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VOLUME XXXIV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919. N UMER3 COMIRE CHAMB[R [NJOYS SMOKER Business Men and Farmers as Guests MUCH GOOD LOOKED FOR Get-together Meeting in whieh Good Roads, Good Schools and Other Topics are Discussed. Address by Apecialist from Bureau -of Soils. En dorses Public Library. At a smoker given Monday night by the Laurens Chamber of Oommerce, a w!de range of subjects claimed the attent!on of the various speakers from sweet potat, storage werehous *ea to the building of a public library, with special emphasis on the para mount issue of good roads. The an nouncement made by State Senator John 11. Wharton that the road bonds -of the county wculd -be sold before Arturday night and that Laurens coun Jy was geing to make a beginning on the perinainent impsrovement of its highways brouptlt forth a round of applause. In fact every reference to -the subject of -o:I iimprovement had instant attention on the part of the memnbers and guents of the commer ial body. cial body. The feature of the meet ing was an address by Howard C. S Anith, of the U. S. Soil Survey, Bureau -of Soils, Washington, ). C. Mr. Smith ..poke last on the program. W. I. Gray. president of the local organization. presided over the meet lig. Tnvitations had been Issued to several hundred people of the county, and the response was very gratifying, though it was pointed out that. the con dition of the roads prevented, many from e'in 1). M core, county demonstration dgent, t( the meeting of the purpose of the Clqrleston & Western Carolina railroad to eneourage the growing of siweet potatoes on a larger scale in this section with the view of build ing storage warehouses, the railway coipany proposing to furnish tle plans and sites for the necessary ,buildings. A special agent is engaged in promoting the plans throughout this section. Potatoes are selling at $1.8O by the car and it is always easy enough to sell potatoes, saidl Mr. .Moore. In pointing to tihe fact that this section would this week send out $S5,000 for nitrate of sodia, lie emnpha sized tihe importance of having other marketable crops hesides cotton. Dr. H. K. Alken, in introducing the subject of good roads, said there was noithing m0ore inlportant to the happi iess and welfare of the people than a complete system of improved or Permanent highways, and lie was greatly pleased that the county was taking lip the question again with such en thuisiasml. (Capt. W. R. Rlichey, who has recent ly returunedl t'rom France, said that he was alw~ays in sympathy wvith move ulmnts for goodl r'oads and said that it was his Ipleasur'e to have b~eeni co-au 111or for' the bill whieh resulted in lie bond issue for r'oadhs in thIiis coun ty. iHE gave an interesting description of Fr'enchu roads, saying that thle poor est r'oadrs in Fr'ance c'ompaed favor' ably with thle best ones in this state a nd cr'edit ed thle roads of that count ry, with thle intdoitab hle 'oilu'age of the Alliedr antd Amrnean arm'iiles, withi the v i'tor'y overi thle (Germtans. State Senator Wharton greatly re .gretted the dhefeat of the good roads measure at the r'ecent session of the Gleneral Assembly, saying that it war a misfort une foir the entire State. Sen ator W'harton expr'essed the oplinionl hat if the legislature wvere calledl to gether again the membiers of the I louise wouild su pport a good roads bill. flut the mat ter' ill have to go over' for' a year it seems. lie voted for' the mieasur'e in the Senate and would1( have sitpport ed aniy resonable bill1 that will afford relief ofr the people ini the matter' of bet ter roadis. He is eon vinced that tihe members of the lower' house who opposed the b)ill would now reverae themselves if they hiag the chance. linitted States -Senator N. BI. Dial ex iitessedl gratiflcatiotn over' the favorable p)rospects tot' lmmediate wor'k on the roads1 as a result of the sale of the (Continued on Page Si. COUNCIL MAKES PLANS FOR POWER PLAN'T Committee Appointed to Eiploy En gineer to Lay Out Plans for Modert Plant. The City Council met In session Frl day night to canvas the returns on the power election of the Tuesday before and to take steps toward providing the city with light and power service. The official returns showed a variation from that printed in The Advertiser in its last issue-Ward 3 having gone 16 to 2 against the power contract in stead of 10 to 5. The official vote as declared by the council was as fol lows: Yes No. Ward 1 ................ 