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VOLUME xxxvir. -o^LAURENS9 SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 19226 IMF ~ NEW CITY COIJI'4CIL BEGINS TO [UNCTION Mayor and Aldermen Take Up New Duties MANY WANT TO BE ON PAY-ROLL Mayor W. It. Dial and -New Set of Al. dernen Sworn in Last Wednesday and Two Meetings have Already Been Held. Salaries Have Been Scaled Down. The new city administration, mem bers of which were elected principally on a platforn of efficiency and econ omy, was indueted into office last Wed nesday evening by City Attorney A. C. Todd, after the meeting had .been op oied with a prayer offered by Rev. P. .. Kilgo. Following remarks by 'M'ayor Dial, thanking the retiring mayor, John A. Franks, for -his offer of co-operation and assistance to the new administra tion, .thtLeancil immediately proceed ed upon its business, taking up salaries for its consideration. After a motion had been passed that an election be held May 1 for all city employees, the followming salary reductions were de cided upon: Chief of .police from $135.00 to $120.00 a month; City police from $125.00 .to $110.0 a month; Superintendent of street from $125.00 to $100.00 a nionth; Fire truck drivers from $100.00 to $80.00 a month; Mayor from $125.00 to $110.00 a month. A board of health and bond commis sion as well as street and finance con mittees were elected by the council. The' board of health will be as fol lows: 'Di'. -W. D. Ferguson, J. W. 'Dunk lin, W. 0. Lancaster, Hamp 'Hunter, T. L. Monroe, W. P. Sullivan, Nat Ken nedy. The council met again Monday ev ening at 8 o'clock, at which time a number of matteri came under its con sideration. Wiater and Lights Commission Mr. -W. iR. 'McCuen, of .the city water and light commission was present at this session and stated that the light ing 'plant and twater works of tile city Will be conducted on a strictly busi hess basis. Whatever power is used by the city for street lights and other purposes will be nominally charged to the city but no collections made. All free lights such as porch lights may hereafter be discontinued. Olileken Ordinance By motion of Alderman Dial, the ordinance with reference to domestic animals running at large was amend ed so that it will include chickens. The new ordinande twas passed uipon com plaint of housewives who said that neighb~orhood chickens scratched up flowers and gardens. Bond Commission An election of -five rbond commission-. ers wvas held for terms' ranging from S1 to 5 years, one member to retire every year. W. Li. Gray was elected for a -period of 6 years; C. H. Roper, for a Iperiod of 4 years; 'S. M. Wilkes will serve 3 years; R. 'F. Jones 'rill serve 2 years, while 3. ,Wells Todd was elected for 1 year.. Opera douse , Business concerning the Opera *Hotise was taken'utp and by motion of .Alderman Easterby it was decided to atdvertise for seauled bids for a lease of one year. The present lease on the Opet'a House expires May 17?. bfy mo tion of 'Alderman 'Dial, the mayor was *Instructed to confer 'with M'essrs. 'Lee Bros. & Switzer, leasees, ,in regard to unpaid rent. * fDog Law A motion was passed ordering the -chief of police to enforce 'the law con cerning dogs. M?4any dogs, it was -sat -ed, are runnijjg at large in the city without either license or collar. Parking at Depot Following a discussion on the lack of orderg 'brking of arutomnobiles at the dep~ot, the mayor and chief of. p&o * Ue ?were requested to I.Ivetigate con 'ditions there and to make remuedial recommendationls to th conncil at a fu. SThe' kind of curbbg. materie tlo ~ !oninu~ed on'JLast Page, Thi~ 8tiim) TIMMONS AND WILLARD APPEAL NOT ABANDONME@ Legal Technicality Makes Possible Ex. tension of Time. Apoeal proceedings In . the case o Luther Timmons and Montoe Willard both of whom are now in the Statc penitentiary 'pending final decision fi their case, have not been abandoned, it was learned late yesterday, although the tune limit in which the appeal may be completed expired last Saturday night. C. C. Featherstone, of Greenwood, a mmenber of the legal 'firm who repro sented the .prisoners in thir trial, was in the city yesterday and conferred with Solicitor TI. S. Blackwell on tle status of the case. The legal technical ity that the supreme court was in ses sion before the 30-day period -for the appeal proceedings 'began is what is thought permits the extension of the time limit until the next session. Solicitor Blackwell stated yesterday that no final decision -has yet 'been reaehed In the case. C. A. Power, clerk of court, also said yesterday that no commitment papers have been is sued for Timmons and Willard. 