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% ' - ' 9 .. <: & , ' \ / ' f % vA * S W Hecort.iff v VOL. 36. " KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920. NO! ?^^^^^????^^^ > i 4 CONGRESS PASSES . SOLDIER BONUS DHL DENOUNCED BY OPPONENTS AS POLITICAL TRICK TO CAPTURE THE SOLDIER VOTE I Last Saturday, the soldier relief bill was passed by Congress 289 to 92 and sent to the Senate. Under the program that brought the final showdown, a two-thirds vote in support of ^ the measure was necessary for its passage and it was obtained after a fight, during which test votes had indicated defeat of the measure. ? *?.. -I qo 1QQ mminir xne xirsfc vowr w w w on a parliamentary question indicated that advocates of the bill were short by 64 votes of the two-thirds majority, while the second, by which the suspension program was adopted 200 to 165, showed they lacked only 37 votes. The third test was on applying the suspension program to the bill itself, which was carried 175 to 91, or two less than the required number for passage. Supporters of the measure declared that the bill was just to the ex-service men for losses they suffered during the war, but its opponents denouneed it at a "political trick" to win the soldier vote through an attempt to "commercialize patriotism." * v A PIEA FOR MORE CORN $ \ Farmers of State Urged to Produce W r Com Ctod. Clemson College, June 1.?The latest report of the South Carolina Field Agent of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, Mr. B. B. Hare, shows an indicated wheat yield of 7, 801, 000 u bushels for this state, o - 35,000 less than last year. Two per cent of the acreage sown has been abandoned. VThe winter wheat acreage for the United tStates is 34,165,000 against 49,905,000 last year, and the estimated production is 33.8 per cent less than last year. In view of this great reduction in acreage and alarming shortage in production, Mr. W. W. Long, director of the Extension Service, feels that prompt and raided action should be taken toward a larger corn crop , in this state to help meet the emrgen cy. He is therefore sending out widely through the state the following message on the subject in the hope that South Carolina way not be caught without food this fall. Fortunately it is not yet too late to save the day. "Reports just received from United States Departmen of Agriculture indicate 34 per cent reduction in wheat production this year. Unless something is done to meet this situation, flour will be on same basis as during the war, with this difference,?we A were then blessed with large corn \ "yields. Owing to unfavorable weather conditions anil the natural incentive to grow cotton on account of present high price and fear of the wider . spreadig of the weevil within next few years, we are liable to have a dis"I am sending this information to many farmers, bankers, merchants, cotton seed crushers, and newspapers, so that our farmers, even at this late date may be urged to increase their acreage in com. If this is done, we can largely increase our food supply and thereby save a serious situation most likely to prevail this fall. I suggest county meetings of prominent farmers, bankers, and merchants to consider the situation. Money without bread is not satisfying." o Colored Youth Drowned. $ Jgck Burgess, a young colored man employed here by the Kingstree Bottling Works, was drowned in Black river Sunday about neon. Burgess came here from Lake City and is reported as being a steady, reliable boy. Sunday he went to the * 1- i. M river with otner Doys wno wem m xm a swim. Burgess could not swim and getting into water eight or ten feet deep, he was drowned. The boys who were with him are said to have become scared when they saw Burgess in distress and ran away from the scene. The accident occurred about noon k ^ just below the bridge at a point known as Rock Hole. The body was recovered an hour later and the usual efforts were made to resussitate it, but to no avail. The dead man was taken to Lake Citv Sunday afternoon. 1 . GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY J 'Citizens of Williamsburg Drawn by Jury Commission. List of Grand and pettit jurors who j will be required to appear in Kings-1 ( , tree on Monday, the 14th day of j | June for the Summer Term of Court, of General Sessions, at which Judge 1 Jno. S. Wilson will preside.: Grand Jurors for 1920. B. A. McKnight, Lanes. L. A. Rogerson, Andrews. ^ W. H. DuBose, Cades. j it S. E. Mouzon, Kingstrees. i a L. B. Keefe, Hemingway, K. F. D. ' ^ N. R. Williamson, Cades. R. F. D. i . G. W. McDaniel, Hemingway. ri ?,?