Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OFFICERS SEIZE WINK. fetid in GreconriUe On Hermann Home. Diredwl by Grandy. ? ? Greenville, August 16.? With the neiasure today of approximately 770 gallons of what officers say is "high type" wino in the cellar of the home of R. J. Hermann, four miles west of this city on the White Horse road, another outstanding raid in the his tory of the local prohibition forces wan effected. The raid wan made under federal search warrants at the direction of Federal Prohibition Di rector Lloyd H. Grandy and was head ed by Federal A ?gents T. T. Watts, Ford Druce and It. T. Chapman and State Constable J. M. King. Hermann was 'arrested and js arranging bond. Fourteen barrels, of a capacity of 50, 40, 20 and ten gallons, and sever al cases, of fruit jars filled with .wine, with a dozen jarp to the ease, were taken, besides around 50 eases of empty fruit jars from a pint to half a gallon in size, a wine press and other contraband making furniture. At the rate of $1 a quart, which was the minimum price Hermann ?? alleged. 4o have been receiving, for the product, $3, 080 Worth of the -stuff was sci^d. 'The total amount of the day's seizure runs higher, consider ing the jars, and wine making ma-' , chincry confiscated. The. wine was found in the cellar and was made of grapes, blackberries arid. strayvberries, officers stated. Of - flcers said further that, Hermjyu^has - hi? own vineyard from which he- se cures grapes for the wholesale mak ing of wine. Charges of manufact uring, hAving in possession and sell ing intoxicating beverages will be entered against the defendant officers wtated, with a possible addition of a charge of maintaining a public nui sance. Big Gift for Convert. Spartanburg^ Aug. 9. ? It was an nounced that Isaac Andrews, wealthy Spartanburg man, had made a gift of $30,000 for the erection of an infir mary building <at Converge College. The anouncement was made by the president of the institution, Dr. Rob ert P. Pell. Hired men on many western farms refuse to plow unless the farmer gives them at least twelve horses in a hiteh. Twenty-horse hitches fre quently pull mx fourteen -inch bo^* toms. EXCURSION TO FLORIDA and Savannah TUESDAY, AUG. 25th * Round Trip Fare From CAMDEN to xSavannah $ 7.50 ^Jacksonville 10.50 ^Jacksonville Beach 11.00 xSt. Augustine 12.00 * Arcadia 17.50 *Aubumdale 17.50 *Avon Park 18.00 * Bartow . . 17.50 *Bradenton . . v 17.50 *Daytona 13.25 *FL Myers 17.50 'Lakeland ... 17.50 *Lake Wales 17.50 * Miami 19.50 *Moore Haven 17.50 *Ocala 17.50 ^Orlando . 17.50 *Palmetto 17.50 'Sarasota 17.50 *Sebring 1 8.00 *St. Petersburg 17.50 +Taropa 17.50 * Winter Haven 17.50 *West Palm Beach 18.00 xReturn limit September 1st * Return limit September 5th ? FaYes proportional from other points Tickets and information from any A. C. L. Agent or PHONE 128 ATLANTIC COAST LINE r ? ON THB GUION FARM. Dairj nn4 Poultry FurnixheJ .Dully To C?mden People. An interesting enterprise neaf Camden is that of the Lugoff dairy just across the river from Camden. Froni a small beginning th<?, Jmgoff Dairy, owned by L. I. (Juion, and man aged by J. 1. Durfee, it has grown to such proportions that many patrons in Camden are nerved with fresh milk, poultry and eggs daily. Mr. Durfee stopped off in Camden about two years ago, and while hero he visited the (Juion plantation where he was given employment, He and hifi wife and children were travelog in a house car and for some time re sided in their house car until a resi dence could be erected for him. He is from Newport, Hhode Island, and is an experienced dairyman and poultry breeder. They are now milking Hfty head of Jersey ,and Guernsey cows on this farm and will increase the herd to one hundred by winter whon this dairy serves the tourist hotels. All of the cows ure milked by vacuum milkers and the stanchions and stalls, and bottling and cooling plant is as sani tary us it is possible to make same. There is a flock of six thousand white leghorns in the poultry depart ment, furnishing an abundance of fresh egg* and friern on tie market daily. Mr. Durfee ha* recently added quite a Hook of fancy pigeons and haa al ready increased the flock