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o / * 1 vouxxxiv. WALTERBORO. S. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1911. NO 26 MOISTS ENTERTAINED FAIR ASSOCIATION MEETS SAVAUUIA0I9BIS AIMVE III WAL FUMY tVEMRG AFTER YHY FYOTTUL HIP. COUATY FAIff ASSOCIATION KOLOS IMPOITANT MLFT1IH:. GCTTING IfAOY FOR NEXT FAIR. Secretary Arthur Solomons The Colleton County Fair Assoria- who personally conducted the path- j tion held a special meeting at the finding tour of the Savannah Auto-, Commercial Club rooms yesterdav mobile Club, was not very compli- 11 o’clock, ex—president G. C mentary in speaking of the roads over which he had passed. He orfed the neeemity of good r6ads in any community, and spoke of the neeemity of having the services of a drilled road builder. While- the Automobile Clubs do not give anv Brown presiding, the president, Paul Sanders, having been called off on very urgent business. The meeting was attended by a large number of the stockholders, and many matters of importance were discussed and passed uoon. There was much en- ^saeasm w —- * pMBCU UUUU. HICTr 111UVII v direct aid. financially, in road build-1 thusiasm. and a determination shown they cooperate in every way; to make the next fair the best yet with the local authorities in the > held. fight for good roads. It is a decided : x committee composed of the advantage for a town to be on the president, secretary, superintendent tine of this proposed highway. j and department superintendents was Wealthy tourists prefer this mode appointed to arrange a ptemium list of travel, and to have a stream of md publish same by March 15th. monied men passing through a town | The secretary was authorized to manna that more or less of it will i ^nt a portion of the grounds for change hands en route. These men ; planting, and the other part for; are liberal spenders, nrd frequently j bayeball and other purposes, on the lookout for c:.*.nc«\ nf invest-1 The date for the next fair will l>e I ment. determined by the president, the! Whith this road pacing through VIce presidents and secretary. Walter boro a modern hotel with The stockholders present at this tourist accomodation would be a meeting were: G. C. Brown. J. F. | necessity, and a tine opportunity for j Brant. 1). C. L. Hiers. K. H. Bre- investroent. ^ ' land. 8 P. Goodwin. R. E. Jones. 1 Mr. Solomons, who is also an j Taylor. T. P. Murray, liev. T. engineer said that the road between Charleston and Walterbooo could be built at comparatively small cost as M. Bishop. G quantities of the neccessary materia! for building good roads, sand and day. are to be had with little or no hauling. THE TRIP TO CHRLESTOX. The Path Finders headed, by Arthur M. Solomons, the Club’s •ecretary arrived at Ritter several boon behind schedule time Tbuiw day evening. The party was met there by Meases Paul Sanders. J. M Speights and Ernest Lamarcks, of Ritter, and C. T. Cummings and W B. Porcher of Walterboro. There were five cars in in the party, two from Savannah driven by Mesa it Solomons, and Hull, one from Beau fort driven by Mr Baer, one fron Ritter driven by Mr. Sanders an« ane from Walterboro driven by Mr. Cutnmmgs. ' The trip to Charleston was matte by way ot. Jick.-ountiro crosing the river uy me .i s a f a Paseing th ouvh Alia', s t.vro liantowles T e i-arrv er er»o v i .i lesion on the shell r *ail cr« asm. tre ru-«v b;io^ >. ver u»e Asnl* River. A delegs* *n fr -rr. ‘ U «C •’i' ’ ' ,r - i Club n * J-J l*y Mr \\ii.-Hi (. Hirv-?y m t h'* ar’ »is-s a: to Commercial Club Alter a fe* layers of dust ha I ls*en remove* the-wan's <>f the inner nan a<*i generous!v provio-u |. *. !