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VOLUME XXIX. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 3 1914.NUBR4 [XECTIV[ CQOMITI One Club in Laurens City Next S 'The county executive committee met in the court. house Monday at eleven .o'clock to fix the boundaries of the club districts and to attend to any other matters. The work of laying out the boiundaries for the club districts was a very tedious job and required most of the day for its completion. The 'boundaries of these districts are out lined in the order issued by Chairman "W. C. Irby, .Jr., which Is found below. Considerable discussion arose in the meeting over the construction to be placed on ,the third section and Clause C of the eighth section of the rules, relating to the boundaries of the club districts. 'lhe committee was unable to agree whether it was the Intention of the framers of the rules to require every club member to enroll in the township in which he lived, regardless of the ,distance to the nearest club, or whether he could cross a township line to enroll at a nearby club. The ques tion was settled by ballot. Except in the case of towns, which are specifl cally provided for, the committee voted that every voter must enroll at the club in his township nearest which he lives and that he cannot cross a town ship line. An exception was made in the race of residents in the vicinity of Clinton, as will be seen in the order of Mr. Irby below. To Organize Saturday. The re-arrangement of club districts and the formation of Pew clubs will re quire meetings for organizing in many sections of the county. For instance, in the city of Laurens the two old clubs, No. I and No. 2, htive been abol ished and a new city club will have to be formed. There are quite a num berof clubs to be organized and Satur day at 3 o'clock is suggested by the county chairman as a suitable time for organization. It will be noted in his statement .that while he only suggests this as a suitable time for organization, he points out that it is essential to organize before the following Tuesday, .June 9, as that is the last day allowed by the new rules. In case the club Is not organized, on or before June 9. 'voters in that club district will have to enroll in some other club nearest their place of residence. The following clubs will have to meet and organize all clubs in Dials township; all clubs in Waterloo town ship; all clubs in Sullivan township; all clubs in Hunter township; except 'Goldville, Hopewell, Mountville, Clin ton cotton mill;,all in Youngs town ship, except Youngs store, Lanford, and Cooks. New clubs at Stuarts store and Grays store, in Youngs, Ora and Pattersons store, in Seu etown, and Laurens city in Laurens will have to be organized. Hooks IHave Not Arrived. Mr. Irby stated yesterday that en rolling books had not arrived, so on rollment cannot proceed immediately. However, he hopes that he will receive thom wIthin the next few days and in that ease will sisue them to the club secretaries and notify the voters through the newsp~apers. Election Managers. A resolution was passed authorizing the president and secretary of each club to nominate election managers in their respective districts, the names to be forwarded to the county chairman *for appointment and publication. Assessments and Itinerary. The committee authorized the same assessments for candidates as prevail ed last year and appointed a commit tee to map out tihe itinerary for the county campaign party. ,The Chairmnan's Order. The following is the order bf the IRIY FILES PLEDGE. In the Itace to the End. Hs Made Several Mpeeches In Adjoining Coun ties. Hion. W. C. Irby, Jr. yesterday mail ed hisa campaign pledge as a cand idate for govern~or to the chairman of the state executive committee, and also malled his assessment fee to the treas urer of the lparty. This act on the part of Mr. Irby effectually put a stop to all rumors tgiat he wouild not be (n the race. During the past few weeks he has visited several adjoining coun ties to make speeches and large audi oncts have greeted him on each ocea -aon OLI[R ES DISTRICTS Proper--Clubs to Organize aturday. county chairman: Pursuant to the new rules of the Democratic party of South Carolina adopted by the state democratic con vention holden at Columbia. S. C., AMay 20th, 1911, the Laurens county demo cratic committee -met in the court house on Monday .)lune 1st, 191.1 and provided for the reorganization of all democratic clubs in the county in their rCspect ive towinships as follows: lIsu1s Townshlp-Power, Woodville, Dials. Gray Court, Shiloh. Waterloo Township-W--waterloo town, Tiptop, Daniels Store, ESkom, Mount