11 Ward 2 ................2 7 Ward 3 ................2 16 Ward 4 .........,......8 12 Ward 5 ................16 37 Ward 6 ................ 15 Total ................38 98 Mayor Babb reported that Mr. N. B. Dial, president of the power company, had returned the proposed contract to him and had asked for the return of the duplicate. This action put at rest some rumors to the eflect that the pow er company might attempt to hold the city to the contract in spite of the elec tion. -In reporting this action the mayor stated that he had interviewed Mr. Dial, in order to find out how long the power company would continue to serve the city now that the contract had been voted down. Mr. Dial was quoted by the mayor as saying in ef fect that the city should get its power plant to running, Withholding any defl nite time as to when the company would shut off the current from its lines. Mr. Dial himself 'was called ov er the telephone and came to the meet ing. He gave in person a similar re ply to the council. Upon being asked by Councilman 11terby as to a def 0ite time when the Dower com iny would discontilime the service, MAr. Dial stated that the company had already received enquiries for a larger amount of pover t0han the ciit y had been usiig. (lat the power comipany desired to make certain necessary repairs with ImrIs which had already been ordered and that as soon as these parts arriv ed the power coipaly would CUt "OT its power fronm the city and rIwoeed to: 11make heslle repairs. lie said, in appar (lit justiication of this couirse, 1 1hat "The newspapers said" that the city's Power plant was ready to run. Mr. )ialI incidentally delivered a tirade agahist certain un-named enemles of the power comtpany, whom he called character assassins and other similar names. lie also charged again that. The Advertiser, abetted by Mayor l3ahh, hnd iiislead the people into believing that the power company had endeav ored to force an election before nee essary iiforation could be obtained. In answer to Mayor llabb, Mr. Dial ad mail ted tlaLt the election was ordered early at his request so the matter coul( be closedl up before lie had to go to W~ashiingtoni to take his seat in the Unitedl States Senate. On motion of Alder'man Jones and a second by Alderman Dial, a coml mit tee or tihriee, co(mposedl or Aider men .Jones, Ilellanms andl hlishoip, was namied b~y thle mayor to cemiploy ani engineerCt to suit t plants for an up to-date ptower ' planit which would serve the city for' years to comec. EMPLO)YEES I NSI'IWED. Emnploye'es of Southern ('otton Oil ('ompanty Presented iih Life Insurmi anc'e Poliey it~h Premium Pnid by flhe Compt~any. rThe regular employees or thlie local plant or thle Sotthern CottIon Oil Comn panty have recently been presenited wtlfeinsurance policies for $.500 or' $1,000 accordinag to salary paid, the policies bein~g kept. in force by the company wt houit cost to thle emi ployeos. h1le policies were present ed to emiployees who had been in thme a rvice for six months or longr. This action has been taken by the company throughout its many plants scattered over the South andl has prov en a blessing to a number of fami lies wvhere the br'ead winnier has been taken away during the present cipi demic of influenza. It is an Indica tion of the interest this company takes In the welfare of its employees. A rrived From Overseas. Mr's. Giuy I19. Moore received a tele gram from her son, K. Leverne Moore, last week, stating that lhed had safely arrived1 in New York on March 8th. TO MAKE COTTON CANVAS To See Every Man iII the County iII Regard to Acreage Reduction. About one third of the school dis tricts of the county were represented at the meeting held in the court house Saturday to lay out plans for the acreage reduction campaign in this qounty. Mir. 