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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-10
TRIAL DATESFOR ALLEGED LYNCHERS
 AWAIT HIGH COURT
When Venue Decision Handed. Down Cases Will Be Dock eted-LancaSter Will Be
 First Called
By FRED H. GORMLEY
Montgomery Bureau, The Age-Hernid
 221-2 First National Bank Building

Montgomery, April 9.--(Special.J--- Scrgt Robert J. Lancaster and eight other national guardsmen of rusca- loosa, who are charged with the Tyr ching of Will Baird, striking. miner, during the miners strike January 13, will be placed on trial as soon as the supreme court decided whether their cases are still pending in the Marion circuit court or were returned to the Walker circuit court when the original indictments were mol pressed and new ones returned.
 Judge T. l.. Sowell, who will preside at the trials, and who came to Mont gon cry to hear the arguments on the application for a writ of prohibition preventing him and his associate, Judge J. J. Curtis, from hearing the cases in any county except Marion, said he was determined to dispose of the cases at the earliest possible mo- ment Of course, nothing can be done to expedite the trials until the su- preme court has rendered it's decision. However, it is not probable there win be a great delay in the supreme court, and attorneys for the state and de- fense believe the soldiers can be ar raigned on the second indictments within% Is days. The petition for a writ of prohibition is a preferred case.
 LANCASTER FIRST It is probable that Sergeant Lan> caster will be given another trial be- fore the other soldiers are called be> fore the court. His first trial re- suited in disagreement of the jury. It is charged by the state that Lan- caster was one of the leaders of the party which raided the Walker county Jail at Jasper January 13. obtained Baird and carried him to a lonely place on the Jasper Gamble mines road and took his life.
 Following the trial of Lancaster, Sergt. Glenn R. Stephens will next be called before the court The state claims Lancaster was the leader of one section of the party and the com : the lead, and that Stephens was the +commander of the caf which followed the lead of the first car.
 Attorneys for the state and defense who came to Montgomery to argue the case indicated that they desired trial of the soldiers al the earliest possi- ble moment. Judge Horace c. Wilkin- son, special prosecutor for the state, said the state mas been ready and is now ready and anxious to place the defendants on trial.
 Attorneys for the defense insisted that they were ready for trial, but des sired to protect the interests of their clients against the effort of the state to submit the issue to jury in Wal ker county after the court had or dered change of venue to Marion county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-10
FRANCES INTERNAL
 AFFAIRS GREATEST
 PROBLEM OF WORLD

(Continued from Page One) most confidential discussion~of the mat
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04

was his own hard work, magnetism
and personal attraction that had
made him what he was, Mr.. Smith.
said that his father would look at the
old picture and say, "No, but for the
grace of Jesus Christ 1 would be in:
my old Gypsy tent."
He closed his appeal to the people
by saying that if he were master
artist he would like to paint two pic
tures-one of the old Gypsy tent,
with a wagon, and father and five.
motherless children, with no God and
no Christ, and no school; and the 9TH
er picture he would like to paint
would be of the tent that had been
crammed and jammed night after.
night for a month, listening to one
of these boys that had come down
from the Gypsy tent, and then under
both pictures he would like to read
this text: "What God hath wrought. "
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
ONTARIO GOES DRY.

Ontario went bone-dry April 10
by an estimated majority of from.
125,ooo to, 100000 on basis of
100000 votes cast.
The question on the ballot was::
"shall the Importation and bringing
of Intoxicating liquors into the prov
ince of Ontario be forbidden?"
The result of the election will be
the application of the Dominion law
prohibiting the Importation Of Ii:
quor from any province, state or;
country.
1t is too early to give definite re-.
turns, but press reports indicate that.
some of the cities voted up heavy no.
liquor majorities.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
NOTICE.

On the night of October 19-2Otn,.
192O,the. vault of The Bank of 'fren-
ton, S. c., was burglarized and the
following Certificates of stock Gov
ering stock owned in the' Trenton
Fertilizer Company, was stolen and
the public is, hereby warned, not to
accept any of these Certificates as
application has been made for du-
plicates.
Number 16 dated October 1, 191s;;
issued to Mrs. Emma Hord for g.
shares.
Number is dated September 2s;
1919, issued to Walter W. Wise for
5 shares.
TRENTON FERTILIZER co.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
Lombard
Foundry, Machine, Boiler
Works and Mill Supply
House
AUGUSTA GEORGIA

Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane,
Single Mill, Machinery Supplies and
Repairs, shafting, Puileys, Hangers,
Crate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and
Fittings, Injectors, Betting, Packing.
Hose, etc. Cast every day.
GASOLINE AND KEROSENE
ENGINES
Pumping, Wood sswias and Feed
Grinding Outfits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
Abbeville- Greenwood Mu-
tual Insurance Asso-
citation.
ORGANIZED 1897.
Property Insured ss,S75.sec
ORGANIZED 1897.