con aider a* bly. By early fall he will be prepared to till order* for young squab*. In addition to growing large quan tities of peaches and grapes for local and foreign shipments on his farm, Mr. (iuiou ha* for a number of years been growing large quantities of young peean trees for nursery stock, i Despite the fact that he has the very best stock and has thoroughly adver tised his pecan trees in the county ho tells us that many of his county men have placed orders with itinerant tree salesmen, taking a chance on getting inferior stock, rather than patronize a home man. His trees are on the Toadside in full view of the traveler and if you contemplate setting oat a pecan grove, take a look ut what you canr And in a Kershaw county nursery. 1 Hiring the first six months of this ydar the fees from motor veKicle licenses registered -with t the State Highway Department amounted to $1,685,756.45, there being 186,681 automobiles, 18,962 trucks, 642 trail ers and 170 motorcycles registered. Fifty cars of brick have been or dered from the Pee Dee Brick and Tile company of Florence by a Miami, Fla., concern. KILLED AT BOCK INGHAM. Mill P reuMtiit KiUa Hon of a Metho dist Preacher. Rockingham, N. Aug. 15.-? W. U. Cole, wealthy cotoon mill man, president of the Hannah Picket mill, was held in Jail tonight without priv ilege of bail, on recommendation of the coroner's jury following an in quest in the case of the dfcath of W. W. Ormond, electrician, who was shot and killed by Cole on one of the prin cipal streets of Rockingham late to day. v According to testimony before the coroner's jury, Ormond was seated in his automobile In front of the man ufacturer's building on Main street, I when Cole stepped from the curb, ap proached the car, drew a pi*tol, fired rthree shots at Ormond, returned to his office nearby and laid the weapon on his desk. Ho was taken immedi ately to hit^home in the suburbs, ac companied by a physician. Ormond was dead in ten minutes, one bullet from the .82 calibre pisto,l having pierced his chest. The manufacturer made no com ment, so far as could be learned, either just prior to the shotting or afterwards. He has remained silent since. Shortly after the shooting Cole was arrested at his home by the acting sheriff and placed in jail. The coroner's jury Later recommended that he be held without hail. , Solicitor Don Phillips Having- waiv* ed the formal notice required for habeas corpus proceedings, it was an* nounced tonight that Cole would bo taken to Carthage Monday morning; for a hearing before Judge McElroy on petition for liberty under bond. Ormond, who was 2U years of age,; accompanied by his brother, Allison,; arrived in Rockingham from Raleigh this morning, on their way to Myrtle) Poach, S. C., t was said. He was al son of th? Rev. A. L. Ormond, Meth odist minister and former pastor in this town and was not married. He! lived at Abbeville, N. C, Cole has a family and lias long been prominent in business, churchi and social circles. No motive has, been assigned for his act, though it was reported tonight that he objected, to attentions paid his daughter by; Ormond. Struck by an axe wielded' by his. wife while he was asleep, Ed Stone,; a Spartanburg negro, staggered to; his porch, and falling, rolled down a' hill and died. r Preliminary work is in progress I looking to the paving of the principal' streets of Georgetown, the contract,' ?signed July 1, calling for the expendi-1 ture of ^83,687. RUIC IDB OR FOUL PLAY? Am eric mii Legion R?h4 at BraiwhvilU I F ound Hugiai To Rope. Columbia, Aug. I8t*i.?A <kjteetjYt ha? been sent to Branchville by c;0*. McLeod's office to investigate. the death of K. J. Thomas, commander of the Hurry Mack poet of the Ameb ic an Legion, who was found hanging in his room last night. The investigation was requested by S. G. Oliver, vice-commander of the Branchville post and E. R. Mc u v, t State Legion commander, who in a message to Gov. McLeod said therv wa? reason to suspect foul play in the deatji of Thomas, Thomas, a tailor by trade, uuinav ried, and with no relatives in this part of the country, was found hanging by a cord from the ceiling of his room about 8:30 last night. Mr. Oliver