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Lanford. Cooley. One of the prettiest romances that has interested this sectio,. in many .ears culminated in sfar-ofh Ma-ilia, Philippine Islands, on August '2, when Miss Annie Lee Lanford, of Linford, South Carolina, became the br:'Ae of Mr. Joseph B. Cooley, a former ew berrian, but for thirteen years a p,) gressive resident of Manila. Lanford is a sman town in the up per secti-.i of Laurens county, found ed by General Lanfora, a grandfather of Mrs. Cooley. Some fifteen or twen ty years ago, young Joe Cooley lived with his parents near the little Lan ford village, and it was there and then that he numbered among his play mates the little girl who was destined to become Mrs. Cooley in after years. Although the young man was several years the senior of Miss Lanford, a strong attachment grew up bet\veen the two; this attachment ripened into love, and a happy marriage in the Far East a little more than a month ago was the result. Joe Cooley, a mere country lad, with few opportunities in early life, left Newberry, his old home, in 1898 to enlist in the United States army at the beginning of the Spanish-Ameri can war. Soon after his enlistment, his regiment was ordered to the Phil ippines, where it saw much active ser vice, being engaged in some of the hardest battles on the islands. At the close of the war, Mr. Cooley recogniz ed the fact that there was an ideal opening for young Americans in Man ila, and decided to cast his lot with the nativ:es of the Philippines. He re ceived an appointment %n the Philip pines constabularY, and by sheer pluck and ability rose rapidly in this depart ment. Today he is chief agent of the constabulary, the secret service de partment of the United states in the Far East. He is also interested in a number of manufacturing enterprises on the island, being class;ed among the most progresive Americans In the Philippines. He is a typical Southern boy, and never tires of boasting of Dixie, the land of his biTth. He is a warm friend and admirer of President Taft, a close,friendship having sprung up lbetween the two men while 1Mr. Taft was governor-genleral of the Philippines. -During all these years, -since 1898, Pwhen Mr. Cooley left the shores of California -for Manila, he had not seen Miss Lanford, but the memlory of the little girl, the ideal of his childhiood linfgered with him, and a corre spondence, renewing the status of af fairs of the by-gone days, sprang up. Last Decemb)er Mr. Cooley was called to Washington by the president on business connected with the affairs of his department in Manila, this being his first visit to the United States since his enlistment twelve years be fore. Several months were spent in the States, -and it is needless to state that some part of this vacation was spent in the neighbornlood of the little -village of Lanford. Owing to the fact that Mr. Cooley was called back to Manila rather unexpectedly, the mar-' riage of the young people was defer red for a few months. On July 18, Miss Lanford, accom panied by a party of friends of Mr. *Cooley and herself, sailed from San Francisco on the "Siberia" for Manila, to become the wife of Joseph B. Cooley. She landed in Manila on August 12, and the marriage took place the same *estening. The marriage was very quiet, -only a few intimate friends of the contrac~ting parties being present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. L. McLaughlin. Miss Frances Cooley, sister of the groom, and a~ - hildhood playmate of the bride, was ma,id of honor, and Major Alexander J. Rob ertson was best man. After a short honeymoon, Mr. ana arrs. Cooley will be at home to their friends in Manila. VERY LIT TLE PEOQRESS IN THE "LABEL CASE" (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). the inv'oice and shipment. The Nivison-Weiskopf Labels. Mr. Christensen said he was told by Mr. Ehrhardt where the la:bels were stored and this brought forth another tilt as to whether this was hearsay evidence or not-all on the point whether the labels offered were really the Nivison-Weiskopf labels or not.t The labels were compared with the1 original bill' of Nivison-Weiskopf. The introduction of tiae invoice was objected to because it was typewrit ten a.rd not written; because it was1 unsigned, and because it was not proven by the bookkeeper who made The State contended that it was an Sofficial record coming from the prop er authorities as having come from the dispensary and from the officials charged in the indictment. The State contended that the bill was prima faci evdecea nd could be submitted as such. "Well, let it go in,- was Judge Wil son'es brief decision .s to whether the bill for the labels was admissible as evIdence. The labels were also given the of ficial "0.. K." Bids on Label