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?pjc Coiintij llccorfc VOL 36. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921. NO. ? 1 ^ ""plans complete "! for july fourth COMMITTEES ON ENTERTAINMENT FEATURES CLOSING DETAILS FOR DAY. The special committees appointed | to plan and arrange the entertainment features of the Independence Dayj celebration to be held at Kingstree on j Monday, July 4th, are getting things well in hand for the big day. Many features of interest to the general public have been arranged for the day and it is planned to make the visitors forget the boll weevil and the low prices for products for at least one day, and all join in and have a big day long to be remembered throughout this section of the state. Probably of first importance to many will be the airplane flights throughout the day by Lieutenants Runser and Turner in their fighting scout plane. This is the type of plane which was used by the British at the close of the World War for scouting and aerial combat service,, being one of the fastest flying machines perfected during the war equipped with, a mounted machine gun for combat! duty. At 4 o'clock p. m. these officers : will Derform their thrilling exhibition, i the "death trap dive", an exhibition which has never been attempted by any other flyers. Lieut. Turner will hang by his heels from the under carriage of the palne while it dives from an altitude of one thousand feet at a speed of 200 miles an hour. Kingstree was fortunate in securing the services of these famous avaitors for this occasion, as they are well-known fliers and were in demand at many ether places lor July 4th celebi ations. Beginning at 11 o'clock a number of contests will be conducted which will furnish interest and amusement for the crowds expected to be here. First on the programme will be a "Fat Man's Race". The committee in charge of this feature anticipate at; least five entries, but as there are no: ctri'ncr* i-ipd to the DroDOSition, as | many as may desire to do so can enter and compete for the prizes offered. First prize, $5.00; second prize, $2.50; third pirze $1.00. Another contest which will furnish I much amusing interest is that of j climbing a greased pole. A prize of $10.00 will be offered to the first party reaching the top according to the rules of the contest, which will be an- j nounced on the grounds before contest begins. An Apple-Cracker contest, for ladies only, will be held also. Details of this contest will be announced on the grounds. A first and second prize of $6.00 and $3.00 respectively are offered. The Honeymoon contest, open to couples, will be an amusing feature of the day's contests. Rules of the contest will be announced at the time contest begins. First prize, $6.00; ee/?An^ ni'170 $51.00. Another contest for ladies only will be the Nail Driving contest. Only one prize is offered in this contest, it being $3.00. A fast game of ball is promised the fans when Kingstree and Lake City cross bats on the local diamond as a part of the afternoon program. Rivalry between these teams has al^ ways been keen and it is expected that y both teams will put forth the best material they may secure in order to carry off the laurels on this occasion. Plenty of cold drinks will be on sale for this occasion, the Williamsburg Post of the American Legion having secured the priviledge of vending this necessary adjunct. It is also expected to have arrangements made whereby persons who wish to bring their dinner with them will have a place to eat. Food will also be offered for sale on the grounds for those who prefer to buy their dinner locally. o "The super slacker of the United' States" as he describes himself is be-; uAnfflif Kw fnflornl >ntVir?rit.ips aid 1115 OVl?5"V V/ AVMViW M ? . ed by members of the American Legion thoughout th enorthwest. He has written to Governor Hart of Washington, requesting that his name be placed at the top of the slacker lists. tt ? A- AT--* l.? T? CJorrl^v. \\ I U It' Uldt I1C Ud A ju< ivi va Genessee, Idaho, and although he successfully dodged the draft by moving to another city and assuming another tv name, he has enjoyed all the glories k of a returned A. E. F. hero through v the purchase 01 a soldier's discharge and several war medals." "And you ought to hear me tell the girls of all V the battles I was in," he writes, s' APPEAL TO THE MINISTERS , j The Public Schools of South Carolina Need Your Help. i The Journal of the National Educa- j tion association, which is distributed throughout the United States, publishes statistics, derived from the, < United States Bureau of Education i for 1918, showing, as compared with all the other states in the union: ( 1.?That South Carolina has the j 1 smallest number of people who can j j read, with Jhe single exception of j; Louisiana. j j 2.?That South Carolina spends the ; ( smallest amount per capita for the i i education of the children in public! schools. , 1 3.?That South Carolina has its pub-, j iic schools in operation the smallest1 j number of days in the year?110. 