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VOLUME XXXII
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY,'MARCH 17, 1932
NUMBER 11
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FOUNDER’S DAY
IS OBSERVED
College Student Body ffears Dr.
Thorn well Jacobs In Impress
ive Memorial Service To His
DID YOU
KNOW?
Late Father, Dr. William Plu-
mer Jacobs.
Lindbergh Baby Still' Missing
I
THAT — George H. EHis is one of
the city’s most diligent and energetic |
citizens.
Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of ^yside
Oglethorpe university, and son of
Df. — William Plumer Jacobs, who
fflfunded' Thornwell orphanage and
Presbyterian^ college, addressed the
student body of his alma mater, to
gether with a group of interested
townspeople, on the occasion of Foun
der’s Day, the ninetieth anniversary
of his father’s birthday, on Tuesday
in the chapel of Presbyterian college.
The speaker was a member of the
class of 189 4-T-one of thf classes
which studied in the old college build
ing which is now Thornwell high
school.
‘‘What a pity it is that my father
imself cannot be here,” said Dr. Ja
cobs at the-trpening of his address.
“And yet,” he continued, “as I thought
about it several days'dgov it oceurri’d
to me that he could be* heiv, in a very
real sense.” The speaker went on to
explairi that instead of giving a sum
mary' of the life and worjc of the elder
Dr. Jacobs, he would simply read
from the diaries of the great man,
thus offering a year-hy-year account
of his thoughts and dreams and ambi
tions and achievements.
It was an inspiring and deeply mov
ing account which was thus present
ed. Beginning with the first entry in
his first diary, made on his sixteenth
birthday, March 15, ISoK, William Plu
mer Jacobs, then a freshman with ad
vanced standing in historic Charles
ton college, himself took the platform
and spoke, through the lips of his son.
It was as though the young lad of
ninety-eight pounds, just a few inches
over five feet in height, wei-e himself
speaking of the years that had passed,
and of the years, later to be so full of
accomplishment, to which he was then
Mr. Ellis w'as born in 1875 at “Sun- f
old Allendale, formerly Barr-'
well but now Allendale cojinty. His
parents w'ere Thos. Bafhard Ellis and
Susan Eleanor Rhodes. His father was
a Sea Island cotton planter of Beau
fort, whose mother refugeed into.
Harnwell county during the Civil war. j
He served as an officer in the Beau
fort artillery during the entire war.
He was also a “Red Shirt” officer in
Barnwell county during Reconstruc- j
tion days. ~ * j
When quite a small lad, Youn" El
lis left Allendale for Savannah," i
when cotton was selling at 4cendg,
per pound. Here he worked for several
years until the outbreak of the Spar
ish-American war when his voluntt*Pr
battalion, the “Savannah Volunteer
Guards,” in which he was an officer. 1
offered their services to the president.!
He served during the war and later |
was mai’ried to Miss Florence Roche ;
of Savannah. To this qnion there was
one child, Maude Eleanor, now Mrs.
M. A. Durant of Abbeville . ^
At fhe end of the Spanish war. Mr.
EHis joined the famous H. J. Heinz
company as salesman, the state of
Florida being his territory. Later in . _ «
seeking a central location for his r cUTlYl LeOSUTI
work, he located in Clinton in 1907.;
Tie erected the first house in the resi
dential section known as “The Woods” *
on Calvert avenue. Soon thereafter
he changed his position and became
affiliated with the Peters Shoe com
pany of St. Ijouis, Mo. He resign^
this place a few years later to accept
a position with Jacobs & company of
Time To Pay . ' HOUSE VOTES
' Taxes Eatendedj pjjy
Two Per Cent Penalty Until
April 1st. No Executions Un
til June 1st.
(’olumbia, March 10.—Shortly after
the senate sustained Governor I. C.
Blackwood in his veto of JJie joint
resolution to ejttenJ the time for pay-, ^
ment of propertT^xes, A. ,1. Beattie, |
comptroller Kencral, announced that . ''March J4_Represen-
with the approval of the g,>vemor he“'V''V^'’"'"?.'‘ -McM.llap was the
.jwas orderinir county treasurers ami I
auditors that no increase, over the 2
per cent penalty be added until April
1, when 5 per cent addition will be au
tomatically imposed, and further that
executions which would have been is
sued April 1 not be delivered before
June 1.
