The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 30, 1913, Image 1
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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30,1913. Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, October 27.?There has
been two up-to-date marriages in our
town. Two or three years ago U did
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not take so much for a couple to get
married. Wanted only a few witnesses,
a preacher, and a license to make
the pair happy. Now it takes ever
^ so much work. Have to practice
about a week or two and have a rehooncol
nrioo nr tTV 1 no Cft t<~? CPt tVlfa
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ring on the right finger at the right
time or they will not be married, and
happiness gone.
^ Some parties are trying to make
an agreement along that line, but
don't think they will occupy so much
time, for already silver hairs are
showing, and, too, one party has
had experience, so business must
move up.
Mrs. S. V. Smith was buried last
week at the Smith grave yard by the
* side of her husband, who was placed
there several years ago. She leaves
behind two sons and two daughters
and several grand children to mourn
her departure from this earth. She
was a good wife, a noble mother, and
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a cnnsuan neigiiuur, auu v>m uc
missed by all that knew her.
v ^ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ehrhardt and
MR Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt went
? to Charleston on business and pleasure
last week.
? Had court in Ehrhardt last Friday,
concerning the disputed right
of way for the Bamberg & Ehrhardt
Railroad. Jury gave the A. C. L. Ry.
$5.00 damage and Henry Ehrhardt
$700.00 for damage done to lots.
One of our young merchants sits
up very late at night and burns his
lights. Sayg to keep the rats from
eating his peanuts. All they eat
can't get profits off them.
Mrs. Leslie Xewnham, of Columbia,
S. C., and her three children are
visiting her sister, Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt.
Messrs. 8. W. Copeland and J. D.
Dannelly are putting bricks on the
ground for two brick stores. Work
will commence on them soon. This
will put others in the notion, and
others will follow. Brick buildings
are needed in Ehrhardt.
Rev*. D. B. Groseclose preached his
farewell sermon Sunday afternoon as
. a pastor. Had a good audience and
he held their attention and gave the
congregation good advice to ponder
and reflect on. He will go to Fairfax,
S. C., to hold up that end of the
separated work. Mount Pleasant and
Ehrhardt charges has no pastor now.
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Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, October 26.?Mrs Perry
Grey, of Barton, visited friends here
last week.
Mrs. M. Loadholt and Miss Alma
Loadholt, of Hickory Grove, were
here recently.
Mrs. and Misses Allen, of Sycamore,
were guests here last week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Kearse, of Florida,
have been spending some time
with their mother, Mrs. Christina
v Kearse.
Mrs. Harvey and daughter, from
Manuel, visited here recently.
Misses Etta Kine and Irene Bar
ton, of Orangeburg, are visiting Mrs.
McCain.
Mrs. Julia Harter, assisted by nu
merous church workers, gave a bazaar
and supper at the Manuel store
Thursday evening. Over fifty dollars
was taken in, and the rainy evening
was the only gloomy part of the entertainment.
v _ The Lutherans continue their
"rummage sale" at the old Davis
store.
Misses Folk and Albergotti spent
the week-end at Estill with relatives.
Miss Mell Kearse, of Olar, has been
the charming guest of Mrs. W. E.
* Harter for several days. She has
many friends here.
Mrs. Rebecca Williams, of Savannah,
was a recent guest of Mrs E.
Ulmer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Creech and
daughters, of Blackville, motored
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over to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wm. My1
rick this week, Misses Geneva and
Sallie May Gray, of Brunson. were
also their guests.
Mrs. Laura Boyles and Mrs. Minnie
Boyles and daughters, of Barnwell,
were recent guests of Mrs. Lily Myrick.
The teachers are getting up a play,
to be produced soon.
