Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cbt ?httjjmitit anb Southron. Mise Miriam Mellett has returned after a two weeks stay with relatives In Laurena Mlaaaa Margaret and Helen Persee, af Marannah. Qa., are the guests of the Misses Epperson, on North Main ?treat Mr. Prank A. McLeod has returned to the city after a visit to hie sister at Birmingham, Ala., and to e broth In Mississippi. Mrs. Harry Orson has gone to Sap? phire. N. C, to spend the remainder af the summer. Mr. and Mra O. A. Lemmon are epeoding sometime at T?te Springs, Teno. v Mra. A V. Snell, of Charleston. who has been visiting friends here ^left yesterday for Waynesvllle, N. C. Mra. K J. Wachner and her three daughters are visiting relatives and friends in Columbia and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Courtney, of . Alken, ere here for a short stay with their son. Dr. C. H. Courtney, after J^a visit to Baltimore, where Mr. Court? ney was under treatment at Johns m Hefcpine . jepitaVj^ jl Mra. W. C. Wise Is visiting friends at Hummerville and Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. C. ffc. Oieapor l*ft this morning for FloreaW an a visit to the satter e sister. Mr% flL A- Dol lard, where they will stay far about tap day*. ' Mr. C. J. OalUard of the Dal** 11 Mercantile Company left this after aoen for a visit to Washington and Baltimore, combining buetneea and pleasure on the trip. Mr. and Mra T. B. White are efendlng a few days at Qlenn Springs, aad from there they will go to Lake Tola way for some time. Mra. J. X. Strange and children left morning to visit relatives In Sum on and Manning. Janle Strange left thla morn lag to visit her sister. Mrs. Wadford. Messrs. J. H. MeCetlum and Henry Strickland leave this afternoon for the northern markets to purchase goods fa* Shaw A McCollum. M?ee Brio White is visiting friends at Manning. Mra A. N. Wannamaksr and Miss Bertha Wsnnamaker left this morning for a ten day visit to friends at Wash? ington, Baltimore and Richmond. Mra J. J. Davis left thla morning tar a stay In Hendersonvtlle, N. C. Mr. and Mra. Jno. D. Lommon left thla afternoon for New York city and ettosr northern points Mr. Urn men will purchase goods for the La? dle* Outflttiag Co. Mlaaaa Lou and Mattle Pate left that morning for Henderaonvllle to | gat at the rest of the summer. Mr. Harry Ruit man has gone to Weyaeevllle, N C. Viola Benbow has returned after a months' stay with and relatives In Bummerton. Messrs O K. Rose and P. M. Far rabo have gone gone to Charleston to spend several days. Mr. and Mra. W. O. Moses have returned from their bridal trip to points la the West. Messrs. T. W. and II. W. McCol IMa left yesterday afternoon for the North In the Interest of McCollum Brothers. Mr. H. D. Barnett was among those to leave Tuesday afternoon for New York and other points North. Mra C. L Stubbs. Mrs. A. W. Cross-1 well and Mrs. Lula Atkinson, are \ apendlng some time at Saratoga, Springs. N. T. Mies Idallne Flowers, of Hlshopvllle ta vtatttng relative? in the city. Mr. O. R. Haynaworth left Tues? day evening for New York and other htotnte north. Mr. V. H. I'hHps left Tuesday for Mew York and Baltimore, flopping at Hlchmond on the trip. Dig Party Leave for North. / ? i ? There waa a big party to leave here yeatorday evening for New York and thei points North, the excursion rages proving attractive to many. Two ?atra Pullman conches were attached to the train to provide accommoda? tions for Ho- fifty or more passengers who left from here. The second sec? tion of the train carried nine Pullman ?uachee tind then waa crowded to . sparlty when It puaeed through. Real rotate .-an?fer*. Tyre H Htuckey to I .eon Stuckey, / I aerea In coanty. $!\ and other con > aerations Mary K. Lyles to K. Alexander, lot I f\ Anderson Avenue. %\ib The up-to-date farmer !? now nuk C plane for his winter cover and . forage are pa 10 AID COTTON BELLI 1 ? ? KOt'TIIF.RNKHK IN WASHINGTON TO CHGF. PLANS FOR RK 14V. Conjrrees of Delegate* From Produc? ing Stales Will Deal With War Slt uatlou hihI Measures to Help South? ern Farmer?. Washington, Aug. 12.?Plans for relief of the South from embarrass? ment growing out of the closing of European markets during the war are expected to assume define shape here tomorrow. The Southern Cot? ton congress, composed of cotton men from every Southern State, will open a special session called to deul with the war situation, and Southern senators and representatives will co? operate with them in perfecting financial legislation to enable grow? ers to hold a part of a big crop over until I mm market becomes more nearly normal. I One plan for providing this relief, details of which have been worked out by Southern congressmen In con? sultation with experts of the depart? ment of agriculture, will be embodied In a measure Introduced tomorrow in the senate by Senator Hoke Smith cf Georgia and in the house by Repre eentatlev Lever of South Carolina. The meaaure will propose establish? ment of a chain of licensed and bonded warehouses, where cotton may be stored until conditions be* come normal and be made the collat? eral for Issuance of emergency cur? rency. The advisability of some such ac? tion was