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THE PPICKENS SENTiEJOINL Entered April 23, 1903 at PYkens, S. C. as second class matter, under act of Congress of MNu 39th Year PICKENS, S. C., AUGUST 5", 1909. Nme 1 State News I All thi Lat Nw from Zvi, John H. Willing of Greenwood vill open a wholesale grocery store at Clinton. The Recorder is the name of a weeklv-paper recently establish ed at Ridgeway. John E. Russel, aged 55 years, a prominent citi/n (:f Darling ton, is (lead at, his home. The funeral of Judge J. H. Hudson was held in Bennetts ville Saturdav with masonic lilooris. The capital stock of the Paco let Maui; Vacuring company has been i$en-ased fmm $2,000,000 to 3,000,00). A steamship line between Charleston and Panama will be established this fall. Ships will sail every nine days. Postmaster General Hitchcock will attend the convention of the postmasters of the state to be held in Columbia oil Sept. 7. Representative Ellerbe, who has been ill in Providence Hos pital in Washington for two months with a broken lin ,wi, be able to leave for his home at Sellers .the tter part of this Week' The body of Capt. Jjervey U. S. A., who died a few ke-eks ago at Maiila, is expected to reach C)lumbia in a day or two The young officer will be buried with military honors by a detail from Fort Moultrie. The Southern Power Com pany is engaged in erecting steel towers between Spartanburg and its power plant at Ninety Six Islands on Broad River and within less than two weeks time the towers of the power com pany will be erected in the sub urbs of that city. On August 31 and election will be held in Newberry county on the question of issuing $300, 000 worth of bonds for the pur pose of buiidin,.:good roadls, and the question is being pretty gen erally discussed prio and con. The consensus. of opinion at present is that the bond issue witl be defeated. Robert R. Nix, son of Henry Nix, died Sunday afternoon at his home. near Traveler's Rest. Mr. Nix was a goodt man, a good citizen and a -consistent member of the Enoree Baptist church. Mr. Nix was fifty-two years old and( had been sick for a long time. He leaves seven children andl a wife to mourn his death. A commission has been issued by the secretary of state to the Conastee Mill of Greenville coun tv. The capital stock of the company is $200,000. The peti tioners of the conmpany are WV. E. Beattie, Ellison A. Smyth, L. W. Parker and Thomas I. Char les. They will operate the old Reedyv Riv-er mills, which was sold at auction some time ago. A suit againist the city of Co lumnbia for $44,277. :33 has been filed in the United States circuit court by the Georgia Engineer ing conmpany, through their at torneys. Messrs. Thomas & Thomas and 1). WV. Robinson, gr. wing out of an alleged con tracr miade for the paving of Main street. Columbia, wvhich contract the plaintiff claims was violoted, causing a loss. Little Albert James, the one year old son of Dr. F. G. James, of Greer, (lied Monday at 4 o'clock W hile play ing out on the porch the child found a box of morph ine which his father is supposed to have dropped and like all children will, began eating it. When his mother came out she found her baby sitting i'ere eat ing the deadly poison. She hur riedlyv (alled in physicians, but it W:ts too late, for the little one had already gone into convul sions. Paragraphed. ry Soction of Soath hniha. Two moonshine stills were de stroyed in Greenville county bN United States officers. - The town of Walterboro wil issue bonds in the suni of $20, 000 for the purpose of building a new school house. Lightning struck a cedar treE in Laurens connty, killed twc cows, three birds and two chick ens that had sought shelter dur ing a thunder storm. .The Cook-Green FurniturE company of Walterboro, has been chartered, the capital be ing $3,000. W. S. Cook is pres ident and E. D. Green, secretary and treasurer. Six hundred bales of cotton were purchaseed in Cherokee county by agents for G. H. Mc Fadden & Co. The price paid was 12 cents and the amount was about $35,000.. Three negro preachers were lodged in jail in Greenville Saturday on the charge of dis turbing religious worship. The trouble occured over whose turn it was to preach. The secretary of state has is sued a charter to the Bank of Wagener of Aiken county. The capital stock is $10,000, and P. M. Gunter is president and E. B. Jackson secretary and treasurer. According to an official order sent out by Governor Ansel all of the county dispensaries will close on August 2. The opinion of Attorney General Lyon is up held, the opinion being mailed to the different county boards. A commission has