Lodge, Dec. 22.-?Misses Janie and
Clemmie Fender very delightfully
and attractively entertained a goodly
number of the younger set of this
' community at their, home on Thursday
evening, Dec. 20. The evening
was very pleasantly spent by playing
many social and attractive games,
and on parting the folks voted the
Misses Fender delightful entertain
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ers. Music was an attractive feature
of the evening, being furnished
by Mr. L. A. Hiers. Those who had
the pleasure of attending were: Misses
Carrie Williams, Pauline Pritcher,
Marie Carter, Lorie, Nora and CoTine
Crosby, Janie, Clemmie and Valerie
Fender; Messrs. L. A. Hiers, J,
H. Caldwell, Eugene and Dewey McMillan.
Robbie Crosby, L. W. Brab.Ehm,
J. L. Frank and Eugene Feny?
der.
Miss Carrie Williams, the able and
efficient teacher of the Dry Branch
school, left Friday afternoon for her
hame near Smoaks, where she will
spend the Christmal holidays with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wil,
liams. Miss Williams will resume
her work at Dry Branch on Monday
morning, Jan 7th.
Mr. A. R Chandler a Drominent
saw mill man and lumber dealer of
Walterboro, was a visitor in our section
today. Mr. Chandler now owns
t and operates the mill at Caldwell station,
which was formerly owned and
v operated by the late Perry B. Sanders.
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Messrs. J. H. Caldwell, B. F. Fender,
J. L. Crosby and L. W. Brabham
formed an automobile party to Walterboro
Friday of this week. They
made the trip in Mr. Caldwell's Maxwell.
lyir. W. G. Hiers, a prosperous
young farmer of this section, had
business at^Ehrhardt Friday.
Miss Lorie Crosby, who holds an
important position at the Charleston
navy yard, is at home with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crosby, for
the /Christmas holidays. Miss Crosby
expects to return to the city Dec.
26.
Mr. Hoyt Breland, a prominent
young man of Olar, was a pleasant
visitor in our section Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Laurie C. Tuten and children,
of Charleston, arrived Sunday morning
to spend the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crosby.
Messrs. B. T. Ayer and Willie Bishop,
two of Etfrhardt's . promising
young men, spent last Wednesday in
our section as the guests of Mr. Leland
A. Hiers.
Mr. Clifton Fralix, one of our prosperous
young farmers, spent Thursday
of this week in Walterboro.
Mr. 4nd Mrs. W. G. Hiers and chil?
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holidays with Mrs. Hiers's father,
Mr. H. C. Bishop, near Ehrhardt.
Mr. C. S. Caldwell, carrier on R.
F. D. 1 from Lodge, had business in
Walterboro today.
Messrs. H. C. and B. B. Bishop,
two prosperous farmers and business
men of Ehrhardt, had business in our
section last week.
Camp Contractors and Foods.
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In some army and national guard
camps contractors who undertook to
dispose of garbage at a price based
^ upon the amount they expected to
get are threatening to throw up their
^ contracts because the amount is so
small. j
The surgeon general's office and
the quartermaster's department are
cooperating to secure the best nutrition
of soldiers with the least waste.
Officers of the food division give instruction
in food values, balancing of
menus, and methods of cooking and
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of this sort was attended by 750
cooks, mess sergeants, and mess officers.
The allowance provided by the army
regulations is liberal and permits
of considerable savings. These accumulate
to the credit of the organizations
if there is careful management.
The retail price of milk in England
has been andvanced from 14 to
16 cents a quart. The sale and use
of cream has been prohibited, except
for invalids, infants and butter
Cambrai.
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"The vast importance to both
; belligerents, of the town of Cambrai,
121 miles northeast of the town oi
Paris and 20 miles southeast ol
Arras, is due in very large measure
1 to the railways which radiate from
it in spoke-like fashion, as from the
hub of a wheel," says a war geobulletin
issued from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geographic
Society.
"Seven railroads m^t and cross
each other at this little city of 30000
inhabitants which clings to a
slope rising from the right bank of
the River Scheldt. Fully to appreciate
the value of this military depot
one needs only to realize the territory
which its railroads cover. If
we should draw a north and south
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railroads would be found branching
off in an easterly direction and three
to the west. The two main lines
on the eastern side extend to Valenciennes,
28 miles to the northeast,
and to Busigny, 16 miles to the southeast.