'Reports in .newspapers last week, contrary to that which appeared in The Advertiser were denied by both dounty officials and the attorneys in the case. MRS. SARAH JANE GRAHAM Wife of W. D. Grahan, Veteran En. gineer, Buried Here Sunday After noon. Mirs. Sarah Jane Graham, iwife of W. D. Graham, veteran engineer on the Columbia, Newiberry & Laurens Rail road, passed away at a Columbia hos pital Friday night at 9 o'clock after an illness of more than a year. The body was brought back home Satur day *afternoon and Sunday afternoon the funeral was held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. John E. Switzer on Sdubh. Harper street. Interment took place in the Laurens cemetery, services being conduced 'by her -pastor, Rev. S. I. Templeman, of the First Baptist church, assisted 'by Rev. -P. F. Kilgo, of the (First Methodist churchr In the large concourse of people at tending the funeral was albout one hun dred C. N. & -L. railroad employees and oficials awho came up on a special train from Columbia. Mrs.' Grahlim was the daughter of. Rev. G'Iilton add Frances Hicks, of Oconee county, and was 67 years of age. She had -been a resident of 'Iau rens for the past 18 years, having 1noved to this city from Colum'bia. She was a consecrated and useful member of the First '13aptist church throughout her active life 'and took much interest in church affairs. She is survived by her husband, for 28 years a trusted employee, of the C., N. & 'L. railroad, and one daughter, Iirs. John E. Switzer. EASTER CANTAT A ATTRACTS LARGE CONGIEGATIN SUNDAY Seonng Services o'n iEnster Sunday were lHeldl in Baptlst' Church. An '$aster 'Cantata was held last Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the Baptist church before a large congre gation which afterwards expressed ad miration and 'eraise for the excellent program rendered. In addition to the large chorus di rected 'by Mr. James McCravy, the fol lowing soloists took part:'MIss aMabel 'Padgett, 'Mrs. 'E. iD. Easterby, Miss Nan nie Kate Armstrong, M',rs. Roibert .H. Roper, and Lafessrs, James McCravy, Stanley 9rows, W,'P. Thoq~ason and Jack Mc1 ravy. Aliss Flora, Bennett, pianist and ls 'Frances Davis, organist assisted in the Cantata. T10DD PLACE NfLID , Old S. R. Todd Ilome Place on West Main Street Sold to Ii. U. McDaniel. 'Mr. B. IM. fWlolff, real estate glealer announced yesterday the recedt sale of the old Todd home 'place on West Main street to Mr, R. R. McDaniel, who hagrbeeni living there for the past several ihonths. The place was bought from Mr. E. EIl. Ciements, ofpreenvile, who 'bought It last year. -'Mr. Woff ao annionnced the sale of a> lot on 'the gamte property tofIr.;:H. &tchols, this lot adjoining' Ir, Nichols' ,iresents hopme . Another Aeal also reporte&, was the gale t'he f$hiealy property, aoross thq siteet. f'on'the post offlc to' Mbaui. LAUR[NS BUSIN[88 [I BARB[CU[ TO CO Big Meeting Held in the Int Cotton.Growers' Cooperat Cotton groiwers of Laurens county are to 'be the guests of the Laur'ens Business League Friday at a big -bar. becue following a meeting in the court house in the interest of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association. The meeting in the court house is to open at 10 o'clock a. in., and will be addressed by J. D. Coghlan, a large cotton grower of Ennis, Texas. The plan of the sbarbeeue was formed at a meeting of directors of the league and a few other business men held. in the court house Friday evening. At this meeting a heart-to-heart discus sion of the association plan was held and the plan in detail exiplained by Mr. J . H. .McCulley, in charge of pro motion In this vicinity. Mr. McCulley told the assembled business men that the. organization in this county was lagging because farm ers had -not 'been sufficiently informed as to the contract of the association and 'because many of them had not been reached at all in the cam-paign that has been carried forward during the past few weeks. The success of the mar keting association Is of vital Import ance to the business men as iwell as the farmers, he told his hearers; and Ele made such a convincing argument for thp need of the plan that the league directors determined \o finance a bar beoue to encourage the farmers to come to Laurens to hear the plan ex plained. The first step taken