* CM.WlIt , It I J . r . JlUUIr^UIIlCljl, ; J. B. Clarkson, Lanes. g R. D. Gamble, Nesmith. e] J. E. Baker, Kingstree. jy J. C. McClary, Kingstree. a] Otis G. Huggins, Hemingway. 1 J. E. Gamble Greelyville. T. B. Patrick, Fowler. o: j S. W. McClary, Lanes. a J. H. Rowel 1, Trio. ^ ! ei i C. Betts Cribb, Hemingway. ir Pettit Jurors. si 1. J. B. Lovett, Cooper. 2. W. S. Shaw, Salters. c< 3. J. P. Gamble, Heinemann. j ir %. - A. L. Lane, Kingstree, Rt I a 5. S. W. Montgomery, Kingstree. j s< 6. W. I. Epps, Kingstree, Rt. 2. S 7. Elbert H. McElveen, Cades. ! it 8. J. L. McCants, Andrews, Rt. j d 9. W. D. Daniels, Cooper. ' f< 10. G. C. Parsons, Jr., Lan?. I ir 11. S. P. Cooper, Sutten. s? 12. W. D. Harmon, Hemingway. o: 13. H. 0. Pepkin, Andrews, Rt b 14. L. McElveen, Kingstree, Rt.2. 15. W. C. Creel, Hemingway. tl 16. R. F. Epps, Cades. U 17.^. T. McCrea, Kingstree, Rt. 2. b; 18. R. A. Thompson, Hemingway. p | 19. S. B. McElveen, Cades, Rt. ei 20. R. C. Gamble, Hemingway. 21. L. F. Stone, Hemingway. B 22. S. J. Ervin, Henry. V M V T. R air croft S< -nJ- ? " ??? 44. ?. F. McClary, Kingstree, Rt.2. ri 25. Gabe E. Gist, Greelyville. is 26. G. D. Perry, Hemingway. D 27. W. F. Hanna, Hemingway. D 28. B. I. Brit, Andrews. G 29. A. R. Moseley, Sr., Salters Depot H 30. E. M. Joye, Hemingway. E 31. A. D. Spivey, Greelyville. p 32. O. L. Thompson, Salters Depot. *e: 33. S. B. Ogburn, Trio. ?. 34. L. F. Perry, Johnsonville. 35. S. A. Guerry, Kingstree, Rt 26. W. T. Hemingway. Hemingway. o "Who Is Responsible." J. Editor County Record: Having to spend the night in Kings- ^ tree a few nights ago, and being a j farmer, I was up quite early in the morning before the city folks began to stir. Looking over at our court house I saw that the doors were open. ! Thinking perhaps that there was a ^ . special night court in session, I went j pp to our court house room. Seeing . ^ that there was no court in session I ' ; took a view, and I must say it is the j dirtiest court room I have ever seen. I met a friend just after leaving the | i court house, and I asked him if is was : : not locked up a night, and he said he did not think so. Judging from the' looks of things I came to the conclu- ^ ision that it is used by bums, tramps, I cigarette smokers or any other ele' 01 mont thai wants to. There is a suffi-1 ' cient amount of paper and trash in the front rooms to burn up two court p' | houses, so if it hums down just tax 1 the people and build a new one. Now, Mr. Editor, if you can find out who is responsible please ask him ' to call in the board of health of your p town to give it a thorough cleaning j ^ i and disinfection before court meets ^ again. \ L Tax Payer. a| 0 si Cold Storage in Operation. ni ?? ?? ? The cold storage plant installed by ; Mr. H. A. Miller, proprietor of the ! Peoples Market, was put in operation Tuesday for the first time. Apparently the newly installed machine worked i * satisfactorily. In a short while after | being set in operation coils of piping j ^ became covered with a white coating j * of frost-like ice and rapidly dropped j down to a point that is calculated to j freeze and preserve fresh meats re- A gardless of the high temperature out C side. The plant is a modern one and tl an innovation in the handling and tc preservation of fresh meat in this si commuity. It will enable the proprie- ui tor to keep on hand at all times a ai good supply of fresh meats and poul- a try, which is his intent^^^ithout it I using newly slaughtered carcases. si i '"ni i'i t [1NGSTREE HIGH ANI ENDS VERY rraduating Class of Eleve Exercises a Feature of C by Dr. J. L. Sto One of the best and most enjoyable :hool commencements to take place 1 the history of the Kingstree high i -1- ?A*1. nd graded scnoois may uc s<uuj lid of the exercises which markec le closing of the 1919-1920 session : was the third year of the eleventh rade, and in the grade there wert leven students to receive diplomat [onday night at the final exercises ad were presented them by the Rev ?r. J. W. Daniel at the conclusior f a very beautiful and appropriate ddress to the class, in which he adeavored to impress upon them the nportance of "going on" in the pur nit of knowledge and a higher goal Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the immencement sermon was preachet i the school auditorium before ar udience that filled ever}' available sat in the hall, by the Rev. Dr. J. L tokes, of Columbia. The venerable linister in an excellent sermon, eneavoring, in his plain, simple anc irceful style to impress upon the unds and hearts of the students that ?lf-realization under the leadership f Christ is the op>en sesame to the est that life can give. Exercises incident to the closing oi lis very successful term were begur tst Thursday evening with a