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12 PAGES. PART 1, PAGES 1 TO 8 VOLUME XXIX. _ LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1913. NUMBER 11 WHO ARE THE MOST POPULAR CHIL- I DREN IN LAURENS AND VICINITY The Laurens Advertiser Seeks to Ascertain Who Are the Most Popular Children in Laurens and Surrounding Territory, and Offers a Large Sum of Gold for the Answer. CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS OF AGE ELIGIBLE Send In the Name of Your Choice at Once. Five Gold Rings to the First Five Children Nominated in Each District. Is there a little sweetheart in your home? Have you a little darling whose bright eyes and smiling lips bring sunshine to your home? Have you a buster hoy? Have you a Virginia May. a Bobby Bums, an Alice, too. with eyes of blue? Have yon a dear little child who is the fireside ehanin on a winter evening Or a heart s delight in the summer time? For the little children, the pride and joy of fond and adoring parents. The Laurens Advertiser inaugurates a Grand Children's Contest. From now on and for some time to come the chil dren will occupy the center of the stage, for it's for the children?the children of the entire section. This contest is to he conducted on the vot ing plan and to each and every child nominated between now and Nov. 8th, inclusive, will lie given 1,000 votes. In addition The Laurens Advertiser will give 5 handsome solid gold rings to the first five children whose namos are first to reach this olliee from Dis trict No. I, And to make all tilings even the Laurens Advertiser will give ."> handsome solid Rold rings to the fust | live children whose names are fust to roach the office from District No. 2 During the life of this contest all territory within the corporate limits of the town of Laurens will he known as District No. 1. All Rural Koules and towns out-side the corporate limits of the city of Laurens will he known as District No. 2. 1 You do not have to be a subscriber of the paper to enter your child in the contest. In this issue of The Laurens Adver tiser appears a coupon which will lie Kood for one thousand votes when properly filled out and brought in or mailed to the contest office, .lust one of these may be voted for each child. In addition to this coupon another ap pears which is good for 25 votes. You may vote as many of these as you can get, you may send In the name of any child under iL' years of age of white parentiige. If you wish to secure one of the rings in your district till out one of the nomination blanks without delay and bring or semi it to the contest office. Anyone connected with The Adver-! User in any way will not be allowed to enter their children. The entire contest will he under the' management of the Joyce syndicate. ] '('lip a coupon and nominate a child If you haven't one of your own, re member that little hoy or nirl who is the idol of your neighbor. The names of the nominees will appear shortly, so you should lose no time in Bend ing in yours. And then. besides, there are those gold rings. Surely there is some child among all those lovely children in this section that you will want to help win one of these prizes, (lather all the ballots you can and work for your favorite. He one of the first ones to net in ami got la good start. We want every child in Laurens and vicinity in this race. I You all stand an equal chance. The gold is a groat incentive but the hon or and fame attached to the children winning are beyond comprehension. It has been truly said that in no sec tion of the State are there so many beautiful children as in Laurens and Laurens County. This is a source of pride and satisfaction, not only to their parents, but to their relatives and friends. In view of this fact The Advertiser has decide,] to bring the matter to the attention of every read er, who will readily concede the truth of this statement, thereby sustaining the copulation this county has enjoyed so long. Very naturally there exists a certain amount of belief, hidden within every parent's being, that their "darling" is just about the prettiest, smartest, c ut est and most lovable child in the Whole universe. This is hut a natural feeling, for did not that parent think so she would not be worthy of ihe ureat honor that must accrue to her as a result of such inheritance. The Laurens Advertiser, knowing this, and knowing the great honor which must ??