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Section Onie~ eto n Pages 1to 4 Pet L. XLII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1922 AIKEN COUNTY SWEPT BY TERRiIC CYCLONE Five Killed' and Many Injured in Storm Which Rages on The Savannah River GEORGIA STREAMS OUT OF BANKS lill Villages in South Carolina Are Hard Hit-Many Miracu lous Escapes Aiken, March ?.-A cyclone, bring ing death and desolation in its blast, swept'over the hills of the little mill town of Warrenville, Horsecreek Val ley this morning before daybreak, and left in its wake the dead bodies of five people, crushed and mangled, beneath the debris of their humble cottages. The village of Steifletown, d near Graniteville, was also visited- by the roaring whirl, and ,it, too, suffered in loss of property and in wounded villagers, the center of a row of houses in the thickest part, of the settlement being swept away and tiyisted into a mass of scattered tim ber tin and brick. The dead are: Fred Hoover, aged 12. Dollie Mitchell, aged 5. Mrs. Boyd, age unknown. Son Wood, aged 14. Daughter Wood, aged 6. There are scores of injured, many of the mseriously, Mrs. Lavaria Wood, mother of, the two (lead children, be ing among those badly hurt. The telephone, electric light and tele graph -wires were all down and the roads blocked by uprooted trees, and it was nearly 7 o'clock before aid could be rushed from Aiken. Miss Agnes Campbell, of the Aiken Chap ter of the Red Cross, at once drove to the scene and established headquar ters for the wounded in one of the mill houses. Aiken physicians, Dr. Hast ings, Wyman, Dr. "'. L. Nevil, with Dr. Wright and Dr. Greene, of Horse creek Valley, attended the suffering. Mr. R. G.. Tarrant and Miss Eleanor Phelps, of the Red Cross, were on the scene. Twenty-two houses in Warren ville were torn to pieces by the fearful wind, and five in Stiefletown were upset or carried' away. One garage from the hill was carried from its foundations twenty-five feet and landed on the porth of a home opposite in Stiefletown. Many poles thrown across the tracks of the Southern Railway delayed the Augusta morning train to Charles ton three hours. Park Is Hard Hit The beautiful park at Langley was , a mass of broken and uprooted trees, while the Baptist Church there had one side of the roof completely lift ed away. Several smaller buildings in Langley were blvown down and oth ers damaged. At Warrenville, the center of the fierce storm, several families had to be rescued fron their three room cottages with saw and ham mer, being fastened securely under the timbers. The escape from death in . veral instances appeared to be miraculous. One mill operative, + Frank Williams, was with his wife and five children, found in his home which sad been blown down flat, un injured. They were removed from the wreck by busy rescuers with saws and poles used as levers. Another mill operative had his home partly - carried high off in the win.l and he and 11i5 two children were left un harmed beind a partition asleep iii bed. Coats, bed clothes and other ar ticles were found hung fifty feet high on the trees in the path of the cyclone, . which had its beginning in the Beech section, and cut a swath one hundlred Syardls wide, (lying out at Moseley's Crossing on the A. and A. trolley line, where it pulled up the trolley station from itf moorings and scattered it. Sover the fields. At Gloverville, twvo buildings were blown dlown, but no one injured. A fund has been started' for the relief of the homeless by Mr'. John G. Chafec, andl the Warrenville Manu facturing Company, is standling solid ly by its unfortunate employcs. eThe injured at the Aiken Hlospital Harley, Mrs. Wood, Mr. Edward -Clark, who is unconscious, Mrs. Ru fus Munday, thought at first to be dleadi, Mr. Owen and Mr. George Green. MISSIONARY NEWS The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold the March imeeting Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The following is the pro gram: Topic: Chihauhani. . Leader, Mrs. S. L. Davis. JIymn 629. Bible Lesson: "First Impressions" . X(Mark 1, 21-45. *Prayer. Discussion: "Feeding the Amer enn Family," Mrs. T. M. Wells. Social Service News. 4 Two ten-minute talks: * 1. "Mexican Family life in Chihau hau1" Mrs. J. W. Rigby., 2. "Centro Christiano Serving the Mexican Home," Mrs. A. L. Luce. Period of Intercession: Mrs. C. N. 1 Sprott. Solo. Miss Rosa Mahaff'ey. BusIness. Report of Officers. *Hymn 681. *' Mr. 