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^;:-x>S-: : 1 -; ". . - ; ; ./.-v " : . ., . " ? . . % " -.: . - . ' Hamburg i$n<xlb ) ^r ) :v = xW *% Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1908 One Dollar a Year m:.':-- .' I IN THE PALMETTO STATE f jf SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS L KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. | f State News Boiled Down For Quick i Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. " Senator Tillman has conferred with Postmaster General Meyer in reference to having a white man appointi ed as postmaster at Florence. No action has been taken. v/ The Calhoun county election case is to be heard by the State Supreme Court to-morrow, The State board .decided in favor of the new county, '' v. and the opponents appealed. .-V By a large majority the house of representatives killed the libel bill, introduced by Mr. Aull., This bill ^ teas intended to protect the news i papers from libel suits in case they , ' bntoed a correction. , Many of the banks in this State are calling in the clearing house certificates issued some time ago because v Of the financial stringency. Money is getting more plentiful now, and i they are no longer needed. , * Hie Southern Railway is reducing expenses. Salaries of the president and other officials h&ve been cut ten . per cent, while the clerical force is * being cut down. It is said this retrenchment is due to a loss in earnings of the road. Senator Geo. H. Bates and Solicitor Jas. E. Davis have withdrawn from the race for judge of the second circuit, and the candidates are Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, and Claude E. Sawyer, of Aiken. The election is to be held to-day (Wednesday.) |? I f J, B. Knight, originally of Laurens county, but who has been holding a 'government position in Washington, has been appointed by Senator Till ^ - man as his private secretary. Mis son, B. R. Tillman, Jr., who has held the place for some time, has resigned. Alien Emerson, white, who was sentenced to serve a life sentence in / v the penitentiary for killing Thomas ' F. Drake, and^who escaped from the Anderson jail; has surrendered and is now in the penitentiary. Emerson says he escaped by making a key out of a stick of solder left in the jail by plumbers. !, IpSg- A delegation of the business men of Florence will go to Washington this week to see President Roosevelt and protest against the re-appoint* 'ment of J. E. Wilson, a negro preacher, as postmaster at that place. They want a white man for the place, and their wishes should be granted. Pj George Kenny, a negro, was hang4 ed in Charleston last Friday for the murder of K. C. Stello, a white guard on the county chain gang. Kenny fuid some other convicts murdered / the guard ana maae tneir escape due ^Swere recaptured. Oneofthenegrofes Hfi'- implicated is now serving a life sentence. v | 55 -'.> '* A bill has been introduced in the hotise of representatives providing for the erection of a new governor's , mansion, the appropriation called for being $30,000. Governor Ansel recommended a new residence for * r the governor in his message, as well as that the salary of the governor be increased. W. A. Clyde, a pbliceman of Sumi ter, was shot and killed Tuesday by Tony Moses, an escaped convict. ;< : The policeman went to a house to arrest Moses, and the negro was under i the bed. He was told to come out and replied with a shotgun, the load taking effect in the policeman's abdomen ^ and causing death a few hours later. Miss Bertha Walker, a popular ?** young lady of Barnwell, was killed Tuesday by being hurt in a runaway. She was driving a spirited horse, and when she attempted to get in the : buggy the horse dashed off and threw - ? - 1 1 - 1 x TT _l_?n ner against a large tree. xier sk.uii $ .was fractured and she sustained other injuries. She lived only a few hours after the accident. 7\ / 'Die house of representatives last Friday by a vote of 49 to 45 refused to strike, out the enacting words of Nash's prohibition bill. It is said if all of the Charleston members had V; been present the bill would have been ; killed, as they would have voted against it. Representative Miley, of j? this county, made the motion to strike out the enacting words. fe' . Mr. T. P. Cothran, one of the ?" -Vv.