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'i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
s
* County and Elsewhere.
Denmark Dots.
Denmark, March 18.?Miss Ruth
Seymour, of Winthrop college, spent
v the week-end at home last week.
Miss Doris Goolsby was at home
this week, en route to the teachers'
association in Columbia.
K. G. Miller, of Charleston, was
here this week.
Miss Kathryn Wilkinson is at
home, after a stay of several months
t in Greenville, N. C., with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Moseley.
The music pupils of the Denmark
high school, under the supervision
of Miss Martha Ray, gave a recital in
the auditorium of the building Friday
evening of last week.
Miss Lillian Goolsby, of St. Matthews,
spent the week-end here last
week.
An interesting news letter was
received Tuesday from Colston,
but on account of the name of the
writer being omitted it is not
printed this w^ek. All communications
for publication must positively
be signed. It is not neces fefe
sary that the name be published,
ibut we must know the wTiter.
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Country News Items.
Mr. and Mrs. John Collier and two
sons, of Branchville, visited at the
home of Mr. J. A. Griffith Saturday
- and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Griffith spent
Sunday with Mr! and Mrs. J. A.
Griffith.
Little Florence Griffith spent the
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Turner, of Cope.
Mr. G. E. Griffith and Mr. Selby
Ashe, of Cope, spent a while Sunday
at the home of Mr. T. A. Griffith.
Mr. James Griffith and Miss Montme
Griffith visited in the Caanan
section Sunday.
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Cope Callings.
Cope, March 20.?Mr. J. E. Felder
spent yesterday in Bamberg, and
Mrs. Felder and child, Julia Mary,
who had been there the past day or
two, returned with him in the afternoon.
Mr. John H. Cope and sister, Mrs.
Laura E. Livingston, of Bamberg,
were over for the day yesterday with
Mrs. Carrie E. Cope and family.
^B^S Mrs. J. C. Gray and daughter, Rita
Barton, have gone to Rowesville for
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H W Master Jack Kirk land, who stays
down on his father's farm near Ehrliardt,
was home yesterday with his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ed. Kirkland.
Mr. C. M. Croft, of Fairfax, arriv'
ed yesterday afternoon on a pleas
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Mrs. E. H. Beckham, who has been
spending the past two weeks at Bowman
with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beckham,
will return home today.
FARMER LOSES NINE MULES.
Spartanburg Farmer Also Suffers
Other Losses by Fire.
Spartanburg, March 19.?Joseph
Nesbitt, of Reidville, lost by fire early
today, a barn, nine mules, one horse,
five wagons, several hundred bushels
of corn, with fodder and hay and
much farm machinery. The total
loss is approximately $10,000, while
the insurance carried was only $1,500.
The fire was discovered after 1
o'clock this morning. Its origin is
unknown.
GOVERNOR OFF TO FLORIDA.
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Columbia, March 16.?Governor
Manning left this morning for a short
. pleasure trip to Florida. This is the
first vacation the governor has taken
since assuming office. He will return
to his office about the middle of next
week.
F. H. McMaster, insurance commissioner,
is in New York, where he
went last night on business connected
with the insurance situation.
Postoffiee Appointments.
\ Washington, March 20.?President
* Wilson today nominated James M.
Bvrd as postmaster at Branchville
and W. B. Wright, Jr., as postmaster
at Shelton. These nominations require
confirmation by the senate.
John L. McCracken, appointed postmaster
at Smith Mills, Georgetown
county, does not have to be confirm^
ed.
CLOSE OX VILLA S THAIL.
IJelieved lT. S. Troops Will Soon Capture
Mexican Outlaws.
Washington, March 21.?General
Pershing, leading the American expeditionary
forces in Mexico, reported
to the war department today that
he had reached a point near Villa
and his outlaws. It was nade clear
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believed the troops of the de facto
government were cooperating in the
bandit hunt and that it is quite possible
Villa may be trapped.
Officials continued to assert today
that all dispatches to the war and
State departments told of cooperation
between the American and Carranza
forces, and of generally favorable
conditions in the interior ovf
Mexico, and along the border. Unofficial
dispatches picturing a very
different situation were brought to
the attention of Secretary Baker, who
said that while the situation was
fraught with many possibilities, so
far there had been no unfavorable
developments. One of Gen. Pershing's
reports tonight said the attitude
of the natives continued friendly. Mr.
