Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ be Press and Standard 1977. - / m 1 /i. Avrmxoox by tub AXD STANDARD, INC. IBS V. L. MORROW. •at the poetofflee. WiJter- 8. C. : aa second claaa ^oail SCB8CRIPTIOX RA Osa Yeaa .81 .OB • e • • i All cheeks and draft* ■houl Srawa la faror of the Pnaa V 1 Look at the pr'.ated label oa your paper. The date thereon show* when the sabocrlpdoa expires. For ward year money la ample .time for renewal. Notice date oa label care- fally. and If aot correct please no tify as at Subscribers deelriag the address of their paper chanced, will plea state la their cemmaaleatlca both the old sad the new addressee. The Prase sad Standard will P«b- Iteh brief sad rational letters on eabjeets of ceneral Interest when they are accompealed by the name* sad addressee of the nathorr sad are net ef a defamatory nature. Aa- aoaymeaa communications will not he noticed. Rejected manuscript* will net be returned. AM*f it ia Owp if 'JrcoU&jCo, Qinton, S. C, ^MUorMTofnciiT : K*w T«r*-ns k *. r I, Goald CUtc*e>—AdTmntat B. rorth^r Iwoolt—ll<*rl XaUer ..C. L. Winn St Loair—IMS CsdusI NstL bank Bids-. - M- £. Osmukob KMhrH)e-l«' »th Sts. X J. M Ridtll*. Jl AtUaU—W V<-nioro I B K^.tucS N. < —Ail Mato M H". I.!p> a j PVIsdflphta—’.421 Arrh St., A. kicbiaotid. \a.—Marvi*r W. Ur a The Stesoly Notmriher. It was tMs editor's good lack :• »e la the hoase ef represeeietlTes. «iac allowed the prlrilece of coins ato the chamber and ntlacUac vita he yarions memhers. We are clad o report that wa found oar mem bers oa the-job and-atteatiire to • r- ry START .SOMETHING. An exchange remarks: “If you vent business {p pick up. do a little koeeting yearaelf.**'. ' In thD'tbere.li^il’Vtttle useful Idct that may not hare occurred to yon. You may be AtUag back and wait ing for the other fellow to star: something- " If everybody waited for the other fellow to start sxnetking there would be a good long wait. Start somethlag. But. for goodness sake, don't start anything that you eannbt finish. Prosperity has not yet be-n equip ped. as automobiles, with a self ' starter. “LEGAL ADVICE" TION. APPROFRIA- '•TToi dear to ou. . h " am ,9 ,h *: steady subscriber. — Who pay* in advance at the birth i- of each year, -- Who lays down the money and doe -, -^i-ft quite. gladly. And casfs ’roun\l the office a halo ofccheer. \ . . He never Mys: 8tpp it. l^canbot , ’ ford it, . ? \ I’m gt»Aic« t ore magurit:^ n n than 1 can read;'* A \ Rut always^ays. ''^c’.d it. <m;Y pe\ pie all like it— The fact is w'' think it a help and / a need." How welcome hi/ check ..when it reaches oi;r sanctum. „ • . , fow imtake* our pu! ( ae throb, how it makes our hearts-dancef ^We outwardly thank him. we wardly bl r s$ him— s y/ / The steady subscriber w!>o pay* In advance ” ' ," By a vote of 47 to 4S the boas-* left in the appropriation of 92.dOO for legal adviced* for the governor. It will be recalled that a warm con troversy arose over the retention by Attorney General Peeples of his assistant. Fred Dominick, formes Governor Blease’s campaign manag er and law partner. Governor Man ning declared that , Mr. Peeples ha) voluntarily come to him and offered to allow him to. select the assistant to the attorney genera rs office. This ^ovrenor Manning declined to do, and Mr. Peeples then stated that he would submit a list of names <n hose he would consider ellgibU ic appointment. This was not done, '.nd Mr. Dominick was retained ns assistant. The matter was • then submitted to the legislature, and the action of th® house In appropriating 12.000 for legal advice was the re sult. The Colleton delegation aplit on this proposition. From' reports here