Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f s # |p^ 68TH YEAR. N( 1/ BIG SALE NOV OF SURPLUS War Department Gone eery Business Sellii used Stocks. THE PARCEL POST Canned Goods Offered ers Direct at Cost P Post Charges?Ordei Postmaster. Washington. August < tlon of all surplus substl modules held by the war is provided for in modi flea original plans. Sale of c and cured meat and cam hies was planned at first. Provision is made for 1 demand in towns where restrictions prevent the ] the manner provided or pi the war department. In the mayor or some eommii act as the agent. Instead of carload lots pounds sales may be made lots as a single case or c prices quoted to municipal basic price of the departi fering the commodities through the parcel post. Sales of surplus war food direct to the publh r post begin today. The announcement said (be made in case or carte f and purchasers would havi ' cost of delivery by parce the storage points wher k now ts hold Prices for the food wer follows: Meats: Corned beef. No. 1 oai No. 2 can 58 cents; 6 pou Uoast beef. No. 1 can 2! A?\'an 41 centB; two cents; 6 pound. $2.20. Corn beef hash, one po cents; two pound. 4 0 cent Hucon In crates 34 cents 12 pound tins. 35 cents pe Vegetables: Itaked beans, No. 1 ca No. 2, 13 cents; No. 3 can Stringless beans. No cents. No. 1 can, 4 8 cents. Corn, No. 2 can, 12 cen Tomatoes. No. 2 can, l: 2 Ms, 13 cents; No. 3, 15 10. 4 5 cents. Peas. No. 2 can, 1 1 cen! Pumpkin, No. 2 can, 3 can, 0 cents; No. 10, 24 Squash, No. 2 can, 6 ee; The number of cans a sale In each commodity 22,030.235 of the No, 3 on toes to 1,025 cans No. pumpkin. The largest ai cruise are 15,000,000 No. 10,000.000 No. 2 cans of < v 12.000,000 each of the o pound cans of roast beef, each of the one and two of corned beef hash, 13,0( No. 3 size, baked beans, No. 2 cans of corn. 10,000 of crated bacon and 6,00( con in 12 pound tins. The sale, the war depai "will be the largest direct American people ever The prices were stated terially lower" than tho?< In the commercial mark food was described as b cellent condition. The said surplus property offlc ton. New York, Baltimoi News, Atlanta. Chicago, New Orleans, Fort Sam 1 Paso, Omaha and San Fr been directed to make the suinably the regular zon parcels post will apply ) cities in determining the chasers by the paacHpoat ltKA.NI> NKW STnT*1 faiix n rs Oaffney, Aug. Allison, Charles Myers Sheriff J. K. Wat kins. Hopper raptured a distill* 30 gallons capacity, on wh as the Cowpens Furnace terday. Tho outfit had be< but no whiskey had been on, and it ift thought tl erators either had not co manufacture the booze, < ^H| became frightened, and <1 discretion was the bet | valor. '!Wp v| The L ). 81. SE MI-WEEKLY. / ON NORTH CAROLINA GIRL ' "N IS DUPED BY NEGR FOODS Miss Junlc Finish Lured to Nc York by Matrimonial AilvorInto Gro- tisement of Xcj^ro. ng Un A8heville, N. C., A?g. 4.?Jan English, who fhade her home at Ash ville for the past several montli r HELPS coming here from English, N. C., w prosecute a negro in New York ctl I C nsunt '^'ie R'r' answerec* a ntatriraonial a vertisement and after several weel Ills Parcel correspondence which resulted in r Through Proposal Of marriage, she left for tl metropolis. On the day of her arrival in Nc York, Miss Alice Stockton,-of Ash i.?Dlsposi- ville, chanced to be on duty at tl nence com- Travelers aid desk at the Penns: department vania station. Noticing the girl si tinna nf Iho -J * 4- * vouru uer io ner ciesK and the gl inly canned said she was going to the home of h ned vegeta- "cousin" for a few days' visit. Mi Stockton decided to accompany her meeting the the address In the Bronx and whi the charter they arrived the "cousin" was not purchase in home, so Miss Stockton took Mi escribed by English to a boarding house, loavii such cases the address at the "cousin's" apni ssioner may ment. When