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^gSSETCH.JJl.U hiTTii?rrEns,-^ -**-*>?,r?. . * ji?' *- , - r": -j , News at Bethune . . ..... . *" ' ' " "* ..?* Bethune, July 20.?Commencewent exercises of the Daily Vacation Bible school were hpld at the Presbyterian dhurch tyond^y ovening. '^)e school wan quiw well attended, one hundred and fifteen pupils having been enrolled during the session. Cfcpt. F. D. Arthur of the S. S. Antietam is spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, K M. Arthur. Friends of Mrs. I). M. Mays, who was carried to the Columbia hospital last Wednesday, will be grateful to learn that her. condition is as good as might be expected when last heard from. Mr. and Mrs, C. O. Terry and children, of Quitman, (la., are visiting Mrs. Terry's parents, Mr- and Mrs. J. A. MoCaskill. Miss Eloiae Miller, of Pauline, and Miss Lillian Goodlett, of Travelers Best, were week end guests in the home of lyirs. G. B. McKinnon. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Davis and baby girl, of Perry, (la., spent several days with relatives here last week. Mrs. Hattie Heustiss has been a recent visitor to Sumter where the was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. h. Ileustiss. , Mrs. J. M. Clyburn spent the week end in Camden visiting Mrs. Bernice Chewning. Miss Mae Long, of Prosperity, spent several days last week with Mrs. J. W. Hearon, A number of little friends gathered at the home of B. W. Brannon, Jr., last Saturday afternoon to enjoy with hipi the celebration of his seventh birthday anniversary. (James were played and refreshments were served. The young host was made happy with gifts from the children. June Truosdale, John Edwin King, Alvin Clyburn, Lee Morgan and Mack Davis spent several days last week at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. Mark King and children, of Neeses, are visiting Mrs. K. Z. Truesdule nnd Miss Stella Bethune. The liev. B. M. Gunter, of Lees- | ville, spent several days during the past week in Bethune. Mrs. C. L. Atkins and children, of Wfldwood, Fla., left for their home Sunday after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. | Gid Fowler. Miss Louise Clyburn, of Kershaw, is spending some time with her sis- j ter, Mrs. Loring Davis. Mrs. L. S. King, of Hartsville, has been the guest for several days of her sister and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. T. |(- Bethune. Mrs. u. E. Brant, of Bamberg, after spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. (). Ward, left Saturday to join her husband at Duke University. Durham, N. C. M iss Lizzie Davis is visiting Mrs. M. I). Marsh in Columbia! Misses Olga and Mary Brannon, of the Baptist hospital, Columbia, accompanied by Mr. Wade Atkinson were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Brannon Sunday. Miss Louise Blackwell, of ITartsvillc, has been visiting Miss Edith Clyburn. Mrs. Neil Truesdale has returned homo after attending summer school nt the University of South Carolina. M iss Lucile Hilton, who has been at Newberry college for the summer school, returned last week. Gov. George W. P. Hunt, of Arizona, says that state will apply for a loan of $45,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance corporation, the money to be used for highway maintenance and development. Twenty-one deaths throughout the nation on Wednesday were charged up to the excessively high temperatures. St. Louis led in the city class in the number of deaths with six. There were 11 deaths reported from Kentucky due to the heat. William B. Thurston, 19, State college student, was killed, and his companion, Harvey Spate, 20, of Raleigh, N. C., was badly injured in a motorcycle collision Wednesday night on highway 90. The motorcycle hit a parked truck. Martin Settlemyre, young farmer of Catawba county, N. C., went home drunk Wednesday and shot his wife and another woman in the back and crushed the head of n neighbor with the butt <>f a gun. He is now in jail to think it over. An electrician of Cincinnati, Ohio, hns been sentenced to serve five days in jail, l>ecause the rat-tat of his electric hammer disturbed the court of an irascible judge. Courthouse Designed By Famous Architect ~ " Lancaster has perhaps the oldest court house building in the state of South Carolina with the puksible exception of Kingstree. The date of the erection of the local court house building is not known definitely; Some say that itwas built In 182fi or two years after the local county jail was erected while others ary of the opinion that the local couAt house was built before the county j^il as a wooden jail was first erected in this couq^y. It it known'^iowever that the court house was built In the Arst half of the nineteenth century and that the architect was Robert Mills of -Charleston who later became one of the country's most famous arclytects. He i drew the plans for the court houses at C/amdcn, Kingstree and Lancaster. I*ancaster