Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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in ig miau asm' QUESTION OF TEXT books in Fl'buc SCHOOLS COMES UP. * / iU -.. .(,?' - ?tors to Prevent Any Change An Met With Repulse Senate IMspos e* of Many Bill??-Bog Lieeusing Receives Much Attention. Columbia. Feb. IB.?-Uniform text books in the public schools of South Carolina as provided In a bill offered by Mr Stafford of Qreenvllle took up considerable of the house's time today and was finally passed to a third read? ing with a comfortable majority. The text book bill carries a section which reads : "Any schol employing six Or more teachers doing work in at least ten regularly organized grades during the annual term of not less than eight months (hall be entitled to use a dual, or suppVementary. series of text books to be adopted and pre? scribed by the State board of educa? tion at the same time as a basal se? rins ' of textbooks Is prescribed and adopted." An effort was made by committee amendment to strike out this t action which the house refus? ed to to. Representatives Atkinson and Hor? ton spoke In behalf of the Spartan burg schools and Representative. Boyd Introduced an amendment, which was Billed, to exempt Spartanburg from the *'text book" law. They thought tho law would work a great hardship on tho people of Spartanburg causing extra 'expanse and a tearing down of the school system. The refusal of the house, however, tc strike out the section relating to schools of six or mom teachers .relieves the situation, It Is believed. , The house passed a resolution to go to the train at ? o'clock this afternon and greet the three South Carolina National Ousrd units passing through on'rette troth duty on the border. The resolution Was offered by Representa? tive* Do boon arid Fr?nsberg. The senate this morning checked perceptibly the extreme pressure un? der Which It has been driving this weak and once more shambled along in the customary pace. Numerous lo? cal and uncontested measures were clean d from the canlendar. Anoth? er of the seven sister Insurance bills from the house was paseed. this the ejent licensing bill, which was shorn of Its examination feature by amend saint by Senator Nicholson. Under 0*\?*^P*rr^* the insurance alaner ? tnnt th* applicant Is honest ahef has an intelligent understanding of insurance matters. Another bill which created consid? erable dissension was the agricultural committee bill, to conserve the birds of the 8fate by licensing all dogs and preventing them from running at largo from April 1 to October 1, dur? ing the bird nesting-season. The li? cense tag fee waa $1 annually, and theee were to be distributed by the game warden or the county clerks of court. Amendment was offered to ex? clude puppies until they had reached the Immaculate age of four months. The section to prevent the dogs from running* at large waa eliminated by amendment which amendment emas? culated the bill of Its chief purpose. It was then tabled by the narrow mar" gin of II to 17. Considerable mer? riment was engsged In during the debate o' "kick In my noun' dog areiin." which supplanted in a mcai-, uro the traditional debate on the short nosed sturgeon, which termi? nates the annual aesslon of the gen? eral assembly. The bfll by Senstor Banks, to em? power the administrators of Thclma and Minnie Sandel to sue the State. The children's death. It was altered, had been Induced by the Injection of anti-typhoid eerum, sent out by the Stats board of health. Debate was; continued until the night session. APPROPRIATION IIII.Ii IN SEN Celumhra. Feb. II.?The appro? priation bill cams from the finance commute* of the senste tonight. It has meant very hard and very effi? cient work on the part of the com? mittee of which Senator Chrlstsnsen ts chairmsn. The finance committee bee worked unceasingly on the bill and has presented s plan that It re? gards *%fe and conservative. The Ansnoe committee has careful? ly revised the bill, making several ' Important change* In Its as passed by the house. The bill came from the house providing aggregate appropria? tions of 12.Ml,?70 and the senate ag? gregates M.I9S.4JH? The most es? sential change ts In providing flOO, ??0 for permanent Improvements at tho State Hospital for the Insane, rnd fiO.OeO for law enforcement. Theos and other changos involve sn Increase In the totul State levy of one-half mill, or 8 1 2 mills In nil The uses being as follows: Ordliuvv expenses of the State government, 3 mills; maintenance and rebuilding State Hospital for the Insane, 1 ' 4 mills; common schooin, 1 1-3 mills; State educational Institutions, 1 1-2 mltis; pens, on* 1 mill. Total 9 1*1 The law enforcement section added by the finame committee, the house having no provision whatever, reads: "Should the exigencies of any munici? pality or county in this State justify or require extraordinary measures