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VOLUME XXXVI. LAURENS9 SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1920. NME DCR[AS[ SHOWN IN [NRODL[MNT Enrollment Books Closed Tuesday TOWN CLUBS SHOW INCREASE Figures on )entoratlc Primary Slo thlit Voters Hie Not Enrolled its IIeavily as In the 'ast. 31111 and 11ural Isoxes Show Big I)eereases. Allowing the same number of vot ers in flive precincts unreported yes terday, the enrollment in the count. for the primary election this yeaI turns out to be several hundred less than the enrollment in 1916, accord ing to figures compiled by Mr. . Power, assistant secretary, who hns had charge of the clerical work ir connection with the Democratic en rollment. Mr. Power states that l made the comparison with the year 1916 as he considered that more of a normal year than 1918 when so many voters were absent in the army. Ili 1916 there were 4,511 voters enrollet in 34 clubs, Including 41 voters In the National Guard then on the .lexicat border. This year, with the five pre cinets of Stowarts Store, Princeton Goldville, Lanford and Langston no heard frtom, the total is 3,896. AddinM to this 386, the number enrolled in these clubs in 1916, the total for thl. year is estimated to -be 4282. See retaries of these clubs are expected ,to send their books to the chairmar at once. As will be seen by an examinatior of the table below, the falling off ha been principally in the mill and rura precincts, the town -precincts show Ing a considerable Increase, the Lau rens club showingsan increase of ove 100. As requested by the state superin tendent of education, Mr. Power als compiled the number of voters wh1 enrolled by making their marks in stead of signing their names. The to tal for the county was 386, or slightl less than 10 per cent of the total, thi being considerably less than in 191( The figures on enrollment are a follows for the two years: iPRECINCTS 1916 192 Laurens-..-..-..-.. ....652 76 Watts Mills ..-.-.- ....310 25 Laurens Mill-..-..-. ....224 15 Ora-......-.-.-.-.- . 63 4 1Lanford ....-..-..-..-..-..-77 Youngs- .. .. .. .. .... ..99 7 Stc'warts Store' ..-..-..-..45 Cooks R1'ore ..-..-..-,,-.89 8 Grays .. ..- ..- ..- ..- ..- .. S Thonlysons Store .. ....92 Owings-.. ..- .. .~. ..- ..-85 S Gray Court-..-..-... ...201 1t ([Dials ..- ..- ..- ..- ..- - 57 - Woodville . . .. . . 156 1: Shiloh ..- ..- ..-..- ..- ..-..71 ( Hicekory Tavern-..-..-..-..170 It Princeton-..-..-..-..-..-..82 Popjar- Spings.. .... .... 1: Daniels Store-..-..-..-..-..77 - Ekom-..-..-..-..-..-..-.101 I Mt. Pleasant-..-..-..-..-..80 Tip Toji..-..-..-..-..-... . 56 Water-loo-..-..-..-..-..-..68 Cross 11111- ..- ..- ..- ..-..181 '! Mouintvill--..-..-..-..-..-.117 1 Ucepewell-..-..-..-..-..-..65 Clinton-..-..-..-..-..-..-.362 4 Clintotn .\ill-.,- ..- ..- ..- ..26; 1 Lydia Mill--..-..-..-..-..-.. 90 (Goldville--..-..-..-..-..-.. I! Rlenno-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-83 I~fLn 5ton ..-- ..-- ..--..- ..--..- 82 Pleasanlt Mount--..-..-..-..-73 National G;ua-dl..-..-..-..-4i Trotal--..-..-..-..-..-..4511 -~ Health (onferetnce at Lannford. .A Children's hieailh C'onference wv held at Lanfor-d Station on July' 'l'his conference r-epresented on1 Lanford community and 26 childr under- rchool age were weighed, miei lit-d and insp~ected. Fotti children school age wet-e brnought for I weighiing and~ meafturing tests. The~ ladies ser-vedl a bountiful lui dinner- in the school house, work i nag suispendled for lunch and a Cial hour. ( Miss Rogers wishes -t thank the dies of the' commumitty and the ho ~emonstration agent for the great Ih And support they gave her in getti n -this conlference. AILT SCiOOL OlIIANIZE1). 