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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-01-22

ceed Associate Justice Woods on the
supreme bench, Judge Woods hav-
ing been elevated to the Federal
bench. Ernest Moore, Esq, Of Lam
caster was elected to succeed Judge
Gage.
Circuit Judges Shipp, Bowman,
Rice and F B Gary were reelected
to succeed themselves. On Tuesday
night the two Houses again met In
joint assembly to elect a State IL
brarian-for which there were about
a score of young ladies running
insurance commissioner, trustees of
the various State colleges and two
members of the board of directors
of the State penitentiary.
Bills giving women the right to
vote in school elections and to hold
the office of school trustee and notary
public, outlawing so-called social
clubs, prohibiting the slaughter OF
calves under fifteen months Of age,
providing for the sale of the present
State asylum property and the re-
moval of plant to the new site seven
miles north of the city, were offered.
| The bill by Senator Laney provid.
| ing for changes in text books in the
public schools Of the State every ten
years, instead of every five as at
present, has gone to third reading
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-01-22

restricting the primary, providing
for medical inspection of school
children, providing for any form of
compulsory education, or giving any
town or city the right to vote on
the commission form of government.
All of these are big issues and bills
affecting them will be offered at this
session.
Advocates of Statewide prohibi-
ton are going to make an effort to
have the Legislature submit the
question to the people in special
election and Representative Todd Of
the Charleston delegation has a bill
proposing to the people a PROPOSE
ton to repeal that section of the
constitution forbidding the sale of
liquor except in original packages,
which would pave the way for high
license.
The General Assembly will get
down to its second week tomorrow,
the House reconvening at IL o'clock
and the Senate at 7:50 p. m.
w F Caldwell.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-01-22
Favors Compulsory Attendance

Columbia, January 21;-A COM
pulsory school attendance law was
endorsed today. after full discus
sion by the Association Of County
Superintendents Of Education OF
South Carolina.
The Association endorsed the
measure pending in the General AS
sembly, which provides for a State
board of teachers examiners.
Mr. j H Brannon, county superin-
tendent of education of Spartan
burg, was elected secretary of the
Association.
If you have anything for sale try
an ad in our special column.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12

first leader to declare against Huer-
ia. He gathered 10000 men at
Monclova and issued his famous
declaration Of principles, a time
honored part OF any Latin-American
revolt. His battle cry has been:
Give back the land to the people,"
Yet he would pursue more orderly
and lawful methods than the rough
er Francisco Villa.
Caranza is stern, uncOmpromis-
ing character. with simple habits of
the solitary frontiersman. He is a
total abstainer from liquor and to-
bacco and rises at o'clock every
morning of his life. His six-feet
figure is most commanding He is
type that naturally dominates The
one side OF his nature which is hard
for Americans to understand is his
cruelty in warfare. While not so
wont to prefer the shooting squad as
a punishment for minor offenses
There was Carlos Piza, a young
mountaineer. who Joined Carranza
about the time of his declaration
against Huerta Piza harassed the
enemy increasingly with his little
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12
,oor eyes drove him back to the

poor eyes drove him back to the
ranch.
In combination of intellectual life
and out-of-doors existence, it has
been remarked, he closely resembles
Theodore Roosevelt
Twice he boldly offered himself at
the polls as candidate for the gov
ernorship of Coahuila against a man
backed by 'Portfiro Diaz. Diaz even
sent ENJOYS to warn and even threat
en- him, but was afraid to order his
death on account of the loyalty of
the people to the scholarly ranchere.
Of course, the Diaz candidate won in
a walk-over with the polling places
filled with soldiers. But the brave
stand Of Carranza had interested the
young aristocrat, Madero. He put
up money for Carranza's second gu
bernatorial contest. He sat at the
feet Of Carranza and drank in his
discourse on the robbery of the
poems lands. 1t was the opening of
his eyes by Carranza which caused
Madero to head his successful revolt
which placed him in short-live pos
session of the National Palace.
Senator Carranza's independence
ard his high ideals in politics. Ma
dero once said, caused me to sup
port him in his campaign for the
governorship. | made speeches for
him and contributed to the expenses
OF his campaign. The people wanted
him for governor, but he was count
ed out. | saw then what the Diaz
system meant | had taken no active
interest in politics up to that time,
but then I realized that we could
have no real self-government so long
as the Diaz machine or any other
machine with the same purposes.
was permitted to perpetuate itself.
. From that defeat of Carranza- we
went on to the national convention
and the. organization of the move
ment against Diaz."
Carranza refused the title of gene
raj under Madero. and he led his
men without regular rank. He is
not soldier by training, except the
training of actual hostilities. He
was secretary of state in the provis-
iona1 government of Madero. for a
time. but declined a cabinet Office
later He had spent many years in
Mexico City as Senator and knew
what its graft-infected atmos phere
meant
On Nadero's success however,
Carranza stood third time for gov
ernor OF Coahuila and was dnani-
mouslv elected This was in 1911.
Madero had scarcely fallen when
his precepter raised the standard of
revolt. Governor Carranza was the
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12
CHIEF Of THE
cONST|TUT|ONAL|STS
Representative Mexican, Who May
Soon be President of the RevO-
luton Racked Republic

