The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, December 29, 1915, Image 1
VOLUME XXXI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1915. NUMBER 2
FORD PEACE PARTY
RAPIDLY BR[AKING iP
Lleut. Governor Bethea
Quits Party
DISAGREE OVER
PROCEEDURE
One Delegate Characterizes the Peace
Plan as Nebulous and Vague. Mr.
Ford left United States Without
Definite Plans. None Developed.
- Stockholm, via London, December
26.-Androw J. Bethea, Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, will legve
the expedition tomorrow on accoiant
of perdonal, business. Mrs. Boissevain
plans to start for Holland at the
same time.
A meeting of the members of the
Ford peace commission last night re
sulted in a disagreement over -the
mode of procedure and Mrs. Inez Mil
holland Bolscis aln announced her
withdrawal fmn the expedition. Mrs.
DoissevaAn ' xllaincd that she was
compelled to abandon the peace trip|
and would leave immediately for
home.
Henry Ford, on departing for Ameri
a, had appointed seven delegates to
carry on the work of the expedition.
These delegat, 4. ' the Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones chairman, announced the
plans without reference to the general
meeting. Mrs. Doissevain protested.
She described the peace plan as nebu
lous and vague, and said that when
the peace ship left New York, Mr.
Ford had no definite plans, but that
she hoped later that one developed.
She said this had not materialized and
lnsteal there were dissentions and
misunderstandings. She expressed the
belief that the expedition was doomed
to failure because of un-democratic
principles o a small group, including
ine Rosika Schwlimner, in controll
ing opinion.
"We have a)ppeared to the public
what we are in fact, a confutsed mass
of amiflably-intended persons of vague
thinking and no collective planning."
Bis oissevainl said, and conitinuling
she acensed the leaders of the party
with havig arrived In Seandanavia
without, any plan convincing to the'
people whon it was sought to win ov
er to peace.
**UN'(LE J A CK" 1OODOOED
BallihY it. the County Jail has One Al
most "Put Over" on Min.
Charlie Jernigen is In the county
jail and C. '%. Jernigen, his brother, Is
serving a sentence fron the mayor's
court, both of them being clarged
with larceny. The former is charged
with entering stores at Fountain Inn
and Clinton and the latter with lar
ceny from the person. Thme "person"
happens to he "Uncle Jack" Glenn, the
represenltative or Sheriff Owings at
the county jail.
According to court house gossip,!
C. M1. Jornigen got into trouble on ac
count of .his brother' who was already
In jail. It Is said that lhe used various
and sundiry "wiles" on Uncle JTack
Olents In the~ hop1) that the latter
Would give upl the jail key's. The uni
suispecting "Uncle .Jack" d1id indeed go
to sleepu under the'spell of the schenm
lug Jecrnigen and wvas relieved of con:-I
siderable cash money and other' vai
aleis, but the keys did( not show upi.
Som~ebo '/ 01lse(lid, however, and as a
result of the evening's activities
Jecrnlgen, as aforesaid, ia now serving
time on the chaIn gang.
Death~l of .tilrs, ,John i Anide'rson.,
Atri'. .Iohnm Anideromn, oif thle For'k sec
tion neari Waterloo, died at her' home
Thursd'5(ay' andi was huried at lt,
) Son was in the0 58th year' of her1 life.
She is suive bV~ly heri hiusban md a ni
soveral children. . \rs. Amnerson wats
gr'eatliy blcoved by all -who knew(~% her'.
Opensmm New ('afte,
air. Jotu an;h. Wardl, of Grneevi~oeod,
lias opene~d a cafe in thle .\l art in build(
ing where them fjiurn 1.\mfot or C~ar (To.
wvan formma'ly~ located. It' wIll lhe in
charge of. his. son, Mm'. Willlie Ward.
Th'ie Ameiej~ Cafe Is tihe name of the
ne(w Oicoern. They expeet to give
high class ser'vice in every rennect.
BURGLAR CAUGHT.