WRITE OR CALL on the under
signed for any information you may
desire about our plan of insurance.
We insure your property against.
destruction by
FIRE, WINDsToRM, or LIGHT
MING
and do so cheaper than any Com
pany in existence.
Remember, we are prepared to
prove to you that ours is the. safest
and cheapest plan Of insurance
known.
Our Association is now licensed
to write Insurance in the counties of
Abbeville, Greenwood, Mccormick,
Edgefeld, Laurens, Saluda, Rich
land, Lexington, Calhoun and Spar
tanburg.
The officers are: Gen. j. Fraser
Lyon, President, Columbia, S.. c.,
j. R. Blake, Gen. Agent, Secretary
and Treasurer, Greenwood, S. C.
DIRECTORS
A. o. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C.
j. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. G.
j. R. Blake, Greenwood, S. c.
A. w. Youngblood, Dddges, S. G.
R. H. Nicholson, F'dgefeld, S. G..
] Fraser Lyon, Columbia, S. c..
w. C. Bates, batesburg, S. G.
w. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. c..
j. R. BLAKE,
General Agent.
Greenwood, S. c.
January 1, 1921.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
A Gypsy Grave.

The next morning my father and
his little sister were playing hand and
hand up the lane, for those two little
things were inseparable, when sud-
denly my father heard his name call
ed, Rodney, Rodney" and when he
turned around he saw his eldest sister
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04
Gypsy Smith, Jr., Ends Ser
vices But Crowd Cries "Go
On"
CONTINUED from Fifth Page)

lane he pitched his tent at the end of
the lane and then turning to his wife,
and putting his arms around her and
kissing her, he said "you stay here,
dear, with the four children that are
well and I will take the sick girl in
the wagon down to the end of the
lane, and we will call that the hos
pital, and I will stay with her and
nurse her the best know how.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04

The two brothers decided to turn
back and go to London with their
brother. On their way to London they
stopped one day at a village inn, and
as the three men with their two wives
stood behind the bar and called for
their drinks the saloon keepers wife
happened to come in and understood
that my grandmother was not with
the crowd. She asked where she was,
and my grandfather told of his loss,
and then of the burden at his heart,
and said to her "can you help me" "
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-04

If you are skeptical, will you please
tell me what brought that chorus
back to her? Would you say it was
freak of memory, or would you say
it was a coincidence? shouldn't. l
should say it was the Holy Spirit, for
God said "When the Comforter is
come he will bring back to your re-
membrance all things" and I feel
lust as sure as l am standing here
speaking to you that God, in His in
finite goodness, saw my grandmother
dying in ignorance and superstition,
with no one to tell her of Himself
and the plan of salvation, and be-
lieve He sent back that chorus to her,
so that by the means of it she could
climb out of ignorance and supersti-
tion up to the throne.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
1T UAR RY

D1ED-At the hCme Of her sister,
Mrs. NJ. Louise Jackson in the Nicely
Mill village last Thursday of burns re-
ceived Christmas Eve while standing
before an open fire, Miss VIRGINIA
EVANS, aged about G. years. Inter-
mcnt was in Rose Hill cemetery, York
vile, last Friday following funeral
services conducted by Rev. j. X.
Walker pastor of Trinity Methodist
church. The deceased who lived all Of
her life in Yorkville and vicinity is sur
vived by her sister, Mrs. Jackson and
a brother, Mr.. John Evans Of Yorkvil!c.
At the home of her nephew, G. Frank
Latimer in Lancaster. last Saturday,
Miss LAURA J. LATIMER, aged 6S
years. The deceased was born and
reared in the Philadelphia section of
York county. the daughter Of the late
George T. and Katherine Carson Lati-
mcr. She is survived by two brothers,
Robert Latimcr Of Chester and S. l..
Latimer, Sr, Of Columbia. She was
for many years member Of Bethesda
Presbyterian church. Interment was
in the cemetery in Lancaster Sunday.
At Garland Texas, on December %,
1920. Mr.. J. D. T. McCOLLUM, for
merly Of York county, aged about 60
years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
MERE MENTION

