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I The Lancaster News i. 1 1 - T VOL. 11, NO. 100, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C.,TUESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1916 $1.50 A YEAR. - j __ , ANNUAL REPORT OF SUPU A.. LINGLE SPLENDID SHOWING MADE Rural Schools Show Gratifying Progress?Average Attendance Designated. The school session for 1915-16 is ?truly gratifying as is shown by the annual report sent the State Superintendent of Education some time 1 * ago by our local county superintend- 1 ent, Prof. V. A. Lingle. We are going to give somey^of the facts as 1 shown by this report which we are Bure will be of much interest to J those interested in education. The average term for the county was six and one fourth months for whites and a little less than three 1 months for colored. This one-fourth of one month Is more than the : schools have ever run before. The report shows an average of one and one-fourth months increase in the past three years or in other words 1 an increase of exactly 25 per cent of the length of term three years aeo. We 5|)pe to see the average for the county in the next two years seven months. This is not impossible, hut very probable. Co-operation of parents with trustees and teachers, and trustees with superintendent is the chief requisite to this end. The enrollment for the county for whites is 4,395, for negroes 4.036. The whites gained over any previous year 344 pupils while the negroes lost 14. The fact that a decrease of the negro enrollment is attributed to the stringent war time of last fall, and the fact that the trustees do not allow their schools to be crowded by children from another district, thereby causing double enrollment. Average attendance for whites 2,723, or 62 per cent, for negroes 2.703, or 67 per cent; hence, it can be seen that the regroes outdid the whites in attendance by 5 per cent. The average attendance for whites in the town, was greater than in the country while the negro attendance was greater in country than in town. Midway school enrolled 162 pu me largest enrollment In the country for a rural school. Flat Creek was second with 14 6. Pleasant Hill, with 1.10 enrolled, was the largest rural school. Tank, n very small white school, had 100 per cent attendance, while the Dixie and Antioch line negro had 100 per cent. The average number of pupils to school, whites 83 and negroes 70; average attendance to school, whites 51, negroes 53; average number of pupils to teacher, whites 4 0. negroes 73; average attendance of pupils to teacher, whites 26, negroes 4 8. There were 24 one teacher white schools and 4 4 one teacher negro schools; 19 two teacher white schools and 3 two teacher negro *f\9yols; 6 three teacher white] schools and one three teacher negro j schools. There were four schools .with more than three teachers whites and one negro school with more than three teachers. Three white schools have been discontinued on account' of consolidation and one negro school. One district has been eliminated by the consolidations. The educational board is now trying to consolidate two other small districts and thereby put in operation a six months school instead of a three mourns term. Compulsory Education. Seven districts have accepted the \ compulsory educational law, viz.: Belair, Osceola, Van Wyck. North Lancaster, Gaston, Pleasant Plain1 and Midway. Of these, Belatr and; 1 North Lancaster began this session. All the districts accepted the compulsion law by petition. Buildings. Only two new buildings were erected last year. Gamp Creek and Fork Hill. We have one. Bufonl, under construction. Gharlesboro and Bell Town consolidated with Lower Gamp Greek, and nn additional room to both Bellar and Antloch is now being planned within the next 60 days. Financial End. Eight districts, Barberville, North Lancaster, Dixie, Carnes, Union. Bell Town, Jones Cross Roads and Oakhurst voted additional tax for fehool purposes to be collected this 11. Dixie, Carnes,^ Union and Oakhurst voted the limit of 8 mills. Lancaster received from State aid the past session 98,929. This has AMERICAN FLYER I DIES IN FRANCE BATTLES WITH GERMAN i Young Carolinian, Aviator for < French Army, Loses Life on Western Front. Winston-Salem, N. C., Sept. 23.? I KifTeu Yates Rockwell, formerly ofjr Asheville and Atlanta, who has been d serving with the French aero corps j on the Western battle front, was't killed this morning in a tight with a'a German aircraft. Announcement of| t his death was contained in a cable-1 li gram rrom Paris received here