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PSif'V.si. ' JK55 IV" ; '? ' ? BP ' ' *' Watch Label on Your Paper 7T| 1^ -a i -li, I I *4.4*^"# 1 ?S Pe D*te on *he ^'l8 "* ' | ..yu, Subscription l3lU0jl ?!|*UiU0? ICS"' " ESTABLISHED 1894. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1020. VOL. 24. NO. 28 COUNTY NEWS AND HAPPENINGS L News Hems of Interest to Herald Headers Ebb and Flow of the ' Human Tide. Latta. Mrs. William Henry Carr of Roanoke, Va., is visiting at the home of Mr. C. G. Bruce. Mrs. Sue Evans and daughter Gary have returned from Goldsboro where they have been visiting Mrs. Johnson Bethea. Miss Lola Session v'ho is teaching near Mullins is spend'ng the week end at home. Dr. T. J. Allen left Saturday night for New York and Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Manship le(t f Thursday for Rockingham, N. C., to visit their brother, Mr. Joe Gibson wh0 is very ill. Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein of White ville, N. C., spent Thursday wun men brother, Mr. Max Blvm. Mrs. Wincie Atkinson of Orrum, N. J C., is visiting her daughter Mrs. Artimicia Mclntyre. Misses Jennie Lee end Elizabeth Dew of Colter College are spending a few days at home. Mrs. B. C. Stafford who is' teaching at Philadelphia, N. C., is at home for e few days. Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Edwards visited in Florence this week. The death angel visited the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Rogers last Sunday night and took away their little 18th month's old son Johnnie. They have the sympathy of their many I friends in their sad bereavement. i Mr. J. H. Manning left Thursday ' for Baltimore to visit Mr. Cash El-1 lerbe who is very ill in a hospital\ there. The intluenza quarantine which ? ?? f~? r<->- tho nast several has Deen in iuac iui weeks was raised Saturday night and' the usual Sunday services were held I in the various churches. School was reopened Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Plttnian of Fairmont, ( N. C., were visitors in Latta this1 week. ? Mr. Charles Gibson and Miss Claudia Rogers were visitors in Latta Sun-] day. j Mr. and Mrs. Walter Driggers of Sellers spent Sunday afternoon in town. Mr. A. B. Allen left Saturday for ) New York. Messrs. Carl McLean, Geane Stafford and Jessie Manship left Monday, for Norfolk, Va., where they have accepted positions. Mr. J>ewey Freeman who was badly hurt in a saw mill some time ago is ^rbte to be out again. ' Mrs. John Manship of Sellers, Was in town Monday afternoon. o Bingham. Mr. Editor: As I have not seen any items from our thriving town of Bingham I will give you a few. We have three live'merchants, one church and a Sunday school and preaching twice a month by the Rev. Mr. Felder. We think that the Rev. Felder 1b the right man in the right place. If his members will only hold j up his hands, we believe xnai wutu i good will be done for the master and j it is needed. Now Mr. Editor we would like to. know if we have no system in working the public roads. It looks strange to us how some roads are kept up and some never get any work. We Binghamites can't get out to Dillon or Latta without bogging down. Mr. Editor, we feel like we are a part of the county and we know that we have to pay our tax and we would like to be thought of once in a while. This is election yea^ and some one had better look or".. Mr. Editor, we wish you would hint these facts to our officials. May be they will think of us before it is too j late. If this don't find the waste bas-; ket we may come again. o Calvary. Rev. Rufus Ford of Marion preach-1 ed an excellent sermon here Sunday last, in the afternoon. A few families fell'victims to thei flu, but it is about over, and as was announced Sunday last, we will meet' in our Sunday school at the usual hour, ten o'clock. The announcement was made Sunday last that Rev. J. A. Langley of Little Rock would preach here on Saturday before the fourth Sunday, at eleven o'clock. The church is asked to attend this meeting without fail. There will be a reular meeting of Hamer LodEe K. of P. No. 171 Fri day night of this week. All members are asked to attend and any visiting brother will be cordially welcomed. We have degree work in the rank of esquire, also in the rank of page and there will be balloting and appointing committees. A busy night for the Knights. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Alien spent last week end in the Latta section. H. W. Allen of Latta was here one day last week. The writer wonders if there would be so many wild fires let go in the forest and woods if there was a heavy fine or improvement of long duration imposed upon any party who would carlessly let out fire. This section has had considerable trouble with wild fire. o Sellers. Mr. It. H. Milliken and family with Miss Ruby Watson spent last week end with relatives in Sellers. Mrs. Parker fell and broke her arm and shoulder blade last Saturday. She was hurried to the Florence Infirmary where at the last accounts she was doing as well as could be expected. DARING AIRMAN TELLS OF FLIC J HI West to East at One Hundred t Three Hundred .Miles an Hour. New York, March 11?Trade wind sweeping from west to east at 100 t 300 miles an hour, were discovered a 30,000 feet by Maj. Rudolph Shroed er, army test pilot at Dayton, Ohic before he fell approximately fiv . miles and landed without crashing af ter establishing an altftude record o 36,026 feet in a recent flight. He re ported this discovery on his arriva today to attend to the National Air craft show. I "At the peak of my climb where hung with slightly upward progres for 15 minutes, I found the wind blew towards the east at the rate o ] 220 miles ah hour," he said. "I ha< started 30 miles west of Dayton, m; machine had a speed of 100 miles ai hour and as I started westward I wa literally traveling backward 120 mile an hour or two miles a minute. "I have not been able to figure ou exactly what the roof of the worl< really is. I think it possible to gi much higher than 48,000 feet, whicl scientists believe is the ultimate ceil ing of the world. But I believe it t< be a question of fuel supply." Major Shroeder said that after hi month's leave was granted him to re cover from effects of freezing and car bon monoxide poisoning suffered when his oxygen supply failed him he would make another aerial ex ploration. He added he intended rig ging up a pilots' "cage'' into whicl oxygen could be pumped. o EX-KAISER SAWS WOOD. News of Revolution in Germany Give Him Case of Nerves. Aniorengen, Holland, March 14 ? (By the Associated Press.) ? Thi tidings of the German counterrevolu tion caused a great stir ana mucl tension in Bentinck where Forme: Emperor William resides and the peo pie in the castle stayed up until a ver: late hour Saturday night awaitinj further news. William Kohenzollern spent part o the day in the garden he paee( up and down, seemingly absorbed ii deep thought. His excitement fount u-.terance in the energy with which hi sawed wood. The correspondent learm that yesterday he beat his own recorc in the number of logs cut in twain. The news of the counter-revolutioi which did iMt reach the people of Am orengen, until Saturday evening die not serve to rouse the peaceful villagi from its usual state of Sunday rest Except for the fact that three 01 four military police from the neigh boring village of Veenedaal weri added to the ordinary guard, consist ing of 20 constables, no special meas ures have been taken here. Military police are patrolling along the moats of the castle. As far as the corres pondent has been able to learn, thi Emperor is free to pursue his usua routine. Wieringen, Holland, March 14, (Bj the Associated Press.) ? Formei Crown Prince Frederick William, or hearing of the counterrevolution ir Germany became very much excited He motored several times into tht village in an endeavor to learn il Burgomaster Pereboom haj latei news from Berlin. The Hague, March 14, (By the As sociated Press.) ? The Amsterdan Telegraff today says: "With the evening boat today then arrived a bosom friend of Formei Crown Prince Frederick William Freiherr Zoebelitz, who stayed witl Frederick William during the firs months of his exile. He come! straight from Berlin. The formei crown princg went to meet him ii the harbor. The adjutant of Fred erick William says this visit has noth ing to do with present occurrences Mrs. B. B. Sellers and three of hei children had influenza last week. A present they are better and hope to b< out soon. * Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bass a boy. There was a church conference a Antioch Sunday morning at which th< pastor's salary was raised 33 1-3 pe cent, beginning with January. Quarterly conference will be helt at the Methodist church here the 411 Saturday and Sunday in March. Rev D. A. Philips, the new presiding El der, is expected to be present. Mrs. Edna McPherson. the nev demonstration agent for Marion coun ty met with the ladies club here tlv 1st Friday in March. The Ladies Co operative Club is one of thP sixteei clubs of Dillon county which has holt 12 regular monthly meetings the pas "year. o Oak Grove. Miss Etta Sue Sellers, home (lent onstration agent for this county, vis ited Oak Grove school last week am made an interesting talk to the cliil dren in behalf of her work. Miss Mary Hayes and Mr. Sam J Berry were married at Dillon las Saturday fternoon at the probate's ol fice. Judge Davis performing the cet emony. The happy young couple hav the best wishes of their friends. Dew P. Richardson, a farmer, die at his home near here last week ai ter a brief illness of influenza. Th deceased was a quiet inoffensive mar , friendly disposed and liked by every i body with whom he came in contacl MAY DELAY URIIHIE BUILDING P. Trouble Ahead in Effort to Secure o Federal Aid. i The Columbia Correspondent