- ? A il . 1* 1 . au triors 01 tne county aispensary raw, will not be a candidate for associate justice of the State Supreme Court, &Vto succeed Judge Eugene B. Gary. Tfyere will be no opposition to Judge Gary, and he will be elected again. Mr. Cothran stated that he thought f ' his election improbable, and therefore decided tt> withdraw from the M *v;:A, Last Thursday the State Supreme V". Court, sitting en banc, declared the contract labor law invalid. The opinion is a divided one. Supreme Court Judges Pope and Woods, and ? Circuit Judges Watts, Gage, Wilson, Gary, and Memminger decide the law is invalid, while Justices Jones and Gary, with Judges Klugh, Prince, and Hydrick uphold the constitutionWt ality of lie statute. % GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Negro at Orangeburg Given 15 Years for Killing White Man. Orangeburg, January 17.?After remaining out for 9 hours, hanging between a verdict of murder and one for manslaughter, the jury in the case of the State against Henry Gloster, colored, charged with the murder of Nathan Garick, white, on October 21,1907, brought in a verdict of "guilty of manslaughter." Gloster was sentenced by Judge Memminger to serve 15 years in the State Penitentiary. This case occupied the attention of the Court throughout the entire morning. Gloster was represented by the negro attorneys, J. W. E. Moorer, of this city, and John Adams, of Allen University, Columbia. The defense challenged the j jurors on constitutional grounds, but Judge Memminger overruled the ob! jection to the jury and the case projceeded. The testimony showed that Gloster had rented a piece of land from parties in this city, who placed the matter of collecting rent in the hands of Mr. Garick. The negro refused to pay the rent to Mr. Garick, who advised the owners to this effect, whereupon the matter was placed in the hands of Magistrate C. P. Branson, who sent his constable, Mr. W. ! H. Cham^iey, who proceeded to the negro's place. While Mr. Champey was talking with Gloster Mr. Garick came up. Garick, it appears, had a pistol in a leather sheath. He drew the pistol from his pocket in the sheath, and Gloster jumped by Mr. i Champey, snatched the pistol from Mr. Garick, stepped back, unsheath - - ? * /? i r /^? i_ ed the pistol and tired on Mr. uaricK. He walked about twenty steps and < fell dead. The defence attempted to show by witness, who was a niece of Gloster, that Ganck came up behind Constable Champey and as he approached attempted to draw a pistol. The sheriff's constable, who took ; Gloster to the penitentiary for safe 1 keeping on the day after the shoot- j ing, testifies that Gloster told him on ! the way to Columbia that he had shot 1 Garick to keep him from shooting ' Constable Champey, and tliat he would do it again under the same circumstances. Augusta to Keep Hands Off. Augusta, GA.,\Jan. 17?The city 1 council of Augusta will probably not < go before the South Carolina Legislature with its request to abolish the i North Augusta dispensary. Theanti- < dispensary people of North Augusta have had a conference with the Au- 1 gusta officials and hold that the in- 1 terference on the part of Augusta will do more harm than good, and < have asked that this city keep hands i off for a while at least. Meanwhile an average of $900 worth of dispen- 1 sary whiskey is coming into Augusta 1 each day, and just that far is the < Georgia prohibition law being interfered with by Palmetto Leaf liquor. I Meanwhile, however, the North Augusta people are pretty busy. A j big meeting was held there last night by the prohibitionists, when it was 1 decided that the Legislature will be \ appealed to by personal petition and that the influence of Governor Ansel i will be sought in backing up the appeal. ( The Dispensary Roasted. The public meeting of the Sumter county prohibition league last night in'the court house was well attended, s at least half of the audience being c ladies. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Mc- ] Kay, the speaker, Dr. E. 0. Watson, j was introduced by Mr. Joel E .Brun- ^ son. He made a strong and logical c presentation of the subject and f showed conclusively that the dispensary was the worst form of the liquor j traffic; that under its influnce men ] who would never have served as clerk f in a bar room, had taken positions in j dispensaries and that the sale of liquor had more than doubled in South Carolina. He desired prohibition and argued that whiskey was y not needed at all, not even for sacra- ^ mental, medicinal or mechanical * purposes. The address was listened g to with the closest attention and it j was noticeable that the ministers of g the city were present almost to a r man, occupying seats at the front. g Boy Burnt by Powder. J Spartanburg, January 17.?Ray- l mond Scruggs, a young son of C. C. J Scruggs, the well-known shoe mer- t chant of this city, was blown up by j. gunpowder and seriously burned about his face and eyes. A colored boy was showing him a trick with the nnwder. After scattering a lot of ^ powder on the ground a match was ? applied, but there was no explosion, f The little boy stooped over the pow- F der to make an investigation when 1 the powder went off. It is feared ? that the boy may lose the sight of his J. eyes. ^ s Negro Preacher Robbed. t Spartanburg, Jan. 17.?Rev. J. ? W. Miller, a well known colored 11 preacher, was held up and robbed by 0 two white men and two negroes here r tonight about 9:30 o'clock on south Liberty street. The thieves took Miller's gold watch and about $2 in a change from his pockets. He says F two of the men held him while the a others searched his clothes. 3 '"'-V COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered AH Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Jan. 20.?Mr. King, of Cameron, is visiting his daughter, Mr. W. R. Copeland. Mr. G. B. Clayton is rushing his foTTr? lorifle -fnr 1QA& r>rnn Tfp showed the writer a last season's watermelon. Says he wants to see how long the melon will keep before commencing to decay. The melon appears to be in good shape and holds its weight up to now. Mr. Clayton is one of our best fanners in this section. Mr. W. P. Pate spent Sunday with his family. Mr. Angus Kearse was in town Sunday. Messrs. C. Ehrhardt & Sons lost a fine mule last Friday night, and J. M. Dannelly & Son lost one Saturday night. Mr. G. L. Kinard was in town last week on business. Farmers are talking to the bankers about gettingsome money for use on their farms this year, but the banks will not put out any money before February. . This late cool spell has caused wood to be in good demand. Mr. J. Wm. Carter has bought Mr. A. C. Carter's plantation. Mr. A. C. Carter thinks of opening up a store at Ashton in the near future. The colored farmers are in search of liens already for this year. Some say that they can't wait much longer without "egvances." Jee. Communion Service. There will be communion service at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church next Sunday, January 26th. There will be no service on the Saturday before. but a Sunday-school teachers' meet> ing Saturday afternoon at three 3'clock. P. E. Monroe, Pastor. Colston Cullings. N Colston, Jan. 21.?We are having some1 spring weather now, and some of our farmers are clearing away their fields and will begin to plow at once. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Beard visited it Bamberg last Friday and Saturiay. Miss Mary Blake, of Norway, returned home last week, after an extended visit to relatives here. Miss Pauline Clayton spent Sunlay with her sister, Mrs. Sandifer, it Olar. Mr. Gordon Kearse and sister, of the Springtown section, visited at the lome of Mr. T. D. Beard last Sunlay. Rev. S. P. Chisolm preached at Spring Branch church last Sunday. Miss Bertha All visited relatives it Ehrhardt last week. An enjoyable sociable was given at :he home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton last Saturday. Mrs. Ida Beard, of Ulmer, visited relatives here last Sunday. Miss