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VOLUME XXXVI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLNA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920. BER IN FIRST PRMAR Last' Boxes Caused No Changes In Results SENATE RACE PROVED CLOSF, teturus from Two loxes Not ieported InI tie Last Issue of The Adverise-r .liitde no (hante In It Mstanding of I'an didates. Second Primary Next Tu'lesday. The official count of Laurens county votc made by the Executive Commit tee Thu.sdny made no changes in the standing of candidates I,, published by The .\dvertiser the morning after the election last Tuesday. Errors in the tabulated Votes as compiled Tuesday night were comparatively few and not sufficient to Justify the publication of tit table a Second time. The iace for second place in the statt senatorial contest proved to be the close race in the county. Before the hist box, Gray's Store, was heard from, onily two votes separated 0. P. Goothvin and Phil 1). itiuff, contesting for seco.end place on the ticket and the right to run over with .ack H. Davis, the leading candidate. The Gray's Store Lox. however, proved a strong Goodwin box and Mr. I luff was dell. nitely (lininaltd from the race. Mr. Goodwin had a lead of 28 votes on the final count. Thur(sday morning Mr. Huff stated that he had lost over thirty votes through the failture of that imany glass blowers in the Lau rens 'city box oto mark their ballots *correctly. These ballots were thrown out by the election managers and brought Mr. Huff'8 total vote to a lesser number than M-r. Goodwin's. It appears that these voters in the state they .caine from had been accustomed to making a check mark opposite' the name of the candidate 'whon they -wished to vote for Instead of scratch Ing out those they did not wish to vote for and followed this Plan in the local electim. On 1 he cotinty ticket, J. .1. McSwain wa.s lec.tled con g ressIlIani oVel Trax ler, I!ill and Wilson. llackwell and .l0r wvill run over for' soicitor. Jack I. Ivis and.O. P. Goodwin will make (ih. si clid ravce for the state senate. Cri l. Nance, of Cross iill, and C. l. Unbh of Laltreis wert elected to the owier house of the (General Assem bltv on the first ballot, Dillard afd Wil lis vil make the seconl race for the third place, 13. t.-T. Todd havillg withdra n from tile lace. Reld and Sioth will make tile second race foe shcriff, while Franks and Plower will make the second race for clerk of court. it. it. Owings was elected cor onIer and A. 1. '1lakely and A. Homer Moore were elected county commis.. ioncI s. Tie following was the oilcial vote cast ter state and county ofilcers: State Ohices. For United States Senate ('W. k P. Po l'l .. . . . . . . . . I8 For*~i'ttnaGovernor. 1 I06 Ot A Cooerltt~' ....... .. ..5t For)t 'Liten Genrl. Octvu 'oh ae . i ... a.... ... . . . u W3al:n G . (larvtey ' ..............352 or "atSutar of Stiduatio. WR.t aids Sxver...en.............355 For Ajtatond Gensecto. FareceM W'llisofe of.......... .~.ur7 For' omatirdolnlGene. Wa.e . Duncanil ...............3664 For tatnresu. Johne . MCSate ...............55 Johnt14 I0. Swere ..............3574 W.ia' W. Wilorn ..................28 (orContissedonr Paf AgFoure. WOMEN RUSH TO REGISTER I.arege Number o ,Women A par ite. fore the Itegistyj t 1o lioard to Qual. ify for the 1JuIIt. The sittinogs (t the e onty o :i - tion board during the past wo (ays have been the most active in their of ficial career, acebtd i1ig to alutholities on the subject, the board having had two busy days with women coming to iualify for the first time to vote in the general elections. . The first woman to register in the county -was .s. Dorcas Calmes Cooper, }vife of Governor Robert A. Cooper, .wlo has been spend ing several days it'Ahe city with rela tives. No ceremony attended the sign ing. Up until yesterday afternoon nmst of the women who registered were from the city of Laurens, thotigh there have been scattering registrations from tile rural (istricL. The registration books will be open until thirty days prior to the general election in November, the board being In session from 8 a. im. until -1 p. ml. DI, IL. E. HUGHIES WITES OF ('11ITY WVATERi No iteason to Ie Alarmed (er , lie ports of Inpurities, lie Says. Slight 'ontaminations