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VOL. 35. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 192(1 7 N0 47
IMPORTANT MEETING
MONDAY, FEB. 2
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ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
FREE RANGE OR "STOCK- j
LAW" URGED TO ATTEND
Yesterday morning The County I
Record office was called up over long j
distance telephone from Columbia by'
Representative W. H. Welch asking I
us to publish a notice to the effect <
that there will be a meeting at the
court house in Kingstree on Monday,
February 2, ^t noon, to which everyone
in this county, affected by the
"free range" or "stock law" is urged
to be present.
The county delegation will be present
and the members expect at this
meeting to get some information as
to what affect the adoption of the
fence law in Georgetown county, will
have on some of the land owners in
i - this county, so that they may be pre-1
pared to look after their interest in
the matter at this session of the General
assembly.
An election was held in Georgetown
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county a few weeks ago at which
"free range" was defeated by a decisive
majority of 277 votes. As Williamsburg
is a border county the new
Georgetown law will most likely ef
feet a number of our citizens.
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BETTER ROADS CONFERENCE
Committee From Both Houses Appointed
to Frame Suitable Bill
Columbia, Jan. 28.?Substantial
progress toward improved highway
legislation was made Tuesday night
at an informal conference of the members
of both branches of the General
Assembly and members of the State i
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Highway Co; amission, lea Dy wv?nor
Cooper, i^fter a discussion, which
"lasted for three hours it was decided
to have the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of th House appoint1
a committee, composed of twelve
members, four from the upper body
and eight from the lower body, to sit
with the highway commission and the
State highway engineer, and draft a
good roads bill, which will be pre-*
sented to the Legislature for its consideration.
The two fundamental ideas devel-1
poed by the conference were that there .
should be either a county unit system
of highways, connecting into a State
highway, to be maintained by the
State, or a truck line system of hardsurfaced
roads traversing the State,
with lateral county roads tapping the
arterial highways. The system which;
appeared to have more adherents
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was that to De constructed oy uic|
counties under the supervision of the j
State highway Department, each
county connecting its main roads with
those of contiguous counties, so that
, ultimately there would be a State!
^ system.
A The prevailing idea seemed to be
|j^ that the roacis should be so constructed
that they could ultimately be hard-,
surfaced.
There was the utmost of good feelv
ing manifested among the participa-1
tants of the conference, which com-;
prised large majorities of both houses
* of the Gnerai Assembly, and no word
of criticism was voiced against the;
highway commission. In fact, mem- J
bers of the conference were agreed
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adopted must be directed by a centralized
agency.
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Another Residence Burned
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Last Thursday night about 6:30
the residence on Brooks street occupied
by Mr. Chas. Singleton was
discovered to be on fire. The alarm
was given but not in time to save the
house from the flames which had
gained too much headway. Having
originated in a room on the second
floor the fire spread rapidly and tlfe
only household effects saved by the
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family were sucn as couia oe camcu
out hurriedly. Three or four good
streams play ed on the burning house
by the fire department failed to subdue
the flames until the roof and second
story w-re practically destroyed.
The property is owned by Mrs. J.
J. Epps, of Leo.
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Y. W. C. V. PROGRAM
FOR WORLD SERVICE)
National Board Well Started on Plans ,
For Education And Finance
For 1920.
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"The women of the nations have
been knit together in service for the 1
girls of the world."
The national bofrd of the Y. W. C.
A. is now well started on its world
service program of education and J
finance for 1920.
Through invention and enterprise j
the peoples of the world are so bound I
together and so interdependent that
no longer can it be ignored, the character
and manner of life and ideals of
other peoples.
Through the world war women have '
become more aware of the difficult
conditions affectin" the lives of girls ;
and women in relation to their economic,
social, industrial, educational
and religious life.
Therefore it is the obligation of the j
association: (1) To measure the task
s]os?i/4o Vinw murh it is reSDOnsi
bility as individuals and groups; (2) j
to bring a knowledge of conditionsaffecting
the lives of women and by
what means a better order might be
brought to pass; (3) to awaken in
all women a recognition of responsi-!
bility in the use of their possessions,
time, money, personality.
The United States has been divided
into 11 fields. South Carolina is in
the South Atlantic field with headquarters
at Richmond.
The State committee for South
Carolina is as follows: State chairman,
Mrs. Leland Moore, Charleston; i
state director, Mrs. N. G. Gonzales,:
Columbia; assistant director, Miss?
