Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KICHTY-nVF SNAKKS Kil l hl? Funny New? t onux Front North Car olina To* n. 8|Wnc?r, July ^?!th. F.ighty-rtve snake* w?**e killed in the front yard of Kngineer and Mrs. I). IVKeever on Newton Heights in Spencer Wednea* ; day afternoon, and it i* claimed that it was not a good day lor snakes as that. It Was nothing more nor less them one Miake and her family, at leant a part of the family, that called to &Wf Mr*? Keever as she rested on her front porch late in the after, noon. Seeing the mother. ana k* crawling up to the front steps Mrs.*. Keever, of course, sounded the alarm. Neigh bors goon rushed to the scene and began killing snake* and When the battle ?-nd?-d |0 minut< s later, snakes lay in a pilf; Stacy IJoytY, n near neighbor is given credit as the hero of the battle. It was the largest number of snake* ever seen in OHe pile in this -f-ttion if not in the state. When it became known that thr news reporter wa? going to write up the story yci'.izens here declared it Mould never be believed and a com mittee of perfectly reliable witnesses went t? the ?eene and verified; the re port, being satisfied as to the numkr of snakes. , . .Mrs, Keever took special pri^- in showing a flock of gbslins diving in a pool in the yard near where the snakes Were k-iS i^nl pointed out a young Khode Island red rooster that had Insert raided with -the geese. The rooster had become so accustomed to seeing his playmates, the goslins, diving in the pool that hi* also tried it with near fatal results, being pulled out of the water very much wiser. Mrs. K?*ever told the reporter that she might have some news soon, that when she gets able to she would phone the news office. CONSTABLE SHOOTS MAN. Douglas* ('layer Fails To Halt and Wan Fired I'pon. DougTajT Player, white, wag shot in the leg Tuesday afternoon by State Constable W, E, Eichelberger near Floyd?, about six miles from Dar lington. He was not seriously in jured. The shooting took place " on the property of Hen O'Neil, upon whom Cons-table Eichelberger, Federal Of ficer lj. P. Staeey and Special Officer \V. K. Weaver yf Darlington had gone to serve a warrant. Ar Officer Staeey alighted from the automobile to enter the O'Neill house to serve the warrant, a young rtegro rushed out the back door and hurried irr.o the thicket* nearby, evi dently to give warning of the ap proach of the officers. Eichelberger and "Sport" the trusty b!oodh<>und of the prohibition enforcement officer, hurried after the negro, and it was then that they tame upon Player. He refused to halt when ordered to do so by Mr. Eichel berger. and :t was then that the shot was fired. Player had five gallolns of the Illicit fluid in his possession at the timt, and was evidently making a salt*. He w?t- taken by the officers to Darlington where th?* builet was.] removed from his leg by Dr. J. W. Willcox. Piayer and two fiegroes are* now in the Darlington county jail. * Upon returning to the scene of the tir-t afTa.r. wnu h is near where YoU mar? was killed in May, the officers came upon O'Neill in the act it is said, "f >?-!!ing the prohibited juice to a < oloi ?*d woman. O'Neill made his exit a- the officers approached, but a warrant has been taken out for him and iu r a gro man. One and one half gallons of liquor was garrvrred 4n the -??ci.Rd a!Tair bringing the after noon's work up three prisoners, two more under warrant, and six and one-half gallons of the iaw-violat ing essence ? Florence News Review. Collections from the gasoline tax in South Carolina fur the first five months of lVli.-' amounted to $4*5, 395.41*. NOTICE OF ELECTION. .State of South Carolina. County of Kershaw. Whereas a petition signed by one third of the resident qualified electors and one-third of the resident free holders of the age of 21 years, DeKalb School District No. 19, County and State aforementioned, have petitioned the County Board of Education to order an election to determine whether or not an additional levy of ?1 mills for school purposes, we here: by order said election to be held by the trustees in said DeKalb School District No. 19, on Saturday, 18th of August, iy23, at DeKalb School House. The polls to open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. Those who pre sent their tax receipts and registra tion certificates will be entitled to vote. The election will be crfhducted as a general erection with the Trus ' _ teea+as managers. S. C. TRUESDALE, Ch'man. N. B. WORKMAN, Clerk. L. a OGBURN. Members Board of Trustees School District Ho. 1#, Kershaw County, Soiitli Carolina. 3 -? " - ? + . GKNKKAL NKWS NOTES. Itfnu of Interest (iathrrrd From .Man) Source*. >?' Captain Kdwun.>ikVe'y, a negro air I plane pilot and parachute jumper/one of the f i' w men of hi* race who was in the air service oversea*, was seriously hurt ni-ar Hackenaack, N\ V., Satur ijay. whi n his piare K H frojn a height of !iH> fet?t. < - ? -sua! ? i,ui* Angel Pirpv, heavyweight box er of the Argentine, knocked out Joe Burke at. Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday night-, in the *4?'?>nd round of what ii i. to have been a ten round go. Four men, all fArmers, were killed near Gainesville, - Ga., Friday after-* noon when the automobile in \yjhich they were Hdijl| plunged from the foadWay and hit a tree. Governor lVay of Tenne.fjee has refused to honor requisition of the governor of Ohie 'for the person ,of Morns Hooten, a World war veteran] wantud in Ohio, on a charge of havingJ kidnapped his own son. Illinois has recently passed a law whah provides that a person who sells ! "whiskey" that causes the death of the drinker, shall be subject to trial on the same charges and conditions as a person who commits murder in' any other way. Industrial Workers of the World are endeavoring to keep harvest handfc prttt ;of the state of North Dakota* Stale officials are promising all har vest hands coming to the state police protection. Wages are offered of $60 to $h(> a month and keep. The drinking of "canned heat" has become so common throughout the country that prohibition headquarters in Washington has sent out warnings that the stuff is almost deadly poi* sonmg, including wood alcohol, soap and pitrocellulose in its composition. ? The Cannon mills at Kannapolis, N. were closed down Saturday to re mhin closed until August 6. It was said that the closing was to give em ployes a vacation. Three airmen arrived in New York Friday morning at 7:30 after an all night flight from Chicago There were three men in the plane. A woman of Florence while clean in*? a chicken for Sunday dinner found ! a wire nail one inch and three-quar- ! ters in its gizzard. C. T. Williams, convicted last week of the murder of Willie Uawls, a war , ago, and sentenced for life, has been ; granted a new trial. The home of L. C. Starnes. on Academv street, Greenville, was raid ? _ ? | ed early Friday morning officers,! u ho found about a thousand dollars) worth of morphine concealed. Starnes : was committed to jail on the charge i ? if violating the Antn-Narcotic law. Superintendent J no. W. Moore of Bailey institute, Greenwood, has been elected superintendent of the Flor- ; ence city schools. M rs. Winnifred Mason, former Illi-! nois congresswoman, staunch pacifist,! has entered her son in The naval acad- i emy ^t Annapolis. # Dan Bringley, apparently well-to- 1 do, was arrested at Claremont, X. C., ' Tuesday as an escaped convict from I th?- North Carolina penitentiary. He was serving a ten year sentence and escaped thirty-two years ago. He ad mitted! hi? identity and was returned to the prison. Both houses of the Phillipine legis lature have adopted a resolution de manding the recall of Governor Gen eral Leonard Wood. The resolution is addressed to President Harding. The insecticide laboratories of the agricultural department at Washing ton recently announced that it would pay one cent each for bedbugs deliver ed for experimental purposes. In a very short time 1,200 bugs "Were de livered to the laboratories and the offer was withdrawn. , Six bandits on Tuesday held up a j number of bank messengers in the financial district of Mqntreal, Canada, I Monti and made a getaway ^vith $130,000 GO TELL A I NT SALLY. The < > Id Gray Gooee In Dead of a . Broken Heart. Greenwood, July 27. ? After eigtjt 1 days of lamentations over her dea<N mate, Molly is dead. Molly was a I goose, owned by Mrs. M. E. Manley, I 512 Edgefield avenue. Wednesday she i gave a last quack of grief ahd yielded up the ghost. Her owner is positive that she died of a broken heart, for Jeremiah, her mate, died eight days before and since that time she had been inconsolable. Molly and Jerry were as debonair a# any care-free geese ever get t,o be. ThAn Jerry ate a rat that had been j^poisoned. That was the end of him and then began Molly's lamentations. From dawn until dusk and into the night, she quacked unceasingly. Fi nally her strength failed and she col lapsed where her dead mate had fal len eight days before. Her last gasp was a quack of grief. Mrs. Manley asserts that it was the clearest case of death from a broken heart she ha? ever witnessed. Chesterfield county produced an average of twelve pounds of batter for eaeh Inhabitant in 1920. TO BRING TSETSE FLY HERE RsmarfcabU Proposal Made by Wild, Animal Collector Who Seem ingly Is in Earnt*t. ? A collector of wild animal*. vrUln# front Africa to one of our unher.-itiee, proposes it. hrin< t<> tike United Stated a lot ot^ living tsetse flies, apparently t<? Introduce this Interesting ins^t Into UiLd country. TU<? mailer h?? been called to the attention of the federal horticultural hoard. I'nited State* I?ep?rtment of Agriculture whh-h commented on It aa follow >: " I iiix is do- hit i.?- flj which i? be lieved to l>* the eafrler of the Afri can sleeping, alckuesa. hut UU? collector r< n ->f?uttngly statr* that there would be no danger in connection with the Introduction inasmuch as he praised to keep the Ale* ? male* and feina!*-. alive oh the way on his own blood, and ptfhom tWM* l" Pf^l'MKttte them and. therefore, could guarantee that tla-\ were 'noninfected' ! "It might prove to* Ik* easily possible to IntttHhttt- nnil er-'ahlish tllia ft> in jTie tropical and subtropical parts of toe W4 >r?-r??. hcn(i>j>h?-re and tin: pres ence of. any man or animal affect^ with the sleeping sickness would cow ph-te the vicious circle! "This collector requested tluit no publicity he given to hla effort, as It might prevent some other material froth being secured by others, and gave assurance that the proposed im port atlou '> Involved, no more danger than the handling of 'an unloaded shvigun.' i;>ldentlv 'the twlofhled shotgun' has overlooked an oppor tunity for usefulness !" Vezin'a Slight Mistake. Charles Vezin said recently :"F<>nr years ago I" chucked the double life of commerce unl art for the single blessedness of painting. While ex* ploring rural New Knglnnd for a sketching ground I Injured my shoul der and called In the professional service* of -a country practitioner. Me was a gentleman of culture and fiijjh professional attainment*. I left that section; ask In# the good doctor to send me his hill, lie did not do so until a year and a half later, when I received, wh?n In a different state, his bill for professional services ? $150. I looked at' It aghast ana thought : 'Well, that is going some. A . hundred and fifty dollars for three visits to the office of a country practitioner.' And I said to myself: 'You confounded medical profiteer, I'd like to see you get it !' and wns about to write him what our English friends call a 'snaky' letter. But on thinking it over I decided to pretend to think . that he meant to write fifteen instead of a hundred and fifty, and mailed a check, for fifteen dollars with his bill. Three days luter I opened a letter from him returning 'my check. And I murmured: 'So, you are going to insist on paymeut- Well, -you can sue me.' On reading his let ter I found these words: 'Dear Mr. Vezini ? I herewith return your check. You made a mistake.- My bill Is one dollar and fifty cents.' " ? San Fran cisco Argonaut. When Anarchist Welcomed King. Ivan Gorgonovitch, the man whose anarchistic writings and utterances had stirred up millons of persons against royalty and the divine right theory and who was credited with hav ing sown "the first seeds of the Hus sion revolution, met the king face to face and smUed a cheery though sur prised welcome. Gradually the smile broadened Into a grip and finally he laughed outright. Ivan Gorgonovltch's Companions looked on with mixed emotions show ing on their fierce countenances. Two of them frowned their disapproval; one sneered incredulously and a fourth ex pressed amusement In a blasphemous utterance. But Ivan Gorgonovitch, the terrible anarchist. ? paB ? no ? heed ? trr them. His whole attention was given to ?the king. There was adoration in his eyes. Ivan Gorgonovitch had Just tilled a royal flush and there were eighty-five American dollars in -the pot. ? L. B. Blrd^a 11 in Judge. _ Husband* and Husbandry.^ The office boy. whose wages w^nt either for pie or for plctureque at tire for his evening parade along Illi nois street, was always faring finan cial problems. The Saturday pay en velope had come and gone, and latt Saturday, because certain creditors had to be satisfied, he was attempting to borrow a dime with which to buy hlu afternoon allowance of pie. Tha office force, however, was unrespon sive, allied against him, fac? hav ing learned from experience the dif ficulty attending the collection of rep arations. "Why. don't you stop borrowing money?" one of the men In the office inquired. "Don't you know that 're peated borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry T " "That don't mean nothin' to me," h? replied. "I'm not married.** ? Indian apolis News. Wiahed to Help Out. Aunt (,;race Is teacher In a high school during the winter, and play ground specialist In summer time, both Jobs being necessary so that she can provide for her widowed sister and three little children. She has the ad miration of her nieces on accoiyit of her accomplishments. The other evening the older one said: "I'm. going to be a teacher and playground woman both like Aunt Grace When I grow up~ The little one looked jrouri<Mt "Why, I w^s going to be that piy*ptf * ?he returned, "hut noty I reckon fl) hare to h? the sister with the ofeji tftren. to jou caa vend jov ? ?? : - ? : v KICHBS WITHOUT WORK Is the Ambition of lireat Percentage of American People. Rogvr W. ftibson w*s today asked why it t? that he is not so optimise on the general business situaifoft when so many pt *h.e b?ronuur> business indicate great proapertty, celatos a Wellesley Hitia. Miss., di? patch *?f Thursday. The opuElitK forecast! of prominent bankers, man ufacturers and financial advisors wen; called to Mr, B*b*pn'* attention anav; he as frankly asked why a warning was herded under present stable con ditions. His reply was as follows: ? ?It is true that a number of the b*romeU-r? of tott u,v distinctly favorable at the preseint time. Ill order to be absolutely fait; to ewry-.j one I eve n, took p*?ns lo enumerate in a published statement only a iiwi.th Ifc. merel^nU are not i A?nter^ manufacturers have not beta jj?c0dM??C ** raw materials; Khrik? have gv?c?d resouws; _._clWck are evcrp*x*?*lly goo<h zrrd <-ar tries are apparent " j <; r. a schawl W)A. My critics are ** t*??r ^atement that sur |f*c* point to a wonderful Lbasis*** ?a4 perhaps, two or I three y*ar* ?f lities prices. I realize thee* fibres as well as anyone arfd It u very hard for me to sound a, warn;** ?o many are so opti-i *M? ? WBtiflBUd. ? >1y re tK?r f?r wwrftat* warning :# two-fc-M. Firt". the Baoson chart cf {>or>iiTk'W shows clearly that she 'pen*! of readjustment is only aK>ut #* cent, completed, and that further readjustment is in evitable. Second, that the attitude of i the vounger generation is distinctly harmful to the present situation. That ,? tx? av. , my warning Is based both on statistics and on a study of the spiritual forces underlying business. Of course, in reality, the spiritual or moral forces are by far *he more im portant a* they really determine what statistics and the chart wil later show. The attitude of the people bears the same relation to the Babson chart and to statistics that the temperature bears to the thermometer, or as carr loadings bear to railroad earnings. "I have offices in twenty-six largs cities and correspondents in two. hun dred other cities. In every locality 1 find that the average man today is interested only in spending. People not only want t^ get rich qpick, but without working. People arc buying r^ckle^ly without any thought about where the money is coming from witn which to- pay. Our young people seem to have the idea that dollar bills grow on trees' and all they have to do is to pic-k them off. Almost no one wants to work, very few want to pro duce. Earnest and industrious man ual laborers, such as we had twenty- ! five years ago, are almost an un- j known quantity. Everyone wants to ride in the cart and no one wants *o j pull. Our percentage of producers is , steadily decreasing and the percent- . age of middlemen is steadily increas- j in*. "Such conditions cannot continue <. forever. A dog may livf' on his tail . for a while, but ityeffnnot continue this process indefinitely. People may for a while get a living doing one another's washing, but after the , clothes are worn out there will be no FRUIT JARS ! FftUIT JARS ! Half Gallon?, with GUm Tops, per down $1.35 Jar Rubbisfit Best Red, per d o* e n ? >. t. ? ? j. . . u > . . . 1 ([fc PAROWAX, ^ 4 lb; 10c. One Pound 25c Wood's Preserving Powder, pec pkg 25c f * FRESH GARDEN SEEDS FOR THE FALL GARDEN PLANT RUTA BAOAS10W W. ROBIN ZEMP^ DRUG STORE PHONE 30 washing to do. A certain number" of people can exist middlemen. Mid dlemen are a necessity and serve a valuable economic function, but Am erica's great need ia producers, es pecially men and women filled with the desire to produce and with the joy of production. America's great need is a revival of the desire to serve. America's great need is a revival of. the habit of saving. 'I am not fearful for America in the ^ong" run; but father I am a great optimist on this country and the peo ple of this country. My love of Amer ica causes me to issue the warning that the attitude of the average young perjion today is not right toward his or her work. A doctor is not friendly to his patient if he blindly shuts his eyes to fiis patient's disease. One t aiiiiot be,a true friend of the United ,] blindly *K?ttinu ht? Vye<c to the Wrong attitude of the nt\V generation toward industry, service and^thrift. It is this wrong attitude ; which h?i* already caused business as. indica&d *>y the Babson char^to \ declin^T'be" chart today sv.mds at i per cent, below normal compared with ' 1 pdr cent, below normal at the be- ... ginning of the year." ?. * i' ?3 Christian Emteavor Leaden, The Christian Endeavor Society will have a consecration meeting n*.xt ; Sunday. ^/Cfr the month of Augmt the following leaders an< named for subsequent meetings: Second Sun- ; day, Mr. Gene de L*>ache; third Sun day, Miss Polly DePass; fourth Sun- - dav, M, Job Mills. - i USCO Users Stick United States Tires are Good Tires YOU can switch ordinary tire buyers from brand to But try to switch arf Usco user. Hefcnou*. Usco Fabrics settle the tire question wher ever they are. tried. Built to absorb punishment ?and they do. v ? The big, rugged Usco Fabric is honest ail the way through-*, no bargain streaks under the surface. At the new prices especially? they are a great money's worth* Where to buty US.Thes G, B. KING & SON Bethune, S. C. x USE , Carolina Bond on that next order of Printed Stationery ENVELOPES TO MATCH We also carry in stock: ^Hammermill Bond Tokio Bond Triumph Bond Signet Bond Basic Bond Worth more Bond Printcraft Bond Southland Bond Richmond Bond Uncle Sam Bond /p - WITH ENVELOPES TO MATCH!