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V V Spjc fountu Jtccotfi. VOLUME 3fc?NO. 44 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C? THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1922. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE ?? ?? ??????i???????? ??? I < 1 BRIEF PARAGRAPHS OF WIDE INTERERT NEWS OF STATE AND COUNTRY CONDENSED FOR BUSY READERS. Major Lee H. Coait, planter and former army officer, was sentenced ^ to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary on conviction at Talbotton, Ga., of the murder of A. R. McNeice. New York dispatch says: Claus A. Spreckles, president of the Federal Sugar Refining Company, v;ho has just returned from Europe, tonight predicted an early drop in sugar prices. Julian S. Carr, Jr., president oi tne Durham Hosiery Mills, and known as the Hosiery King, died in the Pennsylvania Hotel in New Yorlc last Friday. He was a son of General Julian S. Carr, commander in dhief of the Confederate veterans. George L. Hossfeld, world's champion typist, gave demonstrations in Charleston at the office of the XJnderwood Typewriter Company, and at i different schools, for the benefit of the business classes. Mr. Hossfeld, whose record of 136 words a minute was made with copy which he had not read. All American troops will "have left Germany by July 1, under orders issued by Secretary of War Weeks, by direction of President Harding:. About 2,000 officers and men are directly affected as- tbe remainder of Major General Allen's command m the ' Coblenz bridgehead zone on the Rhine already were under heme orders. * ? Washing-ton dispatch says: Trusteeship for a third of the world's gold supply changes hods tomorrow when F E. Scol ey of San Aotoni>, Texas, succeeds Raymond T. Baker as director of the mint Gold assets -of the mint service iamtutVms aggregate $8,000,000,000. Jib world gold supply is estimated at approximately $9,000,000,000. Cotton production for 1921 was V 976,665 running bales, or 7,952,389 equivalent 500-ponnd bales, the census bureau announced Monday in Its final ginning report of the season. The 1920 prodqdHon was 13,270,970 running bales, or 18,439,608 equivalent 500-jound bales. The crop was estimated by the department of agriculture last December in its fiaal report at 8,?40,000 equivalent 506-pound : bales. Charles A. Clevenger, a former em ploye of the bond department of the I treasury, and U. 0. Wamsley, of Charlottesville, VaM are being held under $10,000 bond each for action erf the grand jury on charges of conspiring to defraud the government m connection with the theft of $175, 000 in negotiable bonds from the Liberty bond branch of the federal treasury last week. fMis. Madalyne Obenchair., charged 4 with the murder of her sweetheart, J. Belton Kennedy, must go to trial a second time. The jury in her first trial failed to agree and was discharged by Judge Reeve upon report fog that it had own unaoie to agree after being oat nearly 56 hours, of which about 24 were spent- in actual deliberation. It took five ballots and stood nine to three for conviction on each. Two of the women jurcrs voted for conviction, the third for acquittal. Considerable interest attaches in this state to the outcome cf the effort instituted by J. W. Kirkpatrick, of Greenville, president of the state retail merchants association, to test the M constitutionality of the new state income tax law. A leading authority, not connected with the state gov- j ernment, is quoted as saying that this effort will fail and that the act is j constitutional. At the same time, numerous business men and others contend that the law is contrary to the state constitution. It is held by these that it taxes an income earned ^ in another state. r? o [l<* To Be Married. [ The Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Haddock > of Fair Bluff, N. C:, announced the engagement of their daughter, Sena, to Mr. William D. Bryan of Kingstree, S. C. The wedding to tane place in May. i i' LAD SERIOUSLY INJURED While Trying to Slack Lime for Laying Baseball Diamond. Emmet Davis Nesmith, sor. of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nesmith of this place, was badly burned at the fair ground last Friday afternoon, while disolvmg some unslacked lime with which to lay out the diamond for a baseball game. The lime, it seems, exploded in the vessel while the boys were trying to disolve it and also burned the face of little Hugh Montgomery. Emmet Nesmith received most serious injury, both of his eyes being so badly burned that it was thought fo*a time he would lose his sight. Both boys were immediately taken to the Kelley sanitarium here and treated, the Montgomery child, not seriously burned, was sent home, while in the case of the Nesmith child it v/as found necessary Suniday to take him to Charleston for examination by a specialist. He is still