recital y the advanced music pupils, anc articipated in by the following studits: Elizabeth Fairey, Maria Burgess elva Jenkinson, Flora Smith, Stella folfe, Rosa Kellahan, Annie Frier in, Possie Burgess, Mpy Sue Harngton, Annie Laura Singleton, *Vivin Baker, Margie Brown, Rachel ove, Elizabeth Swails, Dorothy Mcdwell, Mar>' Louise Courtney, Jane illand, Dolly McFaddin, Lillian Hill, .,kor+ Snlimpr. Marv Catherine pps, and Julia Hall. Each of the puds. displayed marked ability in the icecution of the different numbers Teachers Appointed for 1920-21. The following teachers have been ppointed by the trustees of the ingstree High and graded schools >r the session of 1920-1921: First grade, Miss Agness Erckman. harleston. Second grade, Miss Eva Agnew, reenwood. \ Third grade, Miss Elizabeth Speigsr, Kingstree. Fourth grade, Miss Alice Gasque, [ullins. Fifth grade, Miss Carrie Lancaster, pai uuiuui^. Sixth grade, Miss Edith Crouch, aluda. Seventh grade, Miss Ruby Thome, ingstree. High school, Miss Lilla Babb, ountain Inn; Miss Marion Calvo, olumbia; Mr. M. F. Montgomery, reelyville. Superintendent, Prof. J. W. Swithlberg. There is a vacancy in the music deirtment which will be filled later. () Mrs. H. J. Kizer. A telegram was received in Dillon riday announcing the death of Mrs. . J. W. Kizer, at Kingstree. Mrs. izer will be remembered as Miss ucile Lemon, former demonstration jent for the county, which position le filled with great ability for a umber of years. She was a native of umter and a cousin of Mr C. L. Wheeler. Since his return from ranee Mr. and Mrs. Kizer had been ving at Andrews where Mr. Kizer as' principal of the high school. Mrs. . L. Wheeler and Mrs. A. C. Rogers ttended the funeral services.?The illon Herald. The Southern Presbyterian General ssembly, meeting at Charlotte, N. without debate Monday adopted le plan of union with other Pretby(rian and Reformed Church bodies lbmitted by the joint committee Satrday. The vote was by acclamation, id but few "No's" were heard. For moment the assembly was taken off s feet as it were by the surprising lddenness of its own action. j. , /. xl _v -*. .? ? ?i / . ) GRADED SCHOOL ^CREDITABLE SESSION n Members?Commencement General Interest?Sermon kes of Columbia. ! rendered, reflecting fhuch credit upon , their teachers. t Friday evening the Wee Nee Literr ary Society, which is composed of high school pupils, gave tfn interesting program of exercises consisting of a wel come address by its president, Htfrold i Smith; musical selections by ^Lillian > Hill and Hubert Spigner; recitations . by Annie L. Singleton, Dolly McFaddin and Mary Sue Harrington; debate, ' "Resolved, That a National Law Pro hibiting the Sale of Tobacco Should i be enacted," Affirmative: Robert ; i Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery and , Ola DuBose; Negative: Vardell Nes, mith, Margaret Montgomery and Peden Montgomery. The debate was decided in favor of the negative. The , exercises of the evening were opened I with praver bv the Rev. E. A. McDowi ? Saturday afternoon a music recital . was given by-the pupils of the pri> mary class. Those taking part in the . program were: Dora Harrington, Myr1 tie Odom, Helen Smith, Elizabeth and ; Patty Scott Epps, Mae Burgess, Addie i Belle Epps, Mary Francis Montgom) ery, Katherine Steele, Dorothy Bag! gett, Earline Gamble, Camilla Plowden. Annie Grace Adams, Alvina f Burgess. Louise McCutcheon, Myrtise t i Mcintosh, Jennie Louise Kinder, [ [ Louise Arrowsmith and Margaret I; Burgess. .! Members of the graduating clas^ | this year, each receiving a diploma, , Were: Bessie Baker, Annie Frierson, i Maude Allene Kinder, Nellie Scott, . Elizabeth Stackley, Birdie Wilson, Hubert Spigner and Ervin Gordon. > Nora Kinder was salutatorian and [ Annie Frierson was valedictorian. Six others of the class had well pre! pared papers, the classv history, by , Elizabeth Stackley, worthy of special i mention because of the excellent man , ner in which the young lady delivered ! it. The exercises were closed with the \ benediction by Dr. Daniel. Reception at Indiantown. i Indiantown, June 2.?On Tuesday ! evening, May 24, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeli er Stuckey threw open the doors of their beautiful and 'hospitable home , and entertained in honor of their son, Mr. Odell Stuckey and his bride , The home was decorated in ferns and roses The cruests were met at the door by Mrs. Wheeler Stuckey and Mrs. S. J. Ervin and Misses Elta and , Alberta Stuckey, and were ushered into one corner of the spacious ver, an da where delicious fruit punch was served by charming Miss Gertrude , Stuckey. After being served the guests were shown into the parlor where