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'U / / be aurietw j,. V OLUM~ XXXV. - LAUR~NS, SOUTh CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920. NUMBER 46 OPENS SUMDAY First Service at Tent Sun. day Night MEETING TO BE COUNTY WIDE Gypsy Smith Revival Service to Start in the Big Tent onl the Graded School Grounds Sunday Night and Will Run Into Month of July. Preparations for the Gypsy Smith, Jr., revival services which start here next Sunday night are rapidly being completed. The large tent, with a capacity of nearly 3,000 people, will be erected during the latter part of this week, in time for the first service next Suaday night. The tent will be located on the athletic field just behind the graded school building and above the site recently used by the chautau qua. It is understood that the same rules for parking automobiles which were in effect during chautauqua week will be enforced during the revival, automobiles not being allowed near enough to the tent to distract the preacher and audience. The opening hour of the first service will be eight o'clock. As previously announced, the evan gelist is being brought here as the guest of the entire county, and )eoplc are cordially invited from everywhere. Gypsy Smith, Jr., is expected in the city on Saturday, but on the first Sun day morning, he will preach in Clin ton at the Baptist church, the other churches having called in their ap pointnent for this service. His first service in lAurens is to be in the tent on the graded school grounds Sunday night at eight o'clock. Mr. Smith has requested that the week .be begun with, denominational nights. All the B)aVtists of thQ'county are requested to turn out Tuesday night. A place will be reserved for them to sit in a body. Wednesday night, the Methodists of the county are expected to all sit together and Thursday night the iPresbyterians, and Friday night -will - be Episcopal and Associate Reform, reservation being made for each one separately. The executive committee requests the preachers of the county and all church officers to see that their re spective congregations turn out as above stated. Of course all denomination are ex pected to come every night, but on these nights, as has been suggested all will sit together to engender friendly rivlry, and enlist the co-op eration of as many as possible from the first. All committees in regard to the meeting are requested to meet for a few minutes immedlately after the union prayer service at the Methodist church Wedlnesdlay night, it is holped that each committee will have a re port as to what has been (done and any pertinent suggestions' they may have to offer will be gladly received. Mr. Sm ithI and1( his choir directors are to be entertainedl at the Laurens Hiotel. (4ov. Cooper Here. (Gov. Robert A. Cooper spent Mon (lay night in the city on his way to D~ue WVest to. dlver the Commence mont address before the graduating class of the D~ue W.est Female college. Fronm there he Went to Greenwood to dlver another adldress at the com mencement exercises of the UP' icy Military institute. 'Tho governor statedl that he was in the prime of health and enjoying his work in Co lmbia.~ lHe expects to' return to Lau rens later in the summer for a slay of several weeks, Afskedl if hte ex lpectedl to htave any oiposition for re ilection this sumn'er, Ite said that heo )uad not heardl of anyone expecting to oppose hinm. Leave for Central Amerlen. Rev. andl Mrs. Rich'ard T. Ander son, who htave been on a visit in this city andl Greenwvood for severst months, have begun theo return trip to -dentra.1 Atmeriea, where they will again take up their missionary du: ties. Mr. Apderson is a son of the late - J. Wado Anderson of this pity and a brother of Rev. Ray Anderson. H-is wife .Ayas a Miss tIfatson, of Greenwood. ENM'ERTAINMENT AT WATTS. Girls' Auxiliary to Give Entertainment 'Saturday Evening in the School Au ditorlum. The Girls' Auxiliary, of the Watts Mills, will give an entertainment at the Watts Mills school auditorium next Saturday evening, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. The entertainment will con sist of recitations, songs and other things calculated to e amusing. The public is cordially invited to attend. The following program will obe ren dered: Song-'lt's Very Clear You're Welcome .Here.