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LOAN GOES OVER THE TOP
NOT KNOWN HOW FAR THE GOAL
WAS EXCEEDED.
fB% Sum Came in on Last Day.?-Over
Six Billions Subscribed.?Take
Days to Count Them.
Washington, Oct. 19.?Over-subscription
of the fourth liberty loan
f seemed assured tonight when the
three weeks campaign closed. While
official reports were lacking, it appeared
that again the American peo
pie have given to their government
not only what was asked, but more
than was asked, in order that the
war against Germany and her allies
^ may be carried to a successful conclusion.
How far the total will run above
the six billion dollar goal officials to+
night would not attempt to estimate.
It all depends, they said, on whether
big financial interests at the last moment
filed the big lump sum subscriptions
expected of them and whether
% the number of smaller subscriptions
by individuals is found to meet ex*
pectations.
State Over Quota.
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All the South Carolina counties and
towns heard from at the close of the
canvass for the fourth liberty loan
reported subscriptions in excess of
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that, the State, as in former liberty
,r 1 loan campaigns, will again oversubscribe
the amount allotted by the
treasury department.
During the last few days before the
eahipaign closed fear was expressed
that on account of the epidemic of
Spanish influenza, precluding the
holding of public meetings and otherwise
interfering with the campaign,
that the State might fall short of its
allotment, but the fear appears to
have been groundless and the people
have again shown their readiness to
support the national government in
its war4on German Autocracy:
Boll Weevil Reaches Ehrhardt.
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j Clemson College, October 21.?The
cotton bill weevil continues his migration
in this State. Recent investigations
show that the weevil has
added more South Carolina territory
to the infested area.
The weevil line now runs as follows:
Ellenton to Ehrhardt to Ulmara
tn Walterboro to the mouth of
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in the fields. The infestation looks
like a second year infestation, it is
so heavy."
Bamberg Shows Up Well.
Charleston, October 21.?The sales
of war savings stamps in South Carolina
have reached the seven million
dollar mark. The report of sales for
- the week ending October 12 shows
that the people of the Palmetto State
have purchased W. S. S. valued at
I $7 ;024,854. During the past few
weeks the sales have shown an enor
mous increase, but in comparison
with the State's quota, the sales so
far have been plainly disappointing.
The South Carolina War Savings committee
reiterates its appeal that the
people bear in mind their W. S. S.
pledges, and buy all the war savings
stamps they can. The leading counties
are the following, with their percapita
sales up to October 12:
Beaufort, $8.36; Charleston,
$7.99; Horry, $7.41; Florence, $7.38;
York, $6.76; Spartanburg, $6.35;
Anderson, $6.32; Greenville, $6.21;
Marion, $5.43; Orangeburg, $4.58.
For the week ending October 12, Orangeburg
county led with per capita
sales of 38 cents, followed by Chesterfield
with 35 cents; Anderson 30
cents, and Bamberg, 25 cents.
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COMMUTTD TO LIFE SENTENCE.
Governor Manning Makes Statement
Regarding Orangeburg Case.
Columbia, Oct. 17.?Governor
Manning today commuted the death
sentence of Norman Bolivar, a young
white man of Orangeburg, to life imprisonment.
Bolivar was convicted
in June of this year of attempted
criminal assault upon a nine-yearold
white girl near Orangeburg and
was sentenced to be electrocuted.
In connection with tne commutation
Governor Manning made the
following statement:
"The jury which tried the case
having all signed the petition for
commutation of sentence, the practical
effect of this is a recommendation
to mercy. Solicitor Mann, who
prosecuted the case, concurred in
the request of the jury and Judge
Memminger, the trial judge, recommended
that the death sentence be
commuted to life imprisonment.
These requests and recommendations
were laid before the pardon board,
together with the statement of Dr.
J. W. Babcock, who testified that,
after careful examination and observation
of Bolivar, the prisoner is,
in his opinion, mentally deficient,
which opinion was concurred in by
Capt. Lin. C. Shecut, M. D., United
States army, and petitions were
signed by many of the leading citizens
of Orangeburg. The pardon
board recommended commutation of
J?rtrtnf Anna fn Ufa i m n ri ontl.
