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One of the most remarkable y campaigns in the war is that of which the outside world has heard the least, the British invasion of Mesopotamia. General Sir John Eccles Nixon, who I was in command first, secured I the head of the Bersion Gulf and ft the oil field to the north and A then dispatched two expeditions B into Turkey, one up the Tigris M ana the other up the EuphratesH The former under General Townfihend had got to the ancient Persian capital of Otesiphon last November and London was expecting to hear it had reached^ I Lowr E Has been going people have con with a hop and ; m m ? ^ t t v m^-%. 4- 4- /% W> O 1^ i WtJ WdllL LU 111 c* rv t Have you beem Ione of the greatest tn more days?Friday Saturday night, Feb. few prices?Everythi DRY GOODS ; 6000 yards 714c Ginghams ,.;S only 5 cents 2,500 yards 40-inch Sea Island 5 cents 1 bale Kenilworth plaids at only f>c Yd. wide White Madras 10c, c\e . /^ . l 1! _ - .v zob uuonnnne I'.fo 1 lot 15c white P. K. 7c 35c Cameo Cotton 10c 26c 40 inch Nainsook 16c 76c 00-inch Sheeting 60c Greatly reduced prices on all table Damask and Doilies during the sale. 0 50c Table Felt, only 39c All 26c Kilks 10c All 60c Silks Ji8c All $1.00 Silks 76c 7All remnants in Silk to be sold nSt half p-ice. 30c Curtain goods 7'/i( One lot 26c Lace Curtain goods at 16< One lot 15c Colored Voile 7%< 10 do/., ladies' assorted shirt waists to go at only, each 49< LL0VV F*; ( y ' 4 . / Bagdad,only twenty-five miles 11 away, when it was met and de-li feated by an overwhelming force ? of Turks. The British beat a; i retreat, down stream a hundred miles to Kut-el-Amara, a posi- ' tion on the northern side of the 1 Tigris which the Turks had entrenched but had failed to hold, ' as the British advanced up ' the river. Iiere General Town- ' abend was compelled to stop.and wait for enforcements to dome 1 up the river, for he was envel- I oped on all sides by a force of 1 Turks said to number 00,000 and < commanded by German officers. * The British troops are probably s less than 40,000. Two British 1 gunboats which tried to reach the besieged garrison were stop- t ped by the shallow water. The a Turks were well provided with r artillery under cover of which c they made repeated attacks up 1 on the British trenchs. On 1 Christmas day they managed to s eff ect an entrance on the north- f ern side but were driven out with heavy losses. / c The relief expedition under c General Aylmer came up the e Tigris to Sheik Said, an Arab | f village about twenty miles be- i low lvut. Here they found the t Turks entrenched on both sides c of the liver, but disloged them t on January 11, and pushed on t? c i within seven miles of Kut. Here t ir-T. il? JIGS six days, with EI< and are still co a skip ever since 3 it more lively ea ' If so, come againloney-saving opportuni and Saturday of this 1 12- Don t let anvthi / Log going as advertised DEPARTMENT ] WOOLEN DRESS GOODS 25c Woolen Dress Goods 21c j 50c vVooien Dress Goods ?J9c $1 00 Woolen Dress Goods 75c One lot 50c imported Dress Goods in big sale at. 25c, He sure to read this it^in ? One big counter 25c Crinkle Crepe, Silk. Stripe Crepe, Jacqtiard Crepe, Shirting : Crepe, Madras, Manchester, Whip Cord, Ratine, and 5 Virginia Crepe Every piece ! of troods in this lot is a regular 25c value, but they are all going in the big wale at only 10 cents the yard ! One counter 35c and 50c Ijiice, ' Poplin, Silks, Satins and < Embroidered Voiles, to go I at only 19c yd. $1 25 Counterpanes .98 ; 1 50 Counterpanes 1 19 2 00 Counterpanes j 60 J 2 50 Counterpanes 1 98 All blankets, wool or cotton without regard to founer sell sJing price. I' RY-1 MORVtzN t a battle took place last week in a heavy rainstorm. The losses were heavy on both sides and victory is uncertain. If the re- 1 lief expedition can break there 1 the Turkish ring and the two I foreeR unite, the advance upon 1 Bagdad may be resumed, for it ' ihould be easier for the British < to get supplies up the river from < die Persian Gulf than for the I Turks to get them from Oonstan- i ;inople, for the German railroad irobably lacks at least three < lundred miles of reaching Bag- J lad. It is said that the Ger- 1 nans have brought from Con- J ,1. ?1? OA/VA A. 1 ' 1 * itaiiiiiiiupte ouuo auiiomouiies so iridge this gap across the desert. General Nixon, whose Mesopoamian campagti came to such >n unfortunate ending, has been elieved of his command and reailed on the ground of ill lealth. Lieutenant General Sir 'ercy Lake, chief of the Indian tall', has been appointed to his dace. In the effort to relieve the langerous plight of the British >ii the Tigris, the Russians are lending two expeditions south rom the Caucasus. O le is advancing from the Caspian Sea oward Kermanshah, the headquarters of the Nationalists, as die Persians opposing Russian md British control of their country call themselves. They have ? r > V^UllJ ;ali GHT more days ming. Things h the BIG SALE ch day till the ci If you have not b ties of your life- Rei week and every day o ing keep you a\*ayin last week s paperNOTIONS Best table oilcloth only 15c L'wo balls thread only lc ( Handkerchiefs 2 l-2c, 3 l-2c, 4c, 1 7J4c, lie, 19c and 39c. UNDERWEAR We do not intend to carry over a single pisce of underwear if the following prices will move it. 25c underwear to goat 19c 50c underwear to go at 39c M .00 underwear to go at 75c ?2 00 underwear to go at 1 69 All muslin underwear to go at almost half price. CORSETS VVarners Rust Proof Corsets? 50c corsets 39 $1 00 corsets 79 1 50 corsets 119 Laces, embroidery and trimmings to go at almost your own price. All l idies neckwear to go at half price. Remember the date and don't wait too long. jle : TH CAROLINA received the support of Turks ti and Germans and have posses- 81 Bion of many of the cities of central Persia. The Russian expe- ? dition has taken Ramadan and . gone about fifty miles beyond 10 as toward Kormanshah. But even when they have reached that :ity there will still be 150 miles ?f mountain and desert between bhem and the beleaguered Brit- 1 ish garrison at Ket-el-Amara. The other Russian offensive is 0Q directed toward Erzerum, which is about sixty miles southwest ^ from the boundary line of the r Russian province of Tr&nscauca- ex rin t> : J . t W8 mci. a tie ivuhpiaui* uuuenooK ail ra I nvasion of Turkey in this quarter more than a years ago, but "U net with such a stout resistence * v few miles from the frontier ihat the effort was abandoned. au The Armenians of this region er< velcomed the Russian invasion md in some places rose against ^ ;he Turks because they had easons to believe that the Alies intended to set up an autonmius Armenia. But the failure if the Russians to occupy the th jountry left the Armenians ex- mi posed to the vengence of the lir Turks and more than a million ti( have been massacied or driven into the desert to perish. m The new Russian invasion of Armenia began early in January as with an advance across the fron- in - m ke W! man it ? _ sa I " I I J te to follow. The a< ave been going " STARTED and ni lose. hi vi een you are missing ^ member, only eight ti k f next week, closing J>] We mention only a tl J ti tl CLOTHING s; Now is the time to sa e money on your spring suit. Just re ^ ceived big lot nice suits for g, men and boys, but they go in w sale at same reduction. fc All 7 50 suits reduced to f> 48 All 10 (H) suits reduced to 7 48 hi All 12 f>0 suits reduced to 9 48 jv All lf> 00 suits reduced to 10 48 di All other prices on men's and et boys' suits sulTer a like reduc- W tion. thfm onrl oo.ro. MUV4 OU ? C money. se Men's and boys' trousers at e< tremendous reductions in price, ai 8( Big reductions in price of all hats and caps has put a move , on them. d( lj Shirts, overalls, neckwear, collars, trunks, suit cases, grips, w in fact everything throughout our immense stock is cut to the ei quick in price. Don't forget our big stock of good shoes. Buy now and save a big speck on the price Come, 8j let us show you. Every pair of shoes and oxfords going in sale j, at prices advertised? nothing i\ reserved. e( real r ti t 61 er at various points on either de oi Mount Ararat along a ont of a hui.dred miles. Their lief point of attack seems to be le ancient city of Erzerum and this direction they have got far as Koprikoi, about twen-five miles from their goal, le Russians took Erzerum in 29 and again in 1878, but each tie u was ny tne insistence of igland restored to the Turks. Twenty-four persons were killand 27 injured when a Zeplin airship Saturday night opped three and a half tons of plosives on I'aris. The attack is under cover of a fog and the ider escaped, although a large mber of French aircrafts enavored to find it. Some of the tnbs weighed about 000 pounds d in