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Oldest Newspaper In South Carolina* VOL. 75. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11,1911 NO. 37. HEYWARD COUNTY. ?ovemor Ansel Has Ordered Election to be Held on Feb ruary 7th to. Vote on New County. Gov. Ansel1 yesterday ordered an election to be held on ihe question of forming a new county out of parts pf Aiken and Edgefield conn ties to be known as Heyward coun ty. ' Th? election will be gheld on February 7 of thia year. In issu ing the order Gov- Ansel states that all constitutional requirements haye been met. Tl?e area' of the pro posed county is 405 square miles. Should the new county be formed . there will be left in Aiken county 820 square miles of territory . and 501 square miles in Edgefield coun ty. North Augusta may- be th? ??unty seat. James U. Jackson, president and promoter of several Augusta enterprises,' has been lead ing-ibis fight. V A commission was appointe J last ??3y by Gov. Ansel to make an in investigation of the question, fol-j lowing a petition filed, asking that an election ,be held. The commis sion was appointed under an-an act passed by the general assembly in 1905. The. petition filed / was -iwice amended on.tetfStiicalities . The last amendment was the ;most'imp^?5i"X This involved the question of the new county linc passing through the town of Ellen ton. Gov. Ansel decided that the . limits of the town of Ellenton were only one-half mile, therefore the line ?id not pass through au incor porated town. This last, amend ment settled all objections, so far . as constitutional" requirements are concerned. -The legal fight' for the new coun ty has been led,by George T. Jack son of Augusta, and.E. H. Welch of this city. Tte work of Mr. : We.lc?! has .been most prominent. He represented successfully the 'movements for the \counties-of Cal houn and Dillon arjd was given a banquet in Dillon in recognition of his services. \ History . of The Fight .^e^lj^wjogr^s^ thq,.j3u>t?ry. -af ?lils very interesting ?gSS^^^S county for North Augusta: The first petition was filed in this case in 1906. ~ This proposed new county was to be formed out of parts-of Edgefield, Aiken and Barn well counties. The. election failed to carry. Thereafter anptlter peti tion was filed, heaving all of Barn well county and taking in more of Edgefield county in lieu of i;hat left oiit of Barnwell. This movement was known and for the first time, as the "Hejjsvard new county." The first movement was known as the "Hammond new county," . Gov. Heyward, when this petition was filed, in pursuance of the act of 1905, appointed the commissioners, one of whom was Theodore G. Croft, now senator from Aiken county. In the Courts. When the commissioners were appointed and just as they" ware be- j ginning to perform their duties un der this act, an action was brought to enjoin the commissioners from proceeding any further with their on the ground that tho pro sed county of Heyward was the ?ne as the proposed county of imniond, and, that the constitu article 7, section 2, provided I^An election upon the question of brining the same proposed new >nnty shall not be held oftener m once in 4= years. " This case was fled and. known as Lamar vs. roft, ariel was heard by Judge [ames Aldrich, who granted an in- j raction irestraining the commis ioners from proceeding any furth \-with the performance of their itics, holding that Heyward coun would be the same as Hammond 1unty would have been and that j ur years h'ad not elapsed since the ?tion wau held upon the question | tb.3 formation of Hammond lty. appeal was taken from this 1er of Judge Aldrich* and the county people won, the su ie court holding that what was same proposed new county, that rhether Heyward was the same )sed new county as Hammond a matter solely and exclusively the discretion of the gover ano1 that the judiciary had no ?iction to interfere with, the pernor in the. exercise of this ex ive* discretion. fter this decision the commis rs proceeded with the perfor ?ce of their duties and later on >rted io the governor that all jrequiremeuts of the constitution I been oomplied with. Fell Short by Only ,13 Votes. sreupoia Gov. Heyward or tho election to.be held on iber 4, 1906. The new conn ty failed to carry this time by t narrow margin of about 18 v?t the new county, being required the constitution to carry by a vc of two-thirds. After this election a bill was i troduc?d in the general assembl session of 