Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cfet^rcss anb ^tanbarb THIRTY SECOND YEAR. w. w. SMOAK, JR. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. —TERMS— ■ MONTHS ALWAYS IIAIYAWE. PnblMbcd crtry W*da«<l»y at Walter boro, 8 C. .91.06 _ 60c .. 96c Xstered ft tbe Walierboio, 8. C. Poatrffice aa aecocd-chwa aaattar March t, 1876, under Act of March 3,1870 WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 15. 1909. The county supervisor of Green wood has had an automobile furnish ed him by the county. What would certain of our people say if Colleton’s supervisor were so favored? Many of the mistakes in life are caused by men attempting to do' what they are not qualified to do.* This is true from editing newspapers up or down as you choose. “Shoo ter, stick to thy last.” The burning of the Columbia col lege because of a defect in the elec tric wiring emphasizes the impor tance of doing well whatever is at tempted. A little carelessness often rsiults fatally. A good motto: “whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” TEACHER’S EXAMINATION. There will 1k* an examination for teachers held at the Court House here Friday, October 1. As the county board of education are not permitting the renewal of any second grade certificates, there will proba bly be a large number of applicants. We presume the county authorities will not grant any certificates ex cept to such as are qualified to teach, and we trust many who now hold second grade certificates will win first grade If a teacher is not be- coming better educated each y<*ar she should not be allowed to teach. COL. JAMES T. RACON. In the death of Col. James T. Bacon, editor of the Edgefield Chronicle, ^the State has loin one of her quaintest, most original and 'i best loved citizens, and the news paper fraternity one of its brightest writers and most popular members. His has been an aventful career. His ability entitled him to a larger sphere, perhaps, but hechose to labor a mong his home people, proving by his life and the esteem in which he was held at home that a prophet is not without honor in hia own country. We shall miss the original style of this most gifted Knight of the Quill. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It has been sometime since we have sent any statements to any of our subscribers. The fall of the year is here now. and money should be easy with most of our readers, at least, we hope it is for we want you everyone to be prosperous. Now there are a few names on our mailing list we shall have to mail statements to in the near future un- lea we receive a remittance. We are going to ask. therefore, that YOU look at the label on YOUR paper, and if it la not paid up to “Oct 09” send us at leak a dollar. Of course you intend to attend to this, but don*tpot it off—delays are dangerous. Just buy a money order or put a dollar bill in an envelope and maiFit to us. We shall appreciate it and it will save you a “dune.” COLUMBIA COLLEGE. The burning of the Columbia Col lege Thursday morning was a terri ble blow to educational interests in the Stele, and aperially hr Metho- Itwaawitha feeling of aad- thaf the newt was heart W* the State that the beautiful nt* college was in ashes.' A defective wire-result, college in ruins. $200,- 000in property destroyed, and the ork of building all to be d*T:e again. There was insurance of $*">.- 000 and an indebtedness of an equal amount. But the college will be rebuilt In the meantime the Colonia hotel has been leased and the college will open as usual and do the same work. With such a man as Dr.W. W. Daniel at its head there * s can be neither falter nor fall, especially with the backing he has. How fortunate it burned now, if device < f a metropolitan, police sys-. ty tem may be UK*trtrr-gnf>trce a prohi- to is too small a unite. We referred great moral questions, such as to ; prohibition and divorce, and not t to bition law in counties unwilling enforce it. As illustrating the spirit ! " _ . . that actuate, the prohibitionist, the! tht mere economic question of cows suggestion is important. Thensp are grass, or of various other counties -in which prohibition is matters pertaining solely to commu fairly effective now*, but in which conditions may change within five or ten years and they will be wise to observe that prohibitionists already contemplate the sacrifice of home rule in communities if deemed neces sary to the carrying out of the pro hibition programme. Meanwhile, the fact remains that during the metropolitan police regime “blind tigers” were far more numerous^ in the city of Charleston than they are it had to burn, and riot two weeks now and not less contemptuous of Ifter when the girls would been there! have THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. It occurs to us that the town has grown very indifferent to the fire department. What is the matter? An expenditure of several hundred dollars was made to build and equip trucks, purchase hose etc, and now it is presumably in the fire houses without custodian or care-taker. If a fire were to break out, w*ho would respond with hose and wagon? Why this indifference? The winter sea son is approaching and when fires are built in chimneys we look for some buildings to burn. We under stand that Chief Dixon will soon leave town. Who will succeed him? W'hv is not this matter attended to? Is council going to sit idly by or will i a