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I - ft*!' V / ^ VOLUME XggnT FRONTAL ADVANCE UPON ST. QUENTIN __ ? British Pressing Toward City ' Directly From the West / ? f FRENCH ARTILLERY ? * ... .... nn . ot.aii IIM onwnr ML I IUI\J British Improve Positions About Cambrai and in f m ** ^ Flanders. London, Sept. 24.?British forces are pressing on St. Quentin directly from the west, today's report from . Field Marshal Haig shows. He re* ports fighting taking place to the British advantjiire and announces progress by the attacking forces in the region east of Vermand. On the front to the west of Cambrai in the region north of Mocuvres, 1 the British positions have been improved. In the? Arras-Lens sector, the Germans tried to drive the British from the new positions the latter had won southeast of Gavrelle. The enemy was completely repulsed, the British retaining their line intact. In Flanders, British troops succeed ed in pushing forward and occupying a portion of the old British front line southeast of Voormezeele below Y pros. French Guns Active. Paris.?The artillery was active last night on the French front below St. Quentin and between the Ail^ ette and the Aisne, but no infantryaction is reported in today's war office statement. The statement reads: a "In the course of the night there was marked activity in the reirion of St. Quentin and between the Ailette and the Aisne. "In the Champagne two raids upon the German trenches in the region of Perthes and in the direction of the Butte du Mesnil resulted in the taking of 40 prisoners by the French." IMPORTANT COTTON SEED NOTICE All farmers and ginners are especially urged to marked their coiton seed very gradually as the sudden rush of seed to msivknt low ovnr stocked the mills and many cars are now on demurrage. This is why it is now so hard to get cotton seed to market. And unless cotton seed are withheld from the market for a time or unless they are marketed ^ very slowly there is considerable danger that the price of seed will be materially lowered. Save money by h'^'ing your cotton seed for a while. 11 mean sooner defeat for Kai^ tferism. ?A. J. Baker, / County Agent. } russianIulers world outlaws Washington.?Expressing its own horror at Bolshevikism's rule of 4 blood and iron, the Ui)itcd States government today sent suggestions to allied and neutral nations, 4phich, if accepted, will proclaim the I5olsheviki international outlaws. The suggestions were contained in a message to oil our ambassadors and ministers, except in London and Paris, a:,king them to sound out the governments to which they are accredited on taking immediate action ilk in expressing the world's aversion for such horrors. London and Paris are acting independently but in entire harmony with this course. England has alrca y proclaimed the Bolshcviki the cnc ties of mankind. And, if this i ~ l :_t a.! i i i.i w |ji ujiu.u-u iiiicrnuuonui oranu is placed upon thorn, they will be literally outlawed everywhere. The government mr.de it plain that it was acting in the interests of the mass of the Russian people who are striving to reconstruct their nation on a lasis of self-government and democracy. Wm C CRIMINAL COURT IS TRYING CASES Convenes on Last Monday Morning Facing a Long Docket of Cases. The court of General Sessions convened here last Monday morning with Honorable I. W. Bowman presiding. The court faced a full docket of cases continued over from the Spring term of the court. The cases which had thus been laid over from former terms numbered eighteen and these were called first when the court met :<t about o'clock on Monday afternoon* The State vs. Gus Hammond and Hicks Hammond was noli prosscd. The State vs. Robert Allen and Hattie Hardee charged with adultery was continued until the next term. The case of The Stale vs. Othon Arnott, who was charged with malicious injury to a fence belonging, or claimed by W. P. Watts took up the most of the time on Monday afternoon after the court settled down to business. The crowd in Conway the first of the week was larger than usual on such occasions. In addition to the casf j laid over from the last term; the magistrates of the county had turned in various cases to be tried. The grand jury got busy very soon after the court convened and before the evening recess they had brought in several true bills. Among the visiting attomenys on Monday were: Schulkin & Toon, of Whiteville, N. C.; Hoyt McMillan of Mull ins, S. C.; M. C. Harrelson, of % a it* * " - iviumns, c>. cj.; Muiuns &, Hughes, oi Marion, S. C. Judge Bowman, the court stenographer and Solicitor, L. M. Gasque , spent Monday night at Muriel's Inlet with friends returning on Tuesday morning for the opening of the court. The State vs. Oscar Clemons charg, ed with assault and battery with intent to kill was called Tuesday morning. He was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of $150.00 or serve 9 months. Othan Arnett was found guilty of injuring Watt's fence. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $1*25.00 or serve 8 months at hard labor, i The State vs. E. B. Sarvis for seduction was dismissed. The State vs. Will Fowler, Ana Kowlcr and Harry Flowers for slender was dismissed. The State vs. Henry Johnson was continued again. The State vs. Charley Bellamy charged with larceny was called and the defendant was cleared b.\ ' directed verdict, the State not being able to produce sufficient evidence. The State vs. R. F. Todd and Nellie Escol was noil prossed. The State vs. E. W. Johnson charged with assault and battery was tried next, and defendant pleaded guilty to a simple assault and was fined in tho sum of $35.00. The State vs. Lum Martin was i continued on motion of the dcfencl| ant. | The State vs. Tom Austin charged with breaking the store of G. C. McCormick was tried and the defendant was convicted. The State vs. Collin Bellamy was continued until the next term of the Court. The grand jury found no bills in tho cases of the State vs. Mrs. W. B. Compton and the cross indictment against J. M. Johnson. The State vs. Pete Johnson for taking floated timber was called and defendant pleaded guilty and was fined the sum of $50.00. The State vs. Ada Randall charged with murdering an infant was discharged by a directed verdict of not guilty. On Wednesday morning the court vent on with the case of The State vs. I>. Haskell Todd, charged with transporting intoxicating liquor. This case was finshed and the jury retired to consider the case. The court then took up the case of A. C. Murrel charged with the killing of L. J. Watts, the circumstances of which are still fresh in the minds of the people. The jury had been selected and the trial fairly begun when the Herald went to press on 1Xwx ONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, SI HOLY LAND FREED OF TURKS' BONDAGE London, Sept. 22.?The completeness of Gen. Allenby's victory in i'alcstine has exceeded all expecta-! tions. It appeared Saturday that the whole Turkish force to the west of the River Jordan was in jeopardy. To-day practically the whole of thatforce is destroyed. The war can show but few examples of so swift and so clean a victory. It means the delivery of the entire Holy Land from Turkish bond age, for it is hardly possible for the enemy to despatch reinforcements capable of making any stand within the borders of what is commonly known as Palestine. "So ends," says the Daily News, "the long- projected invasion o Egypt in disaster, which will have the profoundest reactions at Constantinople." o The police in Chester, S. C., took the numbers of 60 autimobiles that were operated on the streets of Chester Sunday, and will turn the same over to R. E. Sims, county fuel administrator. i Rulings of the War us to stop all subscription paid in advance,?therefc and a dollar in advance tc so we can keep your name on October 1st and mailed the old rate of $1.00 per ] and letter may not reach 1 the week. Do not put it and mail it to-day. NEW LIBERTY LOAN IN FIVE PAYMENTS w ashington.?Ten per cent of the fourth Liberty loan subscriptions will be required on application, instead of five per cent as for past loans, the Treasury announced touy. Twenty per cent will be due November *21, *20 per cent December IS, 20 per cent January 10, and 80 per cent January 80. This is the first time more than i 4.. 11 i . i > n.n:r n.M..i:ii cr.us nave ocon arranged in addition to the payment on application for any Liberty loan. The initial payment war. increased as me ans of <!i cournging the practice of subscribing; without carrying* out the installments. The setting of the last installment of 20 per cent as late as January ?>0 was interpreted as assurance that I the fifth Liberty loan would not be floated before late in February, or possibly March. The amount of the. fourth loan an i the redemption terms probably will i be announced tonight by the Treasury. The initial payment, although due at the time of pledging, need not be paid until October 19, the end of the subscription period, and loan campaign. The installment elates will not interfere with the practice by which many subscribers have bought bonds ! through banks or other agencies and paid ten per cent a month for approximately ton months. That ar vangement, officials explained, is i transaction between the bank and its customers and the Treasury is not in volvcd. Secretary McAdoo will make his first Liberty loan address Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall, New York, before a Liberty loan rally, arranged by the New York loan organization. Wednesday afternon. Full particulars of this important trial as well as an account of all other cases to be tried before the adjournment of the court will appear in this paper next week. The court dockets a1*e still full of cases pending against many defendants in