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(Emmtu VOLUME 36 NO .J* t) V THE COUNTY RECORD, KIN<JlTREE, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922. 1922. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE SLIGHT INCREASE IN j MONEY MEASURE FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS OUT BILL. CHANGES ARE MADE. Carrying cnly an actual increase of $70,561.46 over the house bill, the general appropriation bill was reported oat by the finance committee last night with its amendments * changing a majority of the sections f of the measure. The biil of the house provided for ' * total appropriations of $5,670,610.83, while the senate finance committee : measure as reported last night raises the figure to $5,741,171.29. Some material changes are made by the senate committee, including a big advance to the public schools over the house measure and the cutting ; * * Kit tKo OQt 01 IQ6 prvvisjuiif mauc uj vuv i | house to repay loans from the sinking fund commission to Winthrop, < ( the university and the state hospital. 1 This action by the committee struck i out of the house bill approximately : $170,000 and the committee struck out $100,000 from the appropriation i for pensions by providing that per- j sons eligrible for pensions should i draw but $1 if their annual income i is $1,000 or more. ] More for Schools. This $370,000 represented the big j decrease made in the bill by the ] finance committee while the main in- < crease was to the superintendent of ] education's office whicn was tavanc- i ed from $1,186,700 as in the house i bill to. $1,321,640, an increase of $126,140, the largest mp.de by the j committee. Superintendent Swear- , ingen ha<i asked for an increase of , $621,000 over the house bill. ] < ^ The committee restored several . ^positions abolished by- the house and ] adopted a rule of equalizing all the clerks as far as possible. For ex- ( amide all the chief clerks of depart- ] ments were restored to $2,400 -in con- 5 trast to varying salaries fixed by the boose. t The bill, according to the figures < , submitted by the finance committee, < would carry a levy of seven and one- \ half mills as compared with five mills < in the house measure. This increase ] Was made necessary because of the ] j apparent failure of some of the new i revenue measures tnai me nuuac ^ I PMsed. i Only minor changes arc made in < the legisative and judicial depart- , ' meat, the committee restoring the ' , salaries of the supreme court em| pioyees to the same basis as 1921. , k* In the governor's office the record- } f ing clerk and stenographer are com- ; bined in one position with an extra j $800 for additional clerical help. An emergency clerk for one year, ] election year, is provided at a salary of $2,160 for the secretary of state's office over the house bill. In the comptroller general's office the pension fund is reduced by $100,000 and $15,000 is added for auditing j' county- of rices, ftv: The adjutant general's office is in- 1 creased from $31,202.50 to $55,996.50. J Decrease for University, f Hie University cf South Carolina & . is decreased from $247,418.70 to $193,- 1 808.7$, the big cut being $54,000 due ^*tbe sinking fund commission. A pro- 1 i vision is attached to the bill to allow ' | the university to retain hospital and 1 . dormitory fees. * " 1 _ 1 Practically no changes were mans ; y - in the figures for CI em sen, the state treasurer and a number of other de. partments and institutions. , ] Winthrop college, while reduced from $396,296 to $373,130, really gets more as everything asked for by the 1 outbotftier was granted except money to complete a building. The reduction was in the sum owed the sinking fund commission, which the sen- J ate^truck out. * The John de la Howe school is in- 1 creased from $38,222 to $56,702. Among the items increased or restored in the department of educa- j ' tkm was the mill school supervisor, j which was not provided for by the ^; house. j In the t.oard of public welfare the salary of the secretary is increased fmh $2,**) to $3,000. I the lav enforcement department is ?Y raised frt a $12,000 to $28,000. t The chairman of the tax commisjLv ? - aiqn is raised from $2,500 to $3,600 Wc. ' ?-jand more changes are expected to be ( fz ' . *^ade as the tax commission will have flb-carry out the provisions of the new revenue program. In the railroad commission item (Continued on last page) lb , DR. W. V. BROCKINGTON. Passed Away This Morning at his Home after Tyo Weeks Illness. Dr. William Virginius Brockington, born in Kingstree March 7. 