Elephare Hood, Greenwood; faculty, i
Miss Sara R. Marcum, Winthrop col-1
lege, Rock Hill; alumnae, Miss Sallie
H. Rembert, Sumter; business and
professional, Miss Etta McGee, Greenville;
publicity, Miss Addie H.
Hughes, Columbia.
On Tuesday afternoon, February
10th. a speaker will be heard in
Kingstree at the school auditorium at
four o'clock in the interest of the Y.
W. C. A. program for world service.
This meeting is for the purpose of instruction
and not for raising money j
and the public is cordially invited to
attend.
(Signed) Mrs. Louis W. Giiland,
Acting as chairman for wmiamsburg
County.
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CORPORATION DISSOLVED
E. C. Burgess Becomes Sole Owner I
People's Mercantile Co.
A few days ago Mr. E. Carroll
Burgess bought from Mr. J. M. Nexsen
all of his stock and interest, real
and personal, in the People's Mercantile
Co., which is perhaps one of the
most widely known and successful
mercantile establishments in this sec- ]
tion of the State.
The People's Mercantile Co., was I
organized and incorporated by Messrs.
W. T. Wilkins, E. C. Burgess, L. M.
McClam and G. W. Epps in 1906.
Later E. C. and Bishop Burgess acquired
the interest of McClam and
Epps, and in 1909, J. M. Nexsen
bought the stock owned by W. T. Wilkins
and admitted Mr. R. D. Mills as ;
a stock holder. In January 1914 Bishop
Burgess and R. D. Mills sold out
their interest and E. C. Burgess and
J. M. Nexsen became absolute owners |
of the business. Ever since the corporation
was formed Mr. Burgess has
been its active head. Under his management
the business has grown from
year to year until it reached the magnificent
sum of approximately $400,000.00
during the year 1919.
Mrs. H. 0. Welch, who retains an
interest in the business until authori- |
ty is planted for surrendring the
charter, and as secretary and Treas- j
urer of the corporation issued the
certificate conveying Mr. Nexsen's in- j
terest in the real and personal assets
of the People's Mercantile Co., to Mr.1
Burgess, who assumes all liabilities
of the company.
The business will be continued by
E. C. Burgess at the old stand on
Hampton avenue.
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Louis C. Barbot, a widely known
physician of Charleston, was convicted
by a jury in the Federal court at
Columbia Tuesday of violation of the
Harrison anti-narcotic act on four
teen counts.
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Motormen and conductors of the
Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric
company, are on a .strike and street
railways are tied up. /
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HOUSTON SUCCEEDS
CARTER GLASS
PRESIDENT WILSON SURPRISES
FOLLOWERS BY APPOINT
MENT OF TREASURY HEAD
Two more changes in President
Wilson's cabinet were made yesterday
and a third is expected in the near
future.
. David Franklin Houston, of St.
Louis, who has been Secretary of
Agriculture since the beginning of
the Wilson administration, was given
the treasury poitfolio, and Edwin L.
Meredith, of Des Moines, Iowa, was
named to succeed him as head of the
Department of Agriculture.
The third cabinet change expected
soon is the appointment of a Secretary
of the Interior to succeed Franklin
K. Lane.
In selecting Mr. Houston to succeed
Carter Glass of Lynchburg, Va., as
Secretary' of the Treasury, the President
ran counter to all guesses of administration
officials, most of whom
had expected Assistant Secretary
Leffingwell to be given the office.
Mr. Meredith is the editor of "Successful
Farming," and before estab-1
lishing that paper was publisher of
the "Fanners, Tribune." He is president
of the Associated Advertising
Cluhs of the World, a director of the
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and
was one of the excess profits advisers
of the Treasury Department appointed
in 1917.
In a statement made at Miami,
Fla., Mr. Merdith said one of his first
undertakings as head of the Department
of Agriculture would be to work
out some method of getting crops to
market "without too much lost motion."
He is expected in Washington
by the first of next week to take up
his duties
Meantime Mr. Houston will succeed
Mr. Glass, who wiill take his seat in
the Senate to fill the unexpired term
of the late Senator Martin, of Virginia,
after serving as secretary of
the treasury for a little more than a
year.
