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VOL1JiE~ XXXII. rAI~S SOT --~LIA WiNSA,~VEDE 2 916.NUt 1 MILIIARY[ADS COM ING HOM SOON Going to Camp Styx, Near Columbia, First. WON'T BE HOME BY THANKSCIVING Latesti News Stated that the Boys would Leave El Paso Saturday. Takes About Three Days to Reach Oplumbla. lie Home Soon. Mr. L. E. Burns received a telegram last week from Lieutenant Simpson, of the local military company in camp at El Paso, saying that the First Regi nent, of which his company is a party, had been ordered back to its first base at Camp Styx, near Columbia, from which place it would be mustered out of the reserve service. The telegram was confirmed in the news dispatches of the following morning and many hearts were made glad all over the county and state. Ddihnite informa tion as to when the boys will leave El -Paso has not been received, but it is thought that they will entrain the lat ter part. of this week and arrive in Co 4' lumbia the first of next week. They will likely remain in Columbia for sev eral weeks, while undergoing the rou tine necessary to being mustered out. It is thought that they will be return ed to their homes before Christmas and probably early in December. The Traynham Gaurds left Laurens for Columbia the latter part of June and remained there for nearly two months. They have been in El Paso now for about three months. Reports indicate that they have become hard ened in the service and have had valu able experience fitting them out as sol diers. TIIIEE FINE SPEAKERS WERE HEARID SUNDAY Distinguished Visitors Addressed Mass Meeting at Presbyterian Church in the Interest of Home Visitation. The home visitation management and all others interested in the movement had their hearts cheered and warmed as a result of the big mass meeting at the Presbyterian church Sunday af ternoon, if any words of encourage ment and commendation in the work at hand were needed. The church was comfortably filled for the occasion, and the exercises were very inspirational throughout. A. C. Todd, chairman of the excel uve c-nlmittec, presided, and very appro Icriate music was furnished by a choir comIosed of meilwmers from the vailous churches of the city. Three most. admirable addresses were maide, the first speaker being the Rev. 11. Ii. 1e.\lent, pastor of the F'irt Baptist church of Creenwood, who dc ivered~i a stircriung add ress on one of the chief phases of Sunday school work, niamiely-Wiho should attenml Su nday school, anad when he had fin ishe~d eve rybiody in town had a place in the Sounday school classroom. I)r. D~e.\cnt was followedl 1by the Rev. W, C. Owen, field secretary of the SouthI Carol inn Con ference f-unday School iloard. .\ir. Owen emphilasiz/edl the im Jpogi,anc(e of thle work being uindertak-* en in I.anrI Ien and111 stressedl the need ot brin gi ng every3 perison in to thle Suna (lay schools. The last speaker was R1ev. W. II. K Pendleton, rector of the E~piscopal church, E1partanurig, who spoke ihl st Iirring terms of the good results ot hioine visitation eftorts, anad he (com1 mfendled most heartily the spirit that hiad promptedl the Sunday school work eras of Laurens to unudert ake this im portant work, lie also( emnphasize< the importance of followv-up woik af ter the Initial step has been made ii this fine enterprise. A fter speaking at the Presbyterna' chiurch'lr. DeMent and Mr. OwVen ad dlressedl a meeting of colored peole al one of their churches in the city. TJ[he people of Lauarens ar ucandel nmnny obuligations to these distin gilshed visitors,, for each came a sonmc personal inconvenience and sna. riflec. Tbiey were hiearily welcome< and their messages were well receive( aind applropriated. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cummings, o Barksdale, wore in the city shiopini eosterday. FINAL FORMAL MEEIING WAS HELD LAST NIGIIT Mr. IL. ). Webb, State Secretary of Sunday School Work, Delivered In. structive Address. Word of Instruc tion to Enumerators Given by Man. agement. An enthusiastic meeting was held in the cou't house last night in the in terest of the home visitation program. The meeting was held for the purpose of giving the epumerators final in structions in the work they are to per form tomorrow afternoon. The min isters of the city, the canvassing com mitteemen, nearly 200 strong; the executive and visi-tation committee members, together with a large num ber of interested friends were on hand for this last formal meeting before the actual visitation is made in the city. The feature of the meeting last night was the inspiring address made by Mr. It. D. Webb, State secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation, who was specially invited to attend this meeting and deliver a talk. He is a thorough-going Sunday school man and his address was highly in tructive and inspirational. As has been stated, the meeting last night brought to a close the campaign that began several weeks ago looking to the home visitation enterprise, and the last work on the details of the pre pared programme was given to the men who go forth tomorrow in the labor of love for which they volun teered their services ten days ago. The meeting was characterized by the same enthusiasm that has marked the movement from its inception. The spirit of co-operation has predominat ed from the first and the Sunday school workers of the city and adjoining ter ritory have been brought together as never before. This in itself is a won derful opportunity. It is well understood that the ten Sunday schools embraced in the dis trict to be canvassed are working jointly in the home visitation move ment. The colored districts will be visited by committees composed of colored men. They have been instructed in their duties and they have shown a fine spirit of co-operation in the plan. Thauksgiv in Proulamation. * . Washington, Nov. 17.-President * * Wilson today formally, by procla- * * mation, designated 'Thursday, Nov. * * 30, as Thanksgiving day. * The proclamation follows: * "it has long been the custom of our pqople to turn in the fruitful * autumn of the year i in lraise and * thanksgiving to Almighty God for * * hi; many blessings and mereies to * us and the nation. * "The year that has elapsed since * w, last observed our lay of * I haukagiving has been rich in h lessings to us as a people, but the * drlend by Wr. Inf the idmist of * OUr1 pecetS iand happin1 ess, Our I thoughts dwell with ipainhul dis * i et up lon the st ruggles aind suif * ferinigs of the nations at watr and 4 * of the tpeoples upon whom war has * brought disaster w ithloutI choice or * possib11 iity of' escaple on ter part. * We (cannlot thiink( of ouri own hap * piness without thinking of their plitiful dlistress5. S"Now, t herefore, 1, Wood row * Wisn presiden t of th in Uie *Saeof Amerlea, do appoint T 'hursdiay, the 30thI of Novembher, * as a (lay of national thanksgIving * and pirayer, and urge antd advise * the people to resort io t heir ser * emal Places of worsip on that uday * to render thanks to Al migh ty Godl * for -the bilessings of tpeaceC and( uni * brok~en prosperi ty whuichi Jie has * bestowved uipon our bselovedl counl * try in such ktn~stinled meia sure. * "And I also urge and suggest * our duty, ini this, our day of peace - *and abundance, to think in deep1 * sympat hy of thle strlicken peop les * of the world upon whom the curse * and terror of war has'so pitilessly *~ fallen, and to contributte out of * our aboundanit means to the relief * of their, sufferings. * "Onrt eleCIl could( inihS not eter * way shtow t heir real attitude to I* wardst the lpresent struggle of the Snat ionis than by conitribut ing out of their abundance