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v (Slountg Srrorii. TELEPHONE NO. 83SUBSCRIPTION RATE: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 One copy, one year in advance 1 00 W.lr. TOLLEY & R.K.WALLACE Publishers. Thursday. April 26, 1917. "news in a nutshell. Short Items of Interest Culi < r n i lea trom txcnanges. Hail did some damage to the crops at Florence and Lake City Sunday. The Civic league of Batesburg is offering 5 cents for every 20 cans collected. Atlanta is holding its annual music festival, the most brilliant ever known there. Camp Stimter, U C V, of Charleston has re-elected Rev Dr Robert Wilson chaplain. The cornerstone of a $12,500 Jewish synagogue will be laid in Spartanburg Tuesday. The Southern railway will soon have its line double-tracked from Washington to Atlanta. A number of corporations at Gaffney are plowing their employes' land free to aid them in gardening. William H Saunders of South Carolina is one of the ten honor cadets ^ to be graduated at West Point this year. The annual reunion of South Carolina Veterans and Sons of Veterans was held at Chester Tuesday and yesterday. M A Adams of Walterboro was wounded in the great battle in France last week. He is in a Canadian regiment. 1 The Abbeville cotton mill has just given its operatives a substantial increase in pay, the second during the past six months. C B Vincent of Charleston has offered the State the use of 500 acres of rice land in Beaufort county for three years free of rent. Aviator Edmund Genet of Darlington was killed in battle last week, tioincr tha first Ampriran to dip un der his own flag in this war. Two new railroad stations are to be built in Cheraw, a passenger depot for the Atlantic Coast Line and a freight station for the Seaboard. South Carolina has been asked to furnish two men for the aeronautic service. The appointees will be sent to the training station at Pensacola, Fla. The fortieth annual convention of the South Carolina Sunday-school association will meet at Spartanburg next Tuesday and remain in session three days. Hewitt Jeffords, an 11-year-old hov of Ehenezer. was seriously hurt by being run over by an auto while attending field day exercises in Florence Friday. Cberaw will have free mail delivery. beginning next Tuesday. Three deliveries will be made in the business section and two in the residence quarter, daily. Exports from the United States amounted to $551,000,000. a month. ly total never exceeded except during last January. Imports made a new record at $270,000,000. Georgetown is thrilled at the prospect of the establishment there of a $3,000,000 shipbuilding plant, which has the contract for furnishing the navy with ten submarine chasers, to cost $495,000. Rice, the last thing on the market to keep within the poor man's reach, is rapidly shooting upward. A firm in Florence is said to have made $900 on a car reshipped to another market without opening it at all. Harry J Spannell has been placed on triad at Coleman, Tex, on the charge of killing Lieut Col M C But ler, of this State, at Alpine,Tex, last July. He had also been indicted for the murder of Mrs Spannell at the same time but was acquitted on that charge in February. -r\ . ^ . ! BRITISH DEAL SMASHING BLOWS -rr? r.FBMAW FORCES IN FRANCE I *w 'tremendous loss of men AND MUNITIONS OF WAR. London, April 23?The battle ol Arras, which had been smouldering for a week past, burst into fiaminf fury again today and is still raginj tonight with some of the heavies! fighting of the war in progress. The sky is alight for miles with the flashes of guns, with star shell.4 that spread a moonlight paleness over the battlefield and with vari colored rockets, which flash signals to the opposing artillery. The fighting today covered ap proximately an eight-mile front from south of Vimy ridge to a poinl well below Croisilles. At the north | end of the attack the British swepl ; over German fixed positions runninjs i almost due south from Lens and I captured long sections of Germar ! positions in front of the Hindenburj? > line and a great numh>er of prisoners | More than 1,200 prisoners were I counted in this sector late today, I and others were still coming in. The I largest number of prisoners was from the 141 Pomeraneans.who surrendered in hundreds after very brief resistance. A battery of field guns also was taken. Between Gavrelle and Croisilles the heaviest fighting occured along both banks of the Scarpe and around Monchy-Le-Preux, where the British Easter advance had projected a sharp salient into the German lines. Monchy was taken in the first phase oi the Arras battle, after three days' fighting, and has been held against desperate counter-attacks. The Germans always managed tc cling to -the slopes on either side of the hill on which Monchy-le-Preux i9 perched, this being the highest point east of Arras and Vimy, overlooking the great, broad eastern plains of Northern France. The Germans todav were undoubtedly throwing Iheir full force into their resistance along the Scarpe. They had brought up strong reserves to