The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 28, 1913, Image 4
HAD A HARD TIME1
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EXPLORERS SUFFER IN CROSSING
GREENLAND
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CAME NEAR STARVING
Ponies Were Train oil to Feed Vpon tl
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the Flesh of Their Mates, While
the Hire Hardships and Mishaps of \
Futo Compel the Men to Kat Pet A
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The story tohl by Capt. Kocli, a '
Danish explorer, of tho crossing of 11
Greenland in company with three ?
hardy companions shows that tho
dangers and hardships to be encoun
nrrwl rvn 4 1 - 1 1 * e
v /11 in*.- gretu luianci lceueid
have not decreased since Peary and
Nausea journeyed over a part of tho
same wastes. 'l
Tho Danish leader and his three :l
companions, Dr. Wagcnor, a German; a
Parson, a sailor, and Sigurdson, a na- a
tico of Iceland, were reduced during 11
their Journey to eating a pet dog, tho "
only animal left. a
After landing on July 21, 1012, 11
the first mishap encountered was tho ^
loss of some ponies. Soon after that
their motorboat disappeared through
tho thin ice and tho explorers had to n
wait until near the end of September t
befgoro the ice was thick enough to b
bear their sledges and horses. When v
they wore ready to start Dr. Wagcnor c
fell and broke a rib. c
The expedition was ten miles Vast y
of Queen Louise Land October 13 and <
went into winter quarters. Because v
fodder was short all the ponies were b
killed except five, which were trained c
10 oat the llesh of tlieir brothers. s
During a sledging trip Capt. Koch (
foil forty foot into a crevasse, break- (
ing his right log. llo was helpless in H
the hut throughout the winter in a v
temperature generally fifty degrees
below zero. On April 2 0, tills year, c
the four men broke camp and with ,
11 vo sleighs, each drawn by a pony, \
started on their 7f>0-mile march to
the west coast. For forty days bliz- j
zards raged. The ponies became r
snowblind and so exhausted that E
three were killed. c
Then, with the night temperature t
thirty below zero, the sun's rays j
burned the skin from tho men's faces
until they looked like raw beef.
Snowshoes were put on the two re- (
maining ponies and helped them
greatly in tho loose snow. But for 4
the ponies the expedition would have f
been in a worse plight.
Another pony was killed July 11 j
because the fodder had given out.
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Next day the last pony was killed. A
few miles further on splendid pasturage
was found. The men's rations j
had been gradually reduced and on ^
July 13 the provisions were all gone. ^
A howling blizzard cappod this
misfortune and for thirty-five hours
the four men remained in the shelter
of a projecting rock without a morsel
eat. Oil .Tlllv 1 n thev tHnrl trv r\nali
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on to tho coast, so exhausted from
hunger, cold and wet they could
scarcely move. .
The only chance for life was to kill
tho pet dog, which had tramped with
them about 800 miles. This was done
and the flesh was cooked and eaten.
The meal was hardly finished when
tho explorer sighted a sailing boat in
a fjord east of Proeven on tho west
coast of Greenland. By means of
shots and signals tho explorers attracted
attention and Pastor Chemnitz,
who was on tho ship, with the
assistance of the crew, soon had the
famished and worn out explorers in
safety.
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Carried Off by an Kaglo.
An enormous eagle carried off
the four-year-old child of a woodcutter
while it was playing near him in
the forest in the vicinity of Audeer,
Switzerland. A large body of hunters
accompanied by dogs searched
the roads fixed caused the unfavortraco
of the eagle or its prey.
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Seven Are l>ro\vned.
Seven persons were killed when
tho government steamer Henry Ilosse
was overturned in a heavy wind
storm in the middle of a narrow
channel of tho Mississippi River.
Seven other persons escaped by clinging
to parts of tho boat until rescued.
I>eath Kept Secret.
The will of Mrs. Jocelyn-Clagett, of
St. Ixmis, contained the clause that
none of the relatives should bo notified
of her death until after the funeral.
