The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 06, 1911, Image 6
SIMMS HUE BIG HIE.
PARTY RrTTVRNS HERE FRIDAY
MORNING AFTt.lt VERY
PLEASANT TRIP.
Do Much Advertising for
of Hum U*r Can
dtdatce A it rect Many Favorable
Omfflrnl*.
The Shrlnere who wont from hero
to Spartan burg to the big Tr.enksgiv
laf Day Shrlnsrs meeting returned to
the ctty Friday morning after spend?
ing a meet enjoyable day in that
hospitable town. While they were
on their trip the Sumter club of
Shrlners did a deal of advertising- for
the Gamecock City und exciting much
favorable comment for themselvea
Oaiaecock City badges were worn by
all of the Sumter delegation and their
special Pullman car was decorated
with big pieces of bunting tacksd on
it which was writtsn the fact in big
letters that that car and Its contents
earns from Sumer. the Gamecock
City.
The costumee of all of the candi?
dates were most fancy and created
much merriment and comment from
all of the persons in attendance upon
tho Shrlners meeting, but those cos?
tumes prepared for the Sumter bunch
of ten delegates "beat the other cos?
tumes all hollow." There were many
and various costumee and they were
a well posted snd up-to-date set of
types sxhlblted by the Sumter Shrln
era There was Mr. H. C. Parrott,
who. aa Uncle Sam. that well known
celebrity, headed the list of candl-1
dates, coming from Sumter. He
wasn't "Polly" any longer, but Just
"plain Uncle 51am." some ons stated.
Mr. It. A. Bradham was no longer
a popular bank official, for he was
dressed In motley made court Jester
and "king's fool" for the occasion.
He was still popular, howsver. that
could aot be taken away from him.
Messrs. Junlus Parrott and T. J.
holt rid not hold down their Joba aa
deputy clerk of court and railroad
yird master respectively, any longer,
for they were promoted to act aa the
gold dust twins. They were a Jolly
set of twins, however, and carried off
their parte well, except # on one oc?
casion when Mr. Junlus Parrott was
i?i"v of a serious inOlscretlon after
partaking of the cup of enjoyment too
I ally and was carried away in the
"Black Maria" to the lock-up. where
ha was kept for about an hour until
Messra Glenn. I- I. Parrott. and oth?
ers could go sround and put up bond
for hie appearance at court.
The next pair was one deer to every
efslldish heart and the children who
Watched the 600 Shrlners In their pa?
rade cheered them lustily. Thetie
Were Bustsr Hrown snd Mary Jane,
a beautiful pair of Innocent children.
Messra O. H. Folley and G. E. Hayn*
worth were the two characters In the
. eHsjaaa and they were \*>r\ promi of
their parts and of the way they wero
enabled to carry^ off the honors of the
sasnelon, even If the popular insur?
ance man did meet friends and have
to fall out of line to speak to them.
It Is reported that Mary Jane wore a
beautiful and expenalve coetum**
The namo of Dr. E. It. Wilson wns
put forth as a candidate for office
and he waa elected Oriental Guide,
thus being In the wsy of promotion
to Grand Potentate, to wbich ofBee
his friends hope to elevate h'm In the
future.
The parade was a big feature of
the occasion r ? 1 i -i ? u\ >i >
than SO0 shrlners in this. The candl
ehmten name along as drivers of the p??
ttee patrol.. s?>me were on the n
wagon, some drove wagons and Sensal
went In beautiful floats. the .-ouit
Jenter going bareback on a donkey
through the streets. During the
evening th* nlal session * is
held apd the candidates put through
tho Initiation eeremon!*"*. th?r??
I
wore shout Mat) I dates, sntlrsty
U*o many to be put through tho de?
gree*, enty tw< adldntef wen
required t ? lahs fh.- I >f these
active Vnr.didates Mr. n. H. Folley
was th#? only one fi o Sumter who
took tho course. |hi others simply
being obligated without taking the
laltlsllon course.
