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VOLtJMEIIX
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH llth, 1919
NUMBER 11
mDEITE
OF
Court in Session This Week
With Many Cases on Docket
Judge Prince Presiding.
* The jury in „the case of the
* State vs W. R. Burdette, charg-
* ed with murder, returned a ver-
* diet of guilty of manslaughter
* . last night.
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Laurens, S. C., March 12 (Special)—
The court of general sessions con
vened here Monday morning with
Judge Geo. E. Prince, of Anderson,
presiding and all the court officials
in their accustomed places. After the
court was organized Monday morn
ing, Judge Prince delivered an able
charge to the grand jury in which he
stressed the importance of good
schools, and good roads. Both, hr
said, were fundamental requirement
for advancement and - urged liberal
This is the first term of criminal
court since March of last year and
consequently the docket is crowded
with cases. It is hardly likely that a
large proportion of the cases tpriH be
disposed of, as several murder cases
will be trie\i during the week. Yester
day Jhe court was engaged in the
trial of W. R. Burdette, charged with
the murder of D. D. Stoddard, near
Qwings, in 1917. This case was tried
at the March term of court last year
and’resulted in a mistrial. At that
TTme’Governor Cooper was an attorney
for the defense, but his place was tak
en yesterday by Hon. A. H. Dean, of
Greenville, who is associated with R.
E. Babb and‘Col. H. Y. Sirftpson. Judge
Prince gave the case to the jury last
night.
Other cases so far tried are as fol
lows:
Mrs. Kora Pinson; violation of the
prohibition law in having in her pos
session about 8 gallons of wine; mis
trial.
Mike Washington, unlawful killing
of animals, guilty—sealed verdict.
. , Charley Wilson, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent: plead gniitv—
three months’ sentence.
Murrell McDaniel, larceny; plead
guilty—six months.
Jno. B. Simpson, assault and bat
tery with intent to kill and carrying
concealed weapons; plead guilty—12
months.
Sam Martin, house breaking and
larceny; plead guilty to entering Dr.
Clifton Jones’ dental office—sentence
not pronounced.
Presentment of Grand Jury.
The grany jury made the following
presentment yesterday afternoon:
To His Honor, Geo. E. Prince, Presid
ing Judge:
We beg leave to submit to the Court
our final presentment.
— -We-have passed on all bills handed
us by the Court and reported on same.
We have before us the report sub
mitted by the Supervisor, who reports
that the board of County Commission
ers have launched an experiment with
the State Highway Commission, on
road working, to be worked from
Newberry line to iLaurens court
house. This body is gratified to learn
that a start has been made to improve
our highways, which so badly need
attention.
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The Supervisor reports the roads
and bridges are in a very unsatisfac-
•tory condition at this time, but he is
using every means' available to im-
prove them during th$ year and Ve
%eel that the best possible is being
done at this time tinder existing con
ditions. . . -
The Supervisor informs us that he
has made application to the peniten
tiary authorities to have transferred
to the county chain gang, a . number
of prisoners who were sent there from
this county. We commenjl his effpr^ts
and hope that hte will succeed as their
work is badly needed bn the public
highways of our county. -
The county Jail has been condemned
by this and all other bodies who have
inspected it recently as unsafe, un
sanitary and unfit for use. The in
formation Is that air appropflation
a commission appoint
ed to build a new Jail but owing to
the existing abnormal prices, it is im
possible to build 4 Jail for the amount
appropriated. We would recommend
that our representatives supplement
this with an amount sufficient to
erect ^ new building.
THIRD OLD AND NEW CLOTH
ING CAMPAIGN FOR THE
BELGIAN-FRENCH
WAR SUFFERERS.
The Red Cross is launching an
other—the third-’-eampaign for
clothing, old and new, for war suf
ferers in Belgium and France, who
were robbed of everything they 'had.
It is a new opportunity for, our
generosity. Our quota will be a min
imum of 1,600 pounds and we. mi
to go as far as possible beyond that.