'Clove Elliott, one of the oldest citizens in the Panola section, drop NEW COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT Dalzell, S. C., Feb. 6, 1922. The Manning Times, IManning, S. C. Clarendon County is indeed fortun a;e to have Home Demonstration work put in for the benefit of the people in this agricultural crisis. The women of the County have in sisted. on having. an instructor and leader again this year and it surely speaks well for the work they have done in the past years for them to feel the need of it again. The Department is glad to be able to furnish the County with an Agent educated at Winthrop College and experienced in public work. Every thing bids fair for splendid work in the County and all interested club members and the-public at large are invited to call on your Agent, Miss May Harrelson, and she will gladly respond. Her office is in the Court House and her phone number is 247. All plans of club work have been made and each section of the County has been included in some phase of work. Miss Harrelson will appreciate that all clubs write her and give her in formation in regard to time and place of meetings. Yours for the work, Theodosia D. Plowden, District Agent. DEATH OF MR. A. R. BRIGGS, Mr. Arthu. Brailsfor. Briggs of Silver, (lied on Friday, March 3rd at 7 o'clock a. m., of inflamatory rheu matism, with other complications. He was sink five weeks, and (luring this time suffered intensive pains, and all that loving hands could do, was (lone, but "God willed otherwise." He was born April 13th, 1887. In December 1910 he married Lula B DesChamps, daughter of the late L. T. Deschamps, and to them was born five children, of which four survive him. His father, H. S. Briggs, Sr., and brothers, R. H., W. T. A. J., H. S. Jr., Briggs and Mrs. W. R. Davis, of Sil ver, Mrs. S. L. Baker 'of McClellan ville, were at his bedside when the end came. His brother, H. V., Briggs of Detroit not being able to get here. He was buried Saturday at 12 o'clock at Andrew Chapel Church, by Sumnerton Lodge of Master Masons, funeral services conducted by his 1 pastor, Rev. G. W. Dukes, and the beautiful floral offerings at the grave was an attest of the high es teem and affection of his love ones and friends. He was a member also of IC. of P. and W. O. W., and at all times and under fill circumstances, tried to practice and live those prin ciples that characterize those orders,. and because of this fact, his friends, vied with each other, in doing him a kindness, and filled the Church to the limit at his funeral 'services. His pastor in a very few remarks, referred very feeling to our inability to under stand the " -steries of God," and while we all in irn his departure, and will miss his jolly, happy way, God had other plans-and we must all bow to the inevitable, and know, "That Gods will must be done on earth, as it is done by the Angels in Heaven. Speak of the beautiful, speak of the pure; These to eternity, fadeless endure, Error shall vanish soo, qvil decay; God and the beautiful p iss not away. By one who knew him. RED CROSS NOTES An interesting opportunity for Red Cross volunteers to be of unusual service is in transcribing stories in Broille for the blind. It is so very ex pensive to make plates for printing ;in the Broille that our blinded sold iers and the hundreds of other blind in the U. S., Alaska, Virgin I.glands and other territories are depending on these volunteers to give them varied and interesting literature. Lessons will be given to those intar ested through co-operation with the LTibrary of Congress. We are hoping to have such a class formed in Mann ing in the near future that wve may be0 able to dlo our hit toward making Our Boys' lives more pleasant. Summary report of the Home Branch School: No. pupjils inspectedl-......