Common to Surfaee Water. Following rum.ors -which have been 'going over the city during the past few days in regardj to the condition of the city'water, Dr. it. E. Hughes, chair man of the board of health, called a meeting of the board yesterday to dis class the matter. All of the members were not present, but the attendance was representative of the board. Fol lowing the meeting, Dr. Hughes ad dressed the following letter to The Ad vertiser which is self-explanatory: Editor The Advertiser: The Board of Health met today to discuss the quality of the city water as miie 'discussion has arisen as to its purity. The State chemilat reports water as slightly contaminated with the colon bacilli, as most surface .waters in every city .are at this season. The water here has been like this many tims be fore. It is being treated accordigg to methods adopted by 1. S. ImlIC ! health .Service. 'i'le esorvoi has ten thoroughly cleaned,-the water sh-i in. spected and there Is no eision0 for alarm. We are. daily ex ,,ecting. it to clear entirely when drier werch"r sets 1tt. We have no ep!demtiv and whil l tis hacilli call cause trouble. 1: loes not always, and has not so far. However, any 'wlo prefer the safe' s idCeoluld easily ioil tie drinkin< water. 'le Board of Health feels they are' due tle people this explanation and will watch close and warn in ample time. ROL'E E. HUftGH E S. 31MAsISTRIATES SELE'TH). All Magistrates of the County Eltted Except tat Walterloo Where a 54eCond~ Iltce Must be Ritin. Witht tile tepltioni of the mtagist rate at Waterloo, all magisterial places in the counity were0 filled in thte fiirst elIec 1tion. In that towvnsi- the secontd race will lie be'tween W. W. ('ampbeell and .1. FranOk Waliker. W. L. Coopeer wvas tihe otie'r contender. Ontly t'wo othelr mttag istIrates ha-il oppo)0s1ion, It. IH. .\ilaml defeeatintg I. T'. iIilourg it Clinton iand Geo. TI. Cook d'eatintg TI. W. Khanniddy inl Youn~gs. W1ih thae e~x(Ipt itn of tile imtgistrate at Wate' 100, whor will be elecird ntext Tu'aesday, thea followinog we re elected laist Tu'es dlay. Laurlens, J1. N. Wright. Dials, P'. \M. IlelIamans. Suillivan, N. it. Wood. Cross 11111, W. U. Euilje:-. .\ountvile, .\. W. Workmant. Clitton, R. it. .\ilamt. Seuffletown, .1. Weeess onnten. Yoaings, ft. TI. Cook. * ** * * * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * * TO0 STlUD)ENTS A.'D T'EAJiJlltX. * * Thae yearly subiserilion price to * TIhe Advertiser is *W.00. Teachmers * * anid Stuidemnts who desire the paper* * to follow them, will be glien a spe- * * cial rate of $1.04) for the entire * * year or for any part of the year in * * excess of 6 months. Students are * * requested to enite'r their suabscrip- * * tions before lesting for college in * * order to stave confusion. * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * S S AUDITOR MAKES Certified Accountant Make at Beginning of the, Pr llelow will be found the report of the auditor engaged by the present city council to audit the books of the city as they were when the past admiils tration went out of office. The report Is self-explanatory except as to the reference to the confidential report on J. R. Workman, former city clerk. This report showed a discrepancy in the accounts of Mr. Workman of about $1,000. Mr. \Vorkman Intimated some time ago that some discrepancy might exist, though he d.id not expect this much, and during the first 'part of this week made a settlement In the shape of bankable paper with the preAent offic lals. Mr. Workman, so it is learned from city ofllcials. made no effort to evade responsibility for the discrep ancy an( there is no evidence from the books that he attempted to cover up anything.' The report. first -giving the account ant's introduction and recommenda.. tions, is as follows: To the Honorable Mayor and City C'ouncil of Laurens, Soath Carolina. Gentlemen: Pursuant to Instructions from the lonorable Mayor, I have examired the books and records of the City for the period of two years, commencing May 1. 1918 to April 30, 1920 and beg to sub mit herewIth schedules and stat.pments bearing on the operation for the period and a balance sheet showing the con dition of the City's finances as of April 30. 