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PICKPNS--THEGEM . ++ 4 F THE FOOTHILLS-PA E OF PC - CO Y W A VOLUE 52NUMBR - 1 ICKENS, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1922 ----- --... . a CR PrON, $1.50 A YEA Some Interesting Cases In Court Court of general sessions fai- Pick ens county which convened Monday morning, September 25, adjourned Friday evening. Most of the cases disposed of were for violation of the prohibition law. A case which created considerable interest was that of The Statevs. E. M. Duncan, chargedI with violation of the prohib'tfon law. He was found guilty and sentenced to serve twelve months on the chaingang and pay a fine of $1000. Hs attorneys will ap peal to the supreme court. The evi dence brought out during the trial showed that Duncan and Elzie Dur ham owned and operated an illicit dis tillery in the Six Mile section about two years ago. According to the testimony the still was at first lo cated en Duncan's place but was la ter mover near Durham's home and -that .after the still was moved Dun can reported it to officers who cut it Up and arrested Durham. Durham has served six months on the chain gang and paid $100 fine for his part in the affair, but in some way the case against Duncan was not brought up until this term of court. A short while after Duncan reported the still he was appointed constable or deputy sheriff at Cateecht'e and ISoljitor Smoak contcnded that the "turning up" of the still by Duncan .had some th'ng to do with his being appointed f an officer of the law. Duncan denied all charges against him. The jury was cut only a few minutes in reach. ing a verdict of guilty. Duncan was formerly a policeman at West Green ville,le town made famous by Stub Turner. Another interesting case was that of The State against Rhett Riddle nd Frank Haskins, charged with violating the prohibition law. Riddle, a Spartanburg man, and Haskins, a Canadian, were recently caught near Georges Creek church by Rural Policeman Julian after an exciting automcbile race of about fifteen miles in which Mr. Julian's stripped dcwn Ford overtook the high-power * ed Stoddard-Dayton car of the sus. -pecte d rum runners. Policeman Julian searched the car, and found forty gallons of whiskey in it, arre : ed Riddle and Haiskins, confiscated the whiskey and car, the body of the car, to all appearances, being especi ally built for hauling whiskey. T110 case came up for trial Friday. Do fendants' atterney, Sam Nichols of Spartanburg, made a powerful argu ment before the court contendiin. that the search of his client's car without a warrant was unconstitn tional and evidence obtained by reas cn of such illegal search could no-, be used against defendant. The State contend d that Haskins gave pcimissicn for the car to be searched, but the.defense centented thatf Has kins had no right to givegermissioni since it was not Ils car. In chargingc the jury Judige Stase said an off:cer had no right to search a car for. whiskey wvithcut a1 search wvarrant unlce the whiskey wias in plain viewv c , f tihe cfficer and1( thlat evidlence un lewfully cbtained atainlst any one .e could nlot be used. lit then told the jury it must decideb whlether Police manl Julianf hlad (chtalined sufficient permilissionl to scarch the car of the dcfecudants. Afte r deiliberating sev' eral houirs withcut reLaching a verdict the jury was dismissed andl a mis trio l orderedi. Hawkinls thellclilad g~uilty to tile chlarge against hlim and the ease against Riddle was noi pros sed. Hlaskinls' scntende was twelve months onl the chlaingang and a fin2 of $1000, but upon serving four' months balance of senltence lsIusen edl during godd~ib thavior. Although the amoimnt of wh';skey in~volved in this cate was the largest of the weedk the sentence wvas about thle lightest. Jeff Harris was foundl guilty of Weclating the prohibition law and sentenced to servo twelve mlonths ('n the chain gang' and gay $1000 line. but upon 'serving r'ix months; balance of sentVnce is sutspended (luring goid b~ehavio.'