Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, August 13, 1919, Image 1
"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FALLOW AS THE MCHffi
By Steck, Shclur HugliM & Shclor.
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNj
Old Style Hulls
C. W. & J. E
MERCHANDISE J?
WALHA
IT PAYS TO B
Note? from Litiu- River.
Little River, Aug. 9.-'Special:
The farmers of this section are hav
ing plenty of rain, and have had for
the past mouth. Crops are good con
sidering the chance they have had,
but they are not so fine as they
were last year.
Mrs. D. N. Alexander ls very sick
nt this writing, but we hope to hear
of her being well soon.
Mrs. Lillie Whitten and two chil
dren, of Walhalla, were welcome visi
tors in this community inst week.
Mrs. Whitton lived here before she
married.
N. A. Lusk, of Glenville, N. C., '.3
visiting his brothers, W. H. and L.
G. Lusk, on Smeltzer Creek. Mr.
Lusk is a prosperous farmer and re
ports fine crops in his country.
W. M. Perry is still improving. He
has been confined to his room for
some tinte, hu? is now able to sit up
three or four hours at a time and
can be carried out on Hie porch dur
ing tho warm sunshiny days. We
hope he will continue to improve and
soon ho able to walk.
Mrs. ,T. lt. Talley is spending a
few days in Salem with her son, W
H. Talley. Mrs. 'l'aHey hus been
having fairly good health most ali
the year.
Wesley Galloway and family, of
Oconeo Creek, were recent visitors
of the former's father, A. R. Gallo
way. Mr. Galloway ls a prosperous
farmer of his section and always
grows good crops each year.
Melton L. Lusk is teaching tho
Smeltzer school and ls having a good
attendance. .Mr. Lusk is one of thc
boys who saw service overseas, and
says, "No matter whore you may go,
'There's no place like home'."
It. W. Burgess, Jr., and brother,
Chester,were visitors in Jocassee last
Saturday and Sunday. They say
times are always lively in Jocassee.
George W. Mauldin, of Walhalla,
spent tho latter part of the week at
tho home of Charles D. Perry. Mr.
Mauldin saw actual service overseas
and received a flesh wound while
doing lils part to battor the Hinden
burg line.
Misses Annie and Lillie Lusk and
brother John, accompanied by Ilovey
Graveley, of Pickens, were visiting
relatives and friends of this section
inst "/eek.
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Whips, Wagons,
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All to go at
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in 100-lb. Sacks,
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LLA., S. C.
IUY FOR CASH.
E. A. Perry made a business trip
to Walhalla and Seneca last week.
-Mr. Perry is nearing his eightieth
birthday and is enjoying good health
< and can look after the interests of
his farms. He is now living with
his only son, W. ?Vf, Perry.
Miss Katie Moody, of Walhalla,
spent last week with relatives and
friends of this section.
D. T. Madden, who has been sick
for some time, doesn't seem to be
improving. His many friends hope
to hear of his recovery soon.
Rev. William Holcombe will
preach at Smoltzer school house the
lirst Sunday in September at 11 a.
m. Public cordially invited to at
tend.
Miss Bessie Alexander ls teaching
the Whitewater school. Snc ts an
excellent teacher and also makes a
good Sunday school superintendent
at Little River Raptist church.
B. Smith and family, of Stamp
Creek, were recent visitors at the
former's mother-in-law's, Mrs. J. T.
Talley.
John Duckworth and William.
J leary and Oscar Rampy, of Bickens,
made a speedy visit in this section
last Monday.
Miss Arlie Bryson, who has been
visiting her cousin, Dolt Bryson, for
the past two months, has returned
to her home at Pleasant drove, N.C.
Will Barnes has gone to Virginia,
where he will be employed as a bar
ber. Mr. Barnes has just recovered
from a case of typhoid fever. We
were glad to seo him out. again.
Ralph McCall made a business trip
to Cashiers, X. C., last week.