1868, died at his home on Academy street at 2:00 o'clock this morning after an illness of about two weeks. Dr. Brockington was a son cf the late Dr. J. S. Brockington and Virginia Singleton, his wife. He was reared in Kingstree and well known throughout the county where his friends are numbered by the score. It was only necessary to mention the name "Doctor Jack" which many of his friends affectionately termed him for short, and our Dr. Brockington became recognized in most any company of the elder citizens of Williamsburg. He has spent his life among them, as one of them. Although it became known several days ago that Dr. Brockington's condition was critical, and that his physicians held out little or no hope of his recovery, the announcement of his death came as a greivous surprise to his host of friends and fellow citizens this morning. Early in life he attended the South Carolina college and later studied medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, at Athens. He possessed a natural inclination for medicine and he was graduated with distinction. On January 8,1890, he married Miss Mamie Rush of Blackville, S. C., who he first met here as a teacher in the 3ld Kingstree Academy., To this happy union was born one child, a daughter. Mrs. Ada Brockington Gourdin, ivife of Mr. P. G. Gourdin. In late years Dr. Brockington had Eibout given up the active practice % * Al )f medicine to devote his time to me drug business he has conducted in Kingstree for a number of years in i building located on the site where lis father's office once stood. For some years past and until his ieath, Dr. Brockington was the local physician of the Atlantic Coast Rail oad company. Funeral services will take place at die residence tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock followed by interment in :he Williamsburg cemetery. The acave pallbearers will be Messrs. L. W. Gilland, W. S. Gilland, J. D. O'Bryan, L A. VanKcuren, W. T. Wilkins, E. C. Burgess. The medical profession of Kingstree >vill act as honorary pallbearers as follows: Dr. D. C. Scott, Dr. W. G. Gamble, Dr. E. T Kelley, Dr C T. Fecobs, Dr. B. M. Montgomery, Dr. T. S. Hemingway, Dr. T. C. Harper. ITie deceased is survived by his ievoted wife and daughter and two sisters: Mrs. Louise Gilland and Mrs. Marian Kirkpatrick of Lowndsville, in Abbeville county. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian church. -o Meeting of Rome Book Gub. Rhems, March 6.?On Thursday afternoon, March 2, Mrs. L. B. Johnson entertained the Rome Book Gub at her home near Rhems. The guests were met by Mrs. Johnson and Miss Effie Zimmerman, and were conducted t j the spacious parlor in which the meeting was held. Roll call was answered with the lame of an ante-bellum statesman. After the minutes were read and unfinished business attended to, the election of officers for the club year was held. The elections resulted as follows: president, Mrs. L. F. Rhem; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. G. K. Way; program committee, Misses Annie Wilson, Emmie Snow, and Mrs. G. K. Way. Other officers will be appointed by the incoming president The literary program for the day was then carried out. Miss Emmie Snow read an interesting and instructive paper on the life of John - ? ? * XT "Pi O?Ut C Calhoun, ana xnrs. n. xv. ouuui jave a reading which was greatly unjoyed. During the social hour, the hostess served a salad course with hot chocolate. This club has proved a great help to the social and intellectual life yf the community, and its cemi-monthly meetings are always enjoyed. O In Bankruptcy. L. S. Dennis, trading as The Cash Store, on last Saturday filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District court at Charleston, setting forth liabilities of $9,137.74 and assets of $6,849.18. Attorney Edwin L. Hirsch represents the petitioner. Subscribe now for The Record. / AIKEN VILLAGE | HIT BY CYCLONE FIVE KILLED AND MANY INJURED BY DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Aiken, March 7.?A cyclone, bringing death and desolation in its blast, swept over the hills of the little mill town of Warrenville, Horsecreek Valley this morning before daybreak, and left in its wake the dead bodies of five people, crushed and mangled, beneath the debris of their humble cottages. The village of Steifletown, near Graniteville, was al60 visited by the roaring whiri, and it, too, suffered in loss of property and in wounded villagers, the center of a row of houses in the thickest part of the settlement being swept away and twisted into a mass of scattered timber, tin and brick. There are score of injured, many of them seriously, Mrs. Lr.varia Wood, mother of the two dead children, being among those badly hurt. The telephone, electric light and telegraph wires were all down and the roads blocked by unrooted* trees, and it was nearly 7 o'clock before aid could be rushed from Aiken. Miss Agnes Campbell, of the Aiken Chapter of the Red Cross, at once drove to the scene and established headquarters for the wounded in one of the mill houses, Aiken physicians, Dr. Hastings