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Sj She (timntn HecorD. ss Ail Home Print. J v v?^ ^ays. VOL. 35. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919. NO 2fr ^ ?? ? I ^dad mvniTmv ci t prp rvxr litTAirt rv nrrm nt rr\ I WILSON WILL CALL P LASOR CONFERENC FINAL .ARRANGEMENTS .MAI L v FOR PRESIDENTS TRIP IN BE HALF OF PEACE TREATY Washington, Sept, 2.?Before lea ing Washington tomorrow night his speech making tour of the cou try, President Wilson will issue in1 tations to labor leaders, financie manufacturers and farmers to atte a conference early in October lor co sideration of labor and of those w direct labor. The president, it also ^s learnt |pl?ns> to complete all arrangemer ' i? - Ao.*, lOT tne cuwcreutc utiuir mo ucpt tttre so that the meeting may be he immediately upon his return the U of this month. The first session tae conference probably will be he at the white house. , ' The entire labor situation and al K arrangements for the conferer , were understood to have been d A * ?ssed at today's cabinet meetix s. only one possible for the pre dent to attend this month. It was presumed that the plan ^ (Ctekide rarmer's representativ s Y. which has l>een urged by several mei * * hen ' the senate was agreed up at the cabinet meeting. Final arrangements for the pre ident's "sw ng around the circle "we v about completed today. Accompan "ing President Wilson will be Mrs. W son, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayse i personal physician to the preside] Secretary Tumulty, a corps of stec graphers, secret sendee men and sor 30 correspondents, representing t , - metropolitan newspapers ?? . ? , , ? * i AA ?- rne president aas scneauiea oi> I K speeches in the principal cities of t K West and South and it is presumed ^ will be'compelled to deliver shoit ph form speeches at smaller towns alo: r * the route, although it is known he opposed to the practice. W~~ The first speech will be at Columb Thursday morning and the last < Louisville, Ky., September 29. T president will return to Washingt the next day. * The presidential train will be coi posed of the president's private c; another for the stenographers a secret service men and one for t correspondents, also a dining car a baggage car. Along the entire ti a pilot engine will be run ahead as 1 _t" precautionary measure against a<dents and other eventualities. T train schedule will not be made pu lie until it has' been fulfilled city aft City. k Members of the party will live *#he train practically during the ' .days of the trip, only a few ov< night stops being planned, i In preparation for the exacting ta liivw nrociHont ViJLff m? only the most necessary appointmer during the past few days and und the direction of Admiral Grayson h spent most: of his time in resting a ^ recreation, keeping in the open j as much as possible. o Will Greet Pershing in New Yorl m __ New York, Sept. p.?Arrangemer for the reception of General PershL and the parade of the First Divisi of the regular army with the Ame: can commmder in chief at its head next Tuesday, were completed tod; at a conference between Major Ge eral Shanks, commander of the p< of embarlcation, and the mayor's i ception committee. General P? shing's ship, the Leviathan, is expe< ed to reach New York next Sund; or Monday and from the time lands until he leaves for Washin ;* ton a few days later he will be t guest of the city of New York. o Colored Summer School a Success m ? r.v , , The county summer school for c< ored teachers is now rounding out i ' ?,! loct The school [.'-a whole has been a splendid affa The teachers have been,. rey^arkab interested, and the work has prov most helpful to them. Several instructive lectures we delivered by different parsons, go ernment officials and profession men, daring the month. The enrollment reached 52 for ti month. The faculty and teache M grateful to the superintende mi to all the friends, white and a hind, who encouraged and helped any way, this effort KILL EACH OTHER ON ROAD. Two Negroes Meet and Shoot Each ! I ^ Other to Death. ' Anderson, Sept. 2.?A case like the! jg Kilkenny cats happened near StanMonday afternoon when Charles Rice and Moot Sanders, two negroes, killed each other. There were no witnesses, but the weapons were found, a pis- I l>* tol and a shotgun. Both negroes j on were in buggies when they met, and I lD* whether they fired at the same time | kl" nr whether one was not seriously hurt 1 rs' at first will never be