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VOLUME XXXVII. LAURENS9 SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1921.NUBR0 Negro is Caught and Spir ited Away ATTACK OCCURRED MONDAY 'AFTERNOON "Tab" Sliuminte, Alleged o14) jlve At teiipted IV Ciina1111i Assault Upon Whlile woman in (Greenille Coun ty Near 'rinceon, Carried to Vreenville. Summary and immediate vengeance upon a negro, Arthur Shumate, allas "Tab" Shumate, for on attempted as sault upon a white woman several -miles across the Greenville counqy line from Princeton, was iprobably prevented shortly after midnight Mon day night when Shumate was taken in charge -by Sheriff Rector of Green ville county and spirited away to Greenville before a large crowd of men, gathered on the scene, was aware that the negro had been caught. According to details of the crime as told by parties who returned from the .seene last night, Shumate hid himself inl al outhouse near where his victim was liking cotton an( where he knew she would 'go to emipty her cotton sack after she had filled it. Wheni she entered the house he is al Jeged to have made a furious attack upon her, but she succeeded in making her escape but not before he had struck her in the head with sonme in struient. She screamed and the ne gro ruished out and made a'vay, stop lying in a house not far distant, Here he barricaded 'himself until white neighbors, who had heard the wo man's outcry, came to her assistaince. Discovering thie negroes whereabouts, six mien are said to have forcibly en tered the house, finding the negro crouched under a bed. They dragged hin out, but in a' seuffle which en sued lie succede2d in freeing himself and dashed out of the door. Several of the men shnt at -him with shot-guns, but be succeeded in getting away from them. 'Word of the crime soon spread about and officers from Greenville and au rens were notified. They, with a large number of men, began a search for the negro which lasted until after nid-night, blood-hounds being -brought to the scene by Sheriff Rector to aid in the hunf. The dogs piroved of little value, however, except later to be used as a foil to distract the atten tion of the crowd after word had been received as to where the iegro could be found. Some time after midnillight Sheriff ector was gllaldedly advised that tile I could be found i a buggy go the direction of Princeton. jading UIle crowd to believe that he was going to place the dlogs on a fresh trali, t-h''liheriff dashed down the Princeton read an(1 comlling u11p on thle negro as he expected, took hm11 ill is car. Tnst ted of tulrning back to waflrd Greenivillec, h~e contilned toward Princeton anid got into another roadi leadinig to Greenvilie, eluldinig tile crowid an c dlndinmg his5 *1risone r in Greenvilie. Shumaate was bleeding profusely, it Is stated, from tile effects of gun m-.lhot wounds1 l!'cived twhlen lie -mlade is escapeP fromi thle six men11 in tile 'cabin. Flled4I to Idtlify According to p)ress dlispatchles last night, tile Greenville counlty womanI oni whom Shiumiate is alleged to have made the attempllted assalt, failed to makne a p~osif,!vo or negative idenltiflea tioni of Shumnate wvlhn rihe faced hlimi at ,tile jail ill Greenville. GOSSETT TO SEEi~ IBAIL Kentneth fGossetf, ESentenceed to Fort.) Vears in Penl for Crimnal Assault, Columbia, Sept. 20.-Kenneth Gos aett, sent to tile ,state penitentiary for 410 years on a conviction of cr'imfinl alsflault, lint recently ordered by the supreme court to a newv trial, leaves the state peniten'tiary this afternoon for Greenville, whlere he appears he fore Associate .Tulstiee Cothran, of th~e Snapremell court, to apply for hail. The hearing before Justice Cothran wvill -be on Wednesday. (iossett was convicted in AprIl, 1920, and sent Ul) for 410 years. Jls appeal for a new trial Was * uccessful. His appearance in the openl this afternoon is .the first time lie has left the prison since his in carceratien. DRUGGISTS