Mr. Smit v voted against the propo sition and Mr. V*rn for It. It i* unfortunate that th-e shoul.i (hive risen t*hh controversy af the beginning of the administration a.i *o the .legal advisors of the gover nor We can' readily understand ^ hy Governor Manning- w ould net go to either Mr Peeples or to Mr Ftomlnlrfc for l s.tl wdv; e Mr. >Jan- Bijtg Bays thil Mr Peeples volun tartly made pccr.ipe 1 r.nd gave hlK: '. ur.. . s which he did" nor il-cr to, . r.d I*on,tnkk j^as tlie paign manager ‘and law j arfn. r. or overiior Blo/se., who was a b tr r political ghtaeaaist of Govern- Ma-nnipc/ The t*f,ttot,ship of the coverpnr.a.nd the legal adviser must * p A closer r.datiottship. Governo’- Otacw Margaret Gould, fashion editor qL the Woraan s Home Cam- paaion, devote* fifte* n or more pag es, in the March lasna of that publjga- t>on to spring stales. ia which she '.hows how women eta have the smartest clothe* at .moderat* prices. Writing an article eptitled “The Copilc In Dress,". Mias Goald .tel}* la part aa follows about some of the ftights to he seea oa Fifth Areas® in Xew.Yori. * ' “Fashioo announces the " wider skirt. The sensible woman adepts the new faghloa la a sensible, de rortfus way; hut not se aci women For iastaoes, there was the stout woman I spw. “She was big and jolly looking, and she came down the Avenue like a balloon on the end of o stick. - It gpparentiy had tried her very soul to mince along in the tight shirts of last spring, so now she was reveling in an extra wide skirt. She bounc ed and billowed; and her feet were frisky in th®ir new freedom, prune ing as If in a gay new dance, - “Acroea th* way there was aa other ludicrous looking person. ’Ap parently she. /bo. knew all About the vogue of the wide skirt. Her skirt was wide apd v*ty. very short; bat. alas, she was quite too broad for this ae*_fashioa. Ia appear ance she was plain and short and heavily bnilt all over. “Ton will Imaging that intuitive ly she would select a long vklrt an 1 an inconsplciooa shoe. Instead, her 'klrt was eight good laches from the ground and her thick anklee were eneased In white spats. Sure ly she was a sight to see; but In no way did she add charm to the vista.” la the March Woman's^ H< Com pan ion. Ida M.Tarboll writes a highly eat®rtaialag and suggestive article sotitlcd “A Toaag Girl> Thoughts.** ia whiefr ah* says that It is highly probable that kind par ents do not know -what is la their daughter’* mind. Following is an extrart: ’. «• ,! ‘'There is the Vale of * Secrecy, where the grown-ups move but sev er admit her-—whispering sometime* in her presence things she cannot understand, bat which, she Senses, concern * her. These things she must know. The impretsslon they make on her Is (hat. though they themselves walk In this Vale, they »tfll think it aomekow wrong—‘bad*. \nd there are' moments when sKe weeps because these guardians and friends are smirched la her ayes by their concealmeats sad winking*, 'he hates them at moments—they ho talk so much of goodness and 'doing right.' Why., why are they not fair with her? Nothing Is bad* to her—nothing but conceal ment and lying. That is the way «he,is mad®. But she will know; and rhe finds out, and builds up strange, disordered Imgges of things —unclean, false notions. A few years later when she is in the high school the grownups will attempt to teach her something of the Vale of Secrecy. It is too late. She know* a store of things they ha>e forgot- Why Farmers and Merchants ' Should Get Together BY CZYVE ASHLEY, “Brctdtr* 9 Caztlie” The Fanner’s Creed. Rim Manning not bring a lawyer >ouhi of/necessity have to consult more Anonymous. // Jup Pluvlus reigns again. -V