1920. A ssets Current The cash amounting to $258.48 on hand represents actual cash. The baL ance In bank amounting to $865.23 has been agreed with the bank state ment. The ledger accounts receivable amoupting to $2,567.21 represent old unpaid accounts for paving assess monts, materials, etc., and are of du blous quality. T'he unpaid taxes amounting to $1, 255.77 should be pressed until colilcted or otierwise disposed of. The Inventory of Eq(lipment and supplies amounting to $21.221.21 are made up from actual inventory 'taken by the heads of the various depart ments and that they are consecutively made and this can be verllied by refer ring to the dletailed statements submit ted. Permanent, Investmnimt t'nler this title are grouped all the permanent. investment and the per manent improvement properties. the combined total of these aimlount to $28-1.000.S7 and all of tihese with the xeceptlon of tie water works plant if we weire to consider Its value on the basis of reAacement would probably be considered worth about $200,000.00, so oil this basis a value was placed on plant at $150,000.00. A physical inspection of tie plant was made and while the huwildings were not of recent construct Ion, how ever,. thley weie of extremlely so l conl st ructloln and in good coniltion andi the mlachilnery Including boilers. pump~ls, etc.. dutie to car tef-tuI, eflic ient hanldlin-a and1 meIth110d of u pkeep andr re. Iar tr apbeof sustaining all re (jlitrilmet wlithint their capaecltles. T 111lant ini i 5t is small11, however, Ii.\ I,.AN(] ('ity of .\prIl &I ASS (ash ......................... Ent erprise National Bail Ic.. .. .. . Accout ls llecolivable: I-edger, Accoutl~ s............ t'Inpaid Taxes................ I'nid W111~ at er Accout ~ .. I 'npid Light Accoun il... Inven toiry Powver Plant. .. .. .. .. . Iniventory Street I)cpart ment i ... Inv en tory lire lDepartment ... Office IEnrnituire and F'lxtu11res ... Permlanen t I nvCetment City I lalt and Furnittire ......... Water Woi k:- i'ant....... Sew.'rage System........ St reet I-'aving.......... (' rbin'.g at:'19 Id ,ies...... Total.................. Current--1iA~ Notes Payable ........... Accounts Payable ........ interest Accrued ................ D~ue on Sinking Fund ............... Bonded .Debt ......... ........... .... Laess Sinking Fund .................. E'xcess of Assets over ILiabilIties.... Total................... REPORT ON CITY -s Report on City Finances esent Administration. is iemark ablpy well kept, all repairs that hiae b(irn imade lavye been of a substaitial nattire and with strict re gard to cartfult worknis nhip. All machinery has been saf lguarded against obsolescence by careftil atten tion to the iecessary measures of pre vention. In addition to this all parts of the building are kept scrpuilously clean and with strict regard to the preven tion of fires and accident Jll of which reflects very favorably upon your superintendent, Mr. .1. hlilpot. Liabilities. Cflurrent The current liabilities amounting to $19,85.55 represent notes and actual bills as taken from files and interest dune on bonds. Ilonded Debt: There is now due and shoild be placed in the sinking ftind for the re demiption of the bonds, the amount of a.: proximately $26,889.17 and arrange nients should be made whereby this money should be set aside for this pitr p~ose. Su rpls The surptIlius or excess over liabili ties amounts to $189.A78.13 bit it must be borne in mind that this is repre. sented in fixed or non litiuid assets and in order to provide the town with sufflclent money it is necessary to is sue bonds or increase the tax levy, as the present income of the town Is ill adequate to take care of the obliga tions. The total revenue, from all sources for the period amounts to $181,699.56, while the exepnses anount to $185, 576.79. The water and light plant Is not self-sustaining and it -will be neces sary to increase the rates on these commodities as it would be useless to try to cut down the expenses in this di rection. Police Docket: On page 31 to :8 will be found a record of fines that were reftunded and those of .whicl no disposition was made and while the majority of 'these are for small amtlouints however, Ihere are som)(- which are of sith magn itide as requiring som)e explanation as to wxvhy tese werie disposed of in this manner. Ilooks and htecorls