Baker, in referring to this, explained
that the department had no information
to indicate that a single hostile
shot had been fired against or by the
American troops since they entered
Mexico.
While Acting Secretary Polk, of
the State department, and Eliseo Arredondo,
Mexican ambassador designate,
were conferring during the day
over the terms of the protocol proposed
by Gen. Carranza to govern the
joint pursuit of Villa, the war department
was ordering additional
troops to/the border in response to a
-ammct frnm ften. Funston. The 5th
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cavalry, the squadrons of which are
stationed at Fort Myer, Va., Fort
Sheridan, 111., and Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, and the 24th infantry at
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, were
ordered to entrain immediately. The
point to which the troops will move
was not disclosed.
BYNUM PRESIDENT.
Succeeds Dr. Snyder as Head of State
Teachers' Association.
Columbia, March 18.?With the.
adoption of resolutions calling for
progressive reforms in the interest of
the State's school system and the
election of officers the annual convention
of the South Carolina School I
association was brought to a close
this afternoon.
The resolutions endorsed the creation
of a State board for examination
of teachers, increased appropriations
for the schools of the State industrial
and night schools and better
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system.
W. C. Bynum, of Georgetown, was
elected president of the association to
succeed Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, of
Spartanburg; E. C. McCants, of Anderson,
and Miss Augusta Dunbar, of
Hartsville, were named as vice presidents.
Dr. Snyder and W. W. Nickels,
of Greenwood, were elected to
the State executive committee, and
R. C. Burts, of Rock Hill, was reelected
secretary.
\ Columbia and Gaffney submitted
invitations for the next annual meeti
ing of the convention. The selection
will be made by the State executive
committee.
The meeting, which closed today,
is the most successful ever held by
the South Carolina teachers. The
registrations exceeded 1,400, and
many important subjects were given
consideration.
Much good was obtained from the
conferences of the various sections of
the convention.
Last night the alumni associations
of several colleges held banquets in
Columbia.
The final session of the association
was held today in the hall of the
house of rep resentatives. |
SURVEYING FOR NEW LINE.
Electric Road Proposed Between Atlanta
and Anderson.
Anderson, March 17.?Engineers
began a preliminary survey Thursday
of the proposed electric railway from
Anderson to Atlanta. Anderson
county's share of allotment to secure
the road has been placed at one
hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars. Two routes are under consideration.
People living on the up
per or Townviiie rouie aniiuuiKeu
they have secured one hundred and
fifty thousand and more to be raised
tomorrow. The road is being promoted
by an Atlanta capitalist.
Our next serial, "The Iron Claw,"
begins on April 24th. Thielen Theatre.?adv.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
St. Paul's Methodist church, of
Greenville, proposes to install a pipe
organ costing $2,600, Andrew Carnegie
paying $1,200 of the amount.
The United States war department
has sent two machine guns to Clemson
college for service in military
drills, the guns are 80 calibre and
are of the Colt auomatic type.
Rev. S. H. Hay has resigned the
pastorate of the Presbyterian church
at Marion, to accept a call to Mooresville,
N. C., and Rev. J. M. Hollidav,
of Virginia, will go to Marion.
The State commissioner of agriculture
has recently completed a census
of the hogs in the State, indicating
that there are approximately 940,000
hogs in South Carolina.
Governor Manning has ordered an
j election to be held on May 9, for the
purpose of deciding whether or not
a portion of Berkeley county shall be
annexed to Charleston.
Homer Hill and Earl Goodwin, of
Laurens county, have been arrested
on the charge of assault and battery.
It is alleged that they attacked Butler
Smith, colored.
Mrs. J. S. Jones, of Columbus, N.
M., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. M.
Warren, in Greenwood county. Mrs.
Jones was in her home at Columbus
when Villa and his bandits raided
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Heyward Pickle, William Tolly and
Fred Tolly, young boys of Anderson,
were more or less seriously burned
last week when a jar of nitrate acid
was broken and the contents spattered
over them.
Will C. Martin and John G. Martin
were acquitted in the Laurens county
court of general sessions last week
of the alleged killing of John P. Mcpherson,
a neighbor, several months
ago. The plea of the accused was
self defense.
According to an Edgefield dispatch,
the people of Edgefield county were
surprised that the death sentence was
imposed upon Joe .Grant, colored,
who was convicted a few weeks ago
of the murder of J. T. Durst, a white
man, and will ask the governor to
commute the sentence to liffe imprisonment.
