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CONCERNING CLINTON Graded School Reopens af ter Long Holiday. CROSS HILL MAIN WINS IN ORATORY Effort of n Few to Establish a Library Have been Rewarded and a Few Rooks have been Gathered Together ? and Placed In a Room over Huiley Bros. Store. Clinton, Jan. 17.? The exercises! of the graded school were1 resinned Monday after exactly a month of hol iday. The long vacation was due to the! work done on the building, and the teachers and pupils found themselves In a new and strange place Monday. A wing containing an auditorium and several elass-rooms has been added and a modern up-to-date heating and ventilating plant installed. Monday evening at the Presbyterian college a preliminary oratorical con , test was held for the purpose of select ing a representative In the Inter-col. legiate oratorical contest. The con testants are selected by the Eukos mian and Philomathlan literary soci eties from the Junior and Senior class es. From the six sei selected the fac ulty select one. Monday night's contest was very creditable te) all the participants. The Eukosinian society's speakers with subjects were: 11. W. Baker, "America the Magnet of Nations"; W. S. Few ell, "Modern Plutocracy"; E. a. Fuller, "World Peace." The Philomathlan society was represented by T. C. Brown, "World Federation;" C. I). Fulton, "Our Waterways;" T. W. Simpson. "Man Released." The facul ty'i- decision fell on Ellis A. Fuller, a Cross Hill man, and one of the most .ill round popular men In college. A delegation of Mr. Fuller's friends from Cross Hill attended the contest. The college orchestra furnished ex cellent music in the intervals. The ninny friends of Mrs. George H. Ellis were saddened and shocked by the news of her eleath, which occurred In an Atlanta hospital last week. Al though Mrs. El Iis had been unwell for some time, her Imedlate death was the result of heart failure. The effort to establish a library in Clinton seems at least to have proven successful. A mom has been rented over Bailey Brothers' store and a verj attractive lot of books donated. Com mittees have been authorized to |)lll the room in readiness and to order hooks. At a meeting held last Friday evening Dr. W. S. Bean was elected librarian, supervision being all that is expect eel of him. The actual work of managing the library will be don ? by volunteers from among the Indies. The association has eighty members and it is hoped this will be trehhled at least. Last Friday night Mr. A. E. Spen cer's barn was burned. The alarm called mil the volunteer Hremen and a throng Of Citizens. The le>ss wits about $"?<?" or $400, not covered by the insurance' e>f $200. Several chailgOS have been made in business arrangements since the first of the year. Two new firms, h dealers In ,'urnlture, have opened up, Taylor and Taylor, and Galloway and Godfrey. The Clinton Carriage and Ca rage company has moved inte> Wfif ?d's building on Main street. The express company has umve^MK? to its new building on Phinney ivr' .ie. Mr. Claytcn Hailey's no" home e>n Musgrovo Btreef is one of the hand somest in town, Bailey Brothers are adding to their store a balcony to shut off the heat and glare. Materials are being put down for a new cottage at the Thenn w ell Or phanage, to be occupied by the Rev. I. B. Branch, assistant to the president Among the guests at the Andcrson Philson wedding last week wore: Mrs. Ada Anderson of Reldville, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ray Anderson e>f Laurons. Mr. and Mrs. Hen Anderson Of Reld ville. Mr. and Mrs. John Langton ol Darlington. Mrs. Gllroath of Green ville, Mrs. Cllnkscalea e>r Anderson. Mrs. IjouIs Anderson and Miss Mary Andersoii of Laurens, Mrs. Marshall Anderson e>f Relvllle. A popular gu-st in lown last, week was Miss Ilia Little e>f Laurens in whose honor Miss Orrah Bess Little MORE STOCK BETTER STOCK Motto of Live Stock Asso ciation. ANNUAL MEETING IN FEBRUARY W. D. Byrd, of tills County, Is the: President of the Association mid Will Make the Opening Address A Real Campaign for (he Increased Itaising of Stuck Mill he Instituted. "More and bettei live stock will be j the slogan ?Jf the annual meeting of | the South Carolina Live Stock asso- ! elation which is to be held in Colum bia on February 1, 2 and ::. The pro gramme which has been prepared in cludes luldrOKSeB by well l<no\vn men The following Urogramme has been arranged: First Dny, Februar* I. Wednesday. 