'W. .1i. Gitay pre.lded over the meeting. The trustees present were not dis posed to change the pledge as orig inally recommended by the central committee at Columbia and the big cotton meeting In New Orleans. Mr. W. P. Harris introduced a resolution to change the pledge so as to provide for plantint of two thirds acreage in cotton and the remainder in other crops. Opposition to this resolution was expressed on the ground that this would not materially reduce the acre age and the resolution was voted down. On a motion by Mr. B. F. Copeland, of Renno, to stand squarely by the pledge as originally written with the authorized change as to fer tilizers, the pledge was unanimously endorsed. With this disposed of the trustees present took the pledges supplied by the committee and carried them home for circulation among the farmera. Those school districts not represent ed at the meeting will have pledges sent them today or tomorrow. MR. JOE SPARtKS HElE ON W. S. S. DRIVE Program Will be Pushed Aggressively in Thli State, 1ie Stated MoWNay. The War -Savings and Thrift pro grain will be pushed aggressively during 1919 by the United Stales treasulry department, nccordin.g 1o Joe Sparks, field director of the Wa 'uyiv0 1anlk, 1leh0mnd, Va., who. was in Lauiron.; Monday. MI. Sparks is making a hurried foir of the Stale perfecting the War Savings Stanpi orta gan izat ion. 'I'le saving plan will he a permanaeni featire of Ie governient's filliii'al poliey, \ir. Spar'ks said. ''lhe iiop'l vill be lrged to save inl vevry way possible andl iInvest their saving, s in. War Savings Stamrps. Cou1n ty dirve tors are to be naamed in I all ('o011)i' of the hinited Stat's to have 'barre of Ilir \Voti.( ir. Sparks pointed4 out that tlt var has ben won buat that 1liw hill ha1,s not yet been paid. lie also ex irssed the opinion that the Fifth dis Irict, whleh Inclides the States of North and South Carolina, Virghiiia a Iaryl anid and West Virginia, will go over fhe top in the Victory Llherty Loan which is scheduled for April. The governiment, according to 'Mr. Spairks, has plans under considera tion for the organization of a con miunity thrift society in every sehoo district in the United States. 'I'hese associations will be formed Ito put thle peopie on a more iaoundl economic hiasis hy encouraging thriift and safe inlvestmendts5. WV. (. Lanen'fster Niamaed fSeeretnry. Mir. W. 0. Lancast er, of thlis city, has n'ceipteid t he a ppointtmni'it as sac re ty to Sena tor' N. ii. Dial. Wh ileI SenatIor ial has not taken t he oathl of offie, his term hegan on thei liih of AMair'lh an h11le is c'lothedii 'withI all Ithe rights andl pr'ivi leges of a se nat ir ad Mir. Lancaster is similarly cloathed withI all thi aphpuratenanices of a'see r'etar'y. lIn spakling abonut thle matter' se'veral days ago, i. Lancaster' stated that tftr his term of omlicithe1w 'nited PStates goveranmaent, instead of coilleet lng huge taxes every year, would lbe paying a dividend. Mir. Lancaster' has baaeen associlt ed with th le entIer'prises of Seuiaor' Diai fot' a tnumberca of yearas. ('ited Fior lit'avery. Relatives of thle late Coi'p. Thlonmas 10. P'eden, of (ray CoutrI, have r'eceiv ed from the War Depar'tment a coin maendation of his ser'vices as follows: "Corpioral Thomas 10. [Peden, Com pany K, 28thI Tnftant ry d ispliayedh bra~v cry and excepitional dnvotion to duaty' in conmand et ana adv'inced outpost. diir'(ctinag the f1ro. of the automiatic rifles, encoutraging and cheering his men tantiilihe died of wvounds." Preaching at Union (Chaurch. Pi'rehing services have been an noinnced for'. Union chur'ch Runaday af ternoon at ':.'ln O'clock. 