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4 VO L U M E X X X V11 WEALTHY OWNER LOSES HIS FORD I H. S. Odum of Marion Caught With Gallon of Rum PAYS THE TOWN A FINE Placed Under Bond' of Five Hundred Dollars* for y * State Courts \ ' , H. S. Odum, wealthy Marion county farmer, was arrested here last Friday, under charges of transporting whiskey and carrying a pistol. Odum's Ford automobile was confiscated under the State laws and locked up by V. D. Johnson of the rural police force. Later in the day' Odum paid over a sum of money to stand in lieu of the car and got the car out, bul the car will be sold later on in th* proceedings or the money paid over to the treasury in place of the car. nf 4* Via urou OU'AVll IIV V/X VIIV 1H4I I UllbO TV ??.i n ?* V/I a a out by V. D. Johnson, rural policeman, and this warrant charged Oduni with transporting and having in possession under the State prohibition laws. He made bond in this case which was fixed by Magistrate W. H. Chestnut at the sum of $500.00. It is not known whether he will demand a preliminary. .He was also taken up under ordinances of the Town of Conway on the charges of violation of the prohibition laws and carrying a pistol. Ho was tried in the city court on Friday afternoon and fined in the sum . of $50.00 on the whiskey charge. !He gave bond in the pistol case and the case comes on this week. The pistol in the case was found on the scat of the automobile. Oduni drove into Conway from his six horse farm in Socastee township and stopped the Ford at a gar[ age near the wateit front. Somebodv saw the gallon of rum in the car an<l reported this to the policeman. The warrant followed and threarrest of Odum and the seizure of the car. The prosecutions in the town court also followed. Oduni is a resident- of Marion County and is said to reside on i farm several miles, from Marion court house. He owns a number of farms, and according to his own statement, ho is worth one hundred thousand dollars. I Tt does not anpear that he is r charged with either stilling or selling* the joy raising fluid. This gallon that he had, when caught seems to have boon carried for Odum's own personal use as a beveijvge. The farm which the defendant owns near Myrtle I'.each was purchased l>v him some time ago from Hon. E. T Hughes of Marion. WO\IKNV(m?RS TO TAKE PART Urged to Attend the Precinct Mcetincis to be Held on May 22nd Greenwood, S. C. fo tl >e Women of TTorry Pounty: Please allow mo tr> c.all your attention to the fact that the various Democratic Clubs are to meet on the fourth Saturday ir>f this month foi re-orcanization and to elect delegates to the county conventions which wil he held on Monday, May 1. Since the average voter comes into direct contact with the management of hei party only At the club meetings, it if urged that every woman who has attained her majority, or who will be -come 21 years of age before the gen. 'eral election in November, attend th( meeting which will be held in hei precinct on April 22. Of course, it is taken for grantee tliat each club in electing delegate; to the county convention will provid< for a fair representation of women but since time immemorial it has beer the custom to select men only, this provision may be overlooked unles; -women are present as a remindei that they also are citizens^ Then too, the delegation chosen by tin county convention to the state con vention should be composed of botl men and women; and a woman a: we\l as a man should be selected t< represent the county on the state dem ocratic executive committee. Tin democratic party now requires tha the national executive committer shall comprise two members, a mai and a woman, from each state; Mr? Julian B. Salley of Aiken, being ou representative. In conclusion, let me say that th L nineteenth amendment gives the vot alike to the woman who wanted i and to the woman who thought sh i-i 5< Mr?i< hm* Vui? ill CI (1 IIUl nnv i >v>>v> ..... vl, right to neglect it. It now become | just as much the duty of every wc man in South Carolina to use he ballot for the public welfare as i has for generations, been the duty o our men to employ the franchise fa the best interests of the state. Sha we prove less mindful and worthy c the trust than they? ANNIE GAINES WILLIAMS, (MRS. RICHARD) Chairman South Carolina Leagu of Women Voters 'f (Kh c NUMBER HOUSES ARE GIVEN OVER More than half of the active warehouses of South Carolina, representing an aggregate value of nearly one million dollars were tendered the TriState Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Association, when representatives of the association conferred with a thoroughly repreentative gathering of the owners and operators of warehouses. Save Lake City and Florence, every market pledged its warehouses in part or in full, as nearly as one could ascertain by an early and preliminary check of the returns from the meeting. In the list of the warehouses si mi itiK up with the co-operative association appears the Horry Tobacco Warehouse. Two warehouses at Ay nor, the farmers and the Huggins building were offered to the association. Two warehouses at Loris, the brick and the farmers, were leased to the association. "We are gratified tremendously by the results of the first effort in South Carolina," one of the leading officials of the association stated. ROAD QUESTION EXCITES MANY More Importance Given Deserved by Fourth Avenue People WOULD CHANGE BRIDGE Lulled to Sleep at First by Greenwood Route Pictured To Them The location of (ho now road from Conway toward Georgetown has brought about an ur.