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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-02-16
GEORGIA TORNADO SCATTENS
Death and Dcstruction-25 Persons
lkillcd--Ninny Arc Hurt.

Ocon,e, Ga, Feb. 1O.-A tornado
that struck the Gardner settlement,
one mile from here, shortly after the
noon hour to-day, brought death to
two white persons and nearly thirty
negroes and serious injury to five
white persons and more than a score
of negroes.
& A stretch Of land extending from
con es13&a mos y to- TOT on1bsb sborok .in
WASHING ton; count y = neafiy i've miles
long and about a half mile wide, Is
as barren as prairie tonight, not
single building nor a tree being
left standing.
Among the dead is Benjamin i.
Orr, a 14-year-old youth, who was
decapitated.
The only other white person who
met death in the tornado is the g.
year-old daughter of E. l.. Minor. the
manager Of Shepherd commissary
at the plant Of the Cleveland Oconee
Lumber Company.
School House Wrecked.
Eighty-two children and three
teachers were in school building on
the edge Of the Gardner settlen ent
when the tornado struck. The build
ing was literally twisted to pieces
and the fragments scattered around
for miles. Children were picked up
by the wind and carried for some
distance, but it is officially announc-
ed that only one child was seriously
hurt.
Approximately forty houses we're
blown down In the Gardner settle
ment. The Shepherd Bros Commits
sary at the big lumber plant was re-
duced to kindling wood, and it was
here that Mr.. Orr and four negroes
met their death. Ten feet away from
the commissary was the general Of
flee Of the Cleveland Oconee Lumber
Company, which was untouched by
the storm.
The 15-acre plant of the lumber
company, which practically owns the
settlement site Of Gardner, was not
seriously damaged by the wind, al
though SIillions Of feet Of lumber,
piled in, the yards, was scatter ed.
Covers Small Area.
nc tDf1laQO spent us 1OfCC 1mme-
diately beyond the plant Of the lum-
Der company, in the settlement Of 10
houses and four stores. Most of the
people residing in this section were
negroes, the white people Of the town
residing on higher ground, a short
distance away.
These negro houses and stores
faced the tracks of the Savannah di-
vision Of the Central Of Georgia rail
road. In the rear Of the house was
an open field extending for nearly
mile from the Oconee station to the
lumber mill. 1t was into this field
that men. women and children were
carried to their death from their
seats at dinner tables.
Ten minutes after the tornado
wiped out the Gardner settlement
Central Of Georgia local freight train
from Savannah to Macon, arrived on
the scene. w. O. King. Of Wadley,
conductor in charge, viewed the bod
les scattered about the ground. The
conductor ordered his locomotive de-
tached from the train and with his
crew FASTENED to Tennile, II miles
away, for aid.
Board Driven in Forehead.
Doctors found one negro boy with
a board driven into his forehead.
They removed the board and gave
temporary aid. The youth was still
alive when this dispatch was sent,
and it was bclieed that he will live.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-02-16
Funeral Held Yesterday.
"CASCARETS" TONIGHT
FOR CONSTIPATION

Just think! A pleasant, harmless
Cascaret works while you sleep, and
has your liver active, head clear,
stomach sweet and bowels moving
as regular as a clock by morning.
No gripping or Inconvenience. 10, 25
or 50-ccnt boxes. Children love this
candy cathartic, too.--adv.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-02-16
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE GAGE DEAD
Death Came Sunday Last at Home in
Chester After Long Illness.

Chester, S. c., Feb. 3.-Associate
Justice George w. Gage, Of the South
Carolina Supreme Court, died at his
home here ats o'clock this after
noon. after long illness. He is the
second Associate Justice of the South
Carolina Supreme Court to die in
less than one month. Associate Jus
tice Daniel e. Hydrick having died
on Jan. 10.
Justice Gage had been i'll for four
weeks with pneumonia. He was 65
years old. He studied law at Van
derbilt University after completing
mis- academic course at Wofford Col
lege, Spartanburg. Before his pro-
motion to the Circuit bench he serv-
ed In the lower House Of the General
Assembly Of South Carolina. He was
elected to the Supreme bench seven
years ago. He is survived by four
sons and one daughter.
Funeral Held Yesterday.
Chester, Feb. 15.-The funeral of
Judge Gage was held here to-day at
II O'Clock. The services at the home
and at the grave were largely at
tended, the prominence Of the highly
esteemed jurist attracting many from
a distance, who came to pay the last
I'll tribute to the memory OF a man
'hom everybody loved and trusted,
both as private citizen and public
servant.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
WANT HUNS TO PAY
DEBT OF BELGIUM
WILSON WILL RECOMMEND THE
ACCEPTANCE BY TIE U. s. OF
GERMAN BONDS.
SAID TO Be UNDERSTANDING
Foreiun Loans Extended by US During
War and Since Vigorously Defend
ed by Government Officials

