Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V MONDAY, SttfTEAlDEiit XV, 1961 NEGRO PAYS PENALTY Centerville, Ala., Sept. 15.?Clyde Thomas, negro* was hanged here totiia murrfpr of the 15 year uajr ivi wiv ... v. _ old daughter of a farmer of Bibb county on August 9? Thomas was brought here early this morning on a special train from i Birmingham under guard of company I Infantry, and the Birmingham machine gun company, Alabama national guard. A company of militia and two machine gun detachments were con-1 stantly on duty during the trial. At j the conclusion of the trial the court ordered the prisoner removed to Birmingham. Thomas attacked the victim on aj lonely highway, and left her body in | the woods by the roadside. . NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. ' T Bids will be received by the Abbeville County Highway Commissioners until 12 o'clock noon, Thursrday, September 22nd, 1921, at the office of L. W. Keller, Superivsor for the construction of 7.57 miles of top soil road in Abbeville County from tyhe city limits of Abbeville to ue Greenwood county line, better known as the Abbeville-Greenwood road. The work will consist of the necessary clearing and' grabbing, excavation, culvert pipe, headwalls, topsoil, surfacing, and such other work or material as may be necessary to J complete the work according to the J plans and specifications of the Coun-; ty engineer. Further information as to quantities and class of work to be done will be furnished by H. B. Humbert, County Engineer. Bids will be sealed and on the prescribed form, and must be accompanied by a certified check or a corporate form, and must be accompanied by a certified check or a corporate surety bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, made payable to J. S. Stark, Chairman, as a guarantee . that the bidder will, if awarded the contract within ten days after notice of award enter into written contract and execute satisfatcory bond " ~ thereof in the; lor me pei\iviui?>u.. ?. sum of one third the contract price. Bidders must satisfy the Commission of their ability to perform the work. The right is expressly reserved to reject any or all bids. Done at Abbeville, S. C. this 3rd day of September, 1921. J. S. STARK, Chairman, L. W. KELLER, Secretary. Sept. 7, 3wks. m j MOTOR I (Transfer Station | Phone 414 ' i IP YOU WANT TO MOVE 1 OR IP YOU WANT ANY- | i THING HAULED. . 1 | PRICES REASONABLE. | y """".'I WL+.'I'IW | COTTON ! ; ; * < ' ? . < | > | Stocks and Grain ijl UNITS 10 BALES UP. Rom St, Son* Prorate Wire i|| M. C. Smithy Mgr. j! ' j 204 Commercial Bank Building ] ! !' X I ' j I GREENWOOD, S. C. : Ws+WMttWffltWWKttSiWSS93Wi I PL JMBING I i and ?, ^ j I HEATING J c I Pemoline Super tile | \ | and porcelain clean- 1 I ser, guaranteed to 1 remove rust or any I i kind of stains from 1 I enamelware. f::j 1 Reasonable Prices. I I RALPH TURNER! j3 Phone 6 | < ? c PEOPLE PLEASURE MAD Dr. Thomas Tell* Methodist* Folki Real Problem. London, Sept. 15.?Modern ministers are trained as mere 'salesmen' instead of Christian apostles and that is one reason why the people generally have a luke-warm attitude toward religion, declared the Rev. Dr. J. S. Ladd Thomas of Chicago, in an address here today before the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. The speaker said he saw "a real ? /J/vn/vmina+rinTU pciil 1X1 wilt? Oil VI W VI al leaders to force the ministry into a narrow and mechanical scheme whose direct aim is to produce the largest immediate revenue. "Poorly attended churches all over the land bear witness to the people's indifference toward institutional religion," said Dr. Thomas. "Full churches are the exception rather than the rule. It is the empty church which stares us in the face and, "more eloquently than words' speaks of the attitude/ of that large group of people who have rejected institutional religion as something unnecessary in their lives. "They are pleasure mad; thej have a mania for materialistic indulgence, while their belief In the modern church as the representative ol God and the Ambassador of Chrisl does not express itself. The rea! problem," the speaker Indicated, "if how- to vitalize the church so thai may authoritatively and convincingly persuade men of their divine inheritance and the mission of sacrificial service." Asserting that "the average artisan lacks confidence in the church as the champion of th( "square deal," he continued: "This indifference has arisen froxt a misconception of God?a wrong teaching of God?a wrong teaching of the Christian life. In many of tht critical hours of history the churd has failed to impress the world wit! an authoritative message?whicl would bring light in to the dari hours on the sulbject of war the re lations of capital and lalbor and other vital questions which have beer baffling the minds of men." "Prophets and priests," Dr. Thom as said, must challenge the peoph with a gospel that 'will restore confi dence in the church, trust in Chrisi and service to the world. The churcl mast not' forget her social message but she must also remember thai Christianity is a religion of the in dividual." WAR FINANCE READY WITH $1,000,000 FOR FARMERS Washington, Sept. 1'5.?The Wai Finance Corporation announced t^a] that it was ready for business in con nection with the distribution of up wards of $1,000,000 in agriculture and livestock loans under recent con I gressional authorization. > Circulars have been mailed to al farmers' organizattpns, banks anc financial institutions in the agricul tural and livestock sections of th< country setting forth the manner ii which applications for advance: should be made and local committee! have been appointed to handle th< requests. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF AD MINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, ' COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Probate Court. By J. F. Miller, Esq., Judge of Pro Whereas, Brown Bowie hat made suit to me, to grant him letter of administration of the estate an J effects of Mrs. Nancy J. Agnew, lat of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore, to cite am I admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Mrs Nancy J. Agnew, deceased, that the; be and appear before me, in thi Court of Probate, to be held at Ab beville Court House, on the 24th da; of September 1921, after publicatioi hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon i - * 'i* i.1 l t-? co snow cause, 11 any tney nave, wn; the said Administration should not bi granted. . Given under my hand and seal o: the Court this 10th day of Sept. ii the year of our Lord one thousanc nine hundred and tewnty-one and ii the 146th year of American Inde pendence. Published on the 12th day of Sep tember 1921 in the Press and Banne: and on the Court House door for th< time required by law. J. F. MILLER, 9,12-3t. Judge of Probate. J EX-CONVICT WANTS OLD CELL # ' 1 Eight Years in San Quentin Destroyed Prisoner's Desire for Liberty Seattle Post-Intelligencer. San Rafael, Cal.?Eight years [ within the walls of San Quentin dei' stroyed all desire of Leo Ricci of .'Sacramento to be a free man. After j 'being at liberty just two weeks he , | returned to the gates of the state 1 -Li J -1 ? J ?54--U >' prison recenny aiiu pieoucu mw yi.? , J on authorities to return him to his old cell, the only home he knew. .1 Ricci was sentenced for mani slaughter after a killing in a little ! town near Sacremento. A short time 1 ago he was given his freedom, a suit j of clothing and $5 and he started for San Francisco to enjoy life, as !1 he thought. But he discovered that . J $5 was not as it used to be. Gone , were the free hinchfcs and the cup .' that cheered the days of his young >' manhood. One look at the rftsh of s ] strangers in Market street and he ' was homesick for the home folks in . San Quentin. One square meal cost [' him practically his entire "roll," but > he managed to save enough for fare back to San Rafael. r fie was ' found sleeping in the grass just outside of the new cell building. He knew that this was a r violation of the prison rules for a . convict to return to prison property [ and hoped that the infraction wound j secure his reincarceration. He was ; j haled before Hyron Clark, captain of the prison guard, and begged to be taken back. Clark, instead, brought him here! , to San Rafael and askecl the co-opL eratin of local authorities to find I him a ioib. PLANTING FALL WEHAT. t' >1 Clemson College, Sept.?A great ? many farmers are preparing to plant j 5 a fall crop of wheat this year. W4] 1 heartily approve this practice of j 1 raising wheat for home consumption 1 and believe it should be more c generally practiced, says Prof. C. "P. j " Blackwell, agronomist, wha believes 1 that our yields are too low here to 1 make it a profitable crop to plant as a money crop but that it does pay a " farmer to plant enough for his own 5 use. He suggests that after the " wheat is removed in the spring the ' land may be planted to either cow1 peas, soy beans, peanuts or a late J crop of corn. * Most of the wheat crop of this state " is planted in cotton or corn middles. This is a very good practice especially if the three-tube drill is used to do the planting. If the land is plowed ' in preparation for wheat, it should be plowed as early as possible and r medium deep. But land should not 1 be plowed deep just before planting, tot wheat needs a firm seed bed. I Varieties?There are several va1 rieties of about equal value, some * being best in some seasons and others in other seasons. The varieties * generally giving best results are Blue * Stem, Leap's Prolific, Red May, and Deitz Mediterranean. i Time to Plant?The best time to 1 plant Is the earliest Sate possible to 3 get the wheat up after frost. In 3 order to avoid Hessian fly damage, 3 wheat should not be up until after * frost, but the sooner it comes up after frost the better the yield can be expected. Rate of Seeding.?If seeded with a drill on ordinary land, five pecks per acre is best. If seeded broadcast it is best to use six pecks per acre. Fertilizers.?During ordinary times > it is not profitable to make heavy applications of commercial fertilizer h to wheat. For average South Caros lina land 200 pounds of acid phosd phate and 100 pounds of cottonseed e meal at time of planting will give good results, if 50 to 100 pounds of d soda are used as a top dressing in the i- early spring. Wheat should not be i. planted on very poor land with the Sr expectation of getting a good yield, e Costa Quarter To Spank Private 7 At the junction of two roads in i New Jersey Sunday motorists have , halted in either indignation or amusement when a small girl, wearJI ing a policeman's hat, hailed them and demanded a fine of 10 cents for f speeding. 1 "The men generally laugh and sur1 render," said the owner of a country 1 store nearby. "And most of the time - the women do, too. But the other day three girls came by. They'd been - held up three times before at the r same place. This time they reached 2 out, pulled the youngster in the car and spanked her. Then they had to make it up with a quarter."