Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mil. FLANNIGAN IS HACK AGAIN. Had Doon Off Oil .'Visit," Having Es cn|MMl from Gang 2 Mondia Ago. E. C. Flannigan la back with thc working forces of tho county once more, after an ahsenco of some two or two and a half months, ho having escaped from tho chain gang after serving about three months of a six months' sentence for violating tho Slate liquor laws. Flannigan was taken into custolly by the sheriff of Laurens county, he having neem captured while circu lating around ill territory in Ibo vi cinity of the Groeiivllle-Enurons county line, and Sheriff Alexander, of Oconee. was notified to come and get the escaped Oconee convict. Ho went over at once and returned with Flannigan last Wednesday night. Flannigan was originally a Fed eral prisoner in the Oconee Jail, but both tho State and Federal govern ments had warrants for his arrest and trial for violation of !he liquor laws. Hoing in tho Oconee jail, and tho State ('oort convening in Oconoe before the Federal Court could han dle the case, he was transferred to the State Court docket, heard and sentenced to six months on the pub lic works. Of course Flannigan ls aware of the fact thal as soon as ho completes his sentence serving In Oconoe he will bo turned over to tho Federal authorities; hence evidently his desire to escapo tho penalty bo has already received and "t">:e wrath to come" as well. Sheriff Alexander, ns tho original custodian of Flannigan whllo a Fed eral prisoner awaiting trial, feels a decided desire to be ablo to turn his man over to the higher authorities when ho is called for, and ho hopes that the gang will hold him more securely In tho future. Hoon Andrews Also at Thargo. Hoon Andrews, another white con vict, recently escaped from the gang and is still at large. Andrews was convicted of larceny and was given 00 days at hard labor on the public works, ile was sentenced at the July tern of Court. He served about two weeks and made his escape. His of fense was stealing a number of me chanics' or carpenters' tools from the workmen at tho Walhalla plant of the Vlctor-Monaghan Company. Wo are informed that on August. 8 Andrews hoarded a Hine Ridge train at Seneca, and that the conduc tor in chnrge of the train recognized him as tho man who had escaped from tho chain-gang. One door of the coach lu which Andrews sat. was locked, and tho conductor instructed one of the train employees to guard the other. The conductor telegraphed ahead to Sheriff King, of Anderson, to meet the train at the coal chute out of that city and get Andrews for the Oconee officers, hut In some way the wily Andrews suspected some thing was wrong, and at an oppor tune moment, when tho train was down to a speed of something like 20 miles an hour, bo raised n car win dow to Its greatest height and made a Jump out of lt, escaping and leav ing the Anderson sheriff to greet only a prisonerless train. Andrews, how ever, we aro informed, left his grip on tho train. Another Itcport wi Wednesday. Wednesday night the report that fl prisoner lind escaped I rom the county jail caused considerable ex citement among people on Ibo street, but it was learned thal the report had gotten confused with a report of another escape from the chain gang. This report was thal a neg rp had escaped, but we have been unable to learn who it was. or. in fact, whether the report was correct. THE ('HACK O' DOOM FOR NASTY CALOMEL. Folks Abandoning Old Drug for "Dodson's Diver Tone" Hero in South. Ugh! Calomel makes you sick, lt's horrible! Take a dose of tho dan gerous drug to-night, and to-morrow you loso a day. Calomel ls mercury! When lt comes In contact with sour bile, lt crashes Into it, breaking it up. Then is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you aro sluggish, if liver is torpid and bowels consti pated, or you have headache, diz ziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, Just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tono to-night. Here's my guarantee: do to any drug storo and get a bottle of Dod son's Liver Tone for a few cents. Take a spoonful, and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous, go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying tile sale of calomel because it cannot salivate or make you sick. adv. Legion Checking Crime Wave. Spokane, Wash.. Aug. ML Crime is on the decrease in the United Slates, ami the nfter-tho-war wave Ol' hold-ups. murders, bunco games and robbery is wailing, according to Win. .1. Rums, master detective, who makes the stab nient after a long trip through Western cities. The en vi ron ment of war turned many ex-service men into the crimi nal path, says burns. On the other hand, he avers, the American Logion ls the greatest force against crime in the country to-day. "No man ever was born a crimi nal." he says, "hut the environment to which men were subjected in the army made them careless of human life atul property. That's one reason why hold-ups are thc most common crime to-day. "Hut tho principles and workings of the Legion will go a long way to ward restoring these boys who have turned, temporarily, from the right path, hack io ways of honesty and hard work." Piles Cured in 6 to M Days Droflftists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fulls tocuroltchlnfl. Pllnd, lllecdlnHorProtriullntf Piles. Instantly relieves bellini! Piles, find you cnn Act restful sleep after tho first application. Price GOc P?NZ1 TALKS OF IIIS BIG DEALS, And Tells Some of Gio Features Gmt Characterize His Scheme. Heston, Mass., Aug. ll.