Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-~)L[ME XLIX, NUMBER ;~.NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. Fum1ii-. SEPTEMBER S 1911. TWICE A WEE, $1.50 A YEAE. TO i lLE XLIX, NUNBER . POP ULA TION IN SOUT Of This State's People, Nui Per Cent. Are White-FiA in White People is Gr Special to The Herald and News. Washington, Sept. 5.-Preliminarn tion of South Carolina were issued I tabulations were made under the su tistician of the division of populatioi in detail, of the returns of the 13tl subject to possible revision, but it ic not be material. The figures relate I other cities of 10,000 and over, and tl the State and of Charleston is dist and the percentage proportion of eac and 1890. The decennial percentac classification for the decade, 1900-191 counties are divided into white at Japanese and Indians, but the nu: not materially affect the figures givE the other Southern States are being in the near future. Percentag The- figures for the cities of Chc only 679,162, or 44.8 per cent., are -forms 55.2, per cent. of the whole. by the census department, indicat than negroes, the percentage being negroes. The total growth in popu The figures for the cities of Cha tanburg are interesting as showing of those towns. Charleston gained 3,026 people di population was 3,526. This shows i from Charleston, and no more negi gain of 3,526, which is about 15 p groes still outnumber whites in Ch, 27,764. Columbia, with 21,108 people in ing 3,528 white and 2,673 colored. ( 244 negroes. Spartanburg gained 6,122. Of thi were- negroes. Spartanburg's popu 6,876 negroes. Greenville's gain during the decal only 902 negroes. Its population i 319 negroes. Sout Numbers. Total population.. . ..--...--. -' White.....----.------.---. Negro......... - -----'.--. All other*... ......- -.-.--' Per Ceni Total population..-....--.--. -- 'White... ........---.--.---.-' Negro..........--. ---. '-' All other ......---.----.---.---. *Chinese, Japanese and Indians. Decennial Total population... ....--..-. W hite-..--. ---. ---. --. ---. ---. ~Negro..---.----. ---.-------'. --- All other......--. ---. --.---. City Numbers. Total population. . . ..--..--.. --. White...-.---.-.---.-.----.---. - Negro.....-..-.------. --. --. All other..-...----.----.---. --. Per Cen Total population... ....-.---.--. White..... ..-.-.---.---.----. -- Negro.. ... ... ... ....---.--. All other*. ..-.-.....-.--.----.-. *Chinese, Japanese and Indians. Decennial Increas Total population... .--.------. White.....-..----.----.----. Negro-...- ---.---. --. ---. ---. All other....-....-.-.-.-.--.---. South Cari County. Pplton Wie The State .1,1,0.7,6 Abbeville.. ..... 484 1,8 Aiken..-.-... 189 1,9 Andeson..-...6,58 423 Bamberg.. ....1,4 5.7 Barn well. ....-3,299-6 Beaufort..-....3,5 ,6 Berkeley -....- .2,87-. Calhoun..-...-1,6- 389 L Charleston .S59 2.4 Cherkee. ... 41,819 17,69 .heter.. . .2 65,56 43,232 BY RACES fU CAROLINA nbering 1,515,400, Only 44.8 rures for Cities Show Gain 3ater Than in Negroes. - comparative statistics of the popula oday by Census Director Durand. The prvision of WI. C. Hunt, chief sta , and are the result of the first count, census. The figures are, therefdre, believed that the changes, if any, will 0 the State, the city of Charleston, the e counties. The total population of ributed into white, negro and all other, h is given for the censrses of 1910, 1900 e of increase or decrease for the sane , also is stated. The figures for the d negro, the latter including Chinese, ber of such are so small that -they do n for negroes. Similar statements for prepared and will probably be issued of Negroes. rolina's total population of 1,515,400, white. The negro population, 835,843, The percentage of increase, as figured ,s that the State has gained more whites 21.8 for the whites and 6.8 for the Lation was 13.1. Meston, Columbia, Greenville and Spar ; the additions to the white populations Lring the decade. The gain in white :hat 500 negroes really moved away oes came in. This leaves a clear white yr cent. of the white population. Ne trIeston, the figures being 31,069 against L900, grew to 26,319, this increase be olumbia now has 14,772 whites and 11, increase 3,517 -e whites and 2,605 lation now comprit:.: 30,641 whites and le was 3,881, including 2,979 whites and now composed of 9,422 whites and 6, i Carolina. 