The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, June 06, 1918, Image 1

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|P""Get Ready to 'Buy War Savings Stamps. Intensive Campaign Begins June 14th, Ends June 28th. Ol)e (Lfyesterfietd ^Advertiser A >L. 37.?No. 12 CHESTERFIELD, S. C.TtHURSDAY, 1 UNK (>, 1918 $1.00AYEAR IN ADVANiTe^" r/IR. W. B. BURCH Camp' Wheeler. (<?., The Chesterfield Advertiser: Ct.'ist. -'m i (' -i-dy being my old > ' e, and still claiming the honor of o inatinpc from that section of the r d old Palmetto State, I will ende>r to write a few line? from C: ..;p Wheeler, named in honor of that 'orilliant Con hern Cavalry leader, ' F'ghting Joe" Wheeler. C: mp Wheeler is located 5 miles e-tst of the city of Macon, Ga., and is the home of the "Dixie Division," composed of troops from the States of Georgia, Florida and Alabama, -y. I belong to ihe old Second Florida, r.ow the 124th Infantry and was with ii o- the Mexican border at Laredo M:d /opr.'a. Texan. ' amp Wheeler wiii be vacated by i n old men witn;n a weeK and tilled with new draf.s, in fact most of the I o ; are at homo on their farewell * trip .aw, and the Dixie Division will i ; i billed with drafts from the states of Michigan and Illinois. I Ail of the "non-coms." are b?ing kept here to train this new contingent of drafts, so 1 won't get to go ? w?th the boys I have been with for jl, ttic List one and two years, at le; xt ^ not for the present. Long columns of new drafts are Hlrendy arriving in Camp. All are d,-o<red in civilian clothes, and carry* ir.g suit, cses, bugs and packages, soon to begin their new duties, of Iteming the things that will strike ftLur and terror into the hearts of K:ii?e*',s barbarians, and put "Hill" ofT his throne. .n this assemblage of new men yo.i ' find every nationality and language > spoken represented. 4 receive the Advert'ser every week ami wouliln't he willuMir n Pardon me for suggesting, that the ! Mt. Croghan correspondent should write a little more oft'-r. 1 have been reading the letters from the soldier boys, that you have been publishing from week; to v.'eh, and think they speak well :o.* the paper, as well as the publisher. Would write more, b;i don't like to take more of your space, \vhi<-h you can probably pu< to better advantage. With best wishes to Tn ? Advertiser and its readers. Yours verv truly, W. BERNETYE lt'.TvCH. Co. "C", 12dth. Inf. w.s.s. SPECIAL TRAINING FOR NEGRO TROOPS Washington, June 2.-?Arrangements have been completed by the war department to send about 1,000 negro drafted men to schools and colleges this summer for special training in radio engineering, general engineering, electricity and the care and operation of motor veircles Ac commodations have been provided at Tuskegoe Institute, Hampton Institute (Virginia), the Negro Agricultural College, Florida A. and M. Cultt?:. n i ^viama uiiivrisiiy, imwuiu University (Washington), and Western University for clastss of tlmse men. Upon graduation the students will be assigned to regiments of negro troops. The National Army now includes close to 137,000 negroes, 1,000 of them holding commissions as. cap' tains, tirst lieutenants and second lieutenants. w.s.s. Report of Sules of War Savings and Thrift Stamps for Chesterfield County for week ending May 25th Postoffice Week Sales Total Sale* Angelus $ 3.50 $ 11H.50 Cheraw 64.50 6,075.75 ' Chesterfield 115.25 2,628,00 Jefferson 19.25 1,408.00 McBce 5.00 595.00 | Middendorf .... 187.75 ft 1 Mt. Croghun 31.50 1,471.25 i I Pageland 53.00 2,807.25 I Patrick .60 120.00 l\ 1 Ruby 18.75 404.50 li / This is the feed \ II / that's guaranteed \ Ml ?