The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 09, 1922, Image 8
LADY MISSIONARY
WRITES FROM CHINA
MISS PLOWDEN SENDS INTERESTING
LETTER TO FATHER
FROM SOOCHOW.
My dearest father,
? I have gotten two or three copies
of The County Record, and have enjoyed
them so much. Now that I
y am in Soochow to stay. I want the
address changed here?just Soochow
is all it needs. There are not so many
of us foreigners, and it is not so
nara 10 Keep up wiui uj.
Did you know Dr. S. H. Edmund's
son is in Shanghai? He is teaching
in the Shanghai American school, it
is composed entirely of missionary
children. I saw him twice while I
was in Shanghai last week. He is
very young, and just out of college,
but he is a very fine boy. The students
like him very much. He is
coming up to Soochow soon to visit
the Beaveo and me. I just enjoyed
being down to the college so much.
You know I wrote you I was going
down there to teach until the boat
came in bringing the new missionaries.
Well, Mrs. Willar came, and I turned
my precious boys over to her, as
you may suppose it nearly broke my
heart. It was delightful to have the
new missionaries come out. Severfl
of them were among my best friends.
Faith Snuggs was among them, she
was in Sumter last year and stayed
with sister. Mary Lawton also came,
' she was in the training school at
Winthrop with me one year each.
We gave them a reception the even
ing they arrived, and introduced tnem
to China and Chinese, of course I
had no Chinese to air, but I was part
of a chorus that sang "My breakfast
he's over the Ocean, my dinner he's
over the Sea, my supper is all in
commotion, Oh, bring back my dry
land to me." v
Then we had a tea for them out
at the college, they got separated
some how, some of them went somewhere
else first, so the first lot of
them' came and went, then another
lot of them came, so we had two
+A?c TVion thpre was one voung man
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who got left out some how, and he
came the next afternoon. That gentleman
is Mr. Hines from Spartanburg.
He is very nice, and nice look'
ing. I did not get to see Red Littlejohn.
He went on to North China
from Japa i. He and his wife were
terribly sea-sick. Some of them said,
one day Red went into the dining
room and the servant gave him the
menu card, and waited for the order.
Red looked at it a few minutes, then
said in all earnestness, "Bring me a
half >a dozen trees and some dry
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lanu.
Last weak my little kiddies at my
mission in Louisville sent me a box.
It contained five dolls, six handkerchiefs,
.and lots of beautiful Sunday
school cards, and picture booklets
that they themselves had made. The
pictures were very beautiful ones of
the life of Christ mostly, and of some
other Bible stories. This afternoon
, I went with Miss Bagby to one of^ the
out station Sunday schools, and we
gave the cards to the children. They
were very ignorant little lads and
so uncouth, but you should have
heard them sing. Children who were
bred and born on "nothing but the
blood of Jesus" could not have sung
it more hu^tily. I am so'anxious to
know Chinese so that I can talk to
them myself.
These children come pretty regu
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larly but they have hardly toucnea
the older people. Several of our
Yates Academy boys go out there on
Sundays. I have a class of Academy
boys, which I am going back to teach
every Sunday. I am sure I will enjoy
them very much, I missed not having
any definite work to do this summer.
The language school has opened
this week. We have learned thirty-five
words, seven a day. We have
learned all the personal pronouns, a
few nouns and verbs, and have com I
bined them into countless sentences.
It is very interesting. My year of
listening has helped me some with
sounds. I am living in the Language
School Home. We have a most interesting
group of women. There are
two Bantist. two Methodists, two
Episcopalians and one Northern Presbyterian.
Then at lunch each day,
we have another Presbyterian and
two English women under the London
mission, five of them are nurses and
a doctor, while the rest are teachers
and evangelists. Dr. Jacobs, who
took Dr. Howies work in Summerton,
has just come to Soochow to be the
dentist here. He is with the Metho
dist. They have a tremendous work
here?that is their policy, to have a
few powerful centers.
At a reception this week in honor
of some new Presbyterians, I met Miss
Wilds, Mrs. Davis' sister. Mrs. Davis
the wife of the Presbyterian minister
at Kings tree. She is lovely, and 1
was just so sorry that I came from
the same town and had to say I hao
not seen her sister. She came there
you know, the last year I was ir
the training school, and that summer
jCHANGE FORM OF
COURT PROCEDURE
!TO PREVENT "MAN WITH PLENTY
OF MONEY" FROM DEFEATING
JUSTICE.
