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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
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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 :
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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.
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Death of Miss Juanita Coward.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED
Pi-ogram of Activities of Development
Board.
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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.
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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 |
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handled by the Jackson Construction
Company, of Columbia, and Mr. J. C.
Wallace is in charge.?Manning Times
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Williamsburg County Fair, Nov. 9-12..
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Dickey Swamp Items.
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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.