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SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION
COTTON ASSOCIATION
Columbia. April 26.?The semiannual
meeting of the South Carol'nu
.if fVip A niPficjlll Cot
tr>n association will be hold in Columbia
at Craven .Hall on Wednesday,
Uay 5, at noon. As this is to be a
very important meeting of the association
it is urged that every county
in the state be fully represented. All
members of the association are urged
to attend the meetings in their
counties prior to the convention.
The May 5 convention will take
<'rtvoo mr.ttovs frt?- t ll rtTftl 1 <rb d'is
cussion, according to an announcement
by R. M. Mixson, president.
These will be Warehousing, Finances
arid Organization.
The South Carolina division is anxous
to have sufficent warehouses
n the state to take care of the 1920
crop and will bend every energy to
this end, according to officials of the
association.
Plans are under way to further
perfect the organization in the state.
Membership campaigns will be conducted
in every county in an effort
to secure as members those merchants,
farmers, bankers, business
and professional men who have not
yet joined the association.
A special effort will be made to
enroll the women of the state into
the ranks of the association. The
American Cotton association at its
meeting in Montgomery voted to admit
the women into the convention
on the same basis as men. One of
the speakers at the May 5 convention
in Columbia will be Mrs. Cora D.
Mathis of Alabama, a large and successful
woman farmer, who thrilled
the Montgomery convention. Mrs.
Mathis is very enthusiastic over the
niiicrxvau \juitua aoovviavwti*
Each county chairman in the state
is urged by President Mixson to see
that his county is represented by a
large delegation at the meeting.
HONOR OF UNITED STATES
AT STAKE, SAYS PRESIDENT
Declares Issue Which League Will
Raise With Voters of Country InVolves
Redemption of America's
Most Solemn Obligations.
Wichita, Kan., April 22.?A letter
from President Wilson to Jouett
Shouse, elected today as delegate-atlarge,
setting forth the league of nations
as a campaign issue, was read
to the convention. The President
wrote:
"I cannot help thinking that the
party is to be congratulated on the
fact that it has come to a year of
exceptional opportunity and duty.
The issue which it will raise with the
voters of the country involves nothing
less than the honor of the United
ctdirj cviiu tzic icucmyiiuii ui no mvow
solemn obligations. Its obligations
to its associates in the great war and
to mankind to whom it gave the most
explicit pledge that it went to war,
p.ot merely to win a victory in arms,
but also to follow up that victc :y with
the establishment of such a concert
of nations as would guarantee the
permanence of a peace based on
justice."
Col. Sam Amidon, of Wichita, was
elected national committeeman by acclamation.
The delegates-at-large are Mrs.
Caroline Drennan, Arkansas City,
Jouet Shouse, Kinsley,; former Governor
George H. Hodges, Clathe, and
R. W. Blair, Topeka.
The country must be prepared to
see the Democratic convention at
San Francisco' nominate President
Wilson for a third term, J. Hamilton
Lewis, former senator from Illinois,
told the convention in an address tonight.
"The country must be ready," he
said, "to see the convention at San
Francisco put Wilson as its candidate
before the nation as a protest against
the treaty of peace being tortured
into the pack of revenge on nations,
as licensee of murder of men, and
command for raids and invasions
upon oppressed and suffering peo
pies. I
FRANK SHEALY
QUITS CIGARS
22CaIibre Bullet Explodes in After
Dinner Smoke.
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Lexington, April 22.?It's no more
cigars for Hon. Frank W. Shealy,
the popular chairman of the South
Carolina Railway Commission. Hereafter?or
at any rate for a good
many days to come?Frank Shealy is
either going to smoke an old cob
pipe or a cigarette when he smokes
at all. The chairman of the railway
commission is a stauncn believer m
the movement to lower the high cost
of living, but this not altogether for
the reason for his cutting out cigars.
It came about this way: A day or
two ago Mr. Shealy purchased a cigar
made by a well known Tampa, Fla.,
manufacturer from a well known
local dealer in Lexington for his
after-dinner smoke. For a few minutes
everything went well, says Mr,
jShealy; but the next second, just as
the popular taking
strong pull, there was a mighty ex
plosion, followed by a scream on the
other side of the room, and when
Mr. Shealy came to his senses he
was minus a cigar. The cigar wras
"loaded" with a .22 caliber rifle bullet,
and the little missile had struck
the maid on the other side of the
room, barely missing Mrs. Shealy,
who was sitting near her husband.
