Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

HAMPTON TERRACE HOTEL 1 DESTROYED BY FIRE Xftgniticent Winter Resort in North < Augusta Bnrned Early Sunday Morning1?Ready to Open for New Season. Augusta. Jan. 1?The magnificent;] Terrace Hotel was destroyed by fire1 i at an early "hour Sunday morning. Between 1:30 a. m. and 2 a. m. < Watchman John O'Keefe discovered i that fire had broken out about the top floor of the extreme western wing. I He immediately gave the alarm and, help was asked from the Augusta Fire; Department, which made as quick re-j OC- r>A5<5ih]p ayviiot, f . It was evident that the fire had "been eating its way through the west; wing some time before O'Keefe locat-; ed it. The arrangement of th(.> build ing made it extremely difficult for the firemen to get at the burning sec-, tkm. Agout 3 o'clock the flames burst: 1 * +V. , vv-TTlrr nnd "all out mrouguuuL uc persons out" orders were given by til firemen, it being then evident tha the magnificent hostelry was doom ed. Help in the Winsr. About one hundred of the help, here 1'or the formal opening next week for the 1917 winter season. wore sleping in tne nuiei. rw ^ . time it was feared that some of tho;< young women had been caught in tho i flames. j Firemen succeeded in gittinfc a few 1 streams going and attention was giv-j ] en to theyprotection of surrounding < property more than to efforts to halt j i the firse in the hotel. ' J Scene a uramauc uut. . j When the flames burst out show-' ing that the west wing was gone and. that the hotel was doomed, the scene < was a dramatic one. People had j i gathered by the hundreds. Volun-:: teers jumped in to assist the firemen; : in seeing to it that no one had been 1 1 caught in the building. Young wo - < men were gotten out just in time. A' ] mnet Tiavp I f t^w momenis iciitr mcjr mu^i. v succumbed. In instances they had to i be pu'^od from their rooms and were s carried away screaming. Men took. f great risks in searching the wing in! making sure that no one was left in (3 the rooms. *3^,$ ( The firemen fought with ah tne1 1 fight that was in them. The facilities were absolutely inadequate, t The opportunities to fight the fire 11 were small. The heat was intense. I "" ~J"??* Hio u ilrfest. I f '1116 exciieuiciit wa.o v/i- u.v . _ The cry to save human life was heard j t aboVe the din. But the firemen and j c the citizens never gave up for a mo- j t ment and continued with every ef- j i fort that could be summoned. i t JWhen the fire which had burned steadily in smouldering way, sudden ly burst ou tin the wing in which it ? Lad originated, the sky was illumi- j<? nated almost like a flash and there! \ was a silence among the spectators j for a moment. Every one ai uiac j . time came to the conclusion that the! ' entire structure must go. JEhe Hampton Terrace. j r The Hampton Terrace Hotel pass- j ^ ed into the hands of James U. Jack-1 son and his friends in October. It J "was to open January 4th next under 1 the management of Mr. W. H. Barse. r There were 300 guest rooms in the t The Hampton Terrace Hotel was c built about 1900 by Mr. Johjji Blair McAfee, on a percentage basis, for al- 1 liQd interests. The Augusta Railway & Electric Company, the North "Aug- c usta Electric & Improvement Com pany, and the North Augusta Land Company were interested. Its con- j1 struction cost between $500,000 and ji ?DW,VUV. CONTRACT SIGNED WITH PADEBEWSK1 Spartanburg Herald. Dr. John Alden made announce ment yesterday afternoon to the ef fect that he had secured his guar antee of $1,000, which is necessary i to bring: Paderewski, the famous I pianist, to Spartanburg, and a con tract has been signed which calls for the great musician to appear in the i Converse college auditorium on the flight of January 22. The peer of any pianist in the "world, as Paderewksi is described by ttoee who have heard him, will play in only two cities in South Carolina. Spartanburg and Columbia, and will make only four stops in the entire South. He -will be en route from New York to Cuba, and is making frv,iT? /lATitrafifs rrmr,n t.