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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-07
Lines from Leo.

Leo. June 5::IToday is registra-
ton day and it seems that the boys
are responding freely to the call.
both white and colored.
Mr. VIM w Burrows and family
with Mr. Willie J Brown and his Sis
ter, Miss Iva, attended Children's
day at Cedar Swamp Methodist
church last Saturday. We motored
over there in Mr. Browns new Ford;
had delightful trip, and enjoyed
the day very much.
The program of entertainment
was carried out nicely. The chill
dren were trained for the occasion
by Miss Sadly Snowden. All give
her much praise for the training OF
the dear little children. and the day
will long be remembered by both
old and young.
Little Miss Kathrine Carter is
still improving.
Hon J Davis Carter has been quite
sick but is able to be out again.
Mr. Stanley Prosser of Columbia
came through our burg Sunday to
see his home folks. He returned
Monday.
Miss Elise Brown is at home to
spend her vacation. She has been
teacher at Lancaster.
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TORNADOES' DEADLY WORK.
Storms Spread Death and Des-
tructiOn In West.

Kansas City, June 6:-Tornadoes
tonight and early today spread death
and destruction through rural dis
tricts of Missouri and Kansas. Re-
ports tonight showed. fifteen were
killed in Missouri and nine in Kansas.
The number of injured has reached
approximately $50, and estimates of
the property damage places it any
where from 81 900, 900 to So. 900, 900.
The greatest loss of life apparently
was in Boone Co, Mo, where the tor
nado, dipping here and there. claimed
eleven persons. In Carroll, Charlton
and Ray counties four dead-three
at Richmond and one at Whitam.
The course of the tornado was
marked by odd jumps. First it ap-
peared near Topeka, early in the day,
and then came to earth again in Ray
County, Missouri, shortly before mid
night. Then it tore through wide
section of that county, wiped out
half the town of Dean Lake, Carroll
county, and then swooped down
again demolishing the little town of
Whitam. The tornado descended
again at Providence, in the hills of
southwestern Boone county, Prath-
ersville, Hallsville and through Can
tralla, after which it disappeared
and was heard Of no more until it
struck Savonburg. Kansas, this
roorp;nn
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STATE AND COUNTY RESPONSE
To Call for RegistratiOn-.Heavy
Enrolment Tuesday.

That the young men of South
Carolina, who are eligible to regis
tration for the national army. have
responded nobly to the call for regis
tration is clearly shown by the re-
ports from the various counties
where the registration was conducted
Tuesday. In not a single county was
there case of serious opposition to
the registration, so far as has been
reported. 1t appears that everybody
liable under the law has cheerfully
and patriotically complied. the ne
groes vyiEg with the whites in per-
forming this duty. Although the fig
ures presented this morning are in
complete, they indicate strongly that
all estimates of the number of those
registered have been surpassed.
In Kingstree and Williamsburg
county there were registered sS5
whites, ,659 colored and 2 aliens.
total Of 2.546.
The persons registering in the
county Tuesday have been placed
under separate headings as follows:
Legislative, judicial or executive
officers white 2.
Persons totally disabled-whites
6. colored IL.
Dependent relatives indicated
whites 532, colored 1247.
Occupational exemptions indicat'
ed-white %. colored l6.
Claiming no exemption white
332, colored 385.
The following report was sent out
from Columbia Tuesday night:
Registration day in South Carolina
passed off without the slightest evi-
dence of disorder. The Governors
office at ten o'clock had received no
notice whatever of trouble from any
locality of the State. Chairmen of
county registration boards had been
instructed to notify Governor Man.
ming promptly If any disorder arose,
and the absence of such notifications
is taken mere to indicate that the day
was unmarried in any county.
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Law and that a full registration was

day and that full registration was
indicated.
In some precincts the late corners
forced officials to keep the polls open
until long after 9 p. m., the closing
hour set in the regulation. Gen Crow
der auth orized them to keep open as
long as the men wished to enroll
themselves.
The early reports, showing a full
turn out all over the country, indi-
Gated that the estimates of the CEN
sus bureau as to the number of men
within the specified age limits would
be verified by the count. Wherever
partial figures were available. the es-
Inmates checked closely.
The situation was 50 clear and the
response so ready throughout the
country that Governors of forty-six
of the forty eight States had sent
similar assurances long before regis
tration had closed ,and the other two
were close on their heels.
A feature of the registration was
the refusal of hundreds of thousands
of men to make any reply to the
question. DO you claim exemptions"
Even men who reported that they
had dependent families, men with OBJ
vious physical disabilities. and those
whose occupations are sure to keep
them at home, declined to make such
a claim. Apparently they hadentered
fully into the very spirit Of the law.
They are content to leave the ques-
ton of exemption to the exemption
boards. They have no claims to make,
but are ready to do their share. what
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN
What the Naval Service of Uncle
Sam Offers Them.