1910. 1900. . 1890. ..... 1,515,400 1,340,316 1,151,149 ... 679,162 557,807 462,008 ... 835,843 782,321 688,934 .. . 395 188 207 Distribution. ......100.0 . 100.0 100.0 ... .. .. 44.8 41.6 40.1 .... .. 55.2 58.4 59.8 **Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. [nerease State. Per Cent. of Increase, 1900-1910. .... .. .. ...13.1 21 .8 .... .. ... ...6.8 ..... ... ... 110.1 Charleston. 1910. 1900. 1890. ...... 58,833 55,807 54,955 ... .. 27,764 24,238 23,919 ... ... .31,056 31.522 30,970 ... .. 13 47 66 E. Distribution. ......100.0 100.0 100.0 ..... .. 47.2 43.4 43.5 ........ 52.8 : 56.5 56.4 . . .. . . ** o,.1 0.1 **Lss than one-tenth of 1 per cent. e City of Charleston. Per Cent. of Increase, 1900-1910. .... .. ... ...5.4 .... .. ... ...14.5 .... .. ... ...1.5* .... .. ... ...72.3* >lina Counties. Total Negro* Population White. Negro* 1900. 836,238 1,340,316 557,807 782,509 22,522 33,400 11,331 22,069 22,852 39,032 17,388 21,644 26,336 55.728 32,232 23,496 12.74 17.296 6,658 11,63S 24,648 35,504 10,088 25,416 26,391 35,495 3,349 32,146 18231 30,454 6,481 23,97~3 12.739 . . . - - - - 56.0463 88,006 27,647 60,359 8,510 21,359 13,952 7,407 1914 28.61 9i,243 19,373 Darington .. .. 027 14,741 Dilon. .. . ... . ,C1-) 10,999 Dorchest-r .... 17,891 6,908 Edgefield. 2S,2S1 8,165 Fairfield ....... 29,442 7,065 Florence .. .. .. 35,671 15,329 Georgstown .. 22,270 6,158 Greenville .. 68,377 47,515 Greenwood .. 34,225 12,923 Hampton .......25,126 9,006 Horry .........26,995 20,325 Kershaw .......27,094 10,648 Lancaster. .. 26,650 13,524 Laurens... .....41,550 18,796 Lee........- 25,318 8,066 Lexington ......3,040 20,402 Marion. .......2,596 9,387 Marlboro.. .. . 31,189 12,259 Newberry. ..... 34,586 12,545 Oconee.. . .....27,337 20,489 Orangeburg .. 55,893 19,098 Pickens .. .. .. 25,422 19,992 Richland.. .. .. 55,143 25,609 Saluda .. .... 20,943 9,754 Spartanburg .... 83,465 57,048 Sumter ... 33,472 10,246 Union .. .. 29,911 14,439 Williamsburg . 37,626 14,411 York.. .. . 47,718 22,331 Cit Charleston . 58,833 27,764 Columbia. .. .. .26,319 14,772' Greenville .. .. 15,741 9,422 Spartanburg. .. 17,517 10,641 *Includes Chinese, Japanese and NEED OF COOPERATION. Speakers Say Farmers Must Work To. gether-Brooks Fears the Trusts. Shawnee, Okla., Sept. 5.-That thE farmers of America will be owned and controlled by trusts within the nexi 30 years if they do not cooperate and conserve their efforts was the. warn ing issued today by President T. J Brooks, of Tennessee, in his responsE to the address of welcome at the open ng session of the National Farmers union. United States Senator Thos. P. Gore, who followed Mr. Brooks, tool up the cudgels for cooperation, ant his speech was confined mostly to am plifying the statements of Brdioks. "You farmers will be buried deep er in misery than ever if you do noi cooperate," declared the blind senator "More attention must be given to busi ness if you are to be successful." Former State Senator Campbell Rus sell in his address of welcome on be half of the Oklahoma Farmers' unior denied a statement recently made by the secretary of the State Bankers association that the cotton crop of thE State for 1911 will net the plantere $75,000,000. "Every intelligent farme-1 knows that this year's crop will d< well to bring $45,000,000," said