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.7 VOLUME XXXVII- LAURENS, SOUTH AOINA1W NEDY MA 24 19 . NU BR 5 8CHOOL8 CLOSED FRIDAY NMIHI Graduation Exercises Close Successful Year DR. D. W. DANIEL MAKESADDRESS Aatoive of Laurens Ends Program of School Closing witi Address Friday Night. Tiwenty-Nline Receive High School Diplotas. Class Night Exer cises Held Wednesday. -'The 1921-22 session of the Laurens city schools eame to an oflicial clos' Frilay evening at the First Presby teli:in (fhurch when lDr. 1). W. Daniel, 'iofesitor of 'Englis3h at Cleimsont col, lege, delivered -tle annual address and diploilas were given, to the tlwenty' nine memibers of the graduating clas'sI Class day exercises had been held by I the graduating class Wednesday cv ening, in the city opera house and a nu isery play given by the children of the grammar grades on the school grouids Friday afternoon. The latter -hAd belin posthonled il'oI Wednesday after1noon on account of the weather. The exercises F'riday evening were opened .with prayer by Rev. Robert I Adams, ). D., for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church here. The salutatory was delivered . by M Iss Grace Taylor and the valedictory by aliiss Sarah 10liza Swygert. The schol arship medal, awarded to the student making the highest -average during the year, was delivered by 'Mr. Jas. 1-1. Sullivan to Miss Sarah 1Eliza Swygert. In presenting the medal Mr. Sullivan recalled that ..liss' Swygert won a similar medal last year and said that her record in this respect 'was notable. -t Dr. Daniel, in opening his address, 'l alluded to the fact that he was born I and reared in this county. He spoke I fee.lingly of the associations of his 4 early (lays, paying beautiful tributes to .1 Col. B. 'W. 'Ball, editor at that time of Tihe Laurens Advertiser, aftd to Col. Thos. 13. Crows, edilor of The Lau rensville I-erald. The proudest period q of his life, he said, was during the ,time lie acted as c6rrespondent for Aie county Papers from his section of the county. t Taking as his spibJect "Tie Looking c Glass", 'Dr. Daniel stressed the imjiort ance of -a study of one's own self and ,t the cultivation of all tiat is beautiful C and beat in one's nature and person ality. Cultivation of -the outward ap- y vearance no less than time inner or gans of intellectuality and spirituality - he urged as an important npans of making one's life happy and useful. People, lie said, should take care of their apime'trane, seeking to look in telligent and beautiful as well as be ing intelligent. The first step to -be taken, -however, in seeking an intelli ment appearance, he 'continued, nyas in acquiring intel-ligence, and with this as his 'principal theme lhe urgedI upon time members of ,the graduating class the implortance of arduous labor in preparing themselves further' for life's battle, Class Day Exercises The Opera 'Hlouse was filled to over flowing r~~ednesdlay evening to witness *the class dlay' exercises. The stage ilbad been tastefully,. decorated with ribbons, of pastel, the class color, and t wit'h swveet cnas, the class flower. The class sat in crescent with .William Al-t bright, prdsident, seated in the center. I Overhanging the stage was a huge * gure "1922" made of ,siveet peas, Tho class day exercises, where pompl P and dignity gave way 4o wit and 1 humor, centered prineipally around the "Class ilHistory" read by ILouise Smith, the "Class Poem" 'by Marion Black- .1 well, time "Class Statistics" by 'Lois ir11er, the "Will" 'by 'Martin Teague, te"Crititysm" 'by iHerman Taylor, sand the 'Phoprecy" 'by 'Rlebecca Adams. I The history of the graduating~ 'lass, as complliled 'by tfle. olans hmistogian, 4isclosed the interesting fdet that: 1i 1 of the 29 who .were graduated started 'together in school i.n September, 1911 . *anid have for P1 years remained' to. gether as classmates. The class statistics were arranged ~b 'Lois Fuller. To Rebeocca Adams ~wenVtftie distinction of possessing two ' dVred ch 'racterlaties, She wa tvot- ' Sed by the ce ass the handsornist a~ 1~'61 as the moat epopular. P 1he 'hapdsbitiest boy rnes foun~ ja n3Pjept Jegsd 14i'tlh1 'reagde was ~.