Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, •t, •* *’ >■* >. ' * ■ . * ■' *.- ? r. ■-* j ■ ■. • r • - ... » • " : '':\.i' +. ■• ' •• *• / • ~ . i 4 If T*c Don't Rood THE CHRONICLE Too Don't Got The Nows. v< GOVERNORS IN ANNUAL MEET I McLeod Makes Address, Outlining Needs and Advantages of Co- Operative Marketing. KIWANIANS HOLD FINE«MEETING t »> * Newberry Is Scene of Large Gather* ing for Clinton-Union-Newberry H Inter-City Meet. ft t .r #• 'I * t rx Poland Spring, Maine, June 30.—In order to make an earlier atart on a tour of Maine which will occupy the remainder of the week, the state exe cutives in the 17th annual conference here today speeded up their program and concluded the public business of their annual meeting. An executive session is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Subjects discussed today' included federal and state distribution of gov ernmental powers, cooperative market ing, the problems of agriculture and prison administration and state co operation in prison made goods. The program for the day concluded with a banquet tendered to the«visiting gov ernors by Gov. Ralph 0. Brewster of Maine and Mrs. Brewster. Two messages from President Cool- idge were read at today’s session at which Governor Jackson of Indiana presided. One acknowledged a tele gram sent by the governors yesterday expressing sympathy with the presi dent on the occasion of his father’s illness. The other conveyed to the conference the president’s regret that he would be unable to attend the ses sions. A number of the ^visitors de voted the forenoon to making short flights in flying boats sent here by the navy department fdr the use of the governors. In the afternoon, how ever, the wind increased and flying was abandoned. ’Cooperative marketing is no longer in the experimental stage in this coun try, Gov. Thomas G. McLeod qf South Carolina, said in the main address on that topic. Among the producers of cotton and. tobacco and of other im portant crops it is solving the prob lem of distribution for the farmer, he maintained. “I come from a land where cotton is the staple crop,” Governor McLeod i said. “The South has practically a j monoply on this gredt world’s neces sity and it has been unable to realize a constant profit therefrom. Frer quently it is grown at a loss, until many people think that the reign of King Cptton in the South has been ! one of ungenerous depotism. Can you j imagine| the Carnegie steel interest | running at a loss, the Rockefeller oil; interests or-Armour and Swift fpod j products being manufactured and sold; without profit? Yet the Southern farmer controls a monoply more mon- oplostip than any of the products men tioned and bas never succeeded, in fixing the price Upon it or in realiz ing a profit in the production thereof except under extraordinary conditions.. “The great business interests of the world ^peak in terms of organization, j The farmer speaks in . terms of disor-j ganization. Organization, therefore, j is the remedy. Cooperative marketing has now passed the experimental stage. It has succeeded in the various products brought under its control. Much has yet to be done, but, gener ally speaking, the difficulties have! been overcome and cooperative mar keting is being successfully conduct ed.” • Gov. Adams McMullen of Nebraska, dealing with the problems of agricul- ture, said that the farmer would take care of production, but must have as sistance in marketing its products. He emphazised the difficulty of organiz ing 6,500,000 independent producers and declared that the farmer would be satisfied with American prices for that part of his output which would be sold in this country if the govern ment would assist as proposed by the McNary—Haughen bill now before congress in marketing in .the surplus crop abroad. “I do not favor price making and regard it as un-American and danger ous,” Governor McMullen said. “The farmer does not want fixing of prices, but he does want the same protection through the tariffs as has been ex tended to other industries in this coun try. In Nebraska the agriculture out put is $500,000,000 a year and the farmers profits have not been more than 1 1-2 per cent bn his invest ment. E. Stack Whitbig, secretary of the National Council of Prison Manufac turers, outlined to the conference progress that has been made on a plan whereby surplus products of prison factories in any state are purchased for state use by other states. He said 34 statds were at present cooperating in this way. Governors Tinkle of Virginia, Ricthie of Maryland, Hammil of Iowa, Martin of Florida, and Trapp of Oklahoma, joined in the .discussion which followed. .With an attendance of one hundred, the third inter-city meeting of the Clinton, Union and Newberry Kiwanis clubs was held in Newberry last Fri day evening. . An elegant dinner was served