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r ■./ ‘ t/ , V ^ THE CHROSlCLE Strives To Be'a Cku Neirs<| 'paper, CoBplfte. NeWay, Reliable. If Voii Don’t > Read THE .CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The Newi. VOLUME XXXVI s CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1936 r NUMBER 4 DEATH CLAIMS A. M. COPELAND Governor Takes/ ' Fight To Court Regrarded Citizen and Beloved ^nfederate Veteran ' Answers ♦Taps.’* Call At Age of 87. One of Clinton's Pio neer Builders. Notice Served of/Intention To A ppe^^Froni/ Decision Ren dered By Circuit Judges, ^Adolphus Miles Copeland, known and highly regarded in this'fiice. Columbia, Jan. 20.—Governor Olin Johnston Turned to the supreme’ c.ourt today in his fight to remove members widely! of the highway commission from of- Hearing Set On New Liquor Law Long Faction Wins Easily Smoak hiWtes All Anti^Liquor People To Attend Dry Rally On January 30th. , In Death the Dictatorial Louisi ana Senator ^Leads Friends ^ To Victory. Columbia, Jan. 21.—The issue ofl New Orleans, Jan.' 21,f—Govemor oommuniVy as “Mr. Doc” Copeland, j Notice of intention to appeal from j old statute. modifying South Carolina’s new liquor i 0. K. Allen late tonight claimed a law -was thrust squarely before the | “stupendous victory” for the late Hu- legislatuie today by the introduction ley P. Umg’s candidates in Ix)uisiana’s of three bills t-o aUer the nine-month-! democratic primary and called it a i‘‘l>ositive disapproval of the Roosevelt died early Monday morning at his; the decisions of lh'rt&e circuit court i The bills were set for a public hear-'^fw 1^'al and its alphabetical slush'^^ers of the county with the view of home on th^orphanage campus after i/udges reversing his removal of three ling Thursday, Jan. 30, during a fast- fund." a cntical illnesA of several days, f^--[eommissioners w*as served on counsel j moving day in which the house judi-| His statement came after returns lowing a period-otrdeclining health/Of ifor the commissioners today. ciary committee approved a bill to Ic- from 264 of 1,575 pi*ecincts (all but New County Prison Quarters Planned County To Erect Three Build ings To Care For' All While Chaingang Prisoners. Laurens, Jan. 18.—;The county su pervisor, A. Rhett Martin, ^and his commissioners,^ Herman Power and John H. Wharton, have coThpleted plans _ for the building of permanent quarters for all white chaingang pris- DEATH CLAIMS KING GEORGE Ehgland' GriAed By Passing of Beloved Ruler. Bachelor Prince of' Wales' Automatically Be-* comes King of Britain. Sandringham, Eng., Jan. 21.—Great Britain’s belove<l King George died peacefully last night juftt before mid night. . . The Prince of W’ales, his 41-year- giving them bettor protwtiop and .uU.mMiclly W: the .same time minimizing chances of ■ ’ j ^ the past few years. He was a life-] Johnston declined to comment onig^^iize horse race betting and disap- 32 in New Orleans) showed Ju<lge hmg i?esident of thi.s community and | the grounds for the appeal. The no-jprovtHl four measures for popular.j Richard Leche, the Long faction can- |tice .set forth no grounds but was' viewed as pioserving the governor’s rights, since under the usual proced ure an intention to appeal froVii the circuit court must be declared within I ten days of the judgn^ent and perftwt- ;ed within 30 days. The statute covering the j)resent Icas^. provides that judgment of the 'circuit courts in appeals from execu tive removal orders shall be final, but one 'such case was taken before the suprome court on a technicality less than ten years ago. The pixiceduro planned by the governor’s