After thr cor? moi?|al ?e?ts|on ? ? i
held the Fp*rtsnburg Shrlners ? n
Itrtalned tbi Ir guestr at a hountlful
Thanksgiving banquet which wss
mu'h #?nj..\*d by all ?.f th?? vMlorn
nfter their dav's np.rl *. Thn
Pumhr party lef? < u tho Pullman at
egesseji It:to and reached here at
7.1* Friday morning.
Marriage |.h?o.. .;..<.n|.
Th- onp i r I?.- i t ? granted
n'rldav went i . Alfl i \v ngtofi
and ? rla John r?ri - May ?IIb?.
London's Itilljn Oinnv.
The Italians in Lnhek n, IfnghHal
sufficient of men . h to ?o
Inrge to*r Phnre ire i>?
f1.noo pf whom ai
tnr* v? 1,00 ) p. nn-grlnd
? < h-r 11 v h are chl^Mv t n
jsftfi u. hlaeter 1 ? ?I rcllrr
an? tt '
r# ? oswi bot^' t\ enwrg. und en
FIFTY MILLION LOAN PLAN.
Stayton to be In Columbia Tcday for
Conference.
Columbia. Dec. 1.?W. II. Stayton.
representing the group of New York
bankers who have offered a loan of
$60,000 to finance the cotton crop of
the 8outh, will arrive in Columbia to?
morrow for a conference with E. J.
Watson, president of the Southern
Cotton Congress. Mr. Watson and
Mr. Stayton will go to Augusta during
the day, where a conference will be.
held with C. S. Barrett, president of
the National Furniers* Union.
While no official announcement has
been made by Mr. Watson, It Is ex?
pected that the details of the pro?
posed loan will be announced follow?
ing the conference in Augusta.
NEWS FROM DARK CORNER.
Protracted Meeting at Plnewood;
Turkey Shoot on Thanksgiving.
Dark Corner, Nov. 28.?There was
not much doing in this vicinity last
week only burning wood and eating
grub by those that had the wood and
the grub.
I thought I would come up to your
city on the 23rd to the pole climb?
ing and the pig grabbing, but after
reconsidering the matter I thought it
would be a mighty poor place for a
poor old moneyless man, so I stayed
at home and enjoyed a good fire
with old Mrs. "Hard Times."
There was a shooting match at
Broadway's Siding, M. and A. R. R.
last Saturday evening where some fine
turkeys were shot for, and I hear (as
I never go to a shooting match), thai
"Blue Ring Tangle-leg and company"
was fully represented at the match.
I don't hear of any sickness In this
Corner at this time.
Mr. R. N. Aven of Orangeburg spent
last Saturday night with Mr. T. H.
Ostoen at the "Sycamore."
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lackey, Mr.
and Mrs. A. S. Weeks and Mr. Jack
Ardis visited at Elmhlll last Sun?
day.
W. J. Ardls dined with Mr. O. D.
Harvln at Plnewood last Saturday.
There was a protracted meeting
carried on all last week at the Pine
wood Baptist church, the pastor, Rev.
M. W. Oordon. was assisted by R.w.
J. E. McMurray, an evengelist ot
the Baptist Home Mission Board, who
preached some able sermons.
It was my pleasure to hear him
last Sunday at 11 a. m. and he preach
ed as fine a sermon as I ever listen?
ed to, the text was John 11-28, "The
Master Has Come and Calleth for
Thee." He was to have preached
again at 4 p. m. at which time they
were to decide whether they would
continue the meeting.
one of your readers wishes we to
write up "An Old Moral Song" that
1 learned over 'Ifty years ago and
send it the Watchman and Southron.
It has been so long since I leartnd
It that I have nearly forgotten som
of lt. 1 was a boy of 15 when 1
learned It, and now I am nearly 68.
So. Mr. Editor, you and your readers
will have to excuse the mistakes of
"Old Hard Times."
Broad In the meadows.
To see the young lambs
Run sporting about,
Bf UM PMefl Of th*?lr dams.
