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KI? "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB HAY: THOU OANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. * ' or Our Mr. J. E is now in the kets buying Spring, oe have the lat Spring Goods to Walhalla. C. W. & J. E WALHAL JB> It PAYS TO Bl Good Cit A bank account makes a assertion, but it is universal] A good citizen is one who ing, and who does things co Of the community. The mai independent; be is thrifty; 1 lie contributes to the gelten His funds are in circulation, make things go. Likewise property in a community is .munity prospers. We pull I count. The Westrni When You Think c THE WESTM WILLIAM II. PENNEY DEAD. Was Well Known in Oeonoe-Lady Sustains Painful Injury. Bounty Land, Feb. 1,0.-Special: Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hopkins and two children/of Anderson, are guests of relatives in the community this week. Mrs. Elbert Bottoms is quite ill of pneumonia. Her friends hope for tier convalescence. Mrs, Mary Lou Myers and little daughter, of Oakway, are visiting in the bornes of W. D. and J. R. Wright. News of the death of William IL Penney, which occurred in Piedmont on February 13th, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clara Wenck, will be '.eceived with regret by bis many friends throughout this and other counties. Mr. Penney was about 7 4 years of age. He was a native of Abbeville county, but when a lad of about 12 moved with his father, the late Rev. H. H. Penney, into this community, where bis young man hood was spent and where he re ceived the greater part of his educa tion. He served during the last two If you can be fit ted from sizes 1 to 4* this is yoi] opportunity. CLEARANC $2.50 and' $ From our stock of Wonien's Lace bled tho small sizes-from 2}? t< from our regular lines. It seems boyong on small sizes, so the only rapidly is to mark thom at a sacrlf VALPES PP TO Blumenthal's WESTMINE LBaukn?ght Eastern Mar Goods for We expect to rgest line of ? ever brought . Bauknight, -LA, S. C. UY FOR. CASH, jet tizenship. good citizen.* That's a broad y true. is independent, self-support nduclve to the best interests i who bas a bank account is ie is able to pay his way, and il wealth of his community. Ile pays taxes and helps to a man who has money and anxious to see that the com er the man with a bank ac inster Bank, if Banking Think of INSTER BANK. years of the War Between tho States. Mr. Penney was an uncle of Mes dames D. A. 'Perritt and Jasper Doyle, of this community. The many friends of Mrs. A. S. Rollins, nee Miss Ixiizo Perritt, will learn with regret and sympathy of a painful injury she received from a. re cent fall. She was immediately rushed to a hospital, and last reports of ber condition were favorable. Mr. and Mrs. Rollins live in Charleston. Mrs. A. C. Ballenger, who has been spending some time with rela tives In Sandy Springs, visited her sister, Mrs. J. B. Pickett, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bennett, of Rich land, spent the week-end with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. IO. L. Stone. Junior Bally, March ttl st. A rally of the junior societies of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Beavordam Association will be held with the Immanuel church, nt Westminster, on Saturday, March 81. The program will be published later. Mrs. J. P. Armstrong, R. A. Supt. Mrs. C. I). Boyd, Sunbeam Supt. 3.50 Values. und' Hutton Shoes we havo nssein > 4. They ure the accumulation ne\t to Impossible to avoid over way we have of clearing them out Iced price? $:i.r>0 ut $1.85. Bargain Store, 4TKR, S. C. DEMENTED MAX KILLS TWO. ?razed Murderer Finally Killed by - Injure*! Woman's Husband. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17.