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the Pageland Journal Vol.7 NO. 19 PAGELAND, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1917 . _$1.00 per year I r Representative David E. Finley, 1 Dies In Charlotte Sanitarium Charlotte Observer. Congressman David Edward ; "Finley, of York, Representative ] from the Fifth District of South i Carolina, and one of the most j notable figures in the political , history of the Palmetto State, . died Friday afternoon at 12:30 ( o'clock in the Tianquil Park ' Sanitarium in this citv, where he 1 had been a patient since Janu- t ary 4. Death was due to pneumonia, which developed on the left lung Thursday, after Representative Finley had evinced de- 1 cided improvement from dia- ! betes, for which he had come to i this city for treatment. i Congressman Finley had rep- ] resented the Fifth District of South Carolina continuously since election to the,. Fifty Sixth * Congress in 1898 and was last ' Fall returned for his tenth sue- < cessive term, which was to have begun March 4. It is the long- I est congressional career in the ananls of the Palmetto State. The distinguished South Carolinian had been upon the Democratic ticket in his home county for 26 . successive yea \ having previously represented York for twr? VPdrQ in tVlo T or*ie1otliT-r? I and the district for four years in the Senate. During this time he had triumphed over 12 opposing candidates without a defeat to mar his wonderful record, a remarkable attestation of the es teem and confidence with which he was regarded by his constituents. Elected to the General Assem bly in 1890, Mr. Finley was chosen chairman of the Ways and . . Means Committee,of die House and also led the fight againstthe ultimately successful movement tA OCfoKlifiVl /lifinAnonMAO >u vamuiioji uio^cuaailCS 1 Li OUUIil Carolina. He served in the Senate from 1892-1896, where he was a commajding figure in the deliberations of the South Caro lina body of lawmakers. In point of congressional service. Representative Finlev was conspicuous in the National body, where he dad rendered his na tive Commonwealth distinguished service for almost a score of years. At the time of his death, he was vice chairman of the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads, one of the most important committee assignments in the lower house. During the past few years he had also served as chairman of the Committee on Printing for the House, as Vice-chairman of the Joint Committee from the Senate and House on Printing, and also vice-chairman of the Joint PrintInvestigation Committee. Fur many years he had been vicechairman ot the Naliona Democratic Congressional Committee, and a member of the Civil Service Reform Committee Representative Finley was a great exponeut of rural delivery service and was known as one of the best posted authorities in the country on postal legislation. He had been most active in the expansion of the rural service. At the time of taking his seat in 1898, the appropriation for this form of postal distribution was $50,000. The rent budget provided for an appropriation of tCn /lAlt AAA I..- t J-i! i?jv,uw,v?w iui i iii <41 ueuvery ser vice and much of this progress is traceable to the activities of Representative Finlev. As a lawyer, he ranked with the foremost barristers of South Carolina, fie was graduated in law from the University of South Carolina and since 1887, has been a member of the legal firm of Finlev and Marion, fiis partner J. H. Marion, was with him at the time of his death. f ? . J 7oreman On Badin Dam Killed By Work Train Albemarle, Jan- 26.?J. A. raylor, a foreman on the job at Badin was run over this after noon by* a work train and cut to nieces. One leg was cut off md a foot on the other leg was :rushed completely from his jodv, and his breast mashed and he body almost severed i^ ;wain. The victim was working for Marda?.ay Constracting Company on the big dam at Badin and by some means failed to notice the passing work train until he was struck by it. The body was brought to Albemarle and turned over to P. J. Huneycult & Co., undertakers.Mr. Tay er leaves a wife, who is a sister af a Mr. Edwards of this City. House Adjourns Out Of Respect To Finley. Washington, Jan. 26.?The House of Representatives adjourned late today out of re spect for the memorv of Rep resentative Finley of South Car olina, who died todav at Charlotte. The Senate adopted resolutions of respect and com mittees of Senators and Repre sentatives will be named tomorrow to attend the funeral Representative Finlev was si member of a number of frater nal orders, including the I. O. O F., the W. O. W. and the J. R. M. He was a thirty second degree Mason and a Shriner, maintain inj^ his membership^ in Omai Temple of Cfiariesfom David Edward Finley wa: bom February 28, 