Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,1925 NUMBER 43 — f METHODISTS IN ANNUAL SESSION SCHOOLS DAMAGED BY WIND STORM Eleventh Meeting of Upper Confer ence Convenes In Abbeville To Transact Business. Abbeville, Oct. 27.--With a vote of unification and the election of dele gates to the quadrennial general con ference the outstanding events on its program, the 11th annual session of the. Upper South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, opened here tonight While the session does not formally begin until tomorrow morning at 9:80 o'clock, much preliminary business of various committees was disposed of to day. Tonight’s business was a meeting of the Historical society, at which Dr. Mark L. Carlisle of Central Methodist church, Spartanburg, presided. Fol lowing a prayer by Dr. R. S. Trues- dale of Rock Hill and a duet by J. S. Cothran and Marshall Leach of Abbe ville, Dr. W. I. Herbert of Bennetts- ville, delivered an address on “Wom an’s Work-in South Carolina Method- Dr. Herbert, a member of the ism 9f Three Buildings In Upper Part Of County Hit By Gale and Badly Demolished. South Carolina conference, was select ed, In accordance with the custom of inviting a member of the alternate rorit&ence, to deliver the address. I Dr. Herbert reviewed the organiza tion of the historical society which took place in Newberry in 1878 wit?h 39 names on the roll. Only one char ter member, Mrs. Fannie Boyd Riser of Walterboro, is now living. The speaker then traced the work yf the organization up to the present time. Sentiment among the delegates here points to a negative vote on the ques tion of unification, it is said by those who are in close contact with them. It is expected that the vote will be taken at the morning session Thurs- ,day, after which delegates to the gen eral conference will be elected. This conference is the first to be held here since the division of the upper and lower bodies, the last being 16 years ago, in 1909. Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, Va., is presiding over the sessions, this being the fourth time he has performed this office. The Rev. L. Mulliken of Abbeville, is acting as host to th^ conference . The society elected the following officers for the next four years: president, Dr. J. W. Kilgo; vice presi dent, the Rev. L. P. McGee; secretary- treasurer, F. C. Beach; curator, Dr. D. D. Wallace. The Rev. L. P. Mc Gee was chosen as orator for next year with the Rev. R. O. Lawton-as alternate. According to information received from Miss Kate Wofford, county sup erintendent of education, three school houses in the county were badly dama ged by the wind storm of Sunday morning. Riddle’s Old Field school house was injured beyond repair, the whole building being lifted from its foundation and smashed on its side by the wind. The Youngs building was likewise lifted from its foundation and was moved a distance of some fifteen feet. Miss Wofford states'that the Youngs building is a tribute to its builders; in spite of the terrific force of the wind and the distance moved from the brick foundation the building itself was not smashed,/although the two ; . porches v/ere completely torn away and demolished. The Princeton building also suffered from the wind; the building was twisted out of line, the windows smashed and the chim neys made unsafe. Miss Wofford visited the scenes of i the wrecks on Monday and with the cooperation of the trustees and teach ers made arrangements in the strick en communities for emergency school buildings, so that work could be re sumed as usual by Wednesday morn ing. Miss Wofford states that all the school buildings of the county are in sured with the Sinking Fund Commis sion and that the policy carries a wind clause, so that all the schools damaged are protected. Mr. M. J. Miller, secretary of the Sinking Fund Commission, visited the county on Tuesday and with Miss Wofford inspected the injured build ings. , \ A. R. P. Young People Hold District Meet YEAR’S COHON CROP IS NOW PUCED AT 15,226,000 BALES PRESIDENT TALKS OF CHILD CONTROL Increase of 467,000 Compared With Production Forecast Issued By Census Department On October First Washington, Oct. 26.