Rus sell. "That is if the present prices are maintained." Secretary A. G. Davis, of the Na tional union is receiving a number 0: letters and telegrat,ns from farmer! in the cotton belt urging the delegates to pass a resolution to hold cottor Ifor 13 to 15 cents. All of the remain ing meetings will be executive. Every delegate represents 5,000 members. A great number of telegrams fron commercial clubs, newspapers, busi ness men and bankers of cotton grow ing States were received today pledg ing support to any "holding plan" th~ national union 'may adopt. Whil4 nothing official has been given out re garding the price that farmers wil be asked to place on their cotton, i is said the convention probably wil agree on from 13 to 15 cents. MAN DROWNS IN BUTTERMILE. Thomas Ier, a Milkman, Loses Lif4 When Tank of Fluid Bursts. Gilmore, Neb., Sept. 5.-Thomai Iler, a milkman, was drowned neal here today in 1,000 gallons of butter milk. Iler was driving a tank con. taming the buttermilk to this citl when the wagon dropped into a de. pression in the road and overturned The 'tank burst and the milk filled th< depression. He was dead when fount half an hour later. How it must jolt a man when he is Ipolite to his wife in public to have hel . 2,2 '6 -23.4.72 :1.87 22,265 21.2S6 32,3SS 13,083 19,305 11,61G ... . -- -.- - 10,983 16,294 6,202 10,092 20,116 25,478 ',347 18,131 22.377 29,423 7,050 22,375 20,342 28,474 11,819 16,655 16,112 22,S46 5,336 17,510 20,862 53,490 33,999 19,491 21,302 28,343 9,437 18,906 16,120 23,738 8,236 15,502 6,670 23,364 17,042 6,322 16,446 24,696 10,002 14,694 13,126 24,311 12,201 12,110 22,754 7,382 15,205 22,177 17,252 ...... - -- - - 11,638 27,264 16,961 10,303 11,209 35,181 16,992 18,189 18,930 27,639 11,226 16,413 22,041 30,182 10,351 19,831 6,848 23,634 17,530 6,104 36,795 59,663 18,220 41,443 5,430 19,375 14,574 4,801 29,534 45,589 17,513 28,076 11,189 18,966 8,819 10,147 26,417 65,560 44,391 21,169 28,226 51,237 12,881 38,356 15,472 25,501 10,943 14,558 23,215 31,685 11,818 19,867 25,387 41,684 19,784 21,900 les. 31,069 55,807 -4,238 31,569 11,547 21,108 11,244 9,864 6,319 11,860 6,443 5,417 6,876 11,395 7,124 4,271 Indians. WAS DEAD AT THROTTLE WHEN TRAINS CRASHED According to Officials, Engineer of Erie & Pittsburg Passenger Died Before Accident. Erie, Sept. 5.-That death was at the -throttle of Erie & Pittsburg pas senger train No. 201 when it crashed into a freight at Dock Junction 'as, night is the firm belief of- officials- and the coroner, after an investigation to day and a talk with Fireman James Firman, who is in a hospital here. According to Firman's story Engineer John Jones, who has been -a well known engineer for 45 years, must -have been dead long before the crash, because for five miles he ran past sig nals set against him. The train crash ed into the freight with the throttle wide open, and it is Firman's belief, in which officials coincide, that the engineer died 'in his cab some -time before the crash came. No more bodies have been found in the wreck, and it is believed the death list will not exceed the three already reported. WATSON IS NAMED AS THE PEESIDENT South Carolina Commissioner Heads Cotton Conference. "You havie been put on the sprogram as president of cotton convention." This telegram was received yester day by E. J. Watson from R. F. ,Kolb, the commissioner of agriculture of Alabama, who has called a convention~ of the farmers and -business nmen of the South to be held in Montgomery (on ~September 12 to discuss plans whereby the cotton crop may be mar kee na conservative manner. South Carolina will send a large de legation to the convention. ICommissioner Watson was also ad vised that a special invitation had been extended to Senator E. D. Smith of this State to attend the conference and deliver one of the chief addresses. Senator