Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-01
Scraps and fattc

and all other SHIPS pertdlH4he "
continue as opportunity presents
Announcement has been nihh"
i'm thC I.ritIsh hOuS" Oi commons tn"'
since the beginning OF the war blL'-
,sh trnor,s have taken 32T.ilG enemy
,.,,,,t,,,,,nt prisoners. including 254,-
oig Germans. There are S''9?o ''i
man cOInbattant prisoners IN INC
I'u,,cd Kingdom at the present UH'"'
III has been announced that vac
,i,.,inn against pneumonia Is hNdlia-
,J,. nov for every officer. enlisted man
and civilian employ" oi IN" arm! :
RI. y,rciur which is said 10 nave
,,rn,.d To prevent pnruin"nin t"ll"W p
;,, influenza. - being prOduc'd IN
.,,rtirI,nt quantity under III" dlic'tloii
al ,hr army m"diCa! school. l'S ~
tcnsivG. use Is expected l" Hl'l''iid''H
L,,ycr ,hc nunls.r OF cases OF ph"n-
,poni:, i'm tn. army this winter.
I,,r,,rial Investigation shows thar
.tc urrscnt outbreak Of inflU"nEa ho'a
nat differ from OthcT "pid"ihI'S "i wv
same. malady. tho higher iilof'hin'
rate. l-In-s due 10 secondary
William Hayes Fisher sad III tn'
h'.,,.,. ,I commons last Tuesday. N"
advised that hc saw no reason !" w
,,yr the spread nf tn" discaS" Was
utlt' 10 ltlsiiiull lA"iA w 80 y
,.r;,IIy. II iilr III" r,sr al Ia" d'a'ii
r.,t,. is considerable. ne said. II ~ h"'
as great in London aS in Vienna ar
* and other places. M"dl"al ah'hoi
i,i.s and meteorological "Xi"r'S Oh
th,. hOuSI. Of commons on TUESDAY Oh :
d,.rcL - research into the causes an"
nature, of the disease. II ~ h"p"h I"
trace. and destroy In" miCrohc.
-. Cotton picking costs more than IL
did bcfOr" the outbreak "i IN" WAL
The rule for decades has been 10 pay
from 20 To 80 cents per hunh'T,"
bounds. Tn" department "i a%IHu'
urn announces that IN" i'r"NaIline
rricrs raid for picking cotton inns
\r,r ;ir.. higher than 'N'r before. y
statement in the monthly crop I"por'
saws. "Thc cotton specialist OF 'h'
Iur,nu oI cSnp estimates has nlhd" an
Investigation into III" prices paid loi
t,irkin.. cotton at the opening Oi th'
s,:,son. I'm "a number of the states
nIrkin.. is well advanced ana th'
uric"S given ar" probably what th'N
wilI average. for IN" season. Nh"r'
uiCI,in:: had moi begun ii%nfrS SiN'u
are the probable opening prices. u
- rusSihlr that later on. because oi
iln. scarcity at piCk"rS III som" "l tn'
STATES p,irdS will advance. TIL" fol
~
IuO untrnds of .',I cotton. includinc
short and long lint and sea iSlandl
North Carolina. $l.lA: South tar"linn
su 30. Gror"ia. $l.O5: Florida. Sl.3;
,I,hama. S092: Mississippi. SoS6:
Louisiana. $I.0i: Arkansas. Si.?A'
TEXAS, SIPS: Tennessee, Sl.3l; Okla
homa. si57: California, s..
