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HOMES B?RI? W?TH LOSS OFjVER $5,500 FLAMES DESTROYED TWO HOUSES ON GREENVILLE STREET BURNED RAPIDLY Fire Had Good Start and Firemen Handicapped Because of Low Water Pressure. Kin- yesterday afternon at 1 ole'eoj Kirn yesterday afternoon at I o'clock totally destroyed the liouio of | Mr. H. S. Dowllng and iilmost com pletely burned the home of Mr. nor me McOee on CJreenvlllo street, en iailing ioss of over $f;,?O? with Insur ance to the amount of '4,20. This is the biggest fire Anderson has suf fered In some time, and was marked by tho rapidity with which the b"?ld iiiKe burned. Within 120 minutes i er the bluze started, Mr. Dowling's hume was practically burned to tho ground, and Mr. MoOee's was rapidly being consumed. The fire started In Mr. Dowling's) home, the exact origin being unknown Homo uva of the opinion that u defec tive flue was the cause Blnco the fire wits first Been on the room. Mrs. Dowllng said tin. some trash hud just been burned In n room In the attic, j and it might have started from that. The fire department reached the scene very quickly but the Dowllng home was a mass of flames by thut| time. Tho firemen were greatly handi capped because of the low water pres sure, and It was soon seen that the Dowllng- home could not bo Baved. Tho home of Mr. Cohb on the east | sida caught fire svceral times, and the firemen did excellent work in saving | It. The homo of Mr. McGeo was on the west side of the Dowllng home, j and n sadden shift of the wind, threw the flames over on It, which mode It impossible for the fIrinnen to save it. Tho buildings wore very dry, causing them to bur nso faBt that tho heutl prevented tho ?fr?men getting clo'ao| enough to put steady streams on tho flumes which the pressure nt hand. Sparks and burning shingles fell on 'the tops of house over the entire ] neighborhood, and house on North Fant ntreet, nearly two blocks away Caught fire, but were soon extinguish- j od. Numbers of the homes wero cov ered with metal Bhlngles, and these] prevented them- from catching fire. Tho home .of Mr. Dowllng was own; cd by Mrs. I^aurlo \SUnrpo, and was | a two story building containing about eight rooms. The other homo was a six room houso owned by Mr. Poste! 1 Cater, and occupied by Mr. McOee. AH of tho furniture- in the Dowllng home was destroyed except the pia no. The furniture in the McGee homn WSB saved by the assistance of thoBO who bad gathered at the fire Mrs. Sliarpo carried $2,100 insur ance on her house, its valve being es timated at $3.000. Insurance on tho | Cater tiliuso amounts to .$1,000 and It ' was valued at $1,500. Mrs., Sharps lived with Mrs. Bowling and carried $800 on her furniture, Returned From Winston-Saloon 3 Mr. T. O. Rowen, track foreman of the city lines of the Southern Public Utilities company, hOB returned from. Winston-Salem, N. C, whoro he sup erintended some track paving in that "city. Mr. Bowen became very fami liar, with that kind o( work when tho I paving was being. doue in Anderson, .and therefore his services wero de-j sired in the. North Carolina city. "Brightest Spot In Town" WEDNESDAY Charles Rich m an V "T?? ??L?R" BETTER KIND OF MOVIES y. ^"^f> -il i eg IP I! ntk mccautisy.EBWAitBs trio 5? LEE LOONEY PLEADED GUILTY FOUR COUNTS CONFESSED TO ROBBING SEVERAL STORES IN ANDERSON SENTENCE 4 YEARS In Giving Sentence, Judge Prince Made an Exceptionally Strong Talk. The ease of Leo Looncy. the while] loan who confessed '.o breaking Into and stealing goods) from the store-] rooms of B. O. Evana & Co., Parker & Hull. Anderson's. Xliumons und two or three otherB u few mouths ago, h?? attracted much attention ev er since ho was arrrcBted l.i Augusta | and confessed. Pity and sympathy were later added to the case because of the death of Coaey's wife, und the ."act Mtat they had eight children. Yesterday in court of general ses sions I,oonuy