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* W V g ' TEN DROWN IN RIVER j WHEN FLAT CAPSIZES j _ I Terrible Tragedy Occurs at Harper's Ferry, Near Lowndtesville?On i Pleasure Trip. . I The State. McCormick, April 5.?While on a i pleasure trip yesterday afternoon' traveling in two automobiles and' crossing Savannah river at Harper's j ciY milps wpst of Lowndesville, i 10 out of 11 persons in the party; were drowned in the waters of the i i Savannah river. The young people were on their j way from South Carolina to Elbert! county, Georgia, and had started j across Savannah river on the flat. The; post holding the cable by which the ! flat was operated gave way and the; flat drifted down the river until it! struck a roek and capsized. Those j reported drowned are: Albert Suther- j land about 18 years old; Miss Alice Meschine, about 15 years of age, and her brother, Charlie Meschine, about 19 years old; Lester Waters and his! wife, young couple who had been j married only six weeks; Inez Man-I ning, aged 9, and her sister, Miss J Annie Manning, 16 years of age, and] their brother, Robert Manning, age I 22; Miss Allie Bradshaw, aged e18, and her sister, Miss Lucy Bradshaw, aged 15. The only person in the party who was saved was Thomas Bradshsw, a brother of Missed Allie Bradshaw and Lucy Bradshaw. It is thought that the high waters of the Savannah river and the strong current rushing against the flat loaded with the party and two auto mobiles, in which they were traveling, J caused the cable post to give way. All of the drowned are from prominent families residing in and around the town of Lowndesville, Abbeville county, and as soon as the matter w^s reported the whole country turned into a searching party trying to recover the bodies of those drowned. On account of the swollen river none of the bodies had been recovered late this afternoon. T"11 * JVirto nonca^ Q crlnom I 1 lit: UilgCUj vhuuvu ? e, over the entire community., The State. Abbeville, April 5.?Ten people were drowned at Harper's ferry, near Lowndesville, yesterday afternoon when the ferry cable snapped and the fiat capsized in Savannah river. Eleven persons were making the trip across but Thomas Bradshaw managed to get to the shore, according to information here. Those who drowned were: Lester Waters, ferryman, and Mrs. Waters, Albert Sutherland, Lucy Bradshaw, Allie May Bradshaw, Alice Mesehine, Charles Meschine and three children of Walter Manning. The Waters were a young couple who had been married only about a month. Mr. Waters was an ex-soldier, having seen overseas service. Mrs. Waters was a public school ' J ? An flat teacner ana some ui i,?usc vw w>v , i were her pupils and the party is said to have been crossing over to her home. Albert Sutherland was 18 years old and was the son of one of the jurors to have been here today for the Gossett trial. He had taken his 'father to the train at Lowndesville earlier in the afternoon. Tko nrtntiminns rains have caused I something of a freshet in the water | -courses in this section and the Savan nah river was said to have been up seven or eight feet when the tragedy occurred. . Harper's ferry is about six miles from Lowndesville and about 30 miles from here. From Lowndesville this afternoon it is learned that the flat at Har- i per's ferry turned over directly after the steel cable broke. This was j caused, it is said, by a wide sheet or board which was dropped along side the flat to relieve the pressure on the cable during high water. When the cable gave way, the undertow of the current is said to have turned the flat j completely over on the occupants. The flat was near enough the Geor- j ' 1 *? inmn tirjfl ] ?ia siae ior one uu\ ^ ? , jcet to the bank. If any bodies have been recovered ! it is not known here. LESS ACREAGE SAYS WANNAMAKER Facts to B?