The latter line passes though
Caudry, a town of 11,000 inhabitants,
and after reaching Busigny turns in
a southwesterly direction to St. Quentin.
The two less important lines
are those running to Le Cateu, 16
miles distant, with important woolen
and spinning mills, and to Selesmes,
a linen manufacturing town, 13
miles away.
"The lines of the western sector
run northwestward to Douai, 16
miles away, westward to the village
of Boisleux a station on the important
Arras-Amien railway line, and southward
to St. Quentin on the Somme
and to Chaulnes, this line branching
east and west at Roisel.
"Cambrai lies to the north and
slightly east of Paris, 121 miles distant
by rail, via St. Quentin and
Busigny and 128 miles of St. Just,
Chaulnes and Peronne.
"Before the war the town was
auite an imDortant manufacturing
city, with extensive soap works,
sugar mill and textile factories. Of
course, its chief distinction from an
industrial standpoint is the fact it
was here that Baptist Coutaing the
weaver, is supposed to have made
the first cloth which now hears the,
name of cambric, in honor of the
town and the fine muslin called
"batiste," which commemorates the
achievement of the weaver. It was
in the fifteenth century that cambric
was invented.
"Cambrai occupies an important
place in medieval French history. It
was here that the famous League of
Cambrai was formed in 1508, the
members of the league being Pope
Julius II, the Emperor Maximilian I,
Louis XII of France and Ferdinand,
King of Aragon. The primary object
of the allies was the overthrow
of Venice, which would have been
fully accomplished had not mutual
jealousies defeated the chief aim of
the alliance.
"Twenty-one years after the formation
of this famous league, an almost
equally famous peace was signed
here by Louise of Savoy, represent
mg ner son, Francis 1, or France,
and Margaret, .of Austria, representing
her nephew, the Emperor Charles
V. This treaty whjch, owing to its
feminine signatories, became known
as the Paix des Dames, put an end to
the plans for a duel between Francis
and Charles. This single-handed
battle had been proposed as a means
of settling the differences between
the two monarchs without plunging
their respective countries into a
bloody war.
"In the closing years of the sixteenth
century Cambrai passed to the
Spanish crown, and it remained a
part of the Flemish possessions of
that royal family for nearly 100
years, its recession to France taking
place by a treaty entered into during
the reign of Louis XIV. In
1793 the town resisted a seige by
Austrian forces, but it fell before
the Duke of Wellington's attack in
1815."
20,000 Nurses are Required.
With a continuance of the war, in
the next year at least 20,000 nurses
will be needed in army hospitals at
home and abroad. Of the 80,000
graduate nurses of the country, only
3,500 have so far been assigned
j to duty in army service, and of this
number 1,500 are in France.
An army nurse must be a graduate
of a training school for nurses and
must have served for two years in
a hospital. They are assigned to duty
in the United States or abroad, and
preferences are granted when conditions
permit. Nurses who prefer not
to have service abroad will have their
preferences respected.
GEORGE STATES WAR AIMS
HUNS MUST RESTORE TERRITORY
AND PAY FOR DAMAGE.
Turks Can't Have Jerusalem.?Peace
> Congress to I>ecide Fate of
German Colonies.
London, Dec. 20.?Complete restoration
of the territories taken by the
enemy, together with compensations,
was demanded by Premier Lloyd
' George in explaining the war aims
of the government.
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due to surprise, and this was now
engaging inquiry. The Germans, he
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stated had lost 100,000 prisoners, valuable
positions and hundreds of gun?.
Great Britain did not enter the war
the premier said, to increase by a
yard the terriotry of any one else, but
because of the belief that Britain's
honor, the question of standing by
her v.ord, was involved.
Speaking in the house of commons
today. David Lloyd George, the British
prime minist?;*, said that the margin
of losses at sea were narrowing.
The sinking by submarines, he declared,
were decreasing, while ship
building was increasing.
Although the merchant tonnage
was cut down by 20 per cent., the loss
VioH hoon nnlv fi nor r>ont r?n imnnrts
over that of last year.
Military Situation.
