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j| VOLUME 3fr-NO. 3g> 46 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C? THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 19225. PRICE SUP A YEAR IN ADVANCE ;|j
r MARION IS ELECTED
TO SUPREME BENCH
AFTER ALL CANDIDATES WITHDRAW
EXCEPT BONHAM AND
MARION. VOTE 83 TO 72.
The election to the supreme bench
of John Hardin Marion, state senator
from Chester county, by the legislature
last Thursday, necessitates the
election of a new senator from that
county. Senator Marion Mill be
sworn in as judge during the next
few weeks, it is expected, so that he
will be able to take his seat at the
April term of the supreme court, and
to assume his duties with the court
without material delay.
Judge Marion' is one of the most
prominent members of the General
Assembly. He is finishing up his second
term as senator, and prior to his
service in the upper branch he was,
in 1889, 1899 and 1900 member of the
House. Possibly his most remarkable
service for the state was the investigation
of the tax system, made by
a committee of which he was chairman,
in 1920, the report of which was
the origination of the new revenue
bills now on the calendars, providing
gasoline taxes, state income taxes
and the like.
Judge Marion is a lawyer at Chester,
senior member of the firm of Marion
and Marion. He wns born in
1874 and is a native of Chester county.
He is a graduate of the old
South Carolina College, with literary
and law degrees. His wife was Miss
Mary Davidson, of Chester. He served
in the Spanish American war as
a second lieutenant, of Co. D, first
South Carolina regiment He was
afterwards in the National Guard, retiring
in 1907 as lieutenant colonel
of the first regiment.
Senator Marion is today receiving
congratulation from members of the
two branches of the legislature on his
election. The first man to congratulate
him was Senator Proctor Bonham,
of Greenville, son of General M.
L. Bonham, who ran a close second
to Senator Marion in the race for the
justiceship, and who was his father's
"campaign manager" through all of
\ the balloting.
Senator Marion was elected on the
forty-seventh ballot, in an election
which started last year and which at
the end of the 1921 legislative session
was in a hopeless deadlock. The balloting
was resumed Thursday, six
ballots being taken during the morning
session and two in the afternoon
assembly. During the morning, at
the end of the second ballot, the name
of Judge Shipp, of Florence, was
withdrawn. "After the first afternoon
ballot, the seventh of the day, the
name of Jesse F. Carter, of Bamberg,
was withdrawn. The eighth ballot
for this year resulted 83 for Marion,
72 for Bonham, and Marion was declared
elected.
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Death of Mrs. W. V. Nexsen.
Mrs. Nexsen, beloved wife of W.
V. Nexsen, died at her home near
town early Thursday morning, January
12th, after a long and lingering
illness. Before her marriage about
25 years ago, Mrs. Nexsen was Miss
? Catherine Smith Lewis, of Bennettsfr*
ville. Since that time she has been
living at her home about four miles
east of Kingstree, where she proven
herself a loving wife and mother,
a kind and sympathetic neighbor.
She is survived by her husband, W.
V. Nexsen, two sons, Edwin and Ralph
Nexsen, and one young daughter, Miss
Fannie Nexsen. The sympathy of the
tcwn and community is extended to
them in their bereavement
Besides her immediate family, she
leaves the following brothers and sisters
to mourn her loss: T. H. Lewis,
Jacksonville, Fla.; W. H. Lewis,
"Wadesboro, N. C.; Jas. Lewis and
John A. Lewis, Bennettsville, S. C.;
Mrs. Fannie Swann, New York, N.
Y.; Mrs. Lula McDaniel, Salters Depot,
S. C.; and Mrs. Emma McDaniel,
Kingstree.
. \ The remains were intered at the
Williamsburg cemetery by the side
of her three small children, who had
preceeded her into the Great Beyond.
Ti e Rev. John W. Davis conducted
the funeral services. The beautiful
floral offerings testified to the love
tand high esteem in which this good
woman was held.
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Mr. R. R. McFadden of Olanta,
spent several days this week here
with his brother, Mr. J. F. McFadden.
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TOBACCO CAMPAIGN El T iDED
Farmers May Sign Contracts Up tc
January 30.
