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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
Forms Company For Emergency

Columbia, Oct 8.-Because OF rae
ial tenseness at Anderson Governor
Cooper has authoriped the formation
of company of reserve militia
there, to be commanded by Col. P.
X. McCully, formerly commander OF
the 18th infantry, Thirtieth division.
Although there is little anticipa-
ton of an outbreak, yet the Governor
and the Adjutant General thought
that the Piedmont city should be pre-
pared for eventualities. Ammunition
and arms were forwarded the COM
pany today. 1t appears that idle ru-
mors among the negroes and certain
boasts made by at least one negro
preacher, said to be fro Northern
State, are responsible for the feeling.
Governor Cooper stated tonight
that he does not anticipate any trou-
BILE, nor, he said, do the leading citiz-
ems of Anderson think there will be
anything like a race riot. Major F.
w. Glenn, of the Adjutant Generals
department, left for Anderson this
afternoon to muster in the company.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
ESCAPING CONVICT KILLED
Changing Guard Shoots Fred Ryan
To Death

Florence, Oct. 9.-While Fred ny
an, white, aged thirty, was trying
to escape from the county chaingang'
he was shot and killed by II. A. NC
Daniel guard. Ryan was serving a
thirty-day sentence for vagrancy' he
stole away from the camp and secret,
cd himself in a ditch. The guard
located him and called on him to
come out. The man ran, but shot
in the air stopped him. He then, ac-
cording to the guard, advanced in a
threatening attitude, and Mcdaniel
fearing an attack, shot him four
times. Two bullets entered the mans
body. Ryan was from Hartford Conn.
His relatives have been notified.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09

To the farmer who mas more co.-
ton than he can care for in ten bale
lots, we will state we are in a posi-
ton to give him valuable informa-
ton as to how to construct cheap
buildings so as to get very low rate
of insurance. If you are interested
drop into my office when in town.
Write or call me up over the tele-
phone, and we will be glad to give
YOU the desired information.
Be sure to call upon US for any.
further information desired. we
shall be glad to assist you in any
way we can.
Sincerely yours,
w. n. WEIGH, Manager,
KINGSTREE REAL ESTATE q
LOAN COMPANY.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
CORRECTION OF ERROR
Insurance Rates On Cotton Still Low
er Than Quoted two Weeks Ago

Two weeks ago we quoted in The
County Record insurance rates on
cotton in ten bales lots at $3.50 per
hundred dollar valuation in shingle
roof building, or in the field, and
s1.7O per hundred dollar valuation
in metal or composition roof build
ing. We were under the impression
that the above rates did not include
war tax, but we were later informed
by the South Carolina Inspection
Rating Bureau of Columbia that the
above rates included war tax and de-
ficiency charge for wooden floor.
They have informed me that the 10
cents deficiency charge for wooden
floors does not apply to cotton in ten
bale lots, and since the 1910 surcharge
was taken off the 1st of September,
the correct rate for cotton under the
above circumstances is $2.18 per
hundred per year in single roof
building or in the open field, and
s1.41 per hundred in a metal roof
building. The buildings containing
cotton must not be within 100 feet
of each other, and the same rule ap-
plies to cotton in the open field. BY
the use of tobacco barns and the 9TH
er available outbuildings on his plan
tation the average farmer can place
all his cotton in ten bale lots and IN
that way get the low rate of insur-
ance which he has been entitled to
for so many years.
Below we are giving you the cost
of insurance on bale of cotton val
ued at $4,000 at the corrected rates.
This will be of great value to you
therefore we advise that you clip this
out and keep it for future use:
In Single Roof Building or In The
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
Parent Teachers Meeting

The Parent Teachers meeting will
be held next Monday afternoon, Oc-
tober 13, at o'clock. After a brief
business session, the meeting will be
turned into an informal reception
for the teachers. 1t is hoped that
there will be large attendance OF
parents to meet the teachers, and
give them a cordial reception.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
STATE FAIR BRINGS
WAR TROPHIES
SEVERAL CAR LOADS OF Gov
ERNMENT EXHIBITS
COMING

