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■' i *. . COUSn TREASURER JOSES . COUETON COUSTT LAW AM) ORDER SECRET4RT GIVES FIRURES TO SHOW STATUS OF SUPERVISOR’S OFFICE. The discussion which has been pro- ing on recently in reference to the status of affairs in the office of county supervisor has caused treas urer Jones to give official figures to show how this office stands. The claim has been made that Supervisor Grffin receiv'd from his predecessor a balance than $18,000” when the LEAGUE ORGANIZED AND CERS ELECTED. THE RULES TO GOVERN FAIR. the meeting held Monday for the purpose of organizing a Law and Order League for Colleton county was fairly well attended and the League was organized with a mem bership of thirty-two. Much interest was shown in the purpose of the meeting, and the members are de- of "more termined.that it shall spread its inffu- office was ence till every part of the county is Section 1. open to the The exhibition will be public on Thursday. turned over to him in January. As organi/Ani, and a greater respect for to this point the foiling statement is law' and order is gainer!. made by treasurer Jones: The following officers were elected: "This is to certify and there was M. P. Howell, Walterboro, presi- on Jan. 4th, 1909, a cash balance to ! dent; the credit of Colleton county to the J. J. Padgett, Williams, vice presi- amount of $2,744,43 less abatements dent; and expenses of proposed now coun- W. W. Smoak, Jr., Walterboro, ty of Branchville,552.19. secretary; Jan. 4 1909, cash balance ..$2,192,26 E. L. Fishburne, Walterboro, Uncollected 1908 taxes, 4 treasurer; mills 7,941,50 Uncollected 1908 taxes, 1 mill 2,123,48 Uncollected 1908 commuta tion tax 4,232. Uncollected 1908 taxes for county purposes in hands of sheriff for collection. 892,02 Jas. E. Peurifoy, Walterboro, so licitor. The executive committee to con sist of twelve members will be ap pointed in a few- days by these offi cers, and an effort made to effect organizations of local leagues over the county, in every township. | The meeting was called to order Total 17,381,26 , after tjie sales had been concluded, and Sen. J. S. Griffin was elected November 11, and c.«>se on Saturday, are re quested to report at the November 13. PUPILS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT AT G0DFRE1 BUILDING FRIDAT I7TH INSTANT.^ * All pupils wishing to enroll in the ; The civilized world was amazed tenth, ninth, eight or seventh grade last Thursday when the news was An important Saturday at the matter County adopted Farmers’ God- hashed abroad from I^erwick Islands Union meeting was the selection of Sec. 2. Gates will be open at 9 o’clock A. M., of each day, and at that time every officer and employee must be at his or her post. The present them at this time. Those doors of the exhibition buildings who have no promotion card will bt* will be closed at 5 P. M. given an opportunity whereby they Sec. 3. The Secretary will receive 1 may enter the next grade, entries at - his office in Walterboro All pupils w ishing to enroll in the until November 9. Entries will sixth, fifth or fourth grade will re close at 5 P. M. j port at the* Godfrey building at 3 Sec. 4. When the Fair is ended, o’clock p. m. of the same day under all articles not called for by exhibit- similar conditions, ors shall be properly cared for by All pupils wishing to enroll in the the Superintendent of the depart- third. aecond or first grade will re- ment, or turned over to the Secre tary for 15 days. * w .'ii l- a i-.l that the dream of finding the North frey building Friday the 1 < th instant ^ . . . , . ^ . . , Pole % which for centunes has lured at 9 o clock a. m. All who have eX p| orers scientists and adven- promation cards are requested to turers. had been realized. Tnis is the telegram: "Reached North Pole April 21, 190M. Discovered land far north. Return to Copeneagtn by steamer. Hans Egede. "(Signed) Frederick Cook.” Dr Cook is a native of Brooklyn, certain days for selling cotton. iThe matter was thoroughly diacofeed and the decision reached that tie re should be more intellegent system used in marketing the money crop of Colleton county. It was finally decided that there should be certain days when the farmers of the dif ferent secticns should bring their cotton to to the places designated, and have these days properly adver- and started from Smith sound at tised and secure competitive buyers. sun ise, Feb. 19, 1908 on his famous expedition, which resulted favorably and has placed him along with the I further certify that the above amount $15,189,(X) was assets of Col leton county far the year 1908—all of which has been paid to us since January 4, 1909, except amount in hands of sheriff, $892.02, which is still in his hands. R. E. Jones, County Treasuer. Sept. 3, 1909. From the above statement it is very clear that the cash balance of of $2,192.26 was all that was