Annie Bishop was the guest >f Misses Beulah and Irene Beard ast Sunday. Surrender Under Warrants. /S ?. t? 10 1 l/ULiUMJBlA, dim. xo. xxiw-x/iopcu;ary Commissioner W. 0. Tatum and ?x-Dispensary Directors John Bell [Will and Jodie Rawlinson all came n today and surrendered under the warrant of the dispensary commission harming them with conspiracy to de'raud the State. Ex-Director L. W. Boykin was ex>ected today, but has not yet arrived. [Will, Rawlinson and Tatum were leld on $li),000 bond each, which they >romptly gave. ! Daring Attempt at Robbery. Norway, Jan. 19.?A very daring lold-up was attempted here last i light. About 6 o'clock, when most . if the merchants and employees were , it supper, three negroes entered Mr. ] 5aul E. Gibson's store on Lexington ! tnd Third avenues and demanded his noney, one of the negroes thrusting i pistol in Mr. Gibson's face and hreatening him with death. Mr. libson kept his wits about him and lulling out his pipe pointed it at the ntruders like a pistol, whereupon ; hey ran and made good their escape j iT- - J 1 I n uie uanuitso. New Prohibition Bill. Columbia, Jan. 16.?The Nash- ( Jmith amendment to the Nash pro- ; libition bill is practically a substitute ( rill. It forbids all beverages containng alcohol being made, bartered, . old, stored, received, given away or :ept in the State except wood or de- j latured alcohol for use in arts and ciences. It provides a $200 fine or ' hree months' imprisonment for the j irst offence, but nothing except punshment for the second. All peace ( ifficers are charged with enforce- ( nent of the law. It fills the arteries with rich, red blood, ' aakes new flesh; healthy men, women nd children. Nothing can take its . lace; no remedy has done so much good 1 s Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 1 5c, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover. ( SUICIDE AT COLUMBIA. ^ G. B. Proffit, a Young Draughtsman, Ends his Life with Poison. I Columbia, Jan. 19.?G. B. Proffit, a young draughtsman, committed < suicide this morning by taking a large * dose of laudanum. Proffit was employed in the office of D. G. Zeigler, the architect, and his father is said to reside at Elberton, Ga. He has a r brother in Spartanburg, L. G. Proffit, t who is also an architect. s Shortly before 8 o'clock this morning a physician was summoned to the q boarding place of Proffit, over the j Capital Citjr Laundry, and found that 2 the young man was suffering from an overdose of poison. He died before t anything could be done for him. Coroner Walker was at once notified and began an investigation. He found that Proffit had burned all letters and papers that might disclose his identity, but one wrapper, in which a photograph had been sent to him at Cross Hill, S. C., was found in the fireplace unburned. It had been directed to him from Columbia in a woman's handwriting, Putting two and two together, it is believed that Proffit had been worried by a love affair and deliberately decided to end his life. Two vials, which had contained laudanum, were by his bedside. While he was not a total abstainer it is said he was sober last night, and when one of his room- t mates went in at midnight Proffit x was sleeping quietly. Another room- c mate left the room during the night } and noticed nothing unusual at that j time. Early in the evening Proffit a was at the home of his employer, f Mr. Zeigler, and at that time was t perfectly sober. Mr. Zeigler, who s has been ill for several days, offered a to give him a check, but Proffit de- i clined it, Shying he had $68 in his x pockets, but when the room and his a effects were searched this morning s no money was found. s The coroner endeavored to get { communication all morning with the v father of the young man, who is said i to be Probate Judge at Elberton, and j also with the brother in Spartan- 0 burg, and on account of the delay v the inquest was not held this morning, t ? ^ Fell from Trestle. c Union, Jan. 20.?Sunday after- J noon, John Kilpatrick, son of Mr. * Joseph M. Kilpatrick of Buffalo, was terribly injured by falling off of the \ 35 foot trestle of Union & Glenn d Springs railroad over Buffalo creek ^ to the ground. The boy, if is said, d was sitting on the trestle and it it a supposed lost his balance when try- J ing to catch hold of a guy wire, and ? fell to the ground sustaining very ? ooinatto intarnol iniilMPS P OV1IVUO UAV^AMIM . He is about 14 years old and works 0 in the carding room of the Buffalo " cotton mills. 