Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COLUMBIA CHOSEN FR NEXT SESSION SHERIFFS OF SOUTH CAROLINA TO MEET AT COLUMBIA NEXT OCTOBER OWN ELECTED PREIDENT A. Meiee of Richlan Cowty Named Secretary and Treasurer of Organization. Greenville. - Columbia was chosen -a the next meeting place of the !South Carolina Sheriffs' association to be called some time in October and Sheriff Carlos Rector of Greenville county was elected president of the body at the Initial session of the sher iffs of the state. Sheriff T. A. Heise, of Richland county, was chosen secre tary and treasurer of the organization by a unanimous vote. After gathering here the sheriffs have been busy becoming better ac quainted and informally discussing their various problems. The session, held in the form of a banquet, was spirited and was featur ed by the addresses from federal pro hibition representatives, newspaper men and lawyers. Senators Proctor A. Bonham .acted as toastmaster. Made in the form of an informal motion and accepted by the sheriffs around the festive board, it was sug gested that a law, allowing the courts to make a separate- charge for carry Ing firearms when persons violating the prohibition law were captured with weapons in the car or on their persons, be passed by the legislative body of South Carolina. Other suchl issues were discussed at length. By the consent of the body, it was decided that, besides the officers com missioned through the sheriff's 'office holding city, fede-al and state com missions would be invited to join the organization. Tobacco Markets to Open Earlier. Florence.-Meeting here, the inde pendent warehousemen of the South! Carolina belt compiled a preliminary !estimate that 74 iar cent of the to 'bacco of this state will behandied outside of the growers' pool this year. They estimated that the pool had not signed more than 26 per cent of the crop for this year. This estimate was formed upon in dividual report of every warehouse, man present, taking the average and thereby allowing for variations be tween high and low estimates. In their meeting here the ware housemen voted to opcn the markets Tuesday, August 1, instead of August '8 as had been voted previously. The change In the date was made to ac commodate the farmers in the grading and tying of their tobacco. g'he buy' oe are -understood to have favored peven a later date for opening. After the business of the . meeting had been transacted; the warehouse men discussed other matters of trade Interest, particularly the changed con iltions under which the tobacco lius, iness will be operated this year, due to the advent of the pool and the grading and tying laws of the state. Two Kilted by Train. Sumter.-Beni Brewer and William prewer, two sons of James C. Brewer, who live near Pinewood, were killed At Broadway siding by a freight train, William Clifton M&Leod, who was with the 'two men' and who also livee near Pinewood, was very severely hurn, his leg being broken In two places. He was sent to 2'oumey has pital, Sumter. The three men, according to Mc peod's testimony at the coroner's in quest, were asleep on the railroad track and McLeod, according to hie own statement. did not even know he 4,ad been hurt until he felt a numb. bess in his legs. - He was thrown sev. oral feet from the track and did not wake up until after he had been hit by the train. -Myaterious Skelsten Unearthed. Wr.--Grave diggers, while dg ginga gaveat Dry Creek church, dug inoagrave that seemed to have been dug in the wrong place and un sarthed a skeleton, finding a rope around the neck with a large knot i the rope under the right ear. The condition of the skeleton show. ed that it had apprently been buried some 50 years. arts of the coffin re sns.ined and the plate with the wordsa tRest in Peace," could easily be read. There seems to be same mystery con eerning the identfication of the body, the grave itself was where no grave was supposed to be, and the oldest inhabitant of the community knowi nothing of anyone who had been tanged being buried in the. cemetery, -Find Body in Path. Manning. - The body of an urn ~known man was found in a bypath about a quarter of a mile from Man. ning. From the appearance of the body it is judged that the man must have been dead more than three weeks. It was impossible to tell whether the man was white or black. 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