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Ill/ * ' " '' ^ N V r ? I* - , t - ^ ' ' ': g jpje founts Itecorf g 11 V %'35. ~ ' " " KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, i919. NO 30 ????????????????? _? ^ ? ~ PHILIP H. STOLL ] GETS NOMINATION STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TAKES OUT 12 VOTES?STOLL HAS MARGIN OF FOURTEEN ? y ' I Philip H. Stoll of Kingstree, WilL liamsburg countj, was last night deF clared by the state democratic executive comnittee to be the nominee for k congress from the Sixth district to I, fill the vacancy caused by the death J of the late J. Willard Ragsdale. The election was protested by E. J. Sherwood of Conway, Horry coun? ty, who contended that |)pere were enough irregularities at Andrews, Georgetown county, to cnange rar. i Stall's lead of 26 votes into a minor-' ity. The executive committee was in i session trom noon Tuesday until 10 ! o'clock that nig)it considering the j - protest The box was purged of 12 - \ votes, which if taken from Mr. Stoll's | lead, still left the Kingstree county j v candidal a margin of 14 votes. In the second primary Mr. Sherwood re?.L ceived 5,274 votes and Mr. Stoll 5,' 300. The votes purged were alleged * ? \ to have been cast in the names of ? some absent voters and by those alleged to have been non-residents of the county. The motion to purge the box of the X2 illega: votes and thereafter to dismiss the Horry candidate's protest: (was accepted after a motion to declare the election null had been rejected by a vote of 8 to 28. The motion to remove 12 was offered by W. B. Wilsor., Jr., of York county and I was substituted for a motion by A. i P. Padgett of Edgefield to dismiss the petition without making any effort to draw a strict line of demarcation between the irregular and the qualified voters, because of insufficient testimony. The fighting for the ordering of. k another election was led largely by I J. (J. Clifton of Sumter, and support i ed by Senator F. H. Ketchins of Hi Fairfield and Macbeth Young of Un^ ion. When th^ question of accepting the sub-committee's report on the canvassed returns was before the committee, Mr. Clifton again moved that the executive committeemen declare that no election had been held, order another election and call on the governor to move up the date of the general election, which has been set for October 7. This was rejected by . a vote of 12 to 24, and Mr. Stoll was immediately declared to be the nominee. The following is the vote cast in the second primary: r ' Sherwood Stoll f Darlington 187 484 Dillon 821 193 f Florence 385 953 Ceorcretiiwn 491 625 j Horry ?^ 2,460 68 1 Marion. 528 376 Marlboro 376 396 William) burg 26 2.193 It Total 5,274 5,300 Hv Grant ng the full 12 votes purged f from the roll were cast for Mr. Stoll, . he would still hold the nomination by j I a margin of 14 votes, f Onty four or five members of the j executive committee were absent.1 . more th;\n 40 either being present or ? "represented by proxie The matter I would iiave been disposed of one ' | week ago, had a quorum been pres- , L ent when the time to vote arrived after the testimony had been taken. all evidence submitted and arguments J I \ by attorneys for the two candidates ' I had been heard. The vote then was ' H ill to 8 to dismiss the petition, Mr. Sherwood was represented by L. D. Jennings of Sumter, and Mr. Stoll by 1 B A* C./ Hinds of Kingstree. H "Mr. Jennings went to Georgetown I Tuesday t<r appear before the George town county executive committee to H protest that stock law issue which B was also voted on in the second primI ary, September 9, and which whose B names were not on the enrollment * A- trt fh p HP H boo ICS to voie, iiuucu muvii .v moralize tion. Mr. Stoll is a native of Dillon counW ty, but being the son of the Rev. J. Kjj C. Jj?toll> an itinerant Methooist minwier, he has lived in many of the counties throughout South Carolina. He is an alumnus of Wofford college, 0 having been graduated from the in-! F"stitution in 1897. He later studied J W~ , law in Kingstrre. Where he has for | I a numb r of years practiced his pro-; I fession. He has a wife and three I | children J I Mr. StoU has been an active parti- j f cipant in politics since be entered' COOLER AND DAVIS V ACQUITTED JURY | .Men Once Convicted of Murder of W. D. Thomas, Woodnrider, in , Colleton County. Freed. H The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of Aleas Cooler and Will Davis, tried at Walterboro for killing W. D. Thomas, "woodsrider for the Okatee club, nearly three years ago. It took the jury only a few min- o: ufoc tn om'vp at this verdict, which I Sl was announced Wednesday afternoon. c< Thus has ended one of the most in- T teresting murder cases ever tried in B the lower part of the state. N ill