On the other two campaigns com
paratively few people'in Cli'riton
contributed because they were not
given the opportunity. We expect
this time to give everybody a
chance. The campaign begins Mon
day, March 24th. Fifts of service
able clothing, shoes, soft hats, bed
ding—anything useful in the home
-—will be received at Senior Red
Cross Headquarters each afternoon
of week beginning March 24, from
3:40 o’clock. There is no restric
tion this time as to things with rub
ber in them. The following com
mittee has charge of receiving, col
lecting and packing:
Chiairman, Miss Eliza Beard.
Assistant, Mi's. D.„E- Tribble.
Wards 1 and 2, Musgrove St.—
Mrs. A. B. Galloway.,
Ward 2, Owens Hilb—Mrs. Rich
ard Copeland.
Ward 3—Miss Sallie Wright.
Wards 4 and 5—Mrs. J. T.
Robertson'.
Wards 6 and 1, North Broad—
Mrs. Bessie Godfrey.
Goldville—Mre. L. M. C. Blalock.
llopewell and Wadsworth—Mrs.
J M. Monroe. f •
Hurricane—Mrs. *j. F. Whitmire.
Lydia—Mrs. A. P. Oxner.
Renno—Mi's: J. C. McMillan.
Rock Bridge—Mrs. John Davis.
Please ransack your closets and
chests and be ready for these la
dies when they call. Clothing, out
er or under, for children, both boys
and girls of any age, and men and
women of any age,^will all be.ac
ceptable. Rugs and druggets also,
if still serviceable and thoroughly
cleaned. Winter clothing or sum
mer clothing may he sent. But
don’t send mere rags.
TIME FOE BETTER
BEEF CATTLE HERE
Raising of Texas Fever Tick Qu&ran
tine Opens Doors for Big Cattle Here
' Clemson College, March 5.—The
raising of the Federal quarantine
against the Texas fever cattle tick in
December 1, 1918, opened wide the
door for more and better cattle in
South Carolina. The rapid increase In
interest in dairy cattle and the im
provement |being right in breeding
stock by means of bull associations
should ho- followed-and—will—be- fol
lowed by similar development in the
beef cattle Industry.
To specialists in live stock of the
extensive service, in order to aid in
this development, have planned sev
eral lines of beef cattle endeavor to
be undertaken in 1919 through the aid
of district and county agents, cattle
f - . ..."
breeders organizations, and individ
uals, as follows: . . •
1. Development of pure bred beef
cattle industry; to place pure bred
beef cattle on definite constructive
basis promoting -certain breeds ii\
certain counties and sections.
2 ' Pure bred beef cattle records;
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to record the number and kind of pupe
bred animals available at any time
and to find market for surplus.
3. Buying pure Ibrqfd 'cattle; . to
promote community, breeding enter
prises and aid in buying economical-'
ly the breeding stock needed in va
rious communities.
4. Herd management, demonstra
tions; to secure and demonstrate defl-.
nite local knowledge as to costs,
best methods, and profits to be expect
ed.
5. Feeding demonstrations; to en
courage the practice of furnishing beef
cattle for market, to furnish market
for cheap coarse roughness produced
on farms, and to increase the quality
of manures for soil improvement.
6. Co-operative breeders’ sales; to
advertise and encourage worthy
breeders and help find market for
their surplus. — ^ •
7. Preparations of cattle for exhi
bition; to stimulate cattle shows and
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breeding herds.
TO SPEAK SUNDAY.
— Div E. W. Sikes, president of
coker College, will speak here twice
next”SiTnday. In the morning he
will preach at the First Baptist
church apt! ‘also address a joint
meeting of the'Baraoa and Phila-
the”a classes. Tri. the evening at the
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same church; he will preach at a
union service, the night services in
all the other churches having been
called in for this special occasion.
