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_"TO THINE OWN 8?LF BE TRUE, A Xl) IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN."
By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER._WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SE1?T. 10, 1014. New Serie? No. 8?0.-Volume LXV.-No. :?7.
Spring Opening
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Queen Quality Shoes are the best American
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invitation to visit us and look at the new
Spring Shoes.
The Morning Hours are the
Mest and Most Convenient.
C. W. & J. E. BAUKNIG HT,
WALHALLA. S. C.
"IT PAYS TO BUY FOR CASH."
DO YOU WANT TO
STAY POOR?
Oct out of your head! tho iden ti int Poverty is something
you cannot help. ?tust so long ns you stick to that theory, just
so long poverty is going ito stick to you. People In most oases
are i>oor because they are too indolent-too careless-ooo
thoughtless. Sit down ?nd figure what you ure si>on<liiig-and
what you can do without. Not Hie things that cost dollars
hut (he articles (hat cost pennies. How many pennies do you
waste a week? Multiply Hint hy 52-multiply that in tura hy
50. You will (hen get some idea ol' why i>eoplo stay poor all
their lives. Fifty years of waste will (urn ??veil a millionaire
into a pauper-while 50 ycart of economy will make a poor man
rich.
-For tho pennies that are wasted are re
sponsible for most of the misery and practi
cally all tho poverty in the world.
WESTMINSTER BANK,
WESTMINSTER, S. C.
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.J? WALHALLA 4?
w 4* HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. 4?
In the preliminary reading con
teat for the 2d and 3d grades, Ruth
Hetriek, of the third grade, won and
will represent the school on Friday,
April Oth.
Tho hurdles will be run hy (Jordon
Kant, Colic Abbott and Sam Fret
well.
Tho following High School girls
will act as monitors on Field Day:
Mary Cornelia Harton, Clara Beth
ik Ballenger, Linnie Cudd, Pauline
Steck, Sarah Moss, Marion Hetriek.
Mildred Moore and Eunice Grant.
Tim ushers for the oratorical con
test are: Frank Barnett, Clifton
Cobb. Marvin Hurley, Ansel Umber
ger. Mason Hu Pre and William Hell.
. The distinction of carrying thc
school banner in the parade on Field
Hay will be given William Boll, who
has the best average among the boya
in the. school. William's average for
the session is 9 5.7.
Field Day, Friday, April Otb.
.* (Order of Events.)
Literary Contests-High School
building, 10.30 to I I a. m.
School Parade-12 m.
Dinner-School grounds, 12.IB)
p. m.
Athletic, Events-Main Street,
* 2.30 to r> p. m.
School Fair-Court House, 10 a.
m. to !? p. m.
Oratorical Contest--High School
Auditorium, 8.WO p. m.
? * . * ?
Honor Roll
6 for month ending Friday, March 20:
lo.h Grade Grace Heard 08.6,
Ethel Davis OL'.ti. Ansel Umhorger
o:i.
I '
9th O rade-Pauline Steck 90.6.
8th Grade-William Bell 96.8.
Ruth Brown 93.3, Inez Dont hit 98,
Alma Dunlap 93.6, Marion Hetrick
90.8.
7th Grade-Beatrix Gribble 90.7,
Mary Kelley 90.8, Floi.se Mont joy
93, Atula Robins 92.8, Annie Strut
ton 95.7, Frank Schroder 9.1.7, Wil
lie Stribling 95.1.
t?tli Grade-Derril! Darby !>2, Leo
nard Strutton 90, Eunice White 95.1,
Annie Wilson 95.2.
nth Grade-Willie Brandt 95.1,
Carolyn Rogers 98.
.Ith tirade-None.
3d Grade-None.
2d Grade-Ruth Ernest itt'?. Vero
na Kelley ?2.2, Elizabeth Thode 07.
1st Grade-Emma Dendy !'2, Ben
nie Harden 96.