1907, apparently to re ulate in general the formation new counties, but aimed specifical at this new county. It. was inti di?ced by* J.' Emile Harley, then tl representative from Barnwell. T; provisions of the bill were that 1 new county should be created who county seat should be within fo miles of the county lines, etc. Nor Augusta is on the proposed line. In the Legislatu re. The new county people in th territory came over in large nur bers and presented their cause the general assembly and by a d cisive vote the house killed the bil The new county people then wei borne and a short while thereafto 1 arlother bill was introduced in whic only one of the provisions of tl first bill was embraced, namely, tb? hereafter the governor should ord* another -election for the creation ( 'fio new county, the boundaries < which, as required in section l,.'a I tide 7, of the constitution, sha embrace one half of the area of new county in which the. electic for. it^cre^?on^s^ touryears?rom the date of the fi ing of the petition in such ne county. These provisions passed the hons j in the session of 1907, and whe ?the bill reached the senate late i session Senator Smith from Hamr ton took the floor, and reading.th speech of George t>. Tillman d< livered at St. Matthews upon th question of the formation of ne1 counties, began to deliver a speec really intended as a filibuster. Tbi soon became apparent to all th senators pro and con, and by a ger eral understanding the bill'was con tinued. -, At the next session, tha in 1908, the bill passed the senate and was later cn approved by th governor ?nd is now a law. The Lins Changed-Again. Before this bill became a law, be tween the sessions of 190.7 and 190i the petitioners filed the third peri ti oil ?!tiv thi? .irpyera.or,:itt-.:whici they left out a.bout 35 square mil?f of the Aiken territory erabracec within the Heyward new count} movement and took in about 3' square miles more from Edgefield This made a change of something like one-fourth of the populatioi and wealth. It was argued by the new countj people that this wa3 a subsequenl change of Heyward county and thal therefore the governor should gc ahead and give them an election ? Gov. Heyward, upon this p?tition, appointed the commissioners aftei hearing the arguments of whethei or not it was the same proposed new county as Heyward. This was in the closing days of Gov. Hey ward's administration. Before Another Governor. When Gov. Ansel came into office a petition was filed with him in the same matter seeking to amend the petition filed with Gov. Heyward. In the meantime one of the com missioners had died or resigned and Gov. Ansel had to fill this vacancy. By consent of counsel on both sides, it was agreed that the question of whether or not the new county then proposed to be formed was the same as Heyward within the meaning of the constitution. 'Gov. Ansel there fore set the date for the hearing of the question whether he would al low the amendment and Whether or not then he would order the election or refuse to do aa on the ground that the proposed new county was ' the same as Hammond. After hear ing the argument he decided that the proposed new county was sub staniially the same as Heyward county and that as four years had not elapsed since the Hey ward coun ty election he would not order the election. Had to Wait Four Years. This decision necessarily post poned another election upon the proposition of the formation of this new county for four years. In the spring of this 'yew a petition was (filed with the governor in which he was asked to appoint the commis stoners and let them begin the per formance of their duties by gather ing all the data required by the act of 1905, and have the same ready for him so that when the four years had expired, to wit: On December 4, 1910, he woujd be in position to immediately order the election. Up on the filing of this petittion Gov. Ansel appointed commissioners ;.nd they immediately organized and proceeded to gather the data. It was ascertained during the progress of the survey that the pe tition as filed took too much terri tory from Edgefield, that is Edge field would not be left with the con stitution requirement of 500 square EDGEFIEL 1 Hon. Thos. H. Rainsford miles. An amendment was asked and allowed reducing the amount of territory taken from Edgefield and the report of the surveyors showed the new county contained 405 square ?qUesjand Edgefield 501, and that