The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, November 30, 1921, Image 5
' FOR . GOVERNOR
Bjtfel{' (Coatinqtid from Page One.)
^i^fe^^contcnt among the people, who are
.the masters and not the servants.
Opposes Extravagance,
shall advocate liberal appropri-,
^^|atio?s for all of our state institutions,
4^V"' *lrat' I do not believe in the extrava-,
gance that our recent general assem- j
(roe been engaged in along this
nd' I cannot and will.not give
action to it. I am in favor of
& up a free school system, so
1 .of. the ^white children- cf the
lay be given the oportunlty of
t common school education in
table and convenient . school'
I believe: in paying . .our
teachers sufficient salaries to
the ttest/^nd I mean by "best"
\ commensurate with the class!
ixacter of work that teachers!
to perform, to wit, thei
r and directing of. a competent j
bcient citizenship,
iieve in and.vrill advocate the!
ot. such laws as will further!
its
laiftis and enedavors, and in
ws .as will protect capital in
ts lawful investment, so that
itx'r. people may be protected,
end that we may give equal
o all and special privileges "to I
t- in favor of a liberal support, |
i:'be necessary for their com-;
Taviagant support to. the few
'ederate veterans who are left
[>wed Wade Hampton through
Tof Virginia and through the
iid strife of South Carolina
P Enforce.Laws,
1 favor of the strictest enof
the laws which prohibit
: and use of cocaine and
ugs, and of our national
r. laws. If our people do
his done, then,rise up like
lernand their repeal, for if
in :the statute books and I
t an oath before God and
torce them, I shall do it.
nay be, in fact there are,
tions to these expressionsr
i-he - discussed when the
fefgl.haye.;.heen hegun.
Hfc this fight I shall know
class because the
jn$:to p?ake it have come
mkos and- all factions; and
overnor, I shall forget all
athich heretofore have di*OPle
and shall he the govittte
people. ;All who know
IkRt there ia no deoeit or
i. that when I >say
1; sand that when I say I
and .they realize
may (bfe'Pardoned for say-1
If am \What I am, and that
irW.m do. |
n,' if this plitform as laui i
ippeals *? you and others j
Iave so kind written and
to me, then I .make one dejpbri
you and tlhem: Give me
2tbJ[ CoUnty intlhis state mem'
the generai assembly, both of
ise and senate, who are in symwrith
me, and the great combple.
If you are going to have
governor and men for the gen- j
jerhbly who aire not in sympa- j
h. me ai^ the great mass of the I
d .people and the issues which I
teir spokesman represent, then j
5 wasting two ballots, and I!
or you to vote for another man
ernor when you vote for that
wi.'men for the general assembly.
- "But if you, and those like you, are
v^^Mtiiest in your requests for me, and
know that you are vhen you say
' - : ; WVtheh when you vote for me, vote
2brv members of the general assembly]
s:7jwill not be dictated to by me, but |
' Who will be there in the interest of]
those whom I represent, and who;
<M'?r those things which we repreeentr.t?or
all of us who are honest and
in our expressions that we
j ' wish, to e^t r-ms--. '
campaign and fight fur '
and the .>em .
. > *
"Ky sp*'cial class. J. M- a- '. - ""
5K?*r.ethinic and we shall have a
happy and contented {e< pie and God
smib' upon ux: but &v long as we
L m&fj?Bbttve dimension and ~:rjfe and fights
- ourselves. we nil never be, a
v^^-^jgppy people, because the Lord will
?ssi*t t^loS who do not love Him
?~P?" h.e^d His commands.
? if-?X<?US me for the length of this
^pttec, but yours required it.
my ^in^est regards and best
. 'Jpsheg to you and yours. I am.
Yes, in Vain
7W;* "Whatever became of Dorothy Per"D6t?
Oh, she married an Englis!
lord, but was snubbed by society,
'ov there."
"* *4i see?took *he nniiic < !" th:- I'-r-.
rain, eh?"
