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A VISITOR FROM GREENWOOD.

Miss Annie Laurie Andrews is in
the city on a vlslr to her friend, Miss
Mary Hemphill Greene. She is a
bright and pretty little girl and is a
welcome visitor.
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Miss Edna Bradley spent Monday
in Due West. .,
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Miss Mildred Miller, accompanied
by Miss Jenrose Prsssiy, leave today
for Columbia, after a pleasant stay
with Mrs. j. E. Pressly and Miss
Elizabeth Faulkner.
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Misses Catherine and Ada Faulk-
ner are visiting in Mt. Carmel tbs
week.
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Miss Annie Belle Fouche is among
the pretty young visitors to" Abbe.
Vile this week. She is the guest of
Miss Kate McDill.
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Miss Sudie Keller and Mr.. Marcus
Keller are visiting their sister, Mrs.
]. L. Johnson, at Hartsville, this
week.
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Misses Mabel Kennedy and Carrie
Bradley and w. P. Kennedy are
spending the day in town.
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Marshall Gown of wilmington, re
turned home Sunday after short
stay with Billie Bradley.
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Mrs. ]. R. Blake OF Greenwood,
was here Sunday to spend the day
with Rev. and Mrs. H. w. Pratt.
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Miss Bessie Miller returned to her
home in Columbia Monday, after a
delightful stay with her sister, Mrs.
J. E. Pressly.
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Miss Lilly Link spent Tuesday in
the city shopping. .>
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Miss Mary Morris and Miss Ger
trude Morris of Troy, spent Monday
in the city shopping.
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Mr.. Fraser Lyon is in the city to
spend several days with Mrs. ]. H.
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Col. w. W. Badley, who has been
attending some Of the campaign
meetings in the upper part Of the
state. returned to Abbeville Satur-
day and spent Sunday and Monday at
home with his family. -"
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Miss Mamie Devlin OF Due West,
is the attractive guest Of Miss Mag
gle Brooks for this week,
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Misses Myrtle Bobo and Lucille
Hendrix left Monday for Honea Path
after an extended stay in our city.
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Mrs: W. L. PEBBLES leaves this
week for. her home in North Caro-
lima, where she will spend some time
with her mother. -,............., ,
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Mrs. w. S. Hammond and little
daughter, Matte Lee, of Pell City,
Ala, are here for two weeks stay
with relatives and friends.
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Calhoun Haskell has returned to
his work in Greenville. He has ina
vested in white racer and made
the trip to and from Greenville in
this car.
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Walter Sherard spent Sunday af-
ternoon at Iva. ...
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
eermany's Protective system.

The American Protective Tariff
league, through the American Econo-
mist's Washington correspondent,
cleverly turns the tables On the Tariff
Commission league, which has just is
sued a pamphlet asserting that the
strongest argument in its campaign
for a permanent nonpartisan tariff
commission is the fact that Germany
has a permanent nonpartisan tariff
commission which brought that couh.
try to the high standard of efficiency
in competitive ability which it en-
joyed at the outbreak of the war; The
Tariff league shows that Germany's
tariff was made not by a nonpartisan
tariff commission but by a body which
was composed almost entirely of pro-
tectionists, in which manufacturers
and a owners were in a large ma
Jority. Germany wanted an adequate
ly protective tariff and she got it at
the hands of this protective commits
sion. She has that tariff yet" says
the American Economist, land will
shove it up higher after this big war
is over"
1t is becoming clearer each day that
the tariff commission idea cannot pos
sibly prevail. President Wilson has
declared against it on the one hand.
n he is supposed to very fairly rep
resent the Democratic party, and the
Tariff league is opposed to it on the
other hand, and it voices the views of
a large majority Of those who will sit
representing the Republican party in
this congress, as in the next.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
General

