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r - fn * - * 1 * ? 4 ^ ' IH1 W$ Coirntj) Hetort. gg i VQL- 3& KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920. NO V SECOND PRIMARY HELD TUESDAY i MEMBERS OF HOUSE, SHERIFF. PROBATE JUDGE AND CORONER ELECTED. Returns for the county ticket for the second primary election for Williamsburg county were practically all ** in by 10:30 Tuesday night, evidencing the unusual interest taken in the contests for county offices. Chief interest, however, seemed to center around the contest for sheriff, to succeed Sheriff Geo. J. Graham, who re tires Irom political me oxwci VIIC tA I I piration of the present term. Mr. Ie took the lead early in the refl^^kras and held it until all the polls ^^^P*d been heard from. Applicants for the House seemed to rank second in the interest of the spectators. It was evident before all the returns were in that two of the contestants would be elected, Mr. W. |Hk O. Godwin, who leads the ticket, and ' Mr. W. 0. Camlin, who came out second. Interest in this contest was kept H keen until the last poll had been heard from, that of Oak Ridge, by the close race between Messrs. D. E. Hp McCutchen and L. A. Rogerson, Mr. McCutchen being in the lead. Mr. "M'^nf-yhpn has a lead over Mr. Rog r erson, according to The Record's tab| ulation. of 10 votes. [ In the contest for the office of Prol bate Judge for a successor to Judge \ P. M. Brockinton, who retires with this term in office, he being a candii date for the office of Sheriff in the F first primary, Mr. W. E. Snowden k fa won an easy victory over Mr. B. E. k l Clarkson, his opponent i In the contest for Coroner, Mr. H. V J. Brown was elected to succeed him self, receiving a good majority over his opponent. Mr. H. M. Burrows. The vote received by the various ^^Peounty candidates is as follows, of \ Which tabulated returns by precincts pnll be found on another column on * this page: f < House of Representatives. i ; Adams, 955 Hamlin. 1290 (Chandler. 860 Godwin, 1386 . KcCutchen, 1222 ,?Rogerson, 1212 Sheriff. H. S. Gamble, 1316 H. U. Kinder, 993 Coroner. x l?;J. Brown, 1407 ' v! X5 M. Burrows. 802 Total votes received in Williamsr burg county by candidates for State . offices are as follows: * For United States Senate. E. D. Smith, 1862 ge Warren, 468 PFor Lieutenant Governor. n G. Harvey, 1825 K. Maul din, 517 'or Railroad Commissioner : W. Shealy, 1266 Smith, 1043 FARMERS MEETING URGED F T.**sc uss Plans for Holding the 1920 B Cotton Crop. B A meeting of the Williamsburg County Cotton Growers is called to be |T held at Kingstree. Monday morning, B* Sept 20,11 o'clock, in the court house. If Speakers well versed on the three im r portant topics, holding cotton, re11 : f duced acreage and the increase of i Bp- warehouse facilities, have been se?* .cured for this meeting. P Farmers throughout the county are B" V urged to attend this meeting, as the r> matters po be discussed have a peculiar iar interest to them just at this time, C when the cotton crop is almost ready R to put on the market, and the time is I* at hand to make plans for the next K season's grain crops. 8 iAtndrews Couple Wed Wednesday. Hk' Invitations have been received to r; the marriage of Miss Kathleen ElizaE*i'-V beth PflMtms to Mr. Frank Hege Bell, fif' which took place on Wednesday after. noon, September 15th, at 4:30 o'clock, flte Methodist Episcopal Church SpiV^P^Iogan. Estelle Spivey announces the of her daughter, Beulah Earn Mr- Daniel J. Hopan. WednesB do wning, September the. 1st, 1920. | %pWyihe. South Carolina. County Fair, Nov. 9-12. MAJORITIES SHOW DECIDED INCREASE SMITH DEFEATS WARREN?HARVEY DEFEATS MAULDIN?SHEALY DEFEATS D. L. SMITH. With probably not more than 4,000 votes unaccounted for, the majorities of E. D. Smith, incumbent, against George H. Warren, for the United States Senate; Wilson G. Harvey aeaist Oscar K. Mauldin for Iieuten ant Governor, and of Frank W. Shealy against D. L. Smith for raih-oad commissioner were increased over the figures reported yesterday morning. Nearly 97,000 votes have been accounted for and give Senator Smith a majority of 20,425, Harvey a majority of 15,238 and Shealv a majority of 23,960. Following is the vote for United States Senator: Smith 58,612 Warren 38.187 Totals 96,799 The vote for Lieutenant Governor: Harvey 