?VEOWEE COURIER, (EstabUfdlOd IH ID.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription Si Tor Annum. Advertising I tutos Reasonable. -Ky STICK. KIIKI?Olt s sel dom fully appreciated and never ad equately compensated. To these men and women i he people ol' Oco nee owe a deb, of gratitude that inns* over remain unpaid. The re ward ol' the teacher has ever boen, and will ever be. 'n.iinlv thal which (innes io thc individual through con sciousness of a service well rendered. And last Friday's pr>*codings mus? | have Impressed upon all the fact that this consciousness may well res I lo a marked degree in thc hearts of the groa I body of tea .'hers of t he public schools of Oconee. The Courier wishes io cypress lo these men andi women a measure of appreciation si i ii li ! though il bo when compared : willi the great work they are doing ol t'ie ends thal are being aimed at and toward t'he accomplishment of which they are devoting their lives ! All honor to the lea. hers of Oconee' Their force represents the truest and j best thai our county affords. There should be other occasions sucii as mat of last Friday. We should have moro'inspirations of the kind io bring u.. to a fuller appre ciation of ih<> g real educational work that is being accomplished in our midst lt is not loo mu' h to saj t hat to Miss Annie McMahan, Oconee's most efficient Supervisor of Kural Schools, is due i he g rea tesl measure of credit for tho succ?s-; of the Field Cay and School Exhibit. ll was through her indomitable will ind untiring efforts that the schools ol the county be came enthused over the nndcrtftk'.n lt is to her ability as a leader of ! he educational force.-; under her care that the people of the counlv owe the splendid demonstration made by i he various schools. The educational forces of ilu- county have worked to gether ia this in.;l.ame with a most commendable unanimity, and Miss McMahan had able assistance from tm- Superintendent of Education and the teachers of tin- public schools. Tim great showing made last Fri day gives -very ground for the hope and belief that Ooonee has set a new and more rapid pace ia educational matters, and that ever> school in the county will siriv<> diligently to he a winner in tho race for supremacy in educational work. Says th<> Columbia Stale: The Keovvee Courier Clinks that the towns of West Union and Walhalla should he consolidated, making a 'Greater Walhalla.' South Carolina greatness is already cornered by Walhalla." Tho beauty of that statement lies in the fact that lt is true not only geographically, but in a hundred other ways as well. This is the gar den spot of creation. IM)! l/lllV AM) DAIRY R.\ M IH IT. li. i ls Something Von Should Not) Miss-Ladles Invited. To you, Mr. Farmer, who have some rows thal give you ?1 surplus ot' dairy products, we are able to oiler a fine opportunity. The South em Hallway is lending us a dairy in- | st l io l ion ear and is going to end it through Oconoe county. This ?ar is completely equipped and will he accompanied hy experts from Clemson College, who will lec ture ?md give dairy demonstrations Mini answer your questions. There will ho practical demonstrations in ( I ) Dairy Farm Equipments, ( 2 ) Handling Milk and its Pro ducts, and (31 Uniter Making, as well aa oc turcs hy dairy experts. The car will he equipped with model poultry appliances, and the poultryman of Clemson College will he there to give practical poultry demons! rat ions. tho Cur's Schedule: April l I. Wednesday 'Anderson from M) a. m. lo 12 m., 2 lo i p. m. April lr? Thursday-Walhalla from IO a. m. to 12 m.. I .ttl) to ;t p. lu. April li! Friday Westminster from IO a. m. to 12 m., - to I p, m. April 17. Saturday Liberty from lu a. m. io II' m.. 2 to l p. m. April 111, Monday Kasley from in a m. lo I J m.. 2 lo I p. m. Api il :i?. Tuesday Greenville from I" a m. io 12 m., *_' to I p. m. April J I. Wednesday-Pel/.er from le a. III lo II' m., 2 io I p. m. \: l '?'2, Thursday Campobcllo ;iiiin I" a. m. lo I "J m.. *_' to 1 p. ni. Aie ?I Friday-Yorkville from 1 il 30 a. m. to I 2 m.. 2.30 lo I p. m. Ap- il 21. Saturday Koch Hill, from 1" a. m. io 12 m.. 2 lo I p. m. (lo to the slopping point nearest to you ind see and