~ted. as possesMI9 t1me chdracteuis. 111t. STANLEV CREWS IS HINELECTED AS CITY CLElCK Dity Counell Holds Last Election at Regular Session Monday Night. Chicken Ordinance mill be StietIly Enforced. Following a report by Mayor Dial 3hat the railroads running tratins hrough Laurens had been notified hat they must slow down their trains it grade crossings, tihe city council, n a brief session held Monday even ng, ordered that the police be in ttructed to rigidly enforce the city )rdinance relative to the speed of .rains. .\layor Cllial also reported to the :ouncil that he has been adfvised re ;arding violators of the city ordinance vith reference to chickens tilning at arge. Citizens, lie said, do not (lesire o call attention to specille cas es vitere their' neighlbors violate the or linance. A request was imade to the iew.ipa per men.1uesent-that they warn he public, through their columns, .lat the ordinance will be strictly en Orced. The council, inconsideration of the 'C(ilest by the Water'and Light Com nission, iove(l to order the city at orney to draft an ordinance that vill r':1ire citizens in the city to rim the limbs and -branches of tree.; in their premises. The commiss~ion, n1 explanation of its request, says hat trees coming in contact with lectrical wires is a dangerous hazard. After a report rwas made on the es imate of ecmient curbing for Gordon treet, the couiil iassed a motior, lint the contract for l)acing the curb ng on both sides of Gordon street be warded. At the reque.t of Mayor Dial, Al lerman Eastoyby was elected as vice nayor pro-ten. The council at this stage went into xecutive session to consider the clec ion of a city clerk and treasurer. Phere -were. two applicants for this iosition. At the end of the session, la'yor Dial reported that Mr. Stanley %rewahad -been-xe-oelectod unanimous NOTED REFOIMER COMING o Speak af the First Presbyterian Church Next, Sunday Evening at 8 O'Clock. Vwayno (B. Wheeler, counsellor for lie Anti-Saloon League and reformer f international note, will speak to a mss meeting of men and ivomen at he First Presbfyterlan chirch, this ity, next Sunday evening at 8 Vclock. ILocal pastors, in making arrange ents for the meeting, decided to have t at the Presbyterian church where it as thought the largest number of iopile could be accommodated. A special Invitation to all the peo Ic of the county has .been issued by he local pastors and it is ,hoped that , large audience will be present to ear the address. The subject of Mr. Wheeler's address as not been announced, but it is un erstood that he will speak on soieO ihase of -the prohibition question. COOGPER QRA'NTS PARL~fES Columbia, alay 20.-Governor Coo 'e Friday afternoon granted 18 p~a oles, pardons and commutations on he eve of his retirement from ofmee oinorrow at noon. ies of sarcasm and conceit, while souiso Smith was ele ted the greatest alker. Allie Gosnell .was elected as maing the most lovely complexion. Toccoa Gray was the class' choice or the most beautiful girl itethe class. ks the most original in the class -Her nan Taylor was el1ected, whill.Nathan 3arksdaie wvon as the jolliest. Honors is the cutest and av the same time >dggest flirt went to Sar'a l~liza Swvy jert. Grace Taylor wyas elected most tudious pupil. 'William Albright won as the most )opnlar boy. Alma Coleman was tot d the neatest in tFhe' as, Ruth i#at on -as the most gr 4ul and 19a'ry -u'dgens as the most tdpendent. Them ood sports of the el ss -were toujidL to >e John 'Robert E~llis among the boys, nd (Lqts IPuller' among ~the gi-rls. , The little nugsery- play "Under the ugar Plum Tree," given pn the school trounds Friday afternoon .by the chil hten of the ,grammar g~adles tassisted ($ several of, the larger boys, deligit id tlie;,iatge number of batrons and 'riend~ who went out to see it. Pe edtng the 'play fancy igures and drills ma c~bt~ime wor'e given by the cliild'ren mf the second, third and fourth grades. CIVIL COURT IN MIDST OF BUSY SESSION ('ourthof Commnon Pleas, Presided Ovei by 1d1141ge Ga(.'ry 1a14 Tried I'levert ('uses. ('ourt Will Remin in s's. sion Uitil Stnurday. 