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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-19

HIGHEST PRICES PAID for beef. calves.
hides and calf skins, hens pay 14c TO l5c
h on drinkers weighing. dressed. from 90
to $50 lbs suckers at market price: can use
large numbers of them; if you have any. no
tify me at once Gonzalo Ala, 20 Berlin
street Barre, tel. 1s-M. 276t2e.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-19

OLD FALSE TEETH wANTED-Don'i mat
ter II broken ] pay 81 To SIS per set; also
cash for old god silver. and broken jewelry
send By parcel post and receive check BY re-
turn mail will hold goods o days for sender's
APPROVAL Of ny offer; L. Mazer. 2o05 South
Fifth street Philadelphia, Pa. 2sst40'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-19

HORSE FOR SALE Weighs l. GOO lbs. good
worker either single or double also a chest.
nut horse weighing 500 fbs.. good driver and
safe for lady; will sell reasonably because
have no further use for them would exchange
Tor beef COWS or calves reply by letter 20
Horses," care Times office. 2s6t6.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-19

WANTED--A competent girl for general
homework amply at 5 Pleasant street. Mont
pelicr, Vt: tel. 99-W. 2s5tf
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05

which explains the purport OF the acE
and the questions involved, is as fol-
lows: T. sNs
Mr.. NJ. j. Miller, Secretary Sinking
Fund Commission, Columbia, S. c.
Dear Sir: | am in receipt Of your
letter OF the 18th inst. in which you
state that the commission request my
opinion as to the effect Of the act to
provide insurance for warehouses op-
Grated by the state Of South Caro-
lima and for cotton stored therein,
passed at the recent session of the
legislature, now in the hands Of the
governor awaiting his approval.
In reply thereto I beg to say that
the portions of the sinking fund held
by the commission in trust for the
bondholders and creditors of the state
and in trust for the public schools OF
the state can not be affected in any
way by this act. These trust funds
have been dedicated by the state con-
stitution Or the acts under which the
state funds are issued to the use
therein declared and can not be d.
verted by subsequent acts of the leg
islature.
The provision in section 5 of this
act now under consideration that any
loss of cotton by fire shall be charged
against said funds or any other funds
in the hands of the sinking fund COM
mission must be held to mean any in
surane funds held by the sinking
fund commission for the purpose Of
meeting fire insurance losses The
accumulative funds from premiums
paid on insurance Of state. county
and school buildings are the private
property Of the state and may be dis
posed Of by it as it sees fit. It is,
therefore. no violation OF any public
trust to use these funds as guaran-
tee fund for the purpose Of private in
surance to persons storing cotton in
the state warehouse il addition to the
insurance provided for the public
buildings now being insured under
existing laws.
The act evidently contemplated that
the owners of the cotton stored in
the warehouses should pay rate OF
insurance premium sufficient to carry
their risks and imburse the state for
any losses that might occur by reason
of the destruction of such cotton bv
fire. The rate to be paid is to be
fved by the state warehouse commls-
sioner subject to the approval of the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05

governor, insurance commissioner and
the comptroller general, and the act
contemplates that the governor, in
surance commissioner and comptroller
general shall see that the rate pre-
scribed by the state warehouse COM
missioner is sufficient to reimburse
the state for any losses that are like
~ 70 occur.
II. as is to be anticipated, the gov
ernor. insurance commissioner and
comptroller general use ordinary care
in determining the sufficiency of the
rate prescribed by the state ware
house commissioner and IN approving
same before it is promulgated, as re-
CURED in this act, there is no appre-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05
Personal PARAGRAPHS
PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY.