When Secretary Lane passes out of
the cabinet only four of the President's
official family will remain. Be
sides Mr. Houston they are: Secretary
Daniels, of the Navy Department; I
Secretary Wilson, of the Labor De-;
partment and Postmaster General
Burleson.
Mr. Wilson has had two Secreta-)
ries of State?W. J. Bryan and Robert
Lansing; two Secretaries of war?
Lindley M. Garrison and Newton D.
Baker; three Attorney Generals?
James C. McReynolds, now an associate
justice of the supreme court;
Thomas W. Gregory' and A. Mitchell
Palmer; two Secretaries of Commerce
?William C. Redfield and Joshua W.
Alexander; and three Secretaries of
the Treasury?William G. McAdoo,
Carter Glass and David Houston.
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GOVERNOR OUSTS SHERIFF
Appoints King to Succeed J. Olin Sanin
A nrlrann
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Governor Cooper has removed Sheriff
J. Olin Sanders of Anderson county
for misconduct in office and has
appointed C. C. King, sheriff, to succeed
him. The removal of Sheriff'
Sanders came after a hearing before
the governor on charges of immorality
and misconduct in office. It was j
charged by a policeman that Sanders
had had improper relations with the
policeman's wife. It was also charged
that Sanders had not properly accounted
for all of the funds in his
office.
The charge of immoral conduct
against Sanders was first printed in1
an Anderson paper and attracted a1
great deal of attention. The governor
took cognizance of the published j
charges and ordered Sanders to show [
cause before him why he should not j
be removed from office. A hearing
was held before the governor about
ten days ago. At this Rearing Sanders
entered a general denial of the
charges against him. He also disputed
the right of the governor to j
remove him.
TVip nttnrnpv emneral advised the!
governor that he had the right to!
remove the sheriff inasmuch as he j
was appointed by the governor. Sanders
was appointed by the governor
last January to succeed Joe H. M.
Ashley, resigned.
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You can buy the lot you want at
your own price February 4th.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE f
HAS ROUGH ROAD
SENATE PASSES BILL PROHIBITING
SMOING IN HOTELS
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Woman suffrage is having rought 1
i sledging in the South Carolina leg- 1
j islature. The resolution rejecting the ^
i Susan B. Athony amendment has been 1
overwneimingiy adopted on tne House i
side. This was largely a preliminary i
matter in that branch. On the Sen- <
ate side the judiciary committee sub- t
mitted unfavorable reports which are i
a token of trouble. Senator Walker i
who is in favovr of woman suffrage, J
asked that the resolution go on the 1
journal. 1
The Senate went entirely through 1
its calendar last Friday disposing of '
a number of bills and adding many J
more new issues, most of them being 1
largely local issues.
After having finished the pending *
work, the hour and day for reassem- '
bling were both changed. The Senate
agreed to take a recess until Monday j
night, but this order was changed, so
that the Senate did not reassemble *
until 1 o'clock Tuesday.
Senator Christensen threw out an
alarm, and suggested that these recesses
and irregular hours, so to
enooli- sm lioKla trt PSIIOP Hiffidlltv
*3 pvua y ?i V liWI/IV w# ^
and congestion at the latter end of
the session, and advised that a committee
be appointed to suggest hours
and days for the session of the Sen- .
ate and throw out a chart for each ,
week. Senators Laney and Padgett
objected to this and thought that the
Senate had better not leave such matters
to a committee but act as a body
and although Senator Christensen j
thought it better to have such committee,
the Senate declined to pro- .
vide any new method of handling its
business.
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The Senate passed for a third read- .
ing and finally disposed of the Pad- .
gett bill directed against smoking in 1
public eating houses and hotels and '
sent the bill to the House with an additional
amendment, which provides *
that the management of any public ^
aafinor tinnsr nr hotel mav Drovide a
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separate room in which such smoking I
may be 'permitted. With this amendment
the bill is now ready for the
consideration of the Rouse.
The Dreher bill permitted assist- J
ance iirthe preparation of ballots under
the Australian system was pass-i
ed, allowing outsiders to b? called inj2
to help prepare the ballot, but Sena- Jr
tor Young had the bill amended soj2
that it does not change the law for j2
the primaries or voting in elections)
in the City of Charleston, where the.c
Australian ballot applies. '
Mr. Davis' bill on which there has i <
been considerable discussion, with jk
reference to counter claims being j2
consolidated in one suit, received the;
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; adoption of the bill.
