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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
MAMETz WOOD is TAKEN
ALLIES GAIN IN REGION NORTH
OF SOMME AND TRONES
WOOD.
Around Verdun and Right Bank Of
Meuse Bitter Fighting Ensues.-
Germans Make Few Gains But Pay
Heavily.

London.-Fighting desperately in
the face OF determined German at
tacks the forces under General Haig
succeeded in gaining control of the
entire Mametz wood. which had been
entered the previous night by the Ger
mans. In the same region, north OF
the Somme, the British made some
progress In the Trones wood and re-
pulsed two heavy attacks against
Contamination. The Germans are re-
ported to have lost heavily.
The French and German forces
south OF the Somme apparently are
resting as there has been almost no
activity In the region of Picady since
the first of the week.
Around verdun, however. and espe-
cially on the right bank of the Meuse
bitter and heavy fighting Is in prog.
ress. The Germans, following up their
success in the region OF the Damloup
battery, have undertaken a strong of
fensive toward Fort Souville. the pos
session Of which would strengthen
their position for further advance on
Verdun.
Attacking IN mass formation from
the village OF Fluery and the Chap
tire and Vaux woods, the Germans
gained ground at the intersection OF
the Fleury and Vaux roa6t. The gain,
however, Paris asserts, was made at
the cost OF enormous losses" Violent
bombardments continue in the region
OF Chenois, Souville and La Laufee.
There was relative calm on the left
bank OF the Meuse.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20

excessive. At Laboratory, High
shoals Long Shoals. Harden and
elsewhere. the loss was estimated in.
to the hundreds of thousands.
The bravo Power Company dam
and power station on the Broad River
near Gaffney was carried away. de.
monstrating that the Catawba was not
alone In its demonstration of mighty
power. At Ninety-Nine Islands some
10 to 20 miles below, the water was
tumbling across the top Of the dam
OF the Southern Power Company sta.
ton but not doing any vast amount
OF damage when last heard from
The power house had been submerg-
ed but this damage can be rectified
The Broad was far ahead OF ANYTHING
ever known before in the history Of
the stream.
Officials of the Southern Power
Company did nothing but watch the
rising waters. At Lookout the water
was higher than ever before. Indeed
there are no records in over 100
years that approach the present lev.
els. The dam was constructed 70
withstand anything imaginable but
such flood as this was never consid.
cred The fact that the great pile
of reinforced concrete was able to
stand was a splendid tribute to the
work of the contractors and those
that designed it,
a dramatic incident in connection
with the breaking OF the Seaboard
trestle in the afternoon was the pres.
ence OF at least a hundred or more
spectators along tho trestle Just a few
moments before the crash came. bu.
some wiseacre gave warning OF the
close proximity of danger and nearly
everybody left the bridge before the
break came. With the exception Of
two boys, who were almost in the
middle OF the structure when It be.
gan to bend and snap. Their quick.
ness alone saved them. VITA dash
they escaped to an adjoining span
before the broken part OF the struc
ture gave away and we're greeted
with cheers by many OF the bNstand
ers
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
RIVERS FLOOD MANY CITIES
IN WESTERN CAROL|NAS:
BIG PROPERTY DAMAGE

