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COIINTRV NEWS LETTERS
SOLE INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, March 30.?Our far\
mers are busy now getting their
farms in order, making up for lost
time earlier in the year when they
could not work on account of the
snow and the like. Still some are
not through hauling fertilizer yet.
? A new enterprise is talked of here.
Some of the capitalists are talking of
of a brick works being started here.
Wftvp ennp so far as to examine the
clay. They report favorable, and
this examination proves favorable to
make first class brick, by an old experienced
man, and all to do is to go
to work and make brick. j
The fish commission at Columbia
will do a great favor by looking out
; for the fish on little Saltkeatchie
swamp near Carters' Ford. There is
more dynamite exploded in that section
of the swamp than there is exploded
anywhere in the fields
around.. The quantity of dead fish
on the water and the reports heard
around in the swamp is a sure sign
' that some one is using dynamite to
get fish with out of the stream. They j
not only destroy the fish for the future
but fish will not stay around in
water where dynamiting is done, and
we think this dynamiting should be
done away with and think the State
authorities should stop it so as some
one else could catch a few fish with
hook and line.
Mr6. E. A. McDowell will have her
music class givd^ an exhibition of
their capabilities on Good Friday af;
ternoon in Copeland'e hall. All are invited
to attend and enjoy the occasion.
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^ St. Johns News.
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St. Johns, March 30.?We have
been having some very warm weather
for the past week. I guess the
\ # farmers are glad to see it. Some
have planted corn and some are fixing
to plant this week and I heard
some talking of planting cotton the
last of this week.
Mr. G. L. Kinard has been very
ill for the last week, but hope he
will be able to be out again soon.
Mr. J.^A: Peters and family were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley
Hiers last Sunday.
Mr. G. J. Herndon and family were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L!
Brant last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Allen and
family visited their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. S. Shaw, last Sunday; also
Miss Marie Allen and Miss Genie
Brant and Mr. J. P. Hiers and Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Bishop and little
son visited Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Shaw
last Sunday.
Misses Edith, Salome and Ella
Hiers, Miss Edna Bishop, and Miss
Clara Lyons were the guests of
Misses Elizabeth, Florrie, and Mattie
Lou Hiers last Sunday.
Mr. Carl Bishop was the guest of
Mr. E. P. Hiers last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Brown were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. S.
Hiers last Sunday.
Mr. J. P. Hiers came home from
Georgia last Wednesday afternoon.
Said he enjoyed his trip fine.
Miss Clara Lyons was the guest
of Miss Ella Hiers last Saturday
night.
Mr. Wilbur Hiers was the guest
of Mr. Henry Hutson last Sunday.
Mr. P. R. Brown and Mr. Ben
Shaw were the guests of Messrs. J.
P. and E. P. Hiers last Saturday
night.
Miss Kinnie Dannelly returned
home last Saturday afternoon from
Ehrhardt.
There was a pindar shelling given
at Mr. J. B. Hiers's last Friday night.
Sure it was enjoyed by those who
were present.
There is to be preaching at St.
Johns next Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Hope to see a large crowd
rout Sunday afternoon.
Master Colman Hiers was the
1 ' guest of Master Sammie Hiers last
Sunday.
"I had to let that new maid go.
I discovered that she was neglecting
the children when I was attending my
club meetings."
"That so?"
"Yes. Positively, she couldn't
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think less of them if they were her
own."?Detroit Free Press.
"There is no disgrace in being
poor," and we are howling glad of it,
for there are enough disadvantages
about it without that one.
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BABCOCK MAY HAVE CHARGE, j
Rumored He Will Head S|>artanbur? j
Pellagra Hospital.
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It is rumored that Dr. J. \Y. Bab- (
eoek. formerly head of the State Insane
Asylum, may be placed in charge
of the government's pellagra hospi- j
tal at Spartanburg.
No official statement can be obtained
as to this. Dr. Babcock is regarded
as an expert on pellagra, and
one of his studies of the disease was
published some years ago as a bulletin
by the public health service of the
United State6.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, March 30.?Mr. and Mrs. j
Raymond Tuten, of Ulmer, visited j
here last week.
Miss Salley spent the week-end at
Appleton.
Dr. and Mrs. Googe, Mesdaraes
Wilson and Harter autoed to Hamp- ,
ton recently, hearing the evangelist j
Yarboro preach there.
Theo. Brooker, of Columbia, visited
his sister, Mrs. Simpson, also
Dr. Brooker, of Swansea, was her
guest recently.
