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?jL V VOL X LI Y iNO .4. NEWBERRY. S. 0. KUl.DAY .JULY 5. 1907. TWICE A WEEK, SI.50 A YEAR Arf" Sfcfoxal Butler Gives His Views on a \ Trolley Line. Edgo\eld News. denial have you given any attention to ilftfjbnaUer oi' a Trolley Lino f. to MgctUayl? i "Yes. m'wu or three years ago 1 Oi' hail a coinf^'ence with some gentle- ' men in Aiiuiu'ta on I lie subject, anil a number ft' us living 011 or near the line oi' the proposed route, took the 1 trouble at the suggestion of our 1 n|L friends in Augusta who feel conti- , dent they could finance the enterW& prise, to get up a great deal of data, < such for instance, as to the population ; ? of Kdgelield and Augusta, and on 1 each side of the proposed line of five ' 1 miles. ''Also the quantity of agricultural'! and dairy products within tlie area; 1 the amount of freight and passenger < traffic approximately at least between ] the two points, etc. "We submitted this information in ] the form of a report and our friends 1 seemed well pleased with the show- < $ ing. The next thing they wanted to know how the people, and business men of the town of lvlgefield felt about it." l' Did you make any canvass with a ] view of ascertaining the feeling? I " Yes a partial one of a personal I character, and to our surprise found | that some at least of the business men wereu o| only not in tax 01 ol j such trolley connection, but decidedly!, opposed tW'it <>n the ground amongoth- |: ers that a trolley would make Angusta too convenient and accessible a * 1 mar ket for (l)(> people oi' P.dgctield. I.. On reporting this fact tv? the tinacial-j people who had been considering it j \ they of course abandoned it. They 1? i K.lgdield was not able to help ! 1 Ovil financially the town through its pr<* : \ K&vfef per authorities might re .der its good j otlices. grant rights for terminal fa- I cilities. -..rant rights of way, etc., and , t her wise "ive encouragement. ^ |i YiThe r< ute proposed was from North ij L| Augusta where connections could have , 1 1* been inv.de with the Augusta tivlleyjl system anil there!>y avoid the ncces- j I -V(t sity of bridging the Savannah river, j? Thence up the valley of the Savannah 1 to llu mouth of Big Stevens creek to j i i']|: a pr: t near Republican church: j. ; jr.' thence to Kdgelield by the most prac- > J1 licable route which would probably. take in Ropers Cross Roads. 1 have j ridden over the line repeatedly, and : while I am not an engineer. L have ? a prettv good eye for topograh\ and j do not hesitate to say there are no j; engineering difficulties in the wa\. i " If we had the Trolley from Angus, ta there would be ten dollars spent in j_ the ti'W-u of Kdge field where there is j (l\ MOW. Would y.n think i'. ad.d-aMe to stop at Kdnoiield ? I " Njo. The Newberry Herald and j News is right, if we can get the line j ^ Vo Kdgelield i: is hound to go via V Si-'nda to Newberry and possibly to | Win I mires on the Sea Hoard Air Line. "The people of aSltula would help financially, as I am informed. The yond would pay?for it parses through n- tine a farming and healthy country n,-. can be found im the South or anywpise. ' !; w.'uld bring into market excellent water powers on Big Stevens Creek, Big Turkey creek and Big Saluda and other minor streams, and open up as fine country as can^ be found in I bo South and T believe would pay from the beginning. "Possibly the line might be extended from l'idgefield to C.reenwood if the Saluda and Newberry people j failed to do their part." k SALUDA OIL MILL SOLD. | Property Bought by Stockholders for | Ten Thousand Dollars. 1 . I News and Courier. Saluda, July 2.?The Saluda Oil j Mill was sold here yesterday to the/ highest bidder. It was bid off by Mr. M. T. Pitts for the stockholders at the upset price, $10,000. The present If stockholders who wish to do so can I either retain their holdings or veI ceive forty cents on the dollar for their stock, each being cared for milk. der the sale. The paid up capital is Hi $25,000 dollars, and it is a very fine mm property under proper management, j KILLING NEAR EDGEFIELD. Edgefield Farmer, Charged With Murder, Spends but Brief Time in Jail?Record Case for Swiftness. The State. Kdgel'ield, July 2.?This morning K. T. Chappell, who lives on a farm, mie mile below town, shot and killed George Griffin, an elderly negro tenant on his place. The talc goes that Griffin had enterlmI into contract, or obligated himself not to hire any of his children nil" of the