The sound of the hammer beard. Prosperity reigns again. . Room Don’t knock. That’s the idea, /■' •y ’ * often thin his predeeesjor, who wa* a lawyer, Naturally he. would wiaii to go to g man in whom he copil place implicit confidence, and to onV who would b® friendly toward hi? idminlstratton. which neither Mr. Peeples nor Mr. Dominick is. He would, naturally therefor^, prefer irfother legal advisers. In thi* wo do ^ot blame him. and w^re w.e gover: nor we should seek a legal adviser in whom we could place implicit •and who would be friendlv I - * „ I believe in s pennan«nt agricul ture; a soil that will grow richer rather than podrer from year to year. I believe in 100-bushel corn an 1 in 50-bH«hel wheat, and I shall uot b* satisfied with anything yeitf. I believe that the only good, weed is a dead weed, and tHat a clean farm is as Important as ^clean con- •ciepce. I believe in >h® farm boy and In the farm girl, the farmer's best crop, tjie future's best nope. I beiiev^ in the farm will do all in my power life easier and happier i'b'ti *e,m the country sChodl h-t pr.':»*?»••* for country n'.\ and> ountrT > b :rch .tha-t tehche- it* pe<j- ok to e A /ply an.} live Honbra- ^i!y. • „ 1 • in conrauhity -pirit. i ririJ* »n home .and n iihlors. and i will do my pan to . make my cor.i ntinity the best in the State.. I believe in (b® farmer.' I beltere in farm' iff®. I believe in the in*plra ’ian of the open coufttry,. > \ I am proud to he a farmer arid' l will try earnestly to be worthy oi the nam^.-v-Home and Farm. By CLYDE ASHLEY - “Breeders’ Ornette" In many places the'chief topic- of discussion among farmers is how they can get away from tha price- domination of tb#*'local merchant, .yaw they can hay co-operatively for rash and save on'costs; how they can sell co-operatively apd thus eith er force the local merchant to • a higher price or get it otherwise. They forget to take Into account the $act that when they buy one or two articles co-operatively, they buy for cash, taking just so much business away from the local merchant and forcing him to carry ibem for an equal amount. - . ~ While this is going on the local merchant cuts down on orders, tell? the traveling man that co-operative mying to catting down his trade and making it a credit business; that now tho farmers will let apple* rt t In the fields if they can not sell di rect; that the corn coming to the grain dealer is soft pad the eggs de livered to his store are rotten. TV . . . local dealer can not sell co-operative- ten. and they are old and she H . . . .. _ . Jy because the average co-operative - 'ung. She senses that the fiame , ,. - . • goes oot of them is alive in ber. Moreover, they shock her by th® lateness and the indirectness, and the humorless solemnity of their teaching*.’’ ^ X ■ / What Every Honsebeeper Do In March. Should In the March Woman's Home Com panion appears a department, called company is seldom a permanent or ganisation and ia at dost never in corporated, hence its financial re sponsibility to limited. -Yon ask why.they do not get to gether? This to our qnation ’ and the fact remains that they seldom do. They', “cusp” and discuss on® another at r*ffutor intervals when a little getting together, a frank, open discussion of grievances (for-both , , | the farmer and the merchant have Th, EwIlMK. I, which .on- , „ BW) , #jM (l „ both . trihhtor* ct-h thd* practical Waaa'^ vl , wpoljl ,. , D „ uj. , or nope. m women and =.r to mak.yh^r / ' -Uc. that hare dec-lop* °tit o!|, ur „ [( . ltlon , , hooM bcinr their experience. Polloarlaf la thel 1(k th€m fre , wr ne , p ro( | t , t0 housekeeper's reminder for March. f taken frem this department: 'This R? the month—• “Tor have a thorough honseclean itg. not’ forgetting the cellar. \ both. * . Nearly every town of lees than 10.