The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 15, 1917, Image 8
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THE RECORD'S SURVEY.
Events Throughout the Stale
^ anfl Elsewhere.
The Pee Dee fair will be held at
Florence November 6-9.
A State Anti-Tuberculosis association
was organized in Columbia on
Tuesday.
(I. * The children of Orangeburg collected
50,000 tin cans on "clean-up"
day last week.
Adolphus W Green, president of
the National Biscuit company, died
last week, aged 74.
j Rev W T Derieux of Greenville
-orgwiffd a new Baptist church at
Mt Pleasant Sunday.
A company has boon commissioned
^ith $200,000 capital to establish a
cotton mill at Cheraw.
Daniel C Koper of McCollhasbeen
appointed a member of the tariff
board by President Wilson.
Prospects for an early completion
of the electric road between Spartanburg
and Atlanta are very bright.
Congressman J W Ragsdale will
address the Irish-American society at
Scranton, Pa, Satuday, St Patrick's
Day.
A W Fite of Cartersville, Ga, a
former judge of the superior court,
has been indicted for violation of the
prohibition law.
Rev Dr Furman H Martin, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Florence,
is conducting a very successful
revival at Shandon.
Florence will re-mark its streets
with perforated signs, supplanting
the old tin markers,which have long
since become illegible.
Roy Terrill, a Citadel graduate of
the class of 1897, has been elected
. vice president of the Gulf Coast
it/t Lines, with headquarters in New
Orleans.
David Risley, a native of Georgetown,
died in Philadelphia Thursday.
He was widely known in publishing
circles and in the development of
New Jersey seaside resorts.
The Governor has reappointed E
W Durant, of Georgetown; T H
Rainsford, of Edgefield, and Dr A
H Williams, of Lake City, as members
of the State Board of Fisheries.
Tomoa w fiornrd rppalled ambas
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sador of the United States to Germany,
with his party of about fifty
people arrived in Charleston Tuesday
and left on A C L train 86 for Washington.
This is a great week in Columbia.
The automobile show opened yesterday,
the State Teachers' association
convenes today and the Second South
Carolina regiment will return from
the border Saturday.
* Varnville was swept by the most
destructive fire in its history Saturday,
causing a los3 of $75,000. The
plucky victims have determined to
rebuild, erecting brick structures in
place of the frame buildings burnt.
The Wesley Bible Class federation
of South Carolina Methodist conference
will meet at Columbia March
28-30. Prof 0 M Mitchell is executive
committeeman from Kingstree
district and Senator R D Epps from
Sumter,
The French Government has awarded
a contract to the British-American
Tobacco company for 7,000,000,000
cigarettes, to be used by her
soldiers. The order, which is considered
the largest ever let by a
foreign government, will be placed
with Petersburg and Richmond factories.
Bn+ick noofonaners fall of
XJI IblOll UV TT UpMf/V W ?*?V a?..
Bagdad of even greater significance
for the effect it is exDected to have
on German arms than for its value
in restoring British prestige in the
eyes of the Mohamedan world. With
the capture the terminus of the
Berlin to Bagdad railroad is taken
from German domination.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It st ?ps th<
Cough and Headache and tvurLs off the CciJ
Druegists reload money if it fails to cu~c
E. W. GftOVE'S signature on each box. 25c.
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CONVICTED MEN I
HEAR SENTENCES
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT FOR 1
GERMAN SAILORS. TAKEN
TO CHARLESTON,
Florence, March 10?Ei^et officers
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ui me uermaii SLeaiiiMnp juiucuicia,
sentenced here today to serve a yeBr '
in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta *
for sinking the ship in Charleston (
harbor shortly after the United 8
States broke off diplomatic relations v
with Germany, tonight were started 1
for Charleston in custody of the 1
United States marshal.
The men after conviction yester- ^
day before Judge Smith, were held
by federal deputy marshals while ef- 1
forts were made to furnish $6,000 bond
for each, that amount being set ;l
by Judge Smith when the defendants ^
gave notice of appeal. The bond was
not furnished today. It was expect- 0
ed that arrangements for the bail is
would be completed after the prison- c
ers reached Charleston. J'
The men were sentenced this morn- ^
I ing to pay a fine of $500 each and H
! oosts and one vear in federal Drison ^
in Atlanta, Ga. ^
The convicted men are: Johann P
Lubken, chief officer; George Sunke1,
third officer; Jonas Edward Jansen,
chief engineer; Heinrich Wattenberg, ^
assistant engineer; Johann Wilhelm ^
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Buse, second assistant engineer;
Moritz von Thulen, third assistant f
engineer; August Neuse,fourth assist- ^
ant engineer; Wilhelm Schwarting, ^
machinist. All are Germans except *
Jansen, who is a Dane.
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i Writing of the disgusting betel t(
chewing habit, the United States b
' consul at Siam 6ays: "The green ^
leaf of the betel pepper, smeared n
| with red lime; tobacco, catechu and
' the areca nut make up the material a
: used in betel chewing. This habit
is quite universal among the Siamese,
especially among the women.
Siam does not produce enough betel ^
nut for home consumption, but imports
from India, Singapore and
j Java annually about 5,000,000 j
pounds." ^
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I now for the "rainy day," when
your pennies now. WORK,
IAVE! This picture may change
EARNEST THOUGHT for just five
on it. Suppose you RESOLVE to be
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You will find our store neat and cl
any in town?if not more so. Thep
4a stranglehold on old Mr High Cost of
No doubt some of your friends ha^
always oount on getting pleasant, cc
, are in our store.
It doesn't matter whether you buy
4* worth, you are entitled to good servi
tl his letter is simply our way ot we
that it won't be long until we know
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3eneral strike i
goes on saturday
F EIGHT HOUR DAY IS NOT
GRANTED BY THE RAIL
ROAD COMPANIES.
Washington, March 13: ?Com-1
>lete plans of the four railroad
motherhoods for a nation-wide j
trike to l>e inaugurated next Satur- j
lay evening unless the railroads
;rant their eight-hour day demands
rere ratified here today by local
mion leaders from Southern terri- j
ory and hy a similar conference of |
epresentatives of the Southwest'
leld at St Louis.
The brotherhood heads will tell
he railroad conference committee in (
sew York Thursday that if an
greement is not reached t.his week
or establishment of an eight-hour
iasis day with time and a half for
vertime, strike orders already iaued
to local organizations will beome
effective. The demands are
i ill i i r i
isi wnat tney were last ian, wnen
'resident Wilson averted a strike
fter the call was out by inducing
iongress to pass the Adamson law,:
-hich never has been put into effect,
ending a decision on its constitu-'
onality by the supreme court.
There is every indication that the
resident is prepared to move again
it becomes apparent that the naon,
facing the gravest international
risis of its history, is about to have
s transportation facilities paralyzed.
lthough still confined to his bed
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yacoia, yei me rresiueui neurit <
sports during the day from Seereiry
Wilson on the plans of the
rotherhoods. There was no statelent
as to what action he was eonsmplating,
hut it is understood to
e probable that his first step may
e an appeal to the employers and j
mployes to reach an agreement as j
patriotic duty,
An Easy Lesson, But?
Teacher?Robert, how is it that j
'ou haven't your lesson? It couldn't i
lave been so very hard to learn.
Bobby?No, please, teacher; it'
vasn't because it was so hard to I
earn, but because it was so easy to j
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ou. Don't laugh at fate. Prepare
life is not all rosy sunshine. Save
WORK, WORK! SAVE, SAVE,
your whole life if you give it
minutes. Concentrate your nLJid
one of the few who will REALLY
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