and Kingstree still use their court houses while Cailtden has a new one. Mills drew the plans for the erefaion of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson; also the Bunker Hill monument and he restored Independence Hall in Philadelphia. He was one of the architects who designed the fumous Washington monument in Washington and also designed the patent office, treasury building and the old post office in Washington. He was a Charlestonian by birth as he was born in the old cjty by the sea in 1781. With its rounded ceilings, its heavy plaster and its fire places the local court house will readily be recognized as a very ancient building. It has served this county for about 100 yea fa. It is said that Judge Mackey, following the civil war, refused to hold court in this building, saying that it was unsafe. Consequently steel J reinforcements were made by running | steel bars through "the building with turnbuckles on the outside. This strengthened the building and there has been little danger since of it falling down as Judge Mackey feared. When first erected the building was rather small and the rear part of the buildlng^^'As'added to it some tint# before t'he reconstruction period. The rear part is seen to be different in architecture from the front part of the building. In 1025 the county commissioners erected the new office building in this city. This building was erected for offices only and the old building is still used for court. During the 100 .year history- of this building thousands of cases have been tried in it. Here men were sentenced to jail for debt in the past century and one man was sentenced to be hanged on a charge of stealing a slave. If the walls of the old court house could talk and tell of the things that have happened within the old building it would be an interesting tale.?Lancaster News. Two men unnamed, are under arrest at I^ake City, Minn., on suspicion of connection with the mysterious deaths last Tuesday night of two young women- of Rochester, Whose bodies were found on Wednesday following their going to ride with two men, neither of whom were known to the girls. A farmer organization of North Dakota, -which state produces onesixth of the nation's wheat, has as its slogan "Hold the grain for one dollar a l>wshel." The farmers in 400 townships of the state arc said to have pledged themselves to hold their grnin effective August 1st, unless the dollar line is reached. Warrants for 13 police officers have been issued at Mineola, N. Y., in connection with the death of Hyman Stark a prisoner. Four warrants charge murder in the second degree. The charges grew out of the death of Stark who was being investigated regarding an assault on a woman. The 13 police officers are held under bonds r ?>?/* Anrt z* i i Eaglette Christens Terraplane j j Amelia Earhart, only woman who ha* flown the Atlantic al<)ne. shown at Detroit using airplane gacoline in christening the new Esse? Terraplane automobile, said to embody airplane features in its con struction. The famous aviatrix christened the car for Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, inventor of the airplane. General News Notes | Mr?. Mary Jane Odom, of near Bennettavillo, being In yery poor health, her daughter, Mrs. Arlettdo Stanton, of St. Haul, went to stay with her. Mrs. Odom died the other day, and aa she expired, Mrs. Stanton threw up her arms and fell dead from a hemmorrhage in tft? brain caused by the deatih of the mother. \A man giving hie name as James R. Adams, who bought and drove off automobiles without paying for them, at Greenville, by pretending to be a federal officer of the narcotic squad* was arrested in Charlotte* when he tried hie game there* and will be prosecuted for impersonating a federal officer* which carries a penitentiary sentence. s The tax on all electricity produced, or brought into this state was declared legally valid and constitutional by the three-judge federal court which heard at'Columbia the application for an injunction against it asked by three big power companies of South Carolina. The judges sitting were Parker, Northcut and Cochran, of the federal courts. E. C. Goddard, of a prominent Greenville family, usher in a church there, and a junior at Clomson college, confessed to stealing 20,000 cigarettes from a Greenville wholesale house, when he was arrested in Spartanburg. He had sold 3,000 of the cigarette^ and had the rest in his car. He said he saw a window jppen and took a chance, but wishes now that he had not become a burglar. Greenville county peaches are making a half crop and the prices obtained are $2 a bushel on board cars there, being $3.50 in New York. It is the highest price for several years. Nearly all shipped from there are Elbe rtas. Mis? Belle Wakefield, 55 years old, of Greenville, has be6n threatening to Qommit suicide, and Sunday afternoon, she carefully removed some flower pots from the top of a 40 foot well on the back