Wyman, Dr. P. L. Nevil, Dr. Wright and Dr. Greene, of Horsecreek' Valley, attended the suffering. Mr. R. G. Tarrant and Miss Eleanor Phelps, of the Red Cross, were on the scene. Twenty-two houses in Warrenville were torn to pieces by the fearful v/ind, and five in Stiefletown were upset or carried away. One garage from the hill was carried from .its foundations twenty-five feet and landed on the porch of a home opposite Uomu nnlfie ill OUCllClvnii, ?iwi/ i^vivo across the tracks ?f the Southern Railway delayed the Augusta morning train to Charleston three hours. GEORGIA CONVICT ARRESTED. Man Who Entered Ward Home Escaped Prisoner From Hfton. Chief of Police Kinder did a good piece of work Monday in rounding up the goods stolen Sunday afternoon from the home of Mr. David Ward near town, while all the members of the family were absent from the house. Chief Kinder located the stolen articles which consisted of a suit of clothes and some underwear, in the home of another negro and after recovering these he found the suspect and arrested him. He gave his name as Clearance Britt, and admitted to the police that he was an escaped convict from Tifton, Ga. Chief Kinder was already in possession of the man's description from the authorities at Tifton and upon being lockname as Clarence Britt, and admithis identity as the man wanted in Tifton and expressed his readiness to return there. There is a reward of $50 for the negro. o Shooting Affair at Darlington. Darlington, March 7.?D. Motte, of this city, shot and probably fatally wounded J. E. Bailey, also of Darlington, here today. The shooting occurred at Mr. Motte's combination store and gasoline station on the edge of the city. The business had recently been bought from Bailey by Motte. It is reported that Bailey had misrepresented the amount of business which he had been doing and which lie is said to have told Mr. Motte that he could do at the same stand. Several people who had been customers of Bailey, it is alleged, say that ' Bailey was selling gas at a very lew figure.* After taking over the business, Motte raised his price on gasoline and his business declined considerably as a result, it is reported. This is said to have caused Motte to call Bailey into the store at 3 o'clock today with the remark that Bailey was wanted at the telephone. The shooting was done with a shotgun, the load entering Bailey's chest, j Motte then proceeded to the sheriff's office and surrendered. Motte is seventy years old and Baileys age is thirty-five. Doctors attending Bailey I say that he has no chance whatsoever to live, although he war still alive at 5 o'clock this afternoon. f Send u/your orders for job printing COTTON CONTRACTS BEING SIGNED LARGEST AMOUNT PLEDGED SO FAR IS 3000 BALES. SMALLEST ONE BALE. Collumbia, March 6.?Farmers of i 1 South Carolina are going to sell their 11922 crop of cotton co-operatively. i i The tremendous enthusiasm with which the campaign for signatures to the contract is being pushed in almost every county in the state indicates that the 400,000 bales which must be signed May 1, 1922 to make the contract operative will be easily forthcoming. In only a very few of the counties has there been any delay in the campaign and these counties are expected to be in line within the next ten days. The contracts are being signed by large and small farmers alike, xne largest contract received at the offices of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association here to date is for 3,000 bales. The smallest is for one bale. Incidentally it might be said that several of the latter have been received. Those who 1 {are pushing the campaign say that the benefits derived by the large and the small farmer will be the same i in proportion. The bankers and business interests of the state are lining up strongly behind the movement They take the position that it offers the greatest hope for future prosperity for the farmer and it has been pretty thor- 1 oughly demonstrated in the past two years that the prosperity of the state is dependent upon the prosperity of the farmers. Many of the largest and ablest bankers in the state have studied the plan from every angle and have investigated the workings of the associations already function- 1 ing in other states. They express complete satisfaction with the plan in its every detail and are working to put the movement across. 