Regarding the military situation,
Mr. Lloyd George said it was idle to
pretend that the hopes formed had
been realized. This disappointment
he attributed to the Russian collapse.
The premier said that he losses in
shipping has been higher by hun-l
dreds of thousands of tons than ja.e
had anticipated in his August estimate.
The premier said that the loss in
sian army had fulfilled the expectations
of its gfenerals, by this time the
pride of the German military power
would have been completely humbled.
Somewhat Disappointing.
On the whole, the British campaign
had not achieved the expectations
formed, he said, but there had
been military successes in Palestine
which would have a permanent effect
on the history of the world. Jerusalem,
he stated, never would be restored
to the Turks.
After referring to the Italian reverses
the premier said it would be
necessary for .Great Britain to make
greater sacrifices to strengthen its
armies in the coming yeah The need
would arise to increase the nation's
man power by taking some men now
exempted.
Problem of Food.
The premier's speech was deliver
ed when adjournment for the holidays
was moved in the house of sommons
this afternoon. He dealt with
the problem of food first. Two circumstances,
he said, had contributed
lately to the gravity of the situation?the
failure to obtain margarine
and butter from Holland and
Denmark, and the fact that England
had been required to make sacrifices
in order to supply deficiencies of her
allies. Owing to the efforts of the
food controller an improvement was
visible in circumstances which had
caused so much anxiety in the last
few days. More tea was coming in
and it was hoped by increased manufacture
to improve the situation as
regarded margarine shortly.
America's Entry.
The advent of America into the
world politics, the premier declared,
was an event which would loom large
in the future. This was true also
of the establishment of the International
council at Versailles.
As for the disposition of the German
colonies, the premier said that
must be settled by the peace congress.
The future trustees of those
countries must take into account the
sentiments of the people themselves.
, The premier told his hearers that
a league of nations in which Germany
was represented by triumphant
militarism would be a hollow farce.
Output Smaller.
Owing to the food difficulties in
Germany, the premier went on, the
physical deterioration of workmen
there had been so marked that the
output per man had been decreased
by 33 per cent.
As for the British casualties, Mr.
Lloyd George said they had not amI
ounted to more than one-fourth or
one-fifth of the Germans. Opposed
to Germany, Austria and their allies,
he asserted, were man power and
reserves more than double those
which the Teutons possessed. The
government, he said, would confer
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THIRTY-EIGHT KILLED.
Passenger Train Crashes into Rear
of Accommodation Train.
Shepherdsville, Ky., Dec. 20.?
Thirty-eight persons were killed and
about thirty-nine others injured tonight
when Louisville and Nashville
passenger train No. 7 from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, crashed into the
rear of the Bardstown, Louisville and
Springfield accommodation train just
south of the station here early tonight,
according to W. F. Sheridan,
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First reports, apparently auehtntic,
had placed the numbed of known
dead at sixty-seven, and the number
of injured between forty and fifty,
but this was reduced when an official
check of the figures were made.
No cause for the wreck was assigned
by Mr. Sheridan, who would make
no statement, pending an investigation
of the tragedy.
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Extracts From Diaries of Germans.
The 94-page booklet "German
War Practices," published by the
committee on public information, devotes
one section to extracts from
German war diaries, among them being
the following:
"A shell burst near the eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. At 5 o'clock we
were ordered by the officer in command
of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny, because
the population was foolishly attempting
to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We
broke into the houses, and seized all
who resisted, in order to execute
them according to martial law. The
houses which had not already been
destroyed by the French artillery and
our own were set on fire by us, so that
nearly the whole town was reduced
to ashes. It is a terrible sight when
helpless women and children, utterly
destitute, are herded together and
driven into France." (From the diary
of Pvt. Fischer, eighth Bavarian
regiment of infantry, thirty-third reserve
division.)
Copies of this booket may be secured
free of charge by application
to the committee on public information,
10 Jackson Place, Washington,
D. C.
Lucid Testimony.
"The average individual," said the
Scotland Yard official, "can't give a
detective simple, plain, straightforward
information. Questioned bv a
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^detective, h? becomes as involved and
difficult as the office boy. A detective
asked an office boy if it was Mr. Jones
or his partner who reached the office
first as a rule.
