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(IPI VOLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1-919.0UBE LL S. TROOPS GO, INO MEIO In Close Pursuit of Bandit Band 8TH CAVALRY FOLLOWS PLANES United States Troops (o in1 1ursutit of 3iexlena Mlindits Who lild Amer, leani Aviators for leniisoma. 'I'roops Supported by CoiniIIIIIention Line. .larfa, Texas, Aug. 19.--American troops of the eighti cavalry, with avia tors flying hombing planes acting as scoltit ahead of the coluliln swept across the Mexicanl border early t6day as a punitive exiedition in purstilt of the hanidit hanId undue' Jesu nts hRteria. who held ihe .\mericano army aviators Peterson an! li, prisoners in Mexi co, it was annotinced at mlitary head (uareters here today. The troops are sm:itorted by an ade quate comtmient ion line, pack'iraihis carrying the field. wireless for Ise when ott of touch with the aviators who are scouting the enlirt Ojinaga district for the bandits. Col. Langhorne sent a mIiessage to Gen. Antonio P1runeda, Commander of the Ojinaga forces. through the le * ian constil at. Presidlo, notifying Piruneda of the punitive expedition so tle Mexican general would notify his troops ii the field to prevent a possi ble clash between Carranza troops and American cavalry. Wash'ington, Aug. 19.-Cov. lobby in ordering the Texas National Guard ready to respond to any emergency call for border service. was acting upon his own initiative. it was said to lay at the war department. Oillcials, however, said that for sonie wevky the department hiad bool inden varing to r have the reorrganized national guard of Texas brought up to the prne-war strength. Aflators Ite scued. Alarfa, Tex., Aug. i9.-iett. H. 0, Peterson and Lieiut. -Paul Ii. Davis, oriators of the United States army, -held captive for more than a week by Alexican bandits who demanded a ran s0111 of $15,(00 were rescue& early this morning by Capt. latiack, Of tle Eighth cavalry, and are safe In Aneri can territory. Capt. Alatiack brought back with him one-half of the ransom money. He said after Peterson hiad been rIe leased -Davis was brought forward by the bandits and the two mounted Mat lack's horse. Tle bandits demanded the remainder of the ransom money and Captain Matlack and Davis an swejed by riding rapildly away. CivIA Service Exlainmationi icopened To Discharged Yanks. Under an opinion of the Attorney General recently rendleredi to the Civil Service Commission, United Staten soldiers, sailors, andl marines who missed opiportunity to enter civil ner Vice examinations because of their military or naval nervice may now be given a chiance to qutalify for govern ment emplloymlent. The 'Civil Service Commissioni, wvishi inlg to give diischarged service men ev e ry oppiortuitty to (lualify for eivil i)ositions, asked the Attorney .General for an opinion an 1(o whether it would be legal to open, for th' beneit ot andI marines, exa mlinations wvh ht had been cloned. Th'le Attortiey GeneralI having expressed the opinion Ithat such action is legal in view of thte spirit of a recent act of Congress wYhled)h rovidies for itreferenlce in a p poitnment to (eivil p)31 ostin for dits charged soldiersm, nairs and muarinies, the Civil Service C'ommtiss ion wvill op eni only Ito honora bly ~ldiarged serI yie meni examitina tiotis which were' pendhing oni April 6, 1917, the date (It Ameriea's leci~rtIIo o11(f wart,'o which werein sitbsequlently anntouniedl, and for wvh ih regist ers of eliigleils now exi1st. Sixty days fromu August 1, 1919, will lhe allowed soldiers, sailors, and mairines ini whlich to lbe exatmined for piositions1 for wichio exatmina I ions have already bieen held if they avere discharged tromt the military or naval service pirtor to August 1, and1( sixty days frotm tihe dlate of their discharge iiillie allowed those