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DEATH CLAIMS A GOOD MAN. | Percy Dolan Snowden Goes to his Reward After Long Suffering. ( (Reported for The County Record) After an illness of five years, following a stroke of paralysis, Mr. Percy Dolan Snowden passed away at his home rear Hemingway on Friday, January 27th. Fcr the past nine months he had been confined to his bed, suffering almost continuously. The end came veiy peacefully. At the time of his death, Mr. Snowden was sixty-six years and six months old. He was married fortyfive years ago to Miss Mary McGill, who with seven children survive him. The children are S. Davis and Clarence P. Snowden, Hemingway; Mrs. C. Dudley Cook. Rhcms; Mrs. James D. Munnerlyn, Choppee; Mrs. P. B. Watson. Gaffney; Miss Marguerite , Snowden and Mrs. W. C. Rogers, i Hemingway. For forty years Mr. Snowden has been an elder in Indiantown Presbyterian church. He walked upright before both God and man, and it may be t *uly said of him that his path was the "Path of the just that shineth more and more unco the pcrfeet , <Uy." His friends and loved ones, his ;ons and daughters will ever ( cherish his memory as a man always just and kind, whose life always squared utterly with his profession. His religion was a living realfty at . all times. v ; Mr. Snowden was buried at Indiantown church, at the spot he had marked for his last resting place, near the grave of his daughter, Omie, who died five years ago. The funeral services were held in the old church where he had worshiped his Master for more than half a century. The services were conduct' ed by Rev. W. A. Pritchett, pastor ~ ? * ? -i n r* * of Indian town cnurcr, ana rw>. v*. K. Way, pastor of Union Methodist church. The services were simple and in accordance with the tastes of Mr. Snowden. His favorite passages in ti e Bible were read, among them the beautiful expression of faith in God and the immortality of the soul, the fifteenth chapter of Corinthians. We who knew and loved him can only hope to be like him ard remember now "how good, how kind and he is gone." -O FOR CHARLESTON YARD Inquiry Shows No Trouble is Being Anticipated. , Inquiry at Washington develops the fact that there is no trouble about the two Charleston appropriation items for which Secretary of the Navy wwnomfli? MnnARlpH SDecial lee wuv/ ivwhm^ * w islation in a letter to the Speaker of the House. One of these items was for continuing the dredging at the yard, and the other was for a magazine for warheads at one of the piers. The amount carried by. each item, and approved by tSe budget directors and the president, is $36,000. The authorities of the appropriation committee hold that no special legislation is requited for these projects and they propose to take care of both items in the regular routine way in the forthcoming naval appropriation bill. One of the member.^ of the subcommittee which will prepare and handle this bill is Representative James F. Byrnes, of South Ceroli is. Teachers Pass Examination. The following report on the Teachers' examination for Williamsburg county which was held in the court horse here in October was handed us for publication by County Superintendent of Education M. F. Montgomery. The names of only those who passed the examination are given. Certificates will be mailed these per?r?w<2 an Aftriv Hntfi. White teachers:?Miss Thelitis Smith, Geo. L. Yarborough and Mrs. Pearl J. Sauls. Colored teachers:?Sellie Brown, Pearl Cooper, Florence Dozier, Sarah C Dozier, Sylvia L. Fulton, Alma B. Gamble, Metta Hanna, Alice McCottry and Ruth H. Pressley. ^ 1 o ????? ' n Card of Thanks. We desire to thank our friends and relatives who so kindly served our devoted husband and father during his long illness; for the many kinds words, messages and letters of sympathy, it was consoling in the hour of grief to know that our friends and relatives we're thinking of us. We would love to thank each one personally, but as it is impossible, we take this means of expressing our appreciations. Mrs. Percy D. Snowden and Family, o Noticing a North Carolina negro with some holly during Christmas we inquired if he knew the cause of so few berries on the holly this season. "Yas suh, boss; dem dam boll weevils done et all de berries up." -^Pickens Sentinel. > / \ DELEGATES CHOSEN MONDAY Will Represent Williamsburg at Sumter Meeting today. Tobacco growers from all sections of the county were here Monday bright and early regardless of the weather conditions which were not in the least propitious for men to drive over rough roads for long distances. A large percentage of the tobacco growers of this county have signed contracts which makes them members of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Association and their object here Monday was to elect six delegates to represent them at a convention being held in Sumter today at which the organization will be completed by the election of directors. 