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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
BUYER AND MILL-OWNERS
URGE GOVERNMENT CONTROL

Boston.-Cotton buyers and mill.
owners urged the necessity for govern
ment control Of the New York cotton
exchange and the elimination OF spec
ulation OF a purely gambling nature.
at hearing held here by the bureau
OF markets OF the department of ag-
riculture. Speakers declared also that
the correct labelling OF cotton bales
would be OF greatest help both to mill
men and growers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
NEW DRIVE AGAINST ENEMY
EXPECTED BY ARMY OFFICERS

Washington.-A new drive against
the German positions either in Flan-
ders or between the Disc and scissors
Is expected by many army officers
here as a result OF the slowing up of
the advance. Outlining the situation
at his mid-week conference, General
March, chief OF staff. confined his
statements to pointing out that the
Germans have now been forced back
until they are not within 80 miles of
Paris at any point
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
IMPORTANT WOODS ARE
TAKEN BY FRENCH TROOPS

With the British Army in France
BY a brilliant maneuver. the French
have finally captured -" wood and
Damery wood. In these two wooded
tracts the Germans have been hold
ing out desperately for several days.
realizing the value of those positions.
The little patches Of forest which
are now in the hands of the allies are
virtually on the exertme right of the
British line.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
OF WOUNDED
AND SICK T OGET FAcTs

washington. - Exact information
concerning wounded and sick Ameri.
can soldiers admittedto hospitals over.
seas will be made Immediately avail
able to relatives or friends.
Secretary Baker said he had visited
the Offices of Surgeon General Cor.
gas to look into the daily reports from
the hospitals with a view to having
them carded. catalogued and tabula.
ted SO that the most instant informa-
ton can be given to- all inquiries.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
ALL GROUND TAKEN BY FOE
IN FIVE MONTHS RECLAIMED

New York.-It is possible now to re-
view with certain measure of exact
ness the facts and figures OF the past
operations and to measure the slow
but sure turn of the tide which has
brought up at the present moment a
situation where all the valuable
ground lost in the first four months OF
the campaign has been retaken in the
fifth and the invaluable advantage OF
the initiative has passed to the allied
commnder-in. chief.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
Enrolment. 147.456.

Columbia.-With only the rural
boxes in Hampton county to hear
from Secretary Ashley Tobias. Jr a
the State Democratic Committee. re-
ports total enrolment in the State
OF 147.456.
The belated reports from Hampton
county will not increase the figures
over 500. il that much. In the second
primary in 1916 Hampton county cast
1880 votes. The enrolment OF the in
corporated towns in Hampton county
is reported at 1,105, so that the unre.
ported rolls will not add more than
500 at the outside.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
ExPEDiTIoNARY FORCE HAS
REACHED PUBERESHkAIA

London.-The allied Archangel ex-
peditionary force has reached Paber-
eshkaia. 100 miles south OF Archangel.
on the railroad toward Volgoda Bol.
shevik forces. on retiring, are declared
to have committed every form of
atrocity upon the civilian population.
Allied forces have been landed along
the shore OF Omega bay, 10 miles
southwest of Archangel, for the pur-
pose of intercepting bolshevik forces
retiring from Archangel
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
81 GERMAN AIRPLANES
ARE PUT OUT OF BUSINEss

London.-Twenty-one. German air.
planes were brought down and 10
also were driven down out of control
according TO an official statement is.
sued on aviation operations. Six Brit
ish machines are missing as a result
OF the aerial encounters British and
American air squadrons co.operated in
an attack on an enemy airdome and
destroyed six machines parked near
the hangers, infiicting as we'll several
casualties.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
ABANDONED LIFEBoATs
ARE SWEPT ASHORE

Norfolk. Va.-Two abandoned life.
boats Of the Norwegian bark Nordhav.
sunk by German submarine 1875
miles off the Virginia capes, were
swept ashore on the Atlantic coast
near this port. One was discovered
In the breakers by the life saving
crew OF the Virginia Beach station.
and an hour later the surfmen of the
Little Island life saving station. 80
miles further south. reported the re-
covery OF the second.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
AMERICANS GAIN MORE
GROUND AT FRAPELIE

With the American Army in Lor.
raine.-The Americans gained more
ground at Frapelle. despite a total OF
$500 shells dropped by the enemy on
the village. and raid OF the Germans.
which was repulsed by the American
artillery and automatic rifle fire. In
the Woevre an American patrol had a
lively engagement. One American,
wounded in nine places, heroically
carried wounded comrade to
safety.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
AMERICAN TROOPS REACH
VLADIVOSTOk FROM MANILA