at thtf National hotel, after which a.program of stunts, humor and wit, was presented which caused much merriment and frivolity. The occasion furnished a delightful atmosphere of friendliness and good will and brought forth the highest praise from the Kiwanians and their friends. The program for the evening was in charge of the' Clinton members, and was presided over by W. W. Harris, president of the local club. After ♦ few words of welcome from acting president Davis of Newberry, the meeting was turned over to the Clin ton crowd. The singing Was led by Clifford Killen and heartily entered into by all present. _ -. Dr. A. E. Spencer gave a very unique rendition of a musical number with John Holt at the piano. Miss Carolyn Dugan and^Miss Ruth Craw ford very sweetly sang several select- ians and were heartily encored. Miss Benet Godfrey, pianist of the- local club, played the accompaniments. - The program had its serious side as well as its fun and frolic. Rev. Ed ward Long, in a very effective man ner, made a talk on “The Undej- The New Florida Street School USE ETHYLENE GAS FOR FIRST TIME At New Anaesthetic Administered Baptist Hospital With Good Result. Columbia, July 1.—Ethylene gsjs, a comparatively new anaesthetic, 1 al though it has been used in some Northern hospitals for some time, was used for the first time at the Baptist hospital in Columbia yesterday. It is likely that it had not heretofore been used in South Carolina, according to W. M.-Whiteside, superintendent of the institution. Results^m the opera tion performed yesterday were said to be satisfactory. This new anaesthetic has behind it an interesting history. ~At the meet- SAYS EVOLUTION “IS LIE OF HELL” priviliged Child.” Be. Dudley Jones' 7" ^ V" foib- ™ In ^ of the American Hospital associa- made an dhsually interesting talk on “The First Builders”, giving the early history and a number of clever anec dotes of the towns of Union, New berry, and Clinton. Rev. John Mathi- son of the Union club, closed the meet ing with a few happy remarks. The meeting was the last of a series of three recently* arranged by the respective clubs.: They have served as fine get-to-gether occasions, enab ling the Kiwanians to know each other better; and to create an elbow fellow ship that promises to be of inestima ble value to the clubs in their work. COMMITTEE TO GATHER HERE South Carolina Committee of Southern Exposition To I>ay Flans For Next Year. A meeting of the South Carolina Committee of the Southern Exposi tion, has been called by its chairman, J. F. Jacobs, of this city, to be held here at the Clinton Hotel on the morn ing the IGth of July. A notice of the meeting has been forwarded the mem bers of the committee and it is ex pected that there will be a full attend ance^ 4— - At "the approaching meeting it is stated by the chairman, that plans will be laid to sell South Carolina on the matter of the Southern Exposition, and to organize South Carolina for the biggest and best exhibit of any South ern state. At the recent exposition, South Carolina was second .to Alaba ma in competition for the prize offer ed by the Manufacturers Record. This year the cqpnimittea is determined to capture* first place. The members of the committee, to gether with their places of residence, who are expected to attend the Clin ton meeting, follow: W. G, §irrine, president Southern Exposition, Greenville; L. Mell Glenn, executive secretary Southern Exposi- tion r Greenville; W. S. Glenn, Spar tanburg; Holmes B. Springs, Green ville; Ben Granger, Clinton; C. G. Guignard, Columbia; Ben M. Sawyer, Columbia; R. E. Hanna, Cheraw; R. S. McElwee, Charleston; Kenneth Baker, Grepnwood; Col. A. L. Gaston, Ches- ter; Senator R- M. Cooper, Wisacky.-. J J f pY NAMED UNION SERVICES BEGIN SUNDAY Will Rotate With Churches of the City During Months of July and August. Union Sunday evening services will be held during the months of July and August as has been the custom for a number of years. The services will rotate with the city churches in ac cordance with an itinerary adopted by the ministerial association. , The fifst service wilj be held Sun day evening m the North Broad Street Methodist church at which time * the Rev. Edward Long, pastor c f the First Baptist church, will preach. To all of the union services, the public is cordially invited. •* BANKS OF THE CITY TO * CI<OSE ON SATURDAY Presbyterian ChurclT ' Adds Secretary i R . \ •• • J ' ' * t * The banks of the city will observe; Saturday, July 4th, as a holiday and will close for the day, Miss Margaret Crouch of Charleston, ! has arrived in the city to accept a ’ position as secretary to Dr. D. J. ! Woods, pastor of the First Presby terian church. Miss Crouch is ex perienced in church Work and comes highly recommended from Charleston tion held two years ago in Milwaukee, reports*^ on it were made, these