1861, Trenton Ark., the son of David M. Fin lev and Elizabeth Mcllwaine Finley. When he was two yean of age, his parents n-turned tc their native county of York where he was raised and where he received his education pre limmary to entering the State University. He was marriec October 9, 1889, to Miss Eliza beth'Gist, of York, who survives Five sons and three ^daughter: also survive. These are: Davie Edward Finley, Jr., an attornej of Philadelphia; William Gis Finlev, a student at George Washington University in Wash ington, D. C.; Robert M. Finley ot York; States R. G. Finley, i student at Clemson College, anc John Campbell Finley, of York The daughters are; Mrs. Josepl Dexter Brown, of Anderson, S C.; Mrs. Walter Bedford Moore of Yoik, and Miss Margaret Fin ley, of York. The entire famil} was in the city at the time of hi: death. The remains, accompanied b\ the family, will be carried tc York this morning at 7:15 o'clock upon Southern train No. 39, anc the funeral will he held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock from the A. R. P. Church of York, ir which Representative Finlev hac been an elder for many years The services will be conductec by the pastor, Rev. J. L. Oates and in respect to the memory o the late Congressman, all re maining churches of the town will dispense with their custom ary services, in order that the respective congregations ma> pay final tribute to the memor> of their distinguished fellow townsman. The interment will be at Rose 11 ill Cemetery ir York. A special train will run from Uock Iliil at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, carrying citizens ol that city and adjacent towns to the luneral. ? % _ JL-! County Seat News Notes Chesterfield Advertiser. The incoming supervisor will have a hard time getting to Chesterfield on next first Monday nnless he comes around by McBee, as the road between Chesterfield and Catoe is the worst road in the countj\ Not on account of lack of work, but on account of the unusually bad Ifcer we have had this year. Edwards, colored, em as cotton packer at gin, came near losing ife last Saturday. His vest, hanging opeh, was caught by a revolving shaft and he would in all probability, have been dashed to death had not the engineer discovered his predicament and 1 quickly shut off the engine. The little Adams boy lo?t his life in this manner over in the Vaughn . settlement only a few weeks ago. Accidents of this kind are so frequent that it would seem good policy to make some effort to prevent them. Either the shaftings should be protected or ' rules enforced that will keep people whose clothing is liabte to be caught, at a safe distanc?. Miss Stella Mims, the most popular demonstration agent ib South Carolina, who is now at Winthrop College, taking the one month's course prescribed for all home Demonstration I Agents in th^ field, is expected back in Chesterfield county by February 1st. Everyone is look in g forward to the next years 1 work in the lines of endeavor so successfully started last year by Miss Mims. Great plans are be > ing made and expectation is at 5 ready running high for the canning club exhibits at the con? ' rnuqity fairs and the great Copy ty Fair, to be held in theiraH 5 Chesterfield county led Iht . Statejast fall and surprised her * self. She is preparing for ? * greater surprise next fall wher * all the canning clubs will bavt > had the benefit of a year's organ ? ization and experience. i Cheraw Correspondence: Coincident with the appropri i ation of $50,000 for the improve I ment of navigation iq the Con - garee River there has been ? . movement inaugurated whicl > will mean much to this towr 1 and the surrounding community r namely: the restoration of navi t gation by water on Great Pec i Dee River. * A number of Geor - gia capitalists are having tenta , tive surveys made so as to be t able to give the government ar 1 estimate of what money will be . necessary to open the river foi i navigation up to Cheraw. It i; . rumored that Bernard Baruch , multi-millionaire, of New York who has recently been in the r limelight in connection with the 5 so called Lawson leak incident and who is interested in proper r ty around Georgetown, is inter ) ested in this matter. ? 1 Reprints The Journal's Stuff From the Monroe Journal the ' following paragraph is clinned 1 "You folks can talk about Th< World and The Sun, but it give! us a good feeling, just like a sof wind in Hie hot summer time, tc ' see The Pageland Journal lyin$ on the exchange desk. Tht Journal reprints a lot of ill 1 South Carolina contemporary'! stuff every week. About a col 5 umn of it can be found in this f )) issue. We take this as a complimen to our humble 'efforts, and ap ' preciate it. For John Beaslex 1 ami the Monroe#Journal we car say thai tne "sketches" columr 1 is read first in The lournal ant The Journal is read first vvher ' it arrives with the other papers ? No better evidence of its popu laiity in this office is needed. '. .1. Two Are Killed When Auto Is J Struck Bv Train ' * Charlotte Observer. Two men were instantly kill- E ed, one is reported dying, and a c fourth lies at the Presbyterian | Hospital in this city, in a critical t condition, from injuries receiv- j ed at ?:28 o'clock Friday night, when an automobile in which 1 they were riding was struck by > Southern Railway passenger < train. No. 15, three-quarters of a > mile from Huntersville, sixteen s miles north of Charlotte. s William King, aged 22, a farm- j er of Long Creek Township, and t Charlie Jones, a negro farm i , hand in the employ of King, are i , the dead, while W. W. King, j father of William King, is at the ^ 1 Presbyterian Hospital here, and j the fourth, Jerry Arthur, colored, is at the Good Samaritan Hos, pital, not expected to live. The accident happened just > after the train had left the Hunt1 ersville station and was at a < crossing where both sides of the < track, for a good distance, were ' visible. The four men were rei turning trom the country, sever- ' i al miles above Huntersville, ] 1 where they had (jeen during *he i | day, buying cattle. i The car was driven by young j King, rind owned by his father, i and according to best reports ' obtainable, they drove in front , of the train, in an effort to beat it over the crossing. Passengers and the trainman, j* v^ho brought the survivors *to ? iVnrtniy,' following the-aecftie&trj asserted that the train had left ' the Huntersville station about 10 minutes late, and at the time of { accident, was running about 30 > miles an hour. * Wat/ant Served on Major Frost The State. Boy den Nims, a Columbia chemist, in a warrant sworn out . January 22 before a magistrate t and served yesterday, charges i with manslaughter the assistant i adjutant ^neral, John D. Frost, , whose automobile struck and . killed Mr. Nims' 11 year old ? daughter on the afternoon of . December 17. Maj. Frost, on 1 H - - learning: mat tne warrant had j been issued, called at the magisi trate's office and arranged bail, ; the $2,000 bond being signed by r Willie Jones, E. A Lorick and 5 John II. Bollin. Mr. Nims, in the affidavit , which is part of the warrant, ali leges, on information and belief, ; that the defendant "wilfully and , in a highhanded manner did run over with an automobile and - kill Elizabeth Nims." Shortly before dark on Sunday afternoon, December 17, last, Elizabeth Nims, the 11 year , old daughter of JJoyden Nims, was struck and killed at Gervais I and Bull streets by an automo ' bile owned and driven by Maj. t Frost. Boyden Niins, Jr., 7 years } old, was at the same time slightr ly injured. The children had been walking with their father, j He had left them at Main and . Gervais streets to visit his laboratory, 910 Union National bank j j building, and the children had ; started to their home, 924 Barn| t well. The jury at the coroner's ; inquest, held Monday evening r [ following the occurrence, found xI that "Elizabeth Nims came to , j her death from injuries received I by an impact from a car driven (! by John D. Frost" and that "said : impact was due to an unavoid | able accident as to John D. I ' Frost." ' \ fail Delivery Fails at Bennetts ville Bennettsville, Jan. 25.?A well >lan;ied jail delivery was discov Ted here last night by Jailei iubbard in time to prevent tin ;scape of ihe 12 prisoners ir ail. Shortly after 10 o'clock Mr rJubbaid detected the sound o vhat he thought was the sawinj >f the prison bars. He made hi way to the room from wh ich th< iound seemed to come, by tin itairs leading to the cells above ind then crawled to the top o he stairs. There he saw wha was going on, and watched th< legroes for a short time, Wai :en Stubbs, a negro, charge< with housebreaking and larceny lad been left in the "run around' to keep up the fire and he wa * working with a hacksaw on th< bars on the outer window- A1 ten Beatty, a negro, chargei with larceny, was cn the insid :>f the vaults at work with an other hacksaw. Two bars wen cut at both places. Sheriff Patteison was called and a search revealed a twi foot crowbar, a hacksaw am several hacksaw blades. Th< nocrrnoc uvgtwu tuj^i&vaiv uuioiucio am say that the tools were secure by means of a string let dowi from the inside. Other arrests will be made ii connection with the effort es cape. American Heroes Abroad When the history of tjie Grea War is writtem^^^oHt^righi cs t c the American Ambulance ii France. Quite without any r muneration except the satisfac tion of work well done in th cause of humanity, two or thre hundred young American me have been risking their lives i the rescue of wounded soldier; One of