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WALTHRBORO, S. C. JUNK 22. 1910.
NO. 44
THE PRESS MEETING
THE MEETING OF THE STATE PRESS
ASSOCIATION AT GUNN SPRINGS
WAS A GRAND SUCCESS.
The meeting of the State JPress
association was held the first three
days of last week at Glenn Springs.
It was considered one of the best
held so far. and was noted for the
great good humor that prevailed,
and the many practical and helpful
papers that were read and discussed.
Most of the editors and their folks
were there, and the management of
the Springs did all in their power to
make the stay, of the association
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deaf. Superintendent Walker heard Ope can feel his insignificance when
of tpiff and went forfrtrh to s^e what standing in the presence of this gi-
they could do for the poor little fel- gantic structure of nature, through
low. He is now so far advanced which the finger of time has-worn WALTERBORO DRUG CO. ENTERED FRI
thal he can compete with children such an oj>ening as to admit of the my MGJtT—GALLON OF ALCONOL
who can see and hear in reading, construction of a railroad without amh othfo ADTin FC t tgriy
spelling, etc.' He has a special j the us.; of any of man’s agencies. ' AHU UintKAKIIU*a lAMW. ■
teacher, and is now making splendid This tunnel is said to surpass in
In spite,of the fact that grandeur the Natural bridge of Vir- 1
live in eternal night and ginia, and one can easily
silence, this little fellow is as cheer- that it does. v
ful and happy as any normal child
We regret that we cannot give in
DRUG STORE BURGLARIZED DR, . C. E. KINSEY SHOT ORGANIZED S. S. WORK
headway
i he has to
Friday night the Walterboro Drug
DR. KINSEY OP WILLIAMS PAINFULLY
INJURED BY GUNSHOT WOUND AT
THE HAND OF JOEPREEMAN.
What came near being a seridbs
DEPARTMENT FOR ORGANIZED SUN
DAY SCHOOL WORK. CONDUCTED
BY MISS I. M. EISHBURNE.
In the statistics given last week
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ON TO DANTE.
Leaving th a Natural tunnel
next point of interest was the
more detail the story of this little
fieldsof the Clirchfield Coal Company ,f anii [i ar with the 8toret judging
AT CONVERSE COLLET.E. at Dante. On arrival at this wild f n , rn tbe wav j n w hich the deed was
From Cedar Springs the party and picturesque phre, the party was i an ,j t h e ' article? taken,
was carried back to Converse College taken in coal cars and carried over .seems that one of the glasses in
where the people of Spartanburg the mountains at dizzy heights, and one „f ^ ^ f ron t windows was crack-
believe i Co T s,,,r<,nn Main street was rob- shooting scrape occurred at Williams the figures ixi “Liquors” wereincor-
L>ed by unknown parties. The object j Saturday night at 10 o’clock. rect. The amount should have been
of the robbers seems to have been to | l) r> c. K. Kinsey was sh >t and ser- Sl.524.000.tHIO instead of $524,000.-'
secure alcohol. E. M. Jones, the j iously wmunded by Joe Freeman, a 000.
manager of this store, thinks that it negro. The story of the shooting,
must have been done by parties 1 ^ f a r as can be learned, is about as
the
coal
had prepared a supper which was finally halted near the opening of
Here the little cars used
pleasant. The people of Spartan-,
burg also showered attention upon j serve ^ in ^ in,n F hall o. tne col- the mines.
those present and had arranged a ,e * e - The la,Jie * s of lhe town dis * t0 haul coal from the mines was
series of special entertainments that the * thin ^ s ^ hn.ught into use the party
kept the members of the press busy
all the time. Among these were the
trip to Cedar Springs to see the
State institution for the deaf and
blind, and the public meeting at Gm-
verse college Wednesday evening.
The editors of the Spartanburg pa
pers were everywhere in evidence
attending to the wants of the visit
ors. . : - f
KDlfoR POE’S ADDRESS.
It was the pleasure of the Press
Association to have for its orator
this year Clarence Poe, editor of the
Progressive Farmer, the leading
agricultural paper of the South, pub
lished at Raleigh, N, C.