late e today by his mother, Mrs. L. A. v Rockwell, of this city. t The message announcing the avla- i tor's death came from a friend of the family in Paris and read as fol- t lows: t "Kiffei killed this morning in ae- o rial battle in Alsace." t Young Rockwell served at Vardun l during the long months of fighting f there and succeded in bringing down ^ four German aeroplanes unassisted, i s For this feat he recently received a v war cross and military medal from s the hands of Gen. .TofTre', who refer- t red to him as "a bold and courag- I eons pilot." He had been men- t tioned frequently for bravery in offi-c pial reports. f Mrs. Rockwell received a letter t | from her son only a few hours be- ? fore the cablegram came telling her of his death. In the letter he said that he had been granted a leave of t absence of eight days and had spent v it in Paiis with his brother, Paul ? Rockwell, who had been severely ,<1 wduuded earlier in the wdr and dis-j ^ charged from the .French army. On I a the day that the letter was mailed in Paris, Rockwell leit for the front. 8 lie wrote that he had been trans-1 ferred from Verdun to a more active a sector. : j When the war began KifTen Rock-,1 well was connected with an advcr-j t tising agency in Atlanta. With his; I brother Paul, who was a reporteril on the Atlanta Constitution, he|? went to France. They enlisted in the s foreign legion and began service on September 30. 1914. Paul later was wounded, but KifTen remained with 1 the legion until it was wiped out I after seven months of fighting in the! i trenches. He then asked for a trans-,8 fer to the earo corps and began P training. In the meantime his brotn- I er had decided to remain in Paris * and he began as a special corres- * pondent there for several American I * newspapers, which he now is serv-jf ing. I Kiffen Rockwell was born on Sep-j tember 20. 1892, at Newport, Tenn. His father was a Baptist minister ofp North Carolina. Mis mother was jf Miss Rula Ayers, a member of aM prominent South Carolina family. P Rockwell's father died when the boy ( was two years old and later Mrs. ' Rockwell moved with her two sons < to Ashevllle, N. C., where they lived;' for many years. Kiffen Rockwell " was a graduate of Washington & I^ee ' university and also attended the Vir- 1 ginia Military institute for a time. ' 1 more than doubled during the past|i three years. This is considerably < more than the county ever received ( from this source before. Notwith-; standing the fact that the schools it have more money at their command, ! the expense per capita is very small., I only $8.42 for white students. Thej average monthly salary for white t teachers, $53.80, for negroes $27.80. |i Summary For Year. 1 Increased enrollment. increased 1 average attendance, increased levies.! increased number of districts ac-i I ( cepting compulsory law, increased number of teachers, same being 110,| increased teachers salary; less number of schools in county, less num- ' her of one teacher schools In county; more than,three teacher schools in county; more consolidated new buildings and better equipped, more ] teachers holding college diplomas! and consequently better fitted for; teaching; better results in classwork by new methods In teaching; j< more school improvement work; ' new life and Interest in night1' schools; better attended teachers meetings; better attended trustees f meetings, all of which go to prove I that I>ancaster county is making 1 rapid strides in educational work. < V. A. LINOLB, 1 County Supt. Education. 1 LEVER TELLS HOW TO MARKET COTTON SUPPLIED BY GOVERNMENT Organization of Cotton Marketing Association Result of Congressman's Talk. St. Matthews, Sept. 22.?At a neoting held here yesterday adIressed by Congressman Lever and articipated in by a number of coton producers, it was decided to form , cotton marketing association at his place. The association is to lave an expert and could be dependd upon to government and his ser ices are to bear no burden upon the matrons of the association save small ncldentals. Congressman Lever went fully intc he matter of the marketing of coton in an intelligent way. He preficed his remarks by showing that he cotton producer is almost helpess when he goes to market and ofers for sale the product of his labor, "hat the producer is a heavy loser imply because of ignorance of the alue of his cotton was shown. He tated that the average buyer of colon was no expert and could be de>ended upon to grade eggs with as nuch precision as he graded the cotm he sold, and that many buyers :raded low upon their bids in ordei 0 protect themselves upon a resale in the markets. Farmers Would Save Mitch. If an official expert grader were on he spot, said Mr. Lever, the seller vould notlose the difference between LCtual value on the quotations of the lay and the price paid presumably in those quotations. That many men ire lining their pockets in this way vas a suggestion thrown out to the ludience. Mr. Lever explained the appropriition of $50,000 by congress for the ?urpose of establishing a proper sys em of standard grades in connecion with the burden of marketing, n addition to this, there is now lending a bill which will establish 1 board of arbitration, which will lettle differences by expert graders. The Congressman stated that il he people desired it, the governnent would send to this place an ex?ert cotton grader. He said that legslation was pending which he felt ure would be enacted at the coming iession of Congress. wherehv n proper method of co-operation beween the State and federal warelouses could be maintained, and also hat cotton which has been properly traded, but no housed, can be hanlled for securities. Pleased With Farm Legislation. Mr. Lever appeared well satisfied vith legislation which had been enacted by the recent congresses In resard to agricultural products and vas especially proud of the bureau >f marketing and distribution which le is sure will prove a boon to prolucers. He seemed satisfied that the lays is not long oft when the prnlucer can take his goods to town ?nd with the assistance of the infornation furnished by the government ogether with the advantages which :hese bueraus will give him, denand full value for that which hf )ffers instead of going begging some me to buy at humiliating prices. At the conclusion of his address in association was formed with .1 S. Wannamaker, president, and J. (\ Ftedmon, secretary and treasurer. This was Mr. Lever's first trip tc his place in many months. He was iccompanied by D. S. Murph, sec etary to the committee on agriculure of the National House. Mr. Vlurph presided today. Although hf las just emerged from a long hard ongress, Mr. Lever looks well and inonifl hnvinno * * A * .. bu.iuus UJ K?'l iniO ine WOI'R isslgned him in the national cam >aign. DFCLAIIK KND OF RPIDRMIC Extra Precaution of (liiard Against Infantile Paralysis. New York. Sept. 22.?The. epi lemic of Infantile paralysis in thif ity'was declared tonight hv health iepartment officials to be at an end Instructions were given today tr he 497 nurses, one of whom will bt present in each school on opening day, to refuse admittance to any ;hlld who may have lived in an in fected house. This also will be ap jlied to teachers. CHARLESTON GETS LABORJjONVENTION 1 OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Body Votes Its Support to Striking Street Car Men in New York. l| Memphis. Sept. 22.?Charleston iwas selected as the 1917 convention I city of the Southern Labor Congress at the final session here today of the I fifth annual meeting of the organizaI nun. Jerome Jones of Atlanta, Ga., was re-elected president, and W. C.I Puckett, also of Atlanta,. secretary-; i treasurer, both without opposition. State vice presidents chosen were W. S. Lopez. Tllrmingham. Ala.; W.J iT>. Jackson. Little Rock, Ark.; W. S. Wier, Atlanta, Ga.; O. L. Jones. Paducah. Ky.; W. I). Lewis. Monroe, La.; J. S. Morehead. Durant, Miss.; !j. E. L. P. Wade. Wilmington, N. C.; C. M. Rhodes, Bateshurg, S. C.; Putnam Dye, Memphis, Tenn., and W. A. Davis, Roanoke, Va. Carl i Carston, of Atlanta, was elected seri geant-at-arms. Supports Carmen. The Congress. at the closinp session, voted Its support to the strikinq street car employees in New York i city; endorsed the proposed sympathetic strike of allied craftsmen in that city, and adopted resolutions copimendlng President Wilson for his stand durinp the recently threatened railroad strike and his foreipn policy. Other resolutions adopted declared in favor of the eipht-hour law and condemned business organizations i which opposed it; denounced prison labor and the convict leasing sys> tern; opposed "piece work" in factories, proposed that newsboys be made amenable to child lahor laws , and urged the enactment by the .,Rtates of laws to compel eorpora. tionr to pay their employees at least semi-monthly, and to prohibit the important of men to act as armed ( guards during strikes. I Endorses Lnl>or Laws. The Congress also went on record - as favoring employers' liability laws; . the absentee voters' bill and "full ,(crew" laws to govern th eoperation of both passenger and freight trains. President Jones and Secretary Pttpl/oM ?* * . ... r.*, i ?nr Kiven a vote or confl. donee at the morning session by the . adoption of the report of a special /committee which commended their administration, and declared that "any insinuations against their official integrity" were without foundation. The committee was appointed yesterday to investigate the affairs of the two officers at their request after a statement made by George Kennedy, a Memphis delegate, was interpreted by them as questioning their integrity. Kennedy today disavowed any such intentions and the incident was closed with mutual expressions of good will. i WILL TALK FOR WIUSOX. 1 Solicitor Hill to Make Speeches in Middle West. Spartanburg. Sept. 22. A. E. Hill Esq.. of this city, solicitor of the Seventh juducial district, has returned home from New York city. where he has been for two weeks at the Democratic headquarters. He was chosen to speak in the West for ' the Democratic cause and will leave ( for Chicago in a few days. October 1 he will begin a speaking tour for 'I the re-election of Woodrow Wilson as President. and wilt .-V ft'Mir through (he month of Ortober. He ' will probably tour the Middle West I although it has not been definitely announced where he will go. Mr. Hill will return the last of October in order to be present at the autumn term of court of general sessjons in this city. II KN'OI/AM) MAKES AMENDS Rejfrets Seizure of Men From i Steamer Cliina. i Washington, Sept. 2 2. The Oer, man and Australian civilians taken > off the American steamer China by a British war vessel will be returned ; to Shanghai September 28, the State department was advised today. The - British government expressed regret - at the seizures several weeks ago and .agreed to release the presoners. L 8 C. RAILWAY SERVICECANCEllEC FORT LAWN TO CHESTER Railway Passenger Service Lancaster to Fort Lawn Discontinued. I Effective Monday morning. Sept ,18. 1916, all railway traffic service over the Lancaster & Chester Hailway tracks Lancaster to Fort Lawn, will be suspended until further notice. This on account of the Cataw! ba river conditions occasioned by the I waters of the recent flood. Freight jwlll be detoured over the Southern tracks via Catawba Junction and | from that point to Fort Lawn over j the Seaboard line, thence over the L. & C. to Chester and intermediate points. Under this arrangement, however, the L. & C. will not handle passenger traffic between Lancaster ' nn/l > .. .. ? >?i?i run miwu on us trains. Fasjsengers will bo handled only between Fort Lawn and Chester in the usual way. The above information was given The News yesterday by Mr. A. P. MrLure. general manager of the Lancaster & Chester Railway. Mr. MrLure was not in position to say just how long this plan would be in operation; howftvrr. he let it be understood that the road would rebuild it? property as soon as possible in ordei to reinstate its regular service. Directly after the flood water? carried away the bridge over tht river, the road management went tr considerable expense in the construction of a large barge system with which to cross the river until the j bridge could be replaced, however of recent date the waters have fallen so exceedingly low on account of the continual dry weather and lack ol rains until it has become practicall> impossible to operate this system ol river transportation without con siderable dredging or else extra trestle work, herce, the adoption ol the schedule as above outlined Plans and specifications, so we understand. have been made and forwarded to a large bridge construction company with instructions to build a suitable bridge for the road. The discontinuation of this service will be a severe blow to Lancaster from a commercial and industrial position, resulting as it will in a considerable loss of business to our local merchants and business men as well as the road itself, therefore, we trust conditions will so be adjusted as to enable the road to resume its regular schedule in the neai future. NKNTKN* F.ll To JAN.. ? White Woman Convicted of (iruiu I>arceny. Lexington. Sept. 22. Mrs. Poll> Iledgepath, a white woman of prom inent family connections in th? community of Peak, where *ho wn< 1 born and reared, was convicted o grand larceny in the general session! icourt of Lexington county, Judg< Mendel L. Smith, presiding, yester day, and was today sentenced L serve a period of three months in th? Lexington cotlTtty jail, a motion fo; a new trial had been refused by 1h< court. This is the first time in many year! that