VIC VI IHc uiSSCSC ltdtuTcS VI tIle
United States government exhibits,
to be shown at the State Fair Octo-
Der 27-31, will be made up of trophies
and other enemy material captured
on the battlefields of France by
American soldiers. The captured arti-
cles, including almost everything
from big trench mortar to a can
teen, have just been brought to this
country and have never before been
on exhibition. With them will be
shown military and naval equipment
of the American forces, in addition
to displays from other departments
of the government.
The character of the display of
captured material is indicated by the
following partial list.
Light and heavy machine guns, an
thanks guns, rifles and carbines,
small arms ammunition, grenaten-
werfers, trench mortars, hand gren-
AIDES, helmets of various kinds, sa-
bers, officers and enlisted mems
canteens, shells and cartridge cases
of various sizes, trench periscopes,
gas shells, smoke hand grenades,
smoke pots, anti-gas alarm devices,
field telephones and switchboards,
signal lamps, breast reels and trench
lanterns.
Visitors to the exhibit will have an
opportunity to compare the German
equipment with that used by the
American fighters. Among the arti-
cles furnished by the war department
of the United States government are
the following:
Field gun and mount, trench NOR
tar, light and heavy machine guns,
aircraft gun, rifles, trench helmets,
hand and rifle grenades, dummy
cartridges and drop bombs, complete
set of infantry equipment figures
wearing different uniforms Of the
army, including the winter uniform
supplied to troops on duty in Russia,
live carrier pigeons, some of which
saw service on the firing line in
France, national and regimental col
ors, insignia and campaign badges
wireless telephone apparatus and va
rious other equipment from the ord
nance department, quartermaster
corps, signal corps, engineer corps
air service and medical department
of the army.
One of the feature exhibits is
collection of 80 enlarged photographs:
selected from 10000 taken by army
photographers in France.
The navy will exhibit two complete
exhibition models of fighting ships,
and five small models showing the
application of camoufage. Other
naval exhibits will be radio tele-
phones, torpedoes and their trucks,
machine guns and rifles, guns Of the
kind that were mounted on subma-
rine chasers, Y guns for launching
depth charges, projectiles of various
sizes and winter clothing, including
a set of the kind worn on submarines
The marine corps also will exhibit
large number of articles of equip
ment.
Other exhibits will be shown from
the department of commerce and the
department of labor. Although the
government exhibit is expected to be
of great aid in bringing the public
in closer touch with the activities and
achievements of the government.
Two freight cars are required to
haul the exhibits and 5000 square
feet Of floor space in which to set it
up.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
Death of Mrs. Poston.

Mrs. Poston, wife of Mr.. j. o.
Poston died at her home here about
9 o'clock Tuesday night after a short
illness. Before marriage the de
ceased was Miss Cause, daughter OF
T. B. Gauss of the Cades section.
She was about 26 years of age and
leaves two small children. Funeral
and interment took place yesterday
at the Williamsburg cemetery.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09
OFFICERS FATALLY
SHOT BY NEGRO
GREENVILLT STIRRED BY THE
C2ImE OF DESPERATE
BLACK

