Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I . - The Lancaster News ' LEDGER J 852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE J 891 VOL. 2. NO. 99 SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C.. SEPTEMRFD ?I. inn* Clemson College Letter. Most Auspicious Opening in History of the InstitutionLancaster County Students Enrolled?-No Ground to be Given for Newspaper Criticism?Other Matters of Interest. i Mr Editor: Clemson College beg-in her fifteenth session on Sept. 11, unler the most auspicious circumstances since t he founding of thejcollege. The total enrolment bus rnxoln-rl ? !? - tie over 700, with the largest ^ senior class in I lie history of the college, tliis class numbering 90. This is perhaps the largest senior class any collegein South Carolina has ever enrolled. Hon. Alan Johnstone, of Newberry, the newly elected President of the hoard ol trustee* delivered a most thoughtful and inspiring address to tho faculty and s'tidents on Wednesday morning a the beginning of the session, and every one seems-to have caught the spirit of ids' address to d<? the best year's work in ihe history of ihe institution. Ciemson Ik o a i ktot J a I? ..?n jum Mirougn a seacon of the most adverse and unjust criticism it has ever sustained, the criticism coming from a few narrow-minded, partisan newpapers that know absolutely nothing about the conditions here. Everyone seems determined this year to avoid the very appearance of evil so that these t wo-by tour cynical news papers will have one subject less about which to m?ke lamentation. So lar as you: cot respondent has beer! able to ascertain, the following Lancaster comity students have matriculated thus tar: J. T. Stephenson, of Ker 1 shaw, Sophomoie cla^s; T. 1'. | Nisbef, of Vanwyck, Freshman class; Fied Adams, ol Lancaster, j Freshman class; C. Yoder, of Vanwyck, Freshman class ; S. E Bailee, of Pleasant Valley, Senior class. A M. Hall of Pieas ant Valley, a member of the Freshman claps, has not yet re turned to college on account of sickness, but is exnec^ed in n lew days. The Y. M C. A. beyan its' years' work with three cv mgelic.il services conducted by Mr. A. C. Harte of Mobile, Ala. Mr. Ilarte is perhaps the most prominent s'udent leader in the South today, and as a result of his earn est efforts quite a number of b >th old and new students decided to live the Christian life. The Clemson College Sunday School in charge of its efficient and enthusiastic Superintendent, Prof. D. VV. Daniel, held i t, fir-t mee'ing ot the year on Sun lay ! mommy. The enrolment for the first me'ting was 24'), with 'he 9 prospect ot a large increase. > Ooa?h Shanghnessy, of the foot ball team, arrived Saturday night from California, and lootball practice began in earnest on | Monday afternoon Our first, game is with Bingham High School on Sept. 28, which comes entirely too soon for us as it will bo practically impossible for our team to get in any condition on twelve days' practice. Bingham is the champion Prep, school of the South in foot ball, and the outcome of the game is looheci forward to with interest. I Young Man Shot from Ambush. Winston-Salem special in Charlotte Observer: News was received here last night of a se rious shooting affair which oe- , curred three miles north of Wal nut Cove in Stokes county Saturday night about 11 o'clock, ( when John Fulp, a young white man, was shot and seriously wounded while returning from a visit to a young lady friend. Ue was fired upon from ambush by one of a party ot four young treii i with whom he had had a dilfioul ty a short time prior to the shooting. The wounded man was at tended by Dr. E. Fulp, of Fulp, and was repotted last night aB getting along very well and ( would probab'y recover Georgian Kills His Brotherin-Law I ALheyille, Ga., special in Atlanta Journal : Kendrick Cook 1 shot and killed Preston Adams at Cook's home, about twelve miles northwest ot Abbeville, i near Barton, in this county. ( Adams married Cook's sister I and it appears that they did not 1 I get along well together. The wife ! had gone to Cook's home to live. I Adams, it is claimed, had been i warned to keep away trom Cook's i home several times. ' i IJe went to Cook's, when thev ' I | had a difhculty, when Cook shot and killed Adam?. ( Both are yonng married men i and well connected. Cook mar- < tied a daughter of lormer County Commissioner J. B. Mitchell, 1 one ol the most prominent citi zens of t lie county. Standard Oil Makes a Thou- i sand Per Cent. I New York, Sept. 10. ? Profits of more than