Whereas, under ~lht senate vote to
sustain the governor, a penalty of 5
j'wr cent would have been added to-
Refuses To Consider State Plan
In Prohibition Test. Party
Lines Split Upon Roll Call.
Both Sides Applaud Result of
Vote. Comment By Members.
vote “aye” as the hou.se roll was call
ed today on the questio'n of taking irp
legi.slation for returning control of
li(liior to the states.
.AIl_the other .'^outh (Carolina repre
sentatives, Dominif^, Fulmer, Gas-
que, Hare, MeSwuin and Stevenson,
vote<r“no.“
Washington, March 14j The house
d&y, the onlerjoy the comptrrdler gen-i today refused by a 227 to 187 vote^to
eral allows no further penalty until i’<>n.si<ler a state-controlle<l prohibition
.\pril 1. In ordering that no execu-, aniendment. (
' tions issutnl until June 1. Mr. Heat-; This decision was made before
i'ie said that the reason was that “no crowded galleries injhe first ballot
'increased costs be added to payments . directed at the iHth* h-niendment since
' made before June 1. 19;12.” j the Volstead ant wa.s passed in July,
i Prior to today, the penalty for de-';T919, with 190 negative votes.
' lin«iuent taxpayers was 2 |H'r cent. By; Ninety-seven Republicans and 90
This picture of Charles A. Lindhetgh, Jr., the 20-month-okl son of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, famous trans-Atlantic - flier, and his wife. Anne,
daughter of the late Senator Morrow, who was stolen out of the window
of Uie Lin^rgb home at Hopewell, N. J., on the night of March 1, was
made only a few weeks ago. ■ - ^
'Faculty Gets
Blanks Ready New Member
the comptroller Jft'Yieral’s action, it re
mains at 2 per cent, until April 1. The
5 per cent penalty should have been
pu* into effect March 1, and execu-
' lions issuer! March 15, but the comp
troller general, waiting on senate ac-
‘ tion, suspended the additional penalty
I for 10 days.
Mr. Beattie’s statement follows l
“Under authority bf section 3155,
; volume 2, code of laws, 1932,, it is or
dered that no increase in the penalty
Local Uemmittee Dislributinp:’Stephen M. Huntley To Teach , of 2 per cent Ik* added for the year
Applications To Aid Farmers Romsince Lani^ua^es At I’res-
In Financing: 1932 Crops. byterian Uollej^es Next Year.
Farmers in this section desiring | .Announcement was made this week
this city, as sales mianager. In 1018| make application for gov-j by the college administration that
he established the Ellis Motor com-j loans on their 1932 crops, • Stephen McQueen Huntley has been
pany and continued th’* ♦'u^’n^ss un-l^^^y secure same by applying to W'.
til it was destroyed by fire in the fall, \v. Harris, C. W. Stone or C. R. Work-
1932 until the first day of April, 1932,
when the penalty as provided by law
shall be added.
“It is further ordered that execu
tions to be issued after April 1, shall
not be delivered to the sheriffs and
tax collectors before the first day of
added to the faculty in the capacity of 1932, to the end that no increas-
looking; it was as if .seventy-four of 1924.
years had fallen away from the minds j In 1912 Mr. Ellis married
of the listieners—as if 1858 were again [ \ette Dillard of this city, only daugh-
living in 1932. _ ter of the late and beloved Mr. and
_Year by year, from birthday to j Mrs. J. Drayton Dillard. They haue
birthday* the young man grew and i one son, Dillard Baynard, 15, a papu-
developed before-tha audience. Reap
peared now as a lad of eighteen, just
becoming interested in photography
and beginning to contribute to his
church paper; now as a lad of twenty-
one, choosing for his life’s motto,
“.Seekest thou<|>reat things for thy-
ed costs be added to payments made
before June 1, 1932.”
self? .Seek them not”; now as he,pre
pared for ordination, now as he ac
cepted the call extended by the coun
try churches at Clinton, Shady Grove,
and Duncan’s Creek. There were days
of hope and days of temporary dis
couragement, but through them all
ran the constant strain of an undying
faith in God and-an undeviarting de
votion to the advancement of His
* f w u r a r J Mr. Ellis
A pastor of a church, founder of a!
