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\ X t • fc VOL. 38. WALTERBORO. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1, 1917. NO. 49. Of ficial List of Colleton's Young Men Who Are Called For Examination FIRST CALL IS FOR 408, DOl »I.K ■ * ^ THK M MBKK T«> BK l SKI». OTHKKS MAV BK ( ALLKB AGRICULTURE IN THREE SCHOOLS NOTICES WILL BE MAILED TOMORROW PoKsihly Only Tfiree SrhooU )Vill l'n«l**rtak«* (o Have New Sub- •• jert Tauiciit. One-Third Will Apjtear for K\amina tion Tuesday, Au«. 7; One-Third Aux- 8: One-Third,Auk- 9. MORE NEGROES THAN WHITES Fir*t Call for Colleton Bring' to the Colors 27« Nexroe- and 193. Whites. The local board for Colleton county has received from Washing ton the notification of. the result of the drawing by lot recently in "Washington to determine'the order- Of liability for service of those re gistered under the selective service laW. , The local board will call up .for examination' the 4<>8 persons ap pearing at the head of the list and examine them, one third nn-the 7th inst.. the next third on the 8th inst.. and the last third on the 9th mat. If out of this number the quota of 234 for Colleton can not he secured. the n others from the list in their regular order -will be called for examination until\ the quota Is secured. On tomorrow. Thursday The 22d. the local board will mail official no tices to each person called for ex amination. the notice being mailed to the address given on' the regis tration card. The local board will also at the same time post notices on the door of the Clerk of Court containing the list of those called and the order for them to appear for examination. The local hoard has appointed H. C. Jones as clerical assistant to the board, and Mr. tones is occupying the office formerly occupied by He- ber R. Padgett. Esq., who is now at Port Oglethrope. This office is next Mo the office of Padgett & Moorer on the court house square, Appli cants can there get necessary infor mation and blanks. y Dr. .L. M. Stokes has been ap pointed a member of the examining board, and will hotd the ertanlina- \ tiofts in the court hohse. He will Toe* assisted bv Or. 3/ C. vnn- I>he ;fnd Dr. H. ”M. Carter, and . hop'V. to handle the persons app-w- ing foe examination with dispatch. Only thhs« who are called for e;u' da> will hp expected to appe. r hn that dav. Absence will not excuse anyone, and serious consequences wdit follow aiiYpae's. wilfully ab- - sertiifg himself fpom examination. The following is\he official list, with th-‘ number expehfed to appear on each day duly designated. Th • Press and Standard will publish in next week’s paper the nhuies >f those who will possibly hr carted in At the meeting held at the office of the County Superintedent of Edu cation this morning - it developed that perhaps only three schobls would partiqipate in the teaching of agriculture. Representatives were present from Cottageville, Hender sonville, Stokes. Pine Grove and Walterhoro. After discussing the matter the trustees from Stokes .n- nounced that they did not feel that their scHool was able to go into the work, oh account of - financial • rea sons. Pine Grove was of the opin ion. Cottageville, Hendersonville and Walterhoro desired to’make an effort to get their schools to em ploy a teacher of agriculture, and more time was givn them in which to make arrangements With only three school entering it will be ne cessary for each school to raise an additional amount, ns the county’s part of the salary for the teacher will he $750. Supt. Strickland rn- tiounced . that it the three schools desired , to undertake the teaching of agriculture he would contribute $100 towards this amount from the county board fund., leaving a bal ance of $650 to he raised by tlr* three schools. Meetings will he held in the near, future to ascertain the wishes cyf the people and the entire hoards of trustees as to this matter: • . Those present were: Stokes school—J. C. Welch, chair man. T. -R, Strickland- and Rev. P. W. Warren. Cotageville—P. B. Afkerman. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore and Prof. S. M^Connor. Pine Grove—O. P. Crosby. Walterhoro—W.*> W. Smoak and Dr. R. S. Hailey. NEGRO CAUGHT NOT FERGUSON Sheriff of Florence Arrested Negro . lie Thought Was Fraser Fer guson But Was Mistake. the next call. -o-o- / According to the figures compiled by the county board of conscription, there were called for “examination in the first call under the new £raft law 192 white persons and 27* ne groes. making total of 468 of both races. There has been some com ments upon the greater number of negroes, hut this is doubtless caus ed by the fact that a greate/ num ber’were 6f the registration age-In the county. Chairman Moorer states that he wishes it known that the pay for soldiers no>v has been doubled. In stead of their being paid $15.00 per month, they now receive $30.00. As all clothing and food is furnish ed. this will he net salary, and will he somewhat in line with what many of those called have been receiving fur their labor. , US! OF BOOKS BLEiSE'S COKDUCT' GALLED "IREiSON" DFIMRTMKNT OF EDUCATION M’ENDS MANY VERY BUSY HOURS DAY III R. COKER AND GEO. II. ’ CROMER RENOUNCE UTTER ANCES OK RLE ASF. DEPOSITORIES ARE REAin I ENTHUSIASM AT MEETING Joy Ride Ends With Burned Car Pnmphlet*. of Oour-e of Study are Mailed to l’rogre>>d>e Teachers In This State. The new course of study pre Scribed by the State board of edu cation has been printed and is now ready for general distribution. This 2" page pamphlet should prove most serviceable to teachers, pupils and patrons. Tenative announcement of the list of adopted bonks was made on June. 2.4 The rommlftee of the State hoard drawing its report July 16 This report grouped and classified the hooks by course and is just ns Htaportant as the selection of the books themselves. The State (tam pan v has just printed 17.0**n copies of ?hj> course of study along with three other committee report list ing ike books by subjects, dassify- inV the books with respect to chang es and giving the titles and tulcci h\ publishers, A jo> ride Saturday nighht ended in the complete destruction of E. L. Remarks* Huick Six automobile. Mr. and Mrs. Letnack* were not ,at home, and four negro men derided to take a joy ride. Id, hV McKinley Wiegins. the I>*macks’ house hov and chaffeur. The others were Nathaniel Washington. I-aney and Alex Fields. So rolling the f ma- ohrue out by hand, they cranked up and came to Walterbpfo. All went well till the return trip. At a point beyond Pringle's Bend the joy inf ers were going at a pretty rapid pace and the car swerved, striking an embankment, and then turned across the *-oad. smashing a wire fence and turning turtle. Wash ington and Lanev Fields- were knocked unconscious. n/1 State Council of Defence Plans to Arouse Patrioatlsm in South Carolina- From The News and Courier: Columbia. July 31.—Loyalty to the government to the point of per sonal sacrifice of a high order will be preached in every hamlet and school diiytrict of- the State. The State f’ouhcil of Defense at a meet ing hbld here today decided that ttie first step in putting South Car olina on a war basis was a thorough campaign to arouse the latent pat riotism of the people, to educate them to the danger of a sluggish in terest In the war and the disastrous results to the country of failure to give h full measure of support to all ’.governmental measures. FAIR MEETING HEED ** - - - — # ' PLAN’S MADE FOR BIGGEST FAIR THIS FALL EVER HELD AT' WALTERHORO NAMED SUPERINTENDENTS Well Known Workers for the Suc- of the Fair at Meeting. Decisions Announced. cess The officers and members of.tha finance committee of-the Colleton County Fair Association met Mon day for the purpose of beginning tp plan for the next fair which witlxbe held at Walterhoro on the 13 to 16th of November. This will be the ninth Annual fair, and will be tho second