The negro girl, however, was not injured
to any appreciable extent.
Neighbors rushed into the Shealy
home upon hearing the report of the
cartridge.
Had the incident occurred a couDle
of years aco when the great world
war was on, there would not have
been anything said about it. said Mr.
Shealy, but the war is over now, and
it is time for such things as loading
cigars with bullets to cease.
Mr. Sh^n?y reported the occurrence
to the man from whom he purchased
the cierar, at the same time present
ing the seller with the shattered cigar,
together with the cartridge and bullet.
An investigation will be made
by the Lexington merchant, it is said.
NEGRO CONVICTS
KILL WHITE GUARD
Eleven Other Prisoners in Detail Report
Back to Stockade After
i ragedy.
The Stale 23.
Xegro convicts on the DeSaussure
state farm at Hagood, Sumter county,
early yesterday killed Archie M.
Sox, guard, by knocking him in the
head with a shovel. Three convicts
made their escape after the crime had
been committed, running into the
nearby swamp with their shackles
on. The negroes took Mr. Sox's pistol
and shotgun with them.
Mr. Sox was in charge of a detail
of 14 convicts, but only two are supposed
to have been connected with
the killing. Those who got away
were: Adam Griffin, 27 years old,
serving a sentence of seven years
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22 years old,. serving an eight year
sentence from Charleston; and Mose
Bright, 38 years old, serving a sentence
of one year from Beaufort. The
remaining 11 convicts reported back
to the stockade immediately after Mr.
Sox had been killed and are said not
to have been associated in any way
with the crime. A reward of $50 is
offered for the apprehension of each
of the convicts. \s soon as it was
learned that Mr. Sox had been killed,
searching parties b^an scouring the
surrounding country, but up until
late last night none of the convicts
at large had been'apprehended. i
Mr. Sox was a native of Lexington
county and comes from substantial
folk. He was 41 years old and
unmarried. He is survived by four
brothers and two sisters, two of the
brothers and both sisters residing m
j Lexington and two brothers living at
j Hickory, N. C. The Rev. E. J. Sox is
a Lutheran minister and along with
his duties as pastor has been a professor
in Lenoir college. D. J. Sox also
lives in Hickory, where he is foreman
of the Elliott Contracting company.
Preston R. Sox and Labon E.
Sox reside in Brookland, while Mrs.
! Wade Roof and Miss Margaret Sox,
the sisters, live about two miles from
the town of Lexington.
The remains of Mr. Sox will be
brought to Columbia this morning for
interment in Lexington county.
Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent
of the penitentiary, was in Hagood
yesterday morning at the time Mr.
Sox was killed. He got in touch v> ith
the Columbia office at once and had
sheriffs and rural and city policemen
notified of the killing and furnished
descriptions of the men who had
escaped.
REED FORCES TURNED
DOWN IN MISSOURI
League of Nations Looms as
Principle Issue Before State
Convention.
Joplin, Mo., April 22.?The league
of nations covenant and the stand of
United States Senator James A.
Reed, of Missouri, league opponent,
loomed tonight as the principal issue
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. before the Den cratic &Lai,e conveu1
tion which convened here today to
. elect delegates to the national convention
and adopt a State platform, j
, Another issue was brought for-'
ward late today when Frank H. Farris,
of Rolla, candidate for the!
Democratic nomination for Governor,
announced that he had filed with
the committee on resolutions proposed
action favoring amendment of the
Volstead Prohibition Enforcement
Act to permit the manufacture of
beer and light wines. !
Reed is Selected.
The first open movement in the
Reed controversy came this afternoon
when the Fifth district delegates
(Kansas City and Jackson County),
in caucus, selected Senator Reed and
Joseph Shannon to be district delegates
to the national convention at
San Francisco. I!
The caucus also adopted a resolution
declaring that the delegates were
"elected with freedom of action on
the platform to be presented to the
national convention, any resolution
by this State convention to the contrary,
notwithstanding."
Under convention rules all district
selections must be approved by the
convention. ;
Mentioned as Candidate.
Senator Reed has been mentioned
as a prospective candidate for dele- '
gate at large to the national convention,
but he has declared he would
not be willing to serve if the convention
instructed the delegation to vote
fv?v ? rmtinnnl nlatform nlank sup
porting- the league covenant.
Anti-Reed forces claimed a victory
tonight when the credentials
committee of the convention voted
to unseat a delegation of twenty-two
Reed supporters in favor of a delegation
instructed to oppose any endorsement
of Senator Reed by the convention.
THREE MORE BODIES
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Mrs. Lester Waters, Miss A!?c??
Meshine and Robert Manning
Drowned on April 4.
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The State. j
Anderson, April 22.?Three more
bodies were recovered from the Savannah
river of the party who were
drowned on April 4. Mrs. Lester
; Waters, Miss Alice Meshine and RobA
** of fo^Jo'c
ere maiming wcic muuu ?o uuuv ^
ferry, near Mt. Carmel, 20 miles below
Harper's ferry, where they went
down. It has been the opinion of
many that the bodies would not be
found until the river rose again, as
they were covered with sand, and this
theory has been proved by the fact
that the river is up higher than it
was at the time of the accident and
is now 12 feet above normal.
E. W. Harper and others stationed
the!>s?lvcs at Cherokee shoals and
two bo<:es passed that they could
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not get them as they were too far
out. Mr. Harper also states that he
could kle-'itlfy th? holy of Lest?r
Waters when it went by also, but he
could not catch it.
The ferrymen all down the river
are on the lookout for the bodies and
they may be recovered in a few days,
and there are now only two that have
not been seen.
Ail of the bodies that have been
found have been positively identified,
the two young women who were
found Wednesday afternoon were
identified by jewelry. The funeral
of the three unfortunate young
people was held at Lowndesvilie
Thursday morning.
w*rvv vriRkr POR7FR
BUYS A HOTEL
From the New York Evening World.
Here's a 100 per cent, true story
about a man who started, twelve
years ago, as a $25-a-month hotel
porter, is today the proprietor of a
prosperous hostelry and has no patent
on his success receipt?work,
thrift and watchfulness.
The man is Harry J. Choucherie,
head porter at the Hotel McAlpin,
who assumed a 15-year lease on the
Colonial hotel at a gross rental of
1-4 million dollars. He is still bossing
the McAlpin porters and intends
to for some tome to come, besides
running the Halem hostelry.
He Planned Ahead.
"How did I do it? Why, I just made
up my mind to do it and now I've
<done it," explained Mr. Choucherie.
"A man is nothing more than he bej;/-.v7?.c>
I Holiovpd thnf. I would
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have a hotel of my own some day and
now I have it. But Fm not going to
stop here. No. I want to?Ftn going
to?make such a success of this
place that the Astors will build me a
hotel right on this site some day.
"I began life as an assistant express
wagon driver," continued the
porter proprietor. "I worked up to
be superintendent of drivers. That
was twelve years ago. I was then
getting $150 a month?that was a
very handsome income twelve years
'Acrn. T took some stock of my pros
pects in that line. The best I could
ever do in the express wagon business
would be to get the job of the man
above me. That paid $195 a month.
Quit $150 Job.
"I quit the express wagon business
and went to work as a porter for
the Beltmont hotel at $25 a month. I
worked there six years and learned
a lot. Then I connected with the
McAlpin and worked up to be head
porter and chief of transportation
service. I have been there six years,
but I am not ready to quit yet.
"I believe a man can be whatever
Vu> wants tr> hp. That is. alone: the
line of his abilities, of course. I
could not be President of the United
States nor could I push this building
over with my hands?but I have succeeded
in being what I wanted to be.
A man should make up his mind
what he wants to be?then go to it.
Work, study, save and keep your eyes
open and things will come your way.
"Yes, I am studying all the time.
Getting the theory of the business as
well as the practical side." Mr. Choucherie
pointed to the rows of books
that lined the wall of his apartment.
Mr. Choucherie is 35 years old.
WILL HUSBANDS AND WIVES
TAKE THEIR DIFFERENCES
BEFORE CONGRESS?
By N. B. Dial, U. S. Senator From
South Carolina.
