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. ' ‘ I -^‘ ■. ■ ■ ■ '>' -.. ■' ■■ , " ■ /■ *'■/'' :- • I - .' . ■ . -: ' -',* f ■ . ' I ■ ,< • ^i‘ FACE ■ — ' I . ;- - ■'■■ ^..’- ' ■ '". ■'. THE GUNTOI^CHSONICtS. CUNTON, S. C 1HUHSDAY, JtJNE 18, 18M (Jiza Ball ; Dies A( 7 MT-r’* ■ /New Math professor. \ Mother. of ^Editor of-Ufi News and Courier PanaM At Hdme of M. L. Copeland. ^ lAorens, June 14.—Mrs. Watte Bell, eicHty-eislit, wi<l<m of Colcnd Beeufoit Watts Ball and mother of Dr. William W. Ball, editor ^ The News and Courier, died today at the home of her son-in-law and ^Ughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mason*- L. Copeland here. Mrs. Ball had been in failing health * for.several weeks, but Khr condition did not become critical until three days ago. Dr. Ball came from Charleston when he learned of his mother’s ill ness and remained with her. Death came peacefully at 8:58 o’clock this^ morning. I iMts. BaiH was a native of Laurens,! tiie third daughtw of Willy^ Den- dy and Sarah Cannon Watts, whose! residence was two miles north of the court house. She was bom Feb ruary 6, 1848*^,an4_waaL- gradBaJtfi.d: from the old Laurensville Female - college in 1866. For sixty years she had lived in the same home, one of the fine ojd Colonial residences in' the city. Mrs. Ball was a member of the Episcopal church and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. * Besides her son and daughter, she is survived by six grandohildren, a Mies Beaufort Copeland, Columbia; Mrs. Katherine BiUl Ripley, Mrs. Margaret Ball Hickey, Miss Eleanor Ball and William Watts Ball, Jr., all of Charl^ton, and Mrs. Fay Ball Alexander of Columbia p by two sis ters, Mrs. Lucy Nance Boyd, who is now very ill at the Copeland home, and Miss Betty Watts; a brother, J. - Dunklin Watts; tFro'double first cou sins, Major W. A. Watts and Mrs. Sarah Sullivan, brother and 8ister>of late Chief Justice R. C. Watts. Funeral services were held at the residence Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock by the Rev. Albert R. Stuart; Episcopal minister of Laurens And Greenwood. Burial followed in the family plot in the Laurens ^metery. DR. H. EARL SPENCER , Elected aa inatrncCbr of mathe matics at Prefbyterian collie for the coming year. He siicceeda Dr. Revenue Plan Still Unsettled Failure of/Conferees On Money ' Pill Expected -To • Delay Ad- , journment. * ;■ ■! I ■' Washington, June 15.-—More thnn a dozen new compromise profiosals were brought forward today by the senate and house tax bill conferees, but fail- ure to reach a^y sort of agreement [ pegged up » huge question mark over hqpes of adjournment by Saturday. - Talk immediately arose anew of a possibility some of the conferees might discuss the difficult task of ne gotiating a tax bill compromise with Piesident Roosevelt again. Democrat ic conferees conferred with hiim last week before he left on his South western trip. A two-hour morning meeting of the conference committee broke up with no semblance of any unanimity among the conferees. The entire time, they said, was spent on the key corporation tax feature. One substitute proposal said to RIPE FOR REVOLOT0N! /(Editorial, The News and South Carolina Is ripe fpr a p<^i- eal revolution. department. N. G. Whitelaw, who haa been given An“i!Sifnmenrib“heaa (He physics receiveil considerable attention ~Tlw people w‘hp think are cick of what is going bn. They are Rroping in dark for a leader. He it not in sight. (We are speaking of state, not federal, affairs.) Oovemor Johntton is fit to lead it. He has tried, 'fie him failed. His notions are fundamentally W|ong. ' He > does not understand the cohati- tution. He thinks/the legialatdre should give him appointmenU, clothe him with power. He wants an Olin Johnston state. Still, because the people are sick of the behavior of the leg^lature, Johnston hae a big following. People are following him because they see no one else. If the legislature turned the state over to Johnston it would be in worse plight than it is. Look at the legislature. It is run ning the state for the personal ad vantage an4#rofit of legislators and their henchnien. Even if we grant that new offices are needed, what could be - better ^overmneibt, lus defiance - of the Muits, ltis--<l^t)Rii|>tion of highway- work, his grand plate that have prob ably cost the ps«^ a milhon dol lars. m' Wis^mttst have a political -Revolo- ti<m. We must find a man not only honest, bat biavA aUe, informed, unafraid of defeat, una^sh, one who The spint of the constitution, prob-fdoes not gi^^ s eontiaetal for him- notions of government, his childlike ignorance,-many people tmst ' him more tJrnn they do the general as- sem'oly. cent., grf^duaiing according to per- r?