55,349 Mauldin 40,111 Totals 95,460 ; The Railroad Commissioner candidates polled the following votes: Shealy 54,365, D. L. Smith 40,405 : I ! TotaLs 94,770; No change in the standing of the candidates in the races for solicitor were made yesterday. Blackwell, incumbent, in the Eighth circuit, and Murdaugh in the Fourteenth circuit have been elected. The election of Sinoak in the Thirteenth circuit is considered assured. o Death of Miss Juanita Coward. S Death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coward near Kingstree, Saturday afternoon, at 7 o'clock, and claimed heir daughter, Miss Juanita. Miss Coward had been ill only two weeks, she having been s:ricken to her bed on Saturday, August 28th, death following as a result of heart failure. Interment was made at the Williamsburg cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Daniel of the Methodist church, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Davis of the Presbyterian church. The esteem in which Miss Coward was held was evidenced by the numer-' ous beautiful floral designs placed on the grave by the many sorrowing relatives and friends who attended the burial. Miss Coward is survived by a large , family circle who have the heartfelt I sympathy of the community at large. o Monday, Sept. 20, "Cotton Day." Columbia, Sept 14.?Monday, September 20, has been set aside as "Cot- i ton Day" in South Carolina, and on that day farmers and business and professional men in every county in South Carolina will meet ai: tneir county seats for the purpose of joining in the southwide campaign for 40cent cotton, basis middling, and a prosperous people. Governor Cooper has issued a proclamation setting aside the day as "Cotton Day" in South Carolina and urging the people of the State to attend the meetings in the respective counties and to take part in them actively. At each county meeting the following three subjects will constitute the outstanding features of the program: 1.?Plans for holding the cotton of the county until fair and just prices can be obta ned. together with plans for cooperative marketing. 2.?Plans for fully utilizing warehouses and warehouse facilities of the county * and for erecting additional warehouses with special emphasis in this connection on practical plans tor financing the crop. 3.?Plans for immediately increasing the acreage in fall-sown small grains, also cover crops, as the one wise and certain plan of effecting a reduction in cotton acreage, pledges to this effect ti> be taken. A special invitation to the bankers and business men of the State to attend these Meetings has been issued bv President R. C. Hamer, of the South Carolina division of the American Cotton Association. | Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12. j UNO ? For Second Primary E ? r. ItB s s o!n n > nrrK-> z !h o > c z a - |S o O > J S3 - IB S * W s cc w ir-1 > I z 2 :- r E ^iai I H ^ : iFor Hoase of Rep.? | i J. P. Adams 5 24 25 28[20 5! W. 0. Camlin 23|3019 28 32 6! B. B. Chancier 15! 8 21 18 13 61 W. O. Godwin 10 6719 48 35 5: Di E. McCuxhen 213218 36 21 5] L. A. Roger.son 19 61 12 38 32 51 For Sheriff T H. S. Gamble :13|41|12 46 29 3] H. U Kinder '18 33 26 20 22 8f For Probate Judge ! 1 B. E. Clarkson 2 4213 0 7 21 W. E Snowden 129j32 25 67 44 91 For Coroner 1 | H. J. Brown 27i21 181710 61 H. 3^1. Burrows i 4!53 20 51 41 5] SANTEE BRIDGE MAY COST HALF MILLION IT IS PLANNED TO BUILD STEEL BRIDGE THREE FEET ABOVE HIGH WATER. Columbia, Sept. 9.?A very impor tant meeting of the corporators of the projected San tee River Bridge Company was held in Sumter yesterday, L. D. Jennings, R. B. Belser, of Sumter, C. M. Davis and C. W. Durant, of Clarendon, and I. F. Belser, of Columbia, were selected to proceed with the plans for the bridge at a mass meeting held in Summerton on Friday, August 20. At this meeting of the corporators several very important questions were taken up for discussion and tentatively decided. No definite decisions have! yet been reached, owing to the fact j that Orangeburg and Calhoun c^hn-1 ties are expected to elect corporators to serve with those above named. It is planned to build the steel bridge across the San tee river and all the trestle work which may be nec-; essary three feet above the highest j known water, and to build a cause- j way of earth through