Mr. Poe’s address was a gem of
thought and diction . He took for
his theme the importance of educa
tion and efficiency, and he showed
conclusively the very great imprt-
ance of having everyone educated,
black and%fiite alike.
His argument was that values of
real estate, opportunities for suc
cess in business and enjoyment of l.fe
in livin'g were directly proportioned
to the amount 0/ education and ef
ficiency in the population of any
community. “Transport,” said he,
“the land of Spartanburg to the
middle of Africa, and it will depre
ciate at least ninety per cent, in
value. Transport it to some of the
counties in the Southern states,
where the per cent, of illiteracy is
greatest and they will depreciate its
value at least fifty per cent. Thb
address was listened to with marked
^attention. '
Mr Poe remained with the press
party until the close of tne meeiHig.
going as far as Marion, N. C , on
the trip. *• *
TRIP TO CEDAR SPRINGS.
After the adjournnent of the
meeting at Glenn S^rinars Wedne -
day afternoon, the association weie
transported to Spartanburg over the
Glenn Springs railroad, and wtrt
met at the depot by’automobiles
which were used to take the partv
to Cedar Springs where a a ecia
program had been arranged for th»
editors to show the character and
quality of the work being done h« re
for the State's unfortunates. T1 is
program was intended-to cover the
work 'done by the blind and deaf,
k and to show the methods used to
train them to be useful citizens.
This institution is under the man
agement of Supt. N. F. Walker, his
ton, Lawrence, and an able corps of
■ trained and efficient teachers.
The program as carried out was
4 certainly a revelation to those who
had never seen the institution be
fore. Going there with a heart
filled with pity for those unfortunate
ones, after seeing how‘skilled they
become under training, 'and how
happy and cheerful they were, one
had pity changed to wonder and ad
miration. There are in round num
bers two hundred students at the
institution, and they tell you that
they are all happy and contented.
The aim of the course of training is
to make them so perfect in some
useful eeHinf ae that they shalF be
independent in life. Superintendent
Walker says that no graduate of this
institutkm has ever been known to
seated
drink. After the wants of the in in theis and the descent into the
follows:
Saturday afternoon Dr. Kinsey’s
son. Junior, was standing at the door
of the store of O’Quin Bros. H. D.
Carrol was just inside of the door
NOTICE TO SUPERINTENDENTS.
To the Superintendents of the
Methodist Sunday schools of Colle-
-. ton County:
Dear Brethren: The executive
ner man had been satisfied Dr. H. N. mines was started. On
Snider was introduced by Editor; the live wire which furnished
account of
the
current to run the cars, and the low
ness of the wall of the tunnels, it
was necessary for the occupants of
re
side.
one gallon of alcohol, all that Mr
1 Jones had on hand at the tirr\e, and
; some rock candy syrup, enough to
was
Hearon, and delivered one of his
characteristic addresses, in humor
ous and satirical vein, which was
responded to by President Kohn in the Cars to sit on the bottom in
an appropriate manner. This being'dining position. In this way
over, the audience adjourned to the circuit of the mint's was made,
auditorium and listened to a short length of the unerground trip being ! sweelen t h e ‘alcohol, several knives,
some razors and several boxes of
candy. The bottle that the syrup
was in was not labeled and Mr. Jones
t
thinks that it was some one who was
very familiar with the surroundings,
as no one who did not know about
this syrup would be likely to take
any risk.
The company has offered a reward
of $2T» for the guilty party.
: committee of tho Methodist Sunday
ed, and the party, by means of a, when Lena Freeman, a negro wo- School Association held a meeting
brick, succeeded in breaking the en- man. came up the steps to enter the recently and divided to hold the
tire glass out and ma-le their en- store door ami said to Mr. KindPy. ^hth annual conference of Colleton
trance in this way. However, be- “some one wants to come in.” Mr. j Methodist Sunday Schools at Lodge,
fore Ix-ing able to enter the store. Kinsey, stepped out of the way, ard July 27—29. 1910
they had to go through another door ; looking back saw this negro woman,
which was done by breaking a small | He expected to see some white wo-
latch which fastened it from the in-1 man enter and jokingly remarked to
Mr. Carroll that he thought it was
The spoils which were taken were somebody. The negro woman went
the
for
fe Kttb Dtwev Cantrell.