-Secreting himself in "the home of his mother- ? in-law, where his wife had been liv- ; lng since their separation, Claude Anderson, recently released from the State hospital for the insane, to-night shot and instantly killed (lev. Gaston E. Buford, killed Mrs. M. Zahn, his 1 wife's mother, slightly wounded .Mrs. W. J. Zahn and was himself killed by W. J. Zahn. Mr. Buford, who was the pastor of the Moore Memorial Presbyterian church, liad rushed into the bouse when he heard the shots and screams of the wounded women. Mrs. Anderson, who was in ano ther part ol' the building when the shooting occurred, told the police that Anderson hid In a room, and that when Mrs. Zahn entered he opened lire. Her daughter-in-law. at tracted by the sound of the Hiing, ran to the room and also was shot when she entered the door.. In the meantime. Mr. Buford, who was passing with his family, ran into the house and Anderson killed bini al most instantly. W. .1. Zahn, who conducts a busi ness near thc residence, was attract ed by the sound of the severnl shots and with his partner hurried to lils home. He succeeded In wresting from Anderson one of the pistols he was using and shot him down. Itev. Mr. Buford, who came here five years ago from Louisville, was 4 2 years old. When the restricted district here was abolished he be came known for his activities In aid ing unfortunate women. (At an inquiry Into the tragedy, W. J. Zab* , who killed Anderson, was exonerated by a jury, though a more formal hearing may be had later.) THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA. Government Forces Moving- Against Hel>els ot Santiago de Culm. Havana, Feb. 18.-Sunday passed quietly ns far as revolutionary activi ties were concerned, only a few mi nor brushes between rebels and gov ernment forces being reported from isolated places. With Giego de Avila in its hands and communication with that point re:established, the government prob ably is concentrating its forces for an attack on Santiago de Cuba, which city is still in the bands of the rebels. Gen. Rios and Gen. Ramos at Manza nillo, with 2,000 men, and Gen. Cc breco at Baraco, with a strong force, are preparing to march against the capitol of Oriente province. The partial elections, which were scheduled to be held in Oriente Feb ruary 20, and which, lt wns expected, would settle the long drawn out dis pute as to whether President Meno cal ts to serve another four yenrs as President or step aside for Alfredo Zayas, Liberal candidate, will not be hold on that date, the President by special decree having suspended them. A new date for these partial re-elections will have to be fixed by the. Provisional Electoral Board. Quarrels over the .election dispute led to the present uprising. HARRY "STARTED .SOMETHING." Says He Bought "Five Star" Througi> Poliee-Arranged Channel. Columbia, Feb. 16.-That a name less Columbia policeman* was an in termediary for a negro "blind tiger" wag the sensational charge voiced on the floor of the House of Representa tives this afternoon by Harry R. Hughs, of O'conee county, in the de bate on the DuRant prohibition bill. Mr. Hughs claimed that the police man arranged to get him a quart of Five-Star Haig and Haig Scotch whiskey which he later received. The mayor of Columbia and super intendent of the police department said this afternoon that the charges of Mr. Hughs would be investigated and a thorough probe made Into the police department. He said that a meeting of council would probably be called, before which Representative Hughs would be invited to appear. During the course of debate, Mr. Hughs, who ls against the "bone dry" prohibition lill, but ls for tightening up the present "gallon-a-month" law, said that whiskey was floating plenti fully. "Why, gentlemen, only last week I got a quart of Five Star Haig and Haig Scotch whiskey through a Co lumbia policeman," he stated, "and you can do the same." One Killed, Three Injured. Macon, Ga., Feb. 16.-John Hud son, aged 20, book-keeper for a cot ton firm of this city, wns killed; J. Gus Pursiey, of Haddock, ls badly In jured, and W. A. Cleveland, of this city, and A. S. Bonner, of Haddock, were slightly hurt late to-day when an outomobile in which they were riding turned turtle on a Jones coun ty road. Hudson and Cleveland left here this morning for a hunting trip and were joined by the Haddock men. Tl\ey wore on their way home from tho hunt when a wheel collapsed and the automobile turned over twice. Hudson was killed instantly and Pursiey was pinned under the car and received several broken bones. WASHINGTON"?