Chappell place until the latler's crop should he gathered. Griffin, it is said, broke this agreement by hiring one or tnore of his children ?li' the place. This brought about a lispute in I he field. Grillin. it is alleged. essayed to pick up a rock to liurl at Chappell ami was shot and killed by the latter. Chappell surrendered to the sheriff and was placed in jail on a charge of murder. Bail Granted in Record Time. Took the life of his fellow man at ) o'clock in the morning; ordered released on bail at 0 o'clock at night of I he same day. That is the first cliapler in the Kdgefichl homicide case reported above. Mr. !. Wm. Thurmond, attorney I'or T. Chappell. appeared before 1111! -? Cli.is. (1. Dant/.ler last niuht ind made application for his release >i bail. T!ie ev" '*: ' before .lie acting corone . .. Brun iin. was submit to. ;ogetI. with an illidavil 11!' the d; . lan . . id at !' )'clock the order t?f bail ir. he sum if $1.(100 was si-jucd ai d promptly I'lephmied to Kdgel'ield by Mr. TliurllOlld. Solicitor Timniennan was notified ?y wire by Mr. Thurmond yesterday md requested to come to Columbia it.mediately, so th;it unnteessary deiav might be avoided. He waived his right to three days' notice and came i< re and was present last night when I lie order was signed, agreeing to anie. Affidavit of Defendant. The affidavit of the defendant is is follows: "Personally appi.1:"! .re me K. 1\ Chappell, who be; : wuly sworn, -ays: That he lives between the town >i' Trenton ami Kdgefichl court house, ihout one mile from the court house, ind is by occupation a farmer, and ias lived in Kdgefield county a iiuml>cr of years. That on the 2nd day of July, about S.:i<) o'clock a. m., in deponent's field, depondent spoke lo one of his croppers, Geo. Grillin, ihout allowing his children to work Dill in oil. *" :-eople's farms while they were so badly needed at home and I hereupon the said George Gritfin be['iinie furious, and made at deponent with rocks, and after throwing a rock at deponent with great force and violence, he rushed on deponent, deponent all the time retreating and telling him to slop, but the said George rSrillin, being a strong and stout ne..ro, evidi' liv thought that he had lepoiieiiit '.:i iil.-. piiwer and .vouid !;ii! him, and deponent verily believes that he would have been killed but for the fact that he had his pistol in his pocket (ho was near the rock quarry where a great many desperate negroes work, and he considered it even unsafe to go to the back part of his farm without his pistol, as they frequently pass through deponent's place), mud as the said George Griffin continued to rush oil deponent, and throw rocks at him, thereby endangering deponent's life, deponent drew his pistol and shot at him as quickly as possible, and as he shot the said George Griffin jumped up and fell. Deponent was only protecting himself and regrets very much the necessity of taking the life of the said George Griffin, and shot only once, and it was entirely the conduct of the said George Griffin: that caused him to be shot, and during the year deponent has treated the said negro well, done all he could to provide for his comforts, but the said negro was desperate, and on said occasion seemed bent on killing deponent; and deponent shot him to defend himself, there being no other means of escape. There were no witnesses lo this occurrence, Deponent had no malice against said / j firui.(irillin. : j "Sworn !o and subset'i 1 i(*d this '2nd ' I ilny i>|" .Inly, 1!K?7. " K. T. ('happell. ".I. W. Thurmond (1.. S.L "Notary I'uldic." i>< Testimony Before Coroner. hi llii' testimony before the coroner Mariah (Iriniu, wife'of (leorye (?rif- d*. (in, Sr.. who was killed. testified that St on several occasions Mr. Chappell anil her hnsbaiul had had quarrels about hiriny out the hands. Yesterday morni11U" she said that she saw Mr. Chappell hurrying toward her husband in F the field and she followed him. He- -< lore she arived where they were she be heard them <piarreliny and in a few fi minutes heard a pistol shot. Met Mr. e\ Chappell, "who had immediately start- j" Oil bai-k to i1k> house, and lie said to h; her. "Mariah, I have killed (Jeorye," and added that he had to kill him on ti aceouul of his imprudence and be- c? cause be drew a ruck on him. She testified that he told her that one no- hi -Mit had beaten him in the field and ei he did not intend to let another do it. cf She also said that he threatened to kill her son. f< Mariah was the nearest person to cc ithe killing. Her son. OJeorye (Irillin, m Jr.. testified that he saw Mr. Chappell yoiny toward where his father I" was w..rkinu in the field hut before m lie u'ot in -i'jli! heard the pistol shot !