Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w i " ' 1 40 * S $!)* Cotinti) f ecotf>. |? |^?OL. XXXII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1917. NO. 14 -- _ A. ???m > I -TEN MILLIONS REGISTERED. AMERICANS RESPOND NOBLY TO CALL TO ENROLL FOR MILITARY SERVICE. Washington, June 5:?More than ten million young Americans enrolled themselves today for war service. i Registration day, with but a few i weeks of preparation, saw the first! military census ever taken in the i United States completed without a single untoward eventof consequence. The manhood of the nation obeyed the President's cail and volunteered; ?? -? XU-I in mass, setting at naugni an mi-1 schemes and plotting of German, sympathizers and.the few cranks who | have agitated against registrations.. (It remains but to select the wen who are to go ?o the front. From virtually every State reas-1 suring messages came tonight to Brig Gen Crowder, provost marshal general, federal supervising officer j of the great enterprise. While no complete returns from any State were transmitted up to a late hour,the Governors were unani mous In reporting that complete: quiet had prevailed throughout the AVOiDl Do Not Wait * to order Screens, lower now and ^ hurried. Our spec ables us to produt WINDOW AND 1 X f* 11 1 _1 _ _ J_ _ | oi ail Kinas at * prices. When : Screens you have correct workmans product. Kingstree Mfg. We do ^ \w | if" WHEN YOU BUY HARDWAI ON THE SQUARE. BECAUSE DOING BUSINESS HONESTLY SELL YOU ALL THE HARDV WE LAID THE FOUNDATIO TESTED.KNOWN BRANDS OI OUR LINE ENCOMPASSES E HARDWARE STORESHOULI a OF BUSINESS TO MAKE TH1 ^ OUR HARDWARE'S THE B1 King' Hardw? The Popular H r Advertise In The day and that a full registration was indicated. In some precincts the late comers forced officials to keep the polls open I until long after 9 p. m., the closing hour set in the regulation. Gen Crowder authorized them to keep open as long as the men wished to enroll themselves. The early reports, showing a full turn out all over the country, indicated that the estimates of the census bureau as to the number of men within the specified age limits would be verified by the count. Wherever ^ ntTOllokln tKa partial ngures wcic amuou.v.m,. timates checked closely. The situation was so clear and the response so ready throughout the country that Governors of forty-six of the forty eight States had sent similar assurances long before registration had closed,and the other two were close on their heels. A feature of the registration was the refusal of hundreds of thousands of men to make any reply to the question."Do you claim exemption?" Even men who reported that they had dependent families.men with obvious physical disabilities, and those! whose occupations are sure to keepj them at home,declined to maKesucn a claim. Apparently they had entered fully into the very spirit of the law. They are content to leave the question of exemption to the exemption boards. They have no claims to make, but are ready to do their share,whatIE RUSH! I until Summer Prices are much vorkmanship not ial equipment enle high grade DOOR SCREENS istonishingly low pou select OUR the assurance of ship and superior & Const Co. ^ RlBusiness ^JLon the Wmm&Quzre. \ issiRfc. *E FROM US WE DO BUSINESS ; WE NOT ONLY BELIEVE IN r BUT BECAUSE WE WANT TO /ARE YOU NEED "FOR LIFE." >N FOR SUCCESS BY PUTTING r AXDWARE IN OUR STORE. vn^THING AN UP-TO-DATE | ) CARRY AND IT IS OUR RULE ? LOW PRICE FIRST. CSTt IT STANDS THE TEST. ire Company. ardware Store. Record. It Pays! ever it may be. With the closing of each registration precinct officials went at once to the task of sorting and classifying the cards. There is much work to be done in order that the brief synopsis which each Gevernor will make to Gen Crowder of the registration of his State may go forward promptly. Gen Crowder is hopeful that another thirty-3ix hours will see the full record of the country on his desk. Today's registration included only continental United States. Alaska and Hawaii will record their fighting men on dates to be set later,and the roll of Americans now abroad who arc now hpni^trincr pnnsnlsfps all over the world for registration cards will add to the great list. Gen Crowder made it clear that registration acted as a bar against no man who wishes to enlist in the J army or navy. Any man who enrolled himself today, but whose patriotic impulse bids him step into the ranks now and not await selection day, will pas3 from the registration lists automatically. A man may take his choice as to the part of the great national army in which he will serve, regulars, National Guard or selective. STATE AND COUNTY RESPONSE To Call lor Registration?Heavy Enrollment Tuesday. That the young men of South Carolina, who are eligible to registration for the national army, have responded nobly to the call for registration is clearly shown by the re ports irom tne various cuunues where the registration was conducted Tuesday. In not a single county was there a case of serious