'llleven cases, four of them being litigations in which atutomUobile.s werc involved, have been tried by the Court of Common Pleas, which convenedI ier Monday, May 15, for a two week, session. Presiding over the court 'which. will remain in session until Saturday, is Judge Frank 13. Gary, of Abbeville. The first ease to -be tried by the court -was that of J. Shelton 'Todd lagainst J. JW. HTill for damages as result of ati automobile collision. A verdict of k12S.89 was found for the 'plainziff. Mrs. Anna Wolff against .Henry lien diickz,, in a suit for land rent, won a verdit of :160 poun ds of li't cotton. in Ihe case of '.J. V. EIdwards against i1-. A. (Giddes over tile sale of a auto mobile, a verdict ,for tihe lalintiff foi $150.00 was found. The defense claini ed that the automobile was not as , resented inl tile warranty. In a suit for the 'balance dile on an an tomoblie, the Carolina Auto Co. won a venlct of $312.,0 against .1. '_. Mc Daniel. A.; a result of an automobile collid ing n ih a buggy, .1. If. Smith received a ve dict of $50.00 against T. L. anll Lyei Cooer. A case attracting considerable at tention becauise of its bearing on the la rge number of real estate deals made during the real estate boom' of 1920 and 1921, was that of .J. 1). $ilense, of Greenville against J. K. Gault, of the upper i)arL of the couinty. In the suit Spence was trying to force payment of a note for $7,500 given by Gault to 13. 'W. Weathers as a part payment onl land bought from Weathers, the note :being later sold by him to S-pence. Gault claimed that a verbal agreement as to tile land sale was not carried out by Weathers and that subsequent .ly Weathers agreed to. call tA-sale off and return the-iote but instead of doing so sold the note.to Spence. At torneys for Svence moved for a di rected verdict, but the motion was over-ruled. Tile jury returned a ver dict for the defendant. In the case of A. .D. Blakely against A. 'B. Stone and Wyatt'''Barnes, a ver dict of $50.00 against .Stone and $157.05 against Barnes was found for the plaintiff. The suit was for the purchase inrice of a buggy. The only mistrial in the court thus far was in the case of R. L. Gray against J. W. Tumblin. The suit was on .,a note given in payment for fish scrap stock. The jury -was dismissed .by the court no decision ,having been reached after seven hours of delibera tions. A. L. 'Mahaffey 'won a verdict of $285 against Rt. L. Gray in a suit over 3 bales of 'cotton. A directed verdict was given by the court in tile case of Taylor and 'May aga.1 st J. C. Lois which grew out of the sale of clothing.. Tile verdict was for $109.00. Two cases whliclh were on the calen dar for trial were settled out of court. These -wore: A. M. Osborne against the Laurens Cotton Mill1 and the Dixie Flour & Grain Co. against C. M. Mar tin et al. SUMMERL COURISIE IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE Wonten andl Girls of thie City to be Givent Courses ini Sewing anid Cook 15ng. MAiss Sallie Clowney, domestic science teacher in the city graded schools, has announced a free course in sowing and cooking for women atd girls of "ithe city to be given at the school house for the 'next month, be ginning Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. Girls desiring to take the'course ar'e urged to be at the domestic science room at that~igir so that arranige. nmerits for the entire month's -ork may 'be arranged. Women are invited tc meet in the same room for organiza tion an bottralater. 1B. Y. P. U. Rally The lB. Y. 