Florence, Jan. 18.?The last date
for signing the co-operative tobaccc
marketing contract will be February
2nd. The Executive Committee a1
Raleigh, N. C., has allowed the various
campaign committees to continue ar
active drive for new signers on the
same basis until February 2nd which
time the Board of Directors will assume
control. Those signing at the
meeting or prior to the meeting al
their respective courthouses January
30th will be allowed to participate ir
; the election for delegates on that date
The first lap in the race for cooperative
marketing of tobacco has
been won. All three states have exceeded
by a liberal margin their minimum
percentages. While South
Carolina has twice as much to gair
from the successful operation of the
plan, yet Virginia and North Carolina
are way ahead of South Carolina
in amount signed up. The total
amount signed by the three states ai
shown by the contracts at Raleigh tc
January 1st, gives a grand total ol
352,901,437 pounds. Of this amount
South Carolina had contracts, to January
let shnu-inc a total of 29.214.
824 pounds. More than 61,000 contracts
have been signed in the three
states.
The present organization as it now
stands will (supervise and arrange foi
the elections which are to be held al
the various county court houses
throughout the three states on January
30th. Each signer will vote foi
delegates on this date, who in tunwill
elect directors on February 2nd
The delegates for the first district
will assemble in Florence for the purpose
of electing a director for that
district, while those elected in the
second district will meet in Sumtei
to elect a director for that district
The headquarters of the organization
committees are now making all
the arrangements for these elections
in South Carolina. One of their du ??!*<?
tn nftfifv oo/>Vt nf the fchous
ands of signers in this state by lettei
to attend these county meetings or
January 30th. Each signer of a contract
whether he receives his notice
or not is expected to attend this meeting
at his <>ounty court house or
Monday, January 30th, at ten o'cloci
a. m. He is also requested in this
notice to bring one or two new signers
with him on that date. It is
emestly hoped by the campaign committee
that each and every signet
will do his duty and heed this request
Some of the tobacco growing counties
in this state already have ovei
1.200 signers. Consequently, it is expected
that some of the court houses
in these counties will be filled tc
capacity on that day. A few small
I warehouses are runninc in the Bur
ley district of Kentucky to accomodate
those outside of the pool. In commenting
on the situation, the Lexington
correspondent of "Tobacco," z
New York tobacco journal, has the
following to say on January 9th:
"Prices generally were regarded as
good. The Burley pool, in whidi
nine-tenths of the Kentucky crop is
signed up, generally is credited foi
the increase in prices, and it is the
belief that the pooled crop will bring
still higher prices, as the tobacoc
pooled is said to be of much bettei
quality than that outside the pool."
In commenting further on the situation,
he says: "As there is little
tobacco outside the pool, it is expected
that all the unpooled tobacco will
be sold within the next two weeks."
The Kentucky association will begin
to offer theirs over their 120
warehouse floors during this month.
The large tobacco companies have
promised the association a square
deal, and thus dawns a new era in
the marketing of tobacco by the cooperative
plan.
Anyone desiring contracts for himi
self or his neighbor can obtain same
! bv dropping a postal to the Tobacco
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Lanes News Notes.
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Mr. J. A. McCulloujrh went to town
Monday.
Mr. Palmer, state superintendent of
j the Sunday schools, s^ave an address
here Sunday which every one enjoyed.
Our postmaster, Mr. Edward Parker
went to Charleston Monday night.
Miss Wylma McCulIough of Salters,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Graham went
to Kingstree Monday.
Mrs. P. C. Shirer, who has been
quite sick, is much better.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Baggett moved
into their new home last Tu^day.
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INSURANCE OF CROPS I
.! WILL BE PROPOSED
' METHODS OF CARRYING IT TO I
BE DISCUSSED AT NATIONAL
CONFERENCE.
Washington., Jan. 16.?Insurance of
' crops as a method of stablizing prices t
1 of farm products is expected to be one
of many suggestions put forward at
' the national agricultural conference
' which opens here January 23, for in- *
elusion in a permanent national farm t
1 policv. Discussion within the confer- j
eiic^ would be expected to# develop e
whether the propo?ents would recommend
that the insurance be carried
whether the proponents would rec- 1
private companies or through government
aid. o c
Hail insurance already has been r
tried by tobacco growers, and storm c
insurance is in force in some sect;or.s s
of the West, but for the first time c
experts expect to see the quesion *
presented for an insurance again.'" all
crop risks.
Crop insurance has been tested to t
a certain extent, it was declared, both c
by mutual farmers' companies and by (
nrivate insurance comuanies, and agri- s
cultural experts declare it has proved i
1 successful. I
J Balancing production with consump- j
tion is another important topic which s
the conference leadeis expect to see c
' come up. The relation of the supply r
' or' crops and foodstuffs to markets has
been studied, and suggestions which c
are likely to come from conference (
1 delegates, it was said, range all the i
' way from the old acreage limitation s
' to a more careful study of world 1
production and consumption.