Southern Carolina Fair. Last year the first Southern Carolina Fair, embracing the counties of Col leton. Beaufort. Hampton and Jasp er. was held and was such a suci cess that it was decided to hold i second fair to embrace- the four counties. Plans for this second fair will embrace a larger fair than Hv the same, token the eradica- • any previous one. and se\*»ral n-w tion of sedition and treason in their incipient stfiges. the estoppel vjjy the kid glove method, if possible, and if noJ. by the iron'hend- of the Copies of the pamphlet will be+'iuterlng or fostering of sentiment obtainable at the office of all cOun- af(( ty stifk-rintepdents after Monday July 2U. Persons desiring full ln- formation are requested to applv to either the county superintenden-t or the S*tate superintendent. t ir ^ l,ornl Depositories. Local depositories for the sale of the books have been established in every county. The method of dis tribution since 1906 will continue in use. The L. Bryan Company <K Columbia, has been nemed man ager of the central text-book de pository of the publishers, and this nomination has been confirmed by the State hoard of education. . All ordet ■» fo* hooks either by individu als or bv local depositories will Im they claim, j (Hied within three days after re they began reipf ot the order accompanied with and upon “coming to they began ceipr ot the order a/ seafeh the!’- hats, striking a cash. match. This ignited/'the gasoline I The hasr-1 series 258 Maree. Arthur. Round. 4 58 Glover. Petal. Walterhoro 1 426 Ratley. Frank. CottagevilPv 85 4 Wsbit. Ellis. Walterhoro 1894 plover. Henry. Elirhardt, R -’ 1 87 8 Dobson. Nathaniel. Islandtori 1095 Green. John. White Hall 2022 Kinard. Harry Danner. Smoaks. 1455 Creel, Warren. Cottageville 7 83 Loved. Edward- Walterhoro. 1812 Ponds, Henrv B.. Lodge, R 1 1858 -Stevens. Perry. Lodge. 2289 Dent. Simon, Wiggins. 1752 Hoff. Christopher O.. Jack- son boro. 1117MoMillan, Williaifi H.. Island- ton. 1 572 Lucas. Harry. White Hall. Jones. Henry. Jaoksonboro. Ladson. Frank. Walterhoro,. R~ 1. Thompson. Jarvis Wal- terboro. Brown. John. Smoaks. 23? Heyward. Syyrus. Stokes. 676 Williams.-Jim. Walterhoro R. F. D. Singleton. Benjamin. Round. Beach. Ivy H., Walterhoro. Sineath. Charlie. Islandloh. Mortln. James. Colleton. Gethus. Joe. Green Pond. Sherif’ Lii<a?rC. Padgett was call ed to Florence Saturday by.a tele gram from .Sterlff ThOB. g, KlU.'lL stating that he had arrested a ne gro who answered the <!escription given of Fraser Ferguson, who was wanted in this rountv for,,shooting *his wife and later for defying the sheriff and ?iis {deputies. Sheriff,, Padgett went to "Florence but. found that the negro arrested was not Ferguson, but he bore ;t S'ror.g : ^ysemblatvce to him. The negro in fful tjrere u.ue hi-s rtauie n Mos-s WriHims. though'Mr. Padgett stat ed t\at he wa.-j sure it was an i\y. sttmed \name. ;tnd that he is guilfw of sinne'Xrime. * 1748 2195 8.3 7 2036 275 509 118^ 564 2166 9 45 Crosby. Nat. Ruffin. R R 'S 1913 Jacques. Melvin. Smoaks. 596 Mack. Silas. Colleton. 1267 Akens. Joseph. Walterhoro 2148 Rivers. Paldo. Green Pond. 536 Padgett. Andrew M.. Smoaks 1495 Allen Alex. White Hall. 548 Carter. Junior. Ruffin. R. 3. 126 Williams. John. Salke- hatohie. 1679 Davis. Eddie. .Tacksonboro. 1237 Croshy. Augustus B.. Ruf fin. 784 Bell, Joe. Walterhoro. 1732 Cqrtls. Hertrv. .Tacksonboro. 