Elisha P. Holden, of Baltimore,
Md., Is spending a thirty-day fur
lough with home folks, Mrs. Alice M.
Holden, and others.
The Zachary Reunion.
The annual reunion of the Zach
ary family will ho held in Cashiers,
N. C., on Saturday, the 30th of Aug
ust. This will be tho twelfth reunion.
We aro anxious that all the relatives
and friends will attend, as It may be
tho last time that many of us will
be permitted tu assemble at the old
homestead. Don't hunt up an excuse
to be absent, ns this may bo the last
reunion you will attend until tho
"linnl reunion." Come and be with
US. John R. Zachary.
MMONS,
?CY HARNESS.
?idles. Lap Robes,
Wagon Harness.
MILLS,
>wing Machines,
les.
RES AND TUBES,
right prices.
MONS,
A, S. C.
(??KAT PHILANTHROPIST HEAD.
Andrew Carnegie Passed Away Sud
denly at Home in Massachusetts.
Lenox, Mass., Aug. ll.-Andrew
Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthro
pist, died to-day in his great man
sion overlooking a lake in the beau
tiful Berkshire Hills, wvere he
sought seclusion when bodily lnllrm
ity overtook him and his mind was
s addened by the entrance of his coun
try into the world war.
Although he had been in feeble
health for more than two years, his
Anal illness was brief-a matter of
days. A severe cold developed very
quickly into bronchial pneumonia,
the aged patient lapsed Into uncon
sciousness, fend the end came as
though lt were but the beginning of
a deeper sleep.
No ostentation will mark the fu
neral of the man who, when he be
gan, 18 years ago, to give away his
minions, was reputed to have the
second lnrgest private fortune in
America. A simple service, attended
only by members of his own family
and household, will be held at the
li onie, Shadow Brook, Wednesday.
It is expected that the body will
be taken to Pittsburg, tue city where
ne laid the foundation for his great
wealth, for burial.
Mrs. Carnegie was at her hus
band's bedside In the last hours of
his life, but be did not revive suf
ficiently to permit of any sign of
recognition. Their daughter, Marga
ret, who last April married Ensign
Roswell Miller, of New York, was
notified that lt was apparent that the
illness would be fatal, and she hur
ried from her home at Millbrook, N.
Y., arriving a few minutes.af ter her
father lind died.
Years of Giving.
Andrew Carnegie began a race
agalnst^tlme when, in 1901, at the
age of 65, he resolved to give away
his enormous fortune. He held lt to
bo "disgraceful" for a man to keep
on gathering Idle millions. Un the
comparatively few years which the
actuary could allow him he would
disembarrass himself of practically
all he had. No man ever launched
a philanthropic campaign of such di
mensions
His was then a fortune of just
about a quarter billion dollars, the
largest ever acquired by a forelgn
born American, and second only to
John D. Rockefeller's wealth as the
..argest individual accumulation In
the United States; and, built as lt
was. of 6 per cent steel bonds, it
would, without so much ns turning
over one's hand, have approached
half a billion by the Hmo Carnegie
could call himself an octogenarian,
on November 25, 1915.
To his native Scotland his largest
single gift was a fund of $10,000,000
to aid education In Scottish univer
sities.
He carried out his pet Idea of a
Hero Commission, endowed in 1905
with $5,000,000, by which hundreds
of men, women and children have
been rewarded with Carnegie med
als or pensions for acts of heroism
in the rescue of imperilled persons.
He later extended similar benefac
tions to several foreign countries.
Some Cnmcgio Benefactions.
