Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JQ1UUX A LIVELY TIME. There was a lively fracus in the Shops section of the city last Saturday morning. Two colored females of that section had already "had some words about the chillun" and Saturday morning they ceased to write "notes" and got down to * mi.- -L.M the cold steei argument, me cuudren of Cora Allen were accused of throwing rocks at the legitimate offspring of Willie Adams, and vice versa, and the matter reached the settlement stage Saturday morning, when a general fight followed a heated argument in which about twenty-five women in the neighborhood engaged. Four doctors had to be called in to sew up the wounds. Three or four women on each side of the battle received ugly knife wounds, while others had their heads pecked up with rocks. The matter will be fully aired in police 1 court on Thursday morning when all parties are to be tried for disorderly conduct, fighting, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. THE ROOK CLUB. ft ~~~~~ The young ladies rook club was i delightfully entertained by Miss Eugenia Robertson last Saturday afternoon. The rooms were made nttrartivA in decorations of roses and carnations. After the games a tempting salad course was served the players. ENTERTAINS THE U. D. C. Mrs. P. A. Cheatham was hostess to the U. D. C.'s at her pretty home Tuesday afternoon. After the business transactions were over, the guests were refreshed with sandwiches, ice-tea and frozen punch. CLINTON LODGE A. F. M. There will be an extra communication of Clinton Lodge No. 3, A. F. M. Thursday evening, May 10, at 8 o'clock. Work in the first degree. By order of W. M. Otto Bristow, Sec. VISITING HIS OLD HOME. Mr. T. P. Quarles is in the city visiting his daughter, Mrs. R. L. Dargan and other relatives. For the past several years Mr. Quarles has made his, home in Alabama, but during the last cotton season he bought cotton in Johnson and McCormick. His friends are always glad when he comes on a visit THE CHILDRENS CONFEDERACY The Childrens Confederacy held its usual monthly meeting last Saturday at the home of Miss Elizabeth Gambrell. An interesting program of recitations, readings and patri. otic songs was carried out. The next meeting will meet with Miss Helen Haigler. V V V FAIRFIELD V V V Fairfield, May 7.?Mr. John McCaslan is sick, but we hope will soon be better. The Fairfield school closed on last Friday. The teacher and pupils had a jpinder cracking Friday night and invited the young folks around to come and join with them. Everybody seemed to enjoy it very much. Master Roy Young spent Saturday night with Master Ansel Talbert. Messrs. T. 0., J. A. Young, J. H. P. McCaslan, T. F. Langley and Walter Creswell motored to Plum Branch last Sabbath to hear Rev. John F. Warren preach. Mr. W. P. Long, D. A. and Alma Young dined with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Young and family on last Sabbath. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Greenburg of Greenwood, spent last Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Young and family. They made the trip in their new Ford. Mr. Wylie Long spent Sabbath afternoon at the home of hir uncle, Mr. Joe Young. Mr. T. 0. Young and sisters, Misses Willie, Maggie and Myrtle motored to Abeville Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Young and daughter, Mrs. J. M. Adams, spent one daj last week with Mrs. Joe Young They also spent one day with Mr and Mrs. R. A. Crawford. Mr. W. P. Long spent Saturdaj night with David Young. Mrs. Fannie McCaslan spent last Sabbath afternoon with Mrs. Joe Young. Misses Myrtle and Ruth Young spent Thursday night at the home of their uircte, Mr; J. W. Young. ' Mr. Joe Young had his first ne-w Irish potatoes last Saturday, Maj 6th. Some of the good farmers have been busv settine out potato slips since the nice rain. Mr. H. G. Bowen has been sick, but is better today \ AN ABBEVILLE SOLDIER. fj News has been received in Abbe- f ville that William L. Hemphill has successfully passed the examination for the Officers Reserve Corps at I Boise, Idaho, and has received or- | ders to report for duty to the Prese- J dio, at San Francisco by May 15th. f ; William is a graduate of the Cita- * del fc^d1 goes in with a knowledge of Z njilitikry,.