{ Mr. Duncan's bill to provide that ail c
automobile manufacturers pay v a c
State license was iaid on the table I f
and withdrawn. ' 1
Mr. Pearce also requested the priv- ^
ilege of withdrawing his bill relative
to the investigation of., charges made ?
by public service corporations, as this j .
will probably be covered in the pro-! J
posed public service bill which is to be;c
presented later on in the session. 1
Last year there was considerable
discussion on the bill to provide for a 1 c
State Board of Assessors, which j 1
would have abolished the present j |
State Tax Commission. This bill pass-,
ed the House last year. Today the J *
House bill was killed in the Senate
! by the adoption of the unfavored report
without discussion.
Another bill by Senator Young, ofj.
Charleston, to make it unlawful for *
any person driving a motor vehicle
1 who runs into any person or another v
vehicle, who fails to stop and render ^
?moVo citrh failure to h
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stop prima face evidence of negli-! r
gence in cases of suits.
The Senate, at the suggestion of j a
Mr. Young, adopted the unfavorable %
report and hereby rejected the bill 3
which sought to prohibit white nurses i ?
serving colored patients in hospitals. 1
This disposed of the bills.
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By a vote of 9 to 5 the Senate Mil- t
itary committee Monday approved e
provisions providing for compulsory | p
military training of boys between the i:
ages of eighteen and twenty-one years a
inclusive, and ordered a favorable re- o
port on the army reorganization bill. 0
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MAJOR GEN. READ REFUSES
TO SURRENDER PRISONERS
taldiers Who Killed Chaplin Now
Held by Military Authorities at
Camp Jackson.
Major Gen. George W. Read, comnander
of Camp Jackson, in a formal
nilitary communication to John G.
McCain, sheriff of Richland county,
,gc Hu(<linorl to film nv?r tn tViP niQ
ody of the civil authorities Lieut,
ralbert B. Fowler, Corporal Edmund
?. Marston, Private Roy E. Sanders
ind Private, First Class, Roy Janusz,
iow under arrest at Camp Jackson,
iharged with bein implicated in the
nurder of William S. Chaplin, a promnent
business' man of Columbia, who
vas shot to death on the night of
ranuary 19 on the Gardner's Ferry
oad within sight of Columbia, while
eturning in an automobile from a
iinner party. Private Sanders was
specifically charged by a coroners
jury of Richland county on January
10 as having fired the fatal shot.
Governor Cooper will make a reluest
on the war department through
Senator Dial to have the prisoner
;urned over to civil authorities. A
;ranscript of the inquest adduced at
;he coroner's investigation was furlished
the governor's office by Sheriff
McCain to be transmitted to Senator
Dial.
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IMPROVEMENTS MANY
^arolinas Lead in Electric Light And
Power Systems
Columbia, Jan. 24.?Recent reports
ndicate that in some respects at
east the Carol inas lead all sections
>f the country in rural improvement
ind advancement.
Officials of State educational de)artments
have recognized for some
;ime the fact that advancement along
he technical lines of agriculture, thgt
s, methods of cultivation, crop rotAion,
stock breeding and the like, is
ilways marked and accompanied by
mprovement in living conditions?the
nstallation of electric light and pow;r
systems, bathrooms and septic
anks with complete systems of
dumbing and water supply.
If these things are true the Caroinas
have great reason to be proud
>f their agricultural progress, for in
he matter of the farm improvements
nentioned above they led all other
listricts of the country for the last j
'ear.
According to the completed 1919 j
ecords of the Delco-Light Company,
it Dayton, Ohio, the world's largest
nanufacturers of farm electric plants
ind water systems, the Carolinas led
ill sections of the country in farm
lome improvement for the year just
ilosed. More than 85,000 Delco-Light
>lants have been sold in the past
imovc fn formnN in fr.Vl A Init^d
states, and of these more than 3,500
ire .now installed and bringing com'ort
and happiness to the farmers of
;he two Carolinas.
This indicates a very satisiactory
condition in the Carolinas ana shows
conclusively that the farmers, having
said off their mortgages and being
n possession of fairly good bank balinces,
are now bending their efforts
.oward the improvement of living
conditions on the farm and giving
he farm wives an opportunity to enoy
all the conveniences and benefits
>f city life while still maintaining
esidences in the rural communities.
