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?j)c j&ountu llecotf). ft,* VOL. 36. KINGSTREE, SOUTlf CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28,1921. NO. 8 ; ' i i ????? CHAUTAUQUA WEEK ? OPENS SATURDAY GET SEASON TICKETS NOW? NONE WILL BE SOLD AFTER OPENING DAY. ____ The Redpath Chatauqua opens its 1921 engagement in Kingstree Satur-1 day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and 9:00 p. m. in the evening. The program next week consists of ?* ~ i ? oesi 11 not tne utrsi c\er pi?caicu. The season tickets are now on sale at the drug stores and by the local . committeemen. It is urged that ev- ( ^ erybody secure their season ticket to- i day as there will be no season tickets) on sale after 3 p. m. Saturday after-' noon. Forty of the local business men have made it possible for the Chautauqua to come to Kingstree this < year by guaranteeing th^^ale of 400 season tickets before the opening day and it is up to the local citizens to get i behind these loyal men and make the j chautauqua a financial success by buy- j ing season tickets. The price of the j tickets this year is $3.30 for adults i and $1.63 for children. These prices j include the war tax. The Chautauqua has been a big sue-' cess through the south this year and it is hoped that Kingstree will help to keep the record up. All of the Georgia towns throughout the cotton ' belt hare exceeded their last year's receipts by $100 to $200 this year. The program this year consists of three big lecturers namely, Mr. Geo. L. McNutt, Mr. Harry L. Fogleman and Dr. Hagerman. * Some of the other big attractions j are the Hippie Concert company, with j Mr. Earl Hippie, the wizard of the' xylophone, who will give the opening concert of the Chautauqua on Saturp?lday afternoon and Saturday night. j, The Irene Stolofsky Concert com-' pany on the second day; Dunbar's White Hussars, band and male chorus; headed by A1 Sweet the noted song i writer, "great American comedy,, "Nothing But the Truth" and Daddy | Grobeckers Swiss Yodlers. These arej only a few of the leading attractions that will appear here next week at' ' the big Chautauqua tent. The tent will be erected on the , same lot that it occupied last yeac. The superintendent of the week will be Mr. Fred Price, a graduate of ! Missouri University. He is consider-j ed to be one of the ablest superinten-j dents with the Kedpath oereau ana i will conduct the Chautauqua along' lines pleasing to all. The tent crew this year is composed of three college boys namely; Mr. Bob Bartlett of Michigan; Mr. Floyd Herman of Tell City, Ind; and Mr. Floyd Wine, of Alma, Michigan. Go and buy your season ticket to-! day. o Buy Chatauqua Tickets Now. If you expect to attend the Chatauqua?and certainly you do?by all means get a season ticket before the time for selling them expires. Re-1 *?omh*r that should you attend as j many as three of the performnaces j by gate tickets the amount of admis- ( sion will he practically the same as' the price of a season ticket at the re-1 jfleed prices they are selling for. And farther, every dollar that goes for season tickets is placed in full toward the discharge of the guarantee and the release of the responsibility of the i - guarantm-s, while caly a part of the gate receipts taken in after the close j of the season ticket period is thus ^ beneficial to the local guarantor comj mittee. It is to the advantage of both j yourself and of the local com- J mittee for you to purchase a season ticket. You get a ticket at reduced admission. The local committee gets full benefit from the money you spend. ! The period for selling season tickets closes with the first performance I at 3:00 o'clock Saturday, April 30. Buy a season ticket now! ?? .... J I One-fifth of the total unsKinea I negro labor of the country joined the I army of unemployed during the last I quarter, according to the Department K. of Labor. The Calumet district, of ^^N^which Chicago is the center, leads with ^B^"^)roximately fifteen thousand idle. 