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v vm Standard. - o VOL. XXXI. VVALTERBORO, S. C, MARCH 3. iqo 9 . s NO. 2gr NO STATE PROHIBITION COUNTY CLECnOK TO BE HELD IN ' WET ^ COUNTIES AUGUST 17. PROHiBi TION FOR TWO WEEKS. M. A. MAKAfFET. STATE ORGANIZER OF FARMER’S UNION. IN COLLE TON COUNTY.^ Refusing, by a vote of 28 to 8. to vdopt a State-wide prohibition bill 1 ® and by a vote of 27 to 11 to pass a State-wide referendum bill, the sen ate F.iday passed the prohibition measure with the Christensen and Williams amendments, after a leng thy discussion as to what was really the agreement of the evening before. During the discussion Senator Otts, one of the prohibition leaders, charged in effect that there had been a breach of faith among those who had reached this compact, and asked the prohiditionists to consider where they were in the matter. llie bill as finally passed in the senate to third reading provides for State-wide prohibition in the wet counties of the State from the first Tuesday in August until the third Tuesday in August, when an election shall be held in the counties now wet. This election is to determine the politicy of the wet counties as to whether they shall retain the sale of whiskey. The right is reserved to the dry counties, asunder the Carey- Cothran act,.to vote upon the ques tion once every four years. The Christensen amendment as adopted provides: Christensen Amendment. “This act shall take effect on the first Tuesday in August, 1909: Pro* vided. That in the counties then having dispensaries an election shall „ be held on the third Tuesday in August, 1909, for the purpose of de termining whether the dispensaries located therein shall be reopened, and such election in each of said counties shall be held and conduted by the same officers and under the rules and regulations provided by law for general elections. “Sec. 15. At such election the election commissioners for such county shall at each voting precint therein ptovide one ballot box, in which the ballots must be cast. Any person who is a qualified elector of such county ma> vote in said elec tion. . Every voter who may be in favor of the sale of liquors and beverages in such counties shall cast a ballot in the box provided there for, on which shall be printed the words: ‘For sale of alcoholic liquors and beverages,’ and every voter op- posed shall cast a ballot upon which shall be printed the words. Against sale, etc. If a majority of the bal lots cast in such election be ‘for sale,’ it shall be lawful- for such liquors and beverages to be sold in said county as hereinafter provided: Provided, That the expense of these elections shall be borne by the State. “.Sec. 16, In case an election as herein provided shall result in favor of the«pale of liquors and beverages the dispensaries in each county so voting shall be reopened and con ducted under the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act to declare the law in reference to and to regulate the manufacture, sale, use, consump tion, possession, transportation and disposition of alcoholic liquors and beverages within the State and to police the same,’ approved the 16th day of February, 1807, and acts amendatory thereof: Provided, That all of the provisions and limi tations of the said act not inconsis tent with this act shall remain in full force and effect in all of the counties •of the State: Provided further, That in countied which shall reopen tlieflensariee therein, the county dispensary board and dispensers in office on August 2,1909, shall con tinue to discharge their several du ties as if such dispensary or dispen- Colleton County is at last to have the opportunity of organizing a farmer’s Union. M. A. Mahaffey, State Organizer of Farmer’s Educa tional and Co-operative Union of THE RACE WAXES WARM. CANDIDATES AND FRIENDS ARE BUSY. SO IS THE CONTEST MAN. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE. COLLETON’S ROAD LAW. presentment of grand jury. TO FIX THE AMOUNT TO BE PAID BY PERSONS LIABLE TO PERFORM ' ROAD DUTY. Genreal As- South Caro- Lee F. Berry. Smoaks 42,340 Miss Willie Miller Cottageville 40,105 Miss Sallie McTeer W’aiterboro 37,635 South Carolina, will spend the next c. P. Fishburne. Walterboro 24,050 two weeks in Colleton County orga- Rev. C. W. Burgess Ruffin 21,555 nizing local farmer’s unions. Mias Pearl Berry Ruffin No 1 , 14,010 This an organization that should i J}" , Ev » . ,h fe Hendersonville^ , 11,490 appeal to every farmer. There are Miss Dora Bishop Ruffin 8610 now between eight and ten thousand G. L. Smoak. Ruffin No. 2 7500 members in this State and twenty- D. L. Smith, Walterboro... 