therrt under treatment and it is now believed that his sight will be restored. Profound sympathy is felt here for the young man and his parents. Sailers Sittings. Salters Depot, March 21.?The past few days have been real March weather, it was cold and blusty with light frost this morning and more likely U night. Everything is beginning to put on its spring like appearance. English .peas look well and indications point to a good crop. Bean planting has been quite gentcral the p3st week. Most of the crop has ;been planted. Quite a number of farmers attended ? ? J.J 4.kn the (Jotton campaign meeting oi< uw town hall here on last Friday, and the majority of those present signed the pledge for co-operative marketing. This is; another progressive step, the acreage of cotton though will be very small in this section. At a meeting of the Truck Growers' association of Saiters held here Monday night, :the plan of marketing was thoroughly discussed at the conclusion of which Mr. H. N. Sheppard was elected a director from this association tp meet with directors from the other associations in the county at Kingstree at an early date, and get some .reliable company to handle their crops. The American Truck Growers' association was suggested, but no definite action was taken pending the meeting to be held *t Kingstree. Mi- r w Stoll ?hiDDed a car load cf fine hogs to the Richmond market Monday. No shad has been offered for sale here yet this season-as the river has been most too high "for fishing. Miss Fannie Gruber has returned to Charleston after a pleasant Visit to her sister, Mrs. I. N. Boyd. Mrs. W. S. Boyd and Miss Rappe are -spending several days in Charlesten. Mr. J. D. MeCollough spent several days in Charleston last weak. The base-ball park here is being put in fine condition for the coming season, and some of the small boys have begun to practice. Mr. Ervin Montgomery of Gable, spent last week-end with his brother, J. H. Montgomery here. Miss SalRe McCldlan of Charleston spent Thursday with friends here. o Busy Scenes Around the Depot Monday and Tuesday of this week furnished quite an animated scene in the vicinity of the A. C. L. depot, due largely to tne energy ana gwu I salesmanship qualities of oar friend John Gelzer, who represents the F. S Royster Fertilizer company. Mr. Gelzer earlier in the season scld Cooper Brothers, who are large plantation owners, five ar six cars of fertilizer which rolled into the siding here a few days ago. Monday and Tuesday it was being delivered by the local representative of the Royster Company, Mr. Frank Rogers, and at one time Tuesday there were in the neighborhood of one hundred wagons around the depot awaiting their turr. to be loaded with fertilizer. One could stand at! the monument on Main and AcadeppT street and see a line of loadejj^^gons going East on Main stre^^hat reached from the railroad *ackc to the cemetery. There we* only a few less wagons engaged at the same work Monday. In this connection we might add that the Royster Company was the only fertilizer manufacturer to advertise its goods in The County Record this season. Advertising pays, Mri Gelzer says so. \ . .-?4 . . tn i i iuiii imi ihi mm 111 I SAMUEL DA ;; . (BY WILLIAM WII There is no belter name in Wil-! ch liamsburg than Samuel McGill. In fe each of the five great wars in which fe South Carolina has been engaged, a cr Samuel Davis McGill has answered d* the first Roll Call. Seventeen nun- iy died and seventy-six, Samuel Davis \v McGill; 1812, Samuel Davis McGill; st 1845, Samuel Davis McGill; 1861, D Samuel Davis McGill; 1917, Samuel to Davis McGill. These Samuel McGills have worn neither stars nor eagles, B; tut every one of them the badge of W valiant service. Samuel McGill, patriarch of the m tribe in 1830, is the father of re- is ligious liberty in Williamsburg- coun- ni ty. Williamsburg was settled about le 1736, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians pre- ti< dominating. Until 1778, the Church of England determined the religious policy in South Carolina; ana, until ? such time, Presbyterians had a some- ti< what severe existence in the colony. ^ They grew notwithstanding all their handicaps. tfc When the Declaration of Iudepend- n?. ence of the thirteen colonies had been ot J *nne 1 r> signeu ill x 1i u aiiu uxc wiiouvu^ivu va <h the United States had been adopted in 1789, then, for the fiist time in th history, Presbyterian congregations w had the power to proceed without let ft 01 hindrance. The Presbyterian lt church in Williamsburg ha! then a rr fairer field than it had known at pi any other place or time in the world, if The Williamsburg congregation at r. the King's Tree was organized in p. 1736, and from this congregation a fc number of others were afterwards gj formed. The Indiantown congrega- & tion was one of these. The Indian- p( town Presbyterian church was built in 1750, about sixteen miles from the ^ Ifinw'a Tr*f> While the Williamsburg co^grega- to ticn is the oldest in this section and tc possibly ha3 played a larger part in p] Presbyterian church history, the In- M di an town congregation probably lived nearer the limits of Scotch Free- s< byterian idealism than had therefore UJ been realized. Indiantown has always tb been a rich rural community. It was 8C settled by splendid Scotch-Irish peo- tb pie who lived for a century with the a minimum of communication with the at outside world. It produced within it- jj self the best of the day ar.d genera- it tion; and, besides, the roads were! ("3 bad. Indiantown, however, did edu- ^ cate its teachers and preachers at a, Princeton, where the spirit of one ch of its very own, Dr. John Wither- ar spoon, determined things. The law and the gospel in Indiantown for a hundred 7?ars came by ca way of the Piesbytsrian church. The co Session of Elders in this church from aT 1820 to 1830 prescribed the temporal 7t and spiritual affairs of the community, di I No Sanhedrin at Jerusalem nor Col- dj lege of Cardinals at Rome, in its Si "time and place, ever exercised more h< complete control than did this Ses- F* ?ion of Elders at Indiantown. de Samuel McGill was a member of to the Indian town church in 1880. He vi had a conscience of his own. This L< Session of Elders had another conscience for him. This Session of *1 Elders was composed of strong men, fx every one of them, at least four of 18 them fiaeal descendants of Robert th Bruce and of John Knox. These are no they: Rev. J. M. Erwin, D. D. Wfl- th !son, SL J. Wilson, George Barr and nu George MeCutchen. be Samuel McGill met this Session of wl Elders on its own ground. The story !hs told in the Indiantown Sessional dii [Records that follow: jan "January 8, isau. At an appumieu ; e> meeting of the Session of the Indian- ue town church, it was(unanimously re- sei solved to address the following to to the communing members of this so- re< ciety: That, whereas your Session sei has reason to believe that some of pri the members in full communion in sic this diurch give encouraemgent to, ins and^ake part in, balls and dancing sai ; fi?ics; and whereas, the encourage- cat mat thus given to this amusement cxi jfg a great grievance to some, and icr perhaps to a majority, of this society, us and if we mistake not,ja stumbling dis block to others; and whereas, the Gen- we e:al Assembly of our church has ex- ref pressly disapproved this amusement we as inexpedient among professors in res cur church, the Session after deliber- for ately viewing these things in con- 1 nection with our high responsibility dia as officers of this church, do hereby (of declare to you our approval of the ser decision of this judicatory of ourj II* H H1 III II I I I****111** VIS McGILL j1 -.LIS EODDIE.) ;; IIMIIIimillMUflllHl j lurch and that we will henceforth j el ourselves bound to view all pro- < ssors Of religion in this church who : icournge or take an active part in . ncing as offenders against its puri- ] and prosperity. Finally brethren, ] e affectionately exhort you to abain from all appearance of evil. . irected to be read by the modera- i r next Sabbath. ] Signed. John M. Erwin, George j arr, George McCutchen, David D. . rilson and Samuel W'Isoji. j March 24, 1830. Resolved unani- 1 ously, that Rev. Mr. Erwin admon- : h privately all those persons whose < >mes may have come to his know- < dge as having violated the resolu- i on on the subject of dancing. 1 July 31, 1830. The Session having >ld that four individual members of is church had violated the resolu- < on on the subject of dancing: Re- 1 Jved, that three members of the ] ission are authorized to admonish ; iree of the individuals; and the other 1 ember of the Session to rebuke the ' her one, who had been previously ; imonished. March 9, 1831. At a meeting of 1 ic Session of Indiantown church, it < as unanimously resolved, respect- 1 illy to request the advice and di- j iction of the Presbytery of Har ony in the following case of disci- 1 ine, viz: what further measures) any, are to be taken with a comuning member, who having been j eviously admonished and rebuked >r taking an active part in, and j iving encouragement to, balls or ] incing frolics, and yet continues to , rr severe in the same practice. , Resolved by the Presbytery that ] - ko kos>lr fn fVlA ,9ps- i on of Indiantown, and it is directed 1 i deal with the member according i the book of discipline and the ex- < version of Synod and General As- j imbly in such peases. ' May 7, 1831? "At a meeting of the 1 ;ssion of Iiufcystown church, it was ] janiraously #r^aived that whereas ] ic said Session has information of < mo person; in full communion in j ds church having recently taken j part in a dancing party, the moder- i or, George McCutchen, and David i . Wilson be a committee whose duty < hfl oo^Awfincr tn rTicrinHnp. * bapter 4, Section 9, to converse in 1 private manner "with those persons, < id, if they confess guilt, to enfavor to bring them to repentance, ( id to report as soon as. convenient. ] May 14, 1831. The Session of In- , antown church met at the immediate , til of the moderator. Two of the mmittee, viz: Rev. John M. Erwin id D. D. Wilson, appointed on the h instant, who reported that while , scharging the duty assigned them r fliis body at the house of Mr. imuel McGill on the 11th instant, 1 assumed principles and made ex essions, a summary of which they . fclared they felt themselves bound J make known to this Seas ion pre- 1 ous to the administration of the ^ >rd's Sapper in this place, and which ey did accordingly. Whereupon * ter mature deliberation on the imrt of discipline, Chapter 4, Section ' unanimously resolved by Seas ion, c at Mr. Samuel McGill be warned t to come to the Lord's table on 3 e morrow on account of cxpi-ession ? ode, and principles assumed by him * fore the committee of the Session 10 visited him on the 11th instant. 5 May 16, 1831. The Session of In- 3 intown met, constituted with prayer, d after mature deliberation on the J: ound of the warning sent Mr. Sam1 McGill, unanimously lesolved to nd the following admonitory letter 0 him. "That whereas you no doubt collect many of the expressions and atiments avowed by you in the 11 esence of the committee of the Ses- . m which visited you cn the 11th 1! itant, which we think it not necesry now to express in this communition, and whereas under the then 0 isting circumstances, these expressis and sentiments as understood by C( go to subvert the government and cipline of the Presbyterian church, 1 affectionately admonish you to lect seriously on these things, and request you to let us know the lults of your deliberations on or bee the 30th instant/' J. Hay 26, 1831. The Session of In- m ntown met at the immediate call F the moderator. The pastor pre- C ited to the Session a letter which pi (Continued on last page) gi / i t ftfiSrt. . ... . .. IN THE STATE COURTS- || Murder Cases Disposed of by Circuit Judges Last Week. Guilty of manslaughter with recommendation for mercy was the ver-, ' iict and ten years each in the state, penitentiary was the sentence of the' :ourt upon Luther Timmons and Mon-1 roe Willard, young men of Clinton,' who were convicted of the killing of * Hosea 0. Martin, Laurens civy police- j * nan, December 14 last. ! I Robert Sharpe, a young white man, J who was charged with the killing of * ris father several month? ago, was! placed cn ?trial in the ccurt of gener-;c a. sessions at Camden Saturday and c the testimony tended to show that i there was no doubt as to whether the ^ sen acted in the defense of his mother in slaying his father and he was ( xmvicted of manslaughter and was sentenced by Judge Peurifoy, to serve * five years in the penitentiary. ( A mIiia Tumor trio/-) fnr thp miir- ^ e'er of Edwin White, cf Marion county and convicted of manslaughter 1 last Friday, was sentenced to serve a term of twelve years in the penitentiary by Judge Thomas S. Sease. The killing was done more tlian two years ago and White's body was 1 bound, weighted and sunk in the river. Some weeks later the body was x discovered by a fishing party. Suspicion fell on the Turners and the k father, Thomas, and his two sons, 1 Mack and Archie, were arrested on ,? the charge of murder. On Monday the United States su- i preme court dismissed for a want of i t jurisdiction the appeal of Carlos Corbitt, who is alleged tc have shot and rilled Juie Cooper, Hugh Fanning j ?nd one other man in Orangeburg county, from the decision of the su- j preme court of South Carolina that j. it was not a violation of his constitu- j tional rights to try him on a separate indictment for killing another jf the three men after he had been j I'cquitted of killing one cf them. When the state undertook to try Cor- j jitt, in the second case, his counsel < interposed the plea that as all three men were killed by Corbit at the j same time as fast as his Tp'stol would | fire and as a result of the same im- ^ pulse of selfdefense, the whole affair t ivas really one act in law, and that ^ the state was undertaking: to put, Corbltt's life twice in Jeopardy for t Lhe same offense. The state demurred ^ to this plea and the circuit court ^ >ver-ruled the demurrer. Th*; state j supreme court, which reversed the ? circuit court, ordered the case <c trial, but Chief Justice Gary allowed a writ of error to the United States j supreme court. 