0 ? c Death of Mr. Jacob Rentz. a Mr. Jacob Rentz, Jr., a most estim- i able citizen, died at his home a few miles below town, in the Spring Branch section, last Thursday after- ! noon. He had been in bad health for r. some time, but his last illness was of short duration. : / The burial took place Friday after- j noon at Bethel Lutheran church, in t the same section, the services being tj conducted by Rev. P. E. Monroe, of Ehrhardt. j Mr. Rentz was about 74 years old, and is survived by several children. He had been married twice, but he j had been a widower for a number of ' years. He was a good man, and will ^ be missed in his community. Masonic Meeting. u An interesting and enjoyable meet- n * * * T-1 ir i n _ mg of Urnan lodge a. r. m. was neia ij( last Friday evening, at which the h; Master's degree was conferred upon c] Messrs. J. E. Felder, W. M. Brab- a ham, E. C. Hays, C. B. Free, and Dr. r( V. W. Brabham. Past Grand Master C( Jno. R. Bellinger presided and con- & ferred the degrees, There was a ft large attendance of members and fc>< dsiting brethren. When the craft J) ?as called from labor to refreshment, w an elegant banquet was served at J) Johnson's Hotel. About ninety people was the attendance. X c< First Quarterly Conference. The first quarterly conference of T the Bamberg Methodist churches was cc held in the ladies' parlor of Trinity e< Methodist church Monday afternoon p< at four o'clock. Presiding Elder U Chas. B. Smith presided and inquired tx very carefully into the condition of a1 the various departments of church b work. The various reports were very tl encouraging, and it seems that a year ir of unusual progress is ahead of the churches here. n: Rev. S. W. Danner made a good re- w -Pwvm +V?o will /?Vmrual anH an nr. I tl [HAT DISPENSARY AFFAIR JQUOR SALESMAN AND WHOLE BOARD ARRESTED. >tate Commission Probing the Matter of Fraud and Results Expected by This Investigation. The dispensary winding up comnission has been having a breezy ime during the past few days and ensations are still piling up. The excitement started Wedneslay on the reading of a letter from dr. W. D. Roy, a representative of l large liquor concern, who had been indeavoring to organize a pool for he collection of claims from the rinding up commission for a percenage. The letter of Roy came back o the commission from one of the 1 J- ~ 1. i. lquor nouses 10 wmcn it was sent, toy was put on oath before the comnission and was requested to give he names of the men to whom he eferred as being interested in the icheme with him. He mentioned he ^National Loan and Exchange >ank, Messrs. August Kohn, T. B. Stackhouse and J. L. Minnaugh. P. 3. Nelson was attorney. Mr. Kohn nade a statement to the effect that le knew nothing about such a pool. 3e had given Roy certain informaion and had advised him to put his jusiness in the hands of W. D. Melon; but he had never dreamed of ising improper influences with the ommission. Statements from E. N. Robertson, president, and G. M. Jerry, cashier of the National Loan md Exchange bank, were to the efect that Roy had used the name of he bank iq the letters that he had ent out to liouor houses without luthority. A letter was read from toy acknowledging the fact. As the ipshot of the day's developments it ippeared that Roy alone was respon ible for the whole matter. He eems to havAconceived the idea that f he could make an arrangement nth the various* concerns whereby te could collect their claims for six >er cent, he would have a nice thing i it. His plan seems to have worked nicely until it developed that he commission would pay no claims mtil it had seen the books of the laimants and then several of the laimants began to kick out of the races and