urged before the house agri? cultural committee today by commis? sioners of agriculture of the cotton States. B. J. Watson, commission? er of agriculture of South Carolina and president of the cotton con? gress, outlined hin view that cotton should be made a stable basis of credit and that the federal reserve board ahould be given power to make warehouse receipts the basis for currency issued under the fed? eral reserve act. His suggestions were seconded by K. R. Kone and R. C. Hollingswort.h. "We don't want a system of valor? isation." Mr. Watson told the com? mittee. "Wie do not want the gov? ernment to advance money to the holders of cotton. We want you to lend the money to finance this crisis on proper security, and we want the money withdrawn just as soon us the need for it hss passed." AN APPROACHING MARRIAGE. Miss Lois Cain to Become Bride of Mr. E. 8. Rives. The following invitation, which has b?cn received by friends of the contracting parties, will be of much Interest in Sumter, where Miss Cain la well known: Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Cain, Sr. Invite you to he present at the marriage of thoir daughter Lois to Mr. Edwin Samuel Rives Wednesday evening the twenty-sixth of August nineteen hundred and fourteen at four-thirty o'clock Wedgeneld Baptist Church Wedgetteld, South Carolina. WRECK ON EXCURSION. Fireman Killed In Southern Railway Snuo.hup. Ashevllle. N. C, Aug. 12.?A South? ern railway excursion train from Sa? vannah, Oa., to Ashevllle was wrecked at Tuxedo this afternoon, the engine turning over and killing the fireman. Bert Cooley. Several passengers were injured. The train, a special excursion on the Southern railway, was derailed on a broken switch 27 miles from this city. All of the Injured were in the Pullman ear at the time of the wreck. The fireman met death by being scalded beneath his overturned en? gine. Tho Injured, all of Savannah, are Mrs. Morgan Fender, ankle and knee sprained; Mrs. Ida Barnwell. bruised about the head and body; Mrs. J. P.. I Herbert, forehead cut; Mrs. W. J. Leonard, bruised about the face; B D. Graham, hand cut; L. B. Coatee, hurk upralned. The excursion left Savannah yeiiter day morning. The Men's Tennis Tourney. In the men's tennis tournament the seeond match in the flrnt round was played off Wednesday evening be? tween Bryan and Crownon, Bryan winning two of the three sets play? ed. This match proved to he an In? teresting one. especially at the slant when Crownon had the advantage game and fort y-tlf teen on the set same, but was unable to make the winning point. The Iiimt Met went to Mrvan, fi-2. in easy style; the second whn won by Crownon f?-4, while the third was fiercely contested for and nnally wsnt to Bryan 1-0. BETTEN ROADS WANTED, Columbia ( liamlKT or Commerce Calls for Good 1 ton (Is Rally at Co liiml)lu on October 1. The time has come when some concerted action is necessary to ob laia legislation to provide for the construction of gaps in our system of roads caused by the lack of bridges crossing of the rivers of the State and to provide a system of road main? tenance for the highways leading to the State capital at Columbia and for those connecting the county seats and larger towns. Disconnected efforts have been made at past meetings of the legislature to provide for road construction, but they have been fruit? less, and it is only by concerted ac? tion of all parties interested in good roads that we can hope for legisla? tion providing a definite system for road construction and maintenance. With this end in view, it is propos? ed to hold a good roads rally in Co? lumbia on the first of October which will be attended by delegates from the following organizations: All Commercial bodies. County Supervisors' Association, Mall Carriers' Association. Farmers' Union. All Good Roads and Automobile Organizations. This convention would be expected to formulate a law to be pushed at the next meeting of the legislature, providing a system for road construe tion and maintenance for all classes of roads and to provide funds for the construction of highways and bridges that are for the use of large sections of the State, and for the maintenance of highways between the county seats. It is not proposed to interfere with the work of the present supervisors, but to provide means of assisting them in the maintenance of the coun? ty roads. There are however many 'roads that are not demanded by local county Interests but which are need? ed in system of lntra-State highways, and should he constructed by or un? der the direction of some central au? thority, such as the State department of agriculture Our State is divided by its large rivers, the Santee, Congaree, Wateree, Broad, Catawba, the two Pee Dees, and the lower part of the Edlsto, into sections between which at present, there is little communication except by railroad. The only bridges across these streams at present are as fol? lows: Santee, none. Wateree, one at Camden. Catawba, one between Lancaster and York counties. Congaree, one at Columbia. I Broad, one near Columbia and one between York and Cherokee coun? ties Little Pee Dee, one between Conway and Marion. Lower Edlsto, none. The cost of