Then their shares of the $12,000
estate was to be sent them. Mrs.
CljlCett flid nnf toi n? o Kl.. ' ? 1
UV.V nuui. U 1 UUUIU1.
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Takes Poison Before Wife.
Becoming despondent because his
wife was very sick, and expected to
die, W. J. Bettis, of Macon, C?a., took
laudanum. Ho loft a note saying
that he wanted to dio before his wifo
left him.
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l>iggs Found Guilty.
In eloping with Marsha Warrington
from Sacramento, Cal., to Reno,
Nevada, Maury I. Dlggs, who was
guilty of violating the Mann act, according
to the verdict of the Jury
that tried him.
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FOR NEEDED REFORMS
[AlOll l Ii KFFKCTS OF POOH (
SCHOOL ATTKNDANCK.
olm J. McMahan DIkcuksph Vital
(^uostion and dives Heasons for
Compulsory education.
The enlightened mind revolts at
lie idea of ignorant parents compell- (
lg their children to remain in Igno- I
ance without availing themselves oi 1
(to schooling offered free by the <
tate within the reach of every home. <
.dd to those that never go to school i
he large number that attend irreguirly,
and wo probably have half of
lie children failing to make prope: '
se of the facilities provided for their i
duration. Let us consider the meanrig
of it all, sis if we were explaining
n the simplest mind that doe3 not
ee the evil.
The child is not his own master,
ut is subject to his parent. Left to
intself, the child will he ignorant
nd undeveloped. Ho will not have
compelling desiro for knowledge,
nd will not apply himself to learn,
litil he is made to taste a sample
nd perceive that it is good -acquire
n appetite for learning, Meantime,
nless made to go to school he may
refer to idle at home.
Primitive Tribal Kducntion.
In a state of primitive nature, with
o law hut the individual will (if
here ever was such an individualistic
tage of man's progress) it rests
/holly with the parent to compel
ither ignorance or learning, and wo
an not doubt that the instinct of
ace-preservation secured for the
liild instruction in the essentials of
yell-being according to the then
tandards?just as in the animal
reation the parent teaches its offpring
how to obtain food and how
o escape from its enemies. But in
ho earliest known times, there is
ome sort of custom which none
vould defy and which is thus the
uinmounity or common law. This
ustomary law has from the beginling
prescribed the education which
s the requisite of the times. Thus
unong savages in tribal relations,
he parent never neglects, and would
lot be allowed to omit, to give his
ion the standard training for the
liaso and for war?the great duties
if citizenship at such a period of
luman society.
Difficulties of Modern Discipline.
In modern times, with the higher
levelopments in the main, there is a
itrange decadence constantlv mani
esting itself. There Is more parental
leglect, relatively, than among saviges,
and in the more artificial trailing
of the schools to lit for new conlitions
of man's life, there is more
lifflculty in keeping alive in the child
\ zest for learning. Thus even after
nis taste is somewhat aroused and he
lias formed the general purpose to
learn, he will have his periods of
sloth, of reaction, of revolution
against the labor of application,
against regularity, against system,
against obedience?the very things
that ho needs to become inured to.
If allowed to have his own way as his
fancy changes, ho will attend irregularly,
will loiter and be tardy. His
latenesses and absences will suffice
to destroy the effectiveness of his
studying, the connecting links of his
learning being lost. When present
he will be Inattentive to instruction,
neglectful of the assigned tasks, will
not be seriously in earnest, will not
view his obligation to get an education
as a closed question, and will
therefore dwadlo and fritter away his
time. If allowed to acquire such
habits, he will bo injuring instead of
building up his character, and will
be lessening instead of increasing his
future usefulness. A largo part of
the benefit of true schooling is the
acquiring of correct and useful habits
under compulsion?such as the habit
of regularity, of system, of obedience,
n f r>f "4-- J
W . VV11I.IW1, vji wi?ife\.:n??o, Ui BUJilUfastness,
of ability to do unpleasant
things, and at last the ability to tlnd
pleasure in doing duties whether or
not inherently unpleasant. This modification
of natural desires to recognized
duties has come to be best described
by a term derived from the
classical name for the pupil in school,
the ideal of all schooling being the
resultant "discipline", the mental
and moral acquisition of tho true disciple
or pupil.