they were entertained with games and music until fair luna cast , her celestial rays over the sky then , I they went to spoon on the lawn where a sumptious feast of ice cream and cake was served. It was the wee hours of morning before the guests took their departure, vfishing the couple a long and happy life. Those that enjoyed the evening were: Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Snowden, Mr. and Mrs. Brack Lovette, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Ervin, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler stuckey, Miss Eliza Hanna, Miss Mattie Brown, Misses Ruth and . ! dred Wilson, Sallie Bartell, Jennie ~ *? rt IMcCutcheon, (Jleo tJiyourn, rnrcue 01Imons, Annie Ervin, Jane Ervin, Etta ' Alberta and Gertrude Stutkey, Lucile Casper; Messers Sam Snowden Prichett, Paul Wilson, Robbie Hanna, David Brown, Hal. Huggins, Ned Wilson, Henry and Willie Nelson, Mrrioh and Willie Stuckey and Gilvie j Rogers. "FORD" o j E. B. Gamble, sheriff of Clarendon ! j County, died at 4 o'clock Monday af-1 ! ternoon in a Columbia hospital. Hej was sixty-three years of age and this year would have completed sixteen years in office. o The Greenville Post of the American Legion Monday instructed its five delegates to the State convention ' to be held in Spartanburg, June 5, to ' oppose the suggested withdrawal of ' the South Carolina department from the national organization. K - ! DEATH OF MRS. M, L. RAGGETT. I j Passes Away at Kelley Sanatorium Early Sunday Morning. A host of friends and acquaintances in this community and throughout the state will learn with profound regret of the death of Mrs. Mariah L. Baggett, which occurred here at the Kelley sanatorium about 4 o'clock Sunday morning from diabetes, a disease which had impaired her health for ^ome time past. # Before her marriage to Mr. N. W. Baggett, she was Miss China, daughter of the late Willj^m A. China, and a native of Williamsburg County. Her husband preceded her to the grave about fifteen years ago. Soon after the death of her husband, Mrs Baggett opened a hotel at Lanes, in which business she continuously engaged until a few months Ago, when she, on account of failing health, sold out the New Baggett Hotel, which she built a few years ago. The deceased is survived by four children, Travis E. Baggett, of Kingstree; Frank and Willie Baggett, of HLanes; and Mrs. Elmer Rodgers, of Lanes; also one brother and three sisters: W. T. China, Lyons, Ga.; Mrs. Fannie Wolters, Sumter; Mrs. Sue Plowden, New Zion; and Mrs. Maggie Byrd, Greenwood. Monday morning the body was taken from the home cf Mr. T. E. Baggett and carried to Lane, where at 10:30 funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev, Mr. Carr. Interment was made at Greenock Church, near Gourdin, where her husband and four children are buried. Mrs. Baggett was fifty-nine years Of age and was greatly beloved by a large circle of acquaintances. She will be especially recalled By the tarveling public in this section of the State for her hospitality as a hotel proprietress at Lanes. I That lteriining Cnurrh 3Iemhership. The smallest increase in Protestant j :hurch membership in the United States in thirty years, which was (shown by figures recently compiled for last year, has been variously ex-1 plained, and in some quarters has ere-; ated a bit cf alarm. The increase for j 1919 was only 56,000, compared with j an average increase for the ten previous years of 771,940. According to Dr. H. K. Carroll, church statistician, the decline became most perceptiblei in 1918, when the gain was ,only 155,000. The war, or causes directly attribu-1 ted to the war, has been looked to for an explanation of this situation. The suspension of regular work by many churches, interruptions of their work by the absence of pastors in service i at the front or the camps, and also the effort diverted in big drives fori funds, have been held partly respon- J sible for the comparative decline in; church membership gains. It is fur- j ther pointed out that the influenza I epidemic made heavy raids among church members. These explanations are not satis- j factory to many, however, and more | than one prominent leader of the I church has declared that the situation was on the defensive and was now j fighting for its life. The paradoxi- 1 ' * - ^ fnlLA/l.A'f mlirr_ Cell SltUclUUll Ul inutii-w?mcu-wi ivnb t : ious revivals at home and at the front I during the war and a simultaneous de- 'k : crease in numbers gained by the, ! church, is explained in the statement that soldiers were awakened to the! great truths of religion without a: 1 consequent conviction of the vitality i or necessity of the church. Probably there is no cause for par-: | ticular alarm at the comparative de-1 ?'