Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-19
MERE m ENTION


Al Urth, former American league
pitcher and umpire of LynchhurS, Va.
has been tentatively accepted for over
seas work with the Y. NJ. &. A.........A
young man named Goodwin, an insur-
ancc agent. was arrested at Salisbury.
y. c., last Monday by Captain kcs-
Ter Of the local police. as dcscrter
because ne paid no attention to his
QUESTIONABLE and other notices from
,,Spv 'rnmrnt. Camp Greene officials
nandi 10 Captain Kcsler for God
Citation 10 change the name
OF bismarck. =. D., -receiv-
cd added impetus last Monday when
il was found that the name on the
Northern Pacific railroad station had
been oblitcratcd............. Members OF the
montgomery, Ma, labor unions will
decline holiday on Labor Day this
year and will give tn" days pay TO the
American l.rd Cross.............Fuod pro-
ducts and paper bags TO the value OF
approximately 100000 were destroyed
10y fire at the Srli"man- Marx Whole
Sal, Grocery. Montgomery. Ala. last
Mun,la y.........N number of Jews were
condemned Ia death and executed last
m% grain. according To Il report which
the state department charactcriZcs rs
more or less circumStantill..-...- The
first shipment OF the $50 hut hospitals
which the American Red Cross has
built in the United States for use in
the 81 small American camps through
out Great britain, arrived in London
last ndaN.................Arthur Guy Fin
,s.y, formerly with the Canadian over
sea forces and author OF "Ovcr the
Top" has hrcn commissioned AZ cap
tain in the National Army, and he will
hr assigned To the adjutant generals
office. ....... More walnut wood Is need
cd for gun stocks and airplane pro-
lrllrrs and the bureau Of aircraft pro-
iuction has again called upon all per-
sons who have any OF this wood, cut
or growing, to sell il to the siwmills
holding government ContractS.-.-...-.Thc
Japanese battlcship kawachi, of 2l.-
TO tons displacement. blew up in To-
koyama bay. $50 miles northeast of
NagaSki. on July 5. Five hundred
members OF the crew lost their lives.
.......Ialc university is bcqucathcd
nearly $aO.OOO,UOO 10y the will of the
late John W. Sterling, a New York
lawyer. Who graduated from the insti-
tuition i'll 1861. and died bachelor on
July :. lglS..-.........Mill stocks Of news
print paper showed virtually no i'm
provcmcnt during June, according to
the Federal trade commissions
Fred Thomas. third bascman of the
Boston Ecd SoX team, last Tuesday
enlisted in the navy rs an apprentice
seaman at the Milwaukee recruiting
station. William. 7-yCar- son
of Mr.. and Mrs. \. }. Corder of Win
stun- Salem, y. G., accidentally shot
himself last Tuesday with n 3S-calibre
Smith n WCsSon pistol. Death re-
suited in Il short time. The little fell
low found the weapon in trunk and
was playing with it.......President Will
son will forego any vacation this year.
remaining in Washington all summer
...... British fliers bagged nine German
airplancs last There are
now several thousand American troops
operating on the Murman coast, in
northern Russia. Three hundred
Italian prisoners have recently reached
their homes in Italy after making their
escape from Austrian prison camps
The shipping hoard has announced
that thirty additional ships have been
ordered from thirteen shipbuilders Of
Japan. bringing the total number Of
orders placed in Japan up to flfty.........
Retail food prices jumped 3 per cent
in the United States from April Is to
May Is, according to estimates Of the
bureau of labor statistics. Boiling
beef increased 80 per cent: corn meal,
80 per cent: milk. 26 per cent.
German street, Camden. y. j.. has been
renamed Pershing street...~....The war
finance board has agreed to advance
100000 600 to the bethlehem Steel cor
poration for the enlargement of its
steel making plants.-..The London
Daily Mail has renewed its offer Of a
prize of $4,000 TO the aviator who
first flies from America to England.
London banking circles and CONNER
cial men are confidently predicting
that the war will be over by January !.
THE Austro- Hungarian war min
lister says that more than 100000 Aus
trian war prisoners have already re-
turned from Russian prison CAMPS.
For attempting to obstruct the sale of
Liberty bonds and war savings stamps
and for unpatriotic references about
the flag. Private William McKentor, a
conscientious objector at Camp Meade,
Md. has been sentenced to serve ten
years at hard labor. McKentor Is a So
cialist of the. Bolshevik type..-..-.--Hen-
~ Roth. a wealthy brewer Of Brook
lyn. y. T.. was drowned Monday while
surf bathing at Neponsit beach. He
was sc wears sold............Forty army avi-
ators at Mineola, L l.. have filed ap-
plications that they be considered first
when pilots were selected for the ini-
tial transatlantic flight------.General
Crowder has issued call for 399 linn
tied service men for cooks and bakers.
Selective service men may volunteer