LOW RATIOS FOR FIELD DAY.
Blue Ridge Announces Special Itntcs
for Next Friday's Event?.
The following announcement has
been made, by the Blue Ridge Rail
way of special rates for the Pleld
Day and School Fair In Walhalla.
The fares quoted are for round trip
tickets from tho point named lo Wal
halla:
From Belton .$ 1.7f?
From Anderson . 1.36
From West Anderson . 1.30
From Denver . 1.2 0
From Sandy Springs . 1.00
From A ti tun.0f>
From Pendleton. .85
From Cherry's Crossing.66
From Jordania.40
From Seneca.4 0
Children between ages of 6 and 12
years at one-half of above rate.
Date of Sale-April 0th, on trains
scheduled to reach Walhalla not later
than 12 noon.
Final Limit April 10th, to reach
original starting point (by midnight
of April I 0, I !> I .'?.
J. R. Anderson, Superintendent.
Ma?llo CHAMPION' NO MORE.
Jess Willard, Kansas Kid, Knocks
Him Ont in 20tli Round.
Havana, Cuba, April 5.-Joss Wil
lard, tho Kansas boy, is ibo now
heavyweight, champion pugilist of
the world. He knocked out .lack
Johnson, the black champion, in the
26th round of their championship
bout hero to-day. lt was Johnson's
light all the way until the 22d round,
when the vitality left bim because of
the hard pace which he carried
throughout the early rounds.
Then the giant plainsman opened
bis heaviest attack, and in the next
few rounds carried the light away
from the black man and toppled bim
over with rights and lefts to the
body and blows to the face.
Seventeen thousand persons saw
tho combat, and when Johnson
crumpled up on tho Moor from a
fierce right swing to the jaw, the
crowd burst into the ring. Soldiers
cleared tho ring.
Johnson took the referee's count
while lying on the ropes, but the
moment after Referee Welsh had
given the decision the former cham
pion got to bis feet in time to escai>e
the wild rush of the excited specta
tors.
Ready to Nab Johnson.
Chicago, April 5.-Federal Dis
trict Attorney Clyne announced to
day that tho United States govern
ment bad stationed men at the ring
side of the Johnson-Wlllard tight In
Havana.
"Sensational developments may be
announced later in the day," he said.
From another source it was learn
ed that Johnson, who ls under con
viction on a white slave charge, has
been trailed by Federal agents. It
was intimated that should he journey
outside the three-mile limit in Cu
ban waters or approach tho shore
line ol the United States he would
be taker, i i custody.
Three Killed by Burglars.
New York, April ;">.-Otto Zinn, a
restaurant keeper, and two of his
employees, a porter and a cook, were
killed early to-day In Zinn's restau
rant, supposedly by burglars. Zinn
and his wife, who slept over the res
taurant, were awakened by a crash
downstairs and the proprietor went
down to investigate. When be
failed lo return his wife called a po
Mceman, who found the restaurant
keeper and bis two employees in the
cellar. In thc cellar was found also
a safe which bad been moved from
a place on the floor above and evi
dently thrown downstairs. lt had
not been broken open.
Reside the dead men lay three
bloody cleavers with which the bur
glars bad battered in their victims'
heads. The police found also a re
volver and a set of burglar's tools.
There was evidence that the mur
derers had secreted themselves in the
cellar after eating a meal in tho res
ta", rant. At first they had tried un
successfully to cut through the floor
under the safe, then went upstairs
after the place closed and rolled the
safe Into the cellar. The porter and
the cook had been surprised and
killed when they came down to get
coal.
.Mansell Af,.lin in Trouble.
(Farm and Factory.)
