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, ALARMS GERMANY i .W ASFOOD'DWMDLES . X * Comparative Plenty of Winter Gives Way to Hunger Conditions of Spring / SPREAD OF SICKNESS ADDS TO GRAVITY OF SITUATION >\ Twenty-Three Per Cent, of ^ People Have Barber' Itch. r The Hague.?Germany is hastening toward a new war crisis, its gravest. In it stomachic, political military and moral phases are all intimately connected. The morale of the German people, yearning for peace under increasing food pressure as never be^ fore, is being subjected to a tremendous strain, brought almost to the long intermission before the promised happy last act of the Ludendorff offensive. Inspired German military critics in. dustrially continue to try to divert public opinion into a semblance o; optimism and enthusiasm for the re sumption of the "Kaiser's battle." To revive the faith of the doubting and discouraged masses the critics reiterate the explanation that a long pause is inevitable in order to prepare for a general super offensive. lialm for the Doubters. Gen. Baron von Ardenne in the f Tageblatt tells the doubters that the long intermission also has been die tateu Dy the course of eventp, including'the possibility of bringing reinforcements to the west front from Roumania following- the signing of the peace treaty and the plan for the immediate commencement of an Austrian offensive against Italy. Although there is every indication that behind the fog of talk the Gor v man highest leadership is preparing people are too much absorbed again an unprecedented blow, the German by their food troubles to list?'n to the I military prophets. Germany h;n again entered upon the worst period of the food year. Whereas condition were better during the past winter than in the previous one, they have gnown rapidly worse until there is no appreciable difference between the hunger of thp spring of 1917 and that of 1918. In trw ~ - am civivii 1/A i/l ft tllC opCtllC U1 i4 sible reduction .of the bread ration ; Germans are face to face with the real fact of a material reduction in the slender meat ration. While theoretically unchanged, 20 per cent. >f the imperial meat ration must be ta- i ken in sausage. In addition several ] of the federal states have on the.'r ] own initiative enforced measures which practically reduces the ration in order to limit the slaughtering of cattle that are emaciated to the bone , after an almost feedless winter. i It is significant that a rumor is cur rent among the German masess of an 1 impending wholesale slaughter of t COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Not Served). Court of Common Pleas. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, % County of Horry. E. W. Johnston, Plaintiff, vs. Willie A. Hughes, Jr., Defendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complant in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber Y at his office at Conway, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. F Conway, S. C., Aprli 30th, A. D. 1918 E. J. SHERWOOD, I Plaintiff's Attorney. I To Willie A. Hughes, Jr., Absent Do- 9 fend ant: ? rr* t T ? ^ ^ i aknj NOTICE: That the Com- ? plaint? in the foregoing action, and the fi / Summons of which the above in a fl copy, were filed in the Office of the fl Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas | for Horry County on April 30, 1918. ? W. L. BRYAN, (E. S.) k C. C. C. P. I .. E. J. SHERWOOD, | Phv'ntiff's Attorney. 1 Conway, S. C., April, 00, 1918?-St j| horses; further, that the public has been surprised by a sudden, unexpected distribution of sauerkraut taken from the army's reserves. Food Reserves Near Exhaustion. Germany's food reserves for the civilian population must consequently be regarded as very near the exhaustion "point, with no relief in sight un:il the summer fruit and vegetables ")m? and no real improvement posst>le until the next harvest. Significant too is the fact that vith increasing sickness among th ? copulation Germany is suffering from x shortage of doctors. More than twothirds of Germany's doctors are in I the army, and according to a statement made in the Reichstag bv Mild lor-Mciningen-Hof, the shortage of doctors is increasing from month to month and is being particularly fe'.t in the heretofore healthy country districts. Bad health conditions are widespread. There is an epidemic of barber's- itch both in the army and in the civil population. According to Prof. Buschke, who has been intrusted by the Prussian War Ministry with the task of combating the alarming epidemic, it isi the "widest spread on record, sparing not even the women and childr n." More than 23 per Cent, of th? German people are suffering from barbers' itch. The epidemic, according to Buschke, is due to "general unfavorable hygienic conditions." The Thorn of Electoral Reform. Another troublesome element is the certainty of the defeat of democracy on the Prussian electoral reform issue in the Diet. If the present Gov ernment meant to keep faith with the people it cannot Resort to the means of