The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 23, 1913, Image 1
VOI.CME LI, KCMBEB 102. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1913. TWICE A WEEE^ $U* A YlAJt
CURRENCY BILL PASSES I
THKOCGH UPPER HOUSE
Senate Votes For Owen Measure by 54
to 34.?Measure Goes to Conference.
Washington. Dec. 19.?The administration
currency reform bill, pro- j
"/v"n'r ? fovici ,n nf thp financial svs- ;
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MISS VIDA COUNTS
I Prosperity, S. C.
Winner of 1st Prize.
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tern of the United States and the creation
of regional reserve banks to act
as stabilizing elements in tne banking
and financial world, tonight pass- !
ed the-senate by a vote of 54 to 34. j.
Forces that had fought together j
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ior amena:m;ui ui cue uictuuic iu i
last divided when tlie final vote came, i
Senator Hitchcock, who .had led *the
opposition to the bill, returned to the
democratic ranks and Senator Weeks,
' one of the leaders on the republican
side, with five other republicans and
Senator Poindexter (Progressive) .
voted for the passage of the measure.
Wide differences exist between the
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form of the legislation passed by the .
senate tonight and the bill that sev
erai montns ago passea me uouse.
Democratic leaders already have
partly bridged these differences, however,
and it was tonight predicted
that the bill would be completed by
a conference committee and sent to
President Wilson for his signature by
Monday night.
Hitchcock Bill Rejected.
The adoption of the administration
bill, known as the "Owen bill," folIawpH
unnn formal defeat, bv 44
to 41, of the Hitchcock bill, which
r had been indorsed by Senator HtichF
cock and the five republican mem}
bers of the evenly divided senate
committee that passed on the legislation.
The senate previously had rejected,
without a roll call, a "central
bank'' bill offered as a substitute by
Senator Burton.
Teacher's Meeting.
The next monthly meeting of the
Newberry County Teacher's asocia
tion will be held in the high school
|| building at 10.30 o'clock Saturday,
January 10, 1914. The following prof
gram has been aranged:
Home Economics?Miss Marion
Frasier, Winthrop college.
Music.
Round table discussion of entries,
w Wm< ^%n sJ
1 MRS. M. Q. BULLOCK ]
Miami, Fla.
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Contest Manager.
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prizes and committees for first conn-;
By school fair and field day..
H Sadie Goggans,it
G. D. Brown, Jr.
Ernest Anderson, {1
Executive Comni^ee. 11
MISS VlDA COUNTS |
WINS CONTtST PIANO
JIITH FRIENDLY K1VALRY MARK*
EI) (LOSE CONTEST.
Mrs. Ueo. W. Senn, Miss Louise Counts
and Miss Kate Spence Winners
of 2nd, 3d and 4tli Prizes.
The contest is over.
There are four very hap>y young J
ladies today as a result of winning in .
the great p ize contest which closed
last Friday.
The contest was to have closed at
12, but as all the contestants wanted i
"just a few more minutes" we extended
it till 3 o'clock.
The entire town seemed to be contest
mad during the last few hours.
At 4.30 the ballot box with all its mysteries
was unlocked, and the judges
did themselves justice in their task of
counting the votes. The names ot tne j
winners were j)ot made public till,!
8.30 at the Arcade picture show.
We think this has been the biggest
contest ever conducted in Newberry.
More prizes (twenty-one in all) greater
enthusiasm, more new subscribers,
and more liberality shown by merchants.
Most every contestant has won at
least one of these prizes, and even
those who were not one of the four
leaders, deserve special yiaiac iw
their excellent work and fight to the
finish. v
Special Thanks to Merchants.
'As contest manager I use this means
to again express my heart feh thanks
to the following merchants for their
unusual liberality in donating special
weekly inducement prizes: Gilder &
Weeks pharmacy gave four prizes and
Robinson's ten cent store gave three.
Utfiers on me nsi as givcis
Wheeler & Langford furniture tyouse,
Ewart-Perry shoe store, Mayes' book
store, Copeiand Bros, dry goods, 0.
& T. E. Salter, photographers, E. M.
Lane Grocery Co., J. T. Mayes wholesale
grocery company, Summer Bros.
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MRS. R. C. BOYLSTOX
Columbia, S. C.
