Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-31
rirzah School District.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record of Current Happenings Col
lected from Various Sources.

Record Of Current Happenings COL
lected from Various Sources.
In the draft that went from Neck
lcnburg county. y. c., Tuesday. TO
Camp Jackson. were four sons OF j..
VI. Love. a citizen of Paw Creek town
ship.
Ten steel vessels. totalng 63,iSG tons
were completed! for the shipping board
in the wccl; ending May 25. There
were IS launched during the week Of
Il total tonnage of l09.7OO.
The investigation OF conditions in
the New York and New Orleans cot
ton markets. promised Senator Smith
of south Carolina 10y Secretary Hous-
ton, will he made ut once. Senator
smith has announced. Senator Smith
said Secretary Houston had advised
him 10 this effect and that the in
vcsti::Ilion would he under the direct
s,lmrvision of the bureau Of mark
cts.
Twenty thousand dollars in cash
was stolen Monday in an elevator
OF building on Duane street. New
York, from Francis O'I3ricn and Will
liam Montgomery, employees of the
Melville shoe corporation. They were
held up with guns at their heads by
I've ttSGe -2Aen--who eRtefeaa--tAe-ia
The negro elevator boy was required
to run the car to the ground floor.
There the robbers slammed tho door,
ran from the building and mingled
with the crowd. Pursuit was begun
and hundreds joined in the man hunt.
.\ttirCd as soldier, with cap,
blouse. trousers and puttces and riding
a mcttlesomc horse, Miss Frances Hell
cn Kelly, daughter OF James Kelly,
last Monday started on q four months
trip 10 sell war savings stamps. Her
start was made from. Jersey City. y.
j., before which a large crowd gather
ed. Mayor Hague bought the first
stamp and the crowd delayed her start
10y thIustInE quarters and bills at her
faster than she could accept them.
"I'll he back in October" Miss Kelly
called as she waved her gauntlet left
hand in farewell.
Dr. Fl. a. Garfield, the fuel adminis-
TRAITOR. announced officially Monday
that there was bound to he n btu
minous coal shortage during the year.
He was optimistic over the anthracite
situation, saying all the domestic
needs will he met The fuel admin
istration." says tho official statement.
docs not make any concealmcnt OF
the prospect that there will be coal
shortage during the year. The re-
uuircm"nts Tor the year for bituminois
cot, rs ascertaincd by the adminisira-
tion experts Indicate that the produc-
ton will likely fall considerably short
of the nccessar! amount
Through the use flight web am
munition belts. American and British
infantrymcn carry 100 more rounds OF
rife ammunition than their German
opponents with leather belts. and this
seemingly unimportant part of equip
mcnt has resulted in the repulse OF
superior enemy forces on more than
one occasion, says Il statement issued
by the ordnance bureau. With his
web belt, the American soldier car
ries go rounds of ammunition dispos-
cd so that every cartridge Is easily
accessible. The German soldier car
ries 100 rounds.
Provost Marshal General Crowder's
work or fight order has been applied
10 interned enemy aliens by the gov
ernment and many Germans formerly
engaged in business in the large cities
of the country soon will be plying
hoes. rakes and other farm imple-
mcnts in the gardens OF troop camps
raising vegetables for soldiers. One
hundred OF the interned enemy aliens
have been sent from Fort Olethorpe.
Ga. to Camp Devens. Mass. The next
quotas will go to Camp Dix. N. J.. and
Camp Grant, III. A 400-acre farm will
be cultivated at Camp Dix. Each 100
aliens will be looked after by 25 SOL
diers.
The Cuban state department on
Monday dispatched q circular cable
gram to the Cuban diplomats In for
eign countries advising them that d.
plomatic relations between Cuba and
Mexico had not been ruptured. DR..
Guillermo Patterson, the Cuban as
sistant secretary of state announced
that n cablegram had been received
from the Mexican government asking
that the Cuban charge d'affairs at
Mexico City, Senor Santa Maria, be
allowed to remain for the present at
the Mexican capital so as to permit
him to participate In negotiations for
the settlement Of questions pending
between Cuba and Mexico.
Matthias Erzberger leader Of the
Catholic Centrist party in Germany.
has declared that the submarine war
is failure. In a long article printed
in Germania for May 23 and cabled to
he says that peace by COM
promise nnd understanding is more VI