hear thes<> things Also, ask as many questions as you like. This is something yon cannot af ford lo miss' W. W. Long. State Agent and Director of Exten sion, Clemson College. Ladies specially in\ ited. CI A UH I. < . UOHIUXS SHOT. Stat?' F.xccut?oiici' shot hy Fleeing Xegro-Wound tirings Heath. Columbia. April in. .1. C. Hob bins, of Anderson. penitentiary guard, and his two blood hounds were shot while trailing a negro near Pinewood, in Clarendon county, Fri day, according io reports reaching Col umhin last night. Mr. Robbins and his dogs were colse on the flee ing negro when the fugitive turned and shot I he two dogs and Mr. Rob bins, the latter being hit in the thigh, il is slated. Mr. Robbins was brough to Columbia on the late train last night. Magistrate R. A. Cooper, of Pinewood, telephoned for Mr. Rohhins and the penitentiary blood hounds lo trail a neuro wanted for some minor offense. Mr. Robbins took the do.us io Pinewood Friday morning. They look up thc trail and were close on Ibo negro when he shot them. The neuro is said to have made his escape. Negro Wanted foi' Theft. Pinewood, April 'a. .lohn C. Hob bins, guard at tho Slate penitentiary and State executioner, was shot from his horse and painfully injured while pursuing a negro willi bloodhounds near hen- to-day. .had tireen, who did I he si.tinu. is a half-witted ne uro. Ile was surrounded in a cane biak?' and was not more (han 20 feet from Mr. Hobbins when the gun was hied The shot tore an ugly wound in the right hip joint. Tin* injured mau was hurried lo a hospital in Co lumbia by Dr. Frank Karvin. Mem ber., of the posse could not deter mine the seriousness of the wound, tint were apprehensive of Mr. Roh I bins's life. Later in the afternoon the negro was compelled to climb a tree to es cape the vicious bloodhounds. From the lier lie . hot and killed the leader of the pack and then made his way to the thicker coull HOS of the swamp. Three stores were robbed in Pine wood Thursday night and the dogs were brought from Columbia to trail the thief. Tho stores broken open belonged to A. c. stack. Mrs. C. W. Hates and A 0 Stotsky. Considera ble quantities of goods were taken. Entrance was made through Hie transom over the door in ot;e ease and in the ol hers bars wen pried loose from the windows. When the dogs arrived this morn ing the trail was followed a mile or more from town, a wagon having been held In waiting to pick up the robbers. Mr. Hobbins and those with bim then followed the wagon trail until they came to a negro house down tho road. Joel Oreen was sitting on the steps at the time. He gave no coherent answers to questions plied by Robbins and his deputies. Another negro waa plow ing in a nearby field, and the scour ing party passed on to tho plow hand. During tho interim Green got ilia gun and went to the woods. His actions excited the suspicion of Mr. Hobbins and those with ii i tn. Thc negro was followed, and when he had brou surrounded in a canebrake he immediately drew his gun on Mr. Robbins. The negro was command ed io drop his Klin, but opened lire before Mr. Hobbins could bring his own gun Into play. Negro Killed by Hesso. Columbi;! April IO.- -Joe ('.reen, .i half-witted negro, who shot Guard .1. C. Hobbins, of the State peniten tiary, and tho bloodhounds which were chasing him near Pinewood, Clarendon county yesterday, was shot and killed in a swamp near Pinewood by a sherill's posse this morning. The negro was said to have boon surrounded and .'tot shortly after daylight. Hobbins Succumbs to Wound. Columbia. April IO. J. C. Hob bins, penitentiary guard, who was shot down while chasing a negro fu gitive, Joel Oreen, near Pinewood, in Clarendon county, yesterday after noon, died at the Columbia Hospital at 5.50 o'clock this evening. His re mains will probably be taken io his former home in Anderson for burial. Ho ir survived hy a brother and two sisters, all of whom live in Ancdrson. Mr. Hobbins was about .".s" years of ago and unmarried. Ho had been connected with the penitentiary for seven years. Since the installation of thc electric chair he had been the elect roen i loner. Had ('aught Many Criminals. Mr. Hobbins had chased more ? ri ni i na ls and suspects than any oilier man in the Stale, il is said, and his bloodhounds were in con stant demand from every section to try and run down persons thought lo have been guilty of crimes. lie led the hunt for the desperado llctiry Austin. Hie negro who terror ized Barnwell and Hann ton counties and who killed several men himself before being mortally wounded ill Georgia and who died while being brought back lo Hampton. Mr. Rob bins had one of his best dogs shot while chasing a fugitive in th? swamp.1, of the Congaree river, in th? eastern section of Richland county recen t ly. RA I DIOR HI VS PAST HMOMV. Puteis Ne\V|M>rf News Sholl ?