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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14

CORP. l.. FELTON, ABERCO
Confirmation Of Young Marines Death
From Wounds Is Rec ;yed.

Confirmation OF Young Marines Death
From Wounds is Rec ;yed.
The recently reported death from
wounds Of Corp. l.. FELTON, Abcrcrom
bic, of the United States Marines, has
been confirmed by official notice from
the war department to Mrs. j. G. Abcr-
crOmbic, mother of the soldier. Corp
AhercrOmbic belonged to the Sth Co.,
t. S. NJ. c., 5th Reg, and had been in
France since last fall. lie was wound
cd while in action June S and died ten
days later.
Young Abcrcrombic enlisted about
three years ago at Chattanooga, where
he was engaged in the insurance bust
ness, and he had seen service in the
West Indies before the United States
entered the war with Germany. He
was recalled to this country and sail
ed from New York some time last
year. He was a son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John {. Abercrombie Of Hickory Tav-
ern and was 2S years Of age.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
DEATH OF II. j. CRAWFORD.
Former Lanrens County Citizen Dies
mt Barlow, Florida.

Mr.. II. J. Crawford, a native and
resident OF this county up to a few
years. The body was brought back to
Fla, where he had resided for some
years. Thcbody was brought back to
his old home and laid 10 rest Wcdncs-
day at Mount Bethel Church
The deceased was about GS years
Of age lie was reared in old Harmony
church community and here he spent
practically all his life. He was a sue
ccssful farmer and a highly respected
citizen. He was twice married, his
first wife being Miss Henrietta Wood
a daughter OF the late r. r. L. Wood
She died about % years ago. She was
survived by four sons, J. Wistcr, Will
lie, Arthur and Jesse r. Crawford
Jesse Crawford is captain Of the old
Pclzcr Rifles and is now in France with
the fllSth lRcgimcnt, oTEnalvy the
First South Carolina. Capt. 'Craw-
ford married n Miss Check of Gray
Court. J. Wistcr Crawford is a trav-
cling salesman, while the other sons,
Willie and Arthur, live in Florida.
Mr.. Crawford's second marriage
was 10 Miss Alice Traynham, a daugh-
ter Of the late w. L.. Traynham of this
county. She survives her husband.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
County PuiIic Health Meeting.

The Laurcns County Council Of De-
fensc will hold a public meeting in
connection with the State Board OF
Health in the court house at Laurens,
Friday. August 10th at p. m. Health
bcttcrmcnt as war asset will Ee dis
cussed by several prominent speakers
Among those so far announced is Dr.
VIM. Weston, Of Columbia, on Child
Welfare. The colorcd council will
also have speakers present and both
races arc cxpectd to attend and help
In nationwide campaign. ordered by
the government to conserve health
eradicate disease and take steps to-
ward checking social diseases. the lat
tor heretofore neglected will be plain
ly discussed. Chairmen from eaca
township, white and colorcd, are urged
to be present or send representatives
and advertise the meeting.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
COUNTY CAMPAIGN NEXT.
scooter Crowd" Starts on it's Itincrnr,
Next Monday Night,

The regular senatorial. district and
state campaigns all being thing of
the past, so far as Laurcns county
goes. the eyes Of the voters arc now
turned toward the county campaign.
The "Cooter Crowd. as the assem-
blagc Of county candidates has been
called for many years, starts on its
tour Of tho county next Monday night.
al CLINTON. The next day the meeting
VIII be held in Lanrcns and the same
evening at Watts Mills. The last meet
ing will be held at Crap Court We'd
ncsday morning.
The time for filing pledges and pay
ing the assessment fees expires Sat
urday before the campaigns opens,
which is the coming Saturday. The
pledges are to he filed with the county
chairman. Mr.. G. \. Power. AS the Of
flee Of Mr. Power closes at six o'clock
IN the afternoon candidates will be cX-
pcctcd to have complied with the rules
before that time.
The past week has seen several ad-
ditional candidates in the ring. For
the House Of Representatives Mr.. G..
Md Campbell, of LaurcnS, has entered.
the race. Mcssrs. j. D. O'Dcl of the
Ware Shoals section and a. B. Blake
ly, OF Clinton, have announced for
Road Commissioner. Mr.. John n
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
CDy Associated Press. Aug. l3D