President Wilson is said to have re-
fused an offer of S150,000 for the first
magazine article he should write after
retiring from the presidency on the
ground that no magazine article is
worth that much........--Senator Borah'
Republican, of Idaho, is devotlng hlm-
self with great energy TO the PROPOSE
ton of securing an agreement between
the United States, Great Britain and
japan for the reduction of armaments,
especially naval armaments---.-..:Or
Thcobald Won Bethmann-H for
mer German imperial chancellor, died
on his estate near Berlin SATURDAY
night after Il brief illness.--.--------Cotton
mills in various parts of the countF!
are starting up on full time..-..........
Eamonn De Valera, president or the
Irish republic, who has been in Amerl-
ca for some time past, is SAID 10 nave
managed to get back into Ireland; put
so far the British government knows
nothing of his wherea bouts....----....it is
pretty generally expected that Presi-
dent Wilson will veto the resolution to
revive the war finance corporation, ana
friends of the measure will DO whit
they can to induce congress to pass II
over the presidents veto........---Thc
Sparrow Point plant Of the Bethlehem
steel corporation has announced re-
duction of from 10 to 20 per cent. IN
wages to take place on January 1e------.
Representative Britton of Illinois,
wants President Wilson to make rep
reservations to President Milleand Oh
France and the league of nations; look
ing TO the removal of the French black
troops from the occupied Rhine dis
trictS of Germany.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04

A big navy balloon that has been
lost since it sailed from Rockaway,
New York on December 13, has been
located at last at Moose Factory, Il
trading post Of the Hudson Bay COM
pany, away up in Ontario. 500 miles
from the starting point. The balloon
arricd Il crew Of three men. Lieut.
Walter Hinton CT Bale larbor, y. y,
IL pilot under Commander Albert Z.
Reed, on the NC-i's transatlantic
flight. was in charge. His companions
were J.ieuts. Stephen y. Farrell. Il
inc officer Of New York. and Louis
\. klOor. Jr., Of New Orleans. naval
reserve force. pilot. The three oiil-
ccrs were supplied with normal ra-
tions for three days. which would
serve them for ten days in emergency.
They had fur-lincd garments and
electrically heated warmers To make
their voyage more comfortable. After
the balloon had been missing for 9G
hours, the army and navy authorities
began to give it un that the paSSen-
gers in the big gas bag had been lost.
News of the safety Of the men, how
over came Sunday in IL telegram from
Mattice. Ontario. reading as follows:
Driven by storm Monday 12-13, west
i,y north, ut lower Hudson bay. forced
to land p. m, 12-1i. about ten miles
north by east OF Moose Factory, On
turio, latitude 5l.50; longitude $40.
Lost in forest four days. Crew safe
at Hudson company post. Will leave
on first available means of tranSporta-
ton to railroad which is GoGsled and
will take about nine days. Leaving
here Monday. December 27.' Moose
Factory, where the balloon landed. is
located on james BAY ut the mouth UT
thc Moose river
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
BIG MILL DIVIDENDS
Spartanburg Companies Pay Out Mil
lions in Cash.

Spartanhurg. =. c.. Dec. 31.-Twcn-
ty-onc cotton mills in Spartanburc
county. having Il total capital stock
Of $S,90S, 800 on January l, have paid
stock dividends amounting to $6,QJS.-
600 and cash dividends amounting t"
$o.O99,9i95O. Il total of $S.157, 7,949.50
during the year ending today. accord
ing to figures compiled hy a. NJ. Law
e. Co. Included in the cash dividends
is the sum OF $S3S,1T0 being paid in
scmi-annunl dividends today. but the
totals do not include dividends rald
during the year by mills in adjacent
counties. The mana Semcnts Of which
arc located here.
The combined stock and cash div
ilcndS paid by the mills Of the COIN
ty during the year lack but $S5h.GG0
of equ;iling tli. combined cHpitatiEa-
ton of the mills ut the beginning Of
the year.
The stock dividends represent for
the most part profits accumulated
during the era of high prices prevail
Ing sine" 1915 hut which were moi
distributed until after the United
States supreme court declared early
last summer that stockdividcnds were
not taxable. All the mills. ii is said.
lIav" good surplus accounts left after
paying their dividends.
Since THE dcna.ion of prices began
several months ago there has been
little curtailment OF output hy the
mills of this county. All arc running
on practically full time now and cX-
pcct to continue doing so. Thrrc has
hccn II reduction in wages during re-
cent weeks averaging 20 per cent.
which has been accepted in good Spir-
its il is said hy the operatives. who
seem 10 realize that the reduction was
necessary under changed conditions.
The mill men report more inquiries
for goods during he past week than
for some time previously and they say
they are expecting brisk demand q
little later on. Several substantial or
t"rS have been filled during Che past
ten days. and one mill this week sold
fifty cases uf goods this week ut Il net
loss of 81. 80 per case. The cloth. how
ever, WAS made months ago from high
price cotton and under the wage scale
then prevailing. The same goods
manufactured now from present priced
raw cotton and with the present wage
scale would show substantial profit.
Local mill men without exception say
they look for satisfactory business
during, the year.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04

