Expenditures and Exemptions Dominate Columbia Board Reports
State hospital for the insane reports 2156 inmates nearing capacity and possible Army care for mentally ill in South Carolina. Exemption boards outline draft provisions and filing procedures, while fair preparations drive plans for the 49th annual State Fair with carpentry, premiums, and anticipated record crowds. Colonel Henry C. Davis named professor of military science at the University of South Carolina to lead the reserve officers training corps under 1916 act.
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Board of Regents
The
Staate Hospital For the Insane
C. Fred Williams
Gorgas
Washington
Army
Navy
South Carolina
United States
Columbia
New York City
Commonwealth
Camp Jackson
Henry C. Davis
Ridgeway
University of South Carolina
Davis
West Point
Coast Artillery
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Ascord
War Department
MIII Schools Progress Shapes Piedmont Region
State superintendent George D Brown Jr returned to Columbia from the Piedmont and visited Enoree where an $18000 school building is under construction. Two more mill community schools rise at Hasley and Liberty while a special tax for Piedmont Manufacturing Company schools is urged. Pelzer hosts compulsory attendance rallies and a second meeting supports the aim. Four more teachers bring the faculty to fourteen. Captain Ellison A Smyth, president of the mill, champions compulsory attendance and improved facilities. New enterprises authorized include Barnwell Saw Mill Co at Ellenton Aiken county Andrews Gin Co at Andrews Georgetown county and Sprott Brothers & Co of Florence with a $60000 wholesale grocery plan Goodyear Shoe Co of Spartanburg also licensed.
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George D. Brown, Jr
Columbia
Piedmont
Brown
Enoree
Hasley
Liberty
Piedmont Manufacturing Company
Pelzer
Ellison A. Smyth
Barnwell Saw Mill Company
Ellenton
Aiken County
Andrews Gin Company
Andrewa
Georgetown County
Sprott Brothers & Company
Florence
Goodyear Shoe Company
Spartanburg
Public urged to publish exemption grounds as crowds back government
Pro vost Marshal General Crowder appeals for public cooperation with local boards to reveal true facts behind exemption or discharge claims. He says every registered man and much of the community is interested in transparency and that local boards should publish names and reasons daily. The note also states each board designates a contact to handle appeals and press dissemination of exemption grounds. Contracts for 194 year automobile license tags awarded to National Colortype Company of Newport Kentucky for 40 000 tags, with option to raise to 60 000.
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Eastern District Board
Union National Bank
W. A. Stuckey
A. M. Deal
Columbia
Stuckey
Crowder
State Highway Commission
National Colortype Company
Newport, Ky
How County Jails and Almshouses Measure Up to Standards
The State Board of Charities and Corrections releases its quarterly bulletin with a feature on standards for county jails chaingangs and almshouses. It lists second inspection scores by category showing Greenville leading in total with 830 and Chester 766, followed by Spartanburg 732 and Richland 722, noting per man totals for permanent plant management equipment and leg.
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State Board of Charities and Corrections
Chester
Saluda
Greenville
Dorchester
Leg
Spartanburg
Richland
Commission Makes Report On Russia and War
Elihu Root and an American commission told President Wilson and Secretary Lansing that Russia can be depended on to do her part in the war with United States support. They urged unqualified encouragement moral and financial when needed to sustain the Kerensky government and warned that a separate peace with Germany is Russia's gravest fear. The group, including James Duncan and Major Stanley Washburn, stressed the need for publicity in America’s intent and aims in the war.
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Root
Wilson
Russia
Washington
United States
Laansing
Elihu Root
Germany
Kerensky
Lansing
Charles Edward Russell
James Duncan
Stanley Washburn
America
Greatest Crop of Corn Ever Grown in U S
The August crop report forecasts record crops across several staples. Corn production is put at 3,197,000,000 bushels, up 68,000,000 from 1912 and 67,000,000 above July. Potatoes reach 467,000,000 bushels, sweet potatoes 86,400,000, and tobacco shows a near 129,000,000 pound gain. Buckwheat and oats also rise toward prior records as Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri drive corn gains.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Ilnois
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Measure Provides Soldier Insurance For War Time
Soldiers sailors and marines would gain government insured life coverage from 1000 to 10000 dollars during the war with premiums around eight dollars per thousand payable from pay. The plan also imposes a 15 a month family allotment and sets disability allowances and education support for injured personnel.
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Washington
Congress
Senator Simmons
Representative Alexander
War and Navy Departments
Legal staff of Fleet Board quits en masse
Washington reports the entire legal staff of the Emergency Fleet Corporation has resigned in sympathy with Major General Goethals whose general manager resignation was taken by President Wilson. The lawyers include George Rublee Joseph P. Cotton George H. Savage Charles P. Rowland and Edward B. Burling. All but Savage served without pay.
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Washington
Mergency Fleet Corporation
Goethals
Wilson
George Rublee
Federal Trade Commission
Joseph P. Cotton
George H. Savage
Charles P. Rowland
New York
Edward B. Burling
Chicago
Mr. Savage
Th Shipping Board
Cleveland War Market Opens in East Cleveland
Cleveland’s first war market opened in East Cleveland with farmers offering produce at roughly half city market prices. In the first two hours, more than 6500 women bought the produce from several farmers as a producer to consumer experiment began.
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Leveland
Cleveland
Sergeant Hoskier Cited for Courage in Aerial Defense
Paris reports in the Official Journal that Sergeant Ronald Hoskier of New York, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, was killed by a German aviator in a St Quentin engagement on April 4. His citation praises his courage and sacrifice after a heroic defense against three enemies.
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Paris
Ronald Hoskier
New York
Lafayette Escadrille
St. Quentin
Stoskler
Doon to Mobilize Big Army Third Element of Army
Washington reports final mobilization regulations for the selective draft war army to be issued shortly. Preliminary figures show 13,093 officers and 419,834 National Guard men in federal service by August 6, plus 186,766 war volunteers in regular service since April 1. About 725,000 under arms, with 687,000 to be raised by the draft to form the third element. half of enlistment applicants are within draft ages.
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Washington
Crowder
War Department
National Guard
Navy
Marine Corps
War Army
National Army
Guard
Entre Guard
Stater
Rules for calling big army to colors to drafts
Provisions issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder set dates and procedures for national army calls beginning September 1. Local boards will assemble 200000 of the first 687000 men, arrange lodging meals tickets and transportation, assign leaders aboard trains, and monitor attendance and discipline through the retreat, roll calls, and final entrainment at camps.
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Washington
National Army
Crowder
Plaa
France
Adjutant General
Board
Aovernment
Iile
Geenral
Wilson turns to war prices and directs cost inquiries
President Wilson visited the federal trade commission to push expedition of investigations into production costs for war materiel. The commission now examines basic supplies such as coal, steel, iron, petroleum, copper, cement and lumber to guide forthcoming policy on war purchases and prices.
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Washington
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Oklahoma City residents pledged for military service amid draft resistance
Governor Williams said central Oklahoma is loyal to the United States and ready to serve, despite organized opposition to the draft. He noted normal conditions have been restored in counties where three men were killed by posses enforcing draft limits.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
United States
Williams
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R. B. Scarborough
Conway
S. BE. Baker
Sumter
B. W. Seecgers
Lexington
Christie Benet
J. E. Shrine
Camp Sevier
National Guardsmen
North
Tennessee
MIII
Lieut. Gen
Korniloff
L. G. Korniloff
Galicia
Commission
U. S
Fleet Board
Grocer
Greece
Alexander
Constantine
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