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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-08-05
Norris News Items

McDutfie Baker of Cowan, Va,
is visiting the family of his
brother, r. NJ. Baker.
Dock Hunter is spending a few
weeks with friends in the upper
MileCreek section of this county.
Miss Grace Huckabee, who
has been residing in Greenville
for some time, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. H. l.. Huckabee,
for an indefinite stay.
Our accommodating and pop
ular depot agent and telegraph
operator, M. G. Rhodes, has pur-
chased q new 1915 model Ford
touring car, which arrived from
Easley last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Smith
and two children, Robert and
Nora, are expected to leave the
latter part Of next week for
vacation trip to Atlanta and
other points in Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith had as
their guest last week the latter's
grandmother, Mrs. Essie Smith,
of Liberty.
Melyin and Ollie Rice left Sun
day on No. 39 to enter school at
Raburn Gap, in Georgia. The
former attended school there last
session. Several other young
men will leave in September.
Mrs. &. w. Tate spent Thurs
day very pleasantly in Easley
with friends.
Mrs. j. B. Robinson has re-
turned to her home in Green
vile after spending short while
with her son, Furman Robinson,
at the home Of Mrs. Whitten.
| Lawrence Brock of Waynes-
'boro, Ga, is spending few days
at the home Of his mother, Mrs.
Brock.
! Isaac Sheriff and Thomas
Newton are off on a camping
trip at Lake Toxaway and othel
lln0G1lUaln resorts.
Rev. Mr.. Nelson delivered tn,
memorial address lastSunday a
Golden Greek, near town. Z
large congregation was presen
and manifested much interest il
assisting the leaders to rende
Esome excellent music. Every
one seemed to enjoy theinselve!
and felt that it had been day
satisfactorily spent.
Townspeople from here. Ca.
teechee and surrounding com.
imunity attended the Radcliffe
chautauqua atCentral last week.
Miss Mary Yongue is spending
a week in Anderson with rela-
tives.
Miss Cleo Il alum Of Pickens
is visiting her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. j N. Hallum, of Lib
erty route 3.
The Misses Singleton, two
charming young ladies Of West
minister, have returned to their
home after spending week with
Misses Elmer and Essie Clayton
and other relatives near town.
Miss Phillips of Tallapoosa,
Ca, is spending a few days in
town with friends.
School opened Monday with an
enrolment far greater this ses-
sion than last.
Misses Mabel Mauldin and
Maggie johnson will join a par
ty next week for a camping tril,
to the mountains. A party from
Central chaperoned the crowd.
Hunters mill, near town. is
running day and night. This
mill is making a success under
the management of w. M. Roper.
who has had several years OK
perience in milling.
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BIacknnaiI
Claims Man

Jacob Peterson, who lives at
South seth and Mason avenue,
created a furore In Justice Linck' 8
court today when he loudly ex-
claimed that he was being black
mailed for a bill of $3.50.
Peterson, who is stone deaf
and his wife were being sued by
A. Marshfield, who bought the as.
sets of the bankrupt, A. Balm, a
grocer, among them being bill
against a Jacob Peterson.
Both defendants declared they
had never traded with Balm.
cts a scheme to blackmail
me-" shouted Peterson, shaking
his fist In the face of Attorney
Wayne, representing Marshfield.
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COUNTY IS STUNG FOR $4,000
White SLAVE
MARKET RUN
by GYPSIES

DENVER, Feb. ia white
slave plot. gigantic in proportions
and nationwide in its ramifica-
tions, is exposed In an official re-
port sent to Washington last
night by William IL. Fitch. special
Investigator for the United States
department of justice.
Fitch's report, the result of n
secret investigation, which he has
been conducting for several
weeks, is preliminary. but con-
tains some startling revelations,
based on a confession obtained
from gypsy chief.
According to the story told by
this man there has been for sew
eral years an organized traffic In
girls stolen by gypsy bands in va
rious parts of the country and
sold to white slavers at prices
ranging from $500 tc $500. The
average price for girls, he said,
was $500.
Most of the girls stolen by the
gypsies we're taken to Kokomo,
Ind, and there held until they
were sold In the slave markets.
These latter, II is declared, exist
in all parts of the country and in
clude New York, Philadelphia
Chicago, San Francisco, st. Louie,
Minneapolis.
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TAX BLUNDER
MUST BE MET
BY CITIZENS