? momKoreliin fnr it isn't ' L I COOt 111 1 UVlllUVAW*t?|?) *V* ' w - - - - J j numbers that count in church adher-; ents any more than elsewhere. The j big problem of the church is not gain-1 ing more members but vitalizing membership actually enrolled. \ However, there is <?ne feature of the enumeration last year that has not been given any special considera- j tion or attention. It is the fact that ' many churches have greatly improved ! their methods of tabulating memberi ship, have eliminated many who could not be strictly claimed, allowed for duplication, and in general increased the accuracy of their bookkeeping. | I It is highly probable that these more accurate methods account for a large part of the decrease in membership gains.?Kansas City Star. o 1 We Lead; Others Follow. KINGSTREE HARDWARE CO: 5-27-4tc. UTTLE LEFT TO TURKS BY TREATY CONSTANTINOPLE MAY BE -X, TAKEN FROM SULTAN IF PACT IS BROKEN. ? An Associated Press dispatch says: "Terms of peace imposed upon the Turks, more rogorous than any- previous summaries have indicated, were revealed to the Greek chamber of deputies last week in Athens by Premier Venizelos, a summary of whose address was received in Washington yesterday by the State Department " 'The Turkish treaty,' according to Venizelos, 'Turkey only receives local autonomy, which may in due * time and should the people so determone, be converted into independence.' "In the small south-eastern area of Europe in which Turkey is left a last foothold, Venizelos declared, her forces are limited by the treaty to ? 700 men. "Constantinople is retained by the Sultan, the Greek premier explained, with the reservation 'that he will not violate the conditions of the peace treaty. Should such stipulations be violated, the powers have the right to modify their decisions regarding Constantinople.' "The Turkish army is limited to a j militia of 35,000 men, to be organised J by Europeans, 15 per cent of officers 1 of which force must be foreigners. Distribution of the militia shall be dependent upon the decision of.the interallied commission. "The text of the rteaty, as handed the Turkish delegates in Paris, May 11, has been received by the State Department. Since the delegates have until June 11 in which to present objections as basis for a possible revision, the treaty will not be made pub. lie in its entirety until the final draft has been adopted." ^ o News Among (he Romans. Rome, June 1.?Bliss Louise Snow is home from Coker College for the : summer. F. R. Hemingway, of Kingstree, spent the week-end with his parents, ftlr. and Mrs. A. B. Hemingway. Mrs. L. B. Johnson has returned from a visit to her brother in Red Springs, N. C. Rev. and Mrs. G. K. Way attended the Sunday School Convention in An- . arews last wee*. Capt. and Mrs. Spencer A. Legette and daughter -Ethel, who have been spending some time with Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Johnson, have returned to Junction City, Kansas, where Capt Legette is stationed. They were accompanied by Miss Ruth McDow, of the Union High School faculty. She will spend the summer in Kansas. DuRant Rhem accompanied Prof. 0. M. Mitchell on his trip to the Pacific Coast. Prof. D. H. Dantzler attended the commencement exercises at Win thro p College where his sister graduated' this year. D. W. Wilson, Jr. has returned from Clemson College to spend his vacation. The commencement exercises of Union High School will begin Sunday, June 6, and end Tuesday night, June 8. Prof. Clinkscales, of Wofford College. will make the address Tuesday night. Alex. Blakeley, of Kingstree, was in the community Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Thomas, Sampit, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bethel DuRant. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. DuRant and w? ^ n i l?irg. u. 1u. lulkiich, vujivcxi Utwigvtown last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Altman, of Georgetown, spent the week-end with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cribb. W. Carey Rollins has returned from a trip to Clinton. o Off For Winthrop Short Course. The following ladies from Williamsburg County will leave for Winthrop S College today to attend the state short course: Mrs J. G. McCullough. Kingstree, Rt. 1; Miss Belle McElveen, Greelyville; Mrs. Darby Mims, Greelyville, Rt. 2; Mrs. Daniel Epps, Cades; Miss Carroline Scott, Kingstree. The subject for study during the ten days will be, "Cut the High Cost of Living." I am sure that these ladies will derive great benefit from this meeting, and will be able to tell us more about it later. -oi.--- . .4. Ill ll ^ Ml*?