Uncle Sans navy offers wide va
reity of industrial courses to ambi-
tious young men. If the recruit has
had some training or experience in
electricity he may enter either the
general or the radio classes Of the
electrical schools, one at the Brooklyn
and the other at the Mare Island
Navy Yard. The great advantages
of these courses are discussed in the
annual report of the Secretary of the
Navy. Condensing this resort, the
Electrical Experimenter says:
Here the course of instruction
comprises machine shop work, reci-
procating steam engines, steam tur.
bine engines, internal combustion en-
gines, magnetism and electricity, ,dy-
namos, motor generators. alternat.
ing currents, batteries and the like.
In the radio group there is thorough
practice in the radio mechanism for
receiving and sending. In the artifi-
Ger school at the Norfolk Navy Yard
men are taught to be shipwrights,
ship filters. blacksmitns, painters and
plumbers. Both at Newport.R Land
San Francisco there are yeomanry
schools, where the men are perfected
f,r the clerical work of the navy to
become expert shenographers. type
writer's, bookkeepers, etc.
AN attractive line in the navy is
the Hospital Corps. with schools at
Newport. R l. and San Francisco.
Not few men have gone out of
these schools after their navy SER
vice to make good doctors in civil
life, after the thorough training re-
ceived in anatomy and physiology,
nursing, first aid and emergency
surgery, hygiene and sanitation. .phar-
macy, materia medica, toxicology,
chemistry and the like. Music is
essential to vary the secluded life
ahoat, and boys with musical talent
are instructed in the schools of Nor
folk and San Francisco. The ma.
chinists school at Charleston is open
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SENSATIONAL
PLOT DISCOVERED
IN NEW YORK--MILITARY SECRETS
SMUGGLED INTO GERMANY
THREE ARRESTS MADE.

New York, June 4-Evidence that
two complete high-powered wireless
installations assembled here were
shipped. piece by piece, supposedly
for the use of the German spy system
in this country, was unearthed today
in connection with the arrest of three
men on charges of conspiring to send
mail containing military information
from the United States to Germany
through members of Norwegian ship
crews.
1t was intimated by the United
States commissioner, before whom
the alleged plotters were arraigned.
that it was through their instrument
taliry that the advance news of the
impending arrival in England of the
American destroyer fleet was sent to
Germany before it even became gen.
orally known in this country.
Indications have been found that
the secret mail system was operated
both ways between the United
States, Germany and Mexico. Several
hundred letters have been seized,
written in English. German and Span
ish and some in code.
The prisoners are Harry F PERISH
and Irving Bonaparte, both said to
be American-born, employed by a
German electrical company here, and
Axel E Melchar, said to be natural
lied citizen from Sweden. They are
charged with conspiring to induce
members of the crews of the steam
ships Bergensfjord and Kristianlaf-
jord, both chartered to carry regular
United States mails, to take letters
and packages from this country des
tined for Germany in violation of
the law prohibiting competition with
the United States mail.
That others are implicated, and
that the men under arrest are willing
to tell all they know, was indicated
by counsel for Bonaparte, who said
his client was willing to help the
government in every way in his pow
er. PERISH, speaking in his own be-
half, said: Il did not start this con-
spiracy-the mail came to me first
from others and | had nothing to do
with the crews of the ship
1t is charged by the government
that the conspiracy began last Janu-
ary and that mail was sent May 10.
Evidence has been found showing
that the men received from the sup
posed principals in the alleged con-
spiracy plot $50 for each package
sent by their mail system, and that
one of them received in all more
than S150 for his work.
Parts of the outfits, it has been
learned, got through, but part was
held up in this country.
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Rear Admiral John Upshur, the
Oldest officer in the United States
navy, died in Washington last week.
aged 81 years. He entered the navy
in l841 and saw service in the Mex
ican war, was with Perry on the ex-
pedition to Japan in 1858 and COM
manded the Wabash at the lombard
ment of Port Royal during the civil
war. He was a cousin of the late
Thomas T Upshur, for many years
CITY Treasurer of Sumter.
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Billie Collins tent emporium OF
high class. refined amusement opens
tonight on Academy street for one
week. Don't miss it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-07-19
PLAN TO MEET HIGHER RATES
Manufacturers OF the State TO Con-
Vene and Discuss New lnsur-
ance Situation.

Madison The fact that the insur-
ance companies are demanding an IN
crease in rates on liability hazards
under the wage compensation act 10
causing the manufacturers of the state
a good deal Of anxiety, and il is said
facturers in Milwaukee soon at which
two plans for meeting the insurance
rate increase will be discussed
One plan will be for the organiza-
ton of more mutual companies in the
state, to protect the hazards Of the
wage indemnities. Wisconsin has
some very wide legislation on the sub
iect of the formation OF mutual in
surance companies to insure the wage
compensation indemnities and adyan-
tage of these acts may be taken by
number of the large employers Of la
Dor, the mutual companies to be or
ganized among the industries to be
protected
The other plan, which will also be
followed, will be to appeal to the in
surance commissioner for a reduction
in the rates, If there is any great in
crease.
II is believed, however, that when
the subject is gone into carefully, the
arrangement Of the new schedules of
rates will be of such a character that
they will not be burdensome.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-07-19
LEGISLATURE ENDS
ITS 53RD SESSION
SIXTEEN HUNDRED BILLS AND
RESOLUTIONS WERE
INTRODUCED.
MANY BILLS ARE DEFEATED
Fifty Per Cent of Measures Presented
in the Legislature kiIled-Spesker
Whittet Makes Record-Drsin-
age Bill Vetoed

Madison Quietly and without for
mality the fifty-third regular session
of the Wisconsin Legislature, which
convened on Jan. 10 last, adjourned
sine die on July 16. The session
lasted 1873 days. The session two
years ago lasted 223 days and that of
1913 213 days. During the session just
ended 900 bills and resolutions were
introduced. Sixty resolutions and
nearly 700 bills were passed.
Lieut. Gov +. f. Dithmar presided
over the closing session of the senate
and Speaker L. c. Whittet presided
in the house The conclusion Of the
assembly marked a unique record for
Speaker Whittet He has not missed
a single daily session since the open
ing of the legislature on Jan. 10.
Over 700 laws have been enacted.
Fifty per cent of the bills introduced
In the legislature were defeated. The
records of the senate show that there
were III senate bills introduced and
104 senate joint resolutions. In the as
sembly there were 721 bills Offered
and 121 joint resolutions.
While the real work OF the session
was concluded over two weeks ago
so many OF the bills passed during the
closing days that it has been neces
sary to hold the Legislature in perfume
tory session to make the minor cor
rections necessary in the bills after
they have been checked over by the
governor. Speaker Whittet now re-
turns to his work in the executive Of
fee, after completing his second term
az speaker of the house
Gov, Philip vetoed the big drain.
age bill, which he had agreed TO sign
on condition that an amendment was
adopted The assembly refused TO ac-
cept the amendment, and the veto
message followed
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three-inch space In the back. The
This permits the current of heated air
to pass around and over the trays. A
ventllator opening, about two inches
wide and six inches long, is left In the
top of the drier, through which the
moist air may pass away.
This principle of construction is fol-
lowed so that currents of air will pass
over the product as well as up through
It, gathering the moisture and passing
away. The movement of the current
of air induces more rapid and uni
form drying. The upper trays can
be shifted to the lower part of the
drier, and the lower trays to the upper
part as drying proceeds, so as to dry
the products uniformly throughout.
Another Home Drier.
Still another home drier is the cook
stove oven. Bits of food, leftovers,
especially sweet corn, can be dried on
plates in a very slow oven or on the
back of the cookstove and saved for
winter use. If the oven is very warm.
the door should be left aiar and the
temperature of the oven often noted.
Trays for use in the oven can be made
from a convenlent-sized galvanized
wire screen by bending up the edges
one or two inches.
Cookstove driers on the market are
of two types. One type consists of
series of trays upon which the material
to be dried is spread. These trays are
placed In framework one above the
other, forming a compartment through
which the heated air rises, carrying off
the moisture. The second type con-
sists of shallow fiat metal box filed
with water and designed so that one
end can rest on the back of the stove
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-07-19
STATE MAKES FLOUR TESTS
Wausau Mills Experiment on Substi
tute for Wheat Product With
Considerable Success.

Wausau Al the request OF the
state department OF agriculture the
local mills have been experimenting
with the manufacture Of substitutes
for patent wheat flour and have met
with considerable success. A pure
barley -four has been tested in the
east and south and is meeting with
favor. A brand Of wheat -four known
as red dog" has also been made fo'
some time and has reached large de
mand II is composed OF wheat tioul
and some of the former byproduCts
and grades above middlings. II makes
a palliative and nutritious loaf. A fine
grade Of corn flour Is also being made
and tested The department is espe
cialiy interested in the development
of a pure barley -four trade because
Of the high rank the state had at
tanned as a producer OF high grade
barley. market for which, il is
feared, may be cut off by prohibition
Legislation.
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WILL RAISE MEDICAL PLANTS
Pharmaceutical Experiment Station
at the University to Do Work
on Economic Scale.

Madison AT the request Of the Of
fee Of the drug-plant and poisonous
plant investigations of the United
States department of agriculture, the
pharma ceutical experiment station OF
the University Of Wisconsin has begun
the cultivation of medicinal plants on
a truly economic scale The work is
made possible by an increase in the
budget OF the station granted az a var
measure by the last legislature, and
the regents have turned over to tho
station thirty-acre plat, partly
wooded. on the shore Of University
bay
The pharmaceutical garden, which
heretofore occupied about three acres.
has been increased to about ten acres.
The work OF transplanting the
plants from the old garden to the new
one is being carried on this summer
by members of the pharmacy depart
ment Of the university. One acre OF
belladonna, one acre Of peppermint,
one-half acre of digitalis, one-half
acre of henbane. and one-half acre of
poppies have already been planted.
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Joke on Mother

Returning home one afternoon, little
Richards mother found him apparent
ly in great pain. Careful questioning
failed to disclose the cause of the
lads suffering. Previous experience
told the mother that Richard probably
was in need of that oil so unpopular
with children, and she proceeded to
administer a generous portion despite
the crying resistance of Richard. A
few minutes later the boy appeared,
apparently in great glee.
''rve got joke on mother-I've got
a joke on mother" he cried.
Members of the family were curious,
Of course.
Mother thought I was sick and
gave me oil, but I got the toothache,"
he exclaimed between laughs.
Richards earlier reticence was due
to dread of the dentists chair.-In-
dianap0lis News.
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MAY CALL SPECIAL SESSION
Emergencies Arising Out Of War viii
Determine Whether Legislature
viii Be Summoned.

Madison Emergencies aris'n& out
of the war will determine whether the
legislature will be called into special
session Gov Philip says that the
members will not be called back uu-
iii absolutely necessary yet the zen
eral opinion is that with The var an
other session within year is alto
gerher probable. During the CiVIl
war the state held annual, instead of
biennial. sessions of the Legislature
and yet two adjourned and two or
three extra sessions were necessary
TO meet emergencies.
The big fish and game bill, which
was signed by the governor will be
the subject Of discussion when the
legislature Is again called into extra
session The protest of lake strore
fishermen against the provisions Of
the bill prompted the governor to tell
Senator Timothy Burke OF Green Bay
that in case Of legislative call the
fish bill would be one Of the meas
ures which he would include.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MARKETS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Milwaukee. Inly il. 1!


