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ENGINEERS’ REPORT SAYS WATER SUPPLY INADEQUATE Investigation Shows Beard’s Fork Too Small for City’s Requirements and Recommends Exten sion of Present Lines. Other Matters Before Council HOMECOMING AT OLD CHURCH Baptists of Old Columbia Church Near Princeton, Hold Celebration With . Bi r Crowd Present. * V* City council held its regular month ly meeting Tuesday .evening with the mayor and all aldermen present. The city’s water shortage, a question of paramount importance just at this time, was again before council. In pursuance to a previous resolution adopted by council, calling for the em ployment of an engineer to fully in vestigate the present water status, a prelirrflnary report from J. E. Sirrine & company, engineers of Greenville, was heard. The report which came after a re cent investigation of the city’s water facilities by two engineers, stated that the present supply at Beard’s fork is entirely too small for the city’s re quirements and further recommended that the water lines be extended to 1 Duncan’s creek to relieve the present shortage. The report of the engineers follows: J. E. SIRRINE & COMPANY Engineers Greenville, S. C. July 27, 1927. Mr. W. M. McMillan, Mayor. Clinton, S. C. Dear Sir: We wish to submit the following re port and recommendations upon your water supply, of which we made a pre liminary examination this morning. The stream from which your supply is taken is entirely too small for your requirements. Temporary relief might be gained by constructing a storage reservoir in the meadow near the pres ent pumping plant. This would enable you to utilize surplus water that the stream might afford. The pump you now have could be fed from this reser voir, and a new low head pump would be required to pump from the stream to the reservoir. This arrangement would in no way be a final solution of your problem, and we would not recommend it if of supply. We understand that the nearest stream of sufficient size for your needs is Duncan creek, which we visit the city. To put the insurapce in force 76 per cent of the city employees must voluntarily sign up for it and Mr. Sumerel was given authority to pro ceed in his effort to secure the neces sary number. Dr. J. D. Austin appeared before council and asked for the privilege of putting a shingle roof on his residence on Centennial street, following consid erable damages it had sustained along with many other residences from the hail storm. Alderman Harris offered a motion, seconded by Alderman Dun can, giving Dr. Austin authority to shingle his house since similar author ity had been given scores of others all over the city. Council refused to grant the request on the ground that the house was in the fire zone, and tha^the previous ordinance had been rescinded, Alderman Blalock, Wilson and Holland voting in the majority to kill the motion. Geo. H. Ellis, local real estate agent, appeared before council with a prop osition to sell to the town for a city hall, the E. W., Ferguson garage building on West Main street at a cost* of $30,000. Mr. Ellis went into a thor ough discussion of the question and pointed out a number of reasons why the building is well adapted for city purposes and is an economical buy for the city. No action was taken on the matter by council, the position being taken that the water situation is now the issue of the most vital importance to the community and that some decis ion needs to be reached on this ques tion bfeore going into a consideration of the city hall question. The propo sition of Mr. Ellis was therefore re ceived as information to be acted up on later. A communication was read from the newly organized board of health ask ing for a hearty cooperation of the city in the work it is atempting to do funds are available for a new source and for th^ appointment of a police man to assume the duties formerly discharged by Chief-of-Police Mason, who has been incapacitated for sever al months. Policeman George R. Hol- —-Laurens, Aug. 1.—Old Columbia church, in the lower edge of Greenville county, near Princeton, Laurens coun ty, held a home-coming celebration Sunday, with a great gathering of peo ple of the section and from towns and communities far beyond its borders in attendance. A number of former pastors of the church and superinten dents of the Sunday school were pres ent and participated in the exercises which were presided over by the pas tor, the Rev. W. A. Baldwin, of Rabun Creek, Laurens county. According to the records, the Colum bia church was organized in 1814 and is therefore one of the oldest Baptist church organizations in the upper part of the state. Among the ministers of the denomination who served the old church as pastors back in the time frqpi 1865 to 1900 may be mentioned A. C. Stepp, J. K. Mendenhall, Mike McGee and others. Ministers now liv ing who were former members of this historic church and who were reared in that section, are the Rev. David M. Ramsay, D. D., president of Green ville Woman’s college; the Rev. W. B. McCuen, pastor of churches at Wil liamson and that section, and the Rev. Benjamin Davenport