The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 09, 1910, Image 3
SOLVEDAT LAST
The Mysterious Disappearance of a
Little Girl Cleared Up.
BODY FOUND IN CELLAR
Of St. Joseph's Catholic School, at
Louisville, Ky., Where the Victim
Lived With Her Parents When She
Disappeared a Few Months Ago
Suddenly.
That Alma Kellner, the eight-yearold
daughter of Fred L. Kellner, of
Louisville, Ky., was murdered and
not kidnapped, was proven Monday
when her mutilated and dismembered
body was found in the cellar of St.
John's Catholic School, at Clay and
Wialnut streets, scarcely five blocks
from her home.
. The mystery surrounding the girl's
disappearance, on December 8 last,
completely baffled the police, and
notwithstanding a search in all parts
of the United States and Canada, no
tidings of her whereabouts was received
until about 10 o'clock Monday
morning, when a plumber, searching
for a leak in the basement of the
school, discovered the body.
The detectives are working on the
theory that the girl was murdered
in the vicinity of the school, and after
attempts had been made to burn
the body it was surreptitiously buried
in the sub-cellar and quick lime j
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Every bone in the childs body was
broken and the skull was crushed
and charred, showing that the attempt
to burn the body, if such was
made had been interrupted or the
perpetrator of the crime had changed
his mind regarding its disposition.
The finding of the body has aroused
intense excitement and a large
crowd surrounded the school all day.
.The child's mother nas not yet seen
the body, but after she recovered
from a collapse, she merely said: "I
have been relieved."
The torso was found wrapped in
a piece of carpet, save for one limb,
which was later discovered in a corner
of the cellar and buried in the
clay floor of the basement to a depth
of perhaps three feet. The leak in
the water pipe, the cause of which
has not yet been learned, had caused
the water to flow until the floor was
covered to a depth of three feet.
The scene of the discovery is only
Ave blocks from the Kellner home,
and the school adjoins 'St. Johns
church, where the Kellner family
worshiped. The body was very badly
decomposed, and had probably
been in th e basement five months.
It was to attend services at St.
John's church on the morning of
December 8 last, that Alma left home
about a quarter before 9, and seen
a few moments later as she neared
St. John's by a druggist, who noticed
her stopping for a moment to play
with a cat which was sitting in the
window of his store. The durggist
was the last known person to see
the child alive.
The police are looking for Joseph
Wendling, former janitor at St.
John's Church, who since January
14, a little more than a month after
the disappearance of the Kellner
child, has been missing. Mrs. Lena
Wendling, wife of the missing man
and housekeeper for Father Schumann,
pastor of St. John's Church, is
under surveillance.
In a sworn statement made before
| Capt. Carney, chief of detectives,
Mrs. Wendling admitted washing
muddy clothes of her husband shortly
after the disappearance of the
Kellner girl. The detectives have
these clothes, trousers, shirt and hat,
and declare there aro still blood
stains on them.
Wendling is described by the detectives
as being 27 years of age,
about 5 feet 10 inches in height,
weight about 160 pounds, a small
black moustache and dark hair and
eyes. 'Mrs Wendling is 4 2. A Htthnn
n vpflr ago Wendling I
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was arrested and fined for Improper
Pt ? conduct with a young girl.
Wendllng's parents live at Genlis,
Cote d'Or, France. According to the
wife's statement to Capt. Carney,
Wendling was a deserter from the
French army. Father Schumann
said he had learned since Wendllng's
disappearance that .he had left several
positions without notice. His
departure from the church was a
surprise to the priest.
^ HEIFER BROUGHT BIG PRICE.
Cattle Raising In South Carolina
Proves Profitable.
South Carolina's place in the cattle
raising Industry is shown in the
sale in New York recently at the
Cooper's cattle sale of a 14-months'
.heifer for $1,150. The heifer was
grown near Columbia. "Emlnents
"' 1nf "Hnldon-ferns
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Nameless" by Eminents Goldenmont
Lad," a bull from Mr. Thomas Taylor's
cattle farm, was the heifer
which sold for $325 more than her
mother sold for at the same sale.