the 9,500 feet i of swamp on the Clarendon side ofj '? ? xl M J I tne nver. it is, wnexciuic, pnuuicu w, make the capilal stock of the corpora-1 tino $500,000. Many Feople Interested. The people everywhere, both in the adjoining counties and throughout the State, are vitally interested in this project, there being at the present time no bridgt across the San tee river throughout its entire course. A very successful mass meeting was recently held at Summerton to consider the subject and approximately $100,000 in stock was subscribed. It is planned to have several similar meetings in other interested towns. A meeting has already been called for in Orangeburg on Friday, 10th instant; also a meeting has been arranged to be held in Manning on Friday, the 24th, and one in Sumter during the first week in October. A determined effort will be made J to raise the rest of the stock neces- J cow u-itViin thp next sixtv davs. The I corporators are confident that this can be done without difficulty, the it? being such an interest in the matter everywhere. Many public officials, including Governor Cooper, Senator Wideman, of Clarendon, and the State Highway Commission have evidenced their interest in and approval of the proposed company. It is hoped that it will be possible to commence operations on the building of the bridge immediately after the meeting of the Legislature in January, at which time the charter for the company is expected to be granted. * o Dorothy Porter. Andrews' Sept. 10.?Dorothy, the three-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Protbr, died very suddenly Wednesday night, after only two hours illness. Dorothy was a sweet little girl and a great favorite of the neighamnnir hoth old and young. The funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the residence on Rosemary avenue, by the pastor, the Rev, D. D. Jones, of the M#thodist Church, assisted by the Rev. D. M. Clark, of the Presbyterian church, after which the body was laid to rest in the Andrews cemetery, Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12. FFICIAL RETl .lection,. Held Tuesday, !lS S S g 2? ? 5?sSg r. s - j = g i J S^o^g 5ga E tg si ; " F r si 1 * h | i -i i .-a 1 i i 3 50 69 l[ 89 8 8 91 11 1515 48 6 : 3, 58 65 20 129 34 54 159 8 4 19 23 12 ' 2 10 4310:110 46 3,8, 94 41 5 24 2214 I 80 187 26 99 58 53 138 33 13 67 31 22 i L, 43 139 30 72 69 58 169 49 16 43 23 29, 3 3.10 182 7| 6l|l6191 71 11 25 50 361611 T i n ! r~ ~r r l 48 205|27 121 36 30113 41 13 57 21 2311 7 69 9| 4 68 40 37|l28 10 13 15 39 713 ??hi?Hi?pH r 3 47 104; 19 641 8 40124 32 25 7 31 81? L 70 113 12 124 67 27 119 19 1 61 30 251 > 3 05 87 29 149i41 169 46 24 58 43 33| Li 12|128' 2| 41|35| 741 4l l| 9|19| 0| DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED Pi-ogram of Activities of Development Board. \ Columbia, Sept. 9.?The election of a board of directors, the selection of J the personnel of the several commissions and decision as to the program of activities will mark the meeting of the board of control of the South Carolina Development Board, to be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Cclumbia. The session will be held in the conference room of the development board, 1202 Main street. The meeting of the board is to be | held following the expansion and membership campaign of the development board held early in the summer. It is expected that practically every comty in th State will be represented at the meeting. Four directors from each congres- J sional district are to be elected by the board of control. The executive committee which will have active charge of the affairs of the devel-1 opment board will be named by the directors. The board of control will discuss the program of activities for the development board. Marketing is to be one of the most important discussed, and it is expected that the efforts of the development hoard will be directed along that line during the next several months. At the preliminary meeting of the board of control held during the summer, Dr. George B. Cromer, of Newberry, was elected temporary chairman and Joe Sparks, temporary secretary. Niels Christensen, president of development board will attend the meeting. George R. Wheeler, manager of the board will make report on the work accomplished during the summer. The work of the development board will be directed by volunteer commissions. The several preblems confronting the State will be given careful study by the commission and recommendations for action made. The development board has several thousand members distributed throughout the State. Election Postponed for Women's Vote Columbia, Sept. 13.?Because the registration books have to close thirty days before an election and because women registered recently in Columbia to vote in a city bond election set for the 16th, Columbia's city council has voted to postpone the election one month, so as to allow the women to vote. The ^>ond issue is for $300,000 for paving. .