--All. Recitation-Salutatory-Velmre Hay dock. Song-Little Mothers-Small Girls. Recitation-Our Future Man-J. D. Marlor. Duet-The Quarrel-lliott Fleming and Juanita Harris. Dialog-Oh! You Teacher-Number of Girls and Boys. Duet-Reuben and R1achel-Gladys Taylor and Ailleene Gwinu. Dialog-The ,Way to Wyndom-Two Boys. Song-Napanee-2Large Girls. Dialog-Dott 10ntertains-Minnic Lee Golden and Smylie Fleming. Drill-Topsy Turty-Number of Girls. Recitation-Valedictory Orelle Pearce Song-'Tis Time to Tell You All Good bye-All. Presentation of Prizes. FIRE A' HARRIS SPRINGS. New Mint (ola Bottling Plant Com pletuly Destroyed. The Mint Cola bottling MIant, at Harris Springs, owned by a cotipora tion made up principally of Laurens people, was completely destroyed by fire of unknown origin last Thursday night. The fire was discovered In the roof of the building and was too far advanced for a successful fight against it. The plant was located In an old building recently repaired andi-the machinery had just been installed and ready for running'the first time the following day. A few bottles had al ready been made for samples., The estimated loss was around $5,000, in cluding the building which was owned by the s.ne parties Who own the spring prolperty. lit is understood' that the plant will be rebuilt as soon as material and machinery can be secured. Wanted for Whito Slavery. R. L. Jones, a white man in a blue suit patterned somewhat after the uniform of the Salvation Army, who solicited money on the streets of Lau rens several days last week for charitable purposes, was arrested by the local polce Friday on the receipt of a telegram from Durham, N. C.. saying that lie was wanted there o:i a federal warrant for whfite slavery. It -was alleged that .Jones enticed a b1hid girl away from Durham and brought her to South Carolina for imo moral purp~oses. The girl was withi him aIt a local boardling house here and both were arrested, lie claim:; that he was dlvor'cedl from a former wife in North Carolina and that lhe married the blind girl at Florence, '. C. lie is being held for -t NoribI Carolian authorities. .iissionary Rally at First Baptist ChuI rchI. There wvill be a missionary rally at the First 'Baptist ch~urch next Suoiday afternoon, .lune 6, at 4 o'clock. Drx. Alva Liangston, of Rilo dec Jeniero, Brazil, S. A., willl make a missionary address, after which several of the young peopile who have volunteered for foreign service w411 make short talks. It is hoped that all the Baptist churches will send representatives to this meeting andl the young people of the Lautmons association are espe,cially urged to come. Tlea Roomn Openi. Mrs. WV. iH, Anderson has recently opened a tea :oom in the frgme building opposite Fuller's garage itn the rear of the post oficee. Sandwich es, cakes and light refreshments of various kinds wili be served to the public. Mrs. JBodell Dead.. Mrs. Blodeli, wife .of the Universal 1st minister at Mountville, died at the Julia Irby sanitarium yesterday. The body was carried to Mountyillo in the afternoon fore burial. ENROLLMENT BOOKS BEING SENT OUT Books Arrived Monday Afternoon and are Being Sent Out by Assistant Secretary. 'E4nrollment 'books for registration of 'I)emocratic voters ware received by County Chairman Power Monday af ternoon and immediate distribution of then was begun by Mr. W. S. Pow or, assistant secretary. The 'books were exI)ccted to arrive several days earlier in order to have them distri buted in time for their opening yes terday morning but their late arrival made it impossible to .get them out on time. 'Some of them have already .been delivered and the rest will be delivered before the end of the week. The rules of the party require that every voter must ipersonally enroll his name or, in case he cannot write, make his mark on the book furnisred by the executive committee some time between the first Tuesday in June and the last Tuesay in July. In order to be qualllled to vote, a person must be 21 years of age or be come so -before the general election, must ) a citizen of the United States and this state and must have resided in the state two years and the County six months prior to the succeeding general election and in the club dis trict 61) days prior to the primary election following his offer to vote. School teachers and ministers of the gospel in charge of regularly organ ized churches are exempt..from pro sions as to residence, provided they are