Texas press reports state that
what is probably the biggest Coop
er,tivc marketing plan in the United
States if not in the world has been
launched in Dallas by the Committee
Of Twcnty-one of the Texas Farm ISu-
reau Federation" but thHt Il change III
the laws of Texas will bc necessary tn
cnubl" cotton growers To cooperate in
the same manner rs the fruit growers
nf California. Th" text of Il new law
covering this point has been prepared
and will he presented Ia the lr%isla-
turc as soon as possible. The plan
contcmplatcs the pooling Of II million
bales 10y growers 10 he sold by the
farmers own cooperative marketing
association.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
SOUTH, CAROLINA NEWS

Careful canvass of the 500 cotton
producing counties brings to light the
positive assurance that the 1921 cotton
crop will be reduced so per cent. and
that food and feed crops in the south
will be correspondingly increased,
SAYS j. Skottowe Wannamaker, presi-
dent of the American Cotton associa- =
ton in a statement issued from Colum-
bia. I'VE are convinced" says Mr..
Wannamaker, that not more than
one-third of the cultivated lands in
1921 will be planted in cotton. Thou
sands Of farmers, large and small, In
various sections of the belt have taken
Il solemn oath that they will not plant,
nor permit to be planted. an acre OF
cotton. on their lands in 1921
Two unusually distressing deaths
were reported during the holidays
directly chargeable to a new KIND OIL
firecrackcr sold almost everywhere
under the very appropriate name OF
"son of a gum" 1t is composition OF
phosphorus, mixed with dllterent
powerful explosives in small proper
tions, the mixture being wrapped IN
tarred paper in such 4 way as to in
duce intermittent but vicious cracking,
without especial danger. 1t is eXplod-
ed by friction, under pressure, or by
lighting with fire, as preferred, and
when once started to cracking con-
tinucs to crack quite viciously for from
one TO two or three minutes. The
victims were children who put the fire
works in their mouths. One of the
children was little three year old boy
in Florence, named Steve Tubervllle
and the other was n five year old Ben
nettsville boy named Percy &. Odom
The Florence boy was treated win
emetics after it was learned that ne
had taken the poison, and appeared to
had taken the poison, and appeared to-
a afterward he died. Practically the
same thing occurred in the case of the
BennettSville boy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
INCREASED VALUATION.
South Carolina Assessed at Nearly
S44,COOCo0 More Than Year Ago.

An increase in the amount of taxa
hle property in South Carolina Of
s45.362,S39 for 1920 over 1919 is shown
in the annual report Of Wilbur V.
Sutherland, comptroller general. who
gave the figures out last Saturday.
These figures are contained in the du-
plicatcS Of county abstracts from the
various counties as received by Mr.
Sutherland from the auditors.
Some extremely interesting tax fig
urcs are cleaned from the tables. For
example. in 1920 n total Of 113,S25 dogs
were returned for taxation, as COM
pared with 10S,055 for 1919.
During the year just passed less
number of acres of land were returned
for taxation than in 1919. In 1919 the
land acreage returned was 1S.693.51S.
as compared with 1S.G37.9SS for 1920.
These lands were returned for taxa
tion at,a total value of S11O.O1O.394 In
1919 and $109,S76,906 in 1920. The
land was returned at an average value
Of 4 little more than sc an acre for
the entire state.
The total value of buildings in the
state for 1920 is given as S26,591.S6I
as compared with s24,313,934 for 1919.
The value of real estate in cities.
towns and villages is put down as
$7605214S for 1920 rs compared with
S73,S15,240 in 1919. The total value OF
all real estate during the, past year
was sH12,52O.4a1, which was n consid-
cradle increase over 1919 with $685.
139.56S.
Personal property was returned al
S1SS9. .IS3.33S for 1920 in comparison
with $149335,19S for 1919.
1r
vanred from s45.3S5,1S1 in 1919 to
$Ii.22O027 in 1920.
Taxable property us whole took
big advance, due partially to the state
tax commissions activities. In 19l"
the total taxable property was S4O2.-
S59.947. and in 1920 it reached St4S.-
222.7S6, an increase of over $44 4a00000
Returns show that the II mill state
levy will bring in S5.3TS.673 against
S3.Ga5.739 with a nine mill levy in 1919
Ordinary county taxes will net S3,-
616.i7G against S2.730.S61 for 1919. The
special county tax totals s9o3.5G7, as
compared with $524,352 in 1919.
Taxes for public roads will reach
SS55,66O against s721.150 in 1919 and
the snccial two mill levy for public
roads will bring in addition to the
first named sum $S96.445. The total
taxes for county purposes for 1920 will
ho SG.424?2S as against S4.132,064.
The constitutional three mill tax will
bring in $1,344,6GS against $1,20S,579
for 1919.
Special and lotal shrnol taxes will
S79.053 for 1919. and the total taxes
for school purposes will be s6,033, ,4o4,
against Si.0S7.632 in 1919.
Polls assessed in 1920 reached a to-
tai of S2G5.O72 at 81 n head. In 1919
the number was s247,046.
The number Of dogs for 1920 was
113.S25 and tho coritation tax IN them
reached Sfa.3::i7. The capilHti"n rnaI
tax totalcd $3G9,2@0 for the year just
closed. Assessments for the support
of the railroad commission was $19,-
600.
The grand total and aggregate Of
taxes for all purposes reached SIS
552,57G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
Cotton Farmers Sorq.