Contract. It was finally permitted to get through the legal firing lines that a bid on the labels was made by the 'tate and Walker, Evans & Cogswell. M.Johnstone, in objection to some of the evidence, suggested that no P< ssible good could come from coun s.l "sassing" each other. On cross-examination by Col. Nel son, Mr. Christensen said he was paid $5 a cay, while actually engaged. Mr. Christonsen said while lawyers were getting good fees he was simply get ting his expenses, no more. He was asked why he was so positive the Ia bels exhibited were those gotten at Ihe dispensary, and at the dispensary hearing he "believed" they were the same labels. The cross-examination continued up and down, merrily chasing who, when and where, certain papers cane into his possession. Comparative Prices. He was insistently asked if the State and Walker, Evans a Cogswell did not know he did not want the labels. He said he simply asked for bids. He never intended to buy the labels, but he simply wanted comparative prices. He offered no inducement to the bid ders, but simply wanted to know what it would cost to duplicate the order. Very likely the bidders he asked for figures knew why h'e was asking for prices. Mr. Johnstone brought out that there were pencil marxs on the Nivi son-Weiskopf bill in Mr. Christensen's handwriting. Mr. Lyon 'protested against any improper imputations be ing made against the witness as the figures merely showed the footings of the number of labels. He made the notations while work ing on the famous investigating com mitttee. He did not, of his own know ledge know whether Mr. Boykin had seen the invoice in question. He went out and secured evfidence and became a witness before the committee on the label matter. He asked for bids from the State and Walker, Evans & Cogs well, on the labels, beca.use they were practical men and were in that line of business. He and Mr. Lyon and Mr. Hay were on the sub-committee to investigate overcharges and prices. Previous T"estimony. There was a prolonged legal de bate as to using certain testimony ad duced at the previous investigation re garding the identity of the labels1 The court held that the question in the record could not be used, bu1t that Mr. Christensen could give .his testimony by refreshing his memory. The pencil memorandum in no wise changed the orginal bill, but were footings. He figured, as shown by the pencil memoranda on the bill, that the twen ty-one million labels would label $6, 350,000 worth of liquor. Peneil Figures en invoice. Merry legal tangle number forty seven, more or less, as to whether it was permissible -evidence as to wheth er the witness could explain his pen cil figures On the. original invoice which were made to show bow much liquor the labels would brand or mar ket. Mr. Nelson, Mr. Johns'tone, Mr. Welch, Mr. Timmerman, Mr. Raysor, all took a turn- at th'e Rick against Mr. Christensen going into the purpose of the penicil notations on the original bill and that the figu'res are not a part of the invoice, and then an hour or more was spent arguing on the com petency of the prosecution offering the evidence of Mr. Christensen, in its entirety, as offered before~ the inves tigation committee. Col. Abney Figures. Col. B. L. Abney, of cousel for the State, took a turn in the legal gym-j nastics today on the question of ad mitting Mr. Christensen's original tes timony on the labels in its entirety. The court decided that the question aked by Mr. Stevenson was admissi ble and it was so admitted. Mr. Stevenson finally read Mr. Christensen's entire evidence as to the! identification of the labels, when the samples were taken years ago at the starting of the invest!gation. Slurs at Christensen. Mr. Lyon resented tne suggestion of Mr. Nelson that Mr. Christensen was a "professional investigator and that e had stirred up this Asylum mat ter." Mr. Christensen said he had done his duty, that nle had done so at personal sacrifice and never had re ceived a cent more than his expenses, often not that. W. H. Cogswell on St.and. Mr. W. H. Cogs-well, of the Walker, Evans & Cogswell company, was pre sented as 'a. witness. tre had p'revious ly testfied that their firm wonla sup ply the twenty-one -':iion labels for S9,185. The bill from NivisonWeis kopf was $35,800-a difference of over $26,000. Judge Wilson held that it was competent for the witness to tes tify for What he wou:d supply the la bels. Hc testified that there was no great fluctuation in prices. tle was willing to exactly duplicate the Nivison-Weis kopf order for $9,185 and there was a profit of $2,000 in it for his firm. Ob jection was made to the question be-1 cause the bid was not brdught to the attention of the defenc!ants at the time of the purchase, but months after when the investigation started. Mr. Cogswell was not started on his cross-examination -before the court ad journed for the day, after a day of hard legal fighting. August Kohn. LABEL GRAFT CASE IS NOW ON TRIAL Celebrated Dispensary Prosecution isi Again Resumed by State-Con spiracy Charged. Columbia, Sept. 26.