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1. VOLUME XXV FINE OPENINQ ' AT COLLEGE New Seesion Opened Auspiciously Yesterday. Campus Presents Lively. Scene. i I A 4 r r i The 1925-26 session of the Presby terian College of South Carolina open ed yesterday morning with the largest enrollment in its history. The in coming trains Monday and Tuesday brought students from every section of the state. All available room in the dormitories has been taken and the campus once more presents a busy, lively appearance. Yesterday’s matriculation reached 285 and with other students to arrive in the next few days, it is expected, that the total will pass the 300 figure, thereby set ting a new high level mark. The Freshmen enrolled the opening day reached 120, the largest that has ever matriculated at the opening of a term. The new session was formally opened yesterday morning with spec ial services in the college chapel pre sided over by the president, Dr. D. M. Douglas. He spoke of his pleas ure in seeing the former students back and gave to the new men a most cordial welcome. The preliminary ex ercises completed, the day was given over to the work of grading and as signing students to quarters and classes, with regular class room work announced as the order for this morning. All members of the faculty have re turned from their vacations and special summer work, and were ready for work yesterday. The faculty ne- mains the same as last year with the addition of one new member, Prof. Marshall W. Brown of New Bern, Tenn., in the department of History, and he has been highly recommended to Dr. Douglas for the chair he has been assigned. During the summer the buildings and campus have been put in excel lent condition and every effort made tq provide for the comfort of the students. The dining room depart ment is again under the efficient management of Mrs. Myrtle Hunter, much to the delight of the entire stu dent body. With the opening of the new ses sion, attention naturally turns to the gridiron. Coach Johnson and his var sity contenders have been going through light practice work for the past ten days and with a collection of fine material now available, the •outlook is bright for a winning team. Upon the formal opening yesterday morning, Dr.-.D. M. Douglas, presi dent, extended the following words of welcome and encouragement to the student body: } It gives me pleasure to take this opportunity of expressing to all stu dents a most cordial welcome to the College. I hope you have had a pleas ant and profitable summer and are now ready for a year of honest work. Every student, both old and new, should seriously ask himself this ques tion: “Why am I entering College? CLUB HOLDS ITS MONTHLY MEET Few Matters Up For Consideration. Ladies Night To Be Held In ; November. C1UU ab- iea3d, resl- The September meeting of the Com mercial Club was held in the club rooms Tuesday evening. In the sence of President W. A. Moorh who was out of the city, Vice Pres! dent W. H. Simpson presided. A din ner that up to the high standard they always maintain, was served by the local D. A. R. chapter. , Following the reading of the min utes of the last meeting and the in troduction of several guests, the meet ing was thrown open for any discus sions or suggestions that members might wish to offer. A motion was adopted, offered by A. O’Daniel, calling for the appoint ment of a committee to get out a road folder map showing the high ways in this section in an effort to invite increased traffic through Clin ton. W. P. Jacobs offered a resolution, which was endorsed and adopted, call ing for the appointment of a com mittee from the club to wage a pub licity campaign in an effort to get and keep Clinton before the world as a desirable location for manufactur ing and industrial enterprises, and to provide for the raising of funds to carry out th# program. Several members of the club expressed their approval of the idea. It was called to the club’s atten tion that the student body of the Presbyterian College would be guests of the Bois-Terre Country Club Fri day afternoon. Cars were asked to convey the young men to the lake and a committee composed of Dr. R. E. Sadler, Dr. D. J. Woods and L. B. Dillard was named to have the mat ter in charge., All citizens who will volunteer their cars for the occasion, are asked to communicate with a mem ber of the committee. During the evening it was announc ed that the annual “Ladies Night” celebration will be held on the second Tuesday in November. CLINTON’S NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING OPENED TO THE PUBLIC TUESDAY MORNING. TAYLOR REVIVAL COMES TO CLOSE ROGERS STORE TO OPEN HERE Will of sentative upon a recent visit to Clin I* it because my friends are going to ton made a favorable report as to an t I *l college and it seems the proper thing to do? Is it to have a good time and enjoy the companionship of congenial friends ? Is it because I am interested in athletics and outside college activi ties?” If this is your motive, your college life is going to be a failure and a disappointment to both yourself and your parents. Your year with us will do you but little good and reflect no credit upon the College. However, if you are entering College with a ^ serious purpose to take