oppose a further British advance and had thrown in scores of new batteries of artillery. The fighting about Guemappe.due south of Monchy, was extremely bitter. Tne attacking British wave; "went over" in the half gray light of dawn. It was still dark enough to make a fiery spectacle of the barrage which crept ahead. Men who have been over several times under the protection of a barrage are apt to grow a bit over-confident in following the shell and occasionally get hit by bits flying back. A modern barrage, as set up by the British and French gunners, is a terrifying thing to face, and the Germans involuntarily break before it. Today in many parts of the battle rnai-u nrt mnra /^IKTAIlts 11UUIO bllCIC nciv uv iuviv uw^vmvv to serve as shelters and the Germans had to stand a fight, with the result that their casualties were higher and the prisoners fewer in those sections of the line. The British advanced in nearly every instance from mere half trenches, where they had been lying for the past week awaiting the bringing up of artillery and the order to advance. The Germans opposite them had been digging at every possible opportunity, but they, too, were unable to construct more than sections of an unconnected trench, with machine guns concealed in every possible nook and corner. In the villages which skirted the battle front it seemed as if every building contained machine gun crews. The artillery preparation for today's attacks did not cover the ground and did not equal in intensity that of Easter Monday, when the first battle of Arras were launched. _ Just received 1 car Grits, 1 car Hay, 1 car Oats, 1 car Flour, 1 car Corn. 4-19-tf People's Mercantile Co. The court of common pleas for Florence county convened at Florence Monday, wh^n D Gordon Baker, Esq, moved that all jury cases be postponed until September, that the jurors, many of whom are farm?< ? Ka oKlo tri />ore fnr thpii CIO, l u; uuiv vv VM* V ...... crops. Judge T H Spain granted his request, and the whole county is very grateful to him and Mr Baker. AFTER GRIPPE Vinol Restored Mr. Martin's Strength Wapakoneta, Ohio.?"I am a fanner by occupation, and the Grippe left mc with a bad cough and in a nervous, weak, run-down condition, and I could not seem to get anything to do me any good until I took Vinol, which built me up, and my cough and nervousness are all gone, and I can truly say Vinol is all that is claimed for it."?Jamv Martin. Vinol is a constitutional remedy for all weak, nervoua and run-down conditions of men, women and children, and for chronic coughs, colds and brom I Scott Drug Co, Kingstree. S C. Some Excellent Advice. The abnormally high prices of i flour, sugar and other household necessities. especially flour, doubtless | have the tendency to make many, " j especially those who can easily afford lit. to buy in larger quantities than p! are actually needed in the immedi1 t . ate future. The reason for this is to keep from paying evenhighei orices later. Statements are being made L in some sections that this "stocking " e>' ' ia Umvi one f Un A f A O fl HfT J u 13 uaviu^ liic ClltCl \JL V.I C MWHift 5 a demand as much as twice that 3 usually experienced. The effect of this abnormal demand, if practiced generally, will inevitably be to stim. ulate higher prices of food than , would prevail if housekeepers purt chased only their accustomed quan1 tities. This greatly increases the dif\ ficulties in the way of those who are [ trying to find remedies for the high i cost of living, whether civic or gov: ernmental authorities. It has the same effect as so-called corners that place quantities of needed provisions 1 out of reach of the buying public. ! Just at this time this would seem unpatriotic, and by abstaining from this temptation the housewives can be of real service to their country in , the present circumstances, besides : saving their countrymen, as well as I fkamoalimo millinno nf A rvl 1 o ro 1 Ki^UJO^IT^Oj lUtlllUUO VI UV1IUI O. 1 A little reflection may serve to show that not only patriotism but ? practical reasons a3 well render over' stockingjthe pantry^ unwise, or at > least of doubtful expediency. By buying in larger quantities than ! needed the housewives are,in effect, . speculating on the price of provis; ions in the coming months. There are some indications that these 1 prices will not be so high in the fu, ture as they are now.or at least they . are unlikely to go much higher. ' Take wheat, for example. It is only ? about two months before the harvesting of the crop will begin, and when all due allowance is n.ad*- for , the alleged shortness of winter wheat, it seems probable that an adequate, ; .1 L _ I ]. ...ill ' uiuuku uul auuiiuaut, suppij win uc ' on hand, and those who are buying two or three times what they need ! may be embarrassed by having to eat > musty, wormeaten flour that cost ' more than the fresh flour their neigh' bors will be eating. Reports from tcose in touch with the situation in. dicate that the vigorous campaign in fauor of the planting of more food ' cro^s is meeting with generous response throughout the country. This 1 will prove a real influence in favor i of lower prices. There are also strong hints from Washington that the government is going to take a hand at regulating food prices at no , distant date. This will have a salur tary effect. Many authorities are of ' the opinion that the war will be over before the end of the present year, and certainly there are reasons for tulo fltailm q tins ^lCUIWVIV/Ut 1 lllO n UUtu uv ?