dlischargedl sub f1e(uentt to Autgist 1, 1919. MASS MEETING OF FARMERS Senator Smith and Hon. J. S. Wannamaker to Ad dress Farmers in Behalf of Cotton Association Thursday. F'en. E-. D. Smith andi Ion. J. S. pmses Wvaaker, liresidellt of the South IOM Ilectl1i I(llpa1gii is launched Carolina olton Associalion, will ad- III last part (it I ouon * r Ini lis letter. adlvisinig Mr. W. 11. dress a Ilass mieeting of farmers anld G r (I time poosed Mr. A. businmess mei at the Col It house lIlaui, ile State ogan:in, Said Thursday moning at 11 o'clock in the Ithat the women as well as tile men interest of thie South Carolina Cot tol MIoIutd bv ilutereslcill these nuectings Association. This will be one of a as tir wel arc is largely at Stake So series of 'metings belig hlvid in every ic Itu that a iarac mitih or t1 cu Countly oif the state, to explan1 theC p-11-wonl he p sso t SEiL, W E ll MONDAY Over $60,000.00 lilized at Land Sale IMeld 3londay 31ering. Two Tracts Hriig $119.011 per Acre. The Col. 11. Y. Simpson place about two ifiles from town on the Princeton road brought froitiV72.00 to $1 19.00 per acre at the land sale of the Lau rens Trust. Company held Monday All the tracts except one biought in excess of $100.00 per acre, two of them bringing $1-19.00 per acre and the whole farm bringing $61, 645.10. All of the land was bought by farmers and men interested In farm Ing, only one tract being bought by a resident of Laurens. The sale was well attended and bidding was spirit ed. The following is a list of the tracts and the 'purchasers of each. Lot No. 1-14 acres, bought. by It. ME. Langston for $101 per acre, total price $4,444.00. Lot No. 2-27.9 acres, bought by It. Y,. Langston for $119 per acre, total price $4,157.10. Lot No. 3-2-.19 acres, bought by it. E. langston for $1.19 per acre, total price $3,710.10. Lot No. .1--ill acres, bought by It. .1. iolt for $110 per acre, total price $12,210.00. Lot No. 5-91.5 acres, bought by J. Q. Brown for $101 per acre, total price $9,241.50. 'Lot No. 9--86 acres, bought by .J. Q. Brown for $72 per acre, total price $6,192.00. Lot No. 6-75.2 acres, bought by G. -1. LUIt for $12.5 .1er aere, total price $9,100.00. Lot No. 7-47.3 acres. bought by G. H-. Bolt for $118 per atre, total price $9 ,960.4t 0. Lot -No. 8-23.3 acres, bought by T. .lac Roper for $100 per aere, total price $2,330.00. PIIIlE FOlt TEACHEIS. Home Service lepartment, Offers a Prize for Work In Campaign .lgaluist Illiteracy. The Home Fervice D epartiment of the Laurens Ited Cross chapte' has offered a prize of $25 to be given tp the teacher !n the counly who sends in a report from an adult school with the name of every person in the dis trict signed by the person 'himlself or herself. Proivded more thana one teacher sends in such a report the 'money will be diviled between tlie teachers sending In fuill report1s. lin case no school sends in a 'u ill report the money will he given to Ile teach er sending 'n highest per cent age of signers. This price Is In adklition to) (lie prizes 6ffered to tlie teachers lin the state teaching the greatest nuuimber of adults. It Is very lrobalile that Ihe time for these school's wIll be extended a noth er week. Schools c'an now he orgain iz.(l and 'omiliplete the 12 sessions. LIet every person feel r esponsible for the teachingliU of one person to write his name at least. I 'nless we do t his thle staini of ill li'racy will not lhe wiped (oit for somu, years. Can we afford to allow our state' andu county to k~eepj their irecordus oif illiteracy? .\1188 3lINNIIN WATgLCJ'. C'ouinty Organ lier. Prayer M1eetin g TIonk i . I'rayer meetinig services will lie liehd at the Flirst Preshiyteriana clhuirch at thie usual hionur tonuighit . The servi cs wi'll lie conducted by Rtev. J1. L. 1trowu'n lee, w ho is visi t Iiig .