Among the largest known bene
factions of Mr. Carnegie the follow
ing are mentioned:
Carnegie Institute....? 22,000,000
Branch libraries in New
York city . 5,200,000
Scotch universities.... 10,000,000
Carnegie, Institute, at
Washington, D. C.. 21,000,000
Carnegie Steel Co. Em
ployees' Benefit .... 5,000,000
Hero Commission .... 5,000,000
St. Louis Pub. Library. 1,000,000
Carnegie Hero Trust
Fund, Scotland .... 1,150,000
Hero Fund, France... 1,000,000
Hero Fund, G erm.;?'v. . l.<Sv?0,000
Carnogin Dunifermllno
Trust . 3,500,000
Hague Penco Temple.. 1,500,000
United Engineering So
ciety . 1,500.000
Municipal Library Rids 00,000,000
Advancement of Teach
ing in H. S., Canada,
Newfoundland . . . . 10,250,000
$ I 58,350,000
Charged with Shooting Brother.
Spnrtnnburg, Aug. 9.--Buster
Cooker, eight years of -e, of Wood
ruff, in Spartangurg county, was
lodged in the county Jail yesterday
on a charge of murder, having shot
and instantly killed his little llve
year-old brother Wednesday night.
From tho evidence brought out at
the coroner's inquest it appears that
tho two boys wore alono in their
audit's house, other members of tho
family having gono to church. Tho
younger, Fred Cookor, dashed a glass
cf water into his brother's face while
the latter was asleep. Tho older boy
was awakenod and. lt is believed,
crawled up-stairs into an attic and
secured a single-barrelled shotgun,
and with this almost completely
blow his little brother's head off.
Responsibility for tho crime was fixed
upon Buster Cookor by the coroner's
Jury. He Is believed to bo the young
est defendant over arreatod In this
county charged with a capital offense
Probnto Court to bo Closed.
Tho Probate Court will bo closod
on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, Au
gust 11th, 12th and 15th, 1919.
V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate.
THE OLD SOLDIERS TO GATHER.
Picnic at Homily Land Next Friday.
Miss Helen Kerry Dead.
Bounty Lund. Aug. 11.-*-Spec I al:
Come to the old soldiers' picnic at
Bounty Land Friday of this week
and have a good time. Don't forget
to bring the "well-filled basket."
This community is full of visitors,
and many of them will take in the
picnic Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker Foster and
children, Misses Grace and Ruth, and
Maurice Foster, of Jasper, Ala.; J.
S. FOstei and children, Misses An
nie, Clyde and Elizabeth, Tom and
Jack, of Columbus, Miss.; Mrs. C. L.
Foster and children, Charles and
Paul, of Carrollton, Miss., and Mrs.
W.C.Foster and children, Miss Edith,
Will and Harold, of Walhalla, were
the guests during the past week at
the home of Mrs. E. D. Foster.
Mrs. Young Dix and children vis
ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Marett, in the Oakway section, the
latter part of the "week.
Those who visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Berry last week
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Berry and
grand-daughter, MissVera Berry, Mr.
and Mrs. R, J. Jenkins, Mrs. A. J.
Major and Morris Berry, all of Fork
Shoals, Greenville county, and Mr.
and Mrs. Hen Berry, of Union.
The many friends here and else
where of Mr. and Mrs. TS O. Berry
deeply sympathize with them in the
death of their daughter, Miss Helen
Gould Berry, which occurred at theh
home Saturday, the 9th Instant, at 8
o'clock. Miss Helen was 13 years of
age, her birthday being April 27?h.
She hod been suffering for about two
months from a large tumor of a
cancerous nature on the lung. A
post mortem examination revealed
her condition to have been one of
rare occurrence known to modical
science, this conclusion having been
reached by five prominent physicians
from Chick Springs and Greenville,
and Dr. J. S. Stribllng, of Seneca,
who conducted the examination.
Helen will he sadly missed in her
home, where she was the idol of her j
devoted parents, three brothers and
one sister, and also In tho school and
Sunday school, where, by her sweet,
sunny disposition, she won the love
and friendship of all who knew her.
At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon her
remains were laid to rest in West
view cemetery, Seneca, the services
being conducted hy Rev. I. E. Wal
lace.