Investigation by The Times to-
day shows that St25,OOO ON the
county's personas rax books for
1914 are uncomfortable.
Further, IL showed that the
county will lose $4,000 cash %
the state because of the pronriscu-
GUS assessment Of personal prop
erty.
To Re-cruise Timber.
IL also developed today that a
re-cruise of the timberlands In the
county will be necessary before
this years taxes on that land can
be adjusted.
"Strike-offs" on the personal
tax books cut the total tax down
$4,000. These "strike-offs are
being made where 1t is found that
the tax is absolutely Illegal ana
where collection would be out of
the question.
County Loses $4,000.
But taxpayers of the county
actually lose $4,000 because
20 per cent or one-fifth of
this $4,000 has already been
certified to the state, which now
holds Pierce county liable for that
amount.
j. w. Anderson, In charge o.:
the personal tax department for
the county. stated this morning
that Il was merely a matter OF
'robbing the taxpayer F.
This $4,000 which must be
sent to the state, OF course must
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Will ASK FOR 4
CHANGE OF VENUE
IN DIFLEY CASE

Thirty affidavits from promi-
nent Tacoma newspapersmen. at
torneys. bankers and uplift work.
ers Will be presented by Attorney
Homer Bone and A. b. Comfort,
who are associated to defend Mrs.
Bertha Difley against a murder
charge, will be presented to Judge
Card Monday to back motion
for a change of venue.
The affidavits set forth the be-
lief that 1t would be impossible for
Mrs. Difley, who In charged with
killing 3-year-old Clarence Hall
last December. to get a fair trial
here because of adverse public
opinion.
Attorney Bone charged today
that the prosecutors office had
filed charge OF first degree MUIR
der against Mrs. Difley because
they are aware she. being a pau
per, cannot appeal, if convicted,
to the supreme court.
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Belgium Is Dead
Nation; Millions
ace Starvation
BY H. j. PHILLIPS.

AMSTERDAM and, JAM MaiI).-BeIgium Is dy
ing The death rattle is nations throat
little
and IL will be = Wilderness
at
have the and laid Whatever
the first blaze of destruction
to that empires for life.
The people In desperate gone,
their personal possessions TAKEN have
and their
s45t EATING HORSE FLESH
At Osend, where 5000 s o
flesh vegetables
other like condition
Its population desperation fleeing other
finding food finding finding
To add to the misery inhabitants
possible leyies military
the and rivers this which
undated compelled ofames
abandon their homes to the waters ~
The exhausted capital their
principal object seeming be to destroy Begums and
Absolute famine
supplied by the American relief committee
Of all the impression OF through northern France
who visited
striking that left by the countless unhreshd
More than 100 thesng machines Working double shifts
in the occupied by the and coming daily
into the fields The only living the supplies of
flour derived this section but actually sending
wheat back THROUGH Belgium into Germany"
O
pouring by Of Holland,
carloads OF French grain roll through and beyond famne
haunted Belgium!
Reputable American those who testify that
military authorities
home Belgium carrying surgical instruments lint
practice Hospitals
nto,miay hospitals exclusively that population
left TO get through their ailments unattended.
month required
but onehaf of soldiers raons The committee
100000 month until the harvestwhenever that
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OTHER NATIONS
OFFER PROTEST

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 49,.
1t is learned today that Norway
Sweden and Denmark have pro-
tested to Germany against the lat
est decree extending the German
war zone. The Scandinavian pro-
test is couched in language less
vigorous than the American pro-
test, but 1t is said to stand square
.ly behind the principle announc-
ed in the American note. 1t is
understood that Holland and
probably Italy will send similar
notes.
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HENRY HOPELESS

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13. -
There will be no hope for Next
CO." declared Henry Lane Will
ison, former minister to Mexico,
until the present administra-
tion changes its policy or a new
administration committed less to
'uplift' but more to practical adj
vice and assistance in the way of
intelligent evolution comes into
power" He was speaking before
the Columbia club here.
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.SIavs Crushed
BY Teuton Host

BERLIN, Feb. 13.-It is daily
becoming more apparent that the
Russian offensive in East Prus-
STA has been crushed. The Slav
forces which essayed to drive
against Konigsberg and Thorn
have been expelled from German
territory. 1t is estimated that
10000 men were captured and
that many guns and enormous
quantities of supplies were taken.
The Russians once more have
been the victims of Field Marshal
Won Hindenberg's strategy. AS
was the. case when the Slavs were
led into trap and almost ami
Inflated at Allenstein, Earthwar,
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MAJ 7 5 Easier