opposition to the registration, so far as has been reported. It appears that everybody liable under the law has cheerfully and patriotically complied, the negroes vying with the whites in performing this duty. Although the figures presented this morning are incomplete,they indicate strongly that all estimates of the number of those registered have been surpassed. In Kingstree and Williamsburg county there were registered 885 whites, 1,659 colored and 2 aliens, a total of 2,546. The persons registering in the county Tuesday have been placed under separate headings as follows: Legislative, judicial or executive officers?white 2. Persons totally aisamea?wnues 6, colored 11. Dependent relatives indicated? whites 532, colored 1247. Occupational exemptions indicated?white 23. colored 16. Claiming no exemption ? white 332, colored 385. The following: report was sent out from Columbia Tuesday night: Registration day in South Carolina passed off without the slightest evidence of disorder. The Governor'8 nffipp at. ten o'clock had received no notice whatever of trouble from any locality of the State. Chairmen of county registration boards had been instructed to notify Governor Man| ning promptly if any disorder arose, ! and the absence of such notifications I is taken here to indicate that the day ; was unmarred in any county. TORNADOES' DEADLY WORK. I Storms Spread Death and Des In U/A?t Kansas City, June 6:?Tornadoes tonight and early today spread death and destruction through rural districts of Missouri and Kansas. Reports tonight showed fifteen were killed in Missouri and nine in Kansas. The number of injured has reached approximately 150, and estimates of the property damage places it any| where from $ 1,000,000 to $2,000,000. The greatest loss of life apparently ! was in Boone Co, Mo,where the tori nado,dipping here and there.claimed eleven persons. In Carroll, Chariton ; and Ray counties four dead?three i at Richmond and one at Whitam. | The course of the tornado was I marked by odd jumps. First it ap, peared near Topeka,early in the day, and then came to earth again in Ray County,Missouri,shortly before midnight. Then it tore through a wide section of that county, wiped out half the town of Dean Lake, Carroll county, and then swooped down again demolishing the little town of Whitam. The tornado descended again at Providence, in the hills of southwestern Boone county, Prathersville, Hallsville and through Cantralla, after which it disappeared ; and was heard of no more until it i struck Savonburg, Kansas, this ! morning. _ _ ^ i I TOBA $ Don't delay in | but buy now. IV | and our supply : ? ITlnoe Twinp. (A. A. A WW Guns and Sp Coffins and Cask Kingstn ggjgggg sensational" ~1. plot discovered1 IN NEW YORK -MILITARY SECRETS SMUGGLED INTO GERMANY? THREE ARRESTS MADE. New York.June 4?Evidence that two complete hi<?h-powered wireless . -ninlLfinnn oooamKlaH hprp WPrel iijaiaiiatiuiio ogovm?/iw4 -? shipped, piece by piece, supposedly for the use of the German spy system in this country,was unearthed today in connection with the arrest of three men on charges of conspiring to send mail,containing military information from the United States to Germany through members of Norwegian ship I crews. It was intimated by the United States commissioner, before whom the alleged plotters were arraigned, that it was through their instrumentality that the advance news of the impending arrival in England of the American destroyer fleet was sent to Germany before it even became generality hnwn in this country. Indications have been found that the secret mail system was operated both ways between the United States.Germany and Mexico. Several hundred letters have been seized, written in English,German and Spanish and some in code. The prisoners are Harry F Perissi and Irving Bonaparte, both said to be American-born, employed by a German electrical company here,and Axel E Melchar.said to be a natural ized citizen from Sweden. They are charged with conspiring to induce members of the crews of the steamships Bergensfjord and Kristianiafjord.both chartered to carry regular United States mails, to take letters and packages from this country des tined for Germany in violation of the law prohibiting competition with the United States mail. That others are implicated, and j that the men under arrest are willing j to tell all they know, was indicated ! by counsel for Bonaparte, who said his client was willing to help the government in every way in his pow-1 er. Perissi, speaking in his own behalf, said: "I did not start this con-! I ;spirac.v?the mail came to me first j from others and I had nothing to do with the crews of the ship." It is charged by the government that the conspiracy began last January and that mail was sent May 15. Evidence has been found showing ( that the men received from the supposed principals in the alleged conspiracy plot $50 for each package sent by their mail system, and that one of them received in all more than $150 for his work. Parts of the