In this country we have a constitutional
form of government and
;aws to redress all wrongs, and when
these are upturned anarchy will prevail.
Without intending in the least
to criticize my colleagues, I am
thoroughly convinced that congress is
taking cognizance of too many quarrels
between different groups of
citizens.
We are continually having hearings,
spending money, and consuming
time, and, to my mind, very little
good has been accomplished. If the
parties to these controversies knew
that thev would not get the ear of
congress, they would get together and
settle their own grievances more
rapidly and there would be less unrest
and turmoil. I fear that we are
allowing our body to fast become the
clearing house for the scandals of
the nation and are affording free advertising
to much muchracking that
p-Vi--.nl/-l nAt ho abroad. We
are elected directly by the people,
and we know, or at least should know,
what is best for them, and should
legislate on national subjects in a
broad and comprehensive way. If
the pace we have been setting in the
recent past is continued?taking notice
of all items from school teachers'
pay to the League of Nations and
peace treaty?it will not be long before
husbands and wives will bring
their differences for us to settle.
We should remember that the several
states still have rights, and they
should cope with them and settle all
intra-state questions, and that we
should not undertake to investigate
matters unless they are of a peculiarly
national character and unless
hnvA n institutional rierht to ap
ply a remedy. It is high time to lay
a^idf all unnecessary restrictions and
let the public uCt- normally again.
It is a function of gover?.!!??1^ to
tax, regulate, and supervise, but not
to engage in business. The government
should get out of all business it
can at the earliest minute and allow
its citizens to pursue their usual
course in a national and legitimate
way, otherwise we will grow up a
nation of dependents instead of an
independent population.
Discovery Bares New Source of
Platinum Supply.
In testing native ore for gold, a
California chemist, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine for May, discovered
that, tho ordinary prold treatment,
with a supplementary process,
extracted platinum in the form of
platinum black, and in quantities up
to several ounces to the ton.
TEACHERS EXAMINATION
; The regular spring examination for
teachers' certificates will be held!
Saturday, May 1st. This will prob- ]
[ably be the last State-wide examina-!
tion as the new law for a central !
board of examiners jroes into etr'ect j
June l?t.
\\ hite applicants will report at the i
I Xc-wr-crry nigh school. i
i Colored applicants will report at the
Knr>-,> <? ho:ii nt ? n. m. i
C. M. Wilson, j
Countv Sup;. Education, s
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' The State of South Carolina,
County of Newberry.
By \V. F. Ewart, probate judge:;
I Where?.?, J. Henry Rasor has made j
I suit to me to grant him letters of
' administration of the estate and effects
of Jim W. Watts.
j These are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular ine kindred
and creditors of the said Jim
W. Watts deceased, that they be and
! appear before me, in the court of
.probate, to be held at Newberry on J
, Wednesday, April 28th, next, after 4
publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in [
j the forenoon, to show cause, if any!
j they have, why the said administra- j
j tioii should not be granted.
; Given under my hand this 8th day
Anvil A nrtrt rinmini. 1D20.
j * W. F. Ewart, !
j P. J. N. C. |
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.;
j I will make a final settlement of:
i the estate of William Greenwood in
the probate court for Newberry!
, count, South Carolina, on Saturday j
the 8th day of May, 1920, at 10;"
' o'clock in the forenoon and will im- j a
mediately thereafter ask for my dis-j.
. charge as administrator of said es- i
tate.
. W. M. Greenwood,
Administrator.
Newberry, April 10, 1920.
STREET DUTY NOW DUE AND
MUST BE PAID.
Notice is hereby given that Street
Duty is due now am must be paid by j
the first of May?after that date a j
penalty will be added.
I ask that all who are liable for j
this payment give immediate atten- j
tion to this notice.
E. L. Rodelsperger,
thief of .Police. I
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
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A meeting of the stockholders of
The Her aid and News Company is
hereby called to be held in the City of
Columbia, South Carolina, in the
oflice of the Carolina Life Insurance
Company on Friday, April 30, 1920,
at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose
of considering a resolution to liquidate,
dissolve, and wind up the affairs
of the said company.
A. H. KORN,
President.
"March 30th, 1920.
(This is the old company that sold
The Herald and News plant to the
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