--98 No. vaccinatedl ...._-2 D~efective eyes---... -----.....- _..36 Defective ears- .................... .._.....7 Defective nose and throats-.---.-_-46 Deofective teeth---..._----05 Anaemic-.._..- .....- ...-- .........---20 Poor nutrition----....----47 Defective skins and scalps--..........2 Miscellaneous--...... ---... ---.........4 IHere as in other schoors the teeth needl most attention. However near ly all of the pupils- are trying to take better care of their teeth than last year. This is very encouraging andl wec are continuing to wvork for better health. POLITICAl, POT BOILING Town polities are beginning to warm up a bit. We have heard of several prospective candlidates for Alderman andl Mayor. Why not have a public meeting and get the can did ates to place their views as to town government before the voters ? Every voter wvould like to know how a candlidate stands on all of the public dluties of the town. Taxation we pre sume would be the main issue, and we have no dloubt but the talks would be Interesting. There will be a great mamny ladles to vote in the April elec tion, andl they too, are Interested In knowing who to vo for. When they hear the candidates they can thea comn to a more Intnilient decision. South.Carolina's Palmafesta Queen Gets $500 Diamond Contests For County Candidates Starting This Week in Newspapers All Over The State-Palmafesta At Columbia Week of April 17th to 22nd. With in'dominable spiilt the mercantile interests of Columbia have hand ed old Doctor Gloom a knockout blow by subscribing $10,000 as a guarantee fund that will assure even a better Palmafesta week than the one hekd so successfully in the Capital City last Spring. Special committees of the -Columbia Chamber of Commerce are now busy arranging the programme for the big week which wit include the fashion show, automobile show, fire works, baby .parade, float parade, beauty contest, state-wide industrial exhibits, daily band concerts by some nationally famous musical organization, and a big musical (lay on which John McCor mick or an equally famous star will be featured. In addition there will be the usual round of dances, dinners, meetings and other social features. By means of popular voting contests in local newspapers throughout the State to be conducted during the next five weeks Palmafesta Queen can didates will be chosen from every county in South Carolina. The county candidates will go to Columiba for the week as guests of the Columbia Chain ber of Commerce which organization will defray all expenses of the trip. Ddring Palmafesta week an election will be held in Columbia to deter mine the most attractive and popular young woman among the delegates as sembled from the various counties. The winner of this contest will be pro claimed Queen of Palmafesta, will receive the $500 diamond ring, and will be crowned in great state nit the crowning ceremonies to be held in the big audi torium at the State Fair Grounde. The Queen and her court will feature also in the big float parade. Local newspapers will send to Columbia photo graphs of the winning Queen candidate in each County for insertion in a beauty supplement to be circulated throughout the State during the week of April 9th to 15th. In order to secure the most popular young woman in Clarendon County as candidate for Queen of Palmafesta, there is printed below a popularity voting coupon which is to be filled out and mailed according to the instruc tions contained therein. Voting coupons will be printed in each issue of this newspaper up to and including the issue of April 8th, at which time the votes will be counted and announcement of the winner made. There will be no restriction upon the number of votes each person may cast. Every coupon clipped from this paper is good for one vote, and a yearly paid-in-advance subscription will be counted as 500 votes. VOTING COUPON QUEEN OF PALMAFESTA' "PALMAFESTA" The Manning Times, Gentlemen: My choice for Queen of Palmafesta is: Name --__ Amdess Address_- ... This coupon good for one vote. A yearly paid in-advance subscription to this newspaper counts 500 votes. Paid-in-advance