Before he had been given an OPP
portunity Of paying the bin, E. c.
Lohre, one-armed man, found
himself today the victim OF a gar
nishment for IS, to which had
been added SIS attorneys fees
and SO costs for filing the suit
against him.
Lohre was dismissed from his
job last spring because being one
armed he could not perform GER
tain duties required of him. A
few days prior to the loss of EN-.
ployment he had purchased a suit
for his wife, paying something
down and arranging that other
payments should follow as his sal
airy came to him.
Throughout the summer he
was without work. Last Monday
he got job as nightwatchman at
the st. Paul mill. His first pay
day Is today.
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Tight SQUEEZE NO
CAUSE FOR DIVORCE

toned by Mrs. Nero in her petit
ton, there was no ground named
upon which divorce could be
granted.
NO" said Judge yesterday, Il
could not tell from the complaint
whether Mr.. Nero had beaten his
wife in fit of intoxication or had
merely Rugged her little too
hard. The complaint must be
changed before can hear the
case"
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Won Hindenberg has again lured
them on. The Germans withdrew
before the advance guard of the
enemy until Won Hindenberg
thought the time ripe for crush
ing blow.
He then struck the Slav front
and both flanks with such terri
BILE strength that the enemy was
thrown back disordered. A Rus
sian air scout saved the cars
forces from complete rout. He
discovered the German maneuver
and advb;ed the Russian COM
mander. A retreat was ordered
before the Germans completely
surrounded their. prey.
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REGULAR PIRATES
OVER IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 13.-Police de-
tectives are searching today for
Is men who last night boarded
the schooner Columbia as she was
about to sail for Chile and march,
ed her crew, after fight in the
forecastle, into tug and carried
them ashore. All trace of the
party was lost before the affair
was reported.
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EAST ALSTEAD, N. H., Feb
13.-Clad in velvet bloomers and
a white shirtwaist whose lowest
V-neck was loosely knotted with q
flowing tie, Mrs. Margaret Chase
sauntered one day into the village
of East Alstead, her soul-mate ON
one arm, her faithful husband on
the other!
IL was Fast Alstead's first
meeting with the members oil. the
Golden Rule Triangle" - and
there was shock and shuddering
behind the shutters of this priin
New England village.
World Astonished.
But that was more than a year
ago, and today the villagers gaze
all unaghast upon the conventions
wrecking life of these three free
spirits" who dwell together here
In the old Chase home on tire
summit of Mount Plato. "
The great world out beyond
Alstead's snow-clad hills, how.
ever, still stands astonished at
the startling story.
For though there is Joy with
in the Golden Rule Triangle, there
is a saddened. broken home In
New York, where dwells Mrs.
Mary Ware bennett, divorced wife
of Mrs. Chase's super-soufmate,
Hartley bennett. ~
Harvard Graduate.
Ten years ago she was Dem
nett's wife, and he was very
successful architect, a Harvard
graduate, an athlete, a student,
and withal a dreamer.
His dreams we're of higher love,
of the emancipated man, and or
new social system whose chief
merit would be lack of system.
Strangely enough, when called
upon to plan a house for DR.. HI
Lincoln Chase of Brooklinc,
Mass, he found his ideals har-
monized marvelously with those
Of Mrs.. Chase. with whom he met
almost daily over the plans. Mrs.
Margaret Chase is close to SO
years old, DIR. Chase is 80, Hartley
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= IL a husband embraces his wife
with such enthusiasm as to cause
her to finch, that Is not suffi-
cient- cause for divorce.
Such Is the opinion of Judge
yesterday, who refused today to
hear the case Of Ella Nero against
John d. Nero until the complaint
had been amended.
It was argued by Nero's attor-
hey that because no specific in
stance of cruelty had been men,
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BENNETT 40.
Honored Physician.

bennett 40.
+ HonOred Physician.
r DR.. Chase was highly honor
ed physician, and, Brookline is q
strictly proper and very artistic
cratic Boston suburb. Hence
when Hartley bennett, not con.
[tent with discovering that he and
1.-THE Doctors wife were soul-mates
|'toolSit upon himself to proclaim
the Joyous news to all the world,
thrill and gasp and "ahem" shook
the peighborhood as might an
earthquake,
Il love Mrs. Chase" declared
bennett in open court. but
love my wife none the less, for
my ideals of love allow me,
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2 dead; WOMAN
DYING, RESULT
OF EXPLOSION

TOLEDO, o., Feb. t3.-Two
men are dead and a woman is
probably fatally injured, as the
result of an explosion and fire
which demolished a two-story
building here early this morning.
The dead are: C:laries Demeyer
and Frank Bossong. The injured
woman Is unidentified.
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WHO Was He?

