Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A custom officer who searchec the British freighter Bowes Castle in New "York harbor from Kobe anc Singapore found twenty-six half starved Chinese stow-aways, three s< weak that they had to be carried t< Ellis Island on stretchers, anc brought to light a story of hardship! in the black hole of a vessel whict investigators described as comparable > to the tales of the "black birds" ol slave-running days. Other searchers found sixteen cases of whiskey, s number of opium pipes and announced that the search would be continued today from stem to stern, above decks and below. % Impelled by a deep and growing spiritual conviction that he should confess a crime that has been a local mystery for several years, Thomae ^Jackson a former citizen of Ayden, N. C., made public admission in the presence of a hundred or more per sons in the Seminary auditorium there that he sec fire U> lu? clothes pressing establishment in order to collect insurance money on a policy he had purchased a short time previous. The blaze started by Jackson, according to his statement, also destroyed the Ross hotel and damaged a residental structure. The body of Miss Maude Gilbert twenty?nine, was taken from the Tamiami canal, near Miama, Florida, hy divers Thursday afternoon at,the point w)>ere the touring car in whicl she was riding with E. F. White the night before is alleged to have plunged into the water. Her body wai only partly clothed. White ie being held in the county jail without bond, The route for the North to Soutl continental air way, beginning at Au custa, Maine, and ending at Miami Fla., has been designated by advice; received. Main stations selected are Boston, Mitchell Field, Long Island Bustleton, Po., Aberdeen, Md.; Wash ington, D. C.; Langley Field, Va. Camp Bragg, N. C.; Camp Jackson 8. C.; and Carlstrom Field, Fla. Th< designation of main station become; final, Major Claggett stated, only up' on completion in or near each of i safe landing field for airplanes. ^ Burjed under two feet of sand, th< body of Father Patrick Heslin, o1 Good From Wa i No Ol I No Hij A Assortment Complete Prices Uneqm Men's and Young Ni Ginghams that were N - * Overalls from High Grade PI I worth $950, $600.00. Watson Cb*J ? # i 1 Holy Angels Catholic Church, Colma, who has been missing since the night 1 of August 2, was dug from a^ beach on the Pacific ocean twenty miles south of San Francisco at night and B brought back to San -Francisco, rwo bullet wounds were in the body. B Led by William A. Hightower, an une employed baker, who had been in B 3an Francisco only a few weeks and who is held pending investigation, local officials were taken to the spot ex,' humed as a smoky lantern made feeble efforts to dispel the gloomy darkness. Hightower told the authorities ' that hfc learned of the buried body several days ago from a woman who 3aid she was Dolly Mason. She is bell ing sought. * GREENVILLE TO HAVE ' ' CENTRAL COTTON MARKET A big forward step has been taken ' by the farmers and business men of ? Greenville county in the matter of ' better facilities for marketing cotton " The plan is to organize a central cor * ton' market for Greenville county in * the city of Greenville and to provide ' a classer and weigher, so that cotton ' will be graded without cost to the in1 dividual farmer. It is further planned - t.o build a cotton shed and office for ' the cotton dasser's use to allow the 1 farmers to leave their cotton on the 1 platform for 10 days with free insurance, and to allow farmers to poo! ' their cotton by grades for sale in ! larger lots. This good work has grown out of r the Greenville County Agricultural | Council, organized recently to pro1 mote closer relationship between the i business men and the farmers. The , central cotton market idea was proi posed at the second meeting of this . igricultural council held in Greeni ville recently, at which the secretary i of the Greenville Chamber of Comi merce proposed that his organisation > raise the funds to pay the classer's . salary, construct the necessary build, ings and pay other needed expenses. . For this purpose the business men i have pledged themselves to raise $7,000 and the farmers have pledged to furnish labor for the erection ' of the buildings. The desire and the object are to make Greenville the ' cotton market that it should be? ' Clemson College. s "MOONSHINE" WITH A KICK ' "When will a rabbit fight a dog?" was answered when a hound belong mg to John Andrew*, farmer near ' Kingston, N. C.f was bested in a set1 to with a "lean, moth-eaten, backwoods jumper," according to Mr. An? drews there Friday, who told the fol" lowing story: "When the hound saw the rabbit ' and made chase the rabbit didhi't stir out of his tracks, but waited until ' the dog approached within a foot and ' then leaped in the canine's face. It ! was yellow and gray all mixed up 1 together. Last time I saw that rabbit he was chasing my dog, and when 1 I found him he was at home.'" The rabbit, Andrews said, "had been feed ing around a moonshine still and just f didn't feel none to