(?ine to the relatives and friends Of the child who is declared the most popular, after the public has decided, agrees to spend $500.000 in gold that the matter may he settled and the hon or and dignity placed where, in the opinion of the; public, it belongs. Contest headquarters will be in the office of the Laurens Advertiser, and the manager will be in the office this evening until 7 o'clock, and would be pleased to receive a call from any one who is interested in the contest. In order to secure one of the lings you must fill out one of the nomination coupons and bring or scr.d it to the Contest Department of The Laurens Advertiser. Interest your friends in saving tl. ? coupons for you and have thorn mail them to the Contest Manager or save them for you so that you ran bring them in yourself. Call, write, 'phono or wire for information. Telephone No. 55. Hurl in Gin. Mr. Gary Long, a well-known young man of Waterloo, narrowly escaped donth last. Saturday when he was Caught in the belting of the Waterloo ginnery, in some miraculous manner ho escaped with only a few bruises, through every hit of his Clothing was torn from his body, not a piece be ing left over a foot long. Even his shoes were torn off. His friends will be glad to know that lie is out of danger and resting well. :t,o!?7 Hnles to Sept. 2?. Mr. Charlie M?Oravy, crop reporter in this county for the government, has J received a letter from W. .1. Harris, director of the census, stating that his first tolegraplllc report as to gin ning in this county up to Sept. 25 had boon checked from individual reports and found correct. The report for this county showed that 3,0!>7 bales had been ginned prior to Sept. 25 against j 3,614 prior to the same date last year.j Two Hales To Acre. Mr. T. Mae Roper was showing on tho streets Monday a stalk of "Uncle Sam" cotton, that contained 31 opened and opening bolls, Ho lias only one half acre of this variety and on this lie has already picked <;!?:*. pounds. Ho says he is sure of getting at least 1100 pounds altogether. The bolls have five locks. The seed, which he bought merely as an experiment w. re Kotten at the state fair last year. Mr. Roper states that he didn't give the seed a fair show as the half-acre has s shade trees on it ami believes that under ordinary conditions will easily yield two bales to the acre. Choral Society Meeting. The Laurens High School Choral So ciety will hold its first rehearsal in the school auditorium on Thursday ev ening, October ninth, at eight o'clock. All members aro urged to be present at this meeting. NEGRO MAN KILLED NEAR CROSS HILL Mr. Tom Shoots Neuro who i* Said to have Drawn IMstol on Uhu and was iibout to shoot. Robert Smith or Ike Smith, as ho was more generally known, a negro employee on the place of Mr. Tom Neil, below Cross Hill, was shot and almost instantly killed l<y the latter aboul midnight Friday night. Accord lug to testimony given at the Inquest hold by Coroner Halrston, the shoot ing was done in self defense. Mr. Noll came to Laurens Saturday morning and surrendered to the sheriff. Satur day afternoon Judge It. C. Watts grant ed hall in the sum of $1.01)0 and Mr. Nell was liberated to wait trial at the March term of court. The shooting grew out of the use by the negro of Mr. N'eils's mule with out the hitter's authority. According to the story told by Mr. Noll, he return ed from a visit elsewhere Friday night and found one of his mules missing. Suspecting that the mule had been us ed without his knowledge before and that Ike Smith was the culprit this time, he went over to the house of .lohn Mays. Ike's brother-in-law, and iisked as to the whereabouts of the ne gro. Finding that Ike was not at home. Mr. Neil prepared to watch for his re turn, in the meantime sending Mays to the house of .lohn Nell, his brother, and securing a pistol. When Ike Smith rode into the yard about midnight, Mr. Neil began to upbraid him for using the mub'. The negro began to get off of the mule and at the same time made a move to draw his psitol. As he reached the ground he had succeeded in drawing the pistol from his pocket hut before he could shoot Mr. Neil pull ed tlu> trigger of his own pistol, shoot ing one time. The bullet entered the breast of the negro, and he died short ly afterwards. Sheriff Owlngs and Coroner Halr ston went to the scene of the lioir.ii Ide Saturlay morning and when tiny ar rived tiny found the negro Where he had