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THE NE AND .tHs Vol. LXX-No 51 WINNSBORO. S. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 1. 1916>'absed14 Cl THE BE; MOr WE r 600 IN THE VAi PLY YOU AT We will be prices===deli LYLES RESOURES $194 House, gurni ure and Fixtures 12, eal Estate om Banks and h on Hand- 17, Tol.! $227. Capital 0 Surplus 25, Undivided Profits 13. Dividends Due ISBanks Deposits 139, Bills Pyale 10, Total $237. BANK 01 WINNSBORO, WAT The following~ water rat Publie Works. Fi'rst 4000 gallons per mont 4000 to 7000 gallons per mo 7000) to 10000"" 10000 to 20000"" *20000 to 30000"" Above 30000 gallons per mc COLUMBIA LUMB Man Sash, Doors & Blin press and Oak, Floc m*,o Moulding, Do< COLUMBIA, - It always p~ in The Ne Ask the me DAL iT THAT qEY CAN BUY qOW HAVE TONS D, AND CAN SUP= SUMMER PRICES glad to quote you vered. & DAVIS j.4- This statement o.0 shows )00.00 8.5 that this bank is in a most --- prosperous condition. 897.04 Its capital and surplus, combined with the liability of stockholders, which equals its capital, insure depositors ro.0() against loss. 00.oo Its loans are clean and 106.59 well secured, and are made 256.00 under the supervision of the 253.97 directors as well as officer. 20.4S A good bank to 897.04 make YOUR bank F FAIRFIELD SOUTH CAROLINA. ER RATES. ? has been ad1opted by t he Board o h minimum $1.30. nth 30e per mn addlitional. "22e "20e nt, special rate. J. E. McDONALD, Chairmar ER MANUFACTURING C( afacturers of s, Intericr Finish, Pine, Cy ring Ceiling Weatherboard > and Window Frames. - - SOUTH CAROLINA ays to advertis< ws and Herald m who does. NEWS OF RIKEWAY. Miss Sara Ruff to Be June Bride. --Personal Items. Cards have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ruff to the. marriage of their yo'mgest daughter. Miss Sara E. Ruff, to, D. Hammond Sally of Sally. The ceremony is to be performed in k St. Stephen's church, followed by b a large reception at their hand- t some home, which has just been completed. Miss Ruff, who was' a student at the College for * Women, has many friends d throughout the State who will be p intereted to learn of her ap proaching marriage. She has'o been a favorite with a large cir- t< e( of* ybung people at home who a regret to have her leave them. y Mrs. .1 ames Spann Edmunds n predicted a "shower" on Tues- s day afternoon in honor of Miss T Sara Ruff which proved to be a So veritable storm with a "hail" of p handsome linen articles of many g kinds. There were centerpieces, r towels, handkerchiefs, bed linen tl and dainty lingerie. all beautiful al with crochet and embroidery. v: Welcoming the guests who as sembled for this happy occasion Iy were Mesdames Talley Moore and ai William DesPortes. who imme- PI diately conducted them to the parlor, where the hostess and p( bride-elect were assisted in re- ri ceiving by Mesdames W. H. Ruff ! and F. N. Skinner. In the hall 5, Miss Susie Palmer and Mrs. Jas. I Harrison showed the way to the le punch bowl which was in charge ie of Miss Bessie Meares and Lilla et Skinner. During the afternoon ki Mrs. George Wilds and Mrs. A: m B. Heins directed the friends to in the dining room, which was ablaze with bowls of sweet peas nod- fil ding their gay colored heads and a wafting their fragrance every- ai where. Here Mesdames Jamesj Team and Blake Boyd served Im bricks of pink and white cream, o1 while Misses Jean Hinnant and h; Jennie Thomas passed delightful e) pound cake. Miss Friday of Greenville is ec the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. b< A. Gentry. . Miss Rita Meores is at homelh Rico. B Miss Sadie De3Portes is visit ing friends in Salisbury, N. C. Miss Eliza Skinner is the guest b of 'Miss Hancock in Newbern, N. C. bi Among tho- who heard the tc president sp,ak in Charlotte A w r S. P.' Thomas, Jones M Magill, John Edmunds and John' Lemaster. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Wray i have returned from Ashville N where they attended the South- sv ern Baptist Convention after leaving Ashville they visited-e'e liatives in Shelby. making the ei trip in their touring car. They el were accompanied home by their niece. Miss Mary Sue Wray of' Ashville. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Williams of Lancaster are guests of Mr.d and Mrs. Wray. p Mr nd Mrs. WV. H. Ruff, Jr., a of Columbia spent the weeksend c< with there parents.r Mr. Jas. L. Harrison is visiting ti friends in North Carolina. g Mr. and Mrs. C. L. WVray and~ family are visiting in Sumter. The friends of Mr. I. C. Thomas ~p will regret to know he is still in fthe Columbia Hospital. t Miss Henreetta Thomas is en joying several week stay at here old home 'Mt. Hope."c Mrs. Harry DesPortes, Miss e Bessie Meares, Mrs. J. S. Ed munds and Clarence Edmunds d *motored to Winnsboro Thursday.p -NEW S. C. COUNTY CASE n1 )Judge Ernest Moore Referee, at Lancaster Hears Argu ments in Catawba Controversy. Lancaster, May 26. -Argu- .