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Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, June 17, 1921 Single Copies, Five Cento. 77th Year.
ADJUTANT GENERAL
CLAIMED BY DEATH
BRIG. GEN. W. W. MOORE ENDS
* owr T IFF f?F SERVICE TO
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STATE, AFTER SEEING HIS
LATEST AMBITION ALMOST
REALIZED.
^Columbia, June 17.?Brig. Gen.
William Woodbury Moore, the adjutant
general of South Carolina, died
at the Columbia hospital last night
* at 7 o'clock from diabetic trouble
and an operation to remove a carbuncle
from his neck. General
Moore, although suffering from dia
betes for a long time, had. been in
his office all last week and only
Monday was forced to remain at
home from his office.
Yesterday morning attending physicians
decided to carry the adjutant
general to the Columbia hospital to
operate for the carbuncle. The general
went on the operating table
about 1 o'clock but never regained
. consciousness, dying shortly after 7
o'clock.
Word of the death of the military
commander of the state spread over
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the city, especially among nis ultimate
friends, and cast a deep sorrow
over many homes. General Moore
was loved and admired by people all
over the state, numbering his friends
by the thousands. His death came
as a distinct shock, even his office
associates not realizing the serious
condition the beloved National
Guard commander wias in until a
short time before the end came.
It was the fate of General Moore
to live just long enough to see the
South Carolina National Guard reorganized
since, the war, bis efforts
again to place the militia on a sound
^ footing in the state having just
brought forth a complete regiment
of infantryi Only Tuesday a colonel
of the regiment was elected. General
Moore had worked untiringly to
rebuild the guard and just when he
had succeeded he wa3 removed from
life.
"FRYING SIZE" CHICKEN
PRECIPITATES SHOOTING
Laurens Farmer Shoot* Brother Aftqr
Petty Dispute?In Hospital
With Bad Wound
Laurens, June 15.?Joel Blackwell,a
young farmer of the Tumbling
QYiao1? confmn nf Siiilli'vun r#vtJtrnclv*n
h under bond for his appearance in
court of general sessions on the
charge of assault and battery with
intent to kill, it being alleged that
the accused shot his brother, Frank
Blackwell, after striking him on the
head with a pistol. The wounded
man was ^hot in the thigh and it was
stated today that his condition was
not showing symptoms of improvement.
The F^ooting occurred at the home
of the jJlackewll's as the brothers
were living in the same house and
farming together. It is said the dif
acuity between the two brothers was
the result of the killing of a frying
sized chicken. It seems that Joel
Blackwell and his wife were absent
from home last Sunday. Frank ' decided
he would have chicken for dinner
and used one of his brother's
birds. That night when Joel came
home trouble was started over the
incident. The quarrel is said to have
started in the house but soon"?ot too
warm in there and overflowed into
the yard, where it is alleged, JoeJ
struck his brother over the head
with his pistol. In the scuttle that ejiused
Frank caught hold of the barrel
of the revolver, it is stated, and
as he shoved Joel away from hiir
the weapon was discharged, eithei
intentionally or accidentally, a point
that will have to be cleared up before
a jury, it now seems. The principals
in the affair are the sons of
Jimmie D. Blackwell, of the county.
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HUGHES REBUKES
COLONEL HARVEY
SECRETARY OF STATE TELLS
BROWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
THAT WE FOUGHT TO OPPOSE
TYRANNY AND NOT SIMPL\
"TO SAVE OUR SKINS"
Providence, R. I., June 15.?Sec
retary of State Charles E. Hughes
told a gathering of his fellow alumn
of Brown university today that it was
not desirable that America's hetpfu
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mnuence snuuiu uc ifiw.cic\i
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"by relating ourselves unnecessarilj
to political questions which involve
rivalries of interest abroad wit!
which we have no proper concern."
"It is equally true,"x he continued
"that we cannot escape our relatior
to the economic problems of th<
world."
