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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918. Established 1891.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Clear Pond Callings.
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Colston, March 12.?Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Padpett and family dined with
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Smith, of the Ehrhardt
section, Sunday.
Misses Hattie Kirkland, Inez Clayton
and Octavie McMillan enjoyed
a week-end house party given by
Misses Aileen and Hermine Beard.
Miss Evelyn Kirkland spent sev-|
eral days last weeK witn ner uncie,
Mr. W. G. Kirkland, at Bamberg.
,Mr. Harry Hutto, of Hilda, was a
visitor in this section Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Kearse were: Misses Sadie
Boyd, Mamie McMillan. Minnie
Kirkland, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kearse
and family, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McMillan
and family and Mr. Preston
McMillan.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Morris, of the
Clear Pond section, visited Mr. and
Mrs. P. M. Yarn Sunday.
Mr. Harry Richardson, of Bamberg,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with friends in this section.
Miss Nettie Clayton visited her
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Hears? section several days last
week.
We regret to nite that Mesdames
H. K. Clayton and Thomas Clayton
are on the sick list this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie McCue and
children were the Sunday guests ot
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clayton spent
Friday night of last week with Mr.
and Mrs. B. D. Bishop.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Folk and children
dined at the home of Mr. R. F.
Kirkland Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Thomas and
children and Mrs. R. M. Hitt and children,
of Bamberg, visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. Jones McMillan spent Saturday
night at the home of Mr. Frank Kirkland.
La grippe is still standing in the
doorway of a good many homes in
this section. >
Colston, March 6.?(Written for
last-week.) Miss Pearle Hutson
spent last week-end in North with
friends.
Mr. Edgar Fender ana nine i^ucile,
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender
Saturday night and Sunday.
Misses Bessie Kirkland and Alberta
Kearse were the Saturday night
guests of Miss Mamie McMillan.
Mr. Clyde Padgett, of Camp Green,
Charlotte, N. C., was welcomed home
by his many friends in this section
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Sudie Barnes spent several
days writh relatives in Savannah recently.
The Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Padgett were: Misses
Sadie Boyd, Evelyn Kirkland, Cora!
and Dora McMillan; Messrs Gerald
and George Kearse.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Walker, Messrs.
Jones Bishop, Frank Kirkland,
Jr., and Wesley Kearse dined with
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Folk Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Probe Sease and
Miss Pretto Fender, of Ehrhardt,.
spent Sunday with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Fender.
Miss Minnie Kirkland visited
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Williams, of Liv
ingston, Sunday.
Mr. Talbert Padgett, of Bamberg,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Padgett.
Miss Bessie Folk and Messrs. Jones
Bishop and Hammie Folk were the
Saturday night guests of Misses Pet
and Doris Folk.
Mrs. R. L. Ussery, of Barnwell,
was called last week to the bedside
of her mother, Mrs. M. S. Wooley,
who has been very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Halcod Ayer and
Misses Laura, Thyra and Eleanor
Goodwin dined at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Clayton Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop visited
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bishop Sunday.
Mrs. Ogreta Beard spent several
weeks with friends near Ehrhardt,
and with her son, Mr. G. C. Beard, of
Riley's, recently.
.Mrs. furay Ayer anu wmuicu, ui
Olar, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Clayton.
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Denmark, March 9.?Mrs. G. A
Hennies, of Chester, spent the pastj
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NO NEW DIVISION'S.
Less Than Million Men To Be Called
to Complete Organizations.
Washington, March 6.?While a
large number of men will be called
out during the present year to fill up
the army and complete its organization,
it was learned tonight that war
department plans do not call for the
creation of any additional divisions
in 1918. The announcement concerning
the second draft, expected soon
from Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder,
may outline the manner in which less
than 1,000,000 men?probably not
much in excess of 800,000?are to be
summoned gradually during the year
to complete the existing organizations.
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Reason for Delay.