- 000 In our great middle' west ow w its very *xistence to the farms sur rounding it. Were the farmer i.oi ■■To start-the fight against the fly. (r>a< . pr , ctk , n , . vcry ' To disinfect for moths. Poaches, ♦tc.. before the. breeding time. •To spread, feriilixer on the gar would he. forced out of business and in a fe^- years the to'.n would vast out of existence. If the average vj',- dhn if it was not put on the ground; m « Kh « Rt valises this depend- >e the fall. “To prepare for t!i»- planting* in tb/' garden.” Extending the tst. payment has helped the man with money. ' , Have you forgotten that a Cham- b'r of Commerce would help Waiter- boro? Now. Hill Taft's name ‘tomes on the Republican list again/ True, history repeats itself. * ^ a . And history reposting itself doe* not any that Jarksonboro will ever ho the state capital again . *? Billy Sunday, noted evengeltst. :# attiring up Philadelphia, and cut ting hit own wood, letting the chip.’ fall where they may. Billy might do good in Charleston. Walierbdro light bonds sold for • S 1-1. Woddruff. In * more pros perous section of th® r state, sold b*nds loo. They would not sure ’the price . + If the legislature if going into the advertising regulating buwlnres, 'it should first make the affic*-*eeker-i pay up tlfeir past indebtedness to the press, and then make it a misdemea nor for newspapers to take such ad : vertising on credit. _ Hoass hill o. 54. relating to ad it h ridr administration, even If we had to employ him and pay him per sonally. This is said without any n tent ion to refiect upon either Mr Peepie* or Mr. Domini* k The legis lature haa been appropriating funds for a former governor to use in anv way he *aw fit, and if Governor Manning has such a fund and choos es to pay it for legal advic® he has precedent for doing this or employ ing “body guards,” “special consta bles” or what not. The legislature should endeavor to throw every safe guard around th® execution of the A \ '.V» s of the state, even to employ •nore than one lawyer.-lfthe advic® is needed.' Were it n<»i for the po litical a*p®ct of the aiiwttTon ther» would be no question raised as to ;his appropriation, and we have con fidence in- Ooverqor Manning's In tegrity to use this or any o\he- f und entrusted to his care. for,«te best interewts of the state and in suc*V ♦ay as to reflect credit upon in state and bring adequate results on the investment. ' Ttie f.cmie/r in om > .in I Wi.cm. ' i South t'itrolina ha « :aiji pride this wlpter in e not only vra* h>r p**i-cr*t ig.» of ie- crease ity wheat acr*ae>*- 2^9 P- r cent.—the larg®st in. the l'vit:d States, nut that she ako. uad the. largest jsriu&l acreage increase in fall-Aow/n oats of all the Pouthe r n States. / The increase in acre's, in fall-sown oats in South ''’arellny amounts to 334.000, and Georgia i$ second with an increase of 325. too. three fact} have given grathicatiqn to- thjf extension and demonstration forcepXf Clemson College, vhlch conducted an energetic campaign ^or grain-sowing from the outbreak af the European war. SCFFRAGETTING. Id Horn !«• Mewd Your Kid Gl*»ve«. — «*• In the March -Woman's Home Companion appear* a department called The Exchange: in which read ers present Ideas that they have de veloped out of practical experiences |*- The h®ad of a glove department in ••n Ohio store telfs as follows how to mend Vi«l gloves' ■ .