-affairs. Since graduation J he has followed the calling of Civil I Engineer and has held positions in j[ A wnxi'no Panfrol A moriPQ P uvuui rxiuw iv?, vvttvi M* | the Philippines and in different ? States. | His friends in Abbeville wish him J good luck and feel assured that he I will play well his part in the com- | ing conflict. j BACK IN THE NAVY. J Barnwell Aiken and Kenneth I Jones, both boys in whom Abbeville [ is interested, are back in the navy g and are ready for the German sub- [ marines. Both young men have served their time and have been discharged from I the navy and were holding good po- | sitions in civil life but have re-en- I listed for the war. > -i I THE D. A. R/? i At the meeting of the local chap- [ ter of the D. A. R's. last Tuesday I afternoon the regular election of of- j fleers was held and resulted in the J unanimous re-election of Mrs. Harris I as Regent She has served the | chapter most successfully for a year [ and has added, a substantial num- I ber to the membership. She has the interest of the chap- 1 ter at heart I LIQUOR PERMITS [ Judge Miller Not Troubled Much I Wifli Annli^AtiAni. I ? I When asked yesterday as to the T number of whiskey permits issued | since the quart-a-month law went into effect a week ago, Judge \ Miller state that he had issued only six, less than an average of one I a day. In view of the fact that no | whiskey is permitted to be shipped [ into this state without a permit, it ? is thought that the past week has | been the nearest to prohibition in V this county for many years past In the course of conversation K Judge Miller stated that the wrong f impression was in the minds of some as to charges and other regulations I pertaining to the issue of permits I and in this connection he issued the following statement: I Notwithstanding the fact the ? judge of probate is permitted, under R the law to charge 35 cents for tak- ? ing affidavits and issuing permits, ~ he will only charge 10 cents for taking affidavits and issuing permits when applicants appear before him D in person. Applicants for permits must file an affidavit on the prescribed form. If the applicant appears in person a fee or ten cents is required. If sent by mail twenty cents must accompany the affidavit. Permits are issued between 10 A. M. and 3 P. ci M. d MANNING CONSIDERING ir THIRD S. C. REGIMENT Columbia, May 2.?The question. f; of organizing a third regiment of ic the National Guards of South Caro- tl lina, is being given close considera- C) tion by Gov. Manning. That such a , regiment is allowed was> called to the n' attention of the governor by Con- n: gressman Nicholls. The governor ti had no statement to make as to 0whether he would authorize the regiment. TTie two regiments have not yet ^ been recruited to war strength. c< Three regiments at war strength jT would give the National Guard of South Carolina about 9,000 men and . officers. 0 FARMERS ALL. e """""" e Messrs H. L. Ellis and Arnette Ellis, progressive farmers of the Groggy Springs section, were here ? Wednesday on business. The Messrs lj * ?? _ J- J / K..4. ill 11 is are not uniy guuu luruieia nui n " they* are interesting themselves in , : the subject of stock-raising. While 8 i here they visited the fine pasture n lands and goat farm of our esteemed p townsman, Col. Dick Sondley and ^ 1 got a few points on how to make i two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. d ' ASKS PROHIBITION FOR * DURATION OF WAR jj Washington, May 5.?A petition ^ , signed by prominent men represent- ti r ing the interpartisan council on war ( prohibition last week presented to ^ ' President Wilson asking that the manufacture and sale of intoxicating 1 liquors be discontinued, at least r during the period of the war. v, "We believe, Mr. President, and ^ we respectfully submit to you" - the : petition stated, "that the public wel- ? s fare requires that both the manufac- f ture and the sale of intoxicating li- ? , quors should be discontinued, at b lease during tne period or tne war. ! Among those signing the petition were Matthew Hale, chairman Pro- t> r gressive national committee; N. E. f r Harris, governor of Georgia; Eu- n gene N. Foss, former governor ' of Massachusetts; John Spartgo, mem- * ber executive committee of Socialist *' i party; Richard Jones, member state v senate, Minnesota; Eva S. McDowell, r National Grange, and Virgil G. Hin-, ' shaw, chairman Prohibition national committee. 