of Greenville and pastor of a group of churches in the Greenville association. The exercises Sunday, commemorat ing home-coming, were opened with devotional services by the Rev. W. B. McCuen of Williamston, a former su perintendent of the Columbia church Sunday school. Then followed talks, mostly of a reminiscent character, by Dr. J. O. Martin of Mount Olive, Lau rens county; Rev. Jodie A. Martin of Laurens, the Rev. S. E. Welchell of Honea Path, all former pastors, and John T. West of Belton, a former member of the church, and John H. Gaines of Honea Path, who served as superintendent of the Columbia Sun day school while a resident of the community, this being his native home. Dr. Ramsay and Judge Joseph A. McCullough, who is also a native of the section, were both on the program for speeches, but neither could attend. A sumptuous dinner was served-at one o’clock from a long table in the church yard. DUE WEST COLLEGE WORITIS PUSHED Coordination of Erskine and Woman’s Collett Receiving Attention At Hands of Committee. ed with you. This stream is amply ( land was designated to assume the du- large for your present and future ties, needs, and we recommend that you go there for your supply We are giving below a rough esti mate of cost on what we would con sider a proper plant for your needs. The report of the police department for the month showed 31 cases on the docket, $394.25 collected in fines, and 180 days given in gang sentences. The city treasurer’s report showed You will appreciate the fact that we,cash on hand July 1st, $8,042.15, re- have no data on which to compile an ceipts for July $4,236.41, disburse- estimate, and would not advise you to proceed with the project until you have secured reliable information on the subject. j" 22,000 ft. 10 in. pipe line at $2.50 $55,000.00 Dam and intake structure 2,500.00 Pump house 2,000.00 22,000 ft. transmission line at $ .50 12,000.00 Pump and equipment .... 2,000.00 Engineering and Miscel laneous expense 6,000.00 Total $79,000.00 ments $4,951.95, with an August 1st cash on hand and in banks of $7,326.61. LINEMAN HURT • BY LIVE WIRE Due West, July 330.—Coordination of Erskine college and the Woman’s College of Due West is receiving at tention at the hands of a committee appointed by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of the South to work out the details of the plan. Both institutions are controlled by the A. R. P. synod. Until the last meeting of the synod these colleges were operated as separate entities. Two meetings have been held by the committee in carrying out the mandate of the synod to work out a plan of co ordination. Details of the arrange ment are now in a formative state and another meeting of the committee is to be held in the near future to discuss more details. Erskine college is co-ed- ucational. Both institutions draw students from over the South, which consti- tues the bounds of the A. R. P. synod. The committee on coordination con sists of: J. H. Marion, Chester, chairman; the Revs. N. E. Smith, York; J. L. Oates, Columbia; G. C. Parkinson, Due West; J. W. Carson, Gastonia, N. C.; R. C. Grier, D. D., president of Erskine, and the Rev v R. L. Robinson, president of the Woman’s college, of Due West; Dr. J. R. Young, Anderson, and T. H. White, Chester. yoi SSd b saneS0UTH coming Dr. Fred Williams Reports On Con dition of Slayer of Woman Who Is Now Under Death Penalty. York, Juty 81.—McKinley Thomas son, 16-year-old Negro, under death sentence at the state penitentiary in Columbia, following his conviction INTO ITS OWN Vanderbilt Professor Says Indus trial Development Has Laid Big Responsibilities on South. Spartanburg, July 30.—To the sun ny South has come the problem with here of the murder of Mrs. Frances j which no country has up until the Thomasson of Filbert, has been pro-(present time grappled successfully, nounced sane and without evidence of mental deficiency by Dr. C. Fred Wil liams, superintendent of the state hos pital, who has had him under observa tion and study for some time with a and in the South there is good chance at success. So Dr. Gus Dyer, professor of eco nomics and sociology at Vanderbilt university held in addressing yester- view to determine whether he is men- ( day a limcheon gathering under the tally responsible for his acts and con- auspices of the Spartanburg chamber d uct - (of commerce at the Franklin hotel. Dr. A copy of Dr. Williams’ report to Judge M. M. Mann, of St. Matthews, who presided at the trial of Thomas- NEW INDUSTRY FOR LAURENS LAURENS YOUTH KILLED BY BUS G. R. Patterson of City Water-Light Force, Narrowly Escapes Electro cution Wh^lc Repairing Line. G. R. Patterson, city lineman, nar rowly escaped electrocution Sunday night about eight o’clock while at tempting to repair a high voltage line Tips estimate contemplates one new, on Calvert avenue. H% suffered burns \ pump, leaving the pump you now have j on severa i parts of his body but ?s a? an emergency unit. j rapidly recovering and was able' to The 10 in. pipe line now in use would ji eave j) r Hays hospital on Tuesday. have certain salvage value which j j n t i, e sem i_darkness, Mr. Patterson