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.

m. wmm, !'.' I) ^ * If Ton Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don't Get The News f j JO ®te OlUntmi Qllirnnirlf L— THE CHRONICLE • Strirea To Be a Clean Newa- • • • $ paper. Complete, Neway, T • and Reliablo • • • • ♦ VOLUME XXX CLINTON, S. €., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14,1930 NUMBER 33 HERE MONDAY PEACH SEASON COMES TO CLOSE Aspirants for Office In l,.aurens County To Fire Opening Gun In Clinton. Itinerary Covers Entire Week. Confederate Veteran Passes In New berry. Father of (1. Fair Buford > of Hiis Community. Eifhty-Eiftht Cars of Elbertas .\re Shipped From Commercial Or chards of Laurens County. INCREASE IN [FORMER COLL^E^l930 OOO BAIfS ENROLLMENT Three Hundred Six Thousand Voters I)r. Robert .\dams Dies At Griffin, On H(M)ks This Year. Spaviun- , (la.. After Short Illnefhi. Well burg l.eads State. Known In l.aurens County. Newberry, Aug. 7.—M, M. Buford I died this morning at 2 o’clock at his j Laurens, Aug. 10.—With 8S cars! Columbia, Aug. 8.—One of the larg-j home on College street. The funeral shipped to northern markets, the com-; est enrollments of South Carolina vot- mercial peach season came to a sue-1 ers ever to interest themselves in the The county campaign as arranged services were held at the home Friday by the executive ^mmittee, will open I aftomoon at 3:30, conducted by his in Clinton next .Monday night at 8 o’clock, and the aspirants for office will doubtless be greeted with a large audience. When the opening gun of the cam- ' pastor, the Rev, R. ment followed at L. Holroyd, Inter- • Fairview church! burying ground at 4:30. Munson Monroe Buford was-' born Union county, February 13, 1840. in paign is fired .Monday night, all can-,He was the son of the late James C. didates seeking office in the cotinty I Buford and Carolina Hudgpeth Bu- will be present and will be heard ac-' ford. He had only a country school ed- cording t(j the order of speaking | ucation but did not let this handicap agreed among themselves. Thus far: him in making a success in life, finan- cessful close in Laurens county yes terday. The last car of the season, loaded from the McDaniel orchard near Laurens, went out yesterday af- ternoon and pickers and packers dis persed to their homes. The season this year, according to County Agent Cannon, has been fairly i Democratic primaries was announced hero to<lay by J. Wilson Gibbes, sec retary of the state Detnoi'ratic execu tive committee, who gave out the 1930 total as 3(W),864, an increase of 9,011 over 1928’s 297,8r>3. Spartanburg county registered more )ters than any other in the state, Dr. Robert .Adams, former Laurens pastor and president of the Presby terian college of this city, passed away last Saturday at his 'home in Griffin, Ga. tfuneral services were held Monday at Pendleton. Dr. Adams served as president of Presbyterian college for the three- year term, lOOf-lO, and made many! SEEN FOR STATE Black Estimates Crop of Cotton. All Indications Point To Elest Since 1926. Weather Has Been Favorable. * Columbia, Aug. 11.— .A cotton crop of 930,000 bales of .'iOO pounds gross weight is indicated for South Carolina by the August 1 condition of 74 pets cent of normal, which compares with ..Fv,. w, ■"“■^.08 per cent August 1 a year ago; 04 friends here who knew and held him ‘ f .... . .«. # M ' Pt**" t’^t in 1928 and a len-vear aver- in the highest esteem. The following ^ I little interest has been manifested in the approaching primary and the crop of candidates is not as large as usual, especially in the house race. The following will be the complete itinerary for next week: Clinton, 8 p. m., Monday, August -18. HiH,"i:l^t30 a. m., Tuesday, Adgust 19.