is trial of the case did not take cj an entire day, while a former hear- y ing of the case at Ridgeland con- ti sumed eight days. The empaneling n of a jury took only a few -minutes Is when the case was called Wednesday >r morning, and the trial proceeded li rapidly. . . ti The first surprise of the trial came t* when the solicitor placed Owen Cool- P" er, the 17 year old son of the defendent, Aleas Cooler, on the stand. At r< the preliminary trial and at the first hi trial of the case, -young Cooler had ol testified to have been near where his w father and Davis stood when they m shot Thomas. He gave the testimony a on which the state depended for conviction at the former trial, but when -B he was placed on the stand he said is he had lied at the prelimenary trial bi and at the former trial. He claimed F* that his grandfather hated the de- m fendent Cooler, and had forced him tc to testify as he did at the former di trials. His grandfather is now dead ai and the restraint removed and he in consequence ccc!d now tell the truth. | fi This testimony knocked the props T from undei tne state's case and con- b< eluded the testimony introduced for M the presecution. m The defense did not put up any j T witnesses and argued that the state B had failed to make out a case. The cl jury rendered a verdict in about 15 s< minutes after going to its room. S Thus has ended a trial which has M caused considerable speculation as to Ji its outcome. Cooler and Davis, who were at one time in the shadow of a the electric chair, sentenced to be N electrocuted April 10, 1917, were thus t< enabled to walk out free men. lj -o B * CJ The Cincinnati Red Sox won the first game of the world championship series at baseball in that city t< yesterday by a score of 9 to 1 jr against the Chicago team. ?? ; ?? cl young manhood. He served as county chairman for Williamsburg about 10 & years and has also served as a mem-1 P ber of the state democratic executive'a committee. He was a member of the ai general assembly in 1905 and 1906. ^ In 1908 he was elected solicitor in *c the third circuity which office he held until October 2, 1917, when he re- ? signed to enter the army with the ^ rank of major in the judge advocate's C department. He was stationed in I " Boston ten months with the North- j ? eastern department. He was then , n transferred to the Twelfth division,;ei and promoted to the rank of lieuten- j ant colonel. He remained with this,a division until February 6, 1919, when d he was honorably discharged. . j B o B DECISION yiNAL SAYS SHERWOOD i jS< Declares He Will Stand By Choice ^ Of The Staje Democratic Committee g( Columbia, Sept. 30.?J. E. Sherwood, of Conway, emphatically stated this afternoon that under no circum- s< stances would he take the nomination of his opponent, P. H Stoll, of n Kingstree, for Congress from the jn Sixth Congressional District, into the. S1 courts, Mr. Stoll was nominated last j night by the State Democratic Exe-; cutive Committee, which gave him a majority of twenty-six votes over S Mr. Sherwood.* "Emphatically, I shall not take the j nomination of Mr. Stoll into the I courts," said Mr. Sherwood. "The c' State Democratic Executive Commit- j tee is the supreme court of the South s< Carolina Democratic Party and I, as,, c< all good Democrats should, intend to abide by its decree. It declared Mr. t( Stoll the nominee and that settles it 0 as far as I am concerned and I shall n vote for my opponent in the general S election." 1 The general election for Congress for both the Sixth and Seventh districts has been called by Governor g Cooper for next Tuesday, October 7. C i ,.V PROMINENT CITIZEN DIES SUDDENLY [ON. W. D. BRYAN PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME AT TFAT, EARLY MONDAY MORNING The Hon. William Dayton Bryan, ne of the best known and most ubstantia! citizens of Williamsburg :>unty, died suddenly at his home at aft early Monday morning. Mr. ryan was born in Robeson county, forth Carolina, May 24, 1859, and ime to Williamsburg county quite a oung man. Here he engaged in the ?/IVAOpflA KlieitlOCC fftr Q IllUt'I OUU ttVOOMC ISUOAAAVrwrw AV* mm umber of years and accumulated irge holdings of real estate, mostly i the community where he spfcnt his fe. He was public spirited and idenfied himself with all matters of insrest to his adopted county and its eople. Mr. Bryan was a man beloved and jspected by every one who knew im. In religious, charitable and benev lent work he was a benefactor, alays giving freely of his time and leans. He - was a devoted husband, loving and indulgent father. In 1906 and again in 1908 Mr. ryan was elected to the state leglature, having in 1908 received all at 29 of the solid vote of the county, or a number of years he was postlaster at Taft, afterwards changed > Bryan. Until recent