turned over to Supervisor Griffin, and there were claims outstanding against this and past due for court expenses, insurance and note, of $6,388,15. So the real condition of the county at the time the present supervisor took charge was that the county was in debt $4,195,89’ The unpaid 1908 taxes could not have been turned over because they were uncollected and hence not in hand, rendering it therefore, a physical impossibility to turn them over to the new super visor. Of course, they were "assets of Colleton county” as Treasurer Jones says, but not of the supervis or’s office till PAID IN AND AP PORTIONED BY THE COUNTY TREASURER. The following additional state ments by Treasurer Jones show the amounts collected and turned over to the supervisor since Jan. 4, 1909, and the amount expended, in addi tion to the the $J5,189, uncollected taxes. 1908. COLLECTION OF COUNTY FUND. Dispensary fund to April 1,.$1516.84 Fines and licenses to Apr.. 13 477,21 Peddlers license to Apr 13.. 65.00 Dispensary fund to July 1,... 967,56 Borrowed money, July 5 5000.00) Borrowed money, Aug 4 5000.00 j Fines and license to Aug. 15, 267,14 Six cotton licenses to Sept. I, 120.00 Total $13,413,75 temporary chairman, and W. W Smoak, Jr . temporary secretary. Copies of the constitutions of the Leagues in Orahgeburg and Aiken were read, and a general discussion then indulged in by several of the members Col. J. W. Hill of Cottageville was in favor of organizing a law and order league for thj county, and to take the Aiken Constitution w r ith the clause from the Orangeburg Consti tution referring to the prohibition law would be a good working basis. For one h'* would put his name down and do all he could to help carry out its teaching. Capt. G. W. Way of Mt. Carmel was in favor of organizing to try to prevent violations of law. Mt. Car mel gave a vote of 56 to 1 in favor of prohibition and it would be danger ous for a blind tiger to attempt to do business in that section. Jas. E. Peurifoy stated that pub lic sentiment was back of the en forcement of the prohibition law in Walterboro, and we have the same officers in charge of the town as be fore. We have law to enforce prohi bition now. The law provides that the first offence shall be punished with a fine of not less than $100 or 3 months, and for the second offence no fine and not less than one year. M. P. Howell said there was no one now who did not believe whiskey is an evil, and that a prohibition law will prohibit. We have suffered be cause good men have not been wil ling to assume the personal responsi bility of reporting men who violate ■ law, especially the prohibition law. | The league needs men as members who are rot afraid to face an of fender and say "I reported you.” E. L. Fishburne thinks it would be a fine thing for us to have a law and order league, even though no prohibition law be on the books. So long as he was mayor of the town, The above amount is a correct ^ prohibition law will be enforced, s» atement of collections and borrow- hecanpromiaethe count y a “dry” ed money for the year 1909 trom town and he intQnda ^ forRet the Jan. 4th to Sept. 1st in addition t0 m j n j mum penalty when offenders the i uncollected taxes of 1908 as are brought h j m shown .above of 15,189. ; J. D. Risher of Round could R. E. Jones, promise the enforcement of the pro- County Treasurer, hibition law and he favored the organization of the league. J. J. Padgett of Williams thinks INFORMATION FOR EXHIBITORS. Sec. 5. Premium Lists will be sent by mail upon application to the Secretary. Sec. 6. Articles sent by freight or express must be prepared, ad dressed, "Secretary of Colleton County Fair Association. Sec. 7. Articles must be on the ground or. or before 5 P. M., Tues day, November 9! Sec. 8. Exhibitors will file such certificates, statements, etc., as are required in the Premium List, with the Secretary, and they are required to attach a card, with all particulars of age, size, weight, etc., written in plain and legible hand, to the port at the Y. M. C. A. building on world’s most famous discoverers. Saturday the 18th instant at 9 o’clock Again yesterday the starling news m. was flashed abroad that another Parents are requested that this American had discovered the North matter be attended to at time appo- Pole. Commander Robert E. Peary inted. Conditions and surroundings of the steamer Roosevelt telegraph ed from Indian Arbor, Labrador, that he had also succeeded in reach ing the Pole a little less than a year after Dr Cook had succeeded. He reached it April 6,1909. BIRTH DAY DINNER The birthday dinner given Satur- animals or articles exhibited, for the day by his children and grandchi!