Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL MESSAGE M'MliKK OF Sl CiFSTIONS M\I>F. To t.l \ I KAL AssKMBLY. I bur t>e*utUc ld>o*?tow Election <>?* Judge? hy tlwc IVople? Former Itoc ? ?itmcndut Ion* Itcncw oil?Various <Hhrr M?4t?*m. Columbia. Jan. IS.?The annual message of the gov.neu of South Car? olina waa sent to the general assembly yesterday and read. The governor makes the following recommendations: That a State tax la-fj of one mill be made for the support of the com? mon schools That the name of Clemson college be changed to Calhoun university. That the hosiery mill at the State penitentiary be abolished. That the general sssembly take -some definite action with regard to the cotton mill mergers. That sn act be passed annulling all exclusive franchises heretofore grant? ed In South Carolina and forbidding any exclusive franchise In the future. Thst an act be parsed requiring all corporation* In this State that are using the water powers of the State to pay a tax or license. That sn act be passed reducing the rate of interest In this State to 6 per cent That an act be passed prohibiting any bank from charging its regular customers exchange on any draft or cheek passed through the bank. That a law be passed prohibiting express companies from chaining for returning money collected on C. O. D. packagea That a law he passed providing for a two cent passenger rate on all rail? roads in the State. That the citizens of the Clover sec? tion of York county, which was visited by a cyclone during the year, be exempted from taxes for the year. That the law against carrying con ? cealed weapons be repealed or that It be amended by authorising the clerk ? of court of each county to license parsons making application to him snd upon payment of a fee of $5 to arry a pistol for a time not to ex (eed 10 days. That a law be passed requiring all detectives operating in the State to secure a license from the secretary of State, and that a fee be paid. That a law be passed making it a misdemea'o r .or r i . tee or cores it pufca Hsh ? of snv per* n wh ! ? i" i nif cm? * That the general assembly submit I to the people of this State such con? stitutional amendment or amend? ments as may be necessary to place the election of all Judges?supreme court and circuit?In the hands of the people. That an act be passed requiring the chief Justice of the supreme court to have in his hands the certificate of a physician that any circuit Judge who is to be excused from holding courts and another sppointed In his place on account of Illness. Is In such con? dition that he is unable to hold court, and that no special Judge be appoint? ed unlees such certificate Is held by the chief Justice. The message was printed In pamph? let form and a copy was placed on the desks of the members of the house and senate. Several pages of the message are devoted to a discussion of the pros? perity of the State during the past year. The governor quotes some sta? tistics and comes to the conclusion that much progress has been made along all lines. Last year the gov? ernor prepared an article on South Carolina for Leslie's Weekly and this Is contained In the report. ldscussing education the governor says that the most serious proposition that confront., the people of the State is the education of the children. He says that the higher institutions of learning are being "most extravagant? ly supported." while tho country schools "are receiving most niggardly support." He says that he wishes to put the general assembly on notice that unless something Is done to c.r. for the country tchoola that "It will take two.thirds of both your houses to get your appropriations through for your State colleges." The govern? or says that this statement Is not a threat. The gowriior n connm nds that an a< t (??? pas ? 'I m iking the Medical Col? lege at Charlexton the Medical Col? lege of South Carolina and that It he made a brarn h el the I'nlveislty of South Carolina Von have a law de? partment, why not i medical depart? ment langt Pad hi and under the direct control of the State *" says the gov? ernor, discussing the ? la.