by the directors was to appoint committes 'to arrange for the barbecue and to issue invita tions to the farmers. A )ist of about four 'hundred 'fairmers was secured from the farm demonstrator and Invi tations were mailed to them to attend. They were requested to notify brother farmers who might -he interested in the iplan and to tell theni to advise the invitation committee, of which 'W. R. McCuen is chairman, as to whether or not they expect to attend. All per sons who ex-pect to attend the barbe cue are requested to notify Mr. Mc Clen before 2 p. m. Thursday so that proper provlsion may be made for them at the barbecue. Admission to the (barbecue will be NEW COUNTY JAIL .1- NOW ASSURED Plans for New Jail Call for Reinforced Concrete Struefure. A new jail for Laurens county which will be a structure of reinforced con cecte is now definitely assured, ac cording to metnbers of. the jail com mission. A series of meetings was hel( by the commissioners last week and plans for the new structure wereI adopted. *Su-pervisor.J. D. WV. Watts, chairman of the jail commission, in a notice to contractors states that 'bids for the erection of the new jail wvill be re ceived by him untili Trucsday, A&pril 25th. According to the plans of tihe comf mission, the now' jail will 'be on the lot in the rear of the present jail. It is probable that some of the stone in the present jail will be used con the new one. SME'IRIF AN'b POLICE POUR OUT EXTRACTS $104900 Worth of Jamacia Ginger, 1ibmon , Peach, Etc., Des'troyed Near City Hall Monday. 'Last rites were administered Monday morning 'by Sheriff S. A, Reid, who, with 'the aid of Chief Crews of tihe city police, cohdomned about $100.00 worth of extracts to the sower.. 'Pouring out services were held near the city hall. The accumulation of alcoholic ex tracts included Jamnacia ginger, .peach, lemon anid several othpr probably well known varieties of d famite, all of which had 'been ~scated 'by local police after. being sold for Illegal drinking purposes. Soliltr Biackwell Out Solicitor IH. 8.' Blackwell Iwas wel comned. on the .streets of the city 'Mon day by) his anany .triends who were glad :to l'earn that he, hras recovered from his recent 'illiness. Solicitor Blackwell bad been iconfined to, 'his home~ for 'three we: suffering with ,AGUE TO GIVE, HTON GROWERS FRIDAI erest of the South Carolina ion Association. limite(d to cotton growers only, land lords and tenants being included as cotton groiwers. Tickets to the bar becue will be issued at the meeting in the court house Friday morning. Non-cotton growers, including fami lies of cotton growers, will be granted tickets on -payment of 50c per ticket as long as the supply of barbecue lasts. Geo. M. Wright, .president of 'Watts 'Mills, and M. L. Smith, secretary and local manager of the 'Ijaurens Cotton Mills, were both present at the meet ing 'Friday night and endorsed the plan of the marketing association. Mr. Wright joined the association in the name of the Watts 1Mills, the miill op erating a farm on its property here. Speaking informally of the marketing plan after the meeting, Mr. Wright and Mr. Smith both said that the man ufacturers favored the plan as it would tend to stabilize the iprice of cotton. The mills, they said, were not as much oncerned a'bout the 'price of cotton as they were about its stability. If the mills could be assured of a fairly stable market for cotton, they said, they would be -relieved of much un certainty as well as expense in their operation. M1anufacturing and not speculation iwas their business, they said, and they would like to see the speculation element in their 'business eliminated. The mills, they said, want ed to see the farmers get a fair -price for their product ibecause general prosperity rested upon the prospcrity of the farmers. In order to -pave the way for a suc cessful meeting Friday, the business houses of the city closed their doors for - an--heiL.yesterday-fternoon- so that the business men might hear the marketing iplan explained by Dr. Carl C. Taylor, of A. & E. College(-of North Carolina, who addressed the meeting. In addition to the big meeting to be held in (Laurens Friday, several small er meetings are being held In the county this week. ' About 5,000 bales have already been signed up in tho county and Mr. Ic Culley is counting on signing a total of 15,000 bales 'before May 1st, when the campaign will 'be closed. MISS DIAL WINS Author of "Sand" Wlis New Laurels in Play-Writing