\ '. andl 31irs. A. ('. Tlodd. First Cotton It0o1. Alason Poole, son of Mir. W. .\. P'oole who lives four mItes north of ('tin tin, brought in the fIrst open cot ton hoan of the senn las wme JUItY GIVES 1o1l) SU'31 OF SIX C'EN'US Chicgo Tribune Loses Hig llamage Suilt. Word Alnlarchist I'sed. .\Mllilnt Ch.entens.. .\ich., Aug. 1. julry tonilght awarded lilnty Ford t6 celts (amtiage's agailnst. The Cicago Tribiuino for calling h i 1t an aliarlchi 1st. Orvy llulett, foreman of tihle Jury, Said that they took "ifne ballots that I cln reemeiibel'" the first one, ac cording to Leonard leasel, anot her juror, staning eigh to four in favor of a warding Mr. Ford some damages. Attorney A!fred .1. Murphy for .\Ir. Ford said: "The important issue in this case has been determined favorably to the es would be a defeat for his client." ."Money damages. were entirely sIlb ordinate and were not sought. by Mtr. Ford. lie stands not only vindleated, but this attlude as an American citizen has been justifled after a trial which raised every Issue against him which ingenuity and research could present. Ills friends are entirely sat isfied." Weymouth Kirkland of counsel for the Tribune, said: "We consider it a victory for the reason that Attorney Alfred Lucking, in closing for Mr. Ford, stated that anything less than substantial damag cS would be a defeat for his client.." The jury was out ten hours. It was on June 23, 1916, after Mexi .can bandits had raised Columbus, N. M., and military preparedness was a burning issue, not only because of the Mexican menace but because of the conflagration in M'irope, that The Chicago Tribune printed its fatmous editorial headed "Ford Is an Anarch kst. " l'dltorial writers of the Tribune testilled that they had followed Mr. Ford's pacifistic propaganda, but had not recognized it as a real danger to the country until a news item was received from D etroit that .l r. Ford was trying to discourage the recruit lig of the guard which had been or dered to tle Rio (ranide. The item, authetiticity of which was deniled by Ford witnesses, stated that. the Ford Company would not pay the salaries of emttployees who went to the border, hold thelr places fot' them nlotr (aire for their depelidents. It was then that tit' ed(itoial was writtent. I called Mr. Ford ai "ign0or ant idealist" and remarked that his views oi disarmament unight he dif ferit if his factories Were oi Ile iii ranie iisteai of tihl' peaefu'iii en adianl border. k otiunsel for tile ma nu factiri at first fIled stilt in tie( federal ot at Chicago, but later witltdrw it alnd in slitited proceediigs itn the tt1 coulirt al. 1)(1troit. llere the Tr'libunel applied fo' a elatnge of vei l l .114 udge James G. ''lcker of the circuit voiutl of lacomub Coutify al Nit. Cletmiens, Wa. agreed uponl to hevar thle case. selt-hc tion of a jury began May 12. i't con sist ed of elevetn farmers and onle roul A featurte of thle (cs wai' thle pro duectiotn by the defendanlti i o ore thtan t'i testify to raids, muriid'rs amn olher acts whichl, to the mind ofC Thi Tribne 4'ounsel, e'stalished(i tie fact that there was a~SI 'onit~lion of taarchy alonig ('ounisel Cor' thle diefendanlt ari!uedl thait governmiieiit exi1sts on(lly so fari as5 it cin eniforce its~ de(creies andi pi itect the lIves and( properlyi't of its cit iziens, that wuithiout force thiere enn lie no~ noi government o there is a tnarchly. that int opping~ii the rtei'rutiting of sol1 dhi(rs, Sir t. Ford oiipiosed( governmItet itself and, by lie samte t oketn, sought to1 ('Stab~lih aniarehiy FARMERS ORGANIZE TO MARKET COTTON G. I. oltI-leced 'rsident. Cell. 31. Wright Mlakes Valunble Tailk on Stapjie. 'arimlers of tie Coity iiet inl the Cou rt iouse .\loldav ll)rning and formed le Ihilauris Coltity .