The Southern Railways Char
lotte-Atlanta steel bridge over the
Catawba near Belmont was carried
away by the flood at 5:35 Sunday
afternoon. A dozen men are re-
puted to have been lost, including
Division Chief Engineer Of Malnte-
nance Joe kilian.
At Mount Holly, the Seaboard Air
Line steel bridge, the Interurban
steel bridge and the county high
way steel bridge were smashed
Sunday afternoon. Drlftwood ac-
cumulated against the Seaboard,
then against the Interurban and
early Sunday night against the
county bridge, all being torn away.
These three bridges were compara-
lively new and represented an In
vestment of more than S125,ooo.
The 100000 reinforced concrete
highway bridge at SIoan's ferry was
covered and reported gone.
DraVo Power Co. dam and sta
! ton on Broad river was washed
away early near Gaffney, S. c.
The c. & NJ. w. steel bridqe
across catawba near Rhodhlss re.
ported washed away.
The dam at osceoIa lake, built
seven years ago, by HendersonviIle
capital, burst carly Sunday morn
ing.
.kanuga lake dam owned by Geo.
Stephens Of Charlotte broke Sun.
day morning about 1o:3o o'clock.
One man and two women drown
ed by the rising waters at Bitmore,
just below AshevlIIe.
Railroad service cut Of AshevilIe
to North and South Carolina points
| is at a standstlII.
big dam at Lake Toxaway was
carried away.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dol.
I lars worth Of timber Is reported car
! rled down the Yadkin river Sun.
day.
Embankment Hill at the Lookout
dam broke at $50 Sunday after
| noon, sweeping away the old West
] Monbo mill, the East side ware
house with 400 bales of cotton. The
West Monbo Mill and Its 5000 spin
dies are submerged. East Monbo Is
. half submerged.
I A waterspout on Little River,
! near TayIorsviiIe In Alexander
? county, swept away flour mill and
q; some Of the tenant houses are sub
! merged. Part of the Liledoun mill
| is submerged and the Alspauqh mill
is covered with several feet of wa
! ter.
J The Southern Railway bridge at
Catawba broke.
! A highway bridge between
I Statesvile and Newton broke dur
Ing the day.
I The Central highway bridge be-
tween MooresviIIe and LlncoInton
was swept away.
&! The Southern Power Company re.
I ported all power houses at Lookout
! Shoals, catawba, NInety-Nine Isl.
ands and the steam plant at Mount
! Holly partially submerged. No
/! power dams have yet been washed
! away.
J The flood has ecIipsed the record
| of more than 100 years.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
MEXICAN PARLEY SHOWS
FAVORABLE PROGRESS.

Washington.-Info negotiations
for settlement Of border disputes be-
tween the United States and the de
facto government Of Mexico are pro
crossing favorably Acting Secretary
Polk said after mis- second conference
with Eliseo Arredono Mexican Am.
bassador Designate. Steps now being
taken foreshadow appointment of com
missioners by each government to for
mulate a plan OF action for the per
manent relief OF border conditions.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
SIX WHITE MEN ARE
SAVED BY NEGROES
THIRTEEN ARE KNOWN MISSING
AS RESULT AT BELMONT
BRIDGE.
1000, 900 SPINDLES ARE IDLE
Flood Damage Grows Greater, Esti-
mated at $50, 900, ,ooo.-Power Plants
Are Flooded and Thousands of Mill
Workers Are Idle.

Charlotte.-Resident Engineer Jo-
seph Killian. Section Foreman r. C.
Thompson OF Belmont. and II. C. Cur
ley and George c. Kale of Charlotte
members of the derrick crew. were
rescued from the turgid waters of the
Catawba by Fons Ross and p. H.
Stowe. negro boatsmen, at a point
two miles below the wreck of the
Southern Railway bridge, thus ac-
counting for four OF the reported 1S
who were swept away at $3.50 o'clock
Sunday afternoon when derrick
crew, attempted savers OF the railway
bridge at Catawba II miles from the
city, passed downstream with col
lapse OF the middle span of the main
line structure
Thirteen Unaccounted For.
According to the official statement
of Claim Agent p. L. Ward, the list
of 13 Southern employees who are as
yet unaccounted for. is as follows:
H. p. Griffith, supervisor. Charlotte,
married, wife and five children.
w. Ii Fortune, section foreman.
Kings Mountain, married, two or three
children.
c. S. Barbee. section foreman Char
lotte, married; wife and several chill
dren.
c. w. Kluttz. derrick employe,
Charlotte, "a or 35 years old; mar
ried. four children; six months to
eight years
j. n. Gordan, car inspector Char
lotte, not married. about 35 years
old, father very old and entirely gave
way at the scene OF accident.
Andrew Scott, colored laborer. Rock
Hill, S. c., age unknown, probably
married, of Charlotte.
Tom Davis, colored laborer, Juneau.
n. c., age 40, married. lives about
one-half mile from Juneau, five or
six children oldest being about 10
years. This man has been in the SER
vice for many years.
Daniel Heath, colored laborer. age
23 years, residence 13 miles frfom
Juneau. on Bob Cathey farm. Wife
Bessie. and one child baby.
Sloan Adams. colored laborer. 20
years old. married, lives in section
house, Charlotte.
Will Adams, colored laborer, broth
er of Sloan, married, but does not
nlive with his wife. Boards with his
sister. Carrie Ferguson, on First
street.
Tom Ashwood, colored laborer,
probably % years old. married. Wife
lives at McBee, S. c.
Evans Brown, 81, colored laborer,
single, Rodman. S. C. Mother prob
ably lives at Rodman.
Julius White. colored laborer. age
%. Wife living in Brooklyn. Char
lotte.
100000 Spindles Affected.
Some conception OF the magnitude
Of the devastating consequences Of
the great flood may be cleaned from
the statement that the Southern Pow
er Company annulled service to all
secondary power consumers which
cut off The juice from more than l.
900, 900 spindles located in this gen.
eral territory. All of these mills
have their steam plants and they will
be able TO resume operations without
delay if they so elect OF course
those in the actual flooded area will
not be able to do anything for weeks
and maybe months.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
GEN. BLISS TO ORGANIZE
TROOPS ALONG BORDER.