John We4dy Landed in Jug After
Breaking Into Several Places.
After breaking into three , places
Monday night, John Woody ' was
caught by the city officers just as he
was entering the office of the South
ern Express Company about two--thir
ty in the morning. Woody first broke
through the plate glass window of
Todd, Simpson Company, from which
he took several cheap watches. After
this he rambled down into the wholp
sale district and extracted about one
hundred cans of sardines from the
warehouse of( J. S. Bennett Sons and
Company. After Placing his watches
and sardines in his private store-room
Woody decided to have a drink and
headed for the express office. As he
was about to leave the building with
the night's haul, the officers nabbed
him. Though he at first denied his
guilt, he finally confessed to the two
previous. robberies of the evening and
to hiving brokeit into the express of
fice several weeks ago. Monday night
he was about to get away with seven
gallons of whiskey and on his former
visit he hauled off four gallons.
It. F. D's. PROTTijST.
Leeting is Held Against Combining
Routes In Spartanburg.
Spa'rtanburg, Dec. 27.-The Spar
tanburg court house was crowded this
morning with rural letter carriers
representing the counties of the
Fourth Congressional district who
had come to discuss with Congress
man S. J. Nicholls the proposed mo
tor routes. The postmaster general
has indicated his intention to consol
idate some of the existing routes and
have them covered by carriers usifig
automobiles and covering much great
er territory. Opposition to the change
was general, many of the carriers
speaking in opposition to the plan.
Mr. Nicholls expressed the belief
that the federal government would
at no distant d LtO inaugurate plans
that. would aid the several states in
road building, but until there was
decided imiprovement in the character
of the highways over which the car
riers must travel lie regarded the mo
tor route ac 'ipracticable and would
do all within his power to have them
held up.
Loule Lit the Rag.
Louie Alexas, who sonic time ago,
bought a fruit stand from Charlie
H ondrqs, left for parts unknown sev
eral days ago, aftey getting a lot of
goods from local merchants on credit.
After lie had run his debts up to about
three hundred lie lilt the trail for
other portions of the country. Yes
terday he was found in Cincinnati and
offlcers expect to go after in at once.
A'r"IACTION AT MOIN TVILILE.
Tle Mildred Morrison Company to be
at the Schoolhouse Tomorrow
Night.
One of the finest attractions ot the
season will be at the Mountville
schoolhouse tomorrow (Thlursdlay) ev
eninug at eight o'clock. The attraction
ist The Mildred Morrison Company and
it comes tl Mouniville with the very'
highest recomumendlations and with a
record of having pleased their audi
pnees8 wherever ap~pearing. The comi
pany will present Miss Mild red Morri
son, in, songs and readings, Miss Vera
Anderson, violinist and Mir. Carl Thg
gert, baritino and trombone. The sol
lowing from one of the Texas pape-s
shows how well they have pleased
those who have heard them: "icach
performance received numbers of en
cores, whliich was aditional proof
that -theh: program was more than had
been claimed for it." T1ickets for the
shot are on saile at lipp Brothers
store.
(Cetton (Unnnings.
The ('ot in ginnii ngs for t hho county
up I to Decembe lr 1 7th wvhen thle last re
port1 was madle, amioiunii ' to 37,55 I
La!". Upl to the sam dlim. ne last year
85 ,80 ba les hati been 'gInned. Thie
itacrease this yeari, therefore, is over
2,000 boles.
'(hovernor Oiers ipiwardl.
Gov'ern'or Mlanning hs5 oIffered a re
warmd of $ 100 foir the cap)1tire of (1riein.
wodil iH4oger, wh'lo eseap~ed from the
State farml abhoiut D~ecember' 2nd.
.Grmenwood Roger's was from thhii
county anid was serving a life ien
tenee for the murder of Mir. Gleo.
Youngr near Rlenno.
SOUQR1T TREASURE
OF ANCIENT INCAS
Post ofilce Inspector leturning After
Vain Search for Burled Wealth In
Per u.