Sulbiiitted with this is a confidential report dealin; 'with the work of .1. t. Workman. The work of Stanley (rews, has been handicapped by following the lines as laid down by his predecessors, which nattrally means the carrying on the book-keeping system that has been in force, and which each auditor preced ing the writer has commen t eld on and criticised and while his work un(ider these conditions has heeni commend able, however, It would he to) thle city's adlvantage if a more conlcise and efe. ient accoutnting system be inustalIled in lieit of the ltresenlt onie. Ini conclitsion,. -I wisht to express ap pbreciationot to y'our hodly and all the <ty's emlloyees5 '.vhIom I have had occasioni to call uiponi for their hearty Ii (espec ituliy youris, I, 19211. ...... ....... ...3 326.l6 ................ 5.1.0 .......... 6,657.2 ....... ....... 30,75.02 ... ... ... ... 150 .0) $ 3 ,885.55I ............ 7500~.00u ...................9.... 8,i7. ......................... 32,531 GIVES SUGGESTIONS FOR PRIMARY -1'. 3IC44nanl, Esqi., .iks Vadluable Stggest.ons to iolrl-s it1 3it iager. on Primary Lnins. Mir. F. P. Alc Gowan, a menm bet of Collnty 10xecutive Cotmmittee of the DemcraUtic varty and who actei as chairman of the committee when t h votes were tabulated by the commt ittee Thursday, has issued a statement to voters and managers making clea-er the laws of the state as to elections. It has been commonly re-ported that ninor infractions of the law wer made at some boxes in the last pri mary, due to misunderstanding of the regulations and the suggestions of Mr. McGowan will be valuable to voters and managers in the next primary. His statement follows: "As a member of the county exectu tive committee I take this opportunity to make some suggestions in the man agement of the coming primary elec tion for the Democratic party. In the first place, no one has a right to vote tiless' his name was placed utpon the lDemocratic club rol! of the precinct on or before the last Tues day in July before the first election. if the managers do not find his name en rolled, they must. reject the application for a ballot to vote. In the second place the ballots must be filled out by the voters in the booths before they are deiosited in the boxes. This requirement does not apply to a precinct having less than fifty voters enrolled. The law of our State guar antees to the voter secrecy of his bal lot and the provision for the filling out of tickets in the booths is t6 preserve the secrecy of the ballot and to prevent undue influence over the individtal voter. The managers should be care ful to see that this requirement is car ried out on the day of the election. If a man cannot read, he should ask the managers to allow him an assistant to go Into the booth with *hin together with one of the managers and in the booth the assistant fills out the ticket a direts , the voter in the pres ence of the manager. The ticket Is then presented by the voter to the managers, who detach the stub and deposit the ticket in the right box. The managers shotld be carefitI to see that the voters place the tickets in the right boxes. If a ballot is placed in thtb wrong box it will be rejected and !h vote- vill lose his vote. In ease of fraitd in tihe conduct of a voting precinct, the whole box wiI be rejected and I the candidates willo their vote at said box. but il ca.z. of ono or more ilieAal or irreguIlar vot.s being east, thE' county r-xecutive> (0com mittee would probably up;on a protest and contest from sotie candidate bein. made purg e the said box of the sail votes by throving outt at random votes eqIual in number to the said votes. Thus yout see that sitch a procednlire wottld injure some candidate in the final count of the votes, and might cha nge tile result of Ilie election. The votet- shoit Id hb' carefultt to t-ttn Ihis ten-. cil thirotigh names he does not wish to vote fot-. Thel ma nagetrs shou ld wr3it e tite vot - ing precinct on the retur tns whetn they 11l1 them 03ut atnd thte figutres shoutld be plainly wrtitten so as to avoid tmis take oi' the ligittes. Thte tabttiat ing list:; shoutld accomnpany the rturn 1311S thei e'xecttve ('otiunitte- (Zan sen. i therie has; been a ny errotr in coutinig thle VOtes. The r-ules of th.e pat ty arte designed to secure3. a ta ir elec t tin an liior reM (-ountt of all legai vo'es. To this end' we should h all sitriv I-. I'. .