San Antonio, Texas.-Army officers
here were convinced that the com
ing of Major General Bliss, Assistant
Chief OF Staff, would result in organ
ization OF the National Guardsmen In
to actlcal units. Fifty thousand OF the
state troops now are near the border,
but with the execution OF the divisions
from New York and Pennsylvania the
big addition to the federal army is
listed in units from brigades to com
panies.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
LARGER CREDITS NOW
POSSIBLE FOR FARMERS

Washington.-The rural credits bill.
which creates IL land loan banks un-
der the direction of a Federal board,
became law July II when President
Wilson placed his signature to the
measure in the presence OF senators.
representatives and officers OF farm.
ers' organizations. When the nations
executive had placed his name to the
bill those present gave him a gen
erous applause.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
DEUTSCHLAND SAILORS
CALL TO SEE DANIELS

Observation-Disclosures of the crew
OF the submarine Deutschland called
to see Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
while he was absent in North Caro-
lima. His secretary, Howard A. Banks.
entertained the visitors by showing
them through the Navy Department.
The visitors displayed keen interest
In the sword OF John Paul Jones.
which is kept in the Secretary's of
fees, and gave It careful examina.
ton
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
MANY COTTON MILLS
ARE UNDER WATER

Damage to Concrete Dams and Power
Stations is Immense.-SeveraI Mills
Along Catawba Under Water
Wires Down and Communication
Broken at Many PIaces.-Train Ser.
vice Demolished.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-07-20
BIGGEST and BEST
OF BRIDGES GONE

Southern, Seaboard, interurban
and County Bridges Over
Catawba in MeCkIenburg
County Swept Away by the
Mighty Waters. Many Others
Go.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18

FOR SALE-A pure bred Holstein
bull calf. six moths old. Price right.
Sec G. e. S~nodgrass.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18
CAPILLARITy IN DRY-FARM SOILS
(By L.. II. parsons.)

| was much Interested I'm Mr.
Drummond's article In the March mum
Der of the Agricultural Review, and
believe that this subject should be
properly understood by all agricul-
wrists. Chilcott. Burr. DR.. Away,
Prof. Kezer and some others are right
about capillary action; the others are
wrong.
How do | know this? | know II by
30 years of delving In the soil with a
soil auger. Those who Insist that
moisture rises to the surface In dry
farm soils, take It for granted because
hey find It In all the books on agrl-
culture, but they forget that these
books were written of the East and
aot OF the West. The East Is farming
over a wet subsoil-we are farming
over a dry one.
] will try to explain this inordin-
AIRY language. without undue use OF
technicalitles. so that any reader may
understand:
In the first place, we may divide
the water In the soil into two classes
the water that moves. which Is
rec water. and the water that hangs
IN to the granules, or the film water.
When the ground is dry. the free
tater keeps moving and spreading
own until It all becomes film water.
II is easy to understand that In a
dry-farming country with a dry SUBJ
soil, there al seldom be any free
9ater to move up. because It goes
Town and becomes him or stationary
water.
MIR. Drummond speaks OF water
gables, but where we have a water
which can send up free water by
apillary action, We call II sub-irriga-
on.
III we have a wet subsoil TO a great
epth, or a waterproof clay at a couple
I feet to dam back the water we can
v capillary action TO help out the
eops, otherwise not.
Farmers Will ask this question:
After l pillow a piece OF land in the
prsng and harrow IL properly, l go
put next morning and scratch the sur
Ve and fad moisture. Where does
come from, II moisture does not
m up from the subsoil by capillary
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18

