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MORALLY STUNTED ARE DISTURBED i County Jail Almost Overflow# With ^ Crowd Rushed in and More WarE|| .. rant* to Serve. H Greenwood Index, g Consternation with a big C struck the Morally Stunted of this town yesK terday. Whether innocent or guilty H twenty-two persons were arrested H with selling whiskey and the town and lodged in the county jail charged was as dry as a bone last night. S . There are more warrants to serve but these names, of course, cannot | be given out as it would be too in teresting. Evidently not a few had j I "got word" of something yesterday I afternoon for reports had reached f the sheriff of some who had not wait| ed for steam car, trolley or jitney I but had hit the woods and there is t no telling where they are by this | time. f 'me newspaper man, 01 course, is interested only in getting the news. For some of the youthful prisoners arrested, deepest pity is felt. In addition to the pathos, however there was quite a bit of humor in the situation. , For instance, yesterday afternoon when The Index man went over to get a list of the men arrested, the Sheriff was found at the jail. While he was there talking, Mr. Ernest Waits came up to see his brother, Will Waits, who was one of those arrested. He did not know that tiere was a warrant out for him too. Sheriff McMillan opened the door of the cell and gently pushed him in, side with his brother. When he found himself on the inside looking out instead of on the outside looking in as he had been only a few moments before, his only comment was, "Well, IH be durned." The sounded like a house party was being held there. The conversation was varied. The white men arrested so far are: Press Sisk, Ruby Cole, Grady Varnadore, Paul Murphy, James Murphy, (brothers), W. E. Gardner, T. C. Elmore, Will Bodie, Sam Eakin, W. F. Gambrel. Jesse Clem, Arthur Broom, C. K. Minyard, Will Waits, Ernest Waits, |brothers), Berry Hughes, Frank Biggs, of Abbeville,' and Paul T. Kinsey, of Greenville. Officers were sent for these. Also the following, Percy Faulkner, Chas. Bostick, rj I. F. Bostick, Will Simpson and Clarence Young. Three negroes arrested are: Son Chiles, Frank Fogy and Rev. John, Brooks. Mr. Berry Hughes did not go to jail, depositing a certified check for $300 for appearance later. Mr. ElI more was. released on a $200 cash bond yesterday afternoon also and so was Grady Varnadore. It was interesting to watch the groups on the streets yesterday and around the jail. All of the arrested men have their friends and relatives and these were greatly concerned. It was interesting to hear the comments on the detectives who worked up the cases. AH knew jast exactly who it v|| 191 j| To the M< \\ have air i! i i i we nop< j coming i We wis 1 ] undertakinj IS your work. mi\ r i P !; way,rnend rf 11 best greetir |j extend to ; jl The L \ ! feiErazraii^^ % , i. " ' * ' - ' : v was, how he looked and so on, and not a single solitary one had it correct The facts will come out at the trials. These cases were all worked up under the direction of the Sheriff and the cases are being heard first before Magistrate Kerr and then later come up for trial in the court of general sessions. ai. ?.?+?i nr. VSIIC Ui U1C jiuuug WW ?I?KU| uu W. E. Gardner has a suspended sentence now as a result of a previous conviction. VVS.VVVVVVVVVVVVV V V V ... FAIRFIELD. V vvvvvvvv^vvvvvvvj (Written for last week.) To the Readers of the good old Press and Banner: Last year we wished for you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. This year we are going to [ask in return, that you join with us in an earnest prayer for "Peace on Earth and Good Will Among Men." Just so long as men are being hnthpH in hlood it is imnossible for us to have a merry Christmas. Signs of peace are seen over the distant waves. Let us trust that in the providence of God it may shine forth in all its splendor, even before the New Year dawns. So much have we to be thankful for, with prosperity on every hand that it is indeed hard to realize anything of the sufferings of those across the seas. Let us pause in our money-making long enough to send up a plea to our gracious Heavenly Fattier that peace may come and come qtiickly ana that the many shattered homes across the water be rebuilt, and the brokenhearted healed, the dear little ones, who are left orphans may be comforted and Christmas joys be theirs, and that God will enable us that we might live more right and do unto others as we wish to be done by. Mr. and Mrs. Noell Tinsley and children from Spartanburg, are here visiting friends and relatives for a few days. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Creswell at this writing. Dr. L. W. Sheppard dined with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Young on last Sabbath. Mr. David Young spent Thursday night at the home of his uncle, Mr S. T. Young. Little Edmund Young has been real sick for the past week, but we are glad to report that he is better' at this writing. / Mr. T. P. Creswell and two little ones, also Miss Sara Creswell, from Harrisburg, spent one day last week with her mother, Mrs. Mary P. Creswell. Mrs. J. W. Young and daughter^ Mrs. J. L. Russell went to Greenwood shopping last Friday. Little Edmund Young celebrated his birthday on last Sabbath. Mr. Reese Young celebrated his on last Monday. We wish for them both many more such happy ones. 7 i \ v* my Good F eady made, a e to make < year: ?h you prospe Iy wisdom an , peace for ; sfor your fires igs of the sea you. V. White C Department Stores Miss A. Z. Spence spent one nigl last week with her aunt, Miss Zelli Langley. Mrs. Y, P. Reagan went to Greer wood Thursday shopping. Miss Grace Dansby is gone t Augusta to spend a few days thi week. Miss Pearl Dansby is gone to M< Cormick to spend a few days wit her uncle, Mr. John Dansby. Messrs. Tommie Young and Jai Long spend Monday night in Pucl etts town with Mr. and Mrs. A. I Walker. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wiley and dea little ones, from Lethe, spent lai Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. J. Long and family. Mr. Furman McCaslan spent la: Sabbath afternoon with Mr. and Mi Joel Young. Messrs. J. A. Young and T. I Langley spent last Sabbath afternoo at the home of Mr. L. G. Beaufort Mr. Tommie Young and brothei Charlie, called at the home of thei uncle, Mr. Joe Young on last Sat batli. Mr. Jim Crawford spent last Sat bath with his father. Mr R. A. Cravi ford. V ' V CALHOUN FALLS. 1 V * vvvvvvvvvvvvvv (Written for last week.) Calhoun Falls, Dec. 19.?At th land sale of the Calhoun Estate o: the 14th inst. 16 acre4 was sold t Dr. Hawes, of Elberton, Ga., fo one hundred and ten dollars pe acre. Another tract of five acre was bought by Dr. Tate for fift ' * * -J 1 dollars per acre, a nurnoer 01 nous lots were sold at prices varying froi five to thirty dollars. Owing to th inclemency of the weather, the sal was postponed until after the holi dflys. Pat Calhon, Esq., and family ar occupying their new bungalo, re cently built for Mr. Calhoun. Messrs. Hall and Blanchett recent ly partners in the team-busines have dissolved, and are each engagei in the same business at separat stands. Mrs. M. G. Baker, who has beei absent on a visit of several month duration to friends and relatives ii Georgia, has returned home, an* with her came her daughter, Mrs Harrison and children, of Coving ton, Ga. Mr. J. G. Carlisle has exchange* his National car for a seven passen ger Hudson automobile. The Calhoun Falls Ginnery ha thus far this fall ginned 976 bale of cotton, and has paid out ove thirty thousand dollars for cottoi seed. On the Spear place, in Lowndes ville Township, on the 15th inst George McCafia, colored, age 15, wa shot and killed by his brother, Ben age 11. . Magistrate Hicks held an inques on the 16th. The verdict of th jury was accidental homicide. . nxmmwjmmwnn i i i i . A [ I I i I I Yiends we | nd to those ! during the \ s I I :ritv in your i W ? W 'ft id zeal for pour pathiide and the ison do we Company | a innnnnpinnrinnrti uuuuuuuuuuuuu it REGULAR ARMY MORE ie OF A FAILURE THAN NATIONAL MILITU l- ? $ Gen. Moor* Say* Many of the Arm; [3 companies nave as low as Forty Men. 1 h Columbia, Dec. 123.?Adjt. Gen W. W. Moore feels that the stqte / ment of Major Generals ,Leonar< I. Wood, commanding the Departmen of the East and of Hugh L. Scott J chief of staff of the United State ^ army, that tne National uuara is i failure only presents one side of th< picture and measuring the regula: ;t army by the same yeard stick th( s South Carolina Adjutant Genera 1 thinks that it is much more of a fail ' ure than the National Guard, and hi J1 does not agree that the guard is b: ' any means a failure. He thinks tha r? Generals Wood arid Scott and othe: x regular army officers took the stan< >_ in the beginning that the Nations Guard would prove a failure, an< they are refusing to change their po r" sition because of their prejudici against the guard, and thus are jus trfying their own predictions. The National Guard regiment were nearer the quota of enliste< men than the regular regiments, sai< the Adjutant General, and still th< rflcmlar armv officers are alwavs talk ing about the quota of men in th< guard regiments. He says that fig e ures will show that there are man] n companies in the regular army witl 0 as low as forty men, some even smal r ler, but General Wood and Scot r never said anything about them. Hi s pointed out, that the new defensi y act had just gone into effect and thai e the National Guard had not ha< n time to be tried out before the cal e came for them from the President e Also, he said, when the call came th< citizens began enrolling promptly but it was soon