Colon, Panama, December 26.-Har
ry A. Barber, a United 'States postof
flee instpector, who has been in the in
terior of -Peru trying to locate the
buried treasure of the Incas, will start
for Waslington tomorrow, having, it
is said, failed in his quest.
Inspector Barber was sent to Peru
to investigate for the Federal authori
ties at Wilmington, iDel., the alleged
existence of a $500,000,000 placer gold
deposit, which figures prominen*ly in
the McCune case, in which t. Du
ponts and other leading De.L~ware
financiers are mentioned. MCune, it
is said, floated a large corporation on
the strength of having discovered the
source of the gold of the ancient Incas.
lie finally became involved with the
postoffice department. McCune is now
at liberty under $10,00J bail and, ac
cording to Barber, !a in Peru again
endeavoring to locate the treasure.
The mine is said to be near the head
waters of the Amazon River. Accord
Ing to the MlcCunc prospectus there
is an exceptionally rich vein of free
gold. Barber said that he spent six
weeks niaking an investigation, but
declined to state with what results.
He said, however, that the natives told
him they had never known of any gold
in the vicinity. On his return to
Washington Barber said that he would
make an exhaustive report to the post
oiee department.
Returned With Fugitive.
Rural Policeman A. R. Sullivan re
turned from Offerman, Ga., Friday,
where he had been to secure Sam
Jones, a negro wanted in this county
for a murder committed in 1901, four
teen years ago. According to the rec
ords in the clerk of court's office,
Jones killed another negro by the
name of Will "Mason near Goldville as
a result of a row over a woman. Iimi
mediately after the shooting Jones left
for parts unknown. TlW sheriff and
his offilals have been on his trail for
some time.
Attended 1lotel .Meeting.
.\Mr. Ii. C. Rohr, proprietor of the
1411reis Ilotel, attenled a meeting of
the S. C. Ilotel Men's Association, held
In Columbia last week. Mir. R1ohr took
a prolilnent part in the discuissiols in
the meeting and was elected vice
president of the association. John .1.
Cain, manager of The lefferson, at Co
lumbia, was elected president. M1r.
Rohr is considered one of the best
posted men in the state on hotel mat
ters.
ORGA4 RECITAL TI[iRS).ty.
Dr. John A. Earnshaw of Columbia
College Will Give Recital. Ink Meth4
dist Church.
Dr. John A. Earnshaw, director of
music at the Columbia Female Col
lege, will give an organ recital in the
xrethodilst church here Itomorrowv,
(Thursday) evening beginning at sev
en-thirty. Dr. Earnshaw Is well
known to the music lovers of Laurens
and is considleredl a leader among
Southern musicians, The following
priogram wvill he rendered:
Great Fantasia in 0 AlInor J, &, 11aeh
Slavonle Cradle Song Neruda
Golden Wedd~ing Giabriel Mlarie
Toccato in E~ Minor Collacrts
Adoration Borowski
Grand Choeur Glulimant
I nuoresque D~vorak
l"antasia lit D) .\inor' Bach
.\octurne Chopin
1Round( the Fair os
Chi]stmas~i in Sicily YOnI
Th'le recital is he:!ng g'ie lundeir tihe
amuspleecs of thle D av ies Ilssiona ry 8o
('iety of the \ethodist C1hurch. lur
ing the eveining ai silver' offeriing will
be0 taiken.*
31loies i'romi 1: p ira nb ii .
3ir. A I?.I)"in ,orb whon hs; ben
this wt'eek to the l'ne'e lhe recently
( der- 1i1.hopi.
.\!'- .\ni '' 11> liroxyder', of \Moumnt
v''5 r \'i ' -m IHimhop, of K'~innard-.
* -e '' :' Cid at thle home otf Rev. WV.
1i. :'iurray, at 1<inarids, last Satur'day,
T'ev. .Murriay performing the c'eremonvi 1.