?N. Y. Sun. CARL WILLIAMS TALKS TO FARMERS OKLAHOMA MAN SAYS COOPER. ATIVE MARKETING STRAIGHT FORWARD BUSINESS PLAN FOR CURE OF EVILS IN SELLING COTTON. Columbia, Sept 15?Declaring cooperative marketing to be a concrete, straight forward business plan for the cure of evils surrounding the marketing of cotton?evils which cannot be cured by political medicine? Carl Williams, of Oklahoma, president of the American Cotton Growers' Exchange, Saturday advised South Carolina farmers to join the South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. He told them that on every sale already made by the Oklahoma association, which is now functioning, every farmer member has gotten two and a half cents a pound more for his cotton than he could possibly have gotten individually. "I come to tell you ' of a remedy which other farmers are taking and to offer it to you but not to force you to take it," said Mr. Williasm. "Those farmers who are taking it are finding that it actually cures the disease. I refer to cooperative marketing, associations, which this year will handle for the farmer, and by the farmer and with the profit to the farmer 12 per cent of the cotton crop." When it became noised on Aug. 23 and 24 that these farmers had obtained credit in excess of $60,000000 and that they were in position to market their crop gradually instead of dumping it on the market, Mr. Williams said cotton .advanced fViroo ppnts a nound in two davs. N _ The history of cooperative marketing was briefly reviewed by the speaker, who said that it dates back one hundred years in Europe. It has been tried on every conceivable plan and commodity. He told of the experience of the raisin growers in the Fresno valley of California. They had been losing about a cent a pound on their crop for years; the speculators were making money. They formed a cooperative marketing association and in 1913 sold raisins for the first time at a figure that was anywhere around the cost of production. Each year thereafter the price advanced. Mr. Williams declared that cooperative marketing association should be organized by commodity and not by locality. They should be statewide. A local association is necessarily a weak one. It was poor management as a rule and is subject to competition. The association must be it- J x ' ine aominmii laciui m i^o n-mwij. The contract should be legal and binding and for a long term, not less than five years. The long time contract is necessary in' order 'that the association might make satisfactory business arrangements. He told, foi example, of a South Carolina mill which entered into negotiations-with the Oklahoma association. He said the mill told him it didn't care to abandon established channels just for one or two years. When he told them the contract was for seven years they began dealing with him. Nobody but cotton growers are eligible for membership. It is an organization of, by and for the farmer and its object is to get a larger portion of the spinina* nnVo fnr onftnn than the farmer now gets. In Oklahoma the association advances 60 per cent of the value oi the cotton to the farmer the day h? turns it over to the association. The remainder is paid him as the the pools are sold. All cotton is placed in pools and the pools are basec on the season, each farmer getting the same price for the season for th( grade of cotton he turns in. The association goes into the mar ket and hires expert to work for th< farmer instead of against them a! they have been doing. "We find tha" a good man would rather work for u: than for private corporations," h< said. Oranges have been made to pro duce a fine quality of vinegar. An inventor spent 15 years per fecting a letter cancelling machine. I Watches may now be kept in rub ber cases made for them. ' Switzerland has adopted a standan voltage for electric circuits. GOMPERS IN ATLANTA Federation of Labor Begin* Campaign in South. Atlanta, Sept. 16.?Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, yesterday began his campaign in the South to assist textile workers. He recently announced that he would devote much 0 , effort to the bettering of conditions for the mill workers. Jin his first address Mr. Gompers let loose his full power of invective against Joseph M. Brown, former governor of Georgia. Mr. Brown had attacked the federation president! through an advertisement. I USE OLD TIRE .Your oldest casing mi of miles that we can day it may come in i "spare." Bring it in a I?We advise only su< . Our skilled methods ment will make your serviceable. We make all kinds of izing shop, using gei tory Repair Material Drive in today with y H. E. P AT CITY ERE ;! ; SrxAu/ f power to continue ( ' v^Vof service and be j *._ *v years wriu< CITY G 'Abbeville ij It is presumed that while Mr. Gompers in in the South he will take a hand in the printers' strike which has been in progress since May 1, ? without seeming to have made much headway. ' ? I ENGRAVING I S of all kinds. Ijj I Office equipment I 1 and supplies. I Books .. Stationery! > | RED FREW | SS5!!!r ggaBB^^ S AS SPARES I 1 ly have in it hundreds | save for you. So'me 3 mighty handy as ' a 1 ,nd let us look it over J ih repairs as pay. '% and complete equip- 1 old tires strong find 1 repairs in our vulcan- ft luine Goodyear Fac- 1 ' u. our old tires. I j ENNAL I GARAGE. I _____?? ^ . s * - W wen Brothers. arble and V.' S. F ranite Co. IGNERS IUFACTURERS CTORS largest and b??t equipped monvisntal mill# in the Carolina*. GEENWOOD, S. C. - 'V ' - - ; ' * %'-i mricjL? despite the hardships yond the limits o? / ;n guarantee IN a 13^^ mat battery ARAGE* - - s. c E /