attorney’s was not- disclost‘<l. The appeal is from the decisions of Circuit Jiulgcf E. C. Dennis of Dar lington, S, \\. G. Shipj) of Florence, and C. Fcatherstone of Gix'enwood. election of judges 'hnd state officials,; didate, leading Representative Cleve- a bill for highway reoiganization and ! land Dear, of the anti-Ix)ng ticket, by cheaper licenses was introduce!, and ala vote of 1)5,08'.) to 34,376—a majority step was taken'toward a referendum i of 58,713 for Leche. rpv. . r-r** 11 w caiiie king of the world’s largest em- The camp at Clintoa will b« ^ drscontinutnl after the completion of i new and safer quarters. i. The site .selected fj^r the permanent camp is on. the county home farm, five miles east of the courthouse. The j farm, on which are located the sujier A. M. COPELAND Enrollment In High Schools Up on state old age pensions. , The highway bill would put tag fees as low“as $2 for class A cars. With reductions in the next four class es? but would leave ftn's for heavy cars unchanged, in'contrast wnlh Gov- ernor Dlin Johnston’s oft-advocated $3 tag fee for all cars and light trucks. Provision for Uwal option by coun ties oi> municipalities, was contained, in one of the liipior hill.s. Dthers would j cla.ssify lieers and -ivines containing; more than (me-ha!f t>f om- iht cent; of alcohol as liquor, subject to liiiuorj regulations; and wuulvl prohilut all j forms of laiiior adverfising. i Tnlike a luevious' modification measure which was inti'oduced liy a* state repealist, the three bills origi-| nated with a group of a dozen dry j A little earlier Judge Ix-ehe had de-j‘ntendent’s house and’ the, home.s for clareii the vote so far imiicated the j the aginl ami indigent, contains 379 "groatest landslide in the' political j Three buildings are to be ei-ect- histopy of Ixmisiana,” adding that ho /''I about one-half mile vast of the was grateful for the “complete vindi- of the late. Senator I»ng. count.y home.Two art* to la* 20 py 30 fi'et and the other 20 by 20. A swk- .Mlen said the share our wealth installtsl irt Mmo of the movement started by Long had structures, commissary ,and “proved its ppwer in its first elective hall in the other, while the thifxl test” ami that “this mighty mass' will be uswl as quarters for movement jiromises to sweeji .America'the guards, bridge and road-working in future elections as it ha.s l.Kniisiana. It is proposes! to have in this one.” ’ ' guanls on jKity evpry night also. The governor charged that “mil- Lumln'r is lM*ing cut for the build- liens iqxin million.s" of new deal mon-jings, and construction will lx* done ey and “thou.slinds upon thousands” of in tlie main by the chaingang forces, federal jobs had been used against [ under com|K'tent suiXTvision. The kindly, 70-.vear-old (Jeorge V' was unconscious at the end. Quefn Mary, the Prince of Wales ^ml oth er membero of tihe royal family and the Archbishop of Canterbury were at the lH*dside w’hen he died at 11:15 p. ni. (6:55 p., m.. Eastern .Standard Time). A sudden, four-dav illnes.s caused his maje.sfy’s-death. He suffeix*<l an attack of bronchial catarrh, accom- paniixi by heart weakm*ss. Weeping, the Queen was led away supported by her eldest son~the now King—and the ohambt‘r was darken- e<i. Later Uxlay the Monarch’s Ixxly will lx* taken to .Sandringham church .nnd then removed to Ia>ndon to lie jn state in^Westminster .Abbey for final tribute from th(* public which loved him so well. Parliament was called into sessioi the miniinistration candidates in the “luust highly- organized and hostile patronage iirogram .jn our history.” The election today was marked by