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New line of Watrman fountain
pens at the Herald Book Store.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS ;
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. j
State News Boiled Down for Quick j
XKGKO KILLED BY OFFICERS. |
Son Alleged to Have Confessed that j
Father Set Barn on Fire
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Laurens, Oct. 27.?As a sequel to
the burning four weeks ago of the
barn of M. B. McCuen, a prominent j
citizen of Princeton. Sheriff John D. j
Owings and deputies, in attempting |
to effect the arrest of Lace Glover, [
a negro, and his two boys, on war- j
rants charging them with the crime, I
was forced to kill the father, at half
past 5 o'clock this morning, at the
cabin home of the negroes in Dunklin
Township, just across the line in
Greenville county.
| On going to the house and sur!
rounding it the sheriff approached
! and rapped on the door. Glover responded
and opened the door after
getting a light. When commanded by
the sheriff to surrender, the negro
reached for his gun in a rack near
the door, but before he could use it
the sheriff and one of his deputies,
having the drop on the negro, both
tired, killing him on the spot. Eight
shots were fired, six of which took
effect in the negro's body. The other
two found lodgment in the stock of
Glover's gun, which he held in his
hand.
Bob and Wesley Glover and their
mother were arrested by the officers
and brought to jail to-day on the
same warrant. Before leaving for jail
Bob Glover is said to have confessed
to the officers that he went with
his father the night the barn was
burned and saw the old man apply
the torch to the building. He further
said, it is claimed, that his mother,
instigated the crime. The Glovers
lived on Mr. McCuen's farm until a
short time before the fire and are
said to have threatened revenge
when forced to leave because of continual
friction with their landlord.
IMgs Kill Snakes.
At one time, on the Tule river, in
California, where a light and power
company is constructing a large
plant, there were so many snakes
that the men would not live in the
camps. Finally pigs were taken in
and now a rattlesnake is a curiosity.
The pigs eat the snakes, while the
reptiles can not sink their fangs
through the tough skin and thick'
flesh of the porkers.
A jury in the circuit court in
Richland county on Friday gave a
verdict of $500 in favor of the
widow of Ira Hurt, colored, against
R. O. Thacknian, a constable, and
his bondsmen, for killing her husband
last year, the constable having
shot him while he was attempting
to escape on his way to jail. Thackman
had already been tried and acquitted
in the sessions court. The
woman sued for only $500.
Underwood and Hobson Lock Horns.
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Representative Richmond Pearson
Hobson of Alabama and his colleague,
Majority Leader Underwood,
engaged in a bitter debate on the
floor of the house over the senatorial
contest in their state, in which they
are rival candidates. The oratorical
duel was precipitated by Mr. Hobson
reiterating utterances he made
last week in a speech at Wetumpka,
Ala., intimating that Mr. Underwood
was "the tool of Wall street
and the liquor interests" and charging
that he had gained Alabama's
support in the last presidential campaign
through false pretenses.
Cheers from Democrats and Republicans
greeted Mr. Underwood as
he rose to reply, and later, when Mr.
Hobson tried to interrupt, there
were loud cries of "Sit down, sit
down; you've had your time."
The climax of the dramatic scene
came when the majority leader, facing
about in his place, asked:
"Is there any other man in this
chamber who believes the charge
that I am or ever have been the tool
of Wall street?"
He was answered by shouts of
"No, no!" from both sides of the
house.
Rabbit Couldn't Multiply.
A boy was overheard saying to his
pet fabbit: "How much is seven
times seven?"
Of course, there was no response
from the rabbit.
"How much is four times four?"
Still there was no response.
"Now I will give you an easy one:
How much is two times two?" Still
the rabbit refused to respond.
"Well," said the boy. "I knew
father was fibbing when he said rabbits
are the greatest multipliers in
the world."
All kinds of school and office supplies
at the Herald Book Store.