4 Nine -Schools llanve leen Organized for Teaching Adult illiterates. Nine adult schools for the teaching of Illiterates have been organized in the county by Mrs. Marl Owens, or ganizer for this county, according to information given out yesterday from the office of the superintendent of education. Schools have been organ ized at Garlington, near Renno, Gray 'Court, Youngs, Ekom, New Prospect, Goldville, Brewerton and )I lckorv Tavern. All of the schools are said to be well attended and much Inter est is being displayed in the work. Mrs, Owens states that she hopes to bo able to offer prizes for teachers In the' schools of the county, ti( stale already providing for two thousand miles railroad tickets to the two teachers who teach the largest num ber of Illiterates in the state. She says that she hopes that at least one Laurens county teacher will win one 0of these prizes. RAILROAD) IIAIE INPIE.ASEN GWiA.NTEI). Freight Hates he Advianced About One Trhird. Increase in South 25 Per Cent. Passenger lites bep Ad. vanced One-Fifth. Washington, July 31.-Authority for the railroads of the country to in crease their revenues by approximate ly one billion and a halt dollars was granted today by the interstate con -merce commission Freight rates will be advanced about one-third, passen ger fai'es one-fifth and Pullman charges one-half. Coastwise and inland steamship lines and electric railway companies Ialso were granted permission to in crease their freight rates in propor tion to the increases granted to the railroads serving the same territory. No estimate of the aggregate amount to result from these advances has been made. The new rates, which are to con tinue in force until March 1, 1922, will become effectkfe upon five days' notice by the carricrs to the commis Mion and the public and they must be in operatlon beforo January 1. Since the government guarantee expires, September 1, the carriers are expect ed to bend every effort to put the advances into effect by that date. , ;Increases granted by the commis D sion are designed to offset the $600, 2 000,000 wage advance awarded by . the railroad labor board and to pro :3 vide the 6 per cent net income on the 9 aggregate value of the railroad prop erties as permitted under the trans 7 Vortation act. The aggregate value of all of the railroads was estimated 2 by the commission at $18,900,000,000 . 1as against a book value of $20,010, 8 0,0,000 given by the carriers. s The 20 .:er cent increase in pas 6 senger fares, excess baggage charges I and milk transportation rates and the s 50 per cent surcharge on Pullmiian 4fares authorized by the commission Swill be general the country ovet'. Freight rate increases will vary ae cordinzg to territory w ith 40 per cent. in the l'ast, 23 per cent in the Southi, 3~ 85 per cent in the .West-thalit is fromz Sthe Mlssissippi river to the ilocky 5Mountains-and 25 Per cent. in the m Moitunin-Pacifle 'territory---.om the I east of the Rlockies to the P'aciftic c;oast, not inicluding Alaska. Easyt% AcCe'ss to liest lioom. La 1~dies using the - rest roomu In the( -ourt house will f i nd the meanus of whien the jpassage-way now being ibuilt on tue sout th side of the hulkiding i complletedl. Work on -rh' passage way3, proiId ed for during the last. ses -slon of the legislaturze, has beeni goinzu on for severnal days and wvillI be com-i pleted in a short tIme. The bill1 pro vId ing for the passage-way called fot a flight (if steps5 to tihe rest room, bum i3. lit was found mnore convenient ani a~'s exiiensive not to build1( a flight o *steps, but to run a concrete landini from the portico on the south to doo(10r to be cut 'in tho wing in whicl ofthe rest room is located. lie TIo loebulid (Coalh Chmute. chi Material has ,been splaced in th< ICe- Irby yard of the 'C. & WV. C. railroan to-~ ireparatory to the butilding of a coo chute to take the place of the one dIe la1 stroyed by fire near the depot las ewinter. It is understood <4ihat thi ylp new chute wvill be tf differecnt desigi ng from the sky-scraper affair that th flames consumed, 'AN)llATES FOl ('ONG(MESS Ii illi-: NENT W imK nm l1paign in Tis'1% Couity Opens at Goldville Next Tuesday Afternoon. iandidates for congressional lion ors in the Fourth district will address lie Voters of the county next week, he o)ening meeting to be held at 3oldvillo Tuesday afternoon, August 0, at Goldville. There are four can lidates in the race, .A. M0. 