The mother, "Ooldenferns Nameless,"
brought $825, and the 14months'
heifer brought $1,150. This
shows the progress of cattle raising
in South Carolina. ? _ . ~ '
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HELP THE GOOD WORK
THE CLEAN SPOUTS LEAGUE OP
THE CAHOLINAS.
Has Been Carefully Organized and
Arrangements Made to Put It Into
Effective Operation.
The Clean Sports League of the
Carollnas has been carefully organized
and elaborate arrangements
have been made to put Into operation
an effective working machinery. T\his
organization will have no legislative
power per se but will direct its efforts
along educational lines. The headquarters
are in the Y. M. C. A.
building, Charleston.
It has been organized to popularize
athletic sports and to improve the
standard of athletic activities, so as
to harmonize them with the high
purpose of education and good citizenship.
"Sport for sport's sake" is
its motto.
In 1909 one hundred and nineteen
professional players of the National
League were suspended for rowdyism
and other offences. Undoubtedly
many offences were overlooked. Similarly
in amateur ranks there is a
continual violation of rules and principles
which reflects upon our boast
of being true sportsmen. Amateurs
too often do things they hope will
not come to ligJht. Frequently spectators
and rooters are unjust in their
actions not always in accord with
what is known to be right. The
Clean Sports League of the Carolinias
is an educational organization
composed of the leading colleges and
Y. M. C. A.'s of the Carolinas.
Tf In AnHnrsart hv f hfi
1. Southern Jnter-Collegiate Association.
2. Athletic League of North America.
3. South Carolina Inter-Collegiate
Association'.
4. Carolina Federation of Y. M.
C. A.'s.
5. Charleston Amateur Athletic
Federation.
The following adopted code of ethics
is simple?fair to the individual
to the large as well as to the small
colleges, schools or other organizations.
It appeals to the manhood
in man, and all lovers of clean sport
are asked to support it.
1. Both the home team and the
home town should treat the visiting
team as a guest.
2. Both players and spectators
should recognize good plays of the
visiting team by suitable cheering.
3. Players should play ball fair
and be good losers.
4. The umpire and referee have
difficult tasks to perform. Spectators
should accord them their moral
support. TJie players should extend
them hearty thanks as they leave the
field.
6. Condemn all use of profane
language on the field.
Lists will be circulated in every
town in the Carolinas, and every man
and every boy big enough to Bwing
a bat is requested to add his signature,
with the understanding that an
honest effort will be made to live up
to these principles. Such action will
add greatly to the pleasure and dignity
of athletic activties of the Carolinas.
KILLED BY BURSTING TIKE.
Flying Inner Tube Almost Severs
Man's Head from Body.
While seated on an embankment
near his .home at Marcus Hook, Pa.,
watching his brother-in-law, Charles
Ouyer, pump air into the tires cf
bis automobile, Frank D. Marshall,
aged 4 5 years, was struck in the face
by be inner tube of the tire, which
exploded with a loud report. The
tire cut his face horizontally across
the bridge of his nose and it was
found necessary to tie up his head
to keep his feature in act. He died
within ten minutes after the. accident
and before he could be taken
to the hospital. The accident was
witnessed by he dead man's wife,
who was standing in the doorway
of .her home.
MUHDER HANI) SENTENCED.
Twenty-Nine Men to Die for Their
Crimes in Russia.
Penalties of death or life imprisonment
have been meted out at St.
Petersburg, Russia, to the youthful
band of men and women, who for
eighteen months during 1 907-08
committed a series of murders and
robberies that terrorized the residents
of a considerable territory.
Twentv-nine men. aged from 18 to
25 years, were sentenced to death.
Eight women escaped hanging because
of their sex, but were sentenced
to imprisonment for life.
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Three Were Killed.
When a northbound freight train
on the Mobile and Ohio railroad was
wrecked Monday, near Scooba, Miss.,
three men lost *heir lives, considerable
property was damaged and several
are reported injured.
Thirty Suicides in May.
With one day to heard from,
the month \of 'May contributed a
ghastly record of 30 suicides in
Philadelphia.
LAST HOPE GONE
PINK FRANKLIN IA)SES HIS CASE
AND WILL HANG.
The United States Supreme Court
Has No Jurisdiction in the Case
and Dismisses It.
