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TWO PAUSE AT VERDUN PUZZLES FRENCH Feeling is Strong That Gcrmans Are Planning a New Assaultt 1 MAY STRIKE Li ME AT ANOTHER POINT I I Difficulty of Roads About Ver(hiH Hamper to Employment of Artillery. The press and public of France arc r , siil'itvl at the continued panne in \: ? (derman attacks around Verdun. ( ..utioi born of experience ieaus geni ally u> the rejection of the view i. at (he Germans have given up ail oe o<* trying to capture the Lor-, inc fortress. It is thought more c ly ikvy are merely resting hi lore1 rting ivfnesh with greater energy, j It is beftieved in many quarters thai! tr.r attack on Verdun was only a pre i.u.vy to operations on a much larg i. ..calc for the purpose of trying to v - ii III: ? Tl'.lllll UIIl'U illlVI nil ?... | : . a ever, that may bo it is affirmed *. at Gen. Soffre is fully prepared for eventualities. So far only local French 1 M-rvos have been called upon at A <rduu, the great general reserves rces remaining intact for use in re; - ding other heavy onslaughts or foi i..rrvins off a great counter attack * ? v on the opportune moment conies. The question is raised as to whether F v next German attack will again be Verdun or along the front from the 0 Manic to the Aisne, as it is known P.at tli? Germans have been making ; reparations along the latter lines, : e southern limit of which is many 1 Lies nearer to Paris than is Verdun. > Ynesc preparations, however, are not v elaborate as those which had been r.adc for Verdun and, should the C< ramus attempt the latter plan, the military observers say they would be * able to a flank attack by the British in Ar to is and Flanders. On the othev *:.rd. if llio Gorm?nc /^AnfimiA ; >..<? au Its against Verdun from the t -r.in of the Wo evre their infantry vJ'l have to attack virtually unsupported by the heaviest of the German puns, it is argued, as the water soaked clay soil of the Lorraine plain makes the transport of such artillery almost impossible. The plain is only crossed by four military roads and troops and light artillery would be ?. . :iged to deploy in the open under ' re from the French positions on the heights of the Mouse. Two valleys lead to Verdun from the plain. Loth are blocked by fortsj Des Tavannes and Rozeilier, and everywhere else the infantry would facei thickly wooded heights with a sL night' drop of 250 feet. The Ger-j r/c.uld have here, however, all, ' .c 1 jrvur cos of Mctr. within easy : a oil. :.o has loon received of Lieut i '. Detent, a son-i i-la\v of tlie latol n. Uotdnrger and deputy foi ' bfcncy, since the beginning of the ? attic in which he commanded two Italians of light infantry. f NOTICE OP SAI.R, 1 v Under ar.d by virtue of the decree 1 : .(1 judgment of the court made by >.;r< Honor T. S. Lease, Presiding! fudge, in the case of The J. C. Bryant! Company, a Corporation, vs. J. E. h' Ug and N. M. Hardee, Defendants, .j.r.d dated the 1st day of March A. P., '2$1 G, I, the undersigned J. A. Lewis, Sheriff of Horry County, will sell at pubLc auction to the highest bidder hefont the Court House door at Con"v ay, jn .Horry County, and State of .Vouth Carolina, during legal hours of; k.'.c, on sidosday in April next, it be-1 g liie 3rd day of said month, all and J tv/igular those certain lands situate in I Horry County, mnd described as fo-i lews, to wit: All and singular that certain tract' * f pr.rfd of land containing ten acres, or Jess, the same being in Simpf>.-n Creek 'Township, County and f/iatc aforesaid, and lying on the V-vath side of the Lee and Boyd i'uolic Koarf. Described and txwfnd as follows: Beginning at stake corner on the >o\Tth side of the aforesaid road at a ditch, running said ditch near South to a stake corner, thence running rear East to a stake corner, thence looming wear North to a stake comer o*v the Lee and Boyd road, thence w^id road West to the beginning corner , STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE The leading newspapers of Brazil comment adversely upon announcement that Germany intends to sink armed merchant vessels without warning*. A pet:lion in voluntary bankruptcy lui5> been filed in the United States district court by the creditors of {he Keliable Furniture company of Colain bia. John Long and -Miss Sarah McMillan, of Conway, came here to attend die funeral of Mrs. M. K. Casque