good." News tson Bros. d Stock jh Prices c Quality Unsurpassed ailed A nywhere [en's Suits $15 to $29.00 50 cents yard ow 10 to 15 cents 80c to $1.20 ayer Piano offered for Brothers ibrflaM rerjitja THE LAW OR THE MOB? (From the Charleston News and Courier) M. E. Ur.i7.ell, father of the taxicab driver, who was brutally murdered lear Lecsville, in Lexington county, i week ago yesterday, has issued a personal appeal through the Columbia State that the threats of mob violence against C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins, the two men accused of the jrinte, be not executed. Mr. Brazell jcneves mat tnes\e men are guilty and he believes further that 'no punishment, however cruel, could possibly be too severe' for them but he says that if he were in the sheriffs place, "I should hold them if it cost me my life,' adding: "I now expect the sheriff and other officers to do likewise." This is spoken like a good citizen and good citizens everywhere will honor Mr. Brazell for speaking out as he has done against lynch law at a time when the lust for personal vengeance against the men held for this crime rages at the State Capital with an openness unparalleled we think, in the history of crime in this State. It has been published repeatedly and not denied that during the week which has elapsed since young Brazell was slain bodies of armed men have almost continuously patrolled the highways leading into Columbia and have searched all trains entering the Capital City. They have done this with the undisguised purpose of taking Fox and Gappins from the officers of the law and summarily lynching them. They have not succeeded in this design up to the present time but in order to thwart them the two priscr.efs have been held first in the jail at Augusta, whence they were hurriedly spirituded to (.lode a mob which a little later visited the jail, then in Savannah, and since early Sunday morning in Charleston. In ohort, the mob has succeeded for a week in terrorizing the law and while it hag not been able to get hold of the prisoners it has prevented the officers of the law from taking them to the capital of the State and lodging tliem in the State penitentiary. This exhibition of governmental helplessness in the face of organized potential lynchers operating under the very shadow of the State Capitol is calculated to fill with bitter liumilation all those who would like to believe in the majesty of the law. Governor Cooper, after talking about calling out the militia if nec cessary to protect Fox. and Gappins, was quoted yesterday as suggesting that they may be left in the jail in Charleston until the time set for their trial. To do that is to confess in effect that the State of South Carolina lacks the power to get them to the penitentiary now and to protect them there afterwards. The authorities have had a full week in which to make the law respected. They cannot make it respected as long as the belief prevails, as it very naturally does prevail at present, that Fox and Gappins could not be taken into Columbia now without being lynched. Is the law in South Carolina impotent? Is the government in South Carolina utterly lacking in force and decision? The murder of William Braxell was one of the ugliest crimes this State has experienced and it is easy to understand why indignation against it men accused of it should flame so high; but the murderers are in the hands of the law and there is no ques tion of the verdict of the courts being a just one. It is the duty of the State to see that they are protected against moy violenec, and the State should do this.not by running away from lynching parties, but by providing a guard sufficient to put these men in the State penitentiary and to protect them when they are there. Not in this generation at_!enst has there been so much lawlessness in South Carolina as there is at pres- ( ent, so many crimes of violence. Such a condition of affairs is not to be ended by sentimental appeals to public ( sentiment. What is needed is for the State to assert its power, its majesty, its authority, and to assert it with force. Instead of runnincr iwav from men bent on taking the law in their own hands the State should be prepared in this case to run them down ( and to teach them and all men that in South Carolina vengeance belongs to the law. i That is the way to break the .spirit ; of lawlessness and it will not be brok- ; en otherwise. i Rub-My-Tism far Rheumatism. 40 DANIEL INSTEAD OF DAVE In a statement last week regarding the activities of the Sheriff's office in raiding liquor stills the name of Dave Johnson was used when it i should have been Daniel Johnson. CHESTERFIELD AGAIN HAS CLOSft CALL Last Friday night between.' 