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$lje (Cnunty Record. f VOLUME 37?XO.Nj^) THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1922 v PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE EDUCATIONAL WEEK IN WIUJA1HSBORC CHAIRMAN WESTMORELAND I STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF PROGRAM TO SOCIAL COMMITTEE. \ At the educational conference held ! in Columbia, November 11th and 12th j under the auspices of the Citizens; Educational Association, S. A. Gra- j ham, chairman, Heinemann; County | Superintendent M. F. Montgomery, I t Kingstree; City Superintendent J. W.! j-S wittenberg, Kingstree; Mrs. E. T. Kelley, Kingstree, P. H. Stoll were appointed members of the executive committee, Williamsburg county, to . supervise and celebrate Education XXI/vaU TWiAm]%nv Q.Q Tf Jc inan^rativp fivun, \j %/? av iu , that this committee yet in touch with each other and hold a meeting at the earliest passible moment, is pointed out in a communication to The County Record signed by Messrs J. R. Westmoreland, chairman of the Cen. tral Committee of Citizens Educational association. Mr. Westmoreland's letter further ? ?" suites that "The Central Committee, Br which is a merger of the organization B and information committees, appoint ed a prominent business qr profess ional man as county chairman. The other four members consist of the ^ pn narinfon/liinf r\f Arln^gtinn H VVUI1V V OUpVi IIIWIIV^VIIW V* VMMVMvivr.., I the city or town superintendent, at the county seat, an active club woman, H and a representative of the American 1 Legi(#i. In the observance of Educa- ' tion Week you are authorized and requested to enlist the assistance of B every leading educator, business or professional man, woman's club, the 1 f American Legion, the American Legion auxiliaries, and various other 1 civic and patriotic organizations of the county and state to come to your ! aid in making this the most effective educational campaign ever conducted in your county. While every phase of educational work should be stressed, it was the sense of the conference : in Columbia to make the rural schools 1 the special objective. You should, 1 %therefore, magnify their importance / .. , , ?. and arouse tne rural population to their undivided support. "While the celebration of Education Whek should terminate with one grand educational mass meeting at i the county seat on Saturday, December 9th, there should be held during the week a series of rallies in the various-districts in the county. As a starter, it is suggested that every minister of the gospel be asked to preach upon the importance of education on Sunday, December v 8rd. 1 The time, place and programs of the district rallies, as well as those for , the big mass meeting on Saturday, will be arranged by your committee and you are charged jointly and severally with the success of the edu eational campaign in your county. "Your committee should see that -* * ' A* - resolutions containing me unquamieu B financial support of the schools by H the General Assembly are adopted at B the Grand Rally on Saturday, and a B certified copy of these sent to the f members of your county delegation ^ urging them to make adequate approfc priations to carry out all the school laws now on the statute books." B o?? 'Venerable Citizen Died Suddenly. Trio, Nov. 21.?Mr. C. J. Thompson,! B, who lived about four miles from Trio died suddenly at his home last Thur-s B day morning. He had been a sufferB er for many years from high blood pressure and hardening of the ar teries. W He was about seventy years old, a | member of the Missionary Baptist church at Taft, a faithful friend, and a devoted husband and father. Besides his widow, one son and four ^ daughters survive him. In failing health for a long time, 'A he had often prayed that he might die "with his shoes on," rather than burden his family by a long illness. He suddenly expired while walking in the yard. He had been picking peas, and becoming tired, had started to the house to rest. The end came before he could reach the house. Congressman P. H. Stoll writes The County Record that he has a limited supply of vegetable and flower seed for distribution among his constituents and will be glad to forward packages to anyone who will apply to him for same. The supply is limited and Mr. Stoll says he will not be able to make general distribution. The seed will be distributed early next spring. k - 1 L IMPORTANT MEETINGS For Tobacco and Cotton Association Members. At a meeting of representative m^nbers of the tobacco and cotton, association in Kingstree on Tuesday it was decided to organize local's in several communities in the county. I ir. ttwMw) nivvn ovorv mPmKpr tn I Alt 19 uyvn v?vi j , attend the meeting that is closest to ! him. Meetings will be held at the