last Wednesday and remained over among relative:.; u: ti! Monday when they returned to tlie*ii- liome.?Muilins Enterprise. Fire broke out Sunday night in the ; riav o!' the livery and feed stables of ! the Coekfield Drug Company in ; Johnsonville and in a few minutes the I entire building was enveloped in flames. All of the stoek was saved. .Judge Johnson of the federal court has signed orders authorizing the publication of condemnation proceedings against six tracts of land In Oconee, the land to be set aside as a part of the great Appalachian forest reserve, being created bv the United States government. John L. McX.aurin of Columbia, State warehouse commissioner for South Carolina, telegraphed last week from New York to his secretary, John K. Aull, that "there is no reason frr uneasiness as to the fire insurance conditions in South Carolina resulting in the calling in of loans upon large investments" and that "the insurance placed through the State warehouse system continues in its satisfactory shape." What is described as a new method of flood prevention to be accomplished by the construction of "shallow, graduated, diversion canals' to con nect tlie bends in a river to allow a straightaway flow of waters at flood thie was explained to the House committe on flodd control by its inventor, John Bryan, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, ! a second cousin of William Jennnigr, Brvan. i ' How part of a $480,000 letter 01 ' credit from the International Har| vester Company was spent for a gunI boat for a revolution in Yucatan, last year, was told to the Senate com mi ttep investigating charges of a combination to control the output of sisal, by Domingo F. Hvia, who said he was 1 one of a commission of five who went ' to New York to get the cash and buy arms. Watch Your Kidneys ta in Holland, whore the land is below tlu level of the sea, and the waters of the ocean are kept back by huge "dikes" that sur round the whole country, careful watch ikept day and night, to see that the watci does not begin to break through at an\ point. If it should once start, the whole cvi'"try v. ;"1;! b?' flo0*' VwVfCH YOUR KIDNEYS just a. carefully. If you find that they are start ing to break down, give them INSTAX'I liefp. Do not delay a single day. Delay may mean that serious, even fatal, chronic kidney disease will fasten itself upon you These important organs separate tlu poisonous matter from the blood. ^ If they do not work properly, the poison is left ir the blood and contaminates every organ If you have pains in the back, difficult) or irregularity in urinating, rising frequently in the night to urinate, a cloudy or reddish sediment in your urine when U stand?) a lV?v hours?if you have palpitation of lh? heart, sunken eyes, pale 01 bloated fact', difficulty in breathing, puffy ( skin or baggy skin beneath eyes?if you have ANY of these aymptoms you will dc i well to HASTEN TO THE RELIEF ol your Kidneys. DR. TIIACHER'S Liver and Blood Syrup has given prompt relief to many thousands of inr-n niwl unmon "Art t?"'l ? ? ,.v...v,u ??iiv/ iuui i nunc symptoms. They took it promptly. They received the help they needed. They were restored to perfect health. Their kidneys were made strong again. The poison passed out of their bodies, as Nature intended. Do not delay. Give instant attention to any symptoms of kidney disease. Your life may depend on it. Your dealer sells 50-cent and $1.00 bottles. ? LTHACIIER medicine company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. ii. | The same being part of a tract or parcel of land which was conveyed to me by N. m. Hardee and W. O. Hardee by deed of date, January 20th, A. D. 1914. TERMS of Sale Cash. Purchase? to pay for papers. Conway, S. C., March 4th, 1910 . J. A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County; H H. WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Attorney. THE HORRY HI WHAT OTHER PAP The Source of Help. When a man needs help real bad he| is more likely to get it from casual acquaintances than from some of! those posing as his friends.?York! News. His Own Sole. A New York shoemaker was fined S!() for mending his own shoos onj Sunday. Surely it \vu>> not wrong for him to try to save his sole or. Sunday.: ?Greenville Piedmont. Forget Cotton. Corn planting time?go to it, .