lar nTHl promMng student in the 10th
grade of Clinton high school. Two
years ago Dillard was awarded a gold
medal for attaning the highest scho
lastic average in the entire city school
system. '
In 1928 Mr. Ellis joined the .Ioanna-to local farmers. The applications
Cotton mills at Goldville as’ resident: thus far filed with the c-nmlttee^
engineer. In this position he has made have Iwn for small loans, averaging
an enviable reputation for himself and •PProx'mately ^00.
has served the company faithfully’and < The committee urges all fan v*rs
untiringly as a pArt and parcel of that; w'ho can qualify.for aid and .vho de-
commmunity. As a landscape garden-‘ »ire loans, to make their applications
rtr, he has shown ability and fine' *1 once and to exercise every precau-
Men To Meet
Friday Night
University in 1917, Mr. Huntley sailed
for France where he served hi.s coun
try during the World war. In 1919 he
studied for a time at the University
Monthly Meeting:.
Democrat'', (Irawn .cliiefly fi-om the
large industrial states and cities, join
ed in the unsuccessful effort to bring
up the home-rule amendment spon.sor-
ed by organized groups in both par
ties. Four of the six women mePnbers
were in this group.
Their defeat was accomplished by a
combination of 11.5 Democrats. 112
Republicans and Repres4*ntative Kvale
of .Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Lalxw-
ite.
Speaker Gamer, a Democratic pres
idential possibility, presided over the
session which attracted more mem
bers and greater crowds than any
since he took the chair. However, he
did not vary the customary practice
of voting only when there is a tie. H^i
he deiired. Garner could have directed
the clerk to call his name.
Representative Rainey, the Demo
cratic leader, and a prohibitionist, vnt-.
ed for the discharge petition. Repre
sentative Snell, the Republican leader,
voted against it.
When the results of the vote were
announced' by Garner, anti-prohibi
tionists in both parties aro.se and ao-
plaucled.
Representative Lintchicum of .Mary
land, leader of the Democratic wet
bloc, hailed the vote as “a trend of
the times toward a sane .system;”
“The fight is all but won’” Linthi-
—gnjirirdT“heT|^rs and associates, t^
humble man could yet say on his fif
tieth birthday, “And yet I have no tal
ent; I have only faithfulnes.s and com
professor of romance languages. Mr.
man, meiiibers of the Clinton commit-^ Huntley will as.sume his new duties
Miss tee. Already quite a number of appli-1 next, September. He is now studying
cations have been distributed and oth- at the University of Toulouse, France,
er farmers desiring blanks may secure! where he will receive his doctor’s’*de-
same as long as the supply on hand'gree in June. ^
lasta. I ME Huntley is native of this
The local chairman stated yester-1 state, Conway being his home; and he_
day that no definite allotment ‘»>f I received his A. B. and M. A. degrees! Men-oMhe-Church
funds has been made to Laurens eoun- University of-South Caro-' p„v C T ^ouirM At
ty and conseqiwntly the committeo.^ I Upon hi.s graduation from the
designated to aid in this work do lot ■
know just how much will be available
Th? regular monthly meeting of the
men of the First Presbyterian church j cum said in an interview. “.All we need
will he held Friijay^evening at 7:30 in is one more election.”
oT'Portiers.-jrhen Ti^-c^turned to the the Sunday school department of the| Representative Heck of Pennsy:-
United Ntate.s and recerved his mas-1 rhurch. Supper will be served by the vania, leader of the Republican wet-*,
ter’s degree from the University of-'ladies preceding the holding of thet.said in a statement:
South Carolina in 1920. - busine.ss session.
