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SET-TO OF SETBACK
HELD AT LEVEL LAND
Corp. Kerr Leads Body of Setback
Warrior# Into Territory of An- j
cient Contenders
Up in Level Land they have a setback
institution. They call it the
Level Land Hillbillies. Col. Walter
Wilson and Col. John K. Temple are
at the head of the institution. For
many months now they have been
making incursions into the setback
territory about Abbeville and tramp-j
ing down the well-laid plans of such
amateurs as Pat Roche, Dick Sondley,
Pat McCaslan, Old Man Longshore
and others. Jim McMillan, May.
or of Dyson, nas even accused inem,
of playing with .signs. It is said that!
these "champeens" of Level Land
have worn the tops off all the nail
kegs in the. community beat'ng the
would-be artists for miles around in
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that territory. It has only been when
they went up against Greenville
f , Street that they encountered a kird
of Stonewall Jackson affair.
. But the Level Land Stars, for such
we must call them, have been claiming
that the Greenville Street artists
trimmed them only because the
Greenville street crowd were playing
cn the home grounds. cAnd a challenge
was issued many months agoi
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for a contest on the Lrevei i>anu setback
diamond, where a finish fight
was to be staged. Finally a fried
chicken dinner was proposed by King
Wilson as a means of smoking the
^ Greenville streeters out of their hole,
lie knew his men. So it was that yesterday
evening Col. Dale Barksdale
hitched up the Chandler, and filled it
with a hundred pounds of ice, Vance
Ashley, Col. White, the mule trader,
Corp. Kerr, President of the Greenville
Street College, since Uncle Jim's
lesignation, and the Corp's partner.
Arriving at Level Land about 7
o'clock,-the visitors found the field of
action in order, rresictent wnson nau
invited his uncle, Hori. P. B. Carwile,
r who is a doctor you know, to be in at.?'
tendance, so that Corp. Kerr's life
could be saved if he ate too much
fried chicken. Then there was the
other uncle, Judge Addison Carwile,
who was invited in to give a judicial
appearance to all decisions made and
to settle any complicated . disputes
T.hicii could not be settled by plain
laymen. Then there were Seth Car.
wile and Raymond Wilson, nephews
of the president, who have not yet
'finished their college course in setback,
and'who had heard of the fine
reputation which Corp. Kerr had given
h:mself as a setback player, and
they came to learn. Vance Ashley
v/c.s there, as stated, and he too was
wanting to learn some of the fine
, points of the game.
The visitors had oner arrived
and "slicked up" as Lorton Roberstson
would put it, were he with us
still, than they were invited into the
dini:ng room where one of the finest
appointed country dinners ever, was
set before them. Everybody did full
justice to the occasion and the Corp.
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ate iiiui'ii ineu tuat nc |
didn't have room to get sick. After
dinner the warriors repaired to the
>Odd Fellows' Hall, where hostilities
immediately opened. The CoCrp. dk?
the pitching for his team as well as
the batting. He pitched a Carl Mays'j
style of "underhand" delivery which'
kept the home team eating out of
his hand for seven long stanzas. On1
top of that every time he went to the |
bat the Level Landers started to the
woods to hunt the ball. Babe Ruth'
was a small hero as compared with'
the Corp. last night.
It would be cruel to go into the
details of the victory which the Corp.
won, and profane to tell all that the
Level Land champs had to sav. It is
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sufficient to say that it would havej
been a shut-out but for one fact, and
that is this: Col. Temple had told the)
Corp. that if the Greenville streeters
won by a score of as much as 15 to
5, the Corp. should carry home five
. of the finest frying-size chickens,
commonly called "fries'' which ever
rew to young manhood in that com
munity. After the Corp. won seven)
straight games he got his mind off the j
game a little planning the manner of j
getting the chickens home. He didn't'
know whether to have them tied, or
to put them in a sack, or just how to
manage the business. While he was
discussing this matter with himself
the Level Landers managed to slip
over six games on him so that the
score was 14 to 6, which was sufficient
but not enough for the purposes
of the Corp.
