The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, November 03, 1920, Image 13
NEGROE8 KILLEb
AFTER OUTBREAK
Filteen In Montgomery County Jall.
Fire Causes ,Loss. One Hundred
Alabama Men Heavily Armed on
Duty at Strateglc Points.
(Montgomery, (Ala., Nov. 1.-Three
negroes known to be dead, 15 in the
Montgomery county jail and property
loss through incendiary fires all
tproximating $100,000 recapitulates the
outbreak in the southern part of this
countr yearly tonight. Over 100 heav
ily armed county and city officials
and civilian volunteers are on duty at
strategic points In the affected area
tonight, although it was generally be
lieved the threateTed uprising had been
nipped.
The killing of 'Warren Taylor, ne
gro, the third to die, In connection
'with the events of the past 42 hours
occurred early this afternoon after
he had emptied a 45 calibre pistol at
Chief of Police Taylor, Sheriff John L.
Ec oggin and other officials, who had
placed him under arrest at his home,
18 miles south of this city. Taylor liad
reported earlier in the day an attempt
to burn ils property by night riders,
the robbery of his store and an at
telhiit upon his own life. While he
was being treated for a buckshot
woundl in his shoulder in the city, oill
cers went to his home and questioned
his mother and found the statements
of the two at variance. They also
found the safe Taylor hal reported as
having been stolen under his bed. The
discr'elpancy in the accounts as given
calused lie oflicers to decide on Tay
lor's arrest. atd whien he cane home
Ie found the officers waiting for iIIm,,.
'Welin lie was iIidiledi into Cilef of
Pollee 'T'aylor's atitonobile he seized
a gun lying in tile car an! started
shooting. Dletleive Sc'r eanit pinioned
tIII ne101lro's arils (alsing his aim to
be Ineffective. 1 ofolre tihe negro had
lcptied the plistol. however. lhe wasn
lired cp from tll, side and eight hil
i't ;iercd his head and body, (ans
in. itlnt d alth.
.'ieor threminhgiou I hl day from
ihn ro'thrn car t hie liuty, ecoup
Ing lAlene i thrats to detrev on 0r
two r.1iinl townas d ingi li m n))(. iiigIt.
'l'is eniti d Ih( sw, aring inl oif 1lti
(wvilins who N.ithi (olllty alici tvcl oli
e'nl ar1 oni * "1u1rd in tho e locaIlitics
tc'e ii~ht. .\ replort tonbrht 11. which was
whNicc t (onfir ma11c tJiII (ule to inability
to sceni' wvie conniections withIi the
Cnil'iumn Iie , q ' wai to the- effect that
four ingroes ioha l een shot to d eaithb
neI)r 1'iglhland Iioio, Ala., eay n
tl'e lay.
At thc e counllty jail this afternooni W.
F. Aierson, who appcrehended and ar
rested Laddie (I'lhs)oni, .11%, a negro,
strated that Gilson had told h1imi an
other negro, Roosevelt Johnson, also
1 .der arrest, had sliownil him halls of
cotton wh lih had been saturated with
kerosenre oil Satu rday afternoon and
said they were to be use(d inl (lestroy
Ing the buildings on the )avis oil
ton plnat i ons, where the fIres were
dicov'ere'd lat Satuirday night.
E~very male while residenit in the
southern part of the county was re
ported heavily armed thils afternuooni
and at Snowden and -Palmer wvere
keeping an all night vigil against any
at tacks, threat s of which had been
floatinag about dhunrig the (lay.
\Montgomer'y, Alai., Nov. 1.-Sheriff
Scogghn e'arly today started wvith a
s' u ad of depiutiels 1post haste for Dubh
lini, Alut, 12 mciles southI of .\ ont goam
cry, to in vest igate u. repborted bur n ig
of signal fires.
CallIs fronm ala rmiedl citIzens sal 'I
they believed the signal fIres to bce
calling the negroes from the entire
c'ommunlilty to a designated meetinug
plhace.
No reports had 'en reeiv~ed from
the sheriff's party after leaving
Montgomiery upi to I o'clock this
morn ing.
Enigraved Cards and invitations,
Advertiser Printing Co.