Smith has 'made no announce ment as to whether he will attend the conference. Dennis-Way. The following invlitations have been issued: Mr. and Mrs. Ben.iamin Mower Dennis reuest the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter Mary Brooks to Dr. Powell Enoch Way on Tuesday evening, September th e nineteenth, at eight o'clock, Seventeen hundred and twenty-one Johnstone Street. Newberry, South Carolina. Marriage Lice. Septembher 6. Wmi. Roberson, of Newberry, and Rosa B. W illiams3, of Three White Ien Face Trial for Rill ii Near hinsien-Two Convict ed of Manslaughter, Special to The Herald and News. Abbeville, Sept. 7.-The court of general sessions in Abbev.ille this week is remarkable in that there are three white men who are called to answer to the charge of killing nearl kinsmen. All of them are largely con nected and have large family influence. Two of them have aiready been con victed of manslaughter, and the third will be called upon today to face a jury of his country. C. N. Pearman was convicted of manslaughter as the result of the kill ing -of his first-cousin, J. C. Nance, last October. Pearman was tried at the spring term of court and a mistrial resulted. 'Pearman and Nance were young married men, close friends, liv-1 ing just across the road from each other some twelve miles out in the country. The .tragel!y happened on a Sunday morning in October, the testi mony being largely to the effect that the difficulty resulted from the use of too much liquor. PearMan was sen tenced by Judge Gage to serve three years. . J. H. Ferguson, a well-to-do far mer of the county, killed his father in November of last year, and wos tbls week convIcted of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve five years. The father, J. P. Ferguson, and his wife had gone down to tneIr son's home, and the father and son oecaMe invOlv ed in a dispute. The sqn claimed the father was/trying to cut him with a knife, and that in the scuffle the par ties got near the mantle-piece and the son almost unconsciously took hold of the pistol to "bluf" his father, and in the scuffle the pistol was acciden tally fired. The motner was a wit ness aga'inst the. son, saying the son told his father duri'-g --e controversy that he was going to kill him, and that he got the pistol and killed him. The mother and the doctor were the only State's- witnesses, and the son and his wife weTe the only witnesses for the defence.' The trial of Plumber Ashley, charg ed with killing his uncle, Ira Stone, is fixed for today. AsIi'ey is a kinsman of "Citizen" Josh Astiley. The kill ing occurred in March of this..year. J.1K.A. OUTLAW GIVES HISELF UP. Code Lane, Moonshiner Accused of Shooting Revenue Officer, Sur renders at N orth WfIkesborO. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 5,-Outlawed by the State and with a heavy reward hanging over his head, Code Lans, the moonshiner charged with the shooting of R. F. Hendley, a revenue officer, strode into North Wilkesboro today and surrendered to the county Iauthorities. With him surrendered al so Welbern Nance, who is alleged to be implicated in the shooting. The federal officer was shot and seriously wounded two weeks ago in a raid by officers on a coterie of moonshiners whom they surrounded in a desolate spot in the Brushy mountains. * RETURNS OFFICE. The governor Monday appointed John A. Horton, of Belton, as a no tary public. On August 10 the governor revoked the commission of Mr. Horton because he, as a notary public, took an affi davit on the railway affair at the Bel ton station involving the ungentleman ly conduct of the governor. The com missions of two other notaries public, James M. Alexander and J. H. Mer ritt were also revoked on the same charge. The new commission for Mr. Hor ton was made out Monday upon the payment of an additional