'Xven if you haven't time to stuuy m Hygiene you'll get by if you'll wear K, clean clothes and take a bath once in H a while. B The County Record 5"the only 9 newspaper published in Williamsburg I H County. { B MONEY FOR OLD SOLDIERS. List of Veterans and Widows on Wil liamsburg County Pension Roll. Altman, Nicholas T., Suttons; Art G. W., Greelyville. Britton, Henry 0., Kingstree Baker, W. B. Bloomingvale; Bayloi L. E., Kingstree; Britton, William H Lanes; Brown, H. J., Cades; Bulges: Itley D., Mouzon; Burgess. Georg White, Kingstree. Constine. C., Kingstree; Coopei William Allen, Suttons; Courtney, 5 B. W., Kingstree. Davis, Edward W. Hemingway Dukes, Thomas J., Benson. Epps, James, Kingstree; Epps, Wil liam, Kingstree; Evans, J. S., Leo. Ferdon, John, Morrisville; Flaglei Alonza W\, Kingstree; Fort, Frierso K., Kingstree; Ginn. Andrew T., E.\ eel ton; Graham, George J., Kingstree Graham, Isaac W., Lanes; Graysoi John M., Benson; Guerry, W. S., Lak City; Gunter, David, Rhems. Haire, J. R., Greelyvillc; Haselder John James, Kingstree; Haseldfcr Stephen B., Johnsonville; Haselder William B., Hemingway; Hatfield, I T., Greelyville; Hemingway, A. B Rome; Kelley, John W., Kingstree. Lamb, H. J., Suttons; Lifrage, Ve* non E., Salters Depot; Logan, Cal houn, Kingstree; Lov,Timore, Williar J., Hemingway. McCants, T. A., Trio; McConnel John M., Andrews; McKnight, W. M Mouzon; Marshall, R. B.. Andrews Montgomery, Isaac, Greelyville; Moc zon, Sameul Ruffin, Mouzon. Nettles, Theodore W., Kingstree. Ogburn, Hugh C., Trio. Parker, William H., Cades.. Rodgers, Robert E., Kingstree. Sessions, William R., Rhems; Shav J. P., Kingstree; Stewart, A. C., Lak City; Stone, Philip J., Hemingway. Tanner, James, Hemingway; Thorn as, James P., Trio; Thompson, Johr Johnsonville; Thompson, John B Kingstree; Tisdale, Robert F., Kings tree; Todd, John T., Kingstree; Wil liamson, Henry J., Kingstree. List of Widows on Pension Roll 1921 Arms, Mary B., Kingstree; Bagnal Martha M., Kingstree; Bradham, F A., Kingstree; Bradshaw, Addie D Kingstree Brown, Sarah, Kingstree Burgess, Jane E., Kingstree; Burrow; Mary A. R.? Vox. Cade, Theresa, Cades; Carter, Her rietta, Kingstree; Chandler, C. M Kingstree; (Jooic. saran j., anarews Dennis, Sue C., Kingstree; Duk? Mae C., Kingstree; Epps, Emma Jam Lake City; Epps, Maria L., Kingstree Epps, Posie D.., Kingstree. Feagin, Carolina E., Andrews Floyd, Susan A., Lake City. Gamble, Susan R., Nesmith; Gil son, Sysanna, Trio; Gist', Ellen Fail Suttons; Gordon, Sarah M., Salters Graham, Man* Ann, Nesmith; Gra ham, Man* E., Lake City; Grahan Martha E., Lake City; Grayson, Sara E., Kingstree. ? Hanna, Jane M., Kingstree; Harrei son, Martha, Rome; Hix, Elizabetl Suttons; Howard, Sal lie, Fowlei Jackson, A. W., Johnsonville; Jeffrie: H. S., Andrews; Johnson, Andrews Johnson, Annie J., Bloomingvale. Keith. Eunice E., Johnsonville Kennedy, Pinkey, New Zion; Lyon: Annie H., Kingstree. MeClary, Maggie, Kingstree; M< Cullough, Margaret, Trio. Matthews, Florence, Johnsonville Mims, C. 0. A., Cades; Mitchum, Alio J., Trio; Mitchum, Susan R., Greelj ville; Montgomery. Emily A. Kings tree Montgomtry. Lenora M., Creel} ville, Murphy, Leonora A., KingstrePack, Laura J., Greelyville; Per dergrass, Ann D., "Kingstree; Playe Ida, Greelyville; Player, Jane E., Ar drews; Player Kate Kingstree. Regain, Annie, Kingstree. SSreers, M. J., Salters; Scott, Juli; Kingstree; Smith, Pauline, Kingstree Snowden, Sallie W., Cooper. Snowden, Sallie W., Cooper; Spive: Agnes, Hemingway; Steele, Louisa J Kingstree. Thompson, E. E., Mouzon; Thomp son, Emma Jane, Hemingway, Tinr mons, Mary J., Trio; Tisdale, Sara Mary, Andrews; Tisdale, Sarah R Morrisville. Weathersbee, T. F. S., Johnsonville ? Ua*. Wilson, isusanna, outwit, ??iac, iuoi A., Kingstree. Peter FuHon, Colored, Dead. Poter Fulton, a well thought c colored farmer and local pre ache died Monday at his"* home in th Broad Swamp neighborhood nea town. He was about 50 years old an was regarded as an honorable, up right member of his race. He wa buried Tuesday afternoon. ' K He leaves