Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? k Visitors in the Town * , And the Community ?Mrs. B. S. Johns was a recent visitor to Sumter. \ ?Fritz Kilgus is spending some time at Anderson. ?Mrs. N. P. Smoak is visiting in Bishopville this week. ?John rf. Cope spent the past week-end in Biltmore, N. C. ( N ?Miss Genevieve Ivirsch is spending some time in Charleston. ?N. P. Smoak, Jr., recently spent > a few days at Mullins, S. C. j ?Prof. E. P. Allen left Tuesday I , for Greenville to spend a while, r ?D. G. Felder, of Asheville, spent ^ v t a few days in the city last week. ?Mrs. R. M. Bruce and children Jm are spending a while in Branchville. ?John W. Folk has returned home after spending a while in the mounw ' tains. f ?S. S. Carroll, Jr., of Florence, is I spending his vacation in the city with | relatives. ( \ , ?Miss Bernice Simmons has re^ r turned to the city from a visit to ' Newberry. s . ?Miss Colette Padgett, of Walter, > boro, is* visiting friends and relatives k in the city. ?Miss Gladys Singletary,- of Lake City, is visiting her friend, Miss Optip Price. ? ?Mrs. J. B. Brickie and children are spending some time in Hampton with relatives. ?Miss Aegina Knight has return; * ed to the city after a visit to relaP tives in Sumter. ?Clerk of Court A. L. Kirkland left Saturday for Glenn Springs to spend some time, i ?Misses Frances and Bertha F Kirsch are spending a few days with r relatives in Rowesville. ?Mrs. O. W. Watson and little * son are spending a week with relatives and friends at Leesville. ' - ?Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Copeland and children are spending a while in the I > mountains of North Carolina. ?Mrs. J. E. Spann and Miss Nata K , ' lie Hooton have returned home after . * spending a while in Savannah. ?A. F. Hooks, of Savannah, Ga., i spent a few days in the city last week with his brother, F. B. Hooks. t ?Mr. and Mrs. J: B. Sikes, of Rock HillT spent the week-end in the f - city with Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Carter. 1 V ?Mr! and Mrs. J. R. Black and I little son have returned home after r spending a f(ew days in the mountains. N ?Miss Julia Quattlebaum, of Co{ \ lumbia, is spending this week foth L the Misses Carroll on New Birdge * street. ?Misses Ochie Mae and Margaret Jennings have been visiting the familv of Me. and Mrs. A. B. Jordan i in Dillon. " 1 L v ?j. w. Barr, who has been very ill at Glenn Springs,^ is now at the borne of his brother, C. B. Barr, at \\ Leesville, and is still very ill. ?Mrs. L. P. McMillan is in Atlanta, Ga., purchasing millinery supplies I , preparatory to opening a millinery Ik ' establishment on Main street. ? % ' ?-Mrs. Francis M. Bamberg and little son, Francis, Jr., and Miss Nelle Bamberg left Saturday for Blaok Mountain. N. C., to spend some l . . time. * ?J. A. McCue returned Monday * frqm Charleston, where he was re, * . centlv op'erated on. His friends will be glad to know that he is rapidly recuperating. ?Ca'pt. George M. Couper returnk ed to the city Tuesday from Camp ^ McClellan, Anniston, Alk., where he has been on duty during the summer at the R. 0. T. C. camp. i > ?W. H. Chandler, who has been under treatment' at the University hospital, Augusta, has returned home. His friends will be glad to > know that his condition is very much ^ improved. ?J. D. O'Hern returned home last Tuesday from Waynesville, N. C., ! x wheje he has been a guest at Hoy " tel Garden for the past mouth. Mrs. k? A. M. Denbow also returned the same * day from Waynesville and Asheville, N. C. ?Prof, and Mrs. W. E. Moore, of ,y ^ ' Crookville, Tenn., are visiting the > family of Mrs. Moore's brother, M. E. Edenfield. Prof. Moore is principal of the Crookville school, and was formerly a school principal in this * state. * ?Mrs. Harry D. Calhoun. Mrs. John D. Robinson, and Misses MarTT"? J n _ T"> T>? *4 gucinc i/untciu ciiiu Deoee rati-ci isuu, attended a bridge luncheon Friday /? afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. J. ' S. Brooker in Bamberg.?Barnwell People. > Vote for O. D. Seay for state superintendent.?adv. i:t : : Estill Girl Sets New World Record Paris, Aug. 20.?English women athletes today won the first international women's track meet over competitors from the United- States, France, Switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia. i Thp American team was" second. France third, Czecho-Slovakia fourth and Switzerland fifth. The point scores were: England, 550; United States, 31; France, 29; Czecho-Slovakia, 12 and Switzerland ' 6. A large crowd gathered at Pershing stadium to witness the contest. The American team was leading in the point score when half of the events had been finished. Weakness in the sprints was responsible for their failure to secure first place. Lucile Godbold, Estill, South Carolina, and Cornelia Sabie, Newark, N. J., were the star point earners for the American team, the former establishing a world record in the eight pound shot put, putting alter nately with both arms, at zu meters and 22 centimeters, and Miss Sabie doing the 100 yard hurdle in the record time of 14 and 2-5 seconds. Miss Godbold was fourth in the 1,000 metre run which was won by Mile. Bread, France, in world's record time of 3 minutes, 12 seconds. Miss Sabie was third in the running broad jump and Miss Nancie Voorhees, United