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Clje County itarO. v VOLUME 37?NO. 36 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922 PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE TOBACCO GROWERS GET MORE MONEY CELEBRATIONS IN SOt TH CAROLINA BELT WILL MARK SECOND CASH ADVANCE. The directox-s of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association have named next Monday as the date of the second cash payment to every member of the association who has riaiii-ovoa tnhafm in South Carolina , and three border counties of North Carolina. Thousands of checks have been mailed to officials of the association throughout the South Carolilna belt and will be distributed upon presentation of the participation receipts by x members at the markets where they were issued. Oliver J. Sands, executive manager, James H. Craig, treasurer of the association and other directors and officials will address the growers at fc* mass meetings on November 13th and ft 14th at Mulllns, Kingstree, Florence, ? 1 ntVoi- nnints ^ JL/JUUU <UiU sc??oi v>uv< i throughout the South Carolina belk o???? TRIO NEWS. > ???? Items of Interest Gathered by Our Special Correspondent. Trio, Nov. 6.?Last Friday night a box party was held at the Witten schooihou.se. seven miles from Trio, for the' purpose of raising funds to help in putting a new roof on the Suttons M. E. church. Mrs. Rutfi Chandler is the principal of this school. Candy, cakes and fancy boxes containing a complete supper, were sold. Each box contained a slip of paper on which was writen the name of one of fne girls present, who was ^ 1 - iv. to oe uic supper inuwici v? tw j???chaser. About $50 was raised. * J. D. Mackintosh, principal of the Trio graded school, and little son, J.' D., Jr., spent Friday and Saturday in Kingstree, as guests of Mrs. Sue T. Ervin. Mr. W. P. Moore has returned from Georgetown, where he attended a meeting of the Baptist association. Miss Virginia McCullough, a senior of Chicora College for women, spent Saturday and Sunday with her mothr er, Mrs. J. J. McCullough. Mr. A. R. Register of Lanes, spent Viio nomnft Mr. U1V WCWW-VIIU niWtt IM0 .- and Mrs. J. Ww Register. Mrs. J. A. Salters has returned from Lake City, where she was a guest at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred Horton. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cook of Columbia, spent a few days with the letter's parent 5, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Register. Mrs. M. A. Pate of Walterboro, is visiting her son, E. M. Pate, of this city. Mr. M. D. Ogburn of Shejton, has returned home after a pleasant visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ogburn. ^ Mrs. E. M. Pate has returned to Tri6, after spending several days with relatives in Yamassee and ; Charleston. Dr. Moore of Lake City, and his K; brother from Moore's Crossing, were guests of Hon. W. T. Rowell last | week. I Mrs. W. H. Harper has returned E from Georgetown, where she spent W a few days with her daughter, Mrs. K Roland Scott. * ? Master Fred Horton of Lake City, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Salters. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Davis of Manning, are spending a few days with Mrs. Davis* father, Mr. R. P. Hini' nant, of the Suttons community. Miss McMurray, home demonstra Ition agent, neia a saun mecuu^ wun the girls of the Home Demonstration on Tueday morning at the house. Kingstree Defeated Manning. Kingstree high school's football team defeated Mianning high in Manning Friday, T to 6. The feature of the 'game as ^reported, was the fighting spirit of both teams. ? Daniels, Blakeley, Hinds, Kinder fand Montgomery starred lor iungs~tree. McLeod was the individual star for Manning, making practically all of the gains and doing the greater part of the tackling. This was the second victory of the week for Kingstree, the home team having /defeated Union high school, of Jfome, on Thursday, 67 to 0. GOING FORWARD / Cooperative Marketing a Success in Tobacco Industry. .Within one year after its organization, the Tri-State Tobacco Association will be anpiversally recognized as the world's greatest cooperative enterprise. In fact it now deserves the distinction, and is so regarded by those who nave studied its history, its organization, its development and its management and growth. Business principles offered to agrij culture, and the marketing of raw products as systematica^* as manufactured products are handled and sold, is the underlying purpose of the ! organization The short period in j 'which it has worked fully demon-1 | strates that its purpose is not only j 'practical, but that it is being daily accomplished. As these facts are unfolded to the public's attention and the