investigate Roy. Yesterday it was made apparent hat the claiming whiskey houses are iivided into three warring camps. )ne of them is headed by T. M. Morecai of Charleston, as attorney; nother by W. D. Roy of Kentucky, epresented by Mr. Nelson; another y Mr. Geo. B. Lester, attorney of few York and Baltimore. Mr. Leser represents claims of about $400,00, and they are correct according o the audit company; but when the ommission refused yesterday to onsider the claims unless the claimnts would show their books, Mr. /ester took a train for Asheville, N. to see Judge Pritchard. Later on M. A. Goodman, the repesentative of Ullman & Co., of Cininnati. from whom the disDensarv as purchased hundreds of thousands f dollars' worth of liquor, was arested on a charge of conspiracy to efraud the State and was required > give bond in the sum of $25,000. [e was before the commission for le purpose of collecting a $40,000 aim. His arrest seemed to be a Dmplete surprise to him. Mr. Goodlan denied the existence of certain ocuments which were 'afterward roduced with a letter which he at rst testified he had no recollection f but which he admitted was genine, addressed to Mr. Erhlich. 1 This letter was written in the summer of 1904. It directed Mr. Erhch to see Major John Black and ave him see to having certain purlases about to be made at the ugust meeting of the board of dijctors held up until lie (Goodman) )uld close a contract with Ullman ; Co., and told the writer to have [aj. Black, who was not then amemer of the board of directors, to see irector L. W. Boykin, and discuss ith him the advisability of letting 'irector John Bell To will into the iheme. The letter referred to a >mmission, but Mr. Goodman denied lat it was intended to pay Mr. Boy |JV/I u xiVLXi wuw miu V??AV* VM* v* ? ?anization for this church waseffected di by the election of J. Q. Adams and L Jno. D. Sandifer as stewards. Mr. T! Adams is also superintendent of the tl Sunday-school at the chapel. w A. W. Knight and H. C. Folk were U elected as delegates to the district 0( conference, which meets in Branch- b] grille in May, with W. D. Rhoad and te I. W. Stokes as alternates. Tl ? U Come to the town hall Friday even- fc ing any time after six o'clock, and t " ' *- * - J x J xL jet some nne oysters, iriea or steweu, i u joffee, salads, candy. | li< i r '"v>. - isr-/*?tr'.f??. : -+ -J1; >* m or Mr. Towiil any commission, he letter was'susceptible of either instruction. Other testimony showi that the August purchases were Dstponed, Director Hub Evans enuring his protest on the minute Doks. Heavy purchases were made t two subsequent meetings of the sard, Evans again protesting. At lese meetings large awards were iade to the Ullman concern. In addition to the arrest of Goodian, the liquor salesman, warrants ere issued for the arrest of the iree members of the old board of ispensary directors: John Black, W "R/WLrin and TnVin Roll Trvorill hecomissionhas adjourned to meet le 30th of this month. A resolution as passed stating that the firm of llman & Co. owed the .State $63,X), which they had received through ribery and corruption, with the insnt to cheat and defraud the State, bis action means that the claim of llman & Co. against the commission >r $35,000 will not be paid. The stimony conclusively proved that le State had been overcharged for juor. - ' Aj" ' ' - ' ' MAJOR BLACK ARRESTED: ^ Accused by Dispensary Board with ' Conspiracy to Defraud State. Columbia, Jan. 17?The warrant sworn out last night for Major John Black, charging him with conspiracy ''M to cheat and defraud the State of South Carolina, was served on Major , Black this morning. Mr. Black at once went before the magistrate and asked for bond, which was granted in the sum of $10,000. Bond was furnished by his wife, Mrs. Lena R. Black, and Mr. William L. Califf, of ' Denmark. Major Black is not by any means r the only one against whom a warrant , has been sworn out, and it is presum! ed that the other warrants will be served today on those parties named v ^ , who live in this State. All the war- >$j rants are sworn out by Mr. Avery Patton, member