Frank Krupp. who was commit
ted to the asylum for the insane
Feb. 3, died several days later
without being able to give the
authorities any facts regarding
his relatives. Krupp's handbook
shows that he had $500 in cash
when he died,
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Cotton Drops
Fourteen HoI es

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.--As the
result of unconfirmed rumors of
the sinking of several British mer-
chant vessels, the cotton market
declined IA points at the opening
today.
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though married, to love ALL
women" ~H r
Unfortunately the law OF Mas
sachusetts, as also Mrs. bennett,
had not yet been amancipated
from their old-fashioned puritan,
ism. and as they did not share
this free souls lovesfdeals he waa
unsympathetically ousted from his
home. Mrs. bennett was given a
divorce and the custody OF her
two children. & esa
Continued on Page Seven.)
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come out of some other county
fund raised by taxes" he said.
Assessor Cameron said this
morning that a re-cruise OF TIM
berlands In this county would bo
necessary to adjust assessments
This will mean the employment or
capable cruisers at SO a day and
expenses.
There Is q certain amount OF
this land that has been taxed
against the owners" he said, for
timber that was cut off before
last year. Such timber 10 not as
sessable."
school boy Taxed.
One of the glaring abortions an
pearing on the personal tax books
Is the statement OF Kennedy u.
Cox. a school boy living at l4IT
South NJ street. He was assessed
$500 for motorcycle, the actual
cost of which, when new, could
not have been more than $500.
Hundreds of small assessments
against men with families who
can claim exemption under the
law are being cancelled.
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WASHINGTON. ID. c., Fe.. Is.
The Southern Pacific railroad
must dispose Of its holdings In the
J Pacific Mall Steamship company
unless operation of the vessels. OF
the steamship company through
the Panama canal 10 stopped with
] IN so days.
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BOYS
LEAD COUNTRY

WASHINGTON, d. C.. Feb. IS.
The Washington State College
at Pullman, with a score OF 9S6,
led the national intercollegiate
shooting tournament this week, 1t
was announced today. The Wash
ington team is now in the lead of
the race for national champion
ship.
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Readiness To Be of
Service, Accommodate
Spirit,

and the easy way In
which an account can
be opened at the Puget
Sound State Bank, are
some of the striking
features connected with
thiS bank. Customers
are given cheerful and
ample assistance and a
feeling of security and
satisfaction is enjoyed
by every one of them.
Come in and let US get
acquainted ONE DOL
LAR will start an in
terest account.
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Britannia rules the waves-un-
der the American flag" is what
Germans are saying Of that Incl
dent wherein a British merchant
ship slipped into port under false
colors.
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ONLY INVADING TROOPS NORTH
OF ENDANGERED WARSAW
ABLE TO MOVE.
THREATEN Won MACKENsEN
Austro-Germans Encounter Strong Re-
sistance South Of city.-Wide
and Dangerous Flank Move
Against Them.