wonderfulness of such a sendee is appreciated, this movement will be recognized as the means of the economic salvation of the South. It brings a new hope to a discouraged people, and the man, or influence that | stands in the way of (its progress, I should weigh with thoughtful measj ures the cost of such opposition. The merchant in years past whose best efforts resulted in the collection of only about fifty per cent, of the agricultural advances made to farmers, should gladly support a system which promises that hereafter, the raw products of the farm will sell jfor a profit?or be with-held from a ; crowded market until trade channels open and offer satisfactory bids. The landlord whose rents even if collected, leaves the producer without sufficient funds to buy school books for children, or the most ordinary? the absolutely necessary conveniences - " * 1 ? _1 1J i.1 oi an in proviaea nome, snuuiu iaruw his influence behind a plow that seeks to bring prosperity to the renter whose success adds to the happiness of his surroundings and makes life in general worth while. If cooperative marketing protects our field products from manipulators of prices, speculators and brings annually to the producer a legitimate profit on his tobaccos, and for his laborers, then a new era is about to dawn, and rural life, business life, social life, and real life is in store for the general welfare of this country. The association is going forward, step by step, just as planned by the management?not an obstacle. Not a disadvantage has been encountered, but what melted away, and not a single prediction of the opposition has < A. 4.1 .4U.. aeen luiimru. un wic uvuci uwiu, every expectation of the association has been realized. The machinery is working with precision and smoothly/ and Results are all that a body of farmers who remembers the past and \ the old system of auction sales. j Prices practically doubled, a sec-! ond advance in sight to be paid within a few days, and another in store for the Christmas stockings. A determination on the part of people o? nnt urillinor tn lr?ncrpr toil I " **v MAV **V? " and .struggle, and risk it all to chance on auction are taking hold, and a fctith?the kind that moves mountains, is ripening into action. The loyal fighter always Wins?There's little in idle talk, less 'in rumors. E. C. EPPS. Helmets for Armistice Day. The Boy <5couts of Kings tree have undertaken the sale this year of the tiny souvenir helmets made by disabled soldiers in the Dug Out, a club house and work shop for ex-service men in vocational training maintained by the National League for Women's service in New York. The price of the helmets is 25 cents and the proceeds go to the upkeep of the Dug Out. However, if the Scouts succeed in selling one thousand helmets in Williamsburg county, they will get five cents from the sale of^ach hel met, netting the boys $50.00. Otherwise, all the money goes back to the '/disabled soldiers. Every man, woman and child in this county ought to wear a helmet on Armistice Day, thus showing that they keep faith with those who fought for them, and that they stake their future hopes for America on the Boy Scouts of Mrs. Josephine^^^on Simons, wife of the late Sedgwick L. Simons, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Fred W. Ford, in Georgetown recently after a prolonged illness. JEFFORDS-HARRISON ' TO DIE IN CHAIR SUPREME COURT REFUSES NEW v TRIAL FOR CONDEMNED MEN. ' 1 Once more Frank M. Jeffords and Ira Harrison, convicted May 20 of the murder of John C. Arnette in his filling station on Main street in Columbia on the night of May 9, are faced with the.prospect of death in the elect! ic chair, their appeals fi*Bm the decision of the lower court hav ; in?- been denied by the state supreme court in opinious handed down at Columbia last week. The two cases were remanded to the court of general sessions in order that the date for the electrocutions may be set, and jthe two men will accordingly be before Judge Thomas J. Mauldin at the November session for resentencing. Glenn Treece, convicted with Harrison and Jeffords of the murder of Amette, was recommended by the jury to the mercy of the court and is now in the state penitentiary serving a life sentence. The November term of the court of general sessions for Richland will convene Monday, November 27, and no time will be lost by the state in the resentencing of the two men, according to Solicitor A. Fletcher Spigner, whoprosecuted the accused men. In accordance with the usual procedure, the solicitor said, he will appear before Judge Mauldin on the opening day and will then ask the judge to fix a date for the resentencing of the two convicted murderers. On the date set Harrison and Jeffords will be brought from their