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. V f»AGE T^O THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTONi^S. C. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929 SUIT FOK $50,000 FILED SATURDAY M^y 18th,, when a piece of shafting being sawed off by other employees flew off and struck the decease! and as a consequence of which “intestate ^'llinton Cotton Mills Is Defendant In Suit Brought Estate of Deceased Employee. Laurens, July 24.—The sum of $50,- ooo is asked as damages of the Clin ton Cotton Mills in a suit filed Satur- 'day in the clerk of court’s office by <Otis P. Huff and Edna Barnes as ad- ’ministrator and administratrix of the 'estate of ftomer Barnes, who is al leged to have met his death in the spool room of the defendant company. was knbcked unconscious, his face hor- i. ribly mangled, his body bruised, many j bones broken and his skull completely I crushed” to such an* extent that he subsequently died. The suit, states the second para graph of the complaint, is brought in behalf of L. W. Barnes and Edna Barnes, father and mother of the de ceased, who would be the beneficiaries of his estate. Homer Barnes, it is set forth in the THE NEW SHOE HOSPITAL ^’ W. Pitts St — Next To Magistrate’s Office 1: Have your shoes rebuilt by the Goodyear Welt Shoe Repairing System. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. USE BLACK FLAG The Most Effective Means of Exterminating Mosquitoes, Flies and Other Noxious In sects. Prices Lower, Product Better Half Pint, 35c; Pint, 60c; Quart $1.00 SADLER-OWENS PHMCY Ccrner at Union Sta. Phones 377 & 400 fs like i You Bare 15c when you use Black Flag Li<[a!d to kill flies, mo8quitoe8,ants,loadiea, bedbugs, cftc. Black Flag costs only 35c,# half-pint. Some liquids cost 50c. Yet Black Flag is* the deadliest liquid insectJdDer made. Money back if it doesn^t prore sow i ■'' ■Oluek Flag also comet im powder form, EqmeUy domify. ISe^ ami mp. i p:-.; • 5-v *> ■ - i : t Happy People ^ They invented the pause that refreshes GREENWOOD COCA-COL.\ BOTTLING CO. w ■S' ** ■ i >f ri .-7 ^ 'E • •«' ti VVEB B MILLIM A DAY complaint, was engaged as an em ployee of the company in a job of painting in the spool room when his death occurred. While at this occupa tion the defendant, its agents or ser vants sawed off or caused to be sawed off a long and heavy piece of shafting over and above where plaintiffs in testate was at work and that said shafting fell and struck plaintiffs in testate with force and violence.” The injuries which followed and which caused intestate’s death, it is al leged, were caused by the, “gross j negligence, carelessness and r^k- lessness of the defendant” in four major particulars, viz., that the deceased was not furnished a safe place to work, that reasonable and prudent care were not used in select ing competent employees to cut down the overhead shafting, that a reason able and prudent inspection of the ma- chnnery and premises was not made, and that a proper notice or warning of the "dangerous unprotected machin ery” was not given. BLACK FLAG W IT HAD TO BE GOOD TO'GET WHERE IT IS ‘ i' As a result of the alleged negligent, careless and reckless acts of the de fendant, continues the complaint, the said I. W. Barnes and Edna Barnes “have lost a devoted, helpful and af fectionate son and have been deprived of the happiness and comfort of the society and companionship of the said Homer Barnes and have been made to suffer and endure great mental pain and anguish to their damage in the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dol lars.” ' The suit is entered in behalf of the plaintiffs by their attorneys, Messrs. Huff & Huff, and Messrs. Blackwell, Sullivan & Wilson. The defendant has twenty days in which to file its answer. izstions. I feel, though, that matters pertaining to national labor organisa tions should come through the regu larly .constituted labor authcrities in South Carolina. “Hon. Dowell E. ^tterson is presi dent ef the South Carolina Federation of Labor and a member of the house of representatives from Charleston county. He is thoroughly familiar with labor conditions in this state. “As I understand it, Mr. Patterson is the authorized spokesman for the labbr unions in thir 'State. In the fu ture, where it can be cone, Mr. Patter son will be invited to participate in discussions had by me with the icp- resentatives of national labor oigani- zations. “Of course this does not apply to labor organizations in South Carolina. I am willing at all times to receive representatives Or delegations from branches of labor unions in this state.” After Governor Richards had teim- ed McMahon’s telegram to him as “impertinent” and “threatening.” the labor leader replied that the gover nor’s attitude was an “open incite ment to lynch law” and declaim'd he had ordered the labor organizers back to Ware Shoals and had told them to “take precautions to protect them selves.” The dispute between the governor and McMahon started after- .approxi mately twenty-five men, according to state officers, appeared at the Ware Shoals hotel 'and told George L. Googe, representative of the United Textile Workers, that he had better leave Ware Shoals. According to the “SWEET IODINE” CLINTON POTATO HOUSE All who have one acre or more of good sandy land to spare are urged to plant Pure Porto Rica jwtato vines now for a fall crop. The advertising of South ’ Carolina iodine laden vegetables will likely create a good demand this fall for our “sweets.” At any rate we will have some thing to eat. Please report the number oT crates you will need and how many you expect to store. CUNTON POTATO HOUSE CLINTON, S. C. > officers, Googe and the other textile organizers were taken away a: iheir COLLEGE MEN IN STATE PRISON own request. BOND FLOWER SHOP Trusted With Office Duties and Other Executive Work. Most Prison ers Are Uneducated. Columbia, July 23.