With t\>taoat so clean and so white;
Of a nest of young doves
In a large open cage,
Wh. ri 'hey play all In lOYS
Without itnger or rage,
H"w much may vs.- gain from the
sight?
If we should have been ducks,
W? nicht i' i'. ? dabblee! in mud;
Of ?Qm\ played until it ended i?i
blood,
Bo f?>ul and so ii.-rco are th?'ir na?
tures;
l"?U Thomas and William
And sin ii pretty names,
Should hi el,an ami
HafffAl ss as doves or as lambs.
Th??s>- lovely, sweet. Innocent cre;t
tlire*i;
Tor there's not a thing that we do
* ?r a word thut w e say,
should Improve another
In Jesting or play.
Wot he is st:n in sarnest that's hur?.
And tttara'i none bul a mad man
That will throw about fire.
And t, l| v. a ||*| only in snort.
i.i reyom ?t Work lg*In,
Th ? mrvi roi i on the wast am route
on th. Carolina Western road from
Blshopvlllt la gumtsr have again
eommei sd work and win probably
i ? >? Sumri r n.At Tu ?I ? y. Th v
rout- run v. tat of the public re ul
fr< mi Blahopvllls to Sn.nt. r ami pgj
gg through hi ? R< ?? mil and aman
Iraeta it follows for ihs moai part
ti e routs taken by ths Aral seaboard
survey mads about t< n years ago.
Making Use of 8?rcet Rubbish.
Af s<?ufhwaik. Lot don, and at Mt
OutB, Kr UMM . iff | rubbish U trans
V !::'r, -i iaai tk? ?;\1 'e duel At
I rk gl] thf rctu I era. heil to
i > 1 . shlcb is aoM ai I manure
At I loan 'ho pouftfeji Ibu8 mi1
With ttic- Addition of cotnbuitlbU
?tsnev^ Ii t i, . heap i-i-'
REFUSES TO INDICT FELDER.
"NO HILL" RETURNED BY GRAND
JURY AT NBWBERRT,
At .ion in OsjSS Involving Charges of
Bribery in Connection with Olo
State Dispensary Affairs Follows
Additional Charge by Court, nt
Grand Jury's Request.
New berry, Nov. 29.?Shortly af?
ter hearing an additional charge from
Judge (iiiKc d' livered in response to
an inquiry .i* to whether they could
take into consideration the expense
to the county and the moral and so?
cial effect of a prosecution of Thomas
B. Felder, of Atlanta, for alleged
bribery in connection with the State
dispensary affairs, the grand Jury in
the Sessions Court here this morning
returned "no bill in the Felder case.
The Jury had had the bill since Mon?
day morning.
It is understood that there was
considerable division among the
grand Jury upon what finding should
be made. From the question ask?
ed by the Jury, and from other cir?
cumstances in connection with the
consideration of the bill by them, It
Is inferred that the Jury looked not
alone to the question of the evidence
submitted In support of the allega?
tion, but took under consideration the
wisdom of a prosecution.
Attorney General Lyon stopped over
In Newberry for a short time between
trains today, on his way to his home
In Abbeville. He did not appear In
the Court room. In fact, he reached
Newberry after the finding in the
Felder case.
Fred H. Domlnick, Esq., a member
of the dispensary winding-up com?
mission, said tonight that he had 1.0
statement to give out in regard to
the jury's finding.
Judge Gage in replying to the
grand Jury's question, said that this
QMS arose "out of that terrible ex
leriment which the State was induc?
ed to make same twenty years ago,
and that was an honest effort to
make respectable a nefarious busi?
ness, then of selling liquor to men."
"I trust," he said, "the State has
tried that experiment to its heart's
content."
Ho said the grand Jury was bound
to know the, public history of all of
those dispensary prosecutions, and he
gave the Jury a brief history of the
prosecution and the results, naming,
among tho others, tho prosecution
against Uoykin, Towill and Evans,
the three witnesses on the Felder bill,
the prosecution against Evans hav?
ing been brought In the Nowberry
Court and having been nolle pressed
by the State.