755 Crosby. Carlos T.. Waiter- boro. 107 Green, Amos. Salkehatcbic 15 46 Roberson. Chester. White Hall. 1583 Nettles William Waiter- boro. R. 5. (Continued on Page Seven.) Remarkable Auto Sales by Rizer & Ayer The fiscal year for Riz»»r A. Ayer in the sal* 1 of automohiRvs cb*“e ; wifh July, and a truly remarkable year was had. During this time the firm has sold 14" Ford cars and 39 Buicks. for both of which cars tK*r had the county agency. Mr. A yet* states that this number would hav 0 been greatly increased if the cars could have been secured, but thrt it was impossible to secure enoug: cars to fill orders. In Julv alone there were 4 2 Fords and three Buicks sold. Dr. jTw. Welling Preached Sunday Dr. J. W. Wolllng. of Elloree. •pent Sunday in Walterhoro, filling the pulpit at the Methodist church Sunday morning and evening. In the afternoon he also spoke to the Sunday school At all these ser vices Dr Wolllng had large eongre- gallons and delivered instructive and helpful addresses. , Dr. Wolllng was pastor here for two years, and made many friends -who are always glad to see him on the occasion of his visits to Waiter- boro. He is a pleasing speaker and always has an interesting message to those to whom he speaks, both adults and children. Mrs. J. L. Ritter and children. Carl and Jewell, have returned from Savannah. Oa. v where thev spent two weeks with relatives and friends. While there they visited Lyliee. Ga.. and Bluffton, S. C. which was overflowing, and the car' hr)’red. It is! a complete loss. ’ The n*’g!o‘‘<j went with young Washington ♦•v h^ father's, llarkh-s- W-yxhintrtnnVs Poire ro'd'' where the wreck n'Torred. and .began disrn*-- i»i" ♦»•-* n* ft'f o' V v>rc for* parts unknov ,, H (•',1' ii-reif th*-'.i to g’ f int'o th'’ ’<’ ■! ’ • <1 of h»tn -x— ,-t t-- nnr* ■* tr,".'. ■■ -ttt Tt"!*.' r i»r 1 n* pnnl S bc.rs, m l t? • sb< • iff v 'p’-io* e:* to r ’ "j t •h" < ’ll O! .r/ r " ;.c.Vv J >'f' W* > ks ■■ eg* ,4 >/ i' •” ard ♦’»< • :>vo row in LiM. The iction ofv'lt \V. p :•’«*» on d’s V"t y commer"! hi*-. *.s h - l • ' ’ s of rendfts is the for Texas. It has designed and calculated to hamper the nation in the prosecution «>f th' war: this Is dne of the dual lin'vs which the campaign will pursue. Uoker Scores Illemte. Cole L. Blease. Esq., reooguizod as the most conspicuous exampl" the latter group by virtue of bis fondue) since the war. which char acterisation of him has been accen tuated by his recent speech at Vo- marln. was held tip to the scorn of the 3"fi or more men and women who filled the hall room of the Jef ferson Hotel. T’halrman David R. Poker read a short clipping fropt the account of the speech of Mr. phrases whi<^h smote with the pow- prrases which smote with the pow cr of truth, ’i understand that even .more treasonable things than these were said.’-.' s-id Mr. Poker. “We fnnst not allow such treason to grow up unchecked.” adopted series for Texas. It has i . -Mr. Pose, put » >0 f ormer Gover therefor ., the largest sale of anv; ,h Tom‘Watsom set of revdenTon the market. Th. ;;>/ ■ nnd the ong haired text« are thorourhiv Southern bnd Vardatncn. of Mississippi. n tr o also tH-ororgl.lv cultural The ! “who afe^ deluding themselves nth Chance o' readers. Jt is hoped, v. i'l i th'nking t lev can ride Into office ove’ the .1 ring patriotism of the South.'’ Untnitli, Sav^ f’roniec. Lit G orye B. Promer, of New rue:, course. i ucso aooiTion 1 ... . , , . , teqijir.-ft - m , e-nouding. numb. '" rn runs. ,11,^ hearers to a big , of n.- v ».qo’<s. This appear • -pe cntlu.siasm ns he rhal- trjic-lo V-cei\e t V' e> ; pprov: 1 of lh of the State. New sub rets were nd.Jed *o * rtmrse Th« s< addition ■ fl •rmue'-nnnding. n 11 Tithe rt, very ^rrmrnend hi* • h ' !^ nun <-r'Tl. and Iroug’ 1 * ’ jail himself. • m Final Drainage Meeting: Thursdav < iallv in irdu-Mial and vocation'!, pn S .nth Pat olina author® vet > ci 1 . e»i r.^tt cor-ide-ratinn t? ! " ’don to*n. /Th'- v*'. r) esnerlnilv in ''yj. text tio-i.s dealing jvith a v icn't ;r E\<li:inge «»f (4h| Books. Som< <>! the p.'w hooks can hard ly he put on sal-- hefonv, S< p'cinl»e: 1. owing to the time and lal-o: ne cessary for their tnanufai tin'. <>h! books- in th. hands o: peptJs Fioul ! hr*. corupl* *‘'d before they ere e\ Changed for new l»ooks. Tin* ex change period t-n*l ; D«*cemhe’ 15. 