Aiken"contained a great deal more than 500 square miles. . A Kew EUentenRow. When the report was^fileji with the governor the position wastftj^en by Col. D. S. Henderson,. Sfnatot Croft and Mr. Gyles, that the boundary line of the proposed new county'passed through the incorpo rated limits of the town o? Ellenton. The situation as to Ellenton is this: In 1874 the Aiken-Barnwell county line was established. In 1880, six years later, .the town of Ellenton was incorporated. The act of in corporation reads: "And its lim its -shall extend one-half mile, in the direction of the cardinal points, from the depot of the Port Royal & Augusta Railway company as a center, and form a square." . It- was contended/that the "corpo rate limits of Ellenton .were partly ioJSar?welL.county.'- and- partly in Aiken. county. ' The new county advocates answered this by saying that even though this be so the con stitutional inhibition was ^'hereafter no county line shall be so estab lished as to pass through any in corporated city -e or town of this State." Section 14, article, 7. Act Not Retroactive. It was argued that the Aiken Barnwell countv line was establish ed in 1874 and that as Ellenton was incorporated in .1880, and assuming that its corporate limits did extend ayer the line into Barnwell that the proposed new county line was not 'so established" as to pass through the incorporate limits of Ellenton, that all that the 'new county people did was to adopt the Aiken-Ban well county line, and if it passed through the incorporate limits of Ellenton that this was the situation or status not created or brought about by the new county people.but, on the contrary it existed for 30 years, and that therefore in the sense of. the constitution the new county people were not establishing a county line as to cut the incorpo rate limits of the town of Ellenton. This matter was argued at length before Gov. Ansel and pending his decision upon the matter the ques tion was raised as to what really were the incorporate limits of the town of Ellenton. Upon this ques tion the governor had a hearing on the 29th of December. . A Close Shave Was This. ' Upon a reading of the description of the incorporate limits it will be seen that a square is to be fonhed. The opponents of the new county argued that the square would be formed by drawing the four radial lines and then erecting perpendicu lars at their termini, thus forming a large square with an area of one square mile embraced within it. The advocates of the new county argued that one would form the square by drawing the radial lines one-half mile in length and joining the same, thus forming a square of one-half square- mile. In support of their decision the new county advocates showed that the title of the act forming the town of Ellen ton was "An act to incorporate the town of Ellenton in Aiken county." And the body of the act throughout showed that the legislative intent was to locate the town wholly'with in Aiken county. It was argued that by subsequent legislation the general assembly had recognized Ellenton as being within Aiken county. The supreme court in the case of Croxton vs. Treusdtl, 75 S. C., 423, refers to said facts as dem onstrating the legislative intent to locate the town wholly in Aiken county. The governor, after hearing these arguments on January 3,; 3pll, held after giving the .. matt^' mitch thought: "The case bas teen ar gued before me by the c<|jmsel in . the case. * - . "The question is an 'iWiprtant one, for if the town embaces the one square mile then the l?fg>of the of the proposed new counts-would pass through an incorporatj3''town, otherwise not. Ilk I^After giving the' matta? 'much I thought, and considering ?ih? au tboriues-tbat have been-tafead ?nd the evidence^1adduced, Iliaife-come to the coneluaio?Kthat the limits of the town of Ellenton do not em brace the area of one TbC^|square, but one-half mile, and th&^conse quently the line of the p^jposed new county docs not ruttfJhVo^gh, an incorporated town. V v-> "The.other facts necessary to en title the people in that territory to^ a vote upon the propositibn||aving j I been reported to rae by the com- j mission an order for an. election will bo made."-The State.."