LENA CI.AIiK A'KEfe
CRXSTiL OX STAND.
Orlando. Fla. ^ Nov. .28.?The jury
hearing the ease of Lena M. T. Clark
and Baxter H. Patterson, charged i
with the murder of Fred A. Miltiniore,
local restauranteur, today heard
the woman's story recited under the
spell'of a crystal.
Unique in the annals of jurispru
dence the woman, an announced devotee
of the ouija, .had the crystal
steadily before her Jn order that she
could'concentrate, as it was explained.
She held Miltimore responsible
for the theft of $.38,000 from the
West Palm Beach postoffice . in 1918
which '^reflected on her brother Paul.
Her attempt to cover .this shortage
j culminated in her taking $32,000 from
a registered package later in July of
this, year, the defendant said.
When postal inspectors waxed
warm in their investigation she came
to Orlando accompanied by Patterson
in search of Miltimore . As to the
.. y
killing of the man she suffered a. lapse
of memory. Her testimony exonerated
Patterson as to having any part
in the actual slaying..
Miss Clarke, who occupied the
stand for more than two hours, told
the same story she had given in a
signed statement shortly after Miltimore's
body was found in her room
i at a local hotel. She mentioned
Joseph B. Elwell, murdered New
York sportsman, as having loaned her
$38,000 in 1918 because of his friend;
ship for her brother. To repay him
she was forced to start on a career
of doctoring the accounts. Her mention
of Elwell's name shortly aftei
her arrest caused a flurry in police
I
| circles because o? the fact that El|
well's assassins have never been arj
rested. It was quickly established.
| however, that the woman had not
| been north of Atlanta since a young
! Sirl..
Her testimony in regard to the theft
of $3$,000 from the postoffice disagrees
with that of Postal Inspector i
W. B. Brandon, who told the jury
i
Saturday of his investigation into the
postoffice irregularities. These irregularities
began before she assumed ;
charge as postmistress, he testi?ied}
but there was never a shortage of ,
I $38,000. The shortages, he said, exj
elusive of the $32,000, totalled ap- ,
I proximately $5,000.
| As Miss Clarke neared the end of
| her recital of events during her in- .
! terviewr with Miltimore in her room,
t she took a flight into matters of
spiritualism. She remembered giving
the man :H drug she testified but
from then on her mind was a blank
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WITH i
PELIQN MISSION j
;
Rev. B. J. Weeslnger, Pastor. . j
Services as follows:
Holy Trinity, Pelion?11:15 a. m.
first Sunday; 4 p. rn.t third Sunday.
St. John's (Black Creek)?11 a. m. i
third Sunday; 4 p. m., first Sunday.j
Church of the Good Shepherd, I
Swaoaea-*-ll:15 a. fourth Sunday; |
8:2-0 p. m., second Sunday.
Orange- Chapel, Springfield?11 a.
m., Second Sunday; 8:30 p. m., fourth
Sunday.
ST STEPHEN'S EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
>Ir. B. !H.. Barre. Supt. of Bunda- ;
schopl. - v.
, Sunday schooj at 10:00 A. M. :
Divine services at 11:00 A. M. anc
7:00 P. M. The morning theme or.
Sunday, December the 4th, will be;
"There Is A Work For Each One."
The evening theme will be: "Our Good
Gifts Come From God." The Thank!
^ ? Y* "\\TAn^nn\- '
VJIicnng ?3t:i > iw vi n#i^ .. ^
Horn** and Foreign Missionary Society ;
that was to be held last Sunday.'
evening, will be held this Sunday)
I
evening. To all the services the pub-!
lie is very cordially invited.
Anr?i*:u :>K^>:scha! v.
*. > ?r- ? - ,
>: v..?uu-w'- iCvangolieai i,:n Is#** a.
J,huiCh.
There will be Divine services on
i
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! PRINTI1
I
i Prompt
t
Expert Wc
The Dispc
! Lexington,
until she met Patterson tel j
rorridor and together t. to
the office of Chief of Po . |
State's witnesses have t it j
no traces of a drug were 11!
an examination of Miltinu a
was made.
