The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 24, 1914, Image 6

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GERMAN WAR3IH7S STRIKE ENGLISH COAST Bombardment of the Three Towns on English Coast Causes Excitement. SHIPS ESCAPE IN THE FOG For the First Time in Centuries Hostile Guns arc Turned on England's Coast.? Germans Escaped For Mm firfct limn in rr*ntiirir>K Fm* ? ? V- - - * ~ r> land was struck last week by a foreign foe. A squadron of swift Getman cruisers crept through the fogone night last woe k to the eastern coast and turned their guns against the Britons. When day broke the.' began bombarding three important towns? Hartelpool, at the mouth of th Tees, Whitby, J>5 mil s t vkkwerh and Scarborough, nc *< 1 a5 pleasure resort, 15 miles beyond. Hartlepool . n.ffcvc 1 d Thev two battle cri'.i; mu an er d cruiser wcr * < r.-vred. The British war office frees no number of bead at Hartlep' ! as seven soldiers an! 22 civilians and the wounded at 14 soldiers an 1 50 civilians. At Scarborough, sk lied by baJtlo cruiser and an armored cruise!', : casualties are reported, v'.ile at Whitby two were killed and throe wounded. Over Hundred Casualties. Men women and children or the civilian population were left dead or wounded, struck without warning; while at work. In all the casualties list totals 110, acocrding to the official estimates, of whom 111 are known to be dead. At Hartlepool churches were damaged and the gas works and lumber yards were set afire, while at Whitby the abbey was struck. The Balmoral hotel at Scarborough received the full effects of a shell. A number of houses and shops were shattered and partly burned in each of the towns. The hostile squadron escaped in the mist after an encounter with coast guard vessels. The official account of the attack, as issued by the press bureau, fol-l lows: "This morning a Gorman cruiser force made a demonstration upon the Yorkshire co.es! in the course of which' they shelled Hartlepool, Whitby andi Scarborough. "A number of their fastest ship' ' were employed for this purpose and they remained about an hour on the coast. "They were engaged by patrol vessels on the spot. As soon as the presence of the enemy was reported a British petroling sour. Iron endeavored to cut them off. On being sighted by the British ves ^ols, the German re- j tired at full speed and favored by the mist made their escape. "The lossec on both sides are small but full reports have not yet been received. "The admiralty takes the opportunity of pointing out that demonstra-! lions of this character, against unfor-; lifted towns or commercial ports,; though not difficult to accomplish provided a certain amount of risk is accepted, are devoid of military significance. "They may cause some loss of life among civilian population and some damage to property, which is much to be regretted, but they must not in any circumstances be allowed to modify the general naval policy which is being pursued." Except for the working people the English are late risers during the short winter days. The bombardment occurred between 8 and 9 o'clock, an hour when many persons were at breakfast, while others were on their way to work or were opening their shops. Went to Watch. The booming of heavy gun* off the] three towns drew hundreds to the beaches. They had no thought of a German raid, but when shells came crashing over their heads and into the quiet streets they dashed forj shelter. OfT shore the German guns| did rapid work, the flashes coming incessantly and the shells finding a mark among the buildings. Many residents took refuge in cellars. Others rushed from their houses, among them women and children in their night clothes, and not a few sought the railway stations, leaving on the first trains. The Hartlepool land batteries returned the German fire and are reported to have damaged some <>r the cruisers. Several shells from the war ships burst among the Royal Jvogineers and Hurham Light Infantry and it was among these troops that the casualties of seven killed and 14 wounded occurred. A dispatch from Stoekton-on-Tces BWr to the Exchange Telegraph Company t "The cllVct of the bombardment at HHprllcpool v:as that SO persons were killed and 100 injured. At West Hartlepool 20 persons were killed and many injured. "Shells passed through the Baptist church at Hartlepool and or her churches were damaged. Will Help Recruiting The general belief in London is that the German attack will give impetus to recruiting. Today was one of eager waiting after the admiralty bulletin j was issued shortly before noon, saying: "Our flotillas have at various points been engaged. The situation is developing." Various rumors were heard. One was that two German cruisers had been sunk. Many thought the long expected general naval engagement between the British and German fleet was progressing and that the shelling I-Ka 4 ? 