fallen and the pistol was found ly ing by Ills side. Testimony of I'jc Witness, .lohn Mays, the only witness to the tragedy, testilicd as follows at the in-j quest : "Last night about live minutes of twelve o'clock Mr. Tom Nell was stand ing out at the cotton house and Robert or Issaac Smith came riding up on Mr. Neil's mule and Mr. Neil said "Isaac, what do you mean riding my mule around without leave or license " and Isaac put his left hand on his mule's weathers and his right hand in his hip pocket and slipped off of the mule with l,is pistol in his right hand and Mr. Nc| shot him and he fell and he has never spoke. "Sure that Isaac had the pistol in his right hand when he not off of the mule. I and Mr. Nell was standing out at the cotton house together. Mr. Tom Neil sent nie down to Mr. .lohn Neil's to tell him to send him his pistol. I came back a few minutes before the man, Isaac, came back with the mule and gave the pistol to Mr. Tom Neil, the pistol he shot Isaac with." Tost Mortem Examination. , Following is the testimony of l>r. 0. F. Klugh, who examined the negro 'be next morning: "I hereby solemnly swear that at 11: 4?, A. M.. October Oth, I examined the deal body of Isaac Smith and found that a bullet had entered the right nip ple and passed through his chest lodg- j ing just to the right of the backbone, about the level of the lower tip of the shoulder blade. Such a wound would cut large blood vessels and other structures sufficiently delicate to cans.? death." C. F. Klugh. M I) To Stud) Home Count). At a meeting of the Laurens county students at the University held recent ly, a club was formed for the purpose of studying the social am) economic conditions in their homo county. The following officers were elected: L. s Fuller Jr., president : W. H. McOowan, vlco president; w. A. Fellers, secreta ry and treasurer. Carried to tsyliim, Sheriff OwingS carried two ncgl'OCfl to the hospital for the insane at Co lumbia Sunday. One of them was Joan ?rockman, who has been a shoe re pairer in Laurens for many years, and the other was Arthur Hoyd. from the Durbin Creek section of the county. FIRST MEETING OF COUNTY TEACHERS \>u?? n I'rotltNblc mid Kltjoynhle Occa sion. Ofdens elected for Knsuelnu \ car. The inoiitlily meeting of the county teacher's association was held tu the uuditorluin ul the graded school huttd lllg Saturday morning. This was one of the most largely attended meetings ever held by the association, an un usually large number being prescht for a "llrst" meeting. The principal busi ness before the association was the election <>!' olllcors tor the eusueing year ami the formulation of plans lor I the year's work, The following odlcers were olected: President. II. I.. Jones, l.aurens city schools: Vice President, Miss Laurie Anil. Trlulty-UidgO school: Secretary, Miss Nannie Simp son. Gray C'ourt-Owings school; Treas urer. A. C. Daniel, Clinton graded ; schools; Chaplain, K. A. Fuller. Mountvillc school. Following the meeting in the grad ed school, the teachers repaired to the rest room which has recent l> boon provided tor them In the west wing of the county court house, Here Miss WI1 l.oit Gray, assisted by several other ladies of the city, was "t\\ Home" to the teachers and a number of other friends. A dellglitful Inn cheon of snndwltehes, tomatoes and ic ed t<;i was Borved, forming certainly a very welcome part of the (Jay's pro | gram. Til rough the courtesy of Supt. ' Jones a musical prog rain was rendered on the graded school phonograph, The teachers' rest room is another nc(|ulsltlon of the educational system of the county. The monthly meetings of the teachers' association were made rather burdensome last year because of the absence of any place for the teachers to rest after the meetings and while tin y were waiting on eon voynnces to carry them home. To do away with this inconvenience or hard ship the county authorities were pie vailed upon to loan om of ihe grand jury rooms to the association tor a rest room. Permission was granted on condition thai the room be lltled up without expense (o the county. Sev oral friends came to the rescue of the j teachers association and made possi ide the present delightful quarters. Mis. MeFiill, who has lakon consider able interest in the \vurk~ of the teach ers' association, volunteered to solve the question of furniture for the room ami she did so in a very original and as well as tasteful