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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

Train is now pulling in We dress as
soon as possible. simultaneously we
hear assembly being blown for the men.
They all go on duty-every one of them.
Most of the conveys arrive in the dark.
"a certain number of men are as
signed to the train. Wounded are taken
off promptly. The hospital trains are
wonders. The wounded are handled
here with great care and comfort, and
sleep for the most part of the journey
from the casualty clearing stations to
us. The trains have operating rooms
and are equipped in hrst-class style.
"After being taken off the train the
wounded are assigned to ambulances
detailed for certain wards, depending on
diagnosis of case and capacity of the
wards.
after the ambulances have delivered
the cases to the hospital buildings our
men carry out the patients to the re-
spective wards. The whole thing works
like breeze. A convoy of 500 patients
can be taken from the trains by ambu-
lances to the hospital and be fixed com-
fortably in bed in few hours"
So the picture might have gone on.
Surgical dressings used in the wards,
all made by the loving hands of devoted
women back in the States-the sheets.
pillow-cases, the bed clothing (each
jacket has its tiny Red Cross sewed
near the collar)-all stand for the Red
Cross and the part the Red Cross has
to play in war-to relieve the pain and
suffering that are its inevitable reSults
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

The doctors and nurses have labored
under tremendous pressure. The size
of many of the units has been increased
Some now have thousand beds in
stead of the 500 originally provided for,
and six of the units have had reinforce
ments in all classes of their personnel.
A Hospital Under Fire
These men and women are of splen-
did stuff. If any proof of this had been
needed, it would have been supplied by
their behavior under fire when the
Harvard unit was bombarded by a
German airmSL on the night of Sep
tember 4th. Lieut.. William T. Fitz-
simons, of the Medical Officers Reserve
Corps, and three army privates were
killed, and thirty-two persons were
wounded. This cable tells the story:
"The attack occurred at II o'clock at
night. Just at that time fortunately no
convoy of wounded was being received,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

with will. Many of the injured had
been blown from their cots, some even
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

far greater, as one of the bombs fell
into the center of the large reception
tent to which the wounded are first
borne for examination.
"Ten seconds sufficed for the drop
ping of the first bombs from the flying
plane, and within less than a minute
afterward the surgeons of the hospital
were at the task of collecting and at
tending those who had been strucl;
down. And for twenty-four hours they
were at work in the operating room. one
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

AS a result of these activities of
Colonel Kean's department, the Red
Cross had available at the time of the
declaration of war thirty fully organ
lied base hospital units. Each was
practically fully manned with a staff of
twenty-four surgeons and doctors and
sixty-fve nurses. The non-professional
personnel of more than one hundred
and fifty enlisted men was not gotten
together until after the beginning of the
war. Each had bed equipment, surgical
apparatus, linen supplies, ETC., sufficient
to care for five hundred patients.
Within fortnight after the declara-
ton of war on Germany, six of these
Red Cross units were ordered into active
service. The first unit to sail was Base
Hospital No. 4, from Cleveland. Two
days later, on May 18th, the Harvard
Unit, No. 5, was off, with DR.. Harvey
Gushing, Professor of Surgery in the
Harvard Medical School, as lis head.
Then went four others, one from Co.
lumbia and the Presbyterian Hospital in
New York, with DR.. George E. Brewer
in charge; one from the Pennsylvania
Hospital at Philadelphia, directed by DR..
Richard +. Harte; another representing
Washington University, at St. Louis,
with DR.. Frederick T. Murphy; and still
another from Chicago, headed by DR..
Frederick Besley. More than twelve
have now been sent to the front, and,
pending the taking over of trenches by
the American troops, are serving with
the British and French armies.
The remainder of these forty-seven
hospital units are equally prepared and
ready for the call to service, whether
abroad or at home, on a moments
notice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

end. A hospital orderly who worked
untiringly was found later to have been
struck in the head by fragment and
painfully injured. He had just tied up
his head and worked on.
"In the operating room, Captains
Horace Binney and Elliott, with their
assistants, worked all night long. Sew
eral delicate operations were performed
and their work was made all the harder
by the fact that in innumerable cases
the patients were in serious danger of
infection from the pieces of wood and
nails and dirt which had been thrown
into their bodies"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
How the Red Cross Prepared