'A similar election was held throughout the tobacco belts of this state Monday. Those elected to represent Williamsburg are: Dr. W. S. Boyd, J. W. Cook, J. G. McCullough, R. C. McElveen, W. K. Mcintosh, L. F. Rhcm and two alternates, G. B. Kaddy and W. E. Nesmith. Nine hundred and fifty votes were cast. TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION ? Government Sale of Camp Lee on February bin. ^ Beating swords into plowshares is not as simple as it sounds, in fact the business of salvaging the war machine which goes tc salvage heap is no less intricate than interesting. Interesting is the home builder as well as the dealer, interesting to the bargain hunter, as nobody knows what the material will bring. By order of the Secretary of War, the next big army camp which goes to the scrap heap will be Camp Lee at Petersburg, Va. This will be sold in its entirety, at auction, beginning February 6th and continuing until completed. Mr. D. C. Clarke, president of the Louisville Real Estate and Development Company of Louisville, Ky., who has been accorded this duty, has already arrived at Petersburg with a score of assistants. In order to simplify the details of this immense auction, the entire camp has been divided ir.to twelve different areas with the contents of each listed separately. The idea of this is ' J-,J <!<? li/vrio KnilH IWU-1U1U, ill St> w guc XV UV...V er, the small buyer and dealer an opportunity to bid in such goods as he may require, and also to facilitate the movement of the immense equipment without confusion and delay. Selling a camp like Camp Lee is no new thing to Mr. Clarke and his organization, as he has successfully handled for the government propositions of similar nature involving millions of dollars in other parts of the country. o Items From Hemingway. Hemingway, Feb. 1.?Mr. Cartwright, the Colonial Creamery man from Florence, was here again Friday and Saturday. On Friday night he put "facts and figures" before a small but interested group of people. There are already a few who have separators and are shipping cream from here; It is probable that before long many more farmers will be putting their cream on the market. Mr. C. C. Campbell went to Darlington Saturday on business. Messrs. G. S. Hemingway and Duncan Campbell spent Sunday in Florence. V We are glad to have Mr. Melvm Cribb and family of Rome in our town. They have moved into the home recently vacated by Mr. Calcutt. Mr. A. J. Ham spent Monday in Kingstree. Messrs. J. M. Eaddy and E. L. Aid returned Saturday from Florence. Quite a number from here attended the funeral of the la$e Mr. Percy Snowden at Indiantown Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Eaddy and sons visited relatives in Johnsonville Sunday afternoon. Mrs. J. H. Wooten and daughter, Miss Inez and Mr. E. L. Rogers visited friends in Florence Sunday. o Never Fail School Notes. Honor roll for month beginning January 2nd, and ending January 27th: Grade I?Primary, Wilhelmina Tisdale, 93; Pearl Epp3, 90; David Guerry, 90; Annie Lee Strong, 90. Grade I?Advanced, William Tisdale, 91. Grade II?Marvin Driggers, 92. Grade III?Engrum Johnson, 96; Estelle Driggers, 95; Minnie Driggers, 93; Bardin Drivers, 90; Helen Epps, 90; Maude McClary, 91; Frank Strong, 91. Grade TV?William Johnson, 96; Britt Strong, 90. Grade VI?Willie Epps, 90. The following mode headmarks for the month: Marvin Driggers, 1; Mattie Strong, 1; Bennie Tisdale, 1; Susie Tisdale, 1; Estelle Driggers, 1; Marie Tisdale, 1; Engrum Johnson, 1; William Johnson, 1; Britt Strong, 1; Barth Strong, 1; Willie Epps, 4. Mrs. J. H. Nexsen, Teacher. CRIME RECORD HIGHER f c Forty Per Cent Increase Last Year v Over 1920. * Crime increase in South Carolina e in 1921 40 per cent over 1920, accord- s ing to the annual crime statistics J submitted by Attorney General Wolfe t in his annual report, laid on the desks s of the South Carolina General As- 1 sembly last week. The total number I of crimes for which indictments were brought by the fourteen solicitors of 1 the State in the circuit courts for | 1921, was 3,719. The total number oi indictments for 1920 was 2,640. Of the total number of cases tried in circuit courts last year, 2.664 defendants were found guilty. This compared with 1,888 who were convicted in 1920. Last year there were 542 found "not guilty" as compared with 513 cases nolleprossed or discontinued as compared with 399 8 the year before. There were in South Carolina last year 238 cases in circuit courts charg- 8 ing murder. Of these there were 84 * convictions. The preponderance of ^ crime, however, was stealing, larceny, 1 ? ? > i ? i I icrgery ana Durgiary cases, groupeu together far out-numbering other * crimes. ^ . ? ? n HORRIBLE DISASTER li IN WASHINGTON b (Continued From Page One) b | p by the seat, but it pinned me down j where I was crouching. The noise t was awful. It was a great, tremen- t dous roar. It was simply indescrib- u able. I never can forget it "In the midst of the roaring were * shrieks and cries of women and children and a few shouts of men. There were cries for help, groans and worst I of all, the moans of those in terrible pain. It was awful. I can't describe. I see it all the time?those n * poor children and men and women crying arid groaning there. "There were only a few of us in ? the balcony. Luckily there weren't i more. The balcony gave way and I crashed, soon after the ceiling began * to fall on those on the lower floor. They were caught the worst. We in c the balcony were more fortunate. t "I guess there was a lapse of may- 1 be 20 seconds, hardly more, before ? the balcony fell. Funny but it