substantial man ner by designing and building outright a beautiful live piece library set, con sisting of a table, a taboret, writing desk and two long settee's. It is made in mission style ami makes a most pleasing appearance. Mrs. McFall made this from the raw lumber, do ing every bit of the work herself. In cluding oven the sawing off of the pans and hammering of the nails. The Laurens Drug company has added con siderable to the cozinesH of the room by hanging a number of pictures on the walls. The rest room will he open to the teachers ( very Saturday or up on any other days that they happen to conic '<> the city. The next meeting of the association will be held the Iirst Saturday in Nov ember, Denlli Overtakes Young Woman. Miss ('.race Olakely, the twenty year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. SV. W. Ulnkcly, died at the residence of her parents near Watts Mills Thursday morning. The young lady had been in ill health for a long time, so her death was not entirely unexpected. She was a young woman of very lov able character ami possession a very kind disposition. Her death brought sincere grief to a large number of friends and acquaintances. The funer al services were held Friday morning at Rocky Springs church. Klne Kxamplc of a Hustler, Mr. \V. P. Harris, the well-known Ivan roils county planter, was in tie city Saturday and was telling of a real hustler among his tenants Mr. John Miller, who runs a one-horse farm, hail picke<| and glhned up to October 3rd, nine bales of cotton, off P.i acres of land. This was more than he got last year altogether off the same number of acres. The lint brought him $7fi3.33 and the seed $100,16, He fully expects to net as many more bales from his farm. The seed lie used was "Pickers Delight." KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS IN SESSION TODAY Seventh District Convention Assembles Here. GUESTS IN LAURENS OF LODGE NO. 43 Program of tlic Dil) will Include Ulis. luoss Sessions During Die Day, in formilI Deception Tonight ami linn. i|iui at King Hotel tfter the Itecop. lion. The Seventh District Convention, Knights of Pythias, Domain of South ' Carolina, will he hold In Laurens to day, the convention being the guests | of Laurens Ixnlge No, IS. The local pythtans have been making prepara- [ lions lot their entertainment all din ing the past week and a very pleasing program has been arranged. The cul mination of the day's entertainment will come (onlght at the King Hotel when the local pytlllails will entertain tin- visiting brethren with a sumptti oiis banquet, \ number of prominent pythlans from other sections of the state, without ami within the seventh district, have been invited to the hau <pict and several of these will respond to toasts. Among these will he liuis. I), Drown, of Abbeville, II. K. Oshorae, of Spnrlanburg, and (b.?. w. Dick, ni Sumte:-. The majority of the visiting knights will arrive from Spartanhurg on the K:'_'o train, when the local knights will he on band to meet them and show them to the lodge rooms The lirst session of the day will he held at the lodge rooms at in o'clock in the morn lug. Sessions will continue through out the day. From "::t0 to 9:!Ml an informal reception will be given to the visitors at the lodge room after which they will repair to the Kinp Hole; (o attend the hampict. The llampicf. The hamiuel will he held at 'i llo i at the hotel. Iir. II. K. Alken being toastuiaster. The follow im* are the toasts and those who will respond to them: Toast master 11. K. \iu< n \ toast like a toxi, Is something to talk from. 'Mirth Is Hod':, medicine. \ll men should bathe in II." I Ir. Holme . Our Aims Dev. S. O. Cnntoj "There is only one way to he happy ami that is to make some body else so." Sidney Smith. Women, Wives and Wishbones T. .1. McAllslor "Damon ami I'yihias were friend . my son. Pure friendship filled each heart! And this Is how tie trick was done ; They kept their wives apart." Yon Can Do It II. K. Osborno. K '! "Somebody said that il couldn't he done, but he with a chuckle re plied as he took oil his coat, that he wouldn't he one to say such a thing till he tried, so he buckled light in with the trace of a grin on bis face. If he worried he hid it. lie started to sing as he tackled the thing that 'couldn't he done' and he did it." ' Do It Now ami Hurry Hack Albert C. Tod.I. K m "Living will teach you how to live, better than preacher