Miss Clarke ended her *j
with the assertion that hei
rah" taught her to read an
eh? ii-!ic hnrn .
iUl V OIIV ?? ?W. .. .
Miss Clarke in telling of
view with Miltimore prec :
death said lie admitted t
.$38,000 in 193 8. although
had previously accused bin
culed her. She tried to ge
sign a confession, she said
refused.
The woman was placed on t1today
after the state had cc .
its case at the morning session. She
objected to taking the stand in the
morning "because it would be unpropitious
for her to talk before 12 o'clock
because the constellation Herschel
was passing through Neptune,"
which she considered a bad omen.
She called the jury!s attention to the j
fact that she was wearing the same
dress she wore the night of Milti-!
more's death and pointed out there
was no blood stains on it or her;
handkerchief. She said she could
not remembfr having made a confes-J
sion to Chief of Police Vestel that;
she killed Miltimore. She explained
the loss of a belt strap by saying it
was torn from her in a tussle with
Miltimore. He tried to escape, she
..Ki. micliml iintfi n fhilil" .
?aiU, l.'Ut Oil V J/UK7i4VVl ?*?W ? ? ?? Ehvell
when he loaned her the $38,000
had remarked it. was a very small
matter with him. she testified, hut
later he called upon her to repay it.
COLUMBIANS WJEP.
Chester, Nov. 10.?A marriage oi
considerable interest to a wide circle
of friends in Columbia and this
section of the state, was that of Miss
Inez Boarden, the attractive daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Bearden
of Columbia, to Mr. It. S. Wingard,
a popular commercial salesman of
the I,igget-Myers Tobacco Company,
with headquarters in Columbia. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Henry Stokes at Bethel Methodist
Episcopal parsonage in the .presence
of a few friends.
The bride and groom were .attended
by Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Beam, of
Shelton.
3Irs. Wingard posesses a wide circle
of friends in Columbia. She was
graduated at Columbia college, being
a member of the class of 131$.?The
Record..
CHURCHES
Sunday, December the 4th, at 2:30 P.
M. The Rev. Arthur B. Obenschain
will preach. The theme will be;
"Faint, Still Pursuing." The publicj
is cordially invited to the service.
THANK OFFERING SERVICE. !
The Woman's Missionary Society of
St. Stephen's Lutheran church will
hold its regular Thank Offering Ser- J
vice Sunday evening, December 4, at i
seven o'clock. The Junior Mission-1
ary society will preseut a short pag- j
r.' The Song of the Grateful)
, and the pastor, Rev. A. B. J
Or' ain will make an address. j
T;? thank offering boxes will be I
:;ih< -1 at this service and all ladies |
v.-? r: egation who have boxes are
rtskvd t-. bring them to this meeting.
.,: XINGTON CIRCTTT.
' . > : ments for Sunday, liecem:
1921.
-Sunday school at 10 a.
!;. . Senri, Superintendent.
1- at 11 a. m. Followed !>v I
iCommunion.
? sundry s.-:-, .... ?.3*: ?
, .? i f j~i } >*. ' " v?': * ? . ?! . * "It '{i.Si
' " *' ' I
: O . r" -...'v i'v sor- '
invited to worship with |
H. A. WMITTEN,
Pastor. i
- THE KIND
V|TV THAT
PLEASES
Servo
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itch N^ws !
Duth Carolina
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ltOBKRT QVILLKN'S
FRANK ( ON FKSS1 OX .
Spartanburg Journal.
One ot the most remarkable statements
that over appeared in any newspaper
is the following lrom the last
issue of the Fountain Inn Tribune
whose editor. Bobert Quilk-n, is
widely known as a writer for magazines
and newspaper syndicates:
"Of all hard jobs in the world, that
of making a public confession is the
hardest. But if it is the only square
thing to do, it must he done. This,
hereforo. is an open letter to the
oung fellows of Fountain Inn?the
good fellows,' the follows I love and
af with at times?the fellows 1
have taken drinks with and fellowshipped
with.
