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VOLUME XXV
CLINTON, S. C. ( THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1926
NUMBER 12
REVENUE BILL FOR THE YEAR
IS OFFERED BY DELEGATION
Passes Third Reading And Is Now On Senate
^Calendar. Amendments To Be Offered
By Senator Goodwin.
The Lanrenfa County supply bill covering the operating expenses of the
county for the year 1925, has been introduced by the members of the dele
gation in the (Seneral Assembly. The bill has passed third reading and now
goes to the Senate for final adoptions
While Senator 0. P. Goodwin has not stated what amendments he will
offer to the bill, he stated Monday while in Laurens that he had several
changes in mind that he would make, though he did not specify the items
under consideration. ^ j
The following is the bill as it passed the third reading in the House and
now goes to the Senate:
A BILL
To Provide for the Levy of Taxes for School and County Purposes for* 1925,
for Laurens County and to Direct the Expenditures^ Thereof.,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Section 1. That the County Auditor is hereby authorized and required
to levy a tax on all the taxable property of the County of Laurens for an
amount sufficient to raise the appropriations herein made after deducting
from said amount the estimated revenue from fines and forfeitures.
Item 1. Roads'and Bridges:
Cross Country Roads and Convicts and Maintenance of Road Work
Organization ...—. ••...••• ...—.. ........... ........ ........^ 41,000.00
Maintenance and Upkeep of Cross-country Roads and Bridges, One
thousand Dollars for each Township, to be expended by the
direction of the Supervisor 9,000.00
Maintenance of top soil roads from Mountville to Cross Hill;
Cold Point to Mt. Olive, and Gray'Court to Woodruff Bridge;
Provided, That if said maintenance be entrusted to private in
dividuals that said person or persons shall enter into a con
tract with good and sufficient surety, specifying the amount,
and kind of work to be done and that said contract shall be
prepared by the County Attorney, $4,000.00 if so much be
necessary.
Item 2. Salaries: ■
Clerk of Court u 400.00
........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 1
Deputy Sheriff - 1,200.00
Treasurer 760.00
Auditor ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 750.00
Superintendent of Education 1,800.00
Traveling expenses of Superintendent of Education 300.00
Assistant Superintendent of Education 900.00
Attorney ........ *...«... ........ ........ ........ .■•*.*■« ........ ........ ........ 250.00
Physician ..' 150.00
Coroner ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........
Janitor of Court House 480.00
Supervisor •••••••• ••••••■• •••■•«•• •»••••»• ••••*■•• •••»•••• •••••••• •••••»»* ' 1,500.00
Traveling expenses of Supervisor 300.00
Two County Commissioners at One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars 200.00
Clerk to County Board of Commissioners 1,200.00
Judge of Probate ........ ........ ........ ........ •■...... ..•.*... ........ ........ 400.00
Constable at Clinton 300.00
Farm Demonstrator 1,009.00
Traveling expenses of Farm Demonstrator 300.00
Magistrates:
City of Laurens 900.00
Clinton .»■»..■• ■•••»■•• ......•• ••.•••■. .■■■■■•■ ••••..•• ■«■.»■•■ •••■•••. 60O.QO
Waterloo ........ ......■• ........ ........ ..■..■■• ........ •••••••. 200.00
Scuffletown 150.00
Cross Hill 200.00
........ ........ ........ ^....... ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ..a.... 200.00
Jacks ..-■••.« ■■■••••• ........ ••••.■•■ ••••••■• •••»•••• •••••••• 150.00
Gray Court ........ ........ ...— —... 200.00
Sullivan ..•■•■■. ........ ........ ........ ....... ........ ■■*..... ........ ........ 150.00
Mountville 100.00
Item 3. County Boards:
Board of Equilization 843.10
, Board of Education ” 50.00
Board of Registration, three at $50.00 each 150.00
Item 4. Jail expenses, catching prisoners, dieting prisoners, 50c
per day ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 2,760.00
Item 5. Jurors and witnesses, if so much be necessary 5,000.00
Item 6. County Home, poor house and poor 2,600.00
Aid to Indigent Veterans 1,000.00
Item 7. Lunafcy •••*»••• ^...... ........ ^........ ........ ........ ........ «•••••■• 1,000.00
Item 8. Public Buildings, including water, fuel, light and insur
ance - 2,000.00
Item 9. Printing, postage and stationery 1,278.57
Item 10. Miscellaneous contingent 3,000.00
Item 11. For matron of the Rest Room and upkeep, to be paid
monthly upon warrant drawn on County Treasurer, drawn by
the President of Woman’s Business League of Laurens 600.00
Maintenance of Rest Room, if so much be necessary 60.00
Item 12. Rural Police: >
Six Rural Policemen at Seventeen Hundred ($1,700.00) Dol
lars each ........ ........ ....... ........ ...••*.1 ........ ........ ........ 10,200.00
Uniforms, etc ........ ........ ........ •■«..... ........ ........ ........ ■•••«..■ ........ 600.00
Item 13. Vital statistics n.' 432.75
Item 14. Clinton Hospital, payable monthly 600.00
Item 16. Hospital at Laurens 600.00
If either hospital be closed then the amount herein appropriated
shall be returned to the County Treasurer to be used for ordi
nary county purposes.