He said the prosperity of this coun
try largely depended upon the eco
nomic settlements which might b(
made in Europe and that the key t(
the future was with those who mad<
and control those settlements. Amer.
ica, the exemplar of free institutions
aiding humanity in their preserva
tionj he said, called forth the su
preme endeavor in tiie worn war.
' "This 8entiemnt is still with us,'
he added. "We have not lost, the ca.
pacity for the high and unselfish en
deavor which linked us in an unex
ampled unity and joy of service ir
the crisis of the great war. The
springs of faith, of mutual trust, oi
imperialistic, designs and cunning
purpose or to protect a land _ where
avarice might find its surest reward
They offered their lives and all the
1
energies of the country were har
nessed in the supreme effort, because
we loved the institutions of libertj
and intended to maintain them, because
we hated tyranny and the brutality
and ruthlessness which found
expression in the worship of force
and because we found our fate linked
with that of the free peoples whc
were struggling for the preservatior
of the essentials of freedom. Witli
them we made common cause and,
as from one end of the country tc
the other rang appeals in the name
of civilization itself, the whole natior
responded."
"It would not be fitting for me a1
this time to discuss our foreign rela.
tions. But I am glad to say that the
message of America is one of cordia
friendship to all nations. We have n<
subtleties, no duplicity of meaning
no soft words to conceal a purpose oi
self-aggrandizement at others' ex
, pense. The only method 01 diploma
cy we know is that of candid discus
sion of the merits df problems. This
we think is the way to prosper t
cause" believed to.be just and we shal
advance no other." '
SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING
' OF BIBLE SOCIETY
At the meeting held yesterday ii
.' this city, the board of directors o:
the Abbeville District Bible Society
made plans for the annual meetinj
. to 'be held July 27, -with Shilol
Methodist church. This is the secon<
, time since the society's organizatioi
. that the annual meeting has beci
. held away from Abbeville, it havinj
[ met last year ?t Due West.
; present at the meeting yestecda;
. weTe Dr. J. D. McCain, presi fent
. Mr. John iPressley, secretary; Mr. A
i B. Morse, treasuer; Dr. F. Y. tVfSo
> ly, Mr. R. S. Galloway, Mr. J. Alls)
! Smith ad Dr. S. G. Thomson,
s The Abbeville District Society i
i perhaps, the second oldest organize
? tion of its kind in the countr/, :
[ having been instituted only a fe\
I years after the begirning of the Nev
York society, it has been continuous
active since its early founding, hav
[ ing for its purpose the distributio;
i of the Bible at home and abroad
The national society, through th(
; cooperation of its local auxiliarie
. has translated the Bible into prac
tically every language, and give
away free every year thousands o:
copies.
CONFLICT COMES
1 IN G. 0. P. RANKS
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> DIVISION OF OPINION OVER
[ EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF
POLITICAL PLUMS CAUSES
SPLIT?LODGE AND WILLIS
OPPOSE.
Washington, June 16.?Senators
; Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Repubi
lican leader, and Willis, of .Ohio,
} who nominated President Harding
I at Chicago are on the war path over
r some of the recent appointments
r made by the President.
! Senator Lodge has expressed open
i dissatisfaction with the nomination
of Prof. Julius Klein, of Harvard
I University, to be director of the Bui
reau o'f Foreign and Domestic Com;
merce, and at his request the Senate
commerce committee deferred action
rvn -fV?a nnwiino+inn urifnl fn.
i callers today, but neither saw the
: President. On leaving the White
I House, Senator Willis declared that
: he would oppose Mr. Nauts to the
i end.
The Ohio Senator inquired today
J how confirmation of Mr. Nauts
might be blocked and was informed
that if he regarded Mr. Nauts as
r "personally objectionable" the Sen
ate would follow a time honored
custom of refusing confirmation.
' Senator Willis has filed a memoran!
dum against Mr. Nauts with the Senate
finance committee, whicR ex
pects to take up the case Monday. It J
is to bear Senator Willis, the nominee
and Walter F. Brown, the President's
representatives on the Departmental
reorganization commit5
tee, who is understood to have re1
commended Mr. Nauts.