fol- j lowing places:' Suttons, Thursday, November 23, 7 { p. m. Cades, Friday, November 24, 7 p. m. Nesmith, Monday, November 27, 8 j p. m. Indiantown, Tuesday, November 28, 8 p. m. Cedar Swamp, Wednesday, November j 29, 8 p. m. Spring Branch, Friday, December 1, 7 p. m. Rock Branch, Saturday, December 2, 7 p. m. Earles, Monday, December 4, 7 p. m. COMPLAINT IS SERVED In Suit Brought by Wite or f ormer i Governor Blease. The complaint in a suit for $100,000 brought by Mrs. Lillie S. Blease, wife of former Governor Cole L. Blease against the estate of the late Benjamin L. Abriey, has been served upon Stephen Elliott, of Columbia, attorney in fact of John R. Abney, j of New York, who, with his sister, Mrs. Lula Hunter, of Atlanta, is the | principal beneficiary of the estate, it j was stated tonight by D. W. Robin- j son, counsel f<r Mrs. Blease. I; The late Bl* L. Abney, for years [Jivision counsel for the Southern i Railway, left an estate valued at approximately $750,000 at his death, ; which occured November 11, 1921, i at the home of former Governor and < Mrs. Blease. In her complaint Mrs.; Blease alleges that he promised during his life time to pay her and remember her in his will for her care ?f him during his residence in her home, which, it is stated, began while Mr. Blease was governor and contin-, * ued until Mr. Abney's death last year.' Mrs. A. L. Carter Passes Suddenly.' Mrs. Carrie Miller Carter, wife of| A. L. Carter and daughter of Mr. and! Mrs. H. A. Miller of Kingstree, died suddenly at her home in the Saltersli community from an attack of influenza "Thursday night. She had been ill only about 48 hours, double pneumonia developing shortly after she had taken to her bed. In young womanhood Mrs. Carter had learned telegraphy and only recently was in charge of th^ office of the Western Union Telegraph company at this place. She was a very capable woman and beloved by all who knew her for her ^exemplary traits of character. She is survived by her husband and four small children of her .own and four adopted ones, also by her parents. Interment was in the Williamsburg cemetery here Friday afternoon, funeral* services being conducted by the Rev. F. C. Hawkins of the Baptist church, of which the deceased was a member. The floral offerings that covered her grave were a meagre attestation of the esteem in which she was held. "> % o RECENT DEATHS. Mrs. A. L. Carter and L. D. Odom Pass to Reward. Mr. Lawrence D. Odom, aged 72, died unexpectedly here Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The deceased came to Kingstree from Bafhberg six years ago and has since made tills nis nome. several years agu nc suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never fully recovered.A few days prior to his death he fell in his bath room and received an injury to his hip which is believed to have hastened the end. He is survived by his widow, who before marirage was Miss Lela Sandiford of Bamberg, also two daughters, Mrs. L. S. Dennis and Miss Myrtle Odom, both of this place. Mr. Odom was a member of the Methodist church and his funeral Vas conducted ^t the residence Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clockj^^j^ffev. R^. W. Speigner, assis^^^^^^Ap0^T C. Hawki^g^^^^^^J^rchurch. Interment wasmao^nth? Williamsburg , cemetery. The floral offerings | were numerous and beautiful and atj tested the esteem in which this venerjable citizen was held. MASS MEETING j HELD TUESDAY "TOBACCO AND COTTON ASSOCIA- 1 TION MEMBERS DISCUSS ORGANIZATION PLANS. A mass meeting of influential cotton and tobacco growers of Williams- ] burg county was held at the court i house Tuesday to take preliminary < steps toward organizing local units I throughout the county. The Cotton < Growers' Cooperative Association and 11 the Tobacco Growers Cooperative As- ] sociation together with the Extension p Service of Clemson College are wo'rk 1 ing together to form these communi-j( ty or school house organization. 1 i I;rom these various local units a i county organization will be formed 1 ( Tuesday, December 5th. t Mr. T. M. Cathcart presided at the \ prelinfinai-y meeting. The Tobacco t Growers' Association was represented t by W. E. Lea, of the Field Service c Division. E. C. Brown of the Cotton ; % Growers Association was present and made some valuable suggestions, it The object in forming these local; a and county units was explained by J Messrs Lea and Cathcart. ' 't Besides the social advantages and i c promoting community interest, and 'c studying community problems, it was f pointed out that these local units would be of wonderful advantage to 1 the membership in keeping them in r close touch with the doings of the, I associations; correcting false reports;!I studying cost of production; improv- e ed methods of production and