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ZKFPELIN DESTROYED. Air Raid on England Last Night Re sults, in Detraction of Zeppelin, and Damage to Another Hun Ship. London, Aug; 6.?In last night's air raid on England by German air ships, an enemy Zeppelin* was brought I down, it is officially announced. An other German airship was damaged but probably succeeded in reaching its base. HiJXS. FIERCENLY RESISTING FRENCH ADVANCE. Hold the Heights Commanding River Crossings. Paris, Aug. S.?German resistance north of Vesle is being continued. The enemy rear guards are standing determinedly along the heights com manding the river crossings where the French light elements which have fassed beyond the river are entering them, says the Havas Agency revie.v tvday. CONTINUED SUCCESS OF ALLIES. Germans Repulsed North of The Vesle?Frehch Advance to A vre. Paris, Aug. 6.?North of the Vesle the Germans have been repulsed in an effort to dislodge the French and American units which crossed from the South bank. An official statement also reports the French advance to Avre, north of Montdidier. GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL. Allies Hold Fast to Positions on Vesle Front. Paris, Aug. 6.?The determined at tacks which the Germans have been delivering\against the. Allied advanc ed guards north of the Vesle have failed to disturb the temporary stabil ization of the Vesle front. The Allied commandant is retaining the initia tive in these operations. ALLIED FORCES LAND AT ARCH ANGEL. Enthusiastic Welcome Given by Rus sians. London^ Aug. 6.?Official announce ment was'made today of the landing of Allied forces of the naval military at Archangel on August 2nd. The landing was in concurrence with the wishes of the Russian population, and it is stated, caused general enthusiasm W. T. DERIEUX DEAD. Columbian Killed at Camp Wads i worth. Spartanburg, Aug. 5.?William T. DerieUx, Company C, Sixty-first Pion eer Infantry, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Derieux of Columbia, who was ac cidentally shot Sunday afternoon, died this afternoon at the base hospital at Camp Wadsworth. His body will be taken to Columbia for "burial. Mr. Derieux had been* in camp a short time only but had made many friends in his company and regiment;' His fam ily is well known, his father, the Rev. W. T. Derieux, D. D., prominent as a Baptist minister, having lived in Spartanburg for several years, after ward; resided .-La Greenville and being widely "known throughout the State. The accident occurred when several soldiers were examining a rifle and studying its operation. The. ball pass ed through Mr. Derieux's arm and body. PURXIC HEALTH MEETINGS. Schedule of Meetings Still to be Held in -Sunxter County. The following communities remain to be visited for the community and piibiic health meetings. As will be observed there is going to be some very pleasant events, especially in the culinary departments. Concord, Mayesville and Providence schools have held their meetings. The United State.? government is appealing to the patriotic people* of the rural j districts to get together in these community meetings to organize for. intensive war work, and to start a movement of conservation of the public health to increase the effi ciency?that is the physical, mental and moral efficiency of?our people in productiveness to win the war. Schedule of community meetings: August 7th?Bethel, 4 p. m. August 12th?Hagood, afternoon, picnic. August 13th?Salem. 4 p. m. August 14th?Gen. Sumter Memo rial School, all day picnic. August 3 5th?Oswego, 4 p. m. August 16th?Shiloh. all day picnic. August 19th?Daizell, 4 p. m., aft ernoon picnic. August 20th?Wedged eld, 4 p. m., afternoon picnic. August 21st?Baker School, all day picnic. August 2 2d ? Pleasant Grove School, all day picnic. August 22rd?Graham School, 4 p. m. August 26th?Norwood School, all day picnic. August 27th?StateDurg No. 10. 4 p. m. August 2Sth?DuLose School, 4 p. m. August 29th.?Reed School, 4 p. m. August 20th?Rembert. 4 p. m. af ternoon picnic. CROWN PRINCE REORGANIZLXG DIVISIONS. Using Remainder of 1919 Recruits? Divisions Fearfully Reduced. With French Army. France, Morn ing, Aug. C.?The Gorman crown T'rinco is now engaged in reconstruct ing his shattered divisions behind the lines with the remainder of the 1911? recruits, in the opinion of General Mangin. Some of the German divis ions in battle had their company strength reduced to less than fifty men. while some were still further depleted. Many a man who couldn't train a dog decently imagines that he is an ideal child trainer. Some people think they are never Iked about because they never heai SENATORS AT LEXINGTON. Noisy Bleaseites Attempt to Heckle Senate Candidates. Lexington. Aug. 6.?Candidates for the United States senate met another little band of wilful Bleaseites in Lexington today, who at times turned loose a deafening clamor in defense of Cole L. Blease and Thomas H. Peep/es, when these two "lost, strayed or stolen candidates" were