A new doctrine of appeals on after-discovered
evidence in criminal
cases was enunciated by the state
supreme court at Columbia last Fri
day in atnrming an oroer 01 uram
Judge Mauldin granting a new trial
to Cliff Hawkins, convicted at Greenville
of murder and sentenced to he
electrocuted.
The poinion was written by Judge
Frank B. Gary, of the Eighth Judicial
Ciicuit and was concurred in
by four justices of the supreme court
and the circuit judges sitting en
banc on September 1, at which sitting
the Hawkins case was reviewed,
Associates Justice R. C. Watts dissenting.
The opinion holds that motions
for new trials on after discovered
evidence should be made to circuit
courts or judges \\4ien they have not
been deprived of jurisdiction by appeals
to the supreme court through
the handing down of a remittitur by
that tribunal; but, if the case is
pending in the appellate court, a motion
should be made to it to suspend
the appeal so that the motion for a
new trial can be heard before the
lower couit. The opinion iiKewise
hol&s that, if the supreme court has
already passed on the appeal, and
its judgment has been remanded to
the lower court, then an appeal on
after discovered evidence must be
heard before the supreme court, and
if the cause is meritorious that tribunal
will take proper steps to have
the motion heard by the circuit court.
Should the date for an electrocution
already have been set, the opinion
holds, then an appeal to the supreme
court should be made in sufficient
time on the grounds of after
discovered evidence; but, if the time
is limited, the governor can be requested
to extend the date of the
sentence, upon proper showing, and
the appellate court will hear the motion
anyway, and, should the appeal
be refused, there will be no necessity
of returning to the lower court to
set a new date for electrocution.
The rule heretofore has been that,
should the motion for a new trial be
refused by the circuit judge, then an
appeal would be taken to the state
supreme which must hear it. Should
the circuit court be affiirmed in its
judgment and the appellant be sent
back for re-sentence, he could then
make another motion for a new trial,
and again appeal from the refusal
of the circuit judge, and continue this
almost interminably, so much so that
the dictum, "a mhn with sufficient
money to continue hiring lawyers, if
convicted of munder and sentenced
to death, need never to be executed,"
has almost become a legal maxim in
South Carolina. However, the new
doctrine laid down by the court will
nravftnf fKic
*"*"?v -rThe
dextrine of appeals under
which the courts have been laboring,
as laid down in the state against Lee,
and interpreted in subsequent cases,
"has led to a condition" in the language
of the opinion, "where convicted
criminals may by successive
motions and appeals block the process
of the law indefinitely, and by
their motions and appeals prevent
their execution."
This condition has beeii confrontinw
the law anforramant denartment
of the government for some time, so
much so that in several notorious
cases substantial justice has been
thwarted.
o The
W. S. Gray Cotton Mills, located
at Woodruff, in Spartanburg
county, were sold to a syndicate composed
of H. A. Ligon, Sr., H. A.
Ligon, Jr., of Spartanburg, and M.
R. Reaves of New York City last
week, the amount involved being between
$600,000 and $700,000.
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Free Vegetable and Flower Seed.
Senator in. a. Lnai requests us to
make the following announcement:
"The distribution of vegetable and
flower seed will take place in a few
weeks and the supply of each senator
is limited. I will be glad to send a
package to each person requesting
seed if they will' let me have their
names and post office addresses
Please address me: Room 228 Senate
office building, Washington, D. C.
Card of Thanks.
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To my friends of Kings tree:
Vioort arrant out to voil with lov<
i and gratitude for the kindness showr
me in my illness.
Mrs. Mary A. McGee.
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. she was not at home much, and cer
' tainly I was not, so I never die
t meet her. I see Henry Reaves am
i his wife quite often. We are going
I to have a birthday party very soor
. for their little daughter, Annie Louise
ijwho will be two years old.
' Soochow China, October 1, 1922.
THANKSGIVING DAY
; NOVEMBER 30
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'much to be grateful for,
declares the chief
executive.
