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INTERESTING ITEMS PROM THE COUNTY ews Letters From Many Sections. CORRESPONDENTS GIVE LOCAL NEWS Happenings of Interest to Many Peo ple all over the County und to Those vVho Hnro Left the Family Hearth stone and gone to Other States. Mountvillc, Aug. 14.?We were glad to see at Harris Springs a few days ago Prof. Uienn Parrott of Cross Hill. Ho is using his summer vacation as a profitable way as bookkeeper for the Springs Company. In September he will move to Whicsburg, Gn., where he will have charge of a splendid Graded School. Mr. Parrott has been at Cross 11111 for two years and has done a good work there. Last Wednesday a light hasty rain accompanied by wiud and bail visited a small section here. The hail fell In large blocks but slowly. No damage was done savo the beating off" of some foliage from the growing crops. Mr. Claud Goodman had his motor ? cycle badly wrecked near Laurens one day last week. He had been to the city and was starting homo, when the machine erploded. He himself escaped any hurt. Miss Mary Wllkos of Laurens re cently spent severla days bore as a pleasant guest of Miss Edith Teague. Miss Marie Tenguo has returned from a very pleasant visit to friends at Greenwood. ? - --?-?.-?? Mr. 15. R. Fuller of the firm of Rasor & Fuller left Sunday for a trip to Baltimore and other places of Inter ? est? The largest watermelon we have ] ever seen was raised this year by Mr. Frank Walker near Ekom. Mr. Walk er lives on '.Mr. A. B. Culbertson's farm on which the melon was grown. We did not learn the variety of the melon, but by measurement we found it 2 feet, :i inches In length and 2 feet S inches in circumference at the mid dle. It weighs 56 pounds, lloke Smith , has but little of which he can boast J^ai his 5S pounder grown by a Georgia auarmer. Messrs Frank Vaughan and John son of Union county are visiting their friends, Charley and Robert Thornton. Rev. Mr. Grler, a young minister of Duo West, preached at Head Springs, A. R. P. church Sunday morning and at MOUntVillo Presbyterian church Sunday ovening. Mrs. Lucy Crisp and little Ruth of Grover, N. C, nro here with parents and other relatives. Cross Hill, Aug 15.?Two persons In town last Tuesday seemed to be strangers. They appeared to be white people. Upon enquiry, it was learned that they were mother and daughter. Tho mother was a white woman and the daughter an octoroon. Tho hus band and father Is a mulatto. They belong to a family of while people who Intermarried with negroes before! tiio law forbidding such marriages was passed. Tho younger woman, though at least an octoroon could pass for a \shltp. person. They live sev eral miles West of here. One of tho lady teachers elected to teach in the school here has declined and Miss Wilma Ramoy of this place was unanimously elected to the place. Miss Ramcy is a graduate of the Co lumbia Female College and Is well qualified for the position. Miss Rhidora Owens has accented a position to teach tho Vaugh'nvillc school and Miss Kate Austin has been elected to a position In tho High school at McCormich, S. C. Miss Sara Beeks has* been elected teacher in the John ston High School and Miss Blanche jj Mnson will teach ngaln at Youngs. I Measrs. C. D. Nance, Lambert Nance * and J. O. Dondy spent a few days In Atlanta last week inal.lilg the trip by automobile. Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Davenport of Augusta are svlth relatives In town. Master Kldiidge McSwain of Now borry is with his grandmother, Mrs. Jnnio McSwain. k Mrs. J. D. Beeks and children arc vis Ik '.ling relatives In Abbeville. ? There will be an election for cotton (Continued on page eight.) VACATION DAYS ARE ALMOST OVER Prof. Ii. L. Jones Announces tliat School Will Open on the Eleventh Day of September. Not quite a month now remains be fore the school children will again be enjoying the pleasures (?) of study. Supt. B. L. Jones was in the city Sat urday and announced that the Lau rens City Schools would be open for business at the same old stand on Monday the eleventh day of Septem ber. This will certainly be glad news to the children. Indeed. The coming session promises to be a very profitable one. The trustees have selected a very able corps of teachers, a large number