in Contest Conduct ed by The Columbla State. .iss 'Rebecca Dial, of this city, daughter of U. 0. Senator N. B. Dial, was announced last week as the win ner of the $100 prize offered -by The Columbia State for the best three-act llay written 'by a South Carolinian. Miss 'Dial wvas the successful contest ant among a large nlumb)Cr of those comp~letinlg for the prize. The title of the successful p)lay was W~o Dogs Allowed". Accoyrding to an announcemnent in The State the play svill 'be staged by the Columbia Stage Society in its Town theatre. The author of "NO Dlogs Allowed" has won -considerable notice in the play-writing field before, having been the author of "Sand," the play'swritten several years ago in the interest of the illiteracy campaign in this state and staged in many South Carolina cities with much ouccess. At 'pre'sent 'Mss Dial is with her par ents in Washington. GRAY CYOURT YOUTH' HAS 13EAK( ANIMWAL Jerry Gray of Gray Court has a Horned Toad fromt Tuscan, Arizona. Will Feed It With Boll Weevils. /Jerry Gray,- son of 'R. 'L. Gray, of Gray Court, hopes to secure a place for himself on the pedestal of fame. JWe ~all have our ambitions and as pirations, 'but that of Jerry is mnifftie. Hie received several days ago from his sister at Tuscan, Arizona, a "horned toad," and'never having 'had an animal of'Its like, or haying even seen one, ho does' not know what to teed the toad. What Jerry is goirng to lo, and w'hal will probaibly make him famous, Is - tc feed the freakcy little thing iwith 'boll weovils. 'The experiment may not Work, 'but sho9uld itsdo so--watch Jerry I ,ONLY ONE WEEK OF COM.ON PIEAS COURT Bar Association Finds lint only One Week of Court Necessary. According to a notice appearing in another column of this paper, it will be seen that the second week of the Court of Common 'Pleas, scheduled to begin May 1, has been called o'ff and only the one week beginning next Monday will be held. Jurors and wit nesses called for the second week are notified by .r. Power that they need not r6)ort. The following calendar was arrilng ed for the first iweek by the bar asso clation in Its meeting several (lays ago. Monday, 24th McKve vs. :Madden. Bolt vs. Guinn. Woods vs. Coggins. kunerel vs. Pitts. 'leason vs. Cook. Tuesday, 25th Stone vs. IHendrix. Stone vs. 1endrix. Stone and Putman vs. Willis. Iouse Bros. vs. Milling. W. S. Todd vs. W. J. 91111. Wednesday, 26th Tillman and Mays vs. J. C. Lonnis. Nat. Loan & Exchange -Bank vs. Scurry. Thomas Moore vs. Laurers .Cotton Mill. DeShields vs. Laurens County. Thursday, 27th Gray vs. Tumblin. Wofford vs. Dodd & Payne. Craig et al vs. Watts Mills. Davis & W~restmoreland vs. Mills. Sullivan vs. Culbertson. Friday, 28th Barksdale vs. Laurens Bonded Ware house. Carolina Auto Co. vs. .McDaniel. Smith vs. Cooper. fSpence vs. Gault. ioff vs. 4IHendrix. Blakely vs. Stone. WILL SHOW HOW TO FIGHT WEEVIL Clemison' Vollege to Give Deionstra tions of Fighting Boll Weevil on Farm of. C. D. Nance at Cross Hill. The farm of Mr. C. D, Nance at Cross Hill has been selected as one of five farms in South Carolina on which den onstrations in fighting tile boll weevil will be given 'by Clemson college this year, according to information received from (Mr. Nance yesterday. -Mr. Nance called up The Advertiser to say that lie had accepted the proposition of Dr. W. W. Long, director of extension ser vice at Clemson college, in order that othor farmers in the county may know of the fact and visit his farm where the denionstrations are to be carried On. According to the plan, as outlined in the letter to Air. Nance from Dr. Long, Clemson college is to furnish dusting machienry and expert super vision of the plot, while 21zr. 'Nance is to furnish ten acres of ground, pay for the calcium arsenate furnished by the college and the lab~or necessary to carry on the demonstrations. The demonstrations iwill abe carried on throughout the cotton 'growing sea son and wii, no doubt be followed with interest b'Laurens county farmers. Readers of The Advertiser wvill re call previous announcements to the ef fect that Mr. A. C.