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VOL. 35. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919. NO 2fr ^
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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
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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
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?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
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?- 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.
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Will Greet Pershing in New Yorl
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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.
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Colored Summer School a Success
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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
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Richmond Mother's Rash Act. ; h
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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~ General Pershing has taken his departure
from France and is now on
the high seas en route to the good
old U. S. A.
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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.
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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.