Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Query, Richards Are Reappointed Governor Oliu JohriHton yesterday reappointed two members of the state tax commission, Chairman . \V. G. (iuery and John O. Richards of Liberty Mill, and fiie senate confirmed them with other nominations last night Governor Johnston also appointed K }' Vandlver, Anderson hanker, to replace J K Sirrltie of Greenville, on tiie hoard of regents of the State hospital All three were confirmed by the senate last night. The senate also confirmed appointment of three members of the state board of tax review. They are Joe Wei borne of West I'elzer from the Third congressional district; Dr. George T. Keller of Colon, from tho Fourth, and J B. Sinoak of Orangeburg, from the Seventh. Mr. Ciuery hits been a member of i h e tax commission since it was founded in 1015. Ho is uullonuily recognized as an *Utfeorlty on taxation , Commissioner Richards, an oppon cut of rhe commission while governor in ib'jT-lbi'U, accepted Johnston's appointment to jt for tlm unexpired term of F C Robinson of MeCormicU, resigned Roth members were reappointed for terms of six years, 'lite 1936-1937 appropriation -act fixed the salary of the chairman at $4,500 a year and commissioners at $2,200 each. J F. Derliftm of Green Sou. is the third commission^!'. Mr. Vandlver. who, said at Anderson. he accepted the appointment on the state natural resources commission during the 1 C Blackwood administration and Is a former president of the South Carolina Baptist convention. He was appointed for a term of five years. Mr Ciuery was first appointed to the state department position b\ Governor Manning, who at the expiration of the commissioner's first time reappointed again by Governor McLeod, and in 1920 by Governor Richards Mr Ciuerv lias been chairman of the commission since 1922. succeeding General Adolphe W. Jones, whose term had expired When first appointed to the commission Mr. Cillery was a member of tlie bouse of representatives, having been llrst elected to that body In 11*14. In discussing the appointment Mr. Query said he appreciated "the confidence Governor Johnston had in me as evidenced by the appointment and [ I shall endeavor to render as faithI ful service during the coming years as 1 have attempted to render in the j past ! Me paid tribute to the faithful scr'.vices .of the employes of the depart* Jtnent. saying his success as a tax commissioner had been due in a large part to their able assistance and deep interest in their work. The Junior 4-H Council The Kershaw county 411 club held their annual meeting of the* Junior council at the First Baptist church of Canidon, Saturday, Muy .'10, at 2:30 o'clock. The meeting wuh called to order by the president, Mary Mclveod of Charlotte Thompson club. Lena Sinclair, of Malvern Hill, conducted the devotional, after which the* assembly sang "Carolina." The roll was called and the minutes of the lust meeting were road by the assisting secretary. Mildred Vincent, of Thorn Hill club. The assembly watt then j favored by a special song, "Dreaming," by Malvern Hill club. The as-1 'Monthly then stood and repeated the 4-H club pledge and club creed. Carrie Baker, of Charlotte Thompson. won first place in the health contest and Dorothy West, of Midway, won first in the dress review. They; were both awarded scholarship to I Winthrop College, with til 1 expenses I paid June S to 13. Dorothy West gave a very inspiring' talk on the work of the 4-H council. Miss Margaret Fewell felt very] proud in awarding the attendance*1 trophy to Hie Malvern Hill club. i Knob \ear the junior council up-' points new officers, i'eggy Holland] acted as chairman of the nominating, Committee and the following new of*, fleers were elected: President, Dor-j lothy West, Midway; vice president,] Mary McLeod, Charlotte Thomp^bn; secretary,' Mary Kaney, Midway. 