to the relief of the sufferings which war has a brought in its train," S. . e - STORES TO CO To Give Visitation Commit Correct 4 Acting on the sentiment that was expressed in a resolution offered at the close of the mass meeting at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, a special committee visited every store and other places of business Monday and asked the proprietors to close their doors during the visitation period Whereas, Thursday, November 231 Visitation )ay, in the City of Laurens, Itate the said work do hereby agree i two o'clock to four o'clock P. M. on the all persons in our employ who have a tion. Laurens Trust Co. Laurens National Bank. H. Terry. R. W. Willis'. S'mith & Little. W. G. Wilson & Co. Davis Roper Co. Peoples Loan and Exchange Bank. I Jones-Taylor Hardware Co. Laurens Drug Co. Levu'ett Furniture Co. J. A. Armstrong. .J. C. Shell & Co. Dial Cash Grocery. Peoples Drug Store. G. D. Allen. The Advertiser. Clardy & Wilson. Powe Drug Co. Laurens Motor Car Co. Palmetto Bank. Fleming Bros. Wam. Solomon. Moseley & Roland. D. H1. Irvin. Chero ColaBottling Co. W. 13. Bramlett's Sons. .1. C. Burns & Co., No. 1. J. C. Burns & Co., No. 2. Wm. Caldwell. Minter Co. The Herald Co. S. M. & 1. I. Wilkes & Co. Idle Hlour Theatre. .J. R. Baldwin. Kennedy lros. Switzer Co. hlayes 5 and l0c Store. H. Lurey. .1. Warren olt. (Diek Owings. IDixie Ponr & Grain Co. .1. 1. Sullivan. W. I'. ('hildres & Fon. To Begiu a Re( I iai. iev. (eorge \\'. Dlelk, of 'har olte. N. ('., w%-ill begin a meeting here next Sah bathr In the" lirsl l'resbcyterilp c hurch. MIr. IBelk is now one of the c vangeli:ts of the Floulhe'rn Preshv3 ri:in lmrth, wotrking u nler the al. j1(s o I me muane11 cmi0:t11i w' ith Ioctor h'lcaker. wiatn the I.a irenIis pe.ople remembiheir so pleasantl y. in ( ec43 t'(lion with the tine lmbel lg whihou he hel here stome ir. lI elk 11has bee iniII. th ,iage'lilti work0 ri some~5l~( yearis, and lhas hbeen sig.. nally le~sed ini his 1lbor(. 114'(entIly lhe bel a1 sery succ'.e isful mee'4t ing in Spa rtanhurg. and is jauiiinw olo.sing a line mieetinag in (our i' U h' 'orling town of Abb1evile. Th'lal he comie. a' (4ne of' the ottletial evangelts - 4 the .latte ('rn Priesby ter131ian~ rhnreh, is''3 ufle icin war ant thai lhe hI a manll (f 4ons~e3ra 11t1ian albiliI3y, anad a inuc e'eful ''van gelisi, and1( the I4Iaurens ceople41 have a treat in store, in hearing the' 'xp4osi tion1 of Sciluro e frnom this ablle mian. The meetin g wvill (ontinu forIP ( abhou two weekso. lHrothier of 31irs. .\. ,I. 1)3a is l'assedI -\11ay 3ioniday N ight at 1) Welock. A4Iirs. A. J. Davis, died4 at tha homae ofi .\ilI. and1( .\1r. A. J1. 1)3a4 is lunda n1ii iighit aboutII II o'(clok. lie had been' ini ill health for somie time. having suift'eed sevre year1301 s fromt 1araly s is. 114' had( an11other1 stroke Flal~ y nigtht, fro4'In wih eih le never reOcoveed. * Air. .\leaslan spent most5 of his lf ati Troy, antd his bodyW was311 cariIed I 1re for buriiai .\fondaty, inte(r men'ut being at I .og (Cane 'eme1(tery'. ,\ Althou1gh having been1 here for' (4nly a .shor't time3 and1 the ('ond(ition o (f his hieathiit ha vlatg preven'('td a0 ide1(4 a1c (llaintanceship, he hadI~ mlade0 many11 friends Among the few wit h w~hiom lie htad come in contact On account of Ils Oheorful anil gnnial dipnnaitlnn S[ WU HUUK. tee Opportunity to Make :ensus. r'hursday afternoon. The success of the visit, as indicated )y the subjoined preamble and list of signatures which includes every store, bank anaI other public place of busi reSs, is eloquent proof of the spirit of inity that prevails and permeates ev 3ry qlarter of the town. d, 1916t, has been set apart as Home we, the undersigned, in order to facil o close our places of business from said day, and release during said time greed to take part in the said visita P. & J. R. Childress. 