two surviving' 55,608 Enrolled Present Term, State Supervisor Says In Re port issued liUst Week. one of Clinton’s last Confederate veterans. With simple services, amid rqm**-' rous beautiful floral offerings indica tive of the Iqve and esteem of maqy true friends, amf with a large gather- thjg oTTnends and relatives as.sembled to pay a l«t tributo, ho wa» lai.l to Carolina ” sis'll! bwh aohoofeHioirinHlM- oarront in the Pl^ytonan ohuiTh comotoT-., ,,tic to™ comparo.) with 51.m in runeL'ql services wero—held at the'jy3^_35 repre.sentatives headed by-a one-time j charges of “fraud” ami a /his aftornooft. Two other camp outfits,- (•om|x)se<lj The new king will return to Lt^dan of Negro .prisoners and located in dif-| later tu<iay. He jeinaim-d up u^l llu* fereiit eoui muni ties, are well provided early hours of the morning e/nsulting fpr in the maiter of housing facilities ^ his lirothers- alxnit funeral/ arrange- uml et|uipment. The plan of segrega- recoid vote as lyouisianans wrote with; tion seems to give satisfactory ro- prohibitionist candidate for governor., Rep. W. W. .Smoak, first sixm.sor of tlu*ir verdiet on the state’s late j.suits, the measure and a famlidate for gov- “diclatyr.” >Su|X‘rvisor Martin is directing his Ar“shooting in a French ipiarter lux'cinct here aflkl the ejection of fed ernor in 1930, announced he planne<l Columbia, Jan. IS.-A rcporl issmui!'" Prol'i*'"'"''- Lxiay by-John G. Kelly, state super visor of high schools, .said 55,608 stu- ist.s to attend the jmllciary committee hearing on the bills January 30, “I apprehend,” Smoak .said, “that .we_wiU havit a hqrd. lighL" He .an nounced that he planned _to ask jfn amendment to limit personal posses- inents. Wales became the first Im'chcioi ls) he king of Britaityun 1/6 years. On his arrival in I/mdon hd will al- foives toward the rebuilding of five j tend a meeting oL lhe accession coun- iiiiportaht hri<lgx*^i that had lieenlcil. to which th</.Archbishop of Cant- eral “observers”' from voting placesj wreckett and partly was^hed mil by-erbury and t)re' home secretary. Sir at' iiake Charle.s today enlivened a I the -iecent high waters. The .spans John Simon/bJso will lie present, comparatively quiet election as Ixiu-j range from 45 to 65 feet, and the re- idahajiassed judgment on the “<licta- placements will l)e con.structed along tors^i))” of the late Huey F/Long.'rt moix* substantial lines. The Irridges to Efforts to arbitrate dis)>utes bt*- lx* rebuilt include the span on Rabun tween ijong .and anti-Lxmg forces in First Presbyterian church of whichr /'n/ v, i ^'lon of liquor to one gallon he had been a devoted member for L T Thc^ judiciary committi*e reported j Orleans collapsed, /barges of The services were conduct- Dr. I). J j in t)>e state had increased 22 . per pent ■ from 1931 to‘1935. ‘fraud” were made and denied. EIsew)H*re in tht* slate the election on Duncan’s creek, and the H6 creek at the old Owings dairy site, at McDaniel’s mill on Dirty creek, at] Milton on Little river, the Weir bri<l, of the orphanage. Dr. Woods spoke briefly^ of his devotion to the church his faithfulnes.s upon.the attendance of its .services, his strong chaiacler, and firm faith in t'hrist. The choir sang two favorite songs of .Mr. ('ojie- Jantl, “How Finn A F^Hinriatitm,'’ and “Rock_of ,Agrs.” ■ ♦ Active jialllH-arers were H. ler, R, .S. Owen-i, Wm. Brooks Owens, Homer (Joff, .Arthur (’ojicland, and T. K. .'simpson, Jr., of' Darlington. The honorary escort con.sisted of the elders of the church and Dr. Jju-k H. Young, L. D. McCrary, I and L. B. Blackwell of Laurens. Mr. Copeland was born Jan. 31, 1849, near