1 - -* -* Vf I L III1 IUU IIS ? lis lllt'l't'iy illl'ldcntal. The admiralty's report issued at 9:30 o'clock tonight giving the news that the German ships had eluded pursuit and were returning safely to their home waters, caused keen disappointment. Naval writers express the opinion tlu: six of eight .ships were engaged! Tar G< rmans have available for such an attack the armored cruisers f?!u' her, Roon, Crinz Adclbert, Prinz H'dn ich and Prinz Prederick Karl 1 n<; more than 20 cruisers of a small-1 or class. TAX NOTICE The Rooks will he open for eoieot- I ion of taxes for fiscal year 1911, from' October lf>th to Deo. hi, without penalty. Payable during January with I per cent penalty, 1 per cent addition al, and 5 per cent additional foi March, making a total of 7 per cent penalty from the 1st to 15th of March Regular Tax Levy. The regular tax levy on all taxable property in the County is as follows: | ! State Tax G mills ! Ordinary County 312 Constitutional School tax . .3 General County Roads and Bridges 3 Court House and Jail Bonds.. % " Re-Indexing Records Vi Past Indebtedness 1 Township Roads and Bridges 2 " , Total 17 Vs " An additional levy to pay special taxes voted for school purposes in certain school districts is as follows: No. mills ; 1. Port Harrolson 2 2. Evergreen 4 3. Dog Bluff 3 r>. Sandy Plain 3 6. Athens 4< 7. Green Sea 8 i I _r ? II v r 1 tr r it Lirandpapa W< If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, When toyshop toil was finished He'd tell us all his secrets and He'd made and kept in hiding foi We have a real, live Grandpapa 1 And he is quite a bosom friend c Although he owns no reindeer, a If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, * \k . i < 9. Little Kiver 4 11. Socastee 8 11. Withers 3 13. Centenary 4 15. Haw 11 ranch 5 1G. Pincy Grove 4 17. Wanamaker 8 18. Loris 8 19. Burroughs 7 20. Mt. Olive 8 21. White Oak. 3 22. Burcol 4 23. Good Hope 3 24. Cedar Grove 3 25. Gurlev 3 20. Cool Spring 2 27. Zion 4 28. Chapel Hill 4 29. Powell 4 20. Princeville 4 32. Hickory Grove 2 33. Fink lea 4 M. Oak Grove 4 36. Gvassv Bav 3 33. Hickory Hill 3 39. Simpson Creole 4 11. Daisv 4 23 Hulls Island 4 t.~>. Tillv Swamp 3 43. Zcpar 7 47. Ro Hill 8 48. Kigrht Mile 2 49. Rod Bluff 3 50. Floyds 16 51. Flovds X Roads 4! 52. Popular Hill 3 53. Mien 2 56. Smford 3 57. Sweet Home 5 59. Hijrh Point 5 60 Muster Shed 3 61. Wampee 4 j 62. Snvr.-nah Bluff 63. P dioboah 3 66. O'mn Swamp. 3 ( 67. 1. Piseah 4 68. Homowood 4 1 69. Manle 4 70. Poplar S ~1. Shell 4 I 72. 1 ,oon 3 i 73. Mt. Hevmon 3 j 74. Four 3Iile 4 75. Y irj.ro 2 , 76. Toddvillo 5 77. .Straw fi eld 3 7.8. Ebcnezor 5 "9. Bueksport 3 ' ?0. Soring Branch 8 ! 81. Salem 3 ' 82. Mill Swamp 3 i 83. Red Hill 4 | 85. Watts 4 , 66. Cedar Creek. 4 . 87. Feathery Bay 3 ! 88. Waccamaw 4 89. Seven Mile 4 ! 90. Pauley 2 91. Pleasant Hill 2 ' 92. Vauyhts 4 1 94. Oak Grove 3 { 95. Twelve Mile 2 i ] 97. Carolina 3 < 98. Kingston 2 ' 99. Aynor 4 101. Pleasant Grove 4 ' School House Bond Ta t. 1 An additional levy in School Districts Nos. 19 and SO of two mills, and f in District No. 61, of four mills is * made to pay interest on the School 1 House Bonds, and to create a Sinking i Fund for their final settlement. i Capitation Tax. A Poll Tax of One Dollar for School f t || ' ire Santa Clans! j how happy we would be ! he would take us on each knee, he'd name the pretty toys r the other girls and boys. He visits us each year, >f Santa Glaus, I hear. ,nd of playthings no great store ? , we could not love him more ! GENE MORGAN. Purposes is levied upon every male cituen between the ages of 21 and 60 years, able to earn a living, except Co moderate Veterans over bo years of age. Capitation Dog Tax A capitation tax of One Dollar is levied upon each Dog in the county. Koad Tax A capitation Koad Tax of $2.50 is levied upon every citizen between the ages of 21 and 50 years who is liable to Koad Duty. Fishery Stamps. Fishery Stamps may be obtained from the Treasurer's OHice at any time. Persons ordering by mail will please inclose postage. VALUE OF A CHILD'S GIFTS Those Made With Their Own Hands Teach Good Lessons and Give Inspiration. If we stop to think about our Christmas giving we realize that a Km uu'uiiH more io me giver than it does to him who receives. If it is given in the proper spirit tlie donor finds out to the full that it is. really "more blessed to give than to receive," a fact that is lost sight of in an age of the commercial spirit. With children there is a great educative value in their present giving if it. is encouraged to he really their own giving. If the mother, however, simply prepares some little remembrance, and says "Mary, this is your Christmas present to Aunt Ellen," the gift has no meaning in the thoughts of the young giver. And not only has it no meaning, but it becomes actually harmful for the reason it presents the idea to the child that the gift without the giver is really a gift. And the child lias put no thought or self sacrifice into the giving of that present. On the other hand, if the child be given pocket money which it may considor its very own, or, better still, if it is enabled to earn pocket money and Is then encouraged to set aside a por:ion of its very own money for pres4 ? 