years he conacted extensive farming operations ad a successful mercantile business. Mr. Bryan was twice married, his rst wife being Miss Rebecca Brown, o this union eleven children were orn, seven of whom died in infancy, [rs. B. A. Brown, of Ttaft, Mrs. Norlan Cook of Andrews, Mrs. Claude J. hompson of Kingstree, and W. D. ryan, Jr., of Tatft are the four lildren who survive him with his icond wife, who was Mrs. Frances pivy of Columbia, also two brothers, (essrs. W. R. Bryan of Andrews and ames Bryan or Trio. With his wife Mr. Bryan returned few days ago from a trip to the orthern resorts and he was thought > be much improved in helath. Earr Monday morning, however, Mrs. ryan awoke to find him in a critiil condition, and he died before meical aid could be rendered. He was a rtiember of the Presby;rian church and had been an Elder t Union church for 25 years. Funeral services were held in this lurch at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon in ie presence of one of the largest atherings ever assembled there, eople from all parts of the county nd from adjoining counties, white nd colored were present to pay a ist sad tribute- to the man they had ived and honored. The service was conducted by the ev. W. I. Sinnot, assisted by the :ev. Mr. Clark of Andrews,%Rev. Mr. lark of Salters, and two other minders, whose names we did not learn, eautiful and appropriate music was endered by a special choir, and the at're service was deeply impressive. Among those from Kingstree who ssisted the regular choir were Mesames L. W. Gilland, E. A. McDowell, W. S. Gilland, Miss Olive enton; Messrs. L. W. Gilland and 7. H. Carr. Foolowing the impressive funeral ervice, the remains were laid to est in the family plot in Union emetery by the side of his wife, ho died June 12, 1904, and their 2ven little children. While the grave was being filled le choir sang very sweetly several elections from the hymnal. After le benediction was pronounced the ewly made mound was covered with umerous and beautiful floral deigns. TURN CLOCKS^taL unday, October 26, Is turn To Sun TnJH( General uncertainty as to when the locks of the nation may be turned ack and daylight saving abolished eems to have resulted from the remt action of congress in repeafing le daylight saving act. In answer > numerous inquiries wasningxon fficials have pointed out that clocks lay be turned back until the last unday of October or October 26 at a. m. o Buster Brown shoes for boys and iris, a fine line at PEOPLE'S MERANTILE COMPANY, Kingstree. ? . STILL NO CHANGE 1 IN STEEL STRIKE ? NO IMPORTANT CHANGE EXPECTED UNTIL AFTER INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE * i ^ e i Pittsburg, Sept. 30.?The steel n " ?- - ? ~ worKers' srruce, so iar as mc nw < burg district is concerned, drifted c] along today with out any important n 'change being noticed. The entire ? ( strike zone was quiet. The unions 2 claim they are holding their men to- o gether and are constantly bringing f more into their ranks. The steel com- w panies, on the contrary, say they are f: getting more workers into the plants .sj due to the desire of men to work and f< to the good police protection afford- o ed them. w While both sides are working to s1 I increase their respective forces there u is a belief in some quarters that no | break, if any, can be looked for un- a jtil after the industrial conference F which opens in Washington next tl Monday. o There are more organizers in the ti Pittsburg district now, according to t< labor leaders, than at any other time o sinyce the big walkout started nine fi days ago. t< Steel companies that daily give out ti information continue to maintain n thatUhe situation from their stand- o point is slowly but steadily .improving. We are making steel and lots of it; we have lost no ground, but, on the contrary, are still gaining, said a s Camagie Steel Company statement Other companies made virtually similar announcements. At the national headquarters of e the strikers satisfaction was express- t* ed by leaders that they have the ? - ? ?- i J J it.-*. iUa., a Simce wen in nana auu uiat wjll be able to keep the steel industry f< of the country crippled until the em- s] ployers consent to meet the men half o way. tl It was said that approximately o 375,000 steel workers are now idle, u This is an increase of about 83,000 a over the number of men reported by d the strike leaders as idle last week, e The walkout of steel workers at tl Bethlehem and at the Jones & Laugh- h lin plant in Pittsburg, it was said, was responsible for the increase. C One of the developments of the day n that did not satisfy the strike lead- F ers was the decision of the Allegheny e county court in upholding the action of the mayor of Duquesne in prevent- v ing mass meetings in that city. c