1 Ii arie popiulari y'oun i people ini
theli' respective com munities. Thoy
will reside at Kinards.
NO CHRISTMAS TRtUCE
FOR MEN IN TRENCHES
No Heavy Fighting, but No Truce
Efther. English Government Under
Newspaper Attack.
London, Dec. 2.-Chritinas passed
without-beavy fighting anywhere on
the European fronts. It passed also
without a truce, which gave a touch
of humanity to Christmas 'k year ago.
The United Kingdom, however, wit
nessed a general abandonment of the
truce between the political parties,
which was observed during the early
months of the war and which appar
ently was cemented for the duration
of the war when the coalition govern
ment was formed.
The past week has seen a steady
growth of the newspaper attacks on
the government, the general burden of
which is the, slowness, the lack of
foresight and decision and the mis
management of the Dardanelles en
terprises. While al i newspapers dis
claim any partisan moutives all tile
more prominent ones participating in
the opposition belong to the conserva
tive party with the exception of thn
Manchester Quardian.
The newspapers generally hold
Premier Asquith responsible for the
conduct or affairs. The Northcliffe
group headed by the Times and the
Daily Mail with the support of the
Morning Post was Joined today by the
Observer which is the foremost Sun
day paper, and the Referee which
has a large -audience among the
masses.
David Iloyd-George is the only
candidate advanced for succession. He
commanded Lord Norcliffe's suil
port sometime ago in his speech
charging the government with being
"too late" at the most important
crisis of the war and at the same
time gained for himself a larger fol
lowing.
The two latest couits of the indict
ment of the cabinet. are tile postpone
llent until after tile holidays of the
munitions )ill and tile postponellent
or giving the country ally insiglit in
to Lord Derby's report oil his recruit
ing results. In the Imleantilie tihe
verdIct of ti lol labor, Oil Mr. ILloyd
George's appel to relax union rules
in munitions works to perillit of the
eitry of XO,000 unsi0killed laborers is
awaited with interest. One Iindred
and fifty delegates of tie li engileerillg
society met In I ondoil this week to
consider terils for settliIg all differ
eices with the government.
The Salonlki Sitiuation.
Speculation over the develoPm1en t
of an attack oil the Allies at Saloniki,
continues. Some papers credit tile
Central Powers with a plan to bear
down on Saloniki from three sides,
the Germans forming the center with
the Turks and Bulgarians on the light
and right wings, respectively.
From different corres1)oidents coimle
various reports on the situation in the
Balkans, some contending that the
Butlgar'ians hlave accompii ~lhd all
tile teritoilal gains withtin their um
mediate amnbitons9 and therefore will
nlot move furthLler. Othler corresp5lond
enlts represent them as being deter
inedl to extend~ theu' boundaries to
include the impllortalnt por't of Saloniki.
Germlany probably Is confronted
with theC pr'oblemf of reconlciling thiq
conflicltin~g ambItIons of hecr two iBal
kan allies, Tturkey and flulgar'ia anld
atlso~ trying to k(eep) the1 friendshl ip of
Greece whose sutppoit slhe is t'cditedl
with still hloping to gain.
Grec's Latest Move,
Theli latest re ported Grteek mlove is
he iprohiibition of tile expIort of food(
suppiilies froim GreCe(' to thle l'1ranco
llritish armly at. Saloniki. G'eineral
('~eelnau, chlief of the Frcelh genl
tiral staff hlas vilsitedi iliing ('onstanm
lIne~ and( met thle Grmeek ainiy staff
trilts, liing~ Peter' of Serbia ha's am'
be' the guest oft liing \'i< tor limmiia
in the moyal h'ailai M ora
It'; lh od itt:ttu ii'e: i'.
Tha ter tI li i dw tlifi ralen
ami dth la - ietmi e a yll to ste
tt iall luii t and (ent SItsaai
REPORT OF PROGHIESS
IN LAUlENS SCHOOLS
Figures on WIcl was Based Award
of Second Prize iII Scl90l Contest.