of the Florence Times says: s Columbia, March 11?A spider has 0 been found in the soup of the plans t for the erection of three big bridges - in South Carolina, over the Pee Dee, i, over the Santee and over the Savane nah. The tardiness of counties in - asking for federal road aid has f brought about a situation which coni fronts the state highway department 1 with a problem involving the comple tion of the three big steel bridges, i Bond issues have been authorized 11 in several counties of the state for sjthe construction of the Pee Dee, San-j s tee and Savannah bridges. These f: bonds were voted with the view ofj i'matching the money dollar-for-dollar ' /with federal funds. Twenty per cent i of the federal aid money goes to. sj bridge construction but for the past' sjtwo years there has been so little, ! bridge work done that the bridge por-j tition of the fund remained large and /some counties decided to build the, 01 big steel bridges and to use the fed- j /eral aid available. The recent legi*-| . lature authorized bonds for three | 3 such bridges, and it is now found, that the bridge money available from j s the federal government will not _ match all the money provided in the . bond issues for the three big bridges./ The highway department is confronted with the problem of what to do. The total bridge money available . from the federal government is $780, ! 000, and of this only $200,000. has been used pyior to 1920. The money which is now wanted from the gov-! |ernment for the Pee Dee, Santee and, [Savannah bridges would total $850,-1 1000, nearly $300,000 more than is J s available. The highway department; J will likely recommend that the nton-j I ey from the bond issues to be used 1 to construct the main portion of the three big spans, and that the fed-j e eral aid and other money available' be divided among the bridges and be: ^iused for construction of the cause-J 1 (ways so far as it will go, the comple-j "ition of the causeways on a perma-j Mnent basis being left to a future date, j ?| This will make possible crossings' lover the three rivers, and temporary1 Jcauseways can be constructed. The bridge over the Pee Dee at ! Mars Bluff is to cost $400,000. Florence county will issue bonds to the " amount of $30,000 for this bridge j" Marion $5^,000, Charleston $50,000 j and Dillon $25,000 and Berkley $25,000. The Santee bridge will cost a mil- j 1 lion and Charleston, Berkley and " Williamsburg counties will divide the cost in proportion of these two bridgJ es. In case of the Savannah bridge, North of Savannah, Ga? the cost is to; ~ be divided between the federal gov-1 ? ernment and the two states. The! bridge will cost $600,000. The South' "[Carolina share, one-fourth, will be, ' i borne by the counties of Beaufort, j ' Berkley, Jasper, Allendale, Colleton [ and Hampton. : The problem of apportioning federal funds for the construction of these three spans will be one of the first problems to confront tlie new high' way commission though the outgoing commission will also probably 1 advise in regard to it. Road Inspection. The South Carolina Railroad Com-j P mission will next month begin its annual inspection of the railway prop-: erty of the state. This will be the first inspection since government con-j trol and rwill be with the special; " view of determing.the condition of, the tracks and rolling stock now as compared with the condition when: the ro^ds were turned ever to "fhej 1 government. The three members of ' the commission will travel over every j ! mile of railway in the state and will i make a complete inspection also of, * the property. 1 o - GOVERNOR ISSVES REPORT OF PARDONS. _ Nine-Two Instances of Executive Clemency are Cited. r * Columbia, March 8.?Ninety-two in j 3 stances of executive clemency are1 [cited by Governor Coope- in his re j port of pardons, paroles and comniu tations for the year 1919, just is' sued. '! The governor issued five pardons. 1 :In nineteen cases executive clemency . iwas extended to restore citizenship.: ;There were 14 commutations during, ^the year and forty-four paroles dur-j ' ing good behavior. Seven temporary " j paroles were granted and three re-! I prives. A number of life-timers were ex-1 " i tended clemency by the governor and' e several men sentenced to die in the. " electric chair were granted longer JUife. yne of the cases that has attract-, ed considerable attention was that of i Aaron Holmes, a colored man of Ilieh-i Jand county. He was sent to the penitentiary for life for larceny. He was paroled during good behavior on - C hristmas eve. A tew anys ago ne, was arrested in Columbia for stealil ing and has gone back to jail for the' - rest of his life. William Kayford of Abbeville. r. county, was sent up for life in 191". I on a charge of murder. He was pa-; - ruled during good behavior last Sep - tern her. e; Wilson Spears of Marlboro was isentenced to life imprisonment in d March, 1913- On