- information of the judges. dren to "I’ncle” Solomon Hicrs, on The exhibition of articles not 1 his 88th anniversary, was very muth enumerated in the Premium List is enjoyed by about two hundred of his invijte<!, and they will be assigned to dccendants. A ,picnic dinner was prtyjer departments and displayed served about one o’clock in the to visitors. , grove ip front of his son’s residence. Sec. 9. Exhibitors of live stock (-S. J. Hiers. It yras a day of pleas- and poultry are required to display ure to ail and to none more so than Sept. 1, 1909, cash in bank to , credit of Colleton county, $1,051,81 J. O. GRIVfBi’S EXPENDITURES. Hxpended to July 1, 1909..$19,266,96 Checks paid moa July 1.- 9,519.70 Checks paid -nc^ enteced 968,05 July tent of cdtfE&v.^ ' 1063,80 August special tarn court 497,50 we should organise to correct all evils as well as that of prohibition. ! Total $80,686.01 The above amount is a * t *t«nent of the Supervisor J. 0.*GriAn U. 1909 to gap* JU 1909, tha R. E. Jones, County Treasarer. Sept. 1. 1909. The expenditures thus appear to exceed the receipts, which Treasurer Jones explains as being the result of the foundation. in TJSA—r tr jsfiwirsis over each stall or pen occupied ty their stock or poultry, a printed placard, containing the breed of, animal or poultry exhibited, which card will be furnished on applica tion to the Secretary Sec. 10. Exhibitors of live stock must report to the superintendents in charge at 9 o'clock A. M., each day, for orders. They must also in form themselves from the superin tendent of department when their stock will be judged. Stock must be in the show ring promptly after being called. Any person failing to comply with this order will be ruled out from competing. Sec. 11. Stalls are provided on the grounds. ENTRIES. I Sec. 12. Entries must be made; on or before 5 P. M., Tuesday, November 9. A card or tag, having a coupon receipt attached, corres-i ponding to the entry, will be given to the exhibitor. When the exhibit- 1 or shall deliver the articles and er- try card to the Superintendent, or 1 the person in charge at the proper exhibition hall, the articles will be received, tagged and put in position, che coupon, after being receipted for by the person in charge, given to the exhibitor. The articles will be surrendered only upon return of this receipt. LOSSES. Sec. 13. Whilst every precaution will be taken for the safekeeping of all articles by an efficient corps of policemen and watchmen, the Asso ciation will in no case be responsible for any loss or damage that may oc cur, except by neglect of the officers of the Association or its agents. PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS. Sec. 14. On Saturday, the 13th of November, at 12 noon, the Secre tary will furnish the successful ex hibitor with a warrant on the Treas urer, who will pay the premium trf the exhibitor on his indorsement of the check. Premiums nneUim—i for 15 days will be considered as presented to the AssociStion. INFORMATION FOR VISITORS. "Sec. 15. The FUr will be held oft the make it necessary. Free tuition is offered to any boy or girl in the county entering the High School which embraces the eighth, ninth ami tenth grades. Let every child of school age in dr. kirby favors bonds. the teacher y° ur kindly comment ’ „ Hugo G. Sherdan. I 0 "" 1 * ,ittle artic,e of last wwk Principal anent good roads, you conclude with the question "what does Dr. Kirby think of the bond issue?” What we may think of “the bond issue" matters little, but so far as we are informed it is a fact that no county has ever constructed a really creditable system of highways with out a bond issue. That’s the way railroads are built, that’s the way the Panama canal is being dug, So its a question of the length of the incuoation stage in the heads and hearts of the citizenship of the county. Rapid progress must be made in county governmental ad ministration if we soon wRl be com petent to handle so large and im- * *** ’ ~ portant a matter. Meanwhile the CAPT E L FISHBURNE BACK I formula submitted can be worked Capt. E. L. Fishburne returned out under our present system. Surely our road overseers can catch and execute so simple an idea. However I am optimistic to believe that with the educational forces new in operation the people will at to Uncle Solomon. There were many sincere wishes that he might be spared to enjoy many more such meetings. the latter part of the week from Camp Perry, O., where he has been for two weeks at the National target practice annually held there. Capt. Fishburne combined duty with pleas ure and saw many interesting sights. He went to Canda, saw Niagara Falls, and visited a number of the large cities of the North, among these being Pittsburg. Cleveland and Washington. Capt. Fishburne ex pressed himself as being well pleased with the way Mayor Pro Tern, Howell had enforced the dispensary law. BONDS VOTED HendersoQAulle, Sept. 4.- Special: The election held here August 24th to determine whether or not the School district should be bounded for $2,500 to erect school building, resulted in a vote of 19 for bonds and two against. OFF FOR CLEMSON Smoaks, Sept. 6.