. IHrris was found by of i cers in a path near a still. He claimn ed h<0 wasF out hunting, but The St2~ 4brcught rut evidence that lie was tereC3sted ':n the still anid was waltch'' when foundl~. Thie o~pra~ of the -still hlave already henl end 5Ventenced by a' former court. - F'olger" I lil, Geor)ge lill and 11e 1ii--. w::s found yutilty petty larceny and sentenced to serve thirty days each on the -chaingang They were charged with having stoles an automobile tire from a Mr. Jones of Dacusvflle. . Eugene Morton, 18..year.old white youth, plead guilty of violating thi prohibition law. Solicitor Smoak ask" ed the judge to showv leniency in this case and Morton was senta ped t( serve three months on the chai-ngang or pay a fine of $150. Will Wardlaw, colored, plead guilty of stealing a dog and was sentenced to serve six months on the gang. Lonic Mauldin and Thomas Can trell; violation of prohibition law Case against Cantrell nol prossed. Mauldin plead guilty and sentenced to serve twelve months and pay $1000 fine. Upon serving six months bal ance of sentenc.e suepended during good behavior. Johnson Bayne, charged with mali cious mischief, failed to appear for trial and was found guilty and given a sealed sentence. The case grew out of the shooting and killing by Baye.i of a dog belcnging to H. A. Lo per of Dacusville Mollie Phillips plead guilty of violating the prohibition law. Sen tenced to serve twelve months in state penitentiary, but after serving six months balance of sentence sus pended dui"ng gocd behavior. She is a white woman and sister-in-law of J. H. Blackwell who was found not gulty of violating prohibition law last week. J. F. Edwards, Wesley Curry and Ernest Frazier, charged with viola t'ng prohibition law, failed to appear for trial., Case against Frazier was nol pressed. Defendants later ap peared in court and were each sen tenced to serve twelve months, all but five months each being suspend ed during good behavior. Folger Powell plead guilty of vio lating prohibition law. Twelv' mcnths and $1000, all but four month' suspended during good behavior. W. P. Hammond and 0. A. Yates, violating lrohibitien law. Case against Hammond nol prossed. Yate:. plead guilty and given sentence of twelve months and $1000. After serving four mos ths balance suspend ed during good behavior. John Hunt and Andy Terrell plead guilty of violating prohibition law. Twelve months and $1000 each. Lee and ,Alfred McKee plead guilty of violating prohibition law. Twelve months and $1000 each. Upon each serving six months balance of sen tence suspended lur'ng good behavior. These two boys are ,stns of Perry McKee who was sentenced earlier in the week to serve six months on the chaingang for violating the prohibi tion law. Joe Davis and Henry Martin, vi lating prohibition law. Guilty. Seal ed sentence. Attorneys for J. B. Patterson have appealed his case to the suprenw court. Patterson) was sentericed early in the week to serve tivelve months and pay $1000 fine for viola ting the prohibition lawv. E. A. HAWKINS DEAD) E. A. Hawkins, cf the Mt. Carnmel sceticn of Picktns eunty (lied Sun day efi~ernoon at 12:45 (o'e.lock asfter a lingering illness, liHe 's sur'vive!l by six children, four sons as fellows: Claude, Allen, Fred end Lewis; two daughters; Mr . HT. L. Fatterfield and Mrs. Walter Knight. lH is also sir vivecd by two brothers, Messrs. Ervin Hawkins of Occrgia awl TPom Unwk ins cf Greenville, and two sisrteis Mrs. John Smith of G4renille and Mrs. Back Smith of -Ne w York. ALONG LIBERTY ROUTE 3 Born unto Mr. andl Mrs. Melvin Bolding, September 15, a fine boy. The many friends of Mr. Luther \IeQm.-n are sorry to knowv that he is in the Greenville hospital. We w'.sh for him a speedly recovery. Scrry to report that Mr. Jim ('rtwder is sick at this writing. Str. and Mrs. Garvin McQueen of Central wer~e guests of Mr. and1( Mrs. R.4 e - Wit last Sunday. 'V '.a Smith spent the wecek 'i- rs. Sl~an Hlolden spent -Mr. an:] Mrs Robert \...-..