HOLD SESSION ( AT BOIS-TEllIRE CLUB Enjoyable and Protitable Meeting of Third District Druggists Thursday. -0 The Third ID'istrict Druggists so ciety held its regular semi--annual meeting, at the "Bois-Terre country P4 club, 'between 'Laurens and Clinton, ill Thursday. The meeting was presided fc over by I)r. C. M. 1iller, f this city, ti, president of the society for this year, ti, and Dr. Fl. I. Norris, of Greenwood, n< acted in his official capacity as sec- 'll retary. About twenty members from of Abbeville, Green'Vood, Newberry, UL- ti rens and McCormick, counties were s( present, Greenwood city heading the o percentage column in attendance with U every drug store represented. til The social features of the meetln6 Sc consisted of a swim in the lake of the T club and all elegant dinner served by the club caterers. Dr. S. C. Tiodges, of Greenwood, and Dr. Johnson, of Po- Si maria, added to the merriment of the Ic occasion by singing sevoial negro sprituals, inl "Leaks in the Drug Store" was thr: P sutbject of a round table discussion led by Dr. Hodges after the dinner hom. 01 Dr. :Iodges used a blackboard to ct record tile different leaks suggested by 1)C his auditors, every phase of the drug w business being touched, from a gen- inl cral plan to the duties of porters. of Without exhausting the possible leaks, te the druggists were surpriseG to fid I that they had suggested 57 varieties and wIth these before them they en- g. deavored to offer remedies for the 11< leakagts. IlVach member was asked to 91 select one of the suggested leaks and P1 discuss its rerhedy. bi The druggists went on record as orp- c) posed to the continuation of the pres- tr ent stamp tax oil various articles sold Ill exclusively by druggists and on mo- sI tion of Dr. T. (1. Meacham, of Green- ly wood, the secretary iwas instructed to in wire a protest to Senator *Boise Pen rose, chairman' of tile committee in C< Washington, who has charge of the vt bill now -before 'Congress . fl With tile select-ion of Greenwood as s tie April meeting place, the session it, came to a close, all of .ie visitors ox- til pressing themselves as having been o1 greatly benefitted by the discussions ir" of the lay. th LOST DIAMOND JUNG FOUNI) fy Vafluable liamond Ring of Mrs. E. .1. Adair, of Clinton, Found After ec. hl Ing Lost in Country (lub Lake for e Two IIys. i After resting on the bottom of the g lake at the Bois-Terre country club th for nearly two days and two nights, a large diamond ring belonging to iMrs. F). J. Adair, of Clinton, -was found of Friday afternoon. ill Mrs. Adair had just gone in swim- 11 ming -Wednesday afternoon when it M occurred to her that she had ]not tak- Wc en off this ring. Standing in about vi five feet of water, she was about to to lake the rilig from her illger to Ilamd k( it to a frield when she dropped it. * 'le spot Was marked by means of a Stolh stuck in tile ground and swim- d1 mlers sought in vainl to flid the rinlg in bly dilving. The nlext mlornin~g a box " work was put around~ tile spmot whlere thi it was thlought tile ring hlad lodged el and1( thle Water was pumpelI)d out. All I the loose mud1( was taken' off of the 01 b~ottom nd in(11 some of tis tile ring! al w.as fi nalIly located. dc Several 0other .pcoplle have had thet mlisfolrtulne to iose less valuable jew eilry .in1 the lake, 'but as thley were not chvare of the loss at the timei search c was ulseles~s. 01 (e Goes to Greenville IIo?4pitall am iliss Kathryne 'ilngquuist, whio has ta heild the losition of county nrse for pm tile locual chaupter of the Rled Cross p)1 for tile past few months, has been af olected sullerinltendenlt of nutrseg of ja the City llospital in Greenville, ac- ce cordling to an announcement mnadec re- th cently by '1. L. iHughes, suplerintend- bt ent of tile hospital. During her stay ,p)' hlere 'Miss Ilagquist has done very w valuable work throughout tile couni- ,in ty. 