-^itl' at ion of colleges. Ogsjat rrung the ?hanging of the name of Cleanaea college to f'alhoun unlwrslty the gereraof has the t.,| lowing to say Another ranaaa foff this recom? mendation is that I belleVS If \..u will change the name to dihoun unlver? slty. this will be a sulhVlerit breach of the Clemson contract to bring a test suit, and that thereby the Statt- of South Carol':,a can be rtlMMd from ' supporting an Institution that is being i ontFalled by outsiders; ami then the State can reimburse the Clemaon ^ and take chatge of Calhoun university, ; now ClemeOg college, as ? State lnstl- I tutlon, place it in the hands of its own officials, aa it should be placed, and manage and control it. 1 think It Is generally conceded throughout the whole State that the State ought to take entire control of the Institu lon, and not have it conducted inde? pendently, as at present, and 1 be? lieve the action above suggested will bring this ubout. and I earnesty urge it. "I am in favor of the Institution; I think it is a grand and glorious Insti? tution, and that it is doing a magnifi? cent and noble work. If this change would cripple it, I would not even intimate a suggestion that it be made; but 1 believe that by placing it direct? ly under the control of the State, In? stead of being crippled, it will be greatly strengthened." Referring to the hosiery mill at the 8tate penitentiary, the governor says "If you do not abolish it I can not make you. And I am not going to make any threats. 1 am getting too old for that." Discussing the board of pardons the governor comes to the conclusion that the members are not ampy paid for the work done. He expresses the opinion that the board should "have i respectable salary attached to It so as to place it upon a dignified plane at least." After calling the attention of the general assembly to his previous charges against the alleged cotton mill mergers the governor says that the Carolina Public Service corpor? ation Is a trust and that it is buying ice plants throughout the State for the purpose of controllng the prices of ice. "I thought the attorney gen? eral would take some action in regard to these matters, under the law, but nothing has been done, and I now call upon you to take some steps be? fore these corporations have so far stuck their fangs Into the people that It will be impossible to get them out," says the governor. The governor says that he has been hindered In the enforcement of law by several officials, Including A. W. Jones, comptroller general of the state. He says the comptroller gen? eral has refused to pay warrants pre? sented by several detectives, notably Col. L. M. Green and Itev. C. W. Creighton. The governor asks the legislature for the right to appoint live men to be stationed through the State for the enforcement of law. An appropriation of $5,00?) is asked. The governor asks that it be made man? datory for the comptroller general '.o pay claims on this fund which are approved by the governor. Concerning newspaper worktrf the governor says: "I further recommend that you pass an act to the effect that when any newspaper publishes a stai?ment in regard to any person that is injurious, that when that person sends to the paper a correction of said report, the editor or manager of the paper be re? quired to publsT! said correction in the same column of the same page, and with as large headlines as the original article appeared wherein the person was misquoted or misrepre? sented." T1DK BARNEY KVAXS CASE. Columbia Attorney Must Show Cause Why He Should Not Ik' Disbar? red. Columbia. Jan. 15.?Following the Information furnished by Attorney (leneral Lyon the supreme court of South Carolina issued the following order yesterday: "it is considered by tin- court that the public interests require Investiga? tion of the (barges agnnst Barnard It. BvanS, an attorney, presented in gg information tiled by J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general, on the 6th day of January, 1 11, "Therefore it is ordered That Dar nard B, Ehrang do show cause before this court on the Ird of February, 11? 1.5, at lo o'clock a m , why he should not be disbarred on account of the matters alleged against him in the Information, and that he tile a COPJf of nis return in the other of the i tors, of tins court on of before Jan? uary iim:i. "Ordered further: That the sheriff of Rlcbland county do forthwith serve l certified copy of the Information and of this order on Harnard H Bvana "Ordered further, That evidence and argument to support of the infor? mation and return be heard on Feb? ruary ?'>. neat, In open court." Harlinge Lkviisw Record. A marriage license was issued Tues? day lo Mr. I\ A. SOW) it ami Miss Kalllc Atkinson, of Providence. Licenses have also been Issued to Kamui i M< Laughlln snd Anna Belle Pi irson, Bunter; Richard Phillips and I.Ida dale. Wcdgellehl, and Lucius Holllday snd Mabelle Foul. Ihogdon. SCHOOL FOR HOYS AM) GIRLS. pi.m is to Tench Corn Club Hoys ami Tomato Cluh (?Irls at National Corn Expoaltlon. Columbia, Jan. 12,?Arrangements have been perfected whereby the ex position school t'<>r prize winners, to be conducted during the first week of the Fifth National Corn Exposition here, will be co-educational. In ad? dition to the 800 or 900 prize winning corn cluh boys from all parts of the South, some half a hundred prize win? ning tomato club girls from nearly a dozen Southern States will also take part in this unique feature of the exposition. The National Corn Expo? sition opens on January 27th. The boys who attend this school