cells in the death house at the penitentiary and arraigned before the judge for the passage of sentence of death upon them. Lower Court Upheld. The supreme court in the two opin ions took up in order and sustained the lower court on every point raised by the two men in their apppeals, argued before the supreme court October 24. Counsel for Jeffords based his appeal on the grounds that Judge W. H. Townsend, who had presided at the trial, had erred in refusing Jefford'8 petition for a severance of the case; that Sheriff Heise in error had been allowed to repeat the statement of Harrison that the officers should send for Jeffords if they want- j ed to know who was implicated; that Judge Townsend had been in error in admitting the confessions of Harri- j son and Treece in so far as they re-1 ferred to Jeffords and that his honor had erred in charging the jury as to J conspiracy. Judge Townsend in each , instance, the court found, had acted I in accord with the law. Harrison's plea was bottomed on the contention that the judge had Arred in denvine Jeffords' motion for a severance of the case and that he had been in error in charging the jury as to implied malice. The state- j ment of Judge Townsend as to malice, i Associate Justice T. B. Fraser says in the writing of the opinion' is not "in the usual form, but it is entirely harmless here. When a man is beaten to death with pieces of . wood apd a bar of iron in his own place of business bv his Dartner and employee, I to whom he had been unfailingly kind, it was express malice." Jphn C. Arnette was killed in the Elmwood filling station at the corner of Elmwood avenue and Main street j at about 11 o'clock Tuesday night, May 9. His body, thrown in his own car, was discovered in a ditch beside the Bay branch bridge on Kirkland avenue at 11:30 o'clock Tuesday night by six national guardsmen, who had seen the wrecked automobile as they passed on their way home from drill. Sheriff T. Alex Heise was notified and he and Deputy Sheriff William H. Thompson began work on the case. At about 12:30 o'clock the filling i station was discovered on fire and i at 1:30 o'clock Sheriff Heise and i Deputy Sheriff Thompson, learning of this fact, went to the filling station, to become convinced that the crime had been committed there and the body later carried to Kirkland avenue and sert^. Mrs. Jujfe Doar McKnight, daughter oiJ0r. and Mrs. E. Marion Doar, i the home of her parents in Georgetown, Wednesday afternoon, November 1. Mrs. McKnight's death was not unexpected, as she had been in declining healtlh for several months. She was born in Georgetown and her school days and girlhood were spent there. EIGHTY DEAD IN MINE DISASTER rescue Workers are still ! searching the headings? thirty-two men saved. J Spangler, Pa., Nov. 7.?The Reilly i Coal Company's mine, swept by a! 'gas explosion yesterday morning, was j cleared of its dead today. Late this afternoon, rescue crews j W-ought out five bodies?believed to have been the last in the workings. | This brought the total of krown dead j to eighty. Thirty-two miners were rescued. Officials of the company declared that a recheck of their records made it practically certain that 112 men were in the mine. The total official list of survivors includes six miners w)? were in the cage when the flood of gas and smoke issued from the mouth of the shaft. The total dead includes .three miners, rescued alive, who failed to regain consciousness. Further search of the headings was made tonight. All miners listed as missing have been accounted for, however. , 1 The quiet precision which marked removal of the corpses to the morgue was evident tonight as preparations foi* the funerals got under way. Iden- i tified bodies were removed from the i morgue as quickly as they were ] claimed. Company officials notified : widows and relaltives that they will j take charge of funeral arrangements, : if desired. 1 Most of the victims were Roman 1 Catholics and their pastors, who j figured conspicuously in relief activities, arranged to conduct the last i rites of the church in two small cemeteries where a number of volunteers ] ar$ digging graves. < o News From Rhome. i Rome, Nov. 6.?Miss Frances Plexico, who is teaching near Warsaw, apent the week-end with Miss Edna Lawrance of the Union high school * faculty. i Mrs. Harry Wilson from Kingstree, 1 spent last wek with her parents, Mr. 1 and Mrs. W. T. Turbeville. ( Mr. and Mrs. Picken Raker and chil- * drer^ Mrs. Bowen and son, Jack, of 1 Lake City, visited relatives here * \ Sundry. 1 Judge John S. Wilson of Manning, 1 spent the week-end here with rela- 1 tives. i We are glad to hear that Miss Mary Rhem, who is at the McLeod Infirmary, Florence, is improving after having undergone two operations last Monday. ? Mrjs. B. M. Dinkins is in Florence with her neice, Miss Mary Rhem. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hemingway of Hemingway, spent Sunday here with relatives. Miss Frances Snow was the guest of Miss Louise Poston at Johnsonville for the week-end. 1 Mr. Eugene Parker and son of ' tfloronoo wore vioifrnrs Vioro Thurs-it j day. j 1 I Miss Carrie Baker of Hemingway, j spent Wednesday night with her sis-, J ter, Mrs. D. I. Wilson. j< Mrs. Pressley S. Thomas spent 1 last week here with her parents, Mr. ' and Mrs. D. I. Wilson. Dr. Thomas arrived Sunday. They left Monday ? by motor for their home kt Great ' Falls. . < Mrs. D. D. Rhem spent last week j in Florence with her daughter, Miss j J Mary, who is at the infirmary. J We are glad to report that Mrs. * W. J. Bryant is recovering from an operation for appendicitis at the Kel- 3 ley Sanitarium, Kingstree, last Mon- 3 day. The Hallowe'en entertainment and ' hot supper at Union high school last j1 Friday night was quite a success. Miss Etta Tart and Mr. Leland < Thomas were quietly married on Sun- 1 day afternoon, October 29, at the * home of the bride's father, Mr. J. J. ? Tart. Rev. G. K. Way, pastor of Union Methodist church, performed 1 the ceremony. Only the members of 1 the families of the contracting par- * ties were present. The young couple will make their home at Andrews, J where the groom is engaged in busi- ( ness. They have the good wishes of 1 the entire community. It is announced from Chester that a new 1,000 loom textile manufacturing plant will be built at Great < Falls, Chester county, shortly. The ] machinery has been bought and con- \ struction work will be launched im- ] mediately. . t VETERANS ENTERTAINED. jj Co. K. Talks Over Days of Sixties at Dinner Given by Mr. Fulmore. The trying days of the sixties were, talked over again at a leunion and T1 dinner given last Friday by Mr. Troy P. Fulmore to the surviving members of Company K, 6th S. C. V., of which organization Mr. Fulmore's father was a member. Those present ro were Seargeant J. P. Epps, age 80; A. W. Flagler, 80; Seargeant W. D. McFadden, 78; Seargeant S. R. To- sv bias, 82; J. M. Tobias, 80; five jn all fr' out of a total of seven now living. 19 Those present from other commands were H. J. Brown, 81, Co. C. 25th S. C. V.; and VV. N. Floyd, 86, Co. I, th C. S. V. A barbecue dinner was se served by the host and his esteemed 'ai Yi family, and the occasion furnished a 1 day of unalloyed enjoyment to those ^ present, each one of whom went ^ home none the worse for having freely partaken of Mr. Fulmore's hospi- 'e) tality. ^ n . fa The aggregate ages 01 tne seven ? veterans present is 567. , 0 v STATE FAIR POULTRY SHOW an i se Two Williamsburg County Exhibits pc Win Prizes. N< , re A most interesting section of the es state poultry show was the section in devoted to the boys' and girls' exhibits, meaning as it does more for the se future of (he state than all the birds el< gathered together by breeders and gu fanciers in the usual show of poul- m; try. This section, larger this year oc than ever before, is expected to show di a still larger increase next ^ear. The following winners are listed ve from Williamsburg county: in Mrs. Eva Chandler, Salters Depot? to 1st White Wyandotte pullet ind cockirel. Pe John Spiney, Greelyville?5th Bar- vo red Rock pullet and cockerel. wt Real Estate Sales Monday. pr Monday was salesday. In South cai Carolina the firat Monday in each sti nonth "salesday" atwhich time on ales are made "under hammer," or wl >y order of the court Sometimes ga tuch sales are made for partition, pl< igain for settling up estates of dead sul nen, but most of them are known as frc foreclosures," which often means 1 ;hat some fellow has "bit off more dii dian he can cl\ew," or in other words is las bought something that he can't of [ay for. The mortgage he has given cai >ver the property must be paid, hence joi ;he property is put on sale after cer- Fi, ain legal notice has been given and an s sold at public outcry to the high- sti ist bidder. ha Monday, November 6, there were i number of such sales made and it oci ivill be seen from the prices paid that coi ;he property brought very little. a In the matter of S. W. Gowdy fir igainst MJ. Woods and others, sev- oc: ?n tracts, embodying upwards of 400 fr< icres were sold after having been ad- C. yertised in The County Record at ag hree different times; and bought in ha >y Mr. Gowdy for $2,600.00 fej In the mater of P. G. Gourd in pu igainst Simon Armstrong and oth ?' 