The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 06, 1917, Image 1
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volume xxxh.
FOLLOWERS OF BYNG
yAGAIN ON AGGRESSIVE
*' British Check Germans in Determined
Counter Attack
Around Cambrai
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r SERIOUS SITUATION
1 . BRIEFLY THREATENED
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Prompt Counterattacks Re*4
trievc Ground Lost and English
Continue Fighting.
General Dyng's troops in the C'ambiiii
salient in Northern t rance were
on the aggressive again Saturday, ultra
king the Germans who in a deteriflflped
thrust the day previous along
virtually the entire 18 mile front had
thrown back the British from a few
of the advanced positions they ha a
captured in their recent great drive.
Prompt counterattacks by Llyng's
tioops while the Germans were still
trying' to push forward on Friday
checked the Teutonic advance before
it had gained too great an impetus.
For a time the situation looked se,
rious for the British, however, as the
German encircling movement toward
the south end of the salient, pivoting
I on the west bank of the Scheldt, north
of Banteux, swung its left flank
* through Gonnelcu and on to Gouzeaucourt,
one and one-half miles back
to the original British line, while i?.B
center reached La Vacquerie.
There was a hurried exodus of the
, British from the sector when envelopi
merit was threatened and apparently
all, but a few of the most . exposed
parties got clear. Berlin, however,
claims the taking of 4,000 British
! ^ prisoners with several field batteries,
and dispatched from Britsh headquarters
report .that the British blew up
a number .of their, guns which wer?
? in danger of falling into the enemy's
1 hands.
, Lost Ground Regained.
i T'lm /'mintnr'il f cot rir>ir_
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ed much of the lost ground, incuding
' the towns of Gouzeacourt and I/a
Vacquerie, where the penetration had
been deepest, and on Saturday Byng's
forces pushed the fighting in an effort
for the further recovery of the
lost ground.
No admission of any retrograde
movement by the British elsewhere
on the front of the attack has come
( from the London war office, although
Berlin claims to have thrown
i the British back upon Graincourt,
i) Anneux and Cantaing along the nortli
| erly side of the salient. The Germans
seem to have gained initial successes
in this sector, but apparently were
driven back by the British counter
/. thrusts before they could establish
, thr-S^elves.
I The German losses in the masse* i
attacks are reported extremely heavy
and Byng's forces also suffered considerable
casualties in repelling the
asaults and in their vigorous counterdiives.
joMESPiiocoT
OPEN UP STORE
The Jones Piano Company the first
of this week received a whole car
loajfeof fine instruments which they
have opened up in the building just
vacated by W. G. Copp, the jeweller,
two doors from the Herald office,
Among the lot are three player pianos
This furnishes an opportunity for the
I purchase of a fine musical instrument
for the home, and you can ca'l
I at the store and examine the piano
Vand hear it played before you buy.
| Call* and Mr. and Mrs. Jones will
[ make it interesting for you
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K' CHRISTMAS TREE.
There will be a Christmas Enterlainment
at High Point School House
on Saturday night, December 22. Wo
will have a Christmas tree and some
J' appropriate plays for tho occasion.
II TkelT>ublic is cordially invited,
The School is progressing nicely
under the skilful management of Pro
fcssor M. D. Cox. The third teacher,
Miss Annie McGhee has been added
to the School as intermediate teacher,
and also Miss Grace Hendricks has
been elected a.^ primary toucher, th!>
^Hitting her ,third term at High Point.
?Correspondent.
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NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
FROM EVERY STATE
Some Are Already in Trainin
Within Sounds of Guns on
Battlefront.
With the American Army :
France, Nov. 29.?National Guard>
men from every State in the Unio
have arrived in France, it is toda:
permitted to be announced. They arc
among* the troops now training, or
lately arrived.
While it is not permitted to dis
close the identity of units, it may be
paid that all those which sailed iron
the United States have arrived safe
!y and that some already are in train
ing* within sound of the guns on tin
buttle front.
VARIOUSTRACTSARE
SPLD LAST MONOAl
The.* legal saios taking place i
f 1*0111 of the court house last Monda;
were as follows:
The land in the case of Allshroo)
-vs- Sessions, went to Burroughs <S
Collnis Co., at the price of $275.00.