0. Langdon Long
4TTORNEY AT LAW
Enterprise National'Bank Buikk
All (Legal Dlusiniosa (liven
Prompt Attention
UNDERTAKING
* C. E. KENNEDY &SON
Und'ertakers and Embalmers
Calls answered any hour day or night
BlackweHl & Sullivan
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Promnpt Attention Given All Business
Xoney to Loan on Real Estate
Tele~phone 8S0
.Office in Simmoni Building
GEORGIA WOMEN
FACE QUESTION
Somne May Not Be Permitted to Vote.
Views of Managers
Atlanta, Nov. 1.--JWhether Georgia
WOlen will vote in tomorrow's gen
oral election remained an open ques
tion tonight 'with the possibility, ac
cording to state ofllicipls, that the
Question might be decided different
ways i different precincts. and that
,court action .might follow.
Georgia law for years has required
registration at least six months before
election and the 19th amendment was
proclaimed less than six months before
the election. R. A. Denny, state attor
ney general, has ruled that the nation
al lawconfers suffrage on women, re
gardless of Georgia rules as to regis
tration, and at the capitol it was said
managers of some -precincts ipossibly
might go ahead on this and permit all
women to vote 'who presented them
selves at the polls, while it was pos
sible otfier managers might refuse.
In the absence of any oficial action,
Governor 'Dorsey was one of those who
held this view. Women will not vote
in Fulton county, accordin.g to ordi
nary Thomas 'H.. Jeffries, who is in
charge of election machinery here.
The governor's view given offhand
w'as that the six months rule applies
to all voters, men and women, but lie
made it plain that lie was not seeking
to influence any person on the sub
ject. It is not in the clief execuitive's
power to say who shall or shall not
vote, lie added
Man y leading suffragists, including
Mrs. .lary .\lcLendon of Athinta, a
pioneer in the cause, have u rged wo
mni1 to vote.
IEforts ofr ir. ii. I.. Stoc(kiridge of
Allanta at a recenit mass inmecting of
negro wollien to gel. th1iem11 to --o to the
polls Wre followed by pliubii an
nonnem ergP1 torlay from11 C. .\\-. Al(..
ChI ,b an of theile.tt oblican
-ays; and me1anls <.,lnnnittc f): (;eow j 1
hrlt heo hIad rfinsc."ted li ~o kw
I ~ i sign I '( li aPn 'mniii gnu di..
retori foI G'or"gia. C. 1'. Gorce, olir
I atf the RPuh'tblic.n1i a central
vcwnimitteec, also stated stockbridge's
anch on wva.- not ;Mihorized.
I- ' It.' - ItS ( 'ON I 1 it
WITHl LABOR) .1l.;N
Ta1ilk of 31.ean0e. 1 OIbtdinin ('redits For
Orderly 311l rkelIi of I' rodnels
Wasingtoi, Oct. 28.. I.ahor lealders
pariepaedtoday with reprenowl "
tives of farmevrs froml all over*. (ho
'.'mtry In !11 furthIler con ference to)C de
vie ways and1l mntis or obtainig
credits for "1 1he olrdrly iimarl-eting'' of
farm prodlth'. Fa lure to secure siuli
rcld its, speakers declared, inIglit re
;nlt in the Inauguration of a-general
croI p holding imiovelii 1111ia rk et
prices Would provide (cost of prod110
t ion and reasonable -protit.
A genral comnmittee to dramv tip a
policy to be followed by the confer
01nc was p)oiinted with .lhn 'Tr'.om
ble0, of l(~ansas, as chaliman. and all
the various;,agrlcultur'al interests rep..
iioni immeiidiately.
Furithle" con ferences imight he
sought withI thle t reasuriy deiarmtmeiit
aiid thle federal reserve hoard, it was
said, and1( congress asked foir relief it
it cOuld n ot be obtained otheriw iso.
The conference met on (call of tlhe
Comminitt eo aippolintedi by a mecent sim
Ibar gatherIng to receive the answVer of
he fedoraI r'eserve boanird to the plea
for mlore credits. Thei( statme onon f
the boarid was dleclared1 by tis coom
miiit to. to lbe uinisatisfactory.
A Ioa n of a bill ion dol a by l the
('nited States to (Germny was one
plan iilaidl befor'e the pol1icy ('(ommiiitteec.