Another patronage row reported
t brewing is over the nomination of
Frank A. Linney, Republican State
5 chairman of North Carolina to Fed1
eral District Attorney for North
> Carolina. He was endorsed by North
t Carolina Republican leaders, but is
^ encountering opposition from influ
ential Senators close to the admini
stration, because of an alleged letter |
opposing voting last November by
3 negroes.
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1 DEATH OF MR .GILLELAND
News was received in Abbeville
this morning of the death of Mr. A.
r J. Gilleland at his home in Atlanta.
He was at one time head of the car
1 repair shop of the Seaboard Shops
f here, and had 'been ill for several
j months.
j Mr. GilleJand is survived by two
i sons tnd two daughter, Mrs. Ben
i Cason and Mrs. Ruth Fisher, of Ati
lanta, Mr. Guy Gilleland, of Hamlet,
1 N. C.. and Mr T?/iv fillli?1 And man.
? ager of the Co-operative Mercantile
Company of this city. Mr. and Mrs.
^ Roy Gdlleland left for Atlanta this
j morning.
CAPTAIN EASON HURT
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Captain Bill Eason narrowly ess
caped serieus injuries at Elberton
. this morning. He was on his freight
t, train and when the train was pulling
if out of the depot, he attempted to
v board the cab while the train was in
. motion. On account of the darkness,
. it (being at an early hour, he missed
i his footing and was thrown under
, the cab.
? Fortunately no bones were broks
en, but the Captain suffered serious
. bruises about his legs which will
s cause him to rest for awhile. His
f clothing was torn almost completely
off his body in the accident.
WUU J VII Viib UVUIiUMViVit U??V4* WWmorrow
when an executive hearing
is expected. Prof. Klein was chosen
by Secretary Hoover and it was reported
today that the President had
sent the nomination to the Senate
without consulting the Republican
leader. *
VJtllftWUi fT 111AO AO V\S11W1UU111? '11 AO
opposition to- the appointment of
' Charles H. Nauts, of Toledo, to be
. collector of internal revenue for the
Tenth Ohio District. Both he and
- senator Lodge were White House
VERY LOW RATING
FOR COUNTY GANG
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF
PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD
CRITICISES MANAGEMENT
AND MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS
FOR IMPROVEMENT.
H. C. Brearley, assistant secretary
of the State Board of Public Welfare,
who visited the Abbeville
county chaingang May 30, has submitted
to his chief a report which
comments unfavorably on certain
portions of the gang and compliments
the management on the excellence
of the individual* attention
and humane treatment of prisoners
The report is made in detail on the
point system, the score being 744
out of a possible 1000 points. Grading
was made on camp and equipment,
care of convicts, management,
sanitation and discipline.
The report of the assistant secre
tary fallows:
"The present equipment of the
Abbeville County chaingang under
Foreman D. E. Newell is in a very
poor state of repair.'The tent occupied
by'the. trusties is full of small
holes and the one used by the guards
had no fly or second cover. The
screens on the kitchen car are practically
valueless, and several of the
'beds were in poor codrtion.
"In marked contrast with the lack
of proper equipment was the excellent
spirit of the management, the
supervisor, the foreman,' and the
county physician all cooperating to
give the prisoners individual care
and attenton. Especially to be commended
is the order of the supervisor
that the men be worked as far
, ill. fxl i. 1 - -? -
tt? iwssiote wuaout oeing ariven to
their tasks by the lash. This is in accord
with the (provision of the state
constitution that forbids corporal
punishment. The food supplied is
above the average for county chaingangs.
"The chief needs of this camp
are: A new tent for the negro trus4.:
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wca, repair ui tne screens on xne
kitchen car, more frequent washing
of the bedding, and the practice of
having all the refuse of the camp
emptied into the soil pit every day
and of covering it with at least three
inches of earth.
"The gang encamped near Lowndesville
was not visited because of
the distance and the lack of time."
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED
BY ORPHANAGE BOARD
Or. L. Rom Ljrnn Makea Annual Report.?Receive*
Commendation
of Directors.