(l( rstanding of motives. At first it was said that the road should go by (ireenwood church. Those who were afraid that it might, know thou that it would never go by Cireenwood. Others who would have objected to the place where it is going out of Conwav would have acted differently if thov had not boon lulled to sleep by this apparent desire to locate the road in the undeveloped sections of Bucks township. At first the line for the new road was surveyed so /is to go one mile out of the way by bonding northward from the end of Fourth avenue. Still later the Ipromotors could not stand tho thought of being blamed in after years for adding this increased distance to tho travel. They moved it further southward so as to place it where they had argued it should not to?in low land whore much filling would have to bo done to make the i road right; so that instead of bending northward from the end of Fourth, a von ue they go straight out from that avenue. This has gone straight to a public understanding of tho reason why Fourth avenue was wanted, and that was flio idea that tho Kingston lake bridge could bo changed from the end of Third to the end of Fourth avenue. This change in the bridge seems to have boon a long cherished desire on ' the part of those who own property along both sides of Fourth avenue. ' Just why they would be willing to go to such lengths to attain this result > 4 U M it itif Aon n n<lnV | IN llll'l C lllllll Clll.v IIKtll v.(lll umivi 4 stand. They must attach more importance to the change than it really , deserves. The time has never been . when business could be changed from one section of a town to another by such means as this, neither can the value of property be enhanced to any , great extent. There is more value in ' the water front and the courthouse and town hall, none of which can be j moved than ever can be in the mere , change in the location of a bridge. ^ But why change it? Would it be right? It could not be right when it J is known to be against the wishes of .. a majority of the people who live in , the town. The great excuse for movr ing the bridge is the dangerous character of the short turns approaching a this bridge, as they all say. There is I but very little in that as accidents have been few at that point as eoms pared to accidents at other places, y where it is not possible to make any _ change. B By going through the yard of the f I Prosbvterian church the road at thai n place can be made straight and by 11 moving the bridge to that point make a straight course through the town r and on over the lake. As soon as it appears that the road might pass o through the church property without e any real opposition from the congret gaiion, a fight starts along other e lines to oppose the location of the e road there on sentimental grounds s and even by threatening the use of >- legal remedies by injunction. jr It has been a long time since sucli it a situation arose in the community >f here. It may be many a day before r another as interesting may arise. 11 A majority of the people want the >f highway located on Third avenue ant there is no doubt of that. Those who argue for it to be placed elsewhere have their own private interests ai ie heart and not the granting of right? to the most people. Www u<JiN WAY, S. C., THURSDAY FOREST FIRES TAKE BIG TOLL Large Section of Bucks Township Devastated by Burning Over SEVERAL HOUSES GONE Broke Out From a Farmers Place Where he Was Burning Brush and Trash Forest fires broke out in Bucks township last Friday evening at about 2 o'clock and swept through many acres of woodland and bays, burning a house belonging to Mrs. M. J. Watts and a house and barn belonging to Robert Dew. Lots of rails, stove wood, tobacco wood and some growing crops of oats were burned up. The damage was several thousand dollars. On Saturday morning there was another outbreak tn fhnf aa/i^A? ?r ... V. . v% V nv-vuv/ll V ' I the county and in addition to other things burned up a lot of fencing and timber. These fires were said to have resulted from carelessness in handling fires on farms in that section of the county in the burning of trash and debris. At last accounts there was still danger of the woods catching again from the trees and stumps still smouldering on the burned areas, but on Saturday afternoon there was a good rain and this out an end to the immediate danger. One report was to the effect tlvit this fire got out from some fire that was being used by Sam Bland to burn trash on his place. 