one thousand per cent a year are made by the t Standard Oil Company, of Indi- < una, the corporation sentenced 1 to pay the line ot $29,240,000 by Judge La? dis, in Chicago. The Company's pr fits in 1903 were $10,501,082. In 1903 the , profit9 were $8,753,410. For i two years' business they were ; j $18,209,492. i1 These figures brought ont at j today's hearing be ore Special!, Master Ferris in the ca?e ot the government against the S and- < ar! Oil Company < f New Jersey i lo dissolve that oorapanr, as he iug an illegal comoination. Ains Florence Truesdale has ( letiuned Irom a visit to Kershaw, S. C.?Charlotte Observer. The Cotton Situation. Address to the People of the State by Secretary Weston, of the Cotton Association?Farmers Urged to Stand Pat on F rices Fixed by their Organizations. The Stale: Mr. F. H. Weston, the secretary of tho Sou'li Carolina Cotton association, yesterday issued a-> import an statement regarding the cotton situation. Mr. Weston cills upon all cotton growers to stand pit on the price fixed by the Southern Cotton association and the Far mers' Union for 1 5 cents and emphasizes the necessitv ft r merchants and bankers and *u clas3 ps in the South to support the cotton planters in this move. His statement is as follows: "In view o' the decline of cotton lor the last tew weeks, I deem it necessary to issuo this appeal to the latmers, merchants and bankers of South Carolina ' The national executive committee of the Southern Cotton as uncial ion, which met at Jacksou, Miss , on September 5, alter canvassing the cotton situation thoroughly recommended and fixed the minimum price of cot ton at 15 cents. ' At this meeting of the national executive committee all ol the cotton producing States were represented, except Oklahoma and Ihe Indian Territory. Th# men who composed the executive committer which met at Jackson, were men ot the highest charec'er and fully informed as to the crop conditions in their respective States. Our own State was represented by President E. 1). Smith, Executive Committeemen E. L. Archer and Dr. W. VV. Kay. JJr. Kay was requested by the writer to ascertain by inquiry and observation tlie c ondition at the cotton crop in the several States through which ho passed ; his report embodied in an inter ihew, which he pave out a tew lays after his return, w as cerainly not indicative of a large irop. "We know at this sea on 01 the i ear that many of the grow* rs of cotton, who have in many nstaoces pledged their cotton by mortgage and lien for cup plies turnished them to m ke i', ire compelled by ntcanity to put dieir cotton on the mirkef, irrespective of prices, unlest, a.ded oy iheir local merchants or b inkers. Of course the cotton buyers ire aware ol this and will con inne 10 put the price of cotton lown as long as growers are ound who are willing to sell, rh" losses that result to this ieht-burdened individual affect ivery man, woman and child mi die South; i! can not he measured ?y hundreds of dollars, but runs ijto millions Every time cot'on sons down means that much leg-, money lor the home, the* school li 'use, ;lie merchant, t >e banks \nd the development of the reources of the Sou'n 'There cau he no reason as. iigne l for this material decline in ill" price ol cotton; everv man who has had an opportunity to ob.-erve,will cheerfully hear testimony to the fact that cotton has leteronated in the last two or three weeks; heavy rain* having fallen, followed by extremely high temperature. 1 was inform f 19V # PRIC ed by a reliable cotton manufac! turer tnat while the visible supj ply of cotton?according to the ; estimate of the statisticans?i? greater than it was laet year, yet the quality is so poor that only i about 75 per cent of each bale i can be spun. The consumers, I with the cotton on hand and the ftrmers who have sold in adyan ce, are making every effort to force the market down. There is but one remedy for this conditi , ? ,x 1 Al. . I "ii, tiuu mat is lor me holders of icotton to withdraw it from the market, cutting off the supply. k'I am confident that the thoughtful people all over the South realize the fact that their destiny, and that of thetr coun try is wrapped up in cotton; and i' behooves each and every man, whatever may be his vocation or protession, to come to tho aid ot the farmers in t heir effort >0 stem this unreasonable and unjustifiable attack upon the price of cot ton. 4<Colton goods have not declined in price, nor have those i articles, which we are obliged to purchase, depreciated. "The Farmers' Union, which 1 believe is a eood organization, has fixe I its minimum price at 15 cents. Surely the membership of the two organizations, the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union, should , be able to hold a sufficient qurn tity ot cotton oft ot the market to keep up the price. ,ta'i..? ..