re ports showing, according to the hospi tal superintendent, that the Presby terian hospital in Chicago had used it on 1,000 patients with good effect, patients being kept under its TrifTh- ence from three minutes to three hours with no ill effects. The gas was discovered through in quiries of flower dealers in Chicago who reported to the .city authorities that their flowers, especially chrysan-, themums “went to sleep’’—or closed their petals. An investigation was launched and it was found that a gas from the street lamps caused the “going to sleep” of the flowers, the gas being known as. ethylene gas. Some of it w^a generated and ex periments were made with it on kit tens,. which it put to sleep .at once. Puppies were also experimented upon with the same results and then one of the men who was testing out the gas agreed to allow his co-experiment ers to administer it to him, w’ith the result that the patient went to sleep. Then ten men were given the gas and immediate anesthetic was secured. The properties of the new gas, Su perintendent Whiteside said, are many. Brooklyn Preacher Raps Scopes Tennessee Manufacturer Also Makes Cohunent. New York, June 29.—The forthcom ing evolution trial in" Dayton, Term., is regarded by John Edgerton, of Nashville, Tenh., president of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, as “a travesty of law, mockery of re^ ligion and a burlesque of science.” He gave his views in a statement here yesterday. i “Such a spectacle as the turning of an American court into an advertising arena for publicity seekers with warp ed mentalities and a parade ground for freaks, fanatics and fools ought to be impossible in the country which gave John Marshall to immortal fame,” he said. “The walking delegates of agnosti cism, atheism, communism and bolshe vism will be there. Everything will be represented except science and re ligion.” The Rev. Charles McCoy, pastor of the Green Avenue Baptist church of Brooklyn, in a sermon last night at tacked evolution as a “lie of hell.” “If Mr. Scopes wishes to act as an ambassador to the devil in teaching the doctrine of evolutioii,” Dr. Mc Coy continued, “let biro seek a posi tion in some, of our universities where atheism, pathemism and agnosticism are openly taught. Thank God that the people of Tennessee, have enough grit to fight this dogma" of animal- QUAKE ROCKED FOUR STATES Rocky 'Mountain Range Shaken, But Central Montana Receives Heaviest Buffets From Tremors. ism. T One of its advantages-,- with ether, is that it produces .almbst instant anesthetic. There is an ab $33,500.00 PAID IN DIVIDENDS Semi-Annual Dividends Declared By Clinton Banks, Warehouses and Cotton Mills. The banks, warehouses and cotton mills of Clinton, paid their usdal serqi-annual dividends yesterday. Divi dend checks, aggregating $33,500.00, went to the stockholders of-the re spective institutions. The six months sence of the “exciting stage” frequent' period just ended'has been a satisfac- with ether, the hospital superintendent said. Consciousness returns at once when the patient stops inhaling the gas. A complete relaxation is secured w’hile the patient is under it. There is no tendency, Superintendent White- side said, to develop pneumonia on the part pf the patient, ,-nor is there any nausea. The new gas, it was said, is extremely explosive and great care has” to be exercised in handling it in order - to prevent explosion. Ef forts are being made, Superintendent Whiteside said, to eliminate this unde sirable feature. Commercially, the gas is about as expensive as ether. “The Baptist hospital,” the superin tendent said, “is endeavoring to pro vide the best for its patients. _ We are not doing away with the use of ether at all. This new anaesthetic seems to have many valuable properties.” . ' tory one for the enterprises, with an optimistic future ahead. , The dividends declared by the re spective corporations were as follows: The Commercial Bank, 5 per cent semi-annual on a capital stock of $50,006,* or $2,500. ' ' • The Clinton Bonded Warehouse, 10 per cent annual on capital stock of $10,000, or $1,000. The First” National Bank, 4 per cent semi-annual o« capital stock of $100,- 000, or $4,000. The Clinfon Cotton Mill^, 4 per cent semi-annual on capital stock of $350,- 000, or $14,000. Lydia Cotton Mills, 3 per cent semi annual on capital stock of $400,000, pr $12,'000. • FLORIDA SCHOOL List of Teachers Announced For New School Building Erected On Florida Street. The faculty of the Florida Street School for ' the coming* session,**has been announced during the past week by the board of trustees covering grades inclusive one to seven. , The assignment of teachers follows. Miss Pearl West, principal. Misses Theo Liles and .Pearl West, seventh grades. \ Misses Mary Evans Brasington apd Sara Sheridan, sixth grades. Miss MSttie Lee Riddle, fifth