The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 26, 1917, Image 4
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Thursday. April 26, 1917.
"news in a nutshell.
Short Items of Interest Culi
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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.
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! 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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