> Made Known at Montgomery Meet. "In formation gathered both at home and abroad by representatives of the American Cotton association wlin have conferred with representa* tives of European manufacturing interests and experts of international reputation will be laid before the special committee which wiU recommend a minimum price for the balance of the cotton crop now in the "hi nds of the producer at the convention of the American Cotton association in Montgomery, Ala., on April '13-16," said J. Skottowe Wannan:c.Ver, president of the association Recently. This information, Mr. Wannamakerj v said, would show that a reduction of cotton acreage as compared with last year on account of serious labor shortage is an absolute certainty; that the crop is six weeks late; that there is a great shortage of good grade cotton; that spot cotton will be demanded on contracts and that an enormous amount of cotton has already been sold to Europe for delivery next fall. "A reduction in cotton acreage as r.rvmnovo/l with Inst spason is absolute V Vlitpui VV? IT ? ?MWW ? ly necessary and a certainty," says Mr. Wannamaker. "With a great shortage in labor the producer can not compete at present prices for cotton with other lines of industry and will be forced to other crops than cotton that he can cultivate and harvest with machinery. He realizes that he would commit commercial suicide to plant even as large an acreage as last season. A systematic canvass conducted in the various counties of the cotton belt shows an enormous shortage of labor with no surplus from which to draw. The crop is around six weeks late and there is serious shortage in planting seed. "The United States census department is now making an investigation through 3,000 places in America where cotton is held for the pur-i pose of issuing a most complete re-; port as to the amount of spinnable j cotton. Information already received shows the inevitable certainty of an enormous reduction in the socalled surplus. '"The result of an investigation shows startling conditions concerning the sales of cotton. On account of the great shortage of good grade cotton purchasers on the exchange will demand the delivery of actual spot cotton. The amounts so purchased for May and July break all previous records. The fact that this cotton will be demanded is an absolute certainty, the information being secured at first hand. This will have a start-, ling effect upon the market. From j whence will the cotton come?" "An enormous amount of cotton has already been sold direct to Europe for October and December delivery at tremendous premiums over the price paid on the New York exchange. The parties so selling are immediately rebuying on the New York exchange, the' business being handled in this way by a number of the leading and strongest spot houses in the South. "Information secured by these experts clearly reveals the fact that spot cotton is selling over 100 per cent, below a moderate price. As a result of this the bear manipulator and gambler is caught between the upper and lower millstone. The Montgomery convention will open the floodgates. Cotton will sell at tne highest price it has ever brought since the Confederate war. The manipulator and gamblers will be ground to powder. LITTLE GIRL KILLED The State. j CfafFney, April 2.?Edley Martin, a prominent citizen of Cherokee, whoj resides in the western part of the! county, ran over and killed a little j four year old child yesterday, the! daughter of Robert Scruggs of the! ^TVio I oaitxe UlUUIiU dc^wii/n* xiiv vtiuvuw | of the witnesses who were sworn be- i fore the coroner's jury was to the j effect that Mr. Martin and three! others, were riding in his car and that j just before the car arrived opposite i the place where she was playing, she i started across the road and was struck I by the machine. She lingered until | 10 o'clock last night when she died;] The verdict of the jury was. that the j child came to her death at the hands of Edley Martin, who was at once | taken into custody by the deputy sheriff, J. E. Watkins, who at the i defendant's request went with him to Spartanburg, where he made an effort to obtain an order for bail from Judge Moore, who is presiding over the court of common pleas there. Mr. Martin is most deeply grieved over the occurrence. The State. Spartanburg-. April 2.?Jtcliey .Martin of Cowpens, who ran down and killed Hazel Scruggs, a little girl, in front of her home near the battleground in Cherokee county late yesterday afternoon, has been granted bond in the sum of $1,Q00 by Judge Ernest Moore. The little girl is said to have ran in front of the car Martin was driving and was struck sustaining injuries from which she died in a few hours. PREPARING PLANS FOR OLD HICKORY REUNION Hroonville. ADril 2.?Selection of dates and adoption of a tentative program for the second annual convention of the Old Hickory Association (Thirtieth Division, A. E. F.) to -be held in Asheville this fall will be attended to at a meeting: of the executive committee which Col. Holmes B. Sprint:*, presidcr.