~? hrtxjV tha monotony of his trip than for any ^ other purpose. s Many music lovers of the city, i when they learned Saturday that the 0 musician was willing to come to s Spartanburg if the guarantee could he secured, feared that the necessary amount might not he raised, but Dr. Alden says that he met with little 0 difficulty and had the necessary t, funds pledged before 12 o'clock Mon- j b i _ I Vi Colleges in towns near Spartan- j s burg where music is taught are plan-! c ning to send large delegations to this! j, city to hear the performance, and jj since the railroads have agreed to a grant special rates, it is believed that! the Converse college auditorium will ^ be taxed to accommodate the Audi- e ence on the night of the attraction. 1 p j M i P Hope is the laughter of Faith. Joy ^ sings in the morning?like the lark,1 c "but Hope is like thp nightingale that. sings in the dark. Most anyone can | - sing in the morning when even-thing > | is hrisrht and evervthiner is sroincr' well; but Hope sings in the dark, j in the mid^t of fos:?looks through j the mist and darkness into th? clear * (Hay. Faith is to work and to trust.; p "but we cannot 5-et on any "better j ? without Hone than -we can without 1 LAiYFORD KILLS SO* YQll BURGLAK Lanford Dies Following Fath er's Terrible Mistake. Ton ') "YTietoVin ar oa/>Vl LklUl Cild, * other for a burglar for whom they tiad been warned to be on the look out, Oapt. John Lanford and his son, Mr. Oscar Lanford, both prominent citizens of Laurens county, fired on eath other at their store at Lanford Station early last night with the re sult that the son, shot through the back with a 'Winchester, died an hour later and the father was painfully wuuuueu in iuc ieg. The distressing accident occurred a short time after th? two had re ceived a message from Ora, a short distance from anford Station, warn ing Capt. Lanford that a lirglar, who had entered two or three houses at Ora, had escaped and was on his way to I^anford. Capt. Lanford, his son, and Mr. .James F1 -ming, a son in-law, armed themselves and went to the Lanford store, only a shor: anr?r> frrmi th i ra.ilrniid TliPr ii.t! not waited very long before the sun posed burglar was seen goinc: behind the store. Mr. Flemming approached !iira first arid fired at him one tim \ Then Capt. Lanford and his son went around the store hurriedly in oppo site directions and wlien they reach ed tlie end of the store Capt. LanforJ mistook his son for the burglar and tired 011 him. The son. thinking that he had been jriiot by the burglar, fired as he was falling, the bullet entering his father's leg and inflict ing- a severe flesh wound. Mr. Oscar Ijan/ord was given every attention possible, Dut uieu in auoui an lioui. Suspect Arrested. Tlie suspected burglar was arrest ed this morning and brought to Lau rens. He is a white man. about 4o 'ears of age, and is a stranger in tills section. He denies any knowledge whatever of the reported burglary at 3ra and the accidental killing at Lanford Station. The finding of a lash-light, an automatic pistol and, t is said, nitroglycerine on his per son have led the officers to hold "him or further investigation. Mr. Oscar Lanford was about 30 -'ears of age and married. He was )ne of the most prominent vouncr jusiness men of the upper part ol .aurens county. His father has Ion? >een an influential citizen and busi iess man. Ora and Lanford Station are smail owns on the C. & W. C. Railway be ween Laurens and the Snartanburr sounty line. On account of lack or' ol/acrro r>rvm m tli fin: vuuniiuiii'v i<LUH Lii .- U^U n the tragedy of last night did not >ecome known until today. Plain soap is like a lazy mule. It ias the power bait it takes a lot of vork to get it into action! RnraY i<5 -a <?nrt nf rlriv^r fnr ?nan !