since the enactment OF that law TO
make II unwise to install such sys-
tenn of accounting. As a taxpayer OF
the state OF Idaho. | feel entitled 10
ask 1t that | might know where and
how my money goes.
Perhaps Governor Alexander's at
titude pertaining to this matter can
be explained by his utterances, II
do no care what the wishes OF the
last legislature or Of any legislature
10 come hereafter my be-" but |
would appreciate more definite infor-
nation In the matter.
BYON HALL,
Boise, Idaho. II. Il. ID. No. /.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18
action 2"

action?"
In the spring Of the year there 4,
usually a little free water in the tor
six inches before it has had time te
SOAK down into the subsoil and become
hlm water. This phenomenon is
simply the top inch robbing the sec
ond and third and is purely a surface
action and has nothing to do with the
subsoil.
Mr.. Drummond wants to know how
the moisture gets out of the soil by
evaporation. This Is also very simple
when you understand it. The soil
Sranules do not fit against one an
other; there are air spaces We might
compare the earth granules to a load
OF nut coal. This air is always NOV
ing except when the ground is water
logged. 1t moves slowly, it is true.
out nevertheless. it moves.
In France and other grape growing
countries, they kill the phylloxera of
the roots by injecting carbon bisul-
phide into the soil. Half an ounce in
troduced into the soil at a depth of
two feet will kin every living organ
ism that breathes oxygen in a cube
containing p cubic feet, inside OF "a
hours. This shows how gas or air
can move In the soil. When water en-
ters the soil. 1t drives out the air
When the soil dries out, the air enters.
NO mulch is absolutely air tight, but
me air moves through it so slowly
that, for practical purposes, it is al
most so.
When no mulch is created by the
farmer, the evaporation is very rand
because In drying, the soil checks
leaving assures, which go deeper and
deeper every day and If not closed by
the cultivator, will eventually reach
the subsoil and in hot weather. the
air In the soil expands, and finding
these air lanes. works up to the sur
carrying the soil water with IL,
This, of course. is purely evapora-
Iion' capillarity has nothing to do
with IL.
IL stands to reason that II we can
not, by packing or otherwise, bring
up the moisture to the roots OF the
crops. the next best thing, is to get
the roots down to the moisture. We
do this by deep plowing-the most
important of all work in dry-farming.
Soils hold much more water than
was originally supposed, II we 90 by
he old books on soil physics. Nv
we lind that western sandy loans
viii contain about IA per cent as film
water without any capillary moisture.
over and above this amount would
be free water and could move up or
according to conditions. CLAY
.oam may hold le or II per cent and
the average OF all soils is somewhere
about is per cent.
II used also to be supposed tina
,.ops could not grow without free
water. but dry-farming has exploded
his, and also the osmat.c or %rootI
theory, which depends also
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18
.-ACT. OR FAILURE TO ACT.r