Augustus Stansell, convicted some
time ago on the charge of assault and
?battery with intent to kill and sen
tenced to serve eight, years in the
penitentiary, and later paroled hy
Governor Blease, is in trouble again,
this time for having attacked T. H.
ft rooks with a knife, making an ugly
wound in the latter's face. The light,
was at the Seneca cotton mill late
Saturday night, and lt is said this
morning that both men were under
the Influence of liquor. Stansell has
not yet been arrested, but it is un
derstood that Rural Policeman John
Thomas will enter charges against
him. According to the terms of the
parole extended by Governor Please,
Stansell can now be sent to the peni
tentiary to servo out the fl ist sen
tence.
Indemnity ?228,000.84.
Washington, April ii.-On behalf
of the owners of the American ship
William 'P. Frye, sunk by the Ger
man cruiser Prinz Kitel Freidrich,
the United States, in a noto made
public to-day, has asked Germany to
pay an indemnity of $228,069.64,
which represents the vessel's cost,
freight, charges of its cargo and dam
ages resulting from being deprived
Of tho use of the ship.
Inasmuch as the cargo became
HEAVY STORM IN THE EAST.
Norfolk Flooded by Tide-H> Inches
of Snow at Philadelphia.
Washington, April 'Dio wea
ther bureau officials said that while
the Easter snow storm waa not un
precedented, so general a fall of snow
in April was unusual. The disturb
ance reigned from Northern Florida
to Maine, and brought with 't winds
that at times approached cyclonic ve
locity. A gale of 7 2 miles an hour
was recorded oft Cape Henry when
thc storm was centered over the Vir
ginia Capes. By the time the dis
turbance bad reached Cape Cod late
to-day it carried winds blowing sn
miles an hour.
Severe Storm at Norfolk.
Norfolk. Va.. April 3.-A north
east gale, which swept up the Vir
ginia coast early to-day, caused seri
ous damage bore, although no loss of
life has been reported. High tides
inundated many of tho principal
streets, in which water stood three
feet deep. Ali telephone, telegraph,
railroad, ferry and street car service
was put out of commission.
With all means of communication
cut off throughout the day lt bas
been iniposs'bie to ascertain what
damage, if any , was suffered by ship
ping. There has -been practically no
communication with Newport News
since early to-day, the telephone and
telegraph lines to that city having
been prostrated, lt also lias been Im
possible to communicate with other
nearby points, and it is feared here
that considerable damage was caused
in this vicinity by the storm, which
continued many hours, the high wind
being accompanied by a heavy fall of
snow and sleet.
No trains arrived here to-day.
Railroad officials reported they were
unable to give any information re
garding them until wire communica
tion was established.
Virtually all business in Norfolk
was suspended. In many of the
streets small boats were used as the
only means of t rallie. Launches were
used to convey residents across City
Hall avenue, one of the principal
streets of thc city.
Tho storm struck this section
about lt) o'clock Friday night, in
creasing in intensity with every hour.
About midnight the wind here was
blowing at a velocity of cu miles an
hour. At Virginia Beach a 75-mllo
wind was reported during the height
of the storm.
The storm is declared the worst ex
perienced in Norfolk since 1887. The
tide, lt was said, has been higher
and the wind's velocity greater than '
in 28 years.
Business Demoralized.
Haleigh, N. C., April 8.-The
worst storm in the history of Cen
tral and Eastern North Carolina
swept this section late last night and
early to-day, wrecking miles of tele
phone, telegraph and power lines and
completely demoralizing business in
a score of cities and towns within a
radius of 7;'? miles. Nearly two feet
of snow foll here. lt was accompa
nied by wind, which at limes reached
a velocity of 00 miles au hour,
wrecking a number of houses in the
outskirts of the city and filling the
streets with a tangle of trees, jades
and wires. Similar reports come
from Durham and other cities.
No loss of life has been reported,
although a number of persons were
injured.
Thousands of employees of colton
mills and other industries will be
idle for a week or more owing to the
storm wrecking power lines.
Nineteen Inches of snow.
Philadelphia, April -Nineteen
inches of snow fell in Philadelphia In
12 hours to-day, breaking all rec
ords for such a period in the history
ol' the local weather bureau.