Carl Dudley, a negro accused of kill
ing policeman James Hayes, was TAX
en- from jail by a mob at Lawton,
Okla, and lynched.
Unparalleled freight congestion is
reported from the Great Lakes.
About 5000 trackmen, m~achipists,
signalmen, and t~elegraphers employed
by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
have been awarded a 6 per cent. wage
increase.
Lieut.. Berg, German prize master
Of the steamer Appam, now lying at
Newport News, reported his vessel
leaking badly, with four feet of water
in the hold.
Judge Donelly at Waukegan, ILL.,,
continued until May Is, the case of
William H. Orpet, Wisconsin Univer-
sity student, accused of the murder
of Marian Lambert.
Miss Constance Kopp, under-sheriff
of H~ackensack, N. j., dived into the
Hackensack River there and rescued
Tony Hajnack, an insane prisoner, as
he tried to drown himself.
Sixteen field motor ambulances, the
gift of the American Red Cross
through private be~nefactors to the
Russian Red Cross, were blessed by
Archbishop Edrokin at the Russian
Consulate in New York.
Daniel w. Hoan, Socialist was elect
ed Mayor of Milwaukee.
Joseph Black, a negro, was taken
from jail at Kingston, N. c., and
lynched. He aided his son William,
16, to escape from a mob last week.
George Edwards, Republican, was
elected Mayor of Kansas City, over
Henry Jost. Democrat, after one of
the hottest election fights there in
years.
Every able-bodied male citizen in
Maryland between the ages of Is and
Az !" liable for military service under
a bill rushed through at the closing
! session of the state Legislature.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
President Has Done Well.

In the presence of the greatest Of
all wars, which appeals strongly to di-
vided American sentiments, and which
strikes deeply at American interests
al a thousand points, the president has
preserved the honor of the nation has
in its behalf performed his duty to
mankind of insisting upon the pres
ervation of the sanctions and re-.
straints of international law, and has
so far achieved important diplomatic
victories without the threat of force
but In a that leaves neither
America nor Europe in doubt that he
would use force if diplomacy should
fail.
AT the opening of a presidential
campaign the Republicans will. of
course, loudly deny all these things.
but they are true, and in ten years no
one will dispute Observation-Disclosures
Record.
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FIELDER CUTS
FINANCE BILLS
Governor Runs His Veto Pen
Through Items TOtaIing $500
HEALTH OFFICER OFF JOB
Tho Governor Filled With the State
Library the Wells Bill to Exempt
Farm Laborers and Domestic Help
From Compensation Provisions.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-The annual and supple
mental appropriation bills passed by
the Legislature were signed by Gov
ernor Fielder after he had eliminated
items totaling $500. The annual bill
carries appropriations in excess of
$1,000, 900 and the supplemental bill
carries about $450, 900.
Two items were disapproved in the
supplemental bill. One was for $500
for extra compensation for Gardner
Colby, chief examiner and secretary
of the Civil Service Commission.
whose salary is $4,000 a year, and the
other was for $4,000 to defray the
expenses of the Commission to codify
the road laws. The resolution for this
purpose was vetoed by the Governor
and there was no use for the money.
An item of $4,000 in the annual bill
was also for this purpose.
Tho Governor filed with the State
Library the Wells bill to exempt farm
laborers and domestic help from the
provisions of the Workmen's Compen-
Sation act.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
AusrRIANs CAPTURE RIDGE.

London.-The region northwest OF
Verdun around Haucourt and between
Bethincourt and Hill 265 is still the
scene of sanguinary encounters be-
tween the French and the Germans.
Continuing their vigorous counter at
tacks on the trenches taken from
them by the Germans between Beth
incourt and Hill 265, he French, with
the use of hand grenades, have re-
captured additional portions OF their
lost ground and in addition made pro-
gress in communicating trenches.
Around Haucourt the Germans
launched a violent attack against the
French, previously having prepared
the way by a heavy bombardment
lasting several hours. The French
however, through the use of their cur
tain of fire and rapid fire guns, put
down the attack and forced the Ger
mans to retreat, leaving numerous
dead on the ground as they made their
way back to their trenches.
On the remainder of the front in
France and in Belgium artillery en-
gagements alone Nave bee. in pro-
gress.
On the eastern front there has been
a continuation of the lively artillery
engagements in the lake region south
Of Dvinsk, especially about Lake Ma
rocz, where the Russians succeeded
in occupying portions of German
trenches. The artillery on both sides
also has been busy around Riga and
F-riedrichstadt and in east Galicia.
The Austrians have -ecaptured from
the Italians a ridge north of Monte
Cristobel and in the operation made
a number of prisoners and captured
two machine guns. Attacks by the
Italians in large force north of the
Sugana Valley were repulsed, accord
ing to Vienna.
The Italians and Austrians are con-
tinuing their operations along the
Austro-Italian front, but no important
changes in positions have occurred.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
Foreign