The report below was made by Miss
Wil Lou Gray, county rural school
supervisor, in competing for' the state
prizes offered for school improvement.
It will be remembered that this coun
ty won the second prize, Dillon win
ning the first by a narropy margin.
The report is as follows:
Detail Improvements iI Laurens Coun
ty-1914-1915.
School Community Trustees
Laurens City .. $ 100.0.1 $ 400.00
Laurenc 1111 95.00
*Trinlty Ridge 345.00 250.00
*Prospect .. .. .. 5.00 10.00
*Woodrow Wilson . 38.00 30.00
Bailey..... . .15.15 16.20
Copeland .. .. .... 17.00 550.00
*Fleming -50.00
Watts Mill 10.00 50.00
*Oak Grove ...... 20.00 141.00
*Lanford .. .. .... 51.00 10.00
*Ora 85.10 65.74
*lcernezer ...... 32.30 24.341
*Patton .-.-...... 8.00 11.84
*Friendslilp ...... 66.00 30.00
Varrior Creek .. 10.00 '10.00
*l~lddle's Old Field 8.00 11.00
*1luntersville 5.....50.00 3,120.93
*Grays....... 37.67
Central ........ 4.15
*Youngs ........ 105.00 165.00
*Greeipond .. .... 263.15 10.00
*Eden ..........100.00 2,600.00
Shiloh ........15.00
1larmony ...... 5.00 43.80
*Gray Cou rt-Owings 253.00 20.00
*llarksdale...... 66.41 211.55
Dials -.--..... 10.00 40.76
Merna........
*Princeton ...... 64.00 22.00
ML Bethel 42.02
Poplar ..1......15.00 66.12
*Hickory Tavern *00.00 37.45
*Friendsi2p ........20.48
*rewerton .. 25.65 13.65
*\Wat erloo ...... .0.00 100.00
Mt. Ghtaligher . . .. 40.00 :10.86
*Palni to - . . . 10.00 30.00
hoth lehin .. .. ..
*E 1om - - -.- . .. - - 30.00
Center Point .
*akvill..........2 25.00 650.00
.lt. I'leasant .. .. 30.00 10.00
*Nl1. Olive ......228.20
lleedy Grove...
':-Cross Hill1 .l . .... .I I6.00 566.30
Long View .. .. .. 1,000.00
l'ine Bluff ......
\\a(le . ...12.00
*Pi1ne Grove .. ..... 7.00
*\oullntville .......313.01 16.50
* .Lisbon 8........ 38.15 20.00
Rock ... .. .. ....
* Rock Hridge . . 155.00
Wadsworth ...
25.00 600.00
*hy dla Mill...... 20.00 10.00
*Goldville.. . .. .15.00 53.00
1elfast .- .- .... 6.00
Youngs .. .. .. ..
*Hurrican e .. .. .. 85.00 117.81
*Shady Grove .. 30.00 2 1.62
*Renno ..1......110.00 121.15
I luntington-Ne w bu ilding being bull t
Odell's.... ......
*Lonjg liranch . . .. 22.20 10.00
.\usgrove . .. ... 5.00 69.22
Langston .. ....
*Sandy Springs .. :35.00 10.00
TotaLl.. . ... ...$3,01.2 $13,109.27
*-Thle schools which have organ
ized School IminprovemientI Associations.
M is('ellan eouis Fact s.
One-t 'acher .. , . .... . .
Tw'~o-teaecr ........ .......19
Thliree-tencher.................
Inour-teacher .. ............2
1lhigh ............... .......
Tieaecers; 160,o
le'irst grade ........ ........5
Seconid grad.............. .......21
Thlird grade .. ..............
Delhany .. .. ...,0 1.9
LonIg View '..........,000
Oakvilll'........ UD 750
Capchuel e................1.0
!II: O81k ftib. I 1' ' h 1:3 1 aurn: . ,
\ ot-ing hondI\a 1: 1 . a1: !.