'Other girls attending the short ] course are: Kols Hopkins, 11a Mae j Boykin, Margaret Yarborough, Willene West. Margie Shlvar, Mary Laney, Emily McCoy and I'eggy Holland. The council then adjourned to meet again next year?Mary Laney, secretary. General News Notes At M<Col),> a dog was killed aftei he had killed 250 chickens in two at hacks on a man's chicken yard. A fanner, 65, and his daughter, lit were burned to death when fire do utroyed their home near Portsmouth, Va , Tuesday. Two Laurens policemen recently got drunk and "cut up" right extensively City council fined them $00 oacli and ndiutaUul tluuu. For the past two weeks a forest f|ji> lias been burning in the Whitewater section of Oconee county. Trees as large as 14 Indies in diameter are being killed by the flumes. A price war jimong the restaurateurs of St Petersburg, Flu., Tuesday gave a full sized meal to custoim rs for 2 cents, the menu including an egg, bucon, grits, buttered toast and I coffee. Cyrus II. McCormick, 77, son of the inventor of the reaper und possessor of one. of the country's greatest fortunes, died at ills Chicago home Tuesday after a' brief illness. Coventor bibb Craves of Alabama, wants the Democratic convention in 1 Philadelphia to include a platform plank to exclude" Japanese cotton goods from the United States. Representative boylan, Democrat, of New York, has introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a $3,000,* 000 permanent memorial in Washington to the memory of Thomas Jeffeji ; son. I Senator Ceorge of Georgia, is asking congress to authorize a special 3cent postage stamp issue, commemorative of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Wesleyan female college ; in Georgia. Three hank robbers herded nine customers and employers into a corI nor of a hank at Foley, Ala., for 22 I minutes while waiting for a time lock to open a vault, and then robbed the bank of $7..*,00. Congressman bankhead of Alabama, was elected speaker of the house, to succeed the late Speaker byrns, tit a quiet session lasting only 17 minutes. during which the house chaplain read, "grossing the bar." Franco Is In the throes of a gigantic strike in many lines of workers, it being reported that 35O.000 workers nud 300 factories are involved. Paris fears ;i shortage of food, milk, water und 'men I. 1 Advance ticket stiles for the $25,000,-1 n0o exposition, which opened at Dallas, Texas, Saturday at noon, smashed every record for world's fair ticket sales, passing the 2,000,000 mark. Oridera for an additional 250.000 tickets I ' could not be filled, i The trial of Mrs. Mary Vann will begin at Pensacola, Fla , June 1">, on i a charge of conspiracy to kill her husband, L. W. Vann, a railroad man. by 'attempting to wreck a train on which he was the engineer, by hiring two negroes to remove spikes from the railroad track. The woman is out on bond, signed by her husband. The supreme court of the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the conI stltutionality of the public works ad, ministration's $200,000,000 power pro! gram and dismissed the injunction I asked for by ten municipal power projects in four states. j A cow killed John Clyde Hender| son. of Greenville county, by kicking ! him In the abdomen. He was the ; manager of the Willow Springs dairy . and was 42 years old, a life-long resj idem of the county, and a member of i the l^ocky Creek baptist church. ben T. Leppard, chairman of the i Democratic state committee, has announced his eandidacv for the state .senate from Greenville county, on his 1 ot on), without a platform. John K Roberts, a youth of Mai ion. i r.< vears old. was drowned in the >urf j I at. M>rtie beach on Sunday, wlt.-n at-j "taiked t>\ crumps. The body \\u< re-I O I covered soon afterward, i Columbia has been chosen as the place for the meeting of the state I teachers convention of next year It was wanted by Charleston, Spartan* I burg and Greenville. -*. ? ? Congressman James P. Richards, of this district, found himself unopposed for reelection when the dead| line for entering arrived, and he will i he the only candidate for that office j at the August primary. I Either Walhalla or Seneca will be | made headquarters for Nantahala ! forest. Nantahala forest comprises I 171.000 acres, and extends thru North Carolina, South Carolina and GeorII gia. More land is constantly being added to the forest. Gardiner H. Walker, former registrar of the state medical college at