~ the Edisto river. This means that
the weevil is now found in Beaufort,
Hampton, Colleton, Jasper, Bamberg
and Barnwell counties?"and still a
goin\"
Jasper and Hampton counties have
- -gotten an idea of the weevil damage
this fall. County Agent Z. D. Robertson,
of Hampton county, reports in a
letter of October 11 that the weevil
damage in his county is serious in the
extreme, and that all forms and
squares have been punctured; that
adult weevils can be ?found by the
handful.
County Agent * Rumff, of Jasper
county, writes as follows: "I am
finding fields with 100 per cent, in^
feetation now in different parts of
the county. The adult weevils can
be found by the hundreds. It is posfn
flnJ atrayv a+Q p-p of thP WAAVil
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News Notes From Cope.
Cope, Oct. 20.?The Cope graded
school opened its .doors on Monday,
Oct. 7th, for the season of 1918-1919,
with a fairly good attendance, and
the young folks had just about made
up their minds to get to work at
their books when the order calling
for a quarantine came and the school
was immediately closed.
The "flu" is getting to be quite
prevalent in and around Cope, and
several families, both white and colored,
have from one to a half dozen
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or more crises, it lsjtne opinion oi
a great many that a good rain would
help matters considerably, for it -is so
dry and dusty they believe the germs
are distributed along with the clouds
of dust that are constantly flying.
Mr. R. C. Carter, the agent at this
place, was sick the past week with
influenza, and on account of the scarcity
of operators the depot was without
an agent for several days, which
inconvenienced a great many. Mr. J.
E. Felder, to assist Mr. Carter all
he could, would meet the trains and
deliver all perishable goods as fast
as they arrived until the company
sent Mr. Cummings to take charge
until Mr. Carter is able to resume
his duties. /
As * there are no church or Sundayschool
services^ be held everything
is extremely quiet, and very few
people are stirring about, which is
the proper thing just at this time.
The fleecy staple is still being gathered
in large quantities and the gins
have been overcrowded; many wagon
loads of cotton remaining at the
gins each night to be ready for an
early start the next morning.
On account of the crowded condition
of the oil mills, seed is being
carried back home, there being no
place to store the same, and as the
traffic in cottonseed is at a standstill
that much ready cash is tied up and
the cash business materially cut
down.
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Governor Manning Receives Medal.
Columbia, Oct. 18.?Governor
Richard I. Manning today received
the Liberty Service medal of the National
Institute of Social Sciences
awarded to him according to the announcement
accompanying the medal
in recognition of "an alert and inspiring
patriotism." The letter also
says that the State organizations ot
South Carolina for war work have
become models for the country.
AUSTRIANS ARE ANSWERED
PRESIDENT REJECTS PLEA OF
DUAL MONARCHY.
Complete Liberty for Czechoslovaks
and other Subject Nationalities.
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Washington, Oct. 19.?On the eve,
apparently of the coming of the peace
note from Germany, President Wilson
has rejected the plea of AustriaHungary
for an armistice and peace
negotiations and in doing so has made
clearer the conditions which the central
powers must meet to end the
war.
In a note written yesterday and
made public soon after it was well
nn the wav to Vienna, today the
president in effect says there can be
no v talk of peace with the AustroHungarian
government except upon
the basis of complete liberty for
Czecho-Slovaks and other subject nationalities
as free members of the
family of nations. He refuses to entertain
the Austro-Hungarian suggestion
for the reason without discussing
the military questions dealt
with in the reply to Germany.
The text of the note handed to the
Swedish minister follows:
"Sir: I have the honor to acknowl-.
edge the receipt of your note of the
seventh instant in which you transmit
a communication of the imperial
and royal government of AustriaHungary
to the president. I am now
instructed by the president to request
you to be good enough through
your government, to convey to the
imperial and royal government the
fAllAnrinc ronlv'
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"The president deems it his duty
to say to the Austro-Hungarian government
that he can not entertain
the present suggestion of that government
because of certain events of
utmost importance which, occurring
since the delivery of his address of
the 8th of January last, have necessarily
altered the attitude and responsibility
of the government of
the United States. Among- the 14
terms of peace which the president
formulated at that time occurred the
following:
" 'The people of Austro-Hungary,
whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and assumed,
must be accorded the freest opportunity
of autonomous developments.