immediately 'dissolving the reactionary Prussian Diet, because under the Constitution a new election must 11 ii - * do noid vvunin six weeks, and the man power shortage is such that it is a physical impossibility to prepare lists of the electors within that time. Hence no other policy is open to the Government but procrastination. The Catholic Germania says: ' Much as one regrets this unrest in our inner political life in the midst of decisive military fighting, there is no other way out. Better a new election than that the thought should take fixed root among the broad masses of the people that the Government is not serious about electoral reform and that the people are being defrauded of their rights despite the royal promise." "Not only among Social Democrats, but in the widest circles of the nation," says Vorv/aerts, "the feeling prevails that the Pan-German:;, annexationists and enemies of electoral reform are once again completely in the saddle." "In the Reichstag one again talks of a crisis in the air," says the Tageblatt. Increasing food pressure is the root of the quaintest food crime on record. 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Mary Alice Lynch, Plaintiff, vs. Haywood Lynch, N. B. Lynch, Puss Sasser, Elijah Lynch, Sanders Lynch, William Lynch, Fred Lynch, Sara Capps, Emma Woodward, Mary Hook, Fannie Bass, Dolly Ingram, Willie Ingram, Rhal Ingram, Joe Ingram, Bud Ingram, Evelyn Crocker, Delphia Lynch, Sam r i ? uyncn, ana Maggie Workman, heirs at law of Frank L. Lynch, deceased, Defendants. FO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HERBY SUMMONED \nd required to answer the Complaint in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of [Jourt of Common Pleas, for the said bounty, and to serve a copy of yyur answer to the said complaint on the ubscriber at his office at Conway, i>. C., within twenty days after the iervice hereof exclusive of the day of ;uch service; and if you fail to ansver'the Complaint within the time il'oresaid, the Plaintiff in this action vill apply to the Court for the relief lemanded in the Complaint. Uonway, S. C., April 25th, A. D., 1918 E. J. SHERWOOD, Plaintiff's Attorney. fn r u XT T . . ? >iujr >i.wn utvnvii) rN< is. i,yncn. Puss Sasser, Elijah Lynch, Sanders Lynch, William Lynch, Fred Lynch, Sara Capps, Emma Woodward, Mary Hook, Fannie Bass, Dolly Ingram, Willie Ingram Raid Ingram, Joe Ingram, Bud Ingram, Evelyn Crocker, Delphia Lynch, Sam Lynch and Maggie Workman, absent Defendants: TAKE NOTICE: That the Comlaint in the above entitled action nd the Summons of which the foreoing is a copy, has been filed in the >ffice of the Clerk of the Court for [orry County on the 10th day of May .. D., 1918. /. L. BRYAN, (L. S.) C. C. C. P. E. J. SHERWOOD, Plaintiff's Attorney, onway, S. C., May 11, 1918. o By this time all farmers must i ww that there is help in sight? /ailablc labor for production of food i American farms?for all thp pan's and periodicals have boon her-] <ling the news. The farm labor1 lortage can he met here, as it has j >cn so largely met in England and mada, by the use of women work's on the land. 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Friedrich von Payer, the German Imperial Vice Chancellor, in an announcement to the Main Com inittee of the Reichstag the esatblish ment of a special department to regulate Germany's eastern policy, sai l: ".Wfl no t>f !/>nln?1.. e i 1 ""I'v fuivivuianjf xur auvanu ages relating to the safeguarding of our food supplies and then for what can be comprised under the general term of colonization. The relationship of border states to us shall and must furnish us with the military security of our frontiers against Rus- i sia, which security we cannot renounce. "Besides this, however, there is also national sympathy with the Germans in these territories. Theat applies particularly to the Baltic provinces. The treatment of states must differ, according to their size, their economical and political conditions their geographical situation and fur-, ther direct connection which is possible." ^ RICE, RICE, RICE! I Best Blue Rose Whole Grain Rice at $8.50 per hundred, cash. 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Full details of the itinerary are new being worked out with the assistance of railroad men, and it is expected that the complete itinerary far the ,\vo campaign parties will be announced within the next day or two. When official decision of the selection of June 18 for the beginning of the two campaign tours is announce 1 b\ the cmmictee the date for the filing of pledges for the senatorial an i State officers' race also will be automatically fixed under the rules of thM party. Noon of June IT would then be the last moment for the filing of pledges, o 1 - ! HEAVY BOND IN SABOTAGE GASE Charleston.?Ten thousand dollars is the amount of the bond required by U. S. Commissioner A. M. Huger for the appearance of Louis Boette, arrested on a federal warrant by government officials and to be tried for sabotage. He is charged with having placed bits of wire