Item 16. Interest on County Indebtedness:
Interest on Current Loans in anticipation of taxes 4,500.00
Item 17. Preservation of old records in Clerk of Court’s office,
and equipment for same 2,500.00
Sec. 2. That the County Supervisor is hereby authorized and required
to make a semi-annual report to the Laurens County Delegation in the Gen
eral Assembly, giving an itemized and verified statement of all the expendi
tures pertaining to his office which have been paid by him, and also an item
ized statement of all debts and obligations incurred for which Laurens County
is liable. Said report shall be made on or before June 1st and December
1st of each year.
Sec. 3. That the Supervisor is hereby forbidden from making any debt
or obligation for Laurens County, not covered by the appropriation herein
made, and any obligation made by said Supervisor in excess of the levy and
appropriation herein made shall not be a debt against Laurens County.
Sec. 4. That the County Superintendent of Education is hereby author
ized and empowered to borrow not exceeding ninety, per cen^ of taxes for
school purposes estimated for the year 1925 for the purpose of paying salaries
of teachers and other school purposes, to pledge a tax levy for school pur
poses for the year 1925 for the payment of same.
Sec. 5. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and required to levy a
tax of one-half (1-2) mill on all the taxable property of Laurens County,
the proceeds of said levy to be used for the use and benefit of the weak
. - (Continued on Page Two)
BEGIN WORK ON BRIDGE OVER
SAVANNAH AT ABBEVILLE SOON
Cheraw, March 11.—-The headquar
ters of the Calhoun Highway associa
tion, which are located at Cheraw, has
made announcement in regard to the
location of a site for the bridge over
the Savannah river which has been
awaited for several months.
A letter received by the president of
this association from Mr. R. E. Toms,
district engineer of the bureau of pub
lic roads of District Eight, Montgom
ery, Ala., to Mr. R. E. Hanna, presi
dent of the Calhoun Highway associa
tion, reads:
4 T have to advise that we are recom
mending to the state highway depart
ments of Georgia and South Carolina
that the proposed bridge across the
Savannah river, connecting Elberton,
Georgia, and Abbeville, South Caro
lina, be located approximately at the
site of what is known as the Burdeifs
Ferry Crossing. This means the win
ning of the fight which has been
waged for four years for a toll-free
bridge which will be the only toll-
free bridge on the Savannah river
north of Augusta, Ga. This bridge
will not only serve the Calhoun high
way, but will also serve five' other
interstate routes, including capital to
capital, Columbia to Atlanta; capital
to capital, Raleigh to Atlanta, and
transcontinental route from Wilming
ton to Atlanta to New Orleans and
over the old Spanish trail to *San
Diego, Calif. Construction will be
started in a short while."
The state of South Carolina has
provided the necessary funds. Abbe-,
vills. has also, provided its share of
the funds, and Elberton has provided
its share of thje necessary funds. This
is to be a military bridge, double
drive reinforced concrete, capable of
bearing the heaviest field artillery,
fifteen-tbn capacity. It was estimated
that approximately a thousand cars
a day will pass over this bridge when
completed.
OFFICERS MAKE
LARGE SEIZURE
Thirty Thousand Dollars Worth of
Whiskey and Champagne Captur
ed Near Charleston.
Charleston, March 15.—Four thous
and two hundred and seventy-six
quarts of champagne and high quality
whiskies were confiscated early this
morning in Riverside cemetery on the
Dorchester road by State bfficer J.