to enforce the prohibition laws now in force, and recently enacted, that tho governor of the 8tato may expend, In his discretion, $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary to en? force said laws. I Repairs for DeSaussure College, at tho University of South Carolina, are 'provided for to the extent of $14,000. The appropriation for the assist? ance of the militia was increased from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand dollars. The University of South Carolina is allowed a new law school building to cost $40,000, payable in two annual installments. INSISTS ON RICHARDSON. Columbia, Feb. 15.?The State law provides that the State game warden shall h? appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the Audubon Society of South Carolina. At a meeting of the members of the society, held in December, Dr. E. C U Adams was elected president and the present game warden, A. A. Richardson, was indorsed for reap polntment. Dr. Adams notified Gov. Manning In writing and Wednesday received the following lettor: "I am in receipt of yours transmit? ting the indorsement of the society, recommending A. A. Richardson lor reappeintment as chief game warden. "I Were by return you his name, as the recommendation is not suitable to me. "An the time Is short, I ask that you send me several names which you can recommend." Dr. Adams declined to withdraw the name of Col. Richardson and made the following reply to Gov. Manning: "Tour letter delivered to me by your personal messenger was receiv? ed late yesterday afternoon. Inas? much as you call on me for a prompt answer I am sending you s? reply by special messenger, and beg to call your attention to these facts. My letter sending up the Indorsement of the Audubon society was addressed to you under date of December 23, 1916. "This gave you full opportunity to present the name of Col. A. A. Rich? ardson to the senote for confirmation, or, if his name was not acceptable to you, t? send the same hack to the Audubon Society. You failed to do this. Now you ask that I send up sev? eral names immediately from which, you may chose one that is suitablo to you. I beg to call your attention to the by-laws of the society, w. ich pro? vide that before a meeting can be called ten days' notice Is necessary* "It will, as you see, bo Impossible for me to present you with another name or names which you can send to the senate for confirmation at the present session of the general assem? bly, and I am, therefore, returning to you the name of Col. A. A. Richard? son." Columbia, Feb. 17.?The railroad commission has adopted a resolution to prevent "the mingling of the races, when boarding or leaving pas? senger trains at stations." The resolution follows: "Be it re? solved that all railroads operating in South Carolina be required, when stopping passenger trains at stations, in order to 'prevent the congestion' of white and colored passengers not to load or unload white and colored pas? sengers at the adjoining ends of their respective coaches." SUICIDE, ACCIDENT OR MURDER? Rota Wactor, Respected Colored School Teacher, Found Dead In Field Near Her Home. Rosa Wactor, a highly respected colored school teacher living in the Tidwell settlement noar Gaiilard's Cross Roads, was found dead in a cotton field about a hundred yards from her home on Saturday after? noon, death having been caused by a discharge from a shot gun which tore nearly all of the woman's head from her body. While it la supposed that she killed herself, there is no cause known by relatives or friend*, to strengthen this belief. At the same time there is no reason to sus? pect that sho was murdered and in? dications are that the shooting was not accidental. Tho woman was about twenty-three years of age and was well thought of bv l oth the white people of the com? munity and the colored people amonc whom she lived. She had been teach? ing school In tho community for three years and Friday she had been seen by a number of people going home from school. Saturday after? noon ?om et ime after about 4:30 o'clock several negro women stopped by her house, hut failed to lind her at home. They took a path from the house to the railroad track, a short distance away, and while passing through a cotton patch about a hun? dred yards from the house they saw tho body lying on the ground. Upon He Speaks H Writes It <3t?g? Thipkslt at \ "a. It seems somehow that the love of truth is inborn?iii every Southerner and it sticks right close to him for all his days? ( just like a life-long friend. That's why, friends, when I hear people praising me all Over* the South?saying ?SOVEREIGN isKi g of Them AlT-well, it is true?that's all., For example, I heard one gentleman say the ?th^r day:?"Here is the finest ciga? rette I ever smoked. I never buy any other. The finest product of Virginia and Carolina tobacco, in all its mildness, and sweetness and mellowness/* Yes-It's great to be a SOVEREIGN. It's fine to have real breeding back of ?du, to be brought up in a fine, white, Healthy home,?and to hear so many nice things from so many friends down South here among you all. And the reason is just this?it's because? Ilm Folks of the South KNOW good blood! You Folks of the South KNOW good tobacco! No doubt of it all. Good breeding does count. Quality does tell. So, let's you and me be the real friends that we ought to be. And, here is something more for you to think about? 