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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
Singing Convention

The Pickens Township Singing con
Hentlon will meet next Sunday, Feb.
20, at o'clock, with Pickens View
church. The Vaughan quartet, com
posed of Profs. Pace, Allen, Walbcrt
and their alto singer q don't know his
name) is expected to be with us. So
everybody that likes to hear good sing
ne come ,, and bring, your song book,
Praise Divine If you want to get
q seat in the house better come about
l 80 O'Clock p. m.
Very respectfully.
Il. l.. HENDERSON,
President
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
Greer Election Thrown Out

A special from Greer to the Green
vile News says: At meeting of the
city council Of Greer the protest of e.
Dallas Green, defeated candidate for
mayor was upheld and new election
ordered for February 81.
In the election little over a week
ago, Mr.. Green received 95 votes while
G. G. Christopher received 98 Mr..
Green charged that illegal votes had
been cast in the last election. Council
upheld the protest and ordered a new
election for mayor, the aldermen elected
being allowed to take their Offices.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
MasSey-ROgers

Married, on Saturday, February 10.
1917, at the home Of the bride 9 parents,
in Greer, Miss Maudc Massey and Mr..
Thurman NJ Rogers, Rev. Rose offici-
ating. The bride is the popular and
charming daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs,
Massey, Of Greer, and has many friends.
The groom ia the well known son of
Mr.. and Mrs Laban Rogers, Of Easley.
quiet, straight forward young man.
The happy couple will make their home
in Easley where the groom is employed
by the City Water and Light Plant =
Progress.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
Bible Conference at Six Mile

There will be Bible Conference held
at Six Mile. beginning Friday night
Feb. 23rd and continuing Sunday night
the 25th Rev. j. Dean Grain, Rev.
w. M. Whiteside and others will be on
the program. A large attendance of
church clerks, treasurers, deacons and
pastors is Urged.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
DIV. HiOtt to Speak at Montvale

Rev. D. Weston Hiott will speak at
Montvale school house next Thursday
afternoon, February %, at O'Clock,
and preach at Mountain Grove church at
z o'clock, provided the weather is favor
able. Patrons and friends of the school
have cordial invitation to hear the talk
at the school house and everybody is in
vited to the preaching service.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
Farm Loan Act Explained BY
a Government Expert
Six Articles by
Frank X. Wilson of the Federal Farm
Loan Bureau, Washington

CONGRESS recently enacted a law called the
Y Federal Farm Loan Act which is almost revo-
lutionary Few people yet appreciate the far
reaching effect this law will have. The Farm Loan
Act contains provisions of intense interest to every
farmer in the United States; every town resident
who hopes to own farm; every tenant who wants
to become land owner; every resident of town or
country who has money to invest.
The Farm Loan Act is little understood. Frank
4. Wilson of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau
Washington, D. c., has written series of six ar
tlces explaining the important features of this
Act. which we are going to publish in The Sentinel
beginning with this issue. These articles will not
only prove interesting but instructive and we
have secured them for our readers with the hope
that they will prove enjoyable and beneficial. Be
sure to read the first two articles which appear in
the paper today. The balance Of the series will
appear in following issues.
The subjects Of the six articles are:
The Cooperative Banking Machinery Established Under
the Farm Loan
What the Farmer Prospective Farmer Must Do
the Benefits OF the Farm Loan Act.
Amortization What 1t Means and How Applied in the
Federal Farm Loan Act.
The Farm Loan Point View of the Investor
Effect of the Farm Loan Act on Tenantrv- How the In
terest OF the Farmer Is Safeguarded.
Stabilzer - - ~ 80 ~
The PiCkens Sentinel
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
The Campaign Fund

Contributions received by Fred II.
Dominick to $1,000 fund for deficit in
the treasury of the National Demo
cratic committee.
PICKENS COUNTY
Previously acknowledged S G5. 90
M. Mauldin- Observation-Disclosures 1000
Through John e. Craig and B.
Lewis .--------- $500
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
Total for Pickens County $l0O. 0O
TOTAL RECEIPTS BY COuNUIEs
Total to Feb. IT.

We need only $268.8 to make up the
$1,000. from the Third district. | will
ask of all who have made collections
tribute, to forward me their amounts
so as to reach me at Newberry by the
oath at the latest, as / expect to leave
for Washington on the Goth and want
the entire fund contributed by that
time. Very respectfully,
FRED H. DoMlNTcK.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-02-22
New Grocery!