B» fc • fait haired Httb
lab
aa to bft both blind aad
musical recital on the magnificent
pipe organ,* which is said to be the
largest in the South.
The party then repaired to
sleepers that had been pri-vided
the trip to Dante and retiied.
BEGINNING THE JbURNEY.
Thursday morning the special train
bearing the association on its trip
over the Carolina,Clinchlield & Ohio
railroad with alsiut 1.40 perM)i s on
board, Wgan its most memorable
trip. This ti ip will go down a* one
of the most delightful ever taken by
the Press association. The train
was composed of four Pullmans, two j
diners and a batrga^e car. It was in
charge of very accomodating >oung
men as conductors, and Theodore
DeHon, Jr., Spartanburg, vice
president of the road, was along to
see that everything went on all right.
It was a delightful trip. The^cenery
along this jruad is unsurpassed east
of the Rocky Mountains, said many
of those on board who had seen most
of this country. It may be called a
scenic railway. Alta Pass, N. C.,
which is the highest point of the road
is 2700 feet above sea level, and af
fords a wonderful view of the sur
rounding country. Here a stop of
about an hour was made. Descend
ing from thence the road wound
along the Toe river, which in Ten
nessee changes its name to the Noli-
ch ickv rivbr, and it was along this
river that the grandest scenery * as
observed. UnaKa Springs, Tenn., on
the N<*lichucky is destine*! to become
or e of the most popular summer re
sorts. The water is cool and spark
ling,abounding in health-giving
properties, ami the views here are
the grandest on the whole route.
^ AT JOHNSON CITY, TENN.
The appointed schedule provided
for ft stop over at Johnaon City,
Tenn, to spend the night. The citi
zens of tjhis hustling little city of
12.000 inhabitanta. had arranged for
an evening’s entertainment. The
editors were met at the depot by a
large committee of citizens, and
were given a free car ride to the Old
Soldiers Hbrae, which has been con
structed here by the government at
a coat of nearly $3,060,000. This
home can take care of 2,200 disabled
old soldiers^ Now there are only
1,600 present. After viewing the
grounds and going into the buildings,
the editorial party was conducted to
the entertainment hall, where an ad
dress of welcome was delivered by
Mr. Williams, response being made
by Premdent Kohn. A concert by
the well trained orchestra, and mov
ing picture show concluded the ex-
ercises. The party left at 9 o’clock
Friday morning for Dante.
The natural tunnel.
At Speers Ferry the train was
•witched off on the road of the Vir
ginia A Southwestern railway for
the purpose of visiting the Natund
This is one of the an
It ia
formed by the pvaegMl at
about five miles. Finally a stop wa.-
ma-le where the ojierators were at
work, and the methods now used in
coal mining were explained by the
manager. J. M Roan. The day of
the old pick in coal mining is at an
.‘ml. the age of electricity having
made possible amelectric drill which
eat.' its way down under the coal,
leaving it where dynamite or powder
will do the rest. Demonstrations
and explanations were here made,
greatly to the edification of thf«e
w/iose chief fuel supply is usually
hot air. It was most interesting to
se; the quiet effectiveness of the
work done by the blackened, earnest
men. with ther funny little miners
caps and lamps. A work that ia
dangerous and fascinating^ Each
one of the party had been provided
with caps and lanterns, and it was as
unique a sight perhaps to the miners
to see the awkwardness of the new-
made miners.
After the return to the town the
party was taken to the amusement
hall, where an impromptu program
of dancing, singing and refreshments
yks enjoyed. A demonstration was
given by Manager Roan as to the
methods used to revive miners who
are overcome with the deadly gases
of the mines at times, which was
most interesting. Resolutions were
adopted by th£ Press association at
the conclusflm of the exercises,
thanking Manager Roan, and the
others who had contributed so much
to the education and entertainment
of the visitors. At 10 o’clock the
return trip was started.
THE WEALTH OF THE COAL MINES.
Perhaps a few figures of the im
mensity of the work being done here
will not he uninteresting. The
Clinchfield Coal company awns in
round numbers 400,000 acres of coal
lands. 226,000 acres of this immense
tract has rich deposits of coal. It is
estimated that there are on each
acre of this not leas than 16,000 tons
of coal. This will give a total of
3,466,000,000 tons of coal, or enough
to last the country centuries. Work
has just started here, we were told.
