The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 08, 1922, Image 8
SAWS CELL BARS.
"JacV Davis is Detected hv Gtiard
at Penitentiary.
James "Jack" Davis, incarcerated:
September 17, 1921. after being given
a ten-year sentence for attempt-;
ing to rob the residence of Dr. T. T. i
Moore, in Columbia, was frustrated j
in an attempt to break out of the:
state penitentiary Friday morning.
It appears that Davis, after saw-'
ing the bars of his cell through and j
dressing in civilian clothes, was ap-1
prehended by a guard before he could j
lov er himself to the ground by a
sti <r,g cord, evidently secured from
th< prison chair factory. When his
cell was searched three saws were
found in the upright of the iron bunk
in bis cell. The prison authorities i
are jnable to account for these.
, Davis, according to the prison authorities,
has given a great deal of
trouble since he was placed in the j
state penitentiary. He was one of1
the leaders of the recent mutiny for j
which he was diciplined.
The penitentiary authorities 'do not
intend to take any more chances witi
the refractory prisoner. Davis claim,
he is a native of New York state, j
In view of the recent disturbance at
the state prison and the attempted j
escape of Davis, Col. A. K. Sanders,1
superintendent, made a direct appen1
. to Governor Harvey for addition,
guards, which were authorized.
Col Saunders stated that the situation
at the state penitentiary was j
directly different from what it was j
formerly when there were negroes
and delinquent whites incarcerated.
Now there is a large population of
intellignt criminals, many of them
having served in the World War and
they are much more difficult to
handle. The last legislature rejected
an increase, appropriation for more
guards as requested by the superintendent.
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Riopraohv of Candidates.
For the benefit of these who are
eligible to vote for a director for the
ninth district composed of those who
signed the cooperative cotton marketeting
agreement in the counties of
Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg,
the following sketches were prepared
by the undersigned committees ap-j
pointed by the convention, held in
Sumter at which Messrs L. D. Jennings
of Sumter and Capt. W. C.
Davis of Manning were nominated as
candidates for the position of director
in the association to represent the
ninth district.
L. D. Jennings, born in Sumter
county fifty-one years ago. He is the
leading attorney of the Sumter bar,
mayor of Sumter and president of
the Peoples Bank of Sumter with
capital stock of $100,000. He is also :
connected with other mercantile interest.
Mr. Jennings was a leader in
raising funds for prosecuting the war.
He was one of the prime movers in |
haping the streets of Sumter paved,!
and helped to secure the bond issue
in Sumter county for hard surfacing
roads in the county. He is also
chairman of the board for expending
the two and a half million for buildin
th^se roads. He farms sixteen
hundred acres of land about four
hundred of which is planted to cotton.
He is the owner of the Jennings Du-1
roc hog breeding farm, one of the
largest and finest breeding plants in
the south. Mr. Jennings was president
of cotton association, and took
active part organizing the marketing
association.
Capt. W. C. Davis, is about fifty
three years of age, is the leading attorney
of the Manning bar, has been
connev.ted with farming all of his
business life and is now conducting
considerable share crop farming. He j
is president of the First National
Bank of Manning. He took an active
part in all kinds of war work activities
and drives for raising funds.
Capt. Davis is chairman of the commission
for expending four hundred
thousand dollars in building special
highways in Clarendon county. He
rwas for two years president of the
cotton association and took an active
part in organizing the present Cooper**
ative Cotton Marketing association.
J. Frank Williams,
J. M. Windham,
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Took His Word for It.
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An absent-minded professor return- j
ed heme from a lecture one night
very, very late. Ilis mind was filled;
with u very knotty problem. Reach- i
ing his room he thought he heard |
some one under his bed.
"Who is there?" he asked.
"No one," replied the man concealed
under the bed. The fellow was
familiar with the professor's peculiarities.
"That's strange," muttered the
professor. "I could have sworn I
. heard some one under there."?Judge.
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The treasury has announced a reaction
of $51,000,000 in the public
debt during May.
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NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS
Sign l"p Warehouses with Cooperative
Tobacco Association.
Kinston, Rocky Mount, Farmville
ami Vanceboro, among the last to bar
their doors against cooperative marketing
signed up warehouses with the
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
in last weeks campaign which
was the most remarkable series of
meetings ever attended by tobacco
farmers in Eastern North Carolina.