the latter appeared at tl i of 30,000 boarding house, he proved to be a n in as small pro of huge frame, bearing the ea arton. The marks of one who would not hesita ities are the to practice unsavory methods in tl ment in of- hope of gaining prosperity, i for sale Confronted by the negro, tl Southern girl demonstrarted an avc department slon that was ample evidence of h c by parcel realization that she had been duped The identity of the negro has n sales would peHn divulged, but it is stated th ?n lots only j)l0 pro80Cuting attorney of New Yo e to add the js much pleased with the prospects 1 post from bringing about his conviction on e the food rjiarge which is filled with evidenc of degredation. e quoted as ^ GASOLINE BOMB USED a 30 cents; TO DESTROY A HOM nd can $2. ) cents; one Residence of Oscar Iaiwler at Los A i pound, 66 j geles Destroyisl and Mi", and Mrs. i-aivior .Ire Kadly lliirned. und can, 23 s. per pound; ,<os Angeles. Aug. 4.?Oscar La r pound. ,or* former assistant United States s torne.v for the interior depart met n. 7 cents* was Probably fatally burned, and Mi i 18 cents. Lawler was badly burned when tht 2 can 11 'lonie was destroyed early yesterd by what the police believe to ha t8 been a gasoline bomb. L cents; Xo. Shortly before 3 o'clock yesterd cents; No. morning, according to informatii gathered by the police, a man drlvii ts. an automobile, stopped in front of t cents; No. Lawler residence at New Hampshi cents. street and Wilshire boulevard, in i nts. exclusive residential district. I vailahle for dropped something, leaped into t range from car. and rapidly drove away, ins of toma- An explosion followed almost ii 10 size of mediately. The house burst in nounts oth- flames. Mr. Lawler, his wife and o 1 cans nnd child were trapped within. Two ntf corned beef. -<- ? * ?-- ? , , n uu ncio ill ItlUK |l??l lilt? IIIIU! ne and two seized a ladder and rescued Osc 11,000,000 Lawler. Jr.. five, years old, pound cans Mr. Lawler dragged his wit'e to >0,000 cans, window, and In the midst of flam* 18,000,000 lowered her from an upper story un .000 pounds her feet touched an awning over ),000 of ba- window on the ground floor Th were removed to a hospital, rtment said. Two other Lawler children, Charl sale to the an(j Jane, were visiting at Pebt attempted." Beach, to be "ma- ^ a prevailing SWISS QUELL RIOTS et and the MACHINE eing in exdepartment eis, at Bos- At Basle the Outbreak Was of a Ik e, Newport shcvlk ('liaraeter?Disorder at St. Louis, Zurich Due to High Costs. Houston. El anclsco had saleR. Pre- uenova, auk. *.?"I'roops sent e rates for ,he K?vernni<,nt to quell riots at Bas from thes? un<* Zurich were forced to use m cost to pur- rh,ne Kuna mounted on automobil system during the disorders yesterday. T * . strikers at Basle ripped up the pa* ments and bombarded the troops, 1 PURPOHK Juring many. A number of strike icers C. Y. wore killed and wounded and mai and Deputy were arrested. and Arthur At Basle the outbreak was said >ry of about be of a bolshevik character while at is known Zurich the disorders were attrlbut i place yes- to the Increasing cost of living. New nn Installed, papers have ceased publication ai made there- tramways have discontinued runnii hat the op- at Basle. Operation of the gas ai mmencod to electric services are threatened. T >r else they ring leaders of the strike are report lecided that to be youths 18 and 20 years old. T ter part of military are guarding all banks ai factories. . .