Louis Poppenheim, Federal Officers
Alonzo Seabrook and Edwin Parker,
and Rural Policeman Samuel J. Loo-
per. The retail value of the seizure
exceeds $30,000.
This seizure took place after an all
night vigil in the graveyard, the offi
cers hoping that a claimant would ap
pear. They apprehended one negro
man who seemed to believe that he
was the owner of these outlawed com
estibles. The officers, in the circum
stances, took his word for it and pro
ceeded to see that the prisoner was
made aware of the majesty of the
law.
The campagne amt whiskey were
brought to town in two school trucks.
It was thought that the large trucks
could do the hauling unassisted, but
it was found that the burden was too
great and the other was requisition
ed for the purpose of transportation
to the rear of the courthouse yard.
The officers and their convoyed
trucks arrived at the courthouse soon
after noon and the process of trans
ferring the 4,276 quarts of illicit mois
ture was witnessed by quite a throng.
The liquor'was in sacks and will be
held as evidence. The officers did
not say whether the negro prisoner
would be the only person accused.
Neither did they say whether they
entertained any suspicions as to own
ership. . *
VARIED ATHLETIC
TEAMS PROGRESS
FEDERAL COURT
JURORS DRAWN
For Six Weeks Term To Convene In
City of Greenville On
April Seventh.
For the term of federal court which
convenes in Greenville on April 7 for
a term of six weeks, Z. C. Reeves, of
Gray Court, has been drawn on the
grand jury, and the following from
this county on the petit jury:
Second week: B. R. T. Todd, Barks
dale; Herbert Martin, Laurens; J. C.
Smith, Waterloo.
Third week: H. T. Jones, Mount
ville.
Fourth week: W. M. Hunter, Ora;‘
Samuel Byrd, Ora. Also J. C. Bums,
Greenwood. <
Sixth week: E. P. Minter, Laurens;
S. J. Rasor, Mountville; Robert Har
ris, Owings.
Gone To Markets
For Spring Goods
E. J. Adair, buyer of Adair’s De
partment Store, left Monday for New
York and Baltimore where he will
purchase spring goods for his well-
known firm. Mr. Adair stated before
leaving that he is optimistic over the
year’s business outlook and intends
offering the buying public of this sec
tion one of the largest and most com
plete stocks that has ever been offer
ed by his store.
New Books For
Clinton Library
Through Miss Sallie Wright, librar-
ianfi, announcement is made that 158
books have been added to the Clinton
Library during tbe past year. Of this
nuipber, 42 were given by the Carne
gie Endowment Education Fund, and
are popularly known as the Interna
tional Mind Alcove. These books are
given the local association in the hope,
that they will be used by the com*
munity.
Work Goes Forward In Baseball,
Track, and Spring Football At
Presbyterian College.
The athletic field, at Presbyterian
College is a mighty busy 'place these
balmy spring afternoons with base
ball, football, and track practices
all going on at the same time.
Interest in spring football practice
has been considerably bolstered up
within the past week. Something like
twenty men are out each afternoon
for practice. That is a pretty good
number, when it is considered that
many football candidates are also
baseball candidates, and must there
fore appear for baseball rather than
football. P. C. is expecting to put a
championship team on the gridiron in
1925, and of course the more practice
the team puts in, the better the pros
pects will be.
Captain Hughs and his crew of
track aspirants are also getting in
some good work. The state track
meet is to be held at P. C. this spring,
May 2, and for that reason more inter
est than usual is being shown in track.
Baseball continues to show improve
ment, and ere the time comes when
the first game is to be played, the
team will well be able to take care
of itself against any of the state
teams. The schedule has not yet been
completed, and for that reason it can
not be published at this time.
HIGH STUDENTS
WILL DEBATE
Clinton To Meet Ninety-Six and
Whitmire In Inter-Debate
Friday Afternoon.
The high .schools of the state enter
ing the State High School Debate,
will hold the preliminary debates at
different places in the state, Friday,
March 20th. ,
Here in Clinton, Friday afternoon
at 4 o’clock, frt the graded school
auditorium, the affirmative team from
Ninety-Six will meet the negative
team from Whitmire.
Clinton’s affirmative team, repre
sented by Ella Belle Wilson and Benet
Godfrey, will meet Ninety-Six’s nega
tive team at Whitmire. The negative
team of the local schools, represented
by Ellen Copeland and Margaret Fin
ley, will meet Whitmire’s affirmative
team at Ninety-Six.