Carrying a force of marines, the
gunboat Wheeling left Vera Cruz for a
cruise along the Coast of Yucatan.
All classes of the British people
have expressed their approval of the
new budget, which makes the annual
revenue twice what it was before the
war.
The Nicaraguan Senate unanimously
ratified the treaty granting the United
States an exclusive option on the
Nicaraguan canal route and naval base
in the Bay of Fonseca for 3d. 0O, 900.
American automobiles, mostly for use
with the army in France, are stacked
up along the Thames in London.
Achievement rioting is reported
from Annoy, China.
Cardinal Won Hartmann of Cologne
visited the Belgian front.
Cards regulating the consumption of
meat have been issued in Wurtem-
berg, Germany.
Germany is reported to have con-
structed a new submarine which can
be operated without a periscope.
Peru's financial situation has so i'm
proved that hereafter treasury pay
ments will be made partly in gold.
A bill stopping the importation of
Injuries into France was submitted to
Parliament by Minister Ribot.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
MEXICAN

Secretary Lansing said that there
would be no withdrawal of troops
from Mexico. He intimated that the
United States intends to get Villa
dead or alive.
Gen. Obregon, Minister of War in
Mexico, says that the time has come
for the American troops to with
draw from his country.
Delivering a second surprise attack,
American cavalry again routed the
main force of Villistas, killing be-
tween thirty and forty in a running
fight of thirty miles.
Carranza authorities at Casas Gran
des, have seized all stocks of corn held
by merchants there for sale to the
American forces.
A teaspoonful of coffee will buy more
than a gold coin with the American
army in Mexico. Grounds are used
as many as II times by some of the
soldiers.
Confirmation of the report that Villa
had been wounded in the right knee
was received.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14

Mayor Mitchell, of New York, has
demanded an investigation of the meet
ing in Washington Irving High School
during which James H. Maurer was
cheered after he had cried ITO He'll
with the Stars and Stripes" during an
address to the Labor Forum.
Shipments of fresh and cured meats
46,012,OO0 pounds.
Nine thousand employees of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
have been granted increased wages.
Operation of the Ellsworth Galleries
Co. mines at Charleroi, Pa, have been
closed indefinitely because of a strike.
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite, self-con-
fessed murderer of John E. Peck, his
father-in-law, was taken to the Tombs,
New York, from Bellevue Hospital.
Street car service in Toledo, Ohio,
was resumed, after having been sus-
pended for Is days. The employees of
the road received a wage increase.
In anticipation of the reopening of
the Panama Canal many vessels have
gathered at each end of the waterway.
Army officers at the base of Column
bus, N. M, are having a hard time
preventing the sale of liquor in the
city. About 201 pints of various kinds
of liquor have been already destroyed.
George Lorton and his son. Walter,
were killed when they resisted Con-
stable R. l.. Powell and a deputy who
came to the Lorton farm at New Flor
ence, Mo-, to take possession of the
property.
Gov. Mccall signed the bill making
New Years Day a holiday in Massa-
chusetts, if the people accept the bill
at the next election.
About 10000 employees of the Ber-
wind-White Coal Co., have been grant
ed increased wages.
The first Polish Presbyterian church
in the United States will be organized
in Baltimore shortly, probably on
Palm Sunday.
An increase of 10 per cent in wages
has been granted the 5000 employees
OF the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Michael Scherer, a sailor, who shot
and killed his wife, Susan, and his
4 year old daughter, Margaret, in New
York City, was sentenced to serve
not less than 20 years in Sing Sing.
The Salvation Army will hold a two
weeks campaign to try to raise a fund
of $4,000 to erect a memorial to the
late Gen. Booth, it's founder.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
PiTH OF H
WAR NEWS