<;? and saw Mr. Chappell ?i11back to- <;t warii his house. til Dr. .1. 11. Carmichael examined the ib .i ! ir.'ii and testified that the ball e; !eivd the left eye, ju-t below the ' ;!!. and penetrated the brair.. oi The ei!toiler.jury rendered us ver- !'< diet and Magistrate Hrunsoii imiuedi- is ately issued a wanant eharyiny Chap- tli pell wi'.li murder. . > This i>- probably the rocord case w ?' r swif!n; in *eeuri"ii\.v bail i>u a :'.:"i'uer eiiafje. . REVIW. I. AT PROSPERITY. Dr. Orr He 1 ding Interesting Services .( ?News From a Prosperous t Town. ;;i Prosperity. July 'J.?Dr. W. W. Orr. pastor of the A. K. P. ehurch in Charlotte, has been holdin.tr services ,-n at this place, lie beyan preachiny on n Friday niyht and will eor.tiuue to do -it iiiri?u_li this week. Without doubt v, i)r. Orr is one ?f the best preachers v. who lias been to this place in years. t,j The people show their appreciation x| of his work by the full houses present at each service, and much irood is expected to come from his work. Messrs. S. S. Mi rye. I?. C. Counts. ) 1. \Yheeler. W. \V. Wheeler and ,1. M. Kellers have been elected as trustees for the cominy year. The Prosperity firaded school has been made into *' a hiirh school recently. Misses Leckie J" and Kolin have been re-elected as as- 1 sisiant teachers but the principal has not been selected as yet. Professor ' Counts has declined and a new man " will be elected to take hi- place at an ' early date. The Fanners L'nion of Newberry ' , county will todd their meetiny at St. Lukes church on Saturday. .Inly (ith. Tliis is to be an important meetiny and a la rue crowd is expected. Scv- '' eral prominent men will speak thai, day in defense of the union. A barbecne dinner will be served on the 1 it rounds. Dr. Li11le.johof Cnion. but formerly of this place was in town a few days la>l week. Knuineer Sehumpert and Mail v Clerk Wheeler have been spending " tiu'ir vacations at home. Col. 11. ('. Moseley. president of t!ie Peoples National Hank and .7. F. Lrowne. cashier ai Hank of Porsperitv. have returned from the State ' Hankers' convention at Charleston. Mrs. J. W. llartman died at the " home of her son on last Friday. For '( months she has been unwell but up nl until a few days before her death, her case was not considered a serious T one. She was buried on Saturday the exercises were conducted by Rev. ( Kreps. her pastor.?Greenville News. DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE. The town treasurer has turned r over to nie the tax executions for dc-jSi 1 iin|uenI taxes. Please see me at once and save further costs. < M. M. Huford. 1 Sheriff. I aimers Union Bure u of Information ?Conducted by tho ? JiJth Carolina Farmers' Edueat.onal ancl Co-Operation Union. &"Communications intended for this :j?;'.rinient should bo addressed to J. C sibling, Pendleton, fc>. C. j Notice Fanners Union. Tlu> representation of delegates to j ie Sim ill Carolina Stale Fanners iiinn to be held al (Ireenwood tho )lii, 2(!(h and *J7th of .July next will ; ;is follows: One delegate at large fin o:\cli County Union and one for crv one hundred members or ma-1 r;tv fraction 1 hereof. Counties not i\nig a county union, but having) ie t?r more local unions, will be en- , t!''il (.? one delegate from each loll union, dues paid u>. All organizers whose commissions ive nut expired are delegates. No vil oHiecr. county, state or national, in be a delegate. This meeting is the annual meeting >r the purpose of electing state olli'rs. and transacting any other busies for she good of the organization. IVe.-ilen! barrel of the National lien and o'her pr?n?i'ient Union it. f-om rtlies* sta'i- as well as a ?'_? number of prominent farmers !!:* .-tale ire exi'ite.1 to attend i- i>.g. Getting So'iV.eITiing for Nothing. Hctrsig good practical fanners 'o sit tiicir work to *_r.