Charleston, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary on his plea of guilty to embezzlement. There were 16 counts in the Indictment, 1 charging embezzlement of a total of $35,000, and he pleaded guilty to one I count of $600. ! I^abor. disturbances are increasing in violence In Spain and the government is worrying with a dozen simultaneous strikes involving about 260,000 workers. A strike that will tie up the entire Austrian basin appears to be certain aa the government can see no way of complying with demands. M* . ? Death of Colored Man Robert Jones, 25, more familiarly known as "Parson," died at his home near Dusty Bend, Sunday after a short illness. He was a polite and hardworking colored man. He was injured sometime ago by being thrown from a mule while working on public works. He never fully recovered and is supposed to have died from the effects of his injuries. He was born in the White Oak section, a son of Rev. Klias Jones, and is survived by his wife and three children. The funeral was held Wednesday at 2 o'clock from White Ouk churoli, Wateree Rally Day For Young People Beginning Saturday morning, June J3. at ten o'clock there will be a stewardship program presented at Wateree Baptist church by the churches of the Kershaw Baptist Association. We are inviting you to come with your children, for this will be a young people's day at Wateree. Jews Leaving Germany Duo to the persecution of the Jews in Germany the Jews are gathering in Jerusalem. They are purchasing the land from the Arabs. Since the persecution began in Germany the population of Palestine has increased from 175,000 Jews to 375,000. rning is broadcast of a swindler working in this and 'adjoining states, who goes to town and'says he is opening an automobile agency. He deposits a big check on a distant bank, and the local bank takes it for collection and gives him a receipt for it. Then he goes over town to the stores, shows the receipt for the check and buys all kinds of goods on his own checks for the amount larger than the purchase and gets the change of $5 or $10 or more from each merchant. A dispatch from Djibouti. French Somaliland. says that there are at least 11.500 Ethiopians within fifty miles of Addis Ababa, who have .npt yet surrendered to the Italians and i are id 1 set to make an attack on' the j Ethiopian capital, now in the hands of Italy's army. The heavy rainy sea! son is now on in Ethiopia, and the Italian forces are making no serious efforts to penetrate beyond Addis Ababa. Death Claims Rich Son Wealthy Woir.an Lake Placid, N. Y., June 8.?Col. Kdward Howland Robinson Green, 67. millionaire son of the late Hetty Green, erstwhile "richest woman in the world," died late today at the Lake Placid club. Colonel Green, who inherited half of the estimated $100,000,000 fortune left by his mother when sjio died 19 years ago?the other half went to his sister, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks?-i had been ailing since his arrival from ! i Florida In April. I The picturesque, .one-legged, six! foot-four-inch capitalist?he lost his leg in a boyhood coasting accident? I had been forced into a wheel chair py j rheumatism in recent years but that did not impair his enjoyment of life j or of the millions his miserly mother | had left him. { Friends said that he had given"Tialf i his life to his eccentric mother and at 18 Green tried to catch up with life -with the slogan, "The way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it." i At one**4ij^e he and his wife had | 11 foster daulhters, who lived on the Green estate near New Bedford, Mass., where they enjoyed every luxury. He paid them 15 cents a page to do typewriting?later he tore up the pages. There he maintained a private radio station built at a cost of $500,000. He assembled a stamp collection worth millions. At Round Hill, as the estate is called, Colonel Green had been host to ; I picnic swimming parties attended by i : as many as 15,000 persons of modest ' means Near by he built for $100,000 ja fully equipped private airport and j also endowed an aviation school on | the premises. J Colonel Green owned the first auto! mobile in Texas, where