~~ i-- -i -1 ? ?.?? wi me ?outn naye the situation in their own hands; it is for them to say whether the South will be prosperous or poor. I believe t he people of the South realize the intrinsic valua of cotton, and that they < will j ?in hands and do all in their \ power to secure a good price for the cotton crop of 1907. According 10 ail estimates, this crop ot cotton is far less than the consumers wi'l need, and I hoy will 1 give us our p.'ice, it we have the j courage and the manhood to demand i' and fight for it " North Carolina Kidnaper Preferred Death to Prison. Norfolk, Va? special in Charlotte Observer : Rather than serve 20 .\ears in the penitentiary lor kidnaping Kenneth Beasley, the 9-year old son of State Senator S M Bcasley, of Curri tuck county N. C., Joshui Liar- , lison placed a pistol to his tem < nle and hl?uir t.l^. a ui aillM I (119 | a'ternxm i n his room at the , Gladstone Hotel, while officers ( were waiting in the lobby to ar t r> i rest him for the North Carolina , authorities, for being a fugitive < from justice. I The Supreme Court ot North j Carolina yesterday denied Harrison a now trial. lie was out on , $3,000 bond. I Big Bequest for Masons, j i I ? ! i , . r Philadelphia, St-pt. 19.?More j tlmn one million dollars has been 1 lett to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania as a land for the est ibliahment ai d maintei an e 01 an in tiiution lor the *uppoit an! education otmale orphans of Masons under the provi-ion oi the will of Thomas II. Pa'ton, who died September 13, and who was treasurer ol I he j Grand Lodge for thirty-four years. E-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Further Particulars of Accident near Lesslie Station. Rock I i i! 1 ller.?l 1: Monday morning before the sun was an hour and a half hiirh Mr. Edwin Walker had an experience that came very near being fatal to him. lie was driving a pur of hordes to a wagon near the stalinn tin 1-? -- 1 ...... ^*ca.?v, him t-iiriy passenger train going Ea-?t when ho was perhaps 500 yards away from the railroad track. The train parsed and ho felt, perfectly at ea^e for it was out of sight and he thought ho could cross tho track without any di tutbitue or that early in the morning only one train passes over tho Southern roa I. He drove forward and came within a short distance ot the crossing near the home of Mr. VV. S. Lesalie, when through tho woods nearby ho saw an approaching train, lie had gone too far to stop he thought so lie gave the horses a cut with the whip, [n a few sec ui Is ho was upon the rails with an engine with only a cab approaching him. Within the twinkle of an ?"* eye the engine was upon him. The cow catcher hit the wagon and brushed it oIT the track. Just a second before the dadi came he jumped lor Ins life. He lell upon the ground an 1 the body of tho wagon tell upon him. He sprained his right leg in falling but otherwise lie wps not injured to amount to anything. It is indeed a wonder 'hat Mr. Walker was not killed on the <P'>t. Dr. T. A. Crawford, the railroad's faithful physician, soon afterward visited the injured man and gave him all the attention necessary. The train that came in contact with the team w as a special freight which wa* following very close behind the early unn uing passenger train. News in Brief. Supt Allen, of the Graham, N. 0. graded schools, was seriously stabbed Thursday by one of his student*, Lawson Shields, whom he had slapped for disorderly conduct.... Mr-*, Harder, a widow of Stokes county, N O., was the victim a day or t.vo ago of an outrageous criminal assault. 3am Shelton, Jr., a cifizeu who las heretofore borne a good refutation, is "charged with crime . . . . Elmer Orr, a Georgia farmer while dr ving to his home Irom Macon Wednesdav was shot and killed. Johnson Langston, another farmer, is charged with the ileed.... William II Desmond, a young man, in jumping from a moving train in Chariot to Tuesday night, fell under the wheels and was crushed to deith .... 11 R Durum, son of W. J. Durmt of Mayesvdle, this state, w q , prti 1?? < 1 ?r i * >.. - ? .. .. > vr <.*...!! l>y UMTS 111 A abama one n'ght this wees. He was a car inspector for ilie Southern.... I). A. Smith, of Walhalia, Jud^e of Probate ot Oconee county, died Wednesday.