apparent that thej e would not be needed for war but on k ly for patrol duty on the boredr ant many men did not feel that the oc casion called for the sacrifice whici g they would willingly have made ii ^ war had been imminent and therefore e the enlistments dwindled. He als( mentioned that the regular arm/ of fleers took the recruiting out of th< g hands of the local companies and pui a it in the hands of people who wer< j not in sympathy with the guard anc , cared nothing about it J The Adjutant General pointed t< the fiqe record which the Nationa Guard had made on the border fron the reports of the regular army mer ana many of them are not in sym s pathy with the guard and are secret g ly if not openly hostile to its contin _ uation. This record, in the face oi a the unsympathetic attitude of th< regular army, thinks the Adjutanl j. General proof enough of the efficien T cy of the Guard. g If universal military training ii necessary for the National Guarc ' then what is the matter with th? t regular army, he asks The regular e army cfin't get the recruits sufficient to bring them up to the requirec strength and their companies on ,th< average are way lower in enlistment than the National Guard companief a he stated. I Another matter which he mentionI ed was that the regular army is foi 1 professional soldiers and those wh( I go into the National Guard do sc from patriotic motives ana are noi attracted by any desire to make s living as is the regular army life anc crowd. General Moore and many of the National Guard feel that the regulai army authorities, or many of them at least, started out to make the National Guard a failure because the; were opposed to it from the first- anc that they have refused to give it jus< tice. They have on every occaflior rushed into print with condemnatioi of the guard and charging it witi lack of Efficiency and yet the Gener al believes that man fdr man anc considering the situation as betweer the professional soldier and the cit izen soldiery the guard ia more effl cient than the regu&r army. Ii plainer words he and many otheri feel that the regular army need) more attention right now than th< guardsmen. General Moore does not believi rn fViQT-o in cntt rinnror nf nhnndonmeil 2 of the National Guard, even thougl 1 the high army officers are fighting i J He thinks Secretary Baker will sei 3 that it is given a square deal and 1 fair chance. ; 3 V MT. CARMEL. J J (Written for last week.) J Mt. Carmel, Dec. 26.?Miss Flor m ence Patterson of Lancaster, arrive* in Mt. Carmel Friday afternoon t spend the holidays with Mrs. A. L Patterson and Miss Susie Patterson. Miss Sarah Boyd, the efficient mu sic teacher in the Antreville Higl School, is spending the holidays wit] her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W Boyd. Mr. W. H. Horton spent Tuesda: in Abbeville. Mr. Chisolm Halliday of Erskim College, Due West, one of Mt. Car mel's promising young men, is spend ing the Christmas holidays with Mrs A. L. Patterson and Miss Susie Pat terson. m Mrs. James Hester and Miss Eliza jj beth Hester spent Tuesday in Ander J son shopping. 5 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sweezer o 2 Plum Branch, are spending the holi 3 days with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lawton S Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Scott spen E Tesday in Abbeville. 9 Misses Mabel and Mildred Boy< ra left Saturday to spend Christma E with their sister, Mrs. Alvin Humph ? reys of Bethune, S. C. r| Miss Elizabeth Hester and Mi Ft Lawrence Hester spent the week-em g in Greenwood and Calhoun jj'aii with relatives and friends, n Mr. Bennie Sutherland of > An ( derson, is spending Christmas wit! 3 his father, Mr. J. F. Sutherland, fi The A. R. P. Sabbath School wil C have a Christmas tree in the Hig] ll School building Wednesday evemn 1. - 'v.: . Dec. 27. Everybody if cordially invited to be present and have a good k time. Mr. George McCelvy, the efficient principal of the Mt Carm*! High ' SoJinnl laavaa TnaaJav Ia unanA narf. MVUVWIJ ?VMT VO Alftvowy w of the holidays with mends in York. The many friends of Mrs. Minnie Watson will regret to know that she '* had to go to tine hospital for treat ment. We hope she will soon be i restored to health. t Mt. Carmel received her share of : box.es of whiskey daring the past '' week. We sincerely hope our laws 8 will be amended before another a Christmas comes, so that no whiskey B can be shipped in a dry state. It r would keep many dollars here to be * used for good. 1 Mrs. Ben White of Troy, S. C., is " spending Christmas with her mother B Mrs. Waldo McBride. ? Mr. J. W. Morrah expects to 1 spend Christmas Day in Anderson r with her daughter, Mrs. Calhoun | Harris. ] Misses Linnie Covin, Ethel Wells, 1 Floride McCelvey, Mary McAllister ' and Dora Black, Mt. 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