Regular Attendance.
If the child goes to school spasmodically,
he will have more friction
with the teacher than otherwise, for
llP \ui1 1 he 1 *? > 1 ? \- J ? -1 *" -1
?iv ti *ii uwt uc an wi'ii up III I1IH 8lU(l*
ies, or as well trained to applying
himself, or as accustomed to obey,
and thus ho will have to be the more
controlled, punished if need be, and
as a result of the corrections or punishments
he will he angered and have
further disposition to vent his resentment
by staying away at will or altogether.
Poor attendance breeds worse
attendance. Irregular attendance
ends in non-attendance. Tf the parent
indulges him, let him he his own
master, spoils him, he will do poor
work at school or will stay away.
Such is often the indulged child of
parents who should know better and
do better, and not very different in
the misfortune of the neglected child
of parents of a peculiar typo of ignorance.
Injures Self and Others.
When attendance upon school is
TO RUN PRESS BUREAU ||
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HtEEN SA1I) TO BE PRESS AGENT
FOR McLAURIN. }
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\ceording to l>atest Talk Ho Will
Conduct Campaign Press Bureau
at Columbia.
That Leon M. Croon will come to
Columbia on September 1 and open a *
bureau for certain papers which will
back John L. McLaurin for Coventor
>f South Carolina to succeed Governor
Colo L. Please is the latest
?ossip in political circles in South
Carolina, according to information
forthcoming from reliable sources.
This program was decided on some
time ago. so It is understood, and, it <
is claimed, will he put in actual oper- 1
ation by the first of next month. <
That the McLaurin backers are j
anxious to obtain the endorsement of 1
Governor Cole L. Please is also well i
understood, but it is stated that they ]
have been unable to do so. It is un- j
derstood that Governor Please was 1
invited to Hendersonville some time
back, and the advantages of the Me- j
Laurin organization outlined to him, i
and he was urged to enter the combination,
endorse McLaurin for Gov- i
ernor and they would back him for s
the Senate.
However, the irovernnr Uou
all along that ho was not going to |
mix in llio next guornatorial rare. .
It is understood that he declined to (
have anything to do with the MeLau- 1
rin movement. It is true that many <
of his former supporters are now be- ,]
hind Mr. McLaurin for governor and ;
that he was and still is friendly with (
McLaurin, but will not endorse him <
or anybody else for governor-?that i
much he has stated several times ]
publicly and emphatically.
Loon M. Green, until recently was <
editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, (
a weekly newspaper which has here- |
tofore been a warm friend of the i
present administration. Col. Croon,
it is understood, has retired from the
editorship of the Intelligencer. Beforo
editing the Intelligencer Col. ,
Green achieved publicity by the activities
as a detectivo of the State government.
Ho Is a member of the 1
staff of Governor iBlease and has been
artively identified with his admlnis- j
tration.,
irregular, ragged, the teaching is ,
broken in upon, the progress of the ,
different children is uneven, it is im- (
possible to preserve class organize- ,
tions (so necessary to enable the (
teacher to accomplish much when
there is a largo number to teach).
Classes are further rendered impossible
by some children entering school
later than others and dropping out
sooner. Such a child can not go forward
with his proper grade from year
to year?having entered and left so
irregularly and done ho little in the
time at school that he must ho In a
class by himself or start over again
every year.
Irregular attendance is harmful to
the other children?those that attend
perfectly, because it disorganizes the
school, tho discipline and the teaching.