>'1'"% rr ^ "ST"*'' " " ANCAf LANCASTER, S. C., TUESI J SMITH AND HEFLIN |FH ? TO MAKE SPEECHES E Two Congressmen Will Attend The Meeting Cotton Association lie on Wednesday. e- - ? iiJ TO BE HELD IN COLUMBIA A ' y rt~ Farmers, Merchants, Bankers, This a Business and Professional Men C he From All Parts of State Will V >w Attend. L e The South Carolina Cotton asso- Ni elation has received telegrams from nion United States Senator Ellison D. Chic 'rl Smith of South Carolina and Repre- to d er sentative J. Thomas Heflin of Ala -Ipnnr 88 buma, stating that they would be toba fo present at the big meeting to be held the en in Columbia Wednesday for the pur- to N at pose of perfecting the permanent or- stat? 83 gunization of the American Cotton as- t'hri sociation in South Carolina. A tele- back gram from A. A. Elmore stated that tine he hoped to be present. unio Farmers, merchants, bankers, bus- Tl 'er iness and professional men from all 50th ir" over South Carolina will gather in Co- that lumbia for the meeting, which will be eong ,ie held in Craven hall, beginning at ante noon. J. Skottowe Wannamaker of its St. Matthews, president of the Aineri- cult! >l~ can Cotton association, and also of wee< er the South Carolina Cotton associa- pose tion, will preside. Several hundred "on* representative men of the state are hy t expected to be present. has The plans for the permanent organ- tlem ization of the American Cotton asso- anti a ciation will be outlined and prepara- he e es tions made for a membership drive in fare, South Carolina Membership drives. rati, under the direction of some of the prop best organization experts in America. chur p are to be conducted, it is said by o* 1 Tl rials of the association in every statej?joni in the cotton .belt and it is declared i \\* ( that if the plans of the association 0 mature, it will he the most powerful app? organization if the kind in the world. jI1K , South Carolina hopes to be the first j8 j0 vv- state to organize. |t af it- Calls for the meeting Wednesday Df it, were issued by Governor Cooper, whie rs. President Wannamaker, H. Harris. nf j, ?ir commissioner of agriculture; A. K. w|lt) ay Padgett, president of the State Hank- 1 ve ers' association; J. H. ClafTey, presi- rps?( dent of the State Farmers' union; W. j; ay G. Smith, state warehouse coinmis- recti ,,n sioner, and Jos. !>. Miot, president of! jn? ag the Columbia chamber of commerce. saj,| he Preliminary meetings have beeuier o re held in various counties ot' the state paid an and the machinery set in motion forjeigh le the permanent organization of the tion he counties. Meetings will later be held hind in every county seat and in everyjeagt [jj. township of the state. All of the T1 meetings that already have been held the ne have been well attended, officials of trod ,n the South Carolina Cotton association to p declare, and they say that the people forn ar of the state have appeared very on- take thusiastie over the prospects of the Sout a organization. miring me wcck end- |?an -,s ing Saturday preliminary meetings T1 1^11 and conferences were held in seven or cuse ft| eight counties. President Wanna- r. ci ey maker and Commissioner of A^ricul- sloe ture Harris addressed public meet- 1> es ings at Anderson. CJreenville and phia Py Spartanburg. State Manager B. F. the McLcod and .State Organization I>i- < itv I rector A. A. Protzman held meetings f. t< in several county seats. for The organization will extend down host I c into the townships and wards. The the county associations shall be branches' in ?l- of the state association and the state'ed " association will be an Integral part of quat the American Cotton association. horn The achievements of the American of tl Cotton association this year will be of A reviewed at the meeting on Wednes- pros day. It has been estimated that the of c a" association saved the farmers of the \oxl <;3 country at least $500,000,000 this p;,. ,ie year. The statement has been made rgcu e"?J>y President Wannamnker and other ' rooti n" officials of the association that hut for ed t !f8 the formation of the association cot- vaul ny ton would have been selling at 20 side cents, or possibly lower, this summer, kuo1 to The association has ambitious shor at plans for the future. It proposes