Valdivostok.-The transport carry
ing the first contingent of American
troops arrived here after an unevent-
full voyage Of seven and half days
from Manila. The men were in ex.
cellent spirits and crowded the rails
and rigging. cheering and being cheer
ed by the men OF the allied warships
in the harbor.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
coFERENcE ON WAR
PRISONERS PUT OFF

Paris.-At the request of the Ger
man government. the Ferman-Ameri-.
can conference regarding war prison
ers has been postponed. acordig to
Geeva dispatch, published in the
Echo de Paris.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-22
TOTAL GERMAN LOSSES
ESTIMATED AT 5000 900

Paris. - The total German losses
from the beginning of the war to the
end OF July. 1918, are understood to be
six million, according to the news.
papers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

1 Funny how one chair is Btg enough to hold both before they are married and how one city isn't big enough to hold both after they are married. A smart Alek never gets any thanks for trying to correct an old-fashioned mother by telling her that babies cut their gums and not their teeth: She will keep right on insisting that paples cut their teeth.
 There is always helapoppin when q man with future discovers that he has married woman with past Runko men and get-rich- quick firms flourish because we all imagine that othe- people are not quite as smart as we are.
 man may doubt his ability to do some things. but he is usually quite sure that he is capable of running the government.
 When it comes to economy, father does all the preaching and mother does all the practicing. And any girl who has a fair to mid- ding mustache would rather be that way than have a hare lip. You may have noticed that a man who has the reputation of being lob | ster is fellow who can't keep out of hot water.
 Another clncn DeI IS that man never gives himself any the worst of it when he compares himself with oth- CT people.
 Some men are not happy unless they are skating on thin ice all year round. The man who hears his pants rip in the Rear when he stoops over isn't half as scared as the girl who feels her hose supporter divorce itself from her corset when she is on the street A man is so contrary that he will order his wife to wake him up at 6 a. m. and then he will set the alarm
 clock for 2 a. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
AMERICA,s NEWEST WAR CITY

 Nellie Kelso in the Thrift Magazine.
 A few miles out of Charleston, w. Va, you pass an immense new armour plate manufacturing place. In a little while you reach Nitro along with several hun dred Charleston people on their way to work there.
 The train passes through rows upon rows of little five and six-room cottages which house the employees of the great government explosives plant. Nitro is a city of 22,0oo people with prospects of 12,- 900 more coming in as soon as there are houses to live in.
 It lies in the region of cheap coal and cheap gas, a climate of cold nights and hot days and the foggiest of foggy morn- ings.
 Three we'll equipped hospitals-an emer- gency. an isolation and big base hospi- tal-take care of the sick. The explosives plants are not yet in operation. but among the thousands of men employed in the construction of the plants and in the building of the homes, there are enough sick and injured to keep the hos pitals and their Red Cross helpers more than busy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Efficiency Depends
 Upon Cooperation

IN these war times efficiency of public utilities depends in great
 yFre upon the cooperation of
 ,el who use them. This is especial
 so with regard to the telephone. Nrhe Southern Bell Telephone and legraph company had been giving Fost excellent service up to the time is country entered the war. The slocation of business was then keen in evidence. All public service was eriously affected, but considering tho ituation the telephone company has one remarkably well in serving it's Atrons. Whatever Impairment or de- rrioration there be in certain locali- es is overlooked by reasonable people, 'aenait is known that the management
 doing the best it can under trying
 ditions.
 he Bell company, in its heart-to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
War Savings Drive
 After Liberty Loan

7THE Pershing patriot War Stamp
 4 campaign has been distinctly
 |successful, but it closes this week in
 order that all the live-wire canvassers
 Imay assist in the fourth Liberty Loan.
 This does not mean, however, that
 lthe War Savings Stamp canvass will
 be ended. Nothing of the sort. The lew. S. S.' campaign will go on with renewed energy until the amount
 sought to be raised by this method two billion dollars--is in sight. The Liberty Loan campaign will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Save Peach Stones and Nut Shells

I A s the carbon obtained from wood
 &N charcoal is not suitable for gas
 masks, but as carbon from charcoal
 made of peach stones, prune pits and
 nut shells is, the government urges
 that these things be collected and
 used for the purpose indicated. Retail grocers will act for the gov
 ernment in making the collections.
 They are expected to provide recepta-
 cles, and as an ordinary box will an-
 swer there should be no delay in get ting ready.
 Peach stones and the shells of nick Iory nuts and walnuts having been re- garded as trash were carried off by the garbage wagon in cities or thrown in ravine or a bArnyard "fill' in the country.
 A great deal of garbage can be con- verted into fertilizer, but who ever thought that nut shells or prune pits would be of value? At this time they are of precious value. Rural merchants as well as city grocers should assist in collecting, and 
 ievery boy and girl should be a con- tributor.
 There are many ways in which chil- dren can help win the war and gath ering of peach stones and nut shells lis one of the most important.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
No Epidemic