a wife and nine childrer ? CERTIFICATES ARE "! ABOUT FINISHED i,; BY THE STATE BOARD OF EX; AMINERS FOR SOUTH CARr, OLINA TEACHERS. s, The State Board of Examiners for e teachers is glad to announce that the task of converting all outstanding r, teacher's certificates into South Carolina state licenses is about finished. This work was made necessary by the ; 1920 act of the legislature creating the Beard of Examiners for teachers. I- Members of this board are: Prof. H. B. Dominick, former superintenr, dent of the Greer schools; Miss Elizn abeth McLean, of the Sumter city schools; and Joseph H. Shealy, regisi; trar of the Teachers' Bureau. 1, The board began the active duties e of the office June 21st and after plans were formulated, certificate forms dei, signed and procured, the work of is\. suing certificates began September 6. mi., a. 1. _ ? a*/5 a. * ^ l, ine lass 01 cerwicaung ovsr runt; J. thousand teachers has occupied the entire time of the members of the board since the first of September, and for - five months approximately eleven 1- hours of work per day were necessary n for converting certificates and correcting examination papers. 1, The board endeavored to dispatch the duties of the office with as little ;; delay as possible and wishes to express i- its appreciation to the teachers, county superintendents and school folks in general for the patience exercised and support given this work. Through the medium of the state board of exam iners, a profitable and needed sendee 7, can be rendered the state. The teache ing profassion is one of the greatest which should claim the attention of t- our people, and the teachers should be 1, classified so that the desening may be encouraging to better service and those who are poorly prepared assist1 ed to better preparation. The state has provided assistance for the needy I. schools and the people have responded I, nobly to the demand for better sal\ aries for teachers, and now the public ., has a right to expect better sen-ice. The first grade certificate has been s, heretofore an indefinite quantity as to a teacher's fitness to teach school and i- it is the purpose of this board to issue certificates suchas will earn- with . them some idea of the teacher's prep;, aration for sening the public and to ?, encourage professional advancement, j; The compilation of the records in the office reveals some very encourag;; ing facts. The 9520 certificates which have been issued since September 6th )- consists of the following classes: r, college A. B. and B. S., white,2175; ;; College diploma, colored, 1022; by t- order of the state board, white, 188; i, South Carolina state certificates, h white, 874, colored, 26; Other states, white, 165; Rule No. 21-22-23a, white I- 65, colored, 21; Examination (first i, grade), 1622, colored 252; Examina ; tion(second grade> white, 619. colors, ed, 319; Examination (third grade), s; white, 257, cniorei, 28'J; Permits (third grade), white, 134, colored, >; 309; Special, colored, 7. s, For the October examination there were 929 applicants. A study of the records in the office leads one to believe that approximately 3000 persons ;; will stand the ext examination which e will be held on Saturday, May 7th, r- at each county seat, s- The following regulation for the renewa! of certificates has been adopt?. ed by the State Board of Education: l- 'Any outstanding first-grade certil-| r, icate may be renewed upon presental tion to the State Board of Examiners of one year's successful and acceptable classroom experience by the holdj, er during the term covered by such ?; certificate, with his or her request for the renewal of a first-grade certificate, r, together with a written endorsement ., from the county superintendent or city superintendent, and from the board >- of district trustees. A second-grade i- certificate is renewable only upon the h presentation of a record of success., ful and satisfactory summer work. A fHrd-grade certificate shall not be re;; newed." y Teachers now holding permits . granted at the request of the county superintendent must take the regular examination required of all applicants, if they expect to teach during the ses^ sion 1921-1022. Outstanding permits are not renewable nor transferable T j and under no circumstances shall aj second permit be issued to any teach- j der o ?- There would not be so many di s vorces if husbands would carry fewer grouches and more candy home with 1. them. i COCA-COLA KING DISCUSSES COTTON WISHES HIS BUILDINGS WERE VACANT SO HE COULD STORE COTTON IN THEM. "Sometimes a man awakens to find he owns more of a venture than he intended to, and that's how I became the owner of Coco-Cola." declared Asa G. Candler, Sr., founder of the tremendous' enterprise, in one of the most intimate and interesting interviews to which he has ever submitted. "There were two young fellows always mixing up things in our town." continued Mr. Candler, talking to a reporter for the Kansas City Times, upon the occasion of a recent visit to that city. "I was a small-town druggist and my store was a clubhouse for a lot of the town boys. I trusted them all. Had to, in fact. Th^se boys had a soda fountain mixture, and when I began to foot up my ledger I found I had more invested in the scheme than the boys, I took it over. "It didn't 'take' particularly well, it was more work to get it started and more work to keep it going. I never lelt it a minute until seven .yeuis ago; then I turned it over to the boys." Mr. Candler informed his Kansas City interviewer that he wouldn't have sold Coco-Cola, but he added that his boys drove a "pretty keen bargain" from a sale standpoint. "I have four fine boys," he said. "But they are just boys. When I gave -- ?a. tnem tne ousiness n was mens. 1 ilC) sold out a big ^hare for a fancy price. I wouldn't have done that, but they did, and from a sale standpoint they drove a pretty keen bargain.' Mr. Candler, who has erected and who owns big and little buildings all over the country, has one regret in connection with his extensive building operations. He regrets that all of the buildings are so well tenanted, or, as he states it, that they are not vacant so that he might store cotton in them. Mr. Candler, who is now making a tour of the west, studying business conditions and renewing acquaintances with many old friends, has been the subject of many interesting and illuminating newspaper stories. He has submitted to many interviews en route to the Pacifiic coast, and in these he has made it perfectly clear that cotton and not Coco-Cola is his chief interest and concern. "Every time Asa G. Candler retires he assumes more work," reads the story in the Kansas City Times. "He says it is ,the only safe way for a man in this busy age to quit business. Quiting business for ?im meant taking he'd of tilings in west panicky conditions and whipping them into running shape. "In 1886 it was Asa G. Candler, druggist in a Georgia town, who began marketing 'Coco-Cola. By pestering, as he describes it, in a few fellow druggists, he was able to peddle 283 gallons of the drink that now has an annual consumption of some 15,000,000 gallons. But, as Mr. Candler told it to Kansas City friends, Coco-Cola troubles have been shifted to his four boys and a 'boy-in-law.' Cotton is his adopted interest "That same interest, it is said, is responsible for the tour-to-Californiarecreation that Mr. Candler is making." Reverting to the sale of coco-cola, Mr. Candler was asked if he had retired from business seven years ago when le gave the enterprize to his sons. "Lord, no. What chance had a man to retire in 1914 with the south and no firtn in such a crisis? Georgia was the gloomiest state of all when exports were cut off suddenly. Cotton went down to almost nothing. The recent slump is not even-a circumstance. I had gotten into a bank, so I marshalled up what money I could and began to buy and lend on cotton. "When a man backs his judgment with his money, other men will follow. The south borrowed $30,000,000 on cotton at low rates." The story remarks about Mr. Candler's mammoth warehouse in Atbyita, which is now under lease to the federal government, and which Mr. Candler is very anxious to have returned to him, so that he may store cotton in the p -86ent crisis. Concerning present conditions, Mr. Candler is quoted as follows: "Things will come out all right i:T everybody keep; working. You never saw a busy mai starve. The Central Bank and Trust corporation of ^tlan IDENTIFIES SUSPECT Authorities Believe They Have Man Who Wrecked Wall Street Scranton, Pa.. April 24.?Positive identification of Tito Ligi, arrested in Scranton, last Tuesday week on suspicion of complicity in the Wall street explosion last September, was made Saturday by Thomas J. Smith, of Brooklyn, employed in the legal departemnt of an insurance company having offices in the New York financial district. Smith picked out Ligi from a line of six prisoners as the man he had seen arguing with the driver of the death wagon shortly before the explosion. He later told newspaper men that a few moments after the blast he saw J^igi rushing along Cedar street near Nassau street and Broadway, urging two companions to hurry out of the neighborhood. r??*11. 1- ~ r ? |,'Al^An onum, wnu lumeriji vtaa u ucurcuant in the New York fire department, assigned to investigate incendiaries, said he was walking in Wall street toward Broad a few minutes before the explosion. At about 11,65 a. m. he said fie was approaching the banking house of J. P. Morgan and company when he saw a dilapidated wagon with red and black striped wheels in front of the United States assay office. Inside the wagon, partly covered with newspapers, were two barrels and two fipxee about two or three feet square. "I though it was a junk wagon," he said. "My attention was first called to it when I noticed two men standing near the horse's head, arguing. I crossed the street expecting to see a fight. One of the men was about five feet six inches tall, roughly dressed and of stocky build. Smith said the other man standing by the waggon was taller and better dressed. This man, whom he identified as Ligi, was wrangling he said, | with the smaller man apparently tryling to induce him to leave the neighborhood. "The shorter man," Smith added, "apparently did not want to go. I thought they were going to fight and I stayed around a moment but there was no fight and I went on, turning up Nassau street "Just after I had passed the corner of Nassau and Cedar streets, I heard ; the explosion. I turned to go bacK 1 i to Wall street but was stopped by 1 the rush of people fleeing up Nassau street. Running by me in the crowd I saw three men going westward fti Cedar street toward Broadway and one of them was the man 1 had seen wrangling with the wagon driver. Neither of the the two men with him, however, was the driver. "One of Ligi's companions was an Italian about five feet eight inches, fairly well built. The other also appeared to be an Italian and was about five feet six. He had a stubby black 1 mustache. The driver was urging these two men along, i "I noticed that the voice was the same as that of the man I had heard wrangling with the wagon driver and when I looked it was the same man." Confronting Ligi this afternoon Smith again made a test of the prisoner's voice. When Ligi denied he had ever seen Smith the insurance man declared the voice apparently was the same he had heard both before the explosion and a few minutes after. Ligi is being held in $10,000 bail I here for appearance before a federal court in Harrisburg, May 2, on a charge of evading the draft. It is announced from Washington that dividends ranging from $1.04 to $7.50 on each thousand dollars of gov* 1 ernment insurance will be paid June i 1st, to holders of one and two-year converted policies. There are 136,- : 000 policy holders who will receive i the one-year dividend and 74,000 who i will receive two-year dividends. i Buy season tickets to the Chatau- ' qua before Saturday afternoon and l--,~ "nomnt/irii mnVp their miar UCip VUV 5 M an tee up. ta has cotton loans, isn't broke and won't go broke." The Kansas City story, after remarking upon the buildings Mr. Candler has erected in Chicago, Atlanta, j I New York, Baltimore, Dallas, Winne- j , peg, Kansas City, Toronto and other I | cities, concludes with an illuminating j question and answer: j Do you regret your extensive build- j ing operations?" Mr. Candler was j asked. 