Pleasant. Sullivan Toil nship-Princeton town, Hickory Tavern (at school house). l'oplar Springs (at school house). Hunter Township-Goldville, Ilope well, Lydia Cotton Mills, Mountville, ClI'iton Cotton Mills, (embracing ward live and six), Clinton town (embrac ing wards 1, 2, 3 and 4). All voters r esiding in Jacks township slut near er t.e toAvn of Clinton will enroll with Clinton town clb. Youngs Township-Youngs Store. Cooks 'tore, Lnnford Station, Plea ant Mound, Stuarts Store and Grays Store. Jacks Township-Renno. All voters residing in this township but nearer the town of Clinton than Renno will enroll with Clinton town club. Scuffletown Township-Ora, Patter sons Store, Langstons Church, Laurens , Township--Wafts Mill Laurens Cotton Mill, and Laurens town. The club district for Watts Mill shall embrace all that territory extending from the city limits of Laurens to township line, to the corner of Scufli town township, thence down the line to Sandy Ford road, to Aulds cross roads, on t9 Parks station and up rail road to the city limits. The Laurens Cotton Mill club dis trict shall embrace ward three in the city of Laurens and all tMat territory from the City limits down the Clinton road to Hliunte, township 'ine, thence from Hunter townshi:> li.ie to Sandy Ford road back to Alcids c;oss ro:.ls to I arks statt.ma. The Laurens club district or Central club shall embrace wards 1, 2,%4, 6, and 6 and all voters residing in Lau runs township in territory not men tioned or embraced in the territory comprising the Watts Mill club dis trict and the Laurens Cotton Mill club district will enroll their names with the Central club in the city of Laurens. All clubs throughout the county are authorized and urgently requested to organize in their respective town ships on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock June 6th, 19141. All voters must enroll on club roll in the club district nearest their respective residences in thie townships in wvhich they reside. Each club must elect a president and one or more vice presidents, a sec retary and treasurer and may have a working committee of not less than three members each, namely, a comn mittee on registration, an executive committee, and such other commit toes as to each club may seem ex pedlent. All clubs must be organized next Saturday afternoon or by Tuesday fol lowing at least. Especial attention of all 4oters is called to the necessity of enrolling in the club whose voting pllace is nearest their respective resi dences in the township. William C. Irby, Jr.,. W. T. Crews, County Chairmhn. Secretary. 01AME AT LJAURtENS MILL, Clinton Ill Play Local Mill Tieami Next Saturday. L~aurens Lost To Enoree. In, a fast game of all at tihe Laurens Mill Park last Saturday the team from Enoree Mill defeatedl tihe home team by a score of 5 to 3. All of the visitors' scores were madle in the first inning, when a few hits and some errors gave the visitors a lead that they hold throoghoht the game. The Laurens Mill team wvill play tile siuad from the Clinton Mill at the Laur!ens Mill Park next Saturday. Tlhese two teams have clashed once before, wvhen Clinton won out by a ssore of 0 to 4. The game will be0 enlled prompltly at 4 o'clock, with tihe usual admission foes. ANOTHER BIG SNIP SINKS Giant Liner Rammed in St. Lawrence River. STEAMER SINKS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. (,reat .Passenger and. Freight. Steamer Collides iih Collier While in Fog 41n St. Lawrence Rtiver Seaward lound. Ship Sinks and Neai'ly I'hous nud liV'es lest. Rimouski, Quebec. 'May 29.-Sink Ing in 90 feet of water within 15 min utes after oeing rammed amidshilps in the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence river early today, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland carired down with her more than 900 of her pas sengers and crew. Of the 1.367 per sons on board the liner only 433 are known to have been saved, making the probable death list 934. Looming up through the river mists, as the Empress of Ireland was lying to, waiting for the fog to lift or day to break, the Danish collier Storstad crashed bow-on into the side of the big Canadian liner, striking her about midway of her length and ripping her side open clear to the stern. The crash occurred not far from the shore off Father Point, 160 miles from Quebec, which the Empress of Ireland left yesterday afternoon bound for Liverpool. and ten miles from this point on the St. Lawrence. In reality, therefore, although the liner was head ing for the sea and the collier com ing in from it, the disaster was not one of the ocean but of the river. Un like the Titanic's victims, the Em press of Ireland's lost their lives within sight of shore-in landlocked waters. Calls for Help. Immediately the ship's crew recov ered from the shock of the collision and it was seen that the liner had re ceived a vital blow a wireless "S. O. S." call was sounded. The hurried appeal was picked up by the government mail tender Lady 'Evelyn here and the government pilot boat Eureka at Father Point, and both sent out to the rescue. So deep was the hurt of the Empress, however, and so fast the inrush of waters, that long before either of the rescue boats coulq reach the scene the liner had gone down. Only floating .