a white woman has been sen tenced to serve a *jail or ehaingant sentence in this county. Mrs. Hedge path was accused of stealing $49.61 from her friend and neighbor, Mrs Daley. The jury recommendei mercy. Judge ,Efird, representing the de fendant, gave notice of appeal t( the supreme court, and the woman's bond was fixed, by permission of thf solicitor, at $500. TYPHUS FKVKK IN MEXICO Plague Said to He Assuming Seriou* Proportions. ni'pi. 22.? i nat typhus fever again is becoming a seriout menace throughout Mexico was thf statement tonight of a passenger arriving here from San I-uls Potosi. He said there were fully fifty death? from the disease daily in San Imif Potosi; from seventy to ninetj deaths in Aguas C'alientes, while th? mortality from typhus and smallpox at Zacatocas was approximate!) 100 daily. The food shortage it close to the famine stage at Agua? Calientes, he said. VAN TO NEWS ~~ I HUSTLING SECTION FARMERS VERY BUSY ! Fast Week One of Commercial Activities?A Delightful Social Event. Van Wyck farmers are preparing ' to sow grain, clover, alfalfa and oth er cover crops but the ground Is so , dry they find it difficult to prepare same as it should be. Some of the flooded lands can be prepared in fine ' shape and most of these lands that : can be cultivated will be put in i grains and forage crops. There is a big demand in this community for Abruzzi rye seed. Where this rye has been grown it has been very satisfactory for forage, pasture, grain , and cover crops. It was brought to the United States about 1900 from Naples from the province of Abruzzi, where the Abruzzi rye is extensively grown and where wonderful > yields are made, sometimes from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. However, 11 general average yields are from 25 to I 30 bushels per acre in the Southern -1 States. Since 1906-07 the great . I merits of this wonderful grain has I become better known to the farmers !of the South and it is now grown . more or less extensively in the Oaroi Unas, Virginia. Georgia and Ala bama, but as vet hardly enough to (supply the demand for seed. Conijsequently the price of this rye is . high, selling at $2.50 to $3.50 per bushel. But when we consider its .lvalue as a cover crop, grazing, fori age or grain, when its yield is more i than double the ordinary kinds of J rye. the price is not unreasonable, i As a hay crop it yields from four to . five tons per acre, and if sowed fjfrom the 15th of September to the . ( 10th of October when the weather f I conditions are favorable, it can he . | grazed from the first of December i until the last of March and still will f l.e a good cover crop to be turfied unifier adding much humus to the soil for other crops. A good plan is to drill rve in cot jton lands after the first or second ?j picking with single or three hoe <1 fills* in the middle of the cotton rows. This will give good winter l grazing and in the spring a good cover crop for plowing in and not jinterfere with other crops to be (grown on the cotton fields. Where 'this rye is raised for the grain, it'is a beautiful and inspiring scene to see tall waving grain five to six - feet high. Those who have not (grown this crop should plant at least a small lot for seed and they will he well pleased with the trial. Van Wyck people had a real treat and enjoyable occasion at the piano recital, given by Prof. Julius Herman Yoder of St. Augustine. Fla., ''on the night of Sept. 19th. He was " assisted by Mrs. J. \V. McCan, vocal mi, tii urccnwood, rs. <1 ( The following program was ren| oered: * 1. MaoDowella. "Novelette," Op. 4 6. h. "To the Sea from Sea Pieces," Op 55. 2. rhopin? ? a. "Prelude," Op. 28. No. 7. b. Etude. Op. 25. No. 9. ^ c. Mazurka in B. Flat, Op. 7 No. 1. d. Fantaisia Impromptu, Op. 66. , 3. Loves Old Sweet Song, Malloy. Parderewskl, Melodie. Op. 8 No. 3. , 4 Hollaender?Canzanetta. Henselt?If 1 were a Bird. Op. , 2. No. 6. 5. Brahms?Phillip ? Hungarian Dance No. 7. t Schubert-Liszt?Hark! Hark! The Lark! , 6. Drink to me with thy own eyes. Mozert. a. Ophelia, from Water Scenes, Op. 13. 7. Nevin? b. Water Nymphs, from Water 1 Scenes, Op. c. Narcissus, Water Scenes, Op. i K. Liszt -Second Hungarian Rhapi sody. ' After the above program was rendered Prof. Yoder received con' prat illations and thanks from those 1 present for the hour of enjoyable en1 tert.ainment. He spent a pleasant r vacation with relatives and friends ' about Van Wyck and left on Wednes" day night for St. Augustine to rer sume his teaching in music. ' Miss Julia Ferguson of Riverside i ? (Continued on Page 8)