\larkeling Association Ii object of which is to Coolerath with the cotton grader so cured for this city and to further t(" Ihe caltse of 1:1v farme111 rs inl tis vicinlity. Mir. Geo. .l. Wright. president of tile Watts .\Mills and Ilannia .lanufacturing Company wIl s present. aid gave a val ilable talk otn the Vailue of improving the(. grades of cotton* grown here anld Ohe benifits of ari'eli gilnning anld storling of cotton after it is harvested. County Agent Moore also riade a short address explaining tie work to be done by the 'otton grader. The followilg oli(ri of th1e asso eiation wvere elected for tle comling year: Pres., G. Ii. 11l ;t: Vice Presi dent, Mir. Workman, of Clinton; See retary and Tieasurer, County Agent M. D. loore; Directors: W. L. Gray, .J. J. Dendy, W. 13. Knight. 11. W. li0 lamis, I,". L. Coats, L. G. Balle and T. C. Switzer. Mr. Moe. - reported that. funds to seeure the grent had beei raised and that Sen. 'Dial had informed himl) by letter tht the grader for this city was practically assured. DIR. IVIfLIM. TI 3MAS BItkL.mIN]) Father of Mrs. ,John A. JHieks, Died Hero Wednesday 31orining. Interl ment at Allendale. Dr. William Thomas Breeland died at 6:30 o'clock W~edllesd(ay mnorning, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John A. Hicks here. Dr. I)reeland wa" born December 16, 1831 In Colicton county, and married Lydia Susan Smart, *ocember 18, 1861. Ile was a graduaf f Charles ton Medical gollege and pr-cticed imed Icine for 62 years in Ilarnwell and liampton counties.- Ile ser*Vc 'n tile War between the States as a surgeon, and waU a 1te long member of the Methodist church, his membership be ing at Allendale, tile place of his late residence. About four years ago, D'r. Breeland accidentally fell, breaking his hiip, and was confined to his bed from that tille unfil his death. He was a very patient sufferer, but being 88 yealrs of age lie was never able to recover. lie is survived by two children, Mrs. .John ,A. Hicks, of Laurens, and Dr. W. ]I. Breeland, a practicing phys ician, at Allendale. Interllent took place at Alleidale, the funeral services being held at the methodist church, it o'clock, Friday morning. First ('ot matndifery Meeting. The first meeting of the IAttirens Commandery has been called for lon (lay light at 8:30 o'clock when appli Cations will be received for member shi1p. The dispensation for the new ioodge has bleen received andl those de shiing to take the Shine~l in Gr'eenv)ille in Oct ober should have theirt apiplica~ t ions filed betor'e Monday n1Iih as~ tis will lik('ly be thle l&st chance before thle Grteenvillte meet ing. . llamai utrinig E i4ectric'l Stormil. dtoing~ consh5i4rabiile4 dlamaige to propert''y an 11 ropii S, 01 I oniin g towartd Ibnoree (iredl, who11 lives ont thle I aldinI place, suifferiid the loss of a valuab'le mulile biy l eihting anid se'veral tr'ees and1 htouc (es were ( dam(iiagedl. 4 irths tiini, thel negtro whol shol .\Ir. G4eo. Ander'sonu nearIt Mouiv ~ile severai weoeks ago, hlas boeen locatedi at .\iiein, IGa., anid Sheriff Iteid has gonle 1o bring him likk to lsauriiens. A 1(1l' gramli wa. lre('iv 'ed fromi .\lien Sunii 8idy t i ithat rihilln hyatd b een lr vientio nwil aeetwi t he a~ I('alvaryl Aats ihurlh atil ~t 11liton thefirs The(4 Atrmstrlong re'unionl will be( held Itmbler 2nd. All of thle k~l inlpople ate inv'ited'i to enmo eand ( bt'inr wgel l led0, QII( ACTION IS URGED ON CONGR[S8 High Prices at Bottom of Unrest SHOE PRICES GET ATTENTION Fmato o Shops Is Slmmestedl by lona lieplrienin~llive, but Louisinna11 lieprestait'i' Sys EFfeet Would Ie llHorrible. I) iIeid Siuar Price Washinlgton. Aulg. 18. --Quick actiott by collgres.s ill the callipaign to redtice the cost of, liviig was 1iirged today il senlate and houseu. Sen1ator Walsh de clared high ptrives wvere att. the hottoni (if all the llturst atid charged that eon gress was wa.ting time when some thiig