Two years before America entered the
war, and thus suddenly had need OF all
the medical service at her command, the
Red Cross began the organization of its
base hospital and ambulance company
units.
Under the direction of Colonel JEFF
ferson R. Kean, who had been detailed
to the Red Cross from the Medical
Corps of the Army, the Military Relief
Department set out to enlist the aid of
the Red Cross chapters throughout the
country in providing trained personnels
of doctors and nurses available for in
slant duty in time of war or national
disaster.
Altogether total of forty-seven base
hospitals were organized, financed, and
largely equipped. The national treasury
of the Red Cross was scarcely drawn
upon at all in this work Not only did
the chapters recruit the staffs for each
of these units from their city hospitals,
but in several cases they undertook to
purchase the necessary equipment and
10 make the required amount of hos
pital supplies in the chapter workrooms.
In New York six hospitals were or
ganized, in Chicago four, and in Phila-
delphia four. The New York County
chapter, not content with the minimum
requirements laid down by the Depart
ment of Military Relief and the medical
authorities of the Army, went ahead
on experiments to develop improvements
in equipment. With some of the most
prominent surgeons and doctors in the
United States enlisted on the stats, the
chapter organized a committee on re-
search and Standardization. The work
of this committee has now resulted in
the development of new type of NOV
able food kitchen to be attached as a
trailer to ambulances or field columns
1t has made similar experiments in the
field kitchen attached to base hospitals
Other cities show the same initiative
All over the country the greatest in
terest was shown in the organization oi
these grest reserve relief agencies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
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surgeon relieving the other when the
latter from simple exhaustion could
work no longer, and the very next day,
just as if nothing had happened, these
same surgeons were called upon to re-
ceive and care for 200 wounded sent
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x
like these from the finest hospitals of the work
and ready for American soldiers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

outside their tents, where they were
found tangled up in the tent ropes. An
American nurse, although struck in the
face by fragment of steel from the
bomb, refused to be relieved and re-
NAMED at her task courageously to the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
When the Wounded Come

Here is the picture of the arrival of
a trainload of wounded at one of the
American hospitals, as it was described
by one of the doctors:
"a reasonable time before the arrival
of a convoy we are informed" he
writes. "Just before it comes in we are
called from our billets by the expression,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
King George Expresses England's
Gratitude

So quick was the response that King
George of England, on the arrival of
the first units in London, felt called
upon to express Britain's gratitude
10 the members of the Presbyterian
Hospital unit of New York, on their
reception at Buckingham Palace, he de-
clared:
We greet you as the first detachment
OF the American Army which has landed
on our shores since your great Republic
resolved to join in the world struggle
for the ideals of civilization. We deeply
appreciate this prompt and generous re-
sponse to our needs.
1T is characteristic of the humanity
and chivalry which have ever been
evinced by the American nation that the
first assistance rendered to the Allies is
in connection with the profession of
healing and the work of mercy"
Such were the returns the Red Cross
was able to draw on the 100000 in
surance-as these funds really were
invested in the equipment of base hos
pitals, much of it before the war began
1t was insurance that paid for itself not
merely in the promptness with which
the base hospital units were ready for
service, but in the saving of lives and
anxiety they effected through being
ready.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
Red Cross Doctors and Nurses First to

boy who goes to war
today faces torpedoes, bombs,
liquid fire, deadly gases, quick
- frers and siege guns. Never
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17
What a Base Hospital Does

Look for moment at one of these
great Red Cross agencies of mercy as
it is now in operation in France. Per-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-17