outfits, it has been learned, got through, but part was held up in this country. Rear Admiral John Upshur, the oldest officer in the United States navy, died in Washington last week, aged 94 years. He entered the navy in 1841 and saw service in the Mexican war, was with Perry on the expedition to Japan in 1858 and commanded the Wabash at the bombardment of Port Royal during the civil war. He was a cousin of the late Thomas T Upshur, for many years city Treasurer of Sumter. t. ?8SSSSSB?HSSHSSHSSH?H3 CCO FI buying Flues. M laterial is scarce a is limited. Give u Thermometers, rayers. Prices rig ets We Lead ee Hardw OPPORTUNITES FOR YOUNG MEN What the Naval Service of Uncle Sam Offers Tbem. Uncle Sam's navy offers a wide vareity of industrial courses to ambitious young men. If the recruit has had some training or experience in electricity he may enter either the general or the radio classes of the electrical schools,one at the Brooklyn and the other at the Mare bland ( XIoitu Voi-jI Tho rrraat nHunntflCP* : AWIU. AIIV filVMV of these courses are discussed in the: annual report of the Secretary of the Navy. Condensing this resort, the j Electrical Experimenter says: "Here the course of instruction | comprises machine shop work, reci-1 procating steam engines, steam turbine engines,internal combustion en-1 gines, magnetism and electricity,dy-! namos, motor generators, alternat-j ing currents, batteries and the like. | In the radio group there is thorough ; practice in the radio mechanism for receiving and sending. In the artificer school at the Norfolk Navy Yard men are tnught to be shipwrights, ship fitters, blacksmiths,painters and j plumbers. Both at Newport,R I,and i San Francisco there are yeomanry j schools,where the men are perfected : ? ?r the clerical work of the navy to I become expert 9henographers, type- I writers, bookkeepers, etc. "An attractive line in the navy is the Hospital Corps, with schools at Newport, R I, and San Francisco. Not a few men have gone out of these schools after their navy ser-' vice to make good doctors in civil j life, after the thorough training received in anatomy and physiology, nursing, first aid and emergency, surgery,hygiene and sanitation,phar-1 macy, materia medica, toxicology, chemistry and the like. Music is essential to vary the secluded life afloat, and boys with musical talent are instructed in the schools of Norfolk and San Francisco. The machinists school at Charleston is open The man with nu safe in the Bank < that home. Be a r DON'T BUILD "CASTLES IN Tl GIRL. GET RIGHT DOWN TO "E MONEY. THEN WHEN YOU FI CAN BUY IT. MONEY IN THE BANK MAKE! MARRIED MAN. PUT YOUR MONE^ WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTER! Farmers & Merchai "ABSOLUTELY SAFE" Aittirlztf fey Fffetrtl Riunt karl 1i Aet n ?UES ! f [ake no mistake, 1' tnd hard to get, | s your order for || .Paris Green | jht, quality best. | I) Others Follow jg rare Co. 1 to men who show themselves apt 'in any mechanical work. The coppersmith school'is located at Charleston. The two commissary schools are at San Francisco and Newport. At Pensacola every three months a class of sixteen enlisted men, selected by the commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, is trained for an eighteen months' course in aeronautics. The course is divided into two classes?mechanics^and flying. The men are afterwards transferred to~ general service and are entitled to additional pay of 50 per cent while detailed to the duty of actual flying. The seaman gunners' school is located at Newport where a special study of the torpedo is made." '? Lines from Leo. Leo, June 5:?Today is registration day and it s^ms that the boys are responding freely to the call, both white and colored. Mr Wm W Burrows and family with Mr Willie J Brown and his sister, Miss Iva, attended Children's . . -1 O a ay at v^tfuar owdmp mciuuuiov church last Saturday. We motored over there in Mr Brown's new Ford; had a delightful trip, and enjoyed the day very much. The program of entertainment was carried out nicely. The children were trained for the occasion by Miss Saidy Snowden. All give her much praise for the training of i the dear little children, and the day . will long be remembered by both old and young. Little Miss Kathrine Carter is still improving. Hon J Davis Carter has been quite sick but is able to be out again. . Mr Stanley Prosser of Columbia came through our burg Sunday to see his home folks. He returned Monday. Miss Elise Brown is at home to ? - ? J u... Iio/wtinn Shp hj?S hpen apCIIU liCI tai.ativu. wi.v teacher at Lancaster. Billie Collins' tent emporium of high class, refined amusement opens tonight on Academy street for one week. Don't miss it. jney whofputs it :an some day buy nan with money. IE AIR." IT ISN'T FAIR TO THE iRASS TACKS" AND BANK YOUR ND A BARGAIN IN A HOME YOU 5 A HAPPIER HOME-ASK ANY f IN OUR BANK. :ST ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. nts National Bank, LAKE CITY. S. C. Msliislrittr, Eiccslw, Trail* Ml lifiitrar. to**.