States, tied Miss Carrie Hatt, England, for first place in the running broad jump at 1:45 metres. Miss Maud Rosenbaum, United States, finished second to Miss Godbold in the shot put. The American relay team, which finished^second, was declared distanced by the officials and placed -fourth "because the Czecho-Sldvak ian relay team was running in second place." Dr. Harry B. Stewart, New Haven, coach of the American team, has placed an official protest with the international feminine federation against the ruling if the judges. t ' . Miss Lucile Godbold, one of the two star point earners'for the American team in the international track meet for women at Paris yesterday, who established a world record in the shot put, is a resident of Estill in this state, has been a special student at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, for the last four years, and is now under engagement as athletic director of Columbia college. The try-oats for the American team of seven were held in New York city in May. aeanmifl? that, the fieures have been correctly transmitted, Miss Godboid's performance in Paris was extraordinary. Twenty meters, 22 centimeters, is 66 feet, three inches plus. Miss Godbold's own record using one arm, was 35 feet, 11 inches. Even if the figures were jumbled in transmission, it seems clear that Miss Godbold established a new world record. Miss Godbold is a sister to Miss Sarah Godbold, physical director of Chicora eollege, who is also a trainer for the women students at the University of South Carolina. She expects to return from Paris immediately a$d will take up her duties at Columbia college with opening ofythe session in September. She has shown Temarkable aptitude for the nrAfoccinn in hftr work at Winthrop, in which her principal instructors have been Mrs. Beth M. Weathersbee, Mrs. Joe Rodney, Jr., and Mrs. Ruth T. Bartleft. m m?' ? A Remarkable Statement. "Nobody here cares anything about Betterson. He was an old man that meant little to the business world ! and absolutely nothing in the world to thte men who are and were behind the movement."?Excerpt from statement of Sheriff James H. Bailey, of "Romifnrt nniintv. nublished in the News and Courier Saturday morning. Truly a remarkable statement from an officer of the law. Betterson, who was 68 years of age, was killed last week by a young furniture dealer named Brown. According to reports sent out from Beaufort, the crime was a most brutal one, exciting great indignation among the citizens, who were also considerably exercised over the fact that Brown was not immediately lodged in the county jail, it being alleged that he was allowed to stay at the sheriff's house. It was in an attempt to jus tify his position that Sheriff Bailey issued the above statement. Have we reached such a pass in South Carolina that only those who commit crimes against people who are prominent in the business or social world are to be treated as criminals? As we understand the law, homicide or murder is not merely a crime against the man killed or his family, but is a crime against organized-society, and the law, where properly administered, makes no distinction as between high and low, the rich and the poor. The mere fact that "nobody here -W ; ' 5 . cares anything about Betterson; he!? was an old man that meant little to jS the business world," is no reason jft II all why his alleged slayer should be re accorded any different treatment ! than if Betterson had been a giant of IB industry. The same constitution that protects the rich man is at least supposed to protect the most humble citizen on this great commonwealth, and it is a sad commentary upon our Christian civilization when an officer of the law entertains views contrary thereto.?From the Barnwell People.\ An Announcement of 1919, Under the date of July 29, 1919, the Atlanta Constitution printed an address, "To the Voters of the Seventh Onncrroccirknn 1 THstript nf Smith Carolina." Representative Lever had resigned his seat in congress and the special primary had been ordered by the Democratic party. The first primary was held August 26. The address appeared in the Counstitution of August 31, 1919. Subsequently Mr. Blease withdrew. The following is the concluding paragraph from the address as it is printed in The Constitution:* " 'Let the conservatives or Gag Evans crowd put up their man as they jplease, then let the reformers put up their man as they may please and let's go to general election and see who has the largest following; this we can not do in a fixed up frau dulent primary such as we have had for the past six years. Alerady it can be easily stated who will win, or be cheated in, in the primary, that's fixed right now, and if they fail to pull him through in the first the second will be a farce. Let my friends stay out of the primary. If we go into the primary we are bound by it under the oath taken, but if we remain out we are free and can vote for whon^ we please and can not be called bolters or independents, for we have not bound ourselves to abide by fraud, but we will be what we are, "The reform faction of the Democratic party of Soutih Carolina," and advocating the true Jeffersonian democracy as outlined in my views as here experssed, and I challenge any man to show to the contrary, or course, I expect abuse, ridicule and lies from