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wholesale (house, R. H. Anderson dry
goods, and Rogers the jeweler, i wisn
to thank the following merchants for j
displaying the main prizes so nice-,
ly: West Martin, J. A. Burton, P. E. j
Way, Gilder & Weeks, and Newberry j
Drug company.
These merchants are not only liberal j
but progressive. Their places of!
business are up-to-date in eve1 y re- j
spect and would do credit to many j
towns larger than Newberry.
Indeed the citizens of this town
should "take off their hats'" to these
people.
Personally 1 like Newberry very
much, both socially and in a business
ivay. I find the people charming. My
stay here has indeed been pleasant in
I'Dcnoi-.f?iwnH T chall nlwflVs
iold a warm place in my heart for
:his delightful little town.
Mrs. M. Q. Bullock,
Contest Manager.
The ( onnt. ^
Hda Counts 3,551,750
Mrs. Senn 3,247,.r>r>0
Louise 'Counts 1,944,,">00
Kate Spence 1,307,7."0
Mrs. Boyleston 1,097,000
Louise Melton.... 1.027,000
The above is the result of the vote
is tabulated by the managers, Messr.
VI. I,. Spearman, J. Y. McFall and F.
A. Griffin.
The Herald and News extends
:h<mks to them for their kindness in
.his matter.
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STATE CAPITAL NEWS. j
State Board of Education Meets to
Elect County Superintendents? .
Other Matters.
Special to The He'ald and News.
Columbia, Dec. 22.?The State board
of education met in Governor Blease's
office at noon today to elect county
superintendents of education in Abbeville
and Laurens counties, to fill vacancies
caused by the resignations of
the encumbents. Mr. \V. R. Bradley, ;
county superintendent in Abbeville, re- j
signed io accept a position in the Unit- '
eel States government service. and
Mr. George L. Pitts resigned as coun- i
rv sunerinteudent in Laurens so j
into business. The salaries attached to
the positions a'e only about $700 each,
and it has been s.'ated that the :nac!e- j
quacy of the salaries led to the resignations.
The State board today elected Rev.
J. M. Lawson to succeed Mr. Bradley,
in Abbeville, and J. H. Sullivan to
succeed Mr. Pitts in Laurens.
State Officials Busy.
This is one of the busiest, and pro- ;
bablv the busiest, season of the year, i
for the various State officials, who iiave
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MRS. GEO. W SEXX
Kinards, S. C.
Winner of 2nd Prize.
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been and are now engaged in getting !
j their various reports ready for the \
general asembly, which is only three j
weeks off.
Statistics which have been gathered
i show that the past year, in agriculj
ture, in manufacturing, and in educational
activities, was one of the best
and most prosperous years which
j South Carolina has ever had.
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Then And Now.
| In looking through some old papers j
! in the governor's office, several par- !
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don petitions were noted from New-!
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I berry county, and on examination .of
these papers shows that petitions in
the years gone by, presented to for-1
mer governors, were very much the j
same as petitions presented now?and
a good many people were pardoned,!
too. Interesting among the Newberry ;
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petitions nuiea was mat in .>uaii x\. |
Taylor, convicted before Judge Ernest,
Gary of the murder of his wife, and j
sentenced to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary. This case created
g'"eat interest at the time. Petition
was presented by Col. W. H. Hunt, of
the Newberry bar. Governor ^Heyward
granted a pardon in May, 1903.
The petition was signed by a good
many ot tne citizens or .nOWDerry
county. among them Clerk of Court
Tohn C. Goggans, County Supt. of
Education Eugene S. Wests, Sheriff
M. M. Buford, Probate Judge Hodges,
J. D. Davenport, M. A. Carlisle, S. B.
fAnil, James Mcintosh, John M. Kinard,
Z. F. Wright, S. J. Derrick, W. E. Pelham,
J. W. White, Xat Gist, J. H. Sum- 1
mer, C. E. Summer, Wm. F. Ewart,
and other citizens of the town of New- I
berry.
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BELL ON POISON BOTTLE.
(From the New York American.)
TTVoncic! '\T!je\Tillc>n rir>rpd violinist !
1 1 UUV^IO iliuo*'! A A* J u given
to ^violent headaches, has devised
a method of safeguarding himself
against bichloride of mercury poison.
He had a medicine chest stocked
with fourteen bottles, one of which
contains bichoride iabletes. On each
of the bottles is a bell, emitting,
when being shaken, one of the minor j
or major tones of the chromatic scale.