* ' ' Goldville, 8:00 p. m., Tuesday, Aug ust 19. Center Point, 10:30 a, m., Wednes day, August 20. Lydia Cotton Mills, 8:00 p. m., Wed nesday, .August 20. Hickory Tavern, 10:30 a. m., Thurs day, August 21. Watts Mill, 8:00 p. m., Thursday, August 21. <> Gray Court-Owings, 10:30 a. m., Friday, August 22. Jones Store, «:00 p. m., Friday, August 22. Wallace Lodge, 10:00 a. m., Satur day, .August 23. Woodville, 8:30 p. m., Saturday, August 23. l.aurens, 11:00 a, m., Monday^ Aug ust 25. Laurens Mill, 8:00 p. m., Monday, August 25. The list of candidates follows: For Congress: J. J. MeSwain. Hou.se of Representatives: R. A. Babb, Frank FL McCravy, Phil D. Huff, F'. A. Gedeist and J .B. Parrott. Country Treasurer: Rex l.anford, B. Rutledge F'uller, D. Roy Simpson and Ross D. Young. Judge of Probate: T. Houston Babb, Otis P. Huff, C. A. Power, W. FL Washington. 'f. cially or otherwise. He was married to Miss Sara A. Bell of Laurens county, who died 20 years ago. He never remarried. Captain Buford had a fine war rec ord. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Fifth regiment. South Carolina cavalry, Hampton’s comtnand, and served thrwghcwit the~"war!^^ Hei^was one of the escorts ^f the officer bear ing the flag of truce between the ar mies at the surrender of (Jen. Joseph E. Johnston to Gen. W. T. Sherman near Greensborp, N. C., in April, 1865. During the reign of the Red Shirts he commanded one of the erack com panies of the Mollohon section of New berry county. He enjoyed the distinc tion of being the only niemiber of the Ku Klux Klan ever brought to trial from .Newberry county in the United States court. In 1896 he was elected sheriff of Newberry county and served efficient ly in this capacity for 16 years. He thoroughly identified himself with farmers and their interests, and engaged in farming himself from his return from the war to the time of his death. He interested himself during the latter years of his life in behalf of the Confederate veterans and their widows, his principal effort being di rected in securing ample pensions for them. Up to the time of his confinement several years ago he had never missed a Confederate reunion, either slate or united. F'or over 60 years he kept a diary of the principal events of his life and satisfactory to all the growers who j with 23,985. compared with 23,131 in j account of his death is taken‘from kept their orchards in good condition. 11928. Greenville was second with 22,- The total erop was a few cars ahead of what was expected several w^eks ago and the price was above that of last year. Although no figures on profits have been given out hy the growers, it is generally understood that all of them will have cash balai)- cet ,from the year’s proceeds after 434, a drop of 3,984 from two years ago. Richland was third with 17,281. Charleston was fourth! with 16,071, and Anderson fifth with 11,666. Richland county led in increased en rollment, with 3,984 more voters sign ing up than did two years ago. South Carolina’s Piedmont section, The Atlanta Journal of Sunday: sales reports have been made. It is es-j comprising counties in the northwest timated that the total gross receipts ern part of the state, registered of all the growers, after Aledwtionstmare than b thii^ of the total with for freight, will be m the neighbor hood of $75,000. Expenses chargeable, to investment, cultivation and gather ing, will, of course, have to be deduct- Griffin, Ga., Aug. 9.—Dr. Robert .Adams, 78, one of the most widely known and beloved figures in the Southern Presbyterian church, died F'riday night at the Griffin hospital after an illness of several days. Dr. Adams, who for the past six years had been pastor at large for the Southern states, haiPbeen supplying hefe the F'irst 'Presbyterian church for^ six months. Born in Flalonton, Ga., March 23, 1852, he was a representative of old 120,038. If the same percentHge of citizens who registered vote as did two years ago, tho candidates should split a total! and distinguished Southern families, ed from the gross amount before the ' of