G-e4rville. Oct. 5.-Constant search
ty off-ce,s and about 1000 citizens
+bronehou. the day failed to result IN
the crest u 20 an early hour to-
night Of Joe Turner, negro, who
eGr!s TINS morning shot and killed
poliCelaen j. L. Kitchen and A. M.
Blair. Of the Greenville city police
force, while the officers, were raiding
gambling game in "Bucknertown"
one CT the negro quarters of the city.
The yaId was being made by three
Officers. Sergt. Cooley, the third Of
fcer. stood AT the window while
Kitchen went INTO the house, where
several negroes were engaged IN
gambling. Kitchen was shot as soon
as ne entered and died before he could
be taken to hospital. Officer Blair,
breaking into another door, pursued
Joe Turner, the negro who did the
shooting, out into the street. The
negro suddenly turned and shot the
officer, killing him almost instantly
Friends of the dead officers say
that they are sure that the officer at
tempted to shoot the fleeing negro,
but that his revolver failed to work.
The negro made good his escape and
all through the city and county po-
lice Immediately instituted a thor
ough and systematic search, they
have SO far failed to catch him, though
it is believed tonight that his appre-
hension is certain.
1t now seems definitely established
that after the shooting the negro
made his way out the city short
distance, where he boarded the first
Piedmont and Northern Railway
train leaving the city about 7 o'clock,
paying his fare to the conductor in
cash to Spartanburg.
Learning from the conductor that
he would be unable to make con-
nection at Spartanburg with an early
Southern Railway train, the negro
got off the train at Suber Station,
not far from Greer and made his way
toward Pelham. The conductor mott
fled the Greenville police immediate
ly of the mans actions and search
was commenced in that section OF the
county. Acting upon the belief that
the negro was hiding in the Pelham
vicinity, hundreds of citizens, includ-
ing a number of the leading business
men of Greenville and large num-
ber of residents of that section Of the
county, took part in search which
kept up throughout the entire day.
Virtually all were armed, carrying
all varieties of weapons. A pair OF
bloodhounds were brought into the
case during the early afternoon, but
without success.
Information was received here to-
night that a negro had been arrested
by Sheriff White, of Spartanburg, at
Hayne, early this morning and was
being held at Spartanburg as sus-
pect. Neither Greenville nor Spartan
burg authorities, however, believe
that this man is the negro wanted.
He gives his name as George Howell
and says his home is in Charlotte.
Citizens of this section are deeply
stirred over he double tragedy and
there seems to be no doubt that If
the negro is captured, a determined
effort will be made to deal with him
summarily.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09

custody here today following the
weeks disorders.
A man named Fuller was brought
in from Postelle last night and plac-
ed in the county Jail. o. S. Bratton,
of Little Rock, law firm, has been in
custody several days pending inves-
tigation.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09

The County Record Is $3.50 a
year in advance.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-10-09

He is believed to have escapedto the
cane brakes and a search is in pro-
oress by soldiers and deputies, who
have warrants.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-08-30
WAR GRENADES AS
SAVINGS BANKS
fanks' Explosive eggs" Made
Safe For Distribution
to Children.

The most unique and interesting of
all souvenirs Of the great war will
o be ready for distribution among
the boys and girls of Pennsylvania.
Delaware and New Jersey.
These souvenirs are hand grenades
originally intended to be used with
deadly effect against the German ar
mics. When the war ended the gov
eminent had millions of them made
up. There being no longer any need
for them as war weapons, the War
Savings Division of the Treasury De-
partment secured a large supply. The
grenades are now being altered into
savings banks to hold dimes and pen
MES.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-08-30