-L. W. Boykin and John Bell Towill, former mem bers of the State liquor dispensary board; W. 0. Taturn, rormer commis sioner of the dispensary; M. A. Good man, a liquor salesman,, and Dennis Weiskopf. a Cincinnati business man,. were placed on trial here today on a charge of conspiring to defraud the State. The case is what is known as the dispensary scandal and -has been on the docket several years. It is alleged that Boykin, Towill, and Tatum as .members of the board, through Goodman and Weiskopf, pur chased from a Cincitnati concern $35, 000 worth of labels for wiskey bottles and that $22,000 of this amount was returned to the St4te officers as "graft." t The supply of labe!s bought in 1905 was enough to last the State ten years. - The dispensary was abolished in 1907. Persistent argument over the ad mission or rejection or testimony of witnesses and the entrance of recurds into the evidence were the predomi nating fatures of the first day of the 1 trial in the celebrated "laibel" case, < which was commenced this morning] in the court of generai sessions, Judge Wilson presiding. The case is one of the so-called dispensary "graft cases." Defense and prosecution stating them selves ready for trial in the case of the State against W. 0. Tatum, for merly dispensary commissioner; L. W. Boykin and John Bell Towill, former members of the dispensary board on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State, the trial commenced when court convened about 10 o'clock. A number of attorneys representing. each of the defendants began a pre liminary skirmisi ovter the question as to fIehy Dennis Weiskopf, the oth er defendant on the docket in this case was not tried along with the three mentioned. Attorney General 3. Fraz er Lyon is in charge of the prosecu tion. The Governor a Spectator. ( Governor Blease was a spectator of I the trial throughout the morning ses sion. He came in shortly after the - jury had been drawn and listened ~ with apparent attention to the testi- ~ mion.y of the witnesses and the attor ney's arguments. During the argu- I ment on the admission of the stub .d book as evidence, he shook hands with f Attorney Stevenson and remarked on d the "time-killing phase which -the i case had already begun to develop. t The indictment which was read to e the jury charges that the three de- i fendants, Tatu.m, Boykin and Towill, j were officials of the State dispensary, d that they entered into a conspiracy to .v defraud the State in the purchase of a a number of labels from the Nivisson- lI Weiskopf company at a total expendi- p ture of about $35,000, defaulting the 'I State of the sum of $22,500 in the. u transaction.d Clemson College Letter. In the history of Clemson college S the session just opening promises to I be the greatest. Over 800 students C were enrolled, and af.ter standing ex- b aminations near,ly that number are t still here. The new course, knownl t as the work boy course, which enables 0 a boy to work an'd attend classes al- t ternate weeks, is proving very popu lar. Twenty-sev'en boys are now pur- is suing this course. n Great imprcovements have been e 'made to the college property during .f the summer. In addition to the im- ~ provements of barracks the new dairy n building has been completed and V equipped, two large concreate silos s have been built, and the farm ~barns are now under construction. The encampment at the State fair d this year will rest largely with the a boys. If they want to go, the trip ist virtually assured. The decision will l be made by the president of the board P of truseens and the president of the il COUNT Y( At the close of and at the same your blessings, a troubles swarmei If you have he you weary with., sleep and wake4 the first and gre, work waiting ev< ing is yours. If precious beyond A comfortabl( reckoned. The tained by regula: and riches of the home and friend of these blesing Merry Christmas Money Depositet cent. Per. Savings Deposits Many R The ollege. We have a larger number of boys an usual here from our county. They L-e: J. A. Berly, G. E. Berly, C., K. pting, C. E. Folk, W. W. Herbert, ec11 Jacobs, B. M. Jon.e, Chest.r ong, W. C. Keith, P. H. Senn, A. L. healy, J. B. Smith, J. M. Sniith, J. A. ingley and J. M. Watkins. Knowing ,I the wide-spread trouble at the ingus boll rot of cotton, Is using in the State we have asked of. H. W. Barre, of the experiment uttion corps to give us the following ticle on the subject: The Fungus Boil Rot of Cotton. During the past few years cotton thracnose has spread all ever