-eckage and a few lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, buoying up less than a third of those who had set sail on her, were to be found. The rest had sunk with the liner, had been crushed to death in the S'torstad's impact with her, or had been forced form exposure in the ice chilled waters to lose their hold on bits of wreckage and had drowned. -Storstaid Badly ('rippled. Only a few persons were picked up by the Storstad, which was badly crip ipled herself, and these were brought here by the collier, together with those saved by the Eureka and Lady Evelyn. Twenty-two of the rescued died from injuries or exposure. The others, most of whom had jumped into the boats or plunged into the water from the sinking liner scantily clad, were given such clothing as the town could supply, and later those that could travel were placed on board a train and started for Quebec, where they arrived tonight. Acocunts agree that in the brief space of time-not more than 11 min utes-between the shock of the col lision and the sinking of the liner, there was little chance for systematic maurshaling of the passengers. Every thing indicates that hundreds probably never reached the decks. Few women were among the saved, not more than a dlozen, the lists make it app~ear. Couldn't Itouise Sleepers. "Trho stewards (lid not have time to rouse the people from their berths," one survivor told Capt. Hlollinger of the recu ship Eureka. ' "Those who heard the .frenzied calls of the efi 'cers for passengers to 'hurry on (leck and rushed up pilled into the boats, which were rapidly lowered andl rowed awvay. Many wvho waited to dress were dirowned." The hort'or of the interval during the time the Empress was rapidly fill ing and the' frightened throngs on GRAY COURT.OWINGS SCHOOL CLOSES. Dr. J. Henry Harms llakes Excellent impression In his Address before G:raduating; (lass. (gray Court, May 0ti.---The co:i Iencement. exercises of the Gray Court-Owings high school were closed yesterday with an address by )r. J. I. Iharms of Newberry college. D r. Iiarm maIde a ine impression here, inutting into his address many good points very litting to the present con dition of the school. Wednesday night the pupils of tihe high school gave a play, "The Mer chant of Venice, New Form" which was attended by a very large Crowd. On Thursday night the children's exercises were carried out and the medals. Wliicli had been offered to the pupil mnaking the best scholarship in the high school was awarded to Miss .Janette Willis and the one offered by the W. 0. W. lodge for best scholar ship in the gramma school was award ed to Clyde Brooks. These medals were secured and presented by Mr. J. W. Wells, who had put this move through, and in a few well chosen words the medals were presented to the winners. Prof. N. 11. Fender then delivered the tenth grade certificates and a successful year came to a close. Miss Simpson left today for Clin ton, Miss Trotter left yesterday af ternoon for Laurens, Miss fHiers will leave Tuesday for her home in Branchville and Prof. and Mrs. Fen der will remain hero for a week or two before taking their summer trip. No teachers have been elected for an other year. The erection of thd new building will be started at once and it is hoped that it will be ready for the opening of school in September. Some time ago the district voted bonds for this purpose and the plans have been re ceived so we hope to see Gray Court Owings high school go forward and stand at the top in Laurens county. board here were hurrying every ef fort to escape before she sank was adkd to by an explosion which quickly followed the collision. At cording to one of the rescued, the ex plosion, probably caused by the water reaching the boilers, bulged the liner's sides and catapulted persons from her decks out into the sea. The ship's heavy list as water pour ed in made the work of - launching boats increasingly difficult and when she sank scores still left on her decks were carried down, only a few being able to clear her sides and find sup port on wreckage. Captain a Hero. From all acounts Cipt. 1H. G. Ken dall of the 'Empress of Ireland bore himself like a true sailor. ie re tained such command of the situa tion, it appears, that while the Stor stad's stem stilt hung in the gash it had made in the Empress' side, Capt. Kendall begged the master of the col ler to keel) his Pr'opellers5 going so that the hole might remain .pluggedl. 