\e(OWAN, Sept. thI, Ir. Iiase4 iaI Iati OttI ngs. The G.~ray ('outrt -Ow igs and -14ibet ball I tams arte to play on the Owing gr-ounds lFriday after-noon at I o'clock As this will be the last game of t hi seasoni, a large etrowdl is ex pec'ed, The W,'dnesday (Clutb is cal led Ir mneet Frla, after-nooni at 5 o'clocls with .\lrs. II. 12. .Iontes. * * SHfOND) PRIAIRY IETl'ltNS, * The Adveriser vwill give' *lee * tion retutrns atgain ne4xt Tutesday * night. All those who were kind * enough to telhepleone retutrns last * Tuestday ar-e requested to do si) * agatn next Tttesday. Second Primary to Be Held Next Tuesday 116,000 VOTES CAST TUESDAY Returns of tate Election -we're- Slow In Cominc In but Early Prediet.ions that Smith and Warren Would Make Necond Race for V. S. Senate Borne Out. The S'tate, Sept. 1. Complete and official returns fron last Tuesday's Democratic primary re ceived and tabulated by H. N. Ed munds, secretary of the state Demo cratic executive committee, show i material changes from the figures an fnounced last Wednesday and Thurs Iday. The last of the official lists was received by Mr. IEdmiunds yesterday and his tabulation last night shows a second race between Splith and War ren for the United States senate; be tween Harvey and. Mauldin for lieu tenant governor and between Slealy and Smith for railroad commissioner. The senate vote: as compiled from the oflicial list by Mr. Edmunds is dis tributed as followl Irby, 8,15-1; Pol lock, 1-5,67S; Smith, 57,428 and War ren 36,317. These Wotals show Senator Slmith's opponents as having 60,149 or 3,026 votes above -those received by the senator. To have nominated on the first ballot it would have been necessary for Senator Smith to have received 58,937 votes of the 117,872 cast. He lacked 1,514 of receiving this number. The state committee meets at the State House at noon today and will convass the votes and declare the results. -It is unlikely that any chang -es will be made in the tabulation of Secretary Edmunds. One county is missing from the otli cial list of the other contested offlce., except for lieutenant governor, but this will not make any changes in the results to be announced today. The compilation shows 'Cohen 18,578; liar Ivey, 51,273 and .\lauldin, [6,283. A second primary will be necessaary t, determine the winner. All couties, navo reported on this race. Probably the most decisive result of the .orimary was W. W. Molo's vie ov:- A. II.. .\larchant of Orane bug. T'-.o i-suit. shows .\archant :N, tnd Moore 78.964, with only the Ioflcia! < a from Colleton missing. Fot rail(oad commissioner Shealy led1 the ticket with'50,166 and the oth er candidates came as follows: MeCas kil 1.',,57, s 10,259 and Smith 38, 1,0. Shealy and Smith enter the sc ond primary. For the uncontested oflices one or two counties are missing in the finals )for each candidate. Governor Cooper rteived i1.5.731 with the reports from (Cherokee andl Col leton still out. B., I iarris for commissioner of agriculture receiv-ed II 5,656. .lahn IC. S~wearinfgen reei'ived 11 6,211 for supecrintendenlt of eductation1. Other state- olficerls recei vedl the fol - lowving vote5 with only one or' twa 1'',13'. 1 lincan 11tt.477 and (ater voe o: Ionresme an0 d hiitcitorW lat ii., I but w i obably 1 compii thesee fiwures earl1y this moring fori'm wvill irobably be nol seconii d(aes for' (conlarmS 111 whioly one or Iwo seconti r aces w !! -0 net: essa ry for solicit or Wints Winthbropi Schlarsip.ii The friends of Mliss Mlatti e Sue Wof ford. daughter of M\r. Johnt A. W~foird, of Madtlens Station, will be glad Ito l ean tIhal she has recently been awvardeld a state schiolarship, to Win th rep (oillege. MIiss Wofford won tis sicholarshlip In a competitive examina - tiotn, olpen to gils thr ioutghouit the? whole stale, and she Is being congrat - u11.atedl uipon tihe mfar-ks wh Ich gave hot first place. M\iss Wotor-d is a Sopho more at Withr-op. Filrst Cotton~ Bale. M\r. IC. F. (Coggans, -who lives a few miles fr'om the city, brought the first cotton bale of the season to the city yester-day mor-ning. lie did not fInd a satisfactor-y market for' it, so he car ried it honme with him.