'P. U. rally of tihe Fourth Division of the Womedi's Christian U~n Ion 'of .the Laurens Baptist assooiation is to be held at Frieridship churob May 28. The unions'of the folloywing churen~ es have been requested/to attend in a body: Harmony, 'Beulah, . Bethaguy, Ditrbin," Lanford, Warrior, 'Highland Home and Friendship. COLUMBIA TRIO FOUND GUILTV .1 efords and Harrison Each Seite4ce lo the Electri 'e h1ir; TreeC Get Iie Term. Collim bia, May 20.--F'. MJeffe. and Ira liarison were found guilty of muit der and Glen1n ''iTeece, guilty with reconnendation to mercy, by I 11ticihland county Jury this afternooni for the killing of J. C. Arnette, busi noQSS ipar'tner of Jeffords in a gasoline filling station in Columbia on the night of Ahay ninth. Immediately after the verdict was reenived, Judge ToWnscii(l sen tenced Jeft irds and Ilarrison t( (lie in the electric chair June 15, and 'reeev to serve a life termi in the stale penlitent iary. All parties ar] vlite, and some are prominently con neeted. The three defendants are he low thirty yeurs of age anld Treec and I Harrison were in the eng y el .ef'ords aid Arnette. h'lie trial doubtlessly estalishies v ]r recedent in the cotun ty for dilspatch, .1111 a e<'w hours after he (rime. lad bt-iin committed, .the three men 'werc lo(lged in jail and confessions had beeii made which led to tle convictionl of .the ti-ee ir-: today. Mr. Arnette was beaterr to 'cath in the illing stationi on Alain ;treet in the northern part of the city, anid his body taken in an automobile a mile distant from the city and the machine driven over an em barikmrent. Tle body was found with in an hou r's time after the killinug. The jury was out a little more than two hours tihis afternoon, the tie-upji being incident to a disagrecnent in allowing mercy for Treece who did riot, participate in the actual killing, but kept on the lookout for the other two men wvhile Arnette's life was be ing taken, lie stood in front of the sta tion to give signals. The case was called Tuesday rnorn Ing and has been wiressed strenuously thi-ough the last -ive days. Judge W. H. Townsend sentenced Harrison and Jeffords to die in the electric chair Jupe 15 between the hourq of 10 o'clock in the moriing and 2 o'clock In the afternoon. Treece was sentenced to serve -the remainder of his life In the state peni tentiary. No motion for a new trial was made but the convicted nien, un der the law have three days to 41le such a motion and ter days to make appeal to the supreme court. The jury took the case at 2:54 o'clock and tire verdict was read at 6:23. Five minutes later the three men nwere sentenced, after one of the attorneys in the case had bcLn sum mroned. The 'jury was understood to have stood from the first 11 in favor of the -trio for murder while one stood out for recommendation of mercy for Treece, the youngest of the three ac cused men who steadfastly contended on the stand that lie did not strike a blow in' the murder of J. 'C. Arnette, for -whose death on the night of Tues flay, May 9, the three ien were tried and convicted. ST1ORtE.S 'TO ('LOSE EARltY Grocers Slgnr Agreement to have Earl~ler Olosing Hour ThIs Summiirer. That grocers of - Lair iens are de termined to close thou' stores at an earlieor hour duiring~ the summer nmonths arid allow theft iriployees sonme of the pleasures enjoyed by oth er ieoi~le is Indfcated by 'the agremet signed 'below. T~re petition for tire early closing hour was cir'culated by Mr. Hlenry Fr'arnks and, in presenting it for publication in Thre Advertiser, he said that tire 'hrousewives could assist a great deal in br-inging abc"t. car'ly closing hours by ordering their needs before six, o'clock. The agreemrent with signatures at tached to it follows: We, tire undersigned nmer'chants of the ci ty of 'Laurrens hogieby promise5 that we >nwill close our places of busi ness during tire months of June, July and August at 6:00 P. 'M or as soon thereafter as our trade willh permrit. We have reached thIs conclusion in order thrat we may give to our eni lioyees the human consider'ation to which they are entitled. Jno. A. 