~Ee&M#@2%~
The alteration simply means rem0v-
al of the explosives from the grenades
and the cutting Of openings for de-
posit and removal of dimes and pen
MES. No change is made In the APP
pearance or in the springs and trig-
gers by which the grenades are OPP
Grated.
Hand grenades, or bombs" were
among the most ingenious and most
deadly weapons used in the war. The
Army was al Improvement on all the
best types of hand bombs" invented
by foreign army men.
When loaded for use the grenade
was kept "at safety" by a small pin
which locked the firing trigger. The
thrower was required to hold the
bomb in his throwing hand, pull out
the pin with the other hand and then
make a throw. AS long as the gre
made was held in the hand 1t was
safe because the hand kept a strip
of metal under pressure which pre-
vented the firing spring from work.
ing.
The instant the bomb was thrown
this strip of metal was forced off by
the firing spring which also operated
the trigger. This trigger struck a cap
which set fire to a fuse timed to burn
for 5 seconds. At the end of that
time the spark reached a detonator
vyhiah o~nIaAoI onI hIo-, 49, Fho ,1oir
charge of 7. N. T., SCATTERING the
bomb into about 40 pieces. These
pieces were the outside shell of the
grenade, it being marked out into lit
tie squares which became flying bull
lets because the force Of the explo-
sion broke them off at the thin parts
Of the shell.
The explosion was almost sure
death to everyone within ten yards of
the spot where the bomb burst. The
Yanks called the grenades eggs
They were bad eggs" to the Ger
mans.
These wonderful weapons with 1r-
ing pin and trigger still included but
made safe and harmless are now be-
ing used to build up instead of to de-
stroy. They are the queerest and
most interesting savings banks ever
made. To obtain one a boy or girl
is required to buy a 1919 Government
Savings Stamp, which costs SAL dur
ing August and S4.20 in September.
The stamps and grenades are to be
obtained at banks or at offices of the
War Savings Division in every town.
A Savings Stamp is to be bought
when the boy or girl goes for the
grenade. The boys and girls also
sign a pledge to use all of the money
saved in their grenade banks to buy
more Government Thrift or Savings
Stamps.
That is how the grenade will help
to build up. The money put into Saw
ings Stamps is loaned to the Govern
ment and will be used to pay off war
debts and promote the Governments
prosperity plans.
Savings Stamps costing S419 or
1920 in August or September, 1919.
will be bought back by the Govern
ment in January, 1894, for IS each.
Those who buy them not only save
their money, but earn good interest
on 1t. Thrift Stamps start a Savings
Stamp bank account and cost only 25
cents each.
Further information about the way
the ~grenades are to be distributed and
how soon they will be ready may be
obtained at banks and Var Savings
fices everywhere.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
SEATTLE UNIONS PUT IN
EFFECT F|VE.DAY WEEK

SEATTLE, Wash. May 30.-No
longer will the building trades labor
on Saturday. In the future five days
week will constitute their limit OF
toll The new working schedule is
the result of referendum vote taken
last January and made effective May
3. The five-day week is expected t.
relieve the present over-supply of
labor resulting in the return of SOL
diers and sailors. The trades affected
are plumbers, carpenters. structural
iron workers, electricians, steam fit
ters, elevator constructors, brick1ay-
ers. hosting engineers, roofers. pile
drivers. The plasterers. fathers and
painters have had a five day week for
some time.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
C0MPERS, FOE TO F|NE-SPUN IDEAS,
Gets Good RESULTS FOR WORKERS
A. NJ Snons, Noted American ociaHs Pays High Tribute to
Worlds Greatest Labor hdvoc Pungenty Points Out His
Achievements While His Enemies We're Caping.

trade union insurance throughout the
world. He has helped to extend that
system to other unions. If ever COM
pulsory death, health and unemploy-
ment insurance comes, it will be-
modelled upon the systems of these
unions.
He denounced the grandiloquent
phrases of German internationalism
when it boasted of it's power to stop
war. When war came and those Ger
man internationalists Joined with
Prussian imperialists It was Gompers
who made the only big move to unite
labor for effective action in protec-
ton Of working class interests dur
ing the war. 1t was Karl Legion, head
of the German dominated Interna-
tional, who, granting the desirability
of the objects sought, sneered at
Gompers' proposal as impracticable.
Then, in the midst Of the war, in
spite of the hostility of International
theorists, Gompers built new in
ternational of labor, more powerful,
because more pragmatic and more
truly q union of national labor, than
the old one.
i While his critics were at Berne try
ing to build labor international with
phrases in the thin air, Gompers was
at Paris laying the solid institutions
Of real International While these
critics charged that he had been
duped into completely in creating a
new and reactionary "holy alliance,
he was helping to write into the con-
stitution of the League of Nations the
first clauses of great progressive in
ternational labor charter.
OF course his work is imperfect.
All human work is. Only dreams arc
perfect. Of course he compromises.
He who works with the granite OF
facts yields to the limitations of his
material. Only he who uses the less
| refractory material of visions can
refuse all compromise.
But Gompers is pragmatic. He
''WOrks"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
Hines DEFENDS NATIONAL
CONTROL OF RAILROADS