something over 200,000. In 1928, j He was the son of the late Jefferson profit is shoiwn. I 198,025 voters cast their ballots. Adams, lawyer and legislator, and The local peach industry this year j The following table shows the reg-1 Muss Meriwether, both of Flatonton. has been marked by the demand from istration this year and in 1928 by ; Me attended old Oglethorpe universi- counties: age condition, 1918-1928, of 62 per cent, according to F'rank 0. Black statistician. l.,ast year the state ginned 830,(8)0 50()-pound bales; 726,000 in 1928; 7"0,- 000 in 1927; 1,008,000 in 1926. and 889,000 in 1925. Cotton in cultivation in the state was estimated July 1 at 2,205,(MM) acres. Allowing the 10-year average abandonment of 2.7 per cent wjuld leave 2,145,000 acfes fyr harvest this fall and upon this acreiige a crop of 930ToOO bales would approximatf=F the automobile trade. All growers re port heavy sales of culls to truck ty and was graduat<‘d from the Uni- Soulh (’{irolina but from North Caro lina, Tennessee, Georgia and F'lorida. to return empty. Culls, it is point- I number this year, are left on the ■ trees. I S. J. Craig, of Ora, who has the most mature orchard, lead the local shippers this year with 38 cars. The McDaniel brothers shipped 13 cars, Rex Lanford and <’. W. Madden .ship- I Jack H: Davis and L. M. Superintendent pf Education:. C-TV! Ume, which was terminated only dur-J Brooks, Mrs. Arthur Copeland, Graves ing the last few weeks of his illness. L. Knight. | Surviving are the following chil- County Commissioner: W. H. Barks- dren: William T. Buford, (L F'air Bu- dale, Lee Add Blakely, W. M. Cream- ford, R. Hayne Buford, Pope L. Bu- er, A. Flomer Moore, Clarence Fi. Tol-1 ford, Mrs. W. W. Cromer and Mrs. W. lison. jO. Mill, all of Newberry and I.aurens Supervisor: J. Warren Crane, A.'counties. 1 to those shipped by train. INFESTATION OF WEEVIL GENERAL RhettnSTartTn, John D. W. Watts, Z. R. Traynham, George H. Bolt. Magistrate, Hunter at Clinton: John G. Pitts, W. Hampon Whitlock, Thos. S. Aughtry, J. ('. Wilson Hunter at Mountville: M. A. Can non, Walter F. Lync^t. Magistrate, Jacks Township: John M. Copeland, J. M. Hatton. The voters of Clinton and this sec tion are invited to attend the opening nneeting here next Monday night and it is hoped that the candidates will be greeted with a large audience. The i meeting will be held in a convenient location and will begin promptly at e^ght o’clock. Kiwanians Enjoy Picnic-Meeting Cotton Maturing Rapidly and F'urlher I Portoning Believed To Be UseleMs ! In Sojnc Sections. [ Clemson College, Aug. 12. — Boll ; weevil infestation now appears to be Thornley Sane, Scrutiny Shows Columbia, Aug. 11.—An examini- tion of W. L. Thornley, confessed slay er of Senator E, J. Dennis, of Moncks Comer, has disclosed there is “no evi dence of insanity.” - . In a report to Governor Richards today. Dr. C. Fred Williams, super intendent of the state hospital, said he appeared to be perfectly sane. The examination was made at the Kiwanians and their families, with a number of representative farmers and their wives as special guests, gathered last Thursday evening in the beautiful orphanage grove just to the rear of the Lesh infirmary for a boun tiful picnic and interested meeting that was enjoyed by a large attend ance. Thomwell Dunlap was chairman of the committee on arrangements and j he and his co-workers’ were congratu- j lated upon the occasion. President Gil bert Blakely of the local club, presid ed, and the long tables specially ar ranged were loaded down with a sumptuous picnic dinner. I Later in the evening seats were pro- i vided for the crowd and Cong. J. J. MeSwain of Greenville, representative iof this district, made a very ihterest- ^ed address touching agricultural con- jditions and gave reminiscences of his recent visit to Denmark to study farm I life and the successful methods fol- ' lowed by the Danish