\b\ Farmer, ami FORGFT c )Uo;i.?.Marion Star. Any l.imberger? Two more c heose factories have i been added to that new industry in 1 t i nit. iiKHuiuiins. vvauin^a county now three and more are to cone. The people of North Carolina were asleep a long time to the possibilities of cheese-making*, but they are now wi ie i enough awake.?Charlotte Observer. Movies For Children. Wearied of the usual style of entertainment presented to childhood by moving picture concerns, a number of; New York women have arranged for! special pictures for children to bo giv-j en at two theatres regularly on Sat-, urdav mornings. Simple stories, fairy tales, industrial pictures and current events are to be shown. Chil,1?.~ ...? 1 - ? -* - - VII *."11 I; I (.IP L 1 ii.1 V t.* UK* II1U Vll'S. Ijl.t" them the educational kind.?Columbia Record. i .. A Manifest Tact. (From the Durham Herald.) There is no denying the fact that Mr. Wilson is the man of the people who elected a Democratic Administration were counting on. I Be Bridle Wise. A married man says the host way to avoid the steam roller is to do what she thinks is right.?Exchange, m Nothing Better. Either white or simple colors are to ^ be the summer style with American *comon because dyestuffs arc scarce. 1. "" 1 Whether dyes are scarce or not, a giH. CALOMEL DYNAMIT MAKFS Yflll SIP.I Ill IllkW I WW WIWI , "Godson's Liver Tone" Starts Your Livor Better Than Calomel and You Don't Lose a Day's Work I/ivon up your slavish livrr! Foe! fine ami cheerful: make your work a : pleasure; lx> vigorous and full of ambition. Hut take no nasty, dangerous calomel because it makes you sick ami you may lose a day's work. I Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the hones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. I Listen to me! If you want to enjoy i the nicest, gentlest liver and l>owcl I cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful uf harmless Dodaon's Liver lSS " i- ~ 7 i j ! IS DUE THE PEOPLE OF I THE GENEROUS PATRO! CORDED US DURN6191! (IER mil) THtNKQ wtaii wit i iinmuui DURING 1916 YOU ft INESS AT THE SAME Li! PARED THAN EVER TO SI DUSENBUI Toddvilk ' ' :rald, conway, s. 0. ERS ARE SAYING | couldn't possibly bo more lovely than j when she is arrayed in white.?Sc- | looted. Pctruchio Needed. Harry Pratt returned to Denver ] this morning after a visit with his fiancee, Miss Katherine McKenzie. Ho is receiving treatment for ohe of hi. ryes.? Houlder (Colo.) Camera. Worst of All. There are liars and liars. Put the dirtiest liar of all is the "Welcome" ot. the door mat on the front porch.? The State. Must Be. A Boston man ad\ iscs people against eating meat three times a lay. The papers say ho i>? a physician but ho talks more like a humorist - A i a lerso 11 M ail. Bad in Williamsburg. While we are simply jogging along* with makeshifts for roads and bridges, people in adjoining counties are building- better roads and reaping* J the financial rseults.?County Record. A Worthy Mule. "Uncle Billie" Pugh has a mule that wiil ho 34 years old in April, that is pulling with another mule a ton of guano a day from Prosperity to his I\or>i?? nine miles ?Vpu-Iikvv Observer. The Cheaper Way. Woman in Ohio mad'"* herself a hut out of fifty one-dollar bills. Simpler to have bought a enoap hat and t7*immed it with one fifty-dollar bill.? Daily Record. Question nf Shortness. A physiologist says a man who is feci iO inches tall is shorter in the p'Orning than he is in the evening. A .-dx foot friend of ours says he knows of his own knowledge that no other fellow can possibly be shorter than he ! hlmxnlfi?Morning: Shi'*. Oh, You liilly Sunday. Prohibitionists of Baltimore are no little gratified by the coincidence of! Billy Sunday and their activities just I p<?w,?Charleston Post. ES YOUR LIVER! (JND SALIVATES Tone tonight. Yoiif druggist, or doalef | sells you a 50 corit bottle of Dodson'e j Liver Tone under my personal moneyback guarantee that each spoonful will clean your sluggish liver letter than a dose of nasty calomel and that it won't make you sick. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning U'cause you will wake up feeling tine, your liver will be working; headache and dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet and boweln regular. Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and can not, salivate. Give it to your children. Millions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell yon that the sale of Calomel id almost sU/ppo<. entirely here. tppreciation 40RRY COUNTY FOR MAGE THEY HAVE AC 5 AND WE BEG TO TENI I I f r!1Tn MA nilO ix i . , u\> DUO" 1 C-'5 ,i Jh., tn wrrrr-n nnr j y< w ii . iu^? I I Lil rnt ERVE YOU. RY & CO. S. C# 'I I A + ' - - - - I FOREIGN 1TEJ1N GATHERED AND CONDENSED | FOR EASY READING i Eight hundred Austrian soldiers in ' barracks were killed or wounded in * the raid made by Italian aeroplanes. 1 i i The German infantry attacks have, been greatly increased to the north-! west of Verdun. _______ i i The senate confirmed the nomina-J ' tion of Newton D. linker, former [? mayor of Cleveland, to be secretary!' of war. The general feeling among , many 1 noted men in Germany is that the g< vernment there lias exhausted all ; efforts to retain America's friendship!) and can do nothing further. * i President Wilson completely and decisively won nis long anu sensauonal fight to compel congress to ac-! , knowledge that it stands behind him in the submarine negotiations with , Germany. Favored by a new crisis in .Mexican affairs by the Columbus niassa-l ere, administration officials admit J that President Wilson may find ii dif-; ficult to refrain longer from actual interference. He leased from toe bonds of embevrassment forced upon him by the discord in. congress, which have been represented in foreign capitals as in-J dioating that he was making his de nu.nus on tiermany in direct opposi-j lion to tho sentiment of tho elected | i*<-presentatievcs of tho people, President Wilson now stands prepared to: go on with the submarine negotiations with the central powers. o NOTICE OF SALE. I Under and by virtue of the decree! and judment of the court made by his Hour T. S. Sense, Presiding Judge, [ in the case of American Fertilizing i Company, a Corporation, Plaintiffs, vs. Lillie M, Rogers and IT. It. Rogers,' defendants, and dated tlie 1st day ofj March A. D. 1916, 1, the undersigned J. A. Lewis, Sheriff of Horry County,, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder before the Court House door at Conway, in Horry County.' and State of South Carolduring1 legal hours of gale, on salesilay 'uj April next, it being the 3rd day of j Sflitl mWUh* Ull ami sir$ular those certain *51 ttiuio iit tldrry Coun-1 ty, and described follows, to v it: , All and singular, till {bat certain piece, parcel or tract of Itind lyin **' and being in Dog Bluff TotVrtflb'py contain'Yig Twenty-three and one-hrtil <23 1-2) acres, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stake corner llxo on D. G. Johnson line, thence approximately North on West border of a ditch to end of , ditch, thence West to a blazed Cum r.t head of Spring Branch, thence rp- J proximately West to stake JJxo in, said branch, thence approximately! South to a slake 3xo, thence West to! stake on I). G. Johnson line, thence South to a stake on said line k Uxr,i thence East to the beginning coflier, j Reference to plat made 'ov D.j Lawrimore on July 30th, 1:;1J. will more fully describe. VERMS of Sale Cash. Purchase! to pay for papers. Conway, S. C\, March 3rd, 10.1 G. J. A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County, j H, H, WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Attorney. ? ... tiii ^ , NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtlle of the decree and judgment of tiie court made by his Honor T. S. Sease, Presiding Judge, in the case of The American Fertilizing Company, a Corporation,! Plaintiffs vs. Fannie Tart, Herbert Edward Tart, Lother Marie Tart, Elbert Murrey Tart, Edna Bell Tart, and John C. Tart, Defendants, and rf.ited tl\e 1st day of March A. D. 1910 I, the undersigned J. A. Lewis, Sheriff of Harry County, will sell at pubIrc auction to the highest bidder before the Court House door at Conway, in Horry County, and State of South, Carolina, during legal hours of sale,! on salesday in April next, it being the 3rd day of said month, all and singular those certain lands situate in Horry County, and described as follows,! I to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being in Galivants Ferry Township, Horry County and State of South Carolina, containing twenty-five (25) acres, bounded by lands of E. M. Tart on the West, on the North by lands of J. F. Gore, and East by lands of C. K. Gcrrald, and South by lands of George J. Hoi' #< Ihlny. This