* ments by legal representatives . for and against the establish- 1 ment and creation of the pro-' posed new county of CatawbaE were made here today before .Judge Ernest Moore. The hear-3 ing on the unconstitutionality of the ill-shaped county act, in con- C ,nection with the new county of Catawba, was referred last week I to Judge Moore by Chief Justice Gary. Judge Moore says he will ren der his decision in a few days. R. H. Welch of Columbia made T ..the argument for the proposed county, while J. E. McDonald of: Winnsboro. A. L. Gaston and 1 J1. H. Marion of Chester appear'- t ed b the annonents.t VAS WORST OUTLAW EXCRPT ONLY VILLA .ervantes Described by Per shing as Second Only to Infamous Columbus Murderer. Washington, May 26.-The illing of Candelario Cervantes y American troops has ended ie career of "the most desper te and dangerous outlaw in [exico, except Villa himself," en. Pershing's report the war epartment declares. The re Drt follows: "Candelario Cervantes, notori Is Villista outlaw, second only Vilia the principal leader in ,tack on Columbus, killed this orning in a fight with a detach ent from Cruces, six miles )utheast that camp. Detach ent of soldiers consisted of ven men, machine gun com ny, Seventh infantiy. two en neers and one man, quarter aster corps, out hunting cat e for beef and sketching road, :tacked by 20 men under Cer mntes. "Fight lasted 45 minutes. Two exicans were killed, Cervantes id Jose Bencomo. Latter also -ominent Villista leader. "Our casualties: Lance Cor )ral Davis Marksbury, shot in ght lung, died in an hour, father m Marksbury, R. F. D., No. Harrodsburg, Ky.: Private aorge F. Nicholson, wounded in ft upper arm and left upper g, serious; Private George Hul te, wounded just above left, iee, not serious; all members achine gun company, Seventh fantry. "Cervantes positively identi d by papers found on person id by several natives of Cruces id by native prisoners. "Gevantes without doubt the ost deslerat6 and dangerous itlaw in Nexico except Vilh mself. Beli'e his deat.will :pedit capture of othrs. "Detachment of ca;alry, start in immediate pursuit, struck Ld again in Alamilla canyon here it scattered through the Is." ig Naval Bill Now Explai Wa'shington, May 24.-Ar ela >rate report, exlaining the 41,000,000 naval appropriation 11, was submitted to the House day by the Naval Comm' e. t the same time the Repub can embers of the committee joined a minority report to be present-i tomorrow, attacking the mea-l tre as inadequate and demand-I g that Congress provide for a* avy ranking second among the. orld's fighting force on the sea. A provision that may cause* insiderable -discussion wouldj npower the President at t.he1 ose of the present war to in te all world Powers to a con-i ~rence for the purpose of ore~ mizing an international tribunal r settlement of disputes and suss disarmament, and would rovide that if before the bill's >propriations are contracted for >npetitive armaments should be ndered unnecessary, expendi res inconsistent with any en-, igeroents entered into might:be' ispended by presidential order. n item of $200,000 is included >r expenses incident to the pro sed conference. The bill carries an appropria on of nearly fourteen millions; >r active and reserve ammumi on for the five proposed battle uisers, and provides $3, 195. 000 >r new engines and other re uipment of the active fleet. No existing Government dry ocks can accommodate the pro osed battlecruisers which willi e 850 feet long, says the corn ittee report, and the ~bill pro ides appropriations of3 ,500, 00 each for the Nortik and 'hiladelphia Navy Yard A $2,000,000 item fo vatio.n ;provided to purchas dition 1 machines and moto ,and to ut machines aboard th mored ruisers. hyd .. pne A total of 75 hdopoge provided for. Out of $1,411122 ommend d for erection of d rojectile lant, $705,611 wo ~eappro riated at once. A new appropriadion of $480, 00 is made for deel torpedo ets to be droppedrfom booms rom the sides battleships rhen at anchor. ~or reserve rdnance suppli ' including ower mines and marme de eeequipment 50S3,424 is York is lokn, war,d to and ,lanning ,for a Jg,ime during he three days o . emeeting of he press assoei oen next week. GERVR, SATISFIED PEACE IS IN SIGIT Says Settlemement of Differ ences Between Washing ton and Berlin Pre pares Way. Berlin, May 26.-(Via London, L May 27.