grad-! ing; developing community leaders; s increasing the membership and doing a good work with the extension service t of the county. ''v Places of meetings and dates were j s arrhnged for the organization of lo-' f cal units and will be found in another j column in this newspaper. A . O /' j s Items From Indiantown. L - - r ii Indiantown, Nov. 20.?Misses Lucy Eaddy and Mary Pope of Hemingway, v were the attractive week-end guests ^ of Miss Gertrude Stuckey. Miss Mildred Wilson of Kingstree, jc is spending a few days here with her If, parents. jd Mrs. C. C. Daniel has gone to ^ Greenwood to visit her daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, students of 0 Lander College, who are sick with s dengue fcver. a Mr. Thomas of Lake City, was a j ^ visitor at lndiantown Sunday aicer- r noon. . r Messrs. John Snowden and Frank Wilson went to Plantersville Friday. a Mr. Henry Bartell of the University v of South Carolina, spent the weekend here with hi$ parents. Messrs. W. J., and Clelmer Bartell, M. M. Wilson attended the CarolinaFurman football game at Florence Friday afternoon. . \ Mr. G. H. Lovett had the misfortune f of breaking his arm while cranking ? his car at Plantersville Thursday night, where he and his father had ? gone on a fishing trip. v Mr. W. A. Moss went to Florence * Saturday on business, returning home 1: Sunday afternoon. * Mrs. James Munnerlyn of Choppee, c spent Sunday here with her mother, v The young folks of this community s enjoyed an informal dance at the ? home of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Rollins I on Thursday night. o r County Teachers Meeting. v 1 i The Wililamsburg County Teachers' s association held its first meeting for i the present school year in Kingstree, s on Saturday, November 18th. There t were about fifty-five (55) teachers j present from all part% of the county. The following officers were elected: r W. D. Halfacre, president; A. R. Reg ister, vice-president; S. P. Stackl^, } secretary-treasurer. These officers will have charge of the association t during the present school year. Mr. D. L. Lewis, state supervisor i of rural schools, addressed the teach- j ers. His remarks were timely and practical, and will be of great help t to the teachers in their school room j problems.^ c it th^conclusion of the meeting the Mother's Club of Kingstree sen- ? ed lmj^i. > decided that the next meeting will be held on December 16th, i at Kingstree. 1 The following teachers were ap- ] pointed to get up the program for ] the occasion: Miss Lilla Babb, Mrs. M. F. Montgomery and Mr. S. P. 1 Stackley. FARMERS OUTLINE FIGHT ON WEEVIL . PLAN TO GROW COTTON UNDER PEST CONDITIONS. Scientific farmers and farm experts meeting in Columbia Saturday I it the call of Governor Harvey, dislussed the boll weevil situation in South Carolina and as a result of the' onference outlined a definite program j :o be followed by all cotton growers i profitably under weevil conditions, it vas said, but a small acreage must >e planted so that it can be given lose attention. The need for erow- I ng food crops sufficient to care for | nan and beast was stressed and the : >pinion was voiced that the day of ibsentee ownership has passed. The vhite brain is needed to raise coton under weevil conditions, and the >rdinaxy negro laborer is not able to :ope with the pest unless under white j guidance, it was said. The following recommendations , to he cotton growers of the state were idoped unanimously: "Destroy the weevil's winter quar-' ers by plowing under cotton and j orn stalks and by cleaning terraces, litch banks and other trash on the.j arm. "Prepare land early and thorough-1 y. Plant best seed of approved va- j ieties. Among the best varieties are j lightning Express, Cleveland Big, loll, Delta type and (on wilt-in-fest- j d land) Dixie Triumph. "Use fertilizers sufficient such as i hould make an average bale per j .ere in an average season, without he presence of the weevil. This aries on individual farms. Make; ide applications of soda early be-1 ore first blooms appear. "Plant as soon as ground is warm. J ill cotton in a given community hould be planted at about the same ime (from the first to the middle of LpriL) , "Practice frequent shallow cultiatipn to keep up fruiting. Practice hick spacing. * "Practice early square picking if heap labor'is available. This must e done very thoroughly every five lays if possible in order to be effecive. "Definite recommendations on pois- j ning are deferred, for future con- j ideration by this conference, until | iter the proposed conferences at Vashington has been held to deter-1 nine upon the general policy to be; ecommended for 1923. "Develop a fertile soil as the best i .sset for farming under boll wee- [ il conditions." . I o News From Trio. Trio, Nov.21.?Miss Mabel