Londonderry the northern tip or
the pincers the Austro- Germans have
been trying to close around Warsaw
and the Russian armies In the Polish
salient has moved the last few days.
This point has moved its way across
the Narew river, between the fort
resses Of Pultusk and Rozan, and Ii
advancing toward the Bug river, which
stands for the greater part of the way
between it and the Warsaw-Vilna rail
way, it's objective.
The other point, which Field Mar
shall Won Mackensen is directing at
the Chelm-Lublin Railway, has gained
hardly a yard since it reached the vii
lage of Reiovetz, just south of the
railway.
In stubbornly resisting the German
advance the Russians are making a.
continual threat at Won Mackensen's
flank along the Bug river from east OF
Chelm to east of Lemberg. Between
Krylow and Sokal their attacks have
been especially severe, compelling the
Germans to send reinforcements to
meet them.
Along the Vistula, south and west OF
Warsaw, there has been little changes
except for the German occupation OF
positions evacuated by the Russians
when they drew in their line.
While Warsaw is under heavy pres
sure the Austro- Germans have lot
of stiff work before them If they are
to capture the Polish capital. After
crossing the Narew they still have the
Broader Bug, lined with fortresses, to
face, while in the south the Russians
have good positions north of the Lub-
lin-Chelm railway, which might prove
the undoing of the army that attacked
them.
Many are of the opinion that the
most dangerous attacks at the mo-
ment are those In the provinces OF.
Courland, Kovno and Grodno, at the.
lines of communications between War
saw and the northern interior of Rus
sia. These attacks are being deliv-
cred for the most part by cavalry and
doubtless will be met In due time by
q concentration of Cossacks.
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RIFLE SHOOTING POPULAR
Universal Demand for National De-
Tense Cause Much interest in the
Matches at jacksonville.

Washington.-Rifie shooting is hav-
ing great boom in the country just at
the present time, interest undoubtedly
having been considerably aroused in
target shooting owing to the almost
universal demand for better state OF
preparation for the country's defense.
Not only the regular services, but the
civilians at large and students OF
colleges and schools are taking con-
siderable interest in rifle training, and
local, interstate and national tourna-
ments will be numerous during the
next three months.
AS a result of this present agitation
and state of mind, all the states are
taking increased interest in the big ma
tional shooting event to be run of by
the government at Jacksonville, Fla,
in October.
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RUSSIANS RESIST STRONGLY
Teutonio Circle Closing In On War
saw From North and South 10
STOPPED.


London-The Austro-GermanA Armies
continue to press the Russian forces
defending Warsaw, and while they
have made progress at some points
they have made no serious breach in
the well-fortifled inner lines defending
the city.
The Russians have been drawn back
to the bridgehead positions directly
west Of Warsaw and into the fortress
of Ivangorod farther southeast on the
vistula. But at these points they prob
ably can offer more stubborn resist
ance.
The two attacks that are being made
from the north along the Narew river
by field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
that which Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen Is directing from the southeast,
between the Vistula and Bug rivers,
apparently have been held up, or the
Germans are awaiting an opportune
moment to move forward and catch
the Russian armies, should 1t be de-
cided to evacuate Warsaw. At any
rate Berlin does not claim any advance
fon Won Mackensen, while the official
report, although it states that the Rus
slams have ceased counter-attacks
along the Narew, does not mention any
success by Won Hindenburg.
However, should the Russians hold
Warsaw, it would surprise the mill
tary critics in the allied countries, who
have discounted the loss Of the city, at
tackled from all sides by opponents pos
sessed of superiority in guns and mu
nitiOnS
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U.S.. NOTE FINAL STATEMENT
Document Sent to Germany Has War.
Like Warning--WaShington Stands
on First Position.

Washington.-Presi Wilson and
Secretary Lansing. comforting at the
White House July 81, completed the
new. note to Germany warning her
that the repetition of disaster such.
as that visited upon the Lus.sania or
any violation of American rights on
the high seas resulting In loss OF
American lives will be regarded az
"unfriendly."
The note Is In the nature OF final
statement by the United States OF
the Interpretation that will be placed
by this government on future trans
gressions of American rights, and re-
peats that the American government
will leave nothing undone to stand by
the position 1t has previously de-
clared.
The note is about 1920 words long.
While nowhere in 1t is there any d.
rect intimation of the course which
the United States will pursue in the
event of another disaser similar to
the Lusitania tragedy, there are en-
phatic statements throughout the
communication pointing out that the
discussion of the principles involved
has been virtually concluded and that
the future conduct of German sub
marine commanders will determine
the responsibility for the continuance
of friendly relations between the two
countries.
The statement that future transgres-
sions will be regarded as "unfriendly"
is taken in diplomatic usage to pre-
sage a break in friendly relations un-
less reparation and disavowal Is forth.
coming: President Wilson, it is un-
derstood, has considered fully and at
length the construction which may be
placed on the implications Of the note
and is prepared to deal with any new
situation that may arise. He is hope
full and confident, however, it is said,
that Germany, having already modi-
fed the practice of her submarine
commanders, will now take such pre-
cautions as seem necessary to pre-
vent any action that would endanger
friendly relations with the United
States.