will be housed in a special building at tho exposition grounds. Arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the girls in some of the best homes in Columbia, and plans are being per? fected for social features. The girls will spend practically the entire day at the exposition grounds, hearing lec? tures in common with the boys, and attending special courses of instruc? tion covering domestic science and arts, canning, cooking, lectures on Moral culture, growing of vegetables, poultry raising, and kindred subjects. Special attention will be given to the exposition exhibits. Mr. J. 13. Hodby, of Auburn, Alabama, is superintend? ent of this school for prize winners. Each State will send five prize win? ning tomato club girls to this expo? sition school. The toi?uto club work is conducted by the Farmers' Co-op? erative Demonstration Work of the Federal department of agriculture, in co-operation with the State agricul? tural Institutions. will. BE DEPUTY CLERK. Mr. ft L. McLeod Will be Appointed to That OfBoe by County Clerk. Mr. H. L. Scarborough, county clerk of court, has announced that he will appoint Mr. H. L. McLeod, clerk to the county commissioners, his deputy clerk, to execute papers during his absence from the office. Mr. McLeod's work, as deputy clerk, will be only nominal, as he will simply have to sign an occasional paper, when Mr. Scarborough is absent from his office. Mr. Scarborough stated that he would not appoint a regular deputy clerk who should be employed in his office unless he found it neces? sary to have one, but that it would be net < Wary for him to leave his office, possibly, at times and in his absence Mr. McLeod could execute papers in order that the prompt dispatch of business would not be interfered with. I. (). O. F. Enaction. l>iek Anderson Lodge, No. 138, I. O. O. F. elected officers Monday night as follows: A. E. Bentley, N. G. N. G. Osteen, Jr., V. G. W. J. Crowson, Secretary. R. F. Wactor, Treasurer. A. H. Harbor, Warden, J. H. Hracey, Chaplain. S. F. Faribow, Inner Guard. F. A. Wood, Outer Guard. J. N. Strange, Conductor. The officers elected will be installed at the next meeting. Charleston business men are hard at work trying to devise plans to ex? tend and perpetuate the "great white way" on King street. There was im? minent danger of the discontinuance of the electric illumination that, for the past year or two, has made King street one of the most brilliantly lighted and attractive thoroughfares in the South. The city and merchants of King street were not providing sufficient funds to pay the lighting company for the actual cost of main? tenance, and the company gave no? tice of intention to discontinue the white way. This aroused the up-to date merchants and they have been busying themselves devising ways and means to retain the chief attraction of King street. The experience of Charleston has a local application al? though the conditions are not pre? cisely the same lure as there. Bum tor has the beginning of a white way on Mam and Liberty streets, but the illumination has never been adequate to accompllah the intended purpose. The arches are good of their kind but there has never been enough of them. It was expected that the merchants would unite In raisins B fund to main? tain sufficient number of arches to supplement those provided by the city und the lighting company, but this has never been carried out. Conse? quently Main street is not a real "white way" and can never be unless a num? ber of additional nrches are erected where n<eded To have Main street brilliantly illuminated would add a great deal In the attractiveness of the eltj and Would make a favorable Impression <>n \ Isltors. in the county Ihc general public has been on its g.I behavior for the past two days, The sheriff's office reported no arrests and only one of the rural policemen has been in town this week to jail a prisoner, PLAN CORN SHOW EXHIBIT. Sumter County Products Will be on Exhibit ut National Corn Show in Columbia. With the purpose In view of having a display at the Fifth National Corn Exposition which convenes soon in Columbia which will adequately show Sumter'i agricultural prosperity, Sec? retary G. A. Waterman and Messrs L. L, Baker and J. Frank Williams of the Farmers' Co-operative demonstra? tion service will meet together this afternoon to perfect plans . Mr. Waterman is very anxious for Sumter county to be well advertised at the corn show, and is already ar? ranging to have the exhibit so placed that it will attract much attention and thereby enhance its value as an ad? vertising proposition. When it is re? membered that visitors from all over the United States and even Irom oth? er countries will attend the corn show in Columbia, it is all the more to be desired that Sumter be well rep? resented there. Mr. Waterman said that when he and