> > MILITANT BORAX <S> <$> < > iorax takes soap by the scruff of the teck and says "Come on here and get >usy." You will never know the value ol x>ap until you see it working in con lection with borax. But soap is pretty stubborn and It >nly works right when tnere is one >art borax and three-parts soap, ft s impossible to get this quantity of >orax into bar soap. It is only possi )le in borax soap chips. When you use "20 Mule Team Bora* >oap Chips" this week for the family vash and various other cleaning about he house you may be a little vexed to hir-k of ever having tried to get along without it! Sot Easy to Get Recruits. Washington, Jan. 1.?Perhaps the Qost serious situation confronting the Jnited States Navy is the difficulty of ;etting recruits. Because of the short ge in men, most of our good shi^s ire now "pickled" with skeleton rews board to keep them from rust Qg away. Every time a battleship of the latest ype is placed in commission, two or hree battleships of the preceding ype, though perfectly serviceable, lust be put out of commission to lan the new vessel. By way of illus ration, it may be stated that of thirty even capital ships now belonging -to be navy, capable of service and not bsolete, only fourteen are in commis 1UU. The. last naval act authorized the acrease of tile enlisted men o? the .avy to 80,000. In spite of strenu us exertions, it has not been possible o get any more men in th.e navy, roadly speaking, this year than there - ere last. What is the reason? Why. imply this, that a young man who an make several dollars a day work ig in civil life is not likely "n ist for his board and clothes and $15 month. There is a growing belief that it ill be impossible to bring the navy to ven the minimum essential of pre aredness without increasing thr- com ensation of the enlisted man to a oint approximating what he coulr< arn, above his board and raiment, in ivil employment. "o Drive Oct Malaria And Build Up The Systeir 'ake the Old Standard GROVE'? 'ASTELBSS chill TONIC. You knot 7hat yon are taking, as the formula i. rinted on every label, showing it ; >uinine and Iron in a tasteless forrr :he Quinine drives out malaria, tl- { A BO IT THE BOLL WEKYIL. Tells of Ravishes of the Past in inth, Miss., Whieii has Same Lati tude as Anderson. Anderson Mail. County Demonstration A^eui n/a is in recejpt of a revised may showii the progress of the boll wee' throughout the cotton belt. The m ! v/as published by the government du I ing the last few days of Decemb ; and furnishes interesting study. i Mr. JByars says that Middletc ! Tenn., is onehalf degree higher latitude than Anderson county, a: already th- weevil has invaded tli section. He received a letter from j friend of that place, which reads ' part, as follows: I L "As to the boll weevil they a ' h; re in great numbers but came t ; late in tiie fall to do much dama this year. ' From the best information I c; get they are not over ten miles nor of the Southern railroad. The peoi: are vorv much alarmed over tli coming." *1 lie tr.vr. of Corinth, Miss., has e actly the same l.uitudc us the city Anderson, and th following Iett from a, friend in Corinth tolls of L ravishes there: "The farmers in this count}* hi been preached to so much al>out b. weevil and none had shown up, th they were very much surprised win they found a great <ual of cotton j^he southern and eastern portions the county sudd nly cut to about 011 ! third of ^ crop 011 account of t! : weevil. The rapid spread into tli ! county was no' u-uubt caused or he! j ed by the storm of .ast spring bio 1 ing them in and the dampness of tl j season aided th.-ir development a; ! increase, etc. iu uie buuin ul us Luev u^ut: what they see, and are turning repi ly to other crops-velvet beans, s: beans, corn, clover and grasses?ai are fast stocKing up on "ve stock. "Lee ccunty around " i, o was h-x badly this >\-ar bo eevil ai rains. Some esrima there w: only an avorage proc . of 10 cent of their usual cr< ps?but tfr were somewhat prepared for tl woovil a'if'i lives for'mo | ?the majority?