1 am guwteed by W -Buy me. If you don't like me return me to your dealer and get your money back? I have said it A Southern gentleman is known the work! over for keeping Iiis word, and I have given you mine* overer?n Li FOR THE GENTLEMAN OF THE* SOUTH closer inai ction they saw a gun lying beside the body and that the top of the woman's head had been shot away. They became frightened and ran away to give the alarm. Coroner Seale was among those no? tified soon afterwards and he left for the scene late Saturday evening. In the meantime some of the white men of the neighborhood had been noti? fied and had examined the body and grounds. They failed to find any track going away from the place where the woman's body was lyin,r, which indicated that death was by suicide and not murder. It was also noticed that a stick about the length and size of a yard stick was lying by the gun and that the print of the I butt of the gun was on the ground a I little in front of and nearly between I the woman's footprints. This led the men to think that the woman had killed herself by putting the mu*? zlo of the weapon to her forehead and pushing tho trigger with the stick. There was a round spot on the fore? head burnt by the powder from the explosion. The bones of the head were not crushed, but were dlsloeateJ and blown off from the rest of the body, a wad of the gun being found lying on a part of the brains. Coroner Scale upon his arrival em? panelled a jury, but no witnesses w?re heard except the physician, who upon request of the jury, performed an autopsy on the body to yce, if by this i leans he could secure any evidence which would be thought a Hufticient cause for the woman committing sui? cide. However, the autopsy revealed nothing that couid have been token us cause for suicide. As it was late at night and no one seemed to know anything about the case, the jury was allowed to bring in a verdict on the doctor's state? ment. Their verdict was that Rosa Wactor came to her death from a gunshot wound in the head received from the hands of some party or par? ties unknown to the jury. It is said that the woman had mon? ey in the bank, owned her own home, which was left her by her grandpa rents, who had raised her, and th it 8he had always been well thought of in the community. Relatives and j officers will continue their investisa I tions in trying to Und out the cause J of suicide, or if it was a case of mur i der. GOV. II AX LEY TO SPEAK HERE. Former Executive of Ifltdiana to Make Prohibition Address in Opera House February 27th at 8:30. I A civic mass meeting will be held in Sumter on Tuesday, February 27, at 8::>0 p. m. in the Opera Hons- in the interest of State and nation-wide prohibition and will he addressed by lion. J. Frunk Uanley, former govern? or of Indiana. The meeting is to be held under the auspices of the Fly? ing Squadron Foundation, which has I its heudquarters in Indianapolio ami which was organized under the laws of the State of Indiana to perpetu? ate the work of tho great Flying Squadron of America campaign which, J. FRANK HANLY. under the direction of Gov. Hanley was fought from the Atlantic to tlu Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf. Born in a log cabin in Champaign county, Illinois, not many miles from the old home of Abraham Lincoln, ho received most of his early education at his mother's knee under her tutor? ship, attending school but a few weeks for several years, and then at the age of thirteen, started out to tind his way in the world, which led to the governorship of Indiana at tho age of forty-one, together with other high honors. Upon all of these, he turned his back when the plan to aid mankind in the light for the sup? pression of liquor traffic presented it? self to his mind. Qov. Ilanley is conceded to be the peer of temperance orators in tho country. Ho is eloquent, forceful and convincing and, one of the most able speakers on the Chautauqua platform. His lecture in Sumter will be free of charge and the public is cordially invited. A license to marry has been grant? ed to Willie Sanders and Aurelia San? ders, Dalzell. Washington, Feb. 16.?A British ship inspection station similar to that at K rkwall may be established in tho South Atlantic Bahamas, it is suggest? ed. A farmer in Saluda county sold his wheat straw for enough to pay the cost of raising the crop. It paid him) to grow wheat.