fee. It is not known whether Mr. Horton made application for the commission. The following is the official record as filed with R. M. McCown, the sec retary of state: "His excellency the governor has this day appointed John A. Horton, Belton, S. C., notary public, Anderson county. You will please send notice as required by law. Respectfully, Alex Rowland, private secretary. Two oil: in an attached." biMtU LInUUL IU nA V L HIGH SCHOOL ADDED SCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY, SEP TE31BER 11. Handsome New Store Completed Business Good-Movements of Many People. Whitmire, Sept. 7.-Mr. J. W. Gary spent the week-end with friends in Columbia. Miss Winnie Henderson is with her sister, Mrs. M. E. Abrams. Mrs. Sallie Searman is visiting her niece, Mrs. Z. H. Suber. Mrs. Geo. C. Glasgow and son, Mar cus, were in town last week. They were the guests of her sister, Mrs. Percy Fergurson. Misses Corinne and Nora Cofteld are spending the week at Mr. J. E. Cofield's and Mr. S. A. Jeter's. Master Spencer and Edwin May, and little Misses Sybil, Edna, and Mildred May, of Carrollton, Ga., after visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Sims, and other relatives here. have returned home. Master Frances and Allard Doug lass and little Miss Mary Douglass spent last week with their aunts, Miss es Janie and Garrie Daugiass. at May binton. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Evans, of Union, were here last week enjoying them selves with their many friends and relatives. John and Mary McCarley returned home with .them and will spend some time. Mrs. Golding and sob, of Atlanta, are visiting her sister, Mrs. H. G. Mey es. Miss Mabel McCarley has returned fom a pleasant trip to her uncle's,': Mr. Brice McCarley, at Jalapa. The Miller Bros. handsome new store is nearing completion. Mr. A. M. Watson began work Monday morn ing as their bookkeeper. Mr. Elmore Suber and Miss Kate Hargrove will Iclerk for them. They will be glad to wait upon their friends in the store. Mr. Earle Sanders and Mrs. Sallie Ray, of Cross Keys, spent the .week end at Mr. Wih. Duckett's Messrs. Harvey Dillard and Ernest Estes and Miss Sallie Belle Dillard, Iof Clinton, spent the Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. Jno. M. Finney a;t b - hotel. Dr. Van Smith, of Newberry, is iif the city, he came over to a grand rally 1of the Masons. Mr. Cla.ude Sligh, of Dysons, after visiting his relatives here has return The W'lt nie C.rrl'.' *Ch.o1 i begin Monday morning. The follow- / x ing teachers will have charge of the school: Rev. R. E. Mood, principal. Mrs. S. A. .Teter an-d Miss Laula Don. nan. assistants. The subject of a high school has been freely discussed and if we can get the required number of pupils In the upper grades we will claim the anropriation given by the high school Rev. Ray Anerson will begin a spec cial meeting at Mt. Tabor tomorroW and continue the services until Sab bath. Next week the meeting will be conducted at the Glenn--Lowry chapel in the mill village. Mr. Andrews, of Che,ste-, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Andrews. The Foreign Missionary and Ladies' Aid society of the ,Methodist church will meet this afternoon at the resi dence of Mr. A. M. Watson. Miss Kate McClannahanl has rtr ed from a pleasant vacationwhc she spent with the home folks in Senl Nita. To Build Handsome Home. Greenwood Index, 31st. Mr. S. J. Wooten, of -Newberry, was ii town Monday and before returning home Mr. Wooten arranged with Coth ran & Cothran to have them draw plans for a handsome residence to be erected on the lot recently purchased by him on Cambridge street. Tl$s lot is next to the home of Mr. T. J. Bolton. G.reenwood will welcome Mr. Wooten as a citizen. And some people get a lot of en joyment out of the trouble they are able to bestow ou others.