shington.-President Wilson Is
expected to recommend to congress
before he leaves office that authority
be granted for the United States TO
accept German bonds to be applied
against the debt Belgium owes Amer1-
ca, it was learned at the state depart"
ment.
While the United States is not COM
mitted to any agreement, it was e@S
planned that there was an understand
ing reached at the Paris peace con-
ference that such recommendations
should be made to the legislative bod
les of England, France and the United
States. It was incident to the claims
of Belgium for priority in reparat1ons
and was agreed to by the representa-
tives of the three great powers as q
means for an immediate Tightening OF
Belgium's financial burden.
Foreign loans extended by the treas
ury during the war and since the ar
mistice were vigorously defended by
government officials.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Washington-

The woman of America wrote the fl
nal chapter in the history of their
struggle for the battle when the me-
mortal statue of the three suffrage
pioneers-Susan B. Anthony, Eliza
beth G. Stanton and Lucretia Mott
was formally installed in the capitol
rotunda
Loaded down with more than score
of amendments, the Fordney emergen-
cy tariff bill passed the senate The
vote was 43 to 80 and the measure
was Immediately sent to conference.
Party lines were smashed to smither-
Gems, and the old guard of both parties
looked on in amaZement.
Representative Miller of Washing
ton says the refusal Of Japan to make
any move toward disarmament is evil
dence that she is preparing for war.
Miss Margaret Wilson made "hot"
speech before the sessions of the ma
tional woman's party convention re-
Gently held in Washington. She crit
icised members of congress for oppOs-
ing her fathers community plan cen
ter, and said enforcement of law was
in the hands Of the courts and not in
the hands of congress.
The Fordney bill recently passed
by the senate and sent to conference
, with house members to agree on Ger
tain amendment has fallen into a leg
tslative jam, and it's immediate future
is said to be uncertain.
Senator Borah says he will reserve
the right to hold his own opinion re-
CARELESS of who is president of the
United States.
The national board of farm organi-
cations is planning a fight on the price
of fertilizers.
Efforts of the department of labor
to arbitrate the dispute between min
ers and operators in the Alabama coal
fields are likely to be abandoned.
The impeachment charges against
Judge Kennesaw Lands, head of Or
gained baseball, will be withdrawn.
Judge Lands got in the limelight re-
Gently because he refused to allow an
embezzler to be convicted, basing his
Judgment on the fact that the clerk
received only 500 a month, and the
bank ought to have sense enough not
to have entrusted a large sum of money
to such low salarfed man.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

An enlisted man of the uavy is VI
der arrest at the navy yard here In
connection with an alleged plot to blow
up the presidential yatch, Mayflower.
Secret service operatives and the po-
ing on the theory that the plot may
have extended to the shops and other
vessels at the navy yard.
The senate Judiciary committee unan-
imously went no record recently
against payment of any further money
to foreign countries, even on commit
ments already made, until all the facts
concerning the loans are known to
congress.
James Wickersham, who contested
the election of his opponent as terri
toriai delegate from Washington, won
out, ana has been so favored that he
probably will get about $1,000 a day
for being territorial delegate from
Alaska, which means that he cannot
vote, but only sit in the house.
Chairman White Of the Democratic
national committee has requested the
McAdoo men to give a reason for
their request for a meeting OF the
committeea March 1 and why they
want him ousted from office.
Whiskey importations into the Unit
ed States for the year 1920 amounted
to 167,31O gallons, valued at $1,o13''
09O, as compared to rre-war and pre-
prohibition importations of 1,541,663
gallons valued at $3,153, $40 for the fis-
4o1 Id &c mn
by the department of commerce. Of
ficials Of the department said they pre-
sumed the liquor was 'tfor medicinal
purposes"
Senator Dial Of North Varolina says
he will move to impeach Federal Judge
Lands, head Of organized aseball, If
he obtains confirmation of statements
credited in the newspapers to Judge
Lands in a recent embezlement case.
when he discharged the alleged en-
bezzler because he the judge stated
$50 a month was too little money to
pay a bank clerk.
Col. R. G. Cholmeley-Jones, director
of war risk insurance, will resign
shortly after the new administration
goes into office.
A conference recently held etween
the secretary of labor and the coun'
sci for the lord mayor of Cork result
ed in the statement that the situation
is unchanged.
Negro women from twenty states
met in Washington and protested
against alleged irregularities and dis
r1si11 in in 40 of
during the national election last fall
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place In The South.
land Will BE Found In
Brief Paragraphs