nails in delicate parts of the pneumatic drills at the works of Valk & Murdoch Co., where they were being used in government boiler construction. A formal hearing was waived and without further ceremony the defend| ant was detained for trial before the district court at its June session. Tito defendant was unable to furnish the required bond and was committed tg jail. J The charge is that he lias violated the sabotage act, passed last month, and so far as local authorities know, this is only the second case of the kind. The first occurred very recently in New York. Certainly this is the first in this part of the country. Bocttc is charged with injuring only , the tools used in the construction of the boilers and not hurting the boil- ^ ers themselves in any way, but the ^ injury to the tools brings about a , delay in the construction of war materials, and comes, it is ruled, within , the meaning of the act. I The defendant is the son of a local grocer, a naturalized citizen of the United States, but formerly a Ger- , man. He is only 17 years old, and ^ was employed at the shipyard as a ( boilermaker's apprentice. The seriousness of the offense with v which he is charged can be gathered ( irom the punishment prescribed and . the size of the bond under whi<5h he is being held. The maximum penalty for the violation of the sabotage act is a fine of $10,000 or thirty years , imprisonment or both. ? To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE DROMO Quinine. It stops the v Cough and Headache end works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. VY GROVE'S signature on each box. 30c s NOTICE I Notice is hereby given that all per- u sons whomsoever are forbidden tres- j.] passing on the lands of Levi J. Watts, r( leceascd, the same lying in Conway 0 xnvnship, Horry County on the West dde of the Hardee's Ferry Public Road, about four miles from Conway, j-j Violators will be dealt with according j\ o law. E. Watts, Administrator of ?.| L. J. Watt's Estate. vv Conway, S. C. sc March 24th, 1018 , .g The food administration has sent ut a warning to corn millers and to ^ wholesale and retail dealers in corn. >arley ami oat products that at the resent prices of these grains corn leal and oatmeal should bo soiling ^ t least 20 per cent, below the price 01 f wheat flour and that corn flour aT nd barley flour should be selling at ?( ?ast 10 per cent, below wheat flour. o | or Indigestion, Constipation or | mn AHtfMALid 1 uat try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS VITH PEPSIM. A Liquid Digestive p axative pleasant to take. 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The Sul will be happy to have even that fra tion reduced provided there remai just enough to have the count in th< favor. j ,r? Suffs "Show" Wilfley.. The Senate's "baby" Xenophon Wilfley, Mr. Stone's successor fr.c Missouri, accosted a few days ago 1 the antis, told them that he "had be shown," and that he saw his duty be a vote for the amendment. Pressed for the reason, he tfl them that he took his leadership fro the President, and that he had be given to understand that Mr. Wil? wanted the bill passed. When the vote was abandoned Fi day a week ago no definite time w; set. It will be called up when tJ absentees are back on the job so th; the risk of defeat will be minimized The opposition comes from tl conservative element of the Senat recruited largely from the Republ cans and Southern Democrats. Thei have jockeyed and doged, hoping j be able to profit by some favorab situation that would let them stradd without seeming to do ho. Jj Wadsworth a Bold Antl. Few of the ar.tis are as bold i Senator Wadsworth of New Yori who makes no bones about tellin the prettiest or the heaviest of tt pros that he's against them. Bi CJ " kuc ut-iiuwi s wire is the leadin spirit in the opposition of the amem nent. In fact, Mrs. Wadsworth i working* to have New York repeal th aw whereby the women were enfrai hised in that State last November. There is only a matter of tw /otes standing between the suffs an heir goal?the necessary two-third >? the Senate, which is sixty-fou /otes. They have a clear majorit vith them now, but that, of course, i rot sufficient to pass a constitutions intendment. Although the necessary two hav lot been clinched, the more darini imong the pros are willing to pu heir issue to the test. President's Stand Firm. They have a shrewd belief that vith the actual leadership of both pa ies squarely behind them, and witl o many of the States now in th< Suffrage column, several of the Senj tors who have been backing will stei ;> and support them, rather than rui lie certainty of awakening feminin esentment, which has a long mem ry. There was for a time a report tha Ir. Wilson had cooled off from hi: rst flush of enthusiasm. This i ilso. He still stands four squar >? mnnom"* A~-l ?' * vnv. uivti.-iuiu. aiki, wnai is mor lose who are close to him say tha hen the show down comes, it will b >en that lie has given real and ag ressive aid. 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