—A probable cotton crop of 15,266,000 bales, as in crease of 467,000 bales compared with the production forecast October 1, was indicated in the crqp Yeport issued to day by the Department of Agriculture based on October 18-prospect. Although some cotton has been lost through storms and delayed picking, the department said in a statement, prospects have improved and growers in most states are finding more cot ton than they expected two weeks ago. Prospects show substantial improve ment in all the Gulf States, the state ment added, the greatest phange being in Texas, where they have improved to the extent of 176,000 bales, attri buted partially to betterment in the drought-stricken section. The crop in the western third of the state, how ever, was said to be unusually late and the final outturn there is still largely dependent on the date of the first killing 4frost. • Present indications were also said to be subject to material change in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi, according to the character of the re maining season. “The final outturn of the United States,” the department said, “may vary a few hundred thousand bales either way from the present figure.” Of the 46,448,000 acres of cotton standing on June 25, about 2,217,000 acres are estimated to have been the drought was broken in Texas. In that state abandonment is now esti mated at 9 jfer cent, or 1,641,000 acres. This is about three-fourths of the total cotton abandonment in the Ignited States this seasoiQf . The probable yield, f$om October 18 indications, is placed 4it 164.7 pounds of lint cotton per harvested acre, compared with 152 pounds on October 1 this year and 157.4 pounds the final yield last year. An abandonment of cotton acreage since June 25 of 4.8 per cent, leaving about 44,231,000 acres for harvest this year, is indicated by preliminary re ports. That -compares with an esti- mated abandonment from June 25 to the close of the season of 3.0 per cent in 1924 of 4.1 per cent in 1923 and a ten-year average of 3.3 per cent. The percentage of abandonment of acreage sjnce June 25 and the indi cated production, based on all avail able information on October 18, fol lows: Virginia, abandonment 1.0 per cent, production 48,000 bales; North Caro lina, 2.0 and 1,120,000; South Caro lina, 2.5 and 850,000; Georgia, 2.0 and 1,220,000; Missouri, 4.0 and 800,000; Florida, 1.0 and 40,000; Tennessee, 1.5 and 475,000; Alabama, 1.5 and 1,270,- 000; Mississippi, 1.0 and 1,820,000; Louisiana, 1.7 and 860,000; Texas, 9.0 .and 4,050,000; Oklahoma, 2.0 and 1,- 470,000; New* Mexico, 27.0 and 600,- 000Arizona, 3.0 and 90,000; Califor- Bids Parents Control Children From the Home, the Cornerstone of the Nation. abandoned. Although this abandon- nia, 3.0 and 90,000; all other states, ment amounts to 4.8 per cent of the acreage as originally estimated, Ahe department said, it was somewhat be- BLUE STOCKINGS FAR FROM BLUE Spartanburg, Oct. 25.—Attended by delegates from Laurens, Spartanburg, and Greenville counties, the Third dis trict conference of the Sofcith Carolina Young People’s Christian Union of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church was held at the A. R. P. church. Programs for both afternoon and night sessions were carried out suc cessfully and the theme of the confer ence was “Young People and the Pible,” with Miss Julia Patrick of Clinton, as leader. —— a » Johnson’s Men Work Hard For Comeback With Purple Hurricane Saturday At Greenville. The amazing amount of pep and drive exhibited by the Blue Stockings in their practice Monday afternoon was quite a contrast to the listless brand of ball that they exhibited when they met the Indians last Friday and were defeated, 22 p) 6. Not a man on the squad seemed blue or do'wn- v cast. Not one afternoon before this year has a"greater amount of enthus iasm filled the team. Every play was run off smoothly, every man where he was supposed to be, every thing * went thru without a hitch. All in all, it was one of the best signal practices seen on the local field this year. When the Blue Stockings meet Fur man Saturday it will be only the sec At the afternoon session the Rev. G. L. Kerr, Miss Pinckney King and Miss Margaret Byrd of Spartanburg; William Blakely, Miss Margaret Blakely, Miss Alice Todd, Miss Alva Wilson, Mrs. J. .M. Todd and Mrs. Bradley of Clinton; and Mrs. J. N. Boyce of Woodruff, took part. Those on the night program were the Rev. C. A. McAulay and Mrs. W. A. McAulay of Greenville; the Rev. R. W. Carson of Woodruff; the Rev. P. L. Grier of Ora; Misses^ Todd and Wil son, Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Bradley of Clinton. low the abandonment expected before ?.6 and 18,000. About 70,000 bales additional to California are being grown in Lower California, Mexico. ANNUAL MEETING COMES SATURDAY County Rural School Improvement Associations to Meet With Gray Court-Owings School. On next Saturday morning, begin ning at ten o’clock, the annual meeting of the Rural School Improvement as-j morning with Judge M sociations of the county will be held of Anderson, presiding. SECOND WEEK JURORS DRAWN Judge M. L. Bonham Presiding Over Two Weeks Term Opening ^ Last Monday. The fall term of court of common pleas convened in Laurens Monday L. Bonham The list of Florida Visitor Here Past Week Mr. Marcus C. Fagg, superinten dent of the Children’s Home Society for Florida with headquarters at Jacksonville, and one of the leading Child Welfare workers of the country, was the guest of the Thornwell Or phanage last Thursday. Mr. Fagg was one of the speakers at the Region al Conference of the Child Welfare ond battle between these two teams in League of America in Charleston last • i .