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location in Batesburp. Terms rea
sonable. Qn Monday, Feb., 21st at 4 c
Dr. L. M. Mite hell, clock there wiil be a meetinp ol th
Patesburp, S. C. t a rs' of Batcsburyr at the h it,
of Mrs. Fred Cullum.
LOST. STRAYhD OR STOLEN. Kverv mother who has a child ii
A white i oo.lle cop about six the graded school is requested to b
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1910. A suitable reward will be *0 bring teachers and parents mor.
paid for information leadinp to his r ' ' * h<r, tha. t. tj may tali
recovery. A:>P:y to: over the questions that triscs on th.
Mrs. Jessie Youmans, part cf the mothers; thereby keep
Batesburp, S. C. in^ teachers to understand the chil
dren; that the teachers may let th<
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J* All those having visitors will confer a fav<
l uiH>n the Advocate by sending In their uuiuost
t or before Thursday of ouch week.
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Personals
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? Miss Bessie Long spent the weel
^ end with relatives in Columbia.
>. Mr and Mrs N R Bayly move
Tuesday from Summerland Inn t
Forest Hill.
? Messrs J R Unger, C E Jones an
> jTonquin LaGrone went to Columbi
y 1 Monday night to hear Senator Bail
> ey of Texas speak on the incom
y tax.
' Mr and Mrs L D Gantt of Mor
' etta were in town Tuesday.
' After a pleasant visit to Miss Ma
bel Tarrant Miss Camille Evans lef
< on Tuesday for her home in New
y berry.
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\ i Misses Geneva Jones and Effi
' Gunter left on Wednesday for Ba!
timore.
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^ Miss Annie Lee Etheredge arriv
' ed Tuesday from a visit to C^uni
bia and North.
Miss Emma Mason returned Tues
day to Columbia after a visit to Mr
W H At well.
M'sses Carrie and Cornelia Glen
returned Tuesday from a visit t
friends in Augusta.
Mr B W Crouch of Saluda was ii
town Monday.
Mr Paul Mims of Leesville was ;
visitor here on Monday.
T) * - rii . f o
I lUlOO I iLiimri I ?* ?
I mil. i"i j^aiu.nore and Wav York
parents know wh t most is neede*
1 in the school, so that the mother
i iroy exert themselves to obtai
i' there things.
In other words this meeting i
n planed so that there may be in th
e future there, hearty co-operatio
^ and mutual beet between mother
e and teachers.
< We trust that every mother wil
e b>- present. It is the earnest wish o
evtry teacher in the school tha
they may comt. to knov/ each child'
no'i.ci well, Cor that will help ther
s to understand the children.
i ville was a visitor to Miss Lucil
Cullum this week.
Miss Missouri Glover is visitinj
at Graniteville.
Mr and Mrs 1'" E Cullum, Mrs .
A Watson and Misses Daisy Neal
Mabel Tarrant and Camille Evan:
took in the "Golden Butterfly" a
the Columbia Theater Tuesday nigh
Mrs Merchant of Johnston was
the week end guest of Mrs B D Col
^ clough.
j Mr L 1) Brabham of Ellenton i:
5 in town.
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? Miss Tullie Branch is at hom<
5 from Augusta.
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Mrs A L Holstein of Monettc
l\wes in town shopping Tuesday.
? After a visit to her daughter, Mr:
? W A Cooncr, Mrs Lawrence Thomp
, son returned to her home at Ander
> son Saturday.
Si
5 Mrs W H Atwell spent Tuesday
4 in Columbia.
t
f Mr Wilbur Cook left on Saturday
i for Morence.
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5 ^ T, ?
i-'i r ^trotner of Johnstoi
? spent Tuesday night in town.
^ Miss Ruth Wertz of Leesvilli
^ College spent the week-end witl
5 Miss Lottie Bodie.
' Mr L C Etheredge of Columbi;
! was a visitor here Wednesday.
Mi and Mrs Robt Brown of M
I Willing were in town shoppinj
Tuesday.
M :Mae Gradlck of Charleston
j is cgfuc:t of Misses Morrie ant
i Sadie Meyer.
i Mr and Mrs L. N Green and lam
j .1\ of New York are among th
'< t</.! ! .,ts to- the winter at the Bates
-> bur iotcl.
Mr Paui GurTcr left Tuesday eve
THREE C(
MOTHER TO CLASP
; HER BABES A;
GAIN Hi
COURT DECIDES FOR MRS.
- LUCT DUGAS TILLMAN
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* HOLDS THAT B. R. TILLMAN, JR.,
e nAD NO RIGHT UNDER THE CONSTITUTION
TO DEED A^AY
HIS CHILDREN
L Columbia, Feb. 16.?The supreme
court of South Carolina has declared
unconstitutional the statute under
which B. R. Tillman, Jr., endeavored
e to deed to his parents the custody of
his infant children, on the ground
that he believed his wife to be in -
capable to raise them properly and
. that he realized his own unfitness.
The court vests in the mother the
ritiht to the possession of her child
ren.
i'he news spread like wildfire
through the city yesterday morninc
n and hundreds of messages of con0
gratulation poured in upon the moth
er, who is in the city. Not one pern
son was heard to express regret at
the happy termination of the case.
A telephone message to The State
from Edgefield declared the great
happiness of the people there, and it
* I wa<; added that V(J per Cent Ct tnt'l
c peopie of Edgefield had throi
sided with th?_ mother.
y The opinion of the court goes
with clearness into the law. The full
j text of the decision is given. The
decree was written bv Associate
Justice Woods and is concurred in
s
^ by the whole court. It is stated tinofficially
that the court reached a
decision within 15 minutes after
3 hearing the case.
THE MOTHER NOTIFIED.
According to a promise hereto5
fore given, as well as prompted by
the impulses of a kind heart, the
. first thing that Col. U. R. Brooks
did when he got the decision of the
supreme court was to 'phone the
1 mother of the children over whom
the nation has sorrowed in the last
? 30 days.
"I have good news for you," said
- Col. Brooks to the mother. "What
do I get my children?" she exclaim}
ed in great joy. "And," said Col.
drooks when telling of it afterwards.
"Im darned if we both didn't blub^
ber over that telephone," and his
eyes were moist again,
a Col. Brooks also notified B. R.
Tillman, Jr., and Henry C. Tillman
? by wire. The latter is an attorney at
1; Greenwood and a son of Senator
| Tillman.
I MRS. TILLMAN OVERTOYED.
"I am so happy."
| Face, voice, eyes all showed too
t plainly the great heartgladness of
> the mother whose babies are to be
restored to her arms.
A report he of The State arrived
j' just a ' .v moments after Mrs. Lucy
i Dugas Tillman had been informed
' that the State supreme court had
decided in her favor.
With her were two relatives. They
were overjoyed, but .theirs were
nothing compared with the great
!- happiness which shone from the
dark eves oi the vm inrr rr% r\* U
J VlliWl ,
- whose pride had been bruised until
j she could not in torture visit her
' children where she had not a home
herself.
"When art they coming back to
me," she inquired tremulously,
e thinking that the reporter had seen
the decision of the court, "Oh, well
I know my lawyers will hurry them
to me," and the woman in her bej
came manifest. She has been brave
j through all this fight. She has not
t wavered when faced with court
s proceedings and any attempt at j
n I compromises she has spurned: but
| in the hour of her exaltation the wc-j
PUNTI.ES
THE DEEDING OF CHIL
DREN
HOUSE PASSES 6ASQUE BILL
EWHICH ABOLISHES ACT MADE^
9 NOTABLE BT TILLMAN CASE O
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The house Monday passed the
Gasque bill relating to custody of
minors, substituting the Gasque bill
for the Graydon bill that has r>ass#?H
the senate.
The Gasque bill is as follows;
Section 1. That section 2689, volume
I, code of laws, 1902, be, and
the same is hereby amended by inserting
after the word "father," and
before the word "or," line 3, of said
section, the words, "if the mother be
dead;" amend, further, by adding at
the end of said section the following:
'but no such deed shall be valid uness
signed both by father and mother,
if both living," so that said section,
when thus amended, shall read
as follows:
Section 2689. The father of any
child or children, under the age of
twenty-one years and not married,
whether bom bet ore or after the
death of such father, it the mother
be dead, or the mother of any such
child or children, the father being
dead, whether such father or mother
be under the age of twenty-one
years, or of full age, may, by his or
her deed, executed and recorded
according to law, or by his or her
last will and testament, made and
probated according to law, dispose
of the custody and tuition of such
child or children for and during
such time as he, she, or they, re
spectively remai under t"e
twenty-one years, to any person or
persons, In possession or remainder.
But no such deed shall be valid unless
signed by both father and mother.
if both be living.
Sec. 2. That this act shall go in
to eject immediately upon its approval.
And all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.
This bill seeks to remedy objections
to the statute under .1 h
celebrated Tiiln:; n case was brought
man showed uppermost, and ctiec
The decision was not unexj. ected.
It had been rumorer. that it would
be received Monday, but it was not
received until Moneay r.ight. It was
written by Justice C, A. Woods and
approved by all the court. A decision,
when the court is not sitting in
Columbia, must be forwarded trom
one justice to another until all have
read and approved, or dissent as the
case might be. That has caused the
delay, but the delay has made the
mother all the happier in the decision
in her favor.
WILL CHANGE THEIR NAMES
Mrs. Tillman would make no
statements to the papers other than, j
' I am glad." Scores of women call-!
ed at the home of Dr. F. W. P. Butler
to congratulate Mrs. Tillman.1
Telegrams of congratulation poured
in from all over the United States,
:or the Associated Press had flashed i
the news.
While the attorneys for Mrs, Tillman
will ma'<e no statement as to
the future of the case, it is thought
that a suit will be brought for alimony
and that the I.egislati re will
be asked to change the names of
the children.