11. L. PAICHINSON IONO1IED ' IN I ED I'0 SS ('IiW1,l;S Apilinted Associnte 3Mnatger of it( SouthIternl DIVislont of the ited Cross to Sltceed 1Dr. Snavely. The annlolncenent that Mr. 13. 1,. Parkin1son, formerly sit peritenident of fite graded schools here, has been all Ioited associa'te manager of the Southern Division of the Ied Cross will he received with interest and pride here. Mr. Parkinson resigned his posi (lonl in the schools here to take up1) work with the army Y. M. C. A. and was most successful in both his camp work and in the United War Work campaign, when he directed the Vic tory Boys and Victory Girls. At the close of this campaign he accepted the position of supervisor of Red Cross home service for South Cardlina, be ing thus connected 'with the civilian relief department of the Southern di vision. It 'was the successful work done by him In this position which first attracted the attention of the dl vision management and which result ed in the offer to hin of the post he now fills. This choice was made af ter careful deliheration for it has been fully realized by those in charge of the work that the Red Cross in times of peace will demand certain definite qualities of mind and a personal un derstanding and appreciation of the ehenged conditions which only a bro!' kvowledge of the field can give. These, are posseesad by Mr. Parkinson to an unusual degree, and coupled with a strong personalify, will comblie to crc tte of him ai associate manager whoi will he abl1e to continue the useful ness of the Red Cross and to extend its ac fivities into the new avenues of help fulness 'which lie before it. (ItEI-:N'WOO) SiAtDDINED BY liE.\TII OF l'0F. NJPli -:IM Uzicle of II. 11. Niekel%. of this City, lIuried at Coronaco 3Monday. -Mr. R, R. Nickels was called to Idreenwood Sunday on account of the death of hi i uncle, Mr. W. W. Nickels, sulperinltendeit of te city schools hee for the past eight0 year4. Weighed down by over'work and itiental s traitn inlcidentf to sch1(ofol o ditionls duringh I he war mi t hi in llelza epidellie, Mr. Nickels hee:mue temporatily tilu halan11ced anld inlflictedl a wounid u1pon himi setlf froi n hih ho died Suindar llio ning. lie a i lried iln the lI ily 1lo(t at Corntmao Molilay. Mr. Nickiels wa probably flte most poth~tr andl hihly retrled of a lotn'. list of su es.fil school .u1perintend enis inl (;rt'etwod and was held In universal e'steeml thr1ouighouit the city., Itis mn1. iiag mntoll I of the sclools tlere woni him a statewide repitat ion. Be lng in apparently good health his un timely death caine as a great shock to tile colmuitility and. all who knew him. Mr. Nickels was -1- yo:ir of age and' is iurvie by a wife and three C drenl. IEllling Near ('ross 1ll11. As a resul t of a difiicuit y bet weent Saulmi urtOin a nd anii ote inegro tnamied Willims, near (ross it ill last week, Sam 1 ii tott was al1most inistatIly kill. 0(1 by a blow frotm ani axe andt Williams ii ill thle (iounlty jail awaitinig trial for murderlit. The two nugtroes, with ot hers, wereOCI ug Itiber and~ had a abiout carele5.tsss in let tinig a tre fall on htunt. A fight followved ini which Ibttrtoni was killed. Clarence Pitts anid Arthutr (uintiighaim, two of the othier niegrodes, sutCeedeld in (atch~ling WVi I liamis after thle kiltling and tied him with a lopi until the arrival oIf the shertiff a short thlne later. Williams may lie trieid at t his t erm of ((ourit. S.,.1. Datvis Seils hlome. Mr. .leff iDavis has sold his homte place, illree iiies west of the oity. Mr. Sloan iti . Mla hon of thbe Rabitn Creek soot ion . This is the Capt. Sitell1 place, or a part oft it, andi conitainls 1 25 neres0. Mr. iDavis reenived $115 an acre wh1ih it I onisidred a pre'ttIy good tlgu re for farm lanld. Mr. Mahon will trot got p1ossession oIf thie llace until1 next Jlanuary. The place is wvell in provedl and is otne of thle moost (lestr able countt ry hotmes in this section. Fedheral Court Jurors. Fot the April 1terim of the lFederal Cour tt at Green villeo, tie following from l2autrens have boen dI awtn as petIt jutr ors: W. F. Wrighi, R. V. irby, Y. S. (ilkerson, JT. D. Auillivan and JTno. Mi. Copehand. 