10:30 a. in. -President's Animal Ad dress, by W. i>. Byrd, of Laurens, s. C. 11:00 a. in.?"Feeding Steers, or Cotton Parin," by Prof. A. Smith. Clenisou college. Discussion and reports of vice pres idents. Horses and Mulos," B. II. Boykin; "Beef Cattle." (). M. Watson; "Sheep and Coats." T. .1. Klnni'd; "Swine." B. Harris. :; 30 p. in.? Demonstration on the Taylor plantation of methods of steer I feeding and judging of beef and dairy cattle 7:"0 ]). m.?"Present Condition of the Tick Eradication Question in South Carolina." by Dr. E. M. N'igh bert. United States department of agriculture. Tt.rHi p. m ? 'Ct ?.: Culture" Ollur, trated with Intern slides), by Prof. I) N Harrow. Clcmson college. Second Day. f 30?a. n . - 'Relation of Animal Manures to Soil Fertility," by Prof. W. It Perkins, director agricultural department, Clemson college. 11 ? "0 :\ m. -"Advantages of the Show Hin? ami How to Pit for the Show King." by Prof .1. C. McNutt. North Carolina Agricultural college. Discussion. \ , :'.-O0 p. in.?Business Session; elec : tion of o?lcors; reports of committees; reports of rlco presidents, "Poultry," Theo. E. P. Holtzhoiise; ? "Stntisth s," E. .1. Watson, i 7.110 p. in.??"Raising Poultry on tin FiM'in." (Illiistr.ilott '.\hh Intern rslides), by Mr. Sloe tun, I'nitr-d States doparimenl of ngriciilture. ! ? '.u i>. in,?"Tuberculosis," by Dr. E. Ihiimii. South Carolin? 'xporlniont stai Ion. Third Day. 10:30 a. in.?"Delivery of Prizes in Butter Content. 11:00 a. m.?"Belter Cutter on the j Parm." by judge of contest. 12:00 in. - Address by B, H. Pawl, chief of dairy division ft:DO p. 111.? "flow ! .ia :e My Cows Pay," by B Harris .lr., Pendleton. Repot t of vice pn sidonls. "Dairy Cattle," T !' Henderson; "Manufacturers", 0 11 Cnrponler. ('II WCF.S MANAGEMENT. TIlP < ilj Opera House I.eased b) II. II. Omni of Spartanburi; who Will Operate Picture Show. Mr. II. II. (Irani of Spni'lUllhlirg ar rived in the City Monday to take charge of the City Opera House, which he has leased lor the rest of the sea son. He will have Charge Of the re maining numbers of the city lyceum and will also operate a moving pic ture show. For the picture show he has just received a new and very ex pensive outfit. The first of these shows will be today and will continue from now on in the afternoons from 2:16 to 5:30, in the evenings from G:30 to 10:30 and on Saturday from ten in (lie ntomlng to eleven at night. He will no doubt be successful with the ! opera house and with the moving pic ture show. entertained the .Inior Hook club on Saturday afternoon. Little Miss Kmmie Voting entertain ed a number of little fri'Mids last Wednesday afternoon. The Elizabeth Fleming Missionary society gave a silver tea at the resi dence of Mrs. W. P., Ow -us Monday Afternoon, The Cecil tail music club met with Mrs. W. Bailey Owens on Monday TO START WORK ON GLASS FACTORY Call Made for First Payment of Subsribed Stock, PRICE OF GLASS RISING RAPIDLY In tin Interview with Mr. X. B. Biul lie Che* a Glowing Picture of the Prospects in View at the Glass Fac tory, Work on Which Will Begin Shortly. In the course of a little talk on the subject of the new glass ractory, with Mr. X. B. Dial, recently. Mr. Dial took occasion to state that the company had recently purchased ;ind paid for the quarry from which the material is to he obtained ami that an engineer, who had niad:? a thorough investigation of the property, had reported that there was enough mini rnl, Mr. Dial also stated that he was ne gotiating with the c. & W. C. ollicinls relative to pluclna a spur track from Barksdalo to the mines. A definite answer is expected within the next few days, there being little doubt but 'that the railroad will gladly take ad vantage of the opportunity placed be ' fore them. Mr Dial went on to state that 20 per i cent of the subscribed capital stock i had been called for and this was be ing payed up monthly. Phis entire * first payment is expected to be paid I up now in two or three days and just as soon as it is. the corporators will apply to the Secretary of State for a charter. In passing. Mr. Dial signi fied his desire that all the subscribers to the stock should meet the call for this first payment at once, so that the charter culd be immediately applied for Although no material has been placed on the ground as yet. Mr Dial Stated that he was receiving proposi tions relative to the election of the necessary buildings for the plant and that he hoped now to close a trade very shortly. Asked about the time for the begining