!;. The Gas Engine. I Farmers who shelter their/ ma chinery in the field during the win ter are not apt to make muct? of a success of the gasoline engine in farm work. The gasoline engine is a very handy power, and is deserv ing of widespread popularity. It will fill many niches on a good sized farm, and very few of ns have begun to know its value. But it must be well cared for and kept well housed, for there are certain conditions under which it operates that are simple, but inexorable. It will balk quicker than a mule if the conditions are not right. Any far mer can get valuable assistance from a gasoline engine if he will give it proper care. Its care is very simple. First comes protection from the weather. A tarpaulin is a very good cover for an engine that is best kept out of doors and even one housed is better if kept covered when it is not in use. Live batteries are necessary. Electricity is the spark of life to a gasoline motor. A clean spark plug is necessary at the other end of the battery wire. The mixture of gaso line and air must be just right for the most effective work at the great est economy of power, although the motor will work aid waste gasoline. Adjustments of this kind are sim ple to learn and should be under stood by the man who has charge of the engine. A frequent cause of j trouble is the failure to strain the gasoline when filling the tank. Pay but little attention to men who claim that their gasoline is absolutely clean, or the result will be disas-l trous. Either strain the gasoline! through a chamois or a finely mesh ed strainer. Good lubricating oil is another important essential. Ko gasoline engine can give its best service unless it is properly cared for and housed.-Farmers Union Sun. Dissolved. "So you broke your engagement | with Miss Spensive." "No, I didn't break it." ?'Oh, she broke it?" "No, she didn't break it." . "?But it's broken?" "Yes, she told me what her clothes cost, and I told her what my income was, then our engagement sagged in the middle, and gently dissolved."-Houston Post. He Spoke From Experience. Willie (who has an inquiring mind:) "Father, what is a sage?" Mr. Hennypeck: "A sage, my son, is a man who always agrees) with his wife." L l Hon. J. H. Courtney JOHNSTON LETTER. New Residences Going Up. Mrs. M. T. TWner Entertains. Moving Picture Show in . New Turner Hall Mrs. Orlando Sheppard, Jr., was carried to the hospital in Columbia, for medical treatment,' and it will be a great pleasure to her friends to know that she sc ems much improv ed. . Miss Maud Nickerson is at home from a week's stay in Augusta with friends. " . , Two more pretty residences will, at an early date, grace west' main street. j" Mrs. Hattie Parish, and Mr. AV i 1 .liab^Wright, Sr., have purchased lots, alni^ontracts have beep given Jklr. M. T. "? Turner for building the houses. . \ Miss LilliePaV.rish, of St. George, was'a welcome visitor here this 'Mr. If ugh Iyey, of the Georgia railroad is here for a few weeks after several* months' absence. Mr. Corrie Sandifer, who has re cently finished a' course in book keeping at Draughon's Business College, Columbia, has returned to Columbia to accept a'position in the National^Biscuit Company. Miss Mattie Lee Bailey, of Lex ington, is the guest of her uncle, Mr. H. C. Bailey. Mr. Hugh 1 Mitchel returned on Friday to Charleston to finish his course in pharmacy. Mr. and Mrs. Ayer, of Bamberg, have been guests at the home of Mr. Wilmot Sandifer. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Price, of flor ence, have been here for a few weeks. Prof. B. C. Monroe, of Fairfax high school, spent last week here with his brother, Rev. Monroe. Mr. ?eo. B. Merchant will move his family to Greenwood this week, where they will make their future home. Miss Sara Waters has gone to Springfield to visit her sister, Mrs. David Philipps. Last week, Mr. Walter Crim carried his little son over to Atlan ta for medical treatment, as during the past year the child has had much trouble in attempting to walk. It was found that he was suffering from paralysis, and the physician urged Mr. Crira to leave his son at the hospital, and they trust that after the three months' treatment, his limbs will be restored to their proper use. The firm of LaGrone Bios, has sold out their stock of goods to Mr. J. H. White, who will continue the business. One day of the past week, Mr. M. T. Turner entertained a few of his friends with an elegant dining, and the day was a most enjoyable one to all., Those who partook of the hospitality were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Tompkins, of Edgefield, and Dr. and Mrs. B. L. . Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dozier,' Mr. and Mrs. Manning Simmons and Mrs. Eliza beth Smyly. Messrs. Boyd and Collins have rented Turner hall fer the winter months, and they have arranged a splendid pastime for these winter evenings. They give two sets of stereopticon views each evening, and always have a good crowd. They also have a piano and other musical instruments, and between the changing of the pictures,.the music is much enjoyed. The show is as good as ispeen in any city. Mr. and Mrs. Westmoreland have moved here from Batesburg. The members of the Methodist circuit remembered Rev. E. H. Beckani, their pastor, with a new year's pounding. Their gifts were most numerous. Mr. James LaGrone is at nome from a few days stay in Florence. The week of prayer was observed hei;e by the. different societies of the Baptist church,fand the offerings to foreign missions were splendid. From the woman's n missionary so ciety there was something over ?70. The Y. W. A., which is at present a small band gave -$15, and the sunbeam band, which is the banner band of the state gave ?35. Mrs. Ona Denny Reese, of C?n garee, is the guest otf her father, Mr. T. R. Denny. Messrs. Walter Hill and Elliot Simkins were visitors here ibis week. Splendid Work of Foreign Mis sionaries. . ' / Mr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, an excellent agricultural journal published in Raleigh, N. C., is making a tour of the Orient, writing weekly let ters to his paper. ?In his last letter, written from Korea, he gives the following strong endorsement of the work of foreign missionaries: "Perhaps in nb country in the world has missionary work been more successful than in Korea (there arc probably 125,000 Protest-/ an?s now while there were only 777 thirteen years ago,) and I have been interested to .learn that there is ab solutely no" trutli in, the Japanese newspaper reports that immense numbers of native Christians are leaving/the church since annexation. On the contrary, reports from all over the country are . good; and Seoul itself is just now in t-baj midst of a most thorough-going and successful Christian revival, with 1,800 conversions reported during the first ten days. At a Methodist mission school I visited this morning, I found that a hun dred of the native pupils had been canvassing the t?yn a few- hours for three successive afternoons-with the result that'they had brought in the names of. 697 Koreans express ing a des|re^^^^G^u^C^r^^^^ ^ tvisiohs; ' each de nomination ha^ its own sphere of activity, preventing duplication of effort, and ray general observation has convinced me that the criticisms of foreign mission work sometimes heard in America, are based on radical misconceptions, of condi tions? over here.' Even tho non Christians, unless they be men of immoral lives, speak in high praise of the splendid work of the mis sionaries. A typical expression is that found in the latest issue of the Shanghai National Review, now be fore me, which may be expected to speak impartially. Referring to an address by Dr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the London Times, it says: "Dr. Morrison eulogized the work of the missionaries and we cannot conceive that anybody who really knows of their work at first hand, not, as it is to be found in ex treme cases, but as ordinarily car ried on,, should do otherwise than eulogize it."-Seoul, Korea. The Editor Regrets. "When I was city editor of the Virginia City Enterprise,'-' remark ed Mark Twain at a dinner in Kew York, "a fine turkey was ' one day left at the ofiice and we all hanker ed after this bird. The proprietor, though, claimed'it for his own. He took it home and had it cooked for dinner. The next day, as he was ex patiating on the turkey's richness and tenderness, a letter was handed to him. He opened it and read : "Mr. Editor: "Sir: Yesterday I sent you a turkey which has been the cause of much dispute among us. To settle a bet, will you kindly ask your ag ricultural editor to state in tomor row's issue what it died of." Resourceful Tommy. "Tommy," said his teacher, so "you're ndarly twenty minutes late, why is it?" "It's the walkin,' madam," said Tommy Greene. The walkin' is that bad down where I live that, for every step forward on the way to school thisjnorain' I took two steps backward." The teacher smiled scornfully. "At.that rate, Tommy," she said "you'd never have reached school at all," "No more I -would, ma'am, said Tommy Greene, so I turned round to go home again, and in a little while here I was at