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VICTORY NETS FRENCH
FIRST GERMAN LINE
From Rheims . to the Champagne
Front?Foes Lose
30,000
GREAT WESTERN FRONT
NOW 12 MILES LONGER !
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Taking of Series of Strong
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Heights Rejoices French i
Armies.
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Paris.-?The great western battle I
front was extended for another 12 1
miles today when the French drove i'
the Germans from all of their line '
positions and part of their second
line from Rheims to the Champagne '
front. The victory was staged on the 5
ground which saw the great offen- '
fcive of 1915, and the German loss is
estimated at 30,000 killed, wounded *
and prisoners.
The invaders were exceptionally i
Well placed along a scries of wooded!'
heights, varying in height from (>()0 :
to 800 feel and running north along j'
liie main road from Rheims to St.!"
Hilair Lc-Grand. The Germans we o;
well aware that an attack was cent- '
ing and had made full preparation
for it.
""\Yhole Lir.e Gives Away.
The French attack, however. was,
delivered with such skill and v'gor |
that the defenders, disheartened by
long and furious preliminary bombardment,
gave ground after a reasonable
stiff resistance, and the j
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v> nuie line leu into uu* nanus ui mu
French. South of Moronvilliers, the
impetus of the attackers carried them
clean through the first line into the
second line system which centered at
Mont Haut. This summit, 850 feet
high, was stormed.
In the meantime, on the Soissons*
Kheims front, the French troops are
busy organizing the captured ground'
won in the first day of the battle and
ropu'siag fierce counter attacks. Over
their heads a storm of artillery fire
is preparing the way for another
drive against the Germans in the
positions which they retired yes
le relay.
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S ?' Important Success.
Paris.?The latest French victory,'
while o \ a smaller scale than that of
Monday, is an equally important sue-:
vers. Both of the sections attacked j
had been left alone hitherto on ac-1
count of the exceptionally natural
strength of the German positioi s.
The French command held that an
assault could only be successfully
undertaken when resources had been
accumulated and the general situation
was favorable.
The generals v. ho command the
armies of the right centers had been j
planning the attack for several weeks
and had left nothing to chance. Everything
was provided for and the
chiefs under him had nothing to do|
but follow instructions to the letter.
As soon as the result of the battle be
tween Soissons and Rheiins was
known, the order was given to at-j
tack. Punctually at 4:4n the French
"went over," well supported by a pow
erful mass of artillery. The swept
forward in magnificent style and in
two hours the first line system had
been completed.
Take Prisoners by Score.
"Later news came that the French
soldiers were carrying all before
them and taking prisoners by the
score. They seized Mont Carnillet,
Mont Haut and all the crests commanding
the region.
From their new positions the
French now look down upon Moronvil
liors and Nouroy. This Moronvilliers
chain of hills was regarded by all
French soldiers who had ever been in
fiect'*ons as virtually impregnable,
and its capture caused the liveliest
satisfaltion to everybody. The 7f>'a
followed up the infantry rapidly and
were soon in action. They caught
large bodies of the enemy massing
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wivn me ooject or making a diversion
mid decimated them. According to
onlookers, such carange had not been
seen since the actions of Hharme Gap
at the beginning of the war.
Auberive Falls Quickly.
On the right wing the struggle was
equally to the advantage of the
French, Auberive, on which the left
wing of the Champagne offensive of
1916 broke, fell speedily, as well as
all the surrounding works. The
French made especially good progress
north of Auberive. In the scctiton
east of Vaudesincourt, Hill 112
HIGH FOOD PRICES "
DEPRESS COTTON
Columbia.?That high prices for
food means low prices for cotton, and
that it is essential to the success ol
the cotton growers that sufficient
foodstuffs for the nation's use be
grown, was pointed out by David R.
Coker, of Hartsville, chairman of the
South Carolina Civic Prcparednes
Commission, is an appeal to the
Southern farmers issued today. Mr.
Coker, who is a director of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond, is a
noted authority on plant bleeding.
The appeal follows:
"Basic economic laws are immutable.
' When food is selling at famine
prices, wage earners have little or
nothing to spend for clothing. Then
dry good sales fall off. Dry goods
prices decline and raw cotton must
follow. On April 9, May wheat (Chicago)
closed at $2.07 and May corn
it $1.27. May cotton (New York)
jiosed that day at 20.50.