shoulid have been don1e alrieai'dy fin response to President Wilsoin's rec 011111endations. Mlayors of New Jersey cities apcar Ing before the house agriculture com ittee said action was needed( at once to stop the rising scale of prices. Reg illation of imports was one means sug gested. The aiendmientl broadening tile food control act will be consider ed tomorrow by the committee and will probably be reported to the house. Sale of surplus army food began to day at storage centers throughout the country. Definite reports 'were not available, but it was believed that or ders had been received for many nilI ]tons of pounds of canned mca's, beans and other staples, to be 'sent out by parcel ,post. Debate in congress was occupied to a great extent by living cost problems. Absence of a quoruiI in the house delayed until tomorrowfinal action of a resolution calling for the federal trade commission to begin immediate inqtuiry into the "increase in the price of shoes." Iepresenta live Siegel, Repu'blican, New York, submitted figures which he said were obained by New York cloth ing manufacturers and showed that "In most cases the retailer makes 50 per cent prgflt and In some places 100 per cent." The manufacturers' cost, lie said, was (ie to the cost of labor. lie presented figures to show that an overcoat costing the manufacturer $10.85 in 1917, advanced to $17.75 in 1.18, and to $22.62 by last week. He tirged that dealers be required to mark the cost prices on all comniodi ties. 'Vhe United Fruit Company was at tacked by Representative Fitzgerald, Democrat, Massachusetts, who assert ed it had made a 40 per cent profit and aid off millions of dollars of bonded indlebtcdiess, not due for soie time. Investigation of freight charges to deterinille whether there was fraud in capitalization of railroads as charged before the Interstate commerce com Ilission was urged by liresentatly I iuddliestonl, Deohlcrait, Alabama, who aissertd the t ranisportat ion chlarges atfTeet retil iItrices "'the or000 four times10.' "if y'ou wvant to br1inlg diown the ('ost (if shoes," dleclar'ed fllpresenta tihe Good, 1hepublican, Iowa, ''all that is necess05ariy is for the presidient, to liut ani u hmarigo on shtots andi~ leatherl and1( otherli prioduclts would force down I the doneitst i' mai3rkeIt, he addoedl, (de (1hirin~ ex flits from the I'nited Statecs arie th' grt'aiest voflumel In his tory. ('tongreCss, itt ido. Could (do lIt Iil' to rodulce Ihe cost of liv Iing, wh ilo 10 lhe iuishmencit of pr'ofteers5, ite addI 'I, was5 thle only suggestion "thlat will cri anlis whert e 31nd tt not. very fat'."' Th'le emb~ia, proposal tof Mr. Gbood is "elIeets w ouhi b o too htorrible"' by itarv in thle woriit. ie defen dedi theO :tove~rniniint Erice Oxing of sugar, as '3a1e blet 15 to "0 ('ents a lIonialt de .pite the fatct tt suigar wa31 pl'iiti. Thlr ir. no rea (3Sonl 1h ltheil giocir (fln not scll 10o poundsi to onie puersonl Saderi~s, "unlessc5 it is that th11 mar11 ISt iiis o iattd and1( cuttrolled b~y I le .\mi can':I su1gari truisl. ('it itn manufaiI~cturers3 311S0 were5 at taeked0( by~ Saniders a1sertingi thati1 th raw1 productt and11 "stIll make1( a reason abl10 pront I.'' l'rodutcers of b)1 ot etion and( slngear. t he 1 said .1 llt no t 31 I git MARIfAL TROUBLES BRING LAW SUIT Tlos. t. Shaw Files Sult for Recovery of Land Alleged to have been Fraud iuently OIbtatined fiim 1Hm. Cole L. mllense anl iW'. N. Graydon, of co dfumbia, lletlined as Attorneys. Alleging a "'elnning3'ly devised scheime" to gct possession of 185 acres of land and to deprive 111him of his "rights and property without, any con sidehration therefor," Thos. M. Shaw, of\tlhIs county, throlta'h his attorneys, Cole L. lcase 'and W. N. G raydon, of C'olumbia, has begun suit to recover possessionl of a tract of land contain ing 185 acres