" 'Well,' said the boy, turning very
red, 'Mr. Jones at first was always
late, but later he began to get earlier,
till at last he was first, though before
he had always been behind. He
soon got later again,'though of late
he has been sooner, and at last he
got behind as before. But I expect
he will be getting earlier sooner or
later.' "?London Tit Bits.
next week with trades unions on the
man power proposals.
Peace Terms the Germans Want.
Washington, Dec. 20.?What purports
to be an outline of the kaiser's
much advertised "Christmas peace
terms" has reached here through
the same neutral' diplomatic channels
which earlier in the week received
information to support intimations
from abroad that a new peace
offer was coming.
In the main, the terms, as described,
follow the lines of those said to
have been written by Foreign Minis
ter von Kuenimann last summer. At
that time they were denounced as
liaving been written purely for political
purposes. The so-called terms
are said to leave the disposition of
Alsace-Lorraine to a plebescite of inhabitants.
German Colonies.
England to pay Germany for her
lost African coloni.es and the money
to be used for the rehabilitation of
Belgium, Serbia, Roumania, and Northern
France.
Russian provinces bordering the
Baltic, the Black sea and Prussia to
become independent, under a German
plan.
Poland to be called an independent
State under Austrian suzerainty.
Disarmament, freedom of the seas,
and commerce to be left to the peace
conierence.
Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro
to retain their original boundaries,
with the right of access to the sea
being granted to Serbia.
Turkey to remain intact.
LARGE ACREAGE IN WHEAT
GOVERNMENT FORECASTS CROP
OF 540,000,000 BUSHELS.
Condition is Poor.?Dry Weather Big
Backset.?Third Largest
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Crop is Predicted.
Washington, December 19.?Government
plans for a billion bushels
wheat crop next year to help the United
States feed its allies have received
a rctback. It was disclosed today
by the December crop report of the
I department of agriculture that while
| winter wheat was planted on the largest
acreage ever sown to that cereal
its condition on December 1 was the
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lowest oil record ior tnai uate.
A winter crop of 540,000,000 bushels
was forecast by the bureau of
crop estimates. The actual production
will be greater or less than that
quantity, according as conditions
better or worse than average.
An area of more than 47,000,000
acres was the mark set by the government
for farmers to plant to winter
wheat this fall, but the December
canvass shows that 42,170,000 acres
were sown. The farmers did their
best, department of agriculture officials
say, but conditions were against
them.
Dry Weather.
The very dry weather in most of
the winter wheat belts was a large
drawback, while late harvest of other
crops and shortage of farm labor
were contributing causes for the failure.
Should the winter wheat crop mature
to 540,000,000 bushels as fore
cast today it would be the third largest
on record, being exceeded only
by the crops of 1914 and 1915. Government
officials had figured on having
winter wheat production reach
672,000,000 bushels, but today's forecast
indicates that it wni fall 132,000,000
bushels short of that figure.
Indications are that rye production
will be 25,000.000 bushels larger
than last year's record crop.
Spring Wheat.
Already steps are being taken for
a large increase in the acreage of the
spring crop to be planted next spring.
Council of national defense and department
of agriculture officials have
conferred and will adopt measures
to insure an adequate labor supply
for planting operations, ample supply
of seed wheat and help for the
harvests. The largest spring wheat
crop heretofore was in 1915, when
351,354,000 bushels were harvested
from 19,161,000 acres.
Acreage by States. '
Acreage of winter wheat with the
percentage of increase over last year
in Southern States follow:
Virginia, 1,463,000 acres, 10 percent.
North Carolina, 1,179,000 acres;
15 per cent.
South Carolina, 270,000 acres; 20
per cent.
Georgia, 428,000 acres; 9 per cent.
Tennessee, 840,000 acres; 5 per
cent.
Alabama, 144,000 acres; 20 per
cent.
Mississippi, 36,000 acres; 100 per
cent.
Texas, 1,622,000 acres; decrease,
6 per cent.
. Oklahoma, 3,264,000 acres; decrease,
4 per cent.
Arkansas, 288,000 acres; increase,
31 per cent.
Cooperating with Y. M. C. A.