-Whittle will conduct similar demonstrations near Gray Court for a large fertilizer inbporter and that Mr. -E. S. Hudgens, manager of the. local branch of the Southern Cot ton Oil Company will 'have charge of eight ex'perimnental plots near 'Laurens for a group of manufacturers ahd bankers. ANOTHER WOMAN CANDIDATE Mrs. E. V. Owens Definitely States that She Will Run for Superintendent of Education. Mrs. Ecarl V. Owens, .principal of the Watts Mills school, definitely stated to The Advertiser yesterday that she nwould be in the race this summer for cgunty superintendent of education. Other names previously mentioned in connection with this office are Miss Margitret Dunlap and Miss Minnie Wal lace. Neither of the latter has made definite announcement. To The Ladles. A cordial invitation hast been extend.. ed to the ladies in the city, by the niem bers of' the Civic League in 'Ward 1, to attend a Silver Tea which will 'be given next Tuesday afternoon, Apiril 2$, be tireeni five and seven o'clock, in the home of Mrs, J. DP. Watts 'oni West Main street. MAKING LAURMS SPICK AND SPAN Civic League and Schools Stage Parade EVERY WARD HAS ITS FLOAT Wtith )usi ters, Fly Swvatters, l1rooms IIIId Gardenl l'tenisils Pupils of Girad edi School 1r11ale witlh Civic Leaguo Floats 3ioiday in Iliterest of a Cleaner Laurens. "Clean Up" Veek is on with activi ties in every part of the city for iak Ing Laurens what the Woman's Civic League plans to have it-South Caro lina's cleanest and ibest city. The caniaign for "cleap-up" start ed Monday morning with a parade at 10:30 o'clock in which all of the city's school children and the members of the Civic League participated. Six floats were in the parade, one repre senting cach ward, besides many other unlque features, making the parade in teresting and Instructive, but emphati cally showing the importance of "clean-up". Almost every group of children rep resenting the different grades wore costumes and carried different imple ments to be used in "Clean-Up" or evidence of the work they iwere doing. Placards upon which were snappy slogans were everywhere in evidence. Original ideas were carried out In the floats from the different wards into which the Civic League's activities are divided. In Ward 1, where Mrs. Dave Childress is leader, a float repre senting the "Gold Dust 'Ih-ins" was iortrayed. Two darkies were on this Iloat dressed in the costume of the !Lold dust twins and were shown with mops, brooms and brushes. The slogan of this ward was "Cheer Up-Clean U") In Ward 2, led by Mrs. M. 14. Hunter, the slogan of "Paint It Up Keep It Up", iwas featured in the float. A little fence was shown In the pro ess of being .painted. In Ward 3, un ler the leadership of Mrs. F. M. Smith, ;ix .pretty girls featured the slogan, 'Get spic and span and please every nan". The girls were dressed in the ostume of the Dutch Cleanser Girls. rhe- slogan and float of Ward 4 was 'Swat the flies and save the little lives". Under the direction of AIrs. Wim. Solomon, leader of the ward, the loat had a child's kiddy cool) in which was a baby immune-from flies because 3f screens and fly matters. Ward 5, tinder the leadership of Miss Sadie Sullivan, had a float upon which was a. small home, freshly painted, anu with a garden being worked by several :olls. The slogan of Ward 5 nwas 'Clean Up and Keep Up". Ward 6, led by SMrs. Albert Dial, a float 111)011 Which was a large tree with garden imple ments about, it, featured the slogan, 'Get Busy". In~ the school children's section of the parade, brooms, hoes, rakes, fly bwatters, dusters, paint .buckets and tin cans were well in evidence. , The parade was arranged b~y a committee of the Woman's Civic League, of which 4is. J. D. Watts is chairmian. Tihe parade passed thr'ough the public square and wvas given an enthusiastic reception by hundreds of onlookers. NO DELAY IF PEOPLE I(NEW OF INJUSTICES Senator Dial Writes that Injustiees of Republican P'arty are Great. Demo eratic Fund Must be lRaised. "Certainly there would be no delay whatever, If the peole understood the great injustices tihe 'Republican Party places on tho minority," writes Sena tor 'Nat. B. Dial to Mr. 1B. A. Sullivan, who is in charge of the campaign in thlis county for raising funds for the N4ational Democratic 'party, Senator iflial wrote that he hoped the <quota of $650.00 'for this county would 'be raised without delay land suggested that an appeal bo made to the ladies for -the democratic fund. Senator Dial's contribution for the fund in this county was ten dollars, Infant Child Dead The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Moore, which died in a Spartan burg hospital Wednesday, was brought to (Laurens Thursday and interred iki the 'Laurens cemetery Thtirsdaf' atter noon. The sympathy of the 'ommuni ty goes out to the 'bereaved 'parents in their sore loss: