Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. WKWSY LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. Ifctgae of In Urem Prom all Part* of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. If OTIC* TO CORRESPONDBNTS. Mall your Isttsrs so that they will reach this office not later than Mon? day when Intended for Wednesday's gaper and not later than Thursday for Saturday's issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond? ing? In case of items of unusual aews value, send In Immed'ately by snail, telephone or telegraph. Such aew? stories are acceptable up to the hear of going to press. Wednesday'! aaper Is printed Tuesday afternoon and Saturday's paper Friday after STATEBURG. Stateburg. March 9.?Misses Theo dosla and Bessie Dargan, Messrs. A. M. Cantey and Edourd Dufour attend? ed the Polo game In Camden last Fri? day Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Sanders and the Misses and Mr. Ellerbe spent Sunday with Col. and Mrs. J. J. Dargan. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Neyle enter? tained delightfully last Saturday eve? ning. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of 8umter, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. E. M. Frier son. Miss rlfjlgg Frierson, Mr. John Frierson. Mr. and Mrs. Pagan and Miss Georgia Dargan. Mr. Marshal Wescoat, of Sumter, spent Sunday In our midst. Misses Georgia and Wllhelmlna Dargan spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. F. E. Thomas In Wedge field. ? party consisting of Miss Helen Frierson. Meadames Neyle, Frierson and Pagan. Messrs. Neyle and Pagan went to Sumter last Tuesday night to attend "St. Elmo." The people of our community are looking forward with great pleasure to the meeting on the 18th of March, at the Gen. Sumter Memorial Acad? emy, of the Sumter County Agricul? tural Society. The boyr of the Sumter Memorial Academy have done a beautiful piece of work on the Demonstration Farm by clearing several acres of new ground. HAGOOD. Hagood. March 9.?A trip through West Kershaw down the Wbe Road to Jordan's Mill, then by way of Bastover road to Betty Ne.k, where you turn to the right, rr turning to the Wire road at John M. Porter's. This route takes you through what some have been pleased to call "The Lost Territory." one of the most de? lightful, healthy, progressive and prosperous sections of Kershaw county. Here live the Kennedys, Kellys, Peaks, A Ulrichs, Branhams, Martins. Bowens and a number of others, all In good circumstances, liv? ing at home. A splendid class of ?MJaenshlp in daily touch with the world through the R. F. D. Here are grown as fine crops as ar^ to be seen and th- and Is not y. t It I? said that when Gen. Lafayette was making a tour of our country passing by stage through this same territory he remarked that It was so poor .that a bussard could not fly over It. He was mistaken as any Clone observer will allow, for all along are farms springing up and where IntHliiontly worked are pay? ing a nice profit. Land values, too, are beginning to soar, notwithstand? ing the Im "m< sail m I to railroads and the dlfth iilti? ? m af travel through the sandhills. it Is probable that a new railroad will be constnu te 1 through this country In the not dis? tant future, and If so, there will be such developments as will astonish one. The writer has been over all this territory and feels fully Justified In the above statement. Two negroes In our community have died with consumption lately, Abram Holiday and his wife. Our people are busy plowing, glad to have the opporiunitv after the protra t. I w? t spell. Our County Supervisor would do well to look alter some of our roads. There are folks who want, not only the earth, but a slice of the moon. One ought to be p shamed to en? croach on our roads especially in these times when so much Is being said and done to give us good ones. Is It an accident that the best far? mers among the aolOTOd people (it Is a fact.) are readers of the \Vat< hman and Southron" Thev read It too, Mr E lltor, and are not only posted on local matters but those of general In? terest. The r.. v-p.i p.-r Is our great est educif r and i k' .nd one like the Watchman, ought to be In every home. "If?good" M \\ M i x. Mar h I " Tie- vol. e of the turtb- dove and that af other birds, also the restful hum of the honey bag has been heard In the land. The snake which has been compar? ed to the evil one. the wasp which Is harmless, if left alone, the beautiful and Innocent buterllv, has been s*?cn. The pen eh and plum and n few fta Kant flowers are in bloom. All Indi? cations of spring;. It Wll Mrs. B. R. Furttck instead of Truluck, as 1 was made ti? say last week. Mrs. M. P. Truluck is very sick. Mr. J. C. Truluck went to Florence yesterday on business. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Carraway, of olanta, have gone to Tlmmonsiville today. Mrs. G. W. Matthews of Wllliam ston left Saturday for home after BfA ndlng a week with friends about here. Miss Eva More Is in Wilmington where she will be the guest of rela? tives for a few weeks. K.M ently a young man traveling on pleasure bent, took the bit out of his horse's mouth that he might drink by the road-side, the horse broke away and ran till the buggy was broken badly. It is said the young man walked home. Anything valuable or important re? quires close attention. A gentleman tells a rather crude Joke, that to urge his little son, who was attending school to greater ef? forts in spelling, he would mis-spell words for his son to correct and final? ly told him to ask teacher if he could not go to school too. When the little boy returned from school, looking rather sour, he inquired if he had asked, he replied: "Pa Miss May wouldn't put up with your fool way of spelling. She'd whip you before night." Mr. A. J. Goodman has a field of fine oats. C IRCUIT COURT REVERSED. Singular Principle of Law in Appeal Case. Columbia, March 7.?Because the presiding Judge charged "a man is not going to make an admission against himself unless it is true,'* and thereby, according to authority cited by Justice Hydrick, "invaded the province of the jury," Seth A. Shorter will get a new trial. The Judgment of the Circuit Court is reversed in the^ case of the State against Shorter for selling a bale of cotton under mort? gage. The sole question of fact at the trial was whether or not appellant owed the prosecutor anything. But the matter of the charge over? shadows the issue in Importance. The appeal was upon charge as to facts and the Supreme Court upholds the appellant In the particular set out above. The case is very unusual in? asmuch as the principle of law invol? ved does not often come up in such a form. How I 0NW 110 Bushels of Corn Per Ace. The land is good land. It would yield a bale of cotton to the acre. February 1 the land was broken with a two-horse plow to the depth of bout six .incheh, following with a subsoil in the same furrow, going about four Inches deep. Just before planting the land was run over with a cutaway harrow and a heavy log run over it. Before planting I laid off rowi five feet apart. I A dding the land very deep, plow? ed in furrows on the Williamson plan without any fertilizer. On April 10 I planted Oarrick's prolific corn, Which produced from two to three cars to the stalk. My cultivation was different from the Williamson plan. The first working, I ran one fur? row in the mldlle with a shovel plow, ''dding out the middle very deep. When the corn was about knee high I thinned it to about 12 inches apart in the drill and then run around it with a small tongue plow and a sw?ep. In Hv? days I again run around it. Then I began to fertilize, using three MM hi of 10-2-4 Ashepoo, putting th< guano on each side of the corn. I then plowed with a tongue plow and sweep very shallow. In ab..ut fourteen days the corn Was as high as my head. I gain fer? tilized, using three sacks of 10-2-4 Asbt p.,.*, placing It on each side of the corn, just as before, only using a larger sweep. Six sacks of guano was all that I used. When the corn began to silk I broadcast J7."> pounds of nitrate of so.la. and then laid the corn by with a large swe: p. plowing very shallow. I attribute the g.I yield, first; to K.1 preparation; second, to plant? ing good seed; third, to putting in the fertilizer three times?feeding the corn while it grew; fourth, plow ink' shallow and cutting no roots of the corn.--S. S. Hunter, Glenn Springs, S. C. The windy <|a\s of sprint,' ;ire her*1. Kittle a log chain down the chimney .'iii.l f?t the soot out before it burn out. nnd maybe burns the house, too. TWO ffOOd eyes to a hill of potatoes ,ire a-pbritv. We make a mistake in my time In seeding too heavily. (3oo4 stocky ihooti art better than spindling ones. Don't wait till the I i 't minute to polish up that rusty old plow, or to I *' neu boits. or to grind the mowlni machine knives, Preparatory licks in time blnae the way to final success), I tell v is fi d m?ing anchor. PATTEN EXC ITES LIVERPOOL. Arrival of Noted Wheat Hull Sets British Brokers to Prophesying Pun In Market. Liverpool, March 8.?The arrival here today of James A. Patten of Chicago caused considerable excite? ment in cotton circles, despite his dis? claimer of an intention to deal in. wheat or cotton and his explanation j that he was in England only for a brief ho''.day. Cables from America heralding Patten's visit hinted of the possibility of his having designs on the Liverpool market and as a result the local dealers are watching tht American's movements closely. Mr. Patten intends to return to the United States by the Mauretania next Staurday. There is a firm belief in cotton circles here that he is arrang? ing to engineer a deal in May cotton. At luncheon with prominent brokers today he is credited with saying that "the fun on the market has not yet j commenced." PAUL E. AVER FOUND DEAD. Went to Ills Room Monday Night and When He Did Not Reapi>ear Search Revealed Him Dead. Anderson, March 9.?Paul E. Ayer thrice a candidate for mayor of An? derson and well known in South Car? olina, was found dead in his room at a boarding house here today. He went to his room on Monday and when he failed to report at his work today someone was sent to his room to ascertain If he was ill. He prob? ably died Monday night. Mr. Ayer was a brother of Mrs. J. R. Vandiver, of Anderson, Hartwell M. Ayer of Florence, and Mrs. Oker berg of Munich, Bavarala. He was 36 years of age. ELECTRIC LINE IN ORANGEBl lKJ Edlsto Power Company With Same Petitioners Were Commissioned at Same Time. Columbia, March 8.?The Orange burg railway, capitalized at $50,000 and a maximum capital of $300,000, which Is to run from the city of Or? angeburg to Springfield, a distance of 30 miles, has been commissioned by the secretary of state. The petition? ers are W. C. Wolfe, J. A. Berry and Lawrence Manning. The road will be operated by electric power and will be of standard guage. In the petition it is stated that the company proposes at some future date to extend Its line to Columbia, Charleston and Augusta. The road at present will be built entirely with? in the county of Orangeburg, and will pass through the townships of Liv? ingston, Elizabeth City, Rock Grove, Ooodland. Liberty, Hebron, Zion and Williams. A commission was also issued to the Edlsto Power Company with a capi? tal of $10,000. The peitioners are the same as for the Orangeburg rail way. This company is given the right to develop waterpowers and manufac? ture light and electrical power. This company was commissioned under an act passed by the legislature. GREAT STRIKE CALLED. Pennsylvania Labor Delegates Urge Genoral Walk out. Newcastle, Pa., March 9.?Follow? ing the stirring meeting today of the Pennsylvania State Federation of La? bor, at Which resolutions were adop? ted asking that the American Feder? ation of Labor call a nation-wide strike, conservative delegates tonight expressed that the meeting was too precipitate in its action, some charg? ing that the convention was Btam peded by W. I). Mahon, president of tin- Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em? ployes. Mr. Mahon came here with a dele? gation from Philadelphia and assur? ed the convention that the strikers would win il they had the support of tiie union of the State. He aroused the delegates to a high pitch of en? thusiasm and when the resolution that had been prepared by the com? mittee of ten in Philadelphia was put it was carried unanimously. President Greenwalt of the feder? ation appointed a committe of nine to confer with the Philadelphia com? mittee of ten as to when the strike shall be inaugurated in other cities. Tlie committee of nine held a meet? ing tonight and formulated a report which will l e presented to the con? vention tomorrow. None of its pro? visions were made public. Delegates who are averse to a spread of the strike object on the mound that the present is a poor time to engage in any industrial war to such an extent and it is regarded as uncertain that all orngnlxed labor will answer the ?all tor a general strike. It is easy to break a good hammer handle in drawing a long nail. After starting the nidi out an inch or so. just place a bit of wood under the head of the hammer, raising it up say an Inch, and you can pull your nail enslly. BATTLE FLAG FOR BATTLESHIP. Magnificent Runner to be Presented to The Battleship Named After the state of South Carolina. Orangeburg, March 8.?It was an? nounced some weeks ago that the presentation of the official battle flag for the battleship South Carolina would take place next April, when that ship visits Charleston, for the presentation of the silver service, do? nated by the State of South Carolina. The flag, which is the official llag for South Carolina, is a magnificent piece of workmanship. Th? field ut the flag is made of gorgeous blue silk, with gold fringe. The large palmetto tree and the crescent are hand em? broidered In white silk, with shading in gray. The flag is nine feet long and six feet wide, the official size of the batalion flag. Mrs. A. C. Ligon was named at the State convention to have charge of the presentation, and tb3 following presentation, committee has been ap? pointed: Mesdames R. H. Jennings, John Bull and A. C. Ligon. Capt. Fechteier of the United States navy, commanding officer of the battleship, will receive the flag. The flag will be given by all the State chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolu? tion. The banner, which has hand? some accessories, cost almost $200 and will make the battleship a beau? tiful souvenir from this historic so? ciety in the State from whom she is named. R. W. Brice, aged 74 years, a well known citizen of Chester county, is dead. SHOWING Spring Styles YOU'RE sure to be delighted with the new fabrics we shall show you in our new suits and trousers from Hart Scha|ffner & Marx The new grays and pattern blues are the most attractive things we've ever seen; the weavers have certainly done their best; as for the style and tailoring in these clothes, there's certainly nothing left to be desired. Every fabric we offer in Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes is strictly all wool; you'll find even the light summer weight goods more comfortable to wear because they're all-wool than if they were part cotton. We want to have you wear these clothes ; we shall best serve you by getting you into them. Any day now we're ready to show you the finest clothes made. Suits $20 to $30. This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes ?oovrighi Hart Schaffner & Mane Phone |166. Sumter, S. C.