Pink Franklin, the South Carolina
negro, whose conviction for the murder
of Special Constable Valentine
led to an attack on the so-called la
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Dor coniraci laws or ine ouuiu,
will suffer the death penalty, according
to the decision Tuesday of
the supreme court of the United
States.
It was claimed by Franklin that
the constable came to his home at
night and entered without announcing
himself as an officer of the law.
It was while in Franklin's cabin that
Valentine was mortally wounded by
a shot.
Former Attorney General Bonaparte
became interested in the case
and after the negro lawyers for the
condemned man had appealed the
case to the supreme court of the
United States, Mr. Bonaparte filed a
brief in Franklin's behalf. He contended
that Franklin had a right to
resist arrest, which was sought to be
made on a warrant issued under an
unconstitutional law.
This law was the so-called "labor
j contract law," which provided that
agricultural laborers under contract
to work were guilty of misdemeanors
if they break their contracts after receiving
wages in advance, Mr. Bonaparte
denounced this law as an attempt
to reduce the negroes of the
South to captivity.
I Justice Day, in announcing the decision
said the court could inquire
only into federal questions. He said
the question of resistance of arrest
11 n a or fin n neonst 11 ntional law was
not raised in time in tlie State court.
Mr. Bonaparte's connection with
the case was confined to the filing of
a brief for the defense. Soon after
his brief was filed, the two negro
lawyers for Franklin announced that
Mr. Bonaparte was not of counsel in
the case.
Jacob Moorer, one of Franklin's
lawyers, said that Mr. Bonaparte had
been employed by rich negroes in
Philadelphia, without any knowledge
of the two who had taken the case
up to the supreme court of the United
States.
MEETS DEATH ON TRACK.
Two Young Men Run Over and Kill]
ed by a Train.
Shuford Abernethy was instantly
killed and Robert Hodges perhaps
fatally injured by westbound through
freight No. 7 5 at Bridgewater, N. C.,
Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Two
trains, 72 and 75, were to pass at
Bridgewater. Abernethy and Hodges (
were walking along the sidetrack, ,
keeping out of the way of train No.
72 on the main line, and evidently ,
did not see train 75 as it rushed up
on them. Abernet.hy was irigntruny ,
mangled and was doubtless killed instantly.
One of Hodges' feet was ,
cut off and he is otherwise seriously
injured, but there is a fighting chance
for his recovery.
CUPID GOT REAL 11USY.
And Captured All the Lady Teachers
in a School.
A triple wedding occurred at
Westminister on Tuesday. Miss Eva
Martin of Cross Hill married Hurt
Mitchell, a prominent Westminister
merchant; Miss Gussie Harper, of
Clinton married A. W. Lathem, a progressive
farmer of Westmister; Miss
Augusta Smithson of Westminister
married Dr. Samuel C. Moon, a pop- 1
ular Westminister physician. The
ceremony occurred at two o'clock and
the three couples boarded No. 3 8 going
to Asheville for Uieir honeymoon.
The three briores were teachers
the past session in the Westminister
high school. This is believed
to be the first time on record w.hen
Cupid has invaded a school and captured
the entire teaching force with '
the exception of the superintendent,
who in this instance is already married.
SOLONS LOSE THIR JOBS.
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Nearly All Alabama Legislators Were
Left at Home.
A 'Montgomery dispatch says showing,
it is claimed, the reversion of
sentiment since the last Legislature,
which enacted the State-wide prohibition
and other laws, only eleven '
men out of the 105 composing the
Alabama Legislature will be returned
to office. This fact developed Monday
in the first official compilation
of names of the new solons. Two
preachers were nominated In the recent
primaries and will be elected.
In three counties the Democrats put
no candidates forward, and the Republican
nominees will be elected
without opposition.
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Long Itallot.
It is said an eight-foot ballot will
be required in the State election in
South Dakota next November, owing
to the large number of measures
to be voted 011 under the initiative
and referendum. u
KILLED THE PRIEST
WHO HAI) HAI) CRIMINAL RELATIONS
WITH HIS WIFE.
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Before Killing the Guilty Priest, the
Outraged Husband Killed His Wife
After She Confessed.