of the dispensary , commission, and were taken out be* , fore Magistrate Fowles, of this city. ; I They charge conspiracy to defraud the State. Mr. M. A Goodman, who was ar- ;^?f rested yesterday afternoon after his testimony before the commission and . "0g later released on $25,000 surety bond, was still in the city this morning, | but did not go to the meeting of the . commission. \-5 . The institution of prosecution in . these cases is the culmination of the many months' hard work, which At| torney General Lyon has been doing, and in which he has had the assistance of the commission to wind up 1 | the State dispensary, and its attorney, ' : Mr. W. F. Stevenson. Recently the f firm of Felder. Rountree & Ander son, of Atlanta, has been associated with the Attorney General. * The commission has large powers .,/$ j under the Act, which authorizes it to investigate the conduct of the dia- -,:M , pensarv and also to look into the mat* , ter of overcharges. Under this authority, the commission conceives it to be its duty to find out, as it is , v now doing, whether the prices paid , M by the dispensary for liquor are not " in excess of the prices charged other customers of the same houses; if they . are, the States does pot owe the face d'-gjB of the claims filed against the dis- - C' pensary, and if the overcharges are -u deducted the State may be save? '* great deal of money. In addition, . those responsible for any fraud :'M practiced on the State may be brought to punishment. | Honor Roll Denmark scnooi. . First grade?Gertrude Cox, Willie :'*J Dell Hutto, Lila Gillam, Julia Cox, Dell Cain, Vinell High tower, William /. v:% Henry Ray, Johnson Rowell, Marion Second grade?Clara Wyman, Wet- ; ^ ers Califf, Margaret Milhous, David 'M Sojourner, Leon Roton, Martha Wig- v?' Third grade-Frances Guess, Christ- <:M abel Mayfield, Vera Wiggins, .Vir- . ginia Hutto, Maud Creech, Bernard ;:Jj Faust, Pauline Ray, Annie Lee Tant, V Philip Cox. Fourth grade?Fitz Hugh Cox, '-4 Samuel Ray, ^Elizabeth Brux, John ; Martin, Frank Creech, Maud Ellzey, > Willie Califf, Walker Hartzog, Jesse B Fifthgrade?FlorideGarris, Gladys v: Odom, Shuler Owens, Stella Lab- - , caster, Ethel Wicker, JosephineFaust, ;$ Reynold Wiggins, Virginia^ Faust, Laurie Gillam. > Sixth grade?Stanwix Mayfield, Tindal Califf, Weldon Cain. v * Seventh grade?Litha Odom, Lois Ray, Annie Lou Collins, Ray Tyler, | Alva Ro ton, ElmaSteadman, Malcolm > ' rrvnAn 'RrtWfl -Ulgl.il/ll glOUV . J . . yp-tgmt Blonde Barton, Ruth Seymour, fm Gladys Milhous, Henry Murray Ray. - ^jjM Ninth grade?Azile Nix, Ruby Guess, Sadelle Guess, Marion Rileyt ?.$|3 Mary Lee Hightower, EmmettGillam, Christian Folk, Walter Rice. Tenth grade?Harry Wroton, Alma .'KgM Folk, Pansy Smoak, Ruth Ray, Sue Barton, Ina Califf. \ To Extend Free Delivery. Washington, Jan. 19.?A bflf to $|H permit the establishment of city mail delivery service in towns whose,postoffices produce a gross revenue of not ; less than $5,000 annually has been introduced in the senate by Senator Latimer. This bill Senator Latimer -J|| introduced in the senate several years ago and the postmaster general has now recommended its enactment in ' his annual report. Another important provision of the :4|j bill introduced by Senator Latimer is that towns whose postoflices yield *3$ less than $5,000 shall be entitled to' . / ^ have the mail delivered by the rural delivery carriers. The idea is that in the small towns the rural delivery carriers shall stop at all those houses on their routes where letter boxes of the prescribed pattern are placed, no /jB matter whether the houses are inside the incorporated limits or not. At <?$ present the R. F. D. carriers pass by all the houses inside the incorporated towns and deliver the mail to the first Uai,/,/, Aiifcii/1A looinnflr tlio TWtnlp 1T1? uuusc uuwiuc, iMfuig maw r?f side the incorporated limits, no matter how far out these limits extend, to go for their mail. The Farmers' Union of Spartan- " ; burg county will organize a national bank in that city with a capital stock -|?| of #00,000. They will erect a hand' some bank building.