Secretary N. Z. Foster, of the na- I tional committee, and an organizer ^ , were arrested two weeks before the t strike started while attempting to c speak from an automobije in a vecant lot. No permit to hold the meet- p ing had been asked for, and it was a admitted by the city that none would t [ have been issued. Mr. Foster and the h organizer were each fined $100 and o ! the county court upheld the action t {of the city authorities. The court v held that the right of free speech, r sacred though it may be, must yield v to the greater one of the safety of h . /vf {-ho commonwealth. U1C VUIllVUO VX WW m their homes and their property. t o F Red Cross Christinas Seals j It has been the custom all over the c United States to place on sale at a Christmas Tide this attractive little ii Red Cross Christmas Seal at th$ b small cost of one cent each. It has r become a beautiful custom for all j packages, letters and cards to bear ii the Christmas seal which wishes c health and happiness to' the receiver p q{ letter or gift. Besides bearing good F wishes to friends and family. It is a fl token of the buyers love of his fellow-man, especially of the unfortun- t ate who is suffering from tuberculo- S sis. a All funds raised through the sale 1; of these tiny "little soldiers of f Christ"?as a poor consumption has b named them, goes toward the relief v and elimination of tuberculosis, which a is still the greatest scourge of hu- t manity. This Christmas seal is lead- b in? in a campaign to educate the g people that T. B. can be cured and p can be prevented. tl If we ever expect to eradicate this h dreadful disease, we must have nurs- = es who can visit the patient at home p and protect the family by teaching j them isolation, disinfection and ha- p bits which will accomplish the re- p suits, where medicine is useless. The p sale of the Christmas seal will place, p or help place such a nurse in this county. Executive Committee:- Governor g WO MEN ARRESTED AND OUTFIT SEI Officers in Florence County Exch Shots With Liquor Still Operators State Detective Eichelberger Nonstable Kelley, accompanied wo special government officers, d a place on Lynch's viver, s liles east of Scranton, Flor loei n'nnlr onri ftffov 9ft hange of shots captured two v len, along with a 60 gallon cap; opper still, 225 gallons of masl 5 gallons 'of blockade whiskey, fficers crept up on the men Dund the still to be in full l ith a stream of whiskey poi rom the worm. When the open aw the officers one of them rea or his Winchester but the off pened fire first. Two of the rorking at the still escaped intc wamps. The officers are not ce: hether either of them was worn As a result of the raid R. L. nd Troy Ward were lodged in 'lorence jail and warrants issue< he arrests of the others whom fficers recognized. This is the. me firearms have been brough ) play in the raiding activities o fficers in this county says a r< rom Florence. The officers had > Scran ton to seek some info ;on regarding the operation of arcotic laws there and were ti ff as to the still. in We federal court heriff Burch, and Deputy Cair ed For Contempt. Judge H. A. M. Smith of the ral court last week issued an < j sheriff T. S. Bu^ch of Floi aunty and to J. R. Cain, de heriff and jailor, to show cause are him on October 1, why hould not be adjudged in conb f court, the allegation being aese officers allowed a federal ner liberty and freedom whil< rsa serving a term of imprison] t the Florence county jail. An avit presented stated that the ral prisoner in question was se< be streets of Florence while sei is sentence. Sheriff Burch and Deputy SI lain, were given a hearing Mo aorning before Judge Smith in 'ederal District Court and fined alh and cost. In answer to the call to show < rhy they should not be adjudg< ontempt of court, Sheriff Burcl )eputy Sheriff Cain filed an an ionday morning, which set I heir reasons why the rule to ause should be dismissed. Deputy Cain asserted that af irison at Florence lacked a coo ppointed the prisoner, C. B. Sv o act in that capacity, and beli( iim to be trustworthy allowed n several occasions to make tri he postoffice, but that at no - * ?1 Vn ioi /as ?