11111, of 3partanburg; J. J. .\cSwain and D. 3. Traxler, of Greenville, and .Jack Wilson, of Career. They speak 4in [Jaurens next Wednesday night at 8 )'clock. The candidates are in Un on county this nweek and will be inl ;ipartanburg county after leaving [,aurens. They will .wind up the cam aign in GreenvillC ('out11y the fol owing week, the last meeting being it Greenville on the 27th. Following is the schedule of meet ings in this county: Tuesday, Aut~tust 10, Goldville, 31 >'clock. ''uesday, August 10, Clinton, 8 'clock. Wednesday. August I. Waterloo, 3 ,>'clock. Wednesday. August It, Laurens, 8 >'clock. Thursday. Aug. 12, Poplar Springs. 10 o'clock. Thursday. August 12, Princeton, 3 o'clock. Thursday, August 12, Gray Court, 8 o'clock. ARMY SHORT OF MEN. Itegulairs Need Nearly One Hundred T11housand. Washington, Aug. 2.-The regular army is approximately 95,000 short of the maximum strength of 297,000 per mitted under the army reorganization bill, which became effective July 1. On July 29 the strength of the fore es was 187,198 enlisted men and 15,364 offlcers as against the authorized strength of 280,000 enlisted men, in cluding, the Philippine scouts;,.and 17,698 officers. Watermelon Slashing. At a meeting of the Business Wo man's Club, held in the Rest Room yesterday afternoon, it was decided to "use up" several waterielons or "August Hams" at the home of Miss Sarah Dorroh Fiday evening at 6 o'clock4. All members of the club who are interested in watermelons in any shape, size or form, whether as fruit, vegetable, merchandise or work of art are invited, urged, requested and importuned to be present. The matter of implements to be used, whether knives, forks or spoons will be left to the choice of the guests. In fact, it Is authoritively stated that ,be possession or use of an implement of any kind will not be considered a prerequisite to attendance on the party or attention to the fruit, the on ly absolutely necessary hardware be ing the master knife for the initial opening, this being uied exclusivel) by the head cutter iwho may use f Istring insteadl in an emergency. Theb(ri will be no restrictions on thc gift o the melons, anyone of either sex whether a member of the club or no beln: 4 at liberty to contribute to ihi All3l'LANE-S ON MOVI:. lilaz/imr~ Tirill fromt Mineiiia to N ome Ahitska. I 'rince Georg(, 11., .\uig. 2. ---T'hrtee e tIm foiur' 'nilted States ar my a ir Ilaneis, whticht are blazing an a eria trail from .\1lineola, N. Y. , to Nomc AhInsk a, ariived herec from J1asptera II o'clock lbhis mlorniing, i1-:dm to tn, .\lberta. Aug. 2.---l 0o .\muerleanit army airp'ilaniis, ily ing frtor .\llnieola, N. Y., to Nome, Alaska, lefl JIasper' at 8:20 this mtorning for thli next stoppiing place, Prince' Georgi 200 milies a way. The muachinie utsed b (Capt. St. Clir Street, in command lie expedition, catught fire after h hiad flowtn one mille andi lhe wvas force to turn back to ,Jasper. Wlelfare' Worker Here. Mt's. W. 'C. Cathcart. of Columbi super~tvisor' of Child i'lacing of ti State boatrd of public welfate, hi Sbeen in the city anid coutnty for tI I past few dlays visiting sevet'al app)i I cants for children and also the homn - where the board htas placed childre t Mrs. Cathcat't's du~ties consist of . c ating homeless Infants andi th I finding people to adoplt them. Sul e will lbe interested in hear'ing fro any one who deslires to adopt a chil bt\NE lt\lI, LE.