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IP 7 \ V V * A i fel ibe Counts Kccorfc gg B. VOL. 36. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY 29,1920J NO ? & will reopen list 9 in first district i RUMORED THAT CONGRESSMAN I WILL BE APPOINTED AN ASSISTANT JUDGE A dispatch from Columbia, July 23, j to the News and Courier says: Thomas P. Cothran, of Greenville, chairman i Democratic executive i committee, who today received the j resignation of Richard S. Whaiey, of' * Charleston, Congressman from the First District, as a candidate for re-! election, stated over long distance telcphone that he had wired W. Turner, V Logan, the other candidate, asking if a, Mr. Logan would consent for Mr. i Cothran to set the closing date for new entrants to file their pledges. If this is not satisfactory to Mr. Logan, a meeting of the full committee will be called for next Wednesday to de cide the date. If Mr. Cothran's proi posal is agreed to by the other Congressional candidate, August 2 will be i the closing date, a The withdrawal of Mr. Whaiey has L caused a large amount of speculation j A in political circles here as to who will, enter his candidacy in opposition to! & W. Turner Logan, law partner of Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, the only other contender for the nomi-j B n nation. The rules of the Democratic party K which are embodied in the statutory law of the State provide that when M there are only two candidates for an office and one of them dies, becomes physically incapacitated or withdraws, the State executive committee is em- J powered to reopen the lists for addiv tional entrants. / Lists Now Wide Open. Mr. Whaley's withdrawal because of f illness and the advice of his physician not to make a strenuous personal canm vass of his district, composed of w Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton and Dorchester counties, which he deems necessary, leaves the lists * wide open for additional entrants. i Because of the tense bipartisan atmosphere in the First district, local politicians are satisfied that Mr. Logan will have opposition by the State committee, because they are of the opinion that the anti-Grace element k in Charleston will not let the seat in Ii Congress go to Mayor Grace's strong- j I est supporter and closest personal B friend without a contest. As to who; B will enter the contest nobody hereI F conversant with Charleston politics I will register a guess. * ' The proviso under section 32 of the I rules of the party which are an act ofi the State of South Carolina authoriz-' l ing the opening of the lists reads: "Provided, that in cases where there be not more than two candidates for any one office after the time for filing; sUeh pledges and before the close of! \ the election, should any candidate die or become physically incapacitated or withdraw it shall be the duty of the State or county committee (as thej i? case may be) to afford opportunity /for the entry of other candidates for; the office involved, and should such vacancv occur more than twenty days J ? " * before the first primary, then saidj, ?. committee shall make provision for< other candidates entering the race but if said candidacy* occur after said j twenty days, then the balloting foi said office shall not be at the succeed- i ing primary, but at such other times as may be fixed by said committee, and that they shall provide for the filing of pledges." o HARDING IS RIGHT . J Will Not Ask President for Release j k of Eugene Debs. While announcing his belief in aj W generous amnesty for political prison- j B ere and in freedom of thought and' K speech and press within the "limitar tions which guarantee our liberties," ' Senator Warren G. Harding, Republi can candidate, refused to make any demand on President Wilson for the release by pardon of Eugene V. Debs, candidate of the socialist party for president Wr", Debs is serving a term at Atlanta f .penitentiary for attempting to ob MF struct the selective service law durHW ing the war. Parley Parker Christensen, candidate for the farmer-labor party for president had requested Senator ' Harding to join with him in an appeal to President Wilson for Deb's release. " ' - ... WOMAN RELEASED ON BAIL i Mrs. Burgess, Who Shot Husband! Leaves for Atlanta. i Mrs. Edna Burgess, the woman who j shot and killed her husband. Guy Bur- j gess. in Florence last week, was re-1 leased from the county jail there Saturday afternoon, bail being granted her in the sum of $1,000. which was furnished by J. F. Stackley and D. M. McEachem, local citizens. Several of her relatives from Atlanta have been with her since Thursday morning and she left Florence the first of j this week for Atlanta where she will { spend