8 I I - Tikaftinir'i W-W,niSi " - iV'-flurr i ! M# IPalni | London I tight Cole Dark Cole Kool Clo BO\ 60c ~ 75c J.M. 8 ' "THE CASH STORE, uaiiizrazra^^ SUGAR CANE SIRUP. anil ??? tem etniled Discussion of Problems Af- g^r fecting This Industry in New Gorernment Publication. of 1 Washington, D. C., May 7.?The llture of sugar cane for airup pro- tops action is essentially a small farm for idustry. Limited areas only are de- this 5ted to it on each farm, but never- mer leless cane sirup is an important Sen1 rticle of food and a source of con- 0ug lerable income to the farmers of T le Gulf. States. That the yields the >uld be considerably increased, has owever, is pointed out in Depart- but lent Bulletin 486, a new publica- In 1 on of the United States Department quit f Agriculture. ma<J The cost of producing sirup on ject jvo south Georgia farms under the mill onditions which prevailed in 1914 by idicated that at that time the price exti f sugar-cane sirup in bulk must be bag ver twenty-three cents a gallon to mar llow the producer a profit How- of? ver, production costs have increas- be < * ' - - -1-*? tw /liar Q sugntiy sinuc tuou uai^* AH ent years the price of sirup in the as j eneral market has fluctuated wide- mar Ir. In the fall of 1914 it was nor- yea tally low; a year later it advanced to i tiarply to 40 cents per gallon and cro] lore, and recent advances in the tior rice of sugar have been followed ed y Higher prices for sirup. to 1 The margin between cost of pro- I uction and the market price can be are upplemented, the bulletin points fan ut, by a better utilization of the is 1 y-products. Of these there are of bree: (1) The leaves and tops, (2) mal tie bagasse (pomace or mash,) and of "v " - rtruu to 6) trie SKiiunuiigs. it uu ui? ? ices prevailing at present very lit- to ] le use is made of any of the three, at 1 When fresh, the tops of the cane a t reigh approximately from 3 to 4 ava 9ns an acre. If left exposed, this of 1 laterial soon becomes worthless 7 or feed Recent experiments, how- sira ver, have shown that the tops may the e siloed successfully and that in onl; utritive value silag;e of this charac- the er is not greatly inferior to silage a si rom whole corn. Moreover, in lect lost of the cane sirup sections there has \ a shortage of available roughage ioui or winter feeding, thus giving a to ] alue to such silage above that rep- con esented by its nutritive constitu- ter nts, and the additional manure re- pra lilting from feeding these tops is of ggaaaaaaaaaHa r ;n 5 vj i Bee i Shrunk a >rs 7. >rs th no WT A ly cases farmers simply cart it ro to some waste land'where it will th >ut of the way. A more profitable ye >osal of the material is to use it bl< litter to mix with the barnyard ra mre. When roted for about a fir r in this form it may be applied sti 3weet potato land or some other co p not injured by fresh applica- sn is of manure. In this way need- fo humus may be supplied cheaply at the soil. cr .ike the bagasse, the skimmings ne now largely wasted on most th 318. With proper precautions it fo relieved that the clear portion st: these could be used for sirup di ting without injuring the quality th the product. Another method is de feed the skimmings while fresh de hogs, or, if suitable apparatus is re land, they may be boiled down to c? hick molasses-like feed which is Qt ilable for the stock at any time the year and is greatly relished, lie cost of producing cane for ip is enhanced by the fact that crop can be "grown profitably p 7 on good land. In the case of s0 farmer, however, who grows only af mall acreage, it is possible to se- a ; for the cane crop an area which F1 been favorably treated in prev- st j years, a very guuu practice is cu precede the cane with a crop of at: a and cowpeas, plowing the lat- su under. A four-year rotation now ^3 cticed in many sections consists ^ two successive years of corn and iZ( __ ^t? A j ."w,- . _* , aaaaaaaaaaaaai . i ipntiii tchS \ i.nd Guarai SH SU] - $1.50 RSQN( AB zizrazfiuzmzizraz^ wpeas, plowing under the peas C ch time, then two years of cane, sry good results are also obtained om manuring a field heavily for 'eet potatoes and in the succeeding ar planting to cane. The quantiof manure available for this plan c n be increased by working the 0j ne bagasse into manure and leav- ic . tJ VV rt : -- $1.00 ANDEI ft I Bianniaiiifimnnnmf nportant consideration. The sys- co s of farming in vogue in the su- ea districts tend to deplete the Y* fri of its humus so that the value ^ manure in these regions is unu- ye ly high. For these reasons it ty as that the siloing of sugar cane ca i will more than repay the farmer ca the labor of filling the silo. In ini connection the bulletin already al, itioned points out that it is es- a^ nal to tramp the tops very thor- ve hly in the silo. hu he bagasse?cane from which fa juice has been extracted?also to some feeding value while fresh, t?1 it is far lower than that of tops, sy the open air it ferments very n0 :kly. Whether or'not it can be co le into silage with profit is a sub- mi * ? AU 4-^4-r, T? ?11 ' IUI 1UIIUC1 UCOW. Ell OUIClll s, such as those ordinarily used is the sirup