The children arc at Trenton v. ith
Mrs. S. S. Tillman, and according
to the attorneys will very likely be
brought to Columbia at 10;30 this
morning. Senator Tillman is in
Washington. The f: ther of the children
P. R. Tillman, Jr., is at h s
father r home in Tremor..
A. C. and E. O. DePass and S.
McGowan Simkins, the attorneys
who represented Mrs. Tillman were
about as happy as their client. When
it was first announced that suit
would be brought, many people expressed
great sympathy with the
mother, but annsunced the belief
that she would loose her case. The
attorneys yesterday refused to make
any statement, but it is evident that
they contemplatee further steps.
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MUCH DISCUSSION 03
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S NATE TALKED AB OTMiPUOVF
ment of Highways but OPPOSED
CUEAT108 OF OFFICE
(The
State February 15.)
Vnr? nnpcl'nn nf rrrirtH n\ar!*<
an inning in the seriate yesterday.
but the State high .vay department
oil 1, introduced by Senator Crosson,
: a? caused the discussion, wai
siT'i k out v.her; the \ ote was akcr.
A number of spir d de 'es resulted
on the culling o he bill. Th?
au'hor made a strong pic: for the
passage of his hi 1. Senator Crosson
said that in this pt -gressive,
electrical ? nd scientific age to keep
pace with the fast moving times,
h-nth Carolina n ust have gooc
roads. lie said that the tinest
dwelling in all Christei d-.ro is piactically
valueless with no highway
leadh g to it and. the i ecu for a Statt
highway engineer is pressing. The
senator from Lexington explained
that the purpose of the bill is
provide an expert road builder, and
en incer whose services will he subject
to the call of the supervisors of
the various counties and at the summo
is he would I c required to go tc
the county needing a new road and
1 ly off the s tmc.
Smator Williams pointed out a
number of objections, saying that
the plan would not prove a succets
on account of the faci that many cl
the counties would ne d the er.gi
neer at rhe same time, and as he
could not obey more than one cal
at a time, the road or r nd buildinp
would be held up in many countic;
The senator from Lancaster saic
that the counties : refer tr ; mn'nv
their own engineers to build roach
and many have done so.
Senator Kelly favored ihc bill,
saying that it fills a need just as
pre i..g as weds remedied by the
establishments of other departments
of State government. fhe senatoi
from l.ec made a strong appeal foi
the bill.
Senator Rogers favored the bill.
Senator Carlisle said that whih
he had r.ot acquired a reputation m
a local opiionist on the floor of th<
senate he is heartily in favor of loca
option on the bill in question. H<
said that the senator from I.ancas
ter had stated his views exactly ci
the pending question.
On the motion of the senator fron
Spartanburg to indefinitely continui
the bill, the vote recorded was 151<
so the bill was killed.
THE BILL.
| The text of the bill was as fol
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I I "Section 1. There is hereby
I created and established a State high
I way department whose chief officer
I shall be called the State highway
. I engineer. Said engineer shall be a
I competent civil engineer, experiencle
1 and skilled in modern improved
I highway and highway bridge deIsign,
construction and maintenance,
land shall be appointed by the govlexncr
within 10 days after this act
I t^kes effect. He shall hold office
I for two years unless or until rcmovI
ed for cause by the governor. He
I shall receive an annual salary of $1,.
I >o0, and shall be allowed his actual
I necessary eqpeuses travelirg and
I other expenses incurred under the
I provisions of this act.
\ "Sec. 2. The State highway enI
.tineer may appoint, in his discretion
I uch assistant engineers, clerks, and
II ether assistants as may be necessary
I to the proper conduct of the work
Iof the department, upon approval
I by the govrrn^r. He shall be furI
nisbee with suitable offices at the
|seat of fovprnmcnt 1 ? ?"
.vui, j/iui'cuy pro- i
vlded with ail necessary furniture,
le^iipment and stationery, and he
Is..ail personally supeivise all the
I wortc of the department.
I "Sec. 3. To provide funds for the
I purposes of this act, there is hereby
I appropriated annually $3,000, Any
I unexpected balance at the end of
any year shall be added to the funds
for the next year.
I "Sec. 4. The duties of the State
highway engineer shall be to furInish,
without charge, on the request
I of county, township or town offiIcers
having authority over highI
ways and bridges, plans and spec!
Locations for improved highways,
1 bridges and culverts. He shall
I shall give expert assistance and ad ^
' I vice, on request, to the proper high|Jwav
officials on all questions peiI
timing to highways and bridge imI
prove ment, and assist in letting con1
I tracts for cn/-v> :
improvements, in
[ connection with the foregoing du;
ties, having first regard to these dutier,
he sh 11 compile statistics reflating
to the public highways of the
late, and make such investigations
relating thereto as he shall deam ex'
, cdient. in order to secure moie im^
roved highways in the State. He
shall also, by means of maps, charts,
liawir.gs, i rlnts, publications, print\i
and written articles lectures or
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