some time awaiting trial. "That is not the way he combed his hair or wore his tie," were the first words of Mrs. Burgess when she went j to the morgue to view, ior me last time, the remains of her late husband. With these comments she proceeded to rearrange his hair and tie almost as casually as if he had been living and no such tragedy had been enacted between them.. "It's a shame, Guy, that you are lying there that way, but you didn't do right," she commented ii. concluding her last serv ice to htm. Mrs. Burgess went from the county jail to the undertaker's parlor to view the body before it should be taken to Atchison, Kan., for burial. It was reposing then in an open casket and box for shipment. She broke down upon returning to the county jail and for some time was unable to control her grief. o Eaddy-Partee Wedding. Mrs. W. J. Haselden, of Cades, mother of the groom, sends The Rec ord the following account if his wedding as reported by a Nashville. Tenn.. newspaper: Miss Bessie Moore Partee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Partee, and George Huggins Eaddy were mar-, ried Wednesday night at the home of the ' bride's parents on Twenty-first avenue. Rev. W. S. Taylor, of Murfreesboro, was the minister and the music was given by Miss Mazie Lane, pianist, and Miss Louise Brown Marsh, vocalist. A program of musical selections was given before the ceremony. An altar was erected before the! pier mirror in the living room for the sen-ice. This was built of plants ami yhite flowers, and lighted by candles which were held in heirloom candlesticks and sconces. The bride and her attendants approached the altar from the stairway which they descended. She entered alone and was very charming in a cos- j tume of white Dtissy willow taffeta! combined with georgette and embroid-1 ered in pearls. A wreath of orange blossoms fastened the tulle veil which fell over a long court train. Bride's roses and lilies of the valley which she carried were arranged in a shower bouquet The bride's aunt, Miss Virgina Pearl Moore, was the maid of honor. Her other two attendants were children relatives, Lady Love LeSueur, flower girl, and Lucy Virginia Moore, ring bearer. Armistead Partee, the bride's bother, was Mr. Eaddy's best man. In entertaining the guests at the reception which followed the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Partee yere assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore, Miss Mamie Moore, of Gallatin; Mr. and Mrs. R. \ A. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. James LeSueur, Dr. and Mrs. Earle Collier, Miss Amelia Parker. Miss Evie Jordan and Miss Virgina McGovock. Misses Sue and Katherine Hewgley; of Gallatin, kept a register of the i guests. Mr. and Mrs. Eaddy left Wednesday night on a bridal tour. They will make their home in Nashville and will be located at 1901 Linden avenue, oElectric Chair Oat of Order. Because the electric chair at the State penitentiary would not respond A _ A A J 1 * ? ? to tests ana De cause me superintendent i of the prison, Col. A. K. Sanders, was doubtful that it would work, John Maxwell, a negro, convicted at Charleston for murder, has a twoweeks' lease on life. He was to have been electrocuted last Friday morning. Gov. Cooper reprieved the sentence for two weeks until a mechanic of the company manufacturing the chair can come to Columbia and place ii in repair. Fundamental rules of bxuidftF are so simple that a fool cant learn them, and so hard that a lazy man wont. LIFE'S PRIZES COME SO DO THC NO ROYAL ROAD TO THE GOALBE THE HARDEST AND MOS1 LEADERS ARE BEING PL m HIINHRRn THOIISA Vlll/ UVilVlUfV ???V $5.00 IN CASH AWARDED THIS W TAYLOR?MISS TAYLOR ALS ING THROUGH HER PAST JOHN T. MADDEN SUICIDES Former Lieutenant in Recent War Hangs Himself With Belt. Clemson College, July 25.?John T. Madden, lieutenant in the recent great war, killed himself here Saturday night "by hanging himself with a leather strap", according to the verdict of the jury of inquest, F. H. Clinkscales, foreman. He left nothing to indicate the cause of his deed. It is reported that he had made threats of ending his life and had been very despondent. Prof. S. M. Martin, who was one of the first to reach him, thinks that Madden tied his belt around his neck and then to the cross piece of the iron bed and broke his neck by throwing himself off the bed. Mr. Madden, who was 34 years old. was a lieutenant in the recent war. He was in business in Anderson before and since the war, but was at the home of hi s mother at Clemson College for awhie. He left his wife and a four months old son. His wife was foinierly Miss Russell Hatcher, of Baltimore. o BRYAN REFUSES NOMINATIONj Aaron S Wilkins, of Ohio, Named to Head