'Franks, J. H. Sullivan, Hun ter Bros., W. R. iBrown, Owi ngs & Ow tngs, Medloek Bros., J. C. Shell & Co., 'Laurens Cash & Carry, Carryteria (6:30), L. 4T. Owens, C. E. Kennedy & 'Son, A, L. Mahaffey (6:30). Bfrtli0f a 'Daughter Announicement was made Monday morning of thre birth. of a datighter, -Sara K1atherine, to Mr. and 'Mrs, H. F. Owings. PLl(' WOI$KS ('31311ssiox PLANS 1ANY (lAN(ES IN ('t1I 11111 Ask for $65,000 Hold Is 5u to 1imi prove Waig1tpr Supply. 'omiiilssioni iers Work for Siel y-Serve--:f. ficiencyv. That drastic changes in the walter works and lighting systeml of the <ity Will hle made(1 inl the near fuitur1e, ,wasi thec assurnce of thle water and ligitt comminission early this week when re ports from Mr. Pi. W. Chaliman, super initendenit of)I the works, were released, for p)bllietiol. The reiport o'c the superinitendnt. was made to the coli mn ission oln 3ay II thi and was sil pleein itel .\Lay I:stli with information regardinli the poorI system 11w used for electrical - Ilint (list ribut ion. The report of the super ii tendin '.vas as follows: Comiimlissione rs Of Public \\orks, Ltra.S. C. The writer respectfully submilla the followini: re~port witli regarid to th1e' w.ater an id ilght; plant: \Ve have NO light. custoies, alnd 1i1 water conilectionis. 'Tiere arc a itanmber of Iew w.atei c-1ustoLrC is to go on this or next mitolit1. IIICI e are I12.5 water leters stolwiE d, probably over 77 per ceit ;f thes(e are wortless(. There are about 1I" new or nIeariy no 1W meters oil tlie systmi, leaving over three hunidred that ieedi l li-bration, Cleaninug and repalr. Many of Ihe water ileters have very poor boxes, which makes their ukikeep morel expensive. There are four or more water connections without meters, iii cluding one line at the Latrens Mills. There are 34 dead liglst meters, Is flat rate light customers, and Mr. Lea man informed me that lie at one time had a list of about eighty light meters that were defective. There are on the system 12 or more electric meters of an obsolete type. Three electric service connections of which there were no records on the books werc found, and one customer was discovered with his front,' hall light connected otitside of the meter. 'Dlwo churches are furnished free lights, the schools free lights and wa ter (the schools in all probability use 100,000 or more gallons of water a month). The warehouses receive free water connections, and of course the city properties. The cemetery keep er's house has free lights and water. We are ptimping about 300,000 gal lons of water per 24 hours, which is practically the capacity of the filter anl also the pumips at the creek. At the present time there is no elualization of rates, espe6lally elec trical rates, the country club, as an illustration, being furnished current at 50 per cent of cost. The writer has not unoertaken to make a report of the condition of the plant and transmission system, but feels justified in saying that we are distributing our )ower itwith a loss in the lines of 50 per cent or more. This condition can be materially implroved in a few mloniths. Yours truly, F. W. CHAPMAN, Snuperintendent. The Commissioners of Public Works, Laurens, S. C. Dear Sirs: The writer begs to submit a further rep~ort on the condlition of the electric lines in town. There is a line of No, 4 Colpper wviro from power house to Corner of Juil and 'Laurens streets, this set of wires should be0 No. 2, The balance of the 2300 volt circuits are No, 6 or~ smaller. We found No. 12 ,wilre in tihe circuit on South Harper street wvhlch had'been burned apart by contact with the tree limb against twhichi it rubbed. The No. 12 wire should not. be usedl in any case for a 2300 volt circuit as it is not strong enopgh, also the- losses in this wire are large. The trees all over town are very badly mixed with the wires, making all the circuits mior'e subject to breaks and dangerous. About the woerst condition we have is the way the telephone wires are put up around our lines. These