plead guilty to house breaking and larceny on four differ- j ent counts. All of the sentences to -;al a period of three years. It Is un derstood that a petition is to be cir culated for a pardon. In sentencing Looncy yesterdiy, j Judge Prince made a tplendhl talk, j and ono which will be long remem bered by thooo who were fortunate j enough to bo In the court room.' It was as follows: "Tliis Is the second time during] tli*c court week that 1 have been in tensely shocked. It baa become my unpleasant duty on numbers of oc casions to sentence a white man for crlmo. But it is seldom that I am called upon to sentence a white man for housobrcaklng or larceny. I am told that you are Ute father of eight children, that only hurts me the | moro. I cannot Imagine why a man that is the father of a child, could so j far forget himself and so far orget the duty ho owes that child, as to| stain and blacken his uamo . It pu'.b I a terrible handicap on any child to' have hit father be guiltv of stealing: Chiliren are cruel orio to another. I perhaps unintentionally, but with tho usual child's frankness, '.hey freq uently wound Intensely tho foelingu| of thoso who aro innocent them selves, who unfortunately aro thol children of the thief. That of itself handicaps the child, and makes hls[ Hfe unhappy but to havo tho con sciousness of knowing that their | father had so far forgotten h'.s man* hood us to bo guilty of common theft, I the yery, consciousness of that fact,! is almost' to the child's mind an un surmountable dlillculty. It tends tn| destroy bis pride and to tako 'away the personal prldo of a child 1b to ruin him. You'had no right to do it. A man has a right to do as ho: pleases with hlnu?lf provided ho can do so without complicating and injuring others who ore Innocent, | but a father can not do as ho pleases, a father cannot steal or commit uny otlter crime without complicatln;: his family, embarrassing his family,?in-1 Juring his family, breaking hlsj mother's or his father's heart, bring ing; their aged heads with groy hairs down to the grave of sorrow. Tho wife , of his. bosom has her heart broken and then It becomes an un ploaoml duty of tho Judge to imposo a penal p.entence. "Hero aro four cases you h.avol 'plead guilty in. I am told by state's| council that this isn't all of your sin ning in this respect, but ho thought thh was enough, and I think It is enough. Hut wint I Urn going to'do with you I hardly know. I have.no authority under tho law to suspend sentence in a case of thin sort, be- j cause it is a folony, and the legisla ture has only aeon fit to authorize the I fridge to. suspend eehtonce in cases' if misdemeanor.. So there is no chance that 'I havo to put you . on probation. I wish 'I could let you off f?r a little while on probation, but I can't, I haven't X;ho authority to do it. Not out of any special consid?ration for you, because you seem to have been fatally bent upon mlBohlef, but out of consideration tor those moth erless children I am hot going to be as sevbre as my own judgement In dicates that' I ought to be with you, bocauso somehow I am promted t? be la'lder. 1* may bo a mistake to be mild in your oase, I dp not know. I wish I did. .But In tho first case, the Kontenco of the court.in that you M confined at hard labor on the pub lic works of Anderson county or in the state' penitentiary for the period of one year. . "In tho second case, the sentence et the court is that you be oonftned at hard labor /Upon the public works b? the county or In the state, peniten tiary for aAothor year, to begin l. ^at the expiration of the sentence just pronounced,.\; In the ?hird case, the eeatence] ot the court la tha* you bo confined-at beta l?bbr upoa-pUbllo works* of Anderson county--or in the ?Uta'??