Clinton. His parents were 'favorably upon a liquor iiill by Rep. Pugh Taylor of Richland, which Tay-, lor said Would require persons po.s-"'“'^ being 'carried out without major creek bridge, near I’rosjxx-t chbi'ch,a_bicians said: He indicated he w'ould adopt tliO' tjtle “Kjtig Fdw'ard V’lH” through a messa^ he .sent to the Lord .Mayor of ^nifon announcing his father’s <k^h. His grandfather, who (lied-in >10 and was sueceeded l>y George, was Edw'ard VII. •A bulletin l)y his 'hi-ec noh'd i»hy- \ west of Tumbling Shoals. In addition to reguJar and “Death came peacefully to the king at 11:15 p. m. tonight in the pVes- 71 years. «l by his-|.astor, Dr 1). J. W<,<^s,|;' T:he''„.'p„'rt Vaiii' s.i- 13.6 per a.ss.st«l by l)r. L. K l.ynn, president rldislurtiance as HOTraas ehokisl the ekof esf (Xo* I 111010 tHatt three gailoOB of (usiuroance as vn(roniK,s cnoKt*^ int 2 64H entered eolJeB-e last fall ! liquor to prove upon arrest that they|'''’t'^ booths under the* ftee poll tax , nuitucoiiegi la. i laii. ' had it for personal use rather thanjlww. bridge ivpair work by ch^gang ag-1 nice of her majesty, the Queen, the illicit sale. —- listed as Gene Gill, 35, who I gregations, thiax* PWA Xinits, under I’rince of Wales, the Duke of York, It al.so gave a favoraiile report upon! worker for the; tbe general su|H*rvisioiU)f John D. W. rhe I’l incess-Royal,, the Duke and .trrowsmith of Wil- ' Hiamsbnrg, to create a Nnuth Carolina Of this year’s enrollment, the re-1 port said 15,767 students wero in high t sch(»()ls of more than 500 students;! '.•,031 in .seh(X)ls having betwt'en 300 i® oy^Kep. and 600; '.).787 in schools bf 200. to sch(X)ls 300; 5,H7] in sch(X)ls of 150 to 200; K. ba<l-i,i sch(K)ls of 100 to 150; 8,072 in schools of 50 to 100 pupils. Is and ^measures comC up | i.j; of ;5 in schools less than 50. with, an enrollment next for house Bryson Addresses County Teachers El'bert T. and Charlotte Fergu.sonl , i *1*1. i Copeland. He wa.s a’Mirect descendant! of J«*1*. Adoir, Sr., of tXunc.n’. ' ““"‘y Governor (L K, Allen-Long adminis-' WaU.>,-former equnt/supervisor, Jire l^iVhess of Kent.” tratiofi maelbm*, was -shot twice antDertgaged in prrmapbnt rond/mprrovrTJT- -|j racijig eommissiori arid to legalize.*'as he emerg(‘(l from the vot-lmcni pi-ojects i^dil'I'erenl areas of pari-mutu(‘l Ix-tting on rac(“.s under its Ixxitli after the fight. ,lhe county. Om^ol Ihe^se outfits is on .Another man Ixxiked as “Whitey”|a special piyj(*ct near Mount\‘illc, an- action, and hills by' •'/'hiiltz, 31, surrerxh'red and was (le--| other in the wcslcrn pai t (bf the eoun- :Ueps. ‘Grant, (hxlfrey, and Wither-'We shooting. Police of the j ty liel^-n the Augusta road and .-.poonon the popular election of Jur-' precinct station laid the shoot-, Waieytshoals, and the third in Dials fists and officials."— — to an election row which followcxl I tow/-hip. For this work the coilnly I A hill for cheaper motor vehicle •''lugging of Frank (hinn-z,-v’h<'j ij/i‘irnishing the . tractors and other k-enses and legislative election of the j f“home rule,” or anti-j/t»ad machinery, while lalior and mo state bighway commission was of- l-'Ong cajitain. fered by Rep.s. Blatt of Barnwell,! As the voting continued, Ku^„vi j leuci t; aiiil' 1 *aw son. " ’ It wa>jjnly i'riflay afternoon tliat’ i he pjifjlTc leaincd Ih;' IJng wa» con fined to his room with a cold. A first hullefin issued'on the king’s con dition I hat night (lisclos< (| he had siif- fered an attack of hixmcliial ca'lprih, accompunied l»y heart weakness. Hi.--■ stiength .