Editor The Statesman: What has
become OF our bureau OF accounts?
In response to an urgent need for
n unified and scientific system OF ac-
counting to safeguard the peoples
money In this state, the legislature OF
the Thirteenth session, (1915) pass
ed house bill No. 1886, which bill pro-
vided that "the governor and the pub
lie utilities commission are hereby
authorized TO enter into a contract by
and on behalf of the State of Idaho
with any audit company, contracting
and agreeing with said audit company
for the deyising and installing of a
modern system Of accounting for the
various departments, branches and
bureaus of the state government and
for all of the public institutions, edu-
catioual. charitable, and penal be-
longing TO the state of Idaho"
The above bill carried with It APP
p%ropriations a~ggregating five thou
sand five hundred dollars to enable
the governor and the utilities COM
mission to carry out its provisions.
This bill was signed and approved by
Governor Alexander and Is o des-
ignated as Chapter 1l2. session laws
of 1916.
We are all more or less familiar
with the situation which led TO the
enactment OF this law, the defalca-
ton of our former state treasurer
being the most notable instance, The
Idaho tax commission In It's report
to the governor on the tax situation
pointed out the need of a proper ac-
counting system, and Governor Alex
ander used the issue repeatedly In his
campaign, and In his message to the
legislature, said:
THE state government ought TO
be a well equipped modern indus
trial organization operating with
accuracy, efficiency, economy.
There ought to be established a
modern. uniform system of ac-
counting. with such checks and
balances as will secure accuracy
and insure the legal disposition
OF the peoples money. -"
There ought to be established a
bureau or department OF examin-
Ing. accounting and reporting OF
all officers handling public
money. believe there is moth
ing more important than the es-
adjustment of such a bureau.
The thorough checking OF the ac-
counts OF the various depart
ments win make impossible a
recurrence OF such unfortunate
circumstances as have occurred
In the state treasurer's office re-
sulting in the downfall of that Of
fleer who IL now serving punish.
ment. AS humanity is always sub
Ject TO temptation. a guard
against similar occurrences ought
to be n OF the first steps under
taken by your honorable body"
WAT, II anything has taken place
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LOST

LOST-Four head of saddle animals of
the following description. Will pay
$50 reward for delivery of horses
to us. One buckskin gelding, white
name and tail, weight 700, branded
b on left shoulder; one brown geld
ing. bald faced, weight $50, branded
BIS left shoulder: n brown mule,
collar and saddle marks. weight
900. Information to Rich Sheep
Co., Aberdeen or s. l. Rich, Black
foot, Idaho.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Offce rooms, ]. T.
Sykes.
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FOR SALE

PICTURE FRAMES made to order at
the Star Music House. 81
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on free water.
NOTE: Mr.. Drummond did not in
quire how the water gets out of the
from many well known authorities, in
Guiding those in the Department of
Agriculture, he said:
Differences of opinion as to whether
the moisture escapes by evaporation
solely, or by capillarity plus evapora-
ton, appear to be immaterial. All
agree that 1t does escape unless check
ed, and that the best and only practi-
cal way to check it is by keeping the
weeds from growing. and maintaining
a soil-mulch. And this Is the univer-
sal experience of successful farmers"
Mr.. Parsons agree with Prof. Chill
cote, Prof. Burr and others who re-
ject the capillarity theory on this one
point only. Parsons advocates deep
blowing; they do not. Parsons be-
lieves in soil mulch; they do not, or
they pronounce IL an Improbable
practice. Parsons maintains that soil
assures or checks, unless closed by
surface cultivation, will go deeper
and deeper every day." eventually
reaching the subsoil and releasing, by
evaporation, the water stored there
film water included. Burr says that
water once deep enough within the
soil to escape the rapid drying at the
surface will remain there until 1t is
reached by and removed through plant
roots."-The Agricultural Review.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-05-18

WANTED-T0 transfer contract for
law course in LaSalle Extension
University. Complete three-year
course together with set of four
teen volumes OF American Law and
Procedure for $1,000. For particu-
lars see G. r. Leitch at County Of
fees.
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CLASSIFIED Advertising.


STOLEN-from the barn of A. C. Sale
last Friday night, medium dark
bay horse, rather stocky build, I'M
branded and weighs about 1850 lbs,
b years old. Points of Identification:
Small tuft of white hair on top of
neck where the collar works; wire
cut on inside of hind leg opposite the
hook; rather large prominent head;
white hair on inside of both ears;
short name; rather shy about hav-
ing the bride put over the ears.
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WANTED-50 head of horses, mules or
cattle to pasture at s1.0O per head
per month. A. ]. Clark. Fall Creek
Mercantile Co. II
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SUMNER SHOES FOR MEN AND
BOYS.

We just received a shipment of
tennis shoes, canvas shoes and ven-
tilated oxfords for men and boys.
FALL CREEK NERO. co.
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FOUNDING keys. Numbered tas
attached. Call at Press office.
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For furniture. rugs and linoleum,
call at Oliver & McKown Hardware
Co. :
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FOR SALE--Thoroughbred Red Rhode
Island Eggs. Mrs. d. L. Behrens,
Box 80. 3t
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FOR SALE-Registered Duroc Jersey
Boar. Inquire of Roy zurring. Nee.
ley. IL