spun s """"J Vi*,^ nf fviafAH oq its snnnnrts s aivuiiU) aiiiu vx vft?w?vw >? - ~-rx?P? ? gave way and it swung down on those c below. It didn't go straight down, ^ just kind of slid sideways and slant- c ing, I suppose, from the weight of i the debris that had fallen on us upstairs. j "I don't know how I got out from j where I was crouching under that chunk of plaster that had fallen on me. I really believe it weighed all $ of 500 pounds. And I think I moved < that plaster with my shoulders. Any- | way, I crawled out between the seats ( to where I saw a small hole in the j plaster above. I forced myself up E through that hole, wiggling and shov- | ing. Then I crawled out over the j debris, to the doors on the Eighteenth E street sidCv 2 "Across the aisle from me when | the crash came was a little fellow? E I never saw him again and l wonder | if he is dead?wno laugneo ana roaren at every especially fuimy part of the film. I don't know what became of him or the others in the balcony after we were showered with plaster. "As the ceiling broke the plaster fell first in chunks. It was just like an ice pond breaking up. The roof didn't give way in one crash. It seemed to break up everywhere. That let in the snow which came in through the broken places where the ceiling had given way. "It's queer, but I was conscious all the time when I was pinned down under there by that great piece of ceiling; my mind, when I saw the ceiling falling and afterward, was just as clear and collected as it is now. I knew I was hurt some, but I didn't know how badly. It seemed that my time had come. I lived a year, I tell you, pinned down between the seats. "It wasn't until I got outside that I noticed blood falling from my face and hands. I got out myself. No one helped me. I crawled over the broken seats and plaster and snow to the door. On the way I saw a young fellow lying half curled up moaning and crying for help. I leaned over to lift him and then everything went black. The next I remember I was at the door wiping the blood from my eyes and mouth. I don't know how I got out. I didn't see any other injured ones as I crawled out. I can't remember about that part of it My only thought then was to get home before I should die. My chest pained me, ny back seemed broken, my face .was dripping with blood. All I wanted to do was to get home and tell my wife and little girl what had happened and how I was hurt. I thought I was going to die." Representative Smithwick, who lives about a block from the theater, said he staggered Home without overcoat or hat through the snow drifts. Physicians were summoned immediately, who found him suffering from shock, bruises and possibly internal injuries. "I think it was a miracle that I came out alive," said the Florida con- | V . . \ ; rressman. "But think of those poor children and men and women who rere not so fortunate. I don't see low any who were under the balcony scaped. If those below could have een the ceiling breaking they would lave had time to rush out through he door, but I guess they couldn't ee like we could in the balcony, [hose underneath us had no chance, guess." 11 COLOR INTO YOUR PALE CHEEKS F YOUR FACE IS YOUR FORTUNE. DONT LOOK LIKE A BANKRUPT. Who does not want red lips, a ;ood, clear, healthy complexion and right, flashing eyes? Some people have such wonderfully ;ood health nothing seems to hurt hlem. Others could so easily have ine color and more strength and vigor f they would help nature with Gude's 'epto-Mangan. It is a splendid iron onic that physicians have prescribed or thirty years. It is no^sn experiment. It is rot merely a temporary ielp, because it makes plenty of red lood and, as everybody knows, red lood is the only sure foundation of >ermanent health and strength. Get 'epto-Mangan of your druggist?and eke it a few weeks and see how much etter you feel and look. Sold in liqid and tablet form.?Advertisement. )ISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. IN BANKRUPTCY, n the matter of A. E. Flowers of Hemingway, in the County of Williamsburg and district aforesaid, a bankrupt. o the creditors of said bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the ?th day of January, 1922, the above tamed was duly adjudged bankrupt; tnd that the first meeting of his credtors will -be held at the office of see & Shuler, Kingstree, S. C., on he 18th day of February, 1922, at 2 o'clock noon, at which time the aid crceditors may attend, prove their J aims, appoint a trustee, examine the tankrupt and transact such other busness as may properly come before aid meeting. At this meeting will ilso be considered the sale of the stock of merchandise and other personal .property of the bankrupt, with>ut further notice to creditors. Jlaims must be filed in the manner irescribed by the rules of the supreme ourt for filing of claims in bankuptcy. ROBERT J. KIRK, Referee in Bankruptcy. Florence, S. C., February 1, 1922. 1-2-ltc. i i I Be S I Th I Thei I Simp I Ideal 1 Recomn 1 Un< JJ jN \ i W V fl ! T , 1\ f Nelso I 1 MMinninimmiHHnnmMMiniHMMMHi sj&ncC THE UNIVERSAL CAR : ? : I *"" NewPrices ^ F. O. B. Detroit ;; Chassis ... $285 Runabout 319 Touring Car . . . 348 Truck Chassis .,. . 430 Coupe 580 |i-;? Sedan 645 ; >. 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