South rolina. It is now causing a greait nual loss to the cotton growers. I ve just returned from a trip through reral badly infested sections of the ate and find that this disease seems be causing greater loss than ever efore. During the past two years we have en conducting a careful investiga n of this disease and studying the if history of the fungus which caus it: As a result of this inves'tigatiQn eare now able to control the dis se. Anthracnose first appears on the tside of the boll as a small dark to rplish colored spot. This spot idually increases in size until the ire boll is affected. If such bolls be topen the insiae -is found to be colored and rotten.1 We have found in our investigations Lre that the fungus which causes this ease lives in the sed. Sed taken m mature boils Which were slightly ease lives in the seed. Seed taken ntsj' and spores of the fungus in m, and where suclI seed were plant diseased plants dere found to de op from them. On such diseased lnts the majority ot the .bolls were eased. We also found thiat when picked cotton from healthy stalks nd planted the seed :from these on an which had not been in cotton the evious year we t'a4T no anthracnose. e investigation turther shl thr' der ordinary conditions the fungus es not live in the old diseased boils d stalks for more than one year. ithis shows, then, that by using d which are free from disease and cticing a one year's rotation we nget rid of anthrac*nose. This has n demonstrated in the fields on eexperiment station during 'the past > seasons and is being further dem strated on a number of farms oughout the State this season.. notner impcranit act brought out 1this investigation is that a great any farmers are bringing the dis e on to their places in seed bought m seed houses and seedsmen- t] ay of the worst cases of anthrac- c e were brought about in this way. s ewould advise that every planter s: cure his seed from his own farm. } hr this or buy from some one c 'h you know does not have the sea. on his place. Anthracnose is bad di3cc.e but it can be easily con- 9 oled by following the treatment out- - ed above. We trust that every anter in South Carolina will keep ..s in n when he goes to pick - )UR BLESSINGS the year is a good time to take an ii time it might not be unprofitablE fter the cheerful habit of Mrs. Wig i like stinging bees around her. alth-radiant, glowing health, th i good day's work to dreamless r< 3 you to the opportunities of anotl itest of life's blessings is yours. I .ry day for you to do, the second gr you have a home and friends, a calculation is yours. a savings account is another bless home and the nest-egg that have r saving is more precious than the" very wealthy. If you have healt 3, and a good savings account, the s cannot help but add to the joy o: i and a Happy New Year. I in Our Savings Department Ea Annum, Compounded Semi-annual Here Gain the High Average Se elative Small, Careful Investments. Exchange OF NEWBERRY, S. C. School Days Dress Your *A Hercule N Turn Suit You wil \ a pateni the sle most se' the pan with.He adeitfor suits are guaranteed by; Daube Chicago, to be all pure wool and Hercules will out-wear two si mnake regardless of price.: EWART-PER] Clothing, Shoes, flats, Ge Newberry, - - ds cotton and when hie plans, for his Qakiand ilanting next season. the~ mill .a.. Thursda3 NOTICE TO CREDITORs. All persons having demands against F. N. Ma le estate of Theodore N. Kibler, de eased, will render an account of the ame, duly attested, to the under- ITEA igned, at Columbia, S. C., or to H. C. An exa [olloway, Esq., at Newberry, S. C~, by ficates' w. ctober 15, 1911. ~county' si R.obt. Y. Kibler, Friday, 0 Administrator. tion wl -19-1tawSt a. mn. Applica STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.' Notice is hereby given that the an- County E ,al meetng of the stokholder of J.R-Ot iventory, to count gs, when at sends ,treshing ter day f there is eat bless blessing ing to be been at mansions h, work, counting a very rns. 4 per ry. -urity of Bank. reHere Boy ir as Suit a Hercules Inside Out I find the coat has ted double lining in re at the arm pit; here the wear i rere. You will find t lined throughout rculone, (a special's Lade only,fo .Her its) and all seams ed with tape-not nary white, spongy spe, but a wider ch stronger one. In Sto this, Hereules Cohn & Company, ishower proof. A its of any other RY CO. K ts Furnishers. - S. C..4 Cotton Mills will be held at building at 11 o'clock a. in,. , the 5th day of October, 191L. .W. H. Hunt, rtin, President Secretary. 9-22-td CHERS' EXAMUTATIONf. mmationi for teachers' certi-. .11 be held in the office of the oerintendent of education on ctober 6, 1911. The examnina begin promptly at 9 o'clock nts to furnish all stationery. L. S. Wheeler, upeintndent nf Education.