"All this while I have been a member
of the church?just that and nothing
more. And when my conscience
bothered me about taking a drink
when I could get it, I said to myself:
"Why, I am a liberal supporter of
the church; I pay the tithe; I am a
gentleman and a man of intelligence;
there's no harm in my taking a drink
when I want it, for I can handle it.'
"I said that, but I was a liar. And
1 while posing as a church member and
a follower of Christ and yet reserving
the right to take a drink at my
en ro 7 wrte crttifiwlprn 1 il v 1f?wpr
| down than a snake's holly.
"This is a hitter dose to swallow,
fellows, but 1 had it coining to me.
And if my conduct has led any of
I
you to believe that a man can retain
his honor while carrying water on
both shoulders. I want to make it
clear that it's an impossibility.
"I'm through. I'm 34 years of age,
and have never struck a lick for my
Lord. From now on I am His, to use
as He thinks best, and I'll stick to
Him if it costs me everythnig I have
and every friend I have.
"I'm ashamed fellows. Forgive me
for not having been square.
ROBERT QUILLEX."
RAltWVF.LL XKGRO
SHOOTS TWO MO.
Springfield. Nov. iC..? Boyee Cook
and Clifford Gantt, two white men
from Barnwell county, were shot this
afternoon by a negro named Kirkland.
who was in turn possibly ? mortally
wounded by the two officers. Messrs.
Cook and Gantt were taken to a hospital
in Columbia. The shooting took
place just across the North Edisto
river in Barnwell county about three
miles from Springfield. The officers
had gone to arrest another negro who
escaped when the negro Kirkland began
firing upon the officers with a
shotgun. Mr. Gantt was the most
seriously injured of the two white
men. Mr. Cook put Mr. Gantt and
the wounded negro into the car and
drove on to Springfield where mediI
eal attention was given. The white
men were taken to Columbia, and the
| negro was taken to ttarnwen jan, tne
j sheriff of Barnwell county being askI
ed to meet the prisoner in Blaekville.
I
Barnwell, Nov. 23.?Sheriff Sanders
brought the negro Kirkland to
the county jail here tonight, but left'
with his prisoner immediately when
it was reported that a number of
(tars were following the officer. In
i
[ precaution against mob violence the
sheriff left immediately without letj
ting it be known where he would
j take the prisoner.
It is not known here who the negro
being sought was, nor is there anj
information as to whom Gantt and
Cook represented.
How He Could Tell
A Georgia "cracker" tells ?!
on his own people: tT. \<>ern
man who h-u'i < h .
was vis:t ' ? v :'r . .?? . i
;:i -v r.i : d - . -i the
11" ' '
' :'i. ' replied the man.
N- wij me," asked the friend,
' hat is a 'Georgia cracker'? How
can you tell him from another person?"
tin, V/u.tV,..,.n 1
n v 11 i v 1/iiv.u iuv ?>v/i iiiv i ix t ?
7 *
tier, "you see out in that field a black
object?"
"Yes," said the friend.
"Now," said the man, "that may
be either a 'Georgia cracker' or a
stump. Watch it for half an hour,
and if it moves, why, it's a stump."
Wifely Pride.
A mission worker says that, while
waiting l'or the occupant of the first
floor of a tenement house to admit
him he chanced to overhear two women
conversing on the stairs.
One remarked that her husband
always won- a clean shirt every Sunday
morning.
"Well, now," responded the other,
'I never tares much about Sunday,
but .1 always sees that my man has
a dean shirt Saturday afternoons,
because that's the time he's generally
l'ightin'. and when he does lake
his coat off !<> fight 1 likes to knmv
I
he looks nice on" <baii."'
WAR HPRO MISS I.NO
FROM SHIP AT SPA
Colonel WliittJescj; Disjipix'ars en
Route to Cuba.?Officer Won
Panic During World War.