With reference to the matter of
expense, he said, "if it is true that
Felder offered these men a bribe, and
if the testimony so satisfies you, and
if the testimony satisfies you that
this prosecution is in good faith to'
vindicate the law of the land, you
ought to find a true bill, no matter
what the expense is. l>ut, on the
other hand, if the testimony does
not sgtlsfy you. if you arc not satin*
fied that the proSSOUtlon is for pub?
lic purposes, or, to put it differently;
It you are satisfied that the prosecu?
tion Is n<d for the public n ?od end
Will not end in public good, you have
a wtde discretion in the matter; you
can cither find no bill, or you can re?
turn {he bill t-? the solicitor unacted
upon, stating to him that you will not
make any finding upon it, but prefer
it to stand until more satisfactory
proof oomfl to your hands.
Tut ebove nil things, gentlemen."
said Judge Ciif-. "you should make
one thing yo'jr pole-star and unleei
you do that you will dd wrong. Put
behind you every personal Consider?
ation and look to the truth and the
truth alone, and plant yourselves
?irmly upon the truth, and go to that
goal to which truth leads you. if
you ?P> at it In this spirit, and With
ibis purpose, V'U are hound to peach
a right conclusion, if you go at it in
any other spirit, you are bound to
reach a wrong conclusion."
1^ UN MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
John White raw Fine or Wife Bern
in'jr.
John White. ? olored, was up bo
fore Moglstrnte Wella Friday on tie
charge of wife heating. He plead
guilty, hut stated ag explanation and
extenuating circumstances thai he
I though! a man had the right to do
what he wanted to with his own fam
11 and correct them as he saw
Judge Wells i? ponded that a mat
did have a right to correct the mem'
i hi \\ iy, hut h ? did not have a 11 fht
to hu hi wife over the head with
DECEMBER 17 BIG RALLY DAY
PLANS FORMULATED FOR CAR?
RYING OX OF WORK IX THIS
CITY.
Pastors of the City to Toll of Move?
ment on December 17 anil Cieuer
ul Rally Day to Come on Decem?
ber 31.
The necessary work has been done
In organising the forces in Sumter
that will co-operal" with the Nation?
al Committee for the Men and Re?
ligion Forward Movement. As an
auxiliary city, the people of Sumter
are to be in touch wi'h a movement
that is eminently practical, sane, and
sensible, without hysteria or sensa?
tionalism. The leaders commend them?
selves to the approval of everybody
by this sincerity, good sense, and ear?
nest thoughtfulnese.
The object of this great move?
ment is to present the claims of re?
ligion to men and boys, and the
vital part that religion must play in
the solution of life problems.
Mr. R. Hayne King of Charleston,
Executive Secretary for Auxilary
Citiee, In North and South Carolina,
was here last week and met with lo?
cal pastors and laymen and made an
able presentation of the work.
At this meeting the following or?
ganization was effected:
Bartow Walsh, President.
H. L. Blrchard, Secretary.
Executive Committee?Revs. C. C.
Brown, J. P. Marion, D. M. Mc
Leod, J. N. Tolar, Geo. S. DeLano,
H. H. Covington, J. B. Wilson.
Messrs. E. L. Witherspoon, H. L.
Scarborough, J. J. Wescoat, J. A. Mc
Knight, W. A. Weathers. It. I. Man?
ning, Hi L. McCoy.
The Executive Committee met last
Friday evening and general plans
for the carrying on of the work were
discussed. *
Sunday, Dectiaber 17 will be a Ral?
ly Day. Each pastor in the city has
agreed to present the movement In
one of the services of the day.
Sunday, December 31, will be gen?
eral Rally Day and able speakers
from out of the city will be secured
and a general mass meeting for nvn
will be held, also an auxiliary meet?
ing for ladies.