- O jeentages corporate earnings with- JP1 ctllK Jr cUmflCr Oftjro"” held froin distribution to stockholders. In principle, that arrangement fol- and some opposition called for a cor- proof of “RING RULE’’ than'the fill- poration incorpe tax of 15 to 25 per ing of offices from the legislature's own membership ? 'This disgraceful practTce'is not new, it has been grow- By A. R Bryan Cheering spring thought: ‘fie that tilleth his laid shall be satisfied wi^ bread.’’—Proverbs 12:11. , High production per animal high yields per acre with crops. as After building goepj poultry houses for my chickens I have learned that a tree is a mighty^poor hen house. ' insisting/ 6n the independence has kept faiTiiers from becoming inde- penden/through group action in their busini^s of growing and selling pro ducts. Mra L. W.. Boyd Passes At Home Death Comes Two Hours Before /Funeral Rites for Sister, Mrs. / B. W. Ball. Farm women are no longer con tent as mere housekeepers, but are' utilizing their vast "woman power’’ to create better homes and better communities. What the wheel of progress southern framing still n^s is more I revenue measure lows the house bill, with its rates graduated up to 42 1-2 per cent., rath er than the senate measure with its 16 1-2 to 18 per A«ot. corporate in come tax and a flat 7 per cent, super tax on unddstrihuted corporate prof its. In some quarter# there were-hints that should the senate conferees awing over toward such an arrange ment or one along similar lines, the house group would accept the senate provisions for higher income surtax es in all surtax brackets over |6,- 000. One obstacle to that sort of an ac cord, however, some committeemen said, is the threat of a filibuster raised over the tax measure if it comes from conference carrying any tax higher than that of the senate bill on undistributed eartiings. Sen ator Oouzens (Republican) of Mich igan has sadd a group of senators will talk indefinitely if the conferees in: turn toward the house version of the ing steadily the last thirty yean, but it has come to a .climax. Hundteds of thousands of people are eon> for Johnston and disgusted with the general assembly. Despite Johnston’s silly, imposaible, and education for family life, educa tional standards and ^trends, and a creative approach to the arts. ably the jetter of it, forbid# holding of more than one office, but the legia- laton even el^ some of their mem bers to the~ebllege trusteeships. They grab, they gobble the offices in sight; the paying offices, of course, they make new offices and divide them among'ibemaelves. \ Entirely right in denying power to the governor that the people do not give him in the constitution, they violate the decent traditioia and hab its that’ once made government pret ty good in South Carolina by con stantly-adding to thtir own power. iln these ways the legislteore, tlM present and a number of those pre ceding it,. are and have been bold, unblusJiing, all but openly boastful of their policy of looking out first for themselves. In most of the counties the COURT fiOUS£--RINGS - are arrogant, aui- prerne. At thi.^ momeht, wherever is a judge grown old or not in good health, j. the political lawyers who expect t© return to the legislature are choosing his successor from among themselves! We hear names mentioned and details of the cake cutting, / Governor Johnston had his chance and has gone busted. It was the wish of The News and Courier to help him, hot-Ae-would have smashed government into smithereens with his soldier government, his €!alas self, to lead it. That man ie somewhere in Sooth Carolina. He moat comA forward, he must be drafted, or—^ We Miall have worse than Carpet bag and Scalawag government. Worse because it will rest on the corruption of the people themselves. - r ' ii \ Shop First In 'TOB CHRONICLE ‘ Then In the Storea - -'1 Exchansre Your WHEAT Fot Guaranteed Quality FLOUR ‘ Bring or ship'^your wheat to ns by raiL Quick service. No -waiting,-— If yon prepay freight on wheaf shipped by rialread we will pay freight on floor ro> tamed and ship promptly. No tax or affldavits required. I^Murtan Grain & Mill Co. Spartanburg, S. C. A -i spokes around the cotton hub. Learning the how of better farming is important economically, but learn ing the why is what adds interest and "iest and removes drudgery. Laurens, Jun^ 15.