The enthusiasm of 25,000 farmers
who attended over 30 crowded meetings
in a dozen eastern counties of
the state, turned the campaign into
a crusade. The crusade is rapidly
developing into a landslide on which
thousands of new growers and a
number of warehouses have already
come into the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association.
"You will be able to raise more on
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your auvance payment, uuu mc iSnment
of your tobacco than you have
ever dreamed you could get Out of
tobacco," Aaron Sapiro told the thousands
of farmers in Eastern Carolina
who hailed him as the prophet of cooperative
marketing in the five mammoth
mass meetings which broke all
records for attendance and filled
theaters, waiehouses and courthouses
to over flowing in Washington, New
Bern, Farmville, Kinston and Goldsbo
ro last week.
The California leader of Cooperative
Marketing Associations who represents
500,000 oryanized farmers and
60 associations with annual business
of four hundred million dollars, made
the prophecy that tobacco farmers of
North Carolina would be able to raise
more from their advance payment
and the loan value of their participation
receipt than they got on their
entire crop last year.
"Neither the outsider nor the insider
would have gotten any decent
prices for Burley tobacco in Kentucky
if the association had not been organized
this last year," said Sapiro. "I
want to tell you that the growers in
Kentucky the year preceding got an
average of 8 to 11 cents a pound for
Burley tobacco. The growers in the
association (in Kentucky) this year
will average 25 cents a pound net"
declared the little Californian who
called those speculators cowards, who
circulated signed and unsigned pam?1
/lAAnnrofnrA mflrlfPtinPr
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but feared to meet him face to face
with arguments against this movement
of the farmers.
Speculators and warehousemen who
were hostile to cooperative marketing,
sat silent in meeting after meeting
while Sapiro told the growers
that no system could be worse than
the auction sale of tobacco under
which tobacco farmers have averaged
only $340.00 a year income as compared
to the income of $1,560.00 a
year which our government states as
necessary to maintain a decent standard
of living for the average American
family.
More than ten thousand farmers
heard Sapiro during his five days tour
of Eastern North Carolina. At leant
15,000 other tobacco growers were
present at meetings held in 28 other
towns of the Eastern belt last week
where five Kentucky leaders of the
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association convinced the farmers beyond
a doubt of the success of the
Kentucky Burley pool.
"The minute the first payment of
eight cents a pound was made to our
Kentucky growers upon delivery of
their tobacco the bankers came and
begged to hold the participation receipts
and paid eight cents more on
them," said C. E. Marvin, prominent
stock raiser and tobacco grower of
Lexington. Mr. Marvin told the
North Carolina growers that the Kentucky
members of the marketing association
really got an average of 16
cents a pound immediately after their
first deliveries because the banks were
eager to advance them money on the
security of their warehouse receipts
which the Kentuckians call participation
certificates.
W. H. Shanks, president of the
Lincoln County National Bank, told
North Carolina farmers in five counties
that the participation receipts
are considered the best security in
Kentucky.
"Why one galussed fellow to whom
we wouldn't lend a nickel before, can
come into our bank now and borrow
hundreds of dollars on their participation
receipts," said Mr. Shanks.
Virgil Chapman, attorney for the
Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative
Association. Jno. O. Craddock. a prominent
warehouseman and John Blanks
of Kentucky roused other thousands
of Eastern Carolina growers to the
need of increasing the present signup
in the old North State from 60
to 90 per cent, of all tobacco farmers
and tobacco.
An intensive campaign is now being
conducted in which growers, merchants
and warehousemen are urged
to aid in gaining new members, for
the association.
After a lingering illness of several
months, Mrs. Hartwell M. Ayer passed
away Saturday at her home in
Florence.,
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Within Reason.
Just as the guards were leading
his client away, the lawyer stopped
j and shook hands sadly with the recent
defendant.
"I'm sorry I couldn't do more for
you, old man," he apologized.
"Don't mention it, sir," replied the
prisoner, politely, "Ain't five years
enough?"?American Legion Weekly.
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B. C. King, a farmer living at
Pontine, in upper Richland county,
was killed by his wife last Friday
morning. She used a shotgun and
the discharge entered the back of the
j head. It is said King used abusive
j language towards his wife and a
quarrel ensued.