advantage of 7 the wonderful opportunities the Col lege offers to train you for-a better and more useful life, you can look for ward with pleasure to the coming year. You will fihd the College epuipment, endowment, and faculty all at .your service to help you pre pare far something worth while in life. The enrollment this year will be approximately 300. There will be about 175 old students and 125 new ones. First I want to speak a word to old students. We have always had in our College a large number of excellent students, men of clean life, strong ability, and high moral character; but I have of ten wondered if they appreciate the responsibility resting upon them to set high ideals before the new stu dent? and start them off in the right way in their college life. The Fresh man class comes to the campus from all parts of the South. The men are entering upon a new experience. They begin to look around, familarize them selves with the buildings, acquaint themselves with the ideals and stan- dasds of the old students. The old students have never had a greater re sponsibility forced upon them than to see that the new men are placed in an (Continued on Page Two) Occupy Former Location Postoffice On Musgrove Street Rogers, the, well known chain gro cery store, will open here for busi ness within the next few days, oc cupying the building vacated Monday by the post office force. Dr. J. Lee Young bho&r of the building, states that a new front will be added at once and the room thoroughly worked over and put in excellent condition for the new concern * which expects to throw its doors open for business in Clinton for the first time by the first of the month. The Rogers chain of grocery stores operates in hundreds of towns throughout the South. Their repre- Three Weeks’ Campaign In Cross Hill By Dr. Taylor Results In Great Good. Cross Hill, Aug. 31.—The Taylor revival meetings came to a close Sun day night after a three weeks’ "vig orous campaign characterized by the finest spirit of cooperatiin and unani mity. The largest congregations of the entire series attended the final service. Dr. Taylor’s text was, “The harvest is past, the summer is ende^, and we are not saved.” Jer. 8:20. The strongest and most powerful ap peal of his whole 42 discourses here was made by the speaker to an atten tive and interested congregation of a thousand people. The service Sun day morning, which ur. Taylor desig nated as a “say so” service, was also unusually stirring and deeply spirit ual. A third service was held Sunday for the club house. CLINTON WOMEN FALL IN DEFEAT Laurens Sluggers Hit the Ball To Win In World Series That Draws Big Crowd. Rolling pins, hair brushes and ton gues are not the most wicked thing women wield. Judging from the way they slapped the old horse hide around the park Tuesday afternoon in Lau rens, when the women of Clinton and Laurens staged a ball game at the Laurens park, the suspender wearers have another deadly weapon to dodge —the baseball bat. The game, played under the auspi ces of the Bois-Terre Country Club, B. & L. MAKES FINE RECORD Citizens’ Matures Series In Seventy- Seven Months and Pays $64,400 To Stockholders. The annual stockholders meeting of the Citizens’ Building & Loan Asso ciation was held last Thursday after noon in the directors room of the First National Bank. The meeting was presided over by the president, Prof. A. V. Martin, and attended by a number of stockholders and proxy holders. The annual report of the secretary- treasbrer, B. H. Boyd, was read and approved by the stockholders and the was both entertaining and exciting.^specially appointed committee to ex- enfe thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd, amine the books of the association. About five hundred enthusiastic root ers gathered to cheer the players on, netting something like $150 to be used in furnishing additional equipment afternoon for men only at the cloge of which a men’s club was organized for special religious work. Consider ably more than 200 confessions were made during the series of meetings, 92 of whom made application for church membership. The expenses of the campaign, a little more than $400, were easily and quickly raised the first day of the meeting, and a free-will offering of 8734 was made Sunday to Dr. and Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Hickman, song leader. Much good has been “accom plished in that: many persons were lifted to a - better and purer life. opening here for one of their stores, and now that an acceptable location has become available, the formal opening has been announced, to be held as soon as the building can be! One # Day Seesion To Be Held With COUNTY TRUSTEES MEET SATURDAY put in condition for occupacy, • Scholarship Awards For Lauretis County Robert Anderson of Waterloo, won the four year scholarship from this county to the South Carolina Univer sity in the recent competitive exami nation, and E. Carl Thompson of Lau rens, was named as one of the five who receive appointments from the state at large. The two scholarships to> Clemson from this county_vt r ere awarded to John Nathaniel Davis of Ware Shoals* and Jesse Hogan Motes of Mountville. The vacant Winthrop scholarship has been awarded to Miss Willie Kate Baldwin, while the two scholarships held by Misses Ethel Owings and Rosa Beatrice Hellams have been extended for the ensuing year. County Jurors For United States Court The following Laurens county citi zens ^have been dgawn to serve as •petit jurors for the October term of Federal court which convenes in Greenville on October 6th and lasts for four weeks: R. A. Boyce, Cross Hill, Oct. 6th; L. F. Nabors and R. E. Templeton; Laurens, Oct.l2th; H. C. Fleming, Ora, and Allen Bobo, Gray Court, Oct. 19th; W. W. Harris, Clinr ton, D. E. Todd, Barksdale, and Char les Parks, Laurens, Oct. 26th. Several Well Known Speakers On Program. Miss Kate Wofford, county superin tendent of education, has announced that the third annual one day school for the district trustees of Laurens county will be held in Laurens next Saturday, September 12th, and all trustees are invited and urged to be present. The fine success of previous one- day sessions of the trustees of the county inspires the ^department of education to attempt even bigger things for the forthcoming meeting in the hope of stimulating greater interest in educational work through out the county. The following noted educators are on the program as speakers for the day: J. H. Hope, state superintendent of education; Dr. D. W.* Daniel, of Clemson College, and Power W. Be thea, of the state department of edu cation of Columbia. The features of the V«nie were the home runs by Nell Long, for Lau rens and Louise Pitts for .Clinton. The rolling pin tossers from Lau rens won by the close score of 25 to 13. The next game of the series will be played in Clinton at an early date. The line-up of big league stars par ticipating, follows: Laurens: Mrs. Douglas Gray, Mrs. Teague, Mrs. Frank Moore, Miss Neli Long, Miss’ Sarah Bishop, Miss Flora Bennett, Mrs. Tom Bennett, Miss Anna Sullivan, Miss Kate Wofford, Miss Ruth Riddle. ^ . Clinton: Miss Annie. Pitts, Miss Louise Pitts Miss Katherine Me- Swain, Miss Nancy Owens, Miss Mae Owens, Mtss Annie B. Adair, Miss Polly Elrod, Mrs. William Scaife, Mrs. Rex Phillips, Mrs. J. D. Jeans, Mrs. Walter Richbourg, Miss Christ ine Peake, Miss Nan Copeland. Training Class At Thornwell Miss Ada Holmes Davis left on Tuesday for Winthrop College, where she will be a student this year. • < Noted Missionary To Speak Sunday * Rev. J. G. Dale, for 27 j^ears a mis sionary from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian denomination to Tampi co, Mexico, will deliver two addresses in the local A. R. P. church next Sab bath, September 13th, at the morning and evening services. At the evening service he will show stereoptican views of the work of his denominatiqn in the Mexican mission field. Dr. Dale is an interesting speaker and friends in thV. city are invited' to come out and hear him. ' L— Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hippert spent last Sunday in Hendersonville. " A Student Matron’s Training Class is now in session at the Thornwell Orphanage for the purpose of giving institutional training to interested parties in orphanage work. The fol lowing ladies are now in attendance at the school: Miss Stephen of New Orleans, Miss McCoye of Florida, Miss White of North Carolina* and Mrs. Hicks of Jackson Miss. The report showed total assets of $204,645.14 with bills payable amount ing to only $11,500. Treasurer B. H. Boyd announced that Series “J” had matured with the August payment, and that the asso ciation on the 15th of ‘this month will paj^ $64,400 to its policyholders holding stock in this series, a period of 77 months having been required to mature the series. For this splen did record the officers were congratu lated and heartily commended. The shares of stock now owned in the association aggregate 3,822. Under the head of new business, the election of officers was entered into. The following were unanimous ly elected to direct the association’s affairs for the coming year: Presi dent, Prof. A. V. Martin; vice-presi dent, R. L. Bailey; secretary-treasur er, R7~H7~Bby(L Board of directors: R. L. Bailey, Prof. A. V. Martin, Dr. M. J. McFadden, W. A. Moorhead, E. G. Fuller, W. W. Harris, D. E. Trib ble, T. D. Copeland, and B. H. Boyd. The loan committee appointed by the directors is composed of D. E. Tribble, R. L. Bailey and T. D. Copeland. F. P. McGowan of Laurens, was re elected attorney. The Citizens’ has recently added an in$Cirance feature which is being tak en advantage of by a number of its stockholders, though it is entirely optional. Sparks Returns To Beaufort Store P. C. Rats Will “Run” Tonight “ or “Rat The annual “black night run” of the P. C. freshmen, will take place tonight. After all have had their' hands and faces blacked, the line of march will form in front of the Spencer hall and the procession will march up town and through the business section. This is an annual event at the college as the formal initiation of the “Rats.” Ku Klux Klan To Parade Laurens \ Announcement has been made that the Ku Klux Klan will stage a big parade in Laurens tonight beginning at 7:30 p. m, Klansmen will asssem- ble at the ball park where a naturali zation ceremony will be given “under the light of fiery cross*, and fdr this celebration, men, women and children are invited. v- n- Highway Commission Abolishes In vestigating Committee and Gov. Will Appoint New Body. Columbia, Sept 8.