1918, thus -giving ample time for pupils'and teaV-Vrs to makr tltc best use of,all books. , The 1 text book contract provides that independent districts hereto fore refusing to use State adopted t» rt books may have the right to exchange their non-State hooks for the new adoptions if the local au thorities wisii to make such an ex change. Tim State department of education has been striding for years )o build tip a county system of schools with leading high school.-; in the centers of population. This task has been handicapped in many instances because of the cleavage lx between rural districts using State books and the urban districts using #*##**•*♦*******.* non-State books. The new list is *, full .enough, in the opinion of the ^ : State board, to meet the needs of * all of our schools. * I Schools running a summer term * <luring July and August will prob- The fin (3 heading on F:* .icjm* ' of establishing Walfcrb/n Ii’a;* ag«‘ district No. 1. will t).* held ar the court house Thursday of thi- week. This* promises to be a m"-' inrerestiny meeting. Tlyefe has d> veloped consid’erabl** opposition ''* the establishment of this drainag * district, and a large number of th* citizens will attend thi< no-efim Tliose who are opposed to the es tablishment of the district have epi- ployed R. M Jefferies. Esq., and it. i.s understood other legal assistant* fixmi without. The proponents «>:' drainage will he represented try -Padgett A Moor#'-. D Is understood that a v l v ar * f ** number of witness have been, summoned. chairman vin. Negro longed some of the utterances made jlecboio. bv Mr. Please in bis I’om.'irin speech, though )'e did not . mention th* 3 name <>? their .author.' “I hear that -****•'*- men say that Congress and *> < Pres'idefit plunged this nation into war.” said Dr, Ctbmer. “That i^-s-n untrulh. (‘opgress and the Piesident were forced, by dh“ ar ts of the Imperial German Govern- • i* nt to recognize that a state of •>,!• existed. When but property a nthf. s-dv destroyed and when our men women and children were ruthlessly drowned pn the high without warning being given. features .will b»* added. At the mooting held Monday It was decided to retain the same ad mission‘fees ar before, that is 2> cetifft for adults and ’5 cents tar children under 12 years u,’ g»* In stead of admitting school sclPbiVery free as was done last year it Wai decided to charge 10 cents admis sion fpr all pupils in the parnd* oa educational day. Each day of the fair will be made a big d^y. Among the suggested special events will h* an address by General Leonard M. Wood, who will he introduced hv Judge Mendal L. Smith. A football game between The. Uitade! and Wof ford is being arranged by S L. Held, secretary of the Southern Carolina association, who was ap pointed to do this. The following are the members of the committee to have in chary» exhibits as superintendents of the different departments: Horses and Mules— B. G. Hiott, Round. Cattle G. E. H. Moore. Whit* . Hall. j - Swine Ernest A. Marvin, Green ! Pond. | Poultry ('. J. ' Ii3ach. Waiter- boro. Agriculture F. W. Riaher, Smoaks. j ' i e Canning Club -Misses Twaejja ! Pickling and EmmS Jane Varn Racing Cleveland Sander®, H A. McGee, W. ‘S Ma% LATEST WAR NEWS * * - • \ * * —\ * , During the past week, the * Inefficiency of' the Rirssian sea’ Congress and the President . wer ■ .viihoht alternative. In recognizing that steps must he Taken to protect th* 1 riglil® of a sovereign people.” "It |S a ■Me.” - “Some men tell us that we ar** fighting tin* battles of France and i Round. ably have som** difficulty in pur- * fighting force has been dKm- * chasing the new books, but the pq- * ontrasted. and the GermaiV; * oils and teachers of such schools * Austrians have made consid- * are urged to co-operate with the * erable advance Into Russia. * , v dealers and school officers by using * sweeping everything before * their old books for a few weeks then them. The Russians, howev- * exchanging these old hooks for th« * er. under the strong leader- *■ * ship of Premier Kerensky, are * •* slowly bringing order out of * * chaos, and It is though! that * * there will