Livingston has been done an .njus- tice inadvertently, perhaps said Fred H. Jones, member of the council and mayor pro tenn of that city, last night, when 1t was announced that there was
 an epidemic of diphtheria in Livingston. The fact is, there have been just two cases of diphtheria-one in Livingston and one in the county about two miles
 from town. In both these cases the children are entirely well, up and about.
 The state board of health state that the disease developed in the public schools.
 when as matter of fact the schools
 did not open until Monday, several
 days after the two children were we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
RILEY AND UNCLE REMus

H. F. Harman, in the South Atlantic Quarterly.
 Along in 1902 or 1863 I was spending the summer at the Sweetwater park hotel. Lithia Springs, Ga, and by ap- pointment Joel Chandler Harris and Jsmes Whitcomb Riley spent two weeks there together. I was with them much of the time and can never forget the royal fellowship which existed between these two masters of literature Riley came down from Indiana chock full of stories and Uncle Joe had one in reply for each the Hoosier poet would tell. For two weeks these rare characters loafed about the broad verandas of the hotel, rarely ever being separated and only occasionally having with them few select friends as guests of their story telling bees. Riley would tell one of his best ones and hold his sides in laughter as he watched the effect of the story on Urcle Remus. Then Uncle Joe," as we all called him in those golden days when he was in his prime, would bat his eye a few times. the lips would curl in suppressed laugh. and he would put over at Riley story which would make stoic laugh. m
 In all my experience I never saw such cornradeship between two men. Each seemed absolutely happy in the company Of the other. When the short vacation was over and we were coming back to Atlanta to take up the grind again, MT IT~~. a-t1 xt-. .s-- Riley would stand out in all the com ins years as the happiest he had ever known. One wrote his stories in verse and the other in prose. but both men were poets. full statured, and their place in the world of literary fame is safe ans car never De lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Absurd Stories Told
 By German Newspapers

THE lies on which the German
 4 people are fed make interesting reading to Americans. Strange as il maj seem, there Is a great deal of ignorance, even among the more in- telligent people of Germany, regard ing conditions in America. Perhaps
 Hs is the reason why the most ab- surd yarns about the United States are foisted upon their readers by Ger fnan newspapers and are generally believed.
 For instance, recent issue of the Cologne Gazette, one of the more in- fluential newspapers of Germany, tells of the bombardment" of Will mington and Charleston by the Kaiser's U-boats, and the s'terror' of Atlantic coast cities, which are beg ging the government to save them from German attacks. It is predicted that our warships will be hastily withdrawn from European waters to protect Atlantic ports. To lend this tale veracity, it is attributed to Paris newspapers.
 There was time wien the German people knew hardly anything about the war. They are learning more now, but soldiers are still being captured along the western front who believe American seaports are at the mercy of U-boats and our government is afraid to send any more transports to France because of submarine blockade" which exposes ships to ertain attack.
 Not much longer will the spirit of he German people be bolstered up by alsehoods. The end is drawing near. hey are due to receive sad en- < ghtenment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Has Always Been
 Iron Easing Point.

10 IRMINGHAM has always been O the basing point for pig iron. It sets the price of iron for the world. The Pittsburg price has been the Bir- mingham price, plus the freight charge.
 The natural advantages of the Bir- |mingham district in having ore, coal 'and limestone within close proximity has enabled the furnace companies to produce pig metal at lower cost than can be done by ironmakers in any other part of the country. This fact is what made Birmingham.
 This is not the basing point for bar iron or steel, but the time must come when it will be. Although the Tennessee company makes superior quality of steel rails, its price is based on the Pittsburg market. If rails are selling for $2S at Pittsburg the price here is BPS plus the freight.
 The Associated Press dispatch sent from New York about basic and foundry iron was not only not clear, but the statement that "basing points for iron sales were charged from f. O. b. to Pittsburg and Birmingham" was confusing.
 Representative of the American Iron and Steel institute and the war industries board who conferred in New York touching price changes will ex- plain and clear up what must now be puzzling to iron salesmen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Should Be Magnified

T have had a number of war speak, CTS to speak from my pulpit" said Dr. F. B. Wells, pastor of the High land Methodist church. "but the ad- dress of Dr. Leslie Willis Sprague of the United States department of labor, on Sunday morning, was one of the most forceful and inspiring ones my congregation has ever had the pleas- ure Of listening to. 1t was superb effort from every standpoint and it ought to be given all over the coun- try. His message and his mission should be magnified."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24

