The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, August 16, 1911, Image 1
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