The mercury bottle bell emits the
tone of B sharp.
PRISONER MAY BE
WELL KNOWN YEGG
John Kerry is Said to He MoKinley.?
Held at Spartanbure.
Spartanburg, Dec. 20.?Suspected of j
? anr? nttonintin I
ClllC* illg C11C OlUi U Uiiu
to blow open the safe of Renard C.
Frey at Fairforest during t^.e night of
December 10, .loan Kerry, identified by
a fellow prisoner as William McKinley,
a notorious safe-cracker, paroled
by the governor from the State peni- !
tentiary on November 27, is now held \
in the county jail as a vagrant, entered
there on a warrant by Robert J.
Gantt, magistrate of this city, on December
12. A warrant charging AlcKinley
with burglary has been sworn
out bv .Renard C. Frey, and the ac
cused man will be given a prelimina'y !
hearing on the charge before Magis- j
trate Gantt in the county court room j
Monday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. A j
strong chain of circumstantial evi- I
dence connecting the man with the j
crime has been secured by the officers.
On the night of December 10 the
store of Renard C. Frey was forcibly
ente'ed through a window and an attempt
was made iO blow open the safe i
by nitroglycerine. Several small ar- ;
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MISS LOU.ISE COUNTS
J Pomaria, S. C.
< Winner of 3d Prize.
tides, including undershirts, a coat
and other wearing apparel, were
stolen. When the robbery was discovered
the next morning a button
with a tufc. of cloth, was found beneath
the open window and this was j
preserved as a clue. On the night j
after the robbery, December 11, J. E. j
Vernon, rural policeman, and Robert j
E. Miller, special officer of the Southern
railway, having in custody two
negroes wanted for a minor offense, \
were coming ihrougn a patch of
woods near Spartanburg Junction
when they saw a white man with a
sack of coal starting a fire. They
suspected he had been stealing coal
from the Southern railway and placed
him under arrest, placing him in the
county jail. He gave the. name of
John Kerry. On December 12 he was
given a hearing before Magistrate |
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Gantt and as there was no evidence j
to connect him with the theft of coal, j
her was sentenced to 30 days in the j
county jail for vagrancy.
Xegro Child Burned to Death.
Sunday afternoon a little negro
girl was fatally burned, the burning J
taking place at about one o'clock and j
ueatli /esuilin", Monday morning ut <
0.30. It v.us aaotuer case of leaving i
-'1 .'Ij 5" fVrn VifMioo i v nptp
cniitu eu <uuiie m uiC .. ;
they can play with fire. The little!
girl, Willie Mae Austin, was a daugh- i
ter of Alice Austin, who cooks for
Mr. Frank Johnson. She left her 1
child in the house which is on the
promises of Mr. .J. D. Livingston, in
the city, and there was another small
child in the ooni at the time, a boy
about j:>: yea is old. the girl being in
he;- iDu.'th year. The mother of the I
burn* caiid uays ?.hut the girl claimed i,
lLj b-y '~c;t I; or c;n fire," w.icn dis-j
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Mrs. Livingstone rendered valuable '
assistance in extinguishing the flames j
and otherwise helping with her aid, !
but the child was too badly burned j1
for any help to be effective in sav- i
ing life. Coroner Lindsay held no in- j
quest, it being considered unnecessary, j
Tete Scur: y was shot by Henry'
Gilreath on Friday night near Chap- J
pells. One ball entered the ear.
another the cheek and another Hie
hack of the neck. Gilreath was arrested
by Magistrate W. R. Reed and
is now in the county jail. # j
I'APT. W. H. SONDLEY
CRITICIZES GOV. BLEASE'
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SAYS CONVICTS ARE NOW DE.
MORALIZED.
Untrue That Parris Was ^Picked'' on
Because He Wore a Blease Button.
Columbia, Dec. 20.?A sweeping
denunciation of Governor Blease's actions
with regard to convicts at the
State penitentiary was made today by
the capain of the guard at the State
prison.
Capt. W. H. Sondley says the con
victs at the prison are now demoralized,
that diccipline has been seriously
affected by Governor Blease's
parols and pardons and that "all the
average convict seems to think that it
is necessary to violate the rules, get
punished and slip a letter to the
governor and his parole or pardon
will follow."
The statement of Capt. Sondley
conies by reason of the granting of a
parole by Governor Blease to Raimon
Parris, a Newberry prisoner, who
charged that he was punished be
cause he wore a Blease button.
The details wer?v given in Thursday's
News and have created a sansation
over the State. Many of the county
papers have commented on the
parole. Parris was called to Governor
Blease's office and reiterated a statement
contained in a letter that he
had been "picked" on by the guards
because he wore a Blease button and
registered other kicks against the
penitentiary. \
Today the "storm broke in the statement
of ihe captain of guard.
"I have been a victim of this kind
of frame-up by convicts and ex-convicts
long enough. I have never been
able to understand why Governor
! P^nse should take an ex-parte stateI
ment of a convict to injure a man
! and a State institution when he could
- ?ft? /? + + tt v\1v
j gel LIJC lctuu> ailU L11C LI UC11 UJ OIllipiJ
j asking,'' said Captain W. H. Sondley,
! denouncing as a "lie" the statement
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MISS LOUISE MELTON
Newberry, S. C.
of the convict named Parris wbo was
paroled a few days ago following a
letter the convict wrote to Governor
Blease that he was being punished
because he wore a Blease button.
"I now think the time has come j
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ior me 10 speaft. out, ciuucu i
Sondley. "When it comes to dis- j
charging my duty as an officer of the
penitentiary I try and have no pets
but I must confess that I did show
this man some consideration on account
of being from Newberry, my
native county, by making him a
trusty water boy. This lasted as long
as he proved worthy but when he
vio'ated the rule, I called him down.''
"When he said his downfall and
punishment was caused oy nis wearing
a button with Gov. Blease's picture
on it, a blacker lie was never
uttered."
C:.pt. Son die}' pointed out that t'.io
ease or Parris was submitted to
Col. Griffith, the superintendent be- ;
fore final action was taken and the I
pui :shmcnt inliicted was by the su- j
per .'.iter Merit's direction. The cell in '
which Parris was placed, says Capt. j
Sondley, was the man's regular cell, j
"as comfortable as any other in the ;
building."
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The captain of the guard continued:
"I had no desire to inflict any
greater punishment than solitary i
confinement. In the discharge of my
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duty as captain of the guards I have
always tried to be just and fair in
administering discipline and have
"never knowingly inflicted any greater
punishment than I thought the
case deserved."'
Commending Col. D. J. Griffith,
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MISS KATE SPEXCE
? Newberry, S. C.
Winner of 4th Prize.
the superintendent of the penitenti!
ary, Capt. Sondley says that "the peniI
4 /\/l /-.Tr a w Viir n rvion
LtJIlUclIy is JJICSIUCU UVCi >JJ a mau
who has devoted his life to the interests
of South Carolina, whose word
is taken wherever he is known, and
whose honor and integrity stands
without a blemish." V"
Capt. Sondley stated that he and
the governor were brought up in the
same county and "up ti a few months
ago have been strong personal and
Apolitical friends."
He added: I
"Under these circumstances does it
j not seem that a common decency and.
justice would demand that 1 be given
i hearing before the statement of a
j convicted thief be taken, by whose
+estimony the tfhole administration of
'he penitentiary is condemned and we
ire denied the right accorded the
neanest criminal of not b^ing heard
in our defense." v
Charging that there is now less
discipline among the convicts and
t!:at Governor Blease's actions have
caused a demoralization at the penitentiary,
the captain' of the guard
concludes his statement to the pub
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lie:
"It seems that Governor Blease had
had a pick at the penitentiary and
its officers ever since he has been
in the governor's office and I have
never understood it, unless he is catering
to the criminal element in the
State.
"No one knows, except those connected
with the penitentiary the di?o~der
and demoralization that b
been caused among the convicts by
his interference and attitude he hus
occupied. I have been connected with
the penitentiary from time to time in
nnp wav or another for about 20
years and there is more disorder and
less deStipline now among the con__
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MISS GEORGIA r.^YNOLDS
Newberry, S. C.
victs iliu.ii I liave ever known.
"AH riio 'jvnra >P ( i.iivu ) ^een ; to
think that it is necessary is to violate
the rules, get punished and slip
a letter to the governor and his parole
or pardon will follow.
"It is a sad commentary on South
Carolina when the testimony of convicted
criminals is taken in preference
to honorable men." %