6500 four counties organized. La ne » Bryan, 6230 Mr. Mahaffey has just finished MllUie Herndon, Stokes ' 5670 organizing Bamberg County, leav- T L Martin, Ruffin ; 4625 ing them with nine local unions orga- Harvey Griffin. Ruffin No. 1 4755 nized. Clarendon County was Calvin G. Saunders, Stokes, 4000 organized by him with seventeen ^ X unions. Aiken County partially so. Miss Pearl Beach. Stokes 3505 with four unions. Barnwell partial- Mrs. Mabel Hiers, Stokes 3250 ly so, with three unions. P* W. Leach, Walterboro 2550 Everywhere he is meeting with Mis, Dollye Price Walterboro 2200 great encouragement. The locals John M o^hy. 2000 are enrolling with large member- Miss Lillie Halford, Walterboro 2000 ships. Miss Barbara Jaques, Co.-tageville 2000 Only five members are necessary *££5! to organize a local, but it requires p g Hjll * im fifteen members to secure a charter. Mrs. J. F. Chassereau, Eh’dt 1500 A county organization can E>e had as Paul K. Crosby. Ruffin * t ... 1500 Andrew Walker, Ruffin i ^ 1500 Miss G)ia Varn. Ruffin,.. 1125 Miss Viola Connelly. Walterboro, : 1000 W\ W. Bryan. Ruffin, .". 1000 Mrs Mamie Crosby, Ruffin, ,... 1000 Mrs J no A Carter. Smoaks, 515 Mrs. Elia Herndon, Ruffin. 615 J Kieree Getsinger, Ruffin, 505 AnOrew. fcunto.i, Hendersonville 500 F. S. Dixon, Walterboro 500 1 A. a. Yarn, Mrs C. E. Kinsey soon as five locals have been orga nized. Mr. Mahaffey is an eloquent and forceful speaker and is thoroughly in earnest wita his work. He has met with great success in his tour of organization tnroughout the State and the farmer’s of Colleton County should not misS an opportunity ol hearing him, even if they do not in tend to join the union He has the following schedule for appointments for the next ten days. Wednesday, March 3, 7 p m Ash ton. Thursday. March 4, 3.30 p m Lodge. Friday, March 5, 3.30 p m Wil liams. Saturday, March 6.11 a m Berea. Saturday, March 6, 3.30 p m Smoaks. Monday, March 8, 1.30 pm Wal terboro. Tuesday, March 9. 7.30 p m Cot tageville. Wednesday, March 10, 7,30 p m Maple Cane. Thursday, March 11, 7.30 p m Hendei’sonville. Friday, March 12, 7.30 p m Sni^ ders. Saturday, March 13, 3.30 pm Stokes. Be it enacted by the sembly of the State of lian: a 1 Section 1. An annual commuta tion tax shall be levied of two dollars per head on all males between 21 and 50 years of age on mil persons not exempt from road duty or per form four full days work at nine hours per day in Colleton county to be expended upon the public high ways of said county under the super vision and control of the County Supervisor. The County Auditor is hereby required to take returns of the same, and the County Treasurer shall collect at same time and in same manner as other taxes are col lected. There shall also be made a levy of two mills on the dollar on all taxable property in Colleton county to supplement the commutaation tax for work on the public highways. Sec. 2. That upon the recom mendation of the several township Board of Assessors and by the ap probation and consent of the County Supervisor, he shall appoint one or more road overseers in each town ship, whose duty it shall be to employ and superintend, labor on the public highways in his or their townships under the supervision of the county Supervisor of Colleton county of a force of hands not less than ten in number who shall receive a per diem COURT CONVENES. BRIEF RESUME OF WORK DONE DATE INECOURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. TO new udke, 11th *. hpv- tion of four years from the last elecr tion on the liquor question to hold\ fth election upon the question of dis-/ pensary or no dispensary as provided for in ‘an act to declare the law in reference to and to regulate the manufacture, sale and consumption, possession, transportation and dispo sition of alcoholic liquors and bever ages within the State and to police i the same,’ approved the 16th day of - February, 1907.” This would give, unquestionably, the right to the dry counties to vote The Court of General Session for Colleton county convened Monday morning at 10 o’clock. There was an unusually large number of new court officials present. The Ju Hon J. W. DeVore, of the Judicial Circuit, is a new judge ing been in office a lictle more thajn a year. This is his first visit to Walter boro. Solicitor Peurifoy is also a new officer, having been recently elected solicitor of the ninth Judicial Circuit. Sheriff W. R. Fox is also serving his first term as sheriff. Clerk of Court, H. D. Padgett and stenographer Elliott are the only familiar faces in the court officials. Upon call of petit jurors it was found that two were absent and five excused. Those excused were; T.O. Powell, M. M. Key, A. V. Glover and H. A. Cfosby, W. O. Guess, E. L. Gue s, W. O. Metts, F. E. Towles. Those absent were: Laurie Utsey, and B. G. Sanders. A special venire of twelve names was drawn from the five mile box to supply this deficiency, of