of whom were with the school last year. With the nucleus of these old (?) teachers to work with and with the other teach ers which Supt. Jones thinks are very able ones, the school will doubtless do very fine work. The Graded School Lyceum, which proved such an attraction and which was such a financial success will be run in the same high order as last year. Mr. Jones confidently hopes to have the best series of attractions that he has yet had. Several of the most popular attractions of last season have been procured for the coming season. Among them is the Skovg?ard, (pro nounced incorrectly Skovgard) Con cert Party, which drew and pleased a packed house last year. DAM VIEW INN. Campers Having a Big Time at Boyds .Mill Boating, Swimming, Biding und Courting. According to the latest bulletins rec eived from Boyds Mill, the Campers there have put into practice the most perfectly organized system of court ing over known in these parts. From all accounts Cupid seems to be having the biggest time of anybody in the whole crowd. Of coarse the party is doing some boating, swimming, horse back and automobile riding, hut all of these pleasures are secondary to the main idea already suggested. The camp lias been given a very ap propriate name and a piece of paste hoard tacked up on the side of a tree to register names of visitors. Damn View Inn is the name of the camping place and up until Sunday afternoon, almost forty guests had ^registered their names. Some of these are camp ing at the Inn while others are only transient guests. Here is the roll call as found on the register: Copeland Henderson, Jess Wolff, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Langston, Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. 11. D. Gray, Mrs. A. H. Sanders, Miss Katherlne Hicks,Miss Allene Franks. .1. E. Hicks, Dr. R. E. Hughes, Dr. W. D Ferguson, E. S. Hudgens, Barle Wilson. Dick Chlldress, Clarence Nelson, Tom Lake, Grover Rickey, Guy EUedge, w. j. Elledge, J. W EUedge, Mrs. J. II. Tea- I gue, 10. 10. Watkins, Mr. Baldwin, Don alds, S. C, Boyee E. Wolff. Washing ton. D. C, Mrs. S. 11. Johnson, St. George) S, 6., Olln Barre, John Gra ham Avie Mahaffey. S. 10. Elledge, Mrs. M. L. Holier. Hossie MeCarley, Hatton Wilson, Mrs. Jno. A. Franks, Ohas B. Franks, Martha Franks. Jack Mc Cravy, Harvey Johnson, Spartanburg, S. C. Elected Vice President. Postmastor Chas. H, 1 licks has re turned from Glenn Springs where be attended the South Carolina Post masters Convention. Mr. Hicks took a prominent part in the convention and when the time for election of of ficers came, he took down the odico of Second Vice President. This was the first convention that Mr. Hicks lias at tended, his election to this office thus coming as quite a complement, to him. Dr. Schayer Returned. Dr. Isadore Schayer, who has been taking a special course In the hospi tals in New York, has returned home. Dr. Schayer says that on account of the fact that he has just returned from a long stay In tho North ho will be unable to avail himself of Gov. Blease's kind invitation to be a mem ber of tho South Carolina delegation to the Con von? on of Military Sur geons, which Is to bo held at Indian a pol is at an early date. Off to the Northern Markets. Mr. W. G. Wilson will leave today for the North, making special stops In Baltimore, and New York to buy hi:; line of fnll goods. Mr. Wilson will bo gone about two weeks. KU -HAMPTON-A5( HITEd Laurens County's Remodeled Court House. -Courtesy of The State. With the beginning of the destruction Monday morning of a few portions cf the building that will not be a part of the new, Laurens county began the expenditure of $-11,000 on the remodeling of its old Court House. The old building as It stood, though greatly scarred by use and the elements, was a handsome and well-proportioned edifice and the sum (hat the county has given for Its improvement will make it one of the most attractive in the i'tate. Messrs. Mashburn and Rounds who are in charge of the work are well known contractors of Augusta, with the reputation of possessing the "know i ow" and the energy to handle the job in tl?0 right way. Mr. Rounds and his two sons will remain in Laurens to oversee the work. There will not bo a very great change in the general outline of