Prohibition Ticket. Lincoln, Neb., July 26.?The drys are to have an Ohio candidate, too. Aaron S. Wdkins, of Qermar town, was named for President on 1 he Prohibition ticket last night following a positive refusal by Willian Jennings Bryan to accept the nomination made Wednesday. o NEGRO CONFESSES 7 MURDERS. Says Also That He Has Committed "Thousands" of Burglaries. T a. Tnli, 07 Pslifnraiii iA/a nugtito, U UIJ Ml* VMiMV****** authorities tonight were communicating with Florida and Louisana officials in an effort to assist in confirming the confession of Mose Gibson, negro, that he had murdered seven persons during the last few years, including a Woman at Orange City Junction, Fla., killed in November, 1919. Gibson is under sentence to hang for the murder of Roy Trapp, a Fullerton, Calif., rancher, and, according to Sheriff Cline, of Los Angeles county, has confesjed the killings to Sheriff Jackson, of Santa Ana county. Sheriff Jackson, in a .n jssag etoday to Sheriff Cline, said <3obson had confessed also to having lolled J. R. Reavis, of Baton Roige La., about ten years ago; a workman at h sugar mill at Gramerich, La., i:i November, 1910, and a storekeeper at Wagoner, La., also in November, IS 10. Gibson, sjnce his senter ce, had been under investigation in cornect on with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Erhart, an aged couple, i:i their home here the night of June 6., Sheriff Jackson has jist returned from taking Gibson to tie penitentiary at San Quentin. Admission that he onuaitted "thousands" of burglaries, obtaining sums from a few cents to $103, was made by Gibson, according to the sheriff. Gibson was arrested 51 Topoca, Ariz., for the murder of Trapp. He was brought here, pleaded guilty to the murder charge and sentenced to hang September 24. The negro killed most of his victims with a hammer, he asserted. Mr. and Mrs. Erhart were killed, according to the confession, after the negro had served a jail sentence at ] Douglas, Ariz. He said he killed the couple to obtain money. Reavis also was killed for menoy. TWrt IKa Knnrlan'oi worp rftm nritted on one night in J ane, 1918, in Omaha, Neb., the sheriff said. Gibson, though arrested after the first, and, although handcufftri, made his escape. He committed the second robbery with the maaadis still on his liaiiria THROUGH WORK; )SE OF THE RECORD 'THE WINNER OF THE FORD WILL 1 PERSISTENT WORKER?THE r SHED VERY CLOSELY. flD EXTRA VOTE WEEK EEK WAS WON BY MISS CLAUDIA 10 TAKES A JUMP IN STAND1 WEEK'S GOOD WORK "There is no royal road to knowledge," sajd an ancienl Grecian sage. There is no "royal road to winning" in The County Record contest. And if you are town the $725 Ford 1 Auto The County Record is going to ! give away on August 31st, you must go out among your f riends and rela| tives and neighbors aid get new subi scriptions for this paper and get old readers to renew. You will notice that this week's list of candidates has shoitened again. It is becoming a race for real workers. Others will be dropped from week to week' unless they get to work for truly "there is no royal load to winning" except the road of work. Any candidate c&n get out and get ten subscribers any day. We say this : without fear of contra diction. It may be hard to do?getting those first ten; ; but we grow by work And the second ten subscribers, and the third ten come easier and eaaier. For we "learn how" by trying and "success" means gnrvth through effort. | 100,060 Extra Votes. The 100,000 Extra Vote offer is in . effect this week; tha; is every work- < er will get 100,000 Extra Votes, in addition to the regular vote, for every ] $15.00 turned in betveen July 27th, ] 2:00 P. M.,and August 3rd, 2:00 P. M. Do not be satisfied mth one 100,0001, coupon?get a dozen if possible. It , is votes that win aid these 300,000 | Extra Vote coupons are tremendous 1 steps toward the goal. ^ ( Now is the time do your best , work, when subscriptions count most, not "later on". Miss Taylor Wins \ Mrs. Vause retains first place, but j by a very meagre margin, as several ; of the workers are crowding her closely. The checking of the past week's , work disclosed no un jsual features in ; the race, except the gain Miss Claudia . Taylor made on the leadei-s. Miss j Taylor jumped from fifth to second , place. She also received the $5.00 awarded this week. , Another $5.00 (lies Tuesday. Five Dollars will be given on next Tuesday, Aug. 3rd X) the candidate ; turning in the greatest number of 1 subscriptions, new oi renewals. / o? Ice Company Fined. 1 The local ice compiny was on Mon- ! day fined in the recorder's court for giving short weights in ice. Com- < plaints had been made by several of 1 their customers and an investigation i made showed that tiiis was the fault 1 of the driver who had not been weigh- 1 ing the ice as it was delivered. 