% ? *fed(fisft??i Wi.tj PARNELL MEEHAN r.tfi.r ' - ? - fwsSl J mftvammMPi ui?a? *v tv* Nmomiai gOVlMKMlHT I To be invested i asdd only about To make up stamps during t gether during t SIGN THE swing South C % I I fwssi i ms.urmmwntm Miunwm UNITED STAYS# Rn ?Wtt?iig He WORST IS OVER FOR PRESENT, SAYS SIMONDS ? ?Frank II. Simomls, America's foremost military critic, whose reviews of the war situation are appearing regularly in the Charleston News and Courier, gives a clear summary of affairs in France as they are to-day. The following is a part of his review: The end of the first week of the German drive is marked by the an- j nouncenient of a substantial check of the enemy along the whole front, j This coincides exactly with the expe rience of the earlier drives in Picardy and in Flanders, and barring an accident?always possible in war?it seems safe to say that for .the moment the worst is over, and that the present German offensive with relatively slight further gains will be pinned down between the Oise and the Marne as the Picardy drive was | pinned down between Noyon and I Arras. To use the phrase of Foch j two months ago, the German flood ' again appears dammed. Hut it is essential ^o recognize that ' a second German blow is, now almost inevitable. The highest estimate of German divisions used in the present attack does not pass fifty, and it is a matter of common agreement that at least an equal number are available for a new drive wherever the German high command may choose to put them in and we may safely guess that the German blow will be uenvereci against. mm portion ui ine line which has been most weakened to meet the present emergency. It is manifest that the Germans have devised or developed a method of attack which seems bound to transform the whole character of operations at the present time. German successes so far analyzed and weighed by comparison with the previous efforts in three years of trench warfare have made a profound impression upon the Allied mind. It is impossible to escape the fact that a wave of pessimism and depression has followed the several advances made by the Germans. The events of the past ten weeks shed a new light upon the eastern operations of Germany. It is clear now that German successes against Russia, against Rumaniu, against Serbia, were due not merely to the fact; that Russian, Rumanian und Serbian armies were inferior to French or British, thnt artillery and munitions of the eastern allies were inadequate It is beginning to be patent that in their eastern operations the Germans devised a system of warfare which, tried in the west, first against Italy last fall, now in France in Picardy, Flanders and Champaigne?has proven effective beyond all expectations. But this was the history of the first campaign of the Marnc. From the f?th of August, when the first German troops appeared before Liege, to the fith of September, when the battle of the Marne opened German successes were uninterrupted and the total destruction of the Franch military power seemed inevitable. Yet in point of fact, as we now know no French army was destroyed, the organization of French armies remained intact, and thus, even before the battle of the Marne, the main German foUTH QUO! >33,0( n War Savings Stan $1,500,000?The for this poor showing the June and must pledge to he year. PLEDGE and buy all t arolina into line. It can < War Savings Sti >sts $4.17 in Jun< deemable Jan. 1,1923 I purpose had failed as was revealed in that gigantic struggle. Now it is essential to remember j mat, despite the local considerable, ^ disappointing successes of the Ger-1 nans in their new campaign, they J v have so far failed to destroy any ap- h preciable portion of the Allied miii- j c tary force, which was equal in num-1 ? hers to the Germans at the outset. ! We may conjecture that the Allies I strategy has been defective, that 1 there has been a failure to hold the ? Germans on the trench lines from < Nieuport to Khcims, comparable with i the failure in 15)14 to hold the Ger- a mans between Mons and Mulhauscn, but. the defeats of 1018.have been far c less disastrous than those of 1011, a and those earlier reverses turned out r to he indecisive. I There is a balance to be struck in r the minds of all who are watching e this great struggle between an ex- v agguration of the enemy's successes a and an inaccurate appraisal of the o value of his achievement. He has i | two things to accomplish; he must ' conquer the will and the morale of I the French and Hritish people and he <i must smash their military establish- t mints. He must do it during this t season of campaigning, and after a I 1 third of his allotted