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FOUL MURDER AT CEDAR SPRINGS. (Continued from page 1) examined and the bed was not disturbed. The trunk in his room was carefully examined and the lid was found to have been opened and the contents of the trunk rifled, though nothing else in the room appeared to have been molested. Money in Coat Pocket. The officers, upon examining the body, found that Mr. Smoak's top coat was buttoned tightly and in his inside coat pocket was found a pass book of the First National bank. Inside the bank book were found three $'20 bills, neatly folded. In his vest pocket a small lady's gold watch ytraB found. The watch and money were delivered to Mr. Rodgers. The pass book showed that Mr. Smoak had $229 in the bank. Shot in Back. An examination of the wound disclosed the fact that the load of shot entered the small of the back a little to the left, making a hole sufficienly large to thrust a man's fist. The shot ranged upwards and lodged on the right side immediately under the skin. Assassin Forced Open Shutter. From the condition of the shutter it is believed that the murderer slipped up to the window and. seeine Mr. Smoak at work in his shop, pulled off a piece of the shutter and thrusting the gun inside, fired. The clasp of the shutter was then removed from the staple and the shutter opened, making it an easy matter to climb through the. window. Tracks Under Window. Tracks were seen leading from the window through an open field to a patch of woods. All of the tracks were well defined and were from four to six feet apart, indicating that the party who made them had a long stride and that they were made while running. The tracks were 11 inches iuuk ana iour incnes wide across the ball of the foot. The heel was three and one-half inches lond and two and three-quarter inches wide and were turned over at the heel, showing that the shoes had been worn for some time. Sheriff White inquired of the people in the community if the deceased had ever had any trouble with his neighbors, and every one replied that so far as they knew he was on excellent terms with every one. He recently made a settlement with his tenant, Marcellus Dawkins, a negro, and made a contract with him to work his place next year. Prof. L. nr w-ii ' **. waiKer was a witness to the settlement. House Closed Many Days. The neighbors for several days had noticed the house closed and had not seen smoke issuing from the chimney, though no attention was paid to this by them for, it is said, that Mr. Smoak was in the habit of going away and staying several days. Only a few days ago he is said to have informed some of his neighbors that he was going to leave as soon as he finished a piece of work and when chey saw his house closed they sup,.^cw! V 1 -rr __ - ! puocu tie uau ^une uu on a visit. When asked if they had heard any shooting in the neighborhood recent*ly, the neighbors said there had been no more shooting than common. Sheriff White and Coroner Turner made a careful examination of some ten or twelve witnesses but were unable to secure any evidence that would lead them to suspect anyone. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death from a gunhsot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown to the jury. Sheriff White will work hard on the mysterious murder case and will do everything possible to work out a clue with the hope of apprehending the assassin and robber. It is said that special detectives may be employed to work on the case. Was Well Known. Mr. Smoak was a man in comfortable circumstances, owning a fine farm of 60 acres of land. He was wcu Known inrougnout the county and state. He is survived by six children, one daughter and five sons, all of whom reside in- distant states except Herbert Smoak, who lives in Union. He was notified of his father's tragic death and arrived in Spartanburg yesterday morning. Two of his sons live in Roanoke Va., on? at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and one in Mississippi. The latter arrived in the city last night and did not know of the death of his father until he registered at the Hotel Finch. Mr. Smoak returns from Mississippi to Cedar Springs to accept -the position of foreman in the cabinet shop having held a similar position in the Mississippi school for the deaf and dprnb. The funeral of Mr. Smoak will be held at Cedar Springs this afternoon at 3 o'clock. He was a graduate of the Cedar Springs institute and was one of the few pupils who attended" the school shortly after it was founded. Reward Offered for Slayer of Smoak. Governor Blease has offered a re 0 .