' Along with this would go crop sur- c
J veys in America which would enable I
the producers, in the opinion of agri- a
cultural leaders, in advance of crop fc
planting to gauge the consumption g
1 demand. 1
The importance of developing stat- i
istical information was pointed out by c
experts in discussing this subject. 1
They said that for vers figures on f
production have been fairly complete, f
but similar data on consumption have s
been shy. Valorization, or price fix- t
ing, was said to be in the minds of j
several delegates. t
Leaders of the conference predict "j
that the labor question inevitably will s
arise, since the presence of railway c
executives and Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of t
Labor, and of many representative a
employers as conference members will j
bring the two sides of the question a
together. j
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Another Veteran Passes. s
' Mr. Isaac* Montgomery, one of j
W illiamsburg ( county's oldest and
! mpst highly respected citizens died r
at his home on the Kingstree-Man- s
ning road Tuesday night from Bright's t
1 dease. The deceased was 84 years of r
age and was born and reared in Wil- t
liamsburg county, infact the whole r
' of his long and useful life was spent j
J as a farmer in the community where r
! hp died. r
At the outbreak of the war between 1
! the States he became a member of t
' the Wee Nee company of which Capt. C
[ John Pressley was in charge. Dur- C
t ing the campaign in Virginia he was t
wounded at Drurie's Bluff and left t
on the battle field for dead, but was s
1 later picked up and came home on o
furlough. Upon his recovery he re- a
, turned to his command and remained t
in active service until the end of the v
war in 1866. t
He was never married, and until
about three weeks before his death
was in apparently good health and
lead an active life. He was a member
of the Brewington Presbyterian F
church from early manhood and was
one of its elders when he died. He I
was buried there at 3:00 o'clock yes- j
terday afternoon. ja
The deceased is survived by one: n
brother, S. S. Montgomery, of the j c;
I immediate family, but he leaves a i n
number of close family connections i G
in this county. p
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At Orangeburg Saturday Claude J. 1'
I Rast, charged with official miscon- a
duct while chairman of the county tl
board of commissioners, was found tl
guilty with recommendations to the tl
mercy of the court and was sentenced P
by Judge Prince to serve nine months tl
in the State penitentiary or upon the tl
public works of Orangeburg county
and to pay a fine of $500. Notice of
appeal was given by counsel for the g
defense and Judge Prince fixed t%e bi
bond at $1,000. t<
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MILLION JOBS SEEN
AS MONEY CHEAPENS
5RA OF GREAT ACTIVITY IN
SPRING IS CONFIDENTLY
PREDICTED.
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The Washington Correspondent of
he New York Herald sends out this
heerful news:
More than $I,000,00(/,000 in capital
>elieved to be lying idle in banks and
rust companies represents jobs for
,000,000 men and women for one year
iach. Government reports show that
he average industrial worker's earnngs
are $1,000 a year.
That this tremendous reservoir of
apital will be drained dry by midsumner
is the conclusion of Government
ifficials who are studying the labor
ituation and economic and business
onditions. The belief, if justified,
neans a job for every one who wants
o work next summer.
Manufacturers, promoters and buildrs
are beginning to draw on the
ash reserv e as interest rates descend.
Theap money is encouraging expanion
of business plants. Call money
n New York recently went to 3V4
>er cent During the war and in the
>eriod of inflation following the
irmistice call money touched 20 per
ent These quotations show that call
noney is becoming cheaper.
Interest rates have a direct effect
>n the pocketbook of every family,
jcvernment officials point out to those
nclined to think of Wall Street as
lomething far away from the daily
ife of the average worker.
Cheap money, it is emphasized, is
oming to mean employment for milicns
now idle because manufacturers
ind corporations are beginning to
sorrow to build additions and lay in
tocxs or raw material ai present
ow prices. Workers receive approxmately
90 per cent in the long run
>f every dollar spent in such ways,
rhe budding to house the expandedactory
is by workers who get apnoximately
50 per cent of what the
tructure costs. The same proporons
hold true for the money ex>onded
for machinery and raw mae
rials. Labor constitutes more than
r0 per cent of the cost of producing
;teel, castings and raw materials like
o;>per ore, coal and the like.
The United States Steel Corporaion
is now spending $10,000,000 on
idditions and betterments. The railoads
are buying rolling stock, rails
tnd other supplies. Farmers are givng
orders to mills manufacturing
ertilizers. Textile mills are buying
itocks of raw cotton and wool against
he time when business conditions im>rove.
Spring is the time fixed in the
ninds of officials as the beginning of
in era of businesa activity. During
he remaining winter months business
nen and manufacturers will be cononf
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nade in climbing out of economic deiression.
To the workers these gains
epresent jobs for at least 2,000,000
nore men and women than were reguarly
at work a year ago. At that
ime unemployment involved 5,000,00
persons. Not more than 2,500,00
are idle now, it is estimated, and
he total may be but 2,000,000. If
his estimate is correct the nation is
hort just 1,000,000 jobs, it is pointed
>ut. This is because in normal times
it least 1,000,000 workers are coninually
out of work because of the
wholesale shifting from one position
o another.
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EXTENSION OF TAXES
tequested by Mass Meeting Here
Last Week.
At a mass meeting of citizens held
t the courthouse here last Thursday
ight, of which Mr. A. C. Hinds was
hairman, resolqtions were unanimously
adopted requesting that the
leneral Assembly extend the time of
aying taxes without penalty in wnujrtsburg
county until September 1,
922. It was stated in the resolution
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dopted that cotton and tobacco are
ie two money crops of the county,
lat doring the past year because of
ie bool weevil not more than a 20
er cent cotton crop was made and
lat the farmers were forced to sell
leir tobacco for "practically nothing."
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There may not be a large profit in
rowing tobacco in Sumter county,
ut boll weevils have not yet begun
> chew tobacco.?Sumter Item.
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TRIO PASTOR POUNDED
Miss Claudia Taylor Becomes Bride
of Mr. Acy Cooper.
Trio, Jan. 16.?A severe pounding
was given the pastor of Trio Methodist
church last Wednesday night
by the citizens of Trio irrespective of
denominational lines, it came in the
form of a serenade, the parsonage
building which has been under construction
for about a year and a half
had been nearly enough completed for
the neighbors and the preacher's wife
to move the parsonage's effects into
the house Wednesday p. m., while the
preacher was working away trying to
get ready to move. Just as the parsonage
family had finished supper
and retired to the living room there
was a knock at the door which when
opened admitted men, women, and
children with armful s of packages of
different sizes and shapes which were
taken by the bearers to the dining
room and piled upon the table and
floor. Professor Roy Register was
called on to make a speech which he
did in a masterly way stating that
they had come to congratulate us
upon our moving jnto our new home
and bring along a substantial evidence
of appreciation of our efforts among
them and wish for us a prosperous,
fruitful year in the work in which
we are. engaged. The preacher
responded after which the folk
went into the front room and were
entertained by Professor Register and
Miss Helen Hinant, each rendering
some excellent music on the piano.
After an hour spent in conversation
those who had stormed the parsonage
quietly departed leaving the preacher
and his family free to make an investigation
of the packages which
were found to contain only that which
is necessary in a well supplied pantry,?everything
that is needed there
was brought along and a supply for
many days.
Mr. Editor, have you ever been the
victim of a pounding, or taken part
in giving the other fellow one? If
you have, you have a remote idea of
what it was, but that seems to be the
fountain head as it were as I was out
Saturday in the home of one of our
Concord members who loaded my Ford
car with corn, potatoes and meat
after sending two extra large ldads
of firewood?one of blackjack oak and
the other of fine lightwood, and yesterday
at church assurance was given
that wood was coming with which to
cook, all of which is greatly appreciated
and calls forth the best there
ic in o mow
On New Year's Day late in the
afternoon the friends and relatives
of Mr. Acy Cooper and Miss Claudia
Taylor assembled at the preacher's
home at Trio and saw them quietly
married. The young couple have the
best wishes of their many friends
for a life of happiness and prosperity,
They are at home to their friends at
Blakeley, S. C.
Shall be delighted to vave our
friends call to see us in our new home
on Martin Avenue, and would be delighted
to have you, Mr. Editor, when
in our town call on us. There are
sounds near of more of the pounding?a
friend at Blakeley was inquiring
Saturday whether we have room
to store a load of corn. Let the good
woork go on, and the richest blessings
of the Lord rest upon the people is
the prayer for them of G. T. Rhoad.
Andrews Boy Accidentally Killed.
Leon S. Foxworth, 11 years old,
accidentally shot and killed himself
almost instantly at his home in Andrews
last Thursday afternoon when
he attempted to place a loaded shotgun
in a chair without a bottom in
it and then tried to stand in the chair
to reach some object on the wall.