" 'Since that sentence was written
and uttered to the congress of United
States the government of the United
States has recognized a state of belligerency
that exists between the
Czecho-Slovaks and the German and
Austro-Hungarian empires and that
the Czecho-Slovak national council is
a de facto belligerent government
clothed with proper authority to direct
the military and political affairs
of the Czecho-Slovaks.
" has nlsn rAnnphizeri in the
fullest manner the justice of the
nationalistic aspirations of the JugoSlovaks
for freedom.
" 'The president is, therefore, no
longer at liberty to accept the mere
'autonomy' of these peoples as a basis
of peace, but is obliged to insist
that they, and not he, shall be the
judges of what action on the part of
the Austro-Hungarian government
will satisfy the aspirations and their
conception of their rights and destiny
as members of the family of nations.'
"Accept, sir, the renewed assurances
of my highest consideration.
(Signed) "ROBERT LANSING."
German Casualties in France.
Twenty bucketfuls of identification
tags were taken from the German
dead who fell in the first week's
fighting on the German drive which
| opened on March 21, 1918, according
[to the press reports from Holland.
These identification disks are about
the size of an American quarter, and
it is estimated that there must have
been 370,000 in this one shipment.
The German casualties of the first
| three weeks of the drive were estimate
at 500,000. By the end of the
first week in September the total German
casualties in 1918, as estimated
frnm the most, reliable reDorts ob
tainable, had grown to more than a
million, killed, wounded, and prisoners.
Why Waste Time?
"Why do you consider women to
be superior to men in intelligence?"
"A bald-headed man buys his restorer
by the bottle, doesn't he?"
"Er?yes."
"Well, a woman doesn't waste time
on a hair-restorer; she buys hair."
?London Passing Show.
A LETTER TO HIS PA.
American Humorist Has Fun at Expense
of Grown Prince.
(The following was taken from a
newspaper in France and sent to Nevada
relatives by a Nevada doughboy,
who is now fighting in France:)
"On the Run. Somewhere in France,"
"Everywhere in France,"
| "All the Time."
"Dear Papa: ?
"I am writing you on der run, as
der brave and glorious soldiers under
| my command have not seen the
j Rhine for so long dat dey have startlod
har>k Hat vav and of course I am
going mit dem. Oh, papa, dere has
been some offei dings happened here
in France. First, I started in my big
offensive which was to crush de fool
Americans but dey know so little
about military tactics dat dey vill not
be crushed just like I vant dem. I
sent my men in der fight in big
vaves and ven dey got to de Americans
dey all said "boo" as loud as j
dey could holler. Veil, according
to vot you have always told me, de
Americans have turned and run like
blazes, but vat do you tink? Dem
fool Americans don't know anything
'about war and instead of running de
odder vay, dey came right towards
us. Some of dem vas singing about
"ve vont come back till it's over, ov
er there," or some odder foolish song
and some of dem vas laffing like
fools. Dey are so ignorant. But dey
are offel reckless mit dere gims, and
ven dey come toward us it vas dat
my men took a notion dey vanted to
go back to der dear old Rhine. Ve
don't like de dirty little Marne river,
anyhow. ^And, Oh, pap, dem Ameriicans
use offel language. Dey know
little of kultur, and say such offel
things right before us. And they
blasphemy too. Vat you tink dey
said right in front of my face? One
big husky, fronj. a place dey call Missouri,
he said?oh, pap, I hate to tell
you vat an offel ting he said, "To
Jiell mit the kaiser!" Did you ever
hear anything so offel? I didn't tink
Anybody vould say such an offel ting.
It made me so mad I vouldn't stand
and hear such an offel ting, so I turn ed
around and run mit de odder boys.
Vas I right? Vat? And, oh, papa, you
know dem breastplates vot you sent
us?can you sent some to put on our
backs. You know ve is going de odder
vay now and breastplates are no
good for the cowardly Americans are
shooting us right in der back. Some
of our boys took off der breastplates
and put dem behind, for de fool Am!
erieans are Dlaying 'De Star Span
gled Banner' mit machine guns on
dem plates. Can't you help us?
