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PROF. W. K. T?TE ADDRESSED TRUSTEES Enthusiastic Meeting of As sociation Friday. LAURENS COUNTY AMONG THE LEADERS Prof. Tuto Was Very Much Pleased with the .Schools of Laurens Coun ty and Said thnt This County Bids Fair to Lead the Rest in Educational Advancement. The Trusteo Association of thin coun ty met at the Court House Saturday niornlng and was addressed by Prof. W.| K. T?te, State Superintendent of Rural School Improvement. Mr. T?te was introduced by President W. C. Wharton. of the association, who made a very earnest plea for the upbuild ing of rural schools. In opening his address Mr. T?te said that he was especially glad to vis it Laurens on this his first occasion, on account of the reputation this coun ty had for advancement in the great work of improvement of the rural schools. Later on In his address he told that one result of this had been shown by the fact that this county was one among the very few whose total enrollment in the rural white schools had Increased within the past five years. Whereas, in the state at large there had been an actual de crease Tjf around five hundred scholars In the schools there had really been a decrease of over ten thousand, for in considering the matter of increased scholars, the total Increase in the States population must be taken into consideration. Mr. T?te, as before stated, was glad to state that Laurens county was among the counties that had witnessed an increase in its rural schools. Mr. Tnte took to task the well-to-do farmer who moved'to the town and left his land to the depredations of the negro renters. Ho said that al though he might be able himself to live in town and run out to his farm and supervise the work, that the same farmer's son would not be able to do that when he became a man and in possession of this same property, for this son will not have the knowledge of farming necessary to give proper directions without the training that he would have gained had be been raised on the farm. Prof. T?te said that the future suc cess of the country depended on the success of the rural population and the success of the rural population depended on its schools. There is no other agency that will do so much to wards keeping the people on the farm than the building of good school hous es and furnishing of good teachers for them. His department Is now uy Ing to have the smaller school.-; ..f Ilm State Consolidated into larger schools so that more efficient work can be done. He gave an instance, of one school in this county where there was one teacher who had forty-flvo class es a day. On the other hand he gave an instance of a school in another state which had been formed from the cosolidation of several other schools and this school had six teachers, each teaching two classes. This, he stated, was what he wanted to bring about in South Carolina so that the youth of the rural districts will have a chance to compete in this age. He said that the time when tho uneducated man could make his way in this State had passed and he who will succeed in after years must be educated. Mr. T?te made an earnest plea for the rural schools and closed by stating that he hoped that as Laurens had already taken such a decided stand for bet ter educational facilities that she would be the first to undertake the work of centralizing the rural schools. Following the address of Prof. T?te the officers of the Trustees Associa tion were elected for another year. President. W. C, Wharton. Vice President. G. N. Fuller. Secretary. G. L. Pitts. Executive Committee) Same as last year. Mrs. Charlotte K. CftlhOtlll. The Ninety Six country has again to mourn the loss of one of Its most | prominent ladies. Mrs. Charlotte M Calhoun died at the residence of her son. Mr. L. P. Calhoun on the 23rd. She had been an invalid for a num ber of years, and in all that weary period was never heard to complain. Her religion was "Thy will be done and not mine.'* What a beautiful resignation and evidence of sincere piety. Mrs. Caiimun was a most re markable woman, one whom memory! never failed. She was the geneologi cal encyclopedia of her section, knew when everybody was horn, married and died, and almost everybody's age. Her religion was like the pure wa ters that flow, and her love for her family and neighbors akin to the love of the crucified One. Cod in His goodness endowed her intellectually and made her able to serve both Him and her fellow man. She has left as a heritage for her bereaved children and grand children a glorious memory for all time to come. She was 80 years old and the widow of Dr. .John VY. Calhoun than whom no better man ever lived among us. The surviving children are Mrs. F. P. McGowan of Laurens, Mrs. Joseph Talbert of ParkSVille, J. A. and L. 1'. Calhoun and Mrs. T. C. Turner of Greenwood, The ceremonies at the interment were performed by her pastor, the Rev. P. c. Dibble. The writer's acquaintance with the deceased enables him to say that Mrs. Calhoun was one of the beal women he ever knew, "The salt of the earth." A host of friends regret her demise and tender to the bereaved ones sincere sympathy. Ninety Six Cor. Greenwood Journal. FAMISHING MOB TRAMPLES WEAK Starving Chinese Riot Over Food Mis sionaries Uad Procured, Relief From America Is Now Being Dispatched From Scuttle. Hankow. China. March 3.?Twenty one persons were trampled to death at Sha Yang, Iluapeh province, today when a horde of starving Chinese fought for the food which mission-, aries were attempting to distribute. A great many others were Injured. Belief From ..mcrlcn. Seattle. Wash.. March 3.?The work of loading the United States transport Buford with provisions lor the fam ine-stricken sufferers in North China Is progressing rapidly and it is ex. pected that the vessel will be ready to sail early next week. Among the contributions received by the commercial club yesterday were checks for $1,000 each from J. P. Morgan & Co., and Cyrus 11. Mc Cormlck, Chicago. The Christian Herald or New York telegraphed a further order for 1.000 sacks of Hour, making to date 1.000, 000 pounds of flour contributed through it. Victoria, 15. C. March 3.?Render ed desperate by hunger, bands of starving refugees are roving through the famine-stricken area of China plundering and killing, and a reign of terror prevails according to per sons who arrived lno c on the stearmcr Tumbu, which reached port from the Orient today. At Kunshan, n walled village with in fifty miles of Shanghai, the vil lagers after a desperate raid, in which stores were looted and many killed, meted out punishment peculiarly Chinese in Its callousness to the raiding refugt es. \ hand of more than B00 is reported to have been surrounded in a compound and burn ed to death. The refugees had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores of every thing eatable, killing or wounding all who resisted. Many villagers were slain and oth ers were taken prisoners and held for ransom. When the raiders moved on to plunder the next village the Kun shan people held a council of war nnd offered to pursue the fugitives. They came up with them In a small Villuge and surrounded the houses. The gates were locked and the houses fired. More than 500 perished. 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