people. Threaten- parts of the state, according to'the current report from a survey by mem- jbers of the Pee Dee experiment station I staff. Cotton 'is maturing so rapidly in these areas and general migration is about ready to begin, so that fur ther applications of poison would probably not be profitable, says Pro fessor H. W. Barre under whose di- Yection this survey was made. In the central part of the state, however, there is still opportunity to increase the per acre yield by further applications of calcium arsenate dust j particularly on fields which have been j protected by poison earlier in the sea son .Al'bevillc 1930 1.337 1928 4,62.5 1 .Aiken 8.H8'.» 8,t)22 , .Allerulak* 1,878 1,939; .Ander.son 11.666 12,5001 Bamberg 2.612 2,995; Barnwell 3,318 3,200 1 Beaufort 1.617 1,500 Berkeley 3,2.53 2,340 Calhoun 1,573 1,880 Charleston 16,071 13,215 Cherokee 8,513 8,000 Chester 4,966 5,112 Chesterfield 6,912 6,900 Clarendon 3,100 3,700 Colleton 1,725 5,.555 Darlington 8,160 6,910 Dillon . .... 4,998 4,000 1 Dorchester 3,858 4,061 1 j F'/dfeefield 2,205 2,971 1 j Fairfield 2,i)66 3,000 I Florence 10,717 9,142 j Georgetown w 3,221 3,.580 1 Greenville, 22,131 26,418 Greenwood 5,985 7,225 1 Fiampton 3,125 3,1115 ' Horry 10,012 9,000 1 Jasper 1,229 1,309 1 Kershaw 5,.595 6,000 ! Lancaster 6,053 6,590 Laurens 9,1.52 8,000 ( l><*e 3,4.52 4,155 Lexington 7,444 8,349 McCormick 1,835 1,900 Marion 4,269 2,226! Marlboro 1 5,132 5,291 1 1 Newberry .. 8,102 7,600' 1 Oconee 5,464 7,813 ' ! Orangeburg 8,830 9,500 ! Pickens 8,879 6,500 Richland 17,281 12.580 Saluda 3,853 2,!100 i Spartanburg . 23,985 23,131 Sumter 3,849 4,382 Union 7J16H 5,300 Williamsburg 4,461 8,500 J York 9,144 8,431 J and immediately entereil the He first did evangelistic Dr. Adams was marrieil to Miss Flu- yield of 207 pounds lint per acre, ThiV compares with 179 pounds last year; 149 pounds in 1928; 148 in 192'^; Is’! in 1926, and a 10-year average, r.M9- 2128, of 175 pounds. “The weather during .July wa.-' gen erally favorable for cotton," .Mr. Black Reported, “and .August 1 the plants wi're vigorous and friiiting freely. Weevil infestatimi is rciiortcd le.ss than last year, luit weeviL ar«* present in practically thi* entire state and still constitute a seriou.s l.'.reat to the crop, especially if weathet con ditions during the remainder of the served as the first pastor of the Tat-j season are favorable for weevil ac- nal! Square Presbyterian church in tivity. Macon, and later for six years, as pas tor at Amerieus, Ga. FVom Americus he wont to Laurens, S. C., for twelve years. He was president of the Pres byterian College of South Carolina foi three years. He was formerly reading elerk of the general assembly of the .Southern Enoree and Piedmont presftjyteries in “Duuring July unusually hot. diy weather prevailed in most of the belt from Alabama west, amounting to se vere drought in many sections. Cur tailment of the crop from this cau.se was particularly severe in Arkan.sas and Louisiana, where the forecas:.> are approximately 23 per cent bclotv last year’s production. Mississippi. Ok lahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and .Mis souri are other states affected liy drought with prospests below last He is survivtHi by his wife, three year. Should the hot. dry weather con- daughters, Mrs. W. S. Holmes of lH‘X-jtinue in these states further deterior- ington, N. Mrs. W. L, I.jitham of ation in crop prospects will result. On Staunton, Va., and Miss Olio Adams of 1,1115 three sons, J. J Ad.artiA of Greenville, ,S. ('.; R. H. Adams of F'ort Pierce, F'la., and L. H. A<Iams of Char lotte, N. and four sisters, Mrs. W. FI. Rivers of Atlanta, and Mrs. R. A. Young. Mrs. John W. Adams and I .Miss .Nona Adams, all of FlatonUm. | the other hand, should rain, onie, more than average improveme t i.s likely to re.sult because of the ivia- tively small number id' weevils pies- ent. The forecast