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings. (
Mayor W. H. Gibbs of Columbia ,
left on Sunday for Panama to attend t
the Southern Commercial congress, j
Mattison Elmore died at his home 1
at Cold Point Laurens county, 011 2
Thursday, aged 92?thought to have ]
been the oldest person in the county. (
John H. Steele, aged 24 and unmarried,
conductor on the Charleston <
terminal, was crushed to death Fri- 1
day night by the train which he had 1
charge of. 1
Hay R. Shuford, trainman on the
Carolina & Northwestern railroad. *
had his hand so badly mashed in 1
Chester Saturday while coupling cars
that it had to be amputated.
Clemson students went to the
state fair, as usual, in two special y
Southern railway trains. The first
train arrived in Columbia 2:45 J
o'clock Monday afternoon, the sec- j ?
ond train ten minutes later. ^
A. L. Suskins, "the son of a <
wealthy family," was arrested in r
Chester Friday on the charge of j
embezzlement of money made by a
man in Florida for whom he had
worked. He denies the charge.
The statue to the "partisan gen- i
erals," Marion, Pickens and Sumter, <
will be unveiled in Columbia Nov.
11th, under the auspices of the
Daughters of the American Revolu- s
tion. The work is by the famous I
sculptor Ruckstul. 1
.Marvin J. Smith, white, was con- ?
victed in the United States court in <
Greenville on Friday of robbing a 1
freight car of the Southern railway (
while he was conductor and was sen- '
tenced to a fine of $1,000 and one 1
year in the Atlanta penitentiary, r
This conviction was under a new law ?
recently passed by congress. i
Japanese View of Business Integrity. 1
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A Japanese who had contracted g
for certain machinery, and desired to
get out of his contract without having
to pay the heavy penalty involv
ed, wrote the following letter to anassooiate,
says the Railway and En- t
gineering Review: c
"Regarding the matter of escap- ?
ing the penalty for non-delivery of ^
the bar machine, there is only one I
way to creep around same by diplomat,
and we must make a statement c
of strike occur at our factory (of I
course big untruth) and please ad- t
dress my person as enclosed form of t
letter, and believe this will avoid the 1
trouble of penalties of same. Mr. 1
B. is a most religious and competent
man, and also heavily upright and i
godly, it fears me useless to apply for *
his signature?please attach same by 1
Yokohama Office, making forge, but
no cause for fear of prison happen- j
ings as this is often operated by t
other merchants of highest integrity, j
It is the highest unfortunate Mr. B.
is so godlike and excessive awkward i
for business purposes. I think much
better to add little serpent-like wis- ?
dom to upright manhood and thus (
found good business edifice." t
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Scot Met Ssot.
The following Scotch tale is one of
President Wilson's favorites:
A Scotchman was strolling through
the market-place in Glasgow one day *
and close at his heels followed his ?
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faithful collie. Attracted by a line 1
display of shell and other fish, the ?
Scot stopped to admire, perhaps to *
purchase. The dog stood by, gently c
wagging its tail, while its master en- *
gaged the fisherman in conversation. 1
Unfortunately for the beast its tail (
dropped for a moment over a big bas- 1
ketful of fine, live lobsters. Instantly i
one of the largest lobsters snapped ;
its claws on the tail, and the sur- *
priser collie dashed off through the f
market, yelping with pain, while the t
lobster hung grimly on, though dash- 1
ed violently from side to side. The r
fishmonger for a moment was speech- *
less with indignation; then, turning c
to his prospective customer, he bawl- c
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"Mon! mon! whustle to ver dog, c
whustle to yer dog!"
"Hoot, mon," returned the other 1
complacently, "whustle to yer lob- *
ster!" *
"I suppose the driver of a car \
comes to have a sort of sympathetic c
understanding with the machine." t
"Yes," replied the man who had c
stopped to make repairs, "there is a
mysterious relationship between us.
For instance, whenever my car is a
broke I know that I am going to be." ?