Although the Germans arc employ
ing fresh forces Of reserves in efforts
TO hold back the Allied troops who arc
pressing them from the region Of the
Scmmc to the Disc, the American,
British and French armies continue to
make progress.
Monday witnessed gains Of ground
of Importance all along the battle
front.
After an extremely bitter charge
the Americans and British have gained
4 foothold in the important little town
of Bayr-Snr-Sommc, across the town.
\ short distance across tho river to
ihc south the British have taken Proy-
art and midway Of the line have press
cd on to The east Of Fouqucsc0urt in a
mancuvcr which has resulted in the
further outnanking OF 'Chaulncs from
n" south and Of Royc from the north.
On their part. the French in the roll
ing country Immediately north Of the
Oi3Nc river have captured Curry, a 20
@!tion Of great strategic value. lying
southwest Of l.asGin Sny and at several
other POINTS Southward to the region Of
the Disc have advanced their line
further toward NOyOn
In Mondays Fighting hundreds Of ad-
ditiOnal Germans were made prisoners
md the enemy also lost heavily in men
killed or wounded. Unofficial reports
give the number Of Germans captured
during the present offensive as in The
ncighborhood Of 10000
The Germans at last accounts were
still throwing rcinforcemCnts to the
Chaulncs, Royc and Noyon, the pass
age OF which by the Allies would Sc
riously menace all the German forces
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
Joe Is. Cooper Missing

Joe b. Cooper, son Of Mr. and Mrs.
B. j. Cooper, Of the Laurcns Mill. was
reported by the war department as
missing in action since July oath. He
was a member Of Co. B, 3Sth Infantry.
and enlisted as volunteer at the age
Of IS years. Miss Crawlcy, secretary
or the Committee on Home Relief Of
the Red Cross. IS making complete
investigation to get fuller informa-
tion on the case. The notification from
the government did not indicat~
whether Private Cooper was killed,
wounded or prisoner but the general
assumption Is that he Is a prisoner.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
Another Candidate for the House,

Late yesterday afternoon Mr.. ID. L..
Boozcr, of Kinards, tclcphOncd to have
him announced for reelection to the
House OF Representatives. The mes
sage came too late for his name to be
placed in the regular column, so pub
LEFTY is given to it in this place. His
name will appear in the regular list
next week.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
IMMEDiATE ACTION
URGED BY BNNEE

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docs NOT ,nn,v to any, norcon who h,1
taken stems urio, to thn issn,nco or
thc order to enlist or to cntcr mill
ta,y training camn
since thc manrowcr hiI, w,. nro-
,.cd ia Congress- thcrc hos boon =,
heavy rush 10 naval and marine corns
recruiting station of mon who do no,
wish 10 bo drafted IN many c,sos II
is understood mon of families and win
lar~o and importont busincss inicr-
csts. have sought 10 cnlist on mo
theory that cycntuallv thcv wou,d NO
drafted into the army
Secretary Baker was ,hc final Wit
moss IN onrc,r IN connoctio, win tho
bill and Senator Chamberlain honcs
10 have the committee take mn ana
,oagidor 1hc noa.urn withnut dcl,v
PROMPT enactment of tho dr,rt ox-
tension bin so that Scutcmbor , may
bc fixed as registration dav nc sng-
~cgicd Ev provoct >I,r.bol cororol
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
One Teacher Omitted.

In the list Of teachers for the grad
cd school carried in The Advertiser
last week the name Of Miss Mary Belle
Babb was inadvertently omitted. Miss
Babb's application was accepted when
Ii was first received and 1t was only
through an oversight that her name
was left out Of the list last week.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
AMERICA PLANS FOR
A SMASHING BLOW
S,OOO,OU0 Men in France
by Spring.
100000 MORE
AT HOME