liquid fire, deadly gases, quick
q. frers and siege guns. Never
before have the means of
dealing death been so numerous or so
ingenious, or so terrible.
Yet he has better chance of coming
back home, safe and sound, than he
would have had in any great war that
has been fought. Base hospitals, as they
have been evolved in the present war,
together with superior methods of
surgery, are responsible for that
Roger Babson, the statistician, is
quoted as saying that fourteen out of
fifteen men have been safe hitherto in
the Great War-and the losses at first
were vastly greater than the losses now.
He continues:
Under present conditions, where man
power is being saved, not more than one
in thirty is killed. Only one man in 500
loses limb, chance no greater than
in hazardous conditions at home"
M. Andre Tardieu, French High Com
missioner to the United States, has
given out figures showing that the per-
centage of casualties in proportion to
the modified strength of France has
fallen from 239 for the first six months
of 1915 to 1.28 in the last six months
of 1916.
How does it happen that soldiers to-
day are safer than ever before?
Learning How to Care for the
Wounded
The answer, as suggested above, is
that the nations have learned how to
take care of their soldiers. Camp sani-
tation, scientific rationing, business or
ganization of the supply service-these
things count, but the big vital factor in
saving husbands and sons for the
women who wait at home is the eff
cheney of the medical service.
The second answer, also, is the Red
Cross. AS Lord Vantage, father of the
British Red Cross movement, said {:
However we'll organized an Army
Medical Service may be, it never has
been, and never will be, able to cope
adequately with the sudden emergencies
of war on large scale, and voluntary
organizations, unimpeded by official re-
st-ictions, are alone capable of giving
auxiliary relief and of providing extra
comforts and lu2uries with the requisite
promptitude and rapidity."
That is why, when America entered
the war, the first organized forces of
the United States to go abroad were
Red Cross base hospital units which had
been mustered into the United States
Army Medical Corps. That is why
right now you would find American
doctors and nurses desperately hard
at work behind the lines in France,
trying to keep British and French
soldiers from slipping out of the
Wounded" into the Death" lists. Be
cause of the Red Cross they are ready
lust as soon as they are needed, to per-
form the same service for American
bows.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
HUNTING LICENSES VALID.
Licenses which have been Issued and
arc Being Issued by County Warden
are Alright.

The muddlc in Columbia over fro an
pointmcnt OF the chicf game warden Of
the state has had very little circc, on
The local game wardcn's work. Coun-
ty Warden Little some time aeo sought
LEGAL advice as 10 his duties and now
crs Willie the question of state game
wardcnshin was in disputn ana is4pcJ
licenses for this county in accord win
that advice. Several dnys AGO \, ~
II. Gibbcs, recently appointed by GOV.
Manning as chicr game warden ana
Who has not vet been rccosnizcJ rs
such bv The former wordon col
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
COTTON ADVANCED
A CENT 4 POUND
July Condition Report was Stlmulat-
in@ Feature Oi Market Last Week.

New Orleans, Aug. 5.-An advance
of over Il cent a pound was registered
in the cotton market last week, pric-
cS on the opening session being at the
lowest levels while the highest levels
were reached on the closing session.
Friday. From TN lowest 10 the high
est there was a rise Of l2S to 1876
points and the net change for the
week was an advance OF los 10 l20
points.
The July condition report Wcdnes-
day, the heavy Southern consumption
for the year just ended and reports
of strong spot demand dcvcloping
in Texas, were the main stimulating
features of the week. The trade cX-
pcctcd a condition report of from
~ to SO per cent Of the normal and
the government put the percentage
at 1913, indicating Il yield of only
ll9l9,OO0 bales, which The bullish
element considered wcll below the
prospective wants of the world dur
ing the coming season
Southern consumption was the
largest on record. i,35S,OOO bales for
the twelve months ending with July,
Bulls considered this due partly to
war orders and partly to business
coming to America which formerly
went TO English mills. The largest
consumption emphasized the effect
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
in the ditch wounded.

III lne ullcn wounded
AS the bali passed through his head,
entering just below the right ear and
coming out on the other side OF the
face just below the check bone, the
physicians could not state what sort
of bullet shot him. The opinion was
expressed that he was shot with a 30
calibrc bullet though this could not be
verified.
Furman Bright. brother OF WILL was
lodged in the city, jail. the seven men
being separated. Whom asked this
morning about the matter, young
Bright stated that while he had been
drinking, he was not too drunk to
know what happened.
II did not see Ralph fall and did
not see him till after the shot Was
fired" he said. Il did not see who
fired the shot and did not hear any
one say who fired ii thOugh heard
that VIII had confessed to having done
It. don't much think that Will did
for he was drunk and | saw him most
Yesterday afternoon. was walking
from where Ncvcs stood TO ,iC auto
when | heard tho shot"
That he remained in the automobile
while The other men wen, 10 meet
young Ncvcs was the statement made
by Will Watts. another Of The occu-
pants Of the car. When questioned
concerning the affair. he sccmod pcr-
fcctIy willing to talk Wnd stated re-
pcatcdly that he had nothing to hide.
y was driving tho car and had
taken drink or Two with The rest OF
The fellows" said Watts. II was in
the car With one OF The other boys,
maybe more, when We heard the shot.
The rest returned to the auto few
minutes later and we came on 10
town, whore Sheriff Rector arrested
US.
II anybody threw Ralph Ncvcs' ps-
to from the car after we Startcd to
town, did not sec II. did not see
Novcs after he was shot and do not
know who shot him"
Officers Of the county arc in posses
sion of information which leads some
10 believe that the shooting was pre-
mcditatcd and ii is rumOrcd that
charges viii be brought against one
or more, Of the mon in the party to
this effect. According TO statements
OF some. Nevcs and two men in the
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
LOCAL EXEMPTION BOARD
EXAMINES i25 MEN
AhOmt % have Enlisted Since the Cen
S'lS was Taken and were not Exam

Tho county oxomntion hoo,a bor,n
its duties OF cyomininy mon rrdnr ,ho
craft law TLu,-sd,v IN ,hot d.r rd
on The foIlowinp Two dave ohon 10,
OF The mon FIRST drawn undor tho CO.
lcctiyc drari law wrrn nivnn moi, ,,ro
iminarv ph,sicol cv,mi,,tio, h,, ~.
league, assisted hv Doc,ors IIn~ho.
Walker. Fcreuson and Hoordor Ahout
1870 mon wcrr hold out for . socnnd
examination ana thcsn ,ro hoino ov
amincd again this wcck yc.,ordov
the following mon hod hoon q ,,minod
a second limo ana had failed 10 n,..
thc required phvsical cyominatio,
Eugene Bovcc Bolond Worc shool.
r. f. ID. [.
William Cothcat Byrd Louronc y
f. d. >
Rufus Goodman Lannon's
Nbcrt Henderson. GRAY Court y l.
d. ).
Samuel p Horn. Ware Shoals r T.
ID. /.
Vance Irby. Clinton
Geo. Troy Jones. Lannon's
Carol Charles smith Lannon's
Tom Fleming Smith Waterloo
Martin l.. Whtcford, Cross Hin
These mon have been cvcuscd ond
Will moi be further oyominod rbo
remainder OF the l30 viii bo ovomincd
probably this week Ahout twon,v-
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
ROOT RETURNS WITH
FAITH IN RUSSIANS
Says Country will be Saved
intact.
WARNS COUNTRY
AGAINST DANGERS

r,.,,, III. , i'" W
| .'''' lhiH 'OHh'fA VIII Hrcomo
Nilhi"rt Nation. We are In The War
and haze GO, 10 Go on Win /,
I'a"No i'Drt, Aug. i F.lihu Root.
I ~ "a aS ddor - TN ,ia ana tho
| lNr'lb"1H 0S 'hc Am,rc%u mission
| Wefn 2ls" Of tie citN today at u
| IVhnh9on -ti"ndcd by several thouS-
Iahd psi iAo1 MS address wHs hcard
/ N!il aifHns nEcathI"sS attention
"fhi$ ouis, mission. gatd ll,.
| Root" i, Iua,rning frar, j I'm. ani
| ratjaUir ioG.ncv 10 ! pry .rn,. rr.
Ipualiy rais is a diplon,a. 1iseior
lana n ( not fp8&ilIr untiI W.. ,.'vo Gn.'
'HNrni n,r lnrs39ac tn rr >ui, na-.
juartmcnt that wo Shorld tail nhnut
( what We have seen and what y-a nayc
| found cqnnof refrain howcyc,
! from saving that wc hrina bnrl; rron,
| Russia the greatest sympatlv ma tho
Igroatcs, admiration for that young
ldcm0cracy. now Strugglng to solve
problems within a few months thar
this country has been st,ugeIin@ 10
solve for no ycars-and has no, so,v.
Cd. We bri" back the kindlics, fool
ing and the greatest rcspcc, for the
RnSinns; for their high dc9rcc OF
I@"lf-control their ability for concert
cd action. We bring back an abiding
faith that this great. free, sclf-2oycrn
ing democratic government shall be
maintained intact
! "In Russia oImo., within ,bo .oura
/ OF tho Guns think wc uot . li;tIo
Ingarcr 10 no truth in ;his arna, wo,
iupon mich our country b,g n,T,ho,l
Cd: n dCcpcr realization nan tnn MOO
ipln OF the l-nitCd r,otcs ornrncintc
INc SOC now whv All tho world Is of
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-08-08
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
SHOOTING OF NEvFs
Young GreenviIIe GuurSs.
man Wounded.
SEVEN MEN ARE
HELD FOR CRIME
Auto Party OF Seven Now In Jail, Adj.
nit They Were Drinking Details
Hard to Gct-NeNes Was Returning
From Funeral.