Iheaft talk with the public in an ad- vertisement in yesterdays Age-Her- aid, explains the difficulties that are encountered at the present time and asks for cooperation on the part of all users of the service in order that efficiency may be kept up to as high Ia standard as possible.
 One point is brought out that should impress itself upon patrons, particu- larly the patrons of party lines social visiting and extended conversa- tions by telephone. The company says: Thousands of useless calls are made every day. Servants and children make unnecessary calls. Housewives pay social visits over the telephone and employees engage in idle talk"
 Persons who indulge in a fifteen or twenty-minute conversation are in- considerate- of others who have right to use the telephone. It is altogether wrong. The telephone is indispensa- ble, but it is intended for business or brief communications between friends.
 The time one may talk over "long distance" is limited and it should be limited to local lines. The average business man usually gets through with what he has to say in two min- utes, even when an important matter is the subject of the conversation.
 With proper cooperation the talk a-talk" abuse would be minimized if not reformed altogether. But the sur est way to cure the evil referred to is for the telephone company to apply a limit rule, just as is done for the long distance service. A In the mean while people should cultivate the habit of being considerate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
TROUBLESOME ISSUE DIsposED OF

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A ruling by the California superior court in test case involving the alien land law of that state bids fair to lead to satisfactory and amicable settle ment of a question which has seriously threatened the good understanding and the peaceful relations of the United States and Japan. The government of Japan has always resented the implied discrimipaton against the subjects of the island empire in the California laws for- bidding their ownership of land, and last year a project in Oregon and Idaho to enact similar laws created such anxiety |ane, friction that the interpositlon of the Secretary Of State and the urgent appeal of the federal administration were all thar prevented the success of the move ment. In the California case just de- cided the prohibition of the existing statute was met by a Japanese resident by putting the title to certain land in the name of his children born in this coun- try, The court has ruled that the own CTS were native born, not aliens: and while there is an intmation that the California authorities will appeal the de- cision, the action of the court opens the way for a settlement that will be recog- nized in law and in equity to be just ano reasonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
DoucHBoY LIKES HIS HATH

Paris.-Next to licking Germans the chief aim among Pershing's men in France seems to be keeping clean. "Doughboys' never pass up an oppor- tunity to take a bath. One of the chief articles in every marching kit is bar oe soap, and whenever the men can find a creek or river or pond they make vigorous use of it.
 The Americans fondness for water is constant source of astonishment to French peasants, and some of the peas ants are astounded to learn that tho Americans actually drink the stuff. The |. NJ. .. A. has just contracted for l, ,s0e GOO bars or soap for the canteens near the front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
THE NEW AMBASSADOR

Washington Correspondence Philadel- phia Public Ledger
 John w. Davis is 45 years old. He is married and has daughter. He is of medium height, slender, and his hair is almost entirely white. This and his comparatively young face give him a distinguished appear ance
 MT. Davis is a good golfer. angler, is conservative in social activities. clever after dinner speaker, not given to extremes in dre.s any more than in his political ideas, professional prac- tices or amusements An ordinary dark business suit on most occasions and a frock coat for formal functions are his choice in dress.
 Secretary of State Lansing is Mir. Davis most intimate personal friend in official life, although he is close friend also of the President Colonel House and Lord Reading. Mir. Lansing and MT. Davis spent their vacation to- gether in New York state in August.
  more to study and association with books than attendance at dinners and dances: although the functions at the Davis home, while not numerous, al- ways were in the best of taste and attended by carefully chosen friends.
 A careful and forceful speaker de. spite his moderate delivery, Mr. Davis makes much the same impression on an audience as does President Wilson
 He possesses a remarkable mind for the absorption of legal facts and can get at the bottom of the most intri. cate problem.
 His carriage Is. straight and digni. fled and his manner always affable the kind of man you desire to meet again after you have r-et him onca
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-24
Wood Shingles Best

T note With much interest, said John Sparrow, that wood in the form of shingles has been decided upon as the best possible protection for the roof of old Independence hall by the PhiladeI- phia chapter. American Institute ot Architects. These are to be laid on shngle lath so they will be visible from the loft. and nailed with copper nails.
 "The Philadelphia architect body made the decision after long and exhaustive study of the subject during which all sorts of roofing material was proposed. The work, which is to be finished in four weeks, has already been let for $5eS6. The specifications call for split, all heart shingles, 7x24 inches, with butts not less than half inch.
 When the work has been completed the historic building will be about as fully restored to it's original condition as possible.