Christmas eve he was - naroled during good behavior. ei' Segar Wiggins, of Saluda county, i, was sentenced in 1904, to life im ^prisonment. Last November he was t. paroled during good behavior. Tl'RXEI) THE PRINCE AWAY. Cousin of Ex-Kaiser liaises Rough House and is Arrested. Berlin, March 8?Things are not what they use to be in the formeri seat of defunct kaiserism. A warrant j is out for the arrest of a proud Hohenzollern prince, Joachim, cous-j in of the ex-kaiser. It was he who; started the bottle and plate bombard-j ment against two Srench officers in the Adjoin's dining room Saturday! night when they refused to stand up! in homage to the tune of "Deutsch-j land Ueber Alles." But what is even more characteristic of the change of things than the warrant is what happened to Joachim when he went back to the Adlon last night, intending to eat his caviare and sip his champaigne, as if nothing had happened. The head waiter and the chief greeted him at the door and told him politely but firmly that his presence and patronage was no longer desirable. They were acting as a com inittee of two 011 behalf of the hotel's "workman's council." "Sorry, sir, you cannot be served Iitc again," said the head waiter, Sojsser by name. The prince straightened up, affixed his monocle by way of registering amazement cleared his throat as a sort of warning ramble herdling Jhunder, then asked with a voice' scarcely less icy than his stare: "What do you mean"? "I mean, sir," said the head waiter, 1 in tones ever so sauve, but none the 1 less determined, "that you will never, be served in this hotel again, so you I had better not come here. The wait-1 ers and cooks will go on strike rather than serve you. You are responsible for what happened here lost night." By this time a number of other waiters and two or three white cap-1 ped cooks, had joined the "committee of two.'' All were nodding assenti to Soisser's words. All were husky war veterans and' seemed ready to prove It. With a departing glance of impot-j ent rage mingled with infinite con-j tempt, the irate prince hastened to, see Herr Adlon, the proprietor". In the old days any complaint about "hired help" would have brought forth deepest apologetic bows# and wholesale dismissals. But these are , different days. Herr Adlon courteously told his highness that he was' unable to oppose the concerted will J of his employees. o TEXAS TOWN WIPED OUT. I Fire Destroyes 200 Buildings and 1000 People are Homeless. Fort Worth, March 14. ? Grand View, a farming community of 2,000, inhabitants, 36 miles southeast of this city, late tonight, was in smouldering! ruins, with more.than 1,000 of its residents homeless seven of its eight | blocks of business buildings destroy-! ed and about 200 residences wiped out by fire which starting this after-! noon, ianned Dy a jo mues an nour( wind, was not brought under control J until nearly midnight and then was still burning fiercely, according to | reports received here. Latest estimates place the property: loss between $1,500,000 and $2,000000. Immediate relief for the homeless was urged. Fire apparatus was sent to Grand View from Waxhatchie .Itasca, Cleburne and Alverado, but on its arrival was of no use as the water in the standpipe gave out an hour after the fire started. Indications were that the few re-; maining buildings in the residential! section would be destroyed. Fire de-j partments from Cleburne, Itasca and! Alverado responded to a call for aid, but the water in the town stand pipe soon gave out and no dynamite could be obtained. After that the firemen were unable to do anything except watch the town burn. Automobiles, trucks, wagons and other vehicles were pressed into! service to carry the homeless to Al-J varado and Itasca. Merchandise val-| used at hundreds of thousands of dol...... I lars was piled in the streets, but was greatly damaged by water and smoke1 In shape of a V the fire swepj through the city, destroying more than 200 homes in the residential I section. When the flames reached I Main street, hopes were held that the1 business sectiifh could be saved, as; the wind was blowing due worth, but the wind veered and the fire was swept into the business section en-: gulfing every building in its eight blocks. Merchants had virtually no time to save their stocks. James Allen, Sr.. a colored man, J was sentenced to death in March of last year, on a charge of murder. Inj July his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on recom-' mendation of the board of pardons. Pleas Bibbs, of Abbeville county, | had a life sentence commuted to fif-i hinn rnn pc lout Anrnicf Ti* 1 01 O hn was convicted ?f niurder. John Henry Jackson of Abbeville, county, was convicted in September,' 1917o f murder and sentenced to tbe i electric chair. Last April the sen-1 tence was commuted to life imprison-' ment. George Johnson of Aiken county, was sentenced last June to die fori assault to ravish, had his sentence] ri prieved for twenty-eight days, but | at thp expiration of that time the! sentence was carried out. Aaron Walker, of Greenwood, convicted of assault with intent to rav-j ish. was sentenced in December, 1918! to die in the electric chair. The date of the execution was set as December 17, 1918. Both Governor Manning and Governor Cooper granted reprieves, but the sentence was carried out on March 8th of last year. WILL FIGHT BOLSHEVISM. , Xew German Government Think*. 