The American freight steamer is re-
ported from London to have gone down
as the result of collision with a Brit
River Mass.
The Irish office is considering TAX
ing action against the Irish Theolog-
ical Quarterly because of articles said
to have been written by prominent &C.
clesiastics of the Irish Roman Catholic
church, in justification of ambushes.
]. C. Crawley, Sim Fein member of
the British parliament, has been ar
rested, it is reported in London.
Disturbances are reported to have
broken out in Meter, in the province
Of Potenza, southern Italy, after the
Russian Bolshevik emissary had ar
rived.
Sir Auckland Geddes, sailing for the
United States recently from Southamp-
ton, carried instructions to intimate to
the coming United States administra-
ton Great Britain's readiness to par
ticipate in any movement for the re-
striction of naval armament. The
ambassador was given the official Brit
relations between the two countries.
King George announces that the
British government will attempt to
cope with unemployment through the
use Of unemployment insurance" a
purely American plan, born out of
American mind, but never put into eff
feet.
In the southern part of Argentina,
ranchmen on strike are reported to
has sent troops to quiet disorders.
The cause of the strike is not yet
known.
London, England, newspapers gave
considerable attention recently to the
address of Lord Reading, viceroy of
India, before the English Speaking
Union, during which he told of the
United States opening it's treasury re-
serves to send silver to India during
the war. In their editorial comments
many of the newspapers expressed
the liveliest appreciation of this &C
ton on the part of the United States,
which brought considerable relief to
England at time when affairs in In
dia appeared to be critical.
The German government has asked
permission to send a qualified repre-
sentative to confer with the English,
French and Belgian judicial authori-
ties in an effort to accelerate the pros
ecution of persons charged with war
crimes in the preliminary list submit
ted by the allies. England is the only
country appealed to that has yet con-
scented, and representative of the for
eign office of Germany will leave for
London soon to confer with represen-
tatives of the British department of
Justice on the manner of conducting
the trials.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
WOMEN need SWAMP-ROOT

Thousands of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Womens' complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gans to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss Of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root; q physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed 80 overcome
such conditions.
Get a. medium or large size bottle i'm
mediately from any drug store.
'However, if you wish first to test this
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
TAKE ACTION TO. BREAK WILL
Document is Defended by One Humid
red and Nine Of Principal Benef'-
Charles Under it's Provisions.

Monroe.-One of the most interest
ing actions ever fled in Union county
civil court will be called for trial, the
23rd day of February, when the &C
ton known locally as the ROSS will
case" will come up. More than q
hundred relatives of the late Maggie
and Sallie Ross, maiden ladies or
Sandy Ridge township, are attempt
ing to break the will OF these ladies
by which a thousand acres of fine
farming lands and several thousand
dollars in money were beQueathed to
three negroes. The action has created
wide interest because of the amount
involved, the number of caveators
scattered throughout five or six coun-
ties and in South Carolina, and be-
cause of the unusual circumstances
of maiden white women beQueathing
practically all of their large estate
to negroes
The will is being defended by the
principal beneficiaries under it and
by r. B. Redwine and r. A. Hudson,
executors. One hundred and nine
persons have so far made themselves
parties to the other side of the &C
ton and it is understood some 25
others will become parties before the
action is disposed of.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
$4,000 Worth of Heart Balm.

Fayetteville.-Fifty thousand dollars
damages were awarded by superior
court jury here to Mrs. Daisy Watson
Smith, for the alienation of her hus-
bands affections by Mrs. Theresa
Werner, of Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Wer-
ners husband J. L. Werner, residing
in northern state, was made a de-
PENDANT in the suit. They gave Mrs.
Smith $4,000 as compensation for her
suffering and for the alienation of the
affections of her husband and $4,000
punitive damages.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Store and Post office Robbed.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES window
sash, robbers entered the store of J.
L. Fitzgerald, at Linwood, six miles
south of here, lighted lamp, robbed
the store and postoff1ce and got away
without detection, although an occu-
pied residence is situated within
about 80 feet of the building. The rob-
bers took several dollars in pennies
aud some goods.
The fourth class postoffiye of
which Mr.. Fitzgerald is postmaster,
1s located in the rear of the store and
entrance was made through this
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Domestic