Many of our schools are afflicted
with this ystematic lack of
system. The principle of law, "So
use your own as not to injure another's,"
would fully justify the absolute
exclusion from school of evory
child that can not be made to conform
fully to the implied requirement
of attending regularly and seriously,
from the beginning to the
end. Most graded schools do this, in
self-defence. This protects the earnest
pupils and may save some laggards.
But the law ought to authorize
the requirement of attendance,
without the necessity of resorting to
exclusion for poor attendance. That
would save more of the laggards?
and many who have never had a
chance because of their surroundings,
chiefly their parents. An end should
be made to letting children come to
school just often enough to disturb
tho work of the regular attendants
and not enough to do themselves any
real good. An end should also be put
to tho whimsical action of ignorant
and prejudiced parents who keep
their children from school altogether.
State compulsion of education should
stop parental compulsion of ignorance.
John J. McMahan.
Columbia, August 16.
Memorandum: "Delonda est Carthago"?which
being interpreted
means, "The primary has got to be
reformed."
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Escape Prom Prison.
TTsin a ladder they had made In
the carpenter shop of the institution,
two prisoners, cellmates, scaled the
high wall of the eastern Pennsylvania
state penitentiary at Philadelphia
Wednesday, dropped 3 5 feet to
fl ornoa nl Af o n rl roo/lo * V* r*I ? ^ -
iv n>"uu j/ivsi, nuu niauc nivii CHUitpU,
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Tk>sos Life for ? Woman,
Dawson Corprew was drowned in
the Tallapoosa river at Robertson
Ferry when ho attempted to rescue
Miss Mary Stone Oliver. He reached
and assisted her until he had placed
her in a boat, hut sank immediately
after she was out of his hands.
If the Legislature passes an act
applying the provisions of the Webb
I,aw to this State, the blind tigers
will bo put out of business, and the'
dispensary will sell all the liquor
in the counties that voted for liquor.'
ROB ATTACKS JAIL
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iPARTANBURG OFFICERS KEEP
PR1SONER1SAFE
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THREE MEN WOUNDED
>lieriflf and Deputies Cause Crowd
Dent on Lynching Negro C^hnrgtMl
With Chimlnnl Assault to Disperse
Dy Threatening to Kill First Man
Filtering Prison Gates.
"Gentlemen, I bog you not to proiced
through this gate. I am in deadv
earnest. I will kill the first man
who advances a step, though he
ihould bo my best friend." W. J.
White, sheriff of Spartanburg County,
thus addressed a mob bent on
lynching Will Fair, a negro prisoner,
iccused of assaulting a white woman,
when a crowd of five hundred men,
\fter being repeatedly repulsed with
pistol shots, blew down the gato in
I he outer wall of the county jail late
Monday night with dynamite. The
mob were impressed with what the
sheriff said and dispersed.
Farlier in the evening three men
were shot when efforts were made to
batter down the jail gate with logs
ind steel rails. Sheriff White and a
leputy held the crowd at bay at first
by firing blank cartridges. Members
;>f the mob returned the fire with bulI..ID
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n;to, uuwcvei, aim in ino coniusion
mil darkness Frank Kpply, J. C. Owmsby
and John Turner were wound'd,
though it is believed not seriously.
They were taken to a hospital.
Hundreds of pistol and rille shols
were tired when the mob began to use
lynamite, but so far as can be learned
only one man was wounded. A
Imllet passed through his hand. His
name was not learned.