} BIRTHDAY. Appropriate Exercises Will Ho Hold lil School Aliditorhnn Thursday. Washington's Birthday will be ob served by tho pupils of the high school. Appropriate exercises will bo held in the auditorium at 10.30 a. ni. After tho exercises visitors will he served a lunch prepared by high school girls. At the same time a Parent-Teachers Association will be organized. The public is cordially in vited to attend. The following program has been arranged : Song by school-"Washington." "The Birthday of Washington" Robert Rogers. "The Mother of Washington" Mildred Caner. Song by second grade-"There are Many Flags." "Betsy Poss and the Firs! Flag" Claro Sloan, Walter Duckworth and Maxie Lee. Instrumental solo- Carrie Da rhy ll a rr ?son. "The American Flag"-William Boll. Song by Fourth Grade-"The Hit tie Hatchet." "Washington, a Man of Genius'.' Eloise Moiltjoy. Flag Day Exercises-Sixth (Hade. Chorus- "Carry Me Back to Ole Vlrginny." Acrostic-Soeond tirade Pupils. Song, "Our Country's Flag" Fifth Grade. "Washington"-Wilton Cobb. Vocal Duet, ".Miserere"- Ruth Brown and William Bell. "Hike Washington"-Frank Sloan. "The Death of Washington" Marion H et rick. Song by School, "Cheer Old Glory" Eulogy on Washington-Alina Dunlap. "The Tomb of Washington"-Inez Douthlt. "The Grave of Washington" Julia Duncan. High School Chorus, "America." YARROWDALE MEN RELEASED. Disposes of One of Most IVessing Question of Critical Moment. , Berlin, Feb. 16.-The American seamen who were brought prisoners to Germany on board the British steamer Yarrowdale have been lib erated. Can't Postpone Trouble Much Longer Washington, Feb. lf>.-News of the liberation of the 72 American seamen brought to Germany by tho prize ship Yarrowdale came to-night after President Wilson and other ad ministration officials had retired. Their release disposes of one of the most pressing and irritating phases of the German-American situation. With Provident Wilson's approval, a note peremptorily demanding of Germany that the Americans be re leased had been prepared at the State Department and was expected to go forward to-morrow. There virtually is no hope here, however, that the hour of more seri ous trouble with Germany can be postponed much longer. '.Many responsible officials of the administration have come to the con clusion that unless there is a prompt and decided change in "he general at titude of Germany toward the inter ests of the United States, the appear ance of President Wilson before Con gress, to ask authority for protection of American lives and projverty is ? nly a matter of days. Any doubt existing as to the ruth less character of the new submarine campaign and Its violation of neutral rights long since has disappeared and the situation ls being made more and more grave daily by aggravating in cident's. American Sailor Given Hard Time. Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 15. Warrant Officer Hardy, of the Ameri can gunboat Scorpion, station ship nt .onstnntlnople, arrived here last night from Constantinople after an experience of arrests, detentions and trials. Hardy left Constantinople on January 30 and was taken from the train at Sofia, Budapest and Vienna, but was permitted to proceed. At Dresden. Germany, however, he was detained in a military prison foi three days. Thence he was forward ed to secret service headquarters at Berlin. After an investigation he was per mitted to proceed to Warnemunde, where be was again detained. Tho Germans apparently feared he might be carrying information, for be was subjected to the full course of acid washings and other scientific meth ods of detecting communications written in sympathetic Ink. His uni form and effects were searched in the most thorough manner. Gerard Guards Speech. Paris, Feb. 18.-James W. Gerard, the former American ambassador to Germany, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given at the foreign of fice by Premier Brianti to-day. A distinguished company was present, including diplomatic representatives of the entente powers. Mr. Gerard was accompanied by the American ambassador to Franco, William G. Sharp, and both were re cipients of many marks of cordiality. Mr. Gerard carefully avoided any thing in the nature of a speech or nu expression of political views. 