producer, the juice is se acted too incompletely for the pli ass<? to he used as fuel, and in in iction. The bulletin points out G at this a strong incentive for unirtaking experiments intended to a svelop cane varieties that are more 0 sistant to disease and that will Yj nsequently not require such fre- 0 tent replanting. il FREE OF CHARGE. ? C Why suffer with indigestion, dys- r( ti ipsia, torpid liver, constipation, s] ur stomach, coming-up-of-food- ic ter-eating, etc., when you can get ti sample bottle of Green's August ^ ower free at P. B. Speed's drug a ore. This medicine has remarkable n irative properties, and has demon- i< rated its efficiency by fifty years of ?? am nftpn milSpH ti ICCCSO* ncauouivQ WAV ? ? r a disordered stomach. b August Flower is put up in 25 and li i cent bottles. For sale in all civil- ii ed countries. * b ? it to rot for the year. In gener- ltJ , it may be said that practically 1 the soils used for sugar cane are b; ry responsive to increases in the ej mus content and that the alert rmer will take every opportunity ? add this by plowing under vegeble matter. Where this is done d stematically, the cost of fertilizer, " w an important item in the total w st of producing sirrup, may be tl aterially reduced.' cj Sugar cane, the bulletin points out, ^ not propagated successfully from ^ ed. The commercial method is to p ant the stalks either in whole or tl part of the old plants^ If the otstocks are left in the ground ey will produce in the succeeding c] sar another crop known a a stub- ri e or ration crop. This, however, 0 rely makes as good a yield as the st or "plant cane" crop, and if the C( ubble is left another year the se- si nd ratoon crop is usually still * laller. In practice it has been jj und that it. is rarely profitable to b tempt to secure more than two b ops from one planting and almost jver profitable to secure more than ? ree. The amount of cane required ia ar\ rvroof OQ frt ^OTl 1 piail UIXI5 At? OV 5* VMW ^ VW WVM itute a heavy drain upon the pro iBnnmaiaaianuiia ie j| i I | A, uitsj iteed j j:| $7.75 ||| $8.00 i| 9 rl -.-.$6.50 || ITS ill - $2.oo|' Y) I BEVILLE, S. C. 11 * umbizimizimizei? i ARRANZA TAKES > OATH OF OFFICE v irtl Chief is Sworn u the Conati-^ tutional President. _____ Mexico City, May 5.?Venustiano arranza last week took the oath of -i ffice as the first constitutional preslent of Mexico since the assassinaon of Francisco Madero on Februry 23rd, 1913, back by a majority f nearly 800,000 votes given him y the Mexican people at the March lections. President Carranza drove rom the national palace to,.the Camber of'deputies and swore to upold the new constitution. % President Caranza left the presiential gate at the palace at 5 o'clock i an open carriage. Seated besideim was Gen. Obregon, minister of ar in the provisional cabinet and le man who more than any other is redited with enabling the president > weather the storms of the last four ? ears. The-carriage was escorted by le survivors of the signers of- the^ Ian of Guadeloupe, which formed le basis of the revolutionary scheme * The streets were lined by double inks of soldiers who presented arms s the carriage passed. Af the tiamber of deputies President Carinza was received by a committee f congressmen who led him to the jstrum, where the president of the hamber administered the oath. The sremony was extremely simple, con-, isting of the reading of the oath 4 nd Gen. Caranza's reply, "I swear The president then returned to le palace. The United States Amassador Fletcher, as ranking memer of the diplomatic corps, offered i le president the congratulations of [>reign nations on Mexico's return ) constitutional government. NO PLACE FOR JAILBIRDS. Ireenville Piedmont. Somehow we are unable to raise ny great amount of enthusiasm ver propositions that have been oiced from various sections of the ountry in behalf of inmates of prisns who are willing to join the army they are given their liberty. Military service is a high and pariotic duty, which calls for the * iL- J >_ ower ox uie uuuuuy 9 uiauuuvu lear brains and clear breasts are equisite for the most efficient mili-. iry service, and every opportunity lould be taken to preserve this leal for military service in connecon with the raising of an army. '0 permit the impression to get broad that the army is to be air sylum for jailbirds would be detrilental to the cultivation of this leal. No doubt there are some excep- ? ional cases, as there always are, ut, as a general proposition, we be ' * fJ -1 A. eve tiiat tne less saia uuuui nee* 1 g criminals to join the army, the etter it "will be for the army.