* “To mend kid |l©?re very satU- tactorily try this method. With small shitP scissor* remove all rag ged <;dg*a Buttouhole firmly both edg®s to be. mended wifh co’ton thread < never use silk as it‘cut*.. I’d love to be a suffrage**, using a very fine ne*w»le: TVn bring both these edM* tog(i‘l.'r and huttonbole. A g“.o e mendeJ i* this way cannot pqH oul o-'^p sed will *»and the karle-t kind of wear thereafter."- love to be a suffragette. f With warlike flag unfurled. And captalnees k battleship With sailoresses girled. . *- —New York Evening Sun •r - And with the “suffys ,, sund: I'd love to march ahead of them t As drum majress of the band. - —Allentown Democrat One noH not be a auffragett®. , Who geu her husband's goat, IT JU knd nuke* him do the way she say*. Already ha* a vole. " / , '—Houston Post. Her Di»*t«|Miiat i. ' - if. A Fifth of CoCUm IdUHls., According to figure* received se Clemson College from the Bureau o’ 4'rop Estimate*. V. S Depart mcr,‘ vf Agriculture, the increase in acre \ge in land Awn to oat* and thig fall amount* to eighte-n per . ent. of tht la^d sows te cotton n- South Carolina last spring .That to sav. the increase in fall-ipw" wheat was lAfyfibo acres and th® i]p in fa.lt sown oats 334°.4«i') . or ^dO.OOO acre* as the tots’ Abd-neither* have .them £et oal Vos. The ootton a/rgign iv 2.5o«>.hii.0. The ■increas- of wiaifr grains amounts. I'd love Jo be a* suffragette rf? / ’* And hfjve a vote to cast. But then Td hav® td tell my ag«— I'd sass th® man who asked. ; ‘ —Greenville Piedmoht. . ’ - * V i- '• »• . / i ■ • ^ We wag*, to b® no suffragette. No battleship to man. Of .lead a “juffy’' band. fttt le Muriel, l^te for t**a.- hur ried tato the house breathlessly, pl- claimiag: 'Oh. Mother, don't scold Vie for being late? A horse fe!l down and a man said they would hav® to send for a horse doctor, and terttoing af aa untrue basin is all-’ j wattsd a long time, ob. Moth- rlglti In n wny. but. newspapers take „ t dd yon think? it waan't a erefore, to almost one-fifth of th--* Prompt Actbip M ill Stop Your t oagh otton acreage, or eighteen per cem When, you fiTst catch a Coldt of : ence ho usually chooses to icnot.-' it If Mil of the village stores wer* to . lose, and the- town pays ou’ cf ex istence, the fajrmer would lack ;> Irkaoc to buy or sell. He woqld buy • 't a higher price anil sell, at a lower /, i tha- Itito farm would become a less-de^r- able place to live,- really values would fall and the farmer would be the loser. Small town and country are interdependent. Whatever helps th® one should help the other,/ The prosperity of the 'average- American village is in^ direct propor tion to the prosperity of the fabmers surrounding it. Can the local mer chant do himaelf a greater sente® than In inducing farm prosperity bv promoting general community wel fare? He can find a oetter market for more farm prodoctf. Instead of encouraging new factories he can se cure lectures, corn shows, agricul tural foirt, agricultural schools and other UK« Triiturre *i»ifb stand for 6®tter farming and greater farm pro fits - He can keep himself better in formed of the farmers’ needs and of articles of money-miaking value *p .he farmer. He could take on the function of a handler of farm pro ducta to his q»d advantage and to :he farmer** profit. The farmer b** a than'* sise task in caring for th® production end. He doe* not hav> time for cooperative organixation <o is glad to giv* a fair commission for services rendered, but bocAuse no “»oe has been found who will take over th® aelltng end of hia business he has been forced to form coopera tive' organisations. • Somg amall towns have seen, Ahe tight. Out in lotra one county ha* formed a boafd of trade which is made up of farm®rs and merchsitts it equal number. In an Ohio town there is