Rev. Wm. Simpson paid a business
visit to Atlanta last week.
Misses Bessie and Ella Terry and
Mr. Wells, of Barton, came here to j
the dance last week.
Mr. Lovett is teaching vocal music
here. Has a large class, and the
young folks seem to enjoy going to
the meetings.
The U. D. C., Fairfax Chapter, are
very busy now planting and cultivating
a number of flower beds in front
| of the hotels.
Mrs. Padgett and little twin sons,
| of Ehrhardt, spent last week with
j Mrs. Jones Lane.
An "uncle of W. Wingard, of Augus!
ta, visited the latter's family recently.
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Mrs. W. Wingard and little Jessie
visited relatives at Brunson recently.
Mesdames Ella Murdaugh and children.
of Columbia, Tuten and Jones
Williams, were recent guests of Mrs.
I Julia Harter.
Miss Sallie May Grey, of Brunson,
is visiting Mrs. Lily.Mvrick. \
There were two missionary lectures
given Sunday and Monday evening at
the Lutheran church. The missionary
described minutely and graphically
life in Japan, and the difficulties
of getting used to the ways of the
natives.
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Dr. Lea,.of Holly Hill, and a sisI
ter of Mrs. W. L. Brooks, of Estill,
are visiting the latter.
I Miss Pearl Copeland, of Ehrhardt,
; is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Lightsey.
W. H. Wingard, of Augusta, was
a recent visitor here to friends at
| the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. WinI
gard.
Oak Grove News.
Oak Grove, March 31.?The people,
old and young, of our community
are preparing for Easter. The
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I lUQieS Ui I"lt;a.5<a.llL nin .ucinwujji.
church are going to have an entertainment
on Good Friday night. First
I there will be a play, "A Box of Monkeys,"
by the young people. There
will be no admission fee for this.
Our Baptist friends are not idle
either, and are preparing to have an
entertainment of a very different
kind in a few weeks.
Miss Johnelle "Hoffman is at home
again after having taught several
months at Outland.
Miss Dora Hiers has returned
from a pleasant visit to friends at
Cope.
Mrs. C. M. Jones, of Bamberg, who
has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. j
D. P. Smith, of this place, has re- I
1 turned home.
Mr. D. P. Smith spent last Wednes- j
j day in Bamberg.
Miss Lucy Carter is visiting her
sister. Mrs. Philip McCants, in j
Orangeburg.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Copeland made i
a trip to Bamberg last week.
Mr. Talmage Clayton is at home
after an extended trip to Florida.
* Messrs. O. L. and L. W. Copeland
are preparing to establish a saw
mill in connection with their ginnery.
Mrs. Philip Padgett and children
have returned from a delightful vis*
it to relatives at Fairfax.
Obeyed Instructions.
"Did that young man kiss you last
night. Ethel?"
"Yes mother."
"And you allowed him to?"
"Why, he just did, mother."
"Why didn't you stop him?"
"Why mother, you told me I must
never interrupt any one."?
Yonkers Statesman.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ]
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State News Boiled Down for Quick ext
Heading?Paragraphs About i'ac
Men and Happenings. *n
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The sixth annual horse show open- anc
ed in Camden yesterday. un1
The Peoples Xatiophl bank has
been organized at Conway, with a mo
capital stock of $25,000.
all
Six thousand Anderson county
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trmL- nart in flip TiPin
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day exercises in the city of Anderson
on Fridav.
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Richard Franklin Gaither, of Ken- 0^
tucky, has been elected president cllj
i of Orangeburg college, vice W. W. an(
Rivers, resigned. gei
... Former Governor John Gary m0
Evans has announced that he will cot
not be a candidate for United States Cor
senator this summer. :
At present there are 934 em- tw<
ployees on the pay roll at the Char- offi
leston navy yard, from $2,250 to rie
$2?350 per day being paid out to the wa
employees. we
The Supreme Court has decided
that- the election in Lexington rec
I county some time ago, voting in the e(*
dispensary, was legal. Six dispen- at
saries will be established. t0
ni6
On the vote in the lower house of
congress Tuesday to repeal the Panama
canal exemption measure, Repre- s^c
orj/
sentatives Byrnes, Johnson. Lever
and Whaley "voted to sustain the Ult
president; Representatives Aiken,
Finley and Ragsdale voting against pla
ait
the repeal measure.
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The State Supreme Court a few . .
days ago affirmed the verdict by
which John Hough, a wealthv Ker'
p.rn
shaw county man who killed his ^ar
father was sentenced to death, and
Hough was to have been electrocuted $01
April 25th, but the governor has
commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.