No one saw him when the fatal shot
was fired, but the lad managed to
walk from the kitchen, where the
accident happened, to the doorway of
the back porch, where he fell on his
face dead. His mother saw him fall
The shotgun, a single barrel hammer
type, was found by the lad's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Foxworth,
inside the rim of the chair. He had
expressed his intention of going hunting
that afternoon, having on his
hunting coat at the time of the accident.
Leon Foxworth was a student in
the graded school and a member of
the Baptist Sunday school. He was
a general favorite with all of his
schoolmates. Besides his mother and
father, the lad is survived by a younger
sister. The remains were taken
to Timmonsville Saturday morning
where the interment t >ok place in the
family burying ground.
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ARCHDEACON DRANE \
HERE TONIGHT '
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ARY WILL LECTURE AT
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Archdeacon Frederick B. Drane, a
note<l missionary of the sub-artic y
field, who has been engaged for several
years in Alaska will deliver an $
illustrated lecture at the Baptist ^
church here this evening at 7:45 ; \
o'clock, to which the public is cordially
invited.
Archdeacon Drane is a native of ^
North Carolina. As an Episcopal <&
minister he has distinguished himself
by his wonderful work1 in frigid Alas- ,
ka among the dwellers of the sub- ' j
arctic region. For the past week Dr.1 *|
Drane has been in Charleston where
he has delivered a number of addresses
to religious bodies of that city. j
He is an excellent speaker and has *
a message for the citizens of Kings- ,:i
tree that will be interesting and in- ,
structive.
Dr. Drane will appear in costume
demonstrating how they dress and . . ^
travel during winter in the sub-arctic a
country, "this," he writes us, "I "give %
in conjunction with the missionary (1
data and the effort of the chureh in Jl
central Alaska."
The services scheduled at this place ;
and hour will give way to Dr. Dprane. . - -1
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News From Hemingway.
Hemingway, Jan. 18.?An interest- ..J
ing orchard demonstration was held '
here Tuesday at 11 a. m. Mr. Cathcart,
farm demonstrator, and Mr. C.
A. Owens, extension horticulturist
gave a demontration in pruning.
The spraying demonstration was neeoccoVilv
mil nff nn nrwinnl nf rain
The people of our community should
take a greater interest is th&r home
orchards. Pruning and winter spraying
should be completed this month,
s Mr. A. J. Ham spent the week-end |
in Florence.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Campbell and
Mr. Duncan Campbell spent the week- %
end with Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Campbell
at Gibson, N. C.
Mr. D. G. Huggins went to Colum- jj
bia on business Monday.
Mrs. B. J. Guess loft Wednesday !
for Columbia to, attend a meeting of '/
the Inter-state Missionary Social
Committee of the M. E. Church South. , j
Miss Vema Ard returned to Florence
Sunday after spending part of
last week at home on account of the g
illness of her father, who, we are r.
glad to report, is able to be ,out again. j
Mr. W. T. Hemingway visited his
mother at Rome Sunday.
Miss Wilma Harmon of'Florence,
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dim in!, ovk voiu ul ruiiijsiiw, visiteru \
the former's mother here Sunday. / J
Mr. Clarence Creel and family have
moved to their farm near Johnsonville.
We regret very much the loss \ Q
of Mr. Creel and his family. Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Cox have moved to town
and are living in the house vacated rj
by Mr. Creel.
Miss Annie Bumey left Monday for
Charleston to visit her brother, Mr.
J. D. Bumey.
Master Marion Eaddy entertained
about thirty of his little friends last
Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock.
The occasion being his eighth birthday.
They enjoyed games for awhile.
Then were ushered into the dining
room, where on the table was the
birthday cake with eight lighted
candles. Mrs. J. M. Eaddy, assisted
by Mrs. L. G. Day and Miss Dess
Gowdy, served the guests to fruit
punch and pound cake. As they ,
marched out of the dining room they fg
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ing their departure, they wished their
little friend many happy returns. < - The
young girls' Sunday scho*
class closed its membership campaign
New Year's Sunday and on last Friday
night the losing side entertained
the winners and the young people of
town at the home of Mrs. L. L. Lambert.
Several interesting contests and
games were entered into, and enjoyed
by all. During the evening home
made candy and apples were served. *
Mr. F. E. Huggins is building i
bungalow on Geprge street.
Mr. Douglas Inghram has accepted
a position with Eaddy & Creel Bros.,
at Poston. ,
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The Gulf States will be in the throes
'of a cold wave tomorrow, the weather
bureau announced last night. Much
colder weathe will overspread the
region of the Sast Gulf States.
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