the old model. The main change will be the two wings added to the east and the "vest sides. These wings will extend about twelve feet out from the old walls and will be twenty one feet in width, rising to a height of two stories. There will be several changes of importance on the interior. The auditors ollicc will consist of the room now occupied by him and also the room next to his in the east wing. The new room from the south west wing will be added to the clerk of courts present suite and they will bo occupied by that officer. The sheriff will have his old room plus the nfbm in the south west wing. In like manner the north we.it wing will be added to the suite now occupied by the Judge of Probate. Supervisor Humbert will occupy the room formerly Ui?ed by the Superintendent of Education together with a portion of the building now used by the sheriff. Sunt. Pitts will bo heaved across the hall way into what is now the treasurers office and part of the probates office. There will'bo a few changes on the second floor, being mostly in the way of over hauling the walls and ceilings. Uotli the' upper and lower floors Will be of re-lnforced concrete covered by oak flooring. Where in Flu?! tlio Officials Now. Supervisor Humbert has .scattered th'?" ?CUUty officials around the square mid fitted them up in pretty good shape for their temporary stay. The lo cation of the ditto Vent officials is ;>s follows: Probate Judge?upper floor of Loan and Exchange Lank building In the rear; Sheriff?second story Barksdalo building; Treasurer and Auditor?first flcor Barksdalo building; h'upt. of Education and Supervisor second floor Dial-Cray building; Clerk of Court?basement of the Enterprise Bank build ing. GEX. WALKER COMMANDS. Succeeds to the Co mm und et' the Southern Confederate Veterans Made Vacant i>> Gen. Gordon's Death Charleston. S. 0., Aug. 12.--General C Irvine Walke." lias recolve'J copies of the official orders, issued by Adju tant General and Chief of Staff Win. E2, Mickle, making announcement of the death of the late commander in chief George W. Gordon, of the Tint ed Confederate Veterans, of the suc cession of General Walker as com manding Officer and of the appoint ment of Major General Robert White of the West Virginia division as the commanding officer of department of Northern Virginia, made vacant by the promotion of General Walker. As the text of the order states. Gen eral Walker will command the old soldiers as lieutenant general, it be ing reserved for the next annual con vention of the organization to actual ly elect him as the commander in chief. (in to the Mountains. The first party to leave LnurcilS this season to camp in the mountains, left yesterday in wagons for Caesars Head, Hendersonvllle, Lake Toxnway and other points. The party is carry ing a driver and a cook or so along to help thorn over the hard places, The wagons have been outfitted especially for mountain traveling with brakes and that other most important adjunct, a chicken coop. Tents are being car ried along so that genuine camping life may bo enjoyed. The party is composed of Misses Clara Swltzer, Nan, Willie and Roberta Dorroh, Ruth Lnngston, Messrs. Tom Dlvver, Wil liam Byrd. If the rains do not interfere, the campers are expecting to have a jolly time of It. They will be gone about two weeks. I.niircns Mill Again Running. The Laurens Cotton Mill, which has shut down during the past week, be gan operations again Monr- v morn ing. The mill Is now runnl m full time. CITADEL EXAMINA 'Li (?'S. Ten Young Men Trj for Ihe Scholar ship at the South Carolina Military Academy. Ten young ambitious I.aureus coun ty boys stood the examination before Sunt, oi Education Pitts Friday for the scholarship to the Citadel. They were Hoheit Thornton, Connor ()w<mis, Charlie Lockwood. Fred Armstrong, .Robert Meares, Marion Harris. Walter Hudgens, Robert Poole, RuOodgo Eichelberger, Leon Yeargin. Diu- Snake Story. Talking about snakes! Mr. .lack Slrlbllng brought two of the forked tongued monsters to tin- city Friday afternoon thai made one s flesh crawl to even look at. They were not. such awfully largo ones and then they were large ones too, but. they were mean looking and two of Ihom besides. They had ?bcon killed close together. One of them, commonly known as a