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A big encampment of soldiers wfll ?0]
be held at th.e Isle of Palms during th
the month of August. It is expected jng
that about 30,000 soldiers will camp hU]
there for two weeks. Some ships of xh
the Atlantic squadron may also be xh
there at the same time. The en- (jr
campment has been authorized by wjt
the war department. orc
Two negroes were carried to the by
penitentiary from Union on Friday mu
for safekeeping. They were charg- als<
ed with entering the room of the tio:
daughter of a farmer of West Spring Ca
several nights ago. The young lady go<
was awakened by the touch of one mu
of the negroes, and ran screaming sor
into her father's room. ing
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Wise Old Dad. ; jng
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The young fellow moved to protest ^
trt hie fathor Hp liari a snpakins'
ambition to be a rounder himself, by
but he didn't think that a chap's dad CQr
ought to go in for that sort of thing, ^
and what he had heard was worry- J
! ing him a good deal. He approached
the subject diffidently. ^
"Say, father," he began, "I?er?I j-n
wanted to ask you something." g0
"Sure, old fellow. Sit down and t
| have a cigar. Now fire ahead."
"Well, I hear that you have put
your name up for membership in
ma
the Afraid to Go Home club."
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"That's right. It's a fine club, ^
everybody tells me?comfortable, ^
congenial, and all that."
"Um! But say, didn't you know ^
that it was the sportiest club in .
town?" ^
"I did. I guess it's worse than
sio
that, from the rumors I hear. '
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"Well then, excuse me, dad, but ^
what do you want to join for?" gor
"I'll tell vou. I want to be a mem- .
of
ber so that I can blackball you when
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of you. Do you get me? Have ^
another cigar. Goodby!"?Cleveland .
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Plain Dealer.
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Passing it On. wa
of
A Sunday-school teacher, after ten
conducting a lesson on the story of 0f
"Jacob's Ladder." concluded by saying:
"Now is there any little girl or tru
boy who would like to ask a question w0
about the lesson?" pic
Little Susie looked puzzled for a bu|
moment, and then raised her hand, f0!
relates Everybody's Magazine. say
"A question Susie?" asked the bet
teacher. bu;
"I would like to know," said Susie,
"if the angels have wings, why did
they have to climb up the ladder?" <
The teacher thought for some mo- poi
ments, and then, looking about the tru
class, asked: "Is there any little boy fac
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YY 1IU WUUlVA tv ? w question?"
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ULSTER SITUATION GRAVE.
Agnations of Field Marshal
French and Gen. Ewart.
London, March 26.?That the govtment
still is facing a situation of
reme difficulty is proved by the
t that Premier Asquith was not
a position to-night to make his
)mised statement in parliament,
1 it consequently was postponed
:il to-morrow.
riie air is full of extravagant rurs,
among the most creditable be;
the report that Col. Seely after
is to quit the war office by an ex
mge of portfolios with Lewis Harirt,
secretary for the colonies.
The only new facts in the situation
day were found in the resignation
Field .Marshal Sir John French,
ef of the imperial general staff,
i Sir John Spencer Ewart, adjutant
leral, from the army council. Rurs
that other members of the army
incil have resigned could not be
tfirmed.
Negotiations and conferences beBen
Buckingham palace, the war
ce and Downing street were card
on throughout the day, and it
s known that the strongest efforts
re being adopted to induce Field
rshal French and Gen. Ewart to
onsider. The prime minister calla
hurried meeting of the cabinet
his residence after it was decided
postpone the statement to parliant.
Later it was announced, with a
>w of authority, that both French
I Ewart at last had consented to
hdraw their resignations.
In Ireland no change has taken
ce. Belfast remains quiet, and,
hough it is asserted that officers
the Curragh camp are determined
resign because of the repudiation
Col. Seely's guarantee by the goviment,
no actual resignations, so
as known, have occurred.
ne State Teachers' Associational
News. \
The first general session of the
eting was in the auditorium of
averse college and everybody was
;re. 1 was informed that the seat;
capacity is two thousand five
adred, and every place was full
ursday and Friday evenings. On
ursday evening the school chilin
of the city schools entertained
;h two beautiful songs, also the
hestra of Spartanburg, as formed
Dr. Ross, gave some excellent
isic. The glee club of Wofford
o gave several beautiful selecns,
and the quartette of the South
rolina University rendered some
ad singing, and special mention
ist be made of the "Folk Lore"
igs they sang, among them be"Hangman's
Tree" and "Barbary
en." Mayor Floyd in his welcom;
address, said "Spartanburg is
irs, teachers," and verily it seemto
be at it's best.