or hook." Goethe. The Working Man Cha l> lirow "What we call link Is simply pluck, And doing things over and over; Courage am) will, Perseverance and skill An- the four leaves of link's ??lover." How Methusaleh Hroke the D coord W. L. Grt If the world is goilift wrong, Forge I it' Sorrow never lingers long Forge! if If your neighbor bears ill-will. If von! conscience won't be still. If you owe an ancient bill Forget it!" F. C II I'. D. Q. and X. V. '/ Ceo W. D| "Noah was six hundred years old before lie knew bow to build an ark. Don't lose your grip." ?loihert flubbard (Continued on Page Twelve.) THE COUNTY FAIR JUST TEN DAYS OFF Premium and Prize list Published I oday. NEW ROAD OPI NED TO FAIR GROUNDS The Schools of tin- Count) l'\poc(cd to Inno a Splendid Parade of Floats, beginning at II oVIock. Ito) Scouts (o Help I'atrol the (.'rounds ami I.end \ ssistnuec. The Advertiser is publishing today tin- olllclal onto and pelze Hsi of the counts fall' October 17th. Although every endeavour lias been made by tin' prtmlum list committee, composed Of Messers I I) id, Watts and Power, to Include everj animal or urtlelu that should he shown nt the fair, they recognize that it is even yet Imperfect, For that reason they have requested that the farmers bring with them to the lair every conveivable Kind of farm product that is worths of attention. The prizes shown in the list uro uol all that the lair committ<*c hopes to secure. Mayor t'opehilid, of Clinton, ? ailed upon Pres. livid several days IlgO and stateil that he Would statt .1 campaign there to secure prlzeu amour the merchants. It is hoped that Unite a number will be secured thorn and in that eveul tin \ will be added to the 11 hi already. The llsl will ho found elsewhere in this paper, New Itoad a Corlnini). I'r. . It) rd has been not I lied h) Ma yor Itabb licit he will have aimther road hull! lo the lair grounds a few hundred fool ahovo the presenl road and bridge, This road w ill he used exeulslvoly for anluiah and vehicles going out of the fair grounds while tin' presenl toad and bridge will ho used tor passage into I he grounds, In ibis why, the fan management holies to a vol.I the confusion ol la si year ami (he sear before when vehicles vvei'o crowding in ami out at tin' sanne iinu> and i'n- same 10.id. Visitors In t 10 fair are requested In bear in mind that tili- road lor leaving tin- fa.il' grounds Is above the old bridge b) which the) have been accustomed lo elllcf. The School floats. Mis Wil I.mi (Jray, county school supervisor, stated yesterday that she conlhlcii!ly expected a large nuinbei' of the schools to be represented in the parade " will be n iiieinbi 1 od that the school float |raradc last your was one o| the 1111 e I attractive lea lures of the lair and probably dlX'W more altenlloil than any other single exhibit. While q 11 i to a number of schools had exhibits of this kind la t year ami tin- comp? lion for tin- piT/i wan keen, it i expected thai the Unat this year will be even more numerous and innre varied. Nil ill her of the teachers have already >? i\< o notice that their schools would be represent ed. Itoj Seoul . Sennet hint-', else new! Tin local hail 1 of the Uns Seouls of America will bo on the fair grounds to help the man ?? ment in whatever way they can. The) will be Had lo give information about exhibits, poinl out tiny thing of Inter . t, run errand foi the olllelals of Ihn lair (hut nobody e.xeepl ollicials) and. in t.'i<-1. assist in any way that a crowd ol healthy youngsters can. Itev. ('. F, Itankiii i .com master ? Miurous and he ha already offered the Services of the boy scouts lo Pros. Hyrd. Tin will be recognized by theli black r forms and soldier hats. < orn and Tomato Clubs. M r. ??en. |j. I'it Is, in > hil., ? ???? f.! ? boys corn clubs has announced thai the corn club exhibits will be shown in tin- auditorium of tin county court house, where they will be seoi 1 lion ?od In < a t; of bad won t hoi . The tomato Clilb girls '?'?ill :>l 0 base ihoii! OXhllbitS tin |e. S'O. with the e I 'An (1< - paritnents holding forth in the '"oil I. room, ti.is ssill be a vet:) busy lace, the Kami. Tin- band ha n't been nn ntiom I Iii these columns for several week i< will be there. This band is al 0 1 countv rai r-d product, so i' can l>< depended on lo furnlsl music to "tin very last ditch." Not far Distant. The lime for holding tin f:;!'- 's nbl (Continued on Page Twelve.)