—It has been well said that a college education is of ben efit in every walk of life. This may be true even if the path leads through prison doors. A survey of prisons shows that college m^n are there and that they are trusted with office du ties and other executive work. “It is hard to say how many college men we have on our rolls,” said Capt. J. 0. Sanders, captain *of the guard of the South Carolina penitentiary. “We only have the word of the prisoners for it, you know, as to whether they went to college or not, and some of them may not give such information. “We do have men that we know of representing five of South Carolina’s leading colleges. Some of these men help’with the office work of the'pris- FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 157 W. Main St. Phone 39« JUST ARRIVED Carload of Choice Timothy Hay. ALSO Home Grown Oats and Wheat. Cotton ' Seed Meal and Hulls. Milk-Flo Dairy Feed, Staf-o-Life Laying Mash, Growing Mash and Scratch Feeds. ALSO Spaj*tan Grain Feed of all kinds. ALSO Sweet Feeds, Fresh Com Meal, Cane Seed and Sudan Grass Seed. Gin Announcement! WE DELIVER—PHONE 157 cn. Some of the men in the penitentiary, the captain said, have high school edu cation, but most of them are not edu cated at all, and many of them cannot Farmers’ Exchange T. J. BLALOCK, Prop. ‘We wish to announce to pur friends that we are making extensive improvements on our ginnery which will enable us to turn out the cotton faster and at the same time give good samples. Among other things, we will have IM PROVED UNLOADING BLAST FANS (better suction). And of course we will have NEW SAWS, NEW RIBS, and NEW BRUSHES. In other words our gins will be AS GOOD AS NEW. Last season the Department of Agricul ture gave us credit for doing EXCELLENT ginning. LESS THAN 1 per cent of our samples being hurt in any. way. This is no ordinary record but we always strive to improve on the best. CLINTON COTTON OIL CO. i: K read or write. It is a touching sight to witness lit- groups on the prison grounds, hud dled, it may be, around one man who can read and who reads aloud. During 1928 the number of prison ers in the penitentiary increased by 188, but at the same time the num ber of illiterates decreased. In 1927 there were 152 prisoners who could not read and write, while in 1928 the number of illiterates had decreased to PRINTING = \ 1.7 ner cent. that is The prisoners read the newspaper with much interest. The recent Rafe King trial at Chester won much of their reading time. They devour base ball scores and news. Aviation en durance and long distance flights are of much interest to them. Satisfactory The prisoners are great sports fans. Baseball is their chief athletic inter est. Many of the prisoners are excel lent ball players and they have a first team that puts up a splendid brand of baseball. They have games Saturday and Wednesday afternoons, as these days are half holidays for the prison ers. The pri.son team has played many games with other teams in Columbia, always, however, on their own “home grounds.” . GOVERNOR WILT. INVITE PATTERSON Labor Head To Be At Future Con ferences On Labor Question, Says Chief Executive. Columbia, July 23.—Governor*John G. Richards announced today that in the future, “where it can be done,” Dowell E. Patterson, president of the state federation of labor, will be in vited “to participate in discussions had by me with the representatives of na- frlendly” to organized labor. The announcement comes ii^* the wake of a statement Saturday in ^hicb Patterson declared the gover nor was neither “unfair” nor “un friendly” to organizer labor. The governor recently has been in volved in a telegraphic dispute with Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, over what McMahon claimed was the deportation of labor Organizers from Ware Shoals. Patterson, in his statement, declared that the impression that GoVemor Richards was unfriendly to labor should be corrected. The governor’s statement today fol lows: “I am approachable at all times in matters pertaining to labor conditions in this state as they may exist in tex tile plants and other industrial organ- Our printing plant is equipped to do almost any kind of printing and our workmen are all skilled mechanics, men who know how to do satisfactory printing — the kind yqu want. 0 Accuracy is also a n^essary adjimct for satis factory printing and that is one of the guarantees our customers are assured when they bring their work here. ■ > It makes no difference to us what kind of print ing ytnrwant — it may be a simple ticket or it may « be a fancy program or booklet, a letter head, envel- ope, office blank or a large advertising circular, it will be given the same careful attention. COMMERCIAL PRINTING OUR SPECIALTY PUBLISHERS — PRINTERS — STATIONERS CLINTON, S. C. PHONE 74 hi