Prosperity, Ftb. 2S.-Mr. and Mrs.
A. G. Wise have gone to Atlanta,
where Mr.. Wise is under the care Of
a specialist.
Mrs. C. NJ Simpson and little son
returned today to Charlotte after an
extended visit to Prof. and Mrs. J.
S. Wheeler.
Mesdam, s j. A. Bolles and l. Julian
of Greenwood have been the guests
OF Miss Edna Fellers.
Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh and childrec
of Pomaria are spending the week
with Mrs. J. NJ. Werts.
Rev. E. P. Shealy who has been TAX
ing post graduate work in Chicago is
visiting his brother, H. l.. Shealy.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Thaddeus Hunter
are home from Fort Oglethorpe and
report their son willie improving
slowly from a case of pneumonia.
Miss Mcclellan of Baltimore arrives
this week and will again have charge
of Blacks millinery department.
Mrs. q. W. Bedenbaugh has re-
turned to her home in the Monticello
section after spending the week with
her daughter, Mrs. Herman Werts.
Another car of mules will arrive
this week. Mr. Wise is now in the
West buying them.
r. X. Wise of Navy Rifle Range,
Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. J. c. Taylcr
of Walhalla were home last week for
the funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Sara,
Gaines
Mrs. Allie Wise has gone to Little
Mountain to spend few days with
Mrs T. B. Latham.
DR.. G. w. Harmon will motor Sun
day to Ninety Six to visit at the home
his father.
Mrs. Nellie Hunt has been visiting
her sister at Piedmont
Miss Marie Schumpert of Columbia,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Schumpert.
Miss Marie Singley has returned
from short stay to friends at Po-
maria
Miss Jean Adams of Chappells
spent Saturday and Sunday here.
Miss Beatrice Livingston and Mr..
and Mrs, j. T. Lyles Of Newberry have
been visiting at the home of Mr.. NJ.
r. SingIey
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05
IL ARRESTS MADE
In LYNCuNG CASE.
Prominent Farmers and Business
Men of Barnweil County Under
Bond-Charge in Denied by
All.

Columbia, Feb. 2S.-Special: Judge
William H. Townsend this afternoon
granted bond to seventeen prominent
farmers and business men of the town
of Fairfax and of Barnwell county,
alleged to have participated in the
lynching near Fairfax last Saturday
afternoon of a negro man, Walter
Best. The negro "a few hours before.
had shot to death William Wilson, 2
young garage man of Fairfax, ana
was being taken to Barnwell by Sher~
if T. B. Morris and Deputies Y.
Grubbe and John B. Ross when mob
of between Is and 100 men took the
negro from the county officers at
Duck Branch bridge about mile or
more from Fairfax. They carried
Best into the nearby woods and shot
him to death.
Warrants Sworn Out.
Acting on information and BELIEF
Sheriff Morris, of BarnwelI county,
swore out warrants for the II men
before Magistrate E. W. Holman, Of
Barnwell, for alleged murder and they
were placed under arrest today.
Those arrested were: C. H. Sanders,
merchant and farmer, Fairfax; J. r.
Blount, restaurant keeper, Fairfax;
John Dunbar, Allendale; o. B. Lynes,
Fairfax; E. G. Connelly, travelling
man, Fairfax; Oscar Carlton, farmer,
Kline; G. 4. Sanders, automobile man
Fairfax; W. B. Sanders, Fairfax; 2.
B. Best, clerk, Fairfax; S. w. Domi-
nick and Leo Todd, automobile men,
connected with the Fairfax Motor
Company; Lawrence Harter, farmer,
Fairfax; Grady Harter. clerk, Fair
fax; H. H. Young. telegraph opera
tor, Fairfax; Simms O'Neal, farmer,
Fairfax; Frank Harter, farmer, Fair
fax. and George Hogg.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05
IMPORTANT MEASURES
on GOVERNORS DESK.