grade. Miss Sarah Pitts, fourth grade. Miss Nancy Owens, third grade. Miss Katherine McSwain, second grade. v Mrs. Raymond J. Pitts, first grade. \ TO FLY FLAGS FOR JULY THE FOURTH All business houses possessing Dags, are asked to display them Saturday in celebration of July the Fourth. AH flags should be put up at 8 a. m. anjj' removed at 6 p. m. Camp Sky-Hy Girls Pass Through City • -- y « . •A number of automobiles passed through Clinton on last Monday bear ing Camp Sky-Hy pennants and load ed with girls for this beautifully lo cated camp on the French Broad, a short distance above Asheville, at Marshall, N. C. Camp Sky-Hy opens its season on July 1st and closes on August 31st. Groups of girls from many of the towns in South Carolina will be represented at Sky-Hy this summer, aqd it is being directed by Rev. and Mrs. T. E. Simpson, of Society Hill, S. C. Communion Service On Sunday Morning The Sacrament of the Lord’; 1 : Supper will be administered at the First Presbyterian church next Sunday morning at the usual worship hour. Ail members of the congregation are urged to be present, and. a cordial invitation is likewise extended all visitors to attend. and;\ake part in I the communion seiviee. GONE TO NEW YORK V / < X ,x / - ir* ■ -X / Dr. D. M. Douglas left yesterday for New Yqrk where h)e will spend two weeks oh a business trip in the interest of the Presbyterian College. Livingstone, Mont.^June 28.—A re currence of earth tremors which last night rocked two-thirds of Montana and sections of three adjoining West ern states, was reported at Three Forks, Mont., hear here at 10:45 o’clock today. It was stated that 41 distinct earth tremors occurred at Three Forks since last night. Livingstone, Mont., June 28.—Moth er earth regained her composure to day after badly shaking up last night four states in the northern half of the continental divide—the Rocky Moun tain range. The report of a new tremor at Three Forks, Mont., this Afternoon, however, caused new apprehension to the popu lation of this section of southern Mon tana. Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming fek tJie oscillations of the earth last night, but Central Contana received the heaviest buffets. Scores of cities and towms in Central Mon tana suffered severe tremors while their residents, many of them panic- stricken, hastily vacated business structures and homes. * Landslides on many • mountains blocked highways and railroads. No loss of life occurred according to mea ger reports. Damage to property, based on scant information, is estimated at approxi mately $500,000. Towns in the Galla tin Valley were the heaviest sufferers, damage estimated there running to $300,000. Three passenger trains, two of them sections of the Olympian, the fast Chicago-Seattle Flier of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail road, were hemmed in by avalanches near Lombard. A small cave-in oc curred in the Lombard tunnel on the Milwaukee lines last night, which temporarily blocked the passage of trains through it. A branch passenger 'train of the Milwaukee lihes was held up near Lo gan, Mont., because of 'a trestle, weakened by the tremors. Incomplete reports from the affect ed cities and towns in Montana told of but three persons suffering injur ies . in the upheaval. A housewife. Mrs. Ernie Gray, «t Three Forks, re ceived a broken hip, when the porch of her home collapsed during the tremor as she Was leaving the build ing. Two motorists, near Butte, re ceived injuries when their car was ckught in the “waves” of the earth shocks and carried over an embank- ment. Fear that Ihv earth upheaval might be continued with disastrous effect prompted the residents of Three Forks and Manhattan vacate their homqs and sleep in the streets. They also moved ttrefT household effects from the houses and. today prepared their Sunday repasts outdoors. Patrols of.police and volunteer citi zens were thrown about buildings in Three Forks to guard weakened structures, where danger of falling walls existed. Plans to raze with dynamite several of the shattered structures were under consideration, the authorities said. The school building at Three Forks was virtually destroyed. At Manhat tan, two schoof structures were so badly shattered that they may have to be razed. Three business struct ures also at Manhattan, including the town’s bank building are badly dam aged and have been abandoned. Jhe school house at Logan, Mont., also was destroyed. No fires, resulting from the trem ors, have occurred, so far as available reports Indicate. Many communities, however, have taken precaution against blazes, police authorities of Manhattan forbidding the lighting of any fires inside of the buildings. A fissure two and one-half inches wide at the center and fi'om five tw six feet deep, has blocked the high way between Three Forks and Helena, between two bridges over tributaries: to the Missouri river. BIG GALA DAY FOR GOLDVDIE Glorious Fourth To Be Celebrated Sat urday With .Picnic, Barbecue and 1 , Athletic Contents. The Glorious Fourth will be glorir ously celebrated in the thriving little village of Goldvtlle on next Saturday. A committee on. arrangements has been busy the past week whipping things into shape and the stage is now set for what promises to be a lively, red-letter day in the Joanna metrdpolis. * The program fcichkles a Sunday school picnic and barbecue, with free dinner Yoi*-all.