otherwise qualified. Another provision of the rules speci fles that every voter must enroll at the. club nearest to his residence, cal culated by the most practicable and convenient route. The books will be found at the fol lowing places: ,Laurens-Office of Clerk of Court. -Laurens Mill--Jllams' Batiber Shop. (Watta Mills-Eureka Drug 'Store. Ora--W, 'T. Blakely's Store. Lanford-<Fleming's 'Store. Pleasant Mound-G. F. Pully's. Young's Storc-- .W. P. Harris. Cook's Store--J. B. Cook. Stewart's Store---J. D. Stewart. Gray's-C. E. McIntire. .Thom) pson's IStore -- Thompson's Store. Owings---lryson & Stoddard's Store. Gray Court-Postofmice. Dial's-----John Simmons. Woo(vile-J. E. Wham. Shiloh1-;-Rush :Wilson. Hickory Tavern -- Abercrombie's Store. 'Princeton-M. It. Traynhamn's Store. Poplar 'Springs--W. 13. Davis. Ekomu--Dr. J. G. Cooper. Daniel's Stor---.J. C. Martin's Stora. Tip Top-AV. II. Sims. .\lt. Pleasant--G. 1l. Moore. Waterloo-olden's Store. Cross lii-'T. M. & J. 13. Pinson's Store. .\lountville--Hank of Mount ville. iloipewell 11. IH. Workman. Clinton-Chronicle Ollice. GOldville--M~illI 01licc, 'lin ton *Mill--elinton0 .\l erranit illd Co. * Mlrs. SIe lilx Adms. Mrs. Sue Iliix Adat, -who has been living with her niece, Mrs.. ii. Y. Siumpson since the death of lher hus:. b~andl in Texas about ten years ago, (lied at the JulIa I rby sanitarium Sat urmday morning aftey an illness of about nine weeks. D~eath was due to coml) icationls incIdent to 01ld age. She was 82 years of age. Tihe funeral wa's held Sunday afternoon at the Lait rens cemetery, being condluctedl by her pastor, Rev. C. T. Squires, assis'. 0(1 by Rev. ,J. L. Mcein. Mrs. Adam. was iu consistent member' of the Prest b~yter-ian church in which she took much iaterest. In her younger (lays she wvas a talented musician and ac complishedi in many othier wvays. Ike 51(des Mrs. SImpson she was also an aunt of Mr. E. H1. Wilkes, Mr. S. M. Wilkes and Miss Leila WIlkes. liase lil Saturday. 'rThe Laurmens Mill base ball team will play (me Greenwvoodl Mill No. 2 on the L. ens Mill grounds Satur day afternoon at 4 o'cock. The local aggregation played the Greenwood team last Saturday, winning out by a acore of three to two. Cothran, the star twirler ot the locals, will be on the mound for them 1Saturday after noon and a big game is expeced.t ROADS ENDORSE WAGE INCREASE Chairman of Coninlttee Representing Lines at Hearing (lives Vinal Views on Subject. Chicago, May 27.-Fair wage in creases for 2,000,000 railroad employ es in America are not ol)posed by the railroads, the labor board was in formed by E. T. Whiter today in clos ing his reply to the demands of the mien for lncreases in pay whi'h i0. is said total $t,000,000,000. Mr. White", wrho is chairman of the commitee rep e sen ung the roads in the hearing, raid tahat in return the railways expected honest and con scientious work and that each en l)loyce would "feel oblidged to give eflicient and ungrudging service." The roads are opposed, however, to sonic demands presented to the la bor board by the enployees because they "are unjustifled and not upheld by the facts in the case," he said. They also are opposed, he added, to the incorporation of national agree ments entered into by the federat railroad administration into any awards made by .the board. E'LECTED COUNTY ENGIN:Ell, II 1. Hfumliert, Fornier County Super 'isor, Eleeted County Engineer for AIbbeville County. Mir. H. 13. lumbert, ex-supervisor of Laurens county and resident of this city, has been elected county highway engineer of A'bbcville coun ty, according to a news item in the Abbeville Press and Banner of Tues (lay. The office plays a salary of $250 Ier month and exptenses, a corps of assistants being furnished to help him. Abbeville county has recently voted a large bond issue for road im provement. Mr. Humbert has .been with the state highway commission during the iast few months and has been super vising. work in Bamberg county. His election in Abbev-lle je pleasing to his friends here and'they are confl dent Abbeville has secured an eil cient oficer. Sherif Returns with Prisoner. Sheriff Reid returned last night from Jacksonville, Fla., ewith W. J. Pressley, white, in tow charged with obtaining property tinder false pre tenses. Pressley is wanted here and In Gainesville, Ga., on several charg es in connection with the theft and sale of automobiles. A week or two ago he traded a car here to the Irby Motor Company, receiving boot. On his way through Waterloo the samne (lay the newly acqui-ed car was wrecked by a railroad train. I e sold the remains to a nearby resident an'l left for parts unknown. The next dayl a. telegram was received by the sh1riA from Gainesville, (4a., telling him to look oiit for a man of i'ressloy's de seription wanted there for stealing an automtobile. Th'is3 automtobile was la ter idenit i fied by its owneor as the car' whicho P'ressly haliid traded to t he tnrby .