1 "No, but I wish I had 'em all va cailt now for cotton." . I . * IMPORTS INCREASE DURING PAST YEAR GERMANY TRADE WITH U. S. GREATER THAN PREVIOUS PERIOD The imports from Germany last year were nearly nine times as great as in ^ the previous calendar year and approximate nearly half the average of trade for the two years immediately preceding the war, according to a summary issued a few days ago by the Department of Commerce, at Washington. During 1920 imports from Germany were valued at $88,038,280 as compared with $10,608,141 in 1919, and with $184,211,141 in 1919, and with -186,042,644 in 1912. Considerable fluctuation was shown in the total values by months in 1920, the summary said. For the first two months of 1921 they averaged $4,790,000 a month. ' According to Secretary Hoover, however, trade reports based on values fail to reflect the true condition - * - i J- 1 il.A 01 American iraue uecauic ui uic continual price changes during the last year. Only by a knowledge of the / volume of American imports and exports can the foreign trade situation f be accurately guaged, in the Secretary's opinion. Efforts to obtain volume reports of American trade generally are understood to have been begun by the Department of Cojrf^ merce. Of the 1920 German imports, potash fertilizer materials' with 452,075 tons valued at $21,042,643, formed the largest group. Chemicaft, valued at $67,997,834, of which $2,110,025 consisted of coal tar dyestuffs, stood second. The next largest items were ' sugar and cotton manufacturers. Spirits, wines and malt liquors im-fmm fj<?rmanv durincr the year were valued at $121,576. o "FIELD DAY" AT CEDAR SWAMP. CommunityLive Stock to be Rounded Up By Owners. In keeping with a custom that has prevailed for some years by observing the last Friday in April, / farmers and stock raiser? of the Cedar Swamp section of this county will celebrate tomorrow. Instead of staging an athletic program of field sports they will get together and round-up all the cattle, sheep and other live stock that has been at large in the great pasture areas of the community. This stock when brought together into one big herd will be identified by the respective owners, remarked, and if necessary put through the dippingvats and given such other attentions as may be found necessary. What cattle, sheep and hogs are not returned to the pastures will be offered for sale. For the 7 occasion tomorrow County Demonstration Agent Madison has wired for buyers and been advised that two western live stock buyers will be present. It is estimated that upwards of 400 head of cattle and sheep will be rounded up, the majority of which will be offered for sale. o PAY YOUR TAXES 4 Only Two More Days of Grace Yet 'Remain. Comptroller General Duncan is advising taxpayers throughout the state who took advantage of the action of the legislature in postponing the time for the payment of the taxes until May 1st, 1921, not to forget that on and after May 1, the penalty will be T per cent, up until May 15 when executions go into the hands of the sheriffs. Only two more days remain for those who have not paid their state and county taxes to meet the obligations. Something over a million dollars is still due the state in tax money and. this should be in by May 1st. I VEHICLE LICENSE NOTICE. I I wish to notify all citizens of I 5 Williamsburg county that after I S May lat, 1921, any and all per- 1 I sons who have failed to purchase 3 1 Vehicle Tags will be arrested B I and fined. _I am notifying all 3 i rural policemen and magistrates 3 I to this effecet. ^ E H. S. GAMBLE, Sheriff. I I 4-21-2t 4 | m I,,,,,,,! Subscribe for The Record.