1 The company was fined $25, this * ; being the first offerse, and upon the < understanding that a similar case J would result in a fine to the limit of < the court. ?- ? 'i ^ i? 1.11 The manager siaw s uu? it iuu nut been the intention to give short < weights, but that it was carelessness 1 on the part of the c river. He states ! that every piece of ice will be weigh- ! ed and that customers will be given 1 their full value in the future.?George- 1 town Times-Index. o Tobacco Sales Increasing. 1 Tobacco, it is gent rally known, is a . little later this season than usual, and . the daily sales sine: the opening of , the market on the 20 th inst have been j comparatively small, though gradual- l ly increasing in quantity and quality, j Today will witness the largest sale of , the season, it being estimated this , morning that over 300,000 pounds will . be sold on the three warehouse floors. ( Prices so far are very satisfactory. ( o ? Eight million bottles of champagne f will be among the items on the list i of commodities to 1>e placed on sale < in Paris July 28, when the sequestered 1 property of Baron Walter de Mumm ^ will be auctioned oif. This property ( was seized in 1915, subsequently to t the baron's resumption of German dti- < zenship when/the wit began. < i ^ \ \ . j\ 4 * \ ' - lif-riWk RESOLUTE IS VICTORIOUS American Seamanship Superior t> British Product. Sandy Hook, N. J., July 27.?De fender Resolute gave the British chal lenger, Shamrock IV, the worst drub bing of the 1920 regatta in the fins race of the series today, winning boa for boat by 13 minutes and 45 second ?and the America's famous yachtinj cup remains American property. Overcoming a 40-second lead and th o/Ifro?ifoi*A a# o mnn/kpfliv) Kai41i vx?V?i/?l Shamrock IV had taken at the star! the fleet defender held a lead of foa minutes and eight seconds at the half way stake of the 30-mile course, an crossed the finish* line thirteen min Utes and five seconds ahead. Indud ing her handicap of six minutes an forty seconds, which she did not neec Resolute won by 19 minutes and 4 seconds. In capturing the series and retain ing possession of the America's tro phy, Resolute came from behind afte Shamrock had taken two races am won out by registering three straigh and impressive victories. Shamrocl IV won the initial race when the de fender was forced out by an acciden to her rigging, and captured the sec ond in a fickle wind that left Reso lute becalmed most of the way. Reso lute won the third by her time allow ance of seven minutes and one sec ond, running a dead heat with th challenger. Her other*two victories were won boat for boat "Best Boat Von." Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of th green challenger, voiced what ap peared to be the unanimous verdict o yachtsmen who had seen the fiv< races when he declared tonight tha 'the best boat won." When Resolute flashed across th< golden finish line that the setting sui had laid down on the rippling water Shamrock was a mile or more behind her own great sails bellying broadly when the signal ball of the committe hoat dropped and the screeching whis ties and sirens from the little fleet o spectator's craft proclaimed Resolute* victory. ^ The beaten Shamrock swept quickl; down the course, striving to shortei the intervening gap and salve as mucl as she could the bitterness of her de feat. | But as if to emphasize the grea difference in time between the twi finishes, the flaming sun dropped lik a plummet into the deepening haz and a pale moon, which has been bu dimly traced against the sky whei Resolute finished, stood out with in creasing radience when Shamrocl finally got over the line. Resolute by this time had describe* a great circle and had come back t the mark to see her rival finish. A: ?v / h l j.l. 1 rne cnauenger crossed ine mam ne crew let out three ringing cheers, an< the victor and conquerors responded with lusty cheers for Shamrock am ber crew. Sir Thomas Lipton, who built th< challenger in his fourth effort to lif the bottomless old pewter mug tha is the America's cup and take it bad to its original home in England turned away from his humble sailing beauty and sent his steam yacht Vic toria full spee* ahead to overtake an< ;ongratdlate the Resolute's crew. H< returned just in t'me to see Shamrocl cross the line. The aged sportsman's gameness a; be drew away irom his own sloop U congratulate the winner elidted a sal -A IViaco An fVw fr U \JL tUCVld 11 VUl ^MiVUV VU WIMU spectator craft, and Sir, Thomas re sponded as jauntily as if he had no' seen his own fondest hope once mors raffled. Electrical Freakishness. tun ing an