AT HOME
Overwhelming Forces OF All Allied
Nations Expected to Push Germans
Back Over the Rkinc in the Spring
or Destroy Greater Part OF Hun
Army.
Washington, Aug. 7.-Backcd by
reservoir of five million American
troops, Field Marshal Foch, supreme
commander of the American and the
Allied armies is preparing to hurl the
entire united military strength OF
France, Great Britain and the United
f; States against the Germans on the
tc3tcrn front in order TO bring the
war TO victorious conclusion in the
shortest possible time. Next spring
will sec the terrific conflict already
in progress on the Aisnc-Nclsc line. in
full swing With Foch's armies stlik-
ing with all their power.
This was the impression gained to-
day by members of the senate mill
tary committee who heard General
March, chief of staff, explain in exc
cutlNc session the War Departments
reasons for asking extension of draft
age limits to include all men between
5 and 40 years Of age They learned
also that the definite decision to en-
large the American military program
10 an army Of five million men was
reached about July so and is in ac-
ccrdancc with an agreement reached
n Paris shortly before that time.
The date when the United States
decided to more than double the great
cffort it already was making and to
bring its whole German front from
Rheims to the sea into jeopardy, was
struck July Is with American troops
bearing their full share.
1t appeared possible that the sue
cess Of that blow had influenced the
American officials who continuously
nave pressed for vigorous aggres-
SiVc campaign at the earliest possible
moment and with attention conccn-
tratcd on the western front, to believe
that enough could be done this wear TO
prepare the way for smashing mill
tary triumph next year when the full
American army becomes available.
!hc period of time covered by esti-
Nacs for equipment and transporta-
ton for the troops under the enlarged
army plan is understood to carry it
up to next spring.
AS the project is understood, al
though the details were not obtain
aE!c, it is contemplated to place an
army of substantially three million
in France before the spring campaign
opens backed by 100000 at home.
moving forward as needed. In this
connection, intimations that the Brit
lSh have made extraordinary effort to
concentrate troops on the western
front in the last few months became
increasingly significant Coupled with
the French and American efforts. this
gives promise Of such overwhelming
~ large forces in the battle next year
that comparatively short and bitter
tight may sec the issue decided and
he German army driven beyond the
Rhine if it is not destroyed in the
field.
In his midwcck conference with
he newspaper men later in the day.
General March dealt with the battle
situation in general terms and refer
red to his appearance before the SEN
1tc committee only to deny a report
that he had fixed the military pro-
gram at landing 81 American divisions
in France by next May.
He had made no such statement. he
said
EirSt 0nnu ('nttnn Roll
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
BOYD Reunion.

A reunion of the Boyd family will
be held at the home Of Mr.. X. Dunk
Boyd next Wednesday. August 21st.
All members Of the family and their
friends are invited to attend Dinner
will be served in picnic etyla.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
EX.G0Y. Please TO Sneak.

Ex-Gov. Cole l.. Blease. candidate
for the United States Senate. Is schcd-
uled to speak in the court house here
next Monday afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock
and at Clinton the same evening at 7
o'clock.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
Childrcn's Day at Lebanon.

Children's Day exercises are to be
held at Lebanon church, Greenville,
county, Saturday, August II. The pub
lie at large Is invited.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-08-14
Union Services.

Union services will be held in the
Methodist Church Sunday morning and
evening. The public Is cordially in
Yited.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-12-12
Former Bates County Lady Dies in
Texas. r

A. w. WeMott Tuesday received
word that his sister, Miss Claudia.
had died the day previous at Dallas.
Texas, as a result of congestion Of
the lungs and pneumonia, following
an attack of the influenza. Miss We
Motifs home was in Colorado, but in
company with her sister, Miss Alice.
was visiting in Texas when stricken.
The remains win be brought to this
eitv Friday morning At II o'clock and
will be taken from the train to Oak
Hill cemetery where services VIII BE-
held and interment made.
She was . daughter Of the late 4r.
and Mra Theodore WeNott early
dav residents Of this coanty. who
several ysan ego Eyea . ss6ost d.
tance northeast e this city.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-12-12
PRACTICALGIFTS