of actual manufac ture, he said, that if the weather per mitted the contractors to do rapid work, that he hoped to see the plant in operation some time during the month of April. Mr. Dial was very optimistic over the outlook for the factory and stat ed that he hoped thai this would he the firs! oi number of such enter : prises to be started here. This one alone will employ between thirty and forty skilled laborers, most of whom are high priced men. adding over a hundred to the population of the city. By getting this one enterprise started on the road to success, it will only serve as a vanguard to numerous oth ers. As the material at hand for this factory is so plentiful ami cheap, there sei ins to be no reason, said Mr. Dial, why this one should not itself develop into even a large;- industry. There can be no doubt ns to the demand for the goods, (here being only two or three other suc'i plants in the South, even the mineral springs, drug stores und others within our own State and coun ty WliO USe bottles t() ,M IllOl'O Ol los*" extent, have to semi to Indiana, Ohio. Virginia or some other Northern or western state for them. "The factories oven now are behind with orders." said Mr, Dial "I am Informed that they have sold their entire output until after .Inly next and the price Of glass is rising daily. The last quotations showed that the price oi the grade of stock to be manufactured by the Lau rens Glass Works has jumped from 40 per Cent, to ."?'? per cent, since the inauguration of this movement to build the factory hero." As the writ< i was leaving the room. Mr. Dial called out lo say that it might not he ginl - to suggest to those subscribers to the capital stock of the factory, who have not yet made their first payment. t?? make this payment at once as it was the desire of the corporators to begin work Without having any Interest to pay or over hanging Indebtedness to impede pro gress, Kkom W. 0. W. (M'liocrs, Ui publishing the .ist of olllcer. rccently elected by RkOm Camp, w. I O. W the name of .1. Marvin Moore. 'as consul commander, was accldontly omitted, ami .1. W, ''Mnhaffoy" as on" of the new managers should have been I w Godfrey. A WEEKS DOING IN THE LEGISLATURE Colcman L. Bleasc Yester day Inaugurated. (MUCH WORK TO BE DONE With old Issues Stidetracked at Co lumbia, It Seems that Tills Legisla ture Will He in a Position to Do J Better Work than Any Body Jhat has Preceded It. Special to the Advertiser: Columbia, s. C, January 17.?Cole innn Livingston Blesse was today In auguarted as the governor of South Carolina to succeed Martin V. \nsel. ci>a:l<s \ Smitli was Inaugurated as lieutenant governor to succeed Thos i\. Mcl.eod. The ceremonies wore conducted in the hall of the house of representatives, before a I Jolnl assembly as prescribed by :h<' Constitution Of the State. The oath of office was administered by. Mi'^is trate Dunbnr of Diinbiirton in Barn well COUIIty. The other Slate ollicials during the day Hied their oaths of of fice with notary publics. The cere monies which were held tit noon w re attended by a large number, ihe hull of the house being packed. The inauguration hemp; over. tb" general assembly will nov gel down t,< wnrk The nidv other rest day dill", inn the week will be Thursday when the members of both houses will journey over to Winthrop college for an inspection of the States school. Oov. Ansel today retired as a State Official and will tomorrow leave Co lumbia as a private citizen. Ho will go to bis home in Greenville and af ter setting bis home and law offices in older will take a vacation of sev eral weeks in Florida. This will he his first vacation in 30 years. There wf.K mm h speculation today as to what Mr. Please would say in his Inaugural address The address was received with Interest, lie out lined bis polio tot Ids administra tion. Il< v is not a well man when inaugurated Ho came to Columbia from bis home in Xowborry 'ast night a -del: man He will be located at a ' local hotel for a few days until he can remove to the governor's mansion. He has mid that he will do ?nu< h ? n lertalning during his administration. It nii;;!)t be said that the leu-isla lure has done practicall) nothing since organization one week ago today. 'Hiore ha " bee i many ' ills Introduced i and they are sensible ones too. This legislature has a lire opportunity to distinguish Itself as there never were , more measures of State-wide Interest Introduced. The tlrsl week of the general as sembly inlghl bo called Organization week. Thos, (1. McLeod has been pre siding in ib.