'Before taking up her work at ,' Gireenville sile exupects to take a o mionthl's vacatIon att herW home in LAOS Angeles, California, leaving Thursday m' of tis week'.t Announcenlent of Church Services Rev. SV. hi. Ouy has accepted an in- a vitation 'to preach at New Prospect ci Saturday afterhoon and Sunday morn- ed ing and also at Chestnut Ridge Sun-e day afternoon. The membership of these two churches are .urged to at tend and the pubLic is cordially in RAND JURY URGES NEW COUNTY JAIL rand Jairy 3ade Lengthy Present. ment to the Court Last Week. The grand jury made a lengthy re >rt when it adjourned Its sittin gs4 st week. The jury repeated its riner recommendations for the erec 311 of a new jail and made sugges )ns as to how the inadequate funds )w provided light be secured. Ills onor, Judge Alclver, In commenting L the report, ipaid par'ticular atten in to the jail feature (of the pre ntment and placed the commission k notice that he would expect some ing to be done ibetween now and e March term of court. The pre itment follows: I His Hollor, 10dward McIver, Presiding Judge: 'We, the Grand Jury of the above ,ate and County do hereby beg ave to make our final presentment. We have 'passed on all bills placed our hands by the Solicitor and re >rted the same. A committee appointed at a previ is term of the Court visited tle unty home and we are glad to re irt considerable improvement in tile iy of homes has been made and are formed that further improvements the houses and grounds are con mplated which iwe heartily com end. We have also made inquiry and ithered information as to the pub schools of our county and it 1s very 'atifying Indeed to note that much -ogress has been made -In school lildings equipment aind also elllcien In the teaching. A number of dIs lets recently have voted additional Ills for school improvemetns which ow interest and progress, especial so when this was done under exist g depressing times. We herewith submit a report to the )mptroller General's offiec, of anl in stigation made this year of the of 4als of our county, which report ows that the present county ofimelals e giving their best time and atten it to the duties of their respective ices. This report shows that no regularity whatsoever exists, but oi e.other hand shows our officers are instaking and eficient. It is grati Ing to this body that the report ows t-his existing condition. The Supervisor has placed in our nds dn itemized statement of the penditure' of money spent through s offiee, we have thoroughly investi .ted the same and are satisfied that e county's business has been eco >mically handled. We regret o report that the bridges our county are In bad condition, Dstly on account of not having suf lent funds to keep them Ill repair, d would recommend that our dele tionm Ii the General Assembly, pro de for at least a one-half mill tax be expendkedi each year for the up cp of the bi!:ges on our public high lym. We observe that a great deal of mage to ouir public highways is be g done withi carsq -andl trucks with umt out's''o (ilt'em. \Ve recommndc at at the ne0xt sess1i1n of the (Utn al Assombl!y that it pass a law lro biting a calr eor truck with a "'cut it on, from tr'avelinlg o:.r highlways i wVouIld rXapectflily ask that thle legation from 0111 county work to Is cad. Th'le approsPr'iation miade tis year r tile emlployment of a janlitor at the urlt 110use Is not suflicienlt to pay te foi' the !whole year', and we wvould commnendf that our1 delegation to the mnorni Assembly anld the Supe'visor Ld his board imlmeiately arrange to ke cai'e of the situatlon until an ap opriatlon can be madie, and( ani ap 'opriation be0 made each year there ter' Ivhichl is suflicient to emp11loy a nitor for is whole ti'ne in or'der to ro for and preserve the building and 0 gr'ounlds connected therewith. The ilding 'being steam heated it is 11m irativo that tis be donle before cold1 eathler conies 01n u1s. It is of utmlost iiportance that a pubic building of is kind be kept