Dr. Sikes is one of the ablest
preachers and pulpit orators in the
state und is sure to be heard by
large congregations at both servic
es.
We would urge that the police offi
cers of our county look closely after
the enforcement of what is known as
the patent-medicine,"extract, etc., act,
which was passed by the last legis
lature, as ii^ our oplnion .great harm
is coming from the excessive sale and
uses of these compounds.
We have appointed committees to
investigate the following: roads and
bridges, schools, county officers, coun
ty home, chain gang and public
buildings. The’ committees will at
tend to these duties and report to the
Court af a future regular term. This
being tb£ first term we desire not to
report on these until we have suffi
cient time to familiarize ourselves
with the true conditions.
In conclusion, we desire to thank
His Hpnor and the court officers for
courtesies shown. All of which is most
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respectively 'submitted. „
S. M. WILKES.
Foreman of- Grand Jury.
Mr. W. P. Jacobs spent the week
end in Spartanburg with Mrs. Ja
cobs. * • ‘
CAMAUFLAGED GU.NS
PROTECTED >ATI0X
Many Large Mortars, Standing on Con
crete Emplacements, Hid Along I’.
S. Coast. Camoufleur Describes
Work Against U-Boats.
Ne wYork, March 7.—Huge mortars,
standing on concrete emplacements
and abundantly supplied with half ton
projectiles, were erected during the
war among the flowers and shrubbery
of private gardens in New York City
and elsewhere along the Atlantic
Coast ready to repel the attacks of
German naval or airships, Maxi
milian Touch, one of the first* Ameri
can camouflagers told the New York
section of the American Chamical So
ciety tonight.
Mr. Touch, who directed" sererahot
the navy’s important camouflage pro
jects spoke iwith the consent of Secre
tary Daniels. He described how
honeysuckle, morning-glory and ivy,
as well as paints; had been employed
to conceal or lower the visibility of
coastal fortifications.
Ambrose channel, the mouth of
o
New York harbor, was protected in
addition to the guns in the regular
army forts, by motars having a range
of twelve miles, said Mr. Touch.
Some of these auxilliary cannon, he
declared, were placed two and a half
miles inland on private estates and
so concealed by arrangement of trees,
shrubbery and flowers that passers-
by were ignorant of their erection and
even.aviatqrs (ound “little or no'evi-
dence’’ of their location. They were
manned by army gun crews.
The camdufleur describes his work
in disguising navy yards and .docks
along the Atlantic Coast, notably 'the
Pensacola and Key West bases, which
were exposed to attacks by German
raiders and submarines operating in
the South Atlantic. The navy be
lieved, Mr .Toi^h asserted, that the
Germans had a secret base on, the
north coast of Cuba, declaring that
“rich German firms in Havana were
notoriously aiding the Central Pow
ers” and that there were “more Ger
man. spies and propagandists on the
Islands than in the United Spates.”
Mi\ Touch declared the" army “did
not take kindly to camouflage at the
beginning of the war,” and said that
he had great difficulty” in convincing
army officers the necessity of camou
flaging fortifications adjacent to navy
yards.
Prior to the war Mr; Touch gained a
reputation as a camoufleur by lower
ing the risibility^ of the forts at the
Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
TELLS OP BOLSHEV1KI
Amrican Ambassador Before Commit
tee. Grave Menace Found. If Pres
ent Misrule of Russia Continues
Country Will Be Exploited by Ger
mans.
Washington, March 8.—David R.
Francis, who went to Russia as Amer
ican ambassador in 1916 before the
overthrow of the monarchy and who
remained there until after the Bol
shevists had seized the government,
r testifying todAy-'befof0 tbe seriale
committee investigating lawless propa
ganda, warned that'should the Bolshe-.
vists be permitted to remain in power
all Russia would be exploited by’the
Germans. ‘Within .ten years under
such GondRioiWT- Germany would .be
the, victor of the war in that the
nation tWould be stronger in every way
than it was in 1914. , ■
Ambassador Francis* fKl*d the com
mittee a complete and thorough un
derstanding of ‘‘the RiisaiafrWcnaee
eoirVinces him that witli the Bolsher
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vists in. power in Russia, peace” not
only in Europe huts throughout thq,
entire world ..was an utter impessi-
bllity. He said even noV there wa§
good reason for Relieving German aqd
Austrian officers were with *the red
forces operating in- Northern Russia
and’, he added, ’the Germans were
steadily getting a grip upon the vitals
of Russia and her. industries.
. Mr. Francis further testified that
information had reached him that
Raymond Robins, former American
Red Cross commissioner to Russie,
had upon his return to the Uni te
states carried a pcoposal from the
Bolshevik government to President
Wilson. This, proposal, he said, he
Understood, was an offer o£ certain
concessions to the American govern
ment similar to those granted Ger
many .in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The ambassador said so far as he
knew -Mr—Robins was never given an
opportunity to present the proposal tr
ibe president f - ./
In reply to-questions of jnembers of
the committee, Ambassador Francis
said it was his understanding that
the soviet did not- desire tp’ make a
similar proposal to Great Britain.
France and the other allies. On the
contrary his information, he said, was
to. the effect .that the Bolshevists
wished to corfceal the. pioposal fronr
the. governments associated with the
United States.
The ambassador was askpd what
would happen if American and allied
troops were withdrawn -from North
ern Russia and in reply asserted he
was positive the Bolshevists /would
feweep in and engage in an orgy of
murder and destruction on a scale
such as the world has never seen.
Reports that the Bolshevists were
sending their agents into Germany,
France and England were upheld by
tke^rrilia^sadQr_Mih.Q.said.h.e_Ji£j.i£.ved
efforts in this country thus far had
taken the form of money for use in
spreading of their propaganda. Ho
told of the delivery of Bolshevist prop
aganda, to the. Armifa of .the allies and.
the United States in France. .
The ambassador said the soviet gov
ernment had recently been petitioned
not to carry out the denationalization
of certain, banks, the objects of the
petitioners being, he said, to allow
German agents to obtain control of
the stock of these institutions.
Mr. Francis said it was not true that
the mass of the Russians, favored the
rule of the Bolshqvists. As a matter
of fact, according to Ambassador
Francis, less than a constantly dwin
dling 10 per cent of all the people in
Russia holnngftd to the Brtlaheviki.
He painted a vivid picture of the ter
ror that reigns and told -of an instance
where the gutters from a court-yar^
in Petrograd actually ran with blood
from the victims of the Bolshevists.
Many were killed without even charg
es being made against them.and or
several occasions, the ambassador as
serted, wholesale killings were indulg
ed in. He said more than 500 innocent
hostages were killed at one time and
his observation of conditions and af
fairs in Russia led him to believe-the
Bolshevists in their every day prac
tices committed excesses far beyon^
even the wildest dreams^ of anarchists.
“Anarchists, as I understand them.”
he declared, “believe only in the de
struction of property. The Bolshevists
believe in the destruction of property
and life as well, for they realize that
their only means of continuing in
power is by killing all those who dare
to oppose them ”
Flat contradiction was givetTby Am
bassador Francis to statements of,
previous witnesses before the commit-
DEMOCRATS UXCDVER
REPUBLICAN SCHEME
Congressmen of Both Parties Will
Therefore Yisit Paris to Gain In
formation.
Washington, March 8.—(Democrats
today caught on to plans of Congress
man Julius Kahn, who will be the next
chairman of the house qommittee on
military affairs?, to hike to France with*
a number, of Republican members and
tell th,e Democrats nothing of the trip.
The Democrats did not think this was
eatthg tbfefn ralrly, sp they hhrried
to Secretary Baker about * thfe matter
and the result is that several ‘Demo-,
cr'atic members, among k them Con
gressman Sam J. Nicholls, of South
Carolina, will go abroad on.April 8 for
the purpose of seeing for themselves
what conditions there are, end so that
Mr, Kalin , and . his Republican .aides
will not be in possession of any facts
which they do not. have -when the
extra session of congress begins in
June. ». • •;*. ' *
LOCUSTS COMING
IN MAY AND JUNE
PJTNNSYLYANTX ELECTS “''
’ DEMOCRAT TO CONGRESS
G^eensburg, Pa., *Iarcb 5.-f-For the
first time in fifty years a Democrat,
John Wilson,*has been elected to Con-'
gress -from Butler Oouhjy,. according
to late, returns from Tuesday’s spe
cial election in the . tjrenty^second
congressional, district. With the re-1 until next year; postpone budding op
iums virtually complete, Mr. Wilson
is leading John-M. Jamison, republi-
can, by 4.73 votes. He will occupy the
seat left va'cant by the death of E. E.
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Robhlns.
tee to the effect, thjit a free press exist
ed in Russia. ' ‘ r 4-
. The ambassador discussed Colonel
Robins at some rength.^IIe.sald he had
heard the Red Cross representative re-’
furred to as the-^mouth. piece of Araer-’
ica’’ and the reference became so fre
quent he )was obliged to issue a public
notice sayinghe'represented the Amei>
ican government and stateihents com
ing from any other source were unau
thorized. Mr. Francis . declared Col.
Robins wanted him to “follow the Rol-
V ‘ 0
shevist government to Moscow” when
it moved there from Petrograd. The
Red Cross representative was said by
the-'ambaTssador to have had every fa
cility placed at his disposal’by the Bol
shevist#, with whom he was persona
grata. He said when Col; Robihs trav
eled the Bolshevists telegraphed, ahead
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to, help him in every way‘and that he
even had authorization to have what
toiegrams he sent put ahead of all
other messages, such privileges being
denied to the ambassador.
The ambassador on the night of the
suppression of the constituent assem-,
bly by Bolshevists expected trouble,
and^three of the, maay'hundred Ameri
cans who cange to Russia were on
guard at the soviet ministry of foreign
eratiofis; do no pruning this spring.
When the insects begin coming out,
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hand pick them from young trees or
spray them, with pyrethrum powder,
kerosene emulsions, or a solution of *
carbolic acid or noetic acid.
Later, when the insects are ready to'
pcared before the committee, a man
named Humphreys and another named
Reinstein, whose home was said to be
in Buffalo. The _ ambassador asserted
that, in .a single week 800 Americans
arrived in Russia and that many of
them associated with the Bolshevists,
soon thereafter. The ambassador said
he warned the state department and
recommended that passports be‘ not is
sued to Americans to corne to Russia.
Albert R.' Williams, a previous wit
ness before the committee, was re
ferred to by Mr. Francis who said
Williams freely associated with th<
Bolshevists and was an advocate of
their principles. „
' Oliver M. Sayier, who said he was
a dramatic critic of the Indianapolis
News."and was in Russia during the
early days of the Bolshevist revolu
tion. described conditions as he said
he found them.
Subject to the future call of Senator
Overman, chairman, the committee ad
journed at the conclusion of the tak
ing of Mr. Sayler’s testimony. It was
saijl to be doubtful whether any fur
ther witnesses would be asked to tes
tify before the committee.
Chicago, March 8.—Raymond Robins,
former American Red Cross commis
sioner to Russia, sent a telegram to
night to Chairman Overman of the
committee investigating lawless propa
ganda requesting permission to appear
again before the committee^ and jyfute
“false statements” reported -to have
been made before the committee by
Ambassador Francis.
Big line of jPercolators, Tea Pots.
Coffee Pot»r*.Ca^feeroles, Baking Dishes
and Kettles in aluminum and nickle-
plated ware.
, S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO.
Seventeen Year Locust Expected to
Appear. Once Regarded as Harbin
ger of Disaster Now Known Only
as Insect Pest.