1..'. n. - J -1 - " * :ni iiiuiviiig uie uiea ot irue giving is required. The sacrifice, the fore:hought, the love necessary to make a gift a real gift are there. The home-made gifts of children lave many valuable lessons to teach :he young givers. Many lessons in sowing, raffia, bead-work or painting nay be given under the guise of makng a gift. In one family, where the ?lder sister had never made gifts, ind really never learned to sew well intil she was eighteen years of age, ;he younger sifter, a girl of ten, inspired by the example of a small 'riend, wished to make birthday gifts 'or her family. Once she asked her nother to teach her how to crochet; mother time to scallop, and before die was twelve years old she had be ome as proficient a little seamstress is one would want to see. Thus practical lessons are learned, -vhile the child is inspired with the dea that "Not what we give, but vliat we share; the gift without tlio ;iver is bare." FRIENDLY ADVICE. &f)f fj8lr "Can you suggest something for me to get for my wife for Christmas?" tic ashed of the shopkeeper. "You'd better get her a box of cigars, I expect," said the shopkeeper. "She was in here this morning and bought a lace parasol for you." MORE SLIPPERS COMING. "The time is at hand," said the preaeher, With wrath showing plain on each teacher, "Whon slippers will ho Showered down upon mo By every feminine creacher/* j jj RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Ktc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used inornalB* and externally. Price 25c. Reports received tit Clomson College indicate* that Anderson County will have from sixty-five thousand to seventy-live thousand acres of land sown to winter grain this winter. 4 Twelve Reasons RH Why Yon B Jr Should Bay Your fenj Groceries of Us ' U|gj^ BECAUSE we not only have bargains at all times, but because itAAU^Vr/ wo have special sales at certain These sales arc big, bona fhle ^ fflBBBj The Cash Slois, C0?, S. C. MULUN5, S. C ???5SS5SS? .?. 1 The FARMERS' STATE BANK was started I | with a view to assist the people of a busy and g | growing section of Horry County. It has proved | % its worth from the start, and is now just as strong | 1 s any. 1 j If you want to deposit your money for safe keen- i | log bring it io us. If we can accommodate you we | I will do so in every way consistent with sound bank- | 1in^* i |'T'' aynor s> j To Give the Public the Highest Market Prices for Their Produce, and Sell Them What THev H? n..?? , ' --?V JULWf V l/V WUJ at the Lowest Prices the Markets Will Afford. Sell the cotton and other things you have to sell with the old reliable Dusenbury & Company, Toddville, S. C. Puts Value on Sneezing. /7 ? ?-jl "A sneeze is the 'automatic bouncer* ATTCMTI I of unwelcome guests," said Dr. Wal< I | ELlM I ter A. Wells in an address before the Jl/f*. i I members of the "Keep Wells," a worn- itmm KJlMJnCT. en's organization for the study of good We carry in stock all the health at Washington. Doctor Wells followintT had reference to the nose and throat & as highways for disease. RiwH'q RplllP/IS^C "A great many people," ho said, "be *WjU ACU1CU1C5 Ueve that the Important function o( which are guaranteed to do the the noso Is the sense of smell, and work claimed for them or purthey seldom think of this organ as chase price will be refunded, one of respiration. The sense Of smell Boyd's Sure Pop Colic Cure. lar*o . $1.00 Is only of secondary Importance when Boyd's Sure Pop Colic Cure, small , .50 Its chief functions are considered. Boyd's Sure Pop Fever A Coiiah Cure .50 The nose Is the organ of respiration, Bor<i;? Sur. Pop Purgatiro; 60 . .. . . . r?oyu s oure rop r.yo ttemcdy ... .50 second only to the lungs In import. Boyd's Sure Pop Boot Liquid ... .26 ftHCe. Boyd's Suro Pop Magnetic Ointment . .25 Boyd's Liniment, small 25 New Method of Finding Longitude. Boyd's Liniment, medium 50 The novel method of finding loilgi* Boyd's Liniment, large 1.00 ... 1.1 .tit u i i?n Boyd s Worm and Condition Po. sml.. .25 tilde lately tried by l'rofessor Ltpp-1 noyd,B.Worm and Condition Po. m?d . .60 ninnn, the kioiich astionomcr, iri tllO . Boyd's Worm and Condition Po. lge. 1.00 comparison of simultaneous photo* i For Sale by graphs of tlio sky taken at two sta* i tions. The zenith being shown by an arti! Conway Drug Co., fioial star, the difference in the places I ^ g ^ of natural stars very accurately indicates tho difference in longitude, and L r=-z-~: if the longitude of one place is known that of tho other can be lixed with anj The Best Hot Weather Tonic uncertainty claimed to be only a few i QRovS'nTASTfSl.BilSchlilTONICenrlche,th. feet?perhft?>* ten or fifteen. blood, bunds v. . the Whole system and will wonderfully strengthen and fortif) you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c. MBMM??MM? ?