which the following were summoned: Herry’Smith, A. S. Karesh, A. C. , .. , .. .. , .. , VonLehe, O. L. Gahagan, A. L. upon the whiskey question, which it, u ^ u- nu u- i ^ ^ j i Herndon, S. G. Price. G. H. Hiers. seemed that the Christensen amend ment did not clearly and expressly provide for. The motion to table the Williams amendment resulted 16 | to 19 and the amendment was passed | on an aye and nay vote of 20 to 15. THIRD WEEK JURORS- G W Padgett, R D Robinson, J W Lyons, J F Webb, D B Connor, G W Carter, J A Peeples, M W Vamadoe, P M*Goodwin, J W Vara. W E Fra ser, F A Croahr. B G Hiott, A V Wil- lis, N G Connelly, J T Polk. J T Mc Gregor. W W Garvin, G H AH, B L Cox, B B Platt. W H Cox. W E of one dollar and fifty cents per day, Brant^ , y.. 500 and the hands so employed shall re- sey, Lhrhardt * ^• s *00^ cpivg no t more than one dollar per day, and the overseer at the end of each week shall give a claim against the county property signed for the payment thereof. Sec. 3. That where a party desires to work out his commuta tion tax he is hereby permitted to do so. by rendering four days work, of nine hours each on the public roads of his township, under said overseer as aforesaid, and when the labor aforesaid is complete the overseer in charge shall make an affidavit that the services have been performed and it shall be presented to the supervisor for his approval and then turned over to the treasurer and he shall thereby be exonerated from commutation tax. Sec. 4. That in no case shall the overseer collect money for his hands. The County Supervisor at all times shall hive the right when necessary to borrow money to work on the roads to cover amounts herein stip ulated, and pledge the tax for the same, and the money so collected from each township shall be expend ed therein: Provided, that in Adams Run and Collins township parties subject to road duty shall pay the commutation tax herein on or before May 1st, or perform four days labor on the public highways. ' Sec. 5. Any person who shall fail to perform the services herein, or pay the commutation tax, subject to road duty, shall be guilty of a misde- me^norjjwd on conviction shall be subject to a fine af not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten, or more than thirty days. Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealea. Sec. 7. This act shall go into effect immediately on its approval. Ttti Wiltiams Amendment. The Williams w—yfawnt, which iseacn, o it ocnoi Consart. Henry Dandridge, C M Reynolds, S G F’taMmmona, H S Glover. J E Pinckney. MR HUGGINS TO LEAVE. •r*.V John Crosby. C. E. Francis. L. N. Glover. The grand jury was organized by their electing W. F. Hill of Round as foreman, after which they took the oath of office. A. J. Steedly, Jr. was excused from attendance at this turm of court as a grand juror. Judge DeVore in his charge to the grand jury impressed upon them the importance of their office and also that they were grand jurors out of court as well as in court. In the examination of the offices of the county the grand jury should find out the condition of the office and report that fact If the hooka of aqy office are kept ee that you can not find out anything about the way the oAee ia kept. thM fact ahonld be reported. No violation of which he believed was responsible for nine-tenths of the crime in the county? and that is the vagrancy law. He here read from the statutes the legal definition of vagrancy. A man who has no means of support and lives off the com munity is a vagrant aud should be put to work on the { ublic works of the county. If you will have the magistrates look out for these sus picious and worthless characters and see that they give them thirty days or $100 your county would soon be rid of them or they would go to work. The crime of rape is com mitted almost exclusively by this class of persons; those who go about with no visible means of support. A grand juror would be gbilty of perjury' if you fail to report any person on account of friendship. What takes place in the jury room should be kept quiet; to disclose anything you do would be to com mit perjury. Taking up the indictments he charged that in cases of murder it is generally well for the grand jury to bring in a true bill in order that the petit jury shall pass upon it, as in that event no second indictment can be brought 9n after discovered or new evidence. In the case of carrying concealed weapons a person has no lawful right to carry ‘a concealed deadly weapon except peace officers or a person on his own premises. TRI E BILLS. Paul Bsiley, larceny. Sandy Simmons, larceny. E. C. Beach, Jr. shipping shad without stamps. John Lane, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying con cealed weapons. Allen Browning, Claud Johnson, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Timothy Martin, carrying con- oaaled weapons. . Sara Brooks, housebreaking and larceny. QaiUie Hudson, murder. brad Campbell, rape and asmult with attempt to ravbh. ' Hannr Benton, violation of disnen- •arytar Ebey Brown, ridatioo of bar 'R fun t\i u af <*• triad Paul Bailey, larceny of live stock, not guilty, was represented by How ell & Gruber. Henry Benton, tried for vidating dispensary law was found guilty of first and second count. Hon J. S. Griffin represented the defendant Quillie Hudson charged with murder and carryingjoncaalad wea- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA- COLLETON COUNTY. In the General Seasons-Spring Term.