-.'nem. w'ill hei miade in niext for i''e~: *a unty c.hool teachers. School Progress For the past several years Picken county has been taking on renewec life In her school work. She has de parted from the old beaten paths o "let well enough alone," or- even o marking time, to new enterprises o new thoughts and methods of running her schools. Having kept in touc with the more progressive schools o the state and nation, watch:ing witt intense interest their methods, to se< whether they were successful or failure, and realizing that in almos all their endeavors they met witt success, it has been thought prope to try thse same things in Picken schools, for, according to the old ad dago "what is good for Paul is goo< for Silas." Consolidation has been the educa tional watchword in almost all of th< progressive school states. With thie idea predominating, they have gon< forward with leaps and bounds, ac cc'zplishing much for the educati. of their future citizens. South Caro lina has caught the spirit of the move ment and she, too, is going forwar< with great strides. It is a pleasure to know that Pickens county has beer doing her part 1n carrying forward her share of this movement. The first consolidation in Picken county was the Carpenter Creel school with the Dacusville schoo district No. 17. This was brough about several years ago, and as i result a good school was establishe< at Dacusville, giving the boys am girls of that community a much bet ter chance than they had been ac customed too. The next consolidation was th unting of the Clemson school dis trict in Oconee county with the Cal houn District in Pickens county, witi the school house located on the Pick eus county side. As a result of thi: the rchocl has advanced from a small two-teacher school to one -of th< recognized high schools of the state Goo work s being done in this school, the' work in the class room and the building being a credit not oinly to Pickens county but to the state as well. Follcwing this the Garvin school district was consolidat..d with a part cf the Kings school district. The result in a material way was the ad vancement from a one-teacher school to a three. Also, from a ten-niinute GRACE CHURCH SERVICES Preaching eveivy day this week at Grace Methodist church at 4 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. A cordial invitation .s extended by the pastor and church to the community to come and wor ship with us. The attendance and interest, has been goed. Pref. B. L. Fowler of'Greer is song leader. He ire fine. Rev. J. 1M.. Steadman, the presidling elder of the Greenville (is trict will preach Sunday at 11 a. m. andl hold the fourth iluarterly confer ence at the clcse of the morning servee. During the balai Sentinel will accepi subscriptions at th No subscription this rate for less more than three y~ This is a special expires the price o 8L.50 'ayvar arh( MR. PRICE WINS CASE Turkey Croxk Ccial Co. Retlrn Mon. ey Obtained Fr<.m Price. The case of 'I he State against J. R. Watts, J. R. Ketchum and W. M.. Barnett was begun in the court of general sessions at P:ckens, on Wed nesday, the 27th of October, the de fendants having betn charged with obtaining $3,000 by false pretense:( and representations from Alr. W. R. Price, a merchant of Piekens county. After all of the evidt nee was in on behalf of the State, the defendants offered Mir. Price, the prosecutor, the sum of $3,105, the amount which he alleged in the n(ictment had been obtained from him thrc ugh false pre tenses and re'pr( sentations, and the' said amount wis accepted by himl) and the case nel prostd by the Solic. itor. ''h" CaS( "'rew < ut of a sale to M1. W. R. itjt( of 300 "harts of .stock in the 'PTu key Creek Ccal Co., t em. poration und( r thet laws of tlie State (;f Deln ware but doing business in the State of Kentuel:y and havine its princ ipal :trice at Bat'bourville. Ky. According to the witnesses the de fendants recprtsented to Mr. Price that they paid $200,000 for 1(100 acres of land in wh'ch there were millions I ef tens of the finest coal in the coun try, and that .iohni 1). Rockefeller 1" and luiry Ford (wutl valuable lands r.lalr the pIroperty cf t he Turkey Creek Coal Company, and that they w\erC so ling stiek in the sum o $100,000 to build a rtilre':d to thi prep:erty; and tlha't Mr. .1. W. 1bn. (ricks of the city o" Pickens ha l.urclased $1,000 worth of this stock from them. It developed( from th<c testimpony that thies t cpiresentatio:s were false e'4necrn1inglt thc eoa~i ll the said pr'op t ty, the p1rice