I:t year.x
(C'ontinued on -Page IEight.)
TORP[DO CLAIMS
80 MOR[ LIV[S
French Liner Victim of Un
dersea Fire
BELGIAN STEAMER
ALSO TORPEDOED
French Liner Sent to lottow Withouj
Warniny. Not Known Whethier or
Not Any Americans Were Among
Those Who Perished. Other News
fron Various Fronts.
The French steamer Ville de la
Ciotat, iroceeding from the far cast
for Ma rselles, with many passengers
aboard, has been toli)doed in the
Mediterranean. The loss of life
anlong the p.ssenigers and crew is
estI Inated at 80, the sur ivors' being
licked ilp by a Biritish steamer and
taken to Nialta. The oflicial an
nouncleernent of tlie attack from Paris
says that the vessel was sutik without
warning.
Casualties likewise are believed to
have occutrred in the torpedoing of
the llelgian s(eaner Alinistre Berna
el't, two boatloads of tile gerew of
which are said to be unaccounted for.
Suibmarines Very A ctive.
The activity of the submarines of
the Teutonic allies is further evidenc
ed by the fact that within tile last
few (lays they have sent to the bot
ton lritish, Frlench' and Belgian ship
ping amounting to a tonnage of near
ly 18,000.
S-hould tile American citizenship of
one of the survivors of the Japanese
steamer Yasaka \laru be established,
the sinking of that vessel by a sub
narine, it is announced from Wash
ington, will be nuade the subject of
diplotnatic negotiations by the Anieri
call government.
The iIIritish Indian ariny corps has
been wilth'ldrawn flnoltl the front In
Fralce "for a11oiheir iel( of atIon."
King George, in a .ssage deliver
ed 1o tie depaiting .ldieirs by the
Prince of \\als, itighly pralises thern
f(or, Ihe 1 ourage ind en(dtrance and
"'(.e(dS nobly donte inl Ile days of the
eveV-Ilie illnor1ah b"e (co1flict."
British Flght A rabs.
Again there has been 'onsider'ablo
fighting helweeun the Iritish and
Arabs in western Egypt, nealnr the
Triploitan borler, but the iesuult Is
Soniewhat heelouded, owilng to the
divergent repor-ts of L.ondon and Con
siantinople. I ondon cailuing suecess
for the Biritish and ('onstantinolle for
the Arabs.
The lritish have put down an at
tack of the Tunt rks against Kuit-el
Aiara, in Mesoliotamnila, wlerr the
Turks had succeeded in breaching the
fortified positions and entering the
hastion of one oft) tle forts. Tile
Turkish losses in the several eligage
tments are estimated at 700. The
Itrit islh kill d and wolntl2Aded nu11mbher
edi 110.
Little fIghting of contsequlenc(e is go..
ig on elsewhere exceplt by means of
artillery and sapping oplerat ions. Both
Pais a ndi Lotindon iepiort the Intl Iction
of dam nage to Germiani t renches; at sey
eral points on the western line.
On tihe Austtro-i tali fr'ont the Ital
intlno ha rdttnent of I the Tiy rol (ani see
tiotn has gr'own ini inltensity and( on
the I sonzo.( fron1t the big gn u s of both
sides arec exchtanging shells.
On th liu lssianh front and in Onll
('ia there is 1no ('hange inl the situa
tion, while in the Italkan theatrI e thio
fighiting euemlingly has enmded, ex('ept
for isolated battles in .\Tntene::ro.
he -requestedi liuberbi la u \ i:Mrlaw
anthelii rep'ly of Muhia ~is 4ote
to be saiti' factory
rn m io - a t of
tia ra n o Th adver
I 'iin'i' in c at
ii~ . I \l''n . lo h i - .1.anuary.
1 or ih : 1 e b8 node great
redue?'ev -1 invIces on Ull gonds and
Oemeert to here unother of their
suiccessfutl sales.