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SOPI.U AFFAIRS AT LATTA Many btorUlnmcut* During Holi dajrv. Movements of the People. Among the young people wh< hare spent Christmas at'home, an< who have returned to their respect ire schools are: Misses Dora an< Belle Ree Bethea, Connie Berr> and Elisabeth Eady, of Limestone Ida Bethea, Dalsey Edwards, Ann! Bethea, Ella and Lola Atkinson, a Columbia College; Kate and Annl Covin, 'on, Marlon Baker, Sadi Freem ?, of 8. P. L. at Red Spring N. C.; 'aicy Evans, of the Colleg for Wi ten; Bertha Bethea, c Chioora Pauline Watson, of O. I C ! Bhi. in .iMulnnn nnrt Vltn Aol era, of Winthrop; Homer Bethe and Harry Reaves, of Clemson Clarence Que as and George Browi of the Citadel; Deckard Guess, c Charleston College; Johnson Browi of the Medical College, Charleston Lamar Dew, Rupert Easterllnj Rembert and Gary Allen, of Fu man; Houston Manning and Burfc Berry, of Wofford; Gertrude Mai ntng fone and Besale Berry, of C< inmbia College; Hoyt Watson, < the University of South Caroline Covington Bingham, of tt Ashcvllle school. T1 9 teachers who spent the liol days lere were: Misses Eva Ellerb< iiCDoir Allen, Amanda Edward: Vallie Bethea, Messrs. McSwai Sellers, Robert Bethea and Powe N. Bethea. Mfaa Florence Griffith, who ha been the charming guest of Misse lone and Elizabeth Bethea, return e?l to her home in Little Rock, Ark this week. Missee May Jones and Iola Stell of .Raleigh, N...C., spent the holi ~"'dnys with Misses Dora Bethea am Connie Berry. They were the recip ients of many social honors whil< here, chiefly among which were ai elaborate seven o'clock course diD ner given by Miss Dora Bethea an< a large and brilliant reception glv en by Miss Connie Berry. Miss Judith Parker, of McColl visited Misses Dora and lone Be thea during' the holidays. Mrs. John L. Dew, gave a large reception on Thursday evening it honor of Misses Parker, of McColl Griffith, of Little Rock, Ark., and Belle Mayfield, of Denmark. Ovei sixty couples were invited to meel these young people. Mrs. Dew wat assisted in receiving by Misses Ethel Woodward and Dora Bethea. Friday evening Miss Estelle Ellerbe was at home to a aumber ol eception was giverf by Mrs g McLendqu^yriday evening * Ver;4 and Myrtis Smith flegant reception from 3 clock Tuesday afternoon sixty called during the afon. Ou onday Mrs. Floy Bethea gave birthday dinner. Those invited 'ere: Miss Dora Bethea with Dall.8 Bethea; Miss Mary Bell ManJng, with Charles Ellis Bethea; Miss Floy Bethea, with Auther Be thea. Mr. and Mrs. Hart Smith, of Wilmington, spent Christmas with Mrs Smith's mother, Mrs. Stackhouse. Kenneth McCutcheon, who li orking in McColl, spent a few i here with home folks las' Edwards attended the Car Charlisle wedding in Ben last week. Ulan Bethea visited he: Hon. J. C. Sellers, at Sell "OK. a Bennett, of Clio, via 'hel Woodward durini Mian ? ** Mis, of Coker College spent Christmas with her frlent Mian Florence Allen. 0 Railway A pent Commits ftalelde. laimberton Robeson ian. M. K. Beaver, about 20 years ol< ?g?nt for the Raleigh & Charlei ton Railway Company, at Marietti committed suicide shortly after 1 o'clock Tuesday night by drinkin carbolic acid and shooting himsel L'isappolntment in a love affair given aa the cause. The young ma secured the acid from Dr. Earl; with whom he boarded, 09 th statement that he wanted to kill tb odor of whiskey at the depot. Not! Ing was known of the rash dee until yesterday morning, when h body was found in his room at th depot, where he slept. It seem that he drank the acid, lay dow on his bed, wrote on a ctgarett box, found beside the bed, "12:1< will be gone in two minutes," an shot himself through the heart. Th pistol was also found beside th bod. He was a son of Rev. C.E Beaver, a Methodist minister a Maiden, and the remains were shii ped to Maiden yesterday even in j Tho shIAMA wtao * >v vwiviuo wan a ftirni niiUiR t the people of Marietta, with who? the young mas waa popular. 1 We wish to thank our friend for the kindneaa and sympath Bhown in our reoeot bereavenaeol LAIKKN8 WOMAN SLAYS Ht*S- a BAND? 1 Young Farmer Killed Willi Axe and | HI* Wife Formally Accused. | ? Laurens. Dec. 29. ?While he I d slept last night, K. \V. Hamilton, a > young farmer living near here, was I j killed with an axe and bia wife is I charged with the hilling. r? She recently came home after ; aorne time in the institution for the e insane, and it is said that among ..her hallucinations was one that she would kill her husband. * The back of the axe was used to! e heat Hamilton into unconsciousness,' b, aftor which the blade was used to ' nearly sever the head from the body. f 0 r. Baptist Laymen Meet in Columbia. < i At a meeting of the executive a committee of the Baptist Laymen's k; Missionary Movement for 9outh j Carolina recently held in Greenville, a program was arranged lor a Con- ; 1 >r i vention of laymen, which will meet! | a. in Columbia in January. At the; | i; last meeting of the Baptist State; ' Convention in Laurens, it was de- ! 5' tided to hold a Laymen's Conven- I r" tion in Columbia early in the year | :< 1J11, in order that the work may; j be more thoroughly organized, and steps taken, if necessary, to put in J " the field an active secretary, de- I " voting all, or part of his time to I i; the organization of the Movement I ic in the Baptist churches of hte State. 2 The committee in Greenville de e'ded to hold the meeting in the hirst Baptist church of Columbia ! a, on January the 11th. There will I g, be two sessions of the Convention. | n the first meeting at 4 o'clock in the | nttemoou, the second at 7:30 in the !r evening. Well arranged programs ! for these meetings are being plan-1 I ,6 ncd. It is expected that Dr. J. T. | ,8 Henderson, secretary of the Lay- | men's Movement in the Southern l~ Baptist Convention, will be present, ! . and in effort Is being made to have J Dr. A. J. Vining. of London, Can- | I ada, who recently stirred the hearts | of the people at the Baptist State "! Convention in Laurtns. Dr. Vlu- S 3 ing is a man of wonderful {tower, ' I - and every effort is being made to ? have him present. Dr. Wm. H. J Smith, of the Foreign Mission { I 1 Board, Richmond, Va., will also be ! | - present, and everything points to an i { enthusiastic meeting. All those who contemplate nt-' " : tendiug should wrhite to Dr. E. G. ' I ! Quattlebaum, Columbia, S. C., in i | > j order that accomodations may be j .'secured. As is cuatomirv with th? I i lav men at their conventions, they 1 wi?! not expect entertainment, but I 51 owing to the fact htat the leglsla- I i * lure will be in session, and doubt- I t j less the hotels somewhat crowded, ! j j tbose who attend this convention J should send in their names to Dr. i I E. Q. Quattlebaum, Columbia, S. C., J t so that he may advise in reference 2 i; to securing accomodations. J The laymen's Missionary Move- | ment has already become one of ! i he strongest powers for good in i the church to-day, and doubtless af- S liter the meeting in Columbia, great i progress will be noted throughout j I the Baptist church in the State. >9 C. E. Robinson, Chairman, T. O. Law ton. Secretary. 19 i Laymen's Movement S. C. Baptist)" , j State Convention. 1 0 | KILLED BADE, THEN HERSELF. i Husband, Demented. Remained in : J i House With Dead Three Weeks. ; J I , Cleveland, Jan. 1.?The police I and coroner announced last night 2 " 1 Lheir belief that Mrs. Annie T. I "' Mielke and her 3-year-old daugh->9 i ter, whose decomposed bodies were 9 . found in their home yesterday, | ' committed suicide. The authorities, following their j 1 " ! investigation, hold to the theory ; 9 ; that the woman killed the child j 9 and then herself wlht choloroform i | s 1 at least three weeks ago, and that j 3 Herman Mielke, the husband, dis- 11 ' ; covered the bodies shortly after 11 death, but was too demented to | make a report. In all this time he j | _ j ate and slept in the house. Knowing that their bodies lay > " | upstairs he did not inform the po- I i lice or take steps for their burial < I r until yesterday. His mind seems a|9 blank, and he has told the police | various stories. Steps will be tak-: ! en to have blm taken to an Insane I r asylum. % 0 j | j BLACK HAND SKT HIM CRAZY | ' | Negro Jumped Through Window of , I M PoUee Htation. Washington, Jan. 1. ? Crazed; I I with the illusions that Italian Black ; | j Handera were after him. Henry j I j Martin, a negro was arrested by j a I the Tenth Precinct Station police ' ! 1, I foce this morning on a charge of in- ; I j. , sanity. ^ After he had been taken to the ; jj ' police station Martin began "seein* i things" again and made a wild " K dash for a closed window, through f. ' which he threw himself, falling out-| side with a shower of erlaas H?! I was badly bruised and cut when | n picked up by the police, who sent | y, j him to the Washington Asylum te Hospital. Martin when arrested wag running around the streets I yelling that the "Black Hand" was i | l_ ' going to kill him. d 0 Is TAKES HIS ANNUALLY ICY BATH : Magistrate Tighe Dives Into Sheeps- I head Bay on New Year. IB ? New York, Jan. 1.?Magistrate I James Tighe, clad in a bathing suit, j | e c'eared away a slab of ice which ), i clung to a raft on which he was d sending this morning and executed ! ! ? au Australian splash into 8heeps e head Bay. , e Magistrate Tighe has made it a I . custom for many years to take aj vt plunge on New Year's Day. ^ i He Is a member of the- Sheeps- ; ~ ' head Bay Rowing Club, and from ; I- ' the headquarters of this organise-1 o tion he emerged to-day in a bine n < bathing suit. He ran down from | the pavilion of the court house to I the raft, where he paused to send 1 I adrift a square of lee. He them I Jumped Into the water and I * (Winn (or five minutes, after which I y he came out and dressed. I Fifteen members of the Arctic 1 Cl.ib were bathers at the Ps&F'v 5 Paths, Ceoey Island. **?? ort j Most* Cr\ ' I NO! sur ^ ~ I !< Jm5h*KK|hJm! S Our sale has proved a success of dollars worth of merchandise 1 M- m mm u I While the COP S The $35.00 in gold will be | must be present when the dr will be e iMnrric jIVIUI I IC 0 I Dillon, I ? "' ? ? V ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?- ?? ?? ?. ? !! ? 5 ? fHING| | "cf" s beyond our highest expectation. Thousands 4 40^ iave been sold but a large assortment still remains. 5 ^ I % IB mm MR 1Strn BBS I^hq ^ H0B9& w ^nHBEHIIB HI Assortment is Still i ; IPLETE. 11 s i : given away Saturday. Remember you g ?' aw takes place and only numbers present g < entitled to the money. 1 j 5 BBBHi a I youth Carolina. | (