11 4.?That South Carolina has the ! smallest number of free public libra- j rics?1.9 per cent. 6.?That in all educational lines ] South Carolina averages the lowest 1 in the country?occupies the 48th < place. i Thus is our beloved state advertis- < ed to the entire world. ] If this condition is not true, we ] ought to prove it; if it is true, we j ought to correct it. 11 The churches are doing great things j i in higher education; let them also ral- < ly to the improvement of the public' ] schools, which make the colleges and < universities possible. < The Baptist State Convention last I] winter took the lead and memorial- j ized the legislature to make larger < annvnnriations to the Dublic schools. i -T--r ? - - - - | Let all the churches cooperate, and < do it now. | < We ask every minister of every de-1 ] nomination in South Carolina to read j the following invitation to his con- i gregation and urge them to accept it: At a mass meeting of citizens of j Spartanburg, held under the auspices < of the Chamber of Commerce, May 12,: < 1921, the following resolution was' < adopted: 'i "We, the citizens of Spartanburg. < profoundly impressed by the inade- 1 quate facilities provided by our present public school system for the boys. < and girls of South Carolina, realizing ; the low position in popular education < we occupy as compared with other. < states in the union, and believing that < this condition can be remedied only ] by a united effort on the part of all 1 the citizens of the commonwealth.' j hereby invite the people of South Car-j 1 olina to meet in Spartanburg on July j j 15 for the purpose of organizing ad state-wide Citizens' Educational As- '1 sociation to devise and execute plans! i for arousing public sentiment and to ( take steps to promote through the leg- : islative action such constructive mea-! ( sures as are necessary to meet our < educational obligations to our children of our state.". ( The Conference will assemble in the \ Converse Auditorium at 11 o'clock on^ July 15, and will continue until the j late afternoon, with an intermission j j for a picnic luncheon on the college j j grounds for visitors. This will enable | j you to reach the city on the morning trains in time to attend, and also to leave on the evening trains. Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, il R. P. Pcli, Chai:m*a Kx Com ! TWO FLYERS DROWN. i Two of the Leading Avaitors Killed 1 in Bomb Test. ] 1 Two of the leading flyers of thei annv air sen-ice, Capt. Howard T. , Douglas and Lieut. Maril J. Plumb,, ] were drownded in Chesapeake Bay to-! \ day after a collision of their planes | in the courge of a bombing raid direct-1 ] ed at the hulk of the old battleship (i San Marcos off Tangier island. Lieut. Plumb, flying a fast single-! a seat plane, was dropping bombsb, and j Capt. Douglas, in a similiar machine, j was observing the i-aid from above, j Plumb's plane had just dropped a 1 < bomb and was climbing upward, as is j the custom after releasing the weapon , when it struck Capt. Douglas' ma-! j chine, cutting off its tail. \ Both planes fell into the bay and . disappeared with their pilots, whose } ViA/Jlno Vioxm nnf honn vnnAVhrhfl ; . L VU1CO liat V Itvv vvvit ivvvtvivui ^ Langley Field official? reported that soon after the planes fell another of the bombing planes dropped a bomb < containing 000 pounds of TNT, and ] that it fell near the place where the 1 machines went down. It was evident, 1 it was said, that the pilot of this ma- 1 chine, one of many participating in i the attack on the San Marcos, had not < seen the planes fall. The terrific ex- 1 plosion of this bomb, avaition officers i said, would make more difficult the - < recovery of the bodies cf the officers. < I LAW AS TO SALE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson Warns People Who are Dynamiting Streams. Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson has issued the following statement: "Recently a greac many reports have :ome to this office from different portions of the state to the effect that people are dynamiting the streams ind ponds for the purpose of taking KfL T knliAfA In mAof inof QnAAe o ik^kl. X UUICVC til 1UVOV lllO CU11WO Hiv Same Wardens are doing all they can to prohibit this kind of work. "In addition to the law which prohibits the use of dynamite (found on page 34 of the pamplet of Game and Fish laws), there is another law ivhich?Section 491, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1912, Volume II, which provides: "'Sec. 491. No person to Sell Explosives Except Under Certain Conditions ? Sworn Reports. ? No person shall sell, deliver or dispose of dynamite or other powerful explosives, except ordinary gunpowder, unless such person knows the purchaser or the party to receive the same, and is satisfied that the explosives are not to be used for killing fish, and then only upon a written application from party iesiring to purchase, stating the purpose for which he desires to- use the ?aid explosives; and a person selling, delivering or disposing of such explosive shall keep a book in which shall be recorded the name of the pur-1 1.. /...nln..;../, *ii<am;i ui pai lj vu wiivui uic caj/iuoi>c is delivered, the quantity sold or so delivered, and the date of such sale or delivery. That such person selling or seeping for sale the explosives mentioned in this section be required to make sworn quarterly reports of such =alcs, name and ~ace of purchaser or purchasers, amount sold and date of ?ale, to the county auditor of each :ounty. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdeneanor, punishable by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.' "I have instructed all Game Wardens to visit all the hardware stores md concerns or places that handle dynamite and to see that proper records are kept in accordance with the section, and if they find dynamite provisions of the above mentio led seing sold except as provided for in this section, to make a case against the party or firm so doing. And, by an inspection of the records required to ae kept by dealers in dynamite. Game Wardens can ascertain who have b< en purchasing same, and thereby put cnemseives in Deuei position to Ktep in eye on the parties using same, and jnforce the laws prohibiting the i se )f dynamite for killing fish. "Since the war a great many de U?rs in dynamite are evidently unt er the impression that the records of sales of dynamite as required by S?ction 491 is no longer required. Su:h impression is erroneous; the law is plain; the records must be kept; ar d, j in order to put all on notice.' o MARS BLUFF GETS BRIDGE. Highway Commision Will Build the Bridge at Ferry Crossing. The state highway commission at ts June meeting in Columbia last week reached a decison as to the Pee Dee bridge, a matter that has been iianging fire for some time. The commission decided to carry jut if possible the wishes of the Pee' Dee bridge commission and to erect! the bridge, if it found that it can je done, at the point selected by the Pee Dee commission on the site of the present Mars Bluff ferry. The state commission had selected i site up the river from this point, its selection having been based on the topography, the cost of construction, he approach of the highway on both ddes and other engineering points. The highway department is to proteed with plans for the bridge and if it is found that the site selected by the Pee Dee commission can be used ind the federal aid secured lor tnei jridge at this point, the construction rill be rushed. . I An inheritance of $40,000 made i scarcely a ripple in the life of Joe j Bokau, member of the Kern post of; Lhe American Legion at Toledo. Bocau is a policeman. When notified of j lis good fortune he was asked if he! ntended quitting the police iorce. "i :an do greater service as a policeman ;han in any other way, and, after all, ,vhat pleasure is greater than that of ioing something worth vhile." he ;aid. ANDERSON BANKER TAKES OWN LIFE. Lee G. HoIIeman, President Peoples Bank, Fires Bullet Into Head. Left Note For Wife. Lee G. Holieman, president of the 'People's Bank of Anderson, shot himself through the head last week at a garage ir which he was interested^ There was no one in the garage at the time. A man across the street heard the shot and ran across to the garage. Hr. Holieman was dead when he reached him, one bullet from a 32 | calibre revolver having gone through his head, entering the right ear and coming out through the left. Theie was a directors meeting at 11 - ? ? -i. il _ i? -r it., i ?l_. I me DanK at me lime ui tne nageu.v and the directors were waiting for Mr. Holleman when they learned of his death. E. P. Vandiver, vice president, says the bank is entirely solvent and no one need worry over the condition! of the banlc. In the pocket of Mr. Holleman's, coat was a note to his wife with this' inscription on the envelope: "May the1 'great God protect you and forgivei ! me for whi t I am going to do." It is thoi ght that hard work, finan-1 jcial stringency and strain were the1 causes of the act. Mr. Holleman was of a jovial disposition and was the j last man in the community that | would have been thought to have tak-' I en his own life. ! Mr. Holleman was 49 years old, j j having been born in Walhalla January 1 4, 1872. He moved to Anderson in! : 1 fiQ9 ii-Vi/ivn Vio Vi?/?oino n Knnlfrtoner Jin a mercantile establishment. In ! 