he served his mother as president of the Texas MidHand rajlroad from the time he was 25 until'yhe was 42. He installed the first electric headlights ever used on II locomotive?. __X p.! 1 Mrs. Jdne Ann Dargan, the oldest resident of Columbia, lived there all her life of 96 years, and died two j doors from where she was born. Midway School Honor Roll Grade 1?Stuart Teal. David West. Gladys Horton. Ixwise . Parker. Gracn Threatt, Raymond Moseley. Grade 2?Margaret Lucile Elliott, Bertha Hayes, Jean Laney, Betty Jane McCaskill, Sarah June Rozit r. Claud West, Jr., Donald Holland. Grade 3?Walter Ingram, Betty West. Grade 4?Sarah Davis. Thomas Hough, Wilburn Langlcy, Lillian Rodgers, Sarah C. Wat kins, Ralph Young. Grade 5?Ralph Catoe, Azalee Ingram, Cleatus Threatt. Grade 6?Jessie Parker, Troy West Grade 7?Pauline Catoe," Claudel Welch, Myrtle Horton. Grade 8?J. R. Teal, Ida Lee Threatt. Grade 9?Thelma Brannon. Klizabeth McCoy, Willie J. Parker. Grade 10?Emily McCoy. Grade 11?Ethylen Corbet t. itutl)^ Walters. Eleven students at St. Mary's school, Southboro, Mass., one of the most exclusive In the country, have been stricken with infantile paralysis. One student is dead from the disease. RUPTURE SHIELD EXPERT HERE E. J. MEINHARDI, WELL KNOWN EXPERT OF CHICAGO, WILL PERSONALLY BE AT THE JEFFER80N HOTEL, COLUMBIA, 8. C., ON FRIDAY ONLY, JUNE 19th, FROM 1:00 P. M. TO 5:00 P. M. AND 7:00 P. M. TO 9:00 P. M. Mr. Meinhardi says, "I have had twenty years' experience with thousands of Ruptured Men and I will give you valuable Information without charge. Positively no surgery, medical treatments or injections used(Only men are invited). "My Shield produces immediate results on the average, regardless of the size or location of your Rupture?no matter how much you exercise or strain." (No leg straps and no cumbersome arragnements.) My Shield Is waterproof and can be worn while'bathing. It can be re moved at night or worn continuously until no longer desired. Caution: I have no representatives. Everyone must see me personally, have been coming here for fifteen years. There is no charge for dem' onstration. Remember the name MEINHARDI. jw ANTED!! | Experienced Automobile Man to handle Dodge | ! and Plymouth Motor Cars and Dodge Truck# in I | Camden and Kershaw County. J i Prefer man now connected in this business, but I j will consider others. H } Would consider proposition based on regular I salary and division of profits, I This is an unusual opportunity for a good, reliable, steady, sober man and we are interested in no I other kind. I I If you can qualify write, giving references, etc., to j I H. F. LITTLEJOHN, President * I HAMPTON MOTORS, Inc. I 1309 Hampton Street Colufnbia S. C. * * * * | WHEAT MILLING I WE WILL: I i MILL YOUR OWN WHEAT AND RETURN I SI YOUR OWN FLOUR AND FEED, FOR CASH H OR TOLL. OR?EXCHAGE FLOUR FOR WHEAT. WE MAKE: PLAIN FLOUR, SELF-RISING FLOUR, ? BLEACHED OR UNBLEACHED. We Manufacture: ALL KINDS OF FEED AND FISH MEAL. OUR MILL: COMPLETELY OVERHAULED. MODERN j IN EVERY RESPECT. Guarantee: WE GUARANTEE ABSOLUTE SATISFAC- ? ? TION. LET US MILL YOUR WHEAT FOR YOU. CHARGES REASONABLE Sumter Milling Company SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA T?I?pl^OM 970 309 S. Sumter Street 111 8=3= I =aB=J Greatest Value-Giving Event in Years! TAPP'S Mid June DOLLAR DAYS BEGINNING JUNE 15th See The | Columbia "State" Sunday i JUNE 14th for Details of the Values DOLLAR DAYS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ORIOINATED AT TAPP'S, AND THIS EVENT, BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 15TH, WILL SURPASS IN VALUEGIVING ANY EVENT OF THE KIND HELD HERE IN THE PAST. EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE STORE WILL BE REPRESENTED WITH REALLY | SENSATIONAL OFFERINGS, WHICH WE URGE j YOU TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF. I JAMES L. TAPP CO. j CO BIA, S. C. ^ f I IMPORTANT NOTICE t * Allen Brothers Milling Company 804i Gervais Street, Columbia, S. C. Is better prepared this year than ever before to buy local wheat in any quantity, or exchange Flour and Feed for same I South Carolina's Largest4 and Columbia's Only Flour Mill i