City Council Reduces
Electric Power Rates
At a meeting of City Council held
last Wednesday night, a motion was
adopted calling for a downward re
duction on the electric current scale
as formerly adopted. The rate was
reduced from the maximum of 12c
on the first 12 kilowatts to 10c. The
scale then operates on a sliding basis
down to a minimum of 2 l-2c per
kilowatt. The minimum rate on cook
ing current was fixed at $3.00 per
month, the. rate being 4c per kilo-
wttt hour. The scale of rates adopt
ed by council, effective March the
first, will be found in an advertise
ment in today’s paper.
Orphanage Children
. Ride Merry-Go-Round
Mrs. Agnes Ehring very generous
ly furnished tickets last Saturday for
frtee rides on the merry-go-round for
all the Thomwell Orphanage children.
The company also gave the institu
tion ten per cent of the receipts dur
ing the present exhibitions. This
kindly consideration has been greatly
enjoyed by the children, and this
generosity is appreciated by the or
phanage management.
Mls| Anna Ward, of Thornwell Or
phanage, spent the past week-end in
Augusta, where she visited Mrs. T.
W. Pilcher.
SENATE KILLS
REVENUE BILL
Enacting Words of House Soft Drink
Tax BiU Stricken Oat By
Small Majority.
FIGHT OVER
OFFICE ENDS
Sargent's Nomination As Attorney-
General Confirmed In Short Order
Aft«r Rejection of Warren.
Columbia, March 17.—Toesing aside
the revenue measures sent it by the
house, thd senate today embarked on
a voyage of exploration to determine
how the money needed for the ex
pense of government may be obtain
ed. where that voyage will lead to
or when it win end are questions that
no one here is able yet to answer.
Always unpopular with large ele
ments in both houses, the proposed
soft drink tax, prepared originally by
the ways and means committee and
amended by the finance ■ committee,
was sent to its death by a vote of 22
to 18 after debate lasting leas than
two hours. The rejection of this tad*
is generally regarded as an indication
that it will be useless for the finance
committee to bring out its seeond
house revenue raising measure, which
seeks to place a tax on chewing tobac
co and snuff.
As a means of retaining a vehicle
on which to build a new tax meas
ure, the soft drink tax bill was re
committed to the finance committee
after being killed. This was accom
plished by reconsidering the vote to
strike the enacting words, wheih had
previously carried, and then passing
a motion to send the bill back to the
committee. It was distinctly under
stood, however, that •the adoption of
the motion to reconsider the vote was
not to be construed as an agreement
to accept the bill, but merely to ; pro
vide the finance committee with an
instrument on whiih it can build an
entirely new revenue measure. Such
a course was necessary because of the
rule that all revenue measures must
originate in the house.
Substitute taxes mentioned on the
floor of the senate during the dis
cussion preceding the vote today in
cluded occupation • taxes and a gen
eral lales tax. Senator R. S. Stewart
of Lancaster, author of the revalua
tion bill now under consideration, and
a man generally regarded as being
well informed on taxation problems,
strongly advocated the occupation tax
as a means ef raising revenue for this
year and until the entire tax system
of the state can be reformed by a
revaluation. Opinion expressed by
other members of the senate were also
favorable toward such an expedient.
A precedent was established in
legislative procedure soon after the
tax bill was called for consideration
when the senate voted to go into exe
cutive session. According to men who
have been familiar with the South
Carolina legislature for many years,
this is the first time that either body
even went into a secret session to con
sider any proposed revenue measure.
The session, however, was abortiv, for
after about half an hour’s deliberation,
the doors were reopened, apd open
discussion was resumed just where it
had been left off when visitors were
excluded. According to members of
the senate, nothing whatever was ac
complished during the closed meeting,
and because no agreement could be
reached, the decision to fight the mat
ter out before the public was made.
The defeat of the soft drink tax
will probably kill all chance of the
session of the legislature ending this
week. Confronted with the task of
preparing some sort of an acceptable
tax that will yield about $1,500,000,
and faced with a battle still to come
over the appropriation bill, the senate
has sufficient internal problems to
occupy it for several days, and when
those are solved, it must still reconcile
the house to its views.
It is believed by many, however,
that the action taken today will
bring closer to realization a real tax
reform for the state. Proponents of
the revaluation bill appeared much
encouraged at the turn events have
taken and are determined to make
a tremendous effort to have either it,
or a modification of its provisions,
placed in effect.