a club made up of the young ’rmers and young business uies. vhere.two or three nights a week a •mall, gathering is sure to be founo. \ Jedr v ,papers age or. the table an-i • be meJ^hant reads the agricuitui^tl papers. jCsp-Mrially the advertisement? -.s carefully ,.as the farmer. Hun- igeds of towns bold fair*, agricultu- vl schools abd corn shows. FRF It TREES. FIFTEEN THOUSAND LARGE A.R MOOR 1UVER PRIVET. Three re four dollars per thousacd. Peach; and Apple, iraa* 15 cents. Pear ten Indicated by a »c®e*e or cough <. tireak ft up at once. The idea that "ft doe* not matter”/oftea ieads re r r Plum and Oh®rry trmf* 1« I Writ#’ for price* an Grape serlou* complications’ The remedy which immediately hnd easily pene. trates'the^ lining of the throat is the kind demanded. - Dr. King's New cent* Discovery soothe* the Irritation. Vine# .loosens tho phlegm. m advert 1*1 ng that they know I* Horw# doctor at all. It was ofcly a ^hade Tree*. Rose* and Ornamenta jtar at It You feol bet to reach •Ot true, therefore the bill to not! mM »r— March Woman’* Home' 1 ****' loaded la ady fora, '• conaML'VV e Greoavillo Nurwery G reapvilie. 8. C. -C-7 U-J® ( the very.spot of my Cough'' to one of many hoaeet teatimoalala 14c at yonr The movement is barely started H need*' impetus - No matter whai -our line tlTwork. it,mill pay you to ti-lp It means • opporiunity un ’reamed'of for the small town and ouatry boy. It wtlMhelp to keep >wa great congeation in center* of population, thu* relieving the prqb ieO* at tho city. ' It wuf go taf to ward Wkfcjat ap a patiov of more •toeps mote men employed. It wrfii place tho economic dependence o: more of onr population on agricui- are. whore tt rightly belongs. it Till provldo a greater farm outlet for manufactured good* and thus keep more men ampferedTSle will -olve the farm labor problem. * it Till nuke coopdratrr* baying and telling unneeosaary. It will abollWi he corporation line and make town- md country the countryside. on GRAND AND PETIT /CRIES DRAWN FOR NEXT TERM twelve Near Members Grand /ary for Each Weak am Ltoc The following name* were drawn Taesday at 1* o'clock by tha clerk af court to act aa-grand and petit jurors for the next term of court: C. L. Langdale. L - M. Beach. /. Ar. Breland. J. K. Getsinger. Wesley Selgler. T.’P. Hill. H. P. Ulmer. J. Y. Bench. Carey Linder. P. G. Keane. T, 8. Willi* * M. E. Freeman. B. F. Griffin. ^ D. E. Breland. P M- John*. G. M. Bishop. W. C. Saunders. X. W. Kinard. i The first six names are ever*. V* / X X X hold* ermVn >V- \ Prtit /nrors First Week. G. J. Netties. J. Hampton Fender. E. B. Wayu J. W. Smyiey. C. E. Francis C. A. Willi.* A\ H. Th-.tiU.\ B. P. Bier*. ‘ , Leroy Fender. E. G, Hiotf. J. Marion Herndou A. V. Sykes J. A. Aekern Rj R. liioxj. P. fi. Ackerman. AV. J. Redman. I A. Driggerv. J- H. McMillan. L. M. Bridge. W. H. Hickman T. A. HilL T. 8. Hayn®*. O. R. Risher. H. >. O’Quinn. H. W.- Nettles. D M Warren. W. F. Host*. P. M. Sineatb. B. G. Hjrne. C. \V. Peilum. B. G, Smith. / ' F. M. Morris. ' B. A. Bennett! A. F. Butier. - B. W. Goodwin. C. B. Smoak. \ •V, A' - secoatl Week. A. Q. Smoak. A. T. Uuey. J C. Rich: O. A. Speights. tE. P. Pr?i*ter, :A- Bunton* X- A. Carter. x ’ G. 1. Blocker. : X. W. Avant. Jr. J M. Black. Guy L. Smoak. S. S. Smoak^ J^ J. M. Speight^, . Paul Sander*. * J. B. Kinney. /• E. Kinard. G . F Hiera t'Eugene Kinard. W. C. Ritter. J B William*. Jr. W. H Radgett. E. R. Smith. J. H. Noble*. t G W Beach ' W. P Bishop. B MiHa D M iLinder. *• H W. Brerand./r. L. C. Linder. 4 /e 4 . a® . a ^ ^ ® A 'V . J M. RedUh. L. J. Kinard. W. L. Lore*. , w. D Carroll.. E. W’- Goodwin. J A Pad«®tt. JR. t: ilore /r" 4 a -:-qi ;