With the high prices of wheat and
orn and the tremendous crops raised
n the West and Northwest, it is ex- ;
remely gratifying to note that at
east in this particular phase of im>rovement
of farm life the Carolinas
lave taken first place.
No little credit for the progress of i
he farmers in North Carolina is due <
o the State educational department, <
ihich has for the past year or more <
?een carrying the message of running ;
rater and electric light to the rural i
ommunities through the use of es- <
tecially equipped Delco-Light and j
notion picture machines.
Meetings held in many countries 1
.ttracted those farmers who, after '
iewing the pictures showing what <
uch improved living conditions would i
nean, were not slow in bringing this ;
mprovement to their homes.
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It is alright for the government to <
end its energies toward rounding up 1
he reds, but what about the profit- J
ers? With 14 month's peace antf t
reduction at its /full capacity ,flour
s selling at $17 a barrel and butter <
,t 90 cents a pound! The worst type <
f red is the individual who profits i
n the sufferings of humanity. 1
WOOL IN $100 SUIT
COSTS ONLY $7.37
PROFITEERS MORE DANGEROUS
THAN REDS SAYS SENATOR
CAPPER OF KANSAS.
Jail bars for profiteers were urged
by Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, in an address Saturday in
the Senate. Profiteers, he sai<f,_ are
more dangerous than reds.
Advocating legislation by Congress
to curb profiteering, Senator Capper
said the people could help themselves,
too, if they would organize
to boycott the profit hogs by refusing
to buy goods offered at extortionate
prices."
The Senator declared there could
be no doubt that "the general public
is being sandbagged," in view of profits
reported by large manufacturing
corporations and the rise in the value
of their securities. He cited figures'
regarding the American Woolen
Company, the Central Leather Company,
the Crucible Steel Company,
the United States Steel Corporation
and others.
Referring to increased prices of
clothing Senator Capper read a tele
gram from the National Woolgrowers'
Association stating that the wool
in a suit of clothes selling for $100
costs only $7.37.
"A 50 per cent increase in the
price of shoes by next summer is
predicted by the president of the National
Shoe Travelers' Association,"
continued Mr. Capper. "The day this
prediction appeared another extra .
dividend was declared by the Central
Leather Company. The common stock
of this company was rated at 68 a
year ago. It is now quoted around
105. While the people contemplate going
barefoot the Leather Trusts walks
on velvet made thicker. A year ago
it was the war demand for leather
that made shoes high. Now it seems
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"Just now the greatest 'get-richquick'
game in America is gouging
in sugar. The increase in the price of,
sugar will add a billion dollars to the
burdens now being borne by the
American people. The stock of the
Cuba-American Company has advanced
more than 200 per cent, in the
last 12 months, probably because of
the 'sugar shortage.'
Profiteering in Lumber
"We have 4,000.000 homeless people
in the United States as a result
of the melon-cutting in lumber. There
nas oeen ana is snameiess pruuKcnug
in that industry.
"The market price of the fanner's
livestock has declined nearly 50 per
cent, bringing many farmers to tlie
verge of bankruptcy, but the high
prices the consumer pays for the
meat are virtually unchanged.
"The income tax returns prove the
mine operators get excessive profits.
"All the quotations I have referred
to conspire to prove that it is profiteering
in the great industrial corporations
that has sandbagged the public,
rather than by merchants who
deal directly with the consumer. No
doubt there is price-gouging by some
of the retailers, but it is the price of
goods when they leave the factory to
which the Administration's best attention
should be first directed."
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PROGRESSIVE TWENTY CLUB
Had Interesting Meeting On Last
Monday Night
At/ a meeting of the Progressive
Twenty Club on last Monday, night
new officers for a term of six months
were elected and many new matters
sf interest to the members and the
:ommunity at large were discussed
and decisions made to put across
some of these at once. The club derided
to get themselves a club room
and appointed Mr. Adye to secure it
A. Leap Year party was also found
to be in favor and a date selected.
The young ladies are arranging to
intertain at the next Civic League
neeting to be held in the auditorium
it the school house.
The new officers elected for the
lext six months are: Miss Vinnie
barter, president; Miss Dora Hinnant,
rice-president; Miss Alma Godwin,
Secretary; Miss Eleida Fulmore,
:reasurer.
With these new officers the club is
issured of success in whatever it uniertakes,
and it is proposing to do
some mighty fine things*?-Lake City
News.