■« v» if ari towns can excel «,’har!e.'ton when i comes to hospi alii). TRIP TO WALTERBORO. The pathfinders of the Sav *nn *h Automobile Club arrivetl here Fri day evening at 8:15 o’clock, after j aeries of experiences calculated t< try the patience of % the autnists. Leaving Charleston at 12:30 o clock, P. Baker, W. V. Glover, B G. Hiott, W. C. Saunders, W. W. Smoak, G.; A. Benton. M. H. j Hiott. I. D. Crosby, M. 0. Hiott, | Jas. A. Padgett, and Rev. Isaac Crosby. MR GRUBER DROPS OUT Hon. W. B. Gruber’s name waa placed in nomination tat Wednesday before the jotot assembly, for As- aaaitoa Justice, the nomination being made by Senator Bates from Barn well, and seconded by a number of prominent legislators. On the first ballot Mr. Gruber received 18 votes The last ballot showed Memminger, 39; Watts. 38; Fraser, 36; Bonham. 28: Gruber, 14. Thursday the balloting was practi cally a duplicate of Wednesday’* 1 vole, so Mr. Grul*"-’* friends decid- el to withdraw his name before balloting began Friday morning. General Bonham's name was also Aithdriwn. Friday, leaving M*-tn- minger, Watts and Fraser in the r aee. Toe btllminp hii lav and Sat- jrdav did not ••leet., the'hird ballot >atunlay giving WatU. 53; Mcm- miiiM-’V, 51; Fraser, 1’. The(^»lle <*r delevalion voUds did 'v for J i ft*' M>»mming< r after Mr. irub'-r’s vvitbirawil. , STdTE-'EACHtR'S AS500IATI0N. Tn<* S’h'e Teacher’s Association vill jn. e* n. (Columbia. March 23-25 »r. 'I »-k bni.es there w-iil f»e a num ber of teachers present from this countv. / . 75.0110 BONUS VOTES TO BE OVEN ' THIS WEB( TO CONTESTANTS. v* — i—» ■■ ' ■ ■ v s It is yet too early to begin to predict who will win the 75.000 bonus votes to be given away this week in the Great Voting Contest. Already a large number of votes have been cast, but the biggest voting days MfiU he the tat ones of this week. It is expected that these mil be very busy days for the Contest man. and they wMl be if the first part of the week is an indication as to what the latter pert ml be. Seven! candidates have been heard to remark that the bonus votes would go their way. Lest someone forgets we wish to state again just what the bonus offer is. To the contestant getting the greatest number of votes from Friday February 10th to Saturday Feb. 18th. inclusive, 25,000 bonus votes will be given; to the second greatest number. 20.000 bonus votes; to the third, 15.000: to the fourth* 10.000; to the fifth, 5,000. It does not matter whether or not the candidate brings or senda in the votes. Just so they have been cast between the dates above n^entinned, and placed to the credit of the candidate will determine the winners of the bonus votes. Friends of the candidates c*n thus do their friends good service, b> send ing in the votes. « The prizes are attracting a fcreat deal of attention just now. The piano will be shipped out in a few days and placed on exhibition at some store in town. The laylor-Canuady buggy has arrived Jmd is on exhibit at the Walterboro Live Stock & Vehicle Company's store; the Imperial Princess range is being inspected by hundreds of person* at The Brown Furniture & Hardware Company. The machine has been ordered and will be in soon and exhib.ted at this office. The contestants and their friends are each and all cordially invited to call at Rhese places and l*>ok at the various prizes. Remember next week will be too late to win the bonus votes. Now is v. the time to get busy. The contestant who neylects this opportunity to get free votes, will have no one to blame but himself or herself. What are YOU doing ab-^ut this important matter ’ *’"Mn Life’s Tussk He who’d win Has to Hustle So Begin BEG-l-N T-O-D-A V CONTESTANTS-WHO WILL WIN? Miss Annie Padgett. Walterboro, R F I) 2 121,730 Miss Gertrude Craven, Walterboro 118,330 Cottageville High School. Cottageville 115,240 Miss Nan Breland, Walterboro. R. F. D. 3 109,860 Mi** Carrie Smoak, Smoak*. R. F. D. 1 62.220 • Mr*. Annie Clough, Walterboro 61.660 Mim Pet Rentz, Wand ton MJ64Q MIm Rubye Jotte/Stokea 31.810 Mias Addie