Practically all of the up-state sena-
Washington, March 17.—The con
troversy between President Coolidge
and the senate over the attorney-
generalship ended abruptly today
with the nomination eif John G.
Sargent of Vermont, for the post,
and his prompt confirmation by the
Senate.
Mr. Sargent, a former attorney
general of Vermont and a close per- *
sonal friend of the President, was
•elected after Charles B. Warren of
Michigan, whose nomination twice
was rejected by the Senate, had de
clined to accept an offer of a recess
appointment.
At the moment that Mr. Sar
gent’s name was transmitted to the
Senate, the White House made pub
lic an exchange of correspondence
between the executive and Mr. War
ren which disclosed that the offer
of such an appointment had been
tendered yesterday after the Senate
bad acted unfavorably upon his name.
Mr. Warren wrote the President
that he was unwilling to prolong a
political controversy which might
Lessen Mr. Cooolidge’s opportunity for
full usefulness to the nation, and
possibly "interfere with your mak
ing wholly effective your policies.’’
Announcement of the selection of
Mr. Sargent, who lives in the little
village of Ludlow, near the Presi
dent’s birthplace, was made after
Mr. Coolidge had conferred with the
Republican and Democratic floor
leaders in the Senate. He was un
willing to submit the name until he
had been assured that his old friend
would not be subjected to the haz
ard of such .an attack as was made
on Mr. Warren.
Immediately upon reoeipt of the
nomination, the Senate mov e d
swiftly to dispose of it. Chairman
Cummins Of the judiciary commit
tee took the unusual course of lay
ing the appointment before the body
in open session, and then called a
meeting of his committee to act
upon it. *
There was little discussion in the*
committee. Senator Dale, Repub
lican, Vermont, appearing on behalf
of Mr. Sargent, explained that he
would bury ‘‘political differences”
with the nominee because the issue
was “above political controversy.”
An hour and a half later the
nomination was reported to the Sen
ate in executive session, and ap
proved in open session by unani
mous consent just four hours after
it had been received. The commit
tee discussed it only a little more
than half an hour and the Senate
debated it not at all.
SENTENCES FLOYD ’
TO TWENTY YEARS
Judge Rice Expresses Surprise At
Verdict of Manslaughter For
Greenville Man.
Greenville, March 16.—John C.
Floyd, tenant farmer of the northern
section of Greenville county was sen
tenced by Judge Hayne F. Rice, in
the court of general session here Sat
urday to serve 20 years at hard labor.
Floyd was found guilty of manslaugh
ter in connection with the murder of
J. Ed. Thackston, prominent farmer-
merchant of Montague, near here,
last December 10. Judge Rice ex
pressed surprise at the verdict and
told Floyd that he was plainly guilty
of murder.
Last night Floyd was at a county
chaingang camp, manacled for his
long period of service. He told re
porters that he was innocent, and
spoke feelingly of his wife and seven
small children left without support by
his conviction.
AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN
tors voted to kill the soft drink tax
bill. These included Senators Rogers
of Spartanburg; Butler of Cherokee,
Duncan of Union, and Goodwin of
Laurens. Senator Richardson of
Greenville, w^s not present, but it is
thought that he would have voted
against it also had/ he been there.
The filibuster planned by Senator
Rogers of Spartanburg, was not nec-
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Washington, Mar. 17.—Jacob Gould
Schurman, now minister to China, was
named today by President Coolidge as
ambassador to Germany.
essary in the light of developments
today,' and as a result, that senator
did not even take the floor as he had
expected to. He announced privately
that the vote today indicated that
even with a full senate, the soft drink
tax would be killed by a majority of
two votes. '
Senators who voted to kill the bill
were:
Beamguard, Butler, Cooper, Craig,
Duncan, Fant, Goodwin, Hamilton^
Lightsey, Moise, McDonald, J. R.,
McDonald, R. D., Outzs, Patterson,
Pearce, Riley, Rogers, W. S., Sear-
son, Stewart, Williams, A. H., Wil
liams, J. F., and Young. Total 22.
Those who voted against the Fant
motion were:
Senators Amick, Funderburk, Gra
ham, Greneker, Gross, Harvey, Jef
fords, Johnstone, Martin, Padgett,
Rogers, R. S., Scarborough, Stabler,
Spivey, Spruill, Tyson, Wall, aad
Ward. Total 18. t