known. A sin- j ] n<' gular coincidence was that both men j I n" stayed in their buggies after being { shot to death, one being carried to j his neighbor's house by his mule and j the other getting very near his own j lts home when he fell from the buggy, j ir* Sandeis had two wounds from a ^>8 ! calibre r?r olver, one in the l ?g and | ist one in the breast, and Rice was shot j in the legs by thugs and shot. It "is j ^ supposed that he bled to death. i so COLUMBIA DENTIST ACCOSTED, ice I is- M. C. Slifh Opens Fire On Dr. L. L. j ig> Toole On Main Street. j S1* The sharp crack of a pistol followed instantly by the terrified screams to of a woman brought scores of peo- g es pie rushing to the 1200 block of Mam street, Columbia, Saturday on night, when M. C. Sligh, policeman of Bennettsville, fired point blank J * ?s" five shots at Dr. Lucius L. Toole, I tre dentist, of Columbia. y~ Every shot went wild and except for a blow received in the face and a ,n? few bruises received in the desperate t) struggle with the frenzied assailant, tj l0" Dr. Toole wa< uninjured and later g ne went to his hume. Sligh, after a, ^ he in tho rnmhined pf SHU??It m ? ? ,(1 forts of several men were necessary j i t to hold him, was subdued and, fight-' ^ ing and striking those about him, j j was carried to the police patrol and' lt~ taken to the police station. After he was placed in a cell he beat the bars ^ 's for a time, but soon wore himself1 ^ out and became quiet. ^ us The shooting occurred at an hour,^ at when Main street was thronged with t people on pleasure bent. The first' ~ on show of the Columbia Theater had. ^ just been concluded and the audience ^ m_ was pouring into the street; scores ^ ir< were leaving the picture shows and nc* many were going to restaurants and soda fountains. When the sharp rend ports from the pistol rang out in the air, men rushed from every direca tion towards the scene of the shoot-. C1" ing. They saw four figures, one of E them a woman, whirling rapidly n around a man with the pistol firing ? 'er at intervals and the screams of the; -A woman sounding clear and sharp -A on over the roar of traffic on the street, a Men ran to assist quickly and the o ;r" Bennettsville policeman was quickly j a forced to his knees. He continued to I w struggle desperately and struck re- ci peatedly at those about him and h cursed foully. He was more or less hysterical when he arrived at the j ti ^ police station and was placed in a, a nd.ceii. - ;c o ; E Richmond Mother's Rash Act. ; h ia L Richmond, Sept 3.?Returning to , his home in the outskirts of the city t ltg at 6 o'clock tonight, C. B Slaughter, j Q^r contractor, found that his wife had | ? on ! shot to death their 16 months old baby : rj. boy and nine year old daughter, fa-1 on tally wounded their third child and' av killed herself. rr ,n*_ When the father left home this F >r^ morning he says his wife was in p .p. the best of spirits, having prepared >r_ his breakfast. She had asked him ti about the operation of an automatic j c< ay revolver he kipt in the house, he said,! b h"e expressing fear of tramps. He ex- a] g_ plained the use of the gun to her and c< be went to work. When he returned he found Robert s< Mercer Slaughter, the baby boy, dead 0J in his bed, shot through the breast. jr '* Evely, aged nine, was also dead in i ni bed, shot through the breast. The ni >1- mother, with three bullet wounds in e; its her chest, lay in the doorway of the Vj oo Vwvtrrtom Mariorie Moncure Slaugh ir.. ter, four years old, was alive. a: <ly "Daddy," she cried as her father w ed! entered the room of the tradgedy, a "I have been crying for mama all ti re day. She won't come." 0] v- The child was taken to a hospital lal and an .operation performed in the hope of saving her life, but doctors! be | tonight held out little hope of rers covery. bi nt i The coroner announced tonight that o: >1- j "the children met death at the hands w in of the mother, who was temporarily w insane." n 4 To The Voters of I APPRECIATE THE SPL YOl IN THE FIRST PRIMARY SECOND PRIMARY TO BE HI t*th. 1 E ARNESTLY SOLICIT Y( YOB CAVE ME 95 PER 'I HE (.O'ti NTY. NO OTHER CLUED SlIOH A VOTE IN HI EVER FEEL PROUD OF SUCH PLE. I CAN BE ELECTED IF TUESDAY AND SEE THAT Y< DO THE SAME. THIS IS W TO BE REPRESENTED IN CON PENDS HIS VACATION DOING NOBLE WORK I.E. Montgomery of Kingstree Act ing as Auxiliary Field Worker During August. Prof. M. F. Montgomery of Kings ee is spending six weeks of his vaca on as