to the* e<' have representatives in every cotton juai s" consuming country in the world. Al- baer n<* ready it has perfected a splendid sys- p nB: tern of crop reporters. The American l,r' Cotton association last Tuesday night issued its crop condition report, plac- ^ p<* Ing the condition of cotton at 67 per ' 'onfl hp'cent. The government report issued J,,Iy nd , ? ... ami' I (Continned on Page Eight.) a at -TT. " ' * I* ' . ' , * 3TER NE )AY, AUGUST 5, 1919. ;ht on tobacco" > the next step at,^tiv, reus?Request Provol Association Opposed to Na- Comment. tional Prohibition Make Such a Charge. Washington. Aug. 4 request of President house Friday abandon TWO MONTHS INQUIRY weeks'8 recess, schedul . with adjournment Saturc s to Determine If There is . Imme"lalely ,0,,0wln| ion, house leaders anr oncerfced Campaign Under plans would be perrecte >'ay to Have Antinicotine nermit members to go h nn,i/i( . three-day continuance ret aws Enacted. ... . , , their return to be simul presentation of the a< ew York, Aug. 4.?After a two P,an8 for lowering living ths' inquiry conducted in this city The president's reques ago, San Francisco and elsewhere expectedly, provoked ii letermine whether there was a bitter comment from b erted campaign to bar the use of cans and Democrats, but cco now that liquor has gone by protest was heard on boards, the Association Opposed coming from Itepresenta ational Prohibition has issued a Democrat, Texas, who i ;ment charging that the Women's opposition was due stian Temperance Union was way brotherhoods tryinj ing a movement to have antinico- the country for about laws enacted in every stat$ in the time." The Texas memt n. conducted only a single He W. C. T. U. will celebrate its unavailing fight against anniversary five vears hence and schedule. The resolution organization is hopeful of having '^e recess was adopted w ress submit a constitutional i ord vote, with only a fe ndment before March 20, 1914, ing heard, semi-centennial, forbidding the Preceding this vote vat ion. sale, use or export of the had succeeded in forcin) I for smoking or chewing pur- which by a vote of 296 s. the statement charged. The in favor of considering > million drive" begun last March tion cancelling the reces? he white ribboners, it is alleged, tatives Moon, Tennessei for its object the crushing of the and Piatt, New York, am on nicotine and to this end the ifornia, Republicans, joii -prohibitionists say $300,000 will Dianton in casting the nt vpended ostensibly on "child wel- Senate concurrence in "health and morality, edu- jnK resolution is necessa >n and information. and othei house acted Repub agatula methods by means of the \fondell conferred w chos and public schools. Lodge and wns underst tie Association Opposed to Na- bad assurance that H Prohibition further charges ti e A'ould be encountered th \ T. U. with planning to finance ^ ^ ^ ^ ampalgn against tobacco without ^ memberg of thP Rpp, aling directly for funds or nam- |ng commUtpp mpt and he purposes for which the money hnye dec,ded unanlmoUfl be expended. In support of this ^ pmf,rum gom .serts that already, "in the guise ^ however dl8appro public school recitation books pen,OI|aUv but their fet h flagrantly violate the sanctity ^ wej.p 8ubordinaUsd ome and filial devotion, fathers ^ aftpr Cha|pman Ks( use tobacco are portrayed as tenitatc ronmierce pom hy and unfit for childish ca- explajned (he railwuy la es." irnos Arthur Seavy, managing di>rs of the association, in explain-! "&W the reasons for the investigation, CREATE1 it was started "to clear up wheth- , r not the same professional and prohibitionists who foisted the Memorial Commission teenth amendment upon the na- tentative Itut to Kr without a popular vote, were bethe tobacco crusade, despite their Memorial. >r denial." he investigation disclosed, said ~ . Governor Cooper, cha statement, that a bill