six months subscrip tion counts 250 votes. NOTE BY HE CUNTYof the big producing counties a heav'y NOTESsign up has already been secured. DEMONSTATIONMrloo is now seting the pace in geC~T tting members, although D~arling ton is still in the leadl. MNr. 1). W. Watkins, assistant director of Exten On Friday, March the third a meet- sion of Clemson ('ollege says that th.' ing of the County Agents and Special- l'iC(lnIoit section is now awake mid ists of this district was held in Flor- that the farmers there are going ence. At this meeting sweet potatoes strong for (oo-perative marketing. was one of the important topics of discussion. The irectors of the already or Mr. T. B. Young, president of the gaoized Tobacco Association have de South Carolina Sweet Potato Asso- cided to contine to receive nieniher; ciation lincmssed the matter of mar keting banked and cured potatoes to into the Associion. The outlook for some extent. lie states that the As- the Tobacco Association is exceedin sociation has th is seasonl soldl a numi-lybihanaspito piOiiljI her of cars of banked stock at a fair- ~~saogtoei ls oc vtI ly good price, but that the maotter ofthsiuio.TenvmmbrwiI selling' banked potatoes is very un- b eevdo h aebssa h satisfactory. lHe wants the farmers od h otmt~ilo oreb sellinag banked potatoes to understanldifeeti htteminn~ onn that they are taking quite a blit of aeapyn o ebrhpi h risk. For in spite of every preca,nt ionpeftdogaiton whltos there is danger of them going had in jiigpeiul eeol ntn transit. In fact one or twvo car's thiswihtirflovto gteuh season have arrived at their destina- jiest oma raiain tion inl badl ordler. The selling of the Mndsrn h e omcn banked potatoes by the association tat a e hmi yohe his yerisol an omergency pro- .(y onyAet it is doubltfini if they will continue to ((MIN'Y MElIC do this in the future. since the peo(- CIEULDNX XVBi ple have them on hand this year' and as money is badly neededl in the state, they decided -to take a chance i..T.loyCutCaiii, on them this yea'.anIha' oke(itteflowg On the oIther' hand, no(t, one car ofsceueometnsfrhefstj it curedl potatoes has gone had, andl aofnt vk.Ohrmeig il great many more (If them have been Ib celldfrtelte aLo sold. The prices for the cured potai-thwekadpliednneteks toes has also been very much more P1)1. plrofitable to the growers. Teemeig r nteitrs Mr. Lewis, marketing agent, who (ftec-pmtv'mreig(fct has inspected most of the cured po- tn ~ a oe ogtit vr tatoes that have been shippedl stat-comntanlavievthhep edl in the meeting that the best and pebfr ragn hs etns most nearly pure Porto Rico Pota- h dlet h ~'50' fohrwr toes that lhe had seen in the state adbdwahrti a mosbe were some from the Manning Curing W iht s orc-prto House. Some other houses averagedinmkgthemeigsaucs. as goodl but some came up to the bestAntigyuan(0owdhepg in the Manning house. ige(llgol rvlsvilhg'at In this connection, I wish to advise l prcae. Otie sekr our farmers to be careful where they wl ebogti oadesyu11( get their seed piotatoes or theirwehptogvtem odcrdsa sprouts. If possible select them from eeypae some source that you know and pick Tewoecto eti o lv only the goodl pure stuff. Rememberwihtsgramoe nanl e we have as goodl in Clarendon Countyar(lt'mnlnotobasubin as there is in the country, and a boki h a fissces great (deal better than most places. Thsceueflo: Bging The co-operative marketing of cot-Pavle t11occk nd ioe toh came in for a great dleal of dils-BrnhSolat3'cckWens cussion and the county agents weredaDvsStin t3anlJrn unanimously of the opinion that theat8occkThrayTrbvlet association would go over the top anNeloat8'cck n hei repeciv contis. n ome the big rayin Countye Aghent. COITON MEETINGS FRIDAY, MANNING AND SUMMERTON Friday morning at 11 o'clock T. B. Young of Florence, President of the South Carolina Sweet Potato Asso ciation and one of the directors of the newly organized Co-operative To bacco Growers' Association, will speak in the court house on the Co operative Marketing of Cotton. Mr. Young will address the farm ers of the Summerton esction in the school auditorium at Summer'ton