* Itontlary Tor the period of bIx months to begin at tho expiration of the two sentence? just passed. "In the fmtrth Case, the sentence of the court is that you bo confined at hard labor upan the. work* of i Qx* odUhty or in the state penitentiary for tho furthor period of six months, tb begin at >.he exmratlcn* 6t <h? three sentences this day passed * la all three years. . By that tirao I hopo you wU thoroughly repented of your JMH?*^&WI fOft;,*iU oome s?m;be;?-%.%nd so i^e W will- ia a m?as?'re 'wipe away I 3rour name the ?tain you hfltve itfti tartly placed upon it." DISASTROI Another ] L^/.~: :":::::::::_:::r:::::-:;:-:::r WOOD SHINGLES MB?1 Insurance Journal Sa] Should 3e Encouraf Tho conflagration hazard ' hung over every town und village lung a? wooden .shingles are used roofB," Hays the Insurance Post. "They are conflagration breed "nclr.g usually dry and inflamma ready to be ignited by the first lug brand or spark. Bo far as posure fires' are concerned, the feature of the building which n needs, protection is the roof, us fl> brands or sparks are not likely lodgo anywhere else." The reduction of tho enormous waste of the country, now amount to $250,000,000 a year, lies in hands of the American public. I can be brought to realize the cr mous drain these preventable fl involve upon tho national wealth, hundreds of lives which are annui lost, and that carolesBnc?b in form or another 1b chiefly respom ?it would check the waste by encouraging individual and munie! responsibility for securing better c aillons. The average man apparently lieves that the present proportion fires is inevitable, juct as our ft fathers believed that plagues and < demies were inevitable. The la wore prevented because the people dlvldually and collectively wero fli ly induced to give heed to proper s itary rules. The epidemic of fires could bo duccd as easily if the people indl uttUy and collectively would give li to proper rules for the construct protection and care of their prope America u Fire Factory. The United States and Canada giving tho world a demonstration how they have houses and money Years of Protect?on Applied MISS IN ?IRT [SESSIONS CASE OF H?USEBREAKING AND LARCENY BE COM PLETED TODAY PLEAS ?F GUILTY Several More Wore Entered Yes terday?Grand Jury Returned Number Bills. m. ...m,. When court took a recess ycitnrday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock all of the testimony In the case of Drov/n'o McOrlor and Floyd Ckcoks, charged with housdreaking and larceny, .had been taken, i The arguments win be made thlB morning. The flrkt ease for trial yesterday was that, of W. B. Gary, indicted for issuing worthless checks. A verdict of not 'guilty was returned James Walker centered a- plea of .guilty to housebre&klng and larceny. He received a sentence of one year. . Lee Looaey plead : guilty on four counts to housebroaklng and latveny. In all .ho ; ; was sentericed to three years. r Bills Beturned. - The grand Jury yesterday returned the follow in g bills : Newt Duncan, assault add battery with intent to kill, true bill. Edgar James: and Earlo Graham, hou3obrcaking and I rcony, true bill. Wiylle Berry, burg lary, true bill. Lee Looney, housebreaking and larceny,. four cases, true bill in Sarah Mattress, murder, true bill. . yJPrajrTeaguo, /murder, true bill . a. h,. Mitchell, issuing.; worthless ?>heoks true bill. ..'_ ,L. Gruiublbc Is?suing worthless cheeks, true bill. , . . ' . Rby. Gtee atid Barle ?r?uftm, b??se bfeablftg and t?reeriy, tmo WH. '*,; , ; J,: T. :Ci amp, d isposln g property under. Item, true bill. . . jerry Loopor and Ike Moldy, asi ??ultrand1 battery with intent to kill, do bill. .;. > ; ( ' , Oecured Vem^b?TTfter?oon at 2?S0 f.^v ' '; -im^u -;-.;;/ / ; MSbdil-iijiui <ijB?tirtwintisK;- -wifa-S ^ W. 'j^ Brxtburgsr, died at thoir home at W : Lyon entcet -yestord^y afternoon at 2:30 o'cieek She was 89 /year* at ag?. and ie survived by her husband, four .?dadght?itc and three entafc^'fli*-, neral Borvkre^ will bo h?l* this dfter^ pHej?;at 4>rf Mill cemetery. " - ' j Example of tl Houses C mmM**immm>\r\ ji l II fj I H j CONFLAGRATION HAZAR k"s Non-inflammable Rod jed in Every Community. will everything else "to burn.'