Mr. Amos B. Morse returned yesterday
from Clinton where he went
to attend the annual meeting of the
board of trustees of Thornwell Orphanage,
of which he ia a member.
The business of the board was of a
perfunctory character, as no matters
of importance were to be considered.
The annual report of Dr. L. Boss
t ja 1 a. - ? - i- 'j?
i-jnn, superintendent 01 me institution,
was heard and approved, after
which all of the administrative officials
were elected to serve another
year. Thertf were present at the meeting
of the board 18 out of 25 members
from South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida.
The report of the superintendent
showed the Orphanage in a flourishing'condition,
members of the board
expressing the belief that the new
year begins with perhaps the best
outlook for the future of any year in
its half -century of existence. Dr.
Lynn, in the short time he has been
;it the head of the institution has
pioved himself t'.. be a man of unusiud
executive ability and has won
the approval of ThornwelPs (supporters
in three states. The health of
the children is the best possible, Mr.
Morse reports, and every facility Is
provided in the way of education.
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HAMILTON HOLT WRITES HARD^ B.
ING FOR EXPLANATION OF
HIS PROPOSED "ASSOCIATION'
AND REMINDS OF CAMPAIGN
PROMISES
New York, June 16.?Hamilton
Holt, magazine editor, who headed re
the delegation of pro-league Repub- ^
licans that called on former President I*
Wilson during the last presidential th
campaign, today made public a letter U;
he had written President Harding to
asking him to explain to the Ameri. n<
can people the terms of the Harding th
Association proposed to supplant the .
Wilson League of Nations.
"If you delay much further, peo- P{
pie "everywhere will inevitably con- or
elude that you have no concrete plan
at all or else that you propose to put ca
party harmony above world welfare,"
declared Mr. Holt. "In that event
there will ! nothing left for those m
who want America to play her right- 13
ful part in stabilizing the world but ci
to organize the country so as tp cap- aj
ture congress for the league in 1922 th
and presidency in 1924." sli
This, Mr. Holt asserted, could be
done. He declared the league of nations
and Bolshevism were the only
great ideas that had come out of the *j''
war as world panaceas, and he asked
-the president whether he could ^
guarantee that the world would not
x _ n .1-1 .'i? * a in
turn to ooisnevism, n it came gen- * *
erally to be believed that he ha'd no a?
plan at all for a substitute for the v
league, w
"As president-elect, you did not see m
fit to disclose your attitude on the ?*
league beyJhd what you had said dur. ^
ing the campaign. Both' the 'thirtyone'
and 'irreconcilables' claimed you
for their own* As president, however cc
you have unequivocably repudiated
the existing league of nations, P?
whose area comprises considerably
more than half tlie earth and whose al
population- numbers three quarters P(
of the human race. You even per- '*a
mitted without rebuke, your ambas- S1
sador at the Court of St. James's to e(
say that you will have nothing to do
with any 'commission or committee re
appointed by the league or responsi- w
ble to it directly or indirectly, open- e:
ly or furtively. I tl:
"You have, nevertheless, as presi- ci
dential candidate, repeatedly promis- p<
?d during the campaign, and, as ci
Alt Unv* A r% 4- W
pi coiuciit, )uu nave iciiciatcu vuau "
promise, that you will seek to es- m
tablish an association of nations
based upon the application of justice J1
and right, binding us in conference
and co-operation for the prevention
of war and pointing the way to a
higher civilization and international
fraternity in which all the world tl
might share. te
"You have not yet given the n<
American people the slightest inkling al
of the terms of this Harding Asso- n(
ciation that you proposed shall sup- j ^
plant the Wilson league. Has not ir
the time come, I respectfully ask, you
to do this?" ai
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HUBERT COX, LAWYER ec
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Mr. Hubert Cox has successfully k<
passed the bar examination and has th
been admitted to the practice of re
law. He came home this week and cc
spent several days with hoime folks C:
before taking on new honors. oi
Mr. Cox is to be married next
Monday to Miss Bessie Taylor, of j
Columbia. On their return from
their wedding trip they will live in
Columbia where Mr. Cox will prac- L.