the statutes. *> « The people of South Carolina should at least have been spared the declaration that “local option can only be effective in dealing with questions such as these when the units are large” from a Colleton authority. In the case of Colleton the county unit has been divided by legislation, so that in one part of the county a Colleton man’s cattle may run at large while in the remainder of the county and in practically throughout the whole State the citizen must keep his cattle in his own pasture. Special county legis lation is often required by special conditions and probably this princple has been applied more frequently toward no county in South Carolina than toward Colleton. The above is the rejoinder of The State to an editorial in The Press and Standard of September 1, replying nity life and not affecting adjoining communihies or the people at large. ' IMK f« BUf. (COMPLAINT NOT SERVED) THE STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, County of CoUston, la tha Court ol Common Plena. Colleton Mercantile and Manntactuting Company, Plaintiff, rs. Henry Bowlea, Albert Bowlea, Archie Bowlaa. Jamas Bowles, Mary Bowlea, Mary Bowlea. Elm bowlea. Marum BowlM^Dnaasl Gmyeon Unlock Cray- State-wide prohibition law immed iately after having consented to the decision of the question by the counties, which is to say, to county option. As to that our contempor ary is silent, and proceeds to argue that, the prohibitionists, having a IKissible majority in the general as sembly, should use their power, re gardless of the results of the August voting, to pass a State-wide law, because dispensaries open in Beau fort and Charleston might sell in toxicating liquors to Colleton’s thirsty who have the price and who would pilgrimage to the dispensaries for it. In a word, The Press and Standard urges that the prohibitionists of Col leton may rightly legislate for Beau fort and Charleston so long as some of the people of Colleton can not withstand the temptations in other counties. Of a feather would be an argument that sea-bathing be abolished at the Isle of Palms be cause few of the excursionists from Ocoflee know how to swim. The Press and Standard of course leaves wholly out of tbe considera tion that the people of Beaufort and Charleston believe that the abolition of dispensaries at this time, with a prohibition law as the substitue, would be hurtfnl to the morals of their people. In Charleston and Beaufort the claim is set up that prohibition would not be enforced, that the removal of dispensaries would multiply law-breakers, bring law in general into contempt and breed a pervading demoralization. Our Colleton contemporary, how ever, ia blind to this side of the equation, it holds that only the moods of Colleton are at stake and in effect that the prohibitionists of Colleton enjoy a monopoly of all the morality involved in the dispute. It must be confessed that the prohibi tionists have. in maintaining that attitude, a very large advantage— those who proceed on the major premise that their morals are in fallible and that the views of other men are necessarily wicked are in vincible, to paraphrase the Virginia orator, to any reasoning that their opponent* can hring against them. Of «*sdal significance is the hint of Hie Press and Standard that the Uraysou, By 1 ratter Grey son sad Landhnre Grtyaoa, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDAN18 ABOVE NAMED: You sis hereby anmaoned and rs qnired to anawsr tha complaint in Una action, which ia filed in tbe office of ihe Clerk of the oonrt of Common Pleat for the said County jand to aerre a copy of yaor answer to the said complaint os the aubscribere at their offices in Wal- terboro. Colleton Gonnty. South Caro lina, within twen'y days after the ter* viee hereof, exclnslve of the day of toch service; anl tf yon tail to answer the complaint within tne time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to tbtf Court for the relief demanded in tbe complaint. Walierboro. 8 C., September 6, 15*09. PADGETT A LEMACKS. Plaintiff's Attorneys. HD PADGETT; f^eal] ^ Clerk of Ciicnit Conn. NOT CE To the infant Defendants, Ella Bowlea, * Mar ha Bowles. Culock Grayson, Elliott Giayson. Sylvester Grayson an<4 Lsudhure Grayson: Take Notice, That unless each of yon procure the appointment of a Guardian atl Litem toapp-ar and defend thin ac tion of behalf of each oi you within twenty pays after the service of the Summons tud Notice herein up >n each of yon, an application will he mnde to C G Henderson, Esq. Master for Colleton County, at his office in Walterooro, 8. C., on the third (3rd) day of November, A D , 15*09, at 10 o'clock, A M., or aa soon theieafter a* the motion can be heard, lor an order appointing H D Pad gett, Esq. Clerk of the Conrt for Colie- to a criticism of the opinion of the it take the initiative and provide a'editor of this paper, asked for by fire company? We await some ac- The State just after the faction tion. Let it be now’before it is to Augugst 17. in which the editor held ^ a ^ e - 1 that “what is good law for 17 coun- ; ties is good law for 42.” COLLETON AND TEMPTATION. We shall try to be fair to The ,,Replying to The State s comment state and, though our space is limit- on expressions of Mr W. W. Smoak,' e d, reproduce in full its rejoinder, Jr. .bout th, duty of the le^l.tiure, although The State allowed it. rea-j at its approaching session in