Columbia, Fec. 24.-One of the
important measures passed by the re-
cent general assembly is the Banks
state warehouse insurance act, which
is now on the governors desk await
inc executive action. The act would
provide for the insurance of state
warehouses and state warehouse cot
ton by the state, the premiums to be
collected by the warehouse commits
sioner and placed in the state treas
ury, and any loss to be paid by the
state treasurer upon warrant drawn
bv the state warehouse commissioner,
from said funds or any other funds
in the treasury to the credit of the
state sinking fund commission. when
now insures certain classes of public
property The state warehouse COM
missioner would be required to rein
sure any single risk Of over 100000.
The rate of insurance would be fixed
by the warehouse commissioner, sub
ject to the approval of the governor,
insurance commissioner and comptrol- :
Ter general. The idea in placing the
funds already to the credit of the
sinking fund commission at the dis
posal of the warehouse commissioner
to pay any loss is that loss might
occur before the premiums earned
from warehouse insurance would be
sufficient to meet it.
Several days ago the sinking fund
, commission held meeting to con-
slider the effect of the act, and it was
feared that certain trust funds held
by the commission might be affected.
, The question was submitted to At
+. torney General Peoples. member of
the commission. for an opinion. and
the attorney general holds that the
trust funds could not be affected, and
says that in his opinion "the act is a
wise one for the general benefit OF
the public, which will protect the
producers Of cotton, the basis Of our
prosperity, against the extortionatn
and exorbitant taxes which might
otherwise be laid upon them by the
insurance trusts
Governor Manning is out of the
state, and will not return until next
week The act having been ratified
within three days Of the final ad-
journment Of the general assembly.
can be held by him for a year. He
has given no intimation as to what
action he will take with regard to it.
If he signs it, it will become law
Immediately.
The opinion of the attorney general,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05

ciable danger OF loss to either the
state, counties or school districts
AS above stated the act does not n
any way subject the trust funds held
by the commission for the benefit OF
creditors and public schools to the
payment Of insurance losses, and IN
my opinion, the act is a wise one for
the general benefit of the public
which will protect the producers OF
cotton. the basis of our prosperity.
against the extortionate and e2orbit-
ant taxes which otherwise be laid up
on them by me Insurance trusts.
Yours very truly,
THOMAS H PEOPLES.
Attorney General
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05

To be as honest as the day is long
is not enough; you may be kept out
late at night.-The Youths Compan-
ion.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-05
FOOD PROGRAM:
Monday is wheatless.

Tuesday is meatless.
"Wednesday is wheatless.
Saturday is porkless.
One wheatless meal a day,
the noon meal being designated
for South Carolina.
One meatIess meal each day.
Save sugar every day.
Bake. broil and boil to save
fats.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01
New Rough
Finish Hats SIS

TA7E'VE just received another ship
w ment of these beautiful silk finish
hats Rich shades brown, dark grey and black
Light weight hats, the seasons best Sc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01
CONTRACTOR is
FOR ROAD BOND
Nv. Horst Head OF Construction
COmPaRy Building Government
Houses, Gives Reasons.
TRAFFIC Is MOTOR DRAWN
iusz,s Must HaTe Hard-Surfaced
Highways TO PM Big Loads
Other States Pr0fit.

Assn Indication that the citizen
&c giving much thought to the
oyestion OF how to vote ON theh
raads question that is to be sub
nit1ed al next Tuesdays election,
some very important points were
hroarht out in q recent interview
With Henry W Horst who is now
husy filing a contract for the gov
s-ur7ent housing corporation Mr..
Horst is a man, who sees the value
Of all methods making for economy
and efficiency. He says with refer
ence to the proposed road law:
"In thinking about the $50, 900 600
rad bond issue. and looking over
soue OF the striking reasons ad-
RANGED as to why it should be APP
proved by Illinois voters, find one
TACT that sticks like a burr. That
fact is the rapid shift from animal
10 gasoline as highway motive
power
In looking over some Illinois
figures find that within three
years the number Of motor driven
vehicles has jumped from 131 lac
10 3S6.749. an increase OF 255, sos
based upon automobile registration
The increase in the number Of draft
animals has been only 10000 in 10
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01

chusetts, as an illustration, found
that to maintain their macadam
roads under this new kind of traffic
for which they were not built, en-
tailed q cost OF $500 to 81 200 per
mile per year Connecticut and
and other states also made the same
discovery. An examination of state
highway reports shows that they are
now building permanent types of
construction suitable to this new
| traffic and avoiding such excessive
maintenance expense.
TT seems clear to my mind that
! Illinois now has a chance to profit
| by the experience of other states
and get a system of permanent hard
! roads with a low maintenance cost,
and at the same time carry the
heavier a1dsdenser traffic, which is
sure to develop. I certainly hope
the bond issue is approved on Nov.
s."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01