\otor Comipainy, makiing an un usually compliented case. P'ressiley was later' located in . Jacksonville and lbhe authorities t hero asked to 1ho1d him. ItOis la nw ini the county jail an]i his case will probably come up at the next (erm of ecriminal court i. .PrIsoners .1 ake Escaipo. I orace Priice, tune d over to thte county last week by t he city authori ies afteor lie had reeived a sixty (lay senteonce for vagranty and carrying concealed wea pons. Junade hiis escape Ifromt the county gang Sunday after ntoont carrying willh him a negro con v'ict, John King, serving a twenty year senttence for manslauightter. ChIain gang guards and~ othtei' ofilcers fol lowed in piursuit as soon as the es ca te was dliscovered, but yesterday afternoon tihe escaped prisoners hadl not been located. W\hen last seen ithey were it the IEkom soct ion traveolintg toward G reentwood. .John i King was the negro who killed another' negro by cuitt ing -h im in it 'e head with an axe on Mr. Carroll Nance's a'lace at Cross 11111 last year. Two Ann~ouniemnentIs fotr SherifN. In (lie annountement column of to day's paper 'will igtund two an nouncements for sheriff, one of Sher'iff Reid asking for' re-election and an other of 'Columbus L. Owens, offer'ing for office tlio first -time. Sheriff Reid has served one term and Mr. Owen In now chief of the rural police, BASE BALL DIREfYiOI'j REISE PLAYING SCHEDULE Decide to Limit 'League to Four Towns, Laurens, Clinton, Cross Hill and Owings. At a meeting of directors of the Laurens County base ball league, held Friday afternoon and attended by di rectors of all the teams except Owings, it was decided to limit the league membership to four towns, thus de priving Fountain Inn and Enoree from entering. This action was taken fol lowing a discussion in which it was ge.nerally agreed that the six town league would make the distance too far to travel. Mr. L. F. .\teSwain, a Cross 11111 di rector, brought to the meeting a re vised schedule of gaines calling for two ganes by each team per week by which one game would be played in each town per week. It was found that in the schedule adopted at the first meeting of the directors some teams would not play on their home grounds for several weeks. The new schedule also provides that the same teams play each other in alternate towns each week. Thus Laurens may play Cross ill at Cross Hill the first part of the week and the same two teams will play each other the latter part of the week. The schedule of games, as adopted at this meeting, will be as follows: June 18 Cross l1ll1 at Laurens. Owings at Clinton. June 22 Laurens at Cross Hill. Clinton at Owings. June 25 Owings at Laurens. Cross 11111 at Clinton. June 29 Laurens at Owings. Clinton at Cross Hill. July 2 Laurens at Clinton. Cross Hill at Owings, July 6 Clinton at Laurens. - Owings at Cross hI1. July 9 Cross Hill at Laurens. Owings at Clinton. July 13 Laurens at Cross 1111. Clinton at Owings. July 16 Cross Hill at Clinton. Owings at Laurens. July 20 Laurens at Owings. Clinton at Cross Hill. .July 23 Liaurens at Clinton. Cross lill at Owings. .uly 27 Clinton at Laurens. Owings at Cross Itill. July 310 Cross Hill at Laurens. Owings at Clinton. Atutrusl :1 Laurens at Cross Hill. Clinton at Owings. Ow.ings at Laurens. (Cross Il ill at Clinton. Auntust 10) Laur ens at Owings. Clinton at (ros~ I lill. Lauirens at Clinton. C ross liii11 at Owines. August 17 Clinton at. Laurens. Owings at C'ross IHiii. Clint on directors have announed( their umpiires as follows: .I. A. (hand I er, Lut Iher lIIiddlIe and 0. P'. SI ate r. Schlools Consol iul e. A nnou ncemen t hats been miade from~ thle sitpiein itendett of eduenation 's of flee that the two schiool d istriets of Itarkfsdale andl~ Woodrow Wilson hiav' dlecided to consol idateC andI (reelt a modern school bi 1lig near' the liud:1 gens