Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-09-06
Scraps and facts.

nOunCed IN an OlHtIdI SId'''..N' "
the same period 2.0GS guns. ,'3f mine
throwers and l3.'s3 macnlhe gums
we're captured The French have cap
,ur.d -. 900 prisoners and 100 guns
since July Is.
American troops for the hrst tiHle
in the war. writes an American cor
respondent from the British front are
fighting on Belgian soil. and WIN III"
British are closely pursuing the re-
treating Germans north OF kcinintI'
They have been advancing under inc
cover of heavy machine gun barragc
and have taken prisoners. II Is no"
nosible to say that the American sol
diers first reached Belgian soil Oh July
4. In q recent despatch / told readers
of The World that the British had az
signed Il part Of the line u the Amer
leans They were placed In Il position
where IL the Boche attemped drive
they would stand shoulder 10 shoulder
with the British and bar the way. In
stead the enemy is retreating. and the
Americans are pushing forward with
their British commanders TO accelier-
at. the retirement. The Belgian I"n-
Die have warmly welcomed our SOL
diers ever since their arrival
This years government wheat
rricc was continued in effect Tor tht
1919 crop by President Wilson last
Monday i'm q proclamation fixing SEQ
rs the minimum price Ut primary mar
kets Winter wheat will be sold AT
this price. but the president accompani-
ed his proclamation with II statement
giving notice that before the harvest
OF next spring he will appoint com
missioner TO report on increase cost OF
farm labor and supplies to guide MN
.k,a h..K- hnr Sh
an advance in price for the spring
CROP. Such an advance. il given. the
President said. will apply only TO pro-
ducers who by that time have market
ed their 1918 production. The posi-
bility OF peace before the middle OF
1920 was touched upon in the preSi-
dents statement, in connection Win inc
risk that 10y guaranteeing wheat prices
the government might lose ;s much as
half u billion dollars If Europe should
find its supplies available from thc
southern hemisphere.
Thirty prisoners were accounted
for by Sergt. =. Il. IIeschinsky, or MIL
wuukee. in the capture of JuviSny Dy
the Americans. In command ol TOUT
teen men he had lost his way beyond
the town while the encircling move
nrnt was going on. In Il general way
h. knew his own whereabouts. hut
not the whereabouts of the ou,tl'
TO which he belonged. TIL" ser
gcant was entirely out OF contact with
his forces and believed himself TO be
within the German lines, as IN fact ne
was. a turn in the road brought the
detachment face to face with TWO
German captains who were apparently
~ greatly surprised as wrr" IN" ser
geant and his men. He ordered thchi
TO hault and they did. minute later
Il marching detachment or thirty Ter
mans appeared. who. on seeing me OF
ficers had been taken prisoner. unhes-
itatingly surrendered. The German OIL
flcers questioned the authority OF their
cantor to take them and they resisted.
The sergeant and his own men made
their way back to Headquarters with
thirty prisoners. The two officers pre-
sumably were shot.
After u country-w wide search OF sew
eral days had failed to reveal the
whereabouts of r. j. Gordon. on" oi
Monroe's wealthiest and most prom
inent citizens who mysteriously disap-
pcarcd last Monday. the body was ac-
cidcntally found Sunday morning by u
farmer. Tom Nullis. The latter was
making u short cut through a dense
thicket on his way to town when he
discovered the body of Gordon dang
ling ut the end Of u rope in tree. A
coroners investigation revealed the
fact that the dead man drank II
bottle of laudcnum-at least an
empty laudcnum bottle was found
under the tree-and then had huhG
himself. The body was badly decom-
posed and was Unidentified by his cloth
es. Gor6oHieft home last MONDAY
morning in his auto for the purpose OF
visiting one Of his large farms rev
miles out OF Monroe. He left his ma
chine ut the house Of negro. saying
he was going to walk to u point ABOUT
eight miles distant and was never
seen alive again. 1t was stated that
Gordon had recently suffered a spell oil
mclancholia but had apparently re-
covered, An examination OF ms bookS
shows his financial affairs to have been
In excellent shape.
Really remarkable records in avia-
ton have been made by the carriers
employed in the air mail service be-
tween Washington, Philadelphia ana
New York. In the month of August. III
which there were twenty-seren Tying
days for the carriers, not one OF tne
fifteen planes in use was laid up III
the shop. nor was there an accident
which caused serious delay. In the re-
port lust issued by the postmaster gen.
erat 1t Is recorded that the total pos,
sible miles OF flight for the air mail
carriers on this route was 1851. OF
which 1857 miles were completed py
the postoffice airmen. One hundred
and eighty legs on the journey were
covered with only two forced landings
The total weight of mail carried was
b.S79 pounds. One OF the forced land
ings caused a delay Of seven minutes,
and the other u delay Of less than ten
minutes The first was within -FOUR
miles OF Belmont Park, the Long Is
land landing at the end of the trip.
II was caused by Il break in the mag
neto shaft. The other forced LANDING
was made on flight where fog anu
haze obscured the ground aha tor the
purpose of picking up the course De-
cause the compass failed TO WORK. Inc
report attributes the absence ot acci-
dents TO the rigid maintenance system
enforced on all the postal operation
fields that goes on TO say: During the
first ten days OF the month the routes
were flown by Lieutenants Edgeton.
Kilgore, BonZal. Webb. Culver ana
Miller without a hitch. miss or forced
landing. During the last twenty days
of the month the routes were operated
hy civilian flyers Of the postoffic" de-
partment. The perfect scores were made
hy Aviator Max Miller and +. V. Gard.
nrr. Aviators Maurice Newton and
Robert Shanks on the Philadelphia end
of the route. each had one forced land
ing. giving them score of 80 per
cent"
A disaster unparalleled in the
history OF the cotton growing indus
try in the United States has befalien
the American cotton crop this Hc;P.
AS the result OF n severe drought In
July and August. the governments
September cotton report. issued Tues
day, forecast the prospective produc-
ton this year at ll.lS7.000 equivalent
500 pound bales. 4.09S.000 bales less
than WAS forecast at the beginning OF
the season. Cotton growers planted
this year the second largest acreage
on record and prospects seemed
bright for one Of the largest crops
ever grown. Drought during July.
however. reduced the crop by 1916
900 bales. and dry weather In August
caused the greatest deterioration ev-
er recorded In single month. there
being decline of l7.9 points in the
condition on August 25. rs compared
with July a5. The entire cotton belt
was affected. but in Texas and Okla