tice law. te
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FIRE DAMAGES fiARN A
The firemen responded to one tfi
alarm yesterday, a small roof blaze m
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uix i/. x uiiaai/u o vain; wn */wuiv i vu
Street, being the cau^e of the run. I m
The damage was slight. bi
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Edinburgh, June 16.?Dr. C. C. tli
'MeCullough of Fort William, On- cl
tario, was today elected international r.i
president of the Rotary Club. e:
1EL0NS INCREASE J
SMS CROP DATA
B. HARE, AGRICULTURAL.
STATISTICIAN, TELLS DEPARTMENT
THAT THERE I
WILL BE GREATLY INCREASED
PRODUCTION. \
Saljuida, June 14.?According to
port of B. B. Hare, agricultural
atistician in cahrge of the crop re- " M
rting service in South Carolina for !
e bureau of crop estimates of the ]
nited States department of agricul- j
ire,, the following estimates are
>ted which show the condition of
e following crops on June 1:
Wheat 80 per cent, of normal;
its. 84: alfalfa. 91; hay 85; cow1
ias, 83; rye, 86; cabbages, 90; - [r&
lions, 91; peaches, 52; pears,60;
jples, 65; watermelons, 75; and
.ntaloupes, 70.
The report shows that the comercial
acreage planted to waterdons
this season will approximate
L,000 acres, cantaloupes 1,200 and
icuiwbers 1,500. Barnweill county
jpears to have the latest, if not
ie largest, shipping point. Other
iip$ng points for melons are as folws:
Barnwell, Lena, Furman, Alndale,
Gave, Kline, Denmark, Ul- |j
er, Scotia, Sycamore, Fairfax, Es11,
Luray, Barton, Dumbarton, Hateville,
Baldock, Appleton, Hilda,
lar and Tillman.
The indicated production of wheat
the state is 1,848,000 bushels, ,
gainst 1,785,000 bushels last year.
Tht acreage of oats is shown to
! 455,700 acres, or 5 per cent,
ore than last year. The condition
84 per cent, forecasts a produc- M
sn of 10,481,000 bushels, or 65,)0
bushels more than in 1920.
Peaches in central and. western . J J
mnties were seriously injured by
oSts in April, while in the eastern
irt of the state, especially Chesrfield
county, condition and yields - \
e more satisfactory. Apples and
?ars did npt suffer so mpch from
te frosts as peaches though condera'ble
injury is now being report1
on account of blight.
During the early part of the year
linfall was abundant and farm
ork was delayed to a considerable
ttent. During a greater portion of
le month nights were too cool and"
op growth generally was very
Dor, except the last week of the
op reporting period when there
as seasonal growth and developient
of all crops.
L7DG1NG OF BUTTER
HELD NEXT TUESDAY
Miss Ruth Crowther, county
emonstration agent, announces that
le second judging In the butter conist
will be held at the court house
sxt Tuesday afternoon, beginning
t 2:30 o'clock. Miss Elizabeth Forey,
specialist in dairying at Wintrop,
will do the scoring and judg'g
Miss Crowther says that she is
ixious to have all the women of the
>mmunity send butter to be exhibit1
in this contest. If it is sent Monly,
the agent says that she will
eep in refrigeration up to the hour
te judging begins, so that it will
miain fresh and in the best possible
>ndition. Exhibits sent in, Miss
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LUWLiici aa^^wiu ciwici yc uioyvocui
f iby sale or returned to the senders. "
\T PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. David Shepperson, of
ake Village, Ark., who has been ex.
nded a call by the session to fill.ie
vacancy which has existed in the
bbeville Presbyterian church since,
te resignation of the Rev. Mr. Pratt
ore than a year ago, will occupy
ie pulpit of this church Sunday
ovning. Mr. Shepperson is a
other of the R?v. Flourney Shep>rson
who has recently accepted
ie pastorate of the Presbyterian
lurch at Chester, and while he has
)t yet accepted the call here it Is
cpected that he will do so.