1 Probably This Will Be Popular With Allies. Berlin, March 14?Th'e Germanr I revolutionary government plans to ' fight Bolshevism to the death. If the allies allow it, the German militarists will begin an offensive against the 'Soviet in May. I General Baron Von Luettwitz, revolutionary military dictator, announced this in an interview today. The stage is set for the supremetest of the new militarist governjment's strength tomorrow. If the | working masses carry out their threat of a general strike there is sure to be bloodshed on a terrific scale, for the Kapp-Luettwitz internal program is one of blood and iron. Any labor disturbances will be "lelentlessly" put down by military forces, it w as officially announced to night. The announcements odds the gov SIM.MEU TELLS OF MAKLBOKO OIL. Only Analyzed Submitted Sample, guotes Kepoil ot State Geologist Taber. To the Editor ot The State: In the advertisement of the Marlboro Oil Developing company which was published 111 tne State Sunday, March 14, there is a statement to the effect that the agricultural department analyzed a sample of this oil. This statement is correct, but this was merely q submitted sample, the department having no record as to the source, and simply reported as a submitted sample. In the meanwhile, Prof. Stephen Taber, state geologist, made a thorough investigation as to the possibility of oil in Marlboro county and submitted the following statement, which was published April 1, 1917, in The State. "Stephen Taber state geologist, has returned from Marlboro county where he inspected the place on the jackson farm, four miles from Clio, at which an alleged discovery of oil has aroused much excitement. Dr. Taber is decidedly of the opinion that those who have dreamed of riches to flow from a Marlboro oil field have disappointment in store. "He said yesterday that a careful investigation on the ground has convinced him that such oil as was in evidence had percolated downward fromUbove, perhaps from a nearby engine. He inspected a number of wells?bracketed the target, as an artilleryman would say?but could find no indications of a natural oil flow, and the geological formations do not encourage expectation of a discovery of oil. He said that a scum on the surface of adjacent wells was not of oil but of oxide of iron, formed by the action of air on water impregnated with iron. The ground water table lies close to the surface, but a test shaft driven between the supposed oil well and the cfeek, In the line of the ground water drift, showed no traces of oil. "There was no doubting that the neighborhood was agog over the alleged discovery, Dr. Taber said: Real estate nearby is held at pfices the owners would not have dreamed of asking a month ago and large numbers of persons visit the locality each day." Also ajiopy of his letter of November 6, 1919, to insurance commissioner VV A Mrfiwain is as follows: "W. A. McSwain, Insurance Commissioner Columbia, S. C. "Dear Sir: V "In reply to your letter of November 5 referring to the Marlboro Oil Developing company. On March 30, 1917, I examined a piece of property, owned by C. H. Jackson and located near Clio, S. C., on which mineral oil was reported to have been discovered. I found a shallow well containing water with a little oil on top. This oil had evidently percolated downward from a point on the surface in the imdiate vicinity of the well, for no oil could be detected in other wells or holes although several were dug within about 50 feet of the well containing the oil. After careful search I could find nothing that would indicate the presence of oil in commercial quantities. "I am of the opinion that it would be a waste of time and money to drill for oil on the property of Mr. Jackson near Clio, S. C., until some evidence of its presence in commercial quantities is discovered in that section of the state. "Very truly yours (Signed) "Stephen Taber, State Geologist. ' November 6, 1919. (Signed) A. C. Summers, Chemist. Department of Agriculture of South Carolina. n COUNTY FAIR MEETING. Oil last Friday afternoon there was a very enthusiastic meeting at the office of l^e undersigned and Dillon county will surely have a fair this fall. A large number of people were present and instead of selling stock to the amount of $10,000 as provided for in the charter, a resolution was passed asking that the capital stock be increased to $15,000, which was done. Committees were appointed in different