ENGINEER KILLED IN WRECK. J |
Several Badly Injured when Train j
Leaves Track Near Easley. ! I
Greenville, Oct. 27.?Engineer
Ben J. Voyle was killed and five peorj
pie injured when Southern train No
11 jumped the track one mile west
)f Easley at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Spreading rails was the cause of the
ft'reck. The engine and baggage cars
:urned completely over and the track p
or more than a hundred yards torn i
?p. The passengers were consider- t
ibly shaken up and the excitement i
prevailed for some time after the ac- o
?ident. v
The wreck occurred in a deep cut l;
it the same place where a fruit train f
,vns riprnilpd last snrin? Whpn the
lews reached Greenville a relief train e
vas made up and rushed to the scene t
Hearing doctors, nurses and every I
possible aid to relieve the injured, t
k wrecking crew was also rushed to s
:he scene and it was thought the t
crack would be cleared by midnight ii
following is list of the injured: Bady
mangled, B. C. Kerry, fireman, of v
Walhalla; painfully hurt about face, E
lack Holt, expressman; injured in S
lip, D. B. Goodlett. of Greenville; t
slightly injured, Lee Leathers, of c
Westminister; slightly hurt. Fred e
bearwood, newsboy, shoulder hurt,
rhe train was in charge of conductor h
rYank .Marshall. 1
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Official Report of Wreck. <j
The following official dispatch was a
eceived yesterday at the local pas- p
senger offices of the Southern Rail- a
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"About 4.10 o'clock to-day, just
south of Easley, S. C., Train No. 11, t
Engineer B. J. Voyles, Conductor C. t
?. Marshall, was derailed. The en- e
tine, mail car, baggage car and three o
:oaches left the track. Engineer t
/ovles was instantly killed. Fireman n
3. C. Kelly was seriously injured, a
The baggagemaster and express
nessenger were injured, but not se- v
iously. Several passengers were p
ilightly injured, but up to 5.30 p. m. c
lone was reported seriously injured.
The cause of the wreck was un- n
cnown." The dispatch was sent out T.
>y H. F. Cary. general passenger
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Willie's Reason. v
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That the average youngster is
isually there with a ready reason was '
lemonstrated the other day by a ^
itory told by Congressman John R. .
Valker, of Idaho, says The Philadel)hia
Telegram.
The family was gathered in the
len of a happy little home in an
Eastern town. Father was reading
he sporting page, mother was em>roidering
pink sunflowers and Wil- j,
ie was supposed to be getting his
essons, but Willie wasn't.
"Willie." suddenly exclaimed mamna,
looking up from her embroidery,
'Iisvq vr?n cturiiori vrmr fpnsTflnhv .
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esson?" j
"No, ma'am," was the frank reminder
of Willie, who was listening
.0 something that sounded like great ^
toy in the street. a
"You haven't?" severely responded j
nother. "Well, why haven't you?"
"Because," explained Willie, "papa t
says that the map of the world is
hanging every day, and I thought n
hat I would wait until things got set- t
led a bit." n
Uncle Sain Helps Fanner Next. g
Tulsa, Okla., October 27.?United y
?tates Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, in ^
in o/1/1rcioo hofrtro tho International
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farming Congress here to-day gave
issurance that legislation tending
o better the condition of the Amerip
;an farmer would be considered by ^
Congress immediately after the pend- ^
ng currency i6 disposed of. Senator j
Jore declared, too, as a result of the ^
'ecent investigations of rural credits
n Europe a plan would be decided
vhereby money with which to raise
he crops would be loaned to the
arm^* at 4 per cent, interest. Soils, E
illage, live stock and other subjects e
mportant to the planter, with special t.
eference to conservation of water to ^
)rovide moisture for the growing q
:rops during dry periods, were discussed
by agricultural experts from a 0
mmber of States and several foreign ^
ountries to-day. a
The International Congress of tj
rarm Women held its first session t
his afternoon. .Mrs. Belle Von Dorn ^
-ierbert, of Manzanola, Colo., presi- S)
lent of the Congress, made a plea for
)etter privileges of the women and ^
hildren of the farm and deplored t<
he exodus from the country to the a
:ity. ij
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A few pieces of hand painted china,* t
it cost, at the Herald Book Store.
luitable for wedding presents.