Messrs. Baker and Williams had arranged the details concerning the exhibit he would put the matter of? ficially up to the Chamber of Com? merce for action to be taken. MARRIAGE BY PROXY. A M?n in America to Marry a Girl In Germany. New York, Jan. 13.?According to terms of a contract drawn up by a Paterson, N. J., notary public yester? day, Wm. P. Dumoulin, an antomob'.le salesman, appoints hlf friend Hendrix Kniefert as his proxy In a marriage ceremony to be performed at the Hague, Holland, within the next few days. The bride-to-be is Miss Maria H. Vanderveer. After the wedding ceremony Kniefert is to place the bride aboard the first vessel sailing for America. Dumoulin and Miss Vanderveer were children together In Holland. Recent? ly he wrote asking Miss Vanderveer to come over and marry him. But her mother objected to her leaving home before she was married and the con? tract was drawn up to overcome this objection, Dumoulin being unable to take the trip at this time. During the past week 350 bales of cotton were sold on the local market. Of this number 50 were sold Satur? day. Toole'l Early Prolific Cotton Seed. Yields over 40 per cent lint. Fruits heavily. Write for sample and prices. G. L. TOOLE, Alken, S. C. Geo. H. Hurst, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMHR. Prompt attention to day or night call?. \T OLD J. D. CRAFG STAND. 202 N Mas* Street. Day Phone &S?. Night Phone JSl. The Jewelry Store Umbrella You will generally find that it's an altogether superior article. Haven't you noticed It? Yes, it costs more, but think what you are getting. Why, often the handles In one of the umbrella** that we sell cost more?are worth more?than half a dozen dry goods store whole umbrellas. A splendid selection we show! Wouldn't you like to see it? $5.00 to $30.00 We engrave them tree of charge. W. A. Thompson JEWELER AND OPTIC AN. OVER 66 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents5 i rade marks Designs Copyrights Ac. AnymieMBdtnfl a ?hen-h und description nay quickly MrnriAin <>nr opinion froe wlutitier an Invention \n probably paiomahia. Communica? tions strictlyoonldaiiUal. HANDBOOK on CnoMim senl fraa. iiMMt Mttonor for seruriuir patenta, Patent! takon ihr <u^h Munn .% Co. rt-colve fpn uil notU$, without oharyw, lathe Scientific American. A handsoinalr Illustrated wn?>klT. l.nrecM clr oulaUon of ?nj scJantlSa InurnaJ, Tarma, a r??ftr; four uiont he, iL Bold by ell newsdealers. MUNN SCo.36""0-"'New York Brauch sU ? st? Washington, l>. c The Reason Why YOU SHOULD INSIST tJPOS GETTING V< It BREAD WRAPPED IN AN AIRTIGHT WRAPPER VS SOON As IT LEAVES' THE BAKER'S OVEN, WHERE IT 11 AS BEEN STERILIZED, WHILE EXPOSED To THK STEAM HEAT. Here is u Statement From tlie De? partment or Health, Chicago, 111. "Out of a hundred loaves purchas? ed from as many different shop i In the city of Chicago, 14 per cent were each coated with more than 10,000 bacteria. As might be expected, loaves obtained from clean shops, where all the surroundings ar?.j fa? vorable have not nearly so many germs clinging to them as U aves kept under generally dirty conditions. The difference between the bacterial coating of wrapped and unwrapped bread is particularly suggestive. In no case did the bacterial contamina? tion of wrapped bread reach a Mgh figure. On the other hand, iore than half of the unwrapped 1 ives (62 per cent) were coated with over a thousand bacteria."?From 'Ba? ker's Review.'' The New York Bakery. Sole Manufacturers of Butter-Nut Bread. CANTALOUPE SEED. We offer for sale our Celebrated 1-^len Gem Cantaloupe seed, grown and reeeJected at Rocky Ford, Colorado, under the personal supervision of our Mr. S. C. Mayo, of Reddick, Fla. There are none better to be had. Prices on application. JOHNSON-BROWN CO., Albany, Ga. Or S. C. Mayo, Reddick, ;la. YOUR OLD TEETH. You will be surprised to know what Dr. C. H. Courtney can do with your old teeth. He can Increase their usefulnese many times; can possibly add others to them Improving your looks as well as your health. Delays are dangerous and always so with decayed teeth. Sumter Dental Parlors, DR. C. H. COURTNEY, Prop. OVER MRS. ATKINSON'S MILLINERY STORE. WHEN IN NEED OF A GOOD WORK SHOE v EASY. HONEST AND WELL MADE. Ask For the CRAFTSMAN LINE Manufactured By Witherspoon Bros. Shoe Mfg. Co. SUMTER S. C. Sold by all RESPONSIBLE merchants. Buy them and cut your Shoe hill 25 per cent. Satisfaction guaranteed. LAND LIME. O/e are prepared t.? furnish this product at rices that will enahle every farmer t<> use it. We have a rery low price this year and nothing will do your land more good, especially run down lands, or lew and sour land, it is necessary for all leguminous crops ?uch as Alfalfa, clover, vetch, peas, etc. < let our prices in car lets or In smaller quantities. Samples on I mest. BOOTH-HARBY LIVE STOCK COMPANY. SI M l P K. S. (