1 In Sumter county the bankers have ' gone out in the county making speeches in behalf of the campaign. ] C. G. Rowland, president of the National Bank of Sumter, thinks that < every bank in the state should get busy and assist in every way to put it across. J. Pope Matthews, pres- 1 idcr.t of the Palmetto National Bank ' of Columbia, says he thinks the or ganization of the association "is one I of the best business propositions the .farmers of the state could possibly ' ! undertake at this time" and adds "I 1 do not know of anything that would t bS more productive of good results." i Mr. Matthews has studied the plan from every angle. Bright William- ] | son, of Darlington, is another banker 1 who is lending his time and ability 1 and energies to putting the move- i ment across. Mr. Williamson prob- < ably knows as much about co-opera- i tive marketing as any man in South i ! Carolina, and he is convinced that it j ' is the farmers' hope. i The movement has been endorsed ' : by the executive council and the agri- 1 cultural committee of the South Caro- i j lina Bankers Association and four i j oi the seven district groups. It has 1 , been strongly endorsed twice by the i General Assembly and many of the leading farmers in that body have i I already signed contracts. It has been ] 1 ? I... ftiA Qt?fa Vair ^.APlPtv 1 ' cuuui acu uy vne uv??v * ? | and many chambers of commerce and other civic organizations. The agri- i cultural bureau of the Greenville < I Chamber of Commerce passed strong i resolutions at their last. meeting en- ; jdorsing the movement and pledging 1 ; all assistance in putting it across. ] j In a statement given out by the < ! association, it says: 1 J "Farmers everywhere are organizI ing to conduct their marketing bus-11 ; iness in a systematic manner on the i j same plan as is being followed by \ 1 j the South Carolina Cotton Growers'J j i Co-operative Association. 1 "At the present time more than ; ' sixty associations of growers in twen- < ty states have been formed or are 1 now being organized. The number of j members in these associations exceeds 400,000 fanners and the volume of ] business done by them in 1921 lacked j i only a little of being half a billion i dollars. i "Through the co-operative pooling < movement farmers in every section ( of the country are taking their right- ; ful place in the business world. I "The South Carolina cotton pool < plan enables the farmer to go all the 1 way to the market with his product,: 1 and in this trip save a vast sum that , < heretofore has been lost to him < MAtN. KUJEi LrLlL.II. Convicted of Murder of Louis Disher?Is Given Life Sentence. Mack Roe, an old negro man claiming to be sixty-seven years old, was tried here last Thursday in the General Sessions court and convicted of the murder of Louis Disher. He was recommended to the mercy of the court and Judge Shipp sentenced him to life imprisonment in the penitentiary or at hard labor on the public works of Williamsburg county for r. like period. Mr. Disher was shot from ambush while in the swamp attending his traps two months ago. The murder occurred in the Bethel section of the county and considerable indignation was aroused by the affair among the people of that peace-loving community. The evidence in the case was entirely circumstantial, though pointed so directly to the guilt of old Mack o? iV. -J T? OVJTW* IWCj HIC OCVU5CU) HlOV U remarked in passing sentence that he himself was convinced of his guilt, and that while he was glad to be relieved of pronouncing the death sentence upon him, he (Roe) should feel fortunate in escaping the electric chair. Attorney F. R. Hemingway was appointed by the court to defend Roe and was congratulated upon the able manner in which he conducted the case. Solicitor McLeod was assisted in the prosecution by Attorney M. A. Shuler. i o Lanes News. Lanes, March 7.?Mr. J. A. McCullough and son, James, spent Friday in Charleston. Miss Winnie Davis, a member of the Olanta high school faculty, spent the week-end with her father, Mr. J. C. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Chandler were gladdened Saturday by the arrival of a little daughter. Our best wishes are extended them in the birth of their little cherub. Mr. F. L. Baggctt and Mr. Plowden were in Kingstree Saturday on business. Mr. J. W. Chandler has recently purchased a Ford car. H. E. Davis, Esq., of Florence, spent Wednesday here with his aunt, Mrs. J. C. Graham. Mr. Sam McClary of Atlanta, Ga., who has been visiting relatives here, left last week to visit relatives at Andrews. The home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. McDonald was brightened Saturday by the birth of a baby girl. through speculative profits and unnecessary handling cost. "That the South Carolina cotton pool plan is sound and workable is being proved in a conclusive manner by everyone of these co-operative associations, which has begun to handle the crop. There are three outstanding features of every one of these organizations. "First: long-time, legally-binding contract. This makes the members "stick" and assures the association that it will have cotton to sell over a period of years sufficient to enable it to establish satisfactory trade relations and justfy adequate arrangements for transacting the business. "Second: the one hundred per cent compubory pool. In the pool all the product is handled for sale in evenrunning lots according to quality and variety. All growers delivering the same grade and the same kind of r?r.