Some able addresses were made
Hon. P. P. Claxton, United States
nmissioner of education; Hon. J.
Swearingen, State superintendent
education; and Hon. A. F. Lever,
the 5th congressional district, and
lers. These deep minded men outed
so many things and made them
important that it maae one siup
think, "Am I equal to all the posilities
and needs of the day in
> teacher world?" There were so
ny good things said and done that
?r teacher or visitor was obliged to
1 inspired to higher and nobler
s. Special mention must be made j
the "Boy Scouts" of the city, as j
!v were so attentive to every visr
and ever ready to lend an act
manly assistance. The day sesns
were held at Wofford and the
ming sessions at Converse. On
iday evening the college girls and
ne of the boys, assisted by some
the leading singers in the various
irches, rendered an Easter An;m.
After the adjournment the
chers were tendered a reception
the Converse parlors, where Dr.
3 Mrs. Snyder received. Punch
s served. As a whole it was one
the best associations we have atided.
Charleston has the honors
true hospitality and she deserves
but Spartanburg is her sister in
le hospitality. Laurens county
n the trophy cup. We saw the
tures of "the church that was
:lt in a day" in the "Rex" pastime.
Iks who helped to build the church
' it is perfectly natural. We feel
tered by having visited Spartanrg
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT.
Consul George Eugene Eager re tc
frnm Rrpmen. Germany, that a
st has been formed by the manuturers
of envelope machines, to:her
with the manufacture of enopes.
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BIG VICTORY FOR WILSON
HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR EXEMPTION
REPEAL.
Majority of S(i Much Greater Tliaii
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Was Expected by Measure's
Backers.
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Washington, .March 31.?The na- 1
tional house of representatives to- 1
night, after one of the most spectacular
legislative struggles in the his- 1
tory of the nation, voted to repeal 1
the provision of the Panama canal '>
act exempting American vessels from 1
the payment of tolls. The vote on
the repeal bill was 247 to 161, a 1
majority of 86 votes on support of
the personal plea of Woodrow Wil
son, president of the United States.
I This verdict on the issue which
has absorbed congress for many
weeks came at the conclusion of a
stirring day, made memorable in the
annals of the house by a party divis- ,
ion, which found Speaker Champ
Clark, Majority Leader Underwood
and other Democratic chieftain6 lined
up in open opposition to the president
on an issue which the latter
had declared vital to his conduct of
the nation's foreign policy.
To-day's result was the first struggle
within the party sfnce democracy
took control of the government a year
ago. Tomorrow the bill goes to the
senate, where the fight will be renewed
with all the vigor and determination
that attended it in the house.
In "Ungrudging Measure*."
On the final vote 220 Democrats
I in the house stood by the president,
giving him in "ungrudging measure"
what he had asked "for the honor of
the nation" in its foreign relations.
Twenty-five Republicans and two
Progressives voted to sustain the ,
president. Fifty-two Democrats followed
Speaker Clark and Leader Underwood
to defeat.
Nothing, it seemed, could stem
! the tide of administration success.
I Speaker Clark, for nearly twentytwo
years a member of the house,
j made the speech of his life to foreI
stall what he termed "unquestion- '
| able degradation" of the nation, jln
I this he failed, but he did smooth
over the party breach with kindly
words for his adversaries, praise ror
President Wilson and an unqualified
denial of any vaulting ambition on
his own behalf. When he had closed
the debate for the opposition to
the repeal the speaker was triumphant
in defeat, for the entire legislative
assemblage, in which were
'many senators, rose en masse to
cheer him.
President Wilson was at dinner
when the result of the vote was announced.
He was gratified, but
made no comment.
A Forgotten Detail.
When Joseph W. Bailey, now practicing
law in New York, began his
career in Texas, he was approached
by a negro, with a request for legal
assistance. The negro was accused
of having beaten up his wife in a
manner that endangered her life.
Bailey immediately went after the
facts.
"What did you do to her?" he asked.
"I ain't done nothin' 'cept hHPher
'cross de haid," explained the offen
der.
'Now, look here, Jack," said
young Bailey, "you must have hurt
her pretty badly. What did you hit
her with. Didn't you have something
in your hand?"
"I sw'ar to goodness, boss," said
Jack, solemnly, "I didn't have nothin'
in my han'."
After a few minutes Jack returned.