---United States Ambas-; S sador James W. Gerard is con- I vinced that peace is in sight, ac- p cording to an interview publish- T ed in a Munich newspaper from C its Berlin correspondent. Mr. E Gerard is quoted as saying: S "Nothing can shake my con- i a fidence that peace is on its way." .1 The ambassador referred to n the settlement of the differences. i of the United States and Germ-1 p any as 'preparing the- way for p President Wilson to take up the t( question of peace. "President 'II Wilson," said he. "has muel?ti greater freedom of action now to d< deal with the immense world h problem, which will determing B the future atttiude of nearly all ti the countries of the globe. p: "It is useless t6 discuss at this h: moment the question as to w whether President Wilson's in- tc termediation is desirable or proba- rc ble. In this instance facts alone rr must speak, and one of the most 0( important facts is that the neu- cc trals are probably as much inter- f ested in bringing about an early'ec peace as the belligerents. Amer- C( ica urgently needs peace and for ai this reason alone the American; Government is under an obliga- N tion to its citizens to do and sup- F port everything that serves the G cause of peace. A fact o C chief G importance is that' my Govern- D ment is really willing to take 01 action for the promotion of peace. ti VERY OPTIMISTIC. o1 "I, am very optimistic regard ing the proqressaihread!jymad.of "'e- rdea-that the war should be ended, even among belligerent fi nations. The wise and moderate words of the German chancellor regarding Germanv's readiness te to make peateha their n.~another step l ''ht. fann the yeaeef i aleie:A fotep At am, convinded, tha my nt will leave nothing A ,"support with all its e moVements from' ~vrsidie they come. Even - I 'eeks or moriths may e digiebefore .the .thought takes:s ingible S-mi nothing can shake tU ry confidence that peace is on its lo way." .. Referring 'to the recent crisis a in German-American relations, s the ambassador said: "I hardly know from wvhat ti uarter the present good rela- I5 tions between the United States k: and Germany could be distur bed. T The establishment of good rela- it tions with Germany is one of the fi most important factors of the 01 diplomatic situation now con- si fronting the United States." Lancaster, May 38. -A ne wo newspaper for this county, to be t published at this place and known u as "The Lancaster Citizen," will b be in operation here by June S.: The editor of the paper will be n W. C. Corcoran of Charleston. L with Walter B. Davis of Lancas- e, ter as business manager. These si two enterprising young men have y been workmng on this paper a proposition for some time. and C now having succeeded so wellp with the work they have ordered 'i an up-to-date plant and all ma- IJ chinery. which will be here in a; u few days. Mr. Corcoran. thei prospective editor of the paper. d is a native of Charleston. where i~ he is wel~ and popularly known. E having been for a number of years prominently connected l( with the Charleston News and n Courier. He is well kno.wn in s Lancaster where during his boy-. p hood, he attended for several v years the Franklin academy of this place. WV. B. Davis, the business manager, is a native t Lancastrian. He is now one ofs the town's most popular business: men. He is a graduate of East- r man Business college and is aq young man of unusual business 3 ability and acumen. Joe Starnes, a young white man of York county, surrender ed himself to the sheriff last Fri day morning, saying that he had a killed Joe Jones. alias .Joe Bur- ' riss, a negro of the county. Ac- t cording to his testimony, and.i that of witnesses .Starnes shot in r sef defense. MRAN MAY 191'" PRON IONLA tefuses to Follow. Party That Will Not Adopt Prohfbi tion Platform. Chicago, May 23.-'f he willI onsent to make the race, Wil-1 am Jennings Bryan may. be elected as the , candidate -for Tesident of t h e_Prohibition arty. Recent statesments of fr. Bryan before -the General onference of the Methodist piscopal Church at Saratoga prings in which he was quoted 3 declaring that he had about. sached the point'where he could o longer follow a political party hich refused to indorse National rohibition were discussed by rohibition party leaders here iday. They expressed the . be af that if the Democratic, Na onal Convention at St. Louis clined to adopt a National pro bition plaink in its platform Mr. ryan might consent to become e candidate of the prohibition irty for Ppresident. The pro bition National Convention ill be held at St. Paul, July 19 1 22, and will be preceded by a lIly in the interest of the move ent to obtain pledges from 5, 0,000 citizens to vote only for 1 ndidates for public offiee who vor National prohibition. Other : ndidates for President being' nsidered by the party leaders 1 le:V Former Governor Sulzer of b ew York, former Governor )ss of Massachusetts, former )vernor Hanly o f Indiana,j .neral Miles of Washington, C., and Richmond P. Hobson Alabama. The convention promises to be L e most important in the history the party in the opinion of e leaders. One suggestion that ay come before the convention j volves the entire re-organiza- 1 -.of the party under a new tme. A referendum vot3f e execu 'znmittee 4 -is mpoayc ~ orte cross- Coiiifi, plane' Senator Tillman, of the propos lAero Club ace