Delay in the announcement as to
the next draft is understood to be
due to uncertainty as to which meth^
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to be followed. The Senate already
has passed, and the House military
committee has favorably reported, an
amendment to the law to base the
OjUota on the number of men in class
1, instead of upon the total registration
of a State. This change is regarded
as certain to be made, but to
avoid further delay schedules of allotments
under both systems are
ready to go out as soon as final action
is taken.
Take Care of Harvesting.
As to the date'of the second draft,
members of congress from agricultural
sections have been practically
assured that no withdrawal of men
from civil life was contemplated
which would embarrass harvesting.
It has been indicated, however, that
a relative small number of men must
be called to the colors prior to June
1, and that process may start in April,
when equipment, clothing and quarters
will be available. The men are
needed to fill up to full strength divisions
slated for early departure to
TCnrnne and also for field armv and
corps troops not attached to divisions.
The replacement detachments also
must go forward at an accelerating
rate since American troops are actually
holding a seotor of the French
front and men are being killed or
wounded in action every day.
Will Absorb 600,000 Men.
The completion of the full programme
of the war department without
creating any additional divisions
probably will absorb in the neighborhood
of 600,000 men.
The last increments of the first
drafd now in process of mobilization,
totaling abput 800,000 men, are being
used to fill regular and National
Guard divisions shown by their effi;
ciency reports to be available for early
duty abroad. Some of the men are
being used also to fill up the special
forces although an additional source
of supply for highly specialized technical
units is being used continuously.
This is by special drafts of particularly
qualified men for the trades necessary.
Orders were issued today to
local boards calling for 52 8 artisans
of various sorts for non-combatant
units.
TROTZKY QUITS POST.
Bolshevik Premier Fast Parting Company
With Former Colleagues.
March 10.?While Nikolai Lenine,
the Bolshevik premier, is bending
every effort to insure ratification by
the Russian congress to meet in Moscow
March 14 of the peace treaty
signed with the central powers, his
colleagues in Bolshevik authority are
dropping away from him or are being
dropped by him.
The latest to go is the man who by
virtue of his post as a spokesman has
been more in the public eye than
Lenine himself?Leon Trotzky, the
commissioner of foreign affairs.
Trotzky's resignation, announced at
Maximalist party meeting in Petro.
grad, quickly followed that of Ensign
Krylenko, the Bolshevik commander
in chief.
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week with relatives here.
Mrs. Emma Minor, of Barnwell, is
among the visitors here.
Miss Gladys LaFitte, of Savannah,
Ga., spent the week-end with her
sister, Mrs. F. H. McCrae.
Mrs. R. M. McCartha, of Bamberg,
was a visitor here recently.
Mesdames S. D. Guess and G. W.
Goolsby visited friends in Walterboro
and Hendersonville last week.
Miss Richards, of Liberty Hill, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Tom
McCrae.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Cases involving the title of a State
office situated at Columbia must be
tried in the circuit court of Richland
county, according to an opinion handed
down by the State supreme court.
An act which has been placed on
i the statute books is that which rej
lieves all persons in the military or
j naval service from the payment of
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| of the act are made applicable to the
year of 1917.
The meningitis situation in the
State shows a large improvement, according
to the State board of health.
Only three cases have appeared
among the civilian population ofj
South Carolina since last Monday?
one at Columbia, another at Orangei
burg and a third at Greenville.
H. Cal Hair, of Williston, had his
neck broken in an automobile acci.
dent near Barnwell Tuesday, when
a Ford car in which he was riding
was overturned. T. W. Scott, A. P. j
Mitchell, Henry Livingston, and one
Mingo, ether occupants of the car,
were more or less seriously injured.
The total fees from licenses issued
motor vehicle owners in South Carolina
up to date amounts to $226,022.42,
which has been turned into
tne siaic treasury, aaummg iu a
report tonight by the State highway
commission, which has been in session
today. Licenses have been issued
for 523 motorcycles and 38,375
dealers and owners of automobiles.
Andrew Baker, a middle-aged white
man, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree at Camden
last Friday and sentenced by Judge
Memmin:;er to life imprisonment.
Baker was charged with the murder
of Lucy Marsh, a white woman whom
he waylaid and shot to death while
standing behind a tree along the roadside
on which the woman was passing
riding on a wagon.