Germany and Rumania have entered
into a compact for the free exporta-
u from n country to the other
or home products for their own
needs. War material is excepted
from the agreement.
P~etrograd dispatches say the Russians
nave accomplished their object in
preventing the Germans from trans.
ferring troops to the western front TO
join in the attack on Verdun.
Four lives were lost in the torpedoino
OF the Spanish steamship Santan.
derino, of 1884 tons. The submarine
commander gave passengers and
crew IS minutes TO leave the vessel
Since the Germans launched the cam.
loaign against verdun with an artil-
lery attack SO days ago, they have
rolled up the French lines on both
banks of the Meuse, capturing about
100 square miles of territory and
nearly 80 French villages.
German losses to late total 2.73o.e17.
London newspapers figured by add.
ing the German official casualty lists,
OF these 6a1,437 have been killed.
The Austrian War Office stated hat
in the Gorilla district, towns be-
hind the Austro-H ungarian front
were held under the fire of the
italian artillery.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE WAVES.

London.-The Bethincourt salient.
which for weeks had projected like a
Wedge into the German lines north
west of Verdun, has been evacuated
by the French.
Inc evacuation was carried out un-
der cover of darkness and without
interference, and the French, through
the move, have been enabled to
stralghten out their line, which now
runs from the corner of the Avo-
court Wood to the south of the cross
ing OF the Bethin-C ourtesnes and
Bethlncourt-Chattancourt roads.
violent attacks delivered by the Ger
mans against the new positions found
the French line unwavering, and all
ol them were repulsed, except be-
tween the Avocourt Wood and the
Forges Brook, where the Germans nc
ceeded in entering the French trenches
DuI were almost Immediately driven
out.
Northeast of Verdun, around Pepper
Hill and on the Douaumont-Vaux sec
tor the Germans heavily bombarded
french positions, but were unable to
launch an infantry attack in the face
OF the fire of the French guns. The
capture of $50 meters of German
trenches southwest of Douaumont is
reported by Paris.
The offensive of the Russians
against the Germans in northwest Rus
STA has simmered down to mutual
bombardments and bombing attacks
by the German and Russian aviators.
Artillery actions in the Lake Narocz
region continue, and an infantry attack
oy the Germans at that point was
repulsed by the Russian fire.
Considerable lighting between the
Turks and the Russians has taken
place in the Black Sea ~littoral, with
the Turks the ~aggressors.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14

London.-Attack by the Russians on
the Notifications of Trebizond, the m
portant Turkish seaport on the Black
Sea towards which the Cars armies
have been fighting their way since the
fall of Erzerum, has begun. The open
ing engagements were favorable to the
Russians, but a bitter struggle for the
seaport is believed probable, as great
stores of munitions are at the dis
pcsal of the Turkish garrison, which is
commanded by skilled German officers.
Rome states that at least 10000
Turks are preparing to make forced
marches from near Angora, about 800
miles away, to the seaport.
It is stated by P~etrograd that the
Turks attempted to drive the Rus
slams back from their positions on the
right bank o. the Mara Dere, between
Is and 20 miles from Trebizond. This
attacks were repulsed by the Rus
slams with severe losses.
One of the hardest battles OF the
whole war was fought near Verdun,
ana the GSTU1du SlONA nv hoSS
ing several divisions, threw them
against the new French lines in an
attempt to break through on a front
of about thirteen miles.
The Germans were beaten back
with tremendous losses.
The chief onslaughts were made
south of the FORCES brook, but the
whole line between LIE Mort Homme
and Cumieres was hammered by the
infantry in grenade assaults and bay
onet charges.
The ground was covered with the
German dead and wounded as the
Crown Princes army, moving down
along the Haucourt-Bethincour front
attempted to crush its way through
but was crumpled back with big losses
before the fury of the French quick
frers and the overwhelming Smelling
Of the big guns.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
Sporting