auxiliary field worker of th outh Carolina Sunday School Asso iation. Beginning August 1, he ha uring the month attended county an< istiict conventions in Chester, Fair eld. Oconee, Newberry, York an< aurtns counties, making several ad cesses in each county. Proffesor Montgomery is teacher o ngiish in the Kingstree High school I- O /.lace ftf hnvs i] Itr IS icatnn VI u ? fie Kingstree Presbyterian Sunda; ?hooI and is actively identified witl le Williamsburg County Sunda; chool Association. He is regards y those who know him as one of thi est equipped young men in Soutl arolina for special Sunday schoo ork.?1Columbia State. Death of J. A. Eaddy Johnsonville, Aug. 28.?Dr. A. (! addy returned Monday from Bush ell, FJa., where he was called on uc ount of the death of his brother. J l. Eaddy of that place. The late J .. Eaddy was reared at Johnsonvill nd married Miss Lilly Belle L'add; f Scranton. They moved to Florid! number of years ago, where h as a pioneer in the raising of cu umbers by irrigation, which industr; e built up to a very large business He leaves the following near rela ives: Dr. A. G. Eaddy, S. 0. Eadd; nd J. M. Eaddy, all of Johnsonville '. L. Eaddy of Linden. Fla., Mrs. F :. Di.von of Boston and Mrs. J. H [anna of Griffin; besides a wife am number of children in Florida. o YEGGS IN FLORENCE COUNTY iffort Made to Enter Vault of Ban! at rampnc* Florence, Sept. 2.?An attempt wa lade last night to burglarize th< armors and Merchants Bank o amplico at Pamplico. me yeggs failed to make an en ance into the vault, but in the pro of their work damaged the Com ination screw and tumblers to sucl n extent that the cashier of the banl >uld not work the combination. The business of the bank has betn >mewhat hampered today on accoun f the books, records and money be ig locked up. Arrangements wen lade, however, to cover the inonej eeds of the bank's patrons until ai tpert could be secured to open th< Milt. There is no clue to the burglars ad no information as what time v as when they broke into the bank s far as is known now,nothing was * *1 1? iKen. u:e yeggs uemg <uki aly. Pershing Bill Passes. Washington, Sept. 2.?The hous< ill conferring the permanent rani F general upon General Pershing as passed by the senate late todaj ithout debate or a record vote ant ow goes to President Wilson. Williamsburg County: .END1D SUPPORT GIVEN ME BY . AND NOW THAT I AM IN THE j 2LD ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER j >UR CONTINUED SUPPORT. ' CFNT OF THE VOTES CAST IN 4 CANDIDATE IN THE RACE RE- I [S OWN COUNTY AND I SHALL ' A VOTE FROM MY HOME PEO- j 5 ! I YOU WILL GO OUT ON NEXT j )UR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS 1 ILLIAMSBURG'S FIRST CHANCE j GRESS. j SINCERELY, j PHILIP H. STOLL. j MEETINGS IN WILLIAMSBURG In the Interest of the Baptist Seventy-Five Million Campaign. There were two glorious meetings in the interest of the Baptist Seventy-Five Million campaign heid last _ Sunday in Williamsburg and George. town counties. One was with the e New Zion church, near Lake City, _ and the other was with the Piney s ' Forest church, near Georgetown. Mr. j; C. B. Bobo of Laurens was the princi. j pal speaker at the first and the Revs, j j J. W. Truluck and E. A. McDowell .! were the speakers at the other. Both t of these meetings were largely atf tended and much enthusiasm mani- . fested. The entire association, cona 1 sisting of nearly 40 churches, is now y Organized for the campaign and pros1 pect for success seems bright Plans ,. are being made to hold a number of j inspirational meetings with the vae riotis churches during the month. (i 0 il Pledges are Due. On September first all pledges to the Salvation Army fall due. Facing the immense task of home service reconstruction throughout, I Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, in the aftermath of the war, as it strips for action to be f friend the poor through the coming j [ winter, an urgent appeal has been e issued by the Salvation Army that v pledges due September first be met a promptly. e "The Salvation Army kept faith- j . fully its trust in the world war and y stood the acid test," declared Briga- i . dier A. W. Crawford, in charge of the . Salvation Army work in the departy ment of the southeast, with offices in; . Atlanta, in his appeal for the pay ment of these pledges, r "And I believe the people who sub3 scribed to our home service campaign fund last spring will keep faith with the Salvation Army," he added, j "The work this fall and winter will be four fold. The full quota of sol?