New York Nov. 28.?Lieut. Col.
*
< naries w. w mttiesey, nero or tne
famous "lost batallion," has disappeared
from the steamship Toloa on
> *
which he sailed Saturday for Habana,
according to a wireless message received
here today.
News of the disappearance of the
famous soldier came in the following
message received from the captain of
the ship: Passenger named C. W.
Whittlesey disappeared. Left several
letters."
Officials of the United Fruit Line,
operators of the ship, confirmed the
fact that the passenger in question
was Lieutenant Colonel Whittlesey
through his relatives.
Members of Mr. Whittlesey's lawfirm
here were at a loss to account
for .his proposed visit to Cuba. When
he left the offices of the firm Friday
he announced his intention, they said,
of attending the Army-Navv game on
the following day.
It has since been learned that Colonel
Whittlesey purchased a ticket for
Habana the following morning and
sailed that day.
Mind Seemed Clear.
His business associates declared
that his mind was clear and that he
apparently was in good health otherwise
when last seen. He seemed
cheerful, they added, and declared
they were unable to explain his seemingly
strange action in going away as
he did without notifying them of his
plans.
C. W. Whittlesey the soldier's
uncle, tonight sain that Colonel
Whittelsey attended the services for
the unknown dead at Washington on
Armistice day and had since appeared
depressed. Mr. "Whittlesey said that
lie last saw his nephew on Friday
veiling and that he did not notice
any decided change in his demeanor
at that time.
Colonel Whittlesey, who was and
unmarried, lived in a bachelor apartment
on East Forty-fourth street.
When he appeared at breakfast Saturday
morning he brought a suit case
down from his room. He did nol
I say where he was going and his
friends did not consider the circumstance
unusual because he was in the
habit of making frequent week-end
and business trips,
i Colonel Whittlesey is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank P. Whittlesey of
I v.tsfield, Mass. He has two brothel
s. Elisha of Pit tsfield and Melzar of
tlus city.
Won Fame Overnight.
The crisp, laconic reply: "You go
to hell," hurled into the teeth of a
Herman officer who called, on him
ami his men to surrender, was the
rhetorical battlefield classic which
brought Colonel Whittlesey into lame
over night.
Surrounded in the Argonne with his
command, the first battalion 01* the
Three Hundred and Eighth infantry.
Seventy-seventh division Whittlesey
J
had been cut off for four days without
food or l'resh water. All but 87
men had been killed or wounded. At
dusk tui October 7, If) 18. a blindfolded
German bearing a white flag,
crossed the line, lie bore a message
asking the Americans to surrender,
"in the name of humanity."
A few hours after the messengei
| bud been sent, back with Whittlesey's
1
i reply, an American advance toot%
place and all were rescue*'
His exploit was : ? ' 5'
dellt Wilsoii ...
- " ,-f ' C . * ? a- given
< .aboo ihe regular line
ib1;. >'oine months after the ar.ice
the German officer who de-i
manded Whittlesey's surrender added
to his laurels by publishing a statement
extolling the American's cour
age and determination.
John B. Pruyn, a lawyer t?? whom
messages from Captain (Irani of the
Toloa were addressed. stated tonight
that he was of the opinion that Colonel
Whittlesey had ended his own
life. Radio messages related that
Colonel Whittlesey left a note for the
captain requesting him to notify his
parents in Pittsfield, Mass. ^ and then
disappeared from the ship.
Mr. Pruyn stated that he believed
the tragedy to be the result of mental
strain to which Colonel Whittlesey
had been subjected as one of the
honorary pallbearers at the Armistice
day ceremonies in Washington.