time has expired v he has done neither, lie has not been l more successful in eastern France c than was Napoleon in IS Id in eastern Germany, yet Napoleon lost Leipsic < and the Germans crossed the Rhcin ' .it the end of 181d. The German is paying for his gain ! by losses which equal, if they do not ' exceed, the cost to the Allies, and 1 each month tho allied losses are he- ' ing made up in large measure by the ' arrival of American troops, while the 1 German is compelled to draw upon v his own population to meet his losses. ' Some day he must risk all in an ef- 1 fort to translate his locul successes c into a supreme victory. In the days I of the Marne he hud used up his re- * | serves in advance of the decisive hat- ' tie. This is the peril for hint now, v and this is the object of Koch's strategy. If the minor successes cost the ' Germans too much they will be un 1 able to deal the great blow at the end Kor the present moment the Get man advance has approached, but no. quite reached, the old battlefield ol the Ourcq, where Mantnotiry opened the battle of the Marne. The French lines now rest upon the great forests of Compiegne and Villlers Cotterets; '.he flanks are securely resting upon the Oise and the Marne. Time ba<been allowed Foch to concentrate ad-j 1 equate reserves between I'aris and the imperiled front. The railroads in this region were constructed to meet exactly this situation and every advantage of communication is now At-- r.v ? * .vim ine r rencn. unless the situation changes it seems fair to conclude that the operution between the , ' Oise and the Marnc is reaching its i term, and what we have now to ex-' ' poet is the second German blow, de- ' livered soma where between Verdun ' and Ypres. Until this blow has fallen 1 ' the situation will remain j?rave, but | , in the present hour Pnris is not in i danger, urid the last three days have ' been marked by a rapid slowing down ' of the third German blow. BIRTHS 1 To Mr. nnd Mrs. W. T. Hunt, May HO, a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hammond, June 2d, a girl. UROLINA rAIS >0,00 ips this year. So worst showing in tli state must buy $6,0 save and invest in he War Savings Stan and must be done. *mp t LORD DUNMORESPEAKS Columbia, Juncd.?"There is endency in all our minds to lind so: iray out of this war except lijrhti t out, but that is the only way," < hired Lord Dunmore, the dist uished English nobleman an<l II ish soldier, who spoke Thursd li^ht in Columbia before a lai aidienee,. under the auspices of I State Council of Defense. Lord I)l nore also spoke at Charleston n it Spartanburg. Havin^'seen service on the Wi rn front until wounded last ye ind coming then to this country ecunerate from his wounds. L< )unmore, who commanded a Brit egimcnt in Flanders, has studied I auscs leading up t<> this war and \ vorld situation created by the w ind his addresses made in South C dina were very valuable and infor ng. Lord Dunmore declared he did i in any faith to an economic collai if Clermany or Austria th.it will e he war, adding that it is danger* o expect such a thing to hupp .ogically, he reasoned, Germany 1 vuged three wars of aggression in \ ?ast, and having won all three, slu onfident of success in this war. "Our task is to defeat the Gern irniies in the field," he emphasiz 'It is not beyond our power." "This is a battle that whatever nay cost is well worth fightim ,ord Ihinmore declared, ami was i dauded. "We are only going to w lowever, if we are willing to sat ice every single thing we've got il s necessary to make the sacrifice vin?every dollar and every nn The French have mobilized their f nanpower and every thing in tl ountry. We are doing the sa hing in Great Hritain. We have >00,000 men under arms, and vvl say that I ask y<>u to remember tl ve have 1,000,000 graves. We hi ost a million men since i >eginning of the war, yet the Hi sh army is stronger today than ?" >efore." Speaking then of America's mi ower, Lord Dunmore said that t s limited only by the number of sh hat can be built to send Ameri< ;oldiers to France. "You Americans," he added, "i ntered upon the biggest busin ind the most unselfiesh