certain sources, but I am still in the fight for my friends and our principles. " 'I am an American first, last and all the time, and want in all offices from president down, whether they be Democrats, Republicans or what, men who are first of all for America.'' " 'I am offering you the opportunity. Act as you think best for you, your families and your country, and I will neither complain nor censure. "Very respectfully, "COLE L. BLEASE. ' "Columbia, S. C., July 29, 1919." * I Needed Social Reforms. % Mrs. James N. Jordan. I wish to speak of some heeded reforms in modern society. We as women by our mode of dress are rapidly losing the respect of the opposite sex. Who will say that the women of today are held in that high esteem in which the women of a century ago delighted? Why not? Because as a sex we neither deserve nor dejnand it, I say as a sex because in this as in many other cases the innocent have to suffer with the guilty. This is a serious question and worthy of deep thought-. . In any newspaper or periodical you pick up there are numbers of adver- I tisements of hosiery and otjier fern- I inine apparel displaying the woman's || figure in the most ridiculous positions j| and always in a manner to show as I much of her figure as is possible to I be sent through the mails. Don't you 8 think we, as women, should speak g oMinst this? E UUt V?^ . But we can't say anything while we S tolerate other customs. I speak now, n of the public bathing pool. I am |f aware I am treading on dangerous I ground for the bathing pool is popu- I lar in the highest society, but popularity can't Anake right out of wrong. Certainly I believe in bathing. Tt is essential to health, but the ridiculous tight bathing suits now being worn in the presence of men should be condemned by Christian women. What caused David to sin? Will you not turn to II Samuel, 11 chapter and read fv yourself? Do you think the men of our day stronger than David was? * Bathing may be all right if they dress themselves properly and have spnaratp bathine nools but the way it is being conducted at some places If is a public disgrace. I think mothers E should not allow their girls to ?0 gj in such a garb. In speaking of this I to a friend she said perhaps their I mother's didn't know. Well, it is her || business to know. We as Christian g? women condemn the dance. I see g in this as great an evil.* I shall per- B haps be called "old fogy" but I speak ; conscientiously.?Southern Chris- II , tian Advocate. jJl . ; J. C. KE For the House of R< The Representative who stai and lower taxes. i The Representative who stan who fights for their rights in th their State. /' The Representative who by duced the Tax Commission to < meet the tax payers face to f< assessment on farm lands was * The Representative who doei mission for a letter to boost his attacks the Tax Commission a* and a usurpation of the rights < * The Representative who is government and is opposed to < in Columbia, and who is in fav< less commissions. \ The Representative who stands on 1 lishments and submits his candidacy' County. The Representative who favors seei: County spent in the County, and who cent, of the automobile license tax sen 0 ' The Representative who is in favor laws so as to make it possible for the h The representative who is in favor < Confederate Veterans. The Representative who is in favor see them economically constructed. \ The Representative who is in favor Public Schools, and who wants to see tl improved. QUALIFia 1. Bom and raised 011 the farm farm, and is familiar with the agrieultn 2. Is a graduate "of Wofford Colh of the University of South Carolina. ] ence in the Legal Department at Was] law in this county three years; is there der valuable service in the Legislature 3. Has had five years of Legis years as a clerk of one of the Commitl -vroo-pc qg a -member of the House?and i J VUX U"U ? ? ? v. . ry y? , _ _ diciary Committee, the Committee w number of bills in the House. 4. Has taught in the public selio of the Marlboro High School 1915-16) with the needs of the Schools in the St; V 1 Vote lor J. Ca MaMBBMBMBMHg?B?MMWIHill III - ' Vv 1 WL |w ?HL A W B jm ? K epresentatives : ' i \ / i ; X nds for strict economy | X ' .'SAM d^9 ids for the people and e law making body of ' jil his fearless work in- N | come to Bamberg and j ice, and as a result the % reduced $400,000.00. ?1 5 not ask the Tax Com- : candidacy, but boldly -||1 i a useless commission ~ % :>f the people. #j in favor of local self. | :entralization or power I jr of abolishing all use- I lis own record .and accompto the people of Bamberg VlB ng every doRar paid in the I is opposed to seeing 20 per t out of the County* , '31 9 of tightening up the labor j irmers to control their labor. j >f a liberal support for the Jj of good roads, but wants to ; af a liberal support of the I t :||i he school system of the State | . 'Vf| I VTIONS I1 M and owns and operates a 2 | Lral intents of the county. l* ?ge, and of the Law School ^ | Has had one yearjs experi- 2 liington, and has practiced 3fore well equipped to ren- 1 . dative experience ? three g |j :ees of the House, and two I ,|i is now a member of the Ju- 9 - ^ hich handles the greatest I ols of the State (principal g > illi<l i? inrr,cn.'ir jniuaiKii w irl Kearse | " ~ Jl % - ' ;.-S ^ 'in'" tiiitiii i iiiifli