paid for the land. and the owner5 adjoiling the land, tond the buying of stlek by Mr. ln - )ricks in the suml of $1,000. It was bsrouglit cut that the land was actual ly worth $3,000 or . $4,000. The defendants exchanged tilt' said 300 sharts of stuck that Mr. Price purchased fcr :30 sharts of .1. K. Orr Shoe Company stock, of the City of Atlanta, Ga., of the par valuI of $3,000, and it was' proved by (ne (f the officers of the .1. K. Orr Shoe Company that the stock, at the tinm of the exchange, was worth par waih an accrued dividend. The c.itizens of I'ickens county ar very much elated over the fact thatit Mir. Price obtained his money back, al an(' this will be a "i'warning to sto'k salesman heruafter, who are selling worthles: stock, to st 'v aIw::.y t1rf Pickens county unk ss they expect t to be presented to the fullest. extent of the law. Jas. P. Car: y, Jr., ass'.sted D). W. Smcak in the pro-.<ecution of this ca!e. .J. G. .L.eatherw..ood of Green. yulle, and1( Craig & Keith of Pickens repre'senlted thie defend~ants. ALO)NG PICK ENS tO UT1E .. * Mr. and Mrs. J1. Alonz~o Blrown of , Catetebiee and Mr'. L. "W. (lill oIf i b er'ty v isited( t h< lainily : f Mr1. and1( 1 Mr11s. .J. L,. hIrowni cin l'iekens roulti .1 last Sundav. ' Mris. l':dd (Chpstnin of1 this '< .t~1n lhps [been vising her 1 so3 51-: arl Ch'1as 13ain of (':lhoun.. Mris. M1liini( ('nastin h of i lute -t h I:<ch ns :f ('l'.nwon~. I ives5 u t. (k mI soni t his5 wee'k. Mrs. S. W. I loward, wvidow'. of the' hat St ephien Ilowad, ha~s just. r'e turned h10me1 a1fteir spend'linug se'verai weeks with thle famiily of Mr. and3 i Mr's. J. L~. Brown'i. Miss Ruby Chastain is at hem, for a~ few weeks vacationi tfom 1her t school. Our school ha~s ('losed a succesful term with Miss Meric Hlendr'.eks y and Mr. Richar'l. Hlallum as teachers. c Mountaineeri. t STIUB TI'U RNER GUI LTV' "Stub" Turntc', former' West Gren v'ille poilman andl well known ini I-icker.s counlty, wast~ found guilty. I in GrIeenville 'ounty e'Curt last wi ( of having 17 gajlons of whiiskey inl his l;nssessioni unla3wi1ly, and3 wa antenced0( to servye six nmont hs o the elhaingang. I~. ap sled to ta >sp). icelc eu t f'.' a new. tial1. M3iss Zo' 1H oyles of' And:.r' ~s v':iting . Aios Ora ci' all [n Pickens County class period to twenty and thirty class period. This community has taken on new life, and much more good is being accomplished than be fore. Probably the biggest consolidation wa4 that of the Lenhardt and Maul din school districts with the Easley school district No. 13. This consoli dation has placed one of the best hieh schools in the state :n reach of a large number. of children that be fore did not have that advantage. It made possible the floating of"a $>0, 000.00 bond issue without the increas ing of the mill levy, providing ample class room space. In connecton with this consolida tion school busses have been put on in the Le1nhardt scftion and the c'ii dren that are, from one to thr@o miles from school are being trans ported to schocl. Good roads make this pcssible, and from the testimony ci many of the patrons in this see Stion, is the biggest buon iat has ever come their way. Still another consolidation is that of the Flat Rcck school district No. 4 with the Brushy Creek district of Anderson ecunty. This will mean, besides the :incrcased elYicit ncy in the class room, the dvaneemt-int from a three-teacher school to a live-teach. er school. The last consolidation was inished last we:k when the Mt. Carmel school was merged with the Dacusville school. Heretofore these two schools have be a running within "a few miles of each cther, the Mt. Carmel lchoo; having two teachers and the Dacus ville scheol having thr(C. Th( most time that could be given to any rcei tation in either scihoci was about ten and fifteen minutes. Now the crieds will range from twenty to thirty minutes. To accomedate these school children a school bus has been put on and the punils will be transported from the Mt. Carmel section to the Dacusville school. These consolidaticns have all prov en successful, being 100 per cent more efficient than before this work was done. It is the hope of all'that are intercsted in