in 'IVxas is afijir t\i- mately 550,()()() liale- above the -hort efop of 1929. The .South Atiantic states have had ample rainfall and P. C. GRIDDERS TO REPORT SOON I prospwtive production is largei- than the crop produced last year. Be:‘ause boll weevils are relatively more nu merous in this section than elsewhere, frequent rains hereafter are more .38 Men To Be Ready for Prac tice September First. The first notes sounding the open ing of the new football .season at Presbyterian college were issued early in the week by Walter Johnson when he dictated letters to .38 football men. Totals 306,964^29 Award Scholarships For State Schools “In interpreting conditions as an in dication of |)robable yields, the Ti lard has made allowance for probable loss due to boll weevil on the basis of re ports received to date concerning wee vil presence and activity. The.se re- , . , , , , ports indicate that if usual weather ordering them U) be ready for prac-remainder of the K.43i:tice and at school September 1 Bi-1 ginning with workouts on this day itj^^an last year in every state and for 7.853 i'« 'he intention of (,«ach Johnson to | United States as a whole, and will do all possible to get the team in j about equal to the damage in 1924 shape for the opening game with Clemson, less than three weeks later. The letters sent by Coach Johnson and 1926. In those years reduction in yield per acre attributed to weevil damage was 8.1 per cent and 7.1 per were to those men that were out for respectively. During the last 10 The list of awards of scholarships (i^*^*** il**'*^ | years, in only one year, 1925, when to various state colleges, as announced j ^ * .u” #• *♦ ' ^ weevil damage was reported to have InfesUtion in the Piedmont, whHeJby the sUte (board of education lastr"/’^ ^ J ‘t'nt, has the damage almost too high to furnish the basis week, carried the names of several' I from this cause been le.«s than in the Jfor optimism, is yet much lower than Lai/rens county boys and girls. ;t*arne<l lexers in football which gives | jy24 ajid 1926, and less' than ^-^jiurcnR cuunLy Doyii ana Kiris. * • » • _ j ^ a :^i o ajiu wu* in Other parts of the State and poison- '^he four-year Citadel scholarship * ^ i indicated probable loss in VXiO. ing in thi. arc. should bo continuod i for this county was awarded to I). E. ' DLj .uj clouds and thunder brought his request of Governor Richard", w.yo had i .. , , . . u u j ^ w. . address to a close before he had con- . T - ; - — — —. —..-.o w , 1 reported less from Ala- until the period of general migration, j Mahaffey, graduate of the Uurens last year are expected ^ re-, j,ama we.st to. Oklahoma and pros- The week’s report again emphasized high school and son of Mr. and Mri.,'^ n* i pective damage in this area is much I the l^eficial results of careful and | A. L. Mahaffey, of Uurens. The CiU-j football t m a | below la.st year and is similar to intelligent poisoning. jei scholarship has the largest money value of any iKholarship offered by conversed with Thornley soon after he was arrested in Moncks Corner anti brought to the state penitentiary. .Thornley’s peculiar actions and statements that he was we^ii-minJed caused the governor to ask that he be placed under observation. At the same time the governor re ceived the report on Thornley today, he also received a report on Glenn D. McKnight, c' arged by Thornley with eluded, much to the regret of his au dience. Mr. MeSwain was happily pre sented to the gathering by Kiwanian John MeSween. State Crops Best • Since ’26, Believe the state, providing nt»t only tuition but a substantial support fund. F. C. ii924.» Work on the athletic field has put | it in top condition and a well sodded | grid will be in readiness for the boys | Fulton Called in their games. Work is now under' { Columbia, Aug. 12.