+t/\ri M>/?oivrt ovnotlv tVlP Qnmp TlHcC. Every member receives the average price at which the product of that Icind and quality is sold. This makes possible orderly marketing throughsut the year in accoi dance with market demands. "Third: the non-profit, non-stock feature and the exclusive grower membership. This insures a complete harmony of interest, absolute fairness and equality in the handling of the business of each member, and it is a guarantee against outside interests jver gaining control of the organization and exploiting it for their own jain. "That the South Carolina cotton pool plan is sound from a financia1 standpoint is already proved by the fact that the banks are doing business with these associations v/herejver they are in operation. Bank of Oklahoma extended the state cotton xssociation a credit of upwards of nvo million dollars last year. Banks 5f Texas were also ready to loan ;heir association several million dollars. The War Finance Corporation ixtended a loan of $26,000,000 to three :otton associations." I $65,000 DECREASE 1 IN MONTH'S REVENUE RECEIPTS UNDER NEW TAX LAW SHOW IMMENSE DROP. I Washington, March 6.?Government revenues collected during January? W . the first month of operation of the revised tax law?chowed a decrease in receipts of nearly $65,000,OOO^compared with January, 1921, according to reports compiled tonight by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Receipts during January aggregated $131,000,000, against $196,000,000 for the same month last lcar, the major shrinkage being in the income and profits taxes, which declined from $87,000,000 to $44,000,000. Collections under the national prohibition act increased nearly $50,000, receipts for January aggregating A $214,000 compared with $164,000 in January, 192L The advance was accounted for by an increase of $144,000 in taxes on grape brandy used in fortifying sweet wines, all the other items showing decreases. Tobacco taxes increased about $492r M 000, the total for January from this f 4 source aggregating $20,433,000, against $19,941,000 last year. The increase came mainly from chewing and smoking tobacco, receipts from cigars and cigarettes showing decreases. STATE TEACHERS' MEETING Attractive' and Helpful Program at Columbia Next Week. ! The next annual meeting of the ' State Teachers' Association will be held in Columbia March 16 to 18. It is earnestly hoped that a good many teachers from Williamsburg county will attend this meeting. An attractive and helpful program has been arranged, and the meeting should be most beneficial to the teachers of the state. Those wishing to attend the meeting should apply to the county superintendent of education at once for identification slips so that they can get reduced fare. They should also make boarding arrangements before reaching Columbia. They should also study the program which is given below, before they go' so that they will know just what departments to attend when they reach Columbia. M. F. Montgomery, County Superintedent. > PROGRAM: 9:30?The Relation of the Homemaker to the Community, Miss L. E. Swygert, Chicora College. 9:50?The Opportunities for the Home Economics Woman in the Institutional Field, Miss Beatrice Perry, in charge of Cafeteria, Winthrop College. 10:10?What place has Home Economics made for itself in the Public Schools, Miss Adelaide Baylor, Federal Board for Vocational Educa tion, Washington, D. C. 10:40?How the Department of Agriculture is Applying Scientific Knowledge to the Problems of the Farm Woman, Miss Florence Ward, Office of Extention (Agriculture and Home Economics) U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 11:10?What are Some of the Necessary Qualifications for the Teacher of Home Economics, Director of Home Economics, City Schools, Columbia, S. C. 11:30?The Home Economics Asso ciation in its State, Regional, and National Aspects, Miss Edith Thomas, President Southern Home Economics Association. 12:00?General Session. Afternoon Session?3 p. m. 6 Winthrop Daughters Invited to Tea. ^ The following notice to the Williamsburg Chapter of* Winthrop Daughters was sent by Miss Leila A. Russell, Alumnae secretary: "The Columbia Chapter of Winthrop Daughters, Mrs. Robert A. Cooper, president, has graciously extended an invitation to all daughters of Winthrop in attendance upon the State Teachers' Association in Columbia to be present at a Winthrop tea at the Governor's Mansion from six to eight o'clock Friday evening, March 17th. It is hoped there will be a large number of Winthrop daughters who will accept this cordial invitation." ? e Send us your order for Job Printing. We only do the best work.. 4. ji