Washington, June 12.-Venusti-
ano Pine Carranza, first chief of the
contstitutionalists and perhaps soon
de facto president of Mexico, were to
put on strictly American dress and
walk down the promenade of an Am
erican city no one meeting him
would take him for a Mexican Span
lard. He is ruddy, but not swarthy,
rugged of face rather than fiery, full
bearded in the manner of many AM
erican physicians, aged in the fifties
or sixties. Behind spectaeles which
tell of near-sightedness shine grey
eyes. An Anglo-Saxon grandfather
from head to foot.
But one must remember the Ger
manic hordes which poured upon
the fertile fields Of Spain in the
Middle Ages. The fierce Goth is
mirrored in Carranza. He is Mex
lean of pure Spanish descent. but
drawn from a race which entered
Spain about the time the Angles and
Saxons reached England.
Carranza's instincts, nevertheless.
are anti-Anglo-Saxon. His position
to Intervention has been firm and de-
faint. To understand this man whose
shadow lengthens in the land Of
Mexico every day. it is necessary to
understand his life of constant strug-
gle toward a goal he now believes al
most within reach.
1t is not generally realized that
Carranza was the intellectual god
father of Francisco Madero. Now
fifty-five years of age, he was much
older than the martyred president.
Madero was of the top-most circle of
Mexican aristocracy, with enormous
wealth. CarranZa was rancher OF
moderate estate The first chief
came of fighting stock. His father
was a commander in the warfare
which ended in the execution Of the
Emperor Maximillan. Around his
fathers board he heard words
which might have meant death it ut
tered in public. As young man he
became strongly impressed with the
wrongs of the peon. He studied law
in Coahu;la. the state where he was
born, and in Mexico City. But his
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12

band and did great service to the
constitutionalist cause But in Mex
lean style he looted the villages thru
which he passed. Carranza himself
is given to extorting immense sums
from wealthy Cientificos. but he was
seeking to free his ranks from the
charge OF brigandage. So when it
was found that young Piza had
brought in 500 pesos from a certain
village he was ordered to return the
money This he failed to do. Fur
Their he grumbled and suggested to
his followers that they take to the
bush. Such conduct meant the end
of discipline. General Carranza or
dered the young man shot. Even af-
ter he was stood up against the
adobe wall and the firing squad of
twelve lined opposite, an appeal was
sent to the first chief. The messen-
ger brought back the command. ia
Muerta," and the rifles spoke.
A few hours later the chieftan
wrote a sympathetic letter to the
mother OF the boy. announcing his
death and expressing grief at the
necessity.
1--WE SHALL" he calmly announced,
execute anybody who recognizes a
president unconstitutionally elected
and directly or indirectly guilty of
participation in the murder of Ma
dero.''
Carranza is the most reserved of
the Mexican leaders. His personal
attendants cooperate with him to
keep annoying questioners away.
Yet he has long endured the hard
ships Of the field and proved himself
a hardy specimen of middle age.
Last autumn he made a 1900 mile
Journey on horseback and mule
back along mountain trails through
Nueva Leon. Coahuila, Durango,
Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora,
with the danger OF an ambush con-
fronting him on every turning. His
lack of fear is fatalistic, his frinds
say. His military secretary, Captain
Espinosa Mireles. recently declared:
He believes. like Napoleon, that the
bullet that will kill him has not yet
been moulded
Time and again in battle with the
federal bullets whistling about him,
he has called his secretary to his
side and in spite Of protests against
imperiling life so valuable to his
country has calmly dictated his cor
Tespondence-
This is the man. who from his cap
ital AT SaltiIlo. rules more than half
the territory of Mexico.
I'VE are the conquerors." he
proudly declared recently. He was
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12

mediate between Huerta and the
United States.
His strong. virile figure typifes
the Mexican of the north. the part
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12

of the republic in which Mexfco's
hope principally lies.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-06-12