The case of J. D. M. Benton, charged
with killing Fay Poston, at Johnsorville
sometime in December of
i last year, was postponed again at
1 this term of the Florence county
| criminal court. The state had to ask
! for the continuation because some of
I th? witnesses were not present.
The world's largest paper machine
j makes a stub of paper 12 feet, 2 inches
1 wide, 327 miles long every 24 hours,
using 110 cords of wood. Three
thousand five hundred acres of pulp
wood are required to furnish the paper
for one day's i^sue of the newspapers
published in the United States.
James Vaughan, B. J. Vaughan,
Miss Minnie Austin and Miss Laura
Austin, all of Union county, were
killed Saturday afternoon when the
Carolina Special struck a Ford au!
tomobile in which they were riding,
when the automobile stopped on the
crossing, at Bpnham, a little flag
station one mile north of Union.
A bill substitute an "aristocracy of
brains for an aristocracy of birth"
has been presented to the British
House of Commons in an effort to
reconstitute the House of Lords. The
measure provides for a reduction in
members of the upper house from
740 to 300. apart from princes of the
blood. The measure also provides for
i the creation of peers for life with uninheritable
title and privileges.
In a fit of despondency due to ill
, health Henry J. McLaurin, a prominent
citizen, and widely known lum|
berman, committed suicide at his
i home in Sumter last Saturday by
using a short barrelled shotgun, loaded
with buckshot. He w as a director
in the NationalBank of Sumter, and
a member of the board of deacons
of the First Presbyterian vchurch.
He was born in Sumter county about
fifty-three years ago. He is survived
by his widow, two sons and one
daughter.
A bridge has been designed to span
the Hudson river at New York which
will be the most important gateway
to the west. Its lower deck will carry
12 railroad tracks, its upper deck
roadway, two and a half times as wide
as Fifth Avenue, will take care of 16
streams of vehicles. There will still
be room on the upper deck for four
surface car lines and two sidewalks.
Although the bridge will cost $130,!
000.000 it is believed it will pay for
itself by cutting the cost of bringing
goods across the Hudson from $2.28
to 50 cents a ton.
When you need printed matter, any
kind, The Record is the place to have
it done.
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.
To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth
Congressional District:
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for Congress from the Sixth Congressional
District, subject to the
rules of the Democratic party.
J. F. PATE.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for reelection to congress from
the Sixth congressional district subject
to the rules of the Democratic
primary.
PHILIP H. STOLL.
W. R. BARRINGER
Florence, S. C.
CANDIDATE FOR
CONGRESS
6TH DISTRICT
FOR STATE SENATOR.
I am a candidate for the State Senate,
subject to the rules and the regulations
of the Democratic primary.
I believe that I can render real
service to the County and State in the
matters of taxation and of education.
WM. W. DODDIE.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
In response to the urgent appeals
of a number of my friends throughout
the county I hereby announce myself
a candidate for the House of
Representatives, subject to the rules
of the Democratic primary.
WILLIAM R. SCOTT.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the legislature, subject to
the rules of the Democratic primary.
JAMES P. ADAMS.
To the Voters of Williamsburg county:
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the legislature, subject to
the rules of the Democratic primary.
I respectfully solicit your support.
H. D. FERRELL.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
ENTRANCE EXAMINA*. !
TIONS.
Entrance examinations to the Uni-1
versity of South Carolina will be held
by the County Superintendent of Education
at the county court house Friday,
July 14, 1922.
The University offers varied courses
of study in science, literature, history,
law and business. The expenses
are moderate and many opportunities
for self-support are afforded. Scholi
arships are available.
For full particulars write to
PRESIDENT W. S. CURRELL,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, S. C.
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CHURCH SERVICES
Kingstree, S. C.
: liaptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:00 a. m.
Billy Sunday CluD?3:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U.?7:00 p. ra.
(Evening Service?8:00
! Weekly Prayer service?Wednesday
8:00 p. m.
Presbyterian Church, J. W, Davis,
Pastor.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Christian Endeavor?7:00 p. m.
Evening sendee?8:00
Weekly Prayer sendee?Wednesday
?:00 p. m.
Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pastor.
Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding
Elder, Kingstree District.
Sunday School?10:00 a. m.
Preaching?11:15 a. m.
Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p.
m.
Epworth League meets?7:00 p. m.
Evening service?8:00
Episcopal Church, no services during
June.
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