The latest enterprise for Orangeburg
is a velvet bean crushing plant.
The business is owrned by F. Mason
Crum & Company, a feed and seed
concern of this city. The plant is a
large hammer attrition mill, which
will reduce to commercial meal velvet
beans in the pod or corn in the
shuck at the rate of 2,000 pounds
per hour. The mill is operated by
power from a 40-horse power electric
motor.
Mail bv Airnlane.
Washington, March 6.?The postoffice
has under consideration a project
proposed by Representative Bell
of Georgia to establish an airplane
postal service between Washington
and ^Atlanta, to connect Camps
Greene, Wadswort'n, Seveir, Lee and
Gordon, with Washington and the
Southern city: Mr. Bell, who is a
member of the house postoffice committee,
says the purpose is to link
| these Southern camps with the postoffice
department's aerial mail ser|
vice that is to be established soon between
Washington and New York
City.
Pershing Praises Fighting Men.
In a recent communication to
Secretary of War Baker, the commander
of the American expedition
ary forces said:
"There has never been a similar
body of men to lead as clean lives as
our American soldiers in France.
They have entered this war with the
highest devotion to duty and with no
other idea than to perform these
duties in most efficient manner pos-v
sible. They fully realize their obligation
to their own people, their
friends, and the country. A rigid
programme of instruction is carried
| out daily with traditional American
enthusiasm. Engaged in healthy,
! interesting exercises in the open air,
with simple diets, officers and men,
like trained athletes, are ready for
their tasks. Forbidden the use of
strong drink and protected by
stringent regulations against sexual
evils, and supported by their own
moral courage their good behavior
is the subject of most favorable com
ments, especially by our allies.
American mothers may rest assured
that their sons are a credit to them
and to the Nation, and they may
well look forward to the proud day
when on the battle field these splendid
men will shed a new luster on
I American manhood."
SEC. OF WAR IN FRANCE.
Mr. Raker Will Inspect American
Front and Confer With Cliiefs.
Washington, March 10.?Upon
hearing of Secretary Baker's safe arrival
in France through the Associated
Press dispatch from Paris, the
war department tonight announced
that the Secretary's visit is purely
military and not diplomatic and is
for purposes of inspection and per_
sonal conferences with military officials.
Mr. Baker is accompanied by
Major William M. Black, chief of
engineers; Lieut. Col. M. L. Brett
and Ralph Hayes, his private secretary.
No official report on the secretary's
arrival had been received. The department
issued this statement:
"A cable dispatch from Paris to the
Associated Press tonight announces
the arrival at a French port of the
secretary of war.
Sailed Feb. 27.
"For some time Secretary Baker
has desired to visit the headquarters
of the American expeditionary forces.
He sailed from an American port
about February 27.
"Secretary Baker has not determined
the length of time he
will remain in France, but his
stay will be long enough to
enable him to make a thorough
inspection of the American
forces abroad and to hold important
conferences with American military
officers.
"It is expected that not only will
Secretary Baker visit the American
headquarters, but his*inspection tour
will cover construction projects, including
docks, railroads and ordnance
bases, now under way back of the
American lines.
"The secretary's visit is military
and not diplomatic. It is essentially
for the purpose of inspection and personal
conferences with military/ officials.
"The secretary of war is accompanied
by Major Gen. William Black,
Lieut. Col. M. L. Brett and Ralph
Hayes, private secrtary to Secretary
Baker."
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TREATY WITH RUSSIA.
Treated by Germany Like Nothing
But a Scrap of Paper.
March 8.?In spite of the fact
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been signed by the central powers
and the Bolshevik government of
Russia, fighting continues at various
points along the eastern front.
That Germany considers the convention
she forced / Lenine and
Trotzky to sign as a "scrap of paper"
is evidenced by the announcement
that the Teutons have reached Jamburg,
a town 68 miles from Petrograd.
The report of the subsequent
partial retirements of the Germans
does not lend encouragement to the
belief that further invasion of Russia
has been abandoned.
The text of the peace treaty signed
by Roumania serves, too, to show
that the central powers are loath to
forego any requests they may make
in Russia. One of the clauses of
the Roumanian treaty "bound that
country to assist in the transport
of Teutonic forces through Moldavia
and Bessarabia on their way to
Odessa, the "granary of Russia."
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ing against the demoralized Slavs,
but the Turks are aggressors in
Asia Minor. Reports state that the
Ottoman troops are operating near
Trebizond, on the southern shore of
the Black sea.
Germany has negotiated a peace
treaty with the republic of Finland
in which the latter agrees not to
cede any territory or grant territorial
rights without the consent of Germany,
which in consideration for this
concession, covenants to exert her influence
to secure recognition of the
Finnish government from other nations.
iyil claims for war costs or
damages are waived, and the Alands
islands will be evacuated by the Finnish
troops and will not again be fortified.
A commercial treaty will be
negotiated at once.
Coincident with the continued in
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Bolshevik authorities have annonced
that they will not permit the revolution
to be defeated and have expressed
the determination to continue
fighting a "holy war" even if they
are forced back to the Ural mountains.
American Ambassador Francis
has issued a statement at Vologda,
warning the Russians that a German
victory means the return of monarchial
conditions and advising them not
to ratify the treaty signed by Lenine
and Trotzkv. The congress of the
HUNS RAID AMERICANS
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OVER MORE OF THE FRONT.
Hold Over Eight Miles of Front.?At
L^ast Three Divisions of
Troops There.
Headquarters American Troops in
France, March 6.?American troops
on still another place on the French
front have been raided by Germans,
who were repulsed with losses. This
is the first time permission is given
to mention this engagement. The
American forces entered the battle
line in a certain place in Lorraine.
The French commander congratulated
the Americans on their behavior.
The foregoing is confirmation of
the French official statement of March
5, which said that a German attack
on trenches held by American forces
in Lorraine on the night of March 4
was repulsed.
Holding Eight Miles.
Washington, March 6.?American
troops are now holding something
over eight miles of trenches on the
battle front in France it was learned
today, although in an air line their
frontage is only about four and a half
miles. This frontage is liable to extension
at any time to the regular
trench allotment for an army corps.
Irregularity of the trench lines is
responsible for their eight miles of
length. They are laid out so that
a flanking fire may be obtained along
every part of the front, strong points
containing machine guns jut out for
this purpose. The trenches also follow
closely any protective slope of
the country and wander up and down
hill.
Divisional Frontage.
The American sector is understood
to be a divisional frontage, which
means that at least three divisions of
American troops are there to give the
necessary support in depth for the
front lines This fact has aroused
speculation here as to who will be
selected by Gen. Pershing to command
the first corps of his army. Major
Gen. Hunter Liggett is known to
have acted in that capacity, but as yet
the expeditionary commander has not
made any recommendation.
It is possible that the French sysf/im
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army so far as the appointment of
corps commander goes. It is the custom
in France to select any one of
the division commanders in a corps
and to place him at the head of the
corps. He retains his rank as division
commander, however, and in the
case of the American army that
would be a major general.
Must Secure Licenses by Feb. 15.
Manufacturers of and dealers in
commercial feeds for livestock, cattle,
and hogs must secure licenses under
tine Food Administration by February
15. This covers baled hay, shelled
and ear corn and'other commodities
intended for use as feeds or as ingreadients
in mixed feeds. The
only exceptions are for millers manufacturing
bran and dealers in coarse
grains, who have already been placed
under Food Administration licenses.
Applications for licenses should be
addressed to the license division,
Food Administration, Washington,
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business to be licensed.
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Classified News.
The politician rushed past the official
Cerberus into the editorial sanctum.
"What do you mean?" he roared.
"What do you mean by insulting me
as you did in last night's Clamor?"
"Just a moment," replied the editor.
"Didn't the story appear as you
gave it to us, namely that you had
resigned as city treasurer?"
"It did. But you put it under ihe
head 'Public Improvements'."?Sac- (
ramento Bee.
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Ended the Good Time.
"A general good time was had by .
all until about eleven o'clock when
fruit cake and salad were served by 1
the B. B. E. club."?Prescott, la., 1
paper. '
When will they teach cooking in 1
pubHc schools??St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.
soldiers' and workmens' council is <
meeting at Moscow and will probably 1
decide on the issue of peace or con- 1
tinued war. Conditions of the old <
regime are reported to have been re. f
stored in German occupied territory. 1
BERGKR INDICTED.
Five Socialists Face Array of Charges.
List of Overt Acts.
Chicago, March 9.?Victor L. Berger,
former congressman from Wisconsin,
Adolph Germer, national secretary
of the Socialist party, Irwin St.
John Tucker, a Chicago Socialist, J.
Louis Engdahl and William F. Kruse
were indicted by the federal grand
jury here today charged with obstructing
recruiting, encouraging disloyalty
and interfering with prosecution
of tho war
The indictments, returned February
2, but withheld by District Attorney
Cline, charge 26 overt acts. It is
charged those indicted conspired to
violate the espionage act by speech
and articles printed in certain publications.
Engdahl, who edited the American
Socialist, before it was denied mail
privileges last September, now publishes
the Eye Opener, a Chicago Socialist
paper. In a statement tonight
he declared "every word in the American
Socialist was put there to promote
the best interests of the great
mass of people" and that if ''that is
unlawful then freedom of thinking in
the United States is dead."
Kruse is editor of the Young Peoples'
Socialist Magazine, also published
here.
Berger, who is a candidate for
nomination for United States senator
in announcing his platform this week,
said if elected he would work for the
passage of a resolution by congress
directing the president to summon
the warring countries to an immediate
armistice and peace conference.
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nisi piciiJLUi m diou LCIHO IUI ? xtnux ? TTal
of American troops from Europe to
procure absolute "security for 'this
country." The Wisconsin senatorial
election will be held April 2.
Seymour Stedman, counsel for the
National Socialist party, issued a
statement tonight in which is expressed
the view that "warT>rofiteers
and monster capitalists are the, most
interested in this prosecution."
Relative to suppression of the indictments
Mr. Cline said: v"The
government felt that the announcement
should be made at this
time to develop other angles of the . .
case."
OBJECT TO CASUALTY LIST.
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General Pershing's Request Causes
Action.?Names Alone Given.
Washington, March 9.?The war
department today issued the first of
its expurgated casualty nsis* containing
the names of one captain, one
lieutenant and 18 men killed in action,
a lieutenant and a cadet killed
in aeroplane accidents, one lieutenant
and 12 men dead of disease, a
lieutenant and 23 men severely
wounded in action and 36 men slightly
wounded.
The dead and wounded officers:
First Lieut. Louis J. Jordan, killed in
action, and First Lieut. John H.
Greene slightly wounded.
A second casualty list without next
of kin or addresses issued late today
by the war department contained the
names of Capt. Harry C. McHenry
and 15 men men killed in action and
of First Lieut. Frank J. Montgomery
killed in an airplane accident.
The list also showed that Second
Lieut. Alex William Terrell had been
severely wounded in action and that
First. Lieut. Arthur Ward had died
from paralysis.
There were also given the names ^
3f 20 privates severely wounded in action,
18 slightly wounded and two
"wounded in action" with four who
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partment it was said that the two
reported as "wounded in action"
probably should have been included
among the slightly wounded.
Request From French.
The war department's order deleting
the next of kin, addresses and
dates from the list was officially explained
today as having resulted from
^presentations of the French government
to General Pershing that the
Casualties as published in this country
made accessible to the enemy
valuable information. At the same
time the order of the department was
brought up in the senate, Senator
New, of Indiana, introducing a resolution
requesting the department to
inform the senate why the order h^d
been issued and why such information
"would be inconsistent with the
?ood of the service."
Charlie Chaplin Coming.
Washington, March 8.?Charlie .
Chaplin, the movie actor, will devote
:wo weeks, beginning April 15, to a
;our of the South, speaking in behalf
Df the third liberty loan. William S.
lart will make a similar tour through
:he West.
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