At South St. Paul, Minn., J. P.
Gibbons, a live 6tock comission man,
shot and killed his wife at their j
home in that city. A few minutes
later Gibbons rang the door bell at
the residence of Father E. J. Walsh,
the young pastor of St. Augustine's
Rnmnn r^ithr?Hr? rhnreh. and as the
door was opened Gibbons fired two
s.hots into the priest's head, killing
him almost instantly. Gibbons was
arrested and brought to St. Paul, as
there had been talk of lynching at
South St. Paul, where the priest was
popular. At the jail Gibbons said his
wife had made a confession in w-hich
she used the name of Father Walsh.
"It is a peculiar world, looking at
it from my Nangle," he said. "I've
viewed it in several ways and don't
know much about it yet. I had a
wife once who did not care for me
but liked the companionship of others.
"When Father Walsh came to
South St. Paul I was jubilant. He
appeared such a nice fellow and I
went to him and volunteered what
support was in my power to give
him. He thanked me and w e became
fast friends. T.hen followed a
game of treachery and deceit?a
fnrno that I was not in on. vet deeply
interested in.
"I had invited Father Walsh to
my home and introduced him to my
wife. Whenever he called a box of
cigars were at his disposal. Mind
you, they were not the brand I smoked,
but much better.
"The calls of Father Walsh were
becoming too frequent to please me.
He appeared at my home afternoons
when I was at my otlice, and spent
several hours in the company of Mrs.
Gibbons. Sometimes my children
were present, but more often were
not.
"I said nothing to my wife, never
mentioning that I thought anything
of the frequent visits. I had planned
my little game, which worked so
successfully."
GiblKms has lived in South St.
Paul for twenty-five years. For a
r?.:g time he was chief of police.
GOING FOR HIS RECORDS.
Explorer Cook Getting Ready to Go
to Greenland.
The New York American says the
mvsterv of the whereabouts of Dr. |
Frederick A. Cook has been solved.
He is in Scotland preparing for his
trip to Etah, whence he plan's to
bring back his records of his discovery
of the North Pole and his instruments
which are cached there.
He also intends to bring back the
two Esquimo boys who accompanied
him on his dash to the North Pole.
Chester Beecroit, of Pelham Manor,
N. Y., has announced that he will
sail from EtaJi 011 June 15 with the
Bernier expedition to the Arctic in
the hope of finding the record, which
Dr. Frederick A. Cook left in the
North.
DIED WHILE RAISING FLAG.
Flag Wire Got Crossed With a Live
Electric IWre.
The patriotism of John Gieriowski,
a middle aged Polander, has
cost him his life. While trying to
hoist the Stars and Stripes for Memorial
Day on the roof of Turner
Hall, in Glendale, Pa., a copper wire,
011 which the flag was strung, came
in contact with a live light wire. The
shock which travelled to Gierlowski
knocked him down, and entangled
him in the flag and wire, he rolled
to the ground, tliirty-five feet below,
lie died half an .hour later, either
from the electric shock or the injuries
received in the fall.
GRIPPED BY FIERCE BLIZZARD.
Damage Done by Storm in I.ake Superior
Section.
A special to the Detroit News from
Calumet says that Lake Superior and
the surrounding country arc in the
grip of a fierce blizzard, with .high
northerly winds and a heavy snow.
All boats are seeking ports of re
fuge from the gaie. a neavy sou is
running all along the southern coast.
NTo boats are reported within reach
of the wireless. Wire and train service
are practically demoralized.
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Lived Without Work.
The only man in Indiana who could
live without working, Thomas Fields,
died at Hartford City, Ind., last week.
He was a waif in New York and 55
years ago was shipped West. He
was .honest, sober and lazy and bummed
his meals for over half a century.
Blew Open Safe.
The state bank of Unity, Wis.,
was robbed Tuesday of $2,000, the
safe of the bank being dynamited.
The robbers escaped. The bank was
established in 1905 with a capital
of $10,000.
HYAJT IN THE RACE
MAKES FORMAL, ANNOUNCEMENT
OF HIS CANDIRACY.
Statw That There Should be Uess
Politics and More Effort to Run
Matters Along Rusiuess IJnos.
(F. H. Hyatt, of Columbia, one of
the State's best known and most successful
business men, has announced
his candidacy for governor of the
i State. In announcing the candidacy
of Mr. Hyatt the Columbia State
says: ,
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Hyatt intends to make the race is
the opening of a campaign along different
lines from that of any other
candidate in the run for gubernatorial
honors. 'A business man's government,'
is Mr. Hyatt's slogan for
the race and in his platform he says:
"As a business man my chief aim, if
elected, will be to conduct a State
government along business lines.'
The following is the platform: "I
beg to announce my candidacy for
t.he office of governor, subject to the
decision of the Democratic voters of
the State. Campaign promises are
easily made. My purpose is, if elected,
to give the people a plain, honest
and business-like administration. Of
course, I shall advocate good roads,
good schools and good government;
my attitude to the same being well
known to the public for many years.
"I consistently advocated prohibition
and was among the first to give
money and lend influence to push
that movement more than twenty
years ago. As a business man my
chief aim, if elected, will be to conduct
a State government along business
lines."
F. II. Hay It has been associated
with Columbia's and South Carolina's
interests for many years. He has
lived in Columbia since the beginning
of .his business career and as
manager of the Mutual Life Insurance
company for this State has become
known throughout South Carolina.
For ten years he has been
president of the Good Roads association
and had advocated good roads
even at a time when t.he general
movement had not thought of being
launched. He built the first macadam
road in Richland county.
In the Southern Cotton association
along, witTi E. D. Smith, now United
States senator, Mr. Hyatt was a conspicuous
figure in t.he successful efforts
to secure higher prices for cotton
for the farmers of the State.
Several years ago he was urged to
enter the race.
"Recently," said Mr. Hyatt, "the
sentiment has been very strong for
a {candidate to enter the race on
such a platform as I have entered.
T.he question of sale of liquors in
South Carolina is, apparently, doomed
to a second rate place in the campaign
issues. Good roads, education
and like matters are likely to attract
the attention of the voters in
the approaching campaign more so
than the much mooted whiskey question,
in the opinion of many w-ho
have closely followed the situation
in this State." *
SAYS THEY ARE ALRIGHT.
Supreme Court Upholds Jim Crow
Car Law.
An attempt to have the Supreme
Court of the United States pass on
the authority of common carriers in
inter-state commerce to make "Jim
Crow" regulation met with failure
on Tuesday when the Court dismissed
the so-called Chiles appeal from its
docket.
The question arose in a suit w.hich
J. Alexander Chiles, a negro, brought
suit for damages against the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company.
'Chiles bought a through ticket
from Washington, D. C., to Lexing
ton, Ky. At Ashland, Ky., all the
passengers except those in a sleeper
were required to take other coaches.
Over the objection of a brakeman, he
insisted on riding in a coach set
aside for white passengers. He was
compelled by t.he conductor to go into
the coach for colored persons.
In the suit for damages t.he railroad
relied on the defence that it
had acted in conformity with its regulations.
The supremo court of
Kentucky found these regulations in
regard to t.he soperate coaches for
the two races to be reasonable. Inasmuch
as Chiles had been furnished
accommodations equal to those provided
for white passengers, according
to the trial jury, a verdict was rendered
for the railroad company. From
this Chiles appealed. The Supreme
Court affirmed the decision of the
State Court.
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l>ry l>ock Was Sunk.
A Manila dispatch says the exam
ination of the United States dry dock
Dewey has strengthened the belief
of those of the navy who .have held
that the damage was done deliberately
by conspirators against the govern
ment.
Could Not Get Work.
Albert lletts, aged 67, despondent
over not being able to get employment,
committed suicide in Greenville
on Tuesday by drinking carbolic
acid. He left a note stating his
! reason for the act.
I MANY iN RACE
For the Different Offices to be Filled in
This State This Fall.
READ OVER THE NAMES
&
Others May Enter I>ater, as tffto
First Campaign Meeting Will Not
Be Held Until the Twenty-Second
of the I*resent Month, When All
Pledges Will Be Filed.