to the Pacific' .ys: "We Americans invent ~ tings and then sit down and al w the people of Europe to de- i lop and utilize them. We I ight to be ashamed of our lves."' * No one is better qualified than ( Le veteran chairman of the ] mate naval affairs conimittee to ' aow and speak this bitter truth. I be Monitor and Merrimae made E ink out of Europe's navies- but . teen years later the junk was 1 this side of the Atlantic. The ibmarine was invented here, developed and utilized" abi-oad. he machine gun was an Ameri mn contrivance. Our inventors explosives were early, but our ~ -oops in the Spanish War fought~ ader the revealing smoke of1 Lack powder. Especially true is Mr. Till tan's remark about flying. Prof 1 angley needed only an improv- 1 I engine to make his well-de gned aeroplane work. The < !rihts were the first in the! -ord in actual flight. :Glenn urtis won The World's $10,000 i rize, less than six years ago, by ying from Albany to Governor's i land with one stop-then an 1 nequaled feat. But the amaz igly swift development of hy roplare aeroplane and dirigible1 in the armies and navies of urope. .| Experience as well *is object ~sson of the results of our slack-h ess we no longer lack. Mexico 14 aows us equipped with aero lanes too few and feeble for ser ice at high altitudes. The cross country race is not a stunt.' It is not merely sport, ough the valuable aid of the porting incentive is welcomed. is an exercise for prepared ess in the element first con ured in the New World. -The :.v. York World. Little Girl Suffers Broken Arm. Little Frances Watson met, ith a very painful accident last ~aturday afternoon. She fell in he bath tub and broke her arm r two places. After prompt: aedical attention she is getting on< nicey' 'eb IN STA1E Deserving Institutions e ceive Aid. At the first meeting.o th State board of education after the opening of the scholastie; 1915-16 it was seen that the tg school appropriation would H not far from $10,000 shit' meeting applications for aid. The board sent a notied every State-aided high .sche64 notifying it that it would proba bly be able to get no high schoo6 money beyond what is knowis the initial appropriation-thatis . limit of $500 for any high scoolj: with two "or more teachers and a limit of $300 for a high school with fewer than two teachels. kt the May meeting of the Ste board of education it was foot$ that a few .hundred dollars Was eft unapportioned and the irected that this small r e distributed - as equitably--,' ossible among the most deserv ng schools. The final apportionments-baye )een made and sent out to the ,ounty treasurers. Firs't, a igh schools with one full hi ;chool teacher, as much as ha-f he time of a second high sch6& o eacher, and enough pupils':t' ustify it were allowed additiona tppropriations to take careof he contracts with these assist vt teachers made at the' bii iing of the year. ADDITIONAL AID. The following schools . ,iven this additional monEyF &count of *their relatively tigh school enrollmenti eaching force: Ep*rth md Crocbetville.. 7-* An additionaf5 ach of these seho rng'up their IatEdf, ionto $500: el Johnson -aneaster. ad alreadyr ideration. The following .sebo ~iven an additional1 tigh school enrolhnejit~ f 5 pupils from ouitsid&e. net: Manning, Dillon;~ eorge, Kershaw. Chapin, Chie,r~ .ittle Mountain. These sdobia r"ere given no further aid uidsie his provision for the i-e~i ' tated after each: Lnas - chool had already received5$6 dditional. Chesterfield was given an ad' itional $25 for lengthening ie chool year two weeks. 2Page~ ' and was given $60 additional f engthening the school year one ionth. LAW AMENDED. At the recent, session of the ~eneral assembly the high school aw was "hanged in several par-' iculars. Beginning with the~ ~ession of 1916-17 a school in or er to be a high school wifh -~' .tate aid must employ-as' many LS five teachers, two in the high chool department and as many s three in the elementary de ~artment, and enroll not fewer :han 25 high .school pupils....r schools not able to meet these equirements will be transferred :0 the rural graded. class. The iew high school law also requires. ~ local school tax of at teast 4 mlls for running expenses. This *equirement is the same asre uired for rural graded school rid. The law further provifies ~or the ,encouragement of hi0h chool pupils in small schopl .to >e taken by the larger an<T bt er equipped high schools fr,deof tuition. ''The cardinal purpose of the ew law is to provide better fa-. ~ilities for country' districts.b ncouraging small schools to give their teaching time to the ele nentary grades instea51 of mak ng a vain effort to support high chool grades with totally inade uate facilities," said J. E . Swearingen, State superintes ent of education. -* Last week and this have been takeni up all over the State with ommencements at 4dhe differ-~ emt schools and col .