It should have been said that in I
the team which went up from Abbe
| A BROKEN ROMANCE
Henri Pick&rd, in Cincinnati Enquiri
er.
A king's broken romance is re;
vealed in a decree annulling the be[
trothal of the king's betrothal Phra
'Ong Chow Vallabha Devi. The deI
cree says:
"Whereas, in proclaiming his majesty's
betrothal and for this pur'pose
promoting Mom Chow (her se'rene
highness princess) Vallabha
Devi to the title of Phra Varakanayapadan
(the king's betrother) Phra
Ong Chow (her royal highness)
Princess Vallabha Devi, his majesty
had on other desire than firmly and
definitely to insure the succession to
the throne with a view to the good of
the coutnry, as well as the happiness
of is own person;
"And, whereas, to his majesty's^
deepest regret, it has now become j
apparent, beyod all doubt, that his j
majesty's noble desire, as above ^
stated, cannot satisfactorily be met,
owing to the incompatability of tem-j
nerament between his majesty and
her royal higness Princess Vallabha
Devi, which may be accounted for
by the chronic indisposition of the !
princess, whose nervous system1
leaves much to be desired, so much'
so that his majesty is under the ap-J
prehension lest in the event of the J
royal marriage being permitted to j
take place undesirable consequence j
may follow in regard to the suctos-j
sion of the throne;
"Now, therefore, his n^jesty h*s
commanded that the proclamation j
relating to his majesty's betrothal is!
her^y annulled."
me King nrsi met me princess
who is of striking beauty, on a shop- j
ping expediton in Bangkok about six
moths ago.
For many weeks the betrothed i
couple were referred to as the Sun'
and the'Moon and the Royal Gazette J
chronicles their movements every.
day.
WHY SHE STOPPED HER PAPER;
Miss Madge Athey will enter the I
speaking contest and will read her!
selection. Aside from this a very in-j
icresung program win ue given.?u-i
Hnois Planet. ^
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ville, the Corp. was instructed to
have two of the second class players
of Greenville Street. These were to j
play the Level Land second team and j
also to eat the feet and black meat]
of the frid chicken, While the first
:eam in the eating business confined
itself to the white meat exclusively,
as the Corp.'s doctor has told him
never to eat anything but the white
meat of the chicken when about to j
go into action. Well, the second team
of the locals is composed this morning
of somewhat sadder but wiser
men, because the young Hillbillies lit
right into them and before the evening
was far advanced one of the Ab
beville second bests had jumped the
game, something entirely inexcusable
on Greenville Street.
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! SEALSKIN COATS WILL
RE OBJECTIVES OF BIG
DRIVE OF GOVERNMENT!
Seattle, Wash., June 14.?Seal-j
skin coats?as many as- can be made!
J from about 30,000 skins?will be the J
' objective this summer in the gov- j
I ernment's drive on its seal preserves
on the Pribilof Islands, which lie in
' the Bering Sea, off Alaska.
Slaughter of the Priibilof seals will
begin this year early in June and
! continue through tho summer
! moths, it was announced here rei
cently. Last year 28,000 seals were
[ taken and this year it is hoped to
' get 30,000.
Recently the United States steamship
Saturn, of the navy depart1
meat's transport service, arrived j
here to load supplies for the annual
summer campaign on the islands.
The Saturn is taking to the Pribilof3
eight expert fumers from a St.
Louis firm, which acts as the selling
agent for the government.
Except for the months of the seal
hai-vest, the Pribilofs are inhabited
by natives only. The government for
several years has be"fen trying to improve
living conditions for these inhabitants
and this year is shipping
north a complete modern water sys
tem.
enougA sugar in u. s.
TO LAST ALL OF 1921
The United States could get along
without more sugar from Cuba for
the rtyst of the year, according to a
statement made yesterday by the
Federal Sugar Refining Company i
after a survey of available supplies.