Washington. March . 8. -r- Great
swarms of the 17 year locust will in
fest the United States in late May and’
early June this year, which is expect
ed by scientists to be one of the worst
“locnst. years”’on. record. Experts of
the. department of agriculture, h'o'w-
ever, see nothing alarming In’tFe pros
pect. -
Once regarded superstitiou’sly as a
harbinger of disaster, the periodical
cicada, popularly known as the 17 year
locust because it comes at long inter
vals. is seen now 1 fo be no more than
an ordinary nonpoisonohs Insect ppst,
which can do little damage if proper
'precautions are taken. The-chief in
jury inflicted, by the insect consists al
most wholly in ',chiseling.;grooves in
the branches of trees for depositing
egg«. .’Young" fruit trees sometimes
are killed, but the'damage generally
seems greater than it actually is, ac
cording to ’The • "entomologists, and
pbpular alarm is emt *of proportiop
to the re%l danger. “ : ' -
Suggested . p^cautionary measures
are:* t *' x '
Defer putting out young fruit trees
begin laying,- spr^y. young fruit -trees
with whitewash/ ' ''* t
The department of^agriculture^ hgs
kept close check for many years of
*11 ,the broods o$ locji^ts and.can fore
tell accurately when and* where «
pests will appear/ Large regioift will
)ie affected this year whene one brood,
appeared 17 years .ago and in Qther
regions which suffered f3 years ago,,
the States including Alabama. District
of Columbia;- Delaware, Georgia, Il
linois. Indiana,-lowa,-Kentuoky,‘Mary-
land, Massachusetts, Michigan, New
Jersey,' New York, North Carolina,
Ohio,;Pennsylvania, South Carolina.
Tennessee,- Vermont, Virginia, West
jila,and. Wigc n . nt Ti n
. Belief that the 1919 brood will be
exceptionally Jarge is based on the
fact that the 17 year brood coming out
this yeaV is brood 10, perhaps the larg
est of thV 17 year brood, and tha f
brood 18 of the 13 year family comes
out at the same time. The year 186^
w-as the greatest locust year in his-
l •<
lory, when brood 19, the largest of
the 13 year family, anpeared in con
junction with brood 10 of the 17 year
family.
There will be three regions of
affairs. He declared these to have greatest occurrence of brood 10, one
horn John Rre.d, a writer iwho has ap—- r ' n £ * s £- w Jersqy x Marjlftm) and
Eastern Pennsylvania; anothVlJcover-
ing all of Indiana, the greater part of
Ohio and Southern MIchig&n; and a
third covering -Western-North—Cttro-
iina, Eastern Tennessee and Northern
Georgia. While brood 10 will affect
20 States, brood 18 will appear in
only five States—Alabama, Georgia.
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, and only limited areas in
those States.
C. L. Marlatt, chairman of the Fed
eral horticultural board, who has per
fected the information on the cicada,
calls the insect the most interesting
in the world, because of the spectacu
lar swarms in 'which it appears, its
queer recurrence dt long intervals and
the portentious significance frequently
attached to it. Every locust year has
been a year of fear and dread, even
in civilized times. Some people have
fancied that they could detect in the
cry of the insect a resemblance to the
name of the Egyptian monarch.
Pharoah, who persecuted the IsreaL
ites. Superstition attached alsb to the
shape of the filmy bars on the cicada’s
wings, which f *eenied to form the -let
ter "W:;,"interpreted as a forecast of
twar.
“Since this outbreak will come just
at the conclusion of the greatest war."
Mr. Marlett said, “and when even the
imagination of tl^e rural prophet could
hardly conjure up the likelihood of an
other one, some new explanation will
apparently have to be found.”
SPOKE SUNDAY.
Rev. J. C. Roper of Chester, oc
cupied the pulpit" of North Breed
Street Mjethodist church last Sun
day at both services and was heard ,
by large congregations.