-Charles Fonz!, who claims to have jumped from comparative poverty to a mul timillionaire's estate within a few months through dealings in Interna tional postal coupons, told members of the Kiwanis Club yesterday some of the steps in tho process hy which he claims to have amassed his for tune. I'onzl, making lils Hist appear ance as an after-dinner speaker since ho became one of the most-talked-ot men in tile country, was a luncheon guest of Hie club. Ho was invited, some time ago, before he was com pelled to cease payment in his "50 per cent in 15 days" proposition be cause of the orders issued by the State Hank Commissioner to the llanover Trust Company yesterday to pay no more of Ponzi's checks. In opening his remarks I'onzl re iterated his claim that he was sol vent, and expressed confidence that this would be substantiated by the Fed.cral and State Investigations now in progress, and that he would be able lo resume business within a few days. Small Office to Start. He related how he had hired a small nineo, used his small capital in various business schemes, and then, with an International reply coupon always in front of him on his desk, "began to do someihlng." He finally obtained financial assist ance, he said, to develop his Idea and spent thousands of dollars in foreign correspondence. "I found out," he said, "that the postal coupons were being sold in foreign countries for the equivalent of six cents and could be converted into postage stamps. Then all 1 had to do was to figure how many nickels made a million. "I got in touch with mon-that's as far as I'll go-who were able to secure for me large amounis of cou pons In diff?rent countries. They bought them with our money and used them as collateral to be re deemed later. "When conditions wero right 1 of fered to borrow money from the pub lic. I offered fifty per cent in ninety days and would not promise to re deem notes in forty-five, though I thought that three weeKS was about the right time to bank the money here, send it abroad, get the stamps and convert them Into cash. President and Olllce Hoy. "I started the Securities Exchange Company. 1 was everything from president to office boy. "I decided that if 1 redeemed the stamps in the United States the Fed eral government might decide that it cune within its jurisdiction, though lhere was no Federal or State law against, it. Dut the exchange rate was the same in Swltezrlaiut nm' Norway and some other count ri? > I decided to redeem them thorn Somo one In the audience asked why the postal authorities-Y l l unable to lind any evidence OL o..sp lurge dealings In reply coupons. Pon zl replied that foreign governments realized a profit on the issue of these postal certificates "and are not going to disclose to other governments how many coupons they have issued." "And the International Postal Fnion is not going to do it." he added. Asked if foreign governments had not stopped this, he replied: "Yes. they are stopping- they have stopped the sale of coupons for public use. Hut that does not stop my business. My money in Europe is working to-day. even if it is not here." Sayst Nobody Will Lose. In the transactions in coupons, he insisted, nobody suffers a loss. "1 buy to-day." he said, "a dol lar's worth of Italian exchange. At tho present rate I get IS lire. I would get live under normal ex change. With the ls lire I would buy 00 international reply coupons. These coupons can he sold for $3 In American money." Ho maintained that no govern ment need lose, but transactions be tween governments may bo delayed until exchange is normal, and he pointed out that there has been deT lay in the payment of interest on American loans to the Allies. "I haven't found anybody who will have to, make good," he asserted, when somebody wanted to know who would have to stand the loss. Charles Moorer Paroled. Columbia, Aug. 10.-Governor li. A. Cooper to-day granted two paroles -one to Chas. M. Moorer, of Char leston, the other to Oliver Hall, of Kershaw, both wh'io. Moorer was convicted of Involuntary manslaugh ter, while Hall was serving a two year sentence for forgorky. CThe joy o?Motherhood explains, \vhy~ Is a veritable balm for thc nerves; in Intensely penetrating application thru softens thc muscles, relaxes nervous tension of the delicate organ ism involved in maternity, and pre pares thc way for an easier, quicker and more practical delivery. Such reflects so markedly upon the unborn child. Mother'/) Friend is tiscd externally. At all Druggists. Special Dooklet on Motherhood and IUby free. Bradfield Regulator Cu, Dcpj, f^, AtUnta.Oa. 30x3% Gc Fabric, All 30 x 3V2 G Fabric, Ant XEW FREIGHT HATES WIEL ADI) Only Six Cont? to Hair of Shoes-De partment Makes I Hast rations. Washington, Aug. lt.