—Special: Victor May,*P* W. Risher, Jr., and Joel Padgett leave the early part of the week for Clemson College. Mr. Padgett is the only new student from Smoaks. Sec. 16. Applicatfon for special privileges on the grounds must be made to the General Superintendent. Each morning of the Fair, from 9 to 12 o’clock will be devoted by the Committee in testing all kinds of im plements. ^ All parties wishing to send ex hibits to the Fair will please send fer entr^ blanks by the fifth of No vember. in order that the entry books may be made up and tags pre pared, thereby avoiding the rush at the opening of the Fair. This will be a gieat convenioftee. both to the no very distant day wake up to the enormity of the waste and extrav agance of the present plan of driv ing and hauling through water and mud and sand, and to the economy of taxing themselves to build first class highways. Much of our road mileage has now the proper soil in proportion of sand to clay to need only drainage, grad ing and levelling or smoothing the surface. Where sand is ruinously excessive, day is near at hand, and where clay is excessive sand is not far away. So under any system under intelli gent application of these principles on the part of overseers fairly good results will be attained, and a great improvement over • present conditions. Let every citizen in the county be as unwilling to charge the county .or work done or material furnished more than he would his best friend and 6yr county funds will not be so quickly exhausted. Lets get ready for larger things as rapidly as possible by fidelity to the smaller duties now upon us. and it will not be long before every in telligent man in the county will be ready to vote a bond issue. W. A. Kirby. OEATHOFtEONA SIMMONS Little Leona Simmons daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Simmons, of Ash ton after an illness of several week* at the home of her grandparents, Mr' and Mrs. R. E. Jonas, died last Wednesday afternoon at % 1 o'clock. The interment was at Clear Fend cemetery, Bamberg county, Thursday. Kn. T. T. Wafah iwnttv little ‘ in order that the farmer* by thus pooling their cotton would get the advantage of large lot rates, and the higher prices by sharp competition. In addition to the local buyer*, there will be mi effort made to secure buyers from Savannah, Augusta, Charleston. Wilmington and other points. The value of thus handling the marketing of the crop was demon strated last Thursday when a num ber of farmers at Deep Creek, at the head of Stone A Patrick's road, brought their cotton together, about thirty bales, and by having five com petitors and selling in a lump, the farmers selling secured um*-quarter of a cent more than any other mar ket was paying. Now the Union wishes it under stood that they will be glad to have outsiders bring their cotton in and pool it along with the members. They are not selfish, but wish the entire product of the county to bring as much money to the county as possible, therefore, an earnest in vitation is extended to every farmer to join with the Union in this method of co-operation for better prices. It is understood that this method of marketing is not compulsory but any farmer is at liberty to sell as he pleases. The good judgment of the farmer will, however, show him the advantage of this method. The County Union, therefore, urges every person in the county to unite to make this plan a success. The local unions at each place will ar range the details of the selling day. The days decided upon are: Walterboro. Tuesdays. Ruffin, Wednesdays. Deep Creek. Thursdays. Lodge, Fridays. Stokes, Saturdays. SENATOR TILLMAN TO SPEAK. Dr Kershaw, secretary and general manager of the County Fair Association, has received an accep tance from Senator Tillman to his invitation to be present and deliver an‘address Friday, of the Fair. Senator Tillman has many J*warm admirers in this county who will be glad of this privilege to hear him. Doubtless there will be a large crowd present. Other noted speak ers will be here on the other days. The following appointment of township chairmen has been made by Dr. Kershaw: Collins, Willie Meggett; Fraser, J M Padgett; Adams Run. S J Rumph; Broxton, D M Varn; Bells, Sam B Saunders; Warren, Lee F Berry; Heyward. Dr H A Willis; Verdier, E T H Shaffer; Sheridan. M H Hiott; Glover. Dr W A Kirby; Lowndes, S E Bony ton; Blake, H McM Williams. DEATH OF JAMES RILEY James Riley died at the home of Halcomb M. Bell Hardeville, Aug. 26th, after an illness of several weeks. He was at Mrs. Bell’s from the 29th of July until his death. He had good medical attention but nothing could improve his condition. He raalued that the end was near andtxpmad t wilUngnass to go. He was quite devotional and sesmed to hare implicit faith ia tha Saviour’s saving favor. He was knoini in Mveral countica HOar." Bo r r : M ' m * vl m Bii