WIll iami W. Illiaiieri of New Yor'k. who
asserted he reopresenuted thle Gei'man
governmient, asked thle comminit tee to
enJdorse logislation by congress aim
thoring such a loan to Germany.
'P'roperity of the German government
andl Ger'nmn national seized1 by time
allen 'ropierty custodian andl clains
ar'ising fi'om thme seizure of Ger'man
shipping, would 'be offeredl as addition
al securti, .lr. Br'auer' said(. Germany
wvas i'eadly to 'puircbase twvo hundred
million -dollars of agriculturaj pro
dIucts Immediately, he assertedl, on
such an extension of credit.
4t Rat That Didn't Smhel After Being
Dead For 8 Months
"I swear it' was dead at least 3
months." said Jafthes Sykes, Butchei'
WVestfteld, N. J. "We saw this rat
nyery day. 'Put a cake of 'RAT-SNAP
behind a barrel. Months later my
wife asked about the rat. 'Remem
hieredC the barrel, looked behind it.
Therie was the rat-dead, not the
lghtest odior." Three sizes, Soc. O5c
and -$1.2-5. 'sold and .guaranteed by
Lau rens Hardware Co., Putnam's
)rug Store, and Kennedy Bros.
Hlonor Roil Bailey School
First Griade-Lo~uise 'Wallenzine.
Third Grade-Mamia E'llen Garvin.
FPourth Griade-Ada :Benjamin, Eu
gene iBhown.
Fifth (Griade-Mary Templeton.
Sixth Grade--iry Benjamin,
FOREST LONG UNDER WATER
Submerged Petrified Trees That Must
Be Centuries Old Removed as
Menace to Navigation.
When the government ship canal
that connects Puget sound with Lake
Washington was opened, the waters of
the lake were lowered 12 feet. While
wire-dragging the lake, says a con
tributor, the United States coast and
geodetic survey discovered a subma
rine forest. The tops of the sub
merged trees were so close to the sur
face that they were a menace to nav
igation. Under-water logging opera
tions to clear the lake were there
fore started.
It is thought that the forest is pre
historic, a remnant of one that grow
In the Lake Washington area in the
days when it was dry land; or that
great landslides in remote ages car
ried the trees into the lake.
The trees were withouat branches
and stood vertical, or nearly so; they
were semlbetrifled. The longest trunk
removed was 121 feet 6 inches. The
toll, 10 inches thick, rosm to within 4
feet of the surface of the lake. The
butt was 5 feet 6 inches In diameter,
and the robts, firmly embedded in thie
bottom of the lake, had a 20-foot
spread. It was found 1,500 feet from
the shore.
Off the south end of Mercer island.
In Lake Washingt.on, nearly a hundred
trees were destroyed. The cleanup
gave a count of more than a hundred
trunks during the flrst three montlis
of 1920, off Manitou isoint.. T(he larg
est trunk li that area stood it 121 feet
of water, 1,100 feet from shore. The
tree was 11 feet long, with a 5-inch
top anid a 3-foot butt.
Wherever possilhie, tile trees were
pulled out Iy tie roots. Fast enilngs
were iade to the truiniiks by dragging
the hight of a cable throu-Iigl tle vat er
at the required dptii. Wlien the
hight toucled Ilie 11run11k, one etid of
the cable was passed througi an eye
at the ather end, :iiil the4 looi formed
wIts rim down to the rees. Whlen tie
t rees were hauled uii. tiley were cut
into 4-foot sections :uIIId throwin baick
Int0 the laike. Silice Ily were vaterI
logged, lheoy i11t i iiel sank.
Somietiines a tuik was nuiriht Iliht
Vo I not he u1pr'1ole . .uch11 re1
vere llasted off nt Ie tol111 uiitil ve
;ois could pwmss safl abo them.
An lIden of lite ext nt of' thillu- nre
1%e;*'es i l I lwth flillettily1 41f' roi ving..
ti' towri glah auii l tr4- 111' in:y (i1k.
term.ainiaed b' y thi4 tim hr yea:rs :t aid
'ix ton:1tis ---that It hn n I tIn n
gneevrmla corp-1s, wor .Ivnqe~lily, to
mati Ihe hi'lli af fir n avigition.
Youth's (I'otIan: ilon.
The Span of Life.