.' Flgui so nf tlin fire loss for 11)12, compiled, for the National Board of Fire Undi writers and published by the Natk ers. al Pire Protection association, ? hie, given in the accompanying table: riy- (CMtles of over zc.eoo Population, 'ex- No. Cities Per one reporting Population cap tost loss l< Ing United States 300 32.326.033 *>$2 to England .... 12 7.164,849 France. 6 4.425,696 firo Germany i* 2.659,575 ing Ireland. ... 2 C99.802 the Scotland ... 2 485.091 r it Italy. 3 282,082 ior- Russia. 2 3.485,583 1res Austria. 4 2.658,978 the Canada. 5 957.372 2 ally Argentina. .. 1 1.428,042 3, one ^Estimated per capita loss for win sble country, $2.16. en- The figures bIiow the United Stal ipal Htlll far In the lead over the C on- World In the race for the uuestional honor of topping the list in firo loi be- es; but she could not overcome t i of handicap set by Canada, whose lar >re- c'.ties record losses 12 per cent In < cpl- cess of those In the I'nlted States tter An even higher rate Is that of $3. la- standing to tho discredit of one lat ial- city In the Argentine Republic, p inn- Kumably Buenos Aires. It Is evldt that excessive fire losses are pecull ro- to the newer countries, where ratl vld- flimsy types of wooden construct! teod in general prevail, ion, The United Stater, and Canada i rty. 'painfully Blow In learning their f losFcn, but already?especially . are turning more and more to sheet me of construction?are giving evidence and an awakened public intelligence. in a Day. Burrbs Metal Shingles. "bill" hutto, anderson county boy, Making good as salesman Mr. William Hutto,.traveling rep resentative of a well-known litho graph concern, was In tho rdty yes terday. 'Bill" has scorea of friends In Anderson, who were delighted to tee him. Ho is now . making his home in Spartanburg, but is an An derson county boy, having been born u' Willlamston. Ho gave an inter esting account of the Willlamston : re. which he witnesased yesterday while stopping over there with rel atives, en mute to Anderson. Hutto has made an enviable reputable as a salesman. ?,'.. notice to creditors I All persons having 'claims, against the estate of Fred Kowalski, deceased, are hereby notified to,-present them properly proven to the undersigned within the time prescribed by lav,-, and those' indebted to m alto settle ment . Mrs. Hedwetg Kowalski, Executrix. HlDDfeN Because your teeth'?re tau, necessarily follow that thoy nro be commencing ta uaseen piacos. , BEFOREit become^ajw^Wt. ' ft?ls and PREVENT dlecoic year to your dentisi,*aWt HILLE S ie Val?? ?f Ita 188 .55 .54 .SI .20 .57 .40 .no .si .:?<) .88 .58 )lo .es )ld jlc be Ke jx 58. KO rc >nt lar io r on ire Ire In toi of Buildings a con when firemen arr like tinder. Bi Shingles would h the flames, makii firemen to have s did prevent fire i ing houses?sevei pi?fected by this tion. "The One Featur tion is the Roo Li Why not mal Patent Metal Shii Burriss M?tal safety, not found for estimates. m Ithcunmf tern. 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' Ol - - -s e of Y??r'Home'Which Most Needs P?rbtec f, as Flying Brands or Sparks Are Not ikely to Lodge Anywhere Else." te it safe once for all, by putting on a Buris* igle Roof. I Shingles aff nrd a feeling of security, or in any other roofing. Phone us, dr write ;; >. -was f anrv $. c. i c 1 , .... .... ..... r .. . It will he to every i'ii?n'? ad vantage tq be on very intt- j ihate terms with tnis rjdilsb ff . good outfitting. . rViy Summer S?it^Kbol K?th, PalVn keUch, ?tc, at i'-V n are tic productions^rWakers'w?ib ?i?ve f^^j^pr>;-^r making the best clothes for 'Men. ' inoufcr: worijs V have sd Iecfe?the best Irom^?' DeSt. Si Any it have spar?cl no ^ains '.to,We' t?l^M?^V^ i'^-'ft' r^bu'knoW^ ?1 a.;