. XU 1 4 ! For a time Mr*. Huntley was engag-, program will'lfein charge of
iudemenl .nd ha, conv.rt«l.th. yil-|ti«n >n f.ll.n,outth«bl.nk. and tlm.' R. K. l.«rjru.on one of(th6 orKan'7^.
lovely scene of beautiful »void delays. The loan is seemed by aj 1 r«rnlinM Th«.n i leaders. The speaker of thei meets next December in short sessioar
lirsdu^op mortgage payable on Louisiana and South Carolina. 1 hen j ^ ^ Squires,^ we^,.again-.«^^ «f
abioad in of the Fourtlr Presbyterian j lepeal, if not in its present form, then
travel ai>d study*Tfr 1030 he recited Greenville, who has many 1 as a straight repeal of the ISth
his “certificat et license” from the | friends and acquaintances in the city' amendment.
University-wf Toulou.se; and in June'who will hear him with interest. | “It is significant that « majority of
sent tq^ each borrower before: of this year he will he awardexl his, The eleetion of officer.s for the c )tn-1 the affirmative voU-s were members
lage .into «
j lawns, flowers and shrubberyc
“No one can he blind to the fact
that the result was a moral victory
for the wet cause. Wben congre.'is
u- vember 30, 1032, with interest at the
has lived an active and * n *
. .. . rate (rf lSS per cent from the date of
this community a nee her I™ ^ ^ , su.**
fpintual fath« of *-Krowltiit *"
ln,plTli^7n*!>Aof_an_£VEt-in^*^(,on,mai,-e and an of flier in that or '
mon sense. " Talent or “no talent, the
irman,
, ... u.'ix.,n! fke maturity date of the note,
iranization for several years, when! ^ ^
fu D • 'T r- V, ‘«i..k ear ' CommiUees of the various commu
the Bois Terre Country club was or-j . . j
ganized several years ago he was one ”!.’** *” ^ aid follow-
of it, fir« pre,idenu and hi. ’’'St'rn. w M' Harria ch.Tr',
iatration wa, unusually sueci-ssful and J , o,' . p .,4,, Wnekman
satiafactory. He ha. been a foHhfu| T- *
member of the First Baptist church, „ „
k' k k tk • '-* t i of this city for a number of years, and! ehairmab”
men x town .which bears the ^ identified himself with the „ r n
of his name and character, and three' ; xu- Lanford, C. O. Teague.
. . . u u ' J best interests oi this communuy. , , . , id.. r\..ck;,ii. ..u,.;..
institutions, church, nrpnanage, and, . , , I^anford; J. Roy I>eShieldB, chair-
college, which are of hi.s molding. i Fills is a man of unlimited en- ^ Waldrep, J. R. Patterson,
Very, fittingly, the other contrib-is a hard worker-a go-get-
utors to the pibgram* were president* who goes about his daily work m Youngs: J. Gray Harris, chairman,
of the coMfge, the president of the i the genuine spirit of loyal service to j n j^b^rcrombie, W\ B. Wilkie.
the corporation with which he is con-
doctoi’.s degree from the same univer- ing year will he held and it is urged of the Republican party. Over ninety.
man who died in 1917 succeeded in do
ing what a great many men of genius
have failed to do—he left as a monu-
by the committees in charge that the
' entire membership of the Men-of-the-
laigely repre.senting th<* gieat indu-*-
trial states, so voted, and that fik’l
cannot he without signiiicance to the
delegates to the next Kepuhlican ra
tional convention.
“T(«lay’s vote makes, it plain that
Republican party ad<»lH"s a'^iry
j platform in Jutu* it will court di.s^is' ‘r
orphanage, and the pastor of the
church. Dr. John MejSween introduced
the speaker, Dr. L. Ross Lynn led in
.prayer, and Dr. D. J. Woods^ read the
.Scriptures. The college is jrmw in its, , u*,
fifty-second year. Raving grown from' benefit,
the humble start given it by Dr. Ja-f
cobs until now it owns forty.acres of
property and, over a dozen building.**.
This year its student body is the larg4|
est in its entire history, over three*
hundred students having regisWred.
. . . . Gross Hill: E. A. Adams, chainnanr! . , ,, n
nected. Always interested in b** r, \v Griffith, Horace .McSw’ain. agency in Richmond, \a. lie wa.^
adopted city, Mr. Ellis ha^iven lib- j Gray Court: Walter
to tur*l . I?
erally of his-time and taleht to fur-i section, chairman, R. G
thering tljose things redounding to!^y^ | j| wilH*.
r'lTnfnn’a Kon^tCit ' n , *> a i. . l _:
Princeton: M. L. Cheek, chairman,
ijohn W. Traynham, George L.. Ridge-
' way.