lias been inneed in the Georgia legislature State commls, roiiibit the use of tobacco in any dressed a letter to Dr. 1 and that measures have been ton. of Columbia, giving n in the legislatures of other sion's reason for declin hern and Western states to put a the proposition of establ on rigarettes. oral hospital instead of he Anti-Saloon League is also ac- morial to commemorate d of activity aiding the W. C. T. Una's part in the great v rusade and of having indorsed the ernor explained that the an. "Nicotine Next." general assembly bound r. II. Charles Green, of Philadel- s!on to the chapel idea . was said to have protested to munication follows: public school authorities of his "Dear Dr. Weston: 'I permitting, he said, the W. C. T. commission heard with t 1 establish medal contests and of- ,h(. proposal made by yc money awards lo pupils for the n,ai tu.-. n^mArui ~ ,..u essays on the "viclousness" of South Carolina who ren tobacco habit. . in the world war. take t i Kvanston, 111., where are locat- pn.?t pui,iio hospital. rest cottages," the national head- sjon appreciates the v tors of the W. C. T. U., former represent, anil it appreci e of Frances S. Willard. founder for a hospital such ie organization and now the home gpst. nna Addams Gordon, the present . . . ... v The joint resolution ident. Thousands upon thousands . ' v oral assembly creating l oples of the pamphlet, "Nicotine . , ? * commission defines to a t," by Frederick W. Roman, B. H., , . its functions; and, D.. professor of economics at Sy- . , ,, , ' states specifically that t m ttnlvernlty. fllle.1 ??e Mor.se >ha|| b<t ? ernct? n w h trh. It wan ,al.l. w?? "suard- ? lh(. is carefully as a safe deposit ,, . . ^ Una. The commissiot t. NO one but an Intimate In- >c, r. It was Mated, wan permltte,! to Thn ?f lnf a- tl.at the W. C. T. IT. plans . . , . memorial some dominai tly to flood the country with , . ? , ' feature was discussed e namnhlets Meanwhile va?l 7 r" V i 1*~' meeting of the commit ltitfes of other kinds of anti-to- .. . . , .. was the opinion of the i 0 iterature are being distributed, * even if the joint resolu asserted. , ? , . ; _ a clear field of choice. 1 o,tf!20,tMM> Itales 4'onsumed. slrable memorial would ew Orleans. Aug. 4.?The world Be* forth In the resolutlf lumed during the year ended with "I am sure I speak ' a total of 10.620,000 bales of who attended the mee rlcan grown cotton, according to when I thanked you fo afeiuent issued today, fore us." - . * $ 'kj # {-IT 'i jlSj ;ws I STTRvirRTPTinM I9AA A VB?B?L A 1V41 V<MW A tUMnH""! POINTS OUT Dirrijfl OF GRAND JURYI^r Attorney-General Wolfe mdtt dresses Explanatory Letw5011^1 -Heeding the to Foremen. jgvwtoc Wilson, the 1] ed its five- tw-i.i,., ed u, begin HE WANTS COOPERA^t/p" ? this decis- i (;rantJ Jurvmen Should InvS? 1 lounced that Ji'sr r d at once to K"te County Offices andmnf ome under a sent Offenders Along tfpen ;ess program. Duties *?wh' taneous with ^intr I'uiies. 1 ministration *$*'k1. costs. Columbia, Aug. 4.?Samu^ln t;? t, coming un- Wolfe, the attorney general, In jjMlhtoM uformal and ter to the foremen of grand JufjSf^B i oth Itepubli- I'1*? several counties of the 8tat???L l< only a single to their attention certain specl^w the floor?it ties devolved upon grand JurjttLjR t tive Blanton, They are to investigate county ofpPre t isserted that and present offenders ag&Jnav^Ulfli to the "rail- law and calls attention to tlUMAh t I to hold up regulating the employment of f^rSinl the, seventh by mercantile establish ments.fiS^fees. >er. however, letter follows: wB, sl -handed and "My Dear Mr. Foreman: Thtt?Tdn< upsetting the several matters that I have fefB*L>s 4 setting aside be properly called to your Htt^ns w ithout a rec- by this ottice and which might MtVId w "noes" be- you iti some degree in better ItV^lreti of these things whithin the priow/ws a Mr. Blanton of your (!u"es anfl >" order thnrdepa ? a roll call. may have these in mind durUall for ( to 4. decided ?l?sinK months of the year andtead of trie resolu- inwenuneni, i HianiMH . Represen- in^ this ol'(asion to write to y* 'jgjg * Democrat 1 oal1 your attention to &?