1 The fire went through McClellan's Hay, one of the largest and thickest places in that section of Bucks township, burning up the straw, bushes and and small trees that grow in this bay. Much timber was destroyed by the large trees burning down and the smaller growth being killed. As much as 1,000 acres of land was burned over by this fire. In some places it was only the heroic efforts of the people that saved farmers from being burned out. The loss of the fences will not be so bad at this time while the :tock law is in effect. Before the stock law came into force such a thing as this fire would have been a calamity indeed. THREEDA'YS OF ENTERTAINMENT Marks Coming and Going of Radcliffe Chaulauqua This i ime CROWD OUT "EACH DAY Fine Quarters Provided in The Planters Tobacco Warehouse. Director Lectures on Sunday The 1022 UadclifTe Chautauqua has came and gone and has proven one of the best sources of entertainment the community has had in many a day. On the first day, last Friday, the platform lecturer, J. William Terry, delivered his lecture, "Making the Dream Come True" at the afternoon performance, and "The .Spirit of the Colonist" at night. Both in the afternoon and the night numbers appeared entertainments by the Eugene Patve Trio, musical artists of the better class. Thq company was headed by W. Eugene Page, who has been regarded for the past fifteen years as the foremost mandolinUt and ban joist. With him were two ladies who rendered some of the most delightful numbers on the program. nnu? a mc iunt iwty icvcuieu tiiH iuci mai the committee appointed b ythe Chautauqua contractors had excelled all previous occasions in providing a suitable place for holding the ehautaut|ua. They had had constructed a partition in the large warehouse, owned by W. A. Freeman, and placed a suitable stage in the rear end of the space thus set apart for the audience. The stage was decorated and electric lights were placed to the best advantage. At the afternoon performance the attendance was about the same as usual at first numbers. That ni^ht there was a much larger crowd and ' it was apparent that more seats would ; have to be provided for the next day. On the second day, which was last Saturday, the lectures were delivered bv the chautauooua director. 'I hero ! were two of these lectures, on'1 being ; entitled, "The Storm," delivered in the afternoon, and the other, "The Spirit of the Patriot," delivered at 1 night. They were both good and had large audiences. The attraction of ! the second day was Pietsch's Swiss Alpine Yodlers. They proved to be r good entertainers. ' On Sunday Dr. William A. Ward, > the director of the chautauqua, de* livered a lecture before the Bible L classes of the Sunday schools at 10 * o'clock. This was well attended. He delivered a sermon before the union t s? , APRIL 20, 1922 M. C. HOLMES AIDS CAMPAIGN Government Endeavors to Protect the People Against Fake Investments BEWARE OF STRANGERS Purchase of Treasury Savings Certificates Strongly AdvisoH Postmaster Mac K. C. Holmes of the Conway, S. C., post office is cooperating in a nationwide campaign of the Government to 'protect the American people against fake and unwise investments and to bring hidden surplus funds into circulation. The Government is warning* people against financial transactions with strangers and advising them to put their money in good securities, place their funds in banks, or invest in Treasury Savings Certificates at the post office. It is difficult to convict swindlers who obtain money from unsuspecting people in this manner until some of the Federal laws have been broken. Department officials say they are amazed that people will pass by a bank or the post office which offer protection of funds and safe investment to hand their money over to some smooth-talking swindler about whom they know nothing. Postmasters have been called upon by the department to use their influence in every way possible to prevent the loss of millions of dolVirs each year through unscrupulous promoters and swindlers. Postmaster Holmes says: "I am sending letters to the patrons of this office, even to those of limited means, calling their attention to an investment guaranteed both as to principal and interest by the United States Government and which will increase 25 per cent in five years. Through this post office it is possible to purchase a Treasury Savings Certificate for ?20, a .$100 certificate for SsO and a $1,000 certificate for ?S00, representing an investment yielding, at purchase price, 4per cent interest, compounded semi-annually. It' the purchaser wishes to cash his certificate before the end of five years he' r?mi o-nl hio ninnnv I L I I IIIU 1 UM figured at about 31-* per cent, compounded semi-annually. I am hoping the people of this community will take advantage of this olVer or put their money into a hank as a protection against possible loss." GROWERS GAIN GREAT VICTORY Have One Hundred and Fifty Warehou SG s for Handling Tobacco MEMBERSHIP STILL GROWS Directors Chosen by The Growers Have Done Their Work With Great Skill The meetings of the directors of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association with the warehousemen of three states which began last week in South Boston, Virginia and ended in Florence, S. C., resulted in four days in me sign-up 01 more man i;>u warehouses in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The