>f ( 'on ami Provisions, Ww port News, Va.. April I I -Til? Gorman converted cruiser Kronpriii: Wilhelm, another of those elusive rai.?els of commerce In the Som! seas, slipped into this port to-da, and asked for fuel and provisions. Many times reported destroyed the former North German I.los liner evaded hostile warships fo eight months while sile sent lift?'?': merchantmen to the bottom, and he officers say she was forced to stett her way through a fleet of four allie cruisers off this coast iii order t reach this refuge. "We got in without being seen b the enemy, and we can get out th same way," declared Lieut. Cap Paul Thierfelder, formerly navigai ing officer of the (h-iniati cruise Karlsruh?'. When she inchored oft Old Polli iii?' Wilhelm had less dian L'."> toil of coal and scant provisions for th crow of 500 mon and t>1 prisonei from British merchant ships sunk i the South Atlantic. Of the Rf tee ships that 'he drab-painted 13,00 ton cruiser came with a record ( capturing, ffourteen of them sunk nine were British, four Kreuch an one Norwegian. The British sbi ChasehiU, ( ca pt ii re l ?, w as allow( io proceed, liking to shore mot than ?500 prisoners from previoi raids. Tho value of these ships an their cargoes, officers of the Wilhel to-night estimated at $7,000,000. Remarkable Record, Since she slipped out of New Yoi harbor. August last, as a Germ* merchant and passenger steamer, tl Wilhelm never touched land ni took DUO prisoners from various ve s?'ls destroyed. Most of those wore sent lo Sou American ports on German sbi which mci th?' raider in response wireless cal's. Tho <"> I how ? board, who will be landed here t morrow, are British sailors tak from steamships Tamar, destroy March -?"> last, and Colehy, destroy March '27 last. The toll of (lestri: Hon credited to the Prinz Willie Included the following vessels: British steamer Indian Prim Capt. Gray, from Bahia for N< York with oofH'O and cocoa. Fi passengers, 31 officers and mi Sunk September 1. 1914. British steamer Lacorrentia, fr? LaPlatte for London with 5,600,0 pounds meat. Twenty-six pass? gers, 9", officers and crew. Sunk ( lober 7. 1914. French bark Un ion, Capt. Grei rle. from Port Talbot for Valparal with :t, 100 tons coal. Twenty-f< officers and crew. Sunk October 1914. freuch bark Anne doB ri tagne, Capt. Picard, from Fredrlkstad for Sydney and Newcastle with cargo of wood. Twenty-four officers and ? row. Sunk November 2 1, 1914. British steamer Bellevue, Capt. Robertson, from Liverpool for South America with 1,000 lons coal. Sunk December I, 1914. Thirty-four offi cers and cr? \v. (.'tench steamer Mont A gel, from Marseilles for South America, in bal last. Thirty-two officers und crew. Sunk December I, 1914. British steamer Hemisphere, from iluli for Rosarle, with 5,000 tons of coal. Tv; iv-six officers and crew. Sunk December 28, I 1 4. British steamer Potarlo, Liverpool for South America, in ballast. For ty-seven o Hice rs and crew. Sunk January 10, 1915. British steamer Highland Brae, Condon for Rue?os Aires, with meat and shoes. Fifty passengers and '.?1 officers and crew. Sunk .lan na ry I I. I !i 1 5. British schooner Wilfred M.. Capt. Parks. St. Johns for Raina, with tish and potatoes. Seven officers and crew. Sunk January 14 I:.;.">. Norwegian sailing sillp Semant ha. Capt. ll al versen, Linn ton for Fal mouth, with ?argo of wheal. Twen ty-three officers and crew. Sunk Cebu ray 5, 1915. French passenger steamer Guade loupe, Capt. .lassesu, Buenos Aires for Bordeaux, with general cargo. One hundred and forty-three passen gers, 150 officers and crew. Sunk Februa ry 2 '.. 