-V>n uront tn war will hack. ; Thousands will ^ieed jobs and th* j helping hand of the Salvation Army".' 3 "The Salvation Army stood by | e I them to the last on the battle line? ; f it will not desert them now. 4 | Throughout the country the activi. ties of the Salvation Army in recon. | struction fairly whiz. Industrial . homes, rescue homes, the Salvation ! Army stores where the poor may supc i ply their needs for a mere pittance? or for nothing?and all of its other j charitable institutions practically are t beir.g rebuilt. . \ '.Tie Salvation army drained its ? every resource in rushing to the aid | r of the country and the succor of its ! soldier boys, when war broke out. ? Now it must go back and weld together the links it dropped in its i chain of endeavor at home, t Payment of the pledges that fall .! due on September first means the 3 keeping of a double trust?fulfillment of the southeast of it promise to fhe Army. 0 Obituary. ; Died, on the evening of August c 8th, 1919, at the home of her daughl ter, Mrs. M. G. McMillan, Edwards, r S. C., Mrs. Prances Habenecht, in the i 75th year of her age. Interment at 1 Charleston, S. C. * VUV1 1/1 1 IVil UX|-t a ua? a. Government Reports Deterioration of 5.7 Per Cent. Washington, Sept. 2.?An increase during August of 114,000 bales in the prospective cotton crop this year was shown in today's cotton report of the Department of Agriculture, which forecasted a total of 11,230,000 bales. I1!*- A/ fUn nnAn A T\?*Y 1IIC IU11UIV1VU9 VI VI1*; V1V|>, w?.-? cent, of a normal, showed a decline of 5.7 points from July 25 to August 25, compared with an average decline I during the last ten years of 7.7 points. . Boll wevils, boll worms, army worms and red spider combined with almost continuous rain over considerable areas of the belt with dry, hot weather followed by heavy rains, caused the deterioration of the crop. In Virginia. Georgia and Florida, the decline was heaviest, being thirteen points in Virginia and twelve in Florida. In Alabama it was nine points and in North Carolina and Texas six points. Sea Island cotton in Georgia and Florida practically has been destroyed by boll wevils, which are now damaging the crop in South Carolina, having appeared on the islands off the coast In Mississippi and Alabama, where the crop is short because of the boll weevil, most of it will be harvested by October 1. Outside the weevil infected areas the crop continues two weeks or more late. o Negro Leadership. The conference of 2,000 negroes at Austin, Texas, displayed sense and j judgment in the resolution declaring | that nothing but harm could result | from efforts of northern agitators to, readjust race relations in the South. These agitators are the negro's worst enemies and the condemnation which Austin conference voiced against the, ?nowsnaoers which uiaga^iitco uuu .. ?f seek to array the newspaper against the white man strong as it was. was not stronger than the situation caile<i for. If there ever was a time when the negroes of the South needed wise leadership, that time is now, and the Austin resolutions encourage the belief that thi^ leadership will not be lacking. The negro preachers of the South especially have a great opportunity as well as a heavy responsibility. They can do most to prevent the development of conditions out of which deplorable consequences may flow, to the general injury, but to that of the negoes in largest measure. The discussion at Austin, which was participated in by representatives of both races, appears to have been attended by the happiest results. Is it not likely that similar conferences elsewhere in the South, if generally held and wiselw directed, would be helpful.?Charleston News and Cour-1 ier. o i Watch Georgetown Grow. Next Tuesday, it is stated, the people of Georgetown county will vote on the question of the fence law, and as1 a neighbor and well wisher we should like to express the hope that the vote will be overwhelmingly for progress. The day is past when cattle can be allowed to run at large, and the community where this is still permitted is stamped as backward by that fact alone. No other thing is doing coastal South Carolina more harm at the present time than the failure thus far of certain of the counties in this section to require owners of cattle to fence them in. By voting in favor of doing this Georgetown county will improve itscredit with the outside world