>weati auseut uvu w j~ iiore than five minutes, and thj /as under close observation di lis absence. When it was called to the a ion of Sheriff Burch that no fe (risoners were allowed to leave ail, Deputy Cain said that he onfined to his home with inflv md had received no notice of nstructions. He said that ha een aware of such orders he v lot have allowed Sweatt to leav ail, and that after he received nstructions Sweatt was kept cl onfined. The statement that irisoner was seen on the streei Florence at 8 o'clock at night latly denied. In his answer Sheriff Burch hat he was informed that De iheriff Cain appointed Sweatt t< s cook on account of the scarci abor, and was allowed to be al rom the jail on several occas ut that such fiberty was grt /ithout his knowledge. Sheriff E lso said that he intended to in he deputy sheriff that a ruling 1_ m-pvented een niaue num. , ranting of any liberty to fe< risoners, but that Cain was i he time, and so the matter esc is attention. lobt. A. Cooper, Chainnan; Dr. i. tlayne, vice-president; Dr. I User, Mrs. Ruth Dodd, Mrs. A iembert, Mrs. F. S. Munsell, i aign manager, Mrs. C. Y. Rea ublicity director. o Anything that is standing sti etting ready to move backwai - NEGROES LYNCHED - BY ALABAMA HOB ONE OF THE NEGROES LYNCH^ ED SAID TO HAVE BEEN A ' ^ RETURN SOLDIER even ence Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 29.?Two ex- negroes, Miles Phifer and Robert irhite Croskey, the latter a returned solicity dier, were taken from Montgomery land county officials about five miles from The inis city and lynched this aiternoon. and The negroes were being carried to (last, the State prison at Wetumpka for / iring safe keeping when a masked mob of itors about twenty-five men held up the ched automobile, in which they were travicers eling, forced the officers to lay down men their arms, and then led the negroes ( the about 100 yards into the woods and rtain opened fire on them with shotguns ided. and pistols. Both negroes were chargLee ed with criminal assault on a white the woman. 1 for Earlier in the day the two negroes the had been granted a preliminary hearfirst ing behind closed doors and their t in- trials had been set for next Friday, fthe After the action of the trial judge iport had been known, it was said that gone formation of the mob was undertakrma en, and with a tip that the negroes the would be held in Montgomery, but pped probably would be carried to some other jail nearby, the leaders surmised that the Wetumpka prison [ would be the one selected. The party, , numbering twenty-five men all maskiFin-1 ed, made its way to a point on the i Wetumpka road about five miles past of the dty and there awaited fed- the arrival of the sheriff's car carry>rder ing the prisoners. ence When the car carrying the two puty negroes, which was accompanied by i be- three deputy sheriffs, rolled up to they the spot selected by the leaders of empt the mob, the latter blocked the road that and demanded custody of the prisonpris ers. Resistance was useless in the face i he of shotguns and pistols, Deputy Shement riff Frizzle, one of the guards, deaffi dared. They were disarmed, a guard fed- left with them and the negroes rushin on ed out of the car about 100 paces off wing the road,where they were loosed and | told to run. Thoroughly frightened leriff and realizing the fate that was upon . nday them, the negroes made little or no i the effort to get away, and the men openI $25 ed on them with pistols and shotguns. Phifer was almost instantly ause killed, being riddled from head to id in foot, while Croskey was likewise land shot up, but survived for five hours. swer o f?rth ANNUAL TRI-COUNTY FAIR show To Be Held At Andrews, October, 1 ^ ' 15, 16, and 17, 1919. k he _ / reatt, The first annual Tri-County Fair ;ving which comprises the counties of him Georgetown, Williamsburg and psto Berkeley will be inaugurated at Antime dre\ts, on Wednesday October 15 and ' 1 for continue until October 17. The main it he exhibit building which is 200x100 feet J ring wju house the agricultural, woman's work, floral, fine art, boys and girls tten- j ciub work and community exhibits, deral The special United States Governs the ment exhibits of good roads, farm development and forestry will also lenza occupy one section of the main buildsuch jng The annex building which is d he 17^x75 feet will house the poultry deirould partment which is equipped with the e the latest sanitary exhibit coops. The nel the gro department will also be located osely jn the annex. Special provisions have been made ^ for the proper housing of stock, catwas tie and swine, also for the bench show. The grounds cover two city blocks puty and over one city block will be cover ? act ^ Kv intact amusement features I CU u.v vnv ? ty ?f now on the road, jsent citizens of Andrews through ;ions. their ladies committee have arranged inted ?or an Up to date rest room at Aniurch (jrews an(j al?0 at the fair grounds, form Every attention will be paid to the comfort and entertainment of visile tors. :leral o " Over 3,500 veterans of the Thirtieth division, largely from North and South Carolina and Tennessee, with nearly as many more friends "*aS- and distinguished guests are enjoy ' ing their first reunion in Greenville ,jmie' this week, cam o mer, SINGER means Service Stability and Satisfaction. Only (59.20) cash 11 is as long as our supply last KINGSrd. . TREE FURNITURE COMPANY.