porch, raised the trap 'door and jumped in. She broke her leg and bruised her body and was haulgd out by a neighbor with a block and tackle. The weather bureau temperature of 100 degrees at Spartanburg on Fri-1 day was below the 101 of the prev-] ious day, when a chicken was hatched j on the dining room sideboard of Mrs. I J. Y. Brown, at Woodruff, her son, [ a Spartanburg lawyer, certifies. The | egg was one o^p number^left on tihtH sideboard for some time, and when the shell was pipped, Mrs. Brown watched, it until the chick emerged. I,ast Friday heat records hung up in?,South Carolina included 103 at Florence, 102 at Orangeburg, 101 at ! Charleston and 102 at Columbia, which last broke the record for the 16 years the weather bureau has had a station there. It was 99 at Greenville and 100 at .Spartanburg. ^, While t>he bandits were robbing the bank at Pickens, the sheriff, chief of police and some county officers were sitting across the street in the courthouse yard and saw the bandit car and the men enter and leave the I bank, but the bandits acted so casual[ ly that nobody gave them any attention. The daughter of the bank manager was-in her car near the bandit car at the curb, but noticed nothing out of the ordinary. The bandits were all about 20 years old and spoke wmr S~X~ar6ttTrfr accent. With no appreciable change during June, South Carolina has a large surplus of all classes of labor, R. 1). McMillan, state director of employment says. Curtailed time in many plants continuing to run, especially in the textile industry and lack of new building, are the chief reasons, he says. Relief committees found work for many unemployed in some communities, and the farms absorbed a good deal of idle labor, he notes. About the same conditions obtain in Florence, Charleston. Columbia. Anuvi.ii.il, Greenville and Spartanburg his report states. The ten members of congress from South Carolina introduced 238 bills dining the last session. Congressman Fulmer put the largest number if, the basket. with McSwain a clo-e i' i.r.d as the author of 7i'> h ' < '."sso! into the hopper. Domini kl wrote Is h vpoeimen* of litera'.; ,{ an ! Hare four of them. Repvc-. a;:v.. \b-Miliar introduced *v ! R. '' -entaiiw- (ia-?jue. _'v. and R. -en'at :ve Stevenson In all 1- I oinl rii-w bill- Were intr Uueed ...ngr.-s during the !a-t ?-*ior. h J only Mx) <,f them we-<- enact* i law. In th< red hot triple head* <i p >' teal campaign for county off:,.-* . r" Dorchester county, a candidate on one j ticket, it is disclosed by his upper.-I ents, told a public meeting he lost j $"),tX)0,in a local hank failure, when! kho receiver's report showed h;>: deposit to be $482. The last issue of The Dorchester Eagle has one column of news and several pages of political argument for its own sfde of the triangle. And The Dorchester Record is similarly het up about local poli Mi. ThW-r r- ? ? > ,,f.. . tics. Neither has heard about the Democratic party having' nominated i 11' U-t for president and vice-presi- j dent last month, and judging by two years ago, wiJl not discover that until, about next January. The situation in Dorchester county has no parallel in modern political history in Amer* ioa. About 15,000 workers were thrown out of employment in Ave North Car* olina manufacturing centers l^uesday night as groups of strikers and unemployed went about cutting off electric power or persuading workers to leave their jobs. Nearly 160 mills were closed in High Point, Lexington, I Jfenersville, Jamestown and Thomasville. The trouble started when 400 employes of a High Point hosiery mill struck because of a wage cut. The Washington police had a clash with insurgent veterans comprising one Of the bonus army groups Wednesday, when the veterans attempted to approach the White House for a ! demonstration.? The veterans iwere! met a block from tbe executive man-1 I sion and were ordered away d>y the J ) policei * police inspector grasping a v loader of the marchers and pushing him back. There is a growing opinion about Washington that before t'he presidential campaign's very old, Senator Borah of Idaho, known as "the; big gun from Boise," will be campaigning for Hoover, despite the,, fact that in the past he has said many ugly things about the administration and the president. He said among other thinga that he would not support Hoover on the Republican prohibition plank. G. S. Cox, British salvaging expert, has infoltued the French government that it might be several years before the French submarine Promothee can be raised, as the job involves much very dangerous work. The sub was Kurtk a couple of weeks ago with a loss of 60 lives. Dr. Richard E. Thacker, of q^| lumm ?(-?ty, Okla., and a former ar?9 surgeon* was arrested at Brtyty Ark., Wednesday and will g? bac^Jl Oklahoma to answer charge* 0f qul| practice and illegal operations, two ofl his patients having died. Judge Robert B. 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