success of the leaders electod by 70,000 organized growers in gaining contracts to sell or lease millions of dollars' worth of warehouse property which assures the marketing association ample facilities for handling the majority of the 1022 crop which it now has under contract. The directors elected by the growers have done their part with skill and unfailing wisdom, and are now relying upon the member growers to sign up more than a half of the thousands of tobacco farmers in three states who still remain outside of the association, bringing the total membership throughout the belt to more than 80 per cent. Like business men eager to share in the performance of a big constructive piece of business and like pioneers in uplift, forty warehousemen of South Carolina supported the movement with enthusiasm and signed marketing contracts which assure the co-operative association of all but two markets in the state which were of i?innvt!in/<p nrwlor t hr> old svxtpm. congregations of the churches of Conway oil Sunday night. The last day of the Chautauqua was perhaps theibest of all three days. One of the best impersonators entertained twice on that day. This art ho combined with great talent as a musician. The lectures of the third dav were delivered bv Albert Marion Hyde. o Poison gas which A. M. Thompson, Cheyenne, Wyo., policeman, in haled in France during the war four years ago, had just caused him to lose 20 teeth, according to a report nude by the American Legion. The policeman recovered from a long illness after the teeth had been removed. raltl. FARM AGENT ] FOR ABBEVILLE Clemson College. April 20.?Wayne { G. McGowan has been appointed farm demonstration agent for Abbeville county, which h?S boon witbmit nn agent for somewhat over a year, and is already at work in the county, with headquarters at Abbeville, according to official announcement by Director \V. W. Long of the extension service. Mr. McGowan is a native of Mississippi and a graduate in agriculture of the Mississippi Agricultur.il College. He has had several years' experience in agricultural work and has been assistant dairy husbandman of the Mississippi extension service, and more recently of the Virginia extension service. He comes to Abbeville, therefore, well prepared in train- 1 ing and experience for his new work. 1 Other recently appointed county 1 agents are C. B. McGaslan, Calhoun county; O. T. Harper, Aiken county; ' and C. L. Vaughan, Laurens county. 1 These, with Mr. McGowan, make the ] total number of agents in the state at present forty-three, the only coun- j ties not now having agents being Edgefield, Hampton and Jasper. ; BINGHAM"SPEAKS TO RALEIGH FOLK 1 / 1 1 ai -r 11 r T _ Kentucky juage laiKS oi 10bacco Raising and Selling BEFORE A BIG CROWD I Says Virginia and Carolinas Can Do as Kis State Has Done (Columbia State). Unleijjh, N. C.? Judire Robert Binjyham of Louisville, Ky.. leader of ; the Kentucky Hurley Growers' Marketing association, told a .uvitherinji; of of the Ualeip.li chamber of commerce I and officers from the chambers of commerce from all cities of North Carolina how the association of Burley tobacco growers had revolutionized an industry more than 100 years old within 80 days and stated that it could be done in Virginia and the Carolinas as well as in Kentucky. | Josephus M. Daniels, addressing the i _ .. l j i . rr . j i i* i leaders oi ino i\eniucicy nuriey growers, the directors of the Virginia-Carolina Tobacco Growers' Co-operative association and the guests of the local chamber of* commerce from all parts of the state, said Judge Bingham had done more than any citizetN of Kentucky in half a century to help the farmers ol that state. Telling how 30.00n.000 pounds of tobacco had been sold at one time to one large company for satisfactory mires bv the association of Hurley growers, Judge Bingham stated that this system was proving more satisfactory to both "rowers and big le.af dealers than the auction sales. "The cooperation mowment is undoubtedly the great movement of the immediate future," said Judge Bingham, who stated it would mean the last glimpse of barefoot women and ragged children in the fields of either Kentucky or the Carolmas. Pointing out how the growers of California now enjoyed schools, roads and homes equal to those of the cities Judge Bingham prophesied that with cooperative marketing changing the receipts of the grower from eight to 48 cents of the consumer's dollar the future wealth of the country would belong to the South. More than $5,000,000 worth of ware houses have now been turned over to the organized Kentucky growers, according to President Stone, and the !