-senate. Senator Mnuldln of OroelivMlc was elected president pro lein. Mendel I.. Smith, former ; speaker, able attorney and a legk , Intor with a lone, record was elected speaker of the house The bills that have neen introduced ; in the senate and house cover many questions. A measure has been in troduced to eliminate all children un der 11? years of ape from liie mills of the State. The bill to increase tb, salaries of all Stale officials has re ceived a blow, h nin> u"i through later in the session. It i^ expected Unit a general drainage measure will bo introduced during (he present which w.l.l enable the drainage scheme in be carried oill 111 the coast <-<tun tiis of the State. The Stale hospital j for the insane commission has made report for the year's work. The report shows that approximately $00,000 has been spent in iho purchase of now land Ollt? ol he big el 'ctlons to come soon Is that for Hie fifth associate justiceship. A measure has been In. troduced to ratify the election car ried on t'ne constitutional amendment for another associate Justice and also a measure ordering ihe election, There ?are lour candidate for the position: It W. Monimliiger, Charleston; Thos. Krasor Slimtor, vV ? (Irilber, Waller boi'O and M I.. Ilonham. Anderson. All are strOhg men and their friends are Waging aggressive campaigns for their (dec! ion A measure has been Introduced (h the hou.-.' for ih" Ton'eliH land system of registration, The senate has a bill (Continued on page nine.) CITY HIGH SCHOOLS ARE BEING SLIGHTED So Says Supt. Hand in Re port. LAU REINS SCHOOL WILL SOON SUFFER; Sunt. Hund in His Report [ ru.es thai the Cities h?' Allowed Participation in Hie W0,000 Appropriation Made lor the High Schools of (lie Slate. At the request of Supt. B. L Jones, of the city schools, we publish he low an ex trad of the report of W, H. Hand. State High School Inspector. Mr. .tones makes an urgent request that the whole extract he read with care hy those of the city who are in terested in the educational welfare of (he city. The following i the > drool from the report: The Stale Vpproprlittion. "it has been exceedingly dilllcult to get (he people to ll|)|M'CCiatO the purpose of the high s< hool appropria tion. From (he lirst the notion look possession of the people in large, and Of a tew members of tho general as sembly, thai it was lo be used to pen sion needy schools a "pork barrel" to he divided out among, the hungry. Trustees ami other ollichlls ask for Stale aid solely on (ha ground thai their schools are in need ol money, though they have no high school pu pils and no reason to hope lo main tain a high school. Districts with not more than a half dozen pupils above the seventh grade hold high school elections, and semi applications for [State aid. It would be eminently wise I and safe to accept no high school un til it had run one year on its own re sources alter measuring up to the State's requirements. This would give some evidence of the good faith of I he people and the possibility of main taining a high school. A high school should never be established, unless I there is good reason to believe that it will he a permanent affair, i "Some have clamored for Stale aid to be given to schools with only ten high school pupils. To do so would he a waste of the people's UlOUCy, and a check to building good high schools. On tb<- present basis of ap propriation to n I"- pupil school, the Stale is giving $20,00 per pupil. Tie Stale can no) afford lo do more li I would he cheaper lo the Slate (o send the high school pupil.-; lo a board ing school than to give Stale support to 10-pUpll schools. "In our short-sightedness we have made a blunder in taxing larger ag gregations of wealth and population for the sole benelll of smaller aggre gations. There is absolutely no econ only, Justice, statesmanship, or patrl otism in the present high school law in discriminating against (he larger (owns If we are to develop a \ leni of high schools thai will he of the highest value and service lo all the people, we must rise above ih ? ; ??! Ilshness of the ple-hnntor. 