construction has been too great, or local interest not suffi? cient to warrant the building of oth? er bridges across these streams, though their need is felt by large sec? tions of the State. It is too much to expect Richland and Sumter coun? ties to build a bridge across the Wa? teree, for which there is little local demand, but which would be of im? mense benefit to people living in tlv? counties of Sumter, Darlington, Flor? ence, Clarendon, Wljliamslburg. Georgetown, llorry, Marlon, Dillon j and Marloboro, who wish to come to Columbia and all points west of Co? lumbia. Likewise there is probably com? paratively little local demand for a bridge across the Santee. between Clarendon and Orangeburg counties, yet such a crossing would be of great use to the entire lower part of th* State. There should bo a highway across the upper part of the State, connect? ing the counties of Union, Chester, Lancaster and Chesterfield, but the lack of bridges across Broad and Ca? tawba rivers prevents. Those who have traveled by auto? mobile, or who have thought on the subject, know the great limitations on travel, and the large extra mileage be? tween points that the lack of bridge crossing of rivers entails on the trav? eler. Commerce and travel between these river-divided sections of the State is limited to the railroads, and neigh? bors within a few miles of each oth? er remain Mtrangers. It Is hoped that by all interested parties getting together and agreeing upon what legislation is wanted, and then using their Influence in one di? rection at the coming meeting of the legtalatUte, the necessary law can be enacted to provide the plan und the funds. Marriage License Record Licenses to marry have been grant" ed to the following colored couples: John Detlraffenrled. Chester, and Luelle Bryant, Sumter; Marlon Grant, Dal/ell, and Heater Graut, Stateburg; .lames Lincoln, Dalzell, and Virginia Jenkins, Providence. CHANGE SPEECHES AI DILLON CANDIDATES ATTACK EACH OTII KK OX DIFFERENT OROUNDS IN ADDRESSES. Audience Listens Attentively ami Give* Speakers Excellent Attention? Jennings and Smith In Good Form ?-Blease Draws Away Few When He Stops Speaking?Smith Favor? ite. Dillon, Aug. 12.?In their speeches here today, United States senatorial candidates broke away from their cus? tomary shamble, each of the four injecting some particular high lights of interest in his arguments for Dil? lon county suffrage. Gov. Blease, the initial speaker, be? gan by heaping the usual abuse on newspapers and reporters, and in this connection read a letter from the cir? culation department of The State in which the offer was made to send the paper on one months trial gratis. The governor would see that the United States government found out who was paying for this, he prom? ised. The chief executive made another striking departure when he made a direct criticism of the new banking and currency law. Faovritism would be practiced, he prophesied, when this was put in operation. When L. D. Jennings was intro? duced, he warned the people that it was time that they should sit up and take notice. He had never heard of any Democrat, he said, who had charged Woodrow Wilson with dis? loyalty to the people. The gover? nor's charge, he said, was an in? clination toward Republicanism. The president, he went on, would have never signed a bill which was not de? signed for the benefit of the masses of the people. W. P. Pollock said that he did not believe Senator Smith had raised the price of cotton. He was equally em? phatic in his disbelief that the gov? ernor was responsible for the increase of taxable property in South Caro? lina during the last three and one half years. He was worth a little more himself, he said, but this was due to the fact that he had kept working. Senator Smith today answered the governor as to appointments. When in the Piedmont, the governor charg? ed that the senator had negelcted tho lawyers there when it came to the appointment of a United States district attorney. The farmers were likewise overlooked when a United States marshal was needed, he claim? ed. A duplication of these charges is being made In applying them to the Pee Dee. In offsetting this at the Dillon meeting today, Senator Smith ex? plained that the appointment of James L. Sims as United States mar? shal was by Senator Tillman. Fran? cis II. Weston was made district at? torney, Senator Smith urged, be? cause of his faithful fight with E. D. Smith in 1904, when Mr. Weston reached into his own pocket and paid expenses all over the country in or ganlzing the cotton growers. As to the office of collector of internal revenue, the senator said he could not say much. He had created tho office, he explained, only to wake up and find a man slated for the job as soon as this was done. He was only cutting his eye teeth then as to securing appointments. When he was reelected, he added, he would know better how to go about it, and would be In a better position to get his share. In making the one appoint? ment of district attorney, he too, had only stood by his friend, and by the friend of every other farmer as well There were approxiately 1,000 persons at the meeting here today, which was held