been issued the Dillon Manufacturing coi pany, of Dillon. This concern having a capital of $10,000, will manufacture coffins, brick, cas kets, doors and sashes. The peitioners are T. A. Dillon and C. F. O'Ferrell. Mr. J. D. Nisbet of the Jack sonham section of Lancaster county, reports what appears to be the effects of the boll wevil's work in his cotton. He hasn't found any weevil's yet, but the damage to the cotton plants, he says, is exactly like that the pests are known to do. George Myers, a state consta ble, was accidently shot at 11 Society street in Charleston Sunday morning. He dropped his pistol to the floor, and it was discharged, the bullet entering his stomach. Myers was car ried to the Roper hospital. It is feared the wound will prove fa tal. A special from Lexington says crops in that county are burn ing up for the want of rain. Cotton is suffering most and the. crop will be a great deal shorter than last year. Every. thing has been put in excellent condition, and with rain in the next day or two there might be a considerable conme-out in the younger crops. Oscar Melton, an 01(1 negro man, was found dead in his field on Mr. Rose's farm near Flor. ence Saturday. The old fellow left home Thursday afternoon tc go and inspect his crop, but nev er returned. He was found next morning in the field dead. The coroner viewed the body and gave permission for burial, an inquest not being necessary. Deputy Sheriff H. H. Lock hart, of Cherokee, arrested a negro named Alonzo Lockhart, who is charged with enticing la borers to leave th' state in vio ition of the statute covering such cases, and took him before Magistrate Camp. who coml)mit ted1 him to jail for trial one day this week in default of bond. Lockhart has retained counsel to represent him, and claims that he is not guilty of the of fence charged against him. The hotel Royal at Lancaster was damaged by fire Wednesday night. In a drunken row among neg roes at Florence, Charles Thom as was killed by Lewis Simmons. J. B. Fuller, a well known cit izen of Lexington died in Ashe ville, where he had gone for his health. John Aiken, colored, has been arrested in Orangeburg on the charge of killing Mingo J6hns ton in Colleton. The secretary of state has granted the Bank of Latta the right to increase its capital from $25,000 to $50.000. Kess Thomas was shot and mortally wounded by Lewis Sinnions-both colored-at a picnic in Florence county. Cammon Speeks, colored, has been arrested in Lexington for the murder of a negro named Perry about four years ago. Chester Kennedy is being tried at Barnwell for the second time on the charge of being implicat ed in the murder of Perry Ussery. The authorities of Richland and Kershaw counties are pre paring plans to build a first-class roadway between Camden and Columbia. The first annual convention of the Palmetto State Stenogra phers' association will be held at the Atlantic Beach hotel, Sulli van's Island, August 6 and 7. The Southern Power company is getting ready to run a line in to Newberry at an early day, with the expectation of making contracts with some of the mills and other enterprises needing power. H. L. McElree, a negro prea cher of Spartanburg, was con victed in a magistrate's court on a charge of failure to give his mule food and water often enough and given a sentence of $50 fine or 30 days on the chain gong The friends of the Rev. George E. Davis, pastor of the Orangeburg Baptist church, will be pleased to learn that he is re garded out of danger from the recent severe and prolonged at tack of typhoid fever, and that, barring unlooked for complica tions his entire recovery will be rapid. What was going to be a fine fox chase in Chester was spoiled a few days ago by the interfer ence of Mr. J. G. L. White, game warden. A fox had been secur ed when Mr. White got wind of what was going to happen and took a hand, ordering the animal to be released( without a chase. Mr. Alexander A. Stanton. one of Marlboro's oldest citizens, was fou.nd dead in his bed Tuesday morning. Mr. Stanton was sev enty-seven years old and a Con federate veteran. He has been in feeble health for some time, but was not thought to be in a serious condition. He has been a sufferer for some time from rheumatism. At Chester the Springtein Mill is changing this week from steam to electririty, and within two or three (lays, barring acci dents, the entire machinery of the mill will be driven by elec tricity. Some of the motars were put into operation this moringandl others are being startd upas rapidIy as possible. The Springtein will probab)ly use, all told, about 600 or 750 horse poweri. A member of the