<i Mannings' New Hotel. The work on the local hotel is going ahead rapidly. It is expected that the building will be completed early in November. When completed the building will compare favorably with any in the State. The entrance to the hotel in Mills street will be finished in colonial style. There will be tweneyfive bed rooms, each equipped with electric lights, telephone and steam heated. There will also be a number of rooms with private baths. The spacious dining room will be on the first floor. There will be a large free sample room in connection with the Tiio construction is being | UVWI. A1IV handled by the Jackson Construction Company, of Columbia, and Mr. J. C. Wallace is in charge.?Manning Times o Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12.. JRNS September 14, 1920. O *1 rc & 7H 5 p? ^ H > - c> > ? a o ^ o r^-'o^Hc-o * > > ^ 3 o S 2 ? r ^ ^ ^ V 3 JT" % o w W M '2: >"< w B 5 B H g Z ? c I? 15 104 4 7 37 2 2617 35 80 50 6 95 24 112 10 41 23 17 27 53 52 92 45 8129 6 45 3130 24 17 6 4819 32 22 6 86 >4 7 3139 7 2615 40 35 981512138 6 6 29 40 7 23 4 23 29 108 12 16 122 >8 85 6 25 31F15 36 86 40 67 18 6 121 >4 11 27 39 4 23 3163 52 97 30 8131 L2108|10 23 39 7 7 27 19 62 24 10 99 13 6 1 46 24 18 28 70 10 53 40 13 94 3 109 3616 1812 1018 61 10713 5 136 92 25 19 21 15 34 80 34 88 41 15 140 28 32)421221151 4| 9|37| 7213[ 3[ 80: AUGUST HAS RECORt TOBACCO SALE! LAKE CITY LEADS, TIMMONS SECOND, MULL1NS TH1KD AND KINGSTREE FOURTH. , Columbia, Sept 13.?The larges tobacco crop ever produced in Soutl Carolina is indicated by figures fo the month of August made public b; the department of agriculture. Mor tobacco was sold in August of thi: year than in any other August Th( price, too, has been higher than fo: any year save one, and that was 1918 The total value of the South Caro lina tobacco sold in August was near ly twelve million dollars, a millioi more than for the same month las year. The total number of pounds of to bacco sold in August was 47.203,798 bringing the producers $11,989,116 The average price was 25.39 cents The average August price last yea: was 24.68 cents, and for 1918, 30.4< cents. . The highest price prior U 1918 for August was 21 cents. Th< August tobacco exceeded the pound; for the same month last year bj three million. There are twenty-nine tobacco mar kets in the State, the largest being a Lake City. Timmonsville is secom and Mullins is third. Kingstree ii fourth. There are seventy-sevei warehouses in the State for tobacco The total tobacco business, counting sales by warehousemen and dealers as well as producers, amounting dining August to over 5 million pound, and over fourteen million dollars. The sales for producers at the to bacco markets of the State in Augus were as follows: Pounds Amount Andrews 1,489,680 $ 303,723.81 Aynor 967,937 277,873.0 Bamberg 616,990 136,881,71 Conway 2,726,770 687,420.61 Darlington __2,621,171 620,012,0' Dillon 1,737,478 425,025.11 Georgetown _. 401,884 81,095,7) Greelyville 512,202 73,164.1) Hartsville 531,114 103,455.61 Hemingway .1,690,093 435,358.9 Johnsonville -1,469,330 336,091.11 Kingstree ?,860,834 874,780.01 Lake City ..5,425,241 1,514,293.2) Lake View ..1,197,735 322,606.91 Lamar 1,129,380 273,535.84 Latta 796,103 169,791.44 Lynchburg __ 661,185 159,605.95 Manning 2,039.560 377,278.35 Marion 1,583,390 410,570.95 Moncks Corner 98,020 14,114.88 Mullins 4,431,167 1,342,909.71 Nichols 1,484,406 458,819.71 Olanta 230,904 62,562.61 Pamnliro 714.959 192,317.71 Sumter 632,443 84,813.51 Summerville _ 55,561 8,313.71 Tim'nsvHle ?4,594,277 1,311,770.8* Total -.4733,798 $11,989,116.01 o Salters Sifting. Mrs. G. W. Scott and children spenl last> week-end with