1 u* ;rs, involving z4 acres, was wugm. ^ jy the plalintiff, Mr. Gourdin, for *200.00. Peoples Bank of Lake City against J. S. Rodgers and others, 77 Vt acres, ^ jold to the Peoples Bank of Lake Sity for $975.00. v du Palmetto Bond and Mortgage Co., -pj, igainst Thos. M. Wilson, 94 acres, sold to Palmetto Bond ana Mortgage pjj Zo., for $2,525.00. lie L. A. Hyman and W. W. Purvis co, igainst H. B. Ginn and others, 50 < icres, sold to Mrs. Cox for $3,000.00. ha W. V. Strong against E. D. Rhodus, ou 241 acres, sold to Lee & Shulei^ at- ^ Forneys, for $6,100.00. ww RoH-Via S Wolfe aeainst Lu- oer ******* *** ~ y ~ ?t | ?e> :inda Williams and others in a matter involving 36% acres of land, sold jej to Lee and Shuler, attorneys, for w ?350.00. ed Palmetto Bond and Mortgage Co., f0l against Emma L. Coker, 44 acres, j,y sold to Palmetto Bond and Mortgage q( Co., for $350.00. ^ Farmers and Merchants National wc Bank against J. N. Sauls and othsrs, 130 acres , sold to G. F. Stalvey, attorney, for $100.00. ^ o? Fr Thomas Nelson Page Dead. no Thomas Nelson Page, noted lawyer, fn diplomat and author died suddenly of ed heart failure while walking in his ba garden at his plantation home in ? Hanover county, Va., Wednesday afternoon, November 1. Se DEMOCRATS WIN 1 IN NEW YORK 2NNESSEE QOES BACK INTO x FOLD AT TUESDAY'S ELECTION. 4 'H V = Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, lling up the greatest plurality New irk city has ever given any candiite in any election, Tueeday was ? ept back into gubernatorial chair v om which he had been ejected in ( 20"by Governor Nathan L. Miller. Republicans not only admitted the feat of Mr. Miller, but conceded at William M. Calder had lost his at in the senate to Royal S. Copend, health commissioner of New >rk city, fornjprly mayor of Ann rbor, Mich. With the success of eir ticket leaders, Democrats were liming gains In congress and the ^islature, but the Republicans mainined steadily thaf their majorities the senate and assembly had been tie impaired. The victory of Mr. Smith was ticipated by many political obrvers but even his sturdiest supirters had not predicted that in ew York city he would beat the cord plurality of about 417,000 tablished by Mayor John F. Hylan 1920. Early and seatered reports from all ctions of Tennessee indicate the iction of Austin Peay, Democratic ibernatorial rtominee, by a larger ajority than inside figures at Dem- v ratic headquarters had at first in- ^ cated. In East Tennessee Peay has rersed a Republican majority of 400 . Sullivan county and turned it in- y' , a Democratic majority of 1,000. In Davison (Nashville) county ay's gains over the Roberts 1920 te was almost 40 per cent, in the irds still t<) report. Twenty-five out of forty country edncts give Peay 1,048, Taylor 462. In North Carolina the Democratic ndidates for congress swept tne ite in all ten districts of the state the face of unofficial returns, iich while not complete were rerded by political observers as comite enough to indicate the final reIt, especially as most of them came im the large counties. In the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth itricts, where the Republican vote usually larger than inrfither puts the state, the three Democratic ndidates had piled up heavy maities on the face of these returns, gures compiled by the Raleigh News d Observer indicated that on the ite ticket the Democratic candidates ve all been elected. r II' r> n DnAvir rum. in Virginia vjcvtgc v. im;, ww ^ rat, of Tazewell, was elected to ngress from the Ninth District by majority of 2,600. It was the st time in 22 years that a Demrat has b^nv elected to congress >m .this district. Peery succeeds Bascom Slemp, who refused to ain run for the seat which, he d held for so many years. He deited John H. Hassinger, the Reblican nominee. o ~ 'Pool frhikit ?t Statf Fair. I cat uaov juAiuv** ? ? -- The Near East Relief exhibited at e state fair, articles hand made d embroidered by orphan girls of menia. These articles were on sale ring the week in the steel building. ie proceeds will be given to the nd used for the support of the oranages run by the Near East Ref organization in t he stricken antries. The girls are taught all forms of ndicraft. They are quick and zeals pupils, and eager to help by the le of their embroidery. Not long ago in one of the orphanes a large number of the girls were ken to the hospitals, their arms and fs sore and bleeding. The nurses :re at a loss to explain what seemto be an epidemic until it was and that the bleeding was caused self inflicted cuts and scratches, oth wa^ very scarce and the girls ed the Tandages for their hand >rk. o Mrs. Catherine Rosier was acquiti by the jury in Philadelphia last iday for killing Miss Mildred iraldine Reckitt, her husband's stegrapher, and soon afterward was ied of the indictment which chargher with the killing of her husnd, Oscar Rosier, at the same time. 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