exploding caused considible material damage. Wilson Speaking On Preparedness ! President Wilson has taken e stump and has this week ide a number of speeches outling his position on the ques>n of preparedness. A brief synopsis of his stateent is here given. President Wilson, speaking, he said, "solemnly." is warng the nation that the time ay come when we cannot both iep the United States out of ir and maintain its honor. Lie iclared that the country must i prepared to defend itself and epared at once. "America is not afraid ot any >dy," he said. "1 know I reset your feeling and the feelg of all of our citizens when I y the only thing I am afraid of not being ready to perform y duty. I am afraid of the mger of inadequacy; I am raid of the danger of not being >le to express the chief characr of this country with tremen)us might and effectiveness henever we are called upon to ;t in the field of the world's af,irs." The President is speaking with ore gravity and force than he is shown during any of his preious addresses on preparedness. "Let me tell you very solemn r you cannot postpone this ling," hj declared. "I do not now what a single day may ring forth. I do not wish to iave you with the impression rnt 1 am thinking of some parcular danger. "1 merely wish to tell you lat we are daily treading midst intricate dangers. The angers that we are treading ruongst are not of our own makig and not under our control. I link no man in the United tates knows what a single eek, a single day, may bring >rth." "It is very difficult for us to old off and look with cool ldgment upon such tremendus matters. It has not been isy for the Government at Washington to avoid these enmglements which seem to best it on every side. It has needI a great deal of watchfulness id unremitting patience to do >. "You have laid upon me this ouble obligation. 'We are rering upon you, Mr. President, > keep us out of this war, but e are relying upon you to keep le honor of the nation nnstaind.' "You- may count upon my eart and resolution to keep you ut of the war, but you must be jady if it is necessary that 1 lould maintain your honor. "We are interested in knowlg that there are men all over lie United States prepared, [pupped and ready to go out at lie call of the National Govern lent upon the shortest possible otice. You will ask me, 'Why o you say the shortest p ipsible otice?' Bdcause, gentlemen, it me tell you very solemnly, on cannot alFord to pospcne til ie hing. 1 do not know what a ingle day may bring forth/' Chautauqua ToSatu relay Addresses Each Morning Each Afternoon and Ni Chesterfield's big three-day h Chautauqua is at hand. The un- a surpassed program of education, ^ inspiration and entertainment 8< 01 begins Friday morning at 11 at the court house auditorium. The j, first day will be known as farm- tl ers' 01 agricultural day and at 11 oi a. m. thafc morning a free ad- li dress will be delivered by Major ct Barton, one of the Government ei farm experts ot Clemson College. p< This address will be of speacial ai interest to the farmers and will w be free. sa All the forenoon meetings will w be held in the Court House. The w afternoon and night exercises will be held at the school audi- n torium and the fees mentioned ti will be charged for admission, pi In the afternoon of Friday the ei first Chautauqua attraction will b be put on; general admission w thirty five cents; children twen- tl ty cents. And again that night la the Chautauqua attraction with T general admission of fifty emits L with children at half-price. The ai Chautauqua attractions for first i6 afternoon and night?FJiday will ai be the well known Columbia fi Concert Company and that no-1 ti table lecturer, Col. Gearhart, it whom everyone should hear. | ir Saturday, Feb., 5th, will held Educational Day. A meeting of tl all the teachers of the county 11 has been called for that day at a the Court U< use by Snperinten- o: dent of Education Rouse. The a principal address will be deliv- p ed by Superintendent of Educa- o tion of South Carolina, the Hon. S J. E. Swearingen; this address h will be of special interest to the e teachers of Chesterfield County h and of much interest to the pa- h trons and children and same will be free to all. y On Saturday afternoon the n Chautauqua attractions will be ti at same price as for Friday f< both afternoon and night. The e principal amusement will be the t