(0UT ENiS ITS S01|ED1:0E Ilirectirs Ieclde Not to Complete scidilt' 3Mapped Out but to Play In. depenidenitly. At a meeting of the directors of the LetJurens Couity Base rhall League, ield in the 'Chamber of Commerce Wednesday evening, it was decided to (I colititue the league schedule and allow each team to play whom it Pleased. This action was taken fol lowing a harmonious discussion of the league's affairs. It was mutually agreed that conditions were not satis faclory to the continuation of play un der the league rules -and that It would be better for each team to play inde peudintly. The vote to suspenld the schedltl was carried unanimously. It mvas decided to return the bonus mon)y put ti1p by each team at the be ginntig of the league. inidinuIng the check which the Clinton c'lth gave when It entereed the leaguo and which was 'mbsequently turned down by them. The concensuis of opinion of the directors was that the league had proved very benotlcial to the various tm-mliber towns by bringing them In closer touch with each other and by tIhe encoumagement of the athletic spirit. Several of the directors spoke of the friendships that had been made and of the pleasures they had gotten out. of the association with peo ple of the county who had been prac tically strangers to them before WAtE SHOALS 31AN CIIARIOED WITH RCECKLESS DRtIVINGi 11'. (. Cobib ('harged vith )rivlng In to 8maller Car it Greenville Coun ty. Greenville News. W. C. Cobb, of Whre Shoals, whose automobile is alleged to have struck a smaller car driven by J. E. Gilmer on Buncombe road Sunday afternoon, turning it end about, and throwing all the occupants Into the road, was ar rested yesterday by Sheriff Willis. charged with reckless driving. The warrant was sworn out by Mr. Gil nier. Magistrate Ballenger yesterday released Mr. 'Cobb on $200 bond. Mr. Cobb denies that his is the car which struck the one driven by Mr. Gilmer. lie .passed the Gilmer car, he says, af ler' the accident had occurred. When struck Mr. Gilmer, -who was driving, was holding a two-year-old baby in his lap. The child escaped in jury by remarkable good luck. A young lady who was a member of the party in Mr. Gilmer's automobile was cut about the face with glass. The number of an autmobile which was thought to have been the car that struck the Gilmer cat' was reported by a witness to the sheriff, 'Who yester (lay identified the owner by telegraph. ing the highway engineer in Colum. bla Sheriff Willis arrested Mr. Cobb al Ware Shoals yester(dt'ay afternoon, af ter' having the warrant counttersignie( by Magistrate Madison of that town The hilgh-powvered ('ad iliac auttomnobil<4 in wich Mr. Cobb is all egedl to havy r'un into Mr. Gil mer hias been at tacit cd for damages. Afteri having examined thie ('addila< auttomtobile for signs of a collision Sheift Will is stat ed lthat lie fotund na ,(damfage except a (lent on the righ rcart fender. Th'lis dent, Mr. ('01) f said, was made by a wagon backin, - In to thle aunt omobileIt i enntiessee. Dr. Iial Not toi tlu. I I)r. W. It. Di'al, wh''ose namteti was ('n teted by friends last week as a (can didate for' the lower houste( of the Get eral Assembly, has wrmit ten the fol lowing card to The Advettiser statin thalt lie cannot (enter the race. Ed itor1 The I-aure'ns .\dvert iset: My attention has been called to a announemet In y'our t'papner in whlec my friends lpropiosed me as a cand i dte for the Ihouse of flepr'esentativei (from Lautrens county. W~hile I wish 1 thank thterse ftiends and expt'ess n appret''t ion 'of the conbildence hr plied In the announcement. I ennn ~ et my consent to enter polities th 5late in life, having never dlesir'ed ri lie office. I must theruefor'e respee Sfully decline to entet' the race. s'W' T- DIAL. a. -Pletnie at Whtar's Lawn. *f The annual picnic at Wham's law 1e In the upp~ier patrt of the county. m to be' given Firiday, August 4th. T' rl. intihic ia oedilly invitad to affem~ State Hlighwvaiy Department Takes 0v-| er Part of County Highway for Members of the State Iighway De partnient, headed by lion. R. Uoodwyn Ithett of Charleston. made a surprise call on the supervisor and county commissioners yesterday just as the commission was about to adjourn af ter its regular monthly meeting. Mr. Rhett and his party came to Laurens from Greenwood following a meeting there when the proposed highway be tiweenu the two counties was brought upy for discussion At the suggest ion of Coronaco citizens the party came to 1aureins, accoImpanied by .\lr. H1al Sloan, chairmani of tile Greenwood highway comiission, and went. over the situation with Siupervisor Watts. No decision was reached on tihe iat ter, but iillbers of tile highway de partment showed muklh interest in getting the two counties together. After the meeting Supervisor Watts s;aid that the state department had helped solve the Princeton-Ware Shoals road question and that a con tract for building a top-soil road on this link would be let at once, the ex pense to be borne jointly by the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company and the automobile license fund. The work is to be (lone under the supervision of the county highway engineer. Mr. Watts also stated that the high ,way del)artment formally took over for maintenance the ten mile link of top-soil road from -the Newberry line towards Clinton Ultimately, as opro vided for during the last session of the legislature, all of the state-aid roads will be so maintained. J. AUGUSTUS OWINGS. Pronminent Citizens of Gray Court Died Mondity Morning. Mr. J. Augustus Owings, a proml nent citizen of Gray 'Court, died at his home there Monday moining and was burled at Harmony church Tuesday at It o'clock' Mr. Owings was twice married, the lrst time to Miss Hunt, of Greenville. There was one child by this marriage, Miss Jessie Owings, a stenographer of Greenville. ie was married the sec ond time to Miss Bessie Wharton, of the county, and of this union three children survive. One brother, Mr. T. P. Owings, of Gray Court, also sill vives, besides many relatives in Gray Court and Owings* le was 68 years of age and a member of Harmony Bap tist chttrch. Repairing Ilullding. Carpenters under the direction of Mr. Ad Martin have been busy during the past week making repairs on the store-room next to Wilkes & Company formerly occupied by the Vincent Mo lor Coniany, owned for many years by the Dall estate and now the ipro; erty of Mr. A. L. Mahaffey. New floor ing has been put in, an elevator Is being erected and a modern jlate I glass front installed. \Mr. Mahiaffey . willI occupy the building, moving his Sgrocery store from the east sIde of Sthe public sqluare. The Advertiser, -which hias been occ(u pyi ng thle second( floor, will commience mnovinig its ettuiip :ment into its new building this week ,It may take several weeks to move > moving part of the eqluipment at It im t and1( installing it in ordler I hal >there may be 1no inteirituptioni in th1 regulart issties of the pa per. A not her l~im. Gamue. Th le 'a tol inei stret.t "I teds" tool the p East .\lin streeti "BIlies" ini campb~ a second1( tIimc Friday morn ini whenl they wvalked awvay with the see ond game of the series by a score S to :!. T1he game was marked b; hea vy hittin g antd fast lid ili thirouighoutI. Thle ha tteries for' th UIles were' 'Pl'ige and lRoberts, an nfor the 1Blue's, Adams, Slayer andl M(l A. It. lake'ly Annionnee~is. .