-Just what Hie increased freight rates which will go into effect by thc first of Septem ber mean to the average consumer in the way of contributing to the cost of necessary articles of clothing and standard food products is shown In some interesting illustrations made by the freight traffic department of the Southern Railway system. Tho rate on shoes from Boston to Atlanta is now $1.6-1 per hundred pounds, making tho transportation charge of a pair of shoes which, with its share of packing, weighs three pounds, approximately five cents. The new rate will he $2.1SVfc per 100 pounds, making the transportation charge of the same pair of shoes ap proximately 6 2-3 cent?. Everyone knows that the pair of shoes which formerly sold for $7 is now selling around $15. . Shirts are shipped from N'ew York to New Orleans hy freight for $1.54 per loo pounds, making the trans portation charge on a live-ounce shirt about half a cent. The new rate will be $2.05 Vi per 100 pounds, making the charge on the same flve-ounce shirt about two-thirds of onb cent. The old $1.50 shirt is selling for $3 and up. nothing manufactured in Chicago can now he shipped to .Jacksonville for $1.83 per hundred pounds,or less Iban 11 cents for a suit which, with its share of the packing, weighs six pounds. The new rate will he $2.33'/? per hundred pounds, or about l l cents on the six-pound reiUy-made, which formerly was offered for $30. but now cannot bo taken home for less than $60. Coining to articles of food, the rate on fresh beef from Chlcngo to Birmingham is now 82 cents per 100 pounds less dian one cont per pound. The new rate will he $1.06 Vz per 100 pounds, or slightly more than a cent per pound. Beof that for merly sold for 20 .cents per pound has boon bringing 35 cents. Sugar can now he shipped from Xew Orleans to Greensboro, N. C., for 55 cents per 100 pounds, or just about half a cent per pound. Tho new rate will be 60 cents per 100 pounds-still less than three-quar ters of a cent a pound. And sugar, which formerly sold for five cents per pound, has been retailing above 30 cents per pound. These illustrations, which aro of articles and commodities takon at random, may he considered as fairly representativo of the addition to tho transportation cost of articles used in the South which will result from the inoroaso In rales. Similar illus trations could be mndo on almost every article used in tho household, Money es on Yoi Avoid disaj sold at sen Goodyear mileage at r The high r Tires, of thc sizes, results experience the worlds these sizes? Such facts c sizes, were Goodyear r If you driv Dort, take enjoy true equip youri Tourist Tut ?odyrar Double-Cure *150 .Weather Tread_?mtO oodyear Single-Cure $^-| cn i-Skid Tread._ *LL? Goo you cash 30 x /. ?-. r it m :?? W Wk CRKAT COHN ( KOI? IS FORECAST Intimate of Three Uillion Hushcls is Made-Spring Wheat Smaller. Washington, Aug. ll.-A three billion bushel com crop for the third time In the history of the country .was forecast to-day hy the Depart j ment of Agriculture on the basis of j conditions existing Aug. 1. Inasmuch ! as August ls the critical month for I the crop In the great corn heit of the Middle West, it 1/uncertain whether the promise of a crop almost equal to the enormous ones of 1012 and 1017 will bo fulfilled. Improvement was reported during July in the im portant corn States, with the excep tion of Illinois, and as a result a crop forecast of 224,000,000 bushels larger than that predicted July 1 was issued. Spring wheat was adversely affect ed during July, principally hy rust, and production forecast of thc crop was reduced 20,000,000 bushels from a month ago, or to a total of 262, 000,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate of win ter wheat production was 15,000,000 bushels larger than forecast in July, making the combined crop of winter and spring wheat only 1 4.000,000 bushels smaller than estimated a month ago. A total of 705.000,000 bushels was predicted in to-day's re port. The tobacco crop, which has been promising from the start, has shown additional improvement, and proba bilities are that it will exceed the record crop produced in 1018 by abont 200,000,000 pounds. Tile total production forecast is placed at 1 , 5 l l,ooo,ann pounds. habitual Constipation Cured in M to 21 Days -LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Recul?tes. Vciy Pleasant to Take. 60o per bottle. Eight Years for Hilling Trespasser. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 13.- Race Kerry, a negro, was rushed to Wo lumpkn early to-day to serve a term of eight years for tile killing of Cor don Oglotree, aged lt'., white, who, it was charged, was in Kerry's water melon patch when he was shot. The shooting took place on July 12. Kerry was put on trial yesterday and was convicted of manslaughter, and at 3.30 this morning was sen tenced to the State penitentiary. except coal,which, being shipped and sold by the ton. will show a rela tively higher transportation cost in proportion to its value. T -Put Goo ur Small spointment with tires m; sationally cheap prices Tires built to deliver ii ciinimum cost. dative value built into ( 5 30 x 3*, 30 x 31/2*. and 31 i from the application of ( and care to their manuf ? largest tire factory de explain why more cars, us factory*equipped last y lires than with any od e a Ford, Chevrolet, Mi advantage of the oppor Goodyear mileage and c :ar with Goodyear Tires ai >es at our nearest Servia dycar Heavy Tourist Tube? cost no more are asked to pay for tubes of less merit-i iga when such sure protection is avalla 3Vi size in waterproof bag_ r, DEATH OF MKS. Iv. L. DEAUDHX.i Young Italian Woman Who Married Ono of Oconco's Soldier Hoys. (Tugaloo Tribune, Aug. 10.) We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Keith L. Dearden, which sad event occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Dearden in Westmin ster Inst Tuesday afternoon nt 2.30. Mrs. Dearden was brought here from Asheville, X. C., only two or three weeks ago. Her health failed several months ago at Roanoke, Va., where Mr. Dearden located after coming back from overseas. She was carried to Asheville with the hope that the climate and cure at the sanatorium would prove beneficial. She grew worse and was brought to her husband's home to spend the last days on earth. ! Mrs. Dearden was before marriage Miss Honorine Lucia Carmina!, and she wns born at Ratauori, Italy, on March 30. 1000. Her parents later moved to Paris, France. She and Mr. Dearden were united in marriage at Paris on Aug. (ith, 1010. Desides her husband she leaves father, mother, two brothers and two sisters lo mourn her death. Mrs. Deanlen was of the Holy Catholic faith. Her body was inter red in Eastview cemetery on Wednes day afternoon at 2 o'clock, the ser vices being in charge of Eather Mackin, of Anderson. The pallbearers were as follows: S. C. Moon, J. K. Dillard, G. M. Mar tin. \v. s. Dearden, Raymond I'itts and Dr. K. T. Simpson. .Many friends deeply sympathize with the husband in his sore bo rea vernen I. Although Mrs. Dearden was far away from her home-land, she was tenderly fared for hy loving friends, physicians and hy feather Mackin, of the Catholic church, in her last j hour \ Her body was embalmed and buried in a metallic casket and steel! vault. In order that it may be disin terred and returned to France in the ? event that it is so desired. Mother Shoots Two Children. Petersburg, Va., Aug. 10.- Mrs. Maude Westbrook, wife of C. W. Westbrook, a prominent farmer and deputy sheriff of Surry county, shot and killed her six-year-old daughter to-day and probably fatally woundod her son, aged five years. When her husband, hearing the shots, rushed ? Into the room, the mother was re loading tho gun, saying that she "wanted to finish the job." Her 3 weeks-old baby on the bed was un harmed. Mrs. Westbrook lind been In 111 health for some months. Tho wounded boy died about three hours after being shot. ade to be by using ciaximum Goodyear L x 4-inch Soodyear acture in ;voted to dng these ear with 1er kind? ixwell or tunity to iconomy; ad Heavy ? Station* i than the price why rijk costly ble? HOPES VOR A HI? OATH EH!NC Sunday School Convention ?it Seneca Next Tuesday, Aug. tilth, Clemson Coll?ge. Aug. ll, 11120. Editor Koo wee Courier: The Oconee County Sunday School Convention will be held on Tuesday of next week. An jr. 21th, at Seneca, in tho Presbyterian church. The program will soon be publish ed and malled from the State Asso ciation's office at Spartanburg. Let me urge all workers interested to write at ohce to General Superinten dent Leon C. Palmor, 714 Allen-Law Building, Spnrtanburg, S. C., for pro gram and other literature. Among the speakers already se cured are Miss Cora Eolian 1, Prof. R. D. Webb (now of Georgia), Rev. W. E. Davis, of Clemson, president of the Dickens County Association. The others will be announced later. Other counties are breaking rec ords. Lot's move forward, too, Oco neeans! Sunday school workers ar ? *r!endS of tho cause of Christian eduction, "Let's not plot as rivals, hut pian as allies!" Wm. S. Morrison, Pres. Oconee County S. Assn. SAY "DIAMOND DYES" Don't streak or ruin your material in a} poor dyo. Insist on "Diamond DyeS.'* Ktxoy direction? in package. "CORNS" Lift Right Off Without Pain Doesn't hurt a blt! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn; in stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with tho nugong. Truly. Your druggist Fells a tiny bottle of "Kreezone" for a fow cents, suffi* clent lo remove every hard corn, soft corn, or coin between tho toes, and ibo calluses, without soreness or irritation, - adv.