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

NJ (fln. IOllntr Nii'lIS'i ""6"'
pitcher and umpire of l.ynchburS, 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. G., last Monday by Captain kcs-
Ter OF the local police, as II dcserter
because he paid no attention TO ms
QUESTIONABLE and other notices from
the government. Camp Greene officials
rccciptcd to Captain kCsler for God
Naturalization 10 change the name
Iac-thn. .city-afRismalCk. \: "a -recelv-
cd added impetus last Monday when
it was found that the name on the
Northern Pacific railroad station had
been oblitcratcd.............Mc Members OF the
Montgomery, Ala, labor unions Will
decline holiday on Labor Day this
year and will give the days pay to the
American led Cross.........-..food pro-
ducts and paper bags TO the value OF
approx imatcly S30,U0O were destroyed
| hy fire at the SrliGman- Marx Whole
sale Grocery, Montgomery, Ma. last
Monday. y.........A number Of Jews were
condemned To death and executed last
Monday AT EhcrShon. Ukraine, for hid
ing grain. according to IL report which
the state department characterlHcS as
more or less circumstantial..-... -...-..The
FIRST shipment of the $50 hut hospitals
which the American Red Cross mas
huilt i'm the United States for usr in
the 50 small American camps through
out Great britain, arrived in London
last day.................Arthur Guy Elm
py. formerly with the Canadian over
SCI, forces, and author OF over the
Ton" has been commissioned as cap
tain in the National Army. and he will
he assigned to the adjutant generals
Office. ...... More walnut wood IL need
ed for gun stocks and airplane pro-
IRllrrs 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 it to the sawmills
holding government The
JaJancsc hattlcship kawachi, OF H.
10 tons displacement, blew up III To-
koyama bay. $50 miles northeast oil
Nagaski. on July 5. Five hundred
members OF the crew lost their lives.
..Yalc university is bcqucathcd
nearly $2O.OUO.u00 by the will Of the
late John w. Sterling, n New York
lawyer. " no graduated from the insti-
tuition in 1864. and died bachelor on
JulX ), lglS...........Mil stocks OF news
print paper showed virtually no i'm
provcmcut during June, according to
the Federal trade commissions $
monthly report Of the industry...-.-.-.....
Fred Thomas. third bascman of the
Boston Red SoX team, last Tuesday
enlisted in the navy as an apprentice
seaman at the Milwaukee recruiting
static William. 7-ycar-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. y. J. Corder of Win
ston- Salem. y. c.. accidentally shot
himself last Tuesday with 3S-calibre
Smith Il WcsSon pistol. Death re-
suited in q short time. The little fel-
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
airplanes last Sunday.............There are
now several thousand American troops
operating on the Murman coast. In
northern Three hundred
Italian prisoners have recently reached
their homes in Italy after making their
escape from Austrian prison camps
The shipping board 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 fifty...........
Retail food prices jumped 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. &c per cent.
German street, Camden, n. j., has been
renamed Pershing street.---.The war
finance board has agreed to advance
$40. 900. 900 to the Bethlehem Steel cor
poration for the enlargement Of Its
steel making plants.........The London
Daily Mail has renewed its offer Of
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 obtector at Camp Meade,
Md, has been sentenced to serve ten
years at hard labor. McKrntor Is a So
cialist of the Bolsheyik type-----.Hcn-
~ Roth. a wealthy brewer Of Brook
lyp. y. Y. was drowned Monday while
surf bathing at Neponsit beach. He
was Sc wears 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 General
Crowder has issued a call for 399 lim-
tied service men for cooks and bakers.
Selective service men may volunteer
up to July %. for this service.