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* VOLUME XXX. STORE AT LORIS jl MAKES ASSIGNMENT J. E. Prince Sr., Long in Mer-, i cantile Business Closes ITrtrinr UUUI o I STOCK OF MERCHANDISE WILL GO TO DEBTS | ^ Creditors Will Got a Good Per! centage of Their vy Claims. ... ! Jp "I he mercantile businc.,^ of Mr. JJ ^ K. Prince at I .oris dosed its doors on! last Friday, Mr. Prince making an j assignment for the benefit of the va-1 .rious creditors in the business. There was practically no property for the' creditors of the store outside of the Q4 rw>l.? nl' nuviv-lm )iilicn wliinli will ill-! vontory between two and three thous-j ^ and dollars.' The only real estate j owned by Mr. Prince at the time of the failure i 4 be lot on which the store at Loris stands, and another lot outside of the business part of the town. There is a mortgage against the' store lot held by the Bank of Boris, j Mr. Prince has been known in the i mercantile business for a long term j of years. His business was conducted + during all this time on honest principles. Last year the general hard times made money scarce, and the proprietor was in bad health, so that the income of the store was very much decreased and the assignment was the inevitable result. ? STATE INSURANCE MAY BE EXTENDED A bill has been introduced in the house of representatives by Mr. Lee of Spartanburg to provide that the State insurance system may apply to 0 school houses in the State. This will he a far reaching move, if the bill becomes a law, and there is not much .1 U X _ 1 A. t uuutn anoui tnai. The State insurance fund created by the operations of an act of which the late Marshall P. Bruhl was the author. It provided at first for a very limited amount of insurance upon ^ public buildings, and was not considv ered as a revenue measure, but merely as an experiment. Today, after successful operation, it has more than $150,000 to its credit, after paying all losses. The fund has been used gradually to insure college property, and the new proposition is to extend its ' operations to the higher class of pub, ^ lie schools in the State. Mr. David Harper Means, secretary { of the sinking fund commission, has w always been a warm advocate of tills State insurance principle, and he sees great possibilities of the future. One member of tse general assembly stated that he believes that this system will in future produce nearly enough money to pay a large part of the operating expenses of the State government. -o ELECTIONS HELD BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY The joint assembly last week elected the following without opposition: Carlton W. Sawyer, comptroller general; F. H. McMaster, insurance commissioner; S. W. G. Shipp, judge of ' 12th circuit; Jarnes W. DeVore, judge of 11th circuit, and T. B. Fraser, associate justice of the supreme court. i ? Pass New Circuit Bill. Columbia.?The House, after a long . and heated debate, refused to recom- ? mit the bill providing for a 14th judi- \ cial circuit in the counties of Colleton, ! Beaufort, Jasper, and Hampton, cli a > / yea and nay vote of 53 to 50. The bill ' ^ went through final passage in the House on a .yea -and nay vote of 58 to , 44. ( i |F "HO 00] EXAMINATION FOR P. M. AT LOWS, S. C. Examination Will Bo Held a Marion, S. C., on Saturday February 25i:ii. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that on Fob. ?uth, 191b, an examination will be held at Marion, S. C., as a result of which it is expected to make certification to i 1 liil a contemplated vacancy in 1 ho position of fourth class postmaster at Sons and other vacancies as they may occur at that ofliee, unless it shall be decided in the interests of the service to fill the vacancy by reinstatement. The compensation of the postmaster at this ol'icc was .$813 for the last fiscal year. Atfc limit, 21 years and over on the e;ur m tne examination, wun tne exception that in a State where women arc declared by statute to ho of full age for all purposes at IS years, women IS years of age on the date of the examination will be admitted. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the post office i for which the examination is announced. The examination is open to all citizens of the United States who can comply with the requirements. Application forms and full information concerning the requirements of the examination can be secured from the postmaster at Loris or from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Wash ington, 1). C. Applications should ho properly executed and filed with the Commission at Washington at least 7 days before the date of the examination, otherwise it may be impracticable to examine the applicants. U. s. CIVIL SERVICE COM. MAN CHARGED WITH LARGE PECULATION New York.?The death *f his wife ^ was today learned to have led directly to the arrest here of George A. Gray on a warrant signed by the governor of Massachusetts charging him