these young men, Mi Howard Hare Powel, of New port, R. I., writes in Harper's Be zar for February: "When th impulse first gripped me to com over here, I had been led to ex pect that 1 would fetch up iu crew of swashbuckling, devi uiuj-voic auvcuiuicia. msicai I found men I had known a school and college, and a lot o other young Americans lik those one meets everywhere." Young Mr. Powel has for th past year been attached to Sec tion Two of the American Am bulance, with headquarters a the bloodiest spot in the worl ?Verdun. Day after day las year the tide of battle flo\ve< back and iorth; a hundred bai ties as desperate and bloody a Waterloo or Gettysburg wer fought at Verdun last summei And every night, the younj American drivers of ambulance came up to the trenches unde fire to save the wounded sole iers. Several of these Amer cans have lost their lives; othei have received, tor valor, th highest decorations that th French Government can bestou To anyone who likes to rea about old fashioned heroism, w strongly recommend this impor ant article in the February Num ber of Harper's Bazar. Mother?You were a. Ion time in the conservatory wit Mr. Willing: last night, my chile What was going on? Daughter?Did you ever sit i the conservatory with Fatht before you married him? Mother?I suppose I did' Daughter?Well, Mother, it the same old world.?"Tit-Bts. UNION COUNTY NEWS Monroe Fnquircr. I The people of the Unionville - district have decided to close r their school for this session, and j the money that would go to teachers will be used to put up a building to take the place of the one destroyed by lire last Thursday. f Mr. J. Cull Lingle and Miss r Lula Chaney were married last s Monday evening by Rev. \V. J. a Boger at the Lutheran parsonage. ~ Mrs. Lingle has been in the em3 plov of the Monroe Telephone ? Company for some time She f has many friends in Monroe and t is a lady of fine character. She e is a daughter of the late Mr. N. . A. Chaney. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lingle, of Monroe, He is an employe of '? the Seaboard and is a clever gentleman. Mr. and Mrs. Lins gle will live in Atlanta. B Just a word for the witness, the only one, litigants excepted, who has anything to do with a court and does not get anything e for it. The judge gets his pay. i- The jurors get theirs. The at3 torney sees to it that his fee is secure. The sheriff and other I, court officers get their pay, 0 Even the man who cleans out 1 the court house spittoons gets e his pay and gets it right away, d too. But Mr. Witness, now d about him? Why, he travels l frequently for miles and spends days around the court house and a many, times gets nothing what> ever for his time. The law ought to be so amended that ev ery person wno is compelled to attend court is paid for that att tendance. Roy Tray wick, of this county, Q te n t i a rya'ut horit ie s sit up^anc^"*' j. take notice last Tuesday when he presented to the joint come mittee on penal institutions e charges and comments on the. Q conditions at the State Farm tl and arraignment of the manage5 ment of convicts there, Trayr< wick was presented through r. Representative Beasley. It was to the general effect that the e convict quarters are unfit for e human habitation, that the white prisoners are made to use a water pail in. common witfi nea groes, eat in the same room, and I- that the supervisors and guards 1, are cruel and that the whole atmosphere of the place hardens the convicts and intensifies their hatred of society, making them c worse than when they were sent to farm. J'raywick is a young e white man who became involved in some insurance high financ( ing in this county with others and received a penitentiary sen11 tence. Forgery was among the J charges involved in the convicit tion and sentence. He was j pardoned by Governor Craig just before Christmas. ^ An Apology r. Kidgeland, S. C. January 25. ^ Dear Mr. Editor?We regret ,s very much that we failed to see so many of our good friends at :r Pageland during the holidays. I. \\r f? -1 vy wcic iiivjiu iui <1 pun oi one i day only. Excuse us now and s we will make good when we e leave our work for the regular | summer vacation. e Everything is going lovely in ' our work these days. We raisd ed $11.16 on State Mission debt e and the W. M. S. vvill give $4 00, t being a total of $15.16 for our three churches. l' Last Sunday was the best since our coming on the field Sunday school 112 in attendance, jr and at the close of the morning service it was decided to launch, . a campaign to raise $100.00 for ' Missions to he raised in the next 30 days. $57 50 was subscribed n before we left the church. >r Dr. Watts will be with us first Sunday in February, 5 will receive diplomas in our Teacher Training Class. s Much love to all. J. M. Sullivan,