'The Stor'stad, however, drIoppedl back and the Empress fillled and foundered. Capt. Kendall stood on his bridge as the ship wvent down. A boat picked him up and lhe directed its work of saving others until the craft was loadled. The cap~taini was injured but his hurts are not dangerous, When day broke the rescue boats had not returned fronm the scene of the wreck. People standing on shor'e at Father Point scanning the harbor with tele scopes sawv the rescue steamers pick ing tip boats in the river and pr'e iared to give help to the survivors. They were sorely in need of aid, as most of them had on little clothing and the tempier'atur'e was near' the freezing point. Whenoi they had been given attention the work of receiving bodies was uin dortaken. The rescue steamers them selves had brought in nearly 50 of th'ese and tonight after they had con tinued their searceh a total of about 250 bodies had been r'ecovered., One woman aand four mn, .itill living but unconscious, were picked up by the steamners during tihe dlay. Few~ of the bodies had been idenitified tonight. The wireless is giveni credhif for' say ing many liven. Reosponidag promptly to the "S. 0. B." call, the steamer Ktureka. was on the spot applroximately 20 minutes after the disaster and the Lady 1Evelyn but little later. FARM RP[RS ( To Speak to Gathering of and Corn Club Boy 1 iss .1aiye C. (irlington, county or ganizer of tomato clubs,, has comnplet ed the ' program for the meeting of farmers, their wives, boys and girls and others interested in Iprogressive agriculture which is to take place here Satuirday. The meeting is to be held at lllmes Spring, just below the pas senger stat ion wthere' a spealers stand, :.hade trees and rool spriing water will provide tie cimforts aiil coiveniences for the day. The meeting is to begin at 11 o'clock and will be presided over bv% Supt. of E~duention .1. If. Sullivan. The opt-ning prayer will be made by i ev. .1. It. T. Major, pastor of the First .\1cthod ist chureh, after which I .1\r. Sulilvan will extend a welcome to the assembled aidience and the speakers Addresses will be made by Mr. E. .1. Watson. Mr. W. W. Long, Prof. W. P Stewart, Mr. C. Newman, Mr. Nevin and .\Miss Edith L. Parrott. All of these are experts in some line of agri cultural endeavor. besides being en OVEII 1,000 EN tOLLE D. Laurens City, Laurens Mills and Watts 313Ils Schools Show Total Enroll. ment of Over 1,000. Supt. r. L. Jones, before leaving the city several (lays ago, compiled a re port on enrollment of child rei in the different schools of the city for the past scholastic year. Counting both white and colored pupils, the total en rollment, including Laurens and Watts mills, was 1,045. In the city and Lau rens mills schools, there were 264 boys and 349 girls. In the Watts mill school there were 133 boys and girls. In the colored school there were 116 boys and 183 girls. In view of the attention directel by Rev. 11. A. McCullough, in his con mencement address, to the predomin ence of girls over boys in the graduat ing classes, it is interesting to note that in every class except one of the city schools, during the past year, the girls exceeded the boys in number at tending. The exception is the sixth grade, where there was one more boy than there were girls. Closing of Copeland School. Copeland school closed Vednesday, May 27th with a picnic for the school children. All enjoyed the occasion. The speaker of the afternoon was Rev. Lewis of the Second Methodist. church. All enjoyed his nice talk. Those that received perfect attend ance buttons with the additional priz es awarded by the teacher are as fol lows: Martha Mae Martin, Ruby Mar tin, Hugh Senn, Maneel Senn, Lizzie Bell Senn and Mattie Lee Riddell. Mattie Lee Riddell has been a stu dent of this school for four years and hasn't been absent a day or tardly dur ing this length of tine. Thue tenehers were Miss Luttle Young, principal and Miss Ellen Abramns, assistanlt. It is hoped by all that the teacher's wvill retur n to teach thte comlinlg term. Bahll (iamie ftis A ternloon. W~hat Promises to be a sample of tile "real artIcle" in the base ball line will be 1pull1e('off tis afternoon in (Gailing ton's Ipasturei when thle (rack ('toss Hil11 highl school team wIll go upl againlst. the local aggregation11 of ball tossers from tihe city' schools. 