"A total of N.>06 applications loi
seed grain loans were approved hE th'
branch office. oT tn" United States III
rartmcnt of aGrirultur" at Nicn''a
Kansas. and $..O2j.262 WAS loaned "a
the drought stricken farmers iloll'
the 81, ,OOO. 900 emergency iund rroN'n'
,d by the president Th"S" IoahS
were limited to S3 an acre lor not u
CNCcrd 100 acres. ;tl't N'I' h'a"' u"
IL Ia farmers who's" credit WAS cN-
ho,Istrd bv reason Of two successive
crop failures on account ot drought
'Th, money WAS for the purciEIS" ol
seed for fall planting. Vt IN" Gus
tomary rate of Seeding I" l"FkS
uT wheat per acre in the dry '"ih
ties this loan was Suificl"n' 10 P"'
chase enough seed wheat To SOW more
than Il million acres that "thrrWiS
might not have been seeded. L. VI
Estahrook, chief Of the bureau Oh
crop estimates. and assistant 10 'h'
secretary of agriculture, WAS n
charge ol the vi, iii;d U;lir" winch
served the southwestern territory
Kansas. Oklahoma. New Mexico ana
'r,xas. \ report of loans made in
the northwest 1, SiUa throU%E the de-
partmcnt's branch -Sftice AT Great
F,,Ils. Montana, in charge OF PROBES
sor G.. l. Christie. now assistant secre
tarv of agriculture. will ID" ISSUE"
soon.
American long range guns began
firing on LOnguyOn. % miles nOflh-
r,st of Nerdun last Monday after
noon. The American long range fire
is also hcing directed against the VI
tai Noic de RoCadc on the rallWaS
line parallcling the front. lhe 'er
mans are dependent upon inns rO'i''
to shift their troops anu Suppi'rS
from one point to another. Tn" cal
u,r,. or the gun may not bC announc-
ed as vet, but the gun can shoot man!
miles The weapon iS said To ID" IN
tnitrly more formidable than IN" hiS
run with which the Germans bonn
bardrd Paris. though its range prom
ably is not SO great. The blS guns
were ready some time ago, hut coulu
not bc used because bad weather pre-
vented the necessary support ol Nv
iators The use of these long range
guns have been awaited eagerly ever
since the Americans advanced To Il
toint from " which the guns could rrach
The vital railroads. For days tn" guns
h,d been on the American sector
manruvCrins for good positions from
which they might successfully hOm-
bard thu. Sedan Carignan Montmrdy-
Iyuu.uyun line. The cutting ot TINS
line. toward which tn" Americans
have. been pressing constantly. w"uIU
mean the virtual CuliapS" ot IN" en-
tire German front to IN" Dutrh h"r :
der Even to interrupt the raHro;i'l
internationally would he hug" gam
since most of the German r"ll"t III
visions sent against the Americans
have been brought in over that line.
In his communiquc for Saturday,
delayed in transmission. Grncrai icr-
shinr noted that the battle hcing
rourb, by the first American arm
to the north of Ncrdun entered that
dan upon its second month and re-
reported that. in the first month. be
sides infiictins heavy losses upon IN"
rncmN in killed and wounded, th'
Americans there captured 10000 prls-
onrrS. over $50 guns, nearly l.ooO
trench mortarS and several Thousand
machine guns. The dispatch toiloWs'
'On the Vcrtiun front yesterday even
ing the enemy extended To the west
side of the Mcusc his efforts TO wresi
from our troops the gains OF the pre-
ccdinr days. In the region OF Bnn-
tl,cville, after artillery preparation
lasting half an hour, ne attacked our
positions between the Bois DIES
Rappcs and the Bois dcs lSathcNiilr.
After sharp fighting he was rrpuISrd
with heavy losses. our lines remain
ing everywhere unchanged. North oil
the Oisr our troops have organized
the ground won In yesterday
local attack and arr now established
i'm positions on the Bois dcs Bour-
guSne. On both sides Of the Mruse
artillery fire continued very heavy
throughout the night. The battle be-
ing fought 10y our first army north ot
NrrJun. which today enters upon ITS
SECOND month. is continuing with IN
crssant severity. frequently rising to
n pitch OF extreme violence. On the
entire front Of 25 miles. the enemy is
opposing our successful attacks with
a determined resistance. made nee
cssary hy the great Importance tn him
OF this sector and made possible only