10 and 11 o'clock fire was discovered in the ryar of the Adams' Cash Market on Main street. Prompt action saved thd town of Chesterfield another conflagration. J Mr. C. S. Britton, returning home from the Strand Theatre noticed a light flickering in the rear of the market, and crossing the street decided there was a fire behind the 'big refrigerator. Mr. H. A. McRae appeared on the stene about this time and together they tore through a screen window in the rear and found fin incipient, though lusty blate. Othpr<l nil i plrKr rocmnnrlnrl - * without revenue from advertising, it would require a circulation of about 6,000 copies per issue to pay actual expenses of publication. At the present time the circula tion of the paper, although easily the largest of any county paper in the state, if not in the south, is less than 3,000 copies per issue. It is the intention of the publishers to establish the subscription price of The Yorkville Enquirer at $2.50 a year and if they can; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not committed to that proposition. If it shall develop that it is impossible to furnish the paper at this price, the price will be raised next fall, before the time for the renewal of 1922 subscriptions. Of course all who subscribe and pay for the paper now at $2.50 will get the paper for twelve months at that price, but if it shall be found necessary to increase the rpice later on, those who subscribe thereafter will be required to pay the increased price. It is to the interest of all present subscribers who would like to see the establishment of the $2.50 rate to use their efforts to secure as many addtional subscribers at this rate as possible. If the publishers can get as many as 400 additional subscribers altogether, they will undertake to guarantee the $2.50 rate; but otherwise no definite promises can be made at this time. An Edmonson county man took a drink of whiskey and bystanders counted thirty-seven fits before he died. Still, many a man has more fits than that if he doesn't get a drink of whiskey.?Cynthiana, (Ky.) Democrat. ? 1 1 ** 1 666 MrH Bilioaaaees. ^ 40 nM.v.%?j a vo^vuucu w Will), cry Ul fire and the blaze was soon extinguished. Had the discovery been delayed a few minutes that whole ...Je Of Main street would again have been at the mercy of the flames. And flames have not been particularly merciful to Chesterfield in the past. . \ THE PRESIDENT'S FATHER TAKES A BRIDE Monroe, Mich., Aug. ll.-Mn the parlor of the vine-covered little First Presbyterian Church here today, a white-heared, smilihg old gentleman, dressed in a slightly oldfashioned Prince Albert, imimaculate "boiled" shirt and a prim white tie, and ? comely, middle-aged woman, smuing unaer ner crown of brown hair and black hat were quietly married. The old gentleman was Dr.< George T. Harding, 76, father of President Harding, a civil war veteran, and for many years the doctor to the countryside around Marion i Ohio. His bride is Miss Alice Stevens, 52 for many years her new husband's assistant official nurse. COST OF A NEWSPAPER We publish below the explanation of the Yorl;villa Enquirer, of rates charged for newspapers. The explanation is logical. The larger the circulation, the lower the rate can be. But the advertising rate muat go up in proportion to th* increase in okcula-, tion: ? a It is desirable thatrthe pamhts of The Yorkville Enquirer# thoroughly understand the attitude of the publishers on the question of the subscription price. In arriving at a fixed subscription price for a newspaper, it is necessary to consider the number of subscribers obtainable along with the probable amount of advertising business to be secured. There is no' reasonably reliable basis of estimate as to amount of revenue to be derived from either of these sources. It is the desire of the publishers to make the subscription rate as low as posisble so as to put the benefits of the paper more easily within the reach of the largest number of people. At a subscription rate of $2.50 a year, under present conditions, and nx, nuvJVJOX AO. i'JZ, 1 SUCCESSFUL MEETING COMES TO CLOS t A series of evangelistic meeting for the Florence district of th South Carolina Conference hav been carried on for the past seven months. The fourth of these group was held in the Chesterfield and Eas Chesterfield charges, closing Sunda night. Seven preachers were engage I in the work. Morning services wer i conducted in six adjoining churches I At theee churches work was done b the Revs. G. A. Teaseley, of Lamai G. H. Kirby, of Cheraw; W. 0. Her deison, of Bishopville; S. D. Bailee of Blenheim; L. E. Peeler, of Ches ' terfield and C. P. Chewning, o ; Chesterfield. The night services wer held at the district tent, which wa located here. The people of the cour ty crowded the tent and oftontime there have been" as many people sit ting on the grass outside as on th inside. The Sunday night congregatio was estimated at 1,600 people. Th Rev. G. T. Harmon, of Bishopvill conducted the services at the tent, j choir of fifty voices, assisted by pian and violin, led the singing of th meeting. One hundred and twenty-nine pec pie have been converted and public! confessed Christ. THE COST OF A BOY A man in Chicago announces tha it costs $5,000 to raise a boy to th age of twelve years. How he arrive at his figures we are not told, but th average father is not likely to protes that this estimate is too high. Using these figures, a class of te boys in Sunday School represents a investment of $55,000. A scout troop of thirty stands fo an outlay of $165,000. A schooiroom of boys represent an investment of close to a quarter o a million. Are the community and the churc reaping to the best of their abilit on the investment in boyhood? Th church utilizes that investment on or two hours per week. The scou troop works it a trifle more tha this; the school considerably more and yet not to the perfection of 10 per cent. And what of the boy on the stree the -boy at work when he ought t be in school or the urchin full c craftiness and guile? Kvprv hav vpnroouniu o Jnttftd ment by society. When our crimini records reveal the high peak of crim as coming at the age of seventeen w have some idea of the enorrnoo wast of that costly investment mad before and up to the age of twelve. RATS LINE NEST WITH PAPER MONE Anedrson, Aug. 12.?With a ba full of money, W. D. Perry came t a local bank today to see if anj thing could be done with it. Whil it was real money it was in such a d lapidated condition that only a fe1 of the bills could be determined c whut denomination they were. Mi Perry said he and his son had bee engaged to recover a house on th Greenville road for a family by th name of Bradley. The boy was o top of the house tearing the ol boards away when he heard an e? clamation that he had found som money. Tearing the board awa there was a whole rat's nest full o currency, some $1 bills, $0 bills an even $10 bills being recognizable. Mr. Perry reported the matter t the family but they could give n explanation of how the rats got th bills, or who from, as they had no missed any money. He said tha the only way he could account fo it was that a small store was rui near the house and that the owne took the money to the housff" am the rats had taken one bill at a time so it wasn't missed, and lined thei nest with it. One bill was date* 1907. Other dates were obscured b; the torn condition of the bills. There was a skeleton of a rat ii the pile of torn up bills. The tori up money will be sent to the min and it may be redeemed. There seem ed to be between $30 and $40 by th amount of denominations that couli be deciphered. The Materialist "What would you suRpest foi ou library club to read?" asked Mrs Flubdub. "A good cook-book, respondei her brutal husband.?Kansas Cit; Journal. A. F. DAVIS MARKE1 Tha Finest Fresh Meets The Best Fancy Groceries High Grade Canned Goods The Best of Everything for the TabU A.F DAVIS MARRE1 MC euro* Chills aad Fever. 4 MANNING SIGNS TO SELL E HIS COTTON COOPERATIVELY rS Columbia, S. C., Aug., 15.?Former ie -Governor Richai-d I. Manning has c attached his signature to the cotton . cooperative marketing ton tract and will sell all of the cotton that he grows ,s on his Sumter county plantation through the South Carolina Cotton y Association. d In sending Harry G. Ka miner, e president of the association, his con' .tract, Mr. Manning wrote: y "Permit me to express my un'? qualified endorsement and approval of the cotton cooperative plan. "In the past our marketing of cot5" ton has been conducted in a haphazf ard, unscientific, unbusinesslike mane ier and has been the source of heavy s loss to cotton growers. l" "Are we willing to lose money by s (.his unbusinesslike and unnecessary waste year after year? G 44 A ro - ** 1 ' ' . .? ?<- nuaprtuic oi adopting and applying businesslike methods n in marketing cotton? e "Shall we continue to produce and e show ourselves incapable of profitah^ ly marketing what we produce? ? "The proposed plan has been tried u and tested. It has been examined and scrutinized by the best legal and busi.less minds and has been approved y and endorsed by them. "A new era of prosperity opens for the South: "First, if we adopt the cooperative ^ marketing plan and' increase our warehouse capacity to meet these ree quirements: s "Second, to regulate the produce tion of cotton to meeft world conit sumption and raise at home our food supplies. n 'Third, to lend every effort to inn creased consumption of cotton and export every bale that is not needed r for American consumption. "It is my earnest hope that we may ! s be able to successfully put in opera-j f tion this plan." j h BEST COUNTERFEIT EVER y SEEN AROUSES OFFICERS c e Secret Service officials are benditig every effort to locate what may n prove to be the most efficient band of counterfeiters that has ever op0 erated in the United States, it was learned, when a counterfeit $20 Fedt eral Reserve note, said by bankers to 0 be the best piece of workmanship of ,f this kind ever seen in Washington, D. C., was shown to tellers by a representative of the Treasury Department. e Two pieces of Japanese paper v scientifically joined together gave ls the body of the bill the proper e thicknes, feel and appearance, although, it was explained, insufficient silk had been used. After magnifying the counterfeit note ten times it was possible to note ^ a slight difference in the density of g 'he smoke coming from the funnels 0 of a ship shown on the reverse side r. of the bill and the absence of the minle ute letters "F. R." which appear on j. the locomotive shown opposite the kV ship could be detected. if P_ One Drawback n 'Is y ur husband a good provider, e Dinah?" e "Yessum, he's a good providah all n right, but I'se alius ske >red dat nigj gah's gwine er git cauj.' I at it." ?O. E. R. Bulletin. 