The part that Sumter will have in
this great movement depends upon
the support that our people will give
it. The men who stand for .individ?
ual salvation and the one who stands
for social salvation can work should?
er to shoulder.
MANY MARRIAGE LICENSES.
November Provides More Newly
Married Couples Than Any Other
Month.
There have been S larger propor?
tion of marriages in November Mian
any other month since the marriage
license law went into effect on the
first of July. Up to tin present time
there have been Issued 1^7 marriage
licenses, 40 going to whites and 97
to negroes, showing a large prepon
deranos of negro marriages over
those of whites. Of the licenses
during November 17 were issued to
whites and 82 to negroes, making a
total of about one-third issued dur?
ing the month of November.
Mr. H. Dargan Louder, of Pino
wood and Miss Lottie Tlsdale of Sum?
ter; Mr. Alvin Minis, of PlttSWOOd,
and Miss Coiinns Wells, of Tindal;
Mr. George Horton I alar and Miss
Ednfi B rough ton, ??f Sumter; Mr. J.
Vettles1 Wilder and Mlaa Buen
Chandler, Sumter; Mr, Christopher L.
Player and Miss Pauline Bell of
Lynchburg,
Colored: Haver! Burrougha and
Wie. Harvln, Sumter; Peter James
and Arneathea Dargan, Sumter;
I Benjamin Remberl and Sarah James,
j Stateburg?
NEW CARDINALS INVESTED.
Three Prelates from This Country Ac?
corded Warm Welcome In Rome.
Home. Nov. 80,?Eighteen princes
<d' the chun h, Im ludlng three Ameri?
can prelates, Cardinals Falconlo, Far?
ley and O'Connelli today were in
I vested with the red hal of their office
I ai th< concluding ceremony connect
j i-d with the creation of new cardinals
I which took place thli morning ai th
great public consistory at the Vatican.
Much attention was focussed on th<
movi m< nts of the American cardinals.
Before the opening all the new
rdinala took the oatb of fidelity and
?bediene ? t" the pope ai rl tie church
GARLINGTON AND YOUNG MUST
SERVE SENTENCES IMPOSED.
Former Oanoers of Company Refund
liolic^aring by Supreme Court.
Columbia, Dec. 2.?Denying the
petition for a rehearing and revok?
ing of the order staying the re
mittitur, the Supreme Court yester?
day wrote the last chapter in the
Saminole Securities ca6e, and unless
an appeal is taken to the United
States Supreme Court John Y. Gar
lington and James Stobo Young, for?
mer officers of the company, should
today enter the State penitentiary to
begin the service of terms of three
years and one year respectively. The
two defendants, both residents of
I^aurens, were convicted more than
a year ago in the Rlchland county
court on the charge of breach of
trust, involving approximately $55,
000.
John Y. Garllngton, who spent yes?
terday at his home in Laurens, had
no statement to make. It is ex?
pected that he will return to Colum?
bia today, when a conference will
be held with his attorney, Christie
Benet. It is said that Mr. Young is
In Chicago, in charge of the business
of the two, and that he will return
to the State,
The order of the Supreme Court
was yesterday addressed to J. Frost
Walker, clerk of court of Rlchland
county. The papers in the case will
be turned over to Sheriff Coleman
tb-3 morning for service. The two
defendants are each under bond of
$5,000. It Is said that a petition for
pardon was filed yesterday with the
governor from Laurens county.
Following conviction in the Rich
land county court Garlington and
i'oung appealed to the Supreme
Court. Several weeks ago the Su?
preme Court gave a decision affirm?
ing the Rlchland court. A petition1
was then filed asking that the remlt
titur be stayed and that a rehearing
of the case be granted. The remit
tltur was stayed, and after reviewing
the petition the Supreme Court yes?
terday signed the following order:
"After due consideration we dis?
cover no ground for a rehearing. It
is therefore ordered that stay of re
mittitur heretofore granted be re?
voked and the petition herein be dis?
missed.
"Ira R. Jones,
"Chief Justice;
"Eugene R. Gary,
"C. A. Woods,
"d! E. Hydriek,
"Associate Justices."