- out and work !) Fat n>? i * Union for nothing a!i i ir.t i> in the way of spreading k Farm* rs Union orga: ization all ..nr South land in a very short i i . T > prevailing idea anion::* I arm's 'o -jet something for nothing. or 1 icap men do cheap work in "f :: ' li '"."i good iit'U at good ices jo do good work is the highest u milling block in the way of the process of the tanners organization. It kes a bin* book and a big bait lo tcii bin" fish and hold the game? '.1 a small fly hook for minnows. Von cannot control llie price ol it ton unless you can control the en who hold the cotton. The cotton grower can not prosper bile others price all he sells anil ivs any more than lie could pull ! mself out of mire by biting at lhe| raps of bis boot iegs. Help Yourself. I>on't onarrel with others about not lping the farmer when you are not \ing to help yourself. Some farmers do a lot ol howling n't no work because they are too ?or? they think?to do anything ebc it bowl the calamity howl. The man with manhood and plenty r grit and energy in his make up ?ed never ask others to give him mm; about all ibis man needs is to it his natural talents to work with vim and the world will give him lenty of room. Why all this talk about organizing ie farmer of today when our dailies and ?ri?amblaiblies lived heller tan we do without any organization nong themselves? Because, our (ladies and granddaddies produced alios! everything they needed to eat ml wear, upon their own farms ex t|in*.' salt. sii'.'i'ir. iron ir d what |i|e money, they needed to pay taxes hicli for these small items was not fry hard to get out ol his surplus it ton and other crops and slock. And 11w we fool cotton growers have for i these many year- been trying to >>t rich buving all these things al ie other fellow's prices, and paying I* them with out cotton also at the lher fellow's prices. We arc compel>d to organize before, we can price nr own cotton. he Farmer Declaring His Independence. From Weekly News, Denver, Colo.) The American farmer is about lo eclaro his independence of the spectator of Wall Street and the move-J lent has not been initiated a day tool on. The farmer ha< worked and worrid. and his profit has been sn.'.ill. lie bad crop worries Were All For lim. He stood the loss Alone. The speculator in life's necessities can do as well mi a had crop as on a good inic. Wo arc glad to he able to loll our readers that lIk* farmers liavo made up their minds to put an (Mid to this system, ami that they have go no to work intelligently. Hitherto the farmer alone has had nothing whatever to say About Tlic Pric; To Be Paid For What He Actually Produced. Some nvan in Liverpool, some mill owner in the North, might settle price that the Southern cotton grower must take per hale of cotton. Some other man. thousands of miles away, could settle the price that the Western farmer should have for hi# g\iin. The famer alone Had nothing to say About It. The railroads decided whet !Iiey should charge him. Hani/decided what they should charge for the use of the money. Trusts decided on their extortions. Tariff builders decided what tax the farmer's wife and daughter should pay on their wearing apparel. But The Farmer Was Forbidden To Have Any Say In Fixing The Price Of His Goods. This is to end, the work has been already begun in the farmers' organizations. This newspaper congratulates the fanners, and greets as pub/ic benefactors the moving spirits in the ureal farmer's organizations. The tanners of the country are the backbone of the country. They develop the nation's real wealth, which is i he wealth of The Soil. They are entitled |n a full share of that wealth and of the national prosperity. I?v combination, by insisting on fair price - for their cotton, their wheat and ;heir other crops. And By Refusing To Sell The Non-Perishable Products Except for A Fair Price, they have already added tens of millions to the annual returns from the fame-. Tlwv 'I'M tens and hundreds of millions more annually a their unions increase in power. The isolated human being, whether he be farmer or mechanic, is at the mercy of every form of greed and cunning. The farmer has too long plowed, harrowed, sown, reaped, sweated and fretted to build up bank accounts For Others; and pay interest on niorlWe are glad that he has decided. By Union, to keep for himself ami I'amily. which means for the people of America, that to which they are cut it led. BUREAU REPORT ON COTTON CROP. Average Conditions as Reported on Jane 25, is 72.0.?Same Time In 1006 Was 83.3. Washington, July 2.-?The crop reporting board id' the bureau of statistics of | he department of agriculture finds lioin the reports of ihe correspondents and agents of the bureau that the average condition of cotton on June 25 was 72.0 as compared with on May 25. 1007; S3,.'