Mountville: Herbert Burns, chair-
A ^- Hiller, J. H. Motes.
/\oK VeOtUn 1 ©rm* ware Shoals: H. O, Abercrombie,
chairman, W. A. Simpkon, S. C. Cook.
Blackwell Will
sity,
.Mr. Huntley’s several years experi
ence in educational lines well quali-
fies him for the position he will holdj p • a i ew ■
at Presbyterian.college. He .«'crved a.s: rFUlt AlTQ 1 niCK
assiiiiint prineipal and profe.^o^ of j
mathematics and-screnTe~at Mt. Her-
I
man .Agricultural high school. He was
prineipal x)f the Burrough.** IS. ('.»! Columbia, March 10. Making a he-j
high school from 1921-23 in addition lated thrust, King Winter still held,
to teaching Fiench, English and his- hi.s^ icy hand over South ^’arolHia t >- |
tory at that school At one time he <*«>'• dragging the thermt^eter dow*n; siderable gain since last year- TFey-
wa. manag., of the Southen. Tea,h- '**•'".* 2II-<I<-Kree marl, in »evera'|inay get some eneouragement fro",
, , ,, sections and ^-au-iing heavy damage to today s vote hut it i.s a long-way fronv
fiuit and truck crops, ^ the two-thirds neces.'iaiy.”
Praetk-ally all the early tru»*k , rons| , Anotjhe'r piohihitioTiist, Represen':a-
at the polls,” Kepiesentutive Coupe.-,
Ohio Republican and pruh’hitioni'>:,
saiil.
“The. wets .seem to have made cu.i-
Compromise In
Slander Suit
t Laurens, March 15.—Solicitor H. S.
^Blackwell has stated that he expecU
' to request an order for the holding of
a special' term of criminal court for
Ixaurens county, probably during the
i month of April or May. The extra ses-
Group Works Oii
S. C. Supply Bill
also principal of the Patrick gK>tk*d
school during the 1920-21 tenq. jjj (.’harleston area were r-.'po'ied live- Hlantoa, Democrat.^Texas, .said-
With the addition of Mr, Huntley to <b.,^troyed when the first free'/.i";; the vote will awaken America. Trs-
the foreign language department, it weather of the se:a.Hon in fRut sectio i|drys have been silent and unorgan'?.-
hfcomes possible for those students was experienced.' jCd for ten yeur.s while the w«*ts ha *
who So desire to major in either Span- Fear was expres.'ed at (ii< (*nville been vigilant and alert, capturing i >--
ish or Frenchi Heretofore, only two fbat the large peach crops in that dis- vention-s and elections,
y»ar» nf work in thi-,.. subject; has ■’••'•'"““I.V <iamagr,l, ;f: "This will n.aki- the dry. organize
. ,, 4. I X V • ; ;*u *U not totally destroyed. Iso intently in every city, town and
been offered; but, lieginning w'lth the . .* xu r- wx a.,,, u i x .u \ xu it * x xu x
txkoo u I / * 1 In commenting on the frost dam- hamlet that they will .see to it that no
J932-3J school year, four years work x a-v i x /* w i x x* / i x
^ ^ age at Charleston, ( . VV. ( arraway, jnew votes for repeal go to congress.
the county farm agent, .said the Only twenty minutes of debate pre
will he availalile.
Columbia. March 14.—Six members
of the* general assembly tonight be-
I.,aurens, March 14.—Suit for $50,- sion, the solicitor was careful to point
000 brought by the Rev. A. J. Bowl-' out, will not be called “to try the Ra- _
ing, pa-stor of Lonsdale Methodist! sor case.” Because of the time con-1 i^u their attempt to reach a compro-
church, against F. W'. Gurry, supet-' spmed by the trial of three defend- miM agreement on the appropriations
intendent of Clinton Cotton mills, and ants Charged with the slaying of W.
the Clinton Cotton Mill compapy, al
leging slander, was settled today by
attorneys for both sides out of court.