subjected to Christie Benet's and W. P. Pollock's mustard gas attacks. The number of Bleaseites in the little raiding party was almost inconsequential, the ratio j of anti-Bleaseites to Bleaseites being possibly four or five to one in the crowd of from SftO to 1,000 people. But inferiority in numbers was more than offset in capacity to make noise, many of the Bleaseites being all mouth and a yard wide. Several times it looked as if Mr. Benet and Mr. Pollock would not be allowed to proceed. In the turmoil there were calls to discuss 'the issues' and "You're not running against Blease. Talk about Peeples." But when Peeples was being riddled there was still a somewhat futile attempt made to return the fire. Pollock got in some withering flashes and prac tically silenced the opposition. One persistent heckler challenged Mr. Pollock to "come on" and "go to the war." Pollock's answer was, "While you go to France to fight Germans, I propose to stay here and fight pro Germans in South Carolina." Mr. Pollock got a round of applause when he read a circular advertising a special meeting for Blease "near Cow ards," in Florence county, tomorrow. Mr. Pollock said he preferred to speak here "near brave men." He had never been able to get in sight of Blease and today with the mercury hovering near the century mark, it was "too hot to run him down." There were calls from the audience for Mr. Peeples when C. M. Efird, the county chairman, called his name on the schedule of speakers and hurrahs also for Blease when his name was read out. "You can holler as loud as you want to, Mr. Chairman," Mr. Benet said, when introduced, "I guar antee Tom Peeples is not coming here today." The speakers today got off particu larly forceful addresses, the week-end release having added much vigor to the presentation of arguments, N. B. Dial was the first speaker and made a brief survey of many national is sues, which would call for the sane judgment of business men in the United States senate upon the termi nation of the war. It may be possi ble, he said, to utilize the cantonments as schools for vocational training and the huge nitrate plants for war mu nitions can be converted into agricul tural nitrate plants when munitions factories shut down. Better market ing facilities are to be developed and many measures are to be enacted which will give agriculture a new vis ion and range of possibilities through put the South. Tbe^an "was, either an ignoramus or a Itar" who had the ! audacity to say that the Laurens coun ty candidate opposed anything that meant the progress and welfare of the people. He had never opposed the State warehouse system. He had built the second warehouse in the State, and the State system was a movement in the right direction, but this did not go far enough. '*If you take all the cotton of South Carolina off the market, you would not affect the mar? *t with Georgia and Texas and other States selling." He strenu ously advocated a national bonded warehouse system to take care of the entire crop. Senator. Benet is not in favor of fix ing the price of cotton, but thinks the government ought to "set up a prop" or establish a minimum figure below which cotton will not be allowed to drop. This would enable farmers to finance cotton and al3o provide a mar ket at a reasonable figure for distress cotton which must soon begin to move. Blease's complete face about on the war issue. Mr. Benet said, had been brought about by Blease's candidacy. He was not a candidate when he made the Pomaria and Filbert speeches and the people would not stand for such utterances now. His attitude was that of the fisherman who rescued the lit tle negro boy. not because he loved the boy, but because "he had the bait in his pocket." Blease would not be hollering today that the war must be fought to a successful conclusion and that he was for a third term for Wil son and that he was willing to raise a regiment if it were not to gain the people's votes. Mr. Pollock made a powerful ap peal to the voters to support men whose loyalty had not been brought into question and sought to eason with those who were hurling defiance back at him. He got volumes of ap plause during his speech and at its conclusion ma"ny of the voters crowd ed to the stand to shake hands with; the Cheraw candidate. There is considerable Blease senti ment in Lexington county, but lead ers of the opposition are determined to retain the county in the anti Blease column and do not expect it to be a superhuman task at that. Blease lost the county by 735 votes in 1914 and by 410 votes in 191rt. Rico admitted today he made his usual speeeh each day. but criticised the press for saying as much. FLOUR MILL BURNED. Ivce County Wheat and Corn Mill De stroyed, Causing Heavy Loss. Bishopville, Aug. 6.?Fire today de stroyed the new plant of the I-ee County Milling & Trading Company. The plant is a total loss and with it a lot of hew wheat grown in Lee county and a large amount of dour and food stuffs. The loss is around $35,000 with $20.00?* to $25,000 insurance. It is pos sible that the plant will be rebuilt, but not in time to grind this year's crop. The plant was modern and tended to encourage the growing of wheat and corn for marketing, both locally and for shipment. A girl's idea o'" genuine misery is to have her Eastei bonnet sent home Saturday night and then have it rain all day Sunday, NO IMPR<)VEMENT IX BUYING.! Sunitcr County is still Lown Down in Tlie Scale?What Some of The Other Counties are Doing. The. bulletin issued from the of fice of the director of War Savings for the week ending July 27th shows in simple figures that Sumter county! is not holding up her end of the Ik&l in the buying of War Savings stamps. At the end of that week for total sales Sumter stood 21st in the State with sales of $104,:J74.00 which is a per capita of $2.45. In the matter of sales for that par ticular week there were in this State only nine counties that had lower per capita sales than did this county, while there were thirty-five counties that had larger per capita sale*. What some of these counties did fOi* that week were as follows: Florence?$21,450.50, per capita of 52c. Dillon?$7,538.00, per capita of 29c Horry?$6,431.25, per capita of 22c Barnwell?$6,136.25, per capita of 18c. Dorchester?$3,400.75, per capita of 18c. Lee?$3,384.50, per capita of 12c. Marion?$2,801.50, per capita of 12c. Williamsburg?$2,741.75, per capiti of 11c. Beaufort?$2,585.00, per capita of 9c. Chesterfield?$2,847.50, per capita of 9c. Kershaw?$2,182.75, per capita of 7 c. Orangeburg?$3,687.00, per capita of 7c. Sumter's sales that week were $2, 153.50, a per capita of five cents. The people of this county seem to be buying all kinds of articles, some necessities and some for conven ience and pleasure just as they always have. The people of the county have pledged to buy nearly $400,000.00 worth of War Savings stamps. Sev en-twelfths of the year have gone by and the buyings amount to $104,000.00 or a little over one-fourth. WEARY OF WAR. Depressing Documents Found on Prisoners. With the British Army in France, Aug. 5.?(By the Associated Press).? Documents of the most significant character, indicating that recent events have brought about an ex tremely marked state lof depression in the German army have fallen into the hands of the British. Most sig nificant of all, perhaps, is an abstract from a German officers' diary in which he relates he ha.d been asked by the' 'divisional headquarters whether the troops in the line favored peace or a continuation of the war, his answer being: "Immediate .peace or an imme diate decisive battle." This entry was dated before the German drive for the Marne began". Hardly less important is a letter taken from a German prisonerT^Th was written to him by another Ger man stationed along the Marne. It reads: "You will be in the thick of it now. Shirk as much as you can. Do not be stupid. We are risking our lives only for big victories. Now we are taking the offensive on the m Marne and we will never get out of this mess at all. Our regiment has bpen nearly wiped out and we have not pushed far. The war is becoming a greater massacre' than ever. What is going to happen I don't know. Germany is slowly crumbling to pieces." Another prisoner just captured on the British front says that the offi cial figures show that 12,000 of his comrades were made prisoners in the Champagne fighting, but that rumors along this front is that 60,000 Ger mans and 800 guns were lost. Adding to the gloom of his division which realizes that Germany has suf fered a great defeat, the prisoner said the food given the men was very poor. He said that poor rations had been especially noticeable for the last three months:' The only time that good food is served, he said, is before the Germans are to participate in an of- j fensive. To .Salvage Waste Material in The United States. The American Givic Association is starting a campaign for the salvage of waste material on a scale which promises to save many millions of dollars annually to the United States. In pursuance of this object the as | sociation has formed a National Sal vage Committee, with Mrs. John Al ! Ian Dougherty as chairrnan, and with ' headquarters in Washington. D. C This National Committee will act as an advisory board. In each State a chairman will be appointed who will choose her own committee, and or ganized her State as closely and as quickly as possible. The material^ to be salvaged are such domestic waste as tin and lead foil; brass, cop per, and aluminum; old gold; silver and broken bits of jewelry; paper, rubber, cotton and woolen rags; glass fruit jars, tin cans with fitted lids, fur niture and innumerable other a-rti i cles. The salvage of domestic ma terials already has fteen successfully I tried out in Ivos Angeles. Cal., and in Kansas City. Mo. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. j Our Troops Suffer Considerable Loss in Great Battles, j Washington, Aug. S.?Army casual J ties reorted today are 237. Killed in i action, 131; died of wounds. 16; died ! of airplane accident, 1; wounded se I verely. 62; wounded, degree undeter : mined 22. Killed in action. Sergt. 'William S. Henderson, of Converse. IS. C. Private Luther F. Fields, of I Kasley; wounded severely. Private j Charles R. Mann, of Greenville. S. C. Marines Lose Hundred. j Washington, Aug. S.?- Marine cas ualties total one hundred and eight. ? Killed in action. 2: died of wounds. ; 1; wounded severely. 20; wounded I degree undetermined. 74 ; wounded ! slightly, 1; missing. 10. Wounded, de I gree undetermined, Lieut. Davis A j Holliday, of Marion. S. C., Private I enable* S". Gomez, of Tampa, Fla. LEITER FROM THE FRONT. Lieut. David Loring Writes From Somewhere in Belgium Where He is Now Serving. Somewhere in Belgium, July 15, 19 IS. My Dear Old Daddy: Writing is rather a hard proposi tion over here these days. We are on the move most or' the time. At pres ent we are in a biouvac camp sleeping in our "dog tents." Loring knows what they are. Have had some rain lately. Looks like every time we have to move it is in the rain. Sometime ago I was up in the front line for four or five days. Did not| see al^- one get hurt, but saw one muni after he got killed by a piece of I shrapnel. Wished for you, Viola and I Loring to see some of the fighting. One night while up there the Allies sent out a raiding party to take pris oners at a given hour (called zero hour). We put a heavy barrage. Then is when I . wished for you three. It certainly was beautiful, but I guess it was hell for the ene my. Hope it was, for the afternoon before he shelled the position where I was and made it pretty hot too. He dropped big shells all around our dugout. If one of those eight inch piercing shells had hit directly over us it would have been all off for us. One of them dug a hole big enough to bury a pair of mules just to one side of our dugout. It shook us up j pretty well too. While standing out in front a shell burst about forty yards away and threw all sorts of things alb over us, and small pieces of corrugated sheet iron missed a guard that was standing behind me, by his stepping up along side of me. An other whole piece fell about 12 feet away. We had a time that afternoon." I was glad to see the straffing we gave them that night. It surely was beau tiful. We were where we could see good, probably a half miie from the place the barrage fell. Our artillery guns were firing over our heads, and our M. G.'s were popping away so you couldn't hear a man yell in your ear. This was when I went up to the front line by v myself for a few days observation, and you might say the gutst of the company already there. I shot a M. G. those few nights prob ably a thousand times. Of course it was indirect fire, also at night and 1 could not see what results I was get ting. On the way up there from our camp, when I got close to the front line, shells were dropping all along the'road every now and then. One dropped as near as fifty yards in the road exactly opposite from where my party was walking'along. We could hear the shrill whistle through the air, and you should have seen us "duck." I believe this "hunting" over here for big game is more fun than hunting deer in Santee swamp at home. Wish you could be here with me and have a good 'stand.' Had a nice letter from Anna and Ruth sometime ago telling me about the records, and how much they like and play them and wish Viola and I could be there together to hear them too. Hope I can be there by next summer. You remember all the things I was ordered to supply myself with before sailing? Well that was all bosh, for we are cut down to only 50 pounds baggage. Of course we can carry anything else we want to on I our backs. Did away with my trunk, hat. cap, short overcoat and a good many lesser things. They are all sup posed to be kept for us at some base, and returned to us when we start home, or sent home if anything hap pens to us over here (hope not). Also had a nice long letter from Coz Hal lie sometime back. Received one from Auntie last week that I much en joyed too. She told me a lot of the local news about Sumter. Just wrote Coz Hallie today. Am sitting on a box in front of my dog tent waiting for supper. Am rather hungry too for r did not eat much dinner today, had eaten candy just before. Every now and then we are able to get. some of the famous wives to cook some eggs and potatoes and have miik, etc. One meal we had I want you to see what we had. The major was the host, and paid the bill. Wish I could sit down right now to the same kind of supper. Received a let ter some time ago addressed to Lieut. David Loring. Jr. When I opened it I found it was not for me. It was from David Loring, Sr., to his son. Then I noticed on the envelope that! the original address was the head quarters Co. 23rd regiment, which was scratched out, and my address ; added. I wrote the Jr. a letter tel ling him who I was, etc. The Sr's address was