->>>><** r ' \ ward of $100 for the apprehension, elivery and conviction of the party or parties who killed the aged mute, E. G. Smoak, one night last week. Sheriff White has made several visits to the scene of the murder and 1 has been successful to a limited de- } gree in collecting material that will he of benefit in apprehending the guilty party. It was thought that an arrest would be the result of his visit on 1 yesterday, but those who were in 1 touch with the situation say that the lues in hand, were being followed up 1 by the sheriff and it is generally believed that something tangible will be arrived at soon. Jonesville News Letter. Jonesville, Dec. 31.?Christmas day and the holidays have all been ob served quietly and orderly in our town. The police has made but one arrest during the Christmas tide. The home coming has been more extensive than usual and the family reunions and receptions have been many and much enjoyed and several weddings in the community have been solemnized, one quarterly conference held at the Methodist church here, has made up the doings and festivities of another Christmas tide which is numbered with the things of the past, and it goes without saying that many of our people that enjoyed in these pleasures and festivities wifT never see another Christmas; then it becomes us all to heed the admonition given in the New Testament scriptures, "Be ye also ready for ye know not when the Son of Man cometh." i venture ine assertion tnat most every farmer and business man of every kind has already made up his mind to make .more of material things the incoming year than he did the one that closes today, which is all very well and perfectly legitimate and why not every one of us then form the same resolution that we will live a better life morally and do more good that we did the past year. I dare say there is not a person in all the land that could not live a better, purer, Christian life in 1913 than 1 they did in 1912. My observation teaches me that such living is needful. ' On the 22nd day of December Rev. J. W. Airiail married three couples in the West Springs neighborhood, as follows, at the residence of Mr. M. B. Lee. Mr. Willi** Hvnff on/1 Mi?a ! Julia Lancaster; at the residence of 1 Mr .Joe Lamb, Mr. Perry N. Lee and Miss Lucinda Lamb, and at the same 1 # ' 1 time and place Mr. Guy S. Davis and 1 Miss Leila Gregory. \ During the holidays, just above us 1 at and near Pacolet, the following ' young couples were married: Mr. ! Burke Miller and Miss Jacie Quinn; 1 Mr. Camelal and Miss Nora Smith; 1 Mr. Paul Gossett and Miss Ollie ! Vaughan, and at Jonesville Mr. 1 Haes Whitlock and Miss Olar KitchAll it. ?!" -i " ^ *' tno. mi mesc win tjiuri logetner in life this New Year Mr. W. J. Haile and family of Union spent Sunday with relatives in 1 Jonesville. The first quarterly conference for the Jonesville charge was held here ! Sunday, Rev. A. J. Cauthen, presid- 1 ing elder was present and preached a god sermon at 11 o'clock and then 1 held the quarterly conference. There was a good turn-out of the officials { of the conference. Professor Henry A. Wise oftCo 1 o 1? ?J ?? ? 1 lumuiu spcni/ ounuuy ana monaay in Jonesville visiting friends. Mr. R. J. Kirby is spending a few days with the family of Mr. Samuel ' T. Reid in Spartanburg. At the home of Mr. R. Simpson Long, four miles west of Jonesville/ 1 on the 27th of December, there was a family reunion that was much enioyed by thirty-eight relatives and friends that made up the happy par- ( ty who first enjoyed good country i fires until the dinner hour and then 1 the feast of good things that made J up the bill of fare, which was so tempting as it smoked from the warm dishes on that cold day that it would have done honor to Woodrow Wilson to have been one of the guests. Fresh string beans right from the garden was 'one of