-^lowiy elihed and liis toi‘ fuel C(xsts are being paid through action slowed down. I’he king the PWA allotment. The original sur^dit-d peacefully without pi^ijp^, <:r«.k church, .nd of John CoiHrlapd,!":’’,*''*/'?"'”’' •«•!■* Saturday at the .Sr., both renderimt dirtinKuished rcr- donom »a« addre»»cd vice in the Revolutionaiy war. i‘’>'•/?'' «reenv,lle. He and hir father both entered the J.''*’./,™"' 'y/'" war of l«61-6ii. At the time of enlist. ‘"'A/ ^ment Mr, Copeland was a heaMless He streseed the boy-under 16 years of a(P!. He b,- '""“r"*"” of school training anti the came a member of Co. K, Williams’:'"■"'T teachers had in molding re- batUlion, S, C. reserves. His first mil.i*'"f.‘ obyrvane..' ainong the itary .service was at Florence where“"‘I he .was a.ssigned the Usk of guarding]*? P'"** i'‘.’Pon»ibility, leaders of prisoners. When She™an reached Co.]?/*' «’"'mumties and m the state in lumbia to leave behind bare chimneys!'“=’'** yea«. He pointed out that and gray ashes, the prisoner, sUtion.'*?<< *'**' ’?"y ed there were rushed by train to Wil-i*' **"' “ 6»J»‘ i‘y »( defendants mtogton. C.. to he eicISihgcd Vi""* “verag^ Jh years of ap. Again Confederate, prisonei-s. From Wi|. “( 't-houl matteiw, he said Poag of (ireenvillc, and John.son former di.strict attorn^ and. vcy for this federal road work called, Knowing the end wa.s near, .the roy- 1 _ 1 - . # _..,r „ . . ^ j.j’j limiUxi chiefly "to rural |al family remained up throughout the Kershaw. It was i-eferred to the ju-ai^i-adminislr non ar- ■ diciary committee.— The bill would substitute tag .fees of $2 to $14 for pros4*nt fees of $5 to $14 on passenger vehiejes, with sub stantial reductions in classes. A, B, r, D, and FI, and would fix truck li- cen.se fees at .$5 on one-ton ti uck.s and $5 additional for pounds. 'bitration forces and his e^ire staff rotired from th<* joint arbitration com- reement over mail and sch(M)I bus routes. .'long ev<‘ning| In the existing emergency in liridge! .Jusi U-fore midnight 'the doctors and roa<i repairing by the county realizeil death wh.-* imminent and hur-' riedlly summontxl Quixm .Mary, each added 1,0001“^ Lake I servei*s. mittee after a keeping written rectipds of complaints | forces since the heavy snow and rams, Hcdlly summontxl Quixm Mary, the in the city. X ] the sajM-rYisor has b<H*n given cooper- 1‘rince of Wales and the other mem- L. A. Norma^chairman of the'ative support in many instances, with i„.rs of the royal family. ^ “home rule” cldb of Calcaseiu Parish, I farmers voluntarily using teams, jt t|i(. year of George’s Ghgrles, chai'gx'd federal ob-rscra|H‘.s and workers atAheir own ex-1 uhrough an eventfirf’period of re beingOusted from the' in improving road Conditions j history during which he won mington Jlir. Co(>eland went to Greensboro, and lat^ was .sent back! ... , ^ to South Carolina to enter the caval- '>y •>. Williams, pree- ry. In the meantime General Lee had ‘"'''O*', '''y"""**' <'’"™‘"**lrefeiindum next fafl on amen(li;ig tihc eunendered-an<rnhe young soldier,'by Bums,' /■ » i - . along with hip comrades, retumedf”**'’')' sfpynntende^t of education. he was in favor of free text books. The .session of the association was It would establish a road board of 14, elected by the legislature for two- year term.s, and ineligible for i-e-elec- tion. Action on it and other highway reorganization legislation was expec e<I later this week. Senator Sim.s of Orangeburg, etiair- man of, a special" social security'com mittee, announced "after a of legislators with J ot his 4.50,000,- a chairman of the national wial se-j P‘‘"«on.s voting at polls wheix* equal polls "wY Violation of federal law.” jin their resi>ecDve communities. It/he love and le.