business c mdertaken. ^I'here is a time in ives of uil of us, 1 tlnnK, when vant to do something big and un; jsh. That time and that opporti ty is presented today." It was stated during the .course Lord Dunmore's address that af in American soldier is gotten Prance, it requires four tons of sF ling to maintain him there. With particular reference to present situation, Lord Ounmt >vho is in position to speak with hority, stated that the situation lny is grave. "It is its grave as it is possible tie," to use his exact words. Germans may break through the (i lecond, third or even the fourth I of defenses; but," he added co dently, "they will not break the . glo-American spirit. They will break the spirit o' France. T rhnnot defeat the allied armies the field. We shall hold them u your boys are over there in sufflci numbers to take the Initiative." .'s fw&sn wutuvwosrautp* liaun WW UNITED STATES jXPfemMMKMT 10 ! far we have purch>e whole United States! 00,000 worth of 33.000,000 alto rips you can. Let's in ?ws.s.i Pjf? y miunusnufs V V V tN?M?r m ^ wrmD iTATK# POVBaMMEWT -= i THE DEATH OF LEE PARKER | a Little Lee I'arker, the four-year1111 old son of Mr. A. .1. Parker, was inng slantly killed last Sunday afternoon le- in an automobile accident, in- The car was driven by Chester, the ' iri- 12-year-old son of Mr. Parker, and lay there were several other children in go the car, and the Misses Brock, sisters the of the boy's mother. Lee was sitting an- in the lap of one of his aunts when md the car, while traveling at moderate speed on the farm road, passed over st- a bulk-head and the boy was thrown ' ar, out. Rolling under the ear the rear to wheel passed over his head, causing ?rd death very quickly, ish It is said by those who have in the quired into the case, that no Maine ' the attaches to Chester, as he was ar, driving. carefully. The boy 1 ar- seems heartbroken ovr the tragic ' in- death of his little brother. An especially sad feature of th" 1 not tragedy was the breaking of the ' [ise news to his mother, who is se riously ' nd ill at the Wadeslmro hospital, us Expressions of sympathy for the 1 en. bereaved family are heard on every las hand. Lhe The little body was laid to rest at is the Zoar cemetery Monday, the Rev. F. M. Cannon offtciating. * *> WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION ! Program of quarterly meeting of l ' the VV. M. I J., Chesterfield Division, I V" to be held with McBce Baptist church ' ,n' the 2d Sunday in dune, beginning at ' 'n" 10 a. m. it Prayer and Praise service cnnduci- ? to ed by Mrs. ,!. R. Fizcr. 1 I I"!' The purpose of this Meet " t, |>.v 1 Ul Mrs. C. L. Evans, th s to he form of ( "I Welcome. I i me Song. | i u?n Benefits Derived from A"endintti huC Public Missionary Meetings. 1 ?y Mrs. | 1 ive .lohn L. Ba^ott?this as response to . the address of welcome, rit- Woman's Responsibility in the | ver Work of the Association, by Mrs. j Edna V. EiKiderburk (vocal duel.)' j, an- The Importance of Bible Study I ( his and Prayer in the Life of Every | ( ips C hristian, by Rev. .1. ('. Law son. an Song. AFTERNOON' Devotional Exercises, by Mrs. B. 1 IS,< o. EunderbuiKvror Business in Missions, l?v Mrs. .1, It. 'be ... . , ,,, , * , , . /el. (a) Ltandr.ra of t.- < iontv. "l (h) Keeping books for '.he Lord. (c) Reports- How- Why When? u" A reading, Mrs. B. B. Melton, "lie That Provideth not for His Own." An Important Phase of Home Mia-' 1 sions, by Mr. R. K. Rivers ,tn MRS. C. XI. RIVKRS, l,p" MRS. B. S. FUKIiKKBURC re, . I r THE BEST t? | Of Everything | TO EAT An. At Lowest Prices hey. A F Hoinc MovLot I I j n. i* luamu in I ntil | Will pay highest market oric* a lent I '* Hidea. % ? .I. ? i?+ Li L Ad* : e?SfcL? At OI.RMAN SUBMARINES ATT AC VESSELS IN AMERICAN WAVE lit c .Hi iii c desperate because of 1 increasing effectiveness of the all j.hoih'. in meali.n/ the submari menace in European waters and their inability to interfere with t transportation of American troops T.'