'Clarence B. Shell was drawn on the genneli jiry IOA 13'ItVEMENT TO Bi: STi Aic iT:1. F'irst. Hioods to be Wir-ked are Ilecide'd I'poi b)y the ('ouinty litighway ('om) Imission. Biond Sale Alhiiost As sured. Work onl permlanentll roads with funds derived from the oni ty's road bond issue' is practically assured as a result of the several meetings he tween the e ' iy board of comiiis sioners and the coa tty Iighway coin mission diring the past week. Fol lowing the meeting of thesc bodies, as reported in the last issue of The Advertiser, two more meetings have been held, one Thursday and one yes terday. As the meeting Thursday the highway commission passed a resohi tion agreeing not to use more than $25,000 per month of the bond money should the original bond purchaser, who was Mr. N. B. Dial, agree to take them. Assuming that this action would be satisfactory to the bond pur chaser, the highway commission de cided to go ahead with its plans and authorized the supervisor to make re quest of the state high!way commis sion for federal aid to be used on the road between Kinards and Laurens. Mr. Watts advised the boards yester (lay that the arrangement had been actqiniecend in by 1t. Dial and with this assurance the commission laid c it fnther plans for permanent road work. The next projects agreed upon were the roads from Laurens to Fountain inn, frolmt ilP'-noree 'to the Greenwood county line, from ater too to Cr'oss 11111 and front Cray Cout'. to Edenl. Other planis will ibe projecteld as time passes. Capt. E,. Roy Pennell, state high 'way engineer, was in the city Sun day night on his way to Columbia front Anderson, nlid when inforned -4 ihese' proecedings by the reporter for h'le Advertiser, exlessed ) his gratilication at the trogressive step forwi-.' I and said that it was the wish of' le highway depiirtient to appor tion Lairens countty at least $100, 600 this year uider the federal aid act. He also said that one of his engine1ers wvould be sentl up1 immeli dtatly' to begin the sturt'vey work. IIt' hal t ieetn L his oflico in r (daya tl cotns pttntly l i no :een lie ti neli(st for federial a id 1kcd frit LNCt'.I kAT 11IlRAY ('OU 'llT-O I\( C. Mrs Wllns('31111n ('ihilo, it Tallent ed Virtrinlian, if) Ghie .1loodramalltic llieeltal . On Saitiarday night. March 1.ilh, the last alttaction for the session, of lit, Gr I, Cot . -Ow i tngs Iycein, will b givei at the high school. This ati rac tionl ,onlsists of a mlonlodramlaticr eital by Mirs. William Calvin Chilton. ris. Chilton cotuts as a VIery taleited Vetertainer. Deling fromt the Soulthl and perl'(tiarly gifted for tellig Soitherl storir %, it is possiblh- that si vill dive ai evening on Soithern stores frtom Soutn t wr(t'iterts. Ini such' a case theii people of the commiunity' ilil lose miuch by3 not attending, in view of thte factlihat such a Jprogr'ami wilIlibe not ontly enitertainting butt highly instruei' liye a tut inspiring. itini' sheo dloes no(t gIve the' abv she will aive "l1'olly of th4e '(iircs". lTose who hae rcaeadl this hook aind Ithosi who have not r'eaid It will hbe dlorli inlterest'd int suchl a recltal lie (nitse it is a story wvithi totuchies of pathois a til humor atnd of' dramiat ii itere0 lst. .\ls. (hItlton's fame is not onily, Io ieil but wvoldlidoe. shec havinug splent muicithuim int Iturolie int ('nttatinmtutt wor k. flurns-Siume rol. Air. and Mm's. A. II. ilnis, 70! North IlIaarler reet, have issnedi invitat ionis to thei mtarriage o~f theuir daiughter', A\llli lll, toi Mm'. Theo4'dorte liailey Stuer'el, lie Ceriemtony~ to take pl ace at thirii re'sl~idence leridlay evening at 7 o'clock. M\iss iiurins is ant atItractivye anid accom plished'i young lady wholi has been en gaged int tecaching for' thle past year. .