the many dishes that were served the guests. Mr. Isaac Thomson, an old Jones- , ville boy, who has been away from , the State many years, was in our town last Saturday, shaking hands with his many friends here. , Jonesville has about twenty young ladies that have been in different < narts f\f t.hA pnnn+mr 1 ...? wwiiv. j W?VIUI?K OtilUUl or attending schools and colleges, and they all came home to spend the holidays. There are also about a dozen \ voung men away and most of them 1 came home for the holidays. We are J glad to see them and to know they J are all doing well. Mr. and Mrs. James Simpson, who < have lately moved into our neigh- 1 borhood, attended service at the c Methodist church Sunday. n Miss Marie Jeter gave a nice en- j tertainment to a number of her 1 friends last Thursday night at the beautiful home three miles from 1 Tonesville. JPair it the Fair Grounds. a! . The fair which was advertised for MTew Years' Day at the Union county Fair (Grounds, has been postponed until Saturday, January 4, 1913. The rains and the bad condition of the race track made this change necessary. The Union and GlennJSprings Railroad will operate convenient schedules and the best of police protection has bean promised. The admission to the grounds will be 25 cents and grand stand seats 25 cents. Messrs. Kelty and Webber of Spartanburg and McKinney of Jonesville iidtv wwrea norses, as nave Messrs. Is. P. Waganer, I. Frank Peake, J. W. Johnson and Walter Sanders. The fair will be managed by Mfessrs. J. W. Johnson and L. P. Waganer. DuBosc-Hamer. Cordial interest is centered in the following invitations: Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Marion DuBose request the honor of "your presence at the marriage of. their daughter Jane Porcher to Mr. Robert Cochrane Hamer Thursday evening, January the ninth at eight o'clock Trinity Church \ Columbia. South Carolina. Miss DuBose has visited In Union frequently and numbers her friends here by the\ score. < West Springs Letter. West Springs, Dec. 31.?Christmas passed off very quietly here. There were no special entertainments of any kind held. Almost every one spent the holidays quietly around the fireside. Sunday, December 22nd was a day of marriages. The first couple to have the knot tied was Mr. Ernest Hyatt and Miss Julia Lancaster, of Walnut Grove. They were maried at the home of Mr. M. B. Lee. Rev. W. H. Ariail was the officiating minister. The next was a double wedding. The contracting parties being Mr. Perry Lee and Miss Lucinda Lamb, and Mr. Guy Davis and Miss Leila Gregory. The double wedding took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lamb. All these young people are well known and are receiving the best wishes of a large circle of friends. Op last Saturday afternoon a three year old girl on Mr. W. J. F. Mayes' place, was fatally byrned. The negro woman was not at hopte Y^n the child was burned. She had gone off, leaving the child that was burned in the cares of the older children, who in turn left it by itself. Mr. W. J. Ij\ Mayes was attracted by the child's screams and ran to it, finding that the child's clothing had been burned nearly off. Dr. Herbert Smith *was summoned, but could do nothing and the child died early Monday morning. Mr. W. W. Lancaster of Spart&nSurg was here Sunday a week ago with friends. Mr. J. F. Ledford, of Shelby, N. C., spent a day or two here the past week on business. Mr. J .A. Lancaster of Jonesville, 3pent several days the past week with friends. Mrs. John M. West has been quite ill for several days. Mr. J. Norris Rogers and Miss Cirace Rogers spent one day this week with relatives at Kelly's station. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Williams of Union, spent the past week here with relatives. Mr. Orion Crow of the University sf South Carolina and Mr. Ryan Crow, of Furman University, are at home for the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry^Crow. Cotton Mill Stock ^ale. We will sell by public auction al Union C. H., S. C., on Monday, 20th lay of January, next, at 12 m., thirty shares of common stock and ninety shares of first preferred stock of tht Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company, located at Whitmire, S. C. Sale will be sold in blocks, one" share with privilege of taking five. Terms casn. Wm. Coleman, F. M. Farr, Executors of Estate of Miss Anne E. Rice Women don't make historians. Theii memory of dates reaching back more bh^ty 25 years is too treacherous. iX . MASTER'S SALE 3tate of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Common Fleas. M. W. Culp, et al, Plaintiff. Against Bird. Ivy, Defendant. In obedience to an order made ir :he above stated case, I will sell at Union: durinc the letral knnra a# nolo >efore the Court House door, or Balesday, Monday, January 6, 1913, he .fallowing land, to wit: All that certain lot of land lying, ihd being in or near the Town of Union, said county and state, known is lot No. 11 of block One. in the sublivision of the C. C. Culp lands, as sill, more fully appear by reference o a.plat made by E. C. Brown, surveyor, dated November, 1904. Terms of sale, Cash. Purchaser to >ay for papers. JTit R. C. WILLIAMS, As Master lor Union Co. - ' . if' ' Ifrl - I > rrr s ToOui | j that = each one happiness We th the past a = best servi curacy an business. The N = F. A. RICE, Presi ll=ii R| For Results OYSTE j SOLD BY i MASTER'S SALE / State of South Carolina, ; County of Union. Court of Common Pleas. John W. Sartor as Administrator of iiie restate 01 John Sartor, and as Trustee and his Own Right, Plaintiffs, Against The Newberry Land and Security Company, et at., Defendants. In obedience to an order made in the above stated case, I will sell at Union, during the legal hours of sale, before the Court House door, on ] Salesday, Monday, January 6, 1913, , the following described personal property, to wit: Three bay mules, seven sorrel mules, four black mules, one dark mule, three mouse-colored mules, two sets of wagon gears, three fourhorse wagons, ene six-horse wagon, one buggy, one set of buggy harness. The names and ages of mules will be given on day of sale. Terms of sale, Cash. R. C. WILLIAMS, As M-s'? - for Union Co. MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Union. 1 Court of Common Pleas. Ora B. Fant, Plaintiff, Against Charles H. Jones, et al., Defendants. In obedience to an order made in the above stated xase I will sell at Union, during the legal hours of sale before the Court House door on salessloir M T Oil- lo-o ' vimjf iuviiuojf uaiiuttry uin, liflt)) 1116 following land to wit: All that tract of land in the Town ! of Union, County of Union, and State : aforesaid, containing one and one- 1 fourth acres, more or less, with the dwellings and buildings thereon, and bounded North by New Street, and lot of Emeline Paterson; on South by 1 lot formerly of Solomon Gilmore; 1 West by lot of Emeline Patterson, < and East by Sharp's lot (recently) owned by D. L. McLaughlin, being < part of the same lot ot iand pur- 1 chased from Jos. F. Gist by deeds < bearing date Feb. 5th, 1890, and April < 26th, 1890, reference being made to i map made by J. L. Young, dated Jan. 25tn, 1890, will more fullY show. Said 1 tract at present consists of a number < of Iq^s.' 1 Terms of sale, one-half cash, the < balance on a credit payable in one i year, with interest thereon from day ( of sale, at eight per cent per annum, secured by bond of purchaser, and 1 a mortgage of the premises; pur- j chaser to pay for papers and have the 1 option of paying all cash. < R. C. WILLIAMS, j Master Union County. ] .... 1' 'r it Year's Ore r Friends and Pz esire to express 01 the New Year may of you health, we > ank you tor your pat ind will strive to giv ce in the future. P id skill are elemenl Rice Drug The Rexall Store dent C. H. UILHOU T T \l t > ( 1 FANT BROT1 MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Common Pleas. Mary G. Culp, as Executrix of the Will of M. W. Culp, Deceased, Plaintiff. Against W. W. Johnson, as Public Guardian and* The Peoples Supply Co. Defendants. In obedience to an order made in the| above stated case I will sell at Union. Hnrincr tVio lonrol ??'