3raig Auto Co. ;'wygert, Nickels & Co. lachen Grocery Co. 3. F. Posey. r. P. Churakes. t. L. Mahaffey. lenclioff's 5 and 10c Store. enterprise National Bank. )wings & Owings. lunter Bros. lames S. Ilondros. tbe Diamond. V. P. ludgens. armers National Bank. 'owler & Owens. I. A. Franks & Son. )wings & Bobo. iaurens Hardware Co. Thinese Laundry. iichelberger Bros. 3. B. 1111. I. C. S'ahadi. I. M. Philpot. V. M. Palles. X111 Moore, Vhitner & Torrence. Ben J. Madden. axwell Drug Store. roster .iarksdale. . P. Park. Tr. P. Gray. Jerry lichelberger. fohn Fuller. :'harlie Fuller. \rthur O'Dell. in Davis. 3en Mack. fohn Sullivan. 1. Woody. Erskine Young. 'Aldy Higgins. :Iarrison 1 lunter. P'. R. Darlington. Whitener's Barber Shop. 1LItEi"Ns DOW1NS GliE;ENWOOD11. 1.ocal lloy, .Make liings .\rouinil the Pigskin .\rItists from the Stand-Pipe Tonn. Wil hi;g licelbleriger missing from the back fHeld, the local contingent of pigskin aurthis pt three ovter aln lhe Gr1eenwloodl high elhool hoys leriday evening in (GarlgigItn mead low before an admcirini rovd of L.mitrenls roioters, locals5 wire slpurred o ilo2 victory lby thle handsometIi( suppijort gi 11en2 on lie sidlelines biy both1 the1 boys andt 11h nt allt to do) anth lini wilth the 1Lau 2en 4)0n e and (0ould no4t i)\lriomet( te Langston was5 the sltlr lperform1er flor thte locals AV ithi )1 other COming clols' IlothI teaims pilayed a conitsistenit anid SCientillle gamite throughout 1 th22 2le afler') (edge onl the standi-llipe boyis 1ithogh out. Tihe after'nooni was2 givenii a collegitl alspeC(t, by th1e p~eIrform2ance of aI rel . live snake-dance by tihe Laur12ens slip ioters bet ween 11412triers. The bioys litrst lled o(lff' a pierformanc tie oif this nturiie andl the girls. not to be otildone, followedt'l suit. It unas said that wh2en Wood0( layers in t his wleirdI danc1e1, thItt Greenwoo bVtlIoys werl' ilit (comletely ont lihi blink, whaOt'ee thtat mean11i2. Anyhlow., they al ha a1( i g ,imei antd the scorel waIs iS to II in fav'or lif Lai rswer'e gues'ts oIf th~e Laurens'11 U'eam at the home01 of .\Iss 1Doris You ng. The 3.oung flksl had an enji~oyale evening of gamies anid co~nverstion 11, delielous refreshmnents being served. Mr. Pat Klnar'd, of Clinton, was in the city Friday, JEUTS0IILAND SMASHES TuU; FIVE MEN DROWNED hab-Sea Merehaiantman Returns to Pier at New London After Collision with Her ConvoYing Vessel. New London, Conn., Nov. 17.-The ,ollision which caused the merchant submarine Deutschland to abandon cr return voyage to Germany almost t its outset early today, when a onvoying tug, the T. A. Scott, Jr., was ;unk with a crew of five men, was the otbject of federal investigation this afternoon. The United S'tates inspectors of iteann vessels, headed by Capt. W. E. Withey, heard, through witnesses, of the condition under which the sub narine, slipping out of the harbor in the darkness so that she might sub merge in neutral waters before day break, ran down the tug which was acting as her protector off Race Rock, I ust outside this port. The testimony :ame from Capt. Paul Koenig, of the Deutschland; from F. W. Krapohl, his chief officer, and from Hans Kleese, lhis chief engineer. It was given in secret, but it became known through statements outside the chamber that the collision was an accident. Survivors who would discuss the matter were agreed that it was due to a combination of swift currents, which carried the tug off its course and across the bow of the submarine and to the darkness, which was to be the IDeutschland's medium of safety, but which instead prevented ready observation of the danger ahead. Capt. Koenig would say only to ques tioners: "It.'s a terrible thing to lose those good men. I feel it deeply. You imust excuse me." B3efore the inspectors fix blame for the loss of the Scot[ and its crew