J. D. and W. H. Crawford, Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. Norman, of Hartwell, Ga.,
and .loo Hynum, of Anderson, were
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. IL Magill last week.
Mrs. W. H. Crawford and daugh
ter, Miss Laura, left. Friday after a
week's visit, to the former's father,
J. H. .Magill, who accompanied them
to their home In Hartwell, Ga.
David McMahan visited his bro
ther, E. O. McMahan, of Marietta,
Ga., last week.
Miss Nettie Hubbard .spent a few
days last week In Greer.
Wilbur Land, of Hartwell, Ga.,
and Tom Rogers, of Rockingham, N.
C. , were recent guests of friends in
the communtt.y.
J. E. Dendy and three sons, Mar
shall, Willie and Joel, of Hartwell,
are visiting relatives hero.
Mrs. Stella Hopkins spout the
week-end with her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Fletcher Porter, at PIckens.
John M. Hall, of Leon county,
Toxas, ls with relatives here. Mr,
Hall will take In the veterans'
reunion here Friday, and Is antici
pating a pleasant time with tho "boys
of the sixties," many of whom he
was well acquainted with years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Burt D. Moorhead,
of Helena, Ga., spent the week end
with Mr. Moorhoad's aunt, Mrs. J.
D. Shnnklin.
J. H. Wright visited last week In
Greenwood.
Waller McKlo and sister, Mrs.
Tims, visited in Anderson last week.
THE SCHOOL AT SALEM OPENED.
Attendance Large-Interested in the
bight Against. Illiteracy.
Salem, Aug. tl,-Special: The
Salem school oponed last Monday,
August Ith, with a record-breaking
attendance, If tho patrons of the
school will only co-operate with the
teachers by seeing that the children
do not miss a day, wo will have the
host school at Salem that we have
over had. Tho teachers are Miss
Ethel Davis, Mrs. Mary Kolloy, Miss
Macle Holt, Miss .lossie Barker, with
Sterling 101 rod as principal. Thoy are
all teachers of moro or less experi
ence, and seom to bo determined to
do their duty and what is best for
tho community.
Although the school will work at
a great disadvantage during the
summer, wo hopo to have our now
$10,000 school building ready for oc
cupancy hy tho first of December.
Land buyers and settlors will do well,
therefore, to consider Salem In Book
ing homos, for land values in this
community aro going up ovory day.
After? our new school building is
finished Salem will havo school and
church facilities second to nono. So
if you aro looking for a progressive
community, where the old Southern
hospitality of tho mountains is still
In vogue, and a healthy place In
which to live, you had bettor Investi
gate Snlom and the surrounding ter
ritory before all of the modoratoly
priced lands are disposod of.
i We also hope to organizo a Lay-by
SAYS MILLS MADE HI? PROFITS.
Aiif1 that tho Producer wa? Untitled
to Higher Pikes.
Columbiu, Aug. ll.-The follow
ing was issued to-day by the Ameri
can Cotton Association:
"The American Cotton Association
through expert representatives has
secured detailed information show
ing the earnings of various cotton
manufacturers In America since the
year 1914. This statement is truly
startling. The relations between the
Southern manufacturers and the
American Cotton Association have
been extremely friendly. We havo
not the remotest intention of criti
cizing them. However, with the
statement of earnings referred to
above, it is absolutely impossible to
reconcile the prices paid for raw cot
ton with profits made by the manu
facturers. These earnings in many
instance's are stupendous and are cer
tainly a safe barometer in Judging
the ability of the mills to have paid
a higher price for the raw material.
We have no quarrel whatever with
the mills for making enormous prof
its. If they have violated any la^v
along this line we are not even crit
icizing them. At the same timo, how
ever, we do feel that, with this in
formation before us, the producer
was entitled to a far higher price
than has been paid for his product,
and with information before us con
cerning even recent, earnings, we
unhesitatingly state that the produ
cer is not receiving a fair price for
raw cotton. These figures showing
the earnings of the mills are abso
lutely correct and official.