-—The special In vestigating committee, created by tho State Highway Commission at ita August meeting to conduct an investi gation of the state highway depart ment was abolished by the commission at its meeting here today. , By a vote of 9 to 4, the eommiaakm adopted a motion to rescind ita action in creating the committee and to call upon Governor Thos. G. McLeod to appoint an investigating committee to be composed of members having no connection with the highway commis sion. • ( ...— The investigating' committee, pro vided for in a resolution adopted by the commission at -its August meet ing, was composed of three members of that body, Commissioners C. E. Jones of Batesburg, R. S. Booth of Sumter and George W. Croft of Aiken. Mr. Jones was chairman. The motion to' abolish the existing committee was thad£ by Frank Man ning, after a brief, but spirited, talk by Chairman JL Gopdwin Rhett. The chairman made a- plea for harmony and unity of action by the cojmmis- sion. — Calling attention of “rumors of factions” and apparent public suspi cion concerning the highway com mission, Mr. Rhett' declared that tha public had gained an impression which should be corrected. “We can’t get anywhere as long as there exists the impression that there are dissenting factions in tha commission,” he said. “Let us stop this fussing, get together as a unit and go ahead and build roads.” Touching upon the activities of the investigating committee, Mr. Rhett declared that the investigation “seems not an investigation of the official acts of the highway department, but of the relations of commissioners to the department.”. He referred to the question that had arisen concerning the occupation by the highway department of a building owned by a concern in which a commissioner is a stockholder. “Let us not intimate that Something might be wrong, let us first investi gate and if We find anything wrong, let’s, know it and get the guilty ones out of here,” he declared. The four commissioners who voted against the motion to abolish the com mittee were Commissioners C. O. Al len, ,R. S. B0oth, C. E. Jones, and R. E. Ligon. All the commissioners were present with the exception of J. L. Wheeler. In statements to the commission to day, Commissioners A. B. Langley, C. O. Hearon and Kenneth Baker, named by Chief Commissioner Samuel Mc Gowan as commissioners with whom he had to “.bargain” in order to “get rid of” L. H. Thomas, former secre tary of the commission, set forth their positions in the matter. Mr. McGowan had later explained that the word “bargain” he used in committee on consolidation and effi ciency was “unfortunately chosen,” and there was no literal bargain. He declared today however, that although there was no actual bargaining, there was “unquestionably coercion.” ^Mr. Langley told of two letters he had written to the chief highway commissioner asking that he with draw his request for Thomas’ resigna tion. Although stating that he had heard rumors concerning Tbemaa, Mr. Langley said that knew Bathing against him at that time and believed that he (Thomas) had been judged unfairly. Mr. Langley also told of an inves tigation and audit by the state bluik examiner of the highway fepartasent last January when the rumors were Mrr J: C; Sparks, hea«"of“SparifS|beTng circulated. The audit, Ten Cent Store of this city, has moved his family back to Beaufort during the past week. Their Clinton store will continue to operate at the same location, Mr. Thomas Burgess of Beaufort, having arrived in the city to accept the management of the local store. The Sparks stores di-e operat ed in a number of towns in the state with Beaufort as headquarters. Mr. Sparks in leaving here, stated that he found it necessary to sffcnd his en- by the governor at the re<yuest of members of the commisskm, showed nothing irregular in Thomas' accounts ho said. Mr. Langley stated that in view of this fact, he believed that the removal of Thomas .would bf unjust. In a brief statement, Mr. McGowatt declared that he recognized the let ters received from Mr. Langley as a “declaration of war upon me.” “As to bargaining, there was noae,” said Mr. McGowan. “But I was coo- tire time at the head office. He andj-vineed, after all that had transpired, Mrs. Sparks made a number of that unless I provided for IVKsaa,'! friends while residing here, all of! would not be able to get a majority whom will learn with regret of their departure elsewhere. College Boys To Get Swim At Lake . i Through the courtesy of the Bois- Terre Country Club the student body ot the Presbyterian College has been invited to the lake Friday afternoon for a refreshing swim. Cars will be secured to carry the young men out to the club* leaving the campus .at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. / of votes of the commission for his dismissal as secretary.” The chief commissioner referred to the “creation of the position of chief of motor vehicle activities for Thomas after his resignation as secretary of the commission. ' : “As to actual bargaining, certainly not; as to coercion, certainly,” doctor ed Mr. McGowan. ■ Mr. Baker stated that he «ouM met understand why his name had brought into the matter. I can’t remember coercing hr (Continued on Page Four)