Will Fair, a negro, was arrested
Monday afternoon charged with assaulting
a nineteen-year-old white
woman, near Wliitestone, Monday
morning. It was about half-past ten
j'clock when the assault is alelged to
have been committed. The young
woman, a brido of last Christinas,
had been to a neighbor's house. On
her way home through a pateh of
woods she saw a strange negro, who
leered at her. Trembling, she hurried
on, followed by the black. She
entered her home safe and locked the
front door. Under her own roof she
gained assurance, and as the negro
had seemingly continued on his way,
she gave the matter no further serious
thought, but went to her bed
room and was brushing her hair
when the next chapter of the tragedy ,
was written. '
Suddenly she heard footsteps at
her back and almost immediately a
hand, thrust from behind her, was
pressed closely against her mouth,
another hand seized her by the neck,
and the rough voice of a negro said:
"If you yell I'll kill you." The girl
then threw every ounce of her energy
into an effort to escape from the negro's
clutches, but In vain. Picking
up a heavy stick, which lay on the
window sill, the black brought it
down upon her head with crushing
force, and the girl, bleeding from an
ugly scalp wound, dropped like a
dead person. When sho regained consciousness,
a half hour later, sho had
been draggod to another part of the
room.
The unfortunate raised herself unsteadily
to her feet, thinking to fire a
shotgun, which was suspended from
the wall and thus summon her husband.
She swooned again as she was
reaching for the gun, and was lying
on the floor unconscious when her
husband happened to enter the house
a few minutes later.
The husband took his wife to bis
father's home, a half-mile away, called
a doctor and then went to Glendale
and gave the alarm. About 500
people, including a number of Glendale
Mill operatives, started in search
of the negro, of whom a good description
was given by bis victim. Sheriff
W. J. White headed one posso and
Chief Moss P. Hayes, of the Spartanburg
police, another. A posse of
whi/?h Qnmuol T "XT I ? ?.^11
? M.VM KUUI u^?i ii, iiivuuin, a wuu
known Spartanburg attorney, was a
member, found an old negro who said
ho had seen within fifty yards of the
scene of the assault a negro corresponding
In description to the assailant,
and told of the direction in
which the man was walking. He
said the negro they were seeking was
named Will Fair. Will Fair was traced
to Glendale, where ho was seen to
board a car for Spartanburg. Other
clues were obtained which led to the
arrest of Fair several hours later at
the Southern Railway station in
Spartanburg by Rural Policeman J.
M. Williams. Officer Williams concealed
the negro in the bottom of an
automobile, which ho pressed into
service, and carried him into the
county jail by the rear entrance before
any but one or two people knew
of the arrest. Fair denied that he
was the negro wanted, but officers
said they felt confident that the chase
was over and were only waiting for
the identification of Fair as her assailant
by the negro's alleged victim
to make sure. When ho learned of
tho assault Mayor O. Tv. Johnson ordered
all tho social clubs to bo closed
for the day.
Members of the mob broke into tho
SEVEN WET, FOUR DRY
KESl'LTS OF ELECTIONS ON I)IS
PENSAKY QUESTION.
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Vote in Most Counties Was Very
Close Showing Sentiment Evenly
Divided Among Voters.
The dispensary elections are over,'
in at least eleven counties of the
Stato, as a result of Tuesday's voting
and seven of this number gain the
legalized state or county dispensary
system.
In two cases the vote was so close ,
that official tabulation will be necessary
to establish tho result. In nearly
all others tho margin was small.
Florence and Jasper have retained
the dispensary system while Hamberg,
Harnwell, Dorchester, Calhoun
and Orangeburg have voted to return
to the sale of liquor by the county.
Abbeville, Lexington, Williamsburg
and Sumter voted to remain dry,
though Sumter may win out on appeal
and recount.
Of the counties which went dry
Abbeville was the only one giving a
decided majority, the anti-dispensary
forces in that county piling up a majority
of 55 8 against the salo of liquor.
in tho other counties which
went dry the vote was very close.
Lexington leading in this respect
with a majority of four against the
sale of liquor, but which may be an
error, as a mistake is claimed at one
mix; w nuamsnurg wnn rourteen and
Sumter with twelve also seemed almost
evenly divided, but the closeness
of the vote in Sumter makes the
result still doubt ful.
Of the wet counties Barnwell, with
004 majority, and Dorchester, with
3.17, were the most decided, and Orangeburg
with a majority of three
for the dispensary was the most evenly
divided. The majorities for the
dispensary in other counties were:
Bamberg 1 SO, Calhoun S2, Florence
Gt, and Jasper 3S.