SOMETHING AND PRACTICAL WILL APPEAL TO FATHER MOTHER
SUGGESTIONS
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

their place as precious gems in appropriate
settings; to make houses express not only
their makers, but their occupants, is a live
lier adventure, and one that naturally woulc
lead to the strengthening of the now fragile
bond holding family to its home. Artists
undertaking 1t must have not only the ability
to do good work as sculptors, painters anc
architects, but also the ability to read the
human mind and divine the human soul. An
intellectual artist and one of deep and hexi-
bic sympathies must be chosen to interpret
that temple of the living gods, dwelling
place.
"Caro-Delvallle seems to answer these ext
gent requirements. Passing from one to an
other of his profoundly considered and bril-
llantly executed paintings, one may discern
in their very unevenness of appeal, in theil
varying degrees of eXpressveness, the pres
ence in the artist of personal emotion
penetrating the externals Of his product and
controlling its power to move others"
\ WRITER in "The international
L Studio" notes that the artist, in the
October number of "The New France
defined exactly what is required in fresco
painting. In the course of this article
Mr.. Caro-Delvaille wrote:
"Fresco requires not an imitation of reality
but. it's transcription in more intelligibl,
terms. 1t is calculated to present it's subject
from distance, playing an architectural as
we'll as a structural role It must be one
with the room; it must neither bore into the
wall deeper than its deepest shadows, nor be
more brilliant than it's most brightly lighted
regions. In word it must stay fat. Now
the less apparent be the charoscuro of the
fresco, the better will the quality of it's tones
preserve its limpdity and cooring power
Thus fresco gives intensive power to plastic
eloquence; line, modelling, color, values-all
if separated by analysis and syntheti-
cally reassembled."
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Sidney aner Disciple ofCr Embks Upon
Holiness of Frank Decoration" Ie
americas Flute-Playing Poet Believed That Unless
Art Is Possessed of High Moral Beauty 1t Will Not
Live. His Great Poem, Sunrise"

(NlDNEY LANlER American
4
laner devoted comparatively literature
he
and has discussion
playing
Since his death Ianicrs
noteworthy
Chtahoo~hee" generally
inc WORN " Sidney anler critic has pointed out dominated by
in
saturated shines
his high
- sphec
IN the Mtest
me p0ysoo. 0eaafy suggest moro" "ne that ptoruns he
not
lnsss
Of all
relation, lecih
sgSd uh nedd
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New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

100 nobly planned for the hand of the man
VINO conceived it. To carry nut such an idea
required the brain of great epic poet And
though Bahr is unquestionably one of thr
most able craftsmen in the world of lctters
to-day, one of the few keen minds who meme.
trate to the ultimate reality of things. there
IS no blinking the fact that he is not one al
the great dramatic poets.
HIS failure to achieve such lofty Dur.
pose, however, does not mean that he has
1alied to write a brilliant satric comedy
Josephine is far and away the most imnor.
tsnt play that has been offered to New Yorl
this season." VI
The actor-producer was supported r,
Virginia Harmed, who has not been seer
behind the footlights for a number o1
years. Charles Darnton, in "The Even;no
World" observed:
AS for himself, Mr.. DAILY gave the fr.s,
performance of his career, one esnecial,,
notable for its variety and suggestion. M;ss
harmed was human and chsfminp Joso,h;no
VINO won the symnathies of her audio,oe
quickly and held them without the sl,9htes,
sign of effort" e'''''
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

for "Author" Yes, he was there, and the
next morning in "The American" ap-
peared his own review Of his own play,
He discussed it in whimsical. detached
fashion, insisting with humorous naivete
"Well, l was sure that Alan Dale would
never bore" and in another place admit
ting: "That was Mr.. Dales crime. He
actually made his women humanw
Only one review adopted a tone of bit
terness. This appeared in ''The Brooklyn
Eagle" and ran in part as follows:
Gas matter of fact, The Madonna of
til" Future is not worth wasting good white
PAPER over, but for the benefit of morbid
persons who are fond of corpses we will say
this much: Mr.. Dales play is a theatrical
c"azy quilt, patched up with bits from Shaw's
Getting Married. Jesse Lynch Williams's s
Why Marry? Green Stockings in which
Margaret Anglin appeared a few years ego.
and many, many other plays that we can't
just recall at present There is no thought
or line in the whole play that doesn't sound
like an echo from something you have al
ready read. None of the much -vaunted orig
nslity Of Mr.. Dale was in evidence during
the evening.
"1n other words, 'The Madonna of the Fut-
ure' is warmedover Shaw. 1t sounds like Mr.
Sraw's ice man had told the green grocer
the plot of Shaw play and the green grocer
lad told it to the plumber and the plumber
rad tried to write it for Broadway"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Another Critic Responds to the Fatal
Urge