.nee, the kaiser's pirates have last made their long expected visit American waters. It has been suspected for soi time that they were lurking on t vde. TheV made their nri'snr known Sunday night by sinking ubc Ion small unarmed coastwise shi It is supposed that their obj< was two-fold, to strike at our trai ports at the point where the conve assemble and to make spectacul raids that would strike fear into t hearts of Americans and cause a pc ular demand for the return to tin waters of a large portion of our na\ 'I hey were successful in neither. NOT NECESSARY TO RECALL WARSH1I Washington, June 3.?Members the House naval committee were ; sured by Secretary Daniels late I day that Atlantic coast defens against submarines were adequtt and it was unnecessary to recall v< s"!s from the war zone to deal wi su'.marines on this side. The Sect tare sa;d the purpose of the Germa evidently was to frighten the A me can people into demanding the retu f son'.e of their naval forces n< abroad. SIXTEEN KNOWN DEAD, HOPE FELT FOR OTHEI New York, June 4.?The toil dead and missing from the raid German submarines against shippi olT the American coast apparent tonight is 58, all from the steams! Carolina of the New York-Puer Kican line. Sixteen of this numli ;irt? known to have perished when o of the ship's boats capsized in 'orm Sunday nipht after the vess had been sunk. It is hoped the othc have been picked up by a passi ship. It lias been established that least two submarines of a larpe ty took part in the raid. It was t U-U7 which sank the Carolina a the 11 -1 .*>! which sent several schoc ers t?? the bottom. While all the resources of the na were enj^atted in a determined sear for the sea raiders, coast cities ma preparation for any emergency, t display lights were ordered e^ti iruished in New York City and in c ies and towns alone: the Loiij; Islai ind New Jersey coast. The ordc were issued here by the police eoi missioner after consulting with an iimi navy oilicers as a precaution n >nly against a possible attack on t oast, hut air raids from airplan which it is thought the suhmersihl may carry. AMERICANS IN FIGHT WITH LITTLE DEL^ With the French Army on t Manic, Monday, June J. Anieric; machine trunners only an hour or after their arrival on the hanks Ihe River Marne on the LUst of M; Look a most active part in the <1 Tense of Chateau Thierry which th was menaced with imminent captu liy the Germans. Scarcely had the Americans alijrl <! from their motor lorries win Lhey v.ere ordered into Chutei Jhierry with a battalion of Fren oloniai troops. Tin* Americans ii mediately organized their defi ns tiri by rapid net ion and exeelle dmotinjr euused tin- approaching en n; to hesitate. AMERICANS JOIN I RENCH IN F1GF With the American Army in I ardy, June I. American troops c ipei'atinjr with the French west Chateau Thierry, north of the Man he nearest and most critical poi ' > I'aris, reache 1 by the enemy, ha rilliantlv checked the onrushi [jeiir.ans, bealinp oil" repeated attac ind ii.llietinp severe losses, thus at injr to the rrl"ry of American histoi The troops be^an to arrive on t battle front on Saturday and pal i ipated in the Ii^htiny: almost imn iliately. They not only repulsed t Hermans at every point at which tli were cn^a^ed, but took prisone .. i ; ? nuM.'ui. h ivin); nny prisoners in li taken l?y the (Jermans. w.H.S. NOTICE 'the State Tax Commission havi increased 1 he assessed value of fa land in this County from an avert of $3.fit) to S:i.f,0 per acre, those fe ing aggrieved ean serve on the ("hi man of South Carolina Tax Coinn sion notice of intention to appeal the Tax Board of Review, toget with the grounds therefor and 1 must he done within 10 days. This does not mean that you to pay an additional 20 cents a ere on your lund, but that the sessed value is raised 20 cents acre. A. W. HURSEY, Chm. County Board Equalization. v K AMERICANS FIGHT LIKE RS VETERANS ON WEST FRONT .he * ^ led From drives on wide fronts the ine the German offensive in France has of I deteriorated into isolated attacks along the area between Soissons and l') Chatcu Thierry and eastward to the at Marne in the general direction of Ilheims. me Although in these attacks the enehis my still is using large effectives and ice great numbers of guns, he is being iut held almost everywhere from further ps. progress