"Today (April 19) May wheat closed
at $2.41 and May corn at $1.40
1-2. May cotton closed today at
19.80. Breadstuff's, their fore, have
advanced 15 per cent and cotton dedined
" per cent in ten days. If
bread stuffs hold at present figures or
advance it seems inevitable that cotton
must continue to decline, unless
iicweconomic factors appear to sustain
prices. If Southern farmers |
>hould curtail cotton acreage and intense
the acreage in foodstuffs sufficiently
to cut off the $000,000,000
to $700,000,000 food bill the South
annually buys from the West and
No. tli, that would be a great econom- i
ic factor in support of cotton prices.
"Will i ?e Southern farmer blindly
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.DIIUIUR' .1 WIIIV.I1 VVUI"K> lV'I
higher bread and lower cotton ? Patriotism
and self interest both demand
that he raise ample foodstuffs
for Southern consumption, and that
he curtail cotton acreage sufficiently
to accomplish this.
"The farmer who does not do this
is blind to the handwriting on the
wall, and besides is not responding to
hir country's call for help.
(Signed) "David R. Coker,
"Chairman South Carolina Commission
for Civic Preparedness for
War."
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N. J. Booth was in Conway last
Saturday on business.
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There is mischief in
thoce eyes.
There is a marvelous
charm in her every
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rytnmic movement.
There is a wonderful
appeal in every installment
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I was stormed, as well as a small wood
J oast of tho hill which was a regular
I nest of German machine guns.
At certain points the advance was
I close upon four miles in depth. The
latest move reaching Paris says the
battle continued well into tho night
Hie Germans counter attacking without
success and the French reconstructing
the trench system under
the cover of our artillery.
Spoils HindenhurgV. Plav.H.
According to information from a
reliable source, the double offensive
of the British north of Arras and of
the French on the Aisne rlis.nwnncp*?.'l
the Gorman plans of Field Marshal
von Hindenburg, it is declared, who
is preparing an offensive against
riga and another against Italy, while
on the western front he was conside."
ing an attempt on Calais on the one
hand and on Paris on the other. The
Allied western offensive spoiled all
this by obliging him to bring bach a
large part of the effectives intended
for the Russian and Italian fronts.
- THB HOBBY HS&J
CHEAPEST WAV ID I
IS TO HAVE IHEHJ
Clemson College, S. C.?The cheapest
way to feed animals is to have
them graze in pastures. It is an easy
and sure way to make money. The
profits per acre may not be large but
a comparative large acreage can be
used with a small amount of man la
bor.
As all kinds of land may be used for
grazing there need not be any idle
land on the farm. Much land can be
used for grazing that is not suited tc
staple crops. Pastures occupy some
of the best land in the oountry and
pay a profit on it.
For the cotton belt, Bermuda. Les
pedeza. White Clover, and Bur Clover
are the best plants to occupy the pasture
area and for any given quantity
and area of laud will carry the largest
number of animals. When well established
on good land this combination
of plants will carry as many as four
grown cows per acre. A pasture that
will carry one grown cow per acre is
a good one. '
For the rest of the country, extendi*
as far west as Kaheas and Nebraska.
Kentucky and Ctrnada Blue
Grasses and White Clover make t'1^
best pastures and these plants arc
well adapted to the section indicated.
A blue grass pasture that will carry
one grown cow to the acre is regarded
as exceptionally good; one
that will carry a grown cow to two
acres is regarded as good.
For certain types of land Canada
blue grass. Bed Top and Alsike Clover
give the best grazing.
For the country north of the cotton
bolt the blue grasses and white clover ;
are so aggressive that they occupy '
land not otherwise used so that most
of the good blue grass pastures of the
country are established by natural i
agencies and this is a desirable aiu\|
easy way to get a good pasture. Most !
of the large area of land used for graz- 1
ing in this country is occupied bv
plants established hv natural agencies
and sometimes this results in good
grazing, but often it results in very
indifferent grazing.
In the cotton belt no pasture estab
lished by natural agencies is comparable
to a pasture sodded with Bermuda.
Lespedeza, White Clover and Bur
Clover. As a rule if a cotton farmer
wants a good pasture he must make
it.