they will hear the testimony of Capt. Frederick IIinseh, an official of the Eastern Forwarding Company, who was the only survivor of the tug. Capt. IIinsch was tlrown froiin the deck house on the tuig into tihe rush ing water of the iRace, where he war rescued, almost exhausted, by the crew of the tug ('assie, following behind. ('apt. I liinsch was unconscious Iui the accident and(1 tonight. was still so exhausted that it may b several days before ie is able to testify. The i )e tseliland's return will b.' (lyehivd only a few days by the damn ages she sustained and not at all by the fact that inquiry is being niade. Examlination of her how today showed that. three plates had been stave in Io a d( gr"e.' desc'r'jibed by soini1 "as a hole, a1ui 0111hers as "a ( ilt.'' I ler it(11 wa twi1td to Stiboaid, hil th g r1 l' a 'i euetar of i! the s bnila ri 1 a id i r ly in plae(, not ,\i!ll=taningr, ilia funi e of th,- jiln pact wh sich t - ii t the iu; I !1.t i0 l withinli a f-"\ inoinents.l TIlli en of the T. A. ;coll, ,lr., hall nio l 'haeil" for their lives. They went d! i n in s in t- o. enine rooly aid (al. a t of~l I wri potr'e lol. learlyii t lie Inorn' i:. andm'' sli weid do w ;h1 (1T'ames riiverlI t o lh, rehnd.- unl dt u! b(55 g atn. tl1ii' (at1 ailiin ::e~, m . i, tam. ('n 2(hieh ( iltn iiili('( lin t'1he!'( makin i lTio' starL ar wa1:1 s 1 h be T.y A.l ot. surfale a t,,a speedu of0 abu Ct.n kno)(is. watis abu 110t yads beid, andlt hac; 1a m'iV tle ter t tf Iaslie fo(1 llweds Ptle liin t current1of wihl akae 11( godTo lleichindwa aloreur ulm' grea dangerlit, of ordia, to 'an oli te cit eswtera dayhe dm /~ i o xe d blw te w r TOMORROW IS HOMI VISITATION DAY Sunday Schools Have Join. ed For Census. COMMITTEES WILL VISIT EVERY HOME The Visitation Period Will he From ''wo to Four O'eiock Tiursdaiy fter noon. IKverybody Urged to be at Home. All Other Business to be Suspended. All Arrangem'ents have been Completed. Everything is now in readiness for the home visitation which will be made tomorrow afternoon from two to four o'clock in the city of Laurens and en virons. The territory-the entire town of Laurens and the village of Watts Mills,. has been laid off- into about sixty (I visions or groups. and to each section has been, assigned a visitation commit... tee of three Sunday school nen. Be tween the hours of two o'clock and four o'clock Thursday afternoon these home visitation committees will visit every home in the territory. Each committee will be provided with a list of questions and to these questions the heads of families will be kindly asked to supply the desired information. The work will be done systenatically and thoroughly. The grouns have been so arranged that the committees can cover the assigned district. In the allot ed time without special hurry, though the work will be done in clock-like manner. ~verybo(ly wil; be expected to he at home from two to four o'clock iomor row afternoon, because the canvassers are going to visit every house. The schools will close at one o'clock in order that the children may he at: home when the visitation committee 'alls. 'T'hese committ ees want to see every member of each and every fam ily visited. 11 is going to be aln imipiressive Oc .asion, with near!y 2010 Sunday school men in the fiel at the same time gath eriltg information in whiich every 0110 will lbe vitally interested in, if not now' actively enlisted in the canuse. The"o wil! bs a traelical stsptension of allhu'in2.., dIiring the Iwo lo " 'i l. 'T1he whle own will he work 144.- in ('oncir t. 'The comttitte'es that have workedl ant !t 1h plns for it htOmec viit- ilj ii ha 44.'i414i)e no .le4;1 i inl dietion ''t thl hitation u i e ( r1 ws (I it w !h th, a (( s it so richly ' . m !r.. 11 l e ' .1 ..1 . t.: . Ie 1a n!: 4 a ' . i . 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