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DISPENSARY STOCK TO BE CLOSED OUT Special Act Providing for Winding up Business MASH IS COMMISSIONER The Kill Creating the Commission was Introduced by Senator Wlutrtoii nl Kecent Session. Tin? Laurens county dispensary board is no more! Nearly lour months have gone by since the rum simp caino to its death, and yet the board lived on and oil. The clerks et ai are no more! No more salaries to pay. By an Aim. Introduced by Senator Wharton. means for disposing of the $35,000 worth of wet goods have been provided by which the county will no longer have to pay the heavy expense of keeping it on hand. Un der the Carey-Cothran law the board could have- sold the stock out at re tail, if had not so peremptorily closed the dispensaries the morning after the election. Then if there had been any part of the stock still on hand the board was authorized by law to sub mit it in bids to other hoards in Hie State. Why the board did not sell is not known. Now, there remains no excuse for further delays since the passage of the Wharton bill and the stock will in all likelihood be sold very soon. Mr. M. 1.. Nash, former bookkeeper and secretary of the hoard has been Commissioned at a salary of $600 to act as agent ami sell the stock; that it will be easily disposed of is beyond (|uestion, since the new law requires the other county boards to buy such a stock provided its bid is the lowest, and all these transactions cone- under the eye of the Dispensary Auditor. Tie re has been much comment on tin- inability of lite Laurens county board to get rid of the stock of goods, both here and elsewhere in the State, especially since it has cost the county something like $.100 a month in salar ies and other expenses to keep it on hand. And now thai a settlement of the difficulty is in sight, the news will be received with much pleasure. The board is now extinct and Mr. Nash has sole control of the dispensary stock. Following is the text of the bill pass by the general assembly: "A bill to provide for the creation of a commission to take charge and dispose of stock of liquors and other property of the dlspensarJes in Clar endon and LaureilS counties. That the Governor shall also appoint upon the recommendation of the Lau rens delegation in the Heneral As sembly, one person as commissioner for Laurens county, who shall enter into bond in the sum of live thousand dollars, with sufficient surety, to he approved by the clerk of court for ' I.aurens county, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. said bond to be Died with and kept by the clerk of court for I.aurens county. That the dispensary board is hereby reou(red. upon the production of the commission or cerllllcato of appoint inont and qualification of the said commissioner, to turn over to him all stocks of liquors, moneys, books, re cords, and other property of the I.an rem-, county dlspeiisory now in their possession, and take his receipt there for. That the said commissioner of Lau rens county i* hereby authorized und directed to sell and dispose of all li quors, stock and other property be longing to dm Laurens dispensary for cash. or. upon approval, credit of not more than ninety days: Provided, Stich sales shall be to other county dispen sary hoards in this Stale, and none of said liquors shall bo sold to any in dividuals, firms or corporations with in this State nor by retail, That the proceeds arising from the sale of the property of the said l.nn roils dispensary shall be turned over to the county treasurer to be applied, ns now required by law, after Aral pay ing Hie commissioner provided for herein the sum of six hundred dollars as compensation for his services." The hill is amended to provide for the supervision of tim Dispensary Auditor, who shall require a county board to accept the I.aurens bid. pro vided it is lower than any other sub mitted. MR. FEATHERSTOINE EXPRESSES REGRET Stnc-wldc Prohibition, However, is Oiilj Delayed for a Short Time, ll<> Thinks. in view of the fact that Hon. C. ('. Fentherstone of this city lias been connected with the tight for prohibi tion in South Carolina for many years and is still interested therein, and that he is already an avowed candidate foi governor in 1910 as an advocate of suite-wide prohibition, the Reporter called upon Mr. Fentherstone Monday morning for an opinion on the out come of the liquor fight in the general assembly, which was brought to a close late Saturday night. While by no means discouraged by the result. Mr. Fentherstone made no effort to conceal his disappointment that the prohibition forces were compelled to acpept a compromise. Mis opinion was that while In* had Imped for more yet this new law would result in the acquisition of much more "dry" ter ritory. Continuing Mr. Featherstone said: "1 must confess that I had hoped for better things. "My preference all along has been lor a State-wide Referendum Act. re ferring the whole question to the peo ple, for settlement. This, in my opin ion, would have heen better by a great deal, than the plan adopted by the General Assembly. "Our trouble, all along, has heen that there are in the General Assembly a good many men who. at heart, are prohibitionists, and some of them from dry counties, who felt that they were virtually instructed to stand by local option. Some of these would, in an ele ii I vote for State-wide prohibi tion. All of them will vote for prohi bition in an election in their own counties. But they did not feel that they were at liberty now to vote that way in the General Assembly. "There are others, throughout the state, who are .lust as good prohibi tionists as any of us. but who might lie styled 'local option prohibitionists' They vole that way in their county elections, but they do not believe thai the lime has come for a Slate-wide law. "Up to n year ago. 1 feit very mm I*. the same way, but a close study of the question has convinced nie otherwise. I now think that the whole question ought to be submitted to the people mid let them settle it for the entire State. "However, that result can and will lie brought about later. There is no use to 'cry over spilt milk'. "The th'ng for us to do is to niak" the best of what we have. "I am satislted that at least two thirds of the wet counties can be vofoi' dry next summer, if the proper effovi is made. I expect to devote the big gest part of my time this summer to assisting the wet counties to vote whiskey out. I am 'in for the war'. "Another great work that we can do is to organize for the enforcement of the law in the counties that are al ready dry. "I have been in the work too long to be discouraged by a failure to ac complish what we had hoped in the flenornl Assembly. "Nearly a (punter of a century ago. when I first Commenced to work for prohibition, we couldn't have gotten a half dozen men to espouse our cause there. Now. we have only lost by a narrow margin. In fact, we have not lost at all. We are only delayed for a short while. The sentiment against Whiskey is growing daily and when the people do get a lick at it they will put it out Of business." Auditor Met'rnvj to Vssuuic Billies Mr. ('. W. McCrnvy, the newly coin missioned county auditor, will take charge of the Office tomorrow, suc ceeding Mr. C. A. Power, who has Idl ed this position for six years, having made one of the most efllcletil officers the COUtlty has ever had. Armor) ItenoriilloiH Complete The armory of the Traynhain Guards is now well equipped and up-to-date in every particular; repainting, new pictures, additional rooms ami a school-room for recruits. The third floor work has been completed and the OfhCO therein is a n at and cozy place for the dispatch of business. The other room is for the use of the Guards in storing supplies ami In structing recruits. Tin- drill room on the second floor has been refitted and is now one of the best in the State both foi me company and for public dances. COMMERCIAL SECRETARIES MEET Some Impressions (mined bj tli<> Reil? rcscututlvc from I.aureus. To the Members of tbe Chamber of Commerce: Through the inability <>i" Secretary McCuen to attend the meeting of the Commercial Secretaries' Association of the Carolinas held in Greenville on Tuesday of last week, and through deputation by him und President II. K. Aiken, it was my pleasure to attend the sessions of the association repre senting tin* city of I.aurens, and her commercial organization. Needless to state that the trip to Greenville was thoroughly enjoyable, that Secretary Wood of the Greenville Hoard of Trade and all the people of Greenville ex tended all the courtesies possible, and that the meeting was profitable in every particular. To relate the en tiro proceedings in one article is an Impossibility; hence, it will he my aim to give my impressions in a series of articles time to time, with tin- hope that not only the members of the Chamber of Commerce will read there from, hut that the matters discussed will be of interest to all our business men. and that some good may result. The "raison d'etre" of the Commer cial Secretaries" Association is for a wider and more thorough organization of "business men." In fact, "organi zat: >n is the key-note of the body; it is one stop above the local business