*• t moo 4-u^ — more than five -years. In 1923, the Hurricane beat the Presbyterians, 20 to 0, the Saturday following P. C.’s win'over Carolina and also the Satur day following the death of Carey Brown, varsity end who had been In jured in practice. The Blue Stockings have never worked quite as hard this late in the season as they will do this week.. It was a biting pill to be catapaulted from the heights tojthe depths. Then, too, never has a Blue Stocking team faced a harder schedule than that yet to be played by the 1925 machine^ Fur man, Wofford, Oglethorpe and‘Caro lina coming next, with the Citadel furnishing the Turkey day opposition. The team is working and will work all week in order to be able to fool the state against Furman, and they may do it. The physical condition of the squad is fair. Griffith is back in uniform, and ^ery other man is in fairly good shape. As has already been stated the Diorale and spirit of the team have at no time this season been better than it is right now. Blue Stocking sup porters feel confident that their team will come through Saturday. week and came on invitation of Dr. Lynn to visit Thornwell and deliver on address to the workers, Mr. Fagg is a Presbyterian elder in Jackson- viile and had often expressed the de sire to visit Thornwell but this was his first opportunity. He seemed de lighted with the institution and said that as he moves about over the state he can tell the Presbyterian peo ple of the great institution located here.' Thornwell To Play Williamston Today CAMPBELL LODGE MEETS ON FRIDAY This afternoon, Captain Earl Dun lap leads his Thornwell team against the Williamston high school in the second game of the title elimination. Upon this game depends whether Wil liamston or Thornwell continues play ing football for 1925; for from now on, those who lose drop out. This rule of the committee was in evidence last Thursday, when after, some dis cussion and argument, Laurens was persuaded to call her season closed. Thornwell goes to win her fourth game, and keep her place in the race. The strength of the team is about NIGlfr. normal, the entire team, with the ex- j j ception of Tillotson, being ready and: with the Gray Court-Owings school. | jurors covering this week, appeared in Miss Wofford states that it is hoped | The Chronicle last Thursday. The that every school in the county will session will continue two weeks and be represented by at least three dele-' the following jurors by townships, gates, the principal, the president of i have been notified to serve the second th R. S. I. A. and one delegate. • The following program will be car ried out: Devotional exercises. President’s message, Mrs. Guy Smith. “The Proper School Lunch,” Miss Lillian Hoffman, state supervisor of i week, beginning November 2nd: Laurens: W. P. Hudgens, C. A. Senn, J. Arthur Taylor, R. A. Babb, Charles C. Johnson. Dials: A. J*. Taylor, L. C. Hipp, HntynT’Ahercrombie, W. R. Owings J W. Peden, J. L. Power.' Youngs: L. M. Pearson, T. G. Har- Home Economics. jiis, W. G. Anderson, J. A. Brittain “Women’s Responsibility to Com- 1 Scuffletown: J. W. Queen. munity Health,” Dr. J. F.-Haynes, di- Jacks: J. B. Gopeland rector State Board of Health. Hunter: George T. Speake,~TC. J. “Early Days of R. S. I. A. In the; Copeland, Jr., L. B. Dillard, J. B. State,” Mrs. Mary T. Nance Daniels, j Speake, E. B. Sloan, S. W. Sumerel. “Early Days of R. S. I. A. In the County,” Miss Wil Lou Gray. Lunch. Message from the State Organizer, Miss Mattie Thomas, State. Depart- B. ment of x Education. Report from the County Organizer, Miss Minnie Wallace. Reports from the Associations. The Gray Court-Owings association will serve lunch to the visitors. Mrs. Guy Smith of the Trinity Ridge school, is the president of the county associations. The executive committee is compos ed of Miss Kate V. Wofford, county superintendent of education; Miss Janie Hunter, Central community ;- Mr. M. A. Wilson, Hickory Tavern; Miss Zelle Crisp, Mountville; Miss Minnie Wallace, Gray Court. Cross Hill: E. A. Adams, ’E. Rasor, M. O. Boozer, H. K. _Boyce. Waterloo: Troy F. F. Moore, J. B. Henderson, Willie F. McDaniel, W. Y. McNeil. Sullivan: Horace L. League, W. I. Freeman, W. H. Monroe, E. E. Wat kins, H. O. Abercrombie. , Washington, Oct. 24.