The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-28
JOINT SESSION OF ASSEMBLY
ELECT SCHOOL TRUSTEES
AND STATE LIBRARIAN,
PALMETTO CAPITOL NEWS
General News of South Carolina COL
Iected and Condensed From The
State Capital That Will Prove Of
Interest to All Our Readers.
Columbia.
Joint Assembly


The joint assembly in a th%ree-hour
session elected 10 trustees Of State
colleges and one director Of the state
penitentiary. The balloting, in spite
of all efforts to expedite, proved a slow
process.
Little interest was manifested in
any Of the elections. A second bal.
lot, however, will be necessary to
fill the remaining vacancy on the
board of directors Of the state peni.
Tertiary.
P. A. Wilcox of Florence and Da-
vid R. Cocker Of Huntsville were re-
elected trustees of the University OF
South Carolina without opposition.
To fill two vacancies in the board of
trustees of Winthrop College, Maj.
w. L. Glaze Of Orangeburg, Fulton
Bethune Creech of Sumter and John
E. Brezeale of Anderson YER nomina.
ted. ...
The first ballot resulted:
Glaze 12O; Creech, IS; Brezeale, 1O2.
Total vote LA. Necessary to a
choice 70. 81,
Maj. Glaze and Mr.. Brezeale were
elected. Mr.. Brezeale has been a
member of the Winthrop board for
years. Maj. Glaze succeeds. Gen.
Willie Jones of Columbia, who did not
offer for reelection. ..H.....
Orlando Shepard of Edgefield was
reelected a member of the board OF
visitors of the Citadel, the military
academy Of South Carolina without
opposition. -
To fill three, vacancies on the board
of trustees Of Clemson College, the
following were nominated:
Josiah J. Evans of Marlboro, B. H
Rawl Of. Lexington, Ivy M. Mauldin
Of Pickens, G. W. Medlock Of Edge
field, C. P. Hodges Of Marlboro and
William D. Garrison Of Charleston.
The first ballot resulted:
Evans, SO; Rawl, 81; Mauldin, ITO;
Medlock, %; Hodges, 50; Garrison,
101.
Total vote, i5s. Necessary to choice
II.
Messrs. Evans, Maudin and CARR
son were declared elected.
On the Clemson board Josiah J
Evans Of Marlboro, now a member OF
the house, succeeds his father, the
late w. D. Evans. MI. Garrison, 8
graduate Of Clemson, engaged in ex
detrimental farming operations neal
Charleston, succeeds B. H. Rawl, OF
the United States department Of agri
culture. MIR. Mauldin was reelected
to the board.
Claude e. Sawyer of Aiken and
A 8. Dukes Of Orangeburg were re
elected trustees of the state colored
Normal and Industrial College al
Orangeburg, without opposition.
To fill two vacancies on the board
Of directors of the state ~penitentiary
the following we're nominated: ]. B
Addy, Lexington; A. H. Hawkins
Newberry; w. H. Glenn, Anderson;
]. A. Livingstone, Orangeburg; W. H
Garfield, Anderson.
The first ballot resulted:
Addy, s6; Hawkins, "a; Glenn. rs;
Livingstone, II; Garfield, sc.
Total, 1873, Necessary to a choice,
10.
Mr.. Glen was declared elected.
Mrs. Virginia B. Moody, Of Colum.
bia, was elected to fill the position OF
State librarian by the joint assembly
after four ballots had been taken. The
place of state librarian Is the only
elective office in the gift Of the gen
eral assembly filled by a woman. Mrs,
Moody is empoyed as a st%enographer
in the Office of the adjutant general.
Senate.
Senator Hall introduced a bill in
the senate to regulate the charging
and collecting Of storage, demurrage
and trackage charges by common car