0 |S THE HOME TOWN" it Why We Believe in It and Why We c Should Be for It. J !i We believe in this town because we 1 jelieve in it. We believe in it because I t is a good town, regardless of its j *w defects, and its people are the t r-eers of those to be found anywhere. I Wn mw nnt have the wealth a >C jBome more favored communities, ( )ut it has character, and character is i i possession which cannot be pur- I :hased with gold. If you beMe"e in your home town ro\i will like it, and if you like it no .ffort toward its improvement will be oo great for you. o Again we ask you to have faith in 0 our own powers; to also have faith in n our own town. fc When you feci like criticising it, f, heck the thought before it is spoken, h fou can always And something good g o say instead, and even then the half jj f the truth will ijever be told. w It is a good town now, but faith, b< jyalty and united action will make w ; a better one. bi Our faith is in this town, brother, g ? simply faith in you, because the cl iwn is a ^collection of yours. D Surely your faith is not less than m urs. bi Let us unite?let us act?for a more G Dhesive community. It is your home?and ours.?Scot- b< sh Chief. gj o th "Our Mutual Friend." *a Tomorrow (Friday) night Mr. C. ^ Thompson, manager of the Acadey theater, will show "Our Mutual riend," a picturization of one of harles Dickens famous novels. The lay will be shown in eight acts, be- in inning at 8* o'clock sharp. fa YEWS LETTER FROM HEMINGWAY TEMS OF INTEREST AS TOLD BY OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. Hemingway, March 21.?Mrs. lolmes B. Springs and little daughter ..ouise and Holmes, Jr., of Greenville, diss Pauline Wilson of Manning and dr. D. I. Wilson of Oaks, wore the quests of Mrs. W. C. Hemingway ast Friday. Mr. W. D. Halfacre returned Mon!ay from Columbia, where he attendid the State Teachers'' meeting. Mr. Eugene Huggins spent the reek-end at Dunn. N. C. Miss Dess Gowdy spent tkt weeR>nd at Lake City with her paients. Mrs. L. G. Day is on a visit to ler parents at Mullins. Mrs. B. G. Eaddy spent the week nd with her daughter, Miss Marie :!addy, at Andrews. Mr. Duncan Campbell is visiting elatives at Gibson, N. C. Rev. J. A. Campbell returned to Gibson, N. C., Friday, after visiting riends here. Mrs. G. S. Hemingway spent Saturday in Kingstree. Mr. Robert Cox is spending a few lays in Columbia on business. Mesdames H. M. Pridgin. Mamie >mith, Misses Annie and Lela Burney ind Mr. E. L. Rogers spent Saturiay in Georgetown. The Adult Agriculture night school >eing conducted here is well attended and much interest is manifested. Everyone interested in farming should ake advantage of these meetings. Miss Ruth Jlaselden, who is teachng at Good Hope, spent Sunday at icr home here. Mrs. Baxley had the misfortune 01 jreaking her collar bone Saturday, :ut we are glad to report that she s doing nicely. Mrs. C. C. Campbell spent the veek-end with relatives at Gibson, 1. C. Miss Pearl Ivey, Messrs Ward and Newell were pleasant callers in town Saturday. Miss Inez Wooten and Mr. E. L. Sogers spent Sunday in Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Ming of Johnson-iile, spent the week-end here with he tatter's sister, Mrs. C. M. Lambert. Miss Blondeli Cockfteld was hostess o the H. Y. W. club Thursday evenng, at her home about three miles rom town. After the usual pleasant lour spent with the needle and in :onversation, the gueets enjoyed sevsial interesting games of rook and irogressive hearts, after which a deicious salad course was served, Miss:c Ira Cox and Mildred Ponton as r'sting in serving. Mrs. L. G. Day charmingly enterained the club Thursday afternoon ? >f last week, at the home of Mrs. r. M. Eaddy. The reception hall and >arlor were beautifully decorated in yacinths, johnquils and ferns. "The ^ liove story" in song was greatly enoyed. Mrs. C. C. Campbell and Myr!e Martin cut for prize, a box of ilary Garden Powder. The hostess, issisted by Mrs. Eaddy and Miss Dess k>wdy, served an ice course. The iivited guests were Mesdames G. B.. r.graham and J. E. Hemingway. o *1, Death of Mrs. J. L. DuBose. [ Cades, March 20.?After an illness" f three weeks Mrs. Ida DuBose, wife f Mr. J. L. DuBose, died, on Wedcsday morning March 16th and was uried on Thursday at Hebron church, iinerai service." being conducted by er pastor, Rev. J. R. Johnson, Mrs. uBose was a daughter of the late , [r. and Mrs. J. Myers Coker. She as 67 years of age on the day of er death. She had been afflicted ith rheumatism for forty-two years at bore it with Christian fortitude, esides her husband, she leaves five* ildren, Messrs. W. T., L. T. and J. . DuBose, Mrs. M. R. D. Baker and rs. D. L. Singletary, also several rothers and one sister, Mrs. J. L. owdy. Pior. G. W. Register, Miss Elizaith McElveen and Mrs. J. Clyde sdcer of the Hebron school, attended e teacher's meeting in Columbia st week. Mrs. F. E. Coker of Andrews, is siting her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Gowdy. Mr. J. Clyde Baker spent several ,yS in Columbia last week, e Three million of the 10,000,000 cars the United States are owned by > j rmers. # -1