18899 he was one of the organizers of J the Peoples' Bank of Anderson, and I was assistant cashier and bookeepier until 1906. At the time he became the first bank examiner of South Caro 'linn, being appointed for a term of four years. He served only two years, iand then returned to Anderson to become president of the Peoples' Bank, ; an institution, which under his direction became one of the strongest ; banks in northwestern South Cr.rolira. Mr. Hollenr an has been secretary of! the South Carolina Bankers' associa-1 tion the last four years. Responsi-; bilities to thn city were never shirked by Mr. Folleman. He served as mayor of Anderson two years and as an alderman eight years. He was a member of the rotary club, a Mason, belonged to the Knights of Pythias, and the Methodist church. T 1 AA/? I ' I T in i?uo nj marnea ivuss jennie Copper, of Maryland, who survives him. The County Short Course a Success The success of the short course was due to the wonde'ful cooperation of the people of Kingstree and to the evry efficient help from the extension department. Forty girls were pres: ent representing thirteen rlubs. They had a good time together and enjoyed ' the hospitality of the Kingstree peo-1 pie. A full course of instruction as j published in last week's paper was carried out. I Five girls came up to the require-j rnents and ertired the bread contest. Miss Leta Mixhum was the county winner and will represent the county at the district coivest at which time Williamsburg has a good chance to win. The girls club meeting when the I girls were called on for reports from the state meeting was especially in- j teresting each one told of different: phasese of work and added touches of personal interest. The straw ride in trucks furnished j by the Kingstree Hardware Company) and the Builders Supply Company, to; Mr. T .M. Cooper's where ice cream i | was served will be remembered with I I pleasuie by all. Then I am sure the ! girls would tell you about the picture I _i ? ? j 4 snow wmcn was ananjjeu iui mem uu Thursday night. At a call meting of the county council Saturday afternoon we had a splendid talk by Mrs. .Kline on how we can best help ovr conuty and a report \ from the state chort course by Mrs. I Mims. Plans for a county market were discussed and a committee was : appointed to report at the next meet-1 ing which will be held at the demon- j stration office Friday, July 1st at j 10 o'clock. . o I The House late vesterday agreed to the Borah disarmament amendment to the naval appropriation bill. Wild. shout^greeted Representative Kelley of Michigan, in charge of the bill, , when he moved to concur with the 11 Senate in the Borah amendment. ADMIRAL SIMS REPRIMANDED. Officer Himself Says It Is What He Deserved. Secretary Rear Admiral William S. Sims,* as a result of the speech the admiral made in London June 7 in which he criticized the Sinn Fein sympathizers in America. In the reprimand Mr. Denby pointed out that once before the navy department had found it necessary to take similiar action against the officer for an address delivered in London in 1A1 i 1 r * L _ iL. ...UiLlLl lyi-i, anu nuernn iu uxe iicaxuxuh 1914, and referring to the text of that reprimand, added: "Your remarks on the occasion now under discussion, therefore, constitute a flagrant and deliberate disregard of specific instructions." While the naval secretary was making public the reprimand, Admiral Sims was calling on President Harding at the white house. It was explained that the admiral called to leave his card as the custom when high naval officers return from a trip ohrnnrl hut. that. thf> nreisdent invited him to chat for a few minutes. Upon leaving the white house, Admiral Sims, referring to the reprimand, said: "I got what I deserved?the same old thing." He added tha the regretted having caused the administration any inconvenience, but said that he now considered the incident closed. So far as could be learned the reprimand was not mentioned during the fxlmiral's visit to the president. Upon leaving the white house the officer joked with rewspaper correspondents, Asked if his conversation witr. the executive had been pleasant, he replied, sharply, but wit!: a snde. "Of course it was." o Suggests Pirates Operating on Co; . It was Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover who suggested the possibility of a pirate. The fact that exhaustive search has failed to locate a single member of the crew or to discover any trace of wreckage of the tanker has caused Mr. Hoover to believe that a revival of Captain ivicici s metnoas is at least a speculative theory." The only clew upon which investigators have had to work on suggests that the theory may be ever more than "speculative." Two months after the discovery of the Deering, a bottle message signed by the first mate was picked up. It stated that the vessel had been overhauled by "an oil burning boat resembling a submarine chaser" and that the crew had been held without a chance to escape. The message for the most part was illegible, but the writing has been positively identified as that of the mate. Senator Sale of Maine was respon sible for the widespread investigation that has been, and still is being conducted. Shortly after discovery of the Dee ring, Miss Lulu Worm well of Portland, daughter of Captain W. B. Wormwell of the Deering, called at his office. She was accompanied by her pastor the Rev. A. Lorimer. They urged that an investigation be made into the strange fate of Captain Wormwell and his crew. Affected by the poignant grief of Miss Wormwell, an exceedingly pretty girl of 24, Senator Hale at once arranged conferences with Secretary of Comn.erce Hoover, Attorney General