Mr. Scott's par cnts, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Buddin near Lake City. u Mrs. Ella A. Cox, of Charleston, ii visiting her sister, Mrs. s. a. scoti Mesdames Ella M. Cox and S. A Scott are spending several days thi: week with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Scott o Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12 REPUBLICANS WIN IN MAINE ELECTION _ PARKHURST ELECTED GOVERN= OR BY BIG MAJORITY? WOMEN VOTE FIRST TIME. ^ Portland, Maine, Sept. 13.?Frederic H. Parkhurst, Republican, was elected Governor of Maine today by a plurality which at a late hour promised to be the largest in the history of tne state. His Democratic opponent, Bertrans G. Mclntyre, received approximately half as many votes as 5 Mr. Parkhurst. q The Republicans carried all four 6 congressional districts by large ma2 jorities, reelecting Congressman WalZ lace White, Jr., John A. Peters and 6 Ira G. Hersey, and electing Carroll L 3 Beedy, of Portland, in the First dis~ trict, where Congressman Louis G. 0 Goodall was not a candidate for re1 election. They also obtained a commanding Jead in the State Legislature 2 and elected Roy L. Wardwell, of Au~ gusta, as State' Auditor. The part played by the new factor | of the wornqn's vote was evident In I all parts of the State women availed l themselves of their first opportunity j to vote in a State election, and the figures showed hat a large majority of them voted the Republican ticket. " The vote for Parkhurst. on returns from more than two-thirds of the State, showed an increase of more j than 46,000 over that cast for Milli^ ken, Repul'ican. four years ago, while Mclntyre's vote was less than 1,500 P more than that of Uurtis, L>emorcat, e in the fast presidential year. Vote for Governor. , Returns from 557"election precincts r out of 632 in the State (from 453 c>t>s and towns out of 519) for Governor give: Parkhurst, Republican, 124,966; x Mclntyre. Democrat, 64,296. t These same precincts in 1916 gave: Milliken, Republican, 74,979; Curtis. Democrat, 62,453. The Republican strength was uniform throughout the night. Several of the cities which showed small Dem'r ocratic pluralities in 1916 returned j large pluralities for Parkhurst today. ) In many others, which went Republican four years ago, the plurality for that ticket was greatly increased this \ year. Considerable significance in the outcome in its bearing on the voting for t President in November was apparent j from the fact that the campaign was fought out almost wholly on national lines, with the League of Nations as the chief issue. 1 "Does Not Foreshadow Anything.** I Washington, Sept 13.?Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who made speeches in Maine for the Democratic ticket, commented upon the election there tonight in a statement which said that ' - ? ... _ n the majority lor state onicers m (September does not foreshadow anything as to the November result." "The vote in tjie Monday election does not indicate the strength of the sentiment in favor of the league of nations in Maine," he said, "some of the ablest men in the State told me that in a straight league of nations referendum in November Cox and Roosevelt could carry the State on the ' question, unaffected by State issues, if that issue was presented directly to all the voters of the States. Resent Autocracy, Says Parkhurst. Bangor, Maine, Sept. 13.?Col. * Frederic H. Parkhurst, Republican candidate for governor, in a statement tonight on the election, said that "as the campaign has been vigrusly contested by the Democrats national issues, the result must be accepted throughout the country as giving most conclusive evidence that . the voters of Maine resent the auto' era tic and un-American administration that the Democrats have given , us during the past seven years." ' "It is equally an endorsement of Harding and Coolidge," he added, "who will be elected in November by a decisive majority. o Dickey Swamp Items. t Mr. R; D. Bradham had business in Kingstree Tuesday of this week. Misses Emma and Grace Kinder, of , Kingstree, and Sarah Bradham, of Florence, spent last Saturday at Mr. R. D. Bradhams' home. s Mrs. R. D. Bradham is still very ill, she having been confined to her bed for the past five months. . I Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12.