Ten acres near Conway in the cast
of W. A. Freeman, Receiver vs. W. S
McCaskill, was sold for $50.00.
The lots of N. Mosely at Boris were
sold to George M. Fowler for the sun
of $2043.00.
The county poor farm went off .
$<3000.00, and it was said the count;
board would reject the bi<L
Two tracts in Floyds township i.
the case of Anderson vs. Brown wen
off to J. B. Brown, one tract of 2
acres for $2,670.00; another of 3.(
acres for the sum of $625.00.
Fifty acres in Socastee went off t
A. F. Cox for the sum of $505.00.
NO TALK OF PEACE
IN SOUfH ROSSI?
London. ? Reassuring message.from
Russia to tlie effect that no sep.
arate peace will be tolerated but tha*
the armies under General Dukhonir.
wili fight on, have been received b\
the Russian embassy in London.
Dr. J. O. Gavronsky, special commissioner
of the Russian provisiona.
government, and N. M. Nordmamdirector
of the department of ecor.
omics in the ministry of foreign a.
fairs, who are now in London, dc
clared in a statement to the Associat
1 ed press today that it was only .
- matter of a few week.;, it may b
1 sooner, when the Bolsheviki will b<
! completely repiuliuted, as the force
1 in South Russia which is overwhex
mingly opposed to a separate peac*control
the supplies and are working
1 quietly, hut surely in the right direction.
YOUR LAST CHANGE
: TO VOLUNTARILY ENLIST
Washington, D. Dec. 1st, 1917.
Army Recruiting Otricor,
Florence, S. C.
, The following ruling is quoted fo
1 your information. Between now am
' December the fifteenth it is desirec
; to furnish registrants as wide an op
portunity as possible to enlist in both
Army and Navy, therefore any registrant,
even though he has been call
- ed by his local board to report fo
physical examination, may enlist unti
December the fifteenth upon presen
' tar'on to the Recruiting Officer of ;
certificate from his local board th<d
he will not he needed to fill any do
1 fcred percentage of the quota of th<
board. This ruling modifies previous
instructions accordingly, voluntary
enlistments of all registrants is prohibited
from and after twelve o'clock
noon December fifteen.
The Army Recruiting Officer wii)
be in Conway Monday, Tuesday am
Wednesday of next week for the pur
pose of giving the registered men a
chance to^anjist inainy. branch of the
service he may prefer as after Dec.
15th he will not have the chance to
enlist at all but will be called and sent
tc any branch where they need men.
Can enlist in any branch at present
See the Recruiting Officer on these
days next week.
J. L. GRIFFIN,
.Recruiting Ofiicre.
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ONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY. DI
LUMBER CO. GIVES
THANKSGIVING DINNER
Conway Lumber Company irave its
second Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
to its "head men" at the Grace Hotel
Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. There
were covers laid for sixty, but owing
to illness on the part of several on!;,
about forty-five attended.
The Pioneer Lumber Company of*
Horry has made these annual dinners
to the men who are leaders in all departments
of its organization a permanent
thing, and in this very appropriate
way are showing their appreciation
of the heatry cooperation
that is given it in the carrying on of
its vast enterprise.
With the lumbermen were members
of the press, of the medical profession,
and two of Conway's pastors as
special guests.
The doors of the spacious dining
room were tlmnvn open at 7 :"0 and
the diners filed in and took their I
places at the table. Rev. Mr. McCoy.'
of the Methodist Church returned
thanks. After the last course was
served cigars were passed around and
with a dense fog (natural) without
and a denser fog artificial (within)]
the after dinner speeches began.
Mr. H. W. Ambrose, Manager of
the Company, acted as toast master,
and after a brief talk in which he
stressed the hearty cooperation which
the management had had during the
past year and during all the years as
a most vital factor in the attainment
of whatever of success that has come
to the Conway Lumber Company, and
expressing, as resident head of the
Company, its appreciation of that
cooperation, he introduced Rev. Mr.
Hill of the Baptist Church, whose address
on "Thanksgiving Reflections"
was intorepersed with many humorous
jokes and was roundly applauded.
Next to speak, and to th? toast
"The European War," was Power \V.