\lri. A. ii. llakely, who announce some time ago that lie wouldh not. 1 -a candidate for r'e-election to the of flee of Cont C'omisioner, has r< conaldleredl his dleeision at the reqlue: of mainy fiends and has enlteredl bl name for Ithe primary. C'losed! for thet Sutmmer. Thue Laturens Glass Works clost down last Satturday night for the u; n, tual summer season while the blowel is -take a rest and .the machinery is o we erhauled. The .plant will open agal d. abmut the midlen of September. FRANCISO VIL GIV[8 UP FIGHI Idol of the Mexican Peons Signs Truce FINAL TERMS DECIDED UPON Itecognition Of NeW IexicannI Govern e14nt1I Brought 31ensuralpy Nearer by Action of Bandit Chief. Reports of Surrenler Plveas Leaders on liorder. Eagle Pass, Texas, July 28.-Fran cisco Villa, bandit idol of the Nlexi Call peon, and for years a m(luenace to governments of his country through out northern Mexico, is entrained to night with his men for Torreon, there to take the irst actual steps looking to his entrance once more to irivate Mlexican citizenship, a consequence of his negotiations tvith the Do la I luer ta government concluded at Sabinas carly today. Advices reaching here from Sabin as, which contain this information, told also the terms under which the bandit chieftain agreed, In the words of Gen. 'Eugenio Martinez, comman der of the Torreon military zone and personal representative of the (De la Huerta regime, to "submission to the Do la Iluerta government in recogni tion of its stability and his desire to retire to private life and abide by the laws of the government." Under the terms, advices state, Vil la is to be allowed a year's army pay for all his soldiers and permitted to go with them to Torreon under per sonal escort, where this condition of the terms will be effected. The band will number about 1,800 it is said. At Torreon the men. are to be "mustered out" of Villa's service and each allotted a tract of land on which to engage in farming. Villa, too, it is said, has been given very pleasing guarantees. General Martinez, communicating to Eiliano Tamez, Mexican consul at Eagle Pass, termed Villa's accep tance of the terms as "an act of pa triotism." All rumors of slaughter of Sabinas policemen and mutilation of bodies of many women there yet lack confirma tion i z Mexico City, July 28.-General Gar cia announced today that tho final terms of Villa's surrender had been decided upon. The bandit chief iwill retire to private life in a place to be desiagnated by thu government. lie will go first to Torreon to disband his forces, as he will retain no military connection whatsoever. It is not likely that Villa will come to \exico City, but, will qproceed from Torreon wheresoever the governmeit directs. The n egotiautions for t he su rrenider hlave been condlucted to the entire sat., isfaction of the government, Villa obeying all orders. El I 'aso, .11uy1 28-RIeport s of the surrender1 of Francisco Villa pleasedl leaders here and .1 uarez,. M\exico, to d iay. Olpinlions were expressedl that 'i llat's su)rrendler wioutld (10 much(' to stai lizi'e mini ng and industry in Ch i hu ahuna. the state in whl ih Villa chief ly operated. Thei~ surrenderl('1 of Villa will mneani > the stoppling (of depiredat ions by his tti numerous bands, it wuas sid, 'who for' .ye'ars have wrecked~i trinls, cessatIon f of kidna pping and paynments of large ysumfls of money by foreign mining coinpan ies as tributeCs to Villa, and e generally br in lpeace to thle sta te, ''Two monthus ago Villa toldi visitors - to his camp that warfare he waged in M\exieo had cost *i0,00t0 lives of his eneIes at*$',ndl that unless his demands were mect for joining the new govern dmentit hie had the power andI will1 to e light and take 40,000 more lives "If - that were necessary to bring peace in -M\exico." it jWashington, JIuly 28.-Recognition I or the new Mlexican Government by the Unitedl States in the opinion of Alexican obser'vers he~re has been brought measurmably nearer b~y the 'd surr'ender1 of Prancisco Villa. -The statuts of Villa so far as tho s~ United States is concerned, however', SIs not greatly changed. The bandit (Continued on Page Four.)