electrical storm last weel ightning played some freakish prank) it the home of Mr. J. P. Shaw, easl >f town. A storm came up and th< nen-folk came in from the field ii ;ime to take shelter in the home jusl is a stroke of lightning passed dowi he lightning rods into the living oom, where Mrs. Shaw and othei nembers of the household were gath;red. On a nearby table was some ?rs of mutton corn. The electric rurrent passed into one of these anc shattered it, then taciuea a caxe o: soap on an adjacent shelf and threw t against the side of the house several feet away. Mrs. Shaw was siting at the table, close to the corn vhen the stroke occurred, but beyonc Iqmage to the ear of corn and cake oi soap and a few boards torn from the ratside of the house, not a hair was iisturbed. HARDING STANDS FOR PEACE I REPUBLICAN NOMINEE SOUNDS KEYNOTE FOR CAM1 : PAIGN t I Rejecting President Wilson's League of Nations, Senator Warren G. Harde ing declared in accepting the Repub^ lican presidential nomination at his . home in Marion, Ohio, last Thursday, Z that if elected he would stand for the establishment of peace by a resolu^ tion of Congress and then propose an international "understanding" to promote world harmony without impairj ing 'American soverignty. I He did not directly advocate or opg pose ratification of the treaty with reservations, and declared it useless "to discuss in detail the league covenant, which was conceived for world r super-government and negotiated in j misunderstanding. t He made a plea for government by * c party rather than by individuals, declared for industrial peace attained t by inspiration rather than force and advocated economy, increased production and deflation of currency to relieve the high cost of living. The acceptance speech sounding a keynote for the Republican presidene tial campaign was delivered at the s formal notification ceremonies after the nominee had spent the greater I part of the day reviewing a riotous e procession ox oeiegauon? umx raww _ from many states to honor him. From f early in the morning until the notifi} cation program began he was kept t busy waving his greetings to the visii tors as they filed past his residence .! by thousands. 1 o , -v 4 V New Bank of Greelyville. Greelyville, July 24.?The Farmers Bank has just been organized here, ~ i with capital stock of $30,000, with the following oficers: Dr. J. F. Haselden, ; President; H. P. Brown, of Gourdin, S.C., Vice-President; C. H. Rehburg, ^1 Cashier; with H. D. Ferrell, A. B. 1 Spivey, W. N. Clarkson (of Gourdin), and W. L. Harrington, as directors. This is the second bank in Greelyvflie . and will be open for business August 1st. ? ' .Dr. Haselden is a well-known physician and business man of Greelyville, t and Mr. Rehburg has resided in the i town for the past year as bookkeeper for the Hallard Lumber Company, ? having had wide experience in bookkeeping and accounting in South Caroj I lina since coming to this State from 31 his home at Cairo, Georgia, six yearn g' ago, and is recognized as having good r | keen business ability and forethought j | o jj CX)TTON CAMPAIGN MEETING 3 To Be Held ai Kingstree, Lanes and Cades Aug. 3rd. and 4th. *' ; Meetings which are being held in c every county in the state under the '' joint auspices of the South Carolina ? i Division of the American Cotton Aa"! sociation, the extension forces of Clemson College, the United States De- ^ " partment of Agriculture and the state c warehouse commission are being very largely attended and great enthusi3 asm is being shown everywhere. It 3 is proving to be the greatest farm economic campaign ever conducted in 2 the state. ' Cimmittees are being appointed in El ? ?i?i- *? il. every county to soucn iunas ior uie erection of cotton warehouses and to solicit funds with which to employ a grader in each county. Great success is being had in the undertakings, and i as a result of the campaign South j Carolina will soon be dotted with t warehouses, the association's member; ship will have been largely increased i with the result that it will be a pot tential factor in the economic life of i the state, and there will be a cotton f grader in most of the counties. On Tuesday afternoon, August 3rd, . at 3 o'clock, a meeting will be held W! J I *1 ~~'11 k. i in rLiugatrcTs aiiu Ui'jic nm u? piw ent some of the leading men of the I state. At 8 P. M. on the same day ? a similar meeting will be held at r Lanes, and at 2 P. M. on Wednesday, . August 4th, a meeting will be held at . Cades. ; , Mr. H. E. Montgomery is chairman I of this movement "in this community, I and the campaign being conducted in ? this section of the state is in charge i of Mr. S. E. Evans, of Bennettsville, a former Williamsburg man.