years These figures show that mo-
tor power in Illinois highways is
running far ahead Of animal power
The shift from animal to motor
power has brought another eco
nomic fact to light; the fact that
power used in propelling a motor
vehicle against obstacles in the
road is wasted, when the surface OF
the road itself is so constructed
that all OF the power may be ap-
piled to moving the vehicle. Just
how much this waste amounts TO
has not been fully determined, but
enough has been learned to indicate
that rough, uneven roads require
200 per cent more power than roads
with a solid, even surface.
This matter of waste power.
which means an unnecessary con-
sumption of gasoline, may not i'm
press one in the case of one or two
motor cars or trucks. but il we were
to meet the 3S6.749 motor vehicles
now in use In Illinois all in a row
and all burning 200 per cent more
gasoline than necessary, we
would get some idea of the enor-
MUS H6SLS ShkA4tSQ Dy DdQ ROADS.
Certainly we could then understand
| why it will be wise on our part to
build roads that will eliminate
waste.
Along with the shift from the
horse-drawn to motor-driven Yehi-
, Gle has come about another deveI-
opment which discIoses the vital
need of a new roadbed for the new
traffic. Where the light-running
horse-drawn vehicle served to pack
the roadbed. the motor driven We
/ hicle, because of its speed and the
| greater load which it carries
/ pounds and tears the surface OF
the road to pieces. Again remind
! ing ourselves that highway motor
I power is increasing in Illinois and
| that animal power is on the de-
cline, it becomes very clear that
road construction will increase in
| like proportion unless a more rigid
type Of surface is used. Massa-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01

south OF the Vesle river (Marne ga
LENT.
All the inhabitants capable OF
working, the order says, must be
used for the needs of the army. re-
CARELESS of their age. Their sal
aries" are to be paid in paper cur
rency at the rate of so cents a day
as the maximum for men; 40 cents
for men and women between the
ages of II and 20 and 30 cents for
boys from Is to II.
The inhabitants. however, must
pay in French gold or silver for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01
'RUTHLESSNESS OF
HUN NOT STOPPED

With the American Troops in
France.-(Correspondence of the
Associated Press) .-Renewed evil
dence of German ruthlessness in
dealing with the civilian population
Of invaded territories is contained
in a captured army order. 1t pre-
scribes the treatment and the pro-
cedure to be followed in a section
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01

Relief distributed by the Amer
lean Red Cross to nearly four hun
dred thousand needy families of
soldiers, Al kitchens contributing to
131 900 families, "a work-rooms en-
Ploying 5000 women, 50 nurseries
caring for IS 900 children, 10 health
centers containing 5000 children, q
colony for refugees at Pisa, can
teen and hospital and ambulance
work-these are the reasons for
this years Italian budget of $20,-
000, 000.-Red Cross Magazine.
The shoe values this week at Nc
Cabe's are extraordinary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01
ftyh10fJ

Phone RI. 2S5. Trefz Express Co.
Tri-City Towel Supply company
: Besco Motor Oh. Beardsley's.
r. I. Clean Towel Service. Phone
R I. 4476.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-01

their rations. The supplies Of
course were taken from the Dopu-
lation before being sold back 10
them.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1918-10-11

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left, eab 9unbefperre nrbdngt 1T,
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n9odft nobelieeeno! Obns Wsops reiit
fe nidt!"
8erratben. 5err 0ur
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tenn: Wie baben sic Is benn fertis
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betettn gu perihoffen, obnt buB in es
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had. ID bsbs Fk absdNnttteu, ais
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Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
GERMANS DRIVE
AWAKENS West,
SAYS O'C0NNOR
Great Irish Leader Confident
Last Desperate Gamble Of
German Commanders Is
Futile Attempt.

by Associated rress,l
San Francisco, Cal, March "a
The German drive has awakeped the
west to a realization of the serious
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
NINE AMERICANS
DECORATED WITH
FRENCH CROSSES
ny ...ssocIated rress.l