>0 day loan of millions of dollars borrowed by the Burley association was entirely repaid within 40 days. Prophesying similar success for the 70,000 organized tobacco growers of Virginia and the Carolinas, who have arranged to tako over more than 1T>0 warehouses in the three states, Manager Stone congratulated direcors of the Tobacco Gi'owers' Cooperative association upon their great achievement. Features of the reception accorded to Judge Bingham, in addition to the smoker, tendered by the local chamber of commerce, were a dinner given by Josephus M. Daniels, ex- secretary of the navy, and a luncheon under the auspices of the Rotary! club, among those present being Oliver J. Sands of Richmond, Va., manager of tho Tobacco Growers' Co-operative association; Richard R. Patterson, manager of the leaf department of that association and formerly manager of the leaf department of the American Tobacco company; C. B. Cheatham, former district manager of the Universal Tobacco company and now with the organized growers; President G. A. Norwood and all directors and officials of the Tobacco Growers''Co-operative association. Oliver J. Sands, manager and G. A. Norwood, president, of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative association, were other speakers at the smoker, who told of the progress and prospects of the organization of 70,000 Carolina and Virgnia growers. NO. t. RAIDERS FIGHT^ MOONSHINERS Dfficers Take Whites and Blanks tn Inil With V V 4 l?i I II llll Them rwo - men Tre wounded \s Squad Enters a Swamp Volley of Shots is Fired From The Bushes As n result of a pistol l>ait!e at Baltimore island between Sumter county officers and Sumter county moonshiners on Tuesday, two white men and a negro have been brought to town by the officers and lodged in jail while another negro >\a.> so seriously wounded that he had to be placed in Tuomey Hospital. A raiding party consisting of SherilV C. M. Hurst, Deputy Sheriff H. G. McKagen, Rural Officers Ale*; Norris and Hamilton Boykin *tnd Police Officer Henry Minis of Pine.vood was entering a swamp near a place called Baltimore island, some 15 miles from Sumter, when they were fired on from umbush without warning. The bullets barely missed the officers, who immediately returned the fire and soon saw two men running oil' into the thick swamps. The'officers were undaunted by their reception in the swamp and pursued their way. coming soon linon :> still ;?> , v.. -ii w|(t i iiudii w iin ionr men sitting* around it. The men were called upon to surrender by Deputy Sheriff AIcKagen, ?l>ut instead of throwing up their hands, drew their guns and began to run. Olticer Hoykin covered Joe Andrews, a white man, und "Hoy" Ludil. a negro. George Mnith, a negro, jumped behind a tree and was aiming at Ollicer Boykin when he was fired upon by Deputy SheriiV ISlcKagen and was wounded. The negro ran, carrying his gun, was fired upon again and fell wounded. Meanwhile .lesse (ieddings, a white man, is alleged to have levelled his rifle at Officer Boykin and was fired upon by Officer Minis and the deputy sheriiV and was hit by one of these shots. He cried out and fled into the swamp and then it was discovered that the wounded man, Smith, also had crawled away. The still was destroved. li w:w Tr* o-..ii/x.-> % - - v ?/ i IV/U V. ity, complete steam outfit and was in operation. Ten gallons of whiskey, just from the still, was thrown away together with 10 gallons of mash. Andrews with the negro Ludd was brought to the county jail. Andrews had on him two pistols when arrested. Later a return trip was made to the scene of action which resulted in the arrest of the two wounded men. Smith was in such a serious condition he was placed in the hospital .as soon as he was brought into town. Geddings was taken to the jail, hut later in the day lie ami Andrews were released on bail. .loo Andrews, who is in his early 20s, is a Sumter man and well known as a contractor. Jesse Cieddings, the other white man, Ivis an extensive family connection in the Pinewood sect ion of tho county. FARMERS WILL TAKE THIS IN Tobacco Growers Invited to Attend Picnics at Three Points Co-operative marketing of tobacco will be discussed at three picnics to be given at Loris on Saturday, April 15, at 10 o'clock; Aynor on WednesAr?inl Mi in ?* f ? *?('' || 1 '? "i- 'v (i ciui'R, una ill Conway on Saturday, April 22, at 10 o'clock. The purpose of these meetings is to have a good time and at the same time let the tobacco growers who do not happen to belong to the co-operative marketing movement, learn something about that method of disposing of their crops, and thus gain something to their great advantage. Experts from association headquarters will be present at each picnic. The women and children are especially invited to attend with well tilled baskets and hear some very interesting talks. The farmers need to receive a fair price for their labor. Co-operative marketing is one of the best things ever started and the object of it is to secure for the farmers the highest prices obtainable. The co-operative marketing movement has many growers signed up, but would like to have all. The more iii it the better. Al! outside growers are invited to join and come in now while there is good time to get things in order for the host marketing season this section has yet had. Attend the picnics and hear what is said. o CRIMINAL TERM The next term of the criminal court, the court of general sessions, will convene here on Monday, May 22. A number of criminal cases were laid over from the last term and will come up for disposition at that time. The judge of the 12th judicial circuit will preside.