at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. These meetings will open the campaign for the co-operative marketing of cotton in Clarendon County. A number of counties have started off ahead of this but County Chairman Floyd and County Agent Gray are expecting Clarendon to come up with her share in a very few (lays. Every farmer and business man in the County is urged to attend one of these meetings and hear Mr. Young. Those interested in the growing and marketing of sweet potatoes may be able to get some good data from Mr. Young on this subject. A schedule of community meetings for next week will be found elsewhere in this issue. Patrons and trustees are asked to please have these meet ings announced in schools and churches. Don't forget the (lay's: Manning, Friday, March 17 at 11 o'clock and Summerton at 3 o'clock the same (lay. ENTER'TAINS AT TEA On last Wednesday afteroon Mrs. Bennie Ness entertained a Civic League Tea. During the afternoon a delightful sweet course was served the following guests: Mesdames A. C. Bradham, Jake iseman, I. I. Ap pelt, Ir. Crouch, F. C. Thomas, H. D. Dubrow, S. R. Venning, E. S. Ervin, L. H. Hlarvin, Clarence Iseman, Dr. Broadway, J. A. Weinberg, Cary Smith and Misses Irma Weinberg and Carolyn Plowden. MRS. WILLIAMS ENTERTAINS Mrs. Marion Williams gave a love ly party last Wednesday afternoon for the Library fund. Cut: flowers and ferns were effectively and for decorations. A fter a series of ex citing games of rook, the hostess, as sisted by her attractive little daugh ters servedt a salad course. Those en joying Mrs. William's hospitality were: Mrs. H. .J. Bomar, Mrs. W. P. Legg, Mrs. ). II irschnann, Mrs. J. Huggins, Mrs. J. K. Breedin, Mrs. S. T. Harvin, Mrs. C. N. Sprott, Mrs. T. F. Coffey, Mrs. Sue Mcl eod. Mrs. W. T. Lesesne, Sr., Mrs. C. S. lItighy, Mrs. Ed Reardon, Mrs. A. T. Ilelms, Mrs. .1. E. Arant, Mrs. R. C. Wells, Mrs. S. L. Davis, Mrs. \V. S. Plow den, Jr., Mrs. .1. H. Rigby, Mrs. Bessie! Lesesne and Mirs. L. H1. HIarvin. "GEORGE WASHINGTON PARTY" One of the pretties parties of th" season was that given by Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Brailsford at their hos pitable home near Silver, where five tables of rook were played. The prize for the game was awarded to Mis. R. C. Richardson and the contest prize was presented to Mrs. Eugene Brock. As this was a George Washington party, the house was decorated in cut flowers, the individual Score cards were petit hatchets. After the games the ladies were joined by the gentle men, making in all about forty-three! guests, and were ushered into the spacious dining room where the table was decorated to represent a flag and lighted with red, white ;Iand blue candles. The placcards were little ship with flags nofurl ed. A substan tial course of turkey and all the good things that. go with it., then a sweet 'ourse5t and1( coffe'e was5 seivedi. The pai'ty was 'most suc'cessfully carried ouit, e'venl the c'hieese straws wer'e cut in the shape ofC small hatchets. On leaving all expre'(ssed themiselv'es as having spent a most e'njoyable1 even(' ind' and that the parity was a gret success. T1hanks to the ch(ese str~aw hatchlets, the cherry tree could not cut and nlo one was forced to tel I a lie. [OCAL HAPPENINGS IVMNTY Y[ARS AGO' May 1. 1901 Messrs. JulIian Weinbeig and Adger Briown have opiened an uiip-tot-dat e bicycle shiop here, ini one of the Spi'ott buildings. The style of' the firm is Weinberg & Brown. Dr' .A. Becker, the (eye specialists, has dlecided to keep Ihis ofiee in Mani ning one week longer, until May alth he having received many requests from people wvho have been unable to see him so far'. Miss H-attie Hlarvin who has been visiting Miss Maud Bi'ock at P'anola, i'eturned home last Sunday. She was accompaniedl by Miss D~aisy Follin and Maud Briock, and Mess's. Joe Rigby, Sep H~arvin andI Willio Kilgo, who re turned that afternoon. In the suit of S. J1. Clark against the Manning Publishing Co., tried on last Thursday, resulted in favor of the dlefendant. Sumter is soon to he attached to the long distance telephone. Manning will follow suit. The Tillman-Mcbaurin resignations is the topic of converation. $70,640.46 INCREASE ADDED BY SENATE Finance Committee Reports Appro priation Bill REDUCTION FOR CITADEL University Gets More Money. Educa tion Department Also Gets Larger Sun Columbia, March 6.