Bermuda mav he established hv I
planting a small piece of sod every j
two feet each way on land that has !
bq$n prepared as for oats or other
small grain. The sod may be put out
any time from April to October when
there is moisture enough to make the
sod live. White Clover may be sown
in the early fall. Bur Clover (in the
burr) is best sown in July. Lespedeza
should be sown the latter path
of February. Five pounds of White
Clover seed are enough for one acre;
twenty-five pounds of bur clover burrs
and twenty pounds of Lespedeza seed
are sufficient for on*> acre.
flood pastures should be made gradually
as the time element permits of
making the cost small. Enough Bur
Clover and Lespedeza to sow one acre
each gives a start and seed from those
small areas can be sown on other arena
and the process continued until the
plants are established over the entire
area. Cattle may help to scatter the
seed, especially Lespedeza seed. The
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GEORGETOWN AFTER
| DEEPER CHANNEL
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Major Youngberg Holds Hearing
at City on the
Sampit.
(leoi'gotown?Major Youngberg, of
;ti.e Uivtc.'l State; engineering corp.',
c( nducted a hearing here yesterday
in the Chamber of Commerce hail for
It he purpose of arriving at a decision
! as to the desirability of deepenng
Vvinyah I>ay channel, and up the
Sampit river above the city of George
town. The present depth is 18 feet
at mean low water; the petition of
commercial and industrial interesthere
and at Conway and Columbia
asks for a minimum depth of about
25 feet.
The hearing was well attended, and
written and oral arguments were sub
mitted by representatives of the various
interests, making in the aggregate
a very strong showing in favor
oi the project. Messrs. Cjuattlebuam
end Ambrose, of Conway, were here
to voice the needs of the Waecamaw
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The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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SFKF III PASTURES
labor cost is much less where more
time is used. Time is often a valuable
aid in farm operations and it *4
very inexpensive. This is particularly
true in establishing good pastures.
A grown cow should gain two hundred
and fifty pounds during the pasture
season. With fairly good pastures
ami good management the gains
per acre should be worth four to five
dollars and may be more. This appears
small when compared to cotton
at $100 per acre and this difference
is just as great as it seems and yet
the pasture farmer may make the
most monev. Unless land is scared
and limited it usually does not matter
about the acre profits. What should
be of interest is how much does the
man make. The man labor on one
acre of cotton may be greater than it
Is on one hundred acres of pasture
where beef cattle are bought in the
spring at the beginning of the season
and sold at the close of the season in
the fall. One man may do the required
work on fire thousand acres of pasture.
Cotton is a much more intev
sive crop than pasture grass but extensive
crops may be just as profitable
as intensive crops. It is really
better for one to think of how much
money he is going to make during the
year rather than how much crop hs
is going to make 011 one acre.
Near the middle of the cotton belt
there is an area of country that appears
to be about one-half gullies.
By pasturing that land a man made
eight to ton thousand dollars a yea/.
There was plenty of land, such as if
was. and ho used it. The fact that
he was using largo areas of land did
not worry him.
Pasture farming is a very sure wav
to make money but you must use
comparatively large areas.
With some pastures it pays to rotate
the animals. Let them gra". 1
one area for a while then change to
a different area and in this way the
grass in each field is given a goo i
chance to grow while the animals n/o
grazing elsewhere. Hut this is not
the way to manage a Bermuda pas
ture. Keep plenty of animals 011 a
Bermuda sod to keep it grazed close
to the ground.
Rv e.Jltinir the hr-vt nnlm-il
encourage worthless weeds to grow ir
pastures and for this reason it is oftPii
advisable to run a mowing marhii"1
over them once or twice a year. Pas
I tures need some shade hut it take*
open land to grow good grass. Tlo
cattle graze on the open areas.
The cotton farmer may have some
excellent temporary pastures. A con
fiphl where a good crop of peas or vol
vet beans have been grown as com
panion crops makes a valuable pas
ture for the fall season. The gain*
made in such pasture may be wortl
as much as ten dollars an acre.
Other temporary pastures may b?
had with peanuts and- soy beans an.
still others with rape and sorghum
Temporary pasture In the cotton hel
may be made to supplement the per
manent grazing areas to very grea
advantage.
Nitrate of soda, as a top dressing 01
Bermuda sod. can be made to pay goo.
profits. If should be ap; lied the flrs
of May.