Declaring that the estate of the'
1 nation "presents very much to jus?
tify a nationwide and most sincere,
testimony of gratitude for the bounty
which has been bestowed upon us,"
I President Harding, in the annual
Tbankse-ivinir Dioclamation issued i
> today, calls upon the American peo- .
pie toN observe Thursday, November,
i 30, "as a day of thanksgiving, supplication
and devotion."
i The text of the proclamation fol- j
lows:
t "By the president of the United j
States of America:
"A proclamation.
"In the beginning of our country j
the custom was established by the j
; devout fathers of observing annual- j
I ly a day of thanksgiving for the
bountfes and protection which Divine 1
Providence had extended throughout j
the years. It has come to be per- J
haps the most characteristic of our j
national observances, and as the season
approaches for its annual recurrence,
it is fitting formally to direct
attention to this ancient institutiop j
of our people and to call upon them |
aeain to unite in its celebration.
Trials and Triumphs.
"The year which now approaches
its end has marked, in the experience
of our nation, by a complexity of
trials and triumphs, of difficulties
and of achievements, which we must
regard as our inevitable portion in (
such an epoch as that through which
all mankind is moving. As we survey
the experience of the passing
twelve month^we shallVind that our
estate presents very much to justify
a nationwide and most sincere testimony
of gratitude for the bounty
which has been bestowed upon us.
Though we have lived in the shadow
of the hard consequences of great
conflict our country has been at peace
and has been able to contribute toward
the maintenance and perpetuatu>q?
in flip u-nrlH Wp havp
V1VII VI |/V?*VV HI VliV T. V* ?M. >r w - ? .
seen the race of mankind make gratifying
progress on the way to permanent
peace, toward order and restored
confidence in its high destiny.
'Tor the Divine guidance which
has enabled us, in growing fraternity
with other peoples, to' attain
so much of progress; for the bounteous
yield which has come to us
from the resources of our soil, and
our industry, we owe our tribute of
gratitude, and with it our acknowledgment
of the duty and obligation
to our people and to the unfortunate,
the suffering, the distracted of other
lands. Let us, in all humilty, acknowledge
how great is our debt to
the Providence which has generously
dealt with us,* and give devout assurance
of unselfish purpose to play
a helpful and ennobling part in human
advancement. It is much to be
desired that in rendering homage for
the blessings which have come to -us
we should earnestly testify our continued
and increasing aim to make
our own great fortunes a means of
helping and serving as best we can
the cause of all humanity.
"Now, therefore, I, Warren G.
Harding, president of the United
States of America, do designate
Thursday, the thirtieth day of November,
as a day of thanksgiving,
supplication and devotion, f recommend
that the people gather at their
family altars and in their houses of
worship to render thanks to God for
the bounties they have enjoyed and
to petition that these may be continued
in the* year before us.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington
this second day of November, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-two, and of the
independence of the United States of
America, the one hundred and fortyseventh.
"Warden G. Harding."
i Lend a Helping Hand.
Editor County Record.
"Can anything good come out of
| Nazareth," or in this case the negro
[ race? Come, see and hear what I
did at their recent annual conference
in this place. I was greatly gratified
to learn of the progress "Our
, Brother in Black" was making in
every way. They have in the state
their own insurance companies, banks
and high schools, several of each, and
; in a financial way are able to stand
? on their own legs. I am satisfied
though that they would appreciate
our moral help if given them in the
. right spirit. May God, who is no
respector of persons, help us to rise
j above prejudice, and give them the
j hand of Christian fellowship and
P wish them pood speed in their work,
j Kingstree^ November 5. '
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MEN'S SUITS.
$15.00 Suits at $ i
$2,0.00 Suits at $12
$25.00 Suits at $1(
BOYS' SUITS.
$6.00 Suits at $J
$8.00 Suits at.
MEN'S SHOES
One lot of Men's Shoes,
English and Blucher lasts
all leathers, $5.00 values. $!
CHILDREN'S SHOES
in sizes 3 to 8, all good leathers,
a bargain at
TABLE DAMASK
58 inch white Table Linen,
$1.00 value, on sale at
APRON GINGHAM
Good quality Apron Check
now going at, the yard
BLEACH
36 inch Bleach of a nice
quality, on sale at, yard..
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BOYS' SWEATER COAT
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