We make special prices to girl
canning clubs. The Marion HARD
ware Company. 5-30-12t
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
62nd wedding Anniversary

Thomas Gribble and wife cele-
brated on the 18th their 62nd
wedding anniversary. Except
ing for failing eye sight, "Uncle
Tom is getting along splendid
" and his wife, though suffering
somewhat yet from the effects
of illness last year. is enjoying
pretty, fair health. Their chill
.dren met with them and the day
was spent in enjoyable reunion.
.'Unc!e Tom" came to this
country in 1854 from Tennessee
and is a type Of the pioneers
who did SO much to open up this,
then western country. and found
lit on such secure commercial
footing. May he and his good
wife live to celebrate many more
| Of their wedding anniversaries,
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
william b. LeWis

Major William II. Lewis died
at the residence Of Richard Cole
man Sunday morning February
22nd and was inferred in the city
cemetery Tuesday afternoon
after funeral services conducted
at the Methodist church by
pastor, Rev. Meyers. Major
Lewis so far as we can learn,
was born about 1884 or '35 at
Milan, Mo. He was a graduate
of a law school in Tennessee
and joined the rebel army, was
captured and servedin the feder-
al army a sufficient length OF
time to establish his rights to q
pension Of $50. 90 a month which
he has received for a few years.
For a number Of years after the
war he was bookkeeper for the
Tillman Grocery Co. at Glasgow,
Mo-. and after that, practiced
law and was q conyeyancer and
ulakex of phstFaeis nf titles
He was located for several yeafi
at Dalton, No. but come her,
several years ago as an employt
Of Robertson Moore Of Glasgow
MO-, in the construction of tn,
abstract books known by tina
little.
! About q year ago or more th'
| Major was stricken witt
paralysis from which he neve
fully recovered though after
time he was able to get about
The immediate cause of his dealt
was pneumonia.
Major Lewis had q varied con
nection with religious, pro
fessional and literary organ
izations and his social connection
-lwere varied and his friend
J ministered to him at the last a
they had during his many ad
versities.
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
BARNES MURDER TRIAL


Cases have been disposed Of as
follows:
N. B. Welch granted divorce.
Talbot Chem. Co. motion over
ruled.
Ella West VS.. Clyde West
partition. Sheriff's report Of
sale approved. $500 attorney
fees allowed U. A. House and 0.
F. Libby.
Barnes. on trial for murder Of
Daniels in progress with follow
| ing jury:
L. B. Owens, G. L. Herring,
Jno. Dinsmore, Geo. Welker,
viii Weidy, J. B. o'Bryan, Jno.
Daily, Lewis Fetzer, H. c.
DowelI, A. E. Lane, r. G. Stark,
j. M. Hurt jr.
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27

George Carlstead is here for a
few weeks while his school. the
Prairie Mound school; near Sum
ner is having a vacation. Among
other things there was consider
able sickness there and it was
thought advisable to close the
school for q month. It will re.
open March %.
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
N THE BIG STORM BELL
KeytesvilIe Is Visited BY I
Blizzard Of Fair Proportions
Followed BY Snow.