I HAVE opened a new grocery
store in the old Harve Richey
stand and will carry a COM
plete and fresh line Of Groceries,
which I will sell at prices that
will make you forget about the
high cost of Lying.
[ have also moved my meat
market and restaurant to my
new stand and am better pre-
pared than ever to serve the
people. Come to see me. I
want your trade and will treat
you right.
Remember, everything I have
in stock is absolutely fresh.
Give me a trial.
t. D. BATES,
PiCker1s.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
Terror of Submarines
in the English Channel
Lessened, Says Carson

LONDON. May highlands grow
ing dissatisfaction with the British ad-
miralty's handling of the submarine
problem found expression in the house
of commons today in cross-examfnation
of Sir Edward Carson. first lord of the
admiralty.
Sir Edward declared there was less
loss of shipping i'm the English chan
mel during April than in previous
months of the German submarine war,
but he admitted a big increase in the
general figures of the entire blockade
zone. The admiralty head, however,
insisted that so long as the number of
German submarines was increasing, 1t
could be expected that the losses of
merchantmen through U-boat opera
tions would CORRESPONDENCE increase.
Pressed for information on why the
admiralty was concealing the number
of German submarines which had been
destroyed, Sir Edward said he saw no
reason TO alter the present policy Of
his office.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04

reaching court by an order from the
war department to examine a large
squad of institute cadets detailed for
the officers training camp at Fort My
er.
DIR. Henderson said that he was called
to the telephone by Vawter who assert
ed that he had shot young Heth and beg
ged the doctor to come Immediately. He
was met at the door by Mrs. Vawter,
DR.. T. B. Elicit came a little later. They
found Heth in the hall and after admin
istertng anesthetic prepared to rush him
to a hospital in Roanoke. DR.. Henderson
said that at his request Vawter surren-
dered his pistol. 1t WAS hammerless, had
five chambers and three empty shells.
Dr. A. P. Jones, a surgeon in the Roa-
noke hospital to which Heth was taken
described the operation performed on
Heth and said that after "a hours 1T be-
came evident that Hetn could not live
John l.. Lee, for the prosecution, an
nounced that the commonwealth rested.
LITTLE SON ON STAND.
Charlie Vawter, little son of the &C
cused. was the first witness called for
the defense. The child was questioned
as usual as to his understanding of an
oath and said that little boys who tell
stories go to the bad place" explaining
in answer to questions, that his mother
and father taught him that. He said he
was awakened by pistol shots. He got
up, but his father told him to go back
to bed and not worry, but ito be good
to mother"
The defense, as outlined by Attor-
ney Calhoun in his opening statement
to the jury, was that Heth had been
a frequent visitor to the Vawter home
at Backsburg, Va, and had often
treated Vawter with liquor. Vawter,
after finding his wife in a compromis-
ing aitua tion with Heth more than once
protested both to Mrs. Vawter and to
Heth, and an agreement was reached
whereby Mrs. Vawter was to avoid
Heth and Vawter was to quit drinking
But OH the night of March IS. &C.
ccroing to the defense attorney, the
Vawters returned home from a theater
and found Heth awaiting them with in
toXicants..
The party drank and retired. Later
Heth clme to the Vawters' bedroom
with the liquor and they drank again.
Vawter, according to the attorney,
awakened about o'clock in the morn
ing and found Mrs. Vawter absent He
ran into the hall and saw her entering
the room of the little Vawter boy. He
ran downstairs for a revolver, fol-
lowed by Mrs. Vawter, who remonstrat-
ed with him.
Returning upstairs he met Heth on
tn" landing. There was a struggle and
he shot the young Virginia society man
to death
The prosecution, on the other hand,
charges Vawter. mathematics profess
sor of Virginia Polytechnic institute.
knew a long time of the alleged mis-
conduct between lHeth and the charm
ing Mrs. Vawter-and that. so knowing
could scarcely plead self defense when
he had at least partially ignored 1T
previously.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
INSANITY PLEA
NEW HOPE OF
PROF. VAWTER
CONTINUED from Page oue.)