dispensary board of Fairfield count-v writes that he will not (close the dlispen sary in1 that county after the 18th which is the day following the election but will keep the same open. This is contrary to the opinion rendered by the at torney general who says that the dispensar ies must remain closed until the election is de clared. Some other county boards are said to be threatening the same thing. The Lexington county fai will be held on October 26th, 27t] and 28th. H. B. Stringfellow, a farme of Aiken county, dropped dea, while ploughing. Solicitor J. K. Henry of Ches ter will be in the race for con gress from the Fifth district nex year. A charter has been granted t the Charleston Refinery com pany of Charleston. Capita $100,000. The plant of the Eddy Lak Lumber C(mpany at Conwa: was destroyed by fire. Los about $60,000. A charter has been granted ti the Spartanburg Athletic associ ation of Spartanburg. Capita $2,500. The company will pro mote baseball and other amuse ments. Senator B. R. Tillman has ac cepted an invitation to be presen at and deliver a speech at the bil rally of the Chester Count, Farmers' Union at Richburg oi Tuesday, August 17. The Southern Express com pany has notified the commis sion that they ordered an ex press office to be opened at Court ney near Seneca and that sup plies for the office had been ship ped, Construction train are beini operated on the Carolina, Clinch field and Ohio road from Spartan burg to Pacolet river, the layini of rails having been completed t that point. At this point thi trestle gang is at work erectinj a splendid steel trestle supporte< by concrete piers, across the riv er. Just as soon as the trestle i. completed track laying will b resumed to Broad river. Alfred Jenkins colorcd, wa convicted and sentenced to hanj Tuesday in the Georgetown cour on the charge of an attempte< criminal assault upon a youni woman several weeks ago Gov. Ansel received a messag, Tuesday from there saying tha the day passed off quietly with out trouble. When the troubli occurred Jenkins was brought t< Columbia for safe keeping. Th< execution will take place r August 13. It may be the old granite wall of the state capitol or it may b that all are too busy to think o such trivial matters yet a youni lady from the Piedmont sectioi of the state remarked that sh considered it a reflection 0: the state of South Carolina tha there were so many bachelor and widowers in the capitol An investigation reveals tha there are no less than 17 bach~ elors and 14 young ladies wh< holdpositions in the capitol. The little mill town of Gler dale, four miles from Spartar burg, was startled over a repor that T. A. Lockman, married and employed in store of the E E. Converse company, and Mis Elise Phillips, a graduate c Limestone College, formerly en ployed as a bookkeeper in th store has eloped. The reporti that Mrs. Lockman was on a vis it to relatives in North Carolin and during her absence Lock man and Miss Phillips drov through the country from Pacc let and boarded a train for Cc lumbia. Mr. Solomon Hall who live about two miles below Harts ville, committed suicide abou noon by placing a single-barrel ed shotgun to his abdomen, lear ing over it and pulling the trig ger with his toe. Death was al most instantaneous. Mr. Ha was a man about 50 years ol anc a rather prosperous an hard-working farmer. He wj of an erratic disposition and b< f ore this has given evidence c insanity. It is thought that th immediate cause of his rash dee was trouble and desperation ove two of his daughters, who ai hopelessly insane at the asylur in Columbia, r R. A. Coleman of Saluda, N. i C., accidentally shot himself while shooting squirrels. r John Aiken, Jr., has been ar rested at Walterboro on the charge of killing Mingo Jenkins. A commission has been issued to the Fairfield News, of Ridge t way. The capital of the com - pany is $2,000. ' A three-year-old child of Ed - Ryan, colored, at Johnson was 1 shot and killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the a hands of Frank Miles, colored, r aged 20 years. s Willie Bethune, sentenced to be hanged at Manning on Fri day, has been reprieved by Gov - ernor Ansel untill next March, I when new trial will be asked for -I in the supreme court. ~ The investigation into con ditions at the Hospital for the - Insane was to have been resum t ed this week after a recess last 4 ing several weeks. But the r commission will not be called 1 together at this time on account of unavoidable circumstances. - A telegram from the Chairman, - Senator Neils Chrisenson, of - Beaufort, announces that the - inquiry will not be resumed un - til in