- TO .1 Curry. Cal- 7"8, Volume 1 ('ortp of ?te??hat aed with Mr 'zinK yo? to *'a" in l^e nnnirtntufc ly native votes ,he solicitors of your circuit in th? Po1 aniination of the condition of j flees of t lie elerli of court, sheHjffc n 8 ry but before , ! of the reg'ster of mesne conctffftnse lican Leader | i preparatory to.vour'report at tMBu;,, it ti Senator! , ' * . term of vour couiH each year. ?? ood to have ... , _ . ... It falls to the duty of this^OV * no difficulty . . i ? .. a T?-?:< to prosecute nctDou^ tor the reftCT* ipre. i of penalties and defalcations r.'aj called on to way ()f obvidiinir Hhe conipli.'igy ilblican steer- W),|eh necessarily arise in c<xnj? n were said to with suit> agawst personal sVffi f i> to discard on official bonds and to better^w w e of its mem- th?* state against tlie exigencft ved of this f :i 4PC the ffonorfll ouo^ia! -lings, it was l ? 11: enacted that befoie auy ci to the situ;i-j who is required to rh. ot the in- except magistrates, constables ftittt* mission, had ra| policemen, shall enter iu(oT^| bor situation, discharge ot" tlte duties of his offy^ " h< shall, if possible, procure ILY i in some reliable surety company,"*' ) CH M*!"! " is Sllspf,s,,>(' ^at y?ur body > this fact ever before the mind&o? j county commissioners, whose 4of Has \o ,\l- is to approve these bonds as to SUI , "1 call vour attention furjjls ect It as the fact that it is within the pMr of your body to present an a|ffGr against the peace and jflgliitjg of ' state, in which case the court wiMto iiman i>i the i<>(( ()i( p,dure h> which sUofi sion. has ad- fender may be brought to Just?tJ,)2 William Wes- "In your deliberations tipon bit the commis- indictment handed you by the ft$.16 ing to accept ,ors- y?" (1? not sit as ? peti ^ qq ishing a gen- to ,r>' 'ho (>ase "JP?n its me,ftt a chapel me- simply to ascertain whether or,$7.56 South Caro- 'be light of such competent tesiin. ,iir. The gov- as 's available the probabilities oif action of the caso would warrant prosecuile^t the commis- ,Jie part of the state and in aivr'f l. The com- at "'is conclusion, under the concurrence of only 12 of yopr "he memorial ber is n<?(essar>'- " ia nuch interest (,i8pensab,<' Preretfilslte to in$ mi and others ,hat ,he '"'Vnder be given aj, ite citizens of inary ,rlal hefore a m?tatratlt * . . quontly an offense is commin derect service . , , ing the session of your court Utile form of a IK ?? . i event it is permissable that the The commis. . Iter be forthwith brought to ybt iewpoint you * ' ? . <w. ' tention by bill of Indictment/. o tou i aa ? n<? * on t^e warrant. ^ i as vo.i sup "The law approved the flrsf.|jlll?| March. 1913. provides for yo. of the pen- nift? or noting foreman sw^, he memorial j HUrh w itnesses i.n behalf of the fe larpe extent j as j)aVP t?een bound over'-o jf furthei more, i oonnecl in behalf of the st?w he memorial repl jn oertaln counties which I on property j,een exempted and of which yo i i South ( aro- jnforme^ j>y your solicitor *j l. therefore, tf) eXpP(iitP the disposition s4 : r suggestion. ()^ jn(ijctment coming )?fefore'yoii rating In the a(tention. nt utilitarian ,.j take occasion also to chl! at the first attentlon to sechi?w429 an) 4>ije ?sion. ami it the ^ocje for Criminals. t912,^regi j* majority 'hat employment 6f fei^nJen t ion-had left mercantjie establishments. Wbff? the most de- enforCement of this law Is-j-ehn be the typ* tf) the pepavtment of iVg&tlr ^ >n' Commerce and Industries, for *11 those thi8 department will arprec, ting July 30 cooperation in bringing to* * * * r coming be- _________ .. .J (Continued on Page Klin