the school house." He: "I wish I had money enough to travel I would'ntbe here." She: Wouldn't that be delightful!" BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE. ; , < . \ ? .;. r : ' v m m + . . . - '? \ . . i ? ' . , ' A Friend of Mrs. Elizabfeth Do zier Charlton Writes Very Beautifully of ,Her Life. Mrs. L. Charlton was born more than three score years and ten ago, near Little Saluda River, in'.that part of old Edgefield district now forming Salada county, where so many useful men and noble women have been reared, to serve our coun try and adorn our homes, and of such it can be truly said: "From men like these our country's .grandeur springs; That makes her loved at . home, revered abroad, * Princes and Lords are but, the breath'of kings, \ A.n honest man's the noblest work of God." Mrs. Charlton was a daughter of Mr.- Allen Dozier, Sr., a Baptist trinister, a successful planter and courtly southern gentleman of the i:ite-bellum type. She joined the^. Baptist church at Red Bank, early" in life and lived and died in thc Christian faith. She had fastened.to the head of her bed^ long before ar d at her death, these words print ed in large type: "The God of the everlasting hills ?B my refuge:',' She ' had three brothers, one died young, 1 Dr. Wm. Dozier, the other two\ James A. Dozier, Esq., a noble member of the Edgefield bar,: and. Dr. Allen Dozier; a skillful physi cian, were both kind hearted gen tlemen, well known and greatly be loved by all who knew them. There were two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Mobl?y who died several y pars ago, and Mrs. Julia Holstein, that fond saint-, ed mother-who passed away in 1909, after spending 'over fifty years, as the faithful wife of .. our beloved neighbor Mr. M. N. Hol stein at their hospitable home on the Ridge. Mrs. Charlton passed through the misfortunes of the war and the horrors of reconstruction with undaunted courage.At the close of t ne war she mam^^m^tain ?y, }f the best families' in'Tennessee ind a gallant soldier, wt?o loBt his right arm in the1 battle .of Shiloh iud who did heroic service to our country in the memorable days of '76, when he was elected as Probate Judge and moved to the town of Edgefield, where Mrs. Charlton re sided till her death on .the 5th' of December last. During her noble husband's life time, her inviting lome on Main street was for many, rears one of the most popular re sorts of social life, where her manly lepliews and beautiful nieces would )ring together the flower of youth. These charming nieces, whom she gathered about her like a bouquet )f roses, attracted unnumbered roung men, who completed the de ightful circle. There in the stilly iight, oft and again, some fond roting lover would burn the fires ow, while enjoying the glories of ove's young dream with one of her sweet, attractive njeces. A number >f our most distinguished judges ind lawyers were frequent visitors it her home and she had many 'riends all over the state. She pos sessed a bright,active mind and had i strongjforceful character and all ;hat rare taste and refinement of the jure southern lady of the old school, she never had any children. Some me has truly said that it is ? sad lome at Christmas where there ape io children. This holds true all the rear. Tais, -with the loss of her de rated husband, made her desolately , onely ir her old age, so th^t sh? soon began to. fail in health and 1er last days were much secluded Tom social life, often ^suffering jreat bodily pain, but "she bore up imid her sufferings with true Chris tan fortitude.TheHolyBible was in 1er hand daily and afforded her lopeful comfort and her dreary lays were brightened with fervent grayer. She also was a constant reader ami her bright mind was sept busy to the last gleaning from .he newspapers beautiful thoughts, vhieh she collected into manyen ertaining scrap books and a mutual :riend of hers and the writer, truly ?aid in a letter of condolence, She vas a noble woman and her life viii be held in loving remembrance )y her numerous friends as well aa 1er sorrowing relatives." To show 1er faith, we take these lines from i scrap book, in which they were lasted by her own loving hands: 'Bc still and know that I am God, Me thought I heard an Angel say, Life's trials are but sent on earth, To fit us for the judgment day. What tho' storms and clouds may gather! What tho' trials here beset us, What tho' friends forsake and leave us, .' Jesus never can forget us."