place (on the (Ireenvi lie toad( now owned by Mlr. W. M. Myers. Tihe patrtons of the new distrIct, wIchk will be known as Lauresn No. 3, x Poet to have one Of the best schools In) the county. Nowi Makinig Brick. The newv brick plant, recntly erect ed lby Messrs. Flemting and Franks near' the Ball trestle, was put into operationi last *week and Is now turning out thousands of brick daily. The plant is the most modern of its kind and the quality of brick manu facttured promises to be0 very higt. TPhe plant is run by electricity and takes much less help than the old style iplant of several years ngo. FRANC[ AND BRITAIN HONOR AM[RICAND[AD Dead Heroes Eulogized by Allies GLOWING TRIBUTE BY MARSHALL PETAIN Impressiye Cereionies with Stirring Addresses Mark celeiration of Amterlcan Memorial Day on British and French Soll Where American Soldiers are mleepiig. Paris, May 30.-America's owar dead in Europe were eulogized and their graves in all parts of France were decorated today, the second memorial day since the close of the great struggle. American flags floated In the breeze over the resting places of more than 70,000 soldiers, and allies organizations joined the Americans in France in services in their memory, while throughout tie republic de tachments of horizon-blue clad pollus acted as guards of honor at the cemo tories where lie those who fought be side them on the field of battle. The American legion with the army and navy patriotic societies co-oper ated with te newly formed memorial day committee headed by Ambassador Wallace to decorate the little mounda in .197 burying places scattered along the battle front from the channel to Switzerland and from the Rhine to the Atlantic. At 125 places there were single graves of Amorican .servic( men but memorial day services were conducted over each of these lone graves, some of which are in Souihern Italy and others in Spain. The French and representatives of other of the allies took part in the ceremonies vir tually everytwhere while Marshal Pe tain, the French commander in chief and other men of prominence from the French army and navy and civil life delivered addresses. French Womnen's Tribute. In some places the French wome-i of the locality made the day almost one of their own, bringing tokens of their remembrance to place on the graves of the youths who fought be side their boys in the dark days of two years ago. In all the Catholic churches in Paris, in the Jewish syNa gogues and in the American church there were religious observances of America's (lay of tribute to her dead, and in the provinces there were num hieriess local ceremonies organized by the parish priests of tihe population -filnerally3. In A lsa (o a chldr ci en's ehoru.s mi a rehIed from one huryin g grnound to a notler to sing besides the graves of falleni Americains, wlile their mnoti ers an(d ;isters, with Iead of tli In own to imiouirn, placed flowers or gr'ass wxrealhs (I tie mound1)1s ben ea Iih whih lay the A\merican di':id, I'or thie Amieianl armyii of ovenpa Spoke4~~1 at10' greadt mlilitaryv Cictery ini luomai~gne-Scuase-.\iouif aucoin wherec mor ne thain 2:I .(i0 Amieical. s are buriiied andtld)( of the' great, battle in which fell most5 of those to whomii he (lid hioinor. S peak inv to:-t ib'l( 1Freiovr iment. ai Surieans remet 'iy outsidL' Iaiiis, \larisha I I'eta in salult ed the cdeadl of America andc thier'e also Am blassadlor Walilaee votedc Ameica's~ in'ssage to her' lost sonis. I ~fndon~l, .'a :'0.t--Amnerica's memi oriialI day for: lier sold ir dead had an un preecl med .1 obs ervanmce in thle lirit ish Isl'.- today. The graves of 2,-~>00 American sold iers anld sail or. bur1ied ini liri tishi soil wereC adcorined wvihi wreaths and Amerilcani lags, a tibu111 e from suivin lg ('omr iadecs ini the Amri ciani legion andc thle miemibers (oC ot her Anglo-American organ izati Sion s. Serices' fore( he(ld at the graves in thle 'emeiteies at Glasgow, Ilaiverplool and Manechesteir, bu11t thel most5 significant homage was paid at St. .\argaret's church, the official church of the commons, where Canon Carnegie, sub-clean of Westminster Abbey, laudled the 'deeds of the Am rican hero dead. Tie gave assurances that English applreciation of the day's meaning was one of "more than sym patshetic sentiment." Johnm W. Davin, the American am.. b'assad~or, road tihe spiritual lesson. (Continued onl Pang Five )