ttOt WI" Ill
Continued from Page one.)
was taken up largely with qualifying
and technical matter
ALCOHOLIC INSANITY HINTED.
Mr.. Lee, examining for the state, in
questioning DR.. Showalter, laid stress
on, a possible distinction between alco-
holic insanity and degeneracy.
DIR. Allen D. Evans, of Christians
burg, answering the same hypothetical
question, said that taken in connection
with previous facts the man who wrote
the letters was, in his opinion, insane.
DR.. II. f. Henderson, college physi-
clan at Virginia Polytechnic institute,
testified that he had opportunity to OBJ
serve conditions of insanity and answer
ing the same question said it was his
opinion the writer of the first letter was
crazy man. On cross-examination DR..
Henderson said he had noted many &c
centricities about Vawter. He said that
while Nawters mind was highly de-
veloped in his particular studies, about
other matters he was mentally as a
child. Dr.. Henderson said he always
had regarded Vawter as unbalanced.
At the conclusion of DR.. HendersOn's
testimony counsel for defense announced
that Mrs. Vawter would testify next.
request that the courtroom be cleared
and Judge Moffett took the request un-
der advisement.
After a conference outside the court
room Vawters counsel retired for fur
Their conference and when at the end
of half an hour, they returned, adjourn
ment was announced until O'Clock.
The sudden termination of the morn
ing session gave rise to a feeling that
quence of the case would develop when
court reconvened
Mrs. Yawter was expected to take
the stand today.
CENTER OF INTEREST.
Unusual interest centered in her tes-
timony because of letters introduced
late yesterday by the state, in one of
which Vawter wrote young Heth that
he was aware of relations between Mrs.
Vawter and Heth, but that he would
not interfere.
Now you can love her with less
fear" said the letter. You are not
worrying me, for it is for her happi-
ness, not yours, although I like you
very much. You are simply a lucky be-
ing"
Further on in the letter Heth was
asked to pay $63 liquor bill which the
writer said he owed a Roanoke firm,
and the writer mentioned that his other
debts totaled $4,000.
VAWTER'S ADMISSION.
II know what happened Sunday aft
ernoon," the letter read. "I was thought
to be asleep, but in reality was never
more awake. I came to the door and
found out for myself what | have sus-
picioned for quite while. Now 1 am
going to give you the surprise Of your
life. - ! remember all the years
she has had to stick by me when drink
made a demon of me. how her love has
never faltered. Now mine shall not. l
know that you have the only love
Rachael has ever shown for any one
but me
The writer also said that he must
give up drinking, as when he was under
its influence he could not control him
self. However, he said that he had
controlled himself by a supreme effort
on the Sunday afternoon when he saw
Heth and his wife together at his home.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
Typhus Now Raging
In Germany, Report

PARIS. May Germany is clos
ing her frontier tight and suppressing
newspapers because Of an epidemic of
typhus now raging in many big indus
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
Broadway's Night Life
Comes to End as Clock
Tolls Hour Of | a. m.

NEW YORK, May Broadway s
night life died early today. Mayor
Mitchers war ukase went forth-cafe
lights out at / a. m. And as the clocks
tolled a requiem. the famous great
white way fIickered into gloom. From
midnight frolics and roof revues, where
popping corks and tinkling gold used to
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At the hour when the chorus was
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
VaCUum'S Captain Saved
ieut, Thomas Is nS.

LIVERPOOL, May 1.-The safety OF
Captain Harris, five gunners and the
third mate and boastwain of the Ameri-
can tank steamship Vacuum. all of whom,
had been given. up for lost, was made
known by the captain himself in a tele-
gram received here today by the Ameri-
can consul, II. L. Washington. This
telegram reduces the loss of life to 90
about Is of this number being Ameri-
cans. 1t increases to eight the number
of gunners saved. IT also places the loss
from the crew at is and the saved at IS
The captains meagre telegram gave
the first definite news of the loss OF
Lieutenant Thomas, United States navy
and the death from exposure of +. II
Loree. but did not tell how the survivors
reached land. Five gunners arrived
safely with Captain Harris. They were
James +. Williams. John Williams
George W. Parker, o. II. Lucke and II. J
MusshOrn. The others in the captains
boat who were landed were F.. Hustled
and .. Nelson. the bosun.
Captain Harris will arrange for the
burial of Loree and then will proceed
to join the survivors who already hav.
reached Liverpool. The Americans, VIII
were rescued appeared before the Unitet
States consul today and made affidavits
LOree, Donald. Fischer and Luokar
were members of the United States
naval guard on the Vacuum.
The following naval gunners from
the Vacuum have been saved: James
f. Williams. John Williams, George W
Parker. Oswald II. Lucke. Henry j
Musshorn, Jr.
Survivors who reached London today
including some of the American blue
Jackets. said II was about 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning when the submarine
was first sighted, very close to tn,
Vacuum. Hardly minute elapsed be
fore the torpedo which the U-boat i'm
mediately fired. struck the side Of thu
ship. tremendous explosion result
ed. throwing many Of those on thu
Survivors said the Vacuum began I'LL
Vacuum's deck of their feet
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04