In a good, ailtar'y rdition. We r'ecommend that the Jail Conm Ission for Laureons Coulnty prloceedi get bids for the conistrution or at iw jail for the county. If the funds ailable for tile payment for the conm ruction of the building be Inuuil ent, then we recommend that tihe unty delegation in the Geonerqi As mbly, secure the necessary leg isla-I )n to raise funds for thle completion (Continued on Page 4') - POPLAR SPRINGS ENTERTAINS BAPTISTS Annual lleeting of the Iurens lai tlst Association will be 11d Tues day and Wednesday of Next Week. The annual session of the Lau rens aptist Assooiation will 'he beld with Poplar Springq church lnext Tuesday and Wednesday, the 27th and 28th of this month. There are 3.1 churches in this association and since every church is entitled to three delegates and solie of them more, it will be seen that there will be considerably more than 100 (irepesentatives of clurches, besides representitives from the vari Otis Baptist institutions. Mr. C. '1. Bobo, who Is moderator of the association calls special attentlon to the new clause .in the constitution that provides a representation of three delegates from each church whose menbership does not exceed 100, a'nd one additional delegate for each additional 100 members or ma jority fraction .thereof, all pastors re maining ex-ofliclo members of the body. The moderator requests the an notlucemneit also that the exercises will begin promptly at 10 o'clock Tuesday when the Associatiomal ser ion will be preached by Rev. Geo. Hopkins and in view of the fact that the two days are expected to be busy ones it will be absolutely necessary for every one to 'be punctual. Rev. S. H1. Tem'plenian, who is chair man of a committee to revise the pro grain for the occasion makes the fol lowing announcement as the order of business: Tu'iiesday 3or'ning 10:00-Assoclational Sermon, Rev. Geo. Hopkins, Gray Court. II :00-Organization, 11: 10-Verbal Reports froni the Churches. 12:00--Sunday Schools-RIev. T. J. Watts, speaker. 12;30-Miscellakneois Business. Tuesday A fieronon 1:40-7.5 Million Campaign-1)r. C. E. Hurts, ppeakor. 2:00--Stewardsii) and 'Church Ef ileiency-Dr. J. Rt. Jeter, speaker. 2:30-Ailome, Foreign and State Mis sions-Rl1ev. Edward Long and C'r. AW '. Derieux, speakers. 3:30--1Evangelismi, "'Kvery One Win One"-ir. W. ,. Ball, speaker. 4:00-Public Morals and Law E1n forcement-C. II. Roper and C. D. Ilobo, speakers. 4:30--'.liscellaneous .lusiness and Adjournment. Wednesday Mornling 9:30-Devotional. l:45---.\iscellaneous Business. 10:00-B3aptist IHos'pital--Rev. W. 1. Whiteside, speaker. 10:20--Aged Ministers. 10:l0-Woman's Work. 11:00--Laymen's Work. 1 :20- -Bduent ion-r. C. A. Jones and 1)r. w. J. \Ielothiin, speakers. 12:30--ifiseella neouis Biusiness. Wlednesday Afternoio. 1:20--73. Y. 1). 11, 2:00---Orphanage -Dr. A. T. Jaini son, speaker. 2:3:0--Rl~igious I A ~iteatu r-Dr~. Z. TI. Cody, speaker'. :00--TIemplerance. 3:20--Obtuaries. :30-Mliscellaneous .lusiness'. -l:00'-iiclecton of Ofilcers and1( AV journmnent. Landi~ Purrchasedl for Golf LInks at Counitry (luib. liox Ball Alleys~ Pur Announcement was~ made yesterday by Geo. 11. 10llIis, of Cl inton, p resIdent of tihe bois-Terre country club, that a part of the -Halmage land, adjoInIng the present club iproi~erty, had been bought by the club. for' golf links. A survey of t he land has already been1 made and it is undlerstoodl that work on the golf lliks will be0 started1 at ant early (date. Sutlicienit land was bought for a nine-hole course, whIch It Is thought will be of ample size for the club. Mi'. EllIs also states that an order has been gIven for two box ball alleys to be placed in the basement of the club .bullding. Teachers hExaminadon .. Counaty Sutperilntendent of Educaj tlon Rlalph Tr. Wilson, Mtated yester day that the teachers examinatIon for receving licenses with which to teach in the lpuibliic schools of the county, de to be held at the county