cases in which the grand jury has found true bills. It 'is expected that court will continue in session until very near the end of ther week. tr fpj , BPTEMBER 26, 1918 | ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON FRENCH FRONT Paiis.?The artillery was active last night on the French front below St. Quontin and between the Ailette and the Aisne, but no infantry action is reported in today's war office state ment. "In the course of the night there was marked activity by the artillery in the region of St. Quentin and between the Ailette and the Aisne. "In the Champagne two raids upon the German trenches in the region of Perthes and in the direction of Kutto du Mesnil resulted in the taking of 40 prisoners by the French. o BRITAIN TO ADOPT DECIMAL COINAGE? London.?A royal commission of 22 men has been named to work out a decimal money system like America has for Britain. Legislation is now pending, but this would add to the confusion and trouble by adding decimal money to the pounds and shillings and pence already in I use. i Industries Board requires s after October 1st, not >re send us all back dues >day before October 2nd, i on the list. Checks dated that day will be taken at jear although the check us in the mail until later in off but write us a check _____________ FIRST STEPS TAKEN TOWARD PRICE FIXING Washington, Sept. 28.?First steps j 1 irwr tn Oi a T:..!.... ? ?I -? ' Vw.a>6 ?_v? me ui prices ior 1 standard grades of raw cotton were ! taken today by the government in the forming of two committees, one ! to investigate the entire cotton situ ation anil the other to control during the period of this inquiry the distribution of cotton by purchasing all of the staple needed by the United States and the allies at prices to be approved by the president. <, TEACHER'S EXAMINATION. ! The next regular teacher's examii nation will be held in the Burroughs j School Building Friday Oct. 4th. Ail teachers who do not have valid certificates or who have not done the required work to have their certificates renewed should take this examination. Certificates and diplomas from other states are useless in South Carolina. This does not apply to State Certificates. M. J. Bullock, Co. Supt. of Ed. , o A half a beating administered to | uermany will mean another war for our grandchildren. o HORRY LEADS AGAIN. For only one week in the past five Horry failed to lead the State in the per capita weekly sale of War Savings Stamps. The report just received showed that she has regained first place and is now pushing Charleston County for second place in the total per capita sales for the year. o WITHOUT IT WHAT? Many, many of our subscribers, have rushed in to pay for the Herald ' at the old price of .$1.00 per year, be- i ino* jrl-irl 4.x 1 ? ' e> .'aw nil' i 11 IV CIMHS WHICH will be added to the price after Oc- ; tober 1, 1918. The leading people ' say that the Herald is fully worth j the increased price and is the best County paper in this section of the State; yet we have met two or three men in the last month who say that 1 they will quit taking it on account of t the increase in the price, and that < they will not take advantage of the 1 few days that is left for paying in > advance at the old rate. This kind i are few and far between. 1 Kill ? DRIVE IM BALKANS AMAZES BRITISH; Regarded as One of the Most I Remarkable Achievements of War London, Sept. 24.?The London newspapers this morning comment on the Balkan advance as an astonishing achievement and a more surprising one than General Allenby's operation in Palestine. The Bulgarian front had proved itself impenetrable so often that the first news of the attack a week ago aroused no eager expectation. The topog'raphical difficulties had been so repeatedly explained?mountain ranges twisting and doubling up on each other in bewildering fashion; the lack of roads and the existence ot innumerable deep ravines?that the people here had come to regard the possibilities of this front limited Now in view of the happenings of the past few days and the immense losses the Bulgars already have suffered, the commentators antici4 _ r i i- - i liuu- i uruicr t)tg successes by tin4 Allies. "The whole line is in rapid movement on a front of a hundred miles," says The Daily Telegraph, "while the wedge separating the two Bulgar armies threatens their destruction. The Daily Graphic assumes that one of the chief aims is the capture of Uskub, the main avenue for an invasion of Bulgaria, and thinks the movements are tending swiftly to such a consumption. The newspaper also thinks that it will be difficult for the Bulgarian army with its base at Prilep to escape a big disaster. "The Serbians have performed one of the most wonderful feats in military history, a deed comparable to the breaking, of the Wotan line," says The Daily Mail. "They have stormed positions Which many of the Allied experts regarded impregnable." HUNS