—A ray of op timism piercing agricultural gloom in King Furnishes First Cotton Boll The first open cotton boll of the havnig hired him to shoot the senator; season to be brought to The Chronicle In this report, Dr, M. W. Cheatham of office came from the B. L. King farm Co4umbia, acting' physician for. the near here. The bolf was pulled Mon state penitentairy, declared McKnight day and a fine specimen, firm and was not very sick, gs had been re- white. Mr. King states that his crop ported. looks quite promising and that he . has suffered practically no damage GONE TO MARKET frmo boll weevil infestation. jthe state brought about by Mow tobac CO prices was the statement today of ; J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse ; commissioner, that South Carolina farmers this year have the best crops since 1926. The four-year scholarship at Clem-. f son college was awarded to Robert L. S^r, of this i-ity recent graduate, ^ of the Clinton high school, and the one-yaer scholarship to F’ugene Trayn-1 By N. C. Church ham of the FVinceton community. NCW IVIUlISlgCr At The four-year scholarship at the University of South Carolina was awarded to Grace Winebrenner of Mountville, with John Donnom With- I luaurioburg, N. C., Aug. 10.—At tne [close of the morning service today the congregation of the F'irst Presbyte rian church of Laurirvburg voted unan- RofifCrs’ Store imously to extend a call to the Rev, S. ;jH. Fulton of Honea P^ath, S, C., the Misa Ella Adair left Monday for New York to purchase fall goods for the well-known Ladies Shoppe of which she is owner. She stated before leaving that she will bring back the newest and most complete collection of ladies’ ready-to-wear, milinery, etc., she has ever offered her customers. TO HOLD REUNION The annual reunion of^Co. F, 14th He pointed out, however, that truck 1 erspoon, Jr., of Cross Hill, as alter farmers, with abundant produce, had j nate. ovirflowed markets with certain vege- j tables. He advised a system of cold i AN APPEAL storage houses to keep farmers from I , - • a f u o i selling their products at a loss. i There are distressing cases of desti- a groceryman of several years expti i- » graduate of the Pi-esbyterian col- tution in Clinton, people, white and ,ence and will be assisted in the man-^ aid of Columbia Theological sem- colored, that need food and medicine agement of the Rogers store by Mrs.^'iary and-treatment. Will you help or sim-j^ault. ; The church at l.aurinbiirg is one of* • T. B. Gault of .Spartanburg, has" ar-" « P^^^^or rived in the city and assumed the ' agement of Rogers well known gro- I*ulton. who is a young man, is eery store, !^.ilcceedi|ig W. R. O’Daniel » sn the late Dr. Darby Fulton, of Union, who had held this po.sRinn for Ynany years pastor of the Presby-■- for the jiast two weeks. Mr. Gault i^ terian church at Darlington, K. C. He regiment, will be held^at Langston church on Aug. 2t)Ui, and the public, as well as other veterans from other commands, are invited io attend. Geo. M. Hannah, Chairman. The official, who recently returned from a tour of the eastern and south ern sections of the state, said that cotton and tobacco crops were in splendid condition. He predicted the cotton crop of South Carolina wculd reach 1,000,000 bales. Miss Helen Adair has as her guest. Miss Ray Beaudrot of Greenwood. ply shut up your “bowels of compas sion,’’ to use a Scriptural expression? Contributions may be handed to Dr. R. E. Sadler. Please don’t read and straightway go and forget. This is a community obligation. Christ is look ing on. AT BAPTIST CHURCH j the oldest and stpungest in F'ayette- ’ ville presbytery, with a, membership ' of more than 500. Rev. Carl B. Craig The union service next Sunday even-, served this church as pastor for 12 ing will be held with the First Baptist churdi, and Rev. S. P. Bowles of this city, will ocedpy the pulpit. years, resigning in April to accelpt a call to the First Presbyterian church at Norfolk, Va. \ -1..^ J I ji Y t. 1..'. rib'