seat Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8. F'uller lparticular's of the examination twill be announced by Mr. Wilson next week. CI.IMINAL COURT REMAINS CitOWiEI Extra Term to be 11eld Beginingiii the First Wxeekin Oc ((tober,. The Septemhor term of criminal court adJou rned Saturday, after put ..ng InI a w.,eek of, hard work. onl ae counlit of the large nuImber of cases brouight over from theI last teri aii(t an equally ae numiiber of niew eas es, the court dacket was only partial ly cleared and an extra term will be hld loginnin the first Monday In October. Al outstandling feature of the terin was tle unusual nuniber of white e fendan ts in court, cla rgeld principal ly with larceny and violation of the prohibition law. Five young men were given chain gang sentences for larceny and one white boy 1was sent to the state reformitory for a similar offense. Vance Blakely, colored, whose case Nvas being tried when this paper last week to press, was convicted of man slaughter. Bliakely was charged with killing Oliver Gary, another negro, near Clinton several months ago. Geo. Smith, another negro, plead guilty to manslaughter and was given a seven year sentence "by the judge. Smith killed iis wife in the lI ow erton sec tion several weeks ago. In his state ment to the courit le clailed that the killing was dole by accident as he was shooting at another negro wiho, -he alleged, was paying attentions to his wife. The court took cognizance of his low state of mentality and al lowed him to plead guilty to man slatighter without going to trial for mit rder. Other cases disposed of 'were as follows: Frank Andrews, of Anderson conu ty, charged on three couits with vio lation of the prohibition taw, was found not guilty. Andrews was chiarged with having carried two live gallon containers of whiskey near ir wvin's bridge on Saluda river and hid it in the hushes on the I au rens Side. Identification of the au toiobile inl which it vas carried rested largely on tle license nunmber. Andrews en lered a plea of not guilty. lie and several acti taintances testilled that lie was In Gainesville, Ga., on the date of tie crime and did not ret iirmn until the day after. Tillman Nelsoll and Maiie iCubanks Iloward, white, charged with adultery, were colvieted and senteiced to four mont h. or a line of $250 each. Nelson admitted having a living wife, but clai med that -he had employed the woiani as a hous.-keeper at $10 a month and board. She claimed that her father had conlselted to the con tract, but that, she Iw ould have I turned to him If lie had asked her. Rtobert Scott and Ela 'iLatimer, white, house breaking and larceny, guilty, 31 (lays each. Ilaskell Stonie, 1. ". Stoine and )eani Stoie, assault aind battery of a high and aggravatod nature, guilty; 1E. C. Sone 3 months or $2o00; laskell and iieaun Stone, I month or $Si0. Waiter Sullivan, coloredl, indecent arsault, 3 nmnths or $2110. Th'le follow~'i ng enite red pl eas of ;'uilty: .1olin Kerinalis, 'Thlomas M~oore, a nd .iupyKernals, house brueal:ing and~ Eugene I tts, larceny, .10 (lays or' $1010. .Jak e Hyrid, violation of' prolihit ion hlaw, a mionthis or $300); sulspienided on piayment of $1 50. Mar k Shiepierdi, assauilt and battery, 12 months. Clark 'hl1empletoni and Will Itose. violation of grohb litio lo1aw, 5 months or $300, suspendied on payment of' $100 each. Carl Gu Rnter, larceny, semitener el to stalte reformnator'y. Ilienry Walls, two cases, one for oh tamning goods uinder false piretenses and the other for dlisposing of propier ty undler lien, 3 months or $-100 for each offense. On motion of attorneys for J. H1. H olmnes and K(. (1. Kaneos, C'olumibia men whose case was nol prossed early In the week, the fines wvere reduicedl from $500' each to $250 in view of the fines already assessed in city and fed eral courts for the same offense. Cotton 20 (Cnts After another sensational rise Mon day, the cotton market reacted on the late trading yesterday i~nd closed near tihe openinig of the day, Local buyers paid 20 1-2 cents during the morning, but in the aftet'goon were only offer inog 20 cents. CATHOLIC ORD[R The Atlanta City Council Springs Sensation ISSUES CALL TO NEWSPAPERS Waits New York and (Aeorgla Papers 1t) Inc4lude nthisrIt.1 of ('0IdlImbuS Rtitual ant (buth in inve uistiltion They Would .lake of ~h Klux la. Atlanta, Sept. 19.