said in a long distance conversation. His body was stripped. Physician* "who examined the body said death was not caused by strangulation. Mr. Oliver reported. It was estimated that he had been dead about twenty four hours, The door was locked on the inside and was in perfect order. had last been seen about four o'clock Sunday afternoon. Thomas had no known enemies, ac cording to Mr. Oliver. He came to South Carolina from Cleveland, Ohio, and settled in Branchville, about H years ago. At the recent state con vention of the American Legion he was elected a delegate to the national convention to be held in Omaha. He was elected commander of Branch ville post last December. Thomas was said to be about twenty-six years old. He served in the aviation corps dur ing "the war, it was said, but the namo of his organization could not be ascer tained. 4 The theory of suicide held by ^Branchville citizens was not acccpted by others who decided to ask the gov ernor -to make an investigation. Ac cording to long distance report* from Branchville, one physician was re ported to have held that suicide under the circumstances would have been impossible and the fact that no evi dence of strangulation or broken neck was found was said to have in creased the'belief of the foul play theory. Thoma-s was said to be in good health and so far as was known haJ no financial trouble or other difficul ties. The Inquest was postponed pending a complete investigation. Ef forts were being made today to locate the relatives of the dead man in Ohio. This paper is expected to rejoice, pf course, over the exposure in th? state highway department, when the "defalcation" of L. H. Thomas, to the tune of $17,000.00, was exposed by Chief Commissioner McGowan. To the contrary, we regret that such things have been going on, but our. faith in mankind is not totally de stroyed, at that. Where there has been ?o much inefficiency, so much bull-headedness and lordliness, we. Are not surprised that graft found s way into the department. That it has been- discovered and corrected speaks well for the Chief Commis sioner. That Thomas would have been "fired" some time ago, except for the "pull" of that powerful "Col umbia ring" (the existence of which is called a myth by all citizens of Columbia, but which is very evident at all times when plums are ripe) i? commonly believed. We do not ex pect to ?ee much editorial discussion of the Thomas "defalcation" ? it i<* not done in newspaper circles any more, you know. In the meantime the ring, despite a case of dry-grim, will begin to groom a candidate for governor; a governor who will dance 'at the end of a stick and take orders like a man. Now, don't fly at us; call on Chief Commissioner McGowan arid maybe he will tell you of the ring pressure in the Thomas case ? that is, if there was any! ? Marion Star. This year's tobacco crop in Wil liamsburg County is estimated to b?> worth $3,000,000. Sale of the Sumter municipal power and ice plant to the Yadkin River Power Co., for $025,000 has been ap proved by the city council of Sum ter. A special election for the issuance of $1,000,000 in bonds for municipal improvements will be held in Spar tanburg September 16. Taxes on soft drinks, on admis sions to places of amusement, for documentary stamps, etc., amounted to $254,808.16 for the month of .June ' A cat chasing a mouse caused a $40,000 fire In Ctodtff, Wales, when the former knocked a box of matches from a table, whkih occasioned itr mtkm. ? Ths fastest single screw mercb*PL~ ?hip in the work} is the steamship Reyml Soot, which ?u built to tf*** m speed of tweaty^two knots, *** ptfese bctwuao London snrf Edto* ? t? iXSat- s *aS Lowe-R PRICE-5 ; * < i ... Dodbe BRDTH6RS motor Vehicles Dodge Brothers, Inc., announce a reduction in the prices of their motor vehicles, both passenger and commercial, with the exception of the Roadster and Chassis, effective Monday, August 1 7th. These new prices come at a time when Dodge Brothers product has reached the highest peak of me chanical perfection in its history. ITiey cannot be overlooked by anyone who has the slightest inter est in the value his dollars buy. DeLOACHE MOTOR CO. CAMDEN, S. C.