bodies, endeavoring to bring into ( lose relation the interests of commun ities. Tho secretary is practically the head of his own local board or chamber or association, as the names go; he stands for the centralizing of his own town's interests. Then an organization of secretaries means a union of the interests of a number of towns and cities. As years go by. the towns aie1 cities of the Carolinas arc COiniup more and more to realize the necessity of commercial organizations and arc forming I hem; the secretaries realize the need of organizing the com munities, hence the Commercial Sec retaries' Association. About eighteen towns and cities ' now have representation in the As sociation, among them are; Charlotte, Itnleigh, Wilmington. High Point, Hickory, Weldou and Greensboro of North Carolina; ami Groenville, Green wood, I.aurens. Columbia. Darlington. Georgetown and Basley. in attend ance at the Greenville meeting were Secretaries w. T. Corwlth of char lotte. ('. W. .Moorman of Columbia, .lohn Wood of Greenville, U. \V. Mc Lure of Greenwood, Hurgoss of Bnslcy, Michlo of Darlington. Smith of the Southern Manufacturers' club of Charlotte, and Hilbert of Hickory, N. C. The meeting was held in the' Greenville Hoard of Trade rooms, ? j where on Tuesday evening a banquet ? was served the visitors by the Green ; ville Hoard. The business sessions were In the morning and afternoon, at which time the officers for next 'year were elected; Mr. .lohn Wood of Greenville was unanimously re elected president, and Mr. C. W. .Moorman of Columbia, as secretary. At the business meeting Tuesday all the secretaries present related their experiences as secretaries and gave the association the benefit of their plans and experiences. In my next article I will attempt to give von the plan regarding the "Merchant's Credit Association", as the first of my impressions"' following this brief introduction. S. B. Honey, STATE-W MD: PROHIBITION. For Fifteen Hays All Smith Carolina Will He Dry. Hate Saturday night the house of representatives passed (he "senate compromise" on the liquor question and it becomes a law. In brief, the bill Is as follows: Oil tltO lirsl Tuesday in August every county dispensary is to ?-lose; on the third Tuesday in Almost all the "wet" counties (those now having dlspensi lies! will vole on the question of whether or ma to re open them and continue business as before. The "wet" cunties that VOtO "against sab '' will then reopen the dispensaries and retail the stock of goods on hand, fi nally closing up Hie business on Nov. Huh. 1900. The counties which have already voted ( in the dispensaries are not af fected by this new law. but a:: Under Mm Ca rey-Cot bran law. may VOtO every four years on the question. Laurens cannot vote on the question until November, 1912. THE HAI I. HO AI) CON FF. Ith N CK. Railroad Commissioners und officials Here Last Wednesday. According to appointment, the South Carolina Railroad Commission, together with President W. tl. Childs of the Columbia. Newberry & Lauren8 railroad and Superintendent A. W. Anderson of the Charleston & West ern Carolina railroad were in Laureus last Wednesday afternoon for a con ference on the railroad situation in this city- both regarding the separ ation of the freight agencies and the erection of a new passenger station. There were about twenty citizens of Laurens who met the officials and commissioners at the station where the conference was held, the rooms of the eating house being granted for that purpose. The petition, contain ing the requests already noted in The Advertiser, was read and discussed. principally by Messrs. \V. L. Oray, II. K. Aiken and w. II. Dial, who endeav ored to show why and how Laureus needed increased facilities and better .accomodatIons, Messrs. Childs an?! Anderson presented their side of the question, while the Railroad Commis sion were judge ami jury. All three commissioners. Sullivan. Karle and Caughmnn, were present. They heard the arguments and the petitions and will likely he heard from on the subject at some early date, The railroads1 position on the mat ter was that if Laurens would just wait a little while they would give it something in the way of a depot that would be a credit to tue city, but that now they were unable to do what they Would like. Very little was said about separating the freight agencies, but the Commission has this also under considerat ion. I,aureus Will (iet I'suai School Funds. There was an effort made in the legislature to cut off the larger towns in sharing the $50,000 appropriation to the public- schools of the State, and have it so that only the smaller rural