Jackson, irincip^l of the Aimwell school, met rith a painful accident last Wedneslay. While on the way to school he tripped over a piece of barbed i rire which was lying: on the ground,' ailing and cutting' her knee severe- i y on a piece of glass. She was hur-1 iedlyl taken in an automobile to An-! trews for treatment, where the wound 1 iras dressed by Dr. DuBose. Three rtitdhes had to be taken. We are to renart that the injured mem-! *r is now healing nicely. On Wednesday of last week the j oof of Mrs. J. A. Salters' kitcheni pas badly damaged by fire. Sparks; rom the chimney fell on the dry I hingles and the flames spread rapid- j y. As soon as the alarm war given everal men rushed to the spot with' mckets of water, and the fire was j ?ut out before the main roof caught. | Mayor W. T. Rowell spent last Wed-; lesday in Charleston. Mrs. M. A. Pate has returned to1 ler home in Walterboro. Mrs. J. A. Salters is visiting relaives in Lake City. W. P. Moore, Jr., of Charleston, s spending a few days with his i larents here. Mrs. J. Norwood Register and her wo little children have returned from Andrews, where they were the guests >f Mrs. E. L. Powell. Mr. Smith, a representative of the j soutnern r rait v^o., was in x no ia?i i veek on business. Mr. R. E. Register of Lanes, tie nspector of the A. C. L. railroad, has >een visiting relatives here, accompanied by his wife and little son, Robert. Mr. W. H. Harper went to George;own Monday on a business trip. C. J. Thompson Dies Suddenly. WILLIAMSBURG SCHOOLS. || State Inspector Submits Report on I Their Condition. i Following is the report of State Inspector of Rural schools D. L. Lewis G made to State Superintendent of Education on the condition of schools in ' Williamsburg county. Columbia, ^5. C., Nov. 20, 1922. | Hon. J. E. Swearingen, J ^ Dear Sir: I,give below leview of school conditions in Williamsburg |. county, as seen in the course of aj^ visit made during week ending N?"l^ vember 18. IX On November 14 the County Super-1 w intendent and I visited the following ' ^ schools: !ej Wayside,' a two-teacher school; j . n i;^i? . a. i i ^arusie, a iwu-teuciier sciiuui, vohcs, ^ 4 three-teacher school; Rough Branch, ^ a one-teacher school; and Indiantown, ^ a school of three teachers. a On November 15 we visited Mouzon, jj a one-teacher school; Bethel, a one- ? / 11( teacher school; Hebron, a school of four teachers; Pergamos, a three- cj teacher school; and Aimwell, a oneej teacher school. ^ n November 16 we visited Cedar ? CI Swamp, a four-teacher school; Cen- ^ tral, a two-teacher school; Blooming- ^ vale, a school with two teachers; Marion Branch, a one-teacher school; . and Piny Forest, a two-teacher school. November 17 we visited Gamble, w a two-teacher school; Mulberry, a ^ school with two teachers; and Lanes, a four-teacher School. At Wayside we found an excellent ej new building, recently erected. The ^ people of this progressive community cc are to be commended. The people of the Gamble section are likewise to ^ be congratulated on their neat two- ^ teacher building just completed. . j We found the teaching corps, in ^ almost every .case,"a body of earnest, hard-working people, getting good re- j cults in tVioit- tMchinir In two schools the discipline was hot good.* It fol- j( lows that the work of the schools was not good; there can be no good work without discipline. Teachers w should have good discipline, otherwise a their work will go down as a failure. ^ In several schools the pupils were not reading well. This was perhaps ^ due to two causes, possibly three. ^ The pqpils may have been promoted without being prepared; they may do little or no reading outside of the n schoolroom; ot the teachers may no< ^ be teaching readiVg well. In case the m pupils do not read well, the teacher should concentrate on this subject, as ej all other subjects are sealed books ^ unless the pupils can re^i and get n( the thought from what they read. Some history teaching was observ- ^ ed, where the teachers had prepared ^ their recitations, but were not get- ^ ting response from the pupils. The trouble seemed to be that not enough ^ was expected or required of the pu- ^ pils, and the teachers were trying to . do all the work for them. It is not well \AJ tuv iiiuvu iwvw??n^ w es in history in the intermediate and high school grades; the pupils will ^ not pay attention, and nobody except the teacher derives any benefit. . The history lesson should be so prepared by the teacher that questions provoking"thought on the part of the ^ pupilsswill take the place of the lecture. These questions should develop logically every point in the lesson, and the pupils should be expect- m ed and requiredyto know the answers. R The teacher- should do some parallel R reading, so tfiat they can narrate a interesting related