—American parents were called upon by President Coolidge today to take a firmer hand in controlling from the home the youth of the nation. Addressing the forty- second International Congress of the Youg Men’s Christian Association of the United States and Canada, the president declared the needs for par ental action throughout the home is paraiqount at this time, giving the reason too many indications that the functions of parenthood are breaking down. “The home is the cornerstone of the nation,” he said, “and any effective better homes movement must begin with the training of the youth for those responsibilities or we shall see the disposition to attempt in some way to turn over to the government the responsibilities for the rearing of children constantly increased.” The president praised the work of the Y. M. C. A. as an effort in line with increasing the home control of the youth. “Too many, people,” he said, “are neglecting the real well-being of their children, shifting the responsibility for their actions and turning over super vision of their discipline and conduct to juvenile courts. “It is stated on high authority that a very large proportion of the out casts and criminals come from the ranks of those who lost the advantage es of normal parental control in their youth. They are refugees from brok en homes who were denied the neces sary benefits of parental love and di rection.” Reviewing the founding and the work of the Y. M. C. A., the president asserted it recognizes that “wherever there are young men there isYT field” for its activities, adding that “prob ably no other lay force asserts so large an influence upon the young people.” “It ^increasingly true that the hope of the future lies in the youth-of the present^’ he said, “and serving this truth the associations through count less study articles and open forums” prepare the youth both for personal betterment and a wiser discharge of public obligations. ^ “One of the chief characteristics of Christianity is that it is a militant and crusading 1 faith,” the president con tinued. “Those who have become par takers of its inspirations and its con solations have been constantly speak ing its truths among their associates. If that faith is to maintain its vitality that work must go on. “It is not enough that there should be action io the public churches— there must be reaction in the pews. It will not be sufficient to have ex alted preaching by the clergy unless there is exalted living by the laity^ represent a practical effort to organize and agreement in every field the lay forces and to translate the truths of religion into the life, of the people.” SENATORS FLAY COHON REPORT Caraway and Harris Dsnonnce Figures As injurious To tke Farmers. Washington, Oct. 26.—The Depart ment of Agriculture estimate indicat ing a cotton yield this year of 16,- 226,000 bales, drew fire today from two senators from cotton producing states. Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkan sas, declpregUthat any me who is ac quainted with conditions in the belt this season realises that there are K not 15,226,000 bales or anything approach ing that figure of spinnabie cotton in the southern states this s uus year. Senator Harris, Democrat, Georgia, Change Is Made In “Ladies Night” Date Honor Roll of Goldville School The date of the Kiwanis “Ladies Night” has been changed from Nov ember 6 to a later date to avoid a con flict with the Y. M. C. A. banquet. The social evening will be held at the Hotel Clinton and will be attended by the lo cal Kiwanians, their wives and friends. i 5 Campbell Lodge No. 44, will hold | * n £Ood condition, their regular meeting Friday night, * October 30 at^SO o’clock. Work in, members 4- F. C.. degree and all d to be pi urged present. Miss Mary Steele spent the past are week-end with relatives and friends in iW*xhaw,N.C. '/ WHEN YOU HUNT RABBITS You do not wait for rabbits to walk up and peer into the muzzle of the guns. The rabbit is notoriously a shy, creature. To catch him it is necessary to seek him—to hunt him. Schoolboys in quest of cherries do not lie under the trees with thei* mouths open, waiting for the cherries to drop into them. When boys are cherry-hungry they go after what they want. ’ * When, enterprising merchants desire to increase their sales and to speed up turnover, they do not sit back and merely wish for what they Want. Not at all. They are ac tive-dynamic—they advertise. The silent merchant cannot reasonably expect that the public will rush en masse to his establishment and demand merchandise they do not know is there. ' If you wartt rabbits you must hunt them. If you want cherries you must pick them. If you want more business you must eeek it—you must advertise. T . Newspaper advertising is the cheapest and most effeetive in the world. The country’s successful merchants have found it out long ago. ^ ^ THE CHRONICLE / “The Paper Everybody Reads” First grade: Sam Dyson, Katherine Harrison, . Ellis Meadows, Dorothy Clark, Mildred* Cole. Second grade: Edna Hamm, Modune Finney* Lillian Meadow, Vernie Mae