In umlIung (aleu1it ilis lil the numui
her of Vea's ahaeail of you it is ve.ry
liecess:i iy to tali yotir (uii''upiat 0li at(ii
eg1c foneratIn. Fishormlett limvo thll
iatiilest jobs oni record. Pittiing iw
aivernrgi llortality at 100, tt(he Oslier
nan's pircelitigi is 73. 3eetp sea fisli
ermni have a 1.glier rate, (uie to more
a(ciiln'its. Jewelers have the very low
miortality of 70. Aming the niore gen
- ovenliations, I'l I'l ir- an clergy
iuni are the longest lived of all peo
Ile. Occupatiois concerne'd with thie
handling of Iltior have a very hih
deathIi rate. Proprietois niid superii
tendents of h1otels w(th hars who do
not itteid the bar have a rate of 135.
whille the rate for men of Ithe samite
class who attend the hair is I78. Whien
thie men are 25 per~ centt or more ovecr
weight the rate in t he first chass rIses
from lIin to 171, ini the secoind cihtss
from 178 to 237. The mortality rate
of waiters in hotelsa and (othler pincs
where liquor 's served is 177. Many
insuiran1ce compies havlii e shairpi lim i
tations in istrliig t hese imeni, ot her
wilse the rate would bie mune- igher.
House Cleaning Oitpensed With.
Thle use of! modi~erni el cti iiinple
menits suc(h ais thle iineu iatIc sweepier
is snIdl to) have bieeni thei imeani oi if dis
piecs tig withl the obll-tIime insittionii
oif 'iouise-eleinning," wich wal ~ms a week
in the spinmg mind nut num whlen I hei
whlole domueste I e(stalishimnen t wias
tuirined uipsideO dlown and insi iidel (ot.
whlile thIle cor'ners anid ('revices were
scoured and accumiulatlons of dlIrt and
dlust routedl. E~very we(ek is cleaning
week In these damys nn rd thle hiapply
home is no longer turned into a scenie
of chaos. WVe have now progressed
to saner nmethiods of doig home work.
rTe proper thing now is cleaning
hours-the house kept clean through
out the entire year by using the mod
ern electric cleaners. insteadl of saving
up the dirt, so to speak, then making
frantic efforts t~wlce a year to free the
home from the accunmula tion.
What Bleaching Ooes 'to the .Clothes.
In some exh.austime laundry tests
directed by W., W. Farraghier it was
found that men's collars that were
washed andl also b~leauched broke after
from seven to nine turns through the
iaumndry, while others which had
been wvashed hut not bleached.
stood( twenty-Ave uimnilar tuirns he
fore they gave out. Cottan thread
that broke with a weight of f.750t
gramsa was washed and bleached twen
ty times by the regular laundry meth
(ods; then it broke with a wveiht ,of
100 grams.
Darwin's if.
If I had ,to live my lIfe again, 1
would have mad~e a rule to reand sriine
poetry and listen to some tmuslc at
least once every week; for perhaps
the parts of my brain now atropihiedl
wouldh thus have been kept active
through use. The loss of these tasteE
is at loss of huapluiness, and may pios
sibly be injurious to tha intellect, and
nmore p-;auably to the "oral charactor.
by' enfeeb!!ng the emotional part of
our natne-h.Jan..es ntrn...
20 Per Cent Off
We are making a straight 20 per cent re
duction on all lines in our store, making prices
which will appeal to you as very attractive.
You buy at the reasonable prices we always
charge, THEN DEDUCT 20 PER CENT. We
know of no better way of meeting our customers
with good values.
OFFERING
Ready-to-Wear, Shirts, Notions, Shoes, every
thing except Wirthmore and Welworth Waists.
H.~~7 T T
ceU g 1 F~$
V.A (.A Xt ~iX.- L6, 1.L 11" Y ,V ' p
OF
NjE WG A RA B
I will open Monday morning a gar
age in the new Roper building, op
posite the Red Iron Racket on Lau
rens Street.
PROMPT & EFFICIENT SERVICE
Will Be My Motto
First class mechanics, with an up-to
date equipment, will get your work
out promptly.
TRUCK SERVICE A SPECIALTY
Bring me your trucks---I will not
keep you waiting.
Thomason's Garage
Jas. H. Thomason, Prop.
LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA