Watchman and Soot
S,/?^ a? S?eoo? Class Waiter.
?; .MIss Bessie" ^Cash returned home
Saturday night for the holidays.
A Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Barfield
are spending some time with rel-'
stives in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mt, .Wade/#?Uf?rd, oX Athens," Ca,',
spent Christmas in the city with
Ks uncle, Mr. Jas^ F, GleRn.
Mr. and Mrs.-F. F. Converse, of
Florence, spent Christmas in the
city with the latler's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. S. Sumter.
Mrs. J ulia lister Dillon is spend
ing ihe holiday, season- in Augusta,
; .' Ga.
Mr. Manning Scurry, who left
Sumter county, twenty-three years!
ago and has since made his home
in Philadelphia, is spending the!
v holidays with relatives in .the Brog
\ don section*
r Mrs. M-. B Garret, of Laurehs, iS;
visiting her daughter Mrs. Barle!
Rowland.
Messrs- Richard Baker and Mc-j
Donald Dick are at home from the:
liniversity. of Virginia for the holi
days. .
Mr. S. T. Burch. of Florence,!
spent Christmas in the city.
, Mr. and Mrs. D. Jamison Cain,
who were married in Asheville Mon
day arrived in the city Monday and
are at' home on East Calhoun .street.
Philip-Jennings, manager of
tfie Western Union Telegraph office
at Ssu*i, Hampton county, S. C,
who was Jvome on, a two day. visit
to- his., parents, returned this xnorar
135g- to SsteU.
Mr. Odetl Player of Charlotte Ss
spendingf the Christmas holidays;
?with/ hTs parents on Kendrick
street. ?
Mr. Hughson Green Ls at home!
from Columbia for the holidays. ;
Mr. John T. Green, Jr., return
ed to Jackson, Miss., Tuesday af
ter'1'spending three days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John T.
- ; Green.
???'Rosalie Xeyle is spending;
a few Sa>7i ar. Conga ree, Richland
county.
Mr. J. R. Kfird, of Columbia;,
spent Tuesday ?l the local store.
Mr, Albert Pfeelps, who is at
tending the Massachusetts School
of Technology-, is spending the:
holidays at home.
-3tTi and Mrs: P. E. Rh?me of .
Columbia spent several days dur
ing ihe holiday with Mrs. Rhame's
grandmother, Mrs. A*.- J. Lide.
Mr- L, P. Lide ^of Waycroas11
Gr.; is visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. J.
- - Lide..
Mr. R- B. Allen has been called
to Blytihewood, to attend. the fun
eral ?*; his father, Mr. Jas. F.-Al
ien. -
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Blott of Barn
well and Sol, Jr., are visiting Mr.
Moses Green.
?Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green are
visiting, relatives in Florence.
Dr. Robert W. McKay is visit
ing friends in Columbia.
?Miss Xell Stall of ;Columbia is
speeding a .few days with Miss
Reba Stall.
-Miss Marie Roessler, of Spartan
burg, is spending a few days with
her sister, Mrs. Felder Weeks/gm
West Liberty street.
Midshipman C..E. Crombe, Jr., is
&t &oxne from. Annapolis with his
?6r??^ Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cromne
during the"holidays.
. MiS3 Marian Satterwhite, of
Wrntiiropr College is spending a
few days in. the ciry. . ^ f v ?i
Mr. Robert .D. Sanders, of Flor
ence, is- in the city.
Another Highway
Meeting
* A mass meeting of the citizens
of Shiloh and Rafting Creek town
ships will be held at Sumter court
house at 11 a. m. Friday, January
5th, .to which every citizen, male
and female of those two town
ships,...the Sumter county legislative
delegation*. Sumter .County ,Per
. ma cent Road commission and
every, business and . professional
- man and. woman of Sumter, . tifem
county ..seat of Sumter. county, are
invited and urged, to attend.