could be credited to this project. thought he was handling a secondary If there is any further service we Hne of 110 volts when it was 2200, and can render you in this- matter, please ^ w h en he attempted to make the repair do not hesitate to call on us. j w hile in a tree near the street curbing, Truly i he became fastened to the wire and J. E. SIRRINE & COMPANY, j was una bi e t 0 release himself. But . G. Perry, Jr. .. f or t ^ e near ness of several children After a general discussion of this! heard his cries for help, and the report, it was decided that two or | promptness of the request for the cur- three lines should be surveyed at once ren ^ ^ ^ t urne d 0 ff, the young hian tp Duncan s creek to ascertain the dis- wou jd most likely have been killed, tance, the most piausible aIM ? • Mr. Patterson came here recently the estimated cost. T. R. Hoi and of f r om Hendersonville to accept a posi- this city, was employed to make the ^j on w j^h the citv’s water and light preliminary survey. department. There was a divided opinion in coun- ; cil as to the plan of procedure to fol- ’ j g* r'l x » low if the water extension proposition L/ilDlOD BOy IjyCLS ( • is voted favorably upon by the city j Citadel Award freeholders in a bond election. Mayor 1 McMillan and a majority of council J , ~ .. » «» members, expressed the belief that the T - J - BW «<* “ f th, “ SOTI " f Mr Albert Leopard Fatally Hurt By Ve- * hide Greenville Bound. Driver Is Released On Bond. Laurens', Aug. 1.—Albert, five-year- old son of W. T. Leopard, Jackson street, Laurens mills village, was fa tally injured this afternoon when struck by bus No. 1 of the Eagle Bus corporation, Columbia to Greenville, due here at 4:55 o’clock. The accident occurred two and a half miles east of Laurens. The driver of* the bus, Guy Tumblin, of Laurens, placed the lad in the arms of one of his passengers and drove hurriedly to the local hospital, but the little fellow died just about the time, the hospital was reached. Tumblin ar ranged for the continuance of the bus to Greenville, and then placed himself _> in the custody of the sheriff. Later Tumblin was released on bond. Inquest was heUf Tuesday morning by Magistrate McCravy. It appears' that the youth and an older brother were following behind a wagon on the highway and that Al bert ran out and started across the road just as the bus was about to pass the wagon team. Emergency brakes were applied but not in time to save the child, who was struck by the bumpers and knocked forward. E. L. Moss and W. G. Wallace, of Greenville were passengers on the bus, Greenville, were passengers on the'bus and returned for the inquest. work could be done locally by the and Mrs. T. J. Blalock, has been , . /.iitTxxno awarded the Laurens county scholar- city l s-pre8ent force and added entzens u * j ship at the Citadel as the result of the at a saving to the city, and favored r T . ,.uch . plan. Aldermen Harris ^.d. «^t.U,e exam'aatwn JeM °n J “ly Duncan took the portion that if u,, ;?«>!• Sevend 8*1. Khool graduates of i, . . .x . . Jc 'the county took the examination and enlargement of the water plant is un-.^ ^ to ^ ^ ^ make the Clinton Scouts At Camp Halsey dertaken, after the preliminary sur- \ 7; * ^ ‘ ‘f 11 . j a * -n ' highest average and thereby win for veys are made, thatTl competent en- & au * . , • himself the four-year scholarship. T. pneer should ^ . h “? “L J. was a member of the Clinton high the project and that sch(K>l pmiuating class in May and his should be invited on the work, and a * ^ . . , , , ,. contract made with a thoroughly re- fn “ d8 are d «M>‘« d °* >»* liable and experienced concern. With the preliminary survey* soon ; completed, the whole question will ; success in securing the Citadel award. __ Dorsey Howze McFadden has re- therT go back before the people for turned from a month’s stay at Camp their endorsement or rejection in a Adger, near Pickens, where he made bond issue. ~ / (the highest number of points in camp & W. Sumerel appeared before activities *bat has been made there council to explain an employees (roup since the establishment of the camp insurance plan he is attempting to aell four years age. Sjxteen Boy Scouts of the Lydia mill community, under the charge of Scoutmaster F. G. McHugh and as sistant Scoutmaster J. D. Whiteside, both P. C. students, left early Monday morning in a motor truck for Charles ton where they are spending two weeks at Camp Alfred Halsey, the Charleston Boy Scout camp. The scouts were delayed upon reach ing Charleston due to a punctured tire Greenville Men Establish Ice Cream Plant In County Seat Town. To Begin Operation Immediately. Laurens, July 29.