One Of the severest storms
that has visited the country Of
late years arrived the latter part
Of la,t week and closed the week
as we'll as opening the following
one with a furry of snow and
wind. The storm was brewing
Saturday evening and on Sunday
morning there was a blizzard IN
progress. By Sunday night
there was q real wild-west storm
going over the city, the wind
bowling at an alarming tune
and the air filed with flying mis-
siles of rocky ice that almost
cut the flesh. The prevailing
direction of the wind was from
the east and the northeast. By
Monday morning the snow had
drifted SO high that even lccal
traffic was suspended. Nobody
moved around rauch Monday but
they remained at home and hi'
bernated. Tuesday the walki
we're cleared off and people pul
their noses out tf doors again
to get a little fresh air. Tht
reports from the east were to th.
effect that business was almos
at a standstill with several fee
of snow. Trains were delayed
The Wabash had trouble on th'
wires and along the rails. No.
/ ran off the derail ut Clark. 4
! freight from the east was de
railed at Montgomery City
Trains double-healled with en-
Egines TO pull through the drifts
/ Locally, the street caf line wa
tout of business Monday. Tn
car was stuck directly across th
crossing at the Brown Hotel
The transportation facilitie
|lwere via bobsled to and from n
station. The freight cak WEI
'out Tuesday after the track
were cleaned off, a big jcl
There was no church at the cit
churches Sunday night -owin
} to the fierce storm. Those wh
were short on coal had to r.
main short a day or two as 4
} hauling was done. Tuesda
morning the sun was shinin
: brightly and everything locke
! good for another melting wit
the usual mud and water.
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
NlLL GET NEW SCHOOL
Vote 122 to % in Favor Of
$4,000 Bond Issue for
Building

Keytesville is to have q new
school house.
This much was decided at the
voting at the Young building
Tuesday when the election was
held to vote on the question Of
issuing Sis, 900 in bond for the
purpose Of dismantling the
present structure and building
another.
The voting in the district was
comparatively light. There was
a total Of 145 votes cast. The
requirement for bond issue was
a two-thirds vote in favor Of the
enterprise. There were LIZ
votes for the school bond issue
and % against This means
that the issue carried by more
than four to one.
There was some talk in quart
ers to the effect that the move
ment might be defeated and it
was reported that there was
some work being done against it.
However, the feeling seemed to
abate considerable when people
understood the proposition and
discovered they were up against
the proposition Of educating
their children in a school build
or leaving that matter outside
the calculation.
The city must have school.
There seems to be no question Of
that and the people realize it.
The matter now is to get the
best returns from the material
now in the old building to be
used in the new one, this includ.
ing a heating plant, furniture,
timber and bricks. The plans
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
Murphy Sold

Charles F. Murphy of Chicago
has sold bis So per cent. interest
in the Chicago club of the
National league to Charles P.
Taft for about half a million dol
lars. Murphy says,he is tickled
to death to get off the job. He
says he has enough money and
is going to enjoy the game from
the sidelines. He says Taft paid
him more money for his share o.
The Chicago club than he evel
thought there was in the word
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
Votes Cost $29 Each

AIT the city primary election in
3. st. Louis, Tuesday there were
only A9 votes cast and not one Of
these was the vote Of a woman.
There are fourteen thousand
registered voters in the 4S pre-
cints in 80 Of which there was
not . single vote cast. The
election cost $14OO or $28.57 per
vote.
Nm j Prentzler Of Forrest
Green was here on business
Thursday,
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27

The Methodist ladies' gave a
dinner and supper at the Young
building Saturday. The meals
were served at noon and six
o'clock. There were several
hundreds Of people there and the
total receipts ran up to $7Ss The
church net about $55 from the
affair and this is 10 be devoted
to the sidewalk fund for build
ing q sidewalk in front Of the M.
e. parsonage. The ladies served
baked chicken, ham, dressing,
salads. coffee and cake on The
menu
lTf = Is e ? n "a
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
.ENT BEGAN WEDNESDAY
annual Period Of Devotion for
Those Celebrating the Sea-
son of About 40 Days.