Should the ofllcial returns bear out
the unofficial figures, South Carolina
will rave eleven dispensary counties,
as follows: Charleston, Richland,
Florence, Georgetown, Beaufort,
Aiken, Dorchester, Calhoun, Jasper,
Barnwell and Orangeburg.
The vote:
For Against
Abbeville 440 09 8
Barnwell 001 207
Florence G7 3 612
Dorchester 661 324
Lexington 03 0 5 43
Calhoun 3G3 2S1
Orangeburg 1,15 2 1,13 5
Williamsbiirg 1 02 20G
Jasper 8 7 19
Sumter 4 73 4 85
Bamberg 4 00 220
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Pours Hot Oil on Victims.
Amolia Dilcher, a cook, rendered
temporarily Insane by the intense
heat of the kitchen in which she was
working Wednesday, poured boiling
fat over three women and a baby of
the Staten Island, N. Y., household
where she was employed, frightfully
burning all four victims.
Puts Ileal Lid on Town.
Jackpot, the toughest town In
Wyoming, has been closed by the
anuria, ana tno lnnabltants are either
under arrest or have fled the town.
Whiskey and gambling devices were
destroyed. A deputy sheriff has been
left behind to see that the town is not
inhabited.
armory of a military company after
midnight and took seventeen rifles.
A militiaman with loaded rifle surprised
the maurauders, and by
threatening to kill them, made them
return the firearms.
William Fair, the negro who was
saved from lynching by a mob at tho
Spartanburg jail Monday night by
tho firm stand taken by Sheriff William
J. White of that county, and a
singlo deputy, was carried to Columbia
Tuesday morning by the chief of
police of Spartanburg and is lodged
safely in the State penitentiary, temporarily,
at least. Tho negro was
I spirited out of a rear door of the
Jail about three o'clock Tuesday
morning while Sheriff White held
pack tho mob at tho front of the institution
and hurried by train to Columbia.
Prison officials at Columbia expect
to receive immediate instructions to
keep the negro in the Stntn
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Proeldemt.
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Pound Head in Store.
Shortly after noon Thursday when
James Cooper, colored, entered the
shop of Mr. A. J. Pittman, at Summerville,
he found his body on top of
one of the countors. Ho evidently
had been dead for several hours. Mr.
Pittman had not been In good health
for some time, and was under the
treatment of a physician. His death
two equal allotments.
Huslmnd Itlown to Piece*?.
When Mrs. John Herman, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., arrived home from a
visit, sho was met by the family dog,
which acted very strangoly. She followed
the animal and found her husband
and two other men blown to
pieces in a field near the house. Ther
had gone out to blow up stumps and
one of them had probably dropped a
box of dynamite.
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Moots Double Death.
Charles AleGoognn, a naval stores
operator, ago twenty-five, was shot
and killed by Will Bowman, colored,
said to bo an ex-convict, Sunday at
Redlight, Fla., the negro dying from
a bullet from McGoogan's revolver.
Tho negro's hody was covered with
! rosin and burned by tho white man's
incensed friends. McGoogan was to
liavo been married in three weeks.
Helped Himself to Cash.
A stranger walked into the "New
York State Bank, at Albany, thrust
his arm through one of tho paying
tellers' windows, grabbed bills aggregating
$87 9 and rushed out into
crowded State stroet., where he was
lost to view boforo the astonished
nllnf ?1 *
i wiiui v.uuiu (^ivo un aiarm.
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PLUS OF ANY iRlANK TN IIOURY
INFO CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF
NTY.
$50,000
12,500
lUIOLREItS. . .. 50.000
rORS 112,500
:tors
W. A. JOHNSON,
WILL A. FREEMAN,
D. V. RICHARDSON.
JOMMODATION WHICH THEIR AC- /
5 SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.
>. T. Richardson, Will A. Freeman,
Vice-President Cashier.