—1909 To the Honorable J. W. Devore, Presiding Judge, we herewith submit our presentment for the aforesaid term: We have passed upon all bills of indictment given us by the Solicitor, and our findings are endorsed there on. The following committees have been appointed from our body to in vestigate and report, at the next term of the Court, upon the follow ing subjects; Committee on officers and offices, W. N. Jones, W. H. Padgett and W. F. Hill; Committee on chain gang, G. S. Spell, Paul Herndon and J. T. Gar ris; Committee on poor form, J. E. Harper, T. M. F. Hoats and 1. E. Strickland, the last named of each committee to act as the chairman of his committee. We have examined the books of all the magistrates, except H. A. Cummings and D. W. Mellard. The books of the last two named were not submitted to the grand jury. The magistrates, generally speaking, seem to be keeping their books much better than formerly. The follow, ing is a brief and concise record of the business done oy the various magistrates from the fall term 1908 of the court up to the present time. D. H. Towles-fifty cases docketed, fines collected, $35.00 J. E. Bryan—twenty five cases docketed, pending 8, others with drawn, dismissed, or settled out of court. J. H. Chaplin one case docketed, same appealed to general session. W. S. Weeks seven cases docket ed, fines collected, $25.00. R. G. W. Bryan-one case docket ed, still pending. J. M. Padgett—five cases docket ed, fines collected, $5.00 P, J. Wilson -seven cases docket ed, fines collected, $5.00 J. C. Crosby—five cases docketed, all settled by consent. L. G. Ulmer, five cases docketed, all settled and withdrawn. L E Hill—fourteen cases docketed, no fines collected. We desire to bring to the atten tion of the Supervisor the present disgraceful condition of the water closet situated in the new wing of the court house at present, it is en tirely unavailable for use and unless soon attended to will be a starting point for the spread of contagious diseases. We, also, respectfully recommend to the Supervisor the urgent neces sity of making the doors to the jail fcecure. Very recently prisoners have escaped and are still at large, and we submit that there is now small hindrance to their further es cape should any be imprisoned. The said doors need immediate attention. Of the two outer doors, one cannot be closed and lock on the other seems to be in a state of hopeless re pair. We do not see how the Sheriff under the circumsiances, can be held responsible for the safe keeping of his prisoners. We, also, respectfully recommend 4o the Supervisor that he completely install the jail building with water works and sewerage. We note that only one water cloaet is being placed in the second floor of the building, which would necessari ly be used by the prisoners of both races. We believe that there should be at least two upstairs and one down stairs for the use of the sheriff, in addition to this, we think that a spigot should be pitted in the iail kitchen. This would entail very little additional expense to the County and would add greatly to the sanitary condition cf the jail* We also suggest to the Supervisor the advisability of constructing a horse trough at some suitable public place tor the general use of the traveling pumic, the present arrangement being u n s a t i s- rgest that a lav- te retiring room convenience and comfort, rad a faucet in the hallway of the new wing of the court house found not] guilty of eai .on.-The solicitor < tnts venues ana cna no w to trial. Hudna i to It dam in tha con - - r- allot ng ox the to be uoed for drinking purpooeo by the county officials, rad all others having businen with them or in at tendance upon court. Ws trust that these recommenda tions and suggestions will meet the ready approval of the aapervioor. Finally, we with to thank your Honor for the uniform urbanity and eoorteey which has marked your relations with os. Wa, also, desire to mpmm otfr thairim to thamttflitor i for tMr kind wkm aokad for - > • '. «* *.* * 4.*«U V VI <1 I**- r ‘y.4f -< r A ’*! ■*' ^ ■ v*» % v it y* i - m- 8 BKu