relation , dera to see only the “rejoinder.” to the whiskey traffic question ] Ferh ^ over the W alterboro Press and Standard, , , of which Mr Smoak is the e di, or the 'houkht that some laws may yet and proprietor, ignores, it will Ik* ^ ,r enforced by means of the Metro- observed, the contention of The politon police; in certain communi- State that the prohibitionists in the ties which consider themselves shove legislature would Ik guilty of had a„d apart from the rest of South faith were they to seek to enact a . ,,, . , Carolina even in ( harleston or Col umbia. Krai? vurai I Buy a White Hickory Wagon to har vest your crop. They are light, dura ble and reasonable in price. Cash or on easy terms. See us before you buy. A. Wichman & Son. cempctent person, Guardian ad for each of yon, and amhorizing and directing him to appear and deiend the above entitled action in behalf of each of you, and for &uch other relief as may be just and equitable. PADGETT & LEMACKS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. Walterboro, 8. G., September li, lt»09. wm roil niff. (COMPLAINT SERVED ) The State seems to think we should ^ **TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA* County of Colleton.* say something about the point of honor raised, that is that the prohi bitionists are bound by an agreement entered into at the last session of the legislature thatThe election of Au gust 17 would settle the prohibition question for this State for some time to come. Our understanding of this matter was that the com promise agreed upon was only one of expediency at that time and not binding after the adjournment of the legislature. We find this view held by some of the leaders of the fight in the legislature. We recall just now Senator Carlisle’s state ment that such was his understand ing. But, then, suppose such an agreement were entered into, what authority did the legislature have to bind any subsequent legislature? Who made the agreement? Could a legislator be true to his constituency and enter into such an agreement? The State is sophistic in its argu ment. It must admit that no sec tion of The State has a right to maintain a nuisance that spreads in fection to other sections. For in stance suppose the counties of Beau fort and Charleston contained a colony of lepers, and there was danger of Colleton’s becoming in fected. Would it not be the duty of the State, and The State, to use every means within power to eradi cate this leproies colony, even going so far aa remove it from the borders of tl»e State? We prohibitionists maintain that such a condition con fronts the people of the “dry” coun ties bordering on the “wet.” There can he no hardship brought on any part of the State by fulfilling the wishes of the great majority who every time they get the opportunity vote for prohibition. We contend, despite The State's ridicule, that in “such questions as these,” the coun- ln tbe Court of Common Plea*. Minor C Curler, W A Carter, Leroy O Caiter. Francis Morris, Victoria Hick man, Lawton Hiers. Pernr ,Hiers, Ha rah Kinard, A J C»rter v Duffy Hiers and Annie L Priester 'm their own .right; and Corrie May Carter, Jasper Carter and _*iia Carter by An nie L Priester. their Guardian ad Litem, Plaintiffs, vs. Mary Barnes. William Edward Carter and Susan Beaton, Defendants TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: Yon are hereby anmmoned and re quired to answer the complaint in this action of which a copy is v herewith served upon von, and to eerre a copy of your answer to the mid complaint on the aubscribere at their offices in Wal* terboro, Oplieton County, South Caro lina, within twenty days after the ser vice hereof, exciaeive of th* day of snob service; and if yon .fail to answer tbe complaint within th* time aforesaid, the Plaintiffe in this actioa will apply to tbe Ccurt for the relief demanded in the complaint. Walterboro 8 C-. September 6. 1609. PADGETT A LEMACK8, « Plaintiffs' Attorney*. H D PADGETT, (Beal) Clerk of Circuit Court. BUILDERS’ MATERIAL. Wanted the public to know that have a most complete line of all kinds of builders’ material, such as DOORS, , . SASH, BLINDS, SHINGLES, MOULDING, BRICK, ~ LUMBER, ETC. At prices to suit. Let us know your wants. C. i SAVAGE. luafactirer of Rough and Dressed Lumber- . LADIES, LOOK! LISTEN! HATS, LADIES HATS, HATS. M. WM. «. MIM. HENDERSONVILLE, S. C. Wishes to announce the r opening of an office for the practice of medicine in this community. He is boarding at Mr. J. A. Marvin’s. MASONIC MEETINGS. UNITY Lodge No. 55, aTF. M., holds its regular com munications on the 4th Friday in wrh mbnth at 8:00 o'clock, p. m. AI) wiring Brethren are cordially invited to at tend. P. M. BUCKNER, W. M. N. G. MORRALL, See'y. CKlldrmn fob FirrcMirs CASTORIA our Before buying your fall or winter hats, call and see new line, just arrived. Hats trimmed to suit the taste, by an experienced Milli ner. Prices to suit the purchasers purse. Call and be convinced. I also handle the F. P. Corset, the most comfortable wearing corset on the market. Try one. Mrs. S. A. Smoak, Milliner, Lodge, - S. C. Exclusive Bight to Sell • * o Have secured the exclusive right to sell COCA-COLA in Walteiboro tor the Charleston Coca-Cola Bottling Co., by Wholesale and retail—The only genuine Coca-Cola Made. g ■ _ - , y 1 Also sell fish Tuesdays and Saturdays. Oysters and Shrimp in Season. ’Phone 8b. ^ N~*C. A SAULS.