-still '..'rink that v , are too. far norfh and the winti j weather is too severe for ihe werv to survive, and so there will be pie1; | of cotton planted here io feed a gre, army of weevils next year, I fear, am strongly of the opinion, that tl weevil will go as i'ar :i';rtli as cottr is grown and that is i)Is only Iimi But, on tlie contrary view, I call yo'. attention to an' editorial in the "Pr< gressive Farmer"?De?. 16th, issu which i.ii' fear von do not the A1; bama, Mississippi, Tennessee . ai Arkansas edition, I have clipped ar am, herewith, enclosing:." "Tbe Kirth of a >'ation." D. W. Griffith's mighty spectac' "Th? Birth of a Nation," will be sec at the Opera House Monday and Tue day, 8 and 9th, exactly as it is heir given in New York and several oth< cities where it has made record breal ing runs. This now force in the art of sta; jcrtterlainmjent is perhaps th? mo widely discussed production ever mac in America. It is above all else tl greateest thing that has been achie ed bv one Droducer. Imaeir.e rn densing the living details of tne mo strenuous periods of American hi tory into -n evening's enteriainme: of less than three hours. You a not told about it nor is your imagi ation tested by rhetorical descriptioi of what took place. Instead you s it by lightning flashes. It i= hlstO] revived and shown in its makin Some of the greatest names that a: I rr i uicii I CXI 5C upUU tli^ M'iUi. U1 Ol country's fame appear upon the pr gram. The players who enact tl roles have studied the minute d scriptions of these men both fro photographs and intimate life studi< and with this frame work they mal these wonderful characters live agai They pass before your vision a panorama of achievement. The a compiishm.-nt is startling. The e; tire action ranges over three centurie It begins with the importation of ti first African slave and it ends wii the settlement of the question in tl freedom of the enslaved. But befoi this end is reached the mightie nation in the world passed throug th? throes of internecine strife an the high lights of those struggles ai vividly brought out. Great battl( are fought beforo your eye. Citi? are destroyed by fire. Thousand of horsemen dash in wild rides acrot bloodstained plains. The human nol weaves in and through the entii auu iuuu a 1 uovii. est story ever unfolded. Break your Cold or LaGrippe wit a few doses of 6^6. RUB OUT PAIN with pood oil liniment. That's I the surest way to stop them. | [[The best rubbing liniment ist MUSTANt LINIMENT SGood for the Ailments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your t>wn Aches, Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $f. At all Dealers. a CHILDREN AS SEAL SKLLEBS - 3TedaJi? .For Successful Salesman of Holidays Stickers. Children are live wire salesman of Red Cross Christmas Seals. Medals of merit await those who excell in this year's sale. Last year Mary Ken dall of Grand Rapids, Mich., beat aU> records with a sale of 34.250 seals. Bui there were other good sellers. For example, there was Ona ivVendi, i a fourtetn-year-old girl, who manag-i ed aii entire sale in six towns in Lake! county, Oregon. Erin Pratt acted as1 mascot of the Seal sale at New Or- i leans and sold several thousand her-j C_.1t* tilling Pntorc ocrar 1 ninn a? M I u . u U44 uo .4. U V_ A O , KJ I in! Lake City. Iowa, sold one-fourth ol the Seals sold in his town,552 in al\i And there were hosts of boys an:I girls who helped by selling hundreds go 1 or thousands. i Every bev or girl who sells ten an; Seals this y.ar will gee a handsome th | button and a certificate of enrollment >1 ! in the .National .Modern Health Cru iri saders. For one hundred seals, he j i. n; i. ?inci ]jiij aim U. 5'~.'.v? X- ! OLO. q[ j '?.? er! Velvet Heai! and Prosperity. he j The South Carolina Bureau of mar ! keting I: a:-; received from one oi' the ad' largest manufacturers of mixed foods jl-1 in the L"iiIted States the following at| communication: 2Vi! "Through your office we would like ! in, for you to get us in touch witn j of | farmers who .;iant Velvet b an. i-.Ve e-j would like to contract for two or lie: tnree thousand tons in null. lit'! "For your information will state p-1 that we have installed a machine for '< a*-! grinding this product which is one i tie i 01 the few in this part of the coun-;i .1:1 j try. We handled quite a number of I cars which we have purchased from' veI the Alabama and