with larceny of cash and securities valued ( at $100,000 from Fred Kensel, of Chicago, and "other persons living in Massachusetts." A detective arrived herefrom Roston today to tawe him back for trial. Gray was arrested last night after1 having been followed by police from an undertaking shop to the cemetery, where Mrs. Gray was buried earlier in the day, and back to the undertakers. He is said td have taken his ar- j rest calmly, and to have told police , that the matter was a "family affair involving no larceny," and would ] quickly be adjusted. ( Gray was indicted in Boston, , charged with larcenv of SI.000 mwl "ten pieces of paper valued at $1,000,, each" from Kensel and $40,000 and ? "forty pieces of paper valued at 000 each"' from another person whose , name has never been made public, but who is said to have been a wealthy ^ woman living at Swampscott, Mass. , o ( China No Longer a Back Number. A few years ago China was a back number and enjoyed none of the improvemcnts of modern civilization. To v day there is an entirely new situation. She has a good telegraph system, ex- * tending to all important points in the land, operated by the central govern- r ment; a modern postal system, which * gives very good service. She has also v now several thousand miles of rail- v I 1 way, besides several thousands pro-; ' jected, which have been delayed ow-: r ing to internal disturbances and the European war. o 1 World's Sunday School Convention. c The Executive Committee of the J v World's Sunday School Association 1 and the National Sunday School As-1 ^ sociation of Japan agree in declaring j that the gathering of the World's s Sunday School Convention in Tokyo F in October, 191f>, will take place as o planned in spite of the world war. s 3ount Okuma, the J&paneise prime C ninister, is much interested' :n the o ueeting, and believes that it will be ti )f deep spiritual service to Japan. | v RRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, F SWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, FEB! GOING I , 11 ^ 1^11| ^ I j|| -M.il ' i! ., J<?. * if.; w1 - .x-jL_y? <- ' v ? ? 'r , I* r* *' iwji ? - r - jT;-;*? r*-V? .-,- ?- * JT V-Tti ?, VTXXTZZ. V, . . n i '# II V/?SCJ^z:X~I l?il < I ( fi.\ >:' -W : i M #'?? ^ | ' | I \M A )^s ' 1 l b# i V#; 7V*\ ,1 | i \^f| -/dffixh pi ; r x^pt' pvlM A \-t/, \^S - |i' I > : N*^>^ ^ C y/J i ' p' j'\ .v ' "J q 11 Wa*? ' M /' - ' >< T**r~f SAYS KAISER IS [i AGED AND BROKEN| I Correspondent Who Saw Him;! at ISJish Describes German Ruler's Annearanr.e _ . r-i ~..wv. j _ ! ' i- T I London.?Tlie Daily Mail fcorTG&'j pondent who arrived at Nisli Jariuary 1 1G describes what he saw of thfc Ger- 1 man Emperor at close range o<n sev- ( eval occasions at Nish and what hap- t pened at the royal banquet where the I Emperor was the guest of King Fer- 5 dinand. a "4I was fact to face with the Em pel' * or directly I left the train," says the 1 i correspondent# "King Ferdinand had j t only a few minutes before receiving t him on his arrival fVom the west and'C the royal couple were walking up and t down the station platform without cere t mony, arm in arm. I had never Seen t Ferdinand before and it was eight r years since I had last seen the Ger- r man Emperor. "What a change! The Emperor is g not a tall man as represented in t:io e photographs and besides the great is massive figure of the hawk-nosed ii Ferdinand, who has a curious duck- a like waddle, the great war lord seem- b ?d almost diminutive. The Emperor C wore a long gray coat, a brown fur p necklet and a spiked helmet covered ti with khaki cloth. The people did not d show much interest in the Emperor tl nut the Bulgarian ministers were obsequios. c, "How did the Emperor look? a Whether it he due to the fatigues of h war, the effect of a two clays journey tl >r ill health, 1 can not say, but his ti 'ace is that of a tired and broken man t( :tj~ i. ~v nf> 11itir us wnice, though his mus- (. (acho is still suspiciously dark. There r vas an absence of the old activity of ?esture. a The Emperor was obviously out lo g nake himself agreeable. He examined ic he medals of the Bulgarian soldiers ci vith apparent interest and chatted ai vith royal affability and smiled right md left. None the less he is greatly L iged. He held in his hand a handker- .it hief which he was perpetually using e< md I notico<l Infov of fU- I- ' * _ ...vv-i tit nit* ucuHjuot inai ri 10 scorned to require ;t to assuage the ontinual coughing. The handkerchief hi cas a huge Turkish affair of red, em tl moidered with a white Turkish star A nd crescent in the corner. sc "At the banquet King Ferdinand , cc at on the Emperor's right and M.: 8( tadoslavoff the Bulgarian premier, ?n his left. Next to King Ferdinand at General Von Falkenhnven, the . German chief of Stuff. The Eipper-j r ate and drank virtually nothing at he banquet and it is said that he al/ays eats before proceeding to state in IRST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER." RUARY 3, 1916. JPI f in limit ji!?i! if i I J 1 I if i !; i | (; i 1:1 i til 1 I f 1 v r I f S11; i'i I ; ih. i| i |l f:'! | in- U F r. ' iL J AA 'fit I (. |,!