'The 'Cross 11111 crowd of youngsters made a rampage over into Greenwood sev eral day13s ago and retu rned with a big scalp hanging at thle belt andl so "comes highly recommiended"'. 'The local players wvill 1lilu behind Le land Holt. on tihe mundi1i and1 Farris Martin beind~i~ the plate. rThe admnis sion for tihe enItire spasm11 will be 10 andl 15 cents, ladies free. Th'le game will lie called at 4 o'clock. The boys are explectinlg some en cou ragemnent bo0th in the way (if attenldancee and rooting. Tw it iurents 110ys Oraduanfe, invitatttins have bleenl lissued to the coenCeni( lntt Iexerci oes of Wofford 'ollege, in tie gradmiti class of whichel arie two) laurteas boys, Messrs. l'hmilamaon llavid 1lluff and1( Thomas Da vison Lake. .lin the .luniior D~ebate, w! ich Is to 1 etheld .tune 13th1, 10. F. lii( Is, (ot ipiaus, U memberlue of tihe .iuniotr el: ad2 he oni' (If the specak ets. All oft thi .YOnne- men1 tke a litominen11t Parit it college lfe. OMING SAIRDAY Farmers, Tomato Club Girls s at Holmes Spring. lertaining and interesting speakers. very anxious that ('very pe'rson In the thle girls be pretsent. \liss Garlinigon, who has interested hli celf in thi' arralngtienits for this n'eting, stated yestr(''day that she was very anxiotis that every persou in the coutnty be present, who is interested in bett er farmts, ttler homkes and a. most. pleasant homse life in the country. lFvery phase of farmt life will be touch ed on and the informLtion imparted will be of inestimable value. 'ie to:tatto (lu) girls, for whom the tieeting w~as p1rimarily arranged, ar execited to be pr etset "to a man", for tley will he able to gain much needed and valuable information. Miss Garl i:gton will conduct. a demonstration in tomato canning on the grounds and she has expressed a wish that all of "her girls" be present. Dinner in picnic fashion will be spread on the ground underneath the shade trees. "UNEEDA AD" IS THE NAME Of a Thrilling Comedy ''hat wiii7O Staged by Local Talent in tae City The "Love Story of Unceda Ad" Is the official label on the highly enter taining comedy that will be staged in the Opera .House. tonorrow, I'rhursday, evening at eight and one-half o'clock. The aforesaid performance will be act ed by local talent and the cash balance will be given to the Boy Scouts of Laurens. For the small amount of 25 cents you can enter the door and sit behind the railing and you can take a seat beyond the the railing by dish ing out just 35 cents. The reserved seats are now on sale at Powe 'Drug Company and are going like hot cakes. The line-up is as follows: Unceda Ad Ilarriette Hughes Bakers Cocoa Mary Roper Hiawatha Pure Spring Water Ruth Riddle Dutch Cleanser Bernice Meng Gold Dust. Twins, Marion and Katherine Bolt Pure Food John Hudgens IHeinz Pickles Roy Boyd Han Devil Frank Dial AlcClaren Cheese Earle Herne Peter Milk Chocolate, B. K. lumphries Ralaton Miller Cabel Garrett Dutch Paint Calvin Teague Winchester Rine Charles Hughes Quaker Oats Cecil Roper Swift's Cook Damon Gasque spotless 'rew-n People (Chorus). Maid Rosa Gray Doctor Robert Lucas Lawyer 10zelle Holder 1Mayor George Albright Professor O. B. Simmons Policeman lEarle Glenni Chief Harry McAlister' Sc hool TFeacher' Sarah Bishop RtURAI, CARIERlIiS ORGANIZE, J. E. ,Johtnson, of (Gray C'oturt, Elected President o C'ounty A ssoelatin. iRaturd'(ay morning at eleven o'clock a meeting of the ru ral mail cnrirers of the county was held ini the p)ost otlice anid tihe Laur'ents County Rutral Let ter' Catrriers association was forml ed. Thie following otficers wvere elect ed: Jasper't 10. Johnson, (Gray CourtL piresidlet: J. B. Cook, of Owings, see r'etar'y and treasurer. An executive (omm)itltee wats appointed by tile prest' ident, as follows: C. W. Simnpson, Ware Shoals, G. C. Johnson, Clinton; P. RI. Moore, Gray Court. Arch C. Owings. of Gray Court, and L. J. Moore, of Clinton, were elected delegates to tlw state convention wichl meets at Sparl talnburg in July. Accepts New Posidon. Mi'. Roy Little, whlo hats beent the hioss of The Adcvert'r's tttmelt chania dleparl'tment, has rrelgyned to aecept a piosi lon with 11an Ander'ton whtolesal e Igrtocery firmii. Mr. I iltII e las a wahole raft of friends aroundl Lhurtens and they will lie glad to kntow that hle will nmake this city his hieadiitintrers int his tew buiniiaess. ile has been with Tlhv Ad veriser1 for' a numbller o (f yeat's and it1 is ith regreti( ilat h e is given up lie has prioved al miost excellentt prtint er, a line wvorker, andt~ a manti of many liknhle traili.