While the Young Men's Christian
association is the largest body doing
welfare work among the United
States troops, other organizations are
cooperating. The Knights of Columbus,
a fraternal organization in
charge of the Roman Catholics, has
r?nt nn and is nilttine Tin. P.lub-hOUSeS
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equipped with desk rooms, benches,
phonographs, player-pianos, moving
picture apparatus, and other facilities
for entertainment. Sixty-five
halls are now in operation, open to
men of all denominations.
The Young Men's Hebrew association
has made arrangements for
headquarters in Young Men's Christion
association buildings. There is
not a sufficient number of Hebrews
in any one brigade to justify the building
of a hall by this organization.
The American Library association
has raised a fund of over $1,000,000,
and is erecting special library buildings
in the camps.
In five years the portion of the
world's gold monetary stock (coin
and bullion used as money) held by
the United States has increased from
one-fifth to more than one-third.
Ovation to American Artillerymen.
To the tune of "The Campbells
Are Coming" the first American artillery
unit to engage the enemy went
back to its billets behind the French
firing lines last Wednesday afternoon.
The artillery had a longer
stay at the front than the infantry,
and both men and horses were tired,
muddy and wet with the rain that
beat upon them as they came into
the village.
When they reached the village the
entire command drew up on a hillside,
and a gun covered with camou
nage pa ml was brought out in front.
On its shield an artilleryman had
written in chalk: "The first gun for
the Germans." Their colonel told .
them the villagers wished to do honor
to the gun and its crew and to the
American army. The children placed
a wreath over the barrel of the -gun
and a bunch of wild flowers inside
the empty case of the first shot fired.
The regimental band played both
the American and French national
anthems.
After this brief ceremony the troopers
dismounted and, to the embarrassment
of many of them the townspeople
embraced them effectionately.
The artilleiymen escaped without a
casualty, although they were shelled
heavily several times by the Germans.
The officers said that on the night
of the German raid on the American
trenches the artillery quickly poured
a counter barrage into No Man's
Land, and they are sure they killed
some of the enemy and prevented
more from reaching, the American
line. The gun crew that fired the
first shot is made up of youngsters
hailing frqjn South Bend, New York,
Minneapolis, Chicago, Baltimore, New
Orleans and Douglas, Ariz. All the
artille^yuaen are anxious to get back
to the front, but before doing so will
be sent to other camps to instruct
artillerymen who have not yet been
in actual battle.?Exchange.
Demand for Men of Training.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
urges men in scientific institutions
to continue their training.
"The government service will demand
more and more scientifically
trained men," said he, "and I hope
those who are in charge of scientific
institutions will impress upon the
young men the importance of continuing
their studies, except to the extent
that they are necessarily interrupted
by a mandatory call under the
_ .y
provisions of the selective service
law."
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Every effort will be madq to use ,
each student's special training in connection
with specialized occupations
in the army to afford technical students
liable to call as great an opportunity
through the national army as
if they had enlisted.
Plans for Care of Injured Soldiers.
Plans for caring for members of
the expeditionary forces who may
be returned from Europe unfit for
further service include, besides the
necessary surgical and medical attention,
instruction in the use of injured
and artificial limbs, and vocational
training. The experience pf
Canada and European allies in this
work has been of great value to the
United States government in arrange
ing its plans. * Equipment
for heat treatments
and electric and hydro therapy will
be provided; gymnasiuA will furnish \
opportunity for special exercise for
reeducation in the use of joints, mus- V
cles and nerves which have been af- \
fected in service; in curative work- y
shops the man will perform useful \
wor? which at the same time will \
bring these parts into activity. V
The aim will be to return every
man into civil life able to be self-supporting
and useful, and not dependent
merely upon the pension he will
receive from the government.
Rules for Illumination of Signs.
Orders governing the use of electric
signs, made by the fuel administration
to assist in conserving fuel, apply
to the entire country?villages and
small cities as well as the larger centers.
Among these instructions are:
Directional signs on retail stores
may be illuminated from one-half
hour after sunset until closing time,
but not later than 11 p. m.; such
signs on theatres may be illuminated
from one-half hour after time of commencement
of last performance. Dis- **
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tail stores may only operate between
7:45 and 11 p. m.
Enforcement of the orders is in the
hands of the State fuel administrators.
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