Governor Manning has granted paroles
to C. M. Harrelston, of Marion,
who is serving a sentence for nonsupport
of his wife and children;
Jas. Jackson, of Chester county, who
was convicted of house breaking and
I larceny, ana l>. uj. ivempiuu, uuiivi^ted
of forgery in Newberry county.
46 INJURED, 2 MAY DIE.
Students Jump From Second Story.
Big Orangeburg Fire.
Orangeburg, March 20.?Forty-six
students and teachers were injured
at an early hour this morning, when
the administration building, the
greater part of which was used as a
girls' dormitory, of the State Colored
college, was totally destroyed by fire.
Several are considered in a very serious
condition, and it is feared that
two are fatally injured.
It seems that the fire, the origin
of which is not known, had gained
considerable headway before discovery,
making it rather difficult for the
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occupants, about sou, to escape, ana
in the excitement many jumped from
the second story. Only a very small
part of the contents was saved and
the majority of the students lost
their clothes.
Everything possible is being done
for the relief of the injured ones and
the care of the others. Eight physicians
were pressed into service this
morning and they were kept busy several
hours attending the injured. A
part of the president's house was
made into an improvised hospital and
the relief work was carried on with
as .much dispatch as possible.
Some of the students were given
temporary quarters in a dormitory at
Claflin University, which adjoins the
State college, while temporary accommodations
were secured elsewhere for
most of the others. President Wilkinson
states that arrangements will
be made to provide for the students,
so as not to interrupt their work an> I
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more than necessary, some win uej
allowed to go home long enough to
replenish their wardrobes.
The building, which was a large
two-story brick structure, and contents
were valued at approximately
$60,000. About half of this is covered
by insurance.
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MAY MISS DEATH.
Vaughn Will Be TransfeiTed to Asylum
for Sanity Test.
Spartanburg, .March 19.?Thurston
U. Vaughn, who is in the State penitentiary
under death sentence for
heinous crimes which he confessed to
have committed while he was superintendent
of the South Carolina Odd
Fellows Orphanage here, is to be incarcerated
in the State Hospital for
the Insane. Solicitor P. A. Bonham
stated today that he will apply next
week for an order from the circuit
court to transfer Vaughn. A test of
, Vaughn's sanity will be made while
he is in the State hospital.
If the tests show Vaughn to be insane
he will escape the death penalty.
Vaughn was convicted on October
26th, 1912, and was sentenced to be
electrocuted. His attorneys have appealed
his case to the supreme court
and to the United States supreme
court, which tribunals sustained the
judgment of the circuit court. A decree
of insanity is the only thing that
can now save Vaughn from the chair.
Solicitor Bonham decided to take
the step to have Vaughn placed in
the hospital, after correspondence
with Governor Manning and Dr. J.
Heyward Gibbs, of Columbia.
PLANNING FOR VETERANS.
Old Soldiers to Meet in Rock Hill
April 25-26.
Rock Hill. March 17.?Arrange
ments are being made for the entertainment
of the reunion of the South
Carolina Confederate veterans, which
will be held in this city April 25 and
26. The veterans will be entertained
in the private homes and it was decided
at the meeting held today that
dinner would be served each day under
a big tent in the Air Dome lot in
the centre of the city.
A committee was appointed to arrange
for the sponsors' ball, which always
forms a delightful feature of
the reunion. The city will be profusely
decorated and the boy scouts
and community Y. M. C. A. secretary,
Frank Condon, will be on duty during
the entire occasion, acting as
couriers and rendering any assistance
needed. Capt. J. Wilson Marshall
was chosen as ehief marshal and will
select his assistant marshals himself.
PRESIDENT ANDERSON COLLEGE.
Dr. John E. White Selected to Succeed
Dr. James H. Kinard.
Anderson, March 15.?The Rev.
John E,x White, D. D., pastor of the
First Baptist church of this city, has
been selected president of Anderson
College, succeeding Dr. James H
Kinard, who resigned a few weeks
ago.
Tonight the board of deacons of
the church voted unanimously to recommend
next Sunday morning to
the congregation that Dr. White be
allowed to accept the presidency, carrying
on the duties of pastor and
president at the same time.
Dr. White has the matter under
advisement. In the event he dicides
to accept he will cooperate with Dr.