~ There will be an excit- _ ing ball game staged in the afternoon between the Joanna and Lydia mill teams, and this is expected to draw a large crowd. A number of alhlelic events and contests have been arranged for the day’s menu with prizes offered by Clinton and Goldville concerns to the respective winners". The list of entries follo’ft: Shoe scramble—girls over 14—$1.00 box of Armand’s Powder, by Sadler- Owens Pharmacy. Running to first base on bunt—men - —baseball, by L. B. Dillard. Circling bases—men—fountain pen, by Chronicle Publishing Co. Long ball throw—men—bat oi 1 glove, by Jeans Book Store. t . . , Long ball throw—women—electric grill, by Cooper Furniture Co. v Jug bursting contest—men—watch chain, by J; B. Frontis,. jeweler. Jug bursting contest—women— rocking chair, by Fuller Simpson Fur- •. niture Co. N / Sack race—girls under *14—Ar mand’s Rouge, by Sadler-Owens Phar macy. Sack race—boys under 14—belt, by Mrs. Grace Trexler. 100-yard dash—boys, over 14—shirt, 1 by Blakely Bros. Milk drinking contest—»boys over 14 —necktie, by Copeland-Stone Co. Milk drinking contest—girls over 14 —box face powder, by Youngs Phar macy. / Cracker eating contest—married men—3 lb. can Old Mansion coffee, by Blakely’s Grocery. Cracker eating contest—married women—sack Ballard’s self-rising flour, by Milam’s Grocery. Pie eating contest- girls under 16—- Armand’s Rouge, fcy Sadler-Owens Pharmacy. , Pie eating contest—boys under 16— $1.00 pocket knife, b; Joanna Mercan tile Co. Lobster race—men— scarf pin, by J. B. Frontis, jeweler." Potato race—boys 14 *.o 18—pair of Emlicott shoes, ■by Adair’s Department Store. Potato rac?—girls 14 to 18—$1.00 j box of Ajinand’s Poiviiwy^by. Sadler- i Owens Pharmacy. Cent push—girls under 14—Ever- sharp pencil, by J. B. Frontis, jeweler. Cent push—girls over 14—box of stationery, by Youngs Pharmacy. Egg race—girls—prize given by B. L. King & Son. „ . Climbing greasy pole—boys—$1.00, by W. C. Dobbins. J. STORES TO CLOSE ON NEXT MONDAY July Sixth to Be Observed by Local . Businens Houses Instead of the Fourth. As announeed~ifr The Chronicle last week, practically all places of busi ness in Clinton will be riosed on next Monday, July 6th, instead of Satur day, July 4th, a petition to this ef fect having been circulated in. the city and freely ’signed by the mer chants, X - Throughout the city there will be a general cessatidq from business with "h holiday spirit in 'evidence. At the mills h«?re axub at Goldville there will celebratiqnV ball games, tc. ' Several barbecues will be given in this section also. Indications point to a very quiet celebration in the city. SANTA BARBARA HIT BY QUAKE Picturesque Little City In Southern California Suffers Disaster. Famotne Hotel Is Razed. Santa Barbara, Calif., June 29.—A series of earthquakes, described by survivors as rocking and swaying the business center of Santa Barbara as if it were on a turbelent ocean, early today left the principal structures of the Channel city a tuass of debris and ruins. The loss of life was not large, due to the tremor’s occurring at 6:44 o'clock in the morning and also to the fact that the mass of ruins fell in the second earthquake some fifteen min utes after the first tremor. Estimates of the loss vary from $3,000,000, « “conservative” figure by the city manager, to $30,000,000, a figure quoted by the city engineer. State street, the main thoroughfare f ir a ghastly avenue of ruin, portions of its most stately buildings being tumbled down and cornices, walls and fronts of practically all principal structures shattered down. The earthquakes continued through- ■OULiUhe day. They menaced the water supply by crashing out the dam of Sheffield reservoir, but a bypass has been established to a main reservoir back in the" hills and water provided ftfr the city. “I have been through 50 earth quakes, but never one like this be fore,” said Manager Richmond of the ' Arlington hotel. “It just took the hotel^that we considered strong as a forjtflsss and shook it back and forth as if^it were a rag. • “It was precisely as if one were at" sea in a storm. One would not believe it were possible for a building to mbvo with such force in so many directions and apparently so limply as did tha Arlington. The hotel is a total loss." ' K / i4?iL .tv ^