the fall of the year as the - stenographer has been unable to transcribe his notes. ( At Greer it is stated that the - new mill building will be com - pleted by the first of September, Swhen the work of installing the machinery will be taknn. a President Robinson is quoted as r saying the mill will be in oper I ation by January 1 of next - year. Approximately 5100,000 will be expended in construction a the balance going for machin ery and fixtures. The mill will be operated with electric power, furnished by the Southern pow er company, of Charlotte,N. C. I Harry Ellis, a black negro r boy of about seventeen or eigh . teen years of age, was brought 3 to Greenville Saturday night be b tween twelve and one o'clock by - Deputy Maddox of Grove town a ship near Piedmont, about ten ) miles from the city. Ellis is a charged with an attempt to ray 1 ish a young white sii of goodt family in that neighborhood. SThere was some talk of lynch Sing the negro after the deed was Scommitted, but the officers man aged to get him to Greenville be Sfore the mob could get up cour e age to perform the deed. 1 State Superindent of Educa t tion Swearingen has sent out S two hundred educational comn -paign bulletins to each of the t county superintendents of the -state which are to be distrib Suted at each of the meetings to be held in the different counties -of the state during the month -of A ugust, It is only a few days Suntill the campaign will com mence. Announcement for all of the speakers who are to speak sat the county meetings will be made within a few days. Over -one hundred of the most promi e men in the state in business, law teachers and college presi .dents have been secured by the a committee to attend the county -meetings and make a ldresses. e Louis Vanderford a white boy, 16 years of age, and a son of Ash more Vanderford, a well known farmer, shot and killed himself s near his father's house, in the -Lockhart section of Union coun t ty at an early hour Monday -morning. It appears that the -young man was in good spirits and -free from trouble. He - wished to go to work on the pub [1 lic road, but his father refused to allow this and ordered him to go to school. At this the boy s took a Winchester rifle from the - house and went into some woods f two or three hundred yards dis e tance. The noise (f a shot was soon heard from that direction, r and on investigation, the body e of the rash yo)ith was found, a death having been- instantane ous. Miss Clara Rush, died at Cam den Monday after an illness of two months, from pellagra. There are several cases of pellag ra in Kershaw county. The Southern Power company is about ready to begin work on its big plant at Getty's Shoals, twelve miles above Camden, twenty-four miles below Great Falls, and twenty-one miles be low the Rocky Creek works. The dam will be 110 feet in height and will back water to the Rock Creek dam, making a continuous lake of twenty-one miles in length. The Getty's Shoals plant is expected to fur nish 100-000 power when com pleted. It is announced that the cav ital stock of the Grendel Mills of Greenwood will be increased to half a million dollars, and that a new mill will be built. The new mill will have ten thousand spindles and two hundred and fifty looms. It will be located near town, the site; not having yet been determined upon. The Grendel Mill, under the presi dency of Mr. A. Foster McKis sick, have prospered well and the success of the new mill is assured under his management. He is also president of the Nine ty-six Cotton Mill, one of the successful mills of the state. He is one of the leading mill men of the state, conservative yet pro gressive. Reply to query from Dr. Ray Powers, state veterinarian, At Torney ( ral Lyon has given an opinion in the matter of the railroads receiving into tisE state cattle for immediate slaughter. The opinion in that, under the provisions of the re cent act of the legislature, this can be done. Attorney General Lyon points out that the act specifically sets out that cattle may not be received for work, feeding, breeding or dairy pur poses that have not a certificate of inspection, Also that section 4 exempts all cattle, hogs and sheep shipped into points with in the state where the United States department of agriculture has inspections of animals for slaughtering under the super - ?sion of Ia gaaduated veterin ar ian of a recognized college. On Sunday the eight year old daughter of C. Cook, a farmer living near Fort Mill, fell into a well 30 feet deep, containing eight feet of water, and walled with 18 inch terra cotta piping. A rope was quickly lowered and the child told to