When fully begun thousands of tons
of coal will be shipped daily over the
wonderful railroad of the company
having its Southern terminus, at
Spartanburg.
^ THE RETURN TRIP.
Johnson CityrTenqpasee was the
first stopping place on the return
trip. This was reached late Friday
night, the leaving time beipg 10 o’
clock Saturday morning. A atop of
one hour was made at the beautiful
Unaka Springs where the editors
were again . photographed.' At
Erwin an ohaenratiop ear was at
tached which was vary popular for
the rest of the journey.'. This en
abled all togotagood view of the
topography and semiary. At Alta
Pasaa stop of several boon waa
made, aqd many of tha party took
tah tithe
of the high mouMaiae,
of thh f view
COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TO MEET.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee will be Called to meet
Monday, July 4. This being the
first day of the summer term of
court. Chairman Howell thinks that
perhaps it will bf^ more convenient
for the members of the executive
committee to be present, and for
this reason he has appointed that
day for the meeting.
“JULE" CARWILE IS DEAD-
The Colleton friends of St. Julian
Carwile of Edgefield will be sorry to
know that he died at his home at
Edgefield Monde)' morning after an
illness of a’ * week. Mr. Carwile
traveled for a Charleston drug
house and made friends wherever he
went.
J. M. TUCKER DEAD.
Branchville. June 18.—J. M. Tuck
er died suddenly in Florence at 4
o’clock this afternoon. The first
news of Mr. Tucker’s death was re
ceived here by a telegram from F.
R. McLeod to T. M. Patrick.
Mr. Tucker has been cashier for
the Bank of Branchville for the past
several years and was on a business
trip for the bank when he died. Mr
Tucker enjoyed the confidence of the
people of Branchville as few men
have. •
Arrangements are being made to
have the corpse sent home, after
which plans for the funeral and in
terment will be made. Mr. Tucker
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Janie
C. Tucker, and one son, J. Frederick
Tucker.
Mias Pearle Beach, of Mt. Carmel,
who has recently finished at the
Business College In Columbia, was in
town yesterday.
this oecsribn to dfcub tiths top of
tion of the railroad could be
Descent from this elevation is
made in a aeries of loops and curves.
Tunnels, cuts and fills being the
methods pursued. No fewer than
36 tunnels are passed through^ in
going from Spartanburg to Dante,
some of these being of great length.
There is one of thaw tunnels seven-
sights of smile long.
Without further mishap tha party
reached Spartanburg at 7:90 o’clock,
in tints to catch the ctatgoing trains.
Thus ended one of the moat daUght-
ful trips tha amodatien haa tsar sr-
The moating tte*t year
Ml it «i
tha trip wOl ba
jrwwr, doc wtm excurnoa
wfll have Who
in, and putting down a basket which
she had in her hand, took out a knife
from her pocket and opening it put
it in her apron pocket and remarked
”1 am somebody, and am just as
good as you are.” The woman then
began to abuse Mr. Kinsey, who in
sisted that she hush, stating tq her
that he did not mean any harm by
The remark which was jokingly
made. She continued her abuse and
shortly left the store and going to
her home returned with her hus
band, Joe Freeman, she carrying a
gun. • ‘'X
Mr. Kinsey was informed of this
fact and went to his home and re
turned with his gun. which he put
in Mr. Brabham’s store. His father
hearing of this came ov«r to the
store and instructed his son to put
the gun up and go to Magistrate
Wilson and take out a warrant for
these negroes and have them arrest
ed and let the law take its course.
This Mr. Kinsey did, and turned the
warrant over to Constable Maxey,
who went to Williams to make the
arrest. Knowing the danger of
these negroes, Mr. Maxey'appointed
Dr. Kinsey and others as special con
stables to aid him in making the'ar.
rest.