Robert F. Little of White & Case
the law firm with which Colonel
Whittlesey has been associated foi
some time, received a wireless message
from Captain (?rant of the Toloa
stating that the colonel had left n
message for him regarding some law
papers. The note ended with: "1
will not return."
lVllilllLT. Il.lt. ll-l.l O. I
V'Wjwii* x >? iiiv iir'.jk . i ?.-* 11?i' i .-v? j
nr.uh crief ronf:<?nt im,' him s.nieo tin :
war tii:i? [ 1.? I if v hi n,:i ! 11??t s'ami.
night. "Because of the prominence
accorded him. widows and orphan
the country over wrote to him and ap
pealed to him in person. Man}
'seemed merely to want his sympathj
for lie was a very tender hearted man.
"I noticed a change in him when In
.came back from the unknown soldiei
services. The funeral at Arlington
| seemed to be the climax to all 't.h<
sadness that he went through."
I IUK IX AUGUSTA GA.
CAUSES BIG LOSS
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 2t>.?.Loss fron
the fire which early this morning
threatened the entire business section
of Augusta and finally razed half
of the block bounded by Broad.
Eighth and Ellis streets will not; exceed
$l,r>00,000, according to estimates
of business men and local underwriters.
Fire Chief Frank G. Reynolds,
however, believes that the loss will
not exceed the million mark.
Chief Reynolds tonight also stated
that but for the sprinkler system 01
the J. B. White & Co., department
store and the timely assistance of the
Aiken fire department the White
building and the Genesta hotel would
have been totally destroyed.
Lack of sufficient hose handicapped
the local fire fighters and the arrivaf
of the Aiken volunteer department
with 1,000 feet of additional hostsaved
the day in the opinion of tht
Augusta chief.
No lives were lost in the lire, police
and hotel officials today checked
up lists of hotel guests and no missing
persons have been reported to the police.
Only two casualties resulted
from the fire, according to hospital,
reports. Fire Captain B. F. Crouch
of Augusta and Fireman A. B. E.
Smith of the Aiken department receiving
minor injuries.
The loss is confined to the following
buildings;
Johnson building, total loss..
Harrison building, total loss:.
Albion hotel, total loss.
Genesta hotel partly burned.
J. B. White & Co., partly burned .
The Augusta Chronicle, total loss .
Sparks also ignited three stores twc
blocks from the big blaze, all threestores
being gutted.
The origin of the fires are not
known. The first fire was discovered
in the Harrison building shortly
after 1:30 o'clock and fanned by a.
stiff breeze soon spread to adjoining .
structures. The Johnson building .
was soon enveloped and within about
ten minutes the Albion hotel was in
flames. At the sounding of the first
alarm, however, guests at the hotel J
were aroused and rushed into the
street with the few personal belong-ings
they could gather. All. officialsthink,
escaped uninjured.
"V
ASKS LARGE SUM
IN NEWBERRY CASE.
Newberry, Nov. 28.?The case ol.
William Coleman against J. P..
Stevens & Co.. of New York, is now
being heard in the- Newberry court of
common pleas. The amount claimed'*
by the plaintiff is $?>00y000. The de-fondants
were selling agents for the:
(ilenn-Lowry Manufacturing company
when Mr. Coleman was president of
the company, and the suit involves
transsactions at that time.
Mr. Coleman is represented by R.".
Beverley Herbert and H. X
munds of Columbia, T! c H.ur.r ,v
Hunter, .1; i. By
:tm >ic:ld
V. Barron & Grier
, a' ':-.v(oa, K. S. Blease of New
ury and a lawyer from New York.
WHEN
in Columbia, Lunch with us at Creamery
Lunch Room 121G Lady Street...
1-2 block from Main. You will be as
welcome as the flowers in May. Thebest
of everything and reasonable*
prices. . ,
Creamery Lunch,
1216 Lady St. Columbia, S. C."
aBMBHanaBBMna.
SHOES
THE KIND THAT WEARS
EASY AND LONGEST
We are always prepared to servf
our Lexington friends from a large'
stock of dependable Shoes for every
kind of wear, in all leathers and sizes.
The "Family Shoe Store of Columbia."
Farmers' Medium and Heavy Work:
Shoes a Special
E P.& F. A. DAVIS