be more stubborn * * resistance from the Russian * * forces soon. There has been * * considerable stiffening of the * * defense lines. * * On the Western front there, * is being conducted a great of- * * fensive, and the results of * * yesterday’s fighting are high- * * Iv satisfactory to the allies. * * Many prisoners were taken. * ******** * * ****** new\b©ok* which certainly will on sale by the last of August he Mrs. 8, M, Croshy has as her guests several relatives from 8t. Augustine. Fla..' her sister-in-law. Mrs. Henry Grant, her nephew, Jef ferson Gr*nt. his wife and son. Haynes. The Grants jyere former ly residents of Colleton county, liv ing In the Mashawville section of the county, hut for many years have made their home In Florida. They made the trip from St. Augustine In their Overland car. England.” continued Dr. Cromer “It is a He. l^*t us tell our people that .France and England for three years have been fighting our battles France until she has been bled white and England until she is ex hausted.” Speaking further with referenc** to that class which has opposed the draft and which is seeking to frus trate other measures for the pros ecution of the war. Mr. Cromer said: "The man who is trying now to shackle this government and render ] its efforts futtte by preaching th' 1 I doctrine of No cause for our going into war’. Is in Effect attempting to shoot my boy and your boy In the back'as he marches to the front.”' Mr. Cromer’s speech was followed by an ovation which lasted for manv minutes. ‘ Manning Would Curb Disloyal. Governor Manning, in a short ad dress. struck the name note which Mr. Coker sounded in opening the meeting and which later was to be repeated in the striking utterance «*f Dr. Comer. "The hour has struck "In South Carolina when there can be no divided allegiance— no difference of opinion. There Is no time for disloyal words and deeds.” The Governor urged that men or women having knowledge of quasl-treasonable acts report same to agents of the Department of Jus \i v .; K.*c. W. T. Frazier, Wal- Rev. H**rl>ert F It. S. .Bailey, ProL Athletics Schroeter, •!>»•. F. M. Connor., The far in demonstration agents and the jtome demonstration agenr< With appropriate committees from the other counties will have th» matter of arranging for exhibits from the other counties Comprisine Southern Carolina. A premium Us* will be published in the near fu tlire an 1 the officers and ,others will begin work in earnest for this fair. The officers of the association are as follows W. J. Taylor, President. Walte*-- boro. Col. .1 G Padgett. Vice Presi dent. Walterhoro. M., H. Hiott, Vice President. W. VV. Smoak. Secretary. Wal terboro. I) C. I. General Superin tendent. Walterhoro. Irving M Flshburne. Treasurer, Walterhoro. Miss Elizabeth W. McLean, prin ripal of the primary grades of th“ Sumter school, and supervisor of penmanship In that school, is in town for a visit to her sister. Mrs. R. S. Bailey tice and swear out warrants for the offenders. The Governor also appealed for the support of altocbasea of people In carrying the war to a successful conclusion, and said. an)ld applause* "We must give to the negro who will shed his blood for our flag a guarantee that his rights shall b- 3 respected.” By Personal Incidents. Mr. Coker in Opening the meeting stated that he thought the .proper way to bring the ffar home to the people was not t*y an array of fig ures showing Its cost in money or lives—not by a picturing of the bar barity of Germany in the mass, but by ttie presentation of brief human L interest stories of unquestioned au thenticity that set forth the war methods of the Imperial Govern ment. He then related several gathered from his own experience. The conscription of all German women by the government for the purpose of restoring the population entirely abrogating tha marriage relation, was declared to be one of the war policies of the powers that rule at Berlin. .->r : y . .