The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-09-27
IMPORTANT news
THE WORLD over
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF The SOUTH
What ls Taking Place in the South.
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.


The Texas farmers union held a
meeting at Dallas and decided that a
minimum price of soc 4 pound would
be about the lowest price the United
States farmers should secure for cot.
ton this year.
Difficulties in the mobilization Of the
40 per cent OF the new army recently
called 10 the colors were reported from
number Of states in the central west
1t is reported that county in the
central west which was TO have sent
fifteen men 10 the new national army
sent only one.
Herbert c. Hoover, national food ad.
minlStrator. speaking al Atlantic City,
\. j.. Of the world food situation de
c!arcd that starvation would ultimate.
~ Win the war, and said the side best
ah!e TO organize its resources for food
production would come out victorious
Lord Northclittc, head of the British
commission i'll the United States, saws
he is spending for Great Britain be.
tween fifty and sixty million dollars
week in this country.
The food war" has resolved itself
IN an attempt on the part OF the al.
lies 10 block the shipment OF supplies
10 germany, and on the part OF Ger.
many III sinking food ships So far
competent critics are inclined to tho
belief that il is dog fall"
Food Administrator Hoover saws
'ha' owing to the limitation Of ship.
Wig laclilllcS We must COnfne our
exports TO the most concentrated
ioodstuffs grain, beef, pork, dairy
products and sugar.
The war library council of Georgia
al a meeting al Macon, Ga. outlined
plans for raising $4,000 toward fund
lor one million dollars for libraries for
soldiers throughout the United States
II oelns decided TO open the campaign
september -. r. L. Foreman of At
lanta is state director.
Sergeant Alfred Bonhaupt Sixth
United States infantry, has been In.
termed at the prison camp at Fort
oglethorpe on instructions of the bu
reau of immigration following his dis.
charge from the army on orders from
'ne war department, on the ground
'hat MS sympathies for Germany pre-.
Guided the performance Of his duties
as soldier Of the republic
President Wilson has issued proc.
lamation calling upon the school chill
dren OF the nation TO do their part in
the war by joining the Junior Red
cross to assist in the mercy work of
the senior organization.
a Baltimore dispatch carries the in.
formation that Gotthold Prussc, one
or the designers OF the German mcr.
chant submarine Deutschland who
went 10 Baltimore on the first WOW.
age OF thar craft, committed suicide in
mat el'y by hanging himself in the
ci'y jail, where he had been imprisoned
as an alien enemy.
BY the payment Of 100000 TO Fed.
eral Judg" James T. Boyd, John +
Smlthdea! Of Ashevillc. one of the four
detendants indicted two years ago on
charges of dctrauGing the government
OF 100000 by Illicit distilling OF in.
toScating LIQUORS, settled the cas-
against him. The case began in Flor.
IDA, but was moved to North Carolina
because Smithdeal was a res siden, of
that state
Disturbances in various parts of San
FRANCISCO marked the strike of ap
proNimately twenty-five thousand met
al trades mechanics in San Francisco
and nearby cities. Numerous arrests
were made. Most of the disturbances
were in connection with the strike
or employees Of the United Railroads
metal workers expressed sympathy