and on various sectors com- i ct polled to assume the defensive [is- against vicious blows delivered by the iys Americans, French and British lar troops. he The Americans on the sectors >p- wliere they are alone or brigaded ?se with allied troops everywhere are ,-y. ;ighting with a spirit of abandon that places them rightly in the category u veterans. in ear me rseuniy wood which lies northwest of Chateau ThiPS erry and at the point where the drive has brought the enemy nearest Parof 's, the Americans have beaten off a is- strong German attack and on the Lo- Marne at Jaulgonne, northeast of K's Chateau Thierry, fighting shoulder to iti boulder with the French, they have ?s tided in forcing the first contingent th of the enemy to cross the Marne "e again. In this last engagement the ns Germans suffered severe casualties ri- inil also left 100 prisoners. n. Between the Aisne and Ourcq riv>w rs, the Germans have captured Permnt and to the south of that village he French have ceded a little terain. In the Ourcq Valley they also ^ took the town of Nueilly la l'otriex, seven and one half miles northwest ^ ^ of Thierry in lighting during which the place changed hands several times, at oilier places the Germans have been unable to advance. The losses l('') of the Germans near Pernant were v? extremely heavy. There still is only er * . moderate activity along the line held by the British in Flanders and Pi, cardy, where patrol activities and bombarding continue. Full confidence in the outcome of the war again has been expressed by he supreme war council of the allies which has just gone over the entire situation resulting from the big Ger^ . nan offensive, although it is stated ihat the allied nations "may be still xposed to critical days." j WEXFORD The farmers in this section are ibout through thinning their cotton. Mr. Sanford Moore was in Chesn" terfield Saturday. Rev. A. B. Smith was in Wades111 )oro Sunday. rs Miss Marie Smith has returned n" home after finishing school in TenIH'SM'I'. Mr. J. \V. Lowry was in Wadesboro he recently. Mrs. Jack Hancock is seriously ill t'i" it this writing. Mr. Jule Lowry and family were /isiting at Mr. E. B. Sellers Sunday. ^ The Saxon was in this community recently. IM Mr. Bennie Bayfield was in Chesterlieid recently. S( Miss Klonnie an<l Lucy Welsh were o) visiting Miss Odessa Seegars Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I). W. Coker were i," /isiting in Jrlferson last week. (>n Best w ishes to The Advertiser. n" ::x VICE-PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS IS DEAD it LM1 Indianapolis, June 4?Charles W. iiu Eairhanks, former vice-president of he United States, died at his home 1,1" here to-night at 8:.r).r> o'clock. Death was due to intestinal nent ..... tonus, wnicn nau neon a chronic ail.nent with him hut not regarded a-; particularly serious until recently. TROOPS ARE BEING IT EQUIPPED WITH BROWNING MACHINE GUNS *i '<>- Enough heavy Browning machine ?f nuns for instruction purposes have I heeti shipped to every National Guard Mt ' raining camp and National Army ve | cantonment in the country where troops are in training- Heavy Brown- ? 'knjings for overseas training have been hi-1 shipped. ry. I Light Browning rifles sufficient in he J numbers to equip the machine-gun "ti- anils of more than four Army divine ! eons have been manufactured, and he1 overseas shipment of one-half has ley I hegiin. '| he other half of the output rs,! r,.,.s to Army divisions in this counirn i ?ry. w.s.s. AMERICANS HOLD BALANCE IN THE GREAT STRUGGLE nB _ | Ml ? \. - - - ' * j w usmngion, junci.?"American w 'g troops are now a vital part, on the 'el- bloody fields of France "and may 'ir- hold the balance between defeat and lis- victory." to. With clear frankness, Gen. W. A. her Bridges, at the headquarters of the his British military commission here tonight declared the battle is likely to are continue for weeks "and will become per a long drawn struggle of man power, as- To get the greatest and quickest per results from America's strength, the brigading of Yankees with the French I of and British forces is going forward rapidly now, "he said. ) 2