? , ??aw av^Ul UVUtO VI OaiC] before the Court House door, on salesday, Monday, January 6, 1913, the following land, to wit: All that certain lot on North Mountain street, known as the Rice-Richards place, having a brick dwelling house thereon, and fronting one hundred and twenty feet more or less on North Mountain street, beginning at Kost at corner of Public School lot on lountain street and running North 8.30; West 127 feet to post (center) J. G. Long, corner, thence North 84.30 East 269 feet to center post; thence South 1.30 West 113 feet to centei post corner; thence South 81 West 154 feet to beginning corner; Also lots Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 ol Block B; of the Home Real Estate Agency m one body and situated near the Stand pipe, as will more fully ap Sear by reference to plat of the Home leal Estate Agency lands, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court, Plat book No. 1, page 27. Also the following lots of land of the C. C, Culp land division and survey made by Brown & Co., lot No. 14 of Block 2; lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of block 3; lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 6 of block 19; lot No. 2 of block 11; lot No. 9 of block 1; lots Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 of block 5; lots Nos. 11 and 12 of block 9; lots Nos. 11 and 12 of block 10; lots Nob. 7 and 8 ol block 16. Also a one-half interest in lots Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11 of block 7, of Culp land division, and lots Nos. 14, 16 and 18 of block 9, and lot No. 1 of block 19. Also all that certain tract of land in Union county, State of South Carolina, about three miles sast of the Town of Union, containing two hundred acres, more or less, and known as the Becknell-Morris land, bounded on the South bv lanH >f W. T. Morris: on the West by lands of Mrs. McBride and Briggs; >n the North by land of T. K. Palmer ind the Gregory land; on the East by Sregory land. Terms of sale: One-third cash, the valance in one and two equal annual instalments at one and two years from day of sale, with interest on ?ach instalment from day of sale, and lfter maturity at the rate of" eight jer cent per annum and secured eting * \ irons: ir sincere bring to lalth and U ronage in e you our 'urity, ac- = 'al in our i Co. S, Treas. & Mgr. M 1 ' . Est-1885 O IUZERO HERS CO. by bond of the purchaser or purchasers and a mortgage of the premises sold, the bond and mortgage to provide for the payment of ten t per cent Attorney fee in case of suit or foreclosure or collection by an at, tomey after default, purchaser or purchasers to pay for papers and recording and have the option of paying all cash. R. C. WILLIAMS, | As Master far Union Co. | MASTER'S SALE State of South Carolina, [ County of Union. Court of Common Pleas. John W. Sartor, as Administrator of the Estate of John Sartor, and as Trustee in his own right, Plaintiff, Against The Newherrv I.onJ ?11? a^*..u uuu octunty ; Company, et al., Defendants. 11 In obedience to an order made in i the above stated case, I will sell on the plantation of John Sartor, dei ceased, on Saturday, January 4th, ( 1913, the following personal property, <-to wit: ; Two milk cows, one hay rake, thiri ty-five cotton hoes, three L. H. shov' els, one axe, eight cotton fenders, ten i pattented cotton planters, six Dowlaw cotton planters, nineteen plowstocks, i nineteen sets of plow gears, eleven > plow collars, one saddle, one wagon I saddle, one McCormick mower, one old , mower one tire swinker, shop tools, i one terrace plow, one Remmington , shot gun, one shuck cutter, one crosst cut saw, one lot of plow shares, thir. teen cotton baskets, nineteen plow , bridles, several hundred bushels of , cotton seed, several hundred bushels of 1 corn, several hundred bundles of i fodder, hay and other farm produce belonging to said estate. Sale will I begin at 10:00 o'clock a. m. r Terms of sale, cash. R. C. WTT.T.T A MC As Master for Union Co. Honor Roll of Cross Keys. First grade?Welch Hollis, Bess, i Prince, Jimmie Stevens. Second grade?Ruth Bailey, Clareae Lawson, Lorena Hill. Third grade?Russell Prince. Fourth grade?Mildren Bobo, Annalee Bobo, Minnie Stevens. Fifth grade?Clerage Prince. Seventn grade?Luttie Hollis. Eighth grade?Flossie Wilburn, Willie Tucker. Notice to Pension Board. I would suggest that those who were elected to serve on the pension board for 1913, would meet at Union next Monday, the 6th, for\ the purpose of organizing. W. H. S. Harris. - j