1 The Strand TO DAY THURSDAY OLIVE THOMAS t -Int "GLORIOUS LADY" r Also "The Runaway Train" and j * "Centaur Ridei*" U - FRIDAY 1 r FATTY ARBUCKLE rl - ?in? y "CRAZY TO MARRY" a mmuz SATURDAY ~ ? EDDIE POLO t ?In? "KING OF THE CIRCUS" 0 Episode No. (> of the Rig Serial now j running at this theatre Also Comedy & World News Reel MONDAY r "HEADING NORTH" 1 A Great Western Picture A - TUESDAY y "THE BUCKING TIGER" and Fox World News Reel - WEDNESDAY "THE GOLDEN TRAIL" and CHARLIE CHAPLIN ?In? "BEHIND THE SCREEN" r, THURSDAY [ "THE WOMAN GAME" And * 0 A SnAiital n:-A 1? uuu\.nviunii riviure $1.50 A YEAR IN AUVANCh J. STATE NEWS Miss Nellie McLendon, a seventeen year old white girl, who is in jail for disorderly conduct in Bennettsville, attempted suicide in jail Tuesday night by tightly tying and twisting a scarf around her neck. In a note left for Deputy Sheriff Hyatt she said: "I am not going to see another dawn in this place if self murder will prevent. 1 am tired of life at seventeen." The girl was arrested in Bennettsville on July 22 for wreckless driving and being drunk and disorderly in company with Jim Davis. A cloudburst at Greenville washed Emmett Smith, aged 10, son of Hovey Smith of that city, to his death. With his older broth 'r, Lloyd, aged 12, Emmett was wading in Richland Creek in th.. f'itw ? . ..., . .on, nuvil a snower of rain came up. The boys continued wading though the creek began to rise and were caught o(T their guard when the stream rose suddenly due to a cloudburst farther up the creek. Emmctt was quickly carried down stream and was found by rescuers one-half mile from the spot where the children were playing. Efforts to save his life were of no avail. Bruises on the lad's head indicated that a blow may have caused his death. The elder boy was carried a short distance down the stream, but managed to gain the bank before sustaining injury. James Bartield, Ira Cook and Henry Wheeler are under arrest in the Lexington county jail, charged with complicity in the murder of Marcellus Cook, of near Steedman, who was found lying on his own bed last Friday with his throat cut. With seven ships sailing to foreign seaports and one to Pacific coast ports during the remainder of the month, the Carolina Company is giving to the port of Charleston steamship service, which, it is stated, has not been the ease here in past years at this season. Officials of the traffic, department of the steamship company are somewhat elated over the \olume of business secured to be handled by the ships, especially when it is considered that this is midsummer, and, therefore, a time when shipping at this point was practically at a stand I still. People of Charleston are up in. arms over the alleged discrimination! by the local hoard against that port( " charges being made that because of iron working labor conditions there all shipping board vessels would be diverted from Charleston and thai one iron working concern that had signed an agreement with union nietals workers, although amply equipped, was not being given a square deal at repairing government merchantmen!. W. E. Evans, employment agent at Greenwood, has been arrested charir o<i with a section of the city code, forbidding operation as an imigrant agent or a solicitor of labor, without paying a license of $500. The city of Greenwood has in hand $200,000 from the sale of bonds which is to be ust d for additional paving and sewer extension. Tobacco averaged 15 cents per pound at Marion last week. .'10 to 50 cents per pound being paid for the better grades. Trustees of Newberry city schools have sold $0u,000 5 per cent, school bonds that were voted a year ago. The Wedgefield Cooperative Peach Growers' association has been fomed in Sumter county. Poll weevils are now operating in Marlboro county and considerable damage is reported. A farmer, named Baker, a tenant on the Tom Hill plantation of the Mount Holly Development Company, . near Mount Holly, is in jail at Monek's Corner, charged with shooting and killing Messrs. Potter and Hutson, farmers living near there, at his home Saturday morning about 0 o'cIik . All three of the m m involved in the tragedy are white. WOODMEN MEETING Regular meeting of W. O. W. will he held Saturday evening, August 20th. Motion to change day of moetintr will Iw .'..l.i.l "... ?vn m uii, dim t-vriy unruiber is urged to attend. A Good Job The teacher had asked, "Why did David say he would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord?" "Because," answered a boy, "he could then walk outside while the sermon was being preached."?Boston Transcript. People who sit around waiting for their ship to come in usually find that it is hardship.?Lincoln, (Neb.) Star. l.OST?One 7-Jewel Elgin watch, cracked crystal, half second hand broken, between Shiloh and Chesterfield. Finder return to C. W. Leary, Chesterfield Route 3 and receive reward.