famous Durno, the Magician, h Do not miss this ? some- t thing novel and entertaining, h Durno is one of the world's most noted Magicians and hismysteri- a ous acts and actions are worth a e great deal to see. in addition a to Durno an entertainment of t Better Railroad ( Facilities at Cheraw Rumors have been in circulation for some time to the ell'ect p that changes for the better were (. scon to be made on the Chester- s field and Lancaster Railroad. t Nothing very definite could be learned of the origin of these ^ stories or of the real intention of the railroad in question concern- ? ing the matter until last Satur- | day when information was given out by Senator G- K. Laney that v he had received a proposition j from the Seaboard indicating a willingness on their part to run jthe O. & L. tracks into the Sea- i I board station at Oheraw. t It seems that Mr. Laney had j introduced a bill in the senate j. to require all the roads concern- ^ ed to build a union station in ^ Oheraw. f The Seaboard has made the counter-proposal that if Mr. Laney will withdraw his bill de manding the union station thev < will voluntarily connect the C. 1 & L. with the Seabord in the < manner described. I Mr. Laney says he would like to hear from the people of the county on the subject before ac cepting this compromise. ; < Sweet mixed pickles in kegsji , at The City Market. . | i Rose Brand pure lard at '!Zie I City Market. ^ A Am Morrow, and Monday at Court House Free? ght at School House. igh order will bo given Friday fternoon and night by Eugene I ockhart, who has made for hitr- 1BH ? 1 f quite a national reputation a the platform and stage. Monday, Feb, 7th, will be w DOWn as "Booster Day.1' In w le morning at eleven the Hon- 1 ' i-M able W. F. Stevenson will dever an address on town and immunity welfare. Mr. Stev ison is well known to all our V|J sople of Chesterfield County ^ id it goes without saying that hen he speaks he has a mesige to deliver?one that is orth hearing. This address * ';'<sj ill be free to all. On Monday afternoon and ight the Chautauqua attracons will hold forth at same rices as before. The principal itertainment for Monday will e the famous Tyrolean Yodlers ho created such a sensation at le New York Hippodrome, the ^rgest opera house in the world, he Tyrolean Yodlers came from ake Geneva, Switzerland, and re native Swiss. Their music i novel, unusual, entertaining nd educational. This is the rst time the people of this seeon have ever had tneopportuny of hearing these famous lusicians. The same day, Mon* ay, the platform manager of le Chautauqua, Dr. William lader will deliver lectures both fternoon and night on subjects f interest to all. Hr k'a.m. n ordained minister of the gosel and was for four years pastor f one of the largest churches i'. an Francisco. His experience as been varied and his lecturs will be enjoyed by all who ave the pleasure of hearing im. This three day program is beond doubt the finest festival of lental and spiritual stimulation hat it has ever been the good artune of Chesterfield to experince. There is no danger either hat the program will be top eavy with seriousness for pleny of refined and wholesome fun as been provided. It will be well to remember lso that this is not a local tnony making scheme. All income bove actual expenses goes to he Chesterfield High School. jhesterfield Gets Demonstration Agent Another long stride on tho tath of prog;oss was made when chesterfield County secured tho ervices of a Ilome Dem mstraion Agent. Word was received this week hat the office has been created ,nd the apointee, Miss Stella dims, of Blackville, S. O., is on ler Way here. Miss Minis is un loubtedly veil qualified for this office. She las worked with Mrs. Walker ,nd is familiar with the work rom a practical standpoint. Sho las also been in training at Win hrop for some time. Miss Minis s a College graduate and ha* tad several years experience in ,eaching. and in addition to ;eaching she lias run her own arm for the past three years. Automobile Cheap. . I will soil my automobile \ ^ ?,heap. See it at Lucas'Garage. Mr. I jucas is putting it in first- ^BK dass condition, lie will tell you ^ 99 the price. It T. K Wannamaker. ^BaH Work is progress, tg on the new garage of the Messrs Lucas on Main street. When tin- j^B^Bk ished this garage will he com- MBEBM plote in a\^\f respect. I ^HI White Coff ''' I Man^et.