in the high Bchool auditorium. Many ladies were in at? tendance, these being as enthusiastic as the male populace, and the lines of partisan cleavage were definitely cut. A. B. Jordan, county chairman, presided, and the Rev. A. G. Ruckner offered the Invocation. The best of order was maintained, there being only one or two slight efforts to heckle I the speakers. It is doubtful If j throughout the entire campaign thej speakers have had a more thought-, ful hearing, or have been more heartily applauded when telling blows were struck. Throughout the campaign it has been the practice of the governor to back up charges preferred against Senator Smith by producing news? papers or newspaper clippings. De? spite this, In few of the 37 counties yet visited has the governor failed to warn the poople that they can not be? lieve anything seen In the newspa? pers. Today tho reporters got their usual dally dish of vituperation. In answer to this one man, who didn't declare his political faith, volunteered, "but there ere a whole let of-liars who are not even paid for telling them " Senat? r Smith, the governor said, could have held this cotton conference in Columbia as well as 4u Washing ton. Lewis Parker, the head of the mill merger, and one of tue conferees iwth Senator Smith, eras characterised as "one of the bitterest enemies the farmers ever had.' The governor charged that not u farmer had been in attedance. LICK COUNTY FARMER MARRIK8. Mr. Wheeler of St. Charles Marries Miss MoOall of Glbbs, X. C?Mayes ville Personal Xews. Mayesville, Aug. 12.?A wedding of much interest to the friends of the groom in this section was that of Miss Mary Louise McCall to Mr. W. Sanford Wheeler of St. Charles, which took place on Wednesday, the 12th, at Gibbs, X. C, the home of the bride. Mr. Wheeler is one of the leading farmers of this section and hag a large host of friends to wish him much happines in his wedded life. Mr. and Mrs. Wlheeler will be at home after the 25th. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper and Miss Alice Cooper have gone on a visit to Washington and other points. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parnell loft this morning for a visit to Richmond and other places of interest. Miss Sarah I. Grant has gone to Bedford, Va., to visit Mrs. John Gray., Rev. W. B. Chandler of Live Oak, Fla., is at home for a short visit. Misses Myra and Hortense Dor sett of Burlington, X. C, spent Sun? day and Monday here on their way home from Florence, where the form? er has been quite ill for several weeks. Her many friends here were glad to learn of her recovery. Miss Sadie Mayes has returned home from a visit to Rock Hill. R. J. Mayes, Sr., and family have returned from a trip to Murrell's In .et. P. A. Stuckey and family have re? turned home after a stay at Myrtle Beach. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shaw are spend? ing some time at Myrtle Beach. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Muldrow and Miss Edna Mayes are at home after a trip to Myrtle Beach. R. P. DesChamps and family have returned from a motor trip to chick Borings. Quite a number of Mayesville citi SeitS went over to Florence on Tues day to attend the campaign meetin*. Miss Kathryn Miller has returned from a visit to Miss Mary Dudley King ut Florence. J. 11. Mayes returned on Monday from a visit to HandSTSonvilts and other mountain resorts in Western North Carolina. News and Views of Plsgah. Pisgah, Aug. 11.?Fine rains have fallen through here, but too late for corn. If they had come a month ago the finest corn crop even raised here would have been made. Cmou is injured by the drought an?i heat. The political meeting at Bishop ville yesterday was anythirg but a success, because only one ride wan heard. Smith made a sub-treasury speech that I have read and heard many years ago. It was the same old story. Jennings made his usual ? speech, thrashed over the old straw for the 28th time. Nobody seems to take any interest in it. Judging from the red ribbons it was a Blease crowd in town. Pol'- ck and the governor were not present. Jennings said there were two fac? tions in the State. Everybody has known that since 1890. The crowd wanted to hear Pollock, the little bantam that ran against Finley a few years ago and Finley said he did not know he was in the race after the votes were counted. The women are in politics good, the cotton blossoms and red ribbons were pinned on them. Possibly the gov? ernor will find time to speak at Bish opville. Geo He Hurst* Undertikir ul Eibilur, Prompt Attention to Us? er Night Calla: AT J. D. Cralfl Old Stand, N. Main Phones 5Ki5 201 POWERS CARPET CLEANING AND RUG CO. The most modern and best equipped plant in the State for rug and carpet cleaning. Our scouring process makes your carpet look new. Carpets altered aud re? made. Out of town work given prompt attention. We guarantee our work to be the bast. Write us for estimates stali.ig tLe quality and size of rugs. Powers Carpet Cleaning and Rug Co., ,wao?; *8c##t A Good School ( 1894 ) Orangeburg For Your Girl | 1914 j College Academic and Junior College work. Excellent health record. 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