immediately and will take a long step forward. No county can prosper fully in this day and time which clings to customs which are sanctionable only in the most primitive period of - -Jovnlnnment.?Charleston a cvuuwiicu uv?v.wp ? News and Courier Thirty persons were poisoned after drinking coffee in a lunch room at Chicago last Friday. o ~ General Pershing has taken his departure from France and is now on the high seas en route to the good old U. S. A. o The Columbia base ball club of the South Atlantic league was victorious over the Charlotte club in the final gaao of the season Saturday, thereby winning the pennant WUULUrUl fcNU . TO LABOR STR1KS CUMMINS RAILROAD BILL HOLDS INTEREST OF SENATE?PROVIDES RIGID CONTROL. ? Washington, Sept. 2.?The Senate today received and discussed for several hours a bill outlining a permanent railroad policy as evolved by a by-partisan interstate commerce subcommittee. Parahiount among the features of the Cummins bill, Senator Cummins, Republican, Ohio, having acted as t, J chairman of the subcommittee, are '\J? provisions for termination of government control of the railroads, their return to private ownership and opand consolidation into regional systems and prohibition of strikes and lockouts of employees. The measure contains none of the fundamentals of the Plumb plan. Chairman Cummins,v in presenting the bill, explained its provisions at length. He, with Senators Robinson, Arkansas ;and Pomerane, Ohio, Democratic members of the drafting subcommittee, laid especial stress on the proposal to penalize strikes and lockouts, declaring the plan, although novel, was necessary to protect the public. The employees, the three Senators explained, are protected under the bill by a provision that their wages shall be fixed by government agencies.' The bill Senator Cummins told the Senate, represents months of consideration by the subcommittee. Its keynote, he asserted, is the plan to terminate government control, with mncentration of the nation's railroads j.. into twenty to thirty-five regional , systems, providing for strict government supervision of virtually all rail- y road affairs. Among the new agencies the bi'l proposes are a railway transportation board, largely to supervise railroad Operations, a committee on wages ind working conditions and an emplofces' advisory council. ine interstate Commerce Commisior! also woul:I be given greatly increased powers, anc V representation on all railroad directorates of employees and the government would be required. .salient provisions of the Cummins biil include: Termination of government control .-'i return to private ownership on th< last dav of the month o enactment. Establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission with greatly increased powers, as the supreme body over railroad affairs. Supervision and control of virtually all railroad affairs, including rates, wages, operation and financing, by the government. Creation of a new railway transportation board of lve members appointed by the President to supervise railway development and operations, subject to final action of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Creation of a new committee of wages and working conditions, composed equally of representatives of employees and employers with wide nitbm-itv in settling labor questions, subject to decision of the transportation board and Interstate Commerce Commission. Prohibiting strikes and lockouts of railroad employees -under fine and imprisonment penalties. Defining a new policy for concentration in ownership and operation of railroads, with federal incorporation, into not less than twenty nor more than thirty-five regional systems. No guarantee by the government of future railroad income, but limitations made upon revenue to "fair" dividends based on value of properties fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The bill also provides that existing railroad payment contracts with the government shall be continued not longer than four mothsn and that present rates shall continue until changed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, with provisions looking to immediate action toward adjustments. o *-- ? * ?i r ire lssi m^u. The alarm of fire at 2 o'clock this morning was occasioned by the horning of the home of the Rev. W. L. McFarlan, colored, on West Main street near Black river bridge. Hie home, though recently repaired, was a landmark in that section of town. It was totally destroyed.