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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
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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.
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VSIIC Ui U1C jiuuug WW ?I?KU| uu
W. E. Gardner has a suspended sentence
now as a result of a previous
conviction.
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(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.
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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.
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(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
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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. .
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it REGULAR ARMY MORE
ie OF A FAILURE THAN
NATIONAL MILITU
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$ Gen. Moor* Say* Many of the Arm;
[3 companies nave as low as
Forty Men.
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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. ;
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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
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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.
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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. C arm el's very
B popular young teachers, are' spend
ing the holidays with their parents
in Mt Carmel.
a Mrs. Frank Stevenson and little
1 RATI rv-f TTalnno fla ava
1 spending the holidays with Mr. and
b Mrs. D. W. Harling.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curtis are now
s occupying Mrs. Emma Knox's residence.
We are glad to welcome them
to Mt./ CarmeL
We hope that this Christmastide
will bring joy and happiness to every
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