"You remember in your speech you
said nodding could stand before de
| brave German soldiers? Oh, papa, I
don't believe dese igrorant Americans
ever read your speech for dey
run after us like ve vas a lot of rabbits.
Vot you tink of dot? Can't you
send dem some of your speeches right
avay? Dey don't know how terrible
ve are. Can't you have my army
back to Belgium vere ve von all glory?
"My men can vip all de vimmen
and children vot dem Belgians can
bring us. But dese Americans are so
rough and ignorant. Ve can't make
dem understand dot ve haf de besi
soldiers on earth and ven ve try to
sing 'Deutschland Uber Allies,' dey
laf likfi a lot of monkeys. But ve
are getting de best of de Americans.
Ye can out run dem. Papa, if ve are
not de best fighters on earth we sure
are de best runners. Nobody can
keep up mit us ven ve tink of der
dear old Rhine, and my army never
did tink so much of der dear old river.
Let me know right avay vot to
do by return postoffice.
"CLOWN PRINCE WILLIE."
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Fairbanks in Game.
New York, Oct. 17.?Douglas Fairbanks
"went over the top" here today
when he completed his acrobatic tour
of the city and secured the $5,000,000
fourth liberty loan quota he had
set for himself. He will return to
Washington tomorrow by postal
airplane.
Fairbanks's first appearance was
on the steps of the subtreasury where
bankers, brokers and less wealthy
citizens answered his appeals with
subscriptions totalling $2,250,000.
This took just a little more than two
minutes.
Then he toured Fifth avenue, headed
by a detail of 50 mounted policemen
who aided him in collecting an
avalanche of subscription cards. One
stop at John Wannamaker's store netted
$250,000.
Considering the assiduity and
streuosity with which the Colonel is
sawing wood, all fear of a fuel famine
next winter should be dispelled.
DENY SLACKERS BALLOT
WILL ASK CHANGE IN CONSTITUTION
FOR SUFFRAGE.
Suggests Plan to Prevent Invasion.
To Punish Leaders and Make
Bonds Valueless.
An amendment to the State constitution
is to be suggested at the
next session of the general assembly,changing
the qualification for suffrage
to a military basis.
This amendment which J. K. Henry,
of Chester, solicitor of the Sixth
judicial circuit, proposes to advance
would require the voter to present
an honorable discharge from the
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army or navy or in neu mereoi i-iiuerty
Bond, thrift stamps or receipt
for contributions to other organizations
engaged in war work. The
proposition as set forth by Solicitor
Henry follows:
"I propose to suggest to the next
meeting of our legislature, that an
amendment to our State constitution
be proposed to our people to recast
the constitution as to the electorate
of the State, something like this, as
follows: Require the voter at every
election hereafter, general, special,
party or otherwise, to present as a
qualification to vote, an honorable
discharge from military or naval
forces of the United States, or from
the Red Cross or Young Men's Chris-'
tian Association service during this
war, or at least one Liberty Bond,
thrift stamp, receipt for contribution
to the Red Cross or Y. M. C. A., or
other war fund of date during the
existence of war with the Imperial
German government.
"This or some like amendment
ought to be adopted, because no
slacker should be allowed a voice in
the government in this land, who in
the present crisis does not come up
to the help of the government against
might makes right because it is
might."
Solicitor Henry has also written a
letter to President Wilson in which
he suggests that the German people
be called upon to deliver to the allied
armies every member of the ruling
class to save invasion and its horrible
consequences.
A second suggestion is that all
German bonds be declared null and
void. The letter to President Wilson,
copy of which has been sent to
Robert Lansing, secretary of State,
follows:
"Whenever the German army is
safely within it's own borders, it
should be demanded of the German
people, that they deliver to the armies
of the United States and the entente
between the lines, every man
of their ruling class from the kaiser
down, to save Germany from invasion,
and it's terrible consequences,
because they are a set of murderers
in violation of international law and
rules of civilized warfare under
treaties with the German Imperial
government, and should be dealt
with as such.
"And, further, the amendment
should be made as a matter of diplomacy
and for its effect; that every
bond issued by the German Imperial
government in support ofxthis war,
and held by any subject of Germany,
within Germany, shall be repudiated
and declared null and void."
Clock Goes Back Oct. 27.