Bishop, Ruffin, R. F. D. 2 30.030 Mias Alice Sykes, Walterboro t 27,610 Miaa Lillian Vamadoe, Hendersonville 25.620 Mias Nellie Barnes, Smosks, R. F. D. 2 24,620 Mias Gertrude Rogers. Ravenel 24.510 Miss Dells Bishop, Smoaka, R. F. D. 1 22.690 Miss Daisy Ackerman, Round 1 - 21,080 Mr. Paul Walter, Walterboro 17,270 Mrs Carrie Robertson, Hendersonville 15,690 Mr. H. W. Breland, Waite*boro, R. F. D. 4, 15,580 Sniders School Ruffin, R. F. D. 2 j. ; ....11,31Q[ Miss Annie Week*, Round 10,350 Mrs. W. M. Sauls. Walterboro. R. F. D. 1 10.190 M iss Carrie Ackerman, Cottageville 8.120 Miss Letha Brant, Walterboro. R. F. X). 4 .... 7.*UP Miss Beatron Reynolds. Round .. 7.120 Mr. C. C. Crosby. Walterboro, K. F. D. 1 7,000 Ruffin Graded School. Ruffin ... . 5,500 'MissPearl Garris. Williams . .... . . 4,500 W'alterboro High School, Walterboro 3,460 Miss Hettie Yarn, Brant 2,U>0 Miss Dora Langdale, Walterboro 2,090 Miss Annie Dandridge, Cottageville . 2,010 Miss Aleen Jones, Lodge. R. F. D. 1 . . 2,0oo Miss Ethel W'arren Walterboro, S. C ♦. 2,000 II. C. Cannady, Onhorp. S. C. / l,00o Mr. H. J. O’Bryan Hendersonville 1,000 PARDON FOR JONES OFFICE DECLARED VACANT The only real trouble aside from k<» r»pr»*»r*l bad condition of the roads encountered on the journey was getting stuck in the mud 3 miles out from Walterboro out fr<*m VA alterboro near they were, therefore nearly S hour, 11 oUm-. mil'Jn . *'r»teh of r<wd on the row The tr.p was made by ! work<Kt b / the <;h » 1 " on uie ru»u. -f It was n^ces^ary to secure the ser- the upper route, by Summerville, Givhans bridge. Cottageville and Round. Only two cars came on through, the Stevens- Dury ea anc l khe (ar. lecar. In the former were Secretary Arthur N. Solomons of t ie Savannrh Automobile Club, G. R . oltr.. vires of a pair of moles to pull them out before thev could proceed. Secretary Solomon * states that owing to the condition of the roads they would not he able to recom mend the advisability of the endur ance run this soring, as he was sure ♦he roada could not be gotten in condition in time. He is of the — . vunnnh opinjon. however, that this run official photographer of savannah, ** made bv ear) y f a ii if the C. T. Cummings am. w B. rorener | amount of work be done on of Walterboro. Ir. the carlecur t|, e nada. The logical route, Ta were Darr L. Hull, (4eo. j said^ is the upper one traversed Fri- DeBorde o f S k ^ r. n a h and f tav on account of It* location. « b The part left .Saturday morning R. A. Dunning >f Beaufort. ^ or g avann ah. returning by way of The third *cw leav.rg t'r.arleaton. '{titter. Snlkehatchie, lemaaeee that of the Bt iuf rt 3arty, happen. | Hardeville. Pocataligo. Grahamville ed to an accident id was forced to ! and on to Savannah. They hoped to : reach Savannah early in the after- retarn to Lharle* n. j noon The pathfinder were met upon their arrival at th CENSUS RETURNS TOR COLLETON COUNTY-CENSUS 1910. The Director of the Census has announced the population of Colleton county. South Qarilina, according to its minor civil division*, as shown by an official count of the returns of the Tnirteenth Census: Population 1910 Colleton county Adams Run township Bell township Blake township Broxton township Collin* township Fraser'Township Jacksonboro town Glover township Cottageville town * Hayward township Hendersonville town Lowndes township Sheridan township Verdier township inch Walterboro town Warren township Sm aks town 1910 1900 1890 35,390 33,462 (a >40,293 5.726 4,966 4.609 3 025 3,007 2.509 3.087 3,658 3.106 3,916 3.0G9 2,828 718 775 1.955 1,530 „ 1,995 1.2IG 54 44 58 . 