--City council here late today -adopted a resolution recduiesting that "the New York World and other daily papers, especially the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun, nowi engaged in the investigation and ex 'posire of w-hat they claim to be um iatriotic and un-American .institu tions, include in their investigiatilon and exposure the secret obligations, oaths and ritual of the Knights of Co lumbuis." "In our opinion there exists an un patriotic and un-American secret or der with lodges throughout the counl try and known as the Knights of Co lumii1bus," the -esolutioins stated -iI their first referenco to that order. The resolution then cited what pur p orted to he a copy of an oath pub lished in the Congressional Record in 1919 and which the resolution said, "is reportied" to be an oath of fourth legree Imemibers of the Knights of Columbus, which officials of the lat ter have from time to time asserted was not ani oath or obligation of their order. There was no mention in the resolutions of the Elu Klux Klan about which certain newspapers now are priiting articles but in the brief debate that qreceded the vote that organization was mentioned several times. The resolution that was adopted by a standing vote of I I to 8 was intro duced by Councilman \alter A. Sims, who later introduced an ordinance to forbid interracial worship in the city of Atlanta. IHe declared lie acted on request of property owners on North Boulevard who, lie said, asserted that both whites and negroes worshipped regularly at a Roman Catholic church in that neighborhood. The ordinance was Referred to the committee on or dinaices. Action on the request regarding the rnighIs of Colmbus followed an ef fort by Councilman lHoffman to have it tabled. "We are simply lowering ourselves by getting into a squabble of this llid," lie asserted. "I be long to ieither order involved in this tihing and certainly I have never ieard of such oath as that which has just beei read." Coiniman lloffian's motion to table was lost by a viva voce vote and Conniil iman Sims declared that sh0old it be established that this oatih wlvhich has been read is actually the oath which has beent taken1 by fouruth dlegree Kniiighlt s of Colutmbus, thili cense to olperate ini Atlan0ta ihoul b( e revokedi andii I wvlIill ito (1u1e a1 t 0 i res lution ( revo i ing that, 11 cutre ini aniy 51uch evenutuality." F M IIltlAN P'LAYEllS NEXT' WEEK ~ehetl St ock ( (JRthiny~ to Appieatr lit t he Opera littuse Tihree Days Next Week. I leg ininbg Mionday~ niighit and~ run1 ning thr ee nights, Percy Sipellmian's Ameitrica i n Pys 'ill open ani engage men~it at the Opmer lhioutse, presenting a repetolire of Itigh class farce com& dies3 with advaniced vaudevdlle. Omn \blinday nlighit the .-act comiedy, "T'wini lacheloms"' will be ptresenited, with the Tyrolecan Trio and Spellmnan & SipellmanRO as vaudelvillec numbilers. Am~ong othier vaudeville nunibers will be (lain ty Anniue Loutise Spel lmuan, siniginig comedhienne, 'Percy Spellmian, black-face siniginig anid talking, and 111ll &. lilack, harmony singers. Ad mtissiont inicludinRg war tax will be 15~c andl 0c. "Ike" hack In Clinton Mir. 'II. L. Eithelberger, who has jutst complletedI a three muonthis' train lng course with the Equitable Life As surance Society, of New York, will manage this territory for that comn jany under the genemal agent of W. JT. Roddey & Complany, of Rock Hill. "Ike", as he is poputlarly known here, wvili have his ofilco located in Clinton and his friends are glad to greet him back.-Clinton Chronicle.