With the American Army in
France, March 24-The distinguished
service cross has been awarded nine
American soldiers, but three of those
decorated are dead, and the cross, with
an appropriate letter, will be for
warded to the next of kin.
The decorations have,' been con-
ferred on Second Lieutenant A. w.
Terrell; Medical Sergeant Thomas
Peterson dead; Privates Herman
Genipy and Lenni Fillengem (both
dead) and Sergeants Warner Han, and
James II. West, and Corporals Edgar
H. Freeman, Amos Teske and Homer
Whited, all Of the same infantry regi-
ment.
Some of the men had already been
decorated with the FrencR-war cross.
Medical Sergeant Peterson, as pre-
viously reported. was attached to an
artillery regiment and in action on
March 5, although mortally wounded,
supervised the, care OF wounded
brought to a station which he had es-
tabGshed, and in order to save the
lives of others gave up his own, He
died OF his wounds the same night.
Private Fillengem, as sentry, stood
by his post the same day, notwith-
standing a heavy she'll fire and was
wounded as a result.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26

ness of the war, said T. P. O'Comor,
noted Irish journalist and member OF
the British parliament, today. He
spoke befo-e the Burlngame Coun-
try club, -.-
~ 1T was especially gratifying to me
to see the universal interest shown
throughout The west in the story .of
the battle Mr.. O'Connor said.
Gratifying also was the undisguised
anxiety OF the people that the allied
forces should win.
Il have not the smallest fear that
the Germans will produce decision,
for decision means the wholesale
destruction by death and surrender
of great portion, if not the whole,
Of an army, such as occurred for in
stance at Sedan
Last Desperate Gamble.
ITO me the most hopeful fact of the
situation is that this looks like a last
desperate gamble of the German
commanders to anticipate the arrival
of the American troops by the de-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26

struction of the French and the Brit
sh. 1t is a gamble which is costing
hundreds of thousands of lives in a
nation already depressed by the ever
receding prospect of success and
which must exercise a profound ir-
fluence on the German people. The
kaiser and junkerism are throwing all
their stakes on the table, and unless
they win, their loss must be decisive"
Even if there were no notable de-
lenses the German drive would have
to stop, Colonel A. E. Murray, eighth
earl of Durmore, said in an address
based on three years service in
France. 49,.
I'VE broke the German lines at the
Somme, at Vimy Ridge, Passchen-
daele ridge and Cambria" he said.
AT Cambrai there was nothing i'll
the way OF formidable defenses be-
tween the British army and Berlin.
but we could not force the situation
for areason that will be soon known"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
British Press Confident
= Won Hindenburg About Done

London, March 2S,-Commentng
on the great battle in France, the
Sunday Times says:
an all previous great assaults the
chief success has been gained at the
first thrust but in this battle, whereas
the Germans were unable to issue
flowery report at 'he close of the
first day, it has to be admitted that
their second and third communiques
will be more satisfactory from this
point of view. The German military
caste are out for victory, even if to
gain they must destroy the people to
whom they promised its fruits. They
have already flung nearly one-third
of their entire western resources
against the sector measuring one
tenth of the western front and must
continue to fling fresh divisions into
the blood bath.
with time on our side and fewer
troops exposed to the death blast, we
may reasonably count on holding in
hand reserves powerful enough to
deal a crushing counter stroke when
Von Hindenburg has shattered his
last legions against the impregnable
British wall"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-26
Jap Newspaper, in Powerful
Editorial, Demands Action

Toxic, March 25.-The Jill Shimpo,
in a powerful editorial today says:
"The question of supplying ships
to America cannot be regarded as
business deal any more than the
dispatches of Japanese ships to the
Mediterranean. SO long as Japan is
one of the allies, she should be ready
and willing to do so. 1t is Japan's
duty to furnish America with bottoms
to help the cause of the allies, To
talk of compensation is to misunder-
stand the position of Japan. Sacri-
fices are unavoidable; talk of profits
is sign of business"
In conclusion the Jill urges the
government to exercise the right to-
regulate the charter rates and force
selfish commercial interests to realize
the situation and the national obli-
cations and cease talking of COM
DenSatiou,