sections of the county to get up stock and if the committees do not happen to see everyone we want you to send in your subscription to the secretary at once. Another meeting will be held on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, March lftth, at which time the ones appointed to get u^> the additional subscriptions to the stock will make their reports and we ask all persons who can possibly do so to attend this meeting. A resolution was passed at the last meeting that tlo person could own over $5UU of stock at any one time. This was done in order that no per son could pi in :ind buy up ;rll the stock. We want this to be a county wide enterprise and we want everyone to subscribe even if you only t..?.e a small amount. I earnestly ask for a full attendance on Friday afternoon at three o'clock. A. r. BETHEA, Secretary. IS vol It \.\MK RISER? There was a cotton farmer named Riser. Who heeded not any adviser. He was warned of the weevil, But lie thought it no evil.? And now hP is poorer but wiser. o THY THE PALMETTO CAFE, NEXT TO HEKALD OFFICE.?It. ernment doe-* not intend "repeat the mistake of November, 1918," of being too lenient. Striking on the part of public utilities, such as water, gas and electricity works and in any branches of industry necessary to the nation, will be declared high treason, the penalty for which is death. Berlin, March. 14?Fifteen persons were killed and 100 wounded ia violent clashes between strikers antf police at Franfort on the Main today. The strikers proved victorious after out of the town whereupon a huge-1 mob looted the main arms depot. Similar clashes occurred in other big industrial centers. A genera.! 8trike bas been called besides, in Frankfort, in Nuremberg, Madgeburg Breslau and throughout the Rhenisbi [Westphalian mining districts. No disturbances took place in Berlin. The attitude of Bavaria Saxony and Wuerttemberg, the three former kingdoms traditionally opposed to Prussia, is still uncertain, though the black-white-red flag of the new iregime is'flying from the government buildings in Munich, the Bavarian capital. Prussian Eagle Flying. The Prussian eagle emblems is also flying from all official buildings !?. Berlin and has been hoisted over stacks of arms belonging to the Luettwitz army. Minister of Defence Luettwitz Issued this statement today: "The revolution is the consequence of the non-fulfillment of promise by the Eoert government and the neglect of the Bolshevist menace. '*A German army of 100,000 is not sufficient to fighL Bolshevism. "The new government will resqrt to military force in Germany only as a last refuge. "We wish to maintain good understanding with the entente, if that be reconcilable with German honor.*' The first meeting of the Kapp cabfnet will take place Tuesday. The new ministry's position is rendered extremely difficult by proclamations from the nationalist and democratic parties announcing that they wSh stand aloof in the present, crisis. The democratic proclamation states: "A minority leading the blackest reaction has nsnrnpH nowpr Plvll wa? jis threatening and Germany'* enemiesjhave an excuse for territorial eacroachments." Dr. Kapp has permanently suppressed the leading Socialist orgpn, Vorwaerts and the radical paperar Freirheit and Die Rote Fahne. o REPUBLICANS MEET IN CONVENTION. Florence Times. Republicans of the Sixth Congressional District met in convention bene yesterday at Levys' Hall. There were 60 delegates present. Dr. J. R. Levy was elected permanent chairman and delegate at large to the Republican National Convention. J. A. Baxter of |Georgetown was elected alternate. The convention was enthusiastic. Adr' dresses were made by B. W. Nance, [Esq., of Columbia. J. H. Fordham, of Orangeburg. J. D. Adams of Spartanjburg. Mayor L. C. W. Blalock of Lauriens, A. D. Webster of Orangeburg-., l Harmony prevailed while the delegate to the convention goes uninstructed yet sentiment seemed to favor ; General Wood as a candidate for Pre: sidenf. The name of Frank H. Hitchcock, however, was enthusiastically cheered 'when mentioned. 0 . CANDIDATE FOR GERMAN' THRONK-' Paris, March 14?"Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, elder son of the crowji 'prince, is a candidate for thP throne and is expected to be proclaimed emperor." Geortrp Blum, special correspondent of Le Journal, tele^raphefrorn Berlin. j "This decision was formulated at a family council presided over by Prince Adalbert and is supported by Priiua Eitel Friedrich. The plot for restoration of the monarchy has been hatched in Berlin by Ludendorff and Hel ffrioh, who have been in close com? ,niunir.ition with Amerongen and Potsdam. "The Doeberilz and Zossons brigades, as well as the famous iron division from t! ? reactionary forces and are ready to - ' t for the re-establishment of the monarchy. "Triumph of the reactionaries would mean annulment of the peace 'treaty and probably reopening of the jwar."