Despite the gale, which reached a
maximum velocity of 52 miles an
hour, the snow did not drift much,
as it was too wet and heavy.
Trains to Atlantic City and Ocean
City, on both the steam and electric
roads, were annulled late in the af
ternoon and all wire communication
with tho seashore resorts on the
South Jersey coast ls interrupted.
British-owned while en route, no
claim for damages was presented by
the previous American shippers. It
ls reported that the Herman ambas
sador already }>as recommended the
payment of an indemnity for the loss
of the vessel.
J. F. CRAIG LOOKS HY Fl HF.
Kim Sunday Afternoon Bringo Lora
of Several Thousand Dollars.
Last Sunday afternoon the alarm
of fire was given when lt was discov
ered by neighbors that the residence
of Clerk of Court .lohn F. Craig was
buming, smoke and a small blaze is
suing from the roof of the main pari
of the house.
The first Intimation of the lire '
came to Mr. Craig as he sat with his i
children in front of the house. Ho
had .inst noticed and remarked upon
Hie large quantity of soot that was
falling when the warning of tire was
sounded from members of the house
hold ol* Mrs. C. (!. Strong, whore res
idence is next south of the Craig
property. The blaze was ibeyond
control, with Hie fire lighting appli
ances at command, and it was real
ized almost from the first Hu. tho
home was doomed.
The origin of tho fire is not
known definitely, but it is supposed
to have been caused by coal soot
catching fire in the chimney and fall
ing over on the roof. During the
winter Mr. Craig had been burning
coal, and on Sunday last, not need
ing so much beat, the fires had been
made with wood, and it is supposed
that the wood sparks started an ac
cumulation of soot in the chimneys
lo burning, and that particles of the
soot fell on to the shingle roof.
When efforts were made to get into
the garret of the house the bli ?e
there was so fierce that Dr. Craig,
who made the effort to get into tho
attic, was forced not only to aban
don this attempt, but also to leave
the tra]) door open, thus giving addi
tional draft to the flames. Within
half an hour the two-story building
was a heap of smouldering ruins.
Practically nothing was saved from
the upstairs rooms, but from Hie
lower floor a considerable quantity
of household goods were rescued,
and practically everything stored in
tho basement was saved.
Mr. Craig estimates that his loss
is about $3,500. Ho carried insur
ance to the amount of $2,000 on the
residence, thus leaving a net loss of
some $1,500 to $2,000.
Mr. Craig and family are at pres
ent occupying rooms in Miss VanDi
viere'e cottage on College .street un
til other arrangements can be made.
As soon as Mr Craig linds he is able
io re-build be will do so, locating a
new home on Hie old site.
lt was only by the most heroic
efforts that the cottage residence of
W. L. Vcrner, next door north, was
saved. The side of tho house next
to the Craig residence was charred
wherever the heat from the burning
building had an open sweep. For
tunately there was a low wall and
some shrubbery between tho two
places and these to some extent pro
tected thc lower part of the Vcrner
cottage. This was occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Seaborn, and they
lost Koine considerable amount
through damage to household goods
as they were hurriedly removed
from the house to the street. There
was great work done on this house,
every door and window in the place
being removed to tho street. Mr.
and Mrs. Seaborn aro temporarily
with Mr. Seaborn's mother, Mrs. .las.
Seaborn, on Main street.
The residence of Mrs. Fahnestock,
in which S. X. Pitchford and family
reside, just across the street, caught
fire several times, but each time the
blaze was extinguished with but lit
tle damage to the house. The resi
dences ol' Robt. Puckett and John P.
Hutchison, a block away, also caught
during the Craig fire, sparks being
carried by tho wind for several hun
dred feet.
Mr. Craig'? b>?s j? considerable,
and lie has hosts of friends here and
elsewhere who sympathize with him
in lils misfortune.
Hig Sun S|K>t Discovered.