Year falls on February 25th
marks the beginning of the Lent
eeason, and in Moberly, as else
where, is the date from which
fDr forty days, not counting
Sundays, there is a pause in the
rbund Of human festivity and in
some sort of giving up of the
mere pleasures of life. Unlike
the New Year, Lent carries
With it something more than a
merely human desire or resolve
|tp do good or to make sacrifice
|since it is a righteous and not
Merely a secular date; and is
commemorative of those final
days in the life of Christ and of
the Great Sacrifice. Under such
circumstances it is not strange
that men and women in a Chris
| tan land should observe Lent or
that they should abate a little
the pleasures of this world in
Icontemplation Of the sacrifice
l.
which in very truth that far
Eof, divine event toward which
1.-The whole creation moved"
In 1913 the date Of Ash Wed.
Inesday was 20 days earlier thar
this year, and for this reason the
! Easter date was on March %
Instead of April IL, as it is this
lyear. Easter is in fact a nova
1ble feast instead Of a fixed ont
las is Christmas; and was made
permanently set by the decre'
aof the Council of Nice, whicl
lOrdaihed that the observance O
4 Easter should be on the frs
/ Sunday following the state O
the vernal equinox, which il
arch I'll. The latest date OF
Alch Easter might fall is Apr
50 that there are ID all 5
possible dates for its observance
In fact, the Easter date come
: from the Jewish Passover, wit
which it isintimately connecte'
} in the biblical story and whiel
: occurs on the Saturday proceed
} ing Easter this year, Apr
7 11th. In the Greek and Rus
sian calendar, the actual dat
l being fixed by the equinox,
the same as in the Gregoriar
but IL the almanac of tn
churches it is given as Marc
Goth, which is the difference bt
, tween the new style .calenda
: which we use and the Julian G
old style calendar which a
countries with the Greek is th
national one still obtains.
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
KISSING PREACHER WON
Miss Harriet Myers Who Sued
Him for $1,000 Got
Nothing

Brookfield's sensational law
suit wherein Harriet Myers
wanted $4,000 damages from Rev.
W. C. Atwood, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, because
she alleged he kissed her and
pleaded with her to go to st.
Louis, in her fathers printing
office, the Budget, where he took
the church announcement about
two years ago, came to climax
at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The jury of twelve men rendered
a verdict for the defendant.
On the witness stand, the
daughter, about q years old, adj
mitted her father instigated the
suit, that was not filed for a year
and a half after the kissing
episode which the clergyman old
enough to be her grandfather,
says was only in fun, as he had
frequently held the plaintiff on
his lap when she was 8 or 10
years old. he being her pastor
and a friend Of her father.
The suit was the outcome of a
church row of some few years
standing. The editor a member
of the Presbyterian church claim
that the clergyman had broken
faith with him in not leaving
Brookfield a year ago, and hence
was brought this sensational
, charge by the editor in his haste.
Naturally, when the sensation
, was sprung in the newspapers
and suit filed, it caused &
sensation extraordinary, not only
! in Brookfeld, but over Missouri,
because DR.. Atwood is not only
J an able pulpiteer but he is promi
! nent in Masonic and other orders
| being at the head Of fraternity
) la Brookfeld. The church ant
the Masonic order have rendered
8 loyal support to their worshipfu
! master, while the community, a
! a whole, has been about equal!
4 divided.
So large was the attendance a
/ the trial it was necessary for tn,
: sheriff to lock the doors Of tn,
e large court hall for fear the foo
s would give away. Every inch o
standing room was taken.
e For the plaintiff, the youni
h woman, the lawyers were Burns
: Burns & Burns, of Brookfeld
r and Frank Sheets, of Chillicothe
r for the defense, Henry ]. Wes
n had charge of the case, assiste
e by T. M. Bresenhen, of Brook
field, C. c. Bigger, of Laclede
and Senator E. B. Field 0
Browning.
o Hours were taken up In argu
IT ment, and the denouncing an
Ie condemnation of Harry Myers
}. father of the plaintiff, by Senate
l. Fields, for using his daughter fc
d revenge. was a masterful effol
Ie and very dramatic.
ID While DR.. Atwood has ha
N packed congregations every SUI
id day for he is a strong preache
If standing room will hereafter |
er at a premium for, at the presel
d. time, his stocks have risen hig
like that of the 0klahon
senator. While his friends ar
as ardent followers are glad Broo
:. !, field. as a whole, is also please
n that the case has been full
I settled in the court.
2, The lawyers for the plaintiff
10 well as the defendant decla
: that Judge Lambs rulings we
fair and impartial.
In c.I,c.,l nna,.I NHanks
Chariton courier., 1914-02-27
Stock q 81 Louis

Several loads Of stock were
shipped from here Tuesday. One
load Of Duroc-J Jersey hogs were
sent out to the ST. Louis market
BY Gibson & Edison and q load Of
cattle aIso'sent east BY Theodore
Wood.