Kinard until the end of'the present
session and will become president
next summer. Dr. White is a North
Carolinian by birth and came to the
Anderson church from Atlanta six
months ago. In Atlanta he was the
pastor of the Second Baptist church,
and is considered a leader in the
Southern Baptist convention. He is
a graduate of Wake Forest and degrees
have been conferred on him by
Wake Forest and Bailey University,
of Waco, Texas.
WILSON INVITED.
Is Asked to Address Editors During
May.
Columbia, March 19.?Should
President Wilson accept an invitation
to come to Charlotte May 20 for
the Mecklenburg celebration it is
probable that he will continue his
travels to Columbia to speak before
the South Carolina Press association.
Telegraphic communications have
been directed by the Columbia chamber
of commerce to United States
Senator E. D. Smith and Congressman
A. F. Lever to prevail upon the
president to include Columbia in the
itinerary of his Southern trip.
William Banks, president of the
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State .Kress association, wm un a
meeting of the association in Colum-!
bia May 19 to 21, should a favorable
response be had from Washington.
The president has not visited Columbia
since the spring of 1912, a
few months prior to his nomination
in Baltimore as standard bearer of!
the Democratic party. The occasion
of his visit at that time was to speak
before the State Press association.
1915 CROP 11,059,430 BALES
ANXOUNCFS FIGURES RASED ON
FINAL GINNING REPORT.
Liiiter Cotton, Not Included in Total
Ginning Figures, Totalled
895,274 Rales.
Washington, March 20.?The 1915
cotton crop of the United States aggregated
11,059,430 running bales, ;
or 11,183,182 equivalent 500-pound
bales, exclusive of linters and counting
round bales as half bales, the census
bureau today announced in its
final ginning report of the season.
The department of agriculture on December
10 last, basing its calculations
on reports of its agents throughout
the cotton belt, estimated the crop at
II,161,000 equivalent 500-pound
bales. The census bureau's final figures
of the crop compare with 15,905,840
running bales, or 16,134,930
equivalent 500-pound bales produced
in 1914; 13,982,811 running
bales, or 14,156,486 equivalent 500poiind
bales in 1913, and 13,488,539
running bales, or 13,703,421 equivalent
500-pound bales in 1912. The
1914 crop was the record for production.
Included in the figures are
39,623 bales which ginners estimated
would be turned out after the
March canvass.
Round bales included numbered
III,716, compared with 57,618 in
1914, 99,962 in 1913 and 81,428 in
1912.
Sea island bales included numbered
91,920, compared with 81,654 in
1914, 77,563 in 1913, and 73,777 in
1912.
The average gross weight of bales
for the crop was 505.6 pounds, compared
with 507.2 in 1914, 506.2 in
1913 and 508 in 1912.
Ginneries operated for the crop
numbered 23,146, compared with, 24,547
in 1914, 24,749 in 1913 and 25,279
in 1912.
Linter cotton,- not included in the
total ginning figures, amounted to
895,274 running bales, or 880,780
equivalent 500-pound bales, compared
with 832,401 running bales, or
856,900 equivalent 500-pound bales
in 1914; 631,153 running bales, or
638,881 equivalent 500-pound bales
in 1913, and 602,324 running bales
or 609,594 equivalent 500-pound
bales in 1912.
South Carolina: 1915, 1,133,581;
1914, 1,533,810; 1913, 1,377,814;
1912, 1,182,128.
MEETS SUDDEN DEATH.
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William Guy Hardee Shot and Killed
at Office in Mississippi Town.
Chester, March 19.?William Guy
Hardee, a highly esteemed former
Chester citizen, who went to Cleveland,
Miss., some years ago, was shot
to death last night in his law office
there by a man whose name was not
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here. He died almost instantly. Details
of the tragedy were unavailable
tonight. All that is ljtiown is that a
man walked into his office and it is
said without'a moment's warning
shot him to death.
Funeral services were held this afternoon
and the burial conducted
there. Mr. Hardee went to Cleveland
from here 12 years ago to begin the
practice of law. In the short time
that he was there he accumulated
considerable wealth. He took an active
interest in the politics of Cleveland,
being mayor for three terms.
He was born at Lowryville, Chester
county, but early moved to. Chester
with his parents. As at Cleveland,
his young manhood in Chester was
characterized by industry and aspiration
after high purposes in life.
In addition to his wife and 7-yearold
daughter, Mr. Hardee is survived
bv his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. A. M. Hardee, of Lowryville,
and the following sisters and brothers,
Mrs. R. R. Hall, of Cleveland,
Miss., Mrs. Hope Sadler, of Greenville,
Mrs. T. D. Darby, of Chester,
Bennie Hardee, of Cleveland, Miss E.