districts would receive the bene fits therefrom. The effort Was futile and Laurens, together with I'll Ion ami the other large towns will receive its usual apportionment. ItKSICN VI ION Mil W CK PTE IL Pit) Clerk (?ilkerson >\ill Complete PrcM lit I erm of Office. Fa*pert Accountant I., c Matthews of the Audit Company of New Vork alter ten days of work reported to the city council at a called meet ing Friday night. This examination was called for by City Clerk W II. Clilkersoil, Sr. upon the occasion of his resignation some weeks ago. At the meeting Friday night it is under stood that in Iiis report, Mr. Matthews was very complimentary to Mr. Gllk ersoil for his efficient and business like manner of handling tin? city's business. He was heard to state that all he could do was "to add up and approve." After hearing the re port of Mr. Matthews the Council re fused to accept the resignation of Mr. 0Ilkerson and he will consequently Serve until the expiration of the present term will be March 17l!:. The llichnrd Silber Case. The supreme court hr.s approved the opinion of the el roil 11 court in the case of the State \s. Richard Saber, who was i??;???) on a charge of murder in I.aureus < oillity and convicted of manslaughter. On the night of Doe. "Mb. lt'iiT. ;? number of persons wi re standing around the railroad station at Ooldvillc when several Phots wore llrod and i >;?.?? Hunter v. as killed. Suher was charged with murder. Ifltlltcr lo Serve Sentence. Wash Hunter will go to the peniten tiary for eight years The Stijn'Cine court has affirmed the opinion Of the circuit court in the case <,f (he State vs. 0. Wash Hunter, who was Indicted in the Court of general sessions for I.aureus county on the charge of the murder of FJlbcrt r. Copclnnd in that COUnty, An o;der was made chang lllg He- \enu<- from Laurens county to Greenwood county, which bti appeal, was affirmed by the hu promo court. Tin- trial in Greenwood county resulted in the defendant being convicted of the crime ot manslaughter end sen. teneed to the pCtl i (Cllt id t'.V for the term of eight years. From tin in le nient, the defendnnt appealed his Urs I position being tin.* the Green wood general session- Court had no jurisdiction over ah offense commit ted in Laurens county. Brror Is next imputed to th? circuit court with respect to the admission of i Imony. CRIMINAL COURT CONVENES MONDAY Session l.ilsts Olli) Olli' Week. Num ber of Prisoners in .tail ami Some Handed Cases. Next Monday morning tit 1"> o'elock Judge Prince of Anderson will con vene tlio spring term of Ueneral Ses sions Court for this county. The session will last only one week. With IT prisoners in jail awaiting trial on number of continued and bonded eases, the week will be crowded with business. Three murder ease;; for this term will bo of general interest, two of the defendants being young white men. of doss Hill township Wade Cothmil Pinsou, charged with killing Thorn well Uoyce last November, and Will Goodman who is accused of shooting and killing a negro on Sunday Febru ary 21. The oilier ease is that of .lohn Henry Anderson, the Waterloo negro who will have to answer to the charge of murdering hi-, aged father in-law, .We h Cartel-, in the grave yard at Cedar drove church, near Waterloo. last September. Anderson was a fugitive from justice for several weeks. He has been in jail since his cap! u re. The rest of the jail cases follow: Shaw Milaill, colored, assault and bat tcry. Wyatt Watson, colored, highway robbery and larceny. Albert lliley, white, grand larceny. Will McCllllough, colored, attempt ed criminal assault. .Mm McCoy, colored, murder, the killing of Sam Cob-man. also colored, in Sullivan township last fall. .lim Cllnkscales, and Will Crawford, colored, grand larceny. H. A, Poison, white, violation of dispensary law. liCUinilS Kllison. colored, burglary. H. I., l-'rady. white, larceny, Allthnr Copclnud, colored, arson. Will Walts/ cidored. arson and rob bery. Tom Nash, and Dave Seaborn, color ed, highway robbery. Irby Hell, colored, robbery. Item-til nf Slone Fit nil. The management of the moving picture shows, which by the way have been resumed, gave On last Friday evening a hcuolll performance the proceeds of which were added to Ihe. Stone fund. Tie- amount turned over to Mrs. Stole- was something over Messrs. Wallace and Swygel't, propri etors, deserve credit for Ilm plan Heath of Mrs. Joseph Jerrj Mrs. Frances Jerry, wife of Mr. Jo seph Jerry, tie- weil known German farmer of near Madden, died at her home Monday morning at II o'clock, aged 7:!. The burial took place yes terday at Prospect church. in addi tion to lor husband. Mis. Jerry b survived by several sons and daught ers, all of whom are mown. The Kurinim Glee Club. The Km man Glee club and Quart Otto were in I.aurens Saturday night and appeared before a fair size audi ence in their excellent musical pro gram. The club organized among Ihe students of lie- IIUlvorsK.V is a fair exponent of the school's progress and enterprise; it is by far the best the university has yet sent <>ui. mid one of which ? inu> well be proud. The quartet (c< composed of Messrs. Ilmicy CUtt, Poles!, Aibli and Hicks j:;i?.c a number of plea dim selections, while the song.