The party proceeded to the home
of the Freemans, but just before
reaching it they were informed that
Joe Freeman was back at the store
of O’Quin Bros, with his gun. They
returned to the store and attempted
to arrest Joe Freeman, who, seeing
the party approach, ran. Then they
went back to the home where the
woman was arrested. After secur
ing her they started to leave when
Joe Freeman appeared behind a
clump of bushes Dear the house cry
ing, ”get out of here.” At the same
time he shot into the crowd, the load
taking effect just above Dr. Kinsey’s
left hip. The negro then made his
escape into the darkness.
Dr. Kinsey was taken back home
and waa attended by Dr. H. M. Car
ter who dreased his wound. It was
found that the gun had been loaded
with a slug, bat fortunately the load
produced only a painful flesh wound.
Efforts were made again early
Sunday morning to catch Freeman,
and he was seen several times by the
pursuing party, but owing to the
thickness of the undergrowth in the
bays near Williams, he has so far
eluded captors. As Dr. Kinsey waft
shot Constable Maxey instructed his
| deputies to kill the negro. Two of
them had guns and fired at him, tod
it is thought he was wounded. The
woods were scoured Sunday by about
one hundred men to capture Free
man but to no avail* Constable
Maxey committed the woman to jail
Monday afternoon. Continued ef
forts’wijl be made to capture Free-
The opening sermon will bede-
Hveml Wednesday evening, July 27,
and the first business session held
Thursday morning.
You ar* requested to appointdele-
egaLs at once if possible, and send in
their names to L. J. Jones, Lodge, S.
C,, so that arrangements may be
made for their accommodation.
Please try to select only such
delegatt sa - will attend and will fur
nish a rejiort not only to the confer
ence, but also to the Sunday School
upon returning from the conference,
as it is very necessary to keep in
touch with others and all try to move
forward together in the Lord’s work.
“Feed my lambs,” He tells us, and
He gives us no more important com-,
mand.
Let us all work to theeqd, that we
may make the coming conference at
bodge the very best that Colleton
has ever had.
Fraternally yours,
J. D. Risher, Prea.
(Miss) S. Louise Marvin, Sec.
man.
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H. W. Dubois, candidate for
county auditor, spent from Thursday
till Monday in Savannah. It b re
ported that whUa Mr. Dubois
thefahaMMt tbs greater part of
his time alartionssriwf. forgetting
»ka» ha bad cnaMd the Colleton
Hoc. Supervisor Griffin^ who bad
business at SaUcahatebia bridge last
Thursday, ii also charged with bav*
tag sana ovorfato Beaufort and
' TEACHERS ELECTED.
A meeting of the board of trustees
of the Walterboro High School waa
held in the office of Howell 4k Gruber
last Thursday afternoon for the pur
pose of electing the next year’s
teacher’s for this school. Prof H.
G. Sheridan was re-elected principal,
and all the last year’s corpa of teach
ers. with the exception of Mimes
Buchanan and Barr, who did not
stand for re-election. In their stand
were elected Mias Ruth Harrington
of Cheraw, a graduate of the Mem-
inger school of Charleston, and Mias
Edna Barre of Laurens, who fan
gyaduate of Winthrop. Mias Amm
Galloway will be Mr. Sheridan’s first
assistant in the high school, add the
other teachara who were re-elected
were Misses Jessie Fraser, Leonie
Padgett and Lillian Fanner. The
different grades will be assigned the
teachers later by Prof. Sheridan. «
Mr. Gruber received quite a num
ber of applications from teachers,
but after the careful consideration
of the board, they decided on thin
corps, which they believe will prove
satisfactory in every particular.
There teachers will have the nice
new school building to begin work
in next fall, and big things are ex
pected of them‘*by both the board
and the patrons.
RE-INDEXING GOINITY RECORDS.
The work of re-indexing tha coun
ts records, provided for by the
legislature, has at fast begun. This
ii a alow process as the work fa
being done from the books ef
original entry. It ia thought it will
take several months to complete tha
work. Those now engaged doing
this work are; Mrs. C. L. Gahagan,
Mrs. Annette Jones,
Stokes. Edith . Emtortin,
Howell and Vernon Padgett. /
VOTE FM STOCK LAW- *
To the voters of Colleton County:
Plsass let usalpck law man look lew-
ward to tha coming afaetion and
vote for no othar candidate anlamhn
is in favor of tha stoek tew. aa it fa
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