( ( i . iw^-j ?* - ..f -1> ;., ?i! ii !i i J i: ' < ..jj " M| j j || jj) j| i i ; J;? ; !){ J >ij ,1 f if i na ii;M !i' < i i 11 'I I'I ? 111 i \ !]|a!. !i]in fjl ' \ 165 ! 'mil l |l ;i!, \ I I 1 11 \ Mi1 iirirh 'i \ 1 MIS I 11,1:1 'k^rs _\ i ' 1 i i i m 1 fft? #S?Y;i '! 1 ' ? r 'tw\ J-C: 1 Vs * - J ?Chapin in St. Louis Republic. RAILROADS FIGHT TWO CENT MILEAGE Busy in Opposition?Banks War on Tax Commission. Columbia.? ' ne two-ccnt pussenge.J ate bill having- been passed by the ffouse and ordered to the Senate, the opponents to the measure are gatherJd in Columbia for their fight on the >roposition when it comes up for consideration in the upper branch. There ieems little chance for the passage of he bill. There will be extended hear ngs before Senate committees and he railways, through their repreaenatives, who have already arrived in 1 Columbia, will attempt to show thai. ' he measure should not be passied at , h ,*j_ rni 1 ins ume. me past year has been lard on the roads, it is said, and the epresentatives claim that a two-cent ate would bo almost ruinous. I The bankers of the State have beam their onslaught on the State tax * ommission, which was created by an ct of the Legislature. A bill has been ntroduced in the House to repeal the ct. This action may bring one of the iff fights of the legislative session. ^ iovernor Manning will use all of his owor to have the tax commission relined. At present there is little hance for the movement to establish ^ ie commission to succeed. The joint sessions of the finance . ommittee of the Senate and the ways t nd means committee of the House f avo completed hearings on iwohirds of the items in the appropria- j on bill. It is said that the commit- c ?e still hopes to hold down the State f ax levy to six mills. This would be ajg reat piece of work. The people of(S 10 State are demanding economy, (1 nd it seems as if their desire will be ranted by the commit!ps. No salar 3 are being raised. The only in casc w ill be for Confederate veter- \ ns. Following the plan of economy, the egislature will thiss vn??. ?' . ... v...? j vii i (iuauiiuil illl ? mketing t'-ips. These? trips cost mon- j v / a;nl the members realize that cv- ^ y dollar possible must be saved. g "We hope to have the appropriation c 11 completed by February 1. and c ten it would be good for the General q ssembly to adjourn and go home,"j tid a member of the ways and means 0 mmittee. This seems to reflect the a jncral sentiment of the members. {.j tl motions. Certainly he spent more me coughing than eating at Nish. ^ e: "The gathering broke up quite inrmatly, the whole scene leaving an . q, ipression of simplicity. | bi rati IHARLES K. GERRALD 1 HAS PASSED AWAY 'romincnt Farmer and Busin- S ess Man of Galivants Ferry Died Suddenly. Charles i\. (ierrald, a prominent r armor and business man. of the (ialyants Ferry section of this county, ied suddenly last Monday afternoon, lear the home of John C. Tart, where le had pone on business just before r linner time. He had been indisposed 111-1 < l; l v* Imf'il'n fiilf mi lfi.? imiiMiimi ill' lis dath appeared in his usual health.' The coroner was called and went aeon.panied by Dr. J. S. Dusenbury. Pile latter upon examination reported hat the deceased came to his dat'n ly heart disease. It was well known hat the deceased had been worried a jreat deal lately by financial matters , ind had suffered an accident bv reason of a runaway horse about two rears ago which greatly reduced his , citality and caused him to suffer a long and painful illness. He is surviv-; ?d by his widow and several children He Wfis between the hgs of fifty and, sixty years. 1 GENERAL STATEMENT i EUROPEAN GONFLiCT: British possessions of territory pro-, tecting' the Suez canai route at its) southern end is imperilled by attacks, made by large bodies of Arabs and Turks on the British border in southwestern Arabia., according to disi pai.enes from German sources. British have been TTrTvcn'from all the territory they held in that section ot ' country and have suffered extremely' ... I heavy losses in the fighting, thg rg-r ports declare, ti;e figures being givedj at 15,000 killer! and 20,000 wounded. I 'J1*** implication from thg Berlin dis-j patch starrying- these reports U that the British flrmy of 20,000 men is vir-J tually cooped up hi Aden, near the er.