Market Manipulations.
"In addition to information con
cerning the earnings of the mills our
representatives have secured a great
deal of information concerning the
manipulations of the cotton market.
. nese manipulations have cost the
producer millions. Dry goods con
tinue to ndvance; the demand ls far
greater than the supply. Still, regard
less of this, under the agitation, the
prices for the raw material are beat
uown. lt would seem that all laws
against manipulating the cotton mar
ket and depressing cotton prices are
dead. Show us a single instance of
a prosecution for depressing the
price! We cnn point to you many
violations of the law of supply and
demand hy flagrant manipulations
which resulted In unjustifiable de
pressions. Truly some of these ma
nipulations are startling-a reve
lation, lt is unnecessary to refer to
the fact that men who have bulled
the cotton market have almost Inva
riably been prosecuted, while men
who have beat it down have never
been prosecuted. Why is this? 'What
ls sauce for the goose should also be
sauce for the gander.'
"Statistics secured from the very
host sources on production and con
sumption render it impossible to rec
oncile published statements showing
enormous surpluses. Why ls it that
these surpluses fall to show the
amount of spin na hie cotton? This is
due to the fact that the producer is
without friends.
"Experts of the American Cotton
Association are working along all of
these lines, and every effort possi
ble will be put forth to protect the
interests of tho producer, and a thor
ough and official investigation would
reveal startling conditions.
"The large packers aro to-day re
ceiving what they aro due. Why not
clean out the entire stable? 'It ls a
poor rule that won't work both ways.'
A man who hoards food and profi
teers upon it most assuredly should
be prosecuted. Tho manipulators
who beat down the price of cotton,
which has been produced by the toll
and sweat of the farmer, most as
suredly, in like manner, should be
held to strict account. The packer
charges such a price that the con
sumer cannot buy. The manipulators
beat down prices to starvation fig
ures so that the producer has not
I he money with which to viiy. This
is six of one and half a dozen of ?he
other-no distinction. Remove the
grip of the manipulator to-day, per
mit cotton to respond to the law, of
supply and demand, and many peo
ple will think that tho days of mira
cles have not passed. Men In their
greed and selfishness can violate and
manipulate laws, causing the world
to suffer, and escapo punishment.
However, they cannot violate contin
uously tho laws of Clod, which aro
unchangeable. Artificial manipula
tion of supplies will not. furnish cot
ton to run the mills."
Confiscate Hoarded Food.
Richmond, "Va., Aug. 9.-United
States District Attorney Hiram
Smith to-day recolvod Instructions
from Attorney Oenoral Palmor to
lake (inmediato stops for confiscation
of all foodstuffs found to have been
unlawfully hoarded.
School hero. Tho purpose of tho Lay
by School ls to got the fathers and
mothers who cannot read and write,
nlso those who wish to become more
proflclont In reading and writing, to
como to school for two hours for
threo nights a week, lt ls the duty
of overy father and mothor, both to
themselves and their children, to be
able to read and write well. So if you
aro interested soo tho principal of our
school, Mr. Elrod, at once, as he will
have to have a certain number be
fore ho can organizo a class.
WHIRLWIND COTTON CAMPAIGN
Will bo Made During Uus Month for
Cotton Assoc!ut lon Members.
Columbia, Aug. 0.-Plans for tho
whirlwind membership campaign to
be conducted by the South Carolina
Cotton Association the last of this
month provide for a mass meetus to
le held in every county in the SKte
during the four-day period from Aug
ust 19th to '?2d, inoluslve, tho week
prior to the membership campaign.
B. P. McLeod, state manager, has
secured a number of the very best
speakers in the St^ite for those mass
meetings. They are men who aro
interested in the movement, and be
cause of their desire *o soo it suc
ceed have offered their services tor
these meetings. Mr. McLeod states
that he will, within the next few
days, prepare the itinerary for the
Bpeukers and will advise each of the
county chairmen the date fixed for
the meeting in his county and tho
spoakers assigned for his county.