% The object of this meeting is to
discus*, plans whereby the neces
funds will be provided by leg?
islative enactment io put the Per
manent. Road commission of Sum
er. county in position to.: carry out,
ss far as may be possible, the orig
inal,program of hard surface high
ways -for Sumter county, and. give
to Raiting Creek and Shiloh
townships their rightful share <*f|
the mileage of hard surface high-l
ways to wbieh these sections are
entitled, . ..
The committee of Shiloh citizens
consisting of Messre.-.W. H. Green, I
Chairman; ,J. C. Truluck, Bryant B
Smith, Gamble Moore, R. W. Green
?jjd T. J. Keels, haye requested E.I
L Reardon.- secretary of, the I
Sumter County Chamber of Corn
amerce, to. give notice through the
yjflfrspapers of this meeting. This
committee emphasizes the import-1
ance -of the business and profes
sional, men and women of Sumter I
attending this meeting and'showing
t^eir. interest in their friends and
>Sstomers of Shiloh and . Rafting
?^Sfeek townships, Shiloh. town-B
ship, is wide awake and will navel
a. la rge representation present, and
urges that Rembert, Hagood, Bor-1
dfcn,. and all other : sections of I
Rafting Creek township ^get busy
whooping up a big crowd to rep-1
resent that township at this meet-l
^ARLINGTON HAS
FIRE DAMAGE!
I Darlington. Dec. 27'.?Fire'of 'un-1
known* origin here tonight about 7
o'clock damaged a store room and
fourteen, bales of cotton that were
stored in it., The building and cot
ton is owned by K. Simon and it. {s
thought to-bave been insured. Good
work by the Sre, department pre
vented the' damage from being
Dr. B. M
- Found by; PolM^t
Johns I #Mn s
" Where He^Was Tak
ing Post Graduate
Work " - ' \
Bastrop, La.t JDec^26.~The sec
ond arrest in connection with the
Morehpuse kidnaping; of last AugusJ
was made late today when Dr. B.
M. Mc'Koin, until a few months age
mayor of Mer Rouge, was taken ir
custody at Baltimore- at the 're
Quest of Governor' Parker, whe
charged him with murder. The
physician was taking, a postgradu
ate, course, at Johns Hopkins.
The former mayor is expected to
reach here within, a few days to
join a former deputy sheriff, whfl
is now being held on the. siirdiar
charge in the Bastrop jail.
While the arrest'.was being matte
a* detachment of. National Guard
was feeonnoiterlng^along Lake La
Fourche for evidence to lead to, the
arrest of dynamiters, rtjspbnsible ^pi
the blasting at a ferry landing Jasji
week when the bodies of two men,
: believed to have been tortured aijd
murdered by masked and robed
men, were blown ^frorn the. bottoin
of the lake. .
The. company also was "to act as
a bodyguard for the sheriff who
was to make arrests in .the' e*e,nl
his suspicions justified them.
During the day Adjutant Gener
al Toombs, suddenly called back
from Washington^ by the governor,
arrived In Morehbuse to direct the
operations of the three, companies
of state troops encamped here auel
at Mer Rouge.
. It was persistently reported dur
ing the day . that all preparations
had been made to call out two ad
ditional state;, companies' if condi
tions warranted!
Soldiers are on guard duty at th?
i jail here" and encamped In - the
heart of Mer Rouge, where the
situation is such that the governoi
does not want to. leave the towns
people to themselves for the feai
there will be bloodshed because , oi
the friction among them following
the August event. Many of the
populace are armed." -
. .The military also was at the dis
posal of the civil" authorities tc
take in custody any members oi
the hooded mob whose identity are
known to the state authorities, ac
cording to department . of justice
men.
Attorney General Coco stated thai
sax or . seven arrests will be made
hefore the open hearing January 5
It is reported the number of ar
rests 'will be increiased as the iden
tity of the. dynamiters' -are estab
lished.- Federal . agentsdeclare
they have the name of the riijf
leader and his arrest is imminent
Attorney General Coco is expect
ed to arrive at .New Orlea ns tomor
row in t preparation for the con
ference 'there Thursday, at whicli
time plans,.f.or the hearing will be
outlined and the reports of the
coroners jury that ? conducted the
i^Q.ueet over the, headless bodiesJsi
Watt. Daniels and . Thomas. Rie|&
arcls will be discussed. >|fl
Citizens ..were gathering on #the
street corners tonight discussing
tpe.,arrest of two of their formei
law oflScials. The arrest of thjt
man. who. ...had been their maycti
until .he resigned last Augusi
came as a complete surprise. ,Pr
McKoin was born and . grew, M
manhood at Monroe and later mov
ed to Mer Rouge where he was i
practicing physician. - His friendi
Induced hitai to make the race foi
mayor .and during his incumbencj
the fearlessly upheld the law anc
(attempted to rid the eommunits
i pt moonshiners and other law-.
j "breakers, it was said. .
On August. 2. he .reported assas
sins fired two loads of shot int(
li?? moving automobile as he wai
j answering a sick call. He later re"
jceived persistent warnings to leave
! the community and he did so. Th'ij
j event led to the tragedy of the
24th, in the theory of the states
? T. J. Burnett, arrested* last Sat
urday, is denied visitors except un
der military surveillance. Today
he grew sullen and .restless anc
repeatedly gripped the iron bars ir
which he is inclosed.' His bat
tery of attorneys spent severa
hours with him.
It was recalled here tonight thai
.four murders have been charged tefl
j hooded men since last May along
?the.Arkansas-Louisiana border.
! At Wilmot, Ark., .E. L. Gills, a
: farmer, was lured from His home
j shot to death and his body burn
] ed. After his death the Louisiana
i Arkansas law and order league wa:
! formed to secure evidence in thi
I case but no arrests were made. The
(league was said to have been mad<
; up of 5,00.0 citizens of , the twe
states and recently disbanded.
The kidnapping of five .promi
j nent Mer Rouge citizens on a high
I way last August is believed to hav<
j resulted in the death of Daniel*
jand .Richards. Two others were
severely flogged and J. L. Daniels
70 year old. father of Watt, Dan
iels. was at the point of death, fpi
several weeks' because of the cruel
ties inflicted upon him.
The Smackover . invasion. th<
. third event of the yeary occurred
; last month and resulted in thfl
death of J. U.'Woods, 2:>, a Mis
sissjppian. He was riddled witl
shot after he had fired on a part;
of several . hundred masked anc
white "sheeted" men who marche<
intotthe new oil field of south Ark
ansas to clean out the undesir
ables. One man was flogged and ;
gambling house, a two story Irani
structure, torn down. An exodu
of more than 2,000 people vfror
Hp&oiti. former ? mT
f | Rouge, La.who, is
I iu?.connection^wUh it
ij&?rjsh kid'nap^g?' at* _
! ^T^^Vjrm^Utt^ bodies
?iLa Fourche^was arrested
:fday ait the.Johr^ Hopkins
' [sity-?Brady.??-Institut^.where \ he*
' taking a post-gradua t e course. Tl
arrest followed receipt of'a tele-;
I gram from Governor J. M-/ParXeij
of= Louisiana requestingA the ipcal
police to arrest McKoin on a charge
of murder. . i
After questioning by police of
! ficials. Dr. McKoin was locked up
t ^ya^^ p^Shkr action . by Lou- '
j island authorities. ?
: i Other than requesting the local
, j authorities to arrest McKoin
i j there . was's nothing contained in
Governor Parker's ' telegram. It
read:
"Important^ : Arrest Dr. McKoin
? j for .'murder. Hold; .him for Lou- J
isiar.a 'authorities."
Dr.' "McKoin denied knowledge
j of "the .' kiliin of the. ? two men.
' "Ali I know," he declared, "is.;
i [that "'both men killed were on the i
bad side?the side , of bootleggers,
J gunmen, and/'men who associated
: wit'd negro women."
The discovery of Dr. McKoin
j here and his subsequent .arrest,
?>1 came about purely: by accident, j
' I Word : was received here severs* j
^days:-;ago that Dr.-Mcl^oiu was
, j student at Johns Hopkins and de~!
[, partment. of justice agents sought j
: j to question hinC however, liniyer
i jsiiy' :onlcials . denied . McKoin was
?registered as a post-graduate, and:
: him the letters were turned over
to theposrofflce'' department as.
? ^nknowm" v
Early today a policeman was
, 1 found on the wafer front uncon?
ijscious.. He was removed to a hos
t] piial.. When the hospital report!
. I reached police headquarters it : was j
I signed , by Dr. ' McKoin. It . was j
u then, 'that." local newspapermen]
(I rushed to the hospitat and -inter,
1 viewed him. Up to that time the i
? ielegam from - Governor Parker j
(asking, for his arrest had not been
it received, " Dr. McKoin spoke free*
ij ry and insisted he - was not a fujgi-]
fjiive fronr justice, and that heXhadj
? made "no" attempt to conceal his j
?] identity. - :?
? I He stated he has been in Bajti- \
: 1 more since October X, and had left j
? I Mer Rouge after an attempt had J
i ] been made to" assassinate him.
j -.. Dr. McKoin insisted he was n?tj
? [k member,ef the Ku Klux Klan. He
? j praised the Organization, however, i
! j say i Jig-,the membersr "did inuch to.;
; j hold down bootlegging and im
! morality, while I was mayor of
A Mer Rouge." He* also stated, that:
- lawlessness is a. common occur*
i- rence at Mer Rouge and that he
? was among those who started .to
clean up the place/ ; The r^ulC-ne
.'. said,, was a.' hard'fl^le:-with; boot
. ledgers; moonshiners'- and men of
. bad repute. . .
i > ''Just before I left Mer Rouge
; a boy. of a good family was shot
in the hack. What'did the sher
iff and governor do? The case was
dismissed after a Jury. filled with
bootleggers and the vicious ele
ment declared the alleged murder
er innocent.
">Tow, however, when a boot
legger .and some one else is killed,
f Hhe. ^governor. joins. ^in the inyes~
j.tigation. This affair,,in jny opin
ion, will decide; whether the de
cent and good element of the town
will controL"
_ Dr. McKoin stated he had re
ceived threatening letters a long
? [ time before he left Mer Rouge and
I j. asked the sheriff to. invstigate
; j without, success. .**Just as I left
> j the mayorship and? the successful
. {candidate went into ?nice,** ,iie
l I continued, ''gangs, that. paraded
, the streets fifed, shots around my
.house.: I asked the sheriff to take
r] matters in hand, but nothing was
l j done."
WILL FIGHT
V *' BXTB?DITION
5] Baltimorer>Dec; v 2 7?~A habeas
*j corpus writ for Dr. B. M. McKeoin,
j j former mayor' of Mer Rouge, La.,
\ arrested, here on -the charge of
\ murder, was issued todayby Chief
' JTudge Goner of. the. city court.
\ j Dr. McKeoin, who was arrested .on
\ j inptructions of the Louisiana gov
. ernor, declared he was. .innocent
\ ! and wpuid fight extradition. , ;A;
telegram from Governor Parker
said extradition papers, would be
forwarded.: The police court was
asked*to hold Dr. McKeoin for tep
days. ? ? , -,
Ensagement Announced.
i ? The Savannah Press of Saturday,
December 23rd, contained the an
nouncement of the engagement of
Miss Marion G. Byck of Savaunah,
Ga., and Mr. Alva I. ? Green, of
Sumter. The date of the wedding
- is not announced.
H - - ? ? 9 *- '
) I Deathu
L| Mrs. Isabel Sanders Buitman,
- j wife of F. A. Buitman,. died at the
i I Tourney Hospital Thursday morn
3 jing at 3, o'clock, after an illness
j 1 of several months duration. Mrs.