1'iider (he present law eighteen pine In which high schools of the besl lype could he maintained, an- debarred from par licipaiing in the privileges ol life high school law. on account of population To show the Injustice and the unwis dom of this selfish restriction, I stib mil the following table, which how the amount of money collected in each from the S-mlll consiiltnloual school tUX, tin- pan thai each town gets hack for Iis own schools, and the pan lhai goes Io tho schools of (he rospec live counties for ihc support ol schools outside these town-.' Here follows a voluminous (able showing what eighteen towns in South Carolina contribute towards the '.i.mill tax and what per cent is actually used by them. Of $202.000 contributed by (hem, $80,000 goes towards the sup port of schools outside their districts. On account of (he lack of space, the (aide is not printed. "These towns are contributing to the schools outside their own districts $80,017,81,01' II per cent ol the loial revenue from the ll-inill school lax collected upon thei." taxable property. then support their own schools by a local levy yet they are d< barred by law from using one dollar of the $00, 000.00 high School appropriation. In other words. $07.002,!i70,00 W?rth oi property is taxed to support (lie high schools of (bo stair, bui no( oh dol I Continued on p.u.ighl.j COLE L. BLEASE 18 INAUGURATED Tirade Against Newspapers and Preachers. CREDITS VICTORY TO THE DIETY IVelinir Too III to Make his Address Personally, Governor lllease lias His Speech Head h> the Clerk of Tile Senate Disorderly Crowd In (he Lobbies and (>'alaries. Columbia, Jan. II Declaring that "independence of thought, freedom of action, an abiding trust in and de voted love of Clod won for me the greatest political victory bat has -ci been recorded in the history of South Carolina," Govern :i ?Coli man lbbig ston Dlenso, of N< wherry, ibis after noon delivered the most notable Inau ^ lira I address that has ever boon If. id in the state. Nearly one-hull' ol his address was taken uo !n deiium In lion of Hie South Carolina press, Iho other part being devoted to a discus slon of issues, all of which he dim ti od in the campaign last summer. Mtncks llallj Press. in bis Introductory Covernor Ulcus? said: "Aligned against me wore u united daily press and an almost solid weekly and soinl-wookly presi. pour !nv forth all kinds of falsehoods, vltu. Iteration and abuse, and receiving (ho assistance ol a number ol men who c idled ihe<nselvns ministers of the ??< pel Cod save the murk v. bo stood bebind their pupil- and gave v< nt In envy and malice and slanders of the most virile and malicious nature against me all of these, combined with others, making a set of political character, thieves, the meanest and most con temptible peno'.c ? n< .n lo inan.' Governor Mease singled on; the Co j lumbia State from among the ottiet* papers for his choicest uplthets al Ihough he did not fall lo pay hi'- rc soects to the Dally It coord, Chai'lei ion News and Courier and all other papers who opposed bi> election as governor. Over two and one ball col uni'is of his six and one-half columns of address tire devoted to the iiowh I papers, lie ? 111? >t. ? 1 ir< d> from a hum ' per of them and Includ. ?! all hi his genei til denuncial ion Alter concluding hi discussion of i ihe newspapers and i in; up iii;< rec ommendations to Ilm general ;t eni dy, South Carolin, im v governor elo.-.ed h|s addiei an :<j.Vtroj h< tu t in- I lolly, to W hot e : (ii nine ho ascribed in large nr-rV. IP . ? mark . aid ? victory at i he polls. His I'latforui. In his addrest- Mr I! ;> u m'ercl} repeated parts of h. (dattoriii as an nouiiced al the beginn inf. ol the cam paian last summer, lib principal re comic 'idai !'ms :u ? Honed iKlmlnistration of all laws and enforcement ol all h \. - Obedience li the c-oi Ii:u;i o| ihe -?i I alive, .luiiic rlDK'tiU ol !'ii TrJfl by 1'iir.v - ? ii i.i criin?! I lenuial <ccs$lpu* ol *ie ic-isiamre. I .Ibcra l a ppropt iai Ion for < >i fedi ate \ si er ms and '???.;< inst it ui ion of i. ;. ruhig, Inn I hink tie lee i tint are lia boon ion ex I ravagaiit in its a|iproptia tions to educatlomil :nsi.tinions Opi?" ' ? the use of w hit' ;.' i's taxes lo educate n< rt<???. Hecoumieuds marriage i< use law or registration ol marriages I'avors having mi I eiig< pulled on trains, as the present "system <?? ticket collect ion is abominahh ." lie calls attention to (In cooalnw e\ii. would prohibit the tale of cigar ettes, would prohibit boyi under six teen years from smokini them, would outlaw toy nuns and pistol; and pro. Ill bit boys undo, sixteen yonrs hav ing guns in their posst slon "; own ing one, Keeotumeml thai oacl judicial i I citii be allowed u ?piescntatIvo Oil the board of regents ol Dm; H i !c Hos pital for tha Insane. Favors Saloon