lines are not kept in relpair' at all, Saturday afternoon we had one wire -broken and a short circuit, both caused by the telephones. The storm in the middle of the week cost the plant about $.100 andi the storm 'Saturday over' $50. -Yours respectfully, / ~ '. W. CHAPMAN, 'Mr. W. R. MicCuen, chairman of the (Continued on 1Pasre tmur,) SCC[[DS COOP[R Cooper on Federal Land Bank Board NEW EXECUTIVE TAKES OFFICE III Assil II litg Oflice of ('hlte Expeci. I hve (if the Still (eov. Ilarey . Asks for V-'Ill ( '1-oplernl iln. Ret11iring (,ol -n .r ExpIesse s 1. ( 1ini ile to ( I Mlaya, Ma211 .. Wi on (;di'rey i h-., of Cha rle;to:1, to'k tihe oatl Mlof o.iet as elhc, ('ex:ltive of South DIm-lia- at nloonl toy Smeedn i .\. Coower, who tenlere(l his 1 in at'.io to becoui a memberl of tihe Ft derai Land inhl Board, filling. the \:1enV calsed by the resilintation of T n i i'.a admin111stered i I Ite 1itrem1e co0rloom boy Chief . tis C Gary, Llnd a par rowd ress ed into the room e it rss 0 .re aiy among t hr:ee ben;: formoe: (IV-y t-.0nor It. I. .1atnitng and forme. Gov erno:- 1). C. lHeyward. (1vernoon r lI arvey mladle only 't briet statelent in which he(, appegled to thi' heary co-optoratiol, th1e m1oral and material siipport and the prayers of the noblde mllen and women of the state for the Illn administration. 11. and Mrs. Cooper left in the af ternoon for AWashington, where the former will tualify Monday for his place onl the land bank voard. In leay ing Mr. Coc1er issued a statement to the people, which reads in part: "I am profoundly grateful to you for the many honors yoil have be stowed upon me. I regret that a sen1se of duty prollpts m11e to resign the high oflice of governor, even) though it is a very short time until my term will ex)ile. I have givenl to you three and one-half of the best years of my life and notwithstanding that, our state, during the past three Y'ears has been under a heavy econom le burden, I feel that substantial pro iress has been made of a very definite t1nd permanent character. "In bidding you adieu in this of ficial capacity, I 'want to urge with :111 the earnestness of my soil that Von continue tile sIuI)port of your edu 2ational program. In all of,my work in the govelnor's office I have felt that the fundamental need of South Darolina Is an educated citizenship. Dur institutions of education are our Ilighest hio) and opposition to them anild their successful administration, .aan have but one result and that is to [Ilny to our children an inalienable right to prepare t1emselves for a hap p3Y, useful and successful life. "I leave the state with a feeling )f genuine regret, but I am going to Washington because I 'believe that I 11m given the o)Portulnity to render a service to our agricul-ture which con ititutes the foundation of Our entiro eonomlic life. Such aln opplortunity wou11ld have come to mie butt on1Ce, anld feel it miy duty' to accept it. Let 'le assure you, 'however, that 1113 in ter'est will abide in Soutth Carolina and I shall strive to perp'etuate and keel) this inlterest alive. Tile state is all imy) hlomle and her people the objects FOR WILSON M1E310RIAL FUND M.m. W. D. Fergusoun Accepts Count' Chilrmnship. Takhuig Colleetion Anmng Womenl. Mrs. W. D. Ferguson of this city, has accepted the chairmanship of the county for the Woodr'ow Wilson Memo rial Fund and has apipointedi Mp A. J. Christopher* chairman for Liaurens cIty and~ Mrs. IE. J. Adair chairnian for Clinton. Mrs. Ferguson has issuled a call to the wdo'nen of tile county to rally to this cause and contribute lib orally in Its behalf. Collections twill 1be made under' this organization among womenn only. Congressman McSwain Annonee Congressman J. J., iMcSwain an flounces hlimself 'for re-election in this Issue or Tihe Advertiser and dispatches from Columbia state that he has a! ready filed 'his -pledge, Services at Friendship. Dr. IL. Ross Lynn will preach at F'riendshipi Presbyterian church nd~'t Sunday morning at 11 o'clock,