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
It Has Proved a Financial Success in
Columbia.
The city of Sumter is preparing to
tnko up the commission form of gov?
ernment and to that end has had a
committee from its council put in
charge of the matter. The experi?
ence of Columbia with the commis?
sion form of government ought to
make that form very popular, and we
doubt not that it will, and that the
hill now before the legislature provid?
ing for such form of government in
towns In tho State will be passed
over the executive veto and with an
amendment that will permit Sumter,
Florence, Marion and Timrnonsvillo,
yes, ami Bbeneser and Mars Bluff,
air," to come in out of the wet and
break the yoke of political ring and
clique rule, if any of these good
towns aufft r from such an ailment.
We all know that Columbia was one
of the worst governed cities in the
state for a generation or two. ..ad
that more money was waste 1 and less
accomplished there than in any lown
in the Stat ?. Now. under its commis?
sion form of government it has done
good work on its city property und
has money in the treasury* That is
a mighty good r< commendation for
a peculiar form of government, and
h. was the government, and the form
and not tin- man put at the head
though he was a mighty good one,
for Columbia has had aome mighty
good officials in the past, and they
could not accompllah anything.1?
Florence Times?
In The Police Court.
There were a number of cases up
lor trial in the Recorder's court Frl
.? \ -r. noon, out the defendants did
not appear for tri l and their bonds
u ?re forfeited to tin city. The f"l
loV Ing t."'S< I W ere ea I!? <\.
.!. i \ tirown. v i- ' ?M? n of auiomo
BRUCE-BROWN WON.
SETS NEW WORLD'S RECORD AT
SAVANNAH.
Both Winner and Place Man are Re?
puted Millionaire*?-De Palma Third
?Bruce-Brown's Average lla'c
Nearly 75 Miles Hour.
Grand Prize Race Course, Savan?
nah, Nov. 3'J.?Flying faster than the
iiiting wind which swept the frozen
course, David Bruce-Brown, the
young American millionaire, today
established a new world's record for
automobile road races In winning his
second Grand Prize race in as many
years at an average speed of 74.55
miles an hour. His average last year
over the same course was 70.55 miles
an hour.
The supreme honor again went to
an American driver piloting a foreign
car. but this year it was an Italian
Fiat instead of a German Benz that
carried the dauntless Bruce-Brown
to victory. His elapsed time today
was 331 minutes and 20.13 seconds.
Bruce-Brown captured the greatest
American trophy only after a fierce
and nerve racking struggle in which
Eddie Hearn, driving a Benz was sec?
ond, two minutes behind at 333:33.07,
and Ralph De Palma third, at
334:4 0.85. No mishap involving life
of limb marred the running of what
probably will be the last of these
classic races at Savannah.
Mr. Man nil I Entertains.
Mr. Raymond Stansill entertained
several of his friends Wednesday
evening in honor of Misses James
of Atlanta and Ellit? of New York at
a dinner given at the residence of hia
mother on West Liberty street.
A very enjoyable evening was spent
by the young people who had been
invited, a course dinner being the
feature of the occasion.
Those enjoying the evening were:
I Miss Elizabeth James, Miss Nellie
Ellis, the guests of honor, Messrs.
j Allen Brown, P ry Brown, Frank
Patton, George w arren, Henry Moses,
Sam Colerider, Willie Jones. Hugh
Phelps, 'Seamon Richardson and
Marsttal] Wescoat and Mrs. J. G. R.
i Wilder.
One of the well known lumber men
of this city had a fine fat turkey a
couple of days before Thanksgiving
and he expected to feast on that day,
hut his plans went "agley," for some
one else found and feasted on that
turkey and he had to have a turkey
less Thanksgiving dinner?or atleast
he did not eat that turkey.
The hose wagons were called out
Friday evening about 6:30 o'clock by
an alarm of fire. However, the wag?
ons were not called upon to do any
work and speedily returned to the
department headquarters.
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