* great influence for lower food prices. 1 While it cannot be stated with certainty that these conditions are going to prevail, still it would seem that they should be considered of more weight than the reasons given by i those who are buying more than they need. In other words.it does not seem a safe plan to overstock the pantry, and help make prices higher than ! they would otherwise be.?Charleston Evening Post. The Atrocity at Freiberg. The German junkers, in an official proclamation, are horrified at "the atrocious act" at Freiberg. At Freiberg a squadron of English airmen flew over the city dropping . bombs. Buildings were destroyed; i people were killed. ' And. as strange as it may seem, " Germany squirms over this atrocious act. The allies are not given to bom , bardmg towns trom airplanes; tms feature of war has been left largely ' to the Germans, who began it. But the air raid on Freiberg was deliberately planned and announced as a raid in reprisal for the torpedoing and sinking of an English hospital ship by a submarine. The raid has grieved sorely Germany's sense of the eternal fitness of things. Bombard a German town,kill German people in their own homes, , invade sacred Germany?the thing is ' intolerable?it is atrocious! A couple of German war vessels could slip up to the coast of England and riddle (Sensitive Throats n^ecl careful treatment, from within more than! :hey need bundling wraps , during changing seasons. The pure cod liver oil inj scorn mmm 5 helping thousands to strengthen Jie tender linings of their throats, while at the same time it aids the > Ajb lungs and improves the quality of the blood. fTlroat Specialists endorse SCOTT'S EMULSION?Try It j Scott & Eownc. Bloomfield. N. I. 16-12 the little sea coasc villages of Scarboro and Lowescroft; German Zeppelins could sail over Paris and over Lorrdon blowing men, women and children to pieces. A German submarine could assasinate the Lusitania and fill the sea with gasping and drowning women and children. This did not matter. Why should it? The victims were not Germans. But when the Germans are at the receivers' end of this mode of war, when reprisals are made, when Germans are killed on German soil, a shriek of pain goes up from Germany, Tne barbarians?how dare they make war from the air? That was Ger f i?J1 All iL.i many s privilege, aii mm uie peuple of other nations were expected to do was to suffer and die. Germany was to inflict death and punishment, while she went scot free. But this is not that sort of a war. Germany must herself writhe and suffer, even as Belgium, France and EngUr h- e suffered. She sees it now; tne i<ur mu.; enter her own soul. She must face suffering,disaster and death. There is no escape from it. And Germany is not brave, or strong, as she stands face to face with the suffering and death which she has forced upon the people of other countries- She shrieks out "atrocities"and calls upon heaven to witness her sufferings. And Germany is yet to face the j worst of her sufferings. She needs' fortitude,if she become not too weak i and pitiful,at the hour of retribution. ?Montgomery A dvcrtixcr. JUST RECEIVED Jewelry for Graduation Presents. Diamond LaVallieres Cameo LaValheres Cameo Brooches Gold and Gold-Filled Bracelets Watch Bracelets Diamond Rings for ladies Diamond and Cameo Stickpins Cuff Buttons in Gold and Silver Vanity Card Cases Gold and Pearl Studs Gold and Silver Pocketknives Toilet Sets iti Ivory In fact, everything kept in a firstclass Jewelry store you can find in my establishment. Come and see my fine stock. Prices very low. Yours to please, F J Watts. The first annual convention of the Florence District Christian Endeavor union was held at the Presbyterian church of Florence Tuesday and yesterday. Addresses were delivered by Field Secretary Karl Lehmann and Rev L B McCutchen, a returned missionary from Korea. Just received 1 car Grits. 1 car Hay, 1 car Oats, 1 car Flour, 1 car Corn. 4-19-tf People's Mercantile Co. Office Days. Regular office days of the Probate Judge will be Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week until further notice. Persons wishing to secure permits to obtain lkjuor or wine are requested to file their affidavit with the Probate Judge in person, as no permit will be | mailed to anyone. 4-26-4t P M Brockinton, Probate Judge, Wmsburg Co. : 1 OUR MOT Better Goods tor Go Anywhere With This I TRAIN, trolley, or automobile with your baby and this Hey Sulky. It has a reed body and leath durable and stylish. As a general utility carriage the 1 field Sulky has no equal. 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