Washington, Oct. 17.?No further'
effort will be made by congress to
continue the existing daylight sav-!
ing law and the hands of the clocks
ill be turned back an hour at 2 a. j
m., October 27, as originally plann-|
ed. This decision was reached today
at a conference between congressional
leaders and Chairman Baruch,
of the war industries board, who had
recommended that the law remain
in force for the period of the war.
All sizes of electric lamps, including
automobile lamps, at Faulkner
Electric Service Co.?adv.
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NEWS FROM EHRHARDT.
"Flu" is Raging.?Town Goes Over
in Bond Sales.?Other News.
Ehrhardt, Oct. 22.?Last Sunday
evening we had a nice shower of
rain. It was the first we have had
for many weeks, and was a most
welcome visitor. The dust was almost
unbearable, but suppose the
weather was favorable for the cotton
pickers. Labor being so scrace, the
farmers needed something to help
them out in gathering their crops.
Mr. E. D. Dannelly says that num
ber 13 is very unlucky. Recently he
bought some nice Hereford calves
from Mr. S. E. Boynton, of Greenpond,
S. C., and last Tuesday received
a shipment of thirteen head. In
unloading them they all got away,
and scattered over the surrounding
country. After searching for them
the entire week, he got all back, with
the exception of one. Mr. Dannelly
is raising cattle on quite an extensive
basis. This shipment gives him over
twenty head of the Herefords, besides
a big drove of other breeds.
The boll weevil, though they come
in great numbers, ought not to worry
Bert.
Mr. I. D. Copeland happened to a
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dent Saturday afternoon. It seejns
that he attempted to climb on one
of his wagons loaded with two bales
of cotton, while passing down Main
street. His foot slipped and he fell,
the wheel running over his foot and
crushing it very badly. We all hope
that "Uncle Ike's" foot will be all
right soon; especially before q,uail
shooting time or before time to take
those good old dove hunts.
The Spanish influenza has gained
considerable headway in our community
during the past week. But
we think, or at least hope, that this
dreadful epidemic has reached its
apex, and will now begin to abate.
There are about seventy-five cases
ih town and surrounding community,
but none are very serious at present
Good news! Ehrhardt has subscribed
her full allotment in the
fourth liberty loan drive. We were
alloted $69,500, and this amount has
been securfcQ-. We should and do ap- ' preciate
the work done by some of
the committee. They canvassed the
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cuuuiry iu nieir auius, auu uu oaiui*
day, when the streets were crowded, \
you could see them tackling everybody
who they thought could afford
a $50.00 bond. For some reason the
drive lacked enthusiasm from the be- *"
ginning. This was probably due to
the "flu" and the drop in the price
of cotton, as practically everybody
here are farmers. We are glad that
we reached the goal, and that the
country has oversubscribed.
Postmaster Grant tells us that the
total sales of war savings and thrift
stamps at this office amounts to
about $25,000. That does very well,
but do you know this is only onethird
of our pledges? Our allotment
was $60,000, and we pledged about
$70,000. Do not forget your pledges,
get your stamps before the end of
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Though we stay at home, let's
help our soldiers whip the kaiser.
GREAT U-BOAT BASE TAKEN.
British Capture Ostend, and Belgians
Take Bruges.
Paris, Oct 17.?Ostend has been
occupied by the British.
King Albert, of Belgium, and
Queen Elizabeth entered Ostend this
afternoon.
The Germans are abandoning the
Belgian coast and are seeking refuge
behind the outer defenses of Antwerp.
Rear Guards Killed.
With the Allied Forces in Flanders,
Oct. 17.?The Germans on evacuating
the channel seaport and submarine
base of Ostend left behind them
rear guards all of whom were killed
or captured. British warships landed
forces in the town and Belgian
aviators alighted in the place d'armes.
Ostend is one of the two most important
German submarine bases on
the Belgian coast. The other is Zeebrugge,
about thirteen miles northeast
of Ostend. The usefulness of
these bases to the Germans had been
seriously damaged last spring by
raids carried out by British naval units
under VirA Admiral Sir Roarer J.
B. Keyes. Both these raids were
made in April.
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It is said that when Lenine finishes
his work in Russia he will come over1
here. And shortly after his landing
we predict a scarcity of feather pillows
in his immediate neighborhood.
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