knowi as the Coleman Ilace, which lie charges was obtailned from him by fraudulent means by his wife, Mrs. le.sle I)avenport Shaw, and Mildred Long, a clerk in the olice of .Ilesse M. Anderson. an attorney, of Kansas; City, Mo. The copy of the Stimmoiis for telief has been filed In (he Clerk of Couirt's office h'ere and a (oly sent to the defenidatiis, lnessie I). ishaw and Mildred L-ong, spyposed to be in Kansas City now. I'ness a set tlement is made out, of court the ease will probably he called at the next term of tle Court of Common Pleas. Tle copy of the Summons for Relief, with the alleg'ations of the plaintiff as filed In the oflice of the Clerk of Court, gives a history of the ease since Mr. and Mrs. Shaw were s eparated al)out two years ago, when Mrs. Shaw moved to Kansas City, takhig their two chil dren with her. The complaint alleges that just before Christmas of last year tife plaitiff went to Kansas City to see his two children, and while there was served with a Summons and Com plaint In which Mrs. Shaw was bring Ing suit for divorce and allmony. Plaintiff alleges that he did not an swer the summons and had -nothing to do with it, but in order to provide for his' children agreed to-pay t his wife the sum of $125 per month, and to insure payment of the monthy stipend Mr. .lesse F. Anderson, her attorney, Induced him to execute what he told the plaintiff was a trusl deed. The plaintiff illeges that he trusted i the attorney to (oa* op the trust deed. but that instead he drew up a fee silm p1 deed froni himself and wife to Mil dred -Long, a clerk or stenogralpier In the office of Mr. Anderson, which lie signed; that on the sanie day Mildred Long signed a deed of conveyance In fee' silple without any consileration whatever to lessie ). Shaw, and that on Jan 11 the two deeds were record ed In the office of the Clerk of Court at 'Laurens. Hie further alleges that Mrs. Sb Y has borrowed the sui of $1,000 on the property and given a mortgage as security. The contention of the plaintiff is, that the divorce proceedings were a part of the scheme to cheat and de fraul him of his property and that the courts of Missouri had no jurisdiction, to entertain the proceedings, that such .pro'ee4 ngs are A.,ainst 'the 'public policy of this state and any convey ance deed, trust deed or any transac tion wvhich recognIzes the validity of thle proceedings is unlawfuli, contrary to the constitution and -punbllc policy of ti" sta'te and is conseruently null andi vold. Tlhe plaint iff prays that the deed be d(ela red fraudulient , null and void and that it be dleliveredl to thne eleik of ('ourt to be ('aneielledl. Tlhe iiiali 1ff is the .son of thle late 'Sol. .John D). M. Sha., before his dleath a large pr'oper'ty owner andC for mnani years a power in politics ini this couin ty. It was saidl that at his house, in 1890, was formulated the famo'is "Shell M1an ifest o" 1)y 1'x-en. Iriby, Congr'ess nm~an ShnellI and Col . Shiaw- anid earied by thieim to Capt. lb, It Tillmian, at IHIa; eris, in ladgetlel d county, wihere It was re'vised andl 'omp ilet ed, aind latei' sent ouit fromi this town. Mr'. Shiaw miied -(IMiss l tisle D avenupoit, ini ('ienwoodI abouit ('leven'i yearns ~ago and to them Iwo children weie born. 3e'hlimic (overinient Voodns. Th'le local lostoflice andI ot her post - ollices over thne county' are now ready to0 receive or'deirs foi' thle government stocks of food wvhleh are being sold at r'educied pices, stated Mr. D). M. Noi' woodh. act in~g potmaiister, yesterday. ()rnddr forms may lie secured from the porstmaiisters' aind the goodsq will come out by Parcel post, tho first zonie r'ate appnilying on par'cels from any dIstance. The pices (lioted on the goods are mater'ially lover than those offered in the commerclal markets, accordIng to a bulletin fr'om WashIngton.