-ijM-ct .Norman' made public a letter writ-'was only this week that many of the|0((0 .-nfijects. terj/to the federal observe I's ,by Fl^rle :-school bus routes had been r<x»pened j .At'“the moment of^hi,-^ death the Joinot, special investigator for theifor heavy traffic. With bridges out or,popuJarSkPi ince of Wale.s aiitoinalicul- eU*ctions investigating committee of j made unsafe by high water, schixilMy beeame king although many foi - the National Hou.se of Representa-* bus and mail carriei’s are still handi-'malities must in* gone through with, lives, informing the watchers theyicapjied in making schedules. is the first Ikac^elor to ascend.the half been assigned to watch for any ir-{ •'*• 5* |nrroTie of Britain in 176 ytnirs;^- - nference' •■‘‘Kularities in the efection conduct (• • 1 i U i death came as a^.shock because Winunt, Eui0^18l8;lOr8 110811^ the formatoin of a eouncil of state curity board, that h^ould propose* a ‘•‘‘Pi esentation for both .sides was I Secretary Perkins hope today gave the Biili.sh people that it would lx* merely a j)n>longed* 'illness and that recovery was possible. .staU** constitutipfi tQ_r)ermit o!<l age' Retunis from sveen scatter e d j ('olumbia, Jan. 21.—MemlxTs of thY,_ kings last official act was the pensions Winant F’rances county prt*eincts in today’.s primary South GaroITna—general as.sembly .signature of a (bx'unient transferring Secretary of I>al>qr Zave (jovernor 0. K. Allen (Ixing) | nrge^I hy .Seerptary of l4tbor-m*^8t .(±f_his Addressed the legis- vdles^TOif Frahic Ixioney (anti- today ‘.‘to participate in the state—at a jiriyy council home. I ^ ^ — —During the Itecom-truction «iay/.; X rftllUllOr ScHoOl- F rances/TerKins Bilr.'Copeland contributed his part in i ■ — _ jlators/Whilc here fpr a .Southern re ^ the redetnption of .South Carolina' CXP011 !jllflfl$liylgionjrl labor conference./.Miss Perkins I tenn of the late Senator jaj.tjon’'in coriperation with the federal The Queen, whose iron self con ^ adi^ated .state cooperation in the so-'TIuey I.aing. Irving Ward-Stoinman • ^oy^^P^gnt and to form a .separate] Dolled had ke|)t her calm, broke down ilvong) 25T votes in the race for the ^ogia] Hccurity-fct through legislative I'd'’ '-:15 ji. ni. .Monday. from carpet-bag government. He wore l>oth the Ku KIux regalia and the Red, Shirt and was always devoted and.m ... - v , „ tyCe to the Southern cuse. During J™'"'"* •??“! *»” T*? this trying period he wn» „a,rted!®T with a dozen others by members of rp, VI J- security program and establish-three votes. ’l'.'‘t?<''Aiment of. xute deportment oflnbor ' TTie house passed a resolution “ning at 7:16. The regular a constabulary force sent into the state 6y the federal government with headquarters at the site where the Hotel Clinton now stands. He was placed in .jail for a period of two weeks and later released on heavy bond. From that time he was never to tion, all who are to take and the general public hear Dr. C. E. Peele,^8tor of Main Street chuurch, Columbia, who will speak on the hr^d subject of “^ris- tian Stewardship.” After the/first period thosedo not dcsiro^to re elect trustees to fill vacancies on the i Tax Collections Above Last Year 5.^'^^* I boards of the University of South j course, I CiUdel, and Clemson invited to CO,January 29. ' i died to triai for the reason thdt the! ***^??*^' /? **®****;^* ... . . . Ywkee papers respomriWe for those 1 TeL '" high-handed «ts, were later disoov-l’'f®?l.*’'''’'I' ored «id burned. . , n^ At the »n.e hour in ^he prayer After returning from the war, Mr.>/*"’ .’**“" Copetand efrtened a private school eoniT *?'*!