Candidates for state and congressional
oflices are beginning to pop
out lively with the near approach
of t.he eounty-to-coiinty speech-making
tour, which opens on June 22,
a?lthouig.h the candidates are not
rushing forward yet to get in their
pledges and checks with Chairman
Jones.
Surprises may be looked for therefore
in the nature of "dark -horses"
and other kinds of entries up to
the very hour of noon on the 21st,
which is the last minute in which a
candidate may get in the race,
Chairman Jones firing t.he starting
gun at that minute.
There are going to be several
very lively races for state offices and
some entertaining little congressional
scrap on t.he sid?, all the congressional
men having opposition
Willi tutr |/uooIUIC ivmi wi u. x
Johnson in the fourth district.
There are now six candidates in
the field for governor, ail definite
announcement and all working hard
to get their organizations in good
trim.
These are C. C. Featherstone of
Laurens. John G. Richards, Jr., of
Kershaw and F. H. Hyatt of Colurnihia,
nil advocating prohibition.
iCole. L. Bl'ease of Newberry and
Thomas G. McLoed of Bishopville,
for different sorts of local option,
and Editor John T. Duncan of The
Columbia Reporter. Mr. Duncan has
not yet announced his platform, but
says he has definitely decided to
make the race.
For lieutenant governor, C. A.
Smith of Tinvmonsville, one of the
authors of the house prohibition bill,
will be opposed by E. W. Duvall, a
member of the house of representatives
from Chesterfield, a banker and
president of the state association of
retail hardware dealers, and possibly
by M. S. Connor of Dorchester.
The secretary of state the incumbent,
R. M. McCown of Florence, will
be oppossed by J. M. Moss of Walhalla.
So far as can be learned W. A.
Jones has do oppossition for comptroller
general, and state treasurer
R. H. Jennings and state superintendent
of education Swearinger are
in a similarly happy situation?for
the present.
At present J. Fraser Lyon is unopnosed
for Attorney General. Ri
Speaker of the house, M. L. Smith of
Camden had intended running for
the office, but that was it
the event that Mr. Lyon became a
candidate for (governor, a thing Mr.
Lyon has decided positively n )t t?>
do.
For adjutant general there are
four candidates, and possibly ihoe
will be others. The four positively
announced and actively at work
are the incumbent, Gen. J. C. Boyd,
his assistant, Col. W. T. Broca, Cant.
J. M. Richardson of Aiken and Maj
Charles Newsham of OolumoU.
For railroad commissioner tho
son of a United States senator, c?.
McDuffie Hampton, is trying to soeceed
the son of a United States
senator, Aiaj. jonn n. wane, wnuse
father, Judge J. H. Earle, succeeded
Gen. Wade Hampton. Mr. Kmc,
however, will not offer for re-election.
Other candidates for the place are
.Tallies Canzler of Tirzah, ex-Mayor
G. Heyward Mahon of Greenville,
and Representative O. C. Scarborough
of Clarendon.
T.he pn sent congressmen from this
state are: From the First district,
Geo. S. Legare; Second, J. O. Patterson;
Third, Wyatt Aiken; Fourth,
J. T. Johnson; Fifth, D. E. Finley;
Sixth, J. E. Elilerbe; Seventh, A.
F. Lever. The present line-up of
those looking for these gentleman's
honors and salaries looks like this:
Kirst district, J. n. liesene, or
Manning.
Second district, Solictor J. P. Byrr.8,
of Aiken, and C. W. Garris,
of Bamberg, former railroad commissioner
and present member of the
house of representatives.
Third district. Solicitor Julius E.
Bo|gg8, of Greenville, and Dickens
and Rev. Coke D. Mann of Oconee,
member of the board of trustees of
Clem son.
Fourth district, ex-State Senator
T. B. Butler or Gaffney, and Solicitor
J. K. Henry, of Chester.
Fifth district, State Senator T. I.
Rogers; P. A. Hodges, former financial
agent for Columbia collego; exState
Senator W. A. Brown, of Darlington
and ex-Representative Ben
B. Sellars of Sellars.
Sixth district, Dr. W. W. Ray, of
Richland.
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It is predicted that trolley fares
must rise, but as almost everyone
feHc that they can afford automobiles,
That do we care?
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