used for liquor: announcement of larger
crop production and better marketing
methods; labor supply, particularly for
farm work: industrial conditions affect
Ing output of munitions and other war
supplies.
Governor Harris. of Georgia. present
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the other governors TO recommend II as
. war measure to the president and to
people OF their states. A department
Of agriculture report was cited show
ing that in 1918 S145.OOo.00O worth of
grain and other food materials were
consumed in liquor manufacture In the
United States. Fermented liquors took
sI01 200. 900 and distilled liquors $44,-
100000. The largest items were S75.-
100000 worth of malt $23,00O,0 900 of
corn and s1s,OOO.OOO of molasses.
Governors who responded to invita-
tions to attend the conference included:
Harris of Georgia, Harding of Iowa,
Milliken of Maine, Boyle of Nevada,
Edge of New Jersey, Frazier of North
Dakota, Lister of Washington, Corn
well OF West Virginia, Alexander of
Idaho, and Manning of South Carolina.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
BOY NEAR HIAWASSEE
KILLED BY LIGHTNING

HIAWASSBE, Ga, May 1-During
a severe storm here Sunday the little
son of T. He McConnels two miles
west of this place, was killed by light
ming.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04

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Present battle lines in France and Belgium, showing how the
British are driving the Germans toward Waterloo. The dent
in the German line between scissors and Rheims by
the French advance is also shown.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
To Recruit Allies Here

WASHINGTON. May 1.-THE senate
this afternoon passed the bill authoriZ-
ing allied governments to recruit their
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
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The Ordway new era., 1917-02-02
MRS. CHAs. A. NOBLE DIES
AT THE AGE OF SO YEARS

Mrs. Chas. A. Noble Of Olney
Springs died at the home of her son,
M. A. Noble, at that place on Thurs
day, January rs, at the age of SO
years and 20 days. The body was
taken to Clarks, Neb. where interment
was made in the cemetery there.
Mrs. Noble. whose maiden name
was Jane Johnson, was born in Shelly,
New York on December 27, 1880. In
1912 she moved with her parents to
Ohio and it was in that state that
she was married to Chas. A. Noble.
November 12, 1850. To this union
three children were born. In 1872
the family moved to Clarks. Neb.
where they lived until Mr.. Noble
died in September, 1906. Since that
time Mrs. Noble had made her home
with her son, M. A. Noble, near o.
ney Springs.
When Mrs. Noble was quite young
girl she united with the Methodist
Episcopal church, but at the time OF
her death she was a member of the
Presbyterian church at Crowley.
The Ordway new era., 1917-02-02

Winferd Jackson is a merchant at
nine years of age. Perhaps he could
more properly be called manufac-
turer than a merchant for the product
he sells brings him more money than
If sold direct without his labor. Win
ferd's business Is shining" ex-
ample of what other boys might do
in many and varied lines of work.
He is in the shoe shining business
and has a stand in his fathers bar
ber shop in Ordway.
Winferd has some sidelines also.
One of them is the handling of the
laundry business which comes thru
that shop. He has the contract for
delivering and collecting laundry, and
runs sort of collection agency in
connection. Along with this work
he is taking a course in school, being
regularly enrolled in the schools here
and hopes to stay with the school
work until he has completed tho full
course.
The Ordway new era., 1917-02-02
CROWLEY NEWS

Crowley-Tiero is possibility cf
a bank being established here. There
was a party here the first OF the week
looking over the field with that in
view.
Mrs. W. H. Morehouse visited in
Fowler Wednesday.
Arthur Heren who went to Okla
homa about two weeks ago is expect
ed to return the first OF next week
with his bride. They will be at home
to their friends in the Chase pro-
perty.
who have been working in Colorado
Springs returned Monday.
G. L. Ryan of Oklahoma was here
the latter part of last week to get
his father, w. M. Ryan, who has been
sick for some time. They left Satur-
day evening.
Albert Kretzer has commenced
moving the old store building which
he purchased and will repair it for a
dwelling.
bou hal NUN Was III ueplo idSl
week consulting a specialist for an
affliction in one of his ears. He suf-
fered threatened mastoid.
Albert Kretzer avoided a possible
explosion OF gasoline a few days ago
by the hasty use Of an auto robe,
when the tank in Henry McClelland' s
car overflowed while filling. Mr.. Nc
If the tank was about filled when
the gasoline caught fire. The occu-
pants of the car jumped out asa pre-
caution but Kretzer's use of the robe
extinguished the blaze.