"Cntinn famine" the nation cried
IIalTlrr and harder. we farmers tried;
HIIt when we mad" Il bumper crop,
Prices began 20 llipityilop.
Like nHiI::hty boys we went too fast
.Ii We are slowing down AT last.
This slump has taught us all some
sense.
And made US live with less expense.
NIr'il curry Mike and trim his name.
We're going To drive that mul" again.
our rusty F'urdS are seldom S"Cn--
They're needing tires and gaSu!"ne.
We plow and hoe tn make tho bale,
But selling time is when we fail.
We need 10 make NOR" bread and meat,
And live at home on easy street.
--Alph Nicely.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04

leading advocate of the legislation,
criticised Secretary Houston, dcclar
ing that the treasury head, accord
ing TO newspaper reports, had ad-
viSed presidential diSapproval of the
bill without indicating such opposi-
ton when Mr.. Houston was before
congressional committees.
Senator Edge issued 4 statement
tonight declaring that the presidents
arguments against the bill were Yah
Solutcly unanswerablc."
By issuing bonds the finance cor
poration. Senator Edge said, would
adversely affect the present finan-
cial and economic situation without
any direct resultant good to pro-
ducerS."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
HY M E N E A L

MARRIED--Dccrm -. at the
home Of the brides parents Mr.. and
Mrs. j. T.. HarShaw at McCOnncllS-
Vile. Miss MARY HARSHAW and Mr.,
FCRMAN WITT OF Greenwood. Rev
K. G.. Wilson, officiating.
December %. ut the Baptist parson-
age III Chester. Rev. l.. Mclt. Whit" Of
ticiHting. Miss JANE ATKINSON of
Chester county and Mr.. LUTHER
ASIIE uf McConnrllSvillc.
At tho home Of the brides parents,
Col. Iud Mrs. W. W. Lewis in York :
Vile. Ian. =. Miss ANNA LEWIS; AMI
Mr. JOHN y. l.ATTA. R""S. +. t.
Gillespie, d. d., and Il. n. Walsh Off
c:atinr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
Horse Shocing-I am still shoeing all
round for s100 cash. Do not ask
credit If you owe me, please pay up.
r. NJ. Wallace, York No. /. l 2t-

Go Where Farming Pays.-No bank
rupt farmers in the costal section
Georgetown county. We plant truck
and tobacco and get good prices. One
man made Ten Thousand Dollars on
six acres Irish potatoes followed by
corn. Move down here and get away
from cotton slavery. Health condi-
tions excellent. Labor plentiful and
cheap, lands sold cheap and on easy
terms. Mail your name and address
for interesting details about this
country. Clarence c. Phillips & Bro,
Farm and Timber Lands, George
town, S. G. 1t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-04
Special lotires.
Card of Thanks.

We take this means Of expressing
Uur thanks to neighhors and friends for
their many acts of kindness and SYM
pathy in connection with the death and
burial Of our sister and aunt, Miss Viz
%inia Evans.
Mrs VI. Louise Jackson and Children.