1,473 1.721 1,650 418 2,621 2,448 2.098 319 l.fifr 1,667 1,243 2,540 2,039 1.778 5,578 5,481 4.516 1,677 1.491 1.171 •3.509 2.688 2.154 164 1.3 I by a com mittee from th* :>i .m rcial Club composed of E. " H. Shaffer. Dr. T. G. Kershaw, J:w E. Peuriioy, A. H. Wichman, ami W 'V ’' 'las, and taken to Ca;*t. f. J. i anchard’a where an eG^ant aupp^ur awaited them. ** Mr and Mrs Saxby Chaplin and children of Charleston were in town visiting his mother. Next Wednesday. February 22, being George Washington*1 birthday, the banka in town will be dosed. Mr*. Julia Vamadoe, of Great Swamp, waa in town Monday v-, v ...,.^/2) of flprrs, Cam, Dorchestet, George, Givhans arid Kogar townships. (These townshijis and part of Collins township taken to form part of Dorchester county in 1897.) Taking off Adams Run and Collins townships which have recently gone to Charleston county, the populati >n of Colleton county will be 28.94C. ITS M STATUS •FJtNES CASE IT CIUMIft CNIESPINBCNT. f SEEKS PUKOW. Columbia. February 12, —Special: The proceedings in the matter of John J. Jones, who was convicted of killing Abe Pearlstine, at Branch- ville. are, to say the least, unusual. There was a great flurry and flourish in the newspapers, from the ho*qe end of the line, that Jones had abandoned his appeal to the Supreme Court acd that he was going to be gin hie sentence of ten years and one month for the killing of Pearl stine. and thereby perhaps engage public sympathy. ALLOWED MANY PRIVILEGES. It is true that Jones is in Columbia and it also true that he receives his mail and friend* at the Penitentiary, but he has not abandoned his appeal and he has not begun hi* service. He does not wear stripes, which is the first essential of a prisoner, and he has not ‘'matriculated" as a con vict. If he had been entered as a prison er he would not be allowed to do as he pleases and he would have been required to don stripes, w hich he has not done, ami which he has not been required to do. as all other prisoners must do. IF NOT PRISONER. WHAT? .Superintendent Griffith ha* been advised by counsel for Jones that Jones has not abandoned his appeal and until he does this he cannot legally be considered a prisoner and Capt Griffith does not so regkrd him. The further fart appears that Jones it conducting from the Peni tentiary a campaign for his pardon, nato iacanfcpwm wfth Ms utttot* nevs, or at least with Columbia at torneys^ with reference to his par don, and it waa stated that on yes terday a lot of blanks were taken him, and that he will send these blanks out to secure signatures ask ing for his pardon, when, as a mat ter of fact, he does not appear to have begun his sentence. APPEAL NOT “ENTIRELY ABAN DONED.’’ The invariable rule of previous administrations has been that as long as a party contended for his liberty before the Courts, he wa* m no po sition to ask for pardon, and that a pardon could only be askod for after the remedies of the Court had been entirely exhausted or abandoned. To the outside world Jones would appear to t>e a prisoner actually serving his sentence, whereas Capt Griffith is advised, by Jone’s counsel in Orangeburg, that the appeal has not been “entirely abandoned,’’ and Jones has not been asked to wear stripes the usual apparel of pris oners in the State Penitentiary. WHY TAKEN TO PENITENTIARY? If Jone's appeal has not been abandoned, it appears somewhat pe culiar that he should have been brought to the Penitentiary instead of remaining in the jail at grange- burg until the Supreme Court passes on his case. In what purported to E>e an inter view with Jones, while he was in the Orangeburg jail, published in an Orangeburg paper, Jones was ac credited with the statement that he was going to the Penitentiary to Ik*- gin his sentence and would perf rm any work to which he was a-'-ig ed, the inference being that the apj would be abandoned. C*'Ptr_ry statements are made now. >t » all very curious. The News a T Co.i- rier. THf If FlCt Of CWXTT El. MW IfllK KU HI CRU TM CMNTT IT C. I. PUTT KCUIEI VACANT. Beit enacted by the General AHembly of the SUte of Sooth Caroling: Section 1. That the office of County Commissioner for Col leton county, now being held and occupied by C. H. Platt, in Saint PfctiTs Parish in Colleton county, be, and the same is hereby, de clared vacant, the territory wherein said C. H. Platt resides having been transferred add an nexed to Charleston county. Sec. 2. That the Governor be, and hereby is, authorized to fill •aid vacancy by appointment for the unexpiiod term of the said C. H. Platt, upon the recommen dation by a majority of the Gen eral Assembly from Colleton county.* Sec. 3. All Acts ancf parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby, re pealed. MASQUER ADi SKATE A SUCCESS The Masquerade "skeet” which was held at Taylor's hall Friday night was a glorious sueeess. al though followed by an unfortunate accident. Three prize* vyere given for the ones with the tackiest costume, v A handsome berry aet for the tackiest young lady, waa won by Mia* Atilee Moore; a cut glass cigar case with cigars, for the tackiest gentleman, was won by Aqdersqn Sanders; and a lovely.- doll for- the tackiest child, was won by Little Mias Ruthie Lucas. To the regret of her many friends Miss Alice Syke* was the most un- lucky one. Near the end of the ■kating together, and being either thrown or tripped, Mia Sykes got her back slightly injured and a rib fractured. Miss Sykes at present is getting along as well as could be ex pected. and we hope for her a speedy recovery. TO WORK FOR PIANO. The teachers and pupils of the Walteroboro graded school, having no piano for their use. and knowing how much a piano is needed for their work, have planned to purchase a Stieff piano for the school. In fact the piano i»< now on the Rtage in the auditorium and the parents and all the friends of the boy* and girl* are asked to make a voluntary contribu tion to th<- m<*eting of the first pay ment which will be due March 1st. The balance will be raised by the work of teachers and pupils of the school. H. G Sheridan, Principal. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT COMING. Rev. B. R. Ulmer, representing the Marbb and Granite Works visit ed this office last Monday. Rev. U Imer stated that the Confederate Monument was well on the way to Waltenboro, and that they expected to have it erected in a few weeks. R L ana Walter Linder were among those who attended the mas qaerada aksto Friday night F N Jones, one of the prosperous of Ashton, j- Kir.g Dullness men In town Monday. \ K PETITION (TRCUl-ATED IN * .T3K- BORO. Hugo S. Strickland wa- town Monday with petition to Governor Blcase asking a' pardon :or Joi e*. This petition had a large .lumber of signatures, and was b ‘ini generally signed. Mr. Strickland ► a H that r,»> wascirculm.- g tids ii n on his own initiative. Tber** will be- a se-i*v of meetings held at Evergreen O-rod h beginning iriuvh c >u. • ig through until Sunda> by Rt /. i. **>• inet CARD FROM MISS REYNOIDS. To my friends: 1 am in The Press and Standard’* voting contest, to win. and I .shall appreciate any as sistance my friends may give me. I shall personally feel grateful for any favors shown. Sincerely, (Miss) Beatron Reynolds. Round, Feb. U. Mrs Alb eM Henderson anddaugh- *'*r ... * Robertson with hip’ little ^m, of Charleston were visitors in town this 4-eek. Mrs. Henderson and "Miss Julie" have many friends h.^re who are always glad to see them. A F Henderson, the popular cash ier of the Khrhardt Banking Co, was in town Sunday, visiting his mother. Mrs Henderson, and sister Mrs Chaplin. Miss Beatron Reynolds of Round was in town yesterday, and called at our office. Miss Reynolds is hustling for contest votes and she is getting them. Mias Clytie Saunders who has been teaching the Bedon’s school, carnet** see us Thursday tat, her school ^ closed Thursday. ."% - * Mrs M A Adams is in town visiting at the home of berson,CDC Adams.