South Carolina Registers War Draft Enrollment by County
Complete registration returns from 45 counties show 127,634 men aged 21 to 30 under the selective draft act with 60,629 whites 66,905 Negroes 447 aliens and 68 alien enemies. Exemptions total 85,486 with 40,655 whites and 44,831 Negroes. The Defense Council organizes with Dawd R. Coker as chairman to coordinate war footing efforts across counties and towns. Governor Manning attends the first meeting and goals include mobilizing committees for county and township work. Winthrop College seeks funds for a YWCA building and aims to raise 350,000 from Rockefeller Foundation and local sources. 8,000 has already been secured.
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Olumbia
Manning
Crowder
Washington
South Carolina
Defense Council
State Defense Council
Columbia
Dawd R. Coker
Hartsville
David R. Coker
National Council of Defuse
South Carolina Council
National Council
D. B E. Coker
W. M. Riggs
Clemson College
Misa
N. McClintock
Newberry
J. E. Sirrine
Greenville
Ei. M. Blythe
Wiliam Eliott
Robert Lathan
Charleston
A. F. McKissick
J. E. White
Anderson
Bright Williamson
Darington
J. Ross Hanrahan
William Godfrey
Cheraw
Robert G. Hall
Abbeville
Coker
State Council
Rockefeller Foundation
Winthrop
Ci .Sman
Rebecca Jones
Aiken
Minnie Surasky
Frances Major
Mabel Reid
Bamberg
Nell Black
Barnwell
Valeria Trotti
Beaufort
Mary Keyserling
Berkeley
Frances Watson
Clarendon
Jeanette Plowden
Chester
Helen Sandifer
Calhoun
Sallie Huffman
Chesterfield
Gertrude Hartzell
Colleton
Jessie Cannon
Kathleen Farley
Annie Jenkins
Cherokee
Inez Cash
Darlington
Josephine Ellerbe
Dillon
Thelma Bethea
Dorchester
Lilcia Miller
Edgefield
Sallie de Laughter
Fairfield
Nancy Wyllie
Florence
Edna Moore
Georgetown
Alice Ward
Louise Pope
Greenwood
Suzette Cooper
Hampton
Pearl Gray
Harry
Xepha Alford
Jasper
Amarion Benton
Kershaw
Rebekah Richards
Laraster
Pauline Marion
Laurens
Mary 10
Sullivan
Lee
Hizbeth Brearly
Lexington
Florence Lytes
Marion
Ethel Mace
Marlboro
Ruth Hodges
McCormick
Frances Britt
Ruby Wheeler
Oconee
Swanee Daly
Orangeburg
Winnie Edwards
Piekend
Mary Wyatt
Richland
Kate Cathcart
Saluda
Lelia Mae Sawyer
Spartanburg
Leila Prince
Sumter
Rosa Lee Brown
Union
Margaret Jeter
Williamsburg
Lucille Cooper
York
Margaret Marshall
State board bulletin details jail and almshouse conditions
The quarterly bulletin surveys 22 county jails 44 county chain gangs and 18 counties in almshouses. It asks if confinement worsens inmates physically or morally and whether chain gang work is reformative and sanitary conditions prevent disease. It notes many jails lack new facilities fire safety baths and clean bedding. Vaccination is urged where not provided.
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State Board of Charities and Corrections
National Guard Withdrawals From Railway Bridges Begin
Maj. C E Kilbourne states the War Department policy calls for withdrawal of National Guard units from guarding railway bridges. provision for guarding the more important bridges will be made. It is probable units on duty at bridges will be recalled to home stations at the earliest date.
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National Guard
Bridge
War Department
Maj. C. BE. Kilbourne
Edward W. Pickard
America
Census Bureau
Pershing
England
General Pershing
Jupiter
Rilo de Juaneiro
Brazil
South Atlantic
France
Siivershell
Eneoy
Mediterranean
University Plant Offered to Gen Wood for Soldier Stay
President Carroll of the University of South Carolina offers the university plant to Gen. Leon ard Wood to aid soldiers between summer school end July 19 and fall term start September 19. Wood responds with gracious acknowledgment in a letter to President Currell.
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University
Department of the Southeast
Columbia
Carroll
University of South Carolina
British Offense in Belgium Drives German Front
The week closes with a British assault on Messines ridge near Ypres, capturing Messines Wytschaete and Oosttaverne after a three day bombardment. Allied forces push forward while German counterattacks are repulsed and German fears grow over Lille. News also notes Pershing’s arrival in England and U S war aid, plus Russia’s chaotic scene under the provisional government and Japan warning Russia over peace terms.
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Belgium
Messines Ridge
Japan
Russia
Germany
Messines
Wytschaete
Ypres
Flanders
Ostend
Zeebrugge
Bruges
Medway
London
Aisne
Champagne
Poflus
Trieste
Jaminna
Rome
Italy
Albania
Root Commission
Kronstadt
Stand
Petrograd
Wilson
France
Chamber of Deputies
Alsace-Lorraine
England
United States
Austria
Poland
Lithuania
Finland
Rrussia
Manchuria
Outer Mongolia
Brusiiloy
Gurko
Austria-Hungary
Scheldemann
Turkey
Bulgaria
China
Occidentals
Spain
Alfonso
Palestine
Northcliffe
America
Lord Northclife
British War Commission
Arthur J. Balfour
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Cgernan
Mons
Gen Wood urges Southern women to back war effort in Columbia
In Columbia Gen. Leonard Wood appeals to women to support all efforts for a clean, healthy soldier environment and broad mobilization. He forecasts a long conflict, praises the South, and thanks allies France England and Italy while calling for arms organization and leadership. A grand parade precedes his address with officials and citizens in attendance.
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Columbia
Gen. Wood
Department of the Southeast
Snodgrass
Doolittle
Baker
China
United States
France
England
Italy
Wood
Cassoore
Gov. Manning
Griffith
Manning
Citizens’ Committee
First South Carolina Infantry
First South Carolina, Infantry
Shriners
Red Cross
Equal Suffrage League
National League For Woman's Service
Odd Kellows
Young Women
Chrisbah Jaws
Chilatian Elation
Daughters of the
Af Revolution
United
The
Confederacy, Rescue and
Hiltson Capers Chi
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Pickens
Rock Hill
Winthrop College
Young Women’s Christian Association
Eleanor Parker
Barnard College
Owen Cattell
Columbia University
New York
Phillips
R. BE. L. Michie
General Scott
National Army
Walton Heath
Ypres-Armentieres