The statement declares that there
appears to be nothing for buyers to
do bpt to follow a hand to mouth poli J
cy, and thfct there is no indication'
the bottom has been reached. "Re-j
gardless of what is responsible for
present conditions, the statement i
goes on, "they are here and will bear j
close attention if further losses are
to be avoided."
Stocks of sugar in this country j
and supplies available from coun-l
tries other than Cuba, the review J
shows, would last until the middle of j
October, when the domestic beet and j
Louisiana cane sugar will be coming}
into the market in sufficient quantity
to provide for the remainder of the j
year. A total of 1,502,607 tons will j
be available for our requirements, j
and at he normal average consump- 1
tion rate of 333,333 tons a month, I
the review goes on, this would last j
over four and a half months.
"Raw sugar," says the statement, j
'held by refiners and importers totals ij
277,607 tons; refined sugar held by
refiners is estimated at 75,000 tons;
beet sugar stocks amount to 400,000
tons; the (balance of Porto Rican,
Hawaiian and Virgin Islands cx*ops
are 250,000, 320,000 and 5,000 tons,
respectively; the balance of Philippine
receipts of 75,000 tons and thel
balance of <- full duty' receipts
amount to 100,000 tons. Practically
enough sugar for the rest of the
year will therfore be available, even
figuring on only 600,000 tons of new
domestic beet and Louisiana sugars]
being distributed by 'December 31.1
There is a stock of 1,426,441 tons of i
sugar at Cuban shipping ports and
1,000,000 .tons more on plantations
or to he mad?."
McGEE HEADS BANK
At a meeting of the board of di_
rectors of the Bank of Sandy
Springs held yesterday Mr. W.
Frank McGee ,of this city, was elect- j
off president 01 tms institution. A I
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letter notifying Mr. McGee of his i
election states that the action of the j
directors was unanimous. j
Mr. McG-ee is now president of J
five banks situated in this and Ab_ jj
beville county, the quintet of insti-j
tutions being: Lowndesville Banking
Co., Farmers Bank of Iva, Bank of
Calhoun Falls, Bank of Mt. Carmel
and Bank of Sandy Springs.?Anderson
Daily Mail.
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DYNAMITE AMONG COAL
St. Matthews, June 15.?W'hile
engaged in unloading a car of coal
yesterday, the Calhoun Supply company
made a find that was not included
in their order.
Six lar^e sticks of dynamite all
neatly bundled together and caps to
suit were all snugly tucked away in
the recesses of the large lumps of
coal. Fortunately the caps had not
been applied but were In a separate
paper Many conjectures are made
as to how the explosive found its
way into the car. The consignees
state that it would seem that the
coal miner who was charged with
the blast must have, on returning to
the outer earth from the mine, carried
the explosive with him, riding
on the car until he reached his station,
and in forgetfulness, leaving
them for their long ride. Others
have suggested* the idea that imDroner
motives mav Jiavp hpen hp
hind the matter. However it got
there, the manager of the supply
company got abound gingerly and
handled the coal like precious stone
until it was definitely ascertained
that there was no more to be found.!
He will not include dynamite as a
part of the next order.
COMPULSORY VOTING
Representative Tinkham, of Massachusetts,
present the figures of
votes cast in elections in the Southern
states. The vote of South Carolina
last year was 65,737. As the
number of white men of voting age
in the state is now upwards of 200,000,
perhaps Mr. Tinkham will undertake
to establish that 135,000
white men were prevented, by force
of fraud, from voting.
Mr. Tinkham might attain his ends
by offering an amendment to the
federal' constitution providing that i
voting be compulsory.?The State.
Anyway 65,737 votes of good j
Souih Carolina Democrats are worth j
about 650,737 hybrid votes ih Mas-!
sachusetts or Milwaukee.
?Watch the label on your paper and
renew your subscription promptly. '
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