copper-holly, was almost four feet long. The other one, a highland moc casin, was a little over three feet long. Someone suggested that they were just tin1 right size for a good BtOW, but the man that made the sugges tion is welcome to the dish. Rattle snake watermelons are very nice, but Copper-belly stew?you'll have to ex cuse us. Paroles Coin let From I,aureus. Henry NicklOS, colored, sentenced by Judge Purdy at I.aureus in April, 1902, to life Imprisonment, for murder was paroled Friday by Governor Please. About SO respectable residents of the Mountvllle community from which the negro came, signed petitions for clemency, as did also several county officers and a number of the jurors who sat in the case. It is alleged that Nickles' parents are old and need bis services. Governor Please was SOr./o what doubtful as to his courso In the matter, but on receiving a favorable report from Mr. .1. II. Wharton, sena tor from Laurens county, who hap pened to bo calling at tho executi1" offices, he signed tho parole.?C' bia Record. SOME GOOD BASE BALL THIS WEEK The Fust Team from Gray Court?Ow lugs Will Play a IMckcd 'IVain from Laurens and ncnr-Laurcns. Whoop em up! Laurens again en ters hast' ball. This weel<, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, Hint bunch of Qray Court-Owlngs horsehide spe cialists will mix sticks with one of (he fastest aggregations that was ever scraped together to represent Lnu rens. The visiting team is known ov er the entire Piedmont belt for hav ing the art of playing base ball down to .tho pink of perfection and as for that home team?well suffice it to say that they would make a team of Ty Cobbs do sonic tall humping. They are the pick of the county and noted far and near for their ability to smash the small pellet and for scooping em up in any old style. The Laurens team will be picked from the following artists -Byrd. Barksdale (Greenwood) Hol I Is and Hobo (Cross Anchor) Loung (Clinton Pope lrby. Tae Irby, Watts, .lohn Mills. O/.ell Mills (Laurens) and a few oth ers. The games will begin promptly at .". o'clock and will lake place on Garl Ingtotl's Pasture which is being over hauled for the occasion. Ladies will be admitted tree and the management extends a special invitation to them as Well as to the men and boys, who will be allowed to enter lor the very small sum of 25 cents per. LAURENS VETERANS TO ELECT COLONEL Death of Col. Hoheit \. Cuiilllglium Makes Vaneanoj in the Office of (ho Commander of tltO Regiment, On account of the vacancy, caused by tho death of Col. Robert X. Cun Inghnm, tho veterans composing the Laurons Regiment, U. C. v., have been called upon to olecl another comman der for the regiment Orders have been sent out for \\.r election, which is to lie held in different company hondquar ters, on August IOth. Although it cannot be said that thot'O are any can didates, for the colonelcy, Judge O. G. Thompson lias been mentioned by a large number as the probablo future commander. Judge Thompson lias al ways taken a great deal of Interest in the affairs of the veterans and doubt less his name will ob offered in nomi nation. Tho following orders have been is sued by Brig. Gen. Creech, of the 2nd. Brigade: Headquarters Second Brigade, United Confederate Veterans, Barnwell, S. C, Aug 8. | To the Camps composing the Laurens j County Regiment, C. C. V.: You wil' please take notice that in the death of our lamented comrade. Col. Roberl X. Cuiiingliain. a vacan cy has occurred in (he Regiment, of U.j C. V., of your county. Therefore, you are commanded to meet at your respective places of meeting on August 19th, 1011, and select by ballot one of your number to fill the vacancy caused by tho death of Col. CuniuRhnni, and report tho re suit at the earliest possible time. By com in a ml of your comrade Frank II. Creech, Brig. Gen. Com. 2d Brig, U. ?'