[ jBultman was the daughter of the
Jate Marion &mders, former sher
iff of Sumter county, and was one
-jof the most popular women of
j Sumter. She was married to Mr.
? j Buitman twenty-six years ago, and
ijhas lived here, all her life. She
e j wa sa woman of many lovely traits
of character and to know her was
to love her. She is. survived by
Her, husband, Mr. F. : A. Buitman
and two children, Polly, and Fran
cis^ Jr., also by her . sister, Mrs.
J. C. Huger of this city and one
brother, Mr. Robert D. "Sanders, of
Florence. '.' '-^S8
. The fiineral services" 'will* be
held tomorrow, Friday, morning, at
Trinity Methodist church at
11
.New
otion pic
>nerai^ed/ei
clay 'tele
?otest against;
bseoe .
Arbuckle
meabeh'vilieV O
inhibition officers he
trod war anew \ on ^
ind ' tigers ' a nd pr!
inkingparties, fbllowin
Hing:yesterday of' Cnaries
ader of the dry agents. Tjiey
ter rthe .h^gfeer ' ups they
mneed,. Bluin /.'was/the fifth Je'f
rson /county prohibition ? officer
lied by, unknownr persons.
London, Dee.' 26.-~An Exchange
ilegraph - Athens dispatch says
at Premier Goh?tas declared the
reek government neverthought
acceding to 'ttie1^ Turkish de- f
ahds, for the removal of the
reek patriarchfrom/ Constanti
>ple. even though, ihe allies ac
pt-the Turkish viewpoint, ex
essed at the Lausanne confer
ee. He', said it wW'a national
;oblem and the cabinet must stand^
;m.
New York, Dec. 26.?Despite the
ct.; that the- police records sho^
at ye^rday C was the driest
&s?mas' in. 'the history of the
ty; there were six deaths, attribut
l//by the jpolJce;to? bootleg/ whis
jy. There, grere np drunks Tn:
e' westside po?ce court.
Seattle, DeC. 2 6/?-A Search' for
rover Cleveland Bergdoll, who;es
uned in May, 1920,'\whUe serving
r'e\ years for desertion from the
nited States army was started
?re last. night; A restaurant
jeper reported thatfa roan look
g- 2*5.e Bergdoll came in to his
ace and seemed uneasy/
London, Dec! . 27.?The British j J?
laneialmission/* - beaded i>y Stan.-]'
y Baldwin* chancellor, of the ?xf:/
lequer, sailed for 5?ew York to
ly on the UnW Majestic/
be
pprtani
W001
Columbia, Dec.j
division of the
committee For tl
son foundation, j]
cwhich was mad<
Governor HarveyJ
women of the stal
739.17 toward i
Its quota was %%A
?' "I feel sure thi
raised, our full qu<
the\campaign hac
linger," Mrs. W.
chairman of fKe
said in speaking
made.
The woman's dij
was announced, w|
the total South Cs
$25,000.
Mrs. Melton's r
mitted to H?milte
chairman of. the
foundation.
?,?? o ?
New Orleans/ Dec. 27.?Two men
id two women are being held, here'
connection with ^th^^r?hhety, ef
7e messengers of the^rpvars Na
onal' .bank" of ' Kansas / City, m|
hich the/ hJghway^
5>7;?0?: Tn^Jn^n^t^^ .their
imes as George. ^s(&; and' .Jim
sverty, and;sai& the woinen were
ieSr.. wivee: ^ighly^threef hundred
Dll?rs was found'.-'in :a. hand^bgg^
misville, ?ec/. 27:
surrounding
of/ C. L. Black ?*rth<
,~kxs. Olive L. Jone
been increased to|
_*J^police dej
>ra. Mrs. Jone
Jit-jself det
London, Dec. .27---A Reuters
sp?tch from Lausanne says there
serious danger-of'the Near; feast
mference / jjecomingabprtiYe vif i
te Turks persist in their present^
let??ds:
of Jir?^er.
pom]
the,.