The case was scheduled for trial Tues
day, hut both plaintiff and defendant
agreed to a compromise^#*
Returning a day earlier than thejr
colleagues, the members of the free
conference committee went to work
C. Rasor, only a srhall number of oth
er cases on the docket were heard at
the February term, leaving a crowd
ed criminal calendar to be carried over | behind closed doom of a committee
until the June or regular term. Since jroom shortly after 8 o’clock. Before
the last term of general sessions, jth^m was the $10,000,000 appropria-
many cases have been added to theitien bill, which the house almost to a
EARLY EASTER THIS YEARjP««‘li*Mr docket. !m«n refused to approve
Henry Rasor and the Critp broth-
How long the bill would stay in con
ference few would estimate. It might
he a matter of days, but was more
likely one of weeks. House represen-'
Fxastcr falls on March 27 this year,-err, Eugene and Lathan, are still held
which is the earliest Easter since jin jail in default ef bonds aggregat-
1921 when .the date was also celebrat-} ing $15,000 aa fixed by Judge 8. W.
^ on March 27* With the exception i G. Shipp after he had ordered a mis-) Uiivea were expwted to hold out for
of Easter in J1929, which came on * tr.^al three weeks ago when « trial ♦ a much lower bill, in- view of house
March 31* this te the first time the! jury failed to reach a verdict in their
Wnv has been obierved in March since j trial for the alleged rourde^f the
F* - • ' —■'—'Cross IIlll ex-banker aad Vsineas
man.
Up until last year the personnel of included considerable (luantities of
the language department was suffi- Knglish pea.s, which were to be snip-
cient to carry on the work; but with ped this week. Other truck errps suf-
the increased interest shown in mod- fered varying degrt*es of damoRe
ern languages, particularly French, it Approximately a third of th" neaeh
was doemed advisable to secure an- the Greenville vicinity had
oth,r n.»p for thi» depxrtmint. in bloom for ^-voral dxy». It v a.,
j believed all these \«ere killed.
Mr. Huntley is the fourth addition
to the Presbyterian college fM'ulty jn; pROSTS AND FREEZES
recent years, 'fne others are profes-j ‘
ceded the vote. Immediately when the
house convened. Garner recognized
Linthicum, sponsor of the petition
which made the ballot possible
through the endorsement of 145 mem
bers. Many members stood‘up and ap
plauded when he took the floor.
“The crucial time in the history of
this proposition has arrived,” Linthi-
sora Davis, Lothery and Grafton. Pro
fessors Grafton and Lothery Wgan
work here last September, while Pro
fessor Davis came in 1930.
bum said. “Today after 12 years we
DAMAGE'IN COl^NTY tha^e reached a chance to vote upon
l.whblhcr the 18th amendment shall be
j l.aurens^March 16.—The frosts and' ^1** people.
, freezes of the past week have wrought I Scri^iture tells us that he who is
'havoc U^gterdw and field truck in | with us is ^gainst us and I say
Ithis sectioin it has been ‘indicated )»hat. lie who votes against this reso-
TO SPEAK HERE
the
lutioa today is not willing to submit
the question to a vote of the people.'
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, known as .Irish potatoes were growing nicely ini Repreaentative Bachmann, l^injhli
e woman orator of America, will, many gardens and beans and otherWest Virginia, a member of the
(Since the weather has-begun to fhod-
erate. English peas were in bloom.
speak in- the Thornwell Memorial vegetables* planted fully a month in j jo<lici*ry committee, which reje<?ted
church on Sunday, afternoon, March/advance of normal seasons, hnye been i^l’^ Beck-Linthlcum resolution, 14 to
in their approval uf an $8,566,000 measure.
27th, at 4 o’clock, and at a dtnion ser-i blasted by the cold wave.* The com-
viee in the evening. She is a nation- mercial fruit crop is thought to hive
1021, all intervening Easter* having
fallen In ApriL
Hr. and Mrs. Mike Caskey were vis-
iton in Greenville on Tuesday.
ally known temperance lecturer and
will douMless he heard here by large
audiences.,
f
weathered the freeze, though consid
erable damage may have resulted to
9, asked if the house should vote t»
consider it whaler .Ltnthieum “will
support the amendment adopted by
the committee to proh^t the •aloon.’*
^Continued cm
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