education that this good work will c'nt'nue, that the wheels of pregress will ever be well oiled, and Pickens county will continue to head the counties of the State in an educational way. BAPTIST CHt!CH SERVICES Services at Pickens Baptist church next Sunday morning are as follows: Sunday school, 10 a. m. Preaching by Pastor, 11 a. m. There wil be an important business meeting at the close of the service for the elction of dlclegates to the association, etc. It -'s important that all of the menmbers of the church be present. The night service wvill be given over on account of the meet ing at the Methodist dihuch. :NTINEL rs for $2 Lce of October The new and renewal s rate. vill be accepted at ~han two years or ars. affer and when it the paper will be retoftore. Pickens Associa tion Meets Oct.13 The next meeting of the Pickezns 1,arti:<t. As foeiation will be held with OolenL'y Bapjlt't church, commencing I ridaty, October 1:th, and continuing througI Sunday. The cx cutive comm1itta has a< ran;cd the following as it suggested 1'rogrami on the order of businiess Friday, 13th. 10:00 a. m.-Devotional services led by the pastor, Rev. F. S. Childress. 10::,0----Enrollmnlt tof delegates. 11:00-.- Introductory sermon by Rev. \ .) llammett. Afternoon. 1 I. l.-- ltel:crt on tihe spirtua l nt:icu of th cluriches, and Public 1'. m-.-Rel mlt on Sunday SchooN:. 4 l. m-AltIcintmlent- of commlnit 1t (. ti, 1 r q'tit at this session; liscel. Ma.(.. bulsiess rand anljo~urn. Naturdr y, 1 ith: ::-4O t. m.---)ere. tioml) ser-vic' es n ue tt. * hy IRev. . . Mlitchell. :,. n.-- !; [. It 44n Aged ?.i stt S. 10:30 a. m.--Report on Religiou.; ..te'ratulrt. 0 J:00 i. m.--Repo t on Christian .ducat ion. 12:00---A nnounc:eme:t:;, 1 iscel lneusti busin ss and adjourn for din 1:. A fternoon 2:011 p. in.---lI)p4,rt on Orphanag.. 2:.15 I.. m.-- H R <(A tit 1io: pital. ::15 p. m11.--Rl'port 4on 1\'nlum Vork. -1:00 p. n.---1 iset hineo1cus business tal mdii;urn. Sunday, 1s5th. 1):'0 a. Im.--l vCth4.nal4 ti.viecs Col h11 i'tl by ). .1. II. M iteil . 10:00 .l. m1---l re (:n t-tate ' lis .1(, 1 m 4 is.- is ' Ii Ic us and 14. Foreign li ion s. These thr t ( rts to be re1Ai in the order tated ad ;ti consider d toge tht r. I 1::0 a. n.--St 1- en by )r. C. h. hu r t s. Afternoon. 2 p. m.--All other reports to b I)aIde at this session; rc'solutioins andi )iseClancous business. 3:00 p m.-Rcport on Obituaries. A(.Licurn. At the last meeting of the associa on the Committee on Time and lu.)c)e relcomlLmended that at this meet ig Sunday be made "Rally Day" nd that. 111 the churches of the as ucialti(;n close and d1ispenlse wikh reelhinj (In that, day so that all the ast(,rs, d(eacons and others could at 'ind. It is. ('arncsitly hola.d that il the churches will observe this rec nlnnendation. Executive Com. 'ROF. WEAMS COMING Isy special reques-t Prof. \McD. Veams wvilI be at the P'ckens Coun.. y Singingt (cnvenltien1 at Cross Roadsq hbureb October 7 and 8. Prof. Vi am), tile famous singer, conductor 111d composer, is ai native of Pickens lurdy butl) fcr the pai several yearg asy omde4 his8 home ini Georgia. Ho 41analI we!4I he4 hlard to) finld any hn. W kr~ow whereof wec speak. 4Vwning~ llyn~n No. 2, his 1922 444':, is) th)1 h't all-roundl book for Il 4.e4a14:ens to. be found. Htis friends -iii 1be del'ighted tol see and1( hear' bUin .A Lover' of Sonig. A DVA NCES ON COTTON Columbia, Oct. 2.-The South Caro na Cotten Gr'owvers' Cooprativo ssocialtlin haus paid cut in advances > its membersC)' over $1,500,000. Cot )f is pin(1')g linto concentration .' oints, wvarehouser and ree~vng taltionsi daily in large lots and th'e r'eat orgaiz/ation which the farmers - f the state have set in motion fo5 he p~urpoY(e of marketing their crop . functioning in a splendid manner. tI SCHOOL4 PICNIC AT I1BERT'IY T he Sc'hool Imniprovemient Asesocia ion of the Liberty high school an. 'ouncec a big school picnic on Oct. 8, at 2 o'clo(k. Everybody interested n our school come. As we are going o serve dinner to our five hundred >ulpils, we ack the laies to all bring n their' baskvts, meat, bread, peanut >ptter' n)dwViches and enke. Come! Let's have a big school rally. Mrs. 11. E. Bowen. Sec.