! !i .'line '.! >. l!Mlli; < t .0 at the corresponding date i i 1005, and a Id-year average of S2.2. The following table shows the condition on June 25 of this year and of the preceding year, with the respective 10-year averages, also the conlit ion on May '.I->. !! ()< : June 25. May 25, June 25, 10-yea i Stales 1007 1007 1000 average Va.. ..05 SO 88 S(i X. ('. . .72 sit NO s;, S. <\ . .7!? 77 77 N2 (!a. . . 7S 71 N'J S2 Ma . . S3 NO 77 SI A la. . . lis ti.i SI S3 Miss. . I > 7 li"? NN S2 ha. . .00 (i I S7 S I Tex.. .72 70 82 S3 Ark. . .07 Of) SO SI Tenn ..00 0.3 S-l SO Mo. . .01 (i.") !)1 S7 Ok la. .7-1 SO 00 85 I. Tor. 73 78 84 87 r. s. ..72.0 70.5 83.3 83.2 WANTED. A teacher for the Belli I'M en school Salary $30 per month. S. A. Jeter, chairman. T. K Carlisle, J. I>, Dominick, T rustees. j "SOUTH CAROLINA PYTHIAN" j Board of Publication Held Meeting in ; Columbia Tuesday Night and Decided on Plans for K. of P. Journal. The board of puhliction of "The South Carolina Pythian." the monthly publication of the Knijrlits of Pythias :i 111 hori/.ed at the recent session of the ?rand lodire at Anderson, held its initial meeting last ni.uiit at tho Columbia hotel. This board is composed of Elbert IT, Anil of Newberry, chairman; D. C. lleyward of Columbia, M. Rut ledue Rivers <?f Charleston. .1. T. Arnold of (Jrcenville and .las. F. Williams of Columbia. All the members j were present last niu'ht except "Mr. | I ley ward, who is out of the city on business. It was derided to isMie PJ.OOO copies monthly of a Iti-paue journal. 9 J-L' by l'_\ printed on snpercalondnred paper. An advertisement appears in The State today asking for bids for prii.t injr and mailing the .journal. The bids are to be sent to Mr. Anil at Newberry before the l.'db of the month and are to be opened in Columbia on the niu'ht of the l."?th at a meetin y of the boa I'd to be held at the ('olumbia hotol. As as the bid< are in the eoni tract for t*cltii)'.r out the publication J will lie let and whoever is designated a- iiiaiiavin-j editor will he expected to .'et i??j - \ i i 1 > I a ray. as >t is planned In pnl the lir.-l is>11e .nit between the fill.- and I111 of September. V I'y special inxitati ??. Mr. das. A. | Summer-elt. past ?>ra11d chancellor I and linsiness niiii'ii'.'er of The Trii State Odd Fellow, met with the board Nasi iii 'iu, and it was a li-rlil eiithus i a -1 i i nieeliiej. While the viand ] ?d*^?? | ha- a lee,! 1 i pay the expenses of isJsniir: the pubUeal ion ami has ordered j le\'ie,l pel' 'I'Um.i ta\ lit 'j.) ecilt 0|| | tlie entire memheiship in South Carolina. the _!'<11111 e 111 e n wlio compose th'- hoard if publication are n'oinu' to t r\ !o make tin .journal self sn-'lainiirr. They 1 1 ieve thai il will be an advertising- mi dinm which will be soicjhl afi.M* i'y the al"M and enterprisin,.v h:is:n< - '.en : !' pails of the sta'te hy oni-ide advertisers who desire to reach it- particular circnlal ion. The launchi'c.r of "The South Carolina Pythian" will mark a new era j s:i i'vl hiani-in i i ibis -late and this I ureal fraternity which has in I he past several years recorded such marked j im-reain 'membership in Sonii'. Caro| lina will undoubtedly .utow more rap' idly than ever before. |?.v prinli'tr the .journal on 1 siipercalendared paper the mana'.'cineiil will be enabled to 11se half tone cuts and i| is planned (o have several in each number and make the publication one of such i n I e res | that every Pythian in the -late will read it relijion-ly The j Si. Ie. !?rd. | j Pythian Journal Committee Meets. Me-si s Anil, of Newberry : Kivers, I of ('ha rI( si on : William-, of Columi Ida, an,| * rind.I. of (Ircenville. of the commit tee appointed by the Pythian (irand l.odvjv to arrange for issuinir a Pvlhian publication, met to-niirht at , the Colnmbia Hotel. Inil reached no conclusion on account ol samples not i bei11ill with most ol the bids. I he commit tce expects to award the conit met for the publication in a lew | days. Ivv-Covernor lleyward is a I member of the commit lee. but could I not be present on account of havimr left with his family to.lay for a trip to Virginia. Col. Anil is himself a publisher, but he told the committee tonight that lie would not accept the contract at any figure on account I of his beinir a member of the committee. Columbia Cor. News and ( mirier. TEACHER WANTED. The patrons of I'nion Academy, School District No. d'2. will meet at the school house on Saturday. July V.], 1007, at one o'clock for the purpose of elect imr a teacher. Salary $30 per month: term about six months. Applications may be filed with any one of the undersigned. I. 1). II. Kina?'d, Chairman. \ K. S. Franklin. \ M. C. Moore, \ Trustees. o