—A modern fee cream plant is to be established in Laurens and work has already begun to put things in readiness for opera tion which is expected to begin at an early date. Messrs. H. J. Ward and V. O. Garrison, business men of Green ville, will be the ow’ners and operators and both have had considerable expe rience in the operation of ice cream plants, the latter now being interested in a similar establishment at Hender sonville, N. C. A deal was dssed Wednesday >yith Chas. Fleming for the lease of the brick building on Laurel street near the station house, and Mr. W’ard had a force of hands at work there yester day,_ A part of the machinery already in the building will be used but a con siderable part of hte outfit will be new, making an up-to-date plant. . A new freezing room will be built inside the present building and a mo dern refrigerator installed, as well as other improvements made. It will probably take two weeks to make all the improvements, at which time op eration of the* plant is expected to be gin. If satisfactory arrangements can be made the milk used for the manufac ture of cream will be purchased from local people. In case this plan is worked out it is expected that it will add impetus to dairying in this section, which, has already gained some head way since the establishment of a creamery route in this county. son and whp issued the order that his mental condition be studied by Dr. Williams, was received here today by Thomas F. McDow, who was one of the three attorneys appointed by the court to defend the Negro. Asked after the receipt of Dr. Wil liams’ report whether there would be an appeal or any other step taken to delap the execution of Thomasson, who was sentencend to die August 12, Mr. McDow replied: “Certainly not.” Dr. Williams’ report is full and gives evi dence of the most careful examina tion and patient study of the case. Dr. Williams’ report covers eight pages and attests a careful study of the mental and physical condition of the Negro. The summarizing para graph is as follows: “The physical examination revealed only a few minor defects which, in my opinion, have no bearing upon the mental status. The mental examina tion, including the intelligence test, re vealed no positive evidence of insanity or mental deficiency.” Dyer is visiting various. Southern cit ies, speaking on the industrial develop ment of this section. He was intro duced by W. G. Jackson, vice-president of the chamber. By keeping socialism out and hav ing industries untrammeled the South might go a long way in meeting the problem. ’And the fact that Anglo- Saxons predominated was in the sec tion’s favor—Anglo-Saxons were con stantly getting into holes but they were always getting out. Not many people realized the full significance of the development in this sectipn of the country, Dr. Dyer said in the opening part of his address. It was one of those unexpected things. No one had expected the South to rise up so quickly. There was one generally prevalent but mistaken idea: the South was asleep prior to the Confederate war. Instead “the South has. been in the very forefront of progress since the very beginning. Since the earleist days Southern people have shown a most remarkable power of leadership.” In the early days of the republic this leadership had been in political The crime for which Thomasson fields; industrial leadership is of the weeks ago, when he was convieted of this adopted etntr of New License Tags Will Be Smaller Columbia, July 26.—Automobile li cense plates to be used in 1928 in South Carolina will be considerably smaller than the plates now in use, according to Nat Turner, director of the motor vehicle license division of the state highway department. The dimensions of the plates now in use are 5 15-16 inches by 15 5-16. The plates for 1928 will be five inches by 12 1-16 inches. The new plates will cast 5.99 cents each; the plates now in use cist 8.5 cents each. The first de livery of plates is to be made in Oc tober and will number 213,000. The plates next year will have a background of bright yellow with the numerals in black. Underneath the numerals will appear “South Carolina 1928.” The figure of the palmetto tree, which the present plate carries will not be on the plate for 1928 will forfeit his life was one of the most revolting in York county crimi nal annals. According to his own con fession he first attacked and then murdered by cutting her throat, Mrs. Frances Thomasson, 78, white. She was alone in her hemo near Filbert. Captured next day, he was hurried to the state penitentiary for safe keep ing, where he was kept until the term of general sessions court here a few murder. By order of the court, he was defended by T. F. McDow of York and W. B. Wilson and H. M. Dunlap of Rock Hill. CORONER OWINGS PASSES AWAY Clerk of Court Makes Two Sales The following legal sales were made by Clerk of Court £ ower Monday and spent Monday night at the Sumter' T « •. Guard armory. Earlier in the evening! * n t ^ ie case of W. J. Bailey, surviv- they were guests of the Pastime " 1 * Partner of the firm of M. S. Bai- Amusement.company at a motion pic-I^V & Son, Bankers vs Francis Garvin, ture show, and Tuesday morning they et al » one ,ot ln town c,int ® n « took a boat for their residence of the sold to F - p - McGowan, attorney, for next two weeks. The Scouts earned $300. the trip by passing certain tests pre-1 In the case of Mrs. Anna L. Martin pared by their instructors. C. M. Bai- vs Thos. L. Hilton, 42 acres of land on ley, head of the Lydia Cotton mills, the Princeton road, known as the Ken- gave the boys the free outing at Camp oedy place, known more recently as Halsey in recognition of their spies- the chicken farm, sold to A. C. Todd, Esteemed County Official and Popu lar Citizen Died Saturday at His Home Near Gray Court. Gray Court, Aug. 1.