*, said today would be held in Asheville Saturday -:'f o"noon. "HAUNTING SHADOWS" THRILLING MYSTERY 1 H. B. Warner Plays Role at Opera House Friday. Matinee Only. I I* you are imaginative?if the mystery of the unknown and unseen grips you with icy fingers and you en joy the thrill of spasmodic shivers i jazzing up and down your spine, you will want to see H. B. Warner in j "Haunting Shadows," his latest Rob| ertson-Cole production. It is an ab' sorbing mystery story of the generation, "The House of a Thousand i Candles" bv Meredith Nicholson. i Those who have read the story and ihave ceen the sta^e play, will find in : this screen version something that the ! spoken drama could not give them? ! realistic visualization of action and 1 settings which makes more vivid the uncanny atmosphere that pervades the j story. j When John Glenarm accepted the strange provisions of his grandfather's j will and came to live in the unfinishI ed castle built in the Indiana woods j by that eccentric old man, he didn't have any idea of what he had to go ! through. Weird noises were heard in ; the old castle at all hours of the day i -! a tt a: 1 1 .ana mgni. naunun^, suduuws mmcu at every turn. Sinister men who looked like crooks were discovered slinking around, tapping the wafts with hammers. Ine^e was talk of a hidden treasure in the house, an air of mystery everywhere. Even the butler seemed involved in the inexplicable happenings. Glenarm didn't I know why these uncanny things were, or why the gang of crooks were always snooping around, but he resolved to stay and fight it out with i his unseen foes. For real thrills and mystery "Haunting hadows" is ak classic, and I through it all runs a love romance | for a girl who seemed just as mysteri ious as everybody else. TEACHERS EXAMINATION The regular spring examination for teachers' certificates will be held Saturday, May 1st. This will probably be the last State-wide examination as the new law for a central board of examiners goes into effect June 1st. White applicants will report at the Newberry high school. ? * * ? i -11 ?i- - 4- 4-1, ? I (Jolorea applicants wm icpun- at mc Hoge school at 9 a., m. C. M. Wilson, County Supt. Education. 4-2-td NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of M. Long, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Thursday, the 15th day of April, 1920, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as administrator of said estate. H. T. L.UJNU, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., March 13, 1920. 666 has proven it will cure Ma* laria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever Colds and La Grippe. 1-13-1 Ot NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. A meeting of the stockholders of The Herald and News Company is hereby called to be held in the City of Columbia, South Carolina, in the office of the Carolina Life Insurance [Company on Friday, April 30, 1920, I at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose I of considering a resolution to liqui| date, dissolve, and wind up the affairs fVia coi/4 ^nmnnnv VI UXVr k)WiU VV*?*> A. H. KOHN, President. March 30th, 1920. (This is the old company that sold j The Herald and News plant to the j Herald and News Incorporated.?Ed. H. and N.) To abort a cold i and prevent com plications, take j ^alotaLs * The purified and refined caJomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain* ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages* Pricft 35c. n ?h sy _ sa r <5 without questionjfH'jnt'.- S*W* (;~ * ' \ fails in the :'C3tr.-r.t of ?< jrn,a '.' t "Jfcw; i Trttrr, Ringworm, nch. rtDon't brcornt'cisoourag^d tr ff f\ ccusc o'hct iresttrrrnts t:A':r<i ' ,? 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If you suffer, you can | |fl Ill appreciate what It | < I ] means to be strong and I III Thousands of wo fjln men give Cardul the rJJfS j 811 health. .It should help I I 11 At "ts j 8 NOTICE MEETING STOCKHOLDERS OF LITTLE MOUNTAIN OIL MILL AND FERTILIZER COMPANY. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting: of the stockholders of Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer company, at the office of said company, at Little Mountain, in the State of South Carolina, on the 9th day of April, 1920, at two o'clock 1 p. m., for the purpose of adopting aj. resolution to dissolve the Charter of the said corporation and to do whatever else is necessary for the disso- f lution of the said charter and in or- j der to close up the affairs of same in , accordance with the provisions of i law. Little Mountain U]1 Mill and Fertilizer Company, I Per J. C. Epting, Jr., j President. ! j Subscribe to The Herald and News, j j IMP1 'the policy of ly perceived I ed business m policy of giyir pression that This institutio friends and tt the fact that1 interests as 01 j Our efforts ai | the justifying impression. JL * The Natioi Newb b. c Matthews, President. cl*rkl-A OiCllU^ i Membsi ! i I a Rub-My-Tism is * powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused from infected cuts, cures old sores, tetter, etc. 1-13-lOt NOTICE OF ELECTION IN EXCELSIOR-S WILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 19 AND 35. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, V. UUill^ VI iic?? uvli jr. Whereas, one-third of "the resident free-holders and a like proportion of the resident electors of the age of 21 yrears in the Excelsior-Swilton School District, No. 19 and 35, the County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education !>f Newberry County. South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in the said School District on the question of levying an additional tax of four (4) mills on the taxable property within the said School District. Now, therefore, we the undersigned, composing, the County Board of Education for Newberry County, State of South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the Excelsior-Swilton School District, STo. 19 and 35, to hold an election on the said question of levying an addi CAN YOU BE CURED? WHAT WILL IT COST? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? Dr. P. J. O'Neill Carolina National Bank BJdg. Colombia, S. C. GALVANIZED CORRUGATE! Have two thousand two hun number twenty-nine gauge Galvj and 10 in. lengths. One thousar Crimped in same lengths. This 21st, expected any day. You ought to use our Lead I ing. Send for circular. COLUMBIA 823 West Gervai* Street r%noni, any business h< >y its customers ten know that a ig satisfaction c attracts and ho] n feels that its < le public are in we operate wil lr first consider re directed con* and strengthe # / 4 nal Rank n( LAUA i^UAUB v? erry, South Cc T. K. JOHNSTONE; Cashier. ty and City ' Federal Reserve I ^tional special tax of four (4) mills to be collected on the property locati ed within the said School District, j which .said election shall be held at i the Sam Hug Hill in front home of j O. L. Livingstone, in the said school i district, No. 19 and 3~>. on Friday, the i ^ A 1 fiOA rtf po1 ^ | vui nay ui *~vpi!i, at vi mtu ?'" ' election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m., and close at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Trustees of the said School Dist^t shall act as Managers of the said election. Only such electors as reside in the said. School District and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax or registration certificates as reniiirn/? in wmprnl plp/?tinna shnll allowed to vote. Electors favoringthe levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" ten or printed thereon, and cSL . elector opposed to such levy snail cast a ballot containing the wor<J "No" written or printed thereon, Given under our bands and this the 25th day of March, 19^^B C. M. Wilson, (L. vH 0. B. Cannon, % J. B. Harraan, fl County Board of Education, Newberry County, South Carolina. I treat successfully: FILES. Without operaKto*. pain or loss of time. J STOMACH, KIDNEY* BLAlC^ DEE, SKIN DISEASES 1 airi ^ NERVOUS TROUBLES. / Special effort made to avoid delay in out-of-town cases. a a > AND V CRIMPED ROOFING . . idred (z,zvuj- sneets tormgaiea inized Hoofing in 6 in., 7 in., 8in. V id four hundred (1,400) sheets V Y is car that left factory January leaded Nails in puttijig on RoofSUPPLY CO. Columbia, S. C. 1 t I ONS / ! : * I f | ouse is quick > JUCVCl'iivai^ in undeviating \ creates the imIds patronage. * | f t :ustomers and tpressed withal th their best^l ation. itantly toward ? * -C 1U1 rung ui men,. ' 4 Npwhprrv I *'V1I *rv??jr irolina i W. W. CROMER, Assistant Cashier. i zr ; ' Depository j System ' I