Bethea, Editor of The Field and Superintendent
of the Burroughs High
School His address was well received,
it being on a topic of vital interest
to all American citizens. The last
speaker, Rev. E. L. McCoy, responded
to'the toast "Ajnerican Ideals" in
a very happy vein and roundlv aw
plauded at thc close. After which
the banquetters extended a rising
vote of thanks to the management of
the Lumber Company for the evening's
entertainment.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
SHARES PROSPERITY
Horry.?The Horry Industrial
School of the South Carolina conference
situated near Conway, has
shared in the prosperity of the year
drawing to a close. During the year
the president of the institution has
conducted a campaign for funds for a
new building which by the time of
the meetnig of the annual conference
last week amounted to $2,500, an off^ri
nir nf t l>n ?'" 4'
" v tin VVillVtVIICC VIMYUIIIS llll>
fund on Saturday night of only a
small part of the conference amounted
to $340 additional. The board of
missions this year appropriated
SI,000 for the building* fund, besides.
$1,500 for maintenance so that those
having charge of this important mission
school have every cause to be
grateful. The president, the Rev. S
C. Morris, expects in the near future
to have donations from each residing
member of the conference and from
laymen of the church until the goal
of $12,500 at least is reached.
The school has a fine attendance
both in the English and business departments,
and there is imperative
need for new building and equipment
that the work may be extended.
There is the possibility of building up
a great institution here for the Pee
Dee section, and moire especially for
the poor boy and girl on the farm;>
and in the rural sections. The newbuildings
contemplated will be begun
in the near future, or as soon as sufficient
funds are realized.
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The crops of this country are as
i large this vear as rniild Kn
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their amount and variety are gratifying.
Now comes the big drivv to
produce in this country next year
still greater supplies, * eriough and
sufficient not only for our own uses
but for shipment to the allies. A
good beginning is taking place now
by the movement to plant wheat. If
you are not in the movement to raise
great big supply crops next yea % gc.
into it to-day.
GOVERNOR MANNING
MARES A STATEMENT
I
To the People of South Carolina:
I desire to appeal to the people of
South Carolina to lay down for themselves
certain definite anil specific
days on which we will save flout,
IIIVIIK, , illltl lillS.
.. Our National Government lias
come to us asking for the perform*
ance of a specific duty. We are asked
to save meat, flour, sugar, and
fats.
I urge our people to adopt the following
program:
To use no beef, pork, or mutton on ;
Tuesdays. On a basis of 7 ounces per j
person, this will save about 700,000 j
pounds of beef, pork, and mutton per
week, or save enough meat to feed
all of the South Carolina soldiers in '
the army.
To use no whoa ton Wednesdays.
This will save about two million dollars
a year, and would supply our '
South Carolina soldires in thc army.'
America uses now one hundred million
barrels of flour. This must he
cut down to seventy-five million barl
pels.
To use Ho wheat on Wednesdays.
This will save about 700,000 pounds
or enough bacon and ham to feed our
South Carolina soldiers in the army.
To use no cake or sweet desserts on
at least two days in each week.
We can use poultry, fish, and vegetables.
We can have them in abundance
if we will raise them.
We should save fats by broiling,
boiling, and baking instead of frying.
No family is asked to stint, but to
save and avoid extravagance and
v/aste. Elaborate meals should not
be permitted.
Use no beef, pork, or mutton on
Tuesdays, no wheat on Wednesdays,
and no hog meat on Thursdays.
- The saving of food is a war measure.
(. If our army is to be fed we must
meet the very reasonable demands of
the Food Administration.
The sacrifice asked at our tables is
a small one compared to the price our
soklfcrs stand ready to pay in blood.
' Remember the tvohien and children of
France hav^ not tasted sugar during
the past seven months, and in many
towns and provinces meat is allowed
only twice a week. President Wilson
and Mr. Hoover urge these requests
upon our people as voluntary acts.
I am confident that South Cavolin*
ians, red-blooded and patriotic, realizing
that American freedom, liberty,
justice, and honor are at stake,
will respond to this call and will do
our part to win the war.