Cotton is a very reliable erop bu
even cotton is not as sure as pastures
| river city, while Columbia on tin
jCongareo was ab'y r? piv. e.-.U <1 by it
i secretary of the (.'number of Com
merce, Mr. K alholVr. The incetin
was pros* id u\ over by Mr. VV. 1). Moi
I van, presidiet of l)v- !ian!: of Cieorj;
J .own, the father of the dcepc* water
iwavs movement for (Jeoraetow
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when the icovornmcr.t first under
' cook tne worK.
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'I HEROIC FRENCH PRIEST
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Captain Trelles, a French priest, has
received several decora I ions for serv'"cs
at the front.
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IAMBASSADOR GERARD ARRIVES
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Nt'\v photograph of Ambassador
Gerard taken hh be arrived in Key
West, Flu., from Havana.
MUNITIONS WORKERS
ON STRIKE IN BERLIN
Crowds Near Imperial Castle
Denounce Food Situation
in Bitter Terms.
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Copenhagen.?The number of
strikers in Berlin is placed in even
the semi-official report at 125,000*
and is distributed, according to the
Tageblatt, through machine works, J
some electrical establishments and 1
part of the munition plants. The latter
sate;pent is interesting in view of h
a dispatch from the official k.?
??v ?? U ^
reau denying that the munition factories
were affected. The Tageblatt
says, however, that the great ignition
industry at Spandau has^Aiot
been involved.
Reports in all the Berlin newspa- i
pers which have arrived here agree
that the demonstrators wcr unusually
orderly, although roughs resorted to
occasional window breakng in tl.c
Unter Den Linden, the Pried rich and
Liepzic Stvasses and other central
thoroughfares. Soldiers as well :.s
police were used in cordons thrown
jib out the Unter Den Linden and the
imperial castle. ^
Crowd in Bitter Temper, Ji |
Great crowds gathered in the neigh
boi hood of the castle during the day
and the temper of the crowd, particularly
the women , is described as
very bitter. The strikers denounced
the farmers, the' wholesalers and the )
government in equal measures for
responsibility for the food situation.
Kven Socialist leaders who opposed
the strike made it evident to the authorities
that a further curtailment
rations from any cause could not he ;
borne. I
Labor representatives interviewed J
Lord Mayor Wermuth and the Prussian
food commissioner, Michaelis, G
yesterday. The were given an assur 1
ance in regard to food which it is I
hoped will induce the workmen to 1
abandon the strike. I
Longing for Peace. I
The Vorwaerts, alone of tl?e big I
Berlin papers, ventured this morning I
to comment editorially on the strike. I
It said that the demonstration was a|
bused not only on the food situation f
and the demand that itneinal reforms \
be no longer delayed, but also on the \
deep longing for peace. While claim- *
ing that the peace sentiment has a
decisive role in {fie movement, the
Yorwaerts argues that the strike can
not be regarded as anti-government;, I flfl
since the "Austrian and German do- v|
cla rati tons justify the hope that the 1
policy of the Central Powers is on a I
path which will soon lead to peac 1
The paper laments the fact that I
the demonstrations will have exactly I
the opposite effect, probably, from I
that desired by encouraging Ger- I
many's opponents to continue the war 1
and diminishing the output of muni- |
tions. It also regrets that among ^
other excesses, a crowd gathered
front of the vacant British embassy,
yelling and cat-calling.
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Notice of Discharge.
The undersigned administratrix
of the personal estate of I. 0 BelI
lamy, dee'd, will apply to the ^Judge
of Probate of Horry County, at his
oirice at Conway, S. C. at 11 o'clock
in the forenoon, on Tuesday May 1st,
1917, for a final discharge as suctf^
administratrix.
MRS. RUTH BELLAMY,
Qualified Admx., of I. T.
Bellamy, Dec'd.
March 30th, 1917.
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Notice of Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator the
personal estate of R. I). Oweire, deI
ceased, vvi'?;>ply to the Judge of
jProbate of Horry County, at his of- I
fice, at Conway, S. C., at 11 o'clock I
i in the forenoon, on the 1st day of M
May A. D. 1917; for a final discharge^!
as such administrator.
B. M. OWENS, Qualified Admr., I
of R. D. Owens, I)ec'd. j
Dated March 31st, 1917
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A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed in the federal court by I
Y m rv.n - -
o. i. mutant and C?. A. Lewis, of |
Hemingway, doing business at Du- J
Rant and Lewis. Jjk
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