Mississippi territory:' d-jand have also secured one car from! "W 1 All I ' \j\:i kJ IQIU id rt Here is a tip to the farmers of this' 1 State and the entire south. Velvet j ( bean meal is an excellent substitute id j for cotton seed meal?once the des-; ] :i?; pised by-product of the cotton crop. er! but now a remarkable article of com- j merce which is bringing streams of j gold into the southern States from ev- I ery civilized land. From the farmer's standpoint the' f*r j veivet oean is more interesting ttian ; ";i f the cotton seed. Cotton is a land' tyi robber, inasmuch as it returns no ' at! fertilizing elements to the soil and at J i j the same time destroys its humus, j v; All members of the bean family, how- j n j ever, are nitrogen collectors and the I it. | Velvet bean is one of the best. Brr?,: 4i inv, uwou i cxnai i\auic Luaia^i" ; o-1 eristic of this plant is its wonderful;, e, production of seed and vine. It will ! a- flourish on comparatively poor soil, id can be planted along with the corn: id crop, and the vines often show a 1 growth of ten feet or more. | In those sections of the South ! where the boll weevil has destroyed e,:or greatly decreased cotton culture this plant has been found a most s- profitable one to the farmers. They ig J are planting it with their corn and =r | after harvesting the corn crop, cat tle and hogs are turned into the field to fatten on the vines and pods and beans. The Velvet bean is a bacon and beef producer of remarkable value, and, as will be sera from the above inquiry, a market already has been created for the surplus beans which may be raised. It is up to the farmers of this State, who are face to face with the ro weevu, ai uuce to iiiiu ouc a- real value of this crop. It should; is he found on every South Carolina ;>e farm. It will help fill the smoke house, increase the bank account, purchase automobiles and improved machinery, build up the fertility of our soils and beat the devil out of the boll weevil. South Carolina Pecans. Spartanburg Herald. T oaf n 1 crVrf o V n r-rr Vnn r'n oriff 4- Vi . f AiAfeiAu cl icai o ^ul ill ciil* form of a box of paper shell pecans, grown in a neighboring county, found its way to this desk. It was a pres ent with a "punch"' to it, for every nut is full of rich and wholesome meat. And thereby hangs a tale. These pecans would bring a min imum nrice of 40 rents a nrmnri in any South Carolina market. They are not the ordinary wild pecan, but the large, thin shelled variety. They are proof of the statement that thi3 State can produce as good nuts as Georgia, Mississippi or Louisiana. Query: Why does South Carolina have to go outside its borders to buy nuts, often of an inferior grade? Answer the question if vou can. - - m About forty years ago a New Or leans broker, Col. W. R. Stuart, who had a country home and farm at Ocean Springs, Miss., after much ex periment, discovered that in order to grow uniform pecans of high qual ity, budded or grafted stock must be used. As a token of its appreciation] of his work the Agricultural Depart-1 ment of the United States gave his | name to one of the two first paper shell nuts he developed, and he may truly be said to be the father of the pecan growing industry. Since his deaths many other fine varities have been produced, so that today the planter has a dozen or more excel lent varities from which to choose. ouienuesis ieii us mat tne tood: value of nut meats, pound for pound, is greater than tliat of the best bee? or mutton. :And yet there are; thousands of farms in this State on which a pecan tree is a stranger,; and from which even the black wai-; nut and the hickory trees have b en cut. As Henrv Watterson recently said, many a fine nut bearing tree (i has been cut down to secure a meas Iv little rat-tailed 'possum. A fine i < illustration of American Vandalism! j Tk..x *1 i-_ -x - rr - r r* j- a jdui uiaiiKS to ^ox. oiuart, we can ^ quickly repair the damage done. Pej can trees properly budded and paratively small cost and in a few years, if planted now will be pro ducing abundant and profitable