grasp it, This she did, but when drawn to with in a few feet of the mouth of the well the child's strengeh failed and she fell to the bottom of the well a second time, but again rose to the surface of the water and grasped the rope. After the lapse of an hour or more the child was again persuaded to swing to the rope while her pa rents for the second time at tempted to draw her from the well. Again, when almost within arms's reach of the pa rents, the child let go the 'rope and for the third time sank to the bottom, but fortunately rose to the surface of the water as for merly. The rope was again quickly lowered and once more was in the hands of the child. This time, however, the child could not for the third time, be induced to undertake the ascent -she was all but exhausted, but had sufficent strength left to hold to the rope and thereby save herself from drowning. An other hour passed and little hope of rescuing the child was left. Finally a pair of steelyards was secured and tied to the end of a second rope. This was lowered and the child told to fasten one of the -hooks to her clothing. In this way she was at last res cued, after facing death for more than two hours. Monday morning the little girl was at play as usual, apparently little the worse for the harrowing ex "Worked" On Sunday Several white men in Green ville, calling themselves Adven tists, and claiming Saturday as the Sabbath, have been arrested on a magistrate's warrant on the charge of working on Sun day, the work consisting in pick ing blackberries. They are to be tried soon.-McCormick Messen ger. Sweet Potatoe Crop Mr. S. W. Draffin of the San tuc section, brought two good sized sweet potatoes of this year's crop to The Herald offlice last Saturday. They are the first of the new crop we have seen and were fine specimens. Mr. Draffin informs us that his po tato crop is very good this year. -Rock Hill Herald. To Travel In Europe. Rev. Alex. R. Mitchel, rector of Christ's Church, has been granted a two months leave of absence by his vestry and will spend it in a visit abroad. He sailed from Philadelphia on the thirty-first of July. Mr. Mitchel will first visit relatives residing in Liverpool and later wi!l travel over England, Scot land and Ireland. Before re turning home he will visit a por tion of the continent. His hosts of friends in the city will be de lighted to learn that he has been able to make arrangements to take this pleasant vacation. Mr Mitchel needed the rest and it has been well earned.-Green ville News. Champion Snake Killer John Stevens' of this county, while out on his farm last week, came across a holkw log that was alive with hilandrma. Not being a nature faker, Wr Stevenson has an aversion to moccasins, especially of the higland variety, and begun to do Macdough in good earnest. *. The more snakes he killed the more appeared, until in the fin al round up, in a swelter of per spiration, he counted thirty sev en of the scaley reptiles dead on the field. Let it be said that Mr. Stevenson is a sober man, and while St. Patric is not his particular patron saint, still he would like any aid available to rid his farm of moccasins.-Ab beville Press and Banner. Good Roads In Chejter. There is no more vital subject than good roads, and the people of Chester county should arouse themselves to a realization of the fact. The county authorities may urge economy and this and that, but it is mighty poor sort of economy that allows splendid macadam roads to go to ruin for the lack of a little repairing and that lets other counties go ahead extending their systems of per manent roads in wholesale fash ion while Chester is making prac tically no addition to The few miles of.- good roads that were built several years ago. The people should take up the subject and urge action. If public sen timent seems united on this prop osition there will soon be some general action.-Chester Report er. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Eat Southern Corn Some surprise is expected in the Association Press at the dis covery of several cases of pella gra in Chicago. It is not sur prising at all. The Northwest is where one would expect to find it; that is if the Northwest erners eat corn bread and homn iny, for the Western corn is far inferior to the Southern product tand is not as well cared for in gathering and housing-and damaged corn is said to be the cause of pellagra. If Southern people would confine their use of corn food to that of their own raising there would be little or no danger of pellagra with them The disease comes from the soft, inferior and often damaged stuff that is shipped here.-New