—Mrs. Lucy Watts Boyd, 90, died this afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. C/opeland about two hours before the funeral rites had been conducted for her sister, Mrs. B. W. Ball, who had eucoumbed Sunday morning in the same home. Mrs. Bojrd was the wid ow of James A. ^yd, successful Laurens business man for many years. Her son, Larry Watts, had died in young manhood. She is sur vived by a sister, Miss Betty Watts, who also lives at the Copeland family home and a brother, J. Dunklin Watts’. Mrs. Boyd, like her sister, Mrs. Ball, was a graduate of the Lau rensville Female college and a mem ber of the Episcopal church. She had been a widow ^ years, her hus band hkving died in 1876. Funeral services were held at tl^ home Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock conducted -by the Rev. Albert S. Stuart. Interment followed/in the Laurens cemetery. / -V(!hether in livestock breeding or in seed improvepiCnt we must follow princi^ of cdJling by test to keep the best! // /■ INSURANCE / We offer expert serTlce and protection. Aigent^^or some of the otrongest Fire Insurance ^mp^es in America. Town and country prop* triy. IMces aUracliTfk. Ginton Realty & Insurance Co. a H. BOYD. AK^t . The scrub sire has been the Souths heaviest handicap in the race towand hetterjU The very close relation between farm income and crop yields, as shown by surveys, leads to one basic thought—bj^ild better soils. .. measure/but the dis- it geneimuy was regarded eply set than on taxes. . The farmer who waits for “some more convenient day^’ to fight inju rious diseases and insects becomes rapidly wiser and poorer. / The best club to use on .a farm lioy is the 4-H^Glub—it trains and Enter tains. / d/£ Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS •• juid EMBAUfERS Licensed Embalners, Complete Modern Equipment Day Phone »4 Nigi^ Phonee 24, 25S nr m Clinton, &C Despite the continued deadlock on the tax bill, congrese. buckled down to business all along the line else where, after, a week’s recess for the Rpublican national convention. Conferees met for the first tin^ oh the relief-deficiency approp^ation bill, carrying |l,426,000,000^6r work relief in the coming fiscaKyear. No immediate agreeihettt 'mtdm sighted on that “must’’ measure/b\ pute over as less deeply The house tAckled the job of dis- ^osipg of ^omerence reports on the in>erior ^d District of Columbia ap- p^ropri^tion bills and 6n the anti-lob- byii^and price dieerimination meas-; u^es to clear tHA'v^y for considera- /tion of the Guffey^inson coal con trol bill. Working to expidite action on the latter when it comes .over from the house, the senate interstate commerce committee approved the legislation in modified form during the day. The .same committee likewise ap proved a resolution to continue for a year the office of federal co-ordina tion of transportation now held by Joseph B. Eastman, but with all regu latory duties taken away. After acting on dozen of bills of secondary significance, the senate late in the day called up the 1876,600,000 Wagner housing bill, but withhtid consideration until tomorrow. To give members a final chance to get some of their pet measures through, the house arranged for night sessions tonight bn mnior measures, such as private claim bills, that have no national significance. During her six years as general di rector of the American Association of'^ tfwl^ity' Womerfr^tT^athi-tei McHale' has seen .the organizatiqii's meajbeYihtp increase from 8J,000/b 45,000. And the program has been ex panded to cover vital questions of na tional and international policy, 80cio-_ ecfmomic interests, child development aadsketraetoeSof ear eeoaooiy eoiisea after ike ftnlyeer • ^. 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