Satisfied with the sale by which he
goes to the Cleveland Indians iris
Speaker, $4,000 o%utfielder, left Bos-
ton to join the Cleveland team.
Hal Chase, formerly first baseman
and manager of the New York Ameri-
cans, was signed to play first base
for the Cincinnati Club of the Ma
tiCnal League.
The Boston Red Sox defeated the
Brooklyn National by a score of 6 to
0 at Ebbets Field Field, Brooklyn.
Clarence Walker, outfielder with the
st. Louis Americans, was sold to the
Worlds Champion Red Sox.
The offer of a Boston syndicate,
amounting to $50, 900 for Willard to
box Harry Wills, of New Orleans,
reached the Champion.
The syndicate which is trying to
force Fred Fulton on the New York
fight fans has selected AL Reich as
the first sacrifice.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
IS NOT CONVINCING
Country win Not Approve OF
Roots Program.
Criticism of President Wilson's Attt-
tude During the Tremendous Up b.
heaval In Europe Must Be
Said to Lack Sincerity.

From the lofty vantage ground OF
hindsight, Mr.. Root declares hat Pres
ident Wilson has made mistakes in
dealing with foreign complications.
That is extremely probable-the Jour-
nal pointed out one such mistake and
the way to retrieve it only a few days
ago.
This war has surprised everyone and
upset all calculations. Germany. which
had the advantage of the initiative,
made three tremendous errors at the
very start: She thought that Bel
GUM would not resist, that England
would not come into the war, that
France could not stem the torrent
poured upon her. England has made
so many blunders that it is useless to
enumerate Them; Russia has tripped
again and again; even France, though
sanest and most clear sighted of all
the combatants, has erred many times
in the simple business of fighting.
Why, then, should we expect to be
flawless in the much more complicated
task of maintaining neutral rights
without ceasing to be neutral?
Mr.. Roots program of what should
have been done" makes it clear that
if he had guided the destinies of the
nation, we should have been at war
with Germany long ago. He would
have protested against the violation
of Belgium, but without going to war
on that point. Such a course would
have been equivalent to serving 40.
tice on Germany that we hated her but
would not fight her-a fine way, truly,
OF persuading her to respect our
wishes. He would have backed the
Lusitania protests with action" The
only possible action is the use of
force, and force means war.
Mr.. Root would be more candid
and more convincing-if he omitted
entirely his lip service to peace, and
declared boldly that this nation ought
now to be at war with Germany and
Austria.-Chicago Journal.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
The News the Wires Gather
From the Four Corners.
HISTORY IN PARAGRAPHS
Great Events That Are Changing the
Worlds Destiny Boiled Down
for Consumption by the
Busy Reader.
War Bulletins

Premier Asquith, replying to the
recent speech of the German Chancel-
lor, declared the purpose of the AL
lies is to develop rather than stran-
gle national ideals in Germany, but
to cripple the power of the military
caste.
The sinking of eight more merchant
ships. six of them British and two
neutral, by German submarines, is re-
ported in London.
The Germans began a general as
sault on a 13-mile line north of Yer
dun.
Haucourt. a village on the French
line northwest of Verdun has been
stormed by the Germans. The French
have regained a part of the Bots Care
nearby, and won an underground
fight east of the Mouse.
A strong attack IN the British at
st. Eloi has been launched by the
Germans.
Germany has put off answering the
questions of the United States with
respect to submarine attacks on mer-
chantmen by a counter-request for a
more detailed statement.
The British relief column on the
Tigris, after winning extensive forti-
fications at Umm-el-Henna, pushed on,
and the same day carried the Turkish
intrenchments at Felahie, more than
three miles further up the river.