Of them. II Widcs courage is less, as
Whistler indicated, he is master of plot in
his manner, and SO ekcs out his climax. In
Dale-note how one instinctively speaks of
him like that, now that he is dramatist-in
Dale, both idea and situation are swallowed
up, overwhelmed, in flood Of repartee and
raradox-vast surges of words, as some one
has said, beating upon a little reef of idea
And yet is the sea charming, as rema rked
by Teresa Maxwell Conover even at the final
curtain. Nature is grand"
Salita Solano, in The Tribune, clever
ly improvised the sort Of review Alan
Dale might himself have written had the
play been from another pen than his own
Iris Fotheringay was q sweet girl, 80 rich
and so wholly a child Of nature that she
could see no reason why she should not 60
70 DiJon--they always go to Dion or some
where in Normandy-and have a child
Wasn't that a simply gorgeous idea? And
SO original! And she had a purpose too.
Oh, yes, she had purpose. She would Gre
ate new type Of mother. One who would
be free and untrammelled and all that sort
CT thing. madonna OF the future! It
sounded so well-and so very chaste and
above reproach. And with gorgeous gowns
ard a futuristic butler to amuse the guests
VITO would not forgive Iris, so naTve.-and
so very rich 2"
No one knew it, but, as a matter of
fact, Mr.. Dale was in the house, despite
a failure to respond to urgent demands
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
LOfrande des Anants by II. CaroDelvaIe
Photo by x Champs from 1Ae In nernatona
NHE new galleries of Gimpel &

T~HE new galleries of Gimpel &
Wlldensteln, now open to the pub
lie. house a notable exhibition of
paintings by H. Caro-DeNaille, just back
from service in the trenches.
Mr.. Caro-Delvaillc, writes the critic of
1.-THE New York Evening Post" exhibited
number Of pictures here a few years
ago, which were received with very fair
acclaim:
"Somc of may remember him as the
painter of family group which hangs in
the Luxembourg, and presents as much as or
moro than any picture in that gallery the
grace OF the French fashionable society. ct
was thcre in 1862 His report in this, while
escaping utter frivolity, is very light 1t is
repeated in moro than one Of these canvases.
HIS vision belongs to place and an epoch
1t is one also-to still further localize it
of a small circle in which the intellectual
efforts are aimed at brillancy and often
attain logically something like froth of a
partlcuiarlzlng refinement perhaps, but more
especially of particular taste.
Before the war it might have been dosg-
mated particularly French by the thought
less; now shall see it "a Parisian, or
rather Parisiennc, for the delicate salons in
which these women arc painted and which
are the very essence Of the pictures are sure
" designed at their dictation. Mr.. Caro-Del-
vaille's lines themselves would seem to follow
tho lines Of the play-thc play, for tho sym
boil is pardonable enough. These women in
these settings of an Standardization.
1t may be bit artificial. The night
finds them brilliant Tho morning may
find them little drab; who knows? Perhaps
not Mr. Caro-Delvaille as their historian
permits none Of the little things that multiply
their charms to escape him; the little things,
sometimes truly brilliant, sometimes merely
scintillating, expressed in their faces and
attitudes, in the twists of their slender fin
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Enter a New Napoleon

Josephine" satirical comedy by
Herman Bahr, adapted by DR.. Wash
burn Fre,tnd; presented by Arnold
Daily at the Knickerbochey Theatre
on Monday evening.
\ MOTHER satire, but in this case, ac-
4 a cording to J. Alexander Pierce in
The Tribune, ga series of vivid. thoueh
somewhat static tabeaus." This critic
further wrote:
"A remarkably lifelike portrait of the Man
OF Destiny is achieved. The comedy. in fact
might have been more fttingly called Bona.
parte' except that it sketches but a seqment
of his career whereas it embraces ali that
lie held of greatness and worldly glorv for
his consort. Josephine occupies the STAGE
more of the time, but Napoleon is the dom;-
mating hgure, and even when he is not unon
the scene he Is the subject of discussion bv
The other characters"
Louis Sherwin, in "The Globe" discuss
ing theme and treatment, wrote:
Now. obviously, this is work noh,,,
planned, work of epic conception, A little