IOMICIDE NEAR LAURENS
CRXEST AND HI NT SHARP SHOT
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BY CORNELIUS EDWARDS.
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IXvo Brothers are Slain by Brother- j
in-La\v, Siiid to Have Been Result
of Domestic Trouble.
Laurens, October 27.?Ernest and
lunt Sharp, brothers, aged 21 and
S. respectively, were shot and killed
o-day near Barksdale by Cornelius
Ldwards, aged 21, a brother-in-law
if Hunt Sharp. In the fight Ed
rards was wounded, but not seriousy,
and was later brought to jail by
tural Policeman Columbus Owens.
The tragedy occurred about two
Qiles from Barksdale at 9 o"clock
his morning. Edwards, who lives at
larksdale, was hauling wood from
he vicinity in which the Sharps reided.
He was driving a four-horse
earn and met the Sharp boys when,
t is alleged, one of them opened
ire with a shotgun, shooting Edwards
off his saddle mule. Before
Idwards could rise to his feet Ernest
harp, it is said, ran up and placed
he muzzle of his gun on Edwards's
hest and commanded him not to
love.
By this time Edwards had got his
and on his pistol and lying flat of
lis back he managed to get the
-eapon to his side and shot Ernest
ead in his tracks. Edwards then
ttempted to get away from the
lace, whereupon Hunt followed him
nd fired once or twice, but missed
im.
Finding that the fire was getting
oo hot for him Edwards determined
o stand his sround. and. it is claim
d, turned upon his pursuer. With
ne well directed shot, he brought
he younger Sharp to the ground
aortally wounded, death ensuing in
bout an hour.
Edwards returned to his home,
rhere he was later attended by a
ihysician and afterwards taken in
ustody by officers.
The inquest was held this afteroon
by Magistrate Hellams, of Dials
'ownship.
To-day's double tragedy is said to
ave been the result of ill feeling beween
the ShanJ brothers and Edwards,
caused, it is alleged, by donestic
trouble, which began some
ime last summer, before the mariage
of Hunt Sharp to the sister of
Idwards. It seems that since the
eginning of the alleged trouble, all
arties have been going prepared for
.'hat occurred when they met to-day.
The Board Was AH Bight.
South Trimble, the clerk of the
louse of representatives, merrily
huckled the other evening when one j
f the party referred to the easy way i
ome people have of explaining a disrepancy.
He was reminded, he said,
f the proprietor of a country hotel
a one of the eastern states.
Some -time ago. acording to the
tory told by Mr. Trimble, a man was
raveling along the road when he saw
sign announcing that the Rural
nn was a hundred yards further on.
"Say old man," remarked the
raveler to the landlord when he
nally reached the hotel, "what's the
natter with that sign of yours down
he road yonder? Isn't it a trifle
fiivort
A trifle mixed?" wonderingly reponded
the proprietor. "I don't get
ou."
"It says a hundred yards to the hoel,"
returned the traveler, "and if it
sn't three-quarters of a mile my tape
leasure is twisted."
"The sign is all right," declared the
roprietor with a smile of enlightenlent.
"The wfiole trouble lies with
he man who put it up. He got it in
he wrong place."?Philadelphia
'elegraph.
To Extend Railroad to A. O. L.
Plans are being made by the
iranchville and Bowman railroad to
xtend their line to Holly Hill, a disance
of about 40 miles, to connect
ith the A. C. L. at that town, says
General Manager E. N. Mittle.
Mr. Mittle says the freight business
f his road during the past few years
ad shown a remarkable increase.,
nd it had become necessary that
ley have connection with other roads
han the Southern at Branchville,
<ith which road they were having
Dime trouble.
He has been in correspondence
ith railroad contractors, and expects
3 reach an agreement with them at
n early date for the necessary gradlg.
He stated that his road could
asily finance such an improvement
3 their road.