RICHARD I. MANNING,
Governor.
w ashingonwaIts
; FOR RUSSIAN ACTION
Washington.?There will be no formal
announcement for the present of
the attitude of the United States and
the allied nations toward the BAshoviki
regime at Petrograd. The American
irovornmpnl !? w?il!nn- lwvfl
v ... "".I'.ig UVUi
for official information about the relations
of the Bolshcviki loaders with
German army officers and for fur.
the)' developments in tho tangled situation.
throughout Russia.
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Turkey is already out of the running
so far as Thanksgiving day is
concerned.
onlyfourMare
sent to jackson
Twenty-one young men were notified
to appear in Conway on Monday
evening for Camp Jackson last Tuesday
morning. It developed that several
of the number were entitled to
exemptions and after those were
taken out of the number only the following
fourteen were loft to take
the train Tuesday morning for the
c.'imos:
I
Benj. Lnngdon Hume,
Perley Shep}>erd Pajre,
Mike Alex Claridy, '
Ed. Floyd, .
John Wnj.-Saser,. Jiv
Vred Gorum Martin, ,
Dal lie Elmoi'e Morris,
Dexter Fowler,
George Chestnut,
Edward McDuffy Todd,
Wiilic F. Paul,
Walter Gary Alford,
Alex BrjKe Altnwn, c.
Dawson Piexce,
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MUST BE FAMILIAR ji
WITH DRAFT LAW
Innnranro RnnHn re Drvr?iefn<"??%vl<
?ynvi mmvv I iv/i IUV/1 O II tVJIOU dl I '
Liable to Curtailment of
Privileges.
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Washington.?All persons subject |
to the selective service law, Provost
.Marshal Crowder announced today,
are charged with knowing the law
and accompanying: regulations and
failure to comply will be considered
a misdemeanor, punishable by a
year's imprisonment. Failure also
may cause immediate induction into
military setwice and will operavte as
a waiver of any right or privilege
which might otherwise have beeN
claimed.
(Icneral Crowder pointed out that
all previous exemptions are revoked '
under a section of the regulations
which reads:
i "All exemptions and discharges
made prior to noon on December 1 *>, ;
I and all certificates in evidence thereof,
are hereby revoked from and after
noon on December 15, and all such
certificates theretofore issued shah,
have no further validity.
"In any case of deferred classification
made under these rules ami j
regulations, the Secretary of War I
may order such deferred classification
and any certificate issued in evidence
thereof to he revoked and
rescinded and the registrant to be
transferred to any less deferred class
designated by the secretary, except
only as to such registrants as have
been placed in class five on account
of legal exemption."
On its part, the local board is to do
everything possible to acquaint registrants
with their order of liability.
It is absolutey necessary that each
registrant shall know his order number.
The board is t0 mail to registrants
notices of its actions concerning
them of any duties that they are
required to perform, and notice of its
disposition of the claims of other persons
regarding registrants shall be
mailed to the registrant and the othei
persons as well.*'*
FORMER HORRY WOMAN
DIES IN BOSTON, MASS.
Miss Eliza Jane Congdon, familiarly
known to her Horry friends as
"Aunt Jennie," formerly of Horry,
died at her home in Boston, Mass., on
Monday of this week. As it was her i
request that she be buried at her old 1
I
homo in Conway, the body will leave!
Boston to-day (Thursday) and if the j
present plans are carried out she wdl
be interred at the Cemetery of the |
Conway Methodist Church on Satur-j
day of this week by the body of her)
mother, the late Mrs. Charlotte Conation.
As above stated it was a request
of hers that she be buried
either by her mother at the Mehodist
Cemetery here or by the side of her
grand-mother, Aunt Jane Norman at
the Presbyterian Cemetery in Conway,
and permission was gotten from
the Local Board of Health and her
wish will be granted.
Aunt Jennie was known to only the
older residents of Conway where she
once lived. She was the daughter ot
Mrs. Charlotte Congdon and had one
sister. Mrs. J<w.?nh T ??.-?*?
j - - - ^ .y j ' . . * II ll.Ollf I 1 V/ II j
living, and a brother, George Cong-!
don, who died in Georgetown several |
years ago. She was raised by her |
grand-mother, "Aunt" Jane Norman
and lived with her at the old Norman j
homestead formerly located on Main j
Street in Conway near where the'
present Burroughs & Collins Company's
store now stands. She was at
one time a school teacher and eonducted
a private school in Conway,
among her former students now liv- J
ing here being, I)r. H. H. Burroughs, j
Airs. R, G. Dusenbury, Mrs. Julia
Causey and Mrs. F.lla I). Smith.