1915. British steam?':- Tamar. Santos for Havre, with r.s.mm sacks of coffee Thirty-three odieers and crew. Sunk March 25, 1915. British steamer Cobby. Capt. Crighton. Rosario for St. Vincent, with ?argo of wheat. Twenty-eight officers and crew. Sunk March ::7. 1 !? I Th: British steamer Chasehill was stopped February 22, 1915, and af ter provisions had been requisitioned by the Cern.an cruiser, she was al lowed to proceed with 300 prisoners transferred to her from the Kron prinz Wilhelm. Thc second of the raiders brought as thrilling a story as did her prede cesor. th?' Kitel Friedrich. Her rec ord of destruction, howe.er. was ac complished with only four guns, two taken from the German cruiser Karlsruhe and two captured from the British in? rehaut steamer Lacorren tla, sunk October 7. 1914. Disposition of Prisoners. Lieut. Warnecke said that most of the one thousand sailors and passen gers taken from British and other al lied ships were sent from time to time by Gorman ships to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Santos. Three hundred and sixty from the French steamer Guad a loupe were sent ashore at Pernam buco. Several weeks ago. Hie officer said, the Prinz Wilhelm was getting short of coal and supplies and some of her crew and prisoners were afflicted with beri-beri. caused by lack of veg table food. I had hoped to get sup plies from the Cern?an ship Macedo nia, which was reported :<> have es caped from La.- Palmas. This vessel, they learned, however, had been cap Mired hy British ships. This hope gone they steamed non h and were in tom b with events transpiring regard ing the Prinz Kitel Friedrich. lt was reported to-night that the Wilhelm's original destination was Now York, bin that warnings were given noi to attempt lo make that port. Although officers would not admil it, the Wilhelm is declared to have been waiting far out in the ocean off this port until the ERol Friedrich was interned. As soon as this news reached her she was order ed lo creep in through the allied ships off the Virginia coast should they remain there. That lour allied ships wi're off the Chipes last night was asserted hy several of the Prinz Wilhelm's officers. One of them declared they were so close thal the sputtering of the wireless on the British and French ships could bc heard ahoul :! o'clock this morning. Thc signals from four of them were plainly heard, he declared. Probate Coori lo Close for Week. On account of my absence, the Court of Probate will be closed lur ing the business week commencing Monday, April 19th, 1915, and end ing Saturday, April 24th, 1915. The office will be open to those wishing to consult tho records each day from 9.30 a. !>>. to 12.30 p. m. V. F. Martin. Judge of Probate. Three Stricken, One Dead. Orangeburg. April 1 2. -Dan Bill son, the 12-year-old son of Henry Gibson, of Cordova, this county, died this afternoon after an illness of sev eral days. Three of Mr. Gibson's sons were stricken with the same malady, which tho doctors pronounc ed cerobro-splnal meningitis, and the other two, 'Mack Lee and Fritz, are now desperately ill. AnotKer C WIND AP DOC Bought Before 20 PER CE mid we aro going t<> give iliis building, or contemplate boil will SAVE many a Dollar WC ure in shape t. i S al.) V. P. MARTIN, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, South Carolina. Published on the ?Mst day of March and 7th day of April, lili."?, in The Keowee Courier, and on the Court House door for the time pro scribed by law. l ::-1 i MASTERS SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF OCONEE. In Court of Common Pleas. Pursuant to decree of the afore said Court, in the ease named below, 1 will offer for :,alo, to the highest bidder, in front of the Court ?louse door, at Walhalla, South Carolina, on MONDAY, tho Sd day of MAY. 1!H.">, bel ween tho legal hours of sal?', the lots of land below de scribed : Sallte M. Lewis, Plaintiff, against William I". Cleland, Defendant. All those six pieces, parcels or lois of land, on the South side of the Southern Railway, in the Town of Madison, Oconee County, South Car olina, known in the plan of said town as lots Numbers lon (IO), Eleven (ll), twelve (12), and thir teen (HI), said four lots being each lorty-nine and one-half ( lit ) foot by ono hundred and ten ( 110) feet, and thirty-eight CIS) reel of West ern side of lot Number nine (il), running back ono hundred and ten I (110) feet; also, a part of lot Nuin I ber fourteen (l-l) as follows: Front ! lng seventy-one and one-half ( 7 1 V? ) I foot on South First Street and twen j ty seven and one half (27 Vd) feet on j South Second Street, same one hun dred and ton feet deep, adjoining T. A. Silencer on the East, and lands of Jabez Jones on the West and South, moro fully represented by plat of i said town by William P. ErvIn on thc 20th day of August, A. D. 1878, Carload of tows JD >RS the Advance. m NT SAVED, to our customers. 11' you un ding in tho near fut uro, von by getting in touch wit li us. bettor WINDOWS. DOOKS, st ot" tho merchants can buy At ck full of BUILDING MA MK N'T, GA LV A X [ZED and (1, METAL SHINGLES, TN, NAILS. PAINTS. Etc. WC have the goods bought wo can save you money on WI) BUGGY MATE Rr AL, Y SUPPLIES. ?al you will want, und ask us 7 sell you. irdware Co., ter, S. C. noe wi wv GARDEN WIRE. and being the several lots conveyed to William P. Cleland by Jabez Jones by (baal bearing dale the -1st ol' August, 1909, recorded in Clerk's o thee of Oconee County, on the 22d day of March, 1910. in Hook "MM", page 119, and being the lots .' hereon the said William i'. Cleland now re sides. Ternis of Sale: Cash. That in event of failure of i ho purchaser, or purchasers, lo comply with the terms ol' salo within live days from day of sale, the Master do re-advertise and resell said premises on tito following saleday, or some convenient saleday thereafter, at the same place and on the same terms as heretofore set out. at the risk of Cte former'purchaser, or purchasers, and that he do con tinue so to do until lie has found a purchaser, or purchasers, who com ply with the terms of sale. l'un baser lo pay extra foi- papers and stamps. W. (). WH'ITE, Master for Oconee County, S. C. April 14, 1915. ' 1.">-I7 CITATION NOTICE. Tho State of South Carolina, Coun ty of Oconee.-(In Court of Probate) - Hy V. P. Martin, Esq., Probate Judge.- -Whereas, Mrs. Alice Mur phree has made snit to me to grant lier Letters of Administration of the l?state of and IO ff ec ts of W. ll. Mur phree, deceased Theso aro, therefore, to cito and admonish all and singular tho kin dred and creditors ol' the said W. ll. MURPHREE, deceased, that, they be and appear before nie, in tho Court of Probate, to be held at Wal halla Court House, South Carolina, on Friday, the ltd h day of April, 1915, alter publication hereof, tit 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, If any they have, why tho said Administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand and seal this 2fd h day of .March, A. I). 1915. (Seal.) V. P. MARTIN, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, South Carolina. Published on t ho ?5 I st day of March and 7th day of April. 1915, in Tim Keoweo Courier, ?ind on tho Court. House door for the lime pre scribed by law. i :',-i 4 SIMMONS POE RELIEF. Thc state of South Carolina, County of Oconee. i Court of Common Pleas. ) Mary Hare, J. Reid Hare. Ella Ivee, Waliace J. Hare, Alonzo ll. Hare, Harrison A. Hare, Emma Moore, Corrie Long, and Margaret Hare, hy Her Guardian nd litem, J. \V. Shclor, Plaintiffs, .against A. Towns Hare and Luther C. Hare, I lefendants. (Summons for Relief.-Complaint Not Served.) To the Defendants Above Named: You aro hereby summoned and required to .answer the Complaint In this action, which was filed In the office of the Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas for the said County, on the 1st day of December, 1914, and lo serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the sub scribers, at their office, on the Public Square, at Walhalla Court House. South Carolina, within twenty days after tho service hereof, exclusivo of the day of such service; and if you f n 11 to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in tho Com plaint. Dated 1st day of December, A. D. 1914. (Seal.) JOHN F. CRAIG, C. C. P. SI IE LOR ft HUGHS, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. April 14, 1915. * 15-17 AX 4