Washington, April 4.- A large sun
spot has been discovered by the
Naval Observatory. The disturbance
showed on a photograph taken at
noon March 29, and probably will
be visible until about April 10. lt
ni"y bc observed by using one side
of an ordinary opera glass with a
piece of smoked glass.
-
Virtue is ils own reward, and a
good bit of it is counterfeit at that.
COAST STOllMH SINK BOATS.
Two Aro I/ostl, Third -Missing-About
100 Persons Bend.
New Yor.<, Ai?ril 4-Fears that the
steamer Prias Maurits, of i he Boyal
Dutch West indies Company Line,
had gone down, possibly with all on
hoard, were expressed to-night in a
wireless message received from tho
steamer Algonquin, which yesterday
.vent to the aid of the Prims Maurits,
reported in distress off Capo Hat
teras.
The message, from the Algonquin
said the last heard from tho Pries
Maurits were tho words: "Sinking
fast." Tho Algonquin's tnessago
adds: "No hiter nows was received
from her. hut all hands are supposed
to have perished."
riie Algonquin, of the Clyde
Steamship Company, which is on her
way to New York from Wost Indian
ports, sent word that she expected to
reach here Monday.
The Prins Maurits, which left New
York Thursday for West. Indian
ports, carried only four passengers.
She was commanded by Capt. H. .1.
Vandergoot. Tho steamer is of
1 ,:i28 net tonnago, 285 feet long, 38
feet beam and about 2 0 feet depth.
She was built in Hamburg in 1000.
The passenger^ were Mrs. F. T.
Wallace, of Philadelphia: Mr. and
Mrs. C. Miot, of Haiti, and a Mrs.
La Koche, of Wilmington, Del.
Word that tho Prins Maurits was
in distress came in a wireless mes
sage yesterday, supi>osed to have
been relayed by -a British cruiser.
She reported her latitude and longi
tude and asked for prompt help.
Several vessels, including tho Al
gonquin and tho City of Macon, went
to lier assistance. No further word
came from her or from tho steamers
that had gone to tho rescue until to
night's message.
The Prins Mau.i's, officers of the
line said, carried a crew of from 10
to 45 men.
Lnckenhach Lost; Mt Drowned.
Norfolk, Va., April 1. Tug Ed
ward Lucken bach was sunk off
Halse Capes yesterday. Sixteen ol'
lier crew of 18 mon are reported lost.
Ten Seamen Drowned.
Lewes, Del., April 1. Ten sea
men wore drowned yesterday off the
Delaware Capes in the const storm.
They were members of the crews of
tho Consolidation Coal Company's
barges Nos. 6 and 9, which founder
ed in the gale.
V. S. OBS LBV FHS RECALLED.
American Army Officers With Ger
man Anny Ordered Home.
Washington, April 3.-The five
American army officers on duty as
military observers with Cern?an ar
mies have been ordered here and
their places will not be filled. The
reason assigned by Secretary Harri
son for the recall order to-day was
that their mission had been fulfilled.
That, explanation, lt was announced,
would be the War Department's last
word on the matter. lt is known,
however, that other reas.ms, largely
Of a personal character, wero con
sidered hy anny officials in deter
mining to withdraw the observers.
The American observers have
found their positions .somewhat diffi
cult because of tho high tension
which at least a few of those willi
whom they must (onie .n contact in
Hern,:i ny have boen strung by
months of warfare and 'press reports
in Horm.my criticising the attitude
Of tho United States on vat ic us sub
jects relating to the war. The effect,
has been lo hamper tho observers
and open possibilities of personal
friction that might become Interna
tional, and officials hero are under
wood to have determined to with
draw the officers rather than that any
unpleasant incident should occur.
Best Ho F ver Saw.
Fair Play, April 3, 1916.-Editor
Kcowee Courier: Enclosed find
check, for which change date on my
subscription to January 1st, 1916.
Yours very truly,
H. M. Lovlnggood.
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