11'HOltH FOU THF MA UOU TIC HM. Couti of (ienorul Sessions Will Con veli? ill Walhalla on Mureil 5th. The Court of Ooneral Sessions for Oconce county will convene in Wal hall? on Monday, March 5th. Judge l-l. F, Rice will preside. Following are the gentlemen who have been drawn to serve as grand and petit ju roi s: (?rund Jurors. Abbott, J. M., Seneca township. Burris, Ottie, Center township. Cantrell, J. S., Keowoo township. Collins, S. H., Wagoner township. Lawrence, (?. B., Seneca township. Mutkey, J. C., Wagener township. McMahiin, A. A., Seneca township. Nichols. H. A., Walhalla. Sears, J. N., Seneca township. Simmons, W. H., Seneca township, Thomas, W. L., Center township. Wheeler, s. S., Tu gu loo township. Following ls n Hst of tho hold-over grand jurors, drawn from the 1916 panel : Reardon, J. M., Westminster. Hunt, W. lt., Chattooga township. Moore, J. S.. Seneca townslbp. Ramoy, Andrew, Chattooga tp. Sf mt h. J. S., Center township. Smith, W. IS., Keowee township. Petit Jurors, Alexander, Decatur, Wagoner tp. Alexander, F.D., Keowee township. Barker, Joshua, Keowee township. Hoggs, J. C., Tuguloo township. Brewer, J. A.. Seneca township. Cobb, W. M., Wagoner township. Couch, J. Q., Tugaloo township. Cox, J, L., Keowee township. Davis, J. O., Tugaloo township. ISdgens, E. M., Whitewater tp. FOB ter, Charlie,Wagener township. Giles, W. E., Center township. Gillison, Paul, Seneca township. Grant, L. M., Keowee township. Hawkins, C. W., Keowee township. Herring, B. 8., Center township. Hood, J. C., Wagener township. Hunnlcutt, J. Fulton, Keowee tp. Julian,'A. W., Seneca township. Kerr, H. H., Wagener township. Marett, J. E., Center township. Meares, G. F., Center township. Moore, W. P., Center township. Myers, C. C., Center township. Pike, W. C., Tugaloo township. Richardson, J.R., Center township. Sanders, J. F., Newry. Shirley, G. W., Seneca. Smith, R. W., Keowee township. Smith, W. T., Seneca. Stone. H. P., Seneca township Stone, W. H., Tugaloo township. White, L. F., Keow'eo township. Wilson, R. M., Tugaloo township. Zimmerman, C. L., Westminster. Oconec's New Tax Assessors. Governor Manning last Wedensday made the following appointments of Township Assessors for Oconee county: . Walhalla-J. A. Steck, Wm. A. ?rant, Geo. 'M. Ansel. Westminster-J. Q, Dreazeak, K. W. Cannon, W. S. Prichard. Seneca-W. K. Livingston, J, W. Byrd, H. M. Tribble. Wagener Township-Marshall Ab bott, J. L. Vaughn, C. R. D. Burns. Seneca Township-J. J. Ballenger, T. M. Elrod, T. W. Brock. Center Township-W. T. Hunt. Joe Hi Allen, G. T. Meares. Keowee Township-Geo. R. Pike, J. E. Kelley, J. Fulton Hunnlcutt. Whitewater Township-J. H. Wlg Ington, A. L. Whltmire, W. J. Beard. Chattooga Township-Albert M. Brown, J. S. Callas, F. G. Barker. Pulaski Township-Geo. Mathe son, M. H. Lee, John Thrift. Tugaloo Township-J. D. Dunlap, J. D. Hull, Mont L. Jones. New Mexico's Governor Dead. Santa Ke, N. M., Keb. 18.-Gover nor IC. C. Debaca died this afternoon at 4 o'clock of pernicious anemia. The end came so peacefully that for several minuter lt was thought the Governor merely was sleeping. W. E. Lindsey, Lieutenant Gover nor, Republican, automatically suc ceeds to the executive ofllce. Governor Debaca was the second Governor the State lias lind. The Brat was Wm. C. McDonald. Villa Keeps 'Em Guessing. ICI Paso, Texas, Feb. 1 8.-Francis co Villa, whose movements have been a mystery to bis enemies as well as to the m'ass of his followers, has made his way to the west coast and embarked for Japan, according to W. L. Crawford, a well-known cattleman of Dallas, Texas, and former Texas ranger, who says his source of infor mation is one of Villa's most trusted agents and a man personally known to ' lm to be reliable. Rainfall for Week. Rainfall for week ending February 19th, at 7 p. m., Is furnished us by H. W. Brandt, co-operativo observer. Tho record follows: Date- Inches rainfall. Fob. 14-Ptlycldy. Feb. 15-Ptly cldy.68 Feb. 16-Clear. Fob. 17-Ptly cldy.17 Feb. 18-Ptly cldy.35 Feb. 19-Cloud v.1.54 Total for six days.2.74 To-day: Rained hard last night; still raining this morning. Somo thunder and lightning. NATIONAL GUARD OHDKHKI Demobilized-Second Infantry Only S. C. Troop* on Border. Washington, Keb. 17.