Read The Herald, $1.50 a year.
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RAISE STOCK, URGES LEVER.
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Timely Advice to Farmers of South
Carolina.
Lexington, Oct. 27.?Congressman
Lever, after a remarkable automobile
trip from Washington to Georgetown
by way of Luray Caves and the Natural
Bridge, in company with Congressman
Byrnes, as the guest of
Congressman Ragsdale, and a trip
upon the Government torpedo boats
from Georgetown to Conway, where
he spoke on Thursday, and on to
Union, where he spoke on Friday,
has reached home in fine physical
condition. Mr. Lever is in receipt of
numerous invitations to speak in various
parts of the State, but as yet
has not accepted any of them, although
he has previously engaged
himself to deliver an address in Augusta
on the 6th of November at the
Good Roads Congress, and at Rock
Hill on November 1 at a meeting of
the Alfalfa Club of that community.
"I am particularly interested in
this latter engagement," said Mr.
Lever, "for I see in the alfalfa and
grass work begun in this State the
genesis of a movement which ultimately
must result in making this
State prominent among the Southern
States in live stock growing.
With the decreasing supply of meat
in this country and with the increasing
price for the same, it becomes
extremely important that the farmers
of South Carolina?big and little
?should be induced to enter the
field of live stock growing as a profit- ' I
able industry, both within itself and
as a soil builder. There is no reason
in the world why beef, pork and
poultry cannot be successfully raised
in South Carolina. We need only
to have proper pasturage tor tne nrst
two and the elimination of the cattle
tick and hog cholera, and for the
latter only intelligent handling.
"We must teach our people how to
grow forage and to build permanent
pastures to make cattle growing entirely
successful, and it must not be
forgotten that the success of hog
raising depends upon the success of
cattle raising?the two go together.
"Our farmers must not lose sight
of the fact that the boll weevil is
coming as certain as the night follows
the day, and we must not find
ourselves when the time comes un- J
prepared for him. and there can be
no state of unpreparedness worse
than that of finding ourselves dependent
absolutely upon cotton alone.
To my mind the live stock proposition
as a supplement to our cotton is the
livest and most important proposition
we have in the next few years '
when the boll weevil striks us.
"I am especially pleased with the
high prices of cotton, because I noticed
last fall among the people in
the State a sentiment of doubt as to
what effect a change in parties might
have upon our prosperity. Democrats
themselves were just a little dubious,
and it is exceedingly gratifying to
those of us who made the fight and
won it to have our predictions, that
prosperity would follow a Democratic
Administration, come true. The Ad
ministration is making good with,
four feet up. The passage of the tariff
bill is the most important economic
advance in the policies of our
Government since the war, and when
this is followed by the early enactment
of currency reform, to be followed
later by a tightening up in our
anti-trust laws, the people for the
first time in years will have come into
their own."
Representative Lever will, of
course, attend the State Fair and is
due to attend a Congress called for
the purpose of inducing the Legislature
of the State to appropriate $40,000
to help eradicate the cattle tick.
"We can hardly estimate the enormous
loss to this State on account of
the cattle tick." says Mr. Lever, "and
it is the duty, the highest duty, of
wise statesmanship to lend itself to :J>!
an effort to eradicate it. I feel confident
that I can induce the Federal
Government to match dollars with
the appropriation provided for by the %
State." %'
Club Manager Arrested.
Anderson, October 29.?Following
the raid on the Dixie Social Club.
Sheriff Joe M. H. Ashley has arrested
J. E. Derrick, manager of the club,
on four warrants. They charge conducting
a place of nuisance, storing
whiskey, selling whiskey and making
away with property under seizure of
the sheriff. After the place had been
raided and locked up by the sheriff,
it is charged that someone removed a
window and carried away 32 bottles ?
of beer and two quarts of whiskey.
Derrick has been released on a bond
of $300 in each of the four cases,
amounting to $1,200 in all.
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