Butter Creamery, extra. 3Sc;
prints, 39c; firsts, 35@36c; seconds.
33@35c; process. 35Q35Ac; dairy.
fancy, S5936c.
Cheese American full cream
twins. 22Q22hc; daisies. 22ls@23c;
Young Americas, FAC: longhorns.
23aQ24c; brick, fancy. 22@22ke.
Eggs receipts. fresh as to
quality, soc; dlrties, seconds, 24026c;
checks, 23025c.
Live Poultry Fowls, fancy. 1SS
@19c; ROSTERS, old 15Q16c; broilers,
III lbs, 2s93Oc.
Wheat-No. l northern, 2.40@2.45;
No. 2 northern, 230@2.36; No 3
northern, 190Q2.15; No. 2 hard, 220
Q2.30.
Corn-No. yellow, 1874
Oats No white, 75Q77c; stand
ard, 76a77c; No. white. 75@76c.
Rye-No. 2, 2.3002.31 No. 8, 2.29Q
23O.
Hay--Choice timothy, 1S.25Q18.50;
No. timothy, 170001S.0O; No 2 tim
othy, 15,OO@165O; rye straw, 10000
1850.
Potatoes Wisconsin. Minnesota,
Dakota round, white stock, i.25.
Hogs-Prime heavy butchers, 1855
Q15.S0; fair to prime light, 14.25@
1915; pigs, 120091350
Cattle - Steers. SO0Q10.50; feed.
ers, 8,75Q1OOO cows, 6OO@9OO;
heifers, 650G1O00; calves, 1909
1850.
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Washington Senator Sherman
turned over to the war department a
letter from Brownsville, Tex, giving
details of an alleged plot among Ger
man sympathiZers to ship explosives
into Mexico to destroy the graet allied
own oil fields there.
New York - Board health statistics
showed that despite an increase over
1915 of more than 1000 marriages.
there were 1892 fewer babies. The
total Of the new baby crop was 1877
664.
Petrograd- total Of nearly ST.
00.000000 has been subscribed to the
Russian liberty loan
Washington dry" zone FIVE
miles wide, unless there is a city or
town within that limit, is to be thrown
around all camps for the mobilization
or training of troops under regulations
made public at the war department.
New York a strike which would
affect all the shipyards in New York
and New Jersey was predicted here
by labor leaders unless the deadlock
between the owners and the men Is
broken. The men ask $3.50 a day.
Seattle Seventeen men were killed
in strike battle at Cordova, Alaska,
according to Thomas Mccarthy, a
miner who reached Seattle on a liner
Copenhagen William II. Gale, for
mer American consul general q. Mn.
mich, has arrived to take charge of the
consulate here Edward ID Winslow
tho consul general here, has been
summoned TO Washington.
Washington - Secretary Daniels
asked congress for deficiency appro
priation Of 500, 900, 900. mainly for ad
dtional destroyers and submarine
chasers and to speed up work on the
general building program.
Washington Army orders disclose
the facts that experts are hard al
work on the production OF an effective
anti-gas mask for American troops.
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NO LIQUOR NEAR
TRAINING CAMPS
GOV. Phillip SIGNS DRY ZONE
MEASURE FOR PROTECTION
OF SOLDIERS.
RICHARDSON is PROMOTED
consln Infantry Consisting Of
the New Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth Regiments.

Madison -. Gov Philip has signed
the bill passed by the Legislature pro
| hibitine the sale Of liquor at retail
within three miles of the military
camps at Camp Douglas and Sparta
| and any other military camps that
may be established in the state during
the war with Germany.
II is believed that a military camp
will be established on the Wisconsin
state fair grounds at West Allis. II
that should be done, all retail liquor
places within three miles of the camp
will have TO close The bill provides
that the establishment of military
camp automatically cancels licenses
Of retail liquor places within radius
Of three miles of the camp. but that
after the close of the war the places
closed may be relicensed without re-
gard to the conditions of the Baker
law
Col Randolph a. Richardson Of
Sparta, has been commissioned by
Gov Philip as brigadier general of
infantry He will have command of
the Second brigade Of Wisconsin in
fautry, which will consist of the new
Fourth. Fifth and Sixth regiments
He was the ranking colonel Of the
Wisconsin guard and when promoted
was in command of the Third regi-
ment which for several weeks has
been in the federal service. Col. John
Turner OF Mansion has succeeded to
the command of the Third regiment
The first brigade OF the Wisconsin in
fantry. which consists of the First
Second and Third regiments, is under
command of Gen Charles r. Broad
man OF Oshkosh.
The most important commissions
still to be issued by the governor are
those of the majors and captain OF
the new organizations Senior cap
tains will be commissioned as majors
In issuing military commissions the
governor follows the rule OF seniority
of service.