Shortly after the war she moved U
Boston since which time she has been |
actively affiliated with the New Eng-I
land Conservatory of music.
Her many friends here will bo pained
to learn of her death, but since the
end should come, it will be a source
of grraU'ication to know that her remains
may rest in Conway along
side her loved ones and within the
shadow of the church which it is stat,
od was founded by her mother,
Charlotte Congdon.
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NO. 33. 1
DECLARES ITALIANS I
CAN HOLD LINES I
Sen. Garibaldi Savs Teutons I
Could Advance Only Over
Dead Men
MORE TROOPS AND
GUNS 3R0UCHT UP
Austro-Germans Have Suffered
Disccmragingly Heavy
Losses.
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Italian Army Headquarters in
Northern Italy. -A visit .ado to the
f'i.u'htinu' ground at Monte Tomba, !
Monte Monfenera, and other moun- J
tains in the fiyht'ny zone in the I
norlit, and then to the Piave lino
where it joins the mountain front*
afforded opportunity t<> si o this central
point of the present hug1*
struggle and obtain front officers at
several divisional ami brigade headquarters
direct information in regard
to the condition of affairs. The tour
was made with a staff officer from
headquarters and covered about one
hundred miles with stops at the main
points of fighting.
Can Hold Line.
General Garibaldi, commander of the
famous Alpine brigade, declared the
fighting* hail shown that th0 Italian
troops could hold the line beyond
any question. Speaking of the spirit
cf his men, he added:
"If the enemy ever does get past
owing to superior generalship or superior
strength of guns, it will be
only over the dead bodies of our
troops, for they are determined never
tr> yield."
TW it miiilu l..n J!.. ~ 4 ~ * * *
A 4 * VlHIil Kwiiii^ IV IUC IMtttlft
front showed increasing masses of
troops being brought up for concentration
on the threatened lines. Much
artillery was coming in; The met*
and horses seemed to be in good condition
after the hard drive. Miles of
infantry moved forward, the ranks
showing fresh and youthful troop*.
They wore steel helmets and were
getting ready to go into notion. Many
had little pink boxes in their hands
which looked like packages of candy,
hut when they were opened it was
not candy which was seen, but long
thin bullets which fit into the Italian
rifles. Kvery cartridge belt was full
of these pink boxes.
Heavy Teuton Losses.
Passing headquarters of the fourth
army which holds the vital line between
the Brenta and Piava rivers, m
staff officer of General Robilant, com
runnier of this army, summed up the
I general situation as "satisfactory,**
i the reports shown g that the enemy
was being held. While the pressure of
I the Austre-German forces is still impeteuous,
at. the same time they seem
I to have been worn down by heavy
losses and the unexpected strength of
j the resistance they have encountered.
This staff officer estimated the enemy
loss as fully two or three time*
that of the Italians, as the defensive
lines always have afforded greater
shelter.
MAD DOG CAUSES
LOTS OF TROUBLE
Mi*. Ja/.io Green on his way to
Conway from his home a few miles
from Conway, one clay recently,
found a small dog abandoned in the
public road, and took the dog uu.
Later he took a negro in the vehicle
to ride, and the dog bit the negro.
Later on the same dog bit tho baby.
An examination of the doe'< 1
marie in Columbia proved that the
dog had been mad, and Mr. Green
took prompt steps to obtain treatment
for the malady which would no
doubt soon have taken his bbay.
Another ease of rabies is reported
from the Willow Springs section not
far away. A dog which was apparently
mad went into the house of
Mr. Emp Hucks and before he could
be <|riven from the house, he bit Mrs.
Hucks and two of the children. The
dog's head was sent to Columbia and
a report soon came back that he had
been afflicted with the rabies. Mr.
I lucks took his wire and two children
for treatment without delay.
It is. thought that the treatment in
both of these cases will be effective.