—The funeral services over the remains of Richard R. Owings, coroner of the county, who died at his home near this place Sat urday morning, were held from his late residence Sunday morning and in terment took place in Dials church cemetery immediately following, the services being attended by a large con course of relatives and friends from many sections of the county. The services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. J. E. Mahaffey, assisted by Rev. F. D. Jones of Clinton. The active pall bearers were six nephews, as follows: H. F. Owings, G, C. Gwinn, Wayne Stewart. James Kel- let, Wright Willis and R. W. Gilliland. The honorary pall bearers were W. S. Power, W. H. Barksdale, C. W. McCra vy, C. A. Power. J. D. W. Watts, L. L. Templeton and R. M. Bryson. Among the large number of . floral wreaths was a handsome one sent by officials of. the county. Mr. Owings was a popular and highly esteemed citizen of the county, having served several terms as coro ner and being elected in his last race by a handsome majority. He was a consistent member of the Dials Meth odist church, having been lay leader for many years. He had been in de clining health for several months. . Besides his widow, Mrs. Lidie Gwinn Owings. he leaves the follownig chil dren: Mrs. Pearce Thomason and Mrs. James Stoddard, and the following brothers and sisters: Frank Owings of Greenville; Mrs. Ella Stewart of Foun tain Inn, Mrs. L. W. Gilliland of Foun tain Inn. and Mrs. J. B. Cook of De troit, Mich. new era. John Fiske, a New England er, selecting the five men who domi nated the early history of the repub lic, named George Washington, Thom as Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton— four of the five were Southerners. ' At the outbreak of the Confederate war the South was getting ready fop. an indusrtial revolution, but the war changed all this, Dr. Dyer held. In had been dreams of factories 135 years ago. Settlers realized that transpor tation was essential to industry. South Carolitla had showed grit, courage and fonesight in realizing that transportation had to come before manufacturing and was some hundred years ago a pioneer in railroad build ing. Tennessee planned a system of trunk line railways and turnpikes to carry the products to the rails. But the war destroyed everything and the South seemed handicapped. It would not have been so bad, Dr. Dyer continued, had it not been for compe tition from the North and East. It was not thought that the South, against such competition would be able to get into the game but out of this had come marvelous development. North Caro lina, for example, was paying more Federal taxes than all the New Eng land states combined, r— There was no danger of specializa tion in cotton manufacturing alone, the speaker held. In Tennessee, /or instance, the rayon industry had grown up;- 4 ® kodak plant had been put at Kingsport; there was a men’s cloth ing factory; and the milk canning in dustry hid quickly sprung up. There was no doubt of the industries coming South; the danger was that the development might be too fast. Industry a few years ago went to the industrial centers because econom ic forces such as transportation facil ities and rates drove them there. But this has been revolutionized; and the i little towns were getting the indus tries. The high cost of living and oth er things developed in the large cen ters unfavorable to manufacturing. The labor of the South, fresh from B. R. T. Todd Goes To Savannah did work. attorney, for $8,000. B. R. T. Todd and family, left Sun day for Savannah, Ga., where they will make their future home. Mr. Todd has been connected with the Clinton Hatchery for the past two years and his friends here will regret to know that he has left the city. He will be engaged in the poultry business in Sa vannah. the mountains and the coves, was “un- -perhaps the / S. B. Hays, Jr., of Greer, is spend* ing several days in the city frith friends. f corrupted by education” best in the world. * The speaker made reference to the statement of Bishop Cannon and oth ers concerning the conditions of the southern industry, holding that these men, honest in their views, knew very little about modern industrial life. Factories in close proximity to the farms was one of the best things pos sible toward solving the farmers’ problems, Dr. Dyer held, giving outlet for products and a place for the farm ers’ children to obtain work and live at home. To the South there had come a big responsibility. “A strong man shrinks at big re sponsibilities,” Dr. Dyer declared; jfonly a fool grabs at responsibilities.” He referred to Grover Cleveland, who, when faced with the responsibil- 1 ity of being governor of New York, wrote to his brother, a Presbyterian minister, asking that he pray for him. "In pointing out how different coun tries had grappled unsuccessfully - (Continued On Page Six) 1 -• ' •. ' ,.,L t t MBi ’JUSa - v -^sati