Daughtery, Undersecretary of State Fletcher and with Treasury officials. Every effort has been made since that time to clear up the mystery. The Heweitt was a steel cargo vessel bound from Texas to Boston with a cargo of sulphur. The theory that she may have struck a stray mine has been abandoned. In that event wreckage would have been washed ashore, skilled navigators state. The presence of a stray mine in that sec tion, however, is not improbably it was stated by the Prince of Mcnoca, world authority on tide.; and currents, during his recent visit in Washingten. "The case of the two ships is as much a mystery as ever," said Eugene T. Chamberlain, commissioner of navigation recently. "I haven't thought much about the pirate theory, hut there is* so little to work on that one man's guess is as good as another." o The town council recently elected Mr. Harold U. Kinder to the office of chief of police, and he will probably enter upon his dut'^s of office early in July. PROMINENT BIDDERS ON SANTEE PROJECT ' BRIDGE COMMISSION WILL HOLD ITS NEXT MEETING JULY 6 AT BRIDGE SITE. When bids were* opened last week by the Santee Bridge Commission, at a meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce, it was found that some of the nationally known contractors, such as W. J. Oliver, who has constructed many railroad lines through4l* /\ Ia Art AIV . uui buc uuuuu)', Jiau ouuuui<cu "#>1 * ures for the construction of the approaches to the Santee bridge. . There was a total of twenty-five bids submitted, which ranged from $600,000 to $900,000, but the commission did not award the contract. It was the unanimous opinion of the members that careful consideration should be given to each bid, and for this reason it was decided to postpone the letting of the contract until some time within the next thirty days. The Simons-Mayrant Company, of Charleston, to whom the commission some time ago let the contract for the building of the sub-structure, now has a large force of workmen busy on * the job. At the same time the Atlantic Bridge Company was awarded the contract for the bridge proper. These ^ two items alone will cost $14,000, and it is estimated that the entire project will cost approximately $850,000, making the construction of approaches to the bridge the most expensive part of the job. It is stated that this is the largest job of its kind ever undertaken in this state and when the bridge is completed it will fill another link in the great highway extending through the South Atlantic coastal section. A vast amount of material will be v used on the job and a large force of , workmen will be employed, as it is an immense project, the specifications calling for the following items: 748,000 cubic yards of filling; 1,118,800 pounds of steel; 5,140 cubic yards of class A concrete; 8.840 lineal feet of timber piling; 11,180 lineal feet of concreate railing; 12,220 yards of rock asphalt paving; 37,200 lineal feet of piling; 5,700 cubic yards of sand clay for top surfacing; 26,000 feet of guard railing, and the clearing of the right of way of more than 105 acres. The following is the personnel of the Santee Bridge Commission; Messrs. W. King McDowell, Charleston, chairman; William Burguson, Charleston, secretary; C. J. Baker, Charleston; John McCrady, Charleston; S. A. Graham, Williamsburg; P. G. Gourdin, Williamsburg, and C. P. Ballentine and W. P. Russell, Berkeley county. A meeting of the commission, for the purpose of looking over the situation, will be held at the right of way of the bridge on July 6. o WILL KNOW FATE SOON. Republican Jobs Will Be List Within the Next Ten Days. Definite announcements from Washington with regard to office holders under the new Republican regime are expected to be forthcoming within the next ten days. It is stated by those interested in the new South Carolina ? Republican plans that announcement to this effect will be made before July 1, when the new fiscal year for the government begins. There is considerable speculation % ... i_ ^39 as to wftat tne situation wui Dnng forth. There has been definite announcement from several sources that John L. McLaurin, former Senator, will be the referee and yet there are prominent South Carolina Republicans who say that McLaurin will not manage the pie counter. It is stated with authority here that Senator McLaurin is slated for a position on the farm loan board, where he can represent the agricultural interests, and in return be in position to swing agricultural interests administrationward. 4' There are, it is said, nine candidates for the office of collector of internal revenue; the list including the names of J. A. Banks, of Calhoun county, former state senator; C. C. Campbell, Columbia, lumber man; "Red" R. Tolbert of Abbottsville, brother of Joseph W. Tolbert, South Carolina member of the Republican national committee, and others. Traders in the nroDOsed new Re publican party for South Carolina stated recently that complete announcement would be made from Washington by July 1st in regard to the proposed new party. v