- by tie- entire club, were for the most part, thoroughly enjoy ed by t he audience. AppearlllK as it did on Saturday evening, which is not a good "thea tre; nicht" ii. I.aurens the house tVili not as huge as it might have been ami the club did not < 1 ar expenses. However, ti.e Furman boys enjoyed their visit to Lauren ; they wa re all entertained by friends in the city who endeavored to make their stiiy pleas ant. Prof. Thomas Here KrldllJ Mtflll As announced before In The Adver. User. Prof, Lev / Tl OIIUIS of Now berry college will lecture in the city opera liOUGC < :t Friday nicht of this week i March, utlij on the subject: ? The Lit. Tri R?dy or Kdgnr Allan I'oc" for the i;, hen't of the Hty school library. The Iii ur is S o'clock a: d the ad mission fen at) cents. Hv.ty I. ody In Laui'-ns should hear this lect ure. In n (Id it lot) to the 1 ctntv liiere will be given several musical seh lions by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, which will add much to the pleasure of Li? entertainment. FORMER SEMINOLE OFFICERS RETURN Papers Served on Mr. (i<ir liiKjion and Others WERE IN CHATTANOOGA Crlliniiul Proceedings Coiiimcuecii in Columbia \uiiin-?! Promoters m' Scmiiiolc Scciirlllos fottipan>. The Colombia State nl Sum!.i. i-as tho follow inc 11Olli nl ih! ?I' : l In ItlO people ol' Laurens: ".lohn Y. (JurHtiglnii i i Lauren- lum Itnnn arrested in ('? ilannngu us . re sult of furlliiM' |irin I" dings in H.I I'lti al i ll ease of the Scmiunlc Sei .; lies company. Two requisitions Iiiivo I.n issued ill tin ease by (Sow Ar -el olio against (iurllngton nnil tin* otlioi' against .1. S. Voting ami M. (I .loniics, all being connected in some capacity with ilio concern, Sheriff Colctnan loaves Imlay for Nashville with llio re quisition pa pet's. Tbc case is familiar tu tin1 public. Tho action lor a receivership aflei the purchase of tin- SoillllOl'll Iii'- IllSUI' ance company. Hie meeting of stock holders, at which llino new ill rectors won- elected; Ihf charges that the sale of stock was at an exorbitant price ami that ('?arlington ami his associates took a part of tin- margins on the sale of stock, have boon published ami cre ated much comment at the time of tho proceedings in the courts. "it was announced when the litiga tion ended that criminal proceedings would ho commenced against Calling ton and other directors, and the war rants lor tin- arrests wi re issued yes terday. The cluirgt against (iarllnglon is obtaining money under false pre. lenses and tie- charges against i'.ar lington. .learn s and S'otllig are In. lieh en of IrtlSI with Intention to defraud "While (?arlillgloil is under a: ?In- others have not yel been served with papers, although it is prol hie that when niihouneeinonl is iiuuli ll at criminal pro<.ilinys are pcmlhi all will make ni'rnngeinei.ts to give Im I Three Vrrosts Made, Chattanooga, Fob, "v .lohn N Car liliglou, forme:- presided! of tie Sein Inole Securities Company, ol ? '? Ida. S. ('.. was arrested in his of! ' in this city this morning on liislriici ons from Columbia. The charge ngainsl him is. olealn Ing money under false pretenses lie ' was released on bond immediately following his arrest. The other two defendants, M (I .feaues ami .1. s Veiling voluiii 'Iy surrendered and were released. Arrived in Columbia. According to the Columbia Sis' of Tuesday morning, Messrs. (iurllngton, Voting and .leimen arrived in Colutn ' Ida Monday afternoon and were I - ii - terod at the Jerome hotel Monday night, They Wore accompanied to Columbia from Chattanooga by Deputy Sheriff c. ,j. Wae. Mi (iarlll u on denies that liO was arrested. : ding that the papers wore ??? I'ved on hint at his oftlco ami thai he ; t once >;o i'i'o eommniiicai ion With Messrs. Voting' and .leanes apprlsiiit: lli'dll Of Iho i'iiot and that they (oj.u ||;oi tlecidoil in i i nie i . ? ing money under ud ? ? pretense; i i ? ? 'I r. |{, I'. I ; ill ' lilt III lloiiori'l!. ? itbttlbU I ill at tl. s lime is to loth C. c. Feather tone out ? rovoriiorshlp. We don't lielli ?an succeed.?Anderson Mall.