L. Hardee, of Florence and Miss C.
M. Hardee, of Winthrop college. Mr.
Hardee's death caused great sorrow
in Chester and the Lowryville community
today.
YOUNG WOMAN"FOUND DEAD.
Phial in Hand and Note Pinned to
Dress.
Rock Hill, March IS.?Miss Willie
May Adams, about twenty-years old,
youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Adams, of this city, was found
dead in Laurehvood cemetery today
with an empty carbolic acid bottle
I beside her and a note pinned to her
dress. The coroner's jury found a
verdict in accordance with the above.
No cause for the deed is known.
GKTTIXG NAVY IX TRIM.
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Hear Admiral Benson Tells of Preparations
Being Made.
Washington, March 16.?Rear Admiral
Benson, chief of naval operations,
today told the house naval
committee in minute detail of the
preliminary work of preparing the
navy for an emergency.
The naval militia, he said, is beinc
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touch with navy ideas, merchant vessels
are under inspection to determine
what private craft would be immediately
available in case of war, and
each naval bureau is informed exactly
as to what it would have to do
wvith these vessels.
The navy is working, Admiral Benson
testified, on mobilization, organi- N /1
zation, strategic and supply plans for
quick action should it become necessary
to strike promptly.
Admirai Benson sounded a warning
against adopting the submarine
ideas of the present war.
"We have learned something from
the European war," he said, "but we
should not be led astray by the conditions
under which the submarine
warfare abroad is being carried on."
Aviation Development.
Aviation development, he said, was
progressing slowly and conservatively.
Sixteen aircraft are in commission
at Pensacola. Twenty-five more
are ordered, and twenty-five extra
motors. Reports from Pensacola
were most encouraging in results and
enthusiasm of personnel.
Admiral Benson assumed the responsibility
for cutting the aviation
estimate to $2,000,000, for which
there has been considerable criticism
of Secretary Daniels in the congressional
hearings. "There has been a
temptation," said the admiral, "to go
into different fields of experiment and
that is one reason why a larger appropriation
than the $2,000,000 we
have asked for next year is not recommended."
Admiral Benson said he had listed
2,031 merchant ships, power boats
and other auxiliary craft, which
might be pressed into service in the.
event of war. He recommended enlargement.
of the navy personnel by
12,000 next year, and said he
thought about 8,000 men could be
raised in event of war from the naval
reserve and naval militia, and about
16,000 from the ranks of those who
previously had served.
Use of Aeroplanes.
In his discussion of aeroplanes the
admiral suggested that their use by
the navy should be cpnfined chiefly to
scouting duty until a higher degree
of perfection has been reached in
their construction. He declared there
was no doubt the navy could get
aeroplanes as fast as it needed them
in time of emergency. He said that
in event of war the country should
start off with one hundred service
machines, increasing the number as
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Questioned about the detailed or- ...
ganization of the navy, Admiral Benson
said he was inclined to favor a
general staff organization that would
avoid a duplication of official machinery,
although under the present
arrangement the operations office was
working entirely satisfactorily.
"The secretary is always there, anxious
to keep in touch with everything
that is going on," he added.
"With the backing Secretary uanieis
always has given me, there's nothing
left to be desired." J
FAIRFIELD TRAGEDY CASE.
Likely to Be Called at April Term at
York.
York, March 17.?The April term
of the court of general sessions for
York county, which convenes April
17, with Judge I. W. Bowman presiding,
will dispose of a number of cases
of more or less interest throughout ?
the State, in addition to several of
particular interest to York county. It
is expected that the cases against Ernest
Isenhower, Jim Rawls and Jesse
Morrison, of Fairfield county, charged
with the killing of Sheriff Adam
D. Hood, of Fairfield county, and his
negro prisoner, Jules Smith, on the
steps of the Fairfield county court
house at Winnsboro early last year,
will be called.
It will be remembered that Ernest
Isenhower was acquitted at the November,
1915, term of court of general
sessions for York county of the
charge of killing Deputy Sheriff
Raleigh Boulware in the Winnsboro
tragedy. Following the verdict dn
the Isenhower-Boulware case, counsel
for the defence and prosecution
agreed that the cases against Isenhower,
Morrison and Rawls for the
killing of Sheriff Hood and Smith be
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continued until the third weeK or me
April term.
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