(dayj
and!
Moscow, Dec. 27,-~Ajcting /Com-]/
tissar of Finance SokpInikpTt JyWl^
?rday recommended . to . the "
Ussian soviet'congress that
:x system be changed. ;/Ke s?y
e thought it best to. change to,
lonetary basis from the pre
rstem whereby /peasants /pay;,
irni products^ He^ said.be cpulc'
resent an annual budget be<
* t)ie instability of the rubl
try
Lausanne/ Dec,^ 28.?The
ast conference commission^
ipit?lati?ns today reached a de
ck, pending the receipt of/ne
istructions by the -; Turkislt
ites, some'of- the allied dele
tid after the meeting ad^di
Columbia, Dec/ 2$.---Capt.
Oberts of the state , penitent?.. . , .
jard[ has gone to New'..York with.! j^en
jQuisitipn papers for Will West, {the a/^JJJ
ias Jack-Ha^ty, a negro, .who, ke reiterati,
scaped from the prison farm m
H9. / He stiii had more than two
sars^ of his sentence to serve,
rest is said "to be serving a short!
jijtence in New' York , and .peni- J
entlarv officials were notified that j
Is. term*would^expire 6n December!
j. Cant. "Roberts left Columbia'
he would stand/
throughout, the case?
COLUMBIA GA!
?: -;/RATE-CASi
i time to reach New, York before} Columbia, ^Dec. 28.?Hearings or
lat date. - _ . tthe petition of the Columbia Rail
mmmm^??^fc?> m ^ m ! ( way, Gas and Electric Companj
I for permission to increase rate*
on gas and electricity will be re
sumed by the South Carolina Rail
road commission Wednesday morn
ing, January 2, at .11 o'clock, it ,1s
announced here. ;?/*'
These hearings were started sev
eral weeks ago but were adjourn
ed pending the compilation of ad
Shbts^Strike Five
? - ? ' ' .
Anderson, Dec. ^2j?.?Five chil
ren who were. playing together in
le rear, of their hjOme. in Anderson
ill 1 village were, shot by^l'Sridie.man
/alker, a young jnan who said he
as just celebratipg Christmas ahd\,
ad intended to fire into'the ground, j ditional information the commis
???t?r, cwvtt '?? ' ?A^_rsIon wished to have before it be
fore going into the question ah3
farther.
"i i ?? ? m<
Milling Plant Burns
!unice Scott, 12. years old, recelv
i seven shots in the abdomen.
!thel Scott. also received. spin e of
ie shot in her abdomen and legs,
farold. Scott was shot in the chest.
. small girl named Elrod and a
oy named Snead, who were or
hans and visiting here, were also
Dillon, Dec. 26.?Fire destroy
ed the Pee Dee Milling company*.*
truck. .The attending physician j plant -last night about 12 o'clocl
lys noiie\.of the children are se-|'an(j the warehouse in which .it was
ibusly hurt but . are painfully j located. The location of the. plan;
ounded. j Was to the rear of the People/?
fi * ? I bank building,, only an alley sepa
NOTICE ! rating the two buildings. .Excep
r { for a high brick wall on the soutl
" * side of the warehouse facing tb<
rear of the bank, the bank building
would likely , have also burned. Th<
window frames of. the lower anc
upper stories of the bank wer<
burned. The warehouse, was /th<
The annual meeting of the
ounty Board of Commissioners
rill be held in its office In the
ourt House at 10:30 o'clock on the
lorning of Thursday, January
th. All persons holding demands
f any kind against the county, not
reviously presented, must file
ame with the clerk on or before
he first day of January as requir
d by law.
D. M. BliAJsTDING,
Plork to Board.
property of the estate/of A. J. C
Cottingh?m and the milling plan
belonged to W. A. Mears. Th<
building, loss was about $3,000 an<
[the milling plant loss about tli<
same. Mr. Mears had insurano
on h,ie grist mill.and the small stocl
of Krocerfes ht^ carried In. stock.