mortgage is given to secure the purchase money of above land. TERMS of Sale Cash,. Purchaser, to pay for papers. N r\V SECRETARY SWORN Si ^ ton Baker Takes Oaih as Head of the War Department. Washington, March 9.?Newton D. ttakcr was sworn in today as Secreary of War. The oath was adminisercd by John Randolph, assistant h'of clerk, nearly 50 years in tluf^ service. NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of the decree md judgment of the court made by lis Honor T. S. Sense, Presiding Judge, in the case of O. J. Bell vs. Sarah M. Bellamy, Fred O. Bellamy, Henry P. Bellamy, Eula Ray Brigi^, Royal VV. Bellamy, Robert Snow Bellamy, Bryan Bellamy, Mary Emma Bellamy, Thomas Vcrnol Bellamy, et il., Defendants, and dated the 1st day >" March A. 1). 1910, I, the undersigned J. A. Lewis, Sheriff of Horry Bounty, will sell at public auction to the highest- bidder before the Court House door at Conway, in Horry County, and State of South Carolina, during legal hours of sale, on sal*day in April next, it being the hrd day of said month, ail and singular those certain lands situate in Horry County, and described as follows, tore it : All and singular that certain tract of land in Little River Township, containing ten (10) acres, bounded North, East and South by land w Prince Livingston, West by land of ?i v. > imk&IUII, ?um me sanmy^H tract conveyed to Waterman Livinadi^| ston from Prince Livingston. TERMS of Sale Cash. Purchaser^! to pay for papers. Conway, S. C., March 4r.h, 191(5. ^ I .J. A. LEWIS, I Sheriff of oHrry County, v 1 li. H. WOODWARD, \WM Plaintiff's Attorney. fl gNOTICE OF SALE. - 'i By virtue of an Order of the Court ^ of Common Pleas in the rase of Palmetto Grocery Company vs. J. ti. Allen, also under an execution issued in said cause, 1 will seil to the highjftb iddors for cash at 11 o'clock in the forenoon on the 24th day of March A. D., 1910, in Ga.livr.nts Ferry Township, noar the J. CI. Allen r,;'.^hV?r-' hood where the property is now stored, all and singular certain crops of J. G. Allep Vai.scd during the year 1 ? !. ), consisting of corn, seed cotton, M?W fnul oilior /'-l under u Writ (?f attachment In said ease, and the prdOSftdn td be iu?f>lied 1 on the execution now in niy horida; Terms of sale cash. Said sale ttdil be in charge of Mr. H. Grant hum rop, resenting the undcrsf^i-.cd, .1 .A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County, O^iocl March 4th, A. I>., 1910. 4 - ? - o? - - ?- * ** NOTICE OF SALE. 'r Under ar.d by virtue-of the (leered and judgment of the court made by his Honor T. S. Sease, Presiding Judge, in the c\:*<? of Palmetto Gm* " * y Company, a Corporation, Pla'a* tiffs vs. Laura E. Skipper and Coorgtf i J. Holliday, Defendants, and daf^d t!i?? 1st day of M?. "! . A. D. lO'G, 1, the undersigned J. A. .Jew's, Sheriff of Horry County, v/iil s?lT at pt?l!ie auction to tr/f* highest bidder before 11*o Court H ouso\<tv>r at Conway, in Hojt.v, Countv. and of So tub Carolina, during legal h&ib's of saku ,. I I a .. r i - suiu-Kuay :n April next, uvc :Jrd day of said month, all a?.*<! I lar those certain lands situate iif I yy County, and described as fol/^y?' I to wit: I All and singular that certairj I piece, parcel and tract of land, lying, I situate and being in the State anc^J County aforesaid, in Floyds Town^M ship on the North side of the ijire^ v;ay and Sandy Bluff County road, containing twenty-four (24) acres, more or less, beginning at a simmori tier corner on the South side of the Sandy Bluff and Pireway County j Ready thence a Northward direcv tion with the Battle land to a lightwood stake corner on Buddy Stricklin's line, thencea Nortlto\va?d direction with Buddy Stricklin's line to a comer on Quincy Hinson's land, in fifteen mile bay, thence a Westward direction the lew bushes of fifteen mile bay to a lightwood stake corner on N. P. Stevens line, thence a Southward direc tion a straight line across field with I N. P. Stevens to the Sandy Rluff and I Pireway County Road, thence up the I read a South-eastwardly <lirection Ho I the beginning corner. I TERMS of Sale Cash. Purchaser 1 to pay for papers. I Conway, S. C., March 3rd, 1191(1. I J. A. LEWIS, I SheriiT of Horry County. I H. H. WOODWARD, I Plaintiff's Attorney. I ^ Conway, S. C., March 3rd, 1,16,. I J. A. LEWIS, I Sheriff of Horry County. 1 H. H. WOODWARD, I PlaintifCs Attorney. rL I i