-| trance to the Red Sea, which must, be held if the southerly approach to the Suez Canal is to be protected. A situation quite similar to this was reported through German! agencies several weeks ago but London then announced officially that no apprehensions were entered of the outcome? of the Operations which had been niefdlv skirmishes. , The Aiist'rians, having gained pos-1 session of nearly all of Montenegro! whose remaining defenders, according) to Vienna, are fast laying down their arms, are pushing southward in AI - oania. Apparently they are moving,, leliberatelv, although without encounj, ;ering much resistance. Their road I lown the Adriatic sea coast leads them to Durazzo but advices from Al- j bania indicate that their progress is ( ikely to be slow, owing to the condi- j :ions of the roads. 1 At last accounts the Bulgarians j 'orces cooperating with the Austrtans lad encountered the Albanian troops ? inder Essad Pasha and, according to inofficial advices, had met with a de'eat at the latter's hands. ! j The great trade union congress at Bristol, England, today passed by an >verwhelming majority a resolution leclaring against the adoption of concription in any form, as "against the ? pirit of British democracy" and as v ndangering the people's liberties. I BANDITS BOB BANK js 1old I p Clerks and (Jet Away With $ Big Sinn of Mo no v. ! n ' i A Chicago.? Four robbers, aimed b /ith revolvers entered the Washing- a on Park National Bank, in East G'M treet, threatened the lives of the n lerks and twenty depositors and es-; d aped with between $12,000 and $l~>,-'n 00. j n None of the depositors, who were el rdercd to stand facing a wall, was b earched by the bandits who gave ti ieir sole attention to the money injb ho teller's caw Aftqr^ grating the money the rob-Jei ers h^fJlyMUtw)v^(t to the door and ,31 scaped in an automobile. I w The sheriff and blood hounds were ol uickly summoned and search for the' la andits was begun. I cj NO. 42. SOOSTER CLUB WILL HAVE BIG OCCASION iGconci Annual Booster Club Chautauqua Comes Off Feb. 9th, 10th ar.d 11th 1(1 AMY ATTRACTIONS READY FOR STAGE rickets Are on Sale Now and Going Rapidly for Big Entertainment. The second annual booster club hautauqiia was organized early last; . ...i. .. . i- ii. w mi itit"* ^mowing otiiccrs: President, I, .D. Magrath: Vice-president, J. 11. Cox; Treasurer. P. \V. BeLhea; Secretary, C. K. Scarborough. The committees appointed at the first, meeting of the club got busy at once and have been turning things round ever since in order to make this, the best occasion of its kind that town has ever had, Among the attractions are the following: First day, Columbia Concert Co,, composed of Ruble Stanford, violinist; Jeanette Jewell Kellogg, reader and entertainer; Richie McLean, contralto; Col. George A. Gearheart, lecturer of note. Second day: Durno, the Mysterious, who smoothes away weariness with wit and mystery, making the best medicine for mind and body. Third day: The Tyrolean Alpine Ycdlers; composed of the following members: Frank Graus, Miss Belle Graus, Miss Josie Goodbrink, Miss Carrie Graus, and Gus Ochsner (From New York Hippodrome). Also Dr. C. C. Wilson, Chautauqua Director ?.wi r .1.... .. a " 5 ??im i^vviuroi'i V There will bo a three day whirl- N -4% wind of things worth while in the largo auditorium of the Burroughs School Building; AmOrt# tiid iiHergstitig eVetits p!art> nod for the opening (Itiy Ol' the cliautauqua Is the autonvbile parade. All of the owners of cars will be invited to participate in a grand town boosters' Civic Day Parade. It is intended to have the parade start at 2:3Q p. m. and go to the Burroughs School. The first or opening day is educational day. On this committee are: Prof S. H, Brown, P. \V: Bethca, M. \Yt Wall, and school teacher throughout the county. Plans are on foot to secure an able educational speaker for that day. On the second, or agricultural day, it is planned to have Governor Richii'd I. Manning deliver an address to the people. The third day, or Town Goosters Day, will be among the best occasions of the season. There will be a mutest for the "Queen of the Chautauqua" and the queen will be elected >y the votes of those w'ho purchase ickets. The crowing of the queen is expected to draw large crowds oil that day. ASYLUM ASKS FOR $325,000 THIS YEAR - 1 ' * * ' * v oiumoia.?A joint mooting of the senate finance committee and the cays and means committee of the louse was held to hoar the appeal ropi tho State Hospital for the Inane for the $1125,000 appropriation sked for this year. This is but I.">,()()() increase over last year and lany improvements are in progress um unexpended balance of SI7,000 was m ight over from last year, but there re many outstanding obligations. Completion of some of the improvements contemplated will be the new airy, where ! > "? cows are now being umoi, nve neating plant, and the ew ward for white male patients; hairs for some wards which have eon without seats; linter mattresses, > supplant the straw mattresses now eing used and some new bed steads. >r. C. F. Williams, the superintendat, pointed out that he had found )me of the wards for women patients ithout a chair. The average number f white patients in the institution ist year was 1,223. The per capita cpenditure last year was $170.92.