The prospects for success of the
membership campaign in South Caro
lina ure exceedingly bright, declared
Mr. McLood to-day. "South Caro
lina will rally splendidly to the sup
port of the cotton association," he
said, "because our people know of
the magnificent work that lt has
done. We hope to secure a minimum
of 50,000 members in this State. I
believe we will not be disappointed.
Every farmer, merchant, banker and
professional man in the State is
asked to join, and we believe that
most of them will. The organiza
tion of the farmers, merchants, bank
ers and professional men of the
South offers to this section the great
est opportunities it has ever had."
The dues for membership in the
association from date of application
for membership to January 1, 1921,
will be 25 cents per hale of cotton
produced in 1917, and 25 cents ner
thousand dollars of capital invested
in mercantile and other classes of
business, bunks or manufacturing
plants. Professional men will pay $3
each. The duos for 1921 and 1922
will be 10 cents per bato of cotton
and 10 cents per thousand dellars
of capital per annum. Those dues
will Include the subscription to tho
"Cotton Journal" to be published by
the American Cotton Association.
EIGHT DIE IN ELEVATOR WRECK
Scores of Persons Injured-Loss is
Over Million Dol?ais.
Port Colborne, Ont., Aug. 9. -
leight persons were killed und a score
were injured-soven of them seri
ously-in un explosion which wreck
ed the large government grain ele
vator on the Welland Canal hero this
afternoon. Pour of the bodies havo
been recovered, ono has boon located
in tho debris of the elevator, and
throe others aro in tho wreck of tho
bargo Quebec, which lies on the
beach outside the harbor, whore she
was towed to prevent her sinking.
The llnancinl loss is estimated at
vi,800,000. Spontaneous combustion
is believed to have caused the explo
sion.
The superintendent of tho eleva
tor, D. S. Harvey, was among the in
jured.
Tho explosion occurred shortly af
ter tho elevator hands returned to
work following their dinner hour.
The concussion shook tho whole town
and windows In nearby buildings
were smashed. Plomes spread
through the wreckage but because
of fireproof construction thoy soon
burned out, and an hour after the
explosion rescue parties were at
work.
The bargo Quobec, moorod at an
elevator leg, was smothered under a
pile of wreckage as she keeled over,
and a hugo rent was torn in her
sido by a block of concrete. To pre
vent her sinking she was towed out
side the breakwater and beached.
Tho olevator was built eight years
ago nt a cost of $2,000,000. It had
H capacity of moro than 2,00 ',000
bushels and the bins wore said lg bo
about one-third filled .with grain,
mostly wheat.
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REUNION ORR'S REGIMENT.
(bithering this Vertir Will bo thc 47th
Annual Kennion.
Tho forty-sovonth annual reunion
of Orr's Regiment will .ho hold at.
Pendleton on Thursday, August 28,
and at Sandy Springs on Friday, tho
29th.
All Veterans will be convoyed to
Sandy Springs on the 29th by autos.
All Veterans aro cordially invited
lo meet with us. W. T. McGill,
President Reunion Association.
(Anderson, Oconoo and Picken?
papers are requested to copy this
notice.)
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Pi'OHOCUtrix to bo Indicted.
Columbia, Aug. 9. - Governor
Cooper last night granted oight par
lous, paroles and commutations, and
?among those rocelvlng executive
clemency was King Taylor, who was
convicted in January, in Spartan
hurg county, on tho charge of rape,
and sentenced to sorve flvo years.
Thc recommendation for clemency
was mado by tho pardon board, tho
trial Judge and tho solicitor, and a
full pardon was granted. The prose
cute filed an affidavit with the Gov
ernor that the defendant was not
guilty. Tho board also recommended
that tho prosocutrlx be prosecuted
for porjury. _