crops. This is written in the hope tnat it may make just one man, or woman, or girl, or boy think about the sub ject of nut growing and plant at least one pecan tree. If it were pos sible to get every boy and girl (we have little hope of the parents as they have been here long enough to have done this already) each year for the next five years plant just one pecan tree where it would not be crowded and dwarfed, and where it could reach full maturity, ten or fif teen years from now at the most, the combined production of those trees would add thousands of dollars an nually to the wealth of this State. We would like to make a present of such a tree to the first boy or girl who writes that lie will do this. The Paderewski Recital. Spartanburg Herald. Spartanburg is to be congratulate. 1 I'V'Oii the 1'act that its public spirited r itizens have nuide it possible for the people of this city to hear the great Polish pianist and composer. I'gnace Paderew-ki in one of the four con r-erts which he will giv.- in the South Pi\i\v fo Paha * and if is ani?e ktst.:!) :ant tliat two of these concerts will be ;.:ivon in the State of South Carolina. since Columbia people are also favored cs we are. Ignace Paderewski is so well known to the levers of music that nothing cun be written here by way of in troduction. He is not only the great est living pianist, but he is a man of business ability, and a great Pol ish patriot. On his estates in Pol and before the great "European con flict began he and his accomplished wife had introduced methods of ag ricultur? and stock raising which. were object lessons to Polish farm ers. Since the war began he has Deen untiring in his efforts to have America understand the great calam-j itv which has fallei* upon his peo-j pie, and througli his efforts thousands ( Its soft, mellow glow sa\ on the eyes, is the best p sible help for careful wi Built of solid brass i nickel plated, it lasts a time. Use Aladdin Security ?the most economical 1 osene oil?for best resu STANDARD OIL COMPA (New Jersey) BALTIMORE, MD. Wasnington, u. sj. Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Charlotte, N. C. Charleston, W. Va. \ Charleston. S. C. Telephor < 50c per Mo If there is no t farm write for o innr finw vnn n LVliillg 11 v/ ? ? j v v* x j small cost. Add FARMERS' LINE SOUTHERN BELL Tf AND TELEGRAPH < of suffering and starving Poles liave been helped. It is unnecessary to say that Spar tanburg and our neighboring cities and towns will welcome the coming of Paderewski and give him an in spiring audience. Magnitude That Almost Appals. The magnitude of D. W. Griffith's feat in staging "The Birth of a Na tion" is almo&t 'appalling?at least to the devotees of the older theatre. Where now are the little groups of actors, the pinchbeck scenery and the petty properties of the so-called "legitimate" drama? By comparison with the new art, the "legitimate"' is infinitesimal. For Griffith, in staging "The Birth of a Nation," used Nature for his background, 150 years of ' American history as his subject, 18, 000 people as his actors, and no less than 3,000 mounts of cavalry in the celebrated "rides" of the Ku Klux Klan. After it was all completed, he had an op ratio score prepared and provided orchestral music worthy o! Wagner. The motion picture spec tacle in which these'marvelous things are done will be shown here for th ; lirst time at the Opera House next Monday and Tuesday. US. KERN'S MCE To Weak, Bervous, Eun-Down Women Fo. Cumberland, Md.?"For a long time I suffered from a nervous break down. I could not eat or sleep and was so weak I could hardly walk. My hus band heard about Vinol and got me to try it. .sow I have a good appetite, sleep soundly and am well and strong. Every nervous, weak, run-down woman should try Vinol/'?Mrs. D. W. Kebns. We guarantee Vinol to create a healthy appetite, aid digestion and build up weak, run-down women, delfc \ate children and feeble old people. Gilder & Weeks. Druggists, New Derry, a. u. les jii r amis >tith and Up elephone on your ur fiee booklet nay get service at rest DEPARTMENT