-Orders woro issued by the War Department to-day directing Den. Funston to be gin the Immediate demobilization of all National Guard units remain lug in border camps, and lt ts expected that the last troop train will bo on Its way North by ?March 7. Den. Funston still will have nearly 50,000 regular troops under plants worked out by the general staff. Thu command Includes all of the troops who were In Mexico, and their distri bution was carried out under the di rection ot* iten. Eben Swift, who WAS with the Pershing expeditlon. (Jen. Pershing will remain ut Kl Paso. Secretary Maker emphasized th it tho withdrawal of the State troops :s in no tony connected with the crisis with Germany, but carries out a pol icy determined on long ago. The or der was issued after l?en. Kunstou had reported that with the new dispo sition of regulars he felt that be h<ad enough men to meet any border exi gencies that might arise. The num ber of guardsmen remaining and to be demobilized under to-day's order is about 53,000-. Administration officials aro under stood to have been convinced by tho reports of special observers for the State Department and the army that while it may be possible for Villa and Zapata followers to commit mi nor depredations in thc sparsely set tled region west of Kl Paso, tbore is little possibility of a recurrence ol' raids In the lower Rio Orando coun try. lt ls also desired that tho Carranza government be embarrassed as little as possible in its efforts to control Mexico. (Tho only unit of the South Caro lina National Guard contingent re maining on the border is the Second Infantry, Col. H. B. Springs com manding. Included in this roglmeut ls the Columbia battalion, Major Trelaney H. Marchant, commanding, as well as the Charleston battalion. The First Infantry, Troop A (caval ry, Charleston Light Dragoons, ) Field Hospital No. 1, and the Johnson En gineers already havo returned from the border.-The State.) Subs (XV Cuban (Toast. Calveston, Keb. 18.-Four German submarines are lurking off tho coatjt of Cuba, ready to begin a reign ol' frightfulness as soon as wnr ls de clared, according to the Information brought to Galveston to-day by Capt. Nason, of the American steam Schooner Kort Bragg- Capt. Nason says ho obtained the information at Guantanamo, Guantanamo harbor has been closed by an anti-submarine iwet which stretches across the entrance. Capt. Nason declared, and permission to enter or leave tho harbor must be obtained from the commander of the battleship Montana. Of the 4 4 United States warships In Guantanamo harbor when the dip lomatic break occurred, only the Montana ls left, Nason says, the oth ers having scattered Immediately. GEN. FUN8TON DEAD. San Antonio, Texas, Feb. It). (jen. Frederick Funston, comman der of the Southern Depart meut of the United Staten Anny, died here to-night a few inimit?s niter lie collapsed while in a local hotel, where ho had gone with a party* of friends. Attending physicians say the cause of death was neut? Indigestion. Gen. Kn ns( on had just tin is bed dinner and was playing with a small child when he fell uncon scious. Ile wnfl taken to u coom, hut physicians were unable to re vive him. Vi S. thicks M en oca I. Washington, Keb. 19.-Reports of progress by President Menocal's forces against Insurgent bands In Cuba Increased the hopes of admin istration officials to-day that peaco may be re-established in tho island without American Intervention. It has been made plain that the full moral support of the United States government will bo given tho Meno cal administration, and it was said late to-day that no additional steps were In contemplation for th? pres ent. Americans Have Been Released. Berlin, Feb. 18.-After it had be come known In Berlin through tho official communication of tho Swiss minister here, says the Overseas News Agency, that tho American government had neither confiscated Gorman ships nor had made prisoner the crews of tho German ships-..*<? originally had been reported In Eu rope by a nows agency-the German government immediately orderod tho release of the Americans brought to Germany on the steamship Yarrow dale and asked tho ?Spanish ambassa dor, Polo de Bernahe, no to inform officially the American government at Washington. '