. V. Camp Gatilngton has also been flclnlly ordorcd to meet for the pur pose of holding the election Tho fol lowing is tho text of the order by S'lco Commander John M. lludgons: Attention Camp (?Uf'llllgfoil. Pursuant to an order of Qonoral ' Prang H. Creech, commanding tho 2d Brigade, United Confederate Veter ans, this camp will assemble at the office of the Probate Judge on Satur day, August 19th at 10 o'clock for the purpose of holding an election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Robert N. Cuningham. By order of Jno. M. Hudgons. Aug. 16, 1911. Vice Commander. Mrs. Nannie I . Braiiilett. The funeral services over the body of Mrs. Nannie E. Bramlett, who died Wednesday night, wore hold Thurs day afternoon in the city COmotOry. Rev. J. L. McLin conducted th<> ser vices. Mrs Bramlett was the widow of the late Mr. a. w. Bramlett and '"?fore hfcr marriage was a Mi^s N'.i ? -s Mr. Alex \. Bramlett and sev daughter* survive her. Mr.;, f Vyt was a lady ol many estima s and was greatb be . bo knew her. A WAVE OF CRIME OVER THE COUNTY INothing of Serious Nature However. LAWRENCE HUGHES SHOT EARLY SUNDAY Sheriff's 0Okers Have Had n Busy Time Within the Tust Few Bays < ;if< 11i11:t up with the Wrong Boers. City Officers Take (u a Few to Bal ance Matters. Boyco Hughes, a ineniher of a well known family of Youngs township, this county, is in jail charged with shooting Lawrence Hughes. Tho two Hughes are nol relatod. As to tho cause of the dldlculty neither will say anything. Doycc Hughes only saying that he "had It to do." No steps have been taken to have a prclemiuary heating or to apply for hail, us It Is not yet known how serious the wounds of Lawrence Hughes will prove. According to the story as gathered from relatives and others, lloyco Hughes and Lawrence Hughes left (heir homes Saturduv night, both of them leaving their wive:; al the homo of Lawrence Hughes. Going to BOIUO fraternal meeting, they returned early Sunday morning about four o'clock and passed by Lawrence Hughes' house and continued to Noyce's house. llOI'O the shooting look place, a shot gun heing used. Iloyce llngllCS then put the wounded man in his buggy and carried him to Lawrence Hughes' fa llier. Mr. doff Hughes, where ho still remains. He then returned to tho home of Lawrence Hughes and told what lie had done and look his wlfo and returned to his home. Sunday afternoon Sheriff Owings went Out af ter him in his buggy and brought him back to Lauretta, no i> tlu unco being offered. V, Boyco Hughes is about ~~ yo?Yti <d' age and Lawrence Hughes Is about 3(1 years of age. The affair Is greatly deplored by tho relatives and friend ', of the two men and their families. . Some Thief, A negro giving his name as Henry Davis and admitting several aliases, one of which is Henry Smith, was ar rested Monday night botwi n hero ai d Clinton by Deputy Sheriff Leid and llurnl Policeman Sullivan with a quan tity of clothing and shoes which Im admits having stolen. In the bag which he had when ho was arrostod he had ciglu pairs of "Streetor" shoes, foui fiUlts of clothes and an extra coal, three khaki shirt;', and had just disposed Of two other suits accord ing to his own story. Although ho says that he stole the things from tho transfer platform at Portsmouth, Vn., the officers suspect that ho got them nearer here ftnd have g< III OUl Oil ? quirlcs to lind out about him. lie ad mits that al one time he lived in Fair !i< Id county and worked on Iho place of Mr. Will or Henry Springs, leav ing ihere .Iannary of la t > ? a/. lie is a ginger caked colored negro; with a small moustache. He Is about; \>{i or HQ years old. weighs l?u-l?O pounds, Is about ?"? fool 0 Inches tall, lias a sear < :i the lower part of hin ihrtjui and several on his right lop Monday aiT< rnoon tho olllc heard that a ? ipiclotlS liORl'O Was hanging fii'oun I Clinton selling clothes and shoes at ledlculously low prlci . and that he was headed for Walls mill. The got in their buggy and went, to one of ihc cross roads a few miles from Lumens and waited foi' tho 110? gro to make his appeal am i a ho had to do to reach Watts Mill Sevoral travelers were stopped hut finally u buggy came up with three negroes III It and this negro Was found to ho among them. He was taken out and, with all of Ills good.;, brought to tho county jail whore he now rests. Sheriff Owings Is desirous of hear ing from anyone who might give sonn? cluo as to tho true identity of tho ne - gro. It Is though: that the goods were taken from some point, on the railroad before delivery was over made. Carved a Woman, ?lim Johnson, colored, who Is r '" hi' quite a eiiuud^uemhei i si ruck out i'or^^nT^?le ?rrrei 1. He ^"-^V* W' as he canb y ' rested by