Terminal City, Van Couver, B. C. I wonder who they .are. I toid the young man I thought maybe you would write his Dad. Dad the flying machines are as common as Ford cars at home. Can hardly find a time during the day when you can't see from one to fifteen at a time. Several of us u>de over to a hangar a couple of Sundays ago to see them rise and light. Saw a squadron of nine leave at the same time. When they light, they just turn the ma chine any way they want to and run right to within twenty feet of the place the blame thing belongs to stay, siime as you would an automobile. After we went back to camp one oi* the planes Hew over our camp, and did several stunts. Turned over backwards twice. Did a glide straight j at our camp and had everybody trying to duck out of the way. The blame fool came within twenty feet of the ground just like he was out of fix some way. and was out of con trol. T don't blame anyone for trying to duck. Wish I could see you all soon, but nothing doing. Give my liest love to all at home, and at Millwood. Write when you can for I do love to hear from you. You look out for. and take care of Viola and make her do the same for you. I know you both will. I'.est love in the world for you both. "Bud." Tim more extensively it is used toe better are the results obtained from a Swedish system for stimulating back ward children by circulating electric currents through the air of the rooms in which they study. ARTILLERY FIRE HEAVIER. Germans Offer stiff Resistance to Al lies. London, Aug. 5.?Reuters corre-; spondent at French headquarters in France in a dispatch dated Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock says: "The enemy's artillery fire is very heavy along the whole line of the Vesle, and the Germans are opposing every resistance to the allies. Never- j theless, French patrols have suc-i ceeded in crossing the river at several! points between Hermoise, east of j Soissons and Fismes, where the Amer icans cross and between Fismes and Muiseon. "The Germans on the bank are abundantly supplied with machine guns and bomb throwers. Their avia tors are busy using machine guns against our troops and the enemy resistance everywhere is very stiff. Between Muizon and Peheims, where we are firmly established on the south bank there has been very hard j fighting. ? j "There was a hot encounter at the Vautes farm, close to Muizon, for the passage of the river. After its' cap ture the Germany sent across* two detachments in an attempt to retake the farm. Both detachments were re pulsed after a severe tight. "The artillery is very active on both sides of this region. "West of Braisnes the enemy stub bornly resisted our passage of the riv er opposite the La Grange farm on the north bank of the stream. "On the A vre River, in the Mont didier section the French have occu pied the whole of the line of wooded hills overlooking fhe steep river val ley from Braches to Mesnil-St. Georges. It is reported there is fight ing in Hargicourt on the left bam: of the river, where the Germans hold the railroad station. The enemy is still in Morisel." DR. J. D. irUGGIXS DF.AD. Pastor of Denmark Baptist Chuith Succumbs to Illness. Denmark, Aug. f>.?The Rev. J. D. Huggins, pastor of the Denmark Bap tistxcnurch. died this morning after a five weeks' illness. The burial and funeral services will be at Crooked Run Baptist Church, Richland Coun ty, tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Huggins had served acceptab-. ly as pastor of various Paptist churches in South Carolina. He was a n.ember of the Baptist home-mis sion board and had served, as State agent of the board a number of years. He was zealous in the cause of his church and was highly esteemed both as an aggressive pastor and on ac count of his sterling qualities of manhood. Mr. Huggins was in his G2d year. Our most exclusive circles?silver dollars. ?i?x<,|..x<.j..>.x..>?>u^..j.?!.^..??ljrT.r-i-.r ^, ^ ,? ^ u, m Building Material and Feed ?jj??|| { jj . Rough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, * Brick, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. * All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. * We solicit your patronage. I Booth & McLeod, Inc. Pho? 10 & 63i j Figures Id August 1917 our total resources were $850.000.00. Our resources to day are nearly Fourteen, Hw.fced Thousand?positive proof that our customers appreciate unfaiiiqg cour tesy aDd a desire on our part to ren der every possible service. The National Bank of Sumter The -Old Reliable" Since 1889 J. P. Booth, Pres. D. B. Mohe, Vice-Pcesident R. B. Belser, Vice-Pres. W. J? Crowspn, J[r., Cashier ThriftJl^ips, Buy One __ Pay! The First National Bank SUMTER, S, C. KAiiomBiWiwtwiu 3 OF SVMTER. THE fastest growing baak io this section. Three new accounts a day for the rest of the year, is the pace we set?and we are petting them. We want your business and have the ser vice vou need. The National Bank of South Mna 1 C. G. ROWLAND. President F. E. HINNANI, Cashier.