Painter, Virginia Baker, Ryan Poage. Third grade: Sadie Attaway, Sarah Clark, J. L. Abrams, Hayne Work man. _ ' . Fourth grade: Eugene Abrams. Fifth grade: Jeroldine Waits, Inez Darnell, Gladys Cole, Lula Mae Atta way, Ray Bragg. Sixth grade: Nettie Hamm, Doris Abrams, Nettie Hulon, Helen Jack- son. Seventh grade: Avanelle Templeton, Nellie Waits, Gu^r Jackson. expressed doubt that the final figure for the season would exceed 14,000,- 000 bales. Charging that the government seemed to lend itself to every move ment to depress the price of cotton. Senator Caraway declared “it is time to reform or abolish the Department of Agriculture which has leqt itself consciously or unconsciously^ to every gambling raid on the farms of the South and West. “I shall myself introduce a bill to meet ^his situation when congress meets a month hence,” he added, “and I shall demand immediate considera tion of it. The bill I will urge will make gambling in all farm products a crime with penalties to serve that none will have the temerity to violate it.” ' Senator Caraway charged that “to everyone it must be apparent that intentionally or otherwise, these cot ton reports have this year cost the cotton growers of America not less than a quarter of a billion dollars. “Whenever there is an apparent re covery of thf cotton market the bu reau of crop statistics of the Depart ment of Agriculture gives out an es timate many thousands of bales in excess of the wildest hopes of the bear element of the cotton gambling fraternity. “It is not worth while to look to the Department of Agriculture and the cotton exchanges of New York and New Orleans for relief from these raids of the speculators on the cotton growers. If the government and the bear interests were in actual alliance they could not cooperate more effect ively to destroy the values of the cot ton growing industry. , “It is sincerely to be hoped that the coming congress will end all laws legalizing gambling ;n # farm prod ucts.” Senator Harris declared in a state ment that he believed the crop re port ing, board has been influenced unduly in giving too much consideration to the ginning^figures issued by the cen sus bureau. He said that not 10 per cent of Georgia’s cotton crop remain ed to be ginned on the date fixed in the ginning 1 report, uddif, is ab- 'surd to think that over one-third of the cottoir crop yet remains to be ginned.” “The greatest drought in seventy years, covering an extensive area of the cotton belt, together with early planting, high fertilization and rapid cultivation on the part of the farmers which they have evidently done suc- | in an effprt to beat the boll weevil cessfully, has contributed to making this year’s cotton crop one of the earliest on record,” said Senator Har ris, “and I seriously doubt if the final figures will exceed 14,000,000 bales. It appears as if it is to become neces sary to have the crop reporting board composed of men residing in the cot ton belt, who are more intimately ac quainted with conditions, including all gathering and marketing the cotton Wind Storm Injures - Mrs. Emma Cathcart ' ' Last * features contributing <to cultivating, crop.” Clinton Boy To Be Heard on Radio Laurens, Oct. 25—Mrs. Emma Cath cart, who lives about four miles east ol Owings Station, was badly hurt when her house was blown down dur ing the wind storm that passed over sections of Dial and Young townships early this morning. The house was carried across the road by the twister end falling timbers injured Mrs. Cath cart. It is understood, however, that her condition is not serious. It is helieved this is the only casualty re ported from the storm swept district, though numerous outbuildings and other light structures were wrecked along the path of the wind and rain storm. Mr. Theodore Richbourg of Louis ville, Ky., will be heard on the. radio on Thursday night, November 5th, in a number of piano solos. He will be heard over WHAS somewhere in the regular evening program 8:30 until 10 p. m. Mr. Richbourg is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Richbourg of this city, and is at present connected with the Louisville Conservatory of Music. Mrs. A. B. Russell spent a few days with friends at the orphanage last week. After a visit with her daugh ter in Charlotte, she will go to Winter Haveri, Fla., where she has accepted a position. Special Services In November As previously announced, special evangelistic services will begin in the First Presbyterian church of this city on November 15th, and continue for ten days/ The Rev. J. W. Hjckman, D. D., pastor of the Second Presby terian church of Charleston, has been . secured to conduct the meeting and he is an unusually strong and convincing preacher to lead the campaign. To all of the sendees the public will be cor dially invited. / z jOirvmTMM afl