-The finance commitete reported the general ap propriation bill to the Senate tonight with an increase of $70,640.46 over the amount as sent to it by the -louse two week sago. The House bill car ried a levy of 53 mills and that of the finance committee shows a levy of about 7 1-2 mills. The House bill carried an aggregate of $5,670,610.53 and the finance committee bill has a total of $5,741,251.29. In reporting the bill, however, the finance committee has eliminated severa litems provided by the I-louse for the payment of loans totaling $236,553 obtained from the sinking fund commission. These loans are al lowed to float and interest is provided for the commission in lieu of the prin cipal. These are $37,500 due by Win throp College; $75,000 by the Uni versity of South Carolina, and $124, 003.24 by the State Hospital. This arrangement makes an apparent re duction in the appropriation for the university and for Winthrop when in fact they receive slight increases. The finance committee placed the salaries of all chief clerks back to their former mark, the ways and means committee having reduced them 10 per cent. Practically all other reductions in salalies remain. llowever, the secretary of the State Board of Public Welfare will get $3, 000; the State Highway Engineer $5, (100 and the chairman of the State Tax Commission $3,600 per annum. There are increases all down the line for the adjutant's general:' oflice. They were: Chief clerk $140; porter $30; travel $251); tele. gra ph and telephone $7]i; oflice sup plies $100; office equipment, $200; salary disbursing officer $300; salary armorer $150; freight, express and deliveries $650; travel disbursing of ficer $150; repairs $300; offilce sup plies, armory $1(00; equipment $150 special service and travel in connec tion with the National Guard $900; repairs for the National Guard $1011; guard supplies $100; an icrease in maintenance fund for 33 rganizat ion. fromi $1 0,000 f o $27,000. For the Unaiversity of South Car olina there was an actual inc rea se of $300; for the Citadel an increase of $3,0.0, and for persolal cnt ran tural services in the uipkceep) of h;il. ings and grounuds and a h'crerme ofi' $161,000 to $4,G00 I'or permanen~wit im prov"emenlts. For Winthrop College' there was a decrease of X1,500 fir contractural services ender the sup.. erintendh-nt; mal increase of 7,::i for perisonalI service in coanniect iin wi h noirmal andl industrial edlunt ion andI ant inicreasei of $8,28.1.78 for th up keep of gro~iuds and, h biliinus onlt an itemi of $500 for a0 shedl for butihliin' Sfate ('oloredl College~t there \.a an increase of $8001) for~ equtipmenit aund the item (of $2,000 for, a :sununoer school1 was restoredl. lFor the Stati' Medical Colleg~e coatractural services were reduoced fromo $.1,175 toi $2,';7s andu insu ranice was increased fromt $700 to $1 ,200. F'or the .11ohn 'I ! I lowe Sc hool there were increases for piersal Iservice from $8.000 toi $10(, 880 andi for equitiment fromi $10t,tlno to $14',005, anrd there were no clhatnge in the school for the deaf amnd lind. Al lAS. W. P'. ILEGG ENT'l'hlT.XlI Last. Tlhursdary afternoon, M rs. W. P. I egg (entertained at a most e'njyuv aide Civic party. The spacious part lor, where five tables were tilacedl for rook, was decorated with spripng flowers andl handsome pot ted p1lanrts, making a pleaisant coint rast to tihl cold wvind anad rain oats ide. A fteri a number of interesting games1., the( charming hostess served delicious as Borted sandiwiches, hot colffee and mints. Those present we're: Mes (lames A. TI. Helms, A. I. Barron, D). M. Biradham, J1. K. Breedin, H. E. Chandler, R. f). Cothran, Joe11 Dic(kson, J1. 1. Bradhanm, J1. E. Arant., G. T. Floyd, W. T. Lesesne, Sr., T. E. Plow (ien, 11. R. Rembert, W. E. Rleardion, J. S. Wilson, Marion Williams W. S. Plowden, Jr.,W. TI. Lesesne, .ir., and Misses Roxie Dixon and Barnwoll Ilnuina.