CHICAGO, May 80. In o speech be-
fore the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' association Director General of
Railroads Hines denied that the rail-
roads have made a poorer showing
under government control than they
would have recorded under private
management.
Had private ownership been con-
tinued through the war emergency,
there would have been disaster" said
Mr.. Hines.
The speaker opposed government
ownership and private control as
formerly conducted. He advocated a
return to private management under
guarantee by the government Of a
fixed return on capital and suggested
4 u per cent. He fayors an advisory
bureau by the government to- set rates
now fixed by the interstate commerce
commission.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
WAR RISK INSURANCE
CHECKS ARE RETURNED

WASHINGTON, May 80. More than
$16,0O0,0O0 of returned checks are
now in the hands Of the war risk in
surance bureau, many of them mari ed
unknown" or "unclaimed." as the re-
suit of the failure of allottees to notify
the bureau of changed addresses. The
Red Cross has been. enlisted in the
campaign to locate such persons. and
has taken over 10000 of the checks.
About 100000 checks have been re-
turned since Dec. 81, 1917, and they
are coming back at the rate of 1895
a day. Some of them are not payable
because of a change of the status of
the allottee, but it is estimated that
nearly SO per cent are still payable if
the proper addresses can be found.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
BY A. NJ. SINIONS.

Samuel Gompers went to Paris TO
fight theoretical, pacifist internation-
aiism. He returns head of the labor
section of a League of Nations. 1t is
typical Of his entire career He Is
the paradoxical pragmatist of the
labor world. He is suspicious Of
theories. He is all for facts. He
asks always, will it work." If he
is doing it, it usually works.
He will have nothing to do with
the philosophy that talks of abolish
ing the wage system. He has given
his whole life to the work of increas-
ing wages and shortening hours. He
has done so much in this direction
that some hope and others fear that
his activity threatens 10 abolish the
wage system.
When pre-war Germans pointed
with pride to their great Social DEM
ocratic Party, to their palatial labor
temples with shelves filled with the
literature of scientific, theoretical re-
volt, to their insurance system and
social legislation, Samuel Gompers
asked, what are your wages? How
and wear? What sort of homes have
your" BY comparison on these points
he asks that the American labor
movement and his york with that
movement be judged.
He ridicules talk of class struggle.
But he lives on the fighting edge OF
the class conflict. He sneers at
theories of "class consciousness" But
he has held his place at the head OF
the American labor movement for
forty years because he has so keen an
instinct of working class wishes AM!
interests.
He has been rebuked for "wining
and dining with plutocrats." But he
supped with a long spoon and re-
turned with gains for organized labor.
He opposes state social insurance.
But he helped to build within his own
union q system that is the model o!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
BELGIUM EMPLOYERS
FAVOR EIGHT H0UR DAY

BRUSSELS, Belgium. 49, Employers
in the Belgium metallurgic industry
have forwarded to Mr.. Delacroix. the
Belgian Premier. a letter on the sub
ject of the eight-hour working day
reform.
The employers state that they re-
gard the diminution of the working
hours as a progressive step which
should rally the good will of all. They
ask that a commissioner be appointed
to study the question and. to prepare
such ways and means of introducing
the reform as can be applied as soon
as the after-war economic and COM
nercial conditions in Belgium are
known.
On them. the letter adds, will de-
pend the position of Belgium in world
markets, and in view of the ruin
which the war has brought on the
country, ill-matured and ill-considered
measures should be avoided
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-05-31
RADICALS Want ONE BIG
UNION FOR RAILWAY men

CINCINNATI, May 30.-Radical
elements in the convention of the
brotherhood of Railway Clerks sue
ceedcd in having adopted several
resolutions expressing extreme SEN
timents. Among them was a pro-
posal for a single large industrial
union Of all railway workers.
Government ownership of certain
public utilities was also advocated,
as we'll as the initiative, referendum,
and recall, tax on land values and
graduated tax up to 80 per cent
on incomes of more than $4,000 a
year.
Walker D. Hines. director-general
Of railroads., addressing the conven-
ton, Yesterday, warned against pre-
cipitate increase in railroad rates
that might increase living costs.