From Funeral.
Grecnville, Aug. G.--Ralph G. Ncvos,
stable sergeant Of the Headquarters
company at Camp Sewer and a we'll
known local boy. who was shot and
seriously wounded yesterday after
noon on the Travellers Rest road is
resting fairly we'll at the City Hos
pital today and physicians state that
he has chances for recovery. Who
fired the shot which passed through
young Ncves' head still remains a
mystery. Seven men arc now in jail
In com cction with the crime.
Though the wound OF the young man
is serious, hope is entertained for his
recovery. Three physicians are at
Ice, Furman Bright, Will Bright, Jake
done to have his life.
The seven white men now IN Jail as
result Of the shooting are: Clarence
Lee, Furman Bright, Will Bright, Jacc
Carter, I.otan Hooper, Bub Waters
and Will Watts. Lee and the two
Bright boys are from Mcrritsville
and the other four are Grcenvillc men.
Each mans story Of the shooting
differs in some manner from the story
told by the others. The best infor-
nation obtainable seems to be that the
seven men were in an automobile,
driven by Watts, coming to Grecnvillc
on the Travellers Rest road, few
miles from Greenvillc when the car
passed young Neves yesterday after
noon.
Young Neves was on leave, having
attended the funeral yesterday morn
ing of his uncle, the late w. p. u. F..
Ncvcs. The guardsman was returning
from the funeral and was on his way
back to camp when the car containing
the seven men passed.
1t is understood that the hat of one
OF the men in the car blew OFF at this
time and fell in the road between
Nevcs and the auto. Novcs dismount-
cd from his horse and picked up the
hat, starting toward the car with it,
This was about 4 o'clock in the after
noon.
At this point, the statements OF the
seven men vary and are not very
lucid. Young Watts stated that he,
with another Of the crowd, remained
in the car while the other fellows
went to meet Ncves With the hat All
admit that the crowd was drinking
at the time.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-18
HAVE DARK HAIR
 AND LOOK YOUNG
Don't stay gray! Nobody can tell when you darken gray, faded hair with Sage
 Tea and Sulphur.

Grandmother kept her hair beauti- fully darkened, glossy and attractive with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur Whenever her hair took on that dull. faded or streaked appearance. this simple mixture was applied with won derful effect By asking at any dru" store for ''Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound" you win get large bottle of this old-time recipe. improved by the addition of other ingredients. all ready to use, for sabout 50 cents. This simple mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair.
 A well-known downtown druggist says everybody uses Wyetb's Sage and Sulphur Compound now because it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been ap- plied-it's so easy to use, too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw it through your bair, takinl one strand at d time. By,morning the gray hair disappears: after another application or two. it is restored to is natural color and looks glossy, soft and beautiful. This preparation is a delightful toilet requisite. IL is pot intended for the cure. mitigation or prevention of disease.
 Advertisement
Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-18
NEW SHOES WON'T
 HURT AFTER THIS
Cincinnati man tells how to shrivel up corns so they
 lift out.

Ouch !? : ?, This kind of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that few drops of drug called freezone when applied to a tender. aching corn stops sorne- ness at once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts right out without pain.
 He says freezone is sticky sub stance which dries immediately and never inflames or even irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter of an ounce, which will cost very little at any drug store. is said to be suffi- cient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from ones feet. Millions of American women will welcome this announcement since the inauguration of the high heels. (AdvertisemenO