"I done been thinking of it, an'
sence I done tried to ricollect all de
details," he replied slowly, "I b'lieve
I does remember dat I had hold of a
skillet?but I aint's noways sartin'?
noways sartin which han' it was in."
?Popular Monthly.
WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH.
Man Accused of Crime Makes Oood
Uic Pc^.inA
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Florence, March 29.?On the old
Goose Pond road, about two miles
from the city, Leila Smalls was stabbed
last night and mortally wounded.
Fred Melton, colored, is accused. The
Smalls woman was rushed to the
city and carried to the police station.
dying soon after reaching there.
The woman was stabbed in the left
breast and the wound was an ugly
one. Melton, the man accused, made
good his escape and has not been
seen since. Too much liquor is saia
to have been the cause of the tragedy.
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TO RAII> BAKERIES.
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'We'll Go Into Restaurants and Demand
Food."
New York, iMarch 24.?"We're
not done yet with this system," was
the word that came from the Ferrer
Modern School in East One Hundred
and Fourth street yesterday afternoon
at the close of a long and secret
conference of the Anarchistic
Committee on Unemployment.
"We showed the Rutgers Square
crowd how to do things when Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman
are the leaders," he boasted. "And
there's more coming. We'll do just
!
what Emma Goldman suggested, raid
the bakeshops and go into the restaurants
and demand food. Why
shouldn't we?"
Pair Leave City.
The conferees waited nearly an.
hour to hear from Emma Goldman,
who was to preside at the meeting.
But she and Berkman got out of the
city late Saturday night, after they
had time to digest some of the riotous
utterances they had made at
Union Square. Somebody told them
that detectives had been instructed
by police headquarters to arrest both
of them on a charge of inciting to
riot.
At police headquarters this wa?
denied, and Detectives Gegan and
Gildea, who have been shadowing
them for a month, stated they had
not heard of any order to arrest either
one or the other. ^
At the office of Mother Earth in
West One Hundred and Nineteenth ^
street a young woman told a reporter
that Emma Goldman and Berkman
had gone out of town.
"But there's nothing unusual
about it," she added. "It's customary
for them to take a week-end va
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UctUUii. l ne v ii uc uaun. to tai i ,> ou
the propaganda." ; l
"Revolution is Coming."
Half a dozen girls were kept busy
sending out circulars from another
publication office of the Anarchist
group in East One Hundred and
Seventh street, near the Ferrer Modern
School. Attention was called to
"another and more effective demon- /
stration" to be held either Wednesday
or Thursday afternoon. The circular
had a black flag at the top of
it, and beneath it in red letters
this inscription: "The Revolution is
Coming."
"Further on the circular said:
"Are you prepared to do and die, if
need be? Take; don't demand. The
government is rotten. Expose it by
ending it. Who dares lead? Who
dares follow? Let them keep their
eyes open and their ears to the
ground."
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Bride Hurt in Auto Wreck.
Anderson, March 29.?Dr. Floyd
Rogers, who is conducting a hookworm
campaign in Abbeville county,
suffered his collar bone and three
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ribs to D6--DroKen ana tne muscies
in his left arm to be badly lacerated
when his automobile turned
turtle as he was nearing Williamston.
In the car with Dr. Rogers
were Mrs. Rogers, who was a Miss
Anderson, of Gaffney, and who was
married to Dr. Rogers one week ago,
and a Mr. Polk. Mrs. Rogers was
badly scratched on the face, but is
not seriously hurt. Mr. Polk, who
is Dr. Rogers's assistant in the hookworm
work, suffered a bad scalp
wound.
With Dr. Rogers at the wheel, the
auto was rounding a sharp curve,
when the driver lost control. The
machine turned over- three times,
practically wrecking it. Dr. Rogers
had been running a car for only a
few days, and this probably accounts
for the accident.
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All three of the wounded were
carried to Williamston in an automobile
and were given medical attention.
They were sent back to Abbeville
to-night.
Mule Fell in Well Twenty Feet Deep.
A mule^ belonging to Henry
Robertson fell backward in a well at
Deadfall on Friday; but, being a
mule, it was not hurt. Its owner
drove it to town next day.
The well was 20 feet deep and half
full of water; had been abandoned
a long while, and had been covered
over with planks that had rotted.
The mule in grazing around stepped
on the covering, which broke
through, and it went down oacKwards!
The Greenville News tells of a 1,100
pound bull that fell into a thirtyfoot
well in Greenville Thursday
night and was not hurt. It was midday'
Friday before he could be got
out.?Newberry Observer.