*''* jT*’.w . . .. iyoung peo|Me and teachers in that ducted here at that time by Dr. W.^ P. Jacobs. The school was "held in the home of Dr. Jacobs for the ai4 of the of his Presbyterian "congrega tion ^nd was operated the title of Jacobs’ Latin sebooL Mr. Copeland her of 4he St \ Presbyterian (Con / urch of this city. He on page five) section of Sunday school work. HERE FROM WASHING’TON Mr. and Mrs. - Harlee Branch of Waidiington^ D. C., were here Tues- aHAartei-Tnenr- ^jay-^ tfie funendrtif A. MrCope^ wTtlfan addrew by Dr. CTe? Peele of school of the First Jond. Mrs. Branch, before marriage Misa» Bernice Simpson, is a sister of Mrs! Copeland. Quarter’s Work To Close Laurens, .Jan. 20. — Collections of .xtate and county taxes through Sat urday, January 11, when the one ]>er cent [lenalty went into effect, were! $18,645.11 ahead of January 1, 1935,1 department of labor in the state.” .and wept wh(*n her hu.sband died. — “Tl/ume hmi come when in every 1 /'*' '’“T.l “'•r' .lUte we need a basic dopartme'nt !''*“?*')* J'™'' 'A e headed by an officer who«. chief duty/'"'^ 'elelTation and had spent is to investigaU the 'prol-lems „f < hnslmas with his fam.ly at S^- working people and enforce safe-1(«vonte .country guards' which 'have been provided by the legislature and to report annually to the legislature,” she said. — , home. I Tin* strain of the jubilee’s affairs {and the dea'th early in December of ;his siter, Princess Victoria, hastened the end. X ' News of the death Ascas immediately I the Ia.st day for paying withoiit pen- Regular preaching services will beialty last year, according “to figures held at North Broad Street Methodist - given out by County Treasurer D. R. church Sunday mortiing. The pastor j .Simpson. will use as his theme at thi.s hour, j The final date for the payment “Christian Perfection.’ without penalty wae extended for it is announced that this is the last'eleven days this year by Comptroller Sabbath of the first quarter and at General A. J. Beattie due to t^ wea- CITY POLITICS IN LAURENS HUMMING flashed'to the far corn^rt^ of the em- pin* on which' “the sun fre>er sets” Laurens, Jan. 19. — The city cam- and to British ships at sea this time the work for this period will be completed. In the evening at 7:15 instead of 7:30, training school will open Columbia. C<»igregatibns from Lydia, Bailey Memorial and GoIdviUe will join in the service. L ther conditions prevailing on Decem ber 31. Mr. Simpson, therefore, made his comparisons for the closing dates without—penalty rather--than- on tbe close of the statutory tax period, The 'CoHections were made on an as sessed valuation of $8,821,091, as com pared with $8,664,845 last year. paign fdT the election of mayor, six- King (J^ge’a last wi.sh ws.s grant- aldermen and a member of the water **‘1 i*** alway.s hoped hi.s last and light commission ha.s been offi-i hours would be spent in quiet and cially launched. 'The first primary:P<?a«<‘ful Sandringham hou.se. will be held February 4. For the office | The bulletin announcing his death of mayor four candidates are in the {was .immediately posted at ’Jubilee field. ITiey are; Joe F. Smith, incum-HJ*te” immediately outside the house, ment, seeking' a fourth term; B. L..! It was read in complete silence by a Giardy, W. Henry Franks and C. Fw-j^roup of Yillagers,L_wbo har^ tlwnr Toltison. The first three have formal ly announced their candidacies, while Mr. Tollison has said that he will do so in a few days. heads and then, tears hi. their eyes, walked slowly homeward along the dark lanes. ] ((Continued on page two) I ■\ J ■ ' ii ..'imi'WJi.'WMj.i*' 'Igi* J I ' iiiaAkkilAAi^