facts to their his- m tory classes, and thus make the sub- w ject live ahd interesting to the class, m Ceocrranhv should be taught in the T] same manner, and history and* geog- sc raphy should always be correlated, ta maps and other geographical helps si being used irt the history teaching, w and stories from history being used to make geography interesting. In In some schools "pupils are not be- fa ing given sufficient drill on the analy- sc sis and parsing of sentences. With- ec out such drill, the value of technical sc English grammar is very doubtful, whereas, when analysis and parsing cc are thoroughly taught, it constitutes d< the finest kind of mental training. Furthermore, without a thorough 4 knowledge on the part of pupils of in sentence contraction, they cannot acquire the finer mechanics of compo- R sition. as thev will have no standard ^ by which to determine whether the sentences making up their composition are grammatically correct. st Too much of the time of the pupils should not be taken in tests. If ec the daily recitations are thorough, tests or examinations two or three C times during the term are sufficient. * V iROVER CROOKS LEAVES PRISON ' ' :: OVERNOR CAN NOT REVOKE PAROLE WHEN TIME LIMIT IS UP. ' j In an opinion handed down Monday, le state supreme- court, in the case f Grover Crooks, who was suing >r habeas corpus held that a parole sued* by the governor of South arolina to convicts did not suspend leir sentences bat that with the pa- t >ie; or, in enect, mat me prisoner as still in the custody of the state it without his prison bounds under cecutive sanction. The court in- , ;ructed Col. A. K. Sanders, superitendent of the state penitentiary, ? turn Crooks back to the sheriff I Oconee county because the revo- 4 ition of Crook's parole by Governor arvey on September 13, li)22, was 3t legal. The opinion was written by Asso ate Justice J. H. Marion and is an chaustive treatise on the pardening 3wer of the governor. It was conirred tn by the other members of le court with the exception of Chief astice Eugene B. Gary, who merely ated that he dissented, without givg his reasoning. Under the weight of the decision# hen a convict is.paroled, his senrnce continues to hin, and, regandss of the stipulations surrounding s freedom, when this sentence has cpired he is without the custody 01 le state. Until clarified by the ?uri, MIC ^cuciai kuiltcpnuu ui a irole was that the prisoner could i re-possessed by the state during ie time of his natural life for viotion of any of the stipulaltions of e parole. Since parole was grafted into the v w in 1909 by statutory provision, has been a favorite mode ' of emency with South Carolina govnors; for the reason that they supwed the stipulations in the grant Duld have to be lived up to, putting* ,. deterrent in the path of a return crime otherwise the convict would ive to complete his interrupted sennee. However, the supreme court rough its decision holds this to be false doctrine. In some states in which the pale system is in effect there is a atutory provision, providing for erely a suspended sentence when parole is granted, and the prison1 can be re-incarcerated at any time r just cause.* Although he had . (thing to say for publication conraing the opinion, it is probable at Governor Harvey, when he drafts s message to the General Assembly, ill ask that statutory hedges be it around paroles granted in the iture. In the granting of a parole ' / ere Is no return of citizenship, which the case when a pardon is given; id the majority of governors seem rerse- to giving a full pardon, exrJ when there is shown to be a igrant miscarriage of justice. The opinion of Justice Marion goes to full history of the Crooks case id he cites copious authorities on hich the reasoning of the courts is (ttomed. o The American debt funding comissoin was advised today by the umanian financial mission that umania is liable at present to set date when it may begin the payent of interest on its $41,000,000 ar debt to this country. he same thing may be said as to? hool entertainments. These enterinments are good things, but they lould not be allowed to interfere ith the school work. It is hoped that the people of Wilamsburg county will do away as ir as they can with their one-teacher hools. It will never be possible to locate the country children in those hools. The people of the county are to be ingratulated on the following evimces of school progress: Spring Gullyf 4 mills; Wee Nee, mills; Marion Branch, 6 mills; Hem gway, i mius. Bond issues for new buildings: Oak idge, Piny Forest, Marion Branch, ree Nee. New buildings: Two constructed. New negro buildings: Three conructed. New white schools to be construct1 at once: Three. Consolidations: S^ndy Bay with arlisle; Spring Branch with Hebron. D. L. Lewis. 1 * i