\ir. Snumnerel recently reo'ei1vedl hiis hn or'able dIischarige from the armiy andl is at l'reset engaged in thle aui toille hbisiness lhere. At Wloodrow lskon SchiooI, C'apit. W. Ri. Rlichey willl dleilver' an addressO'5, telIi ng of hi i ex per'ienc'es ini the war, at WorOltowv Wilson schtool hoiuse ["riday evenintg, March I-t, at 7 :30 o'clock. The public Is ('ordially invi ted. Refreshments will be served hv thle Imnentoot nman Aociaton. COURT TRING BURD[TT[ CAS[ Judge Prince Delivers Able Charge MANY CASES ON DOCKET Court will Likely Last Entire Week and Then Many Caes Wiin be Left Over. No Court in Nearly a Year. Four Men Plead Guilty to Minor Charges. * 5 * Tho jury In the case of t,#e * * State vs W. R. Burdotto, charg- * * ed with murder, returned a ver- * * dict of guilty of manslaughter * * last night. * * 0 The court of general sessions con vened here Monday morning with Judge Geo. E. Prince, of Anderson, presiding and all the court officials in their accustomed places. After the court was organized Monday morn ing, Jtidge Prince delivered an able charge to tle grand jury in which ho stressei the illiporltaice of gooti schools, and good roads. Both, he said, 'were fundamental requirenent for adaiceinent an(d urged liberal support for theim. This is ile first I Cln of cri ml nal co(t1. sile \liich of last year and conselueitly the docket is crow ded with cases. It is harldly likely that a large proportion of tihie cases will he disposel of, as several ui1 rder casesi will he tried durin the Week. Yester day the court was engaged in the trial of w. it. Ih1trdette, chargel. witli the murder of 1. D. Stodldard, near Owings, in 1917. This case was Iri ed at. tie Marh teriln of court last ye:"r aid Iresilte(l inl a iistrial. At that: I ill' (oveirnol Coi ooper was an attorney for th (teels. but his place was tak On-l yesiterday by lionl. A. H1. 1)ean, of Greenvih., n o is associatedl with Ht. I. bb and :L'o. . Y. Sillnp:;on. .uIdL' 1'i.Iev' Hite case to the jury laJ, O~he caes o fr Iiedare as fol) os: Ats. Nora l'iniisol. violation of ile prohihilion iw in ha \ieg ill her pos ial. Alike \:shin.-ton, ui wful killing of aiiniials. g '"ty--seaed veriiet. Charley \\ilsol, bireach of trust, with fr it lnt intent: pleadl gulilly. thlree Iluonths' .-wintence. A.\irrell Attleanil, larceny; pleal guil ty -six miontls. Juo. It. Sliniulson, as-ault and hat teiT w\itlh intet'ii to kill and carryiing contealed weapois; plead guilty- 12 Samil .\atnhse ra in m lar'ci-y. plead guiilty1( to intering lr. ('litn Jiones'(iti dtl otlie( --Senitne l'resenI nien I of (Grandlt ,iniry, Th'le grany jury iuuale the following. Iir[Silu ien I. ( estrday aternoiton: Tlo II is Ilinor (eo. I. t'rinice, l'resid te og leave to submuuiit to t'e iurt \\' have- passed on all hilIts hiandedl is bty thle I ourt andt reported onu same., WeI havet~ btefore us Itie report sub. miiie bctIy the Suiptrvisir, who repoicis thli Sinate Itlighway I itumisstin, oin rotad workhing., tou he worked~ fromi Newhrr line tou bauren's (-ourt, houtise. This body13 is gralitifitd to l'.arn that a starltihas heen miadte ti improove ouri h'tighwtays. 'which so thoulvlitneid 'IThe Supiitsor re:ports thle roa~ds and b11lridges are itnii a very iinsatIisfa'-. 1(ory oniti ollat this Itimei, it. h is using (tvery mi Ils avtailable1 to il. turove thiem dunring the year and we f'eel that the lest tossile is bueinlg (donie at this timie iunder t'xistling coni dit ions. Thi Su pervisor infIorms us thait lie thns made~l alliica on to the( hieniteni Ilary authlirities5 to have Itransferredt to 1he coluty ('hain1 gang, a numblaer (if pisone rs w ho were sentI there froini this (ounuty. We .commenid his efforts and~ hotue t haIt' i wIlt succeed as thir i w~or'k Is badly needled onl the publtc 1 (C0111n iud on Il'age Six.)