MADE PLANS LONG BEFORE WAR Washington. ? Another convincing j I link in the proof that Germany was I preparing to start a war of world | conquest at least six weeks before | the excuse for it was offered by the assassination of the Austrian heir 'apparent at Sarajevo, concludes the amazing series of disclosures which the American government has given to the public through secret docu ncnIs brought out by Russia. Two authenticated documents nr 'ne'.uded in the final chapter of th story which began a week ago with evidence removing any doubt that may iuivc existed that the Russian Bolshevik government headed b. I.enine and Trotzkv, is a tool of the hnperial Gorman government. One of these is an original circular from the German general staff, dated June 9, 1914. directing that all indusria concerns be notified to open their secret instructions for industria mobilization. Another, dated Novom her 20, 1914, is from the German naval genera' stafT, and reveals that within four months after host i 1 it to began in Europe "destructive agents" were ordered to Canada and the United States to hire anarchists and escaped criminals for the bomb plots and work of terror which finally play cd {i part in drawing the United States into the war. o NEW LANI) FIRM. W. L. Rhoads and Dan W. Hardwick of Loris, for sometime past have been engaged in a live real estate agency in this section of South : Po?.^K.w. MM 1 - -1 uunniiirt, i ii?-,v iuiyu uireauy ma etc several deals of some size and they ire now advertising for business as ( will appear by their advertisement appearing in this issue of the Herald, i o? 1 CALLS ON FARMERS. Governor Manning has called on | 'armel's and ginners to market their < otton seed gradually that threatened disastrous gluts of markets may 1 )e averted. Governor Manning him- 1 >elf has large farming interests and < s vitally concerned in the prices paid for cotton seed. I * 9 ' NO. 23^ NEGRO YOUTH KILLS YOUNG WHITE BOY ' __ James Ray, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ray Meets Tragic Death SLAYER IS CAUGHT n vz n r>?* ? ? ? * di rmvAlt UITIZEN While Making* His Escape on Monday Between Here and Marion. James Ray, the ten year old sort of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ray, was instantly killed last Sunday afternoon by Rob Johnson, a negro boy of about the same age, while the two were handling fire arms in the sitting room of the Ray home between Conway and Toddville. The gun the negro had was a breach loadingshot gun. The load struck young Ray in the head at close range, blowing otf about half nf hie A " .n^ iivuiu r\ s the shot struck a clock higher than the victim the shot must have ranged upward. Word was brought to Coroner L. W. Cooper at Conway and an inquest was held. It is said that their finding was to the effect that the shooting was wilfully done. However, it is said that there were no signs of a quarrel or anything unusual to attract the attention of other persons while the two were in the room with the guns. The dead boy had a gun and as he fell his body was crumpled up over the gun or rifle. There was. no one else in the room at the time, but there was a man on the porch of the dwelling while others of the family were in the kitchen or dining room. After the shooting the negix> boyfled. Word came to the authorities to apprehend him if found. On Monday Mr. Willie Goldfinch was returning from Marion in an automobile. He had heard of the shoot ing and knew the colored boy. He met the boy along the road in the 'Ye Dee swamps between Galivants Vrry anil Marion ami placed him un 'or arrest, so thai the accused was ir. the hands of the officials by Monday afternoon. ^ It has been told that there had ::on a quarrel of several days stand's, g between the negro and the white oy; hut there was nothing; known of | ny dispe.to between them at ihe I J me of the killing. The negro hoy ! "s the same who was formerly employe ! in leading a blind negro about lie streets here. Richard Ray is a farmer living on the farm of Mrs. Xora Causey about a mile below dear Swamp on the Georgetown and "onway public road. A U T 0 MQBILE-ACCIDENT NEAR HOMEWOOD Two cars ran together last Saturday night between here and Homewood. One was a Ford driven 111 the A. D. Jones livery business by Herbert Dusenbury, and the other was a new Dort recently purchased and being driven at the time by Marshal Fowler. Considerable damage was done to the Ford. TWO GALLS ISSUED TO LOCAL BOARDS Maj. K. E. Carwile has recently sent two calls for white men, G.~>() of whom are to go to Camp Green leaf, Lytic, Ga., and 143 to Camp Sevier, Greenville. One call is during a five days' period beginning October 7 to Camp Sevier, 143 men. Another call is during a five days' period beginning October 7 for Canvo Greenleaf, for 050. Men to Camp Sevier are to be >y the local boards of 0 Nos. I, 2 and 3, and ^ j Oconee. The apportioning jj 50.