attempted against two negroes, Roy
Hardy and Arthur Hendrix, charged
with attacking a white girl, did not
materialize at Knoxville, Tenn. The
police and sheriff, however, had prepar-
ed for trouble.
| Six thousand bales of cotton were
destroyed by fire recently at Ennis, Tex
as. The loss is estimated at four hun
dred thousand dollars. Three ware
houses were burned.
Five bandits recently held up mail
truck at Toledo, Ohio, in the main
postoffice with eleven mail sacks ready
to go to the train. The sacks they
got are unofficially reported to have
contained between three hundred thou
sand and four hundred thousand dol
lars in federal reserve notes. They
got away, and there is no clue.
Business men are urged to unite in
opposition to the proposed sales tax
by DR.. Thomas S. Adams, chairman Of
the advisory board, bureau of internal
revenue, and special adviser to the
United States treasury department.
James Steed, a prominent resident
of Athens, Tenn, killed himself at his
home by placing a shotgun to his fore
head and pulling the trigger. Finan-
cial troubles is given as the cause.
The fremont Trust company, one
of Boston's largest banking institutions,
has been closed by the banker com.
missioners. This is the fifth trust
company closed in Boston since the
Ponzi crash of last summer.
Enirco Caruso, famous tenor. is
| fighting for his life, and appears to
be winning. His physicians report
him to be improving.
Sam fuckers wife left him, and he
committed suicide by stepping in front
of moving train at Woodruff, S. G..
Frank o. Lowden, ex-governor of
Illinois, has notified President-elect
Harding that he cannot serve in the
cabinet of the new administration.
The KnOxille, Tenn, contractors say
they do not want to cut wages, but do
want days work for a days pay.
Bishop John P. Farrelly of the Cleve.
land, Ohio, Catholic diocese, who died
recently was burned in the crypt of
st. Johns cathedral with fitting obse-
quies.
One hundred and twenty men, mem
bers of the painters, timers, carpen.
tiers and bricklayers' unions, employ
ed at the Sugar Creek plant of the
Standard Oil company at Kansas City,
Mo-, failed to return to work because
of an announced reduction in wages.
The tin plate department of the
We1rton, w. Va, Steel company, COM
prising 26 separate mills, has resumed
operation on full time.
DR.. William NJ Bryant, in charge
of the Boston, Mass, quarantine sta
ton, says the New York health au.
thorities have greatly exaggerated the
typhus scare
The board of missions of the South.
ern Methodist church announces that
it has distributed five hundred thou
sand dollars to various annual con-
ferences who have MANY poorly paid
missionaries.
A block Of government war obliga-
lions sold at par on the stock exchange
at New York for the first time in
more than a year.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Warrants for Hun Chemists,

Cologne.-Warrants have been is
sued here for the apprehension of
four leading chemical and dye experts
formerly employed by Friedrich Bay
er and company, of Levreskursen,
charging them with breach of con-
tract and betrayal of commercial Sc
crets
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Treaty of sexres Revised.

Standardization of the treaty OF
Sevres so as to give Turkey addition
al territory in Thrace, now occupied
by the Greeks, was decided upon by
Mr. Lloyd George and M. BRAND in
consultations preceding the near-East
conference here. This decision before
becoming effective, however, requires
the approval of the allied colleagues
of the French premier and the British
prime minister.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Aowa lowed to Port.

Philadelphia.-The steamer Aowa,
Norfolk for New York, was towed to
the Delaware breakwater by govern
ment tug which went to the steamers
assistance in response to distress
calls. The nature of the Aowa's diff
f1culty was not ascertained.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
canada's Fuel Resources.

The fuel resources of Canada are sit
uated in the extreme east and west
and the western part of Alberta the
Ignite Goals are situated in the prov
inces of Alberta and Saskatchewan,
but lying between the limits of these
deposits is a great stretch of territory
devoid of coal measured by economic
value. The 1900 square miles of peat
boys are situated in this area.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

-Salem-The chamber OF
commerce proposes to loan the city
$4,000 at six per cent interest, the
money to be used in providing the
business district with modern white
way. The merchants association will
underwrite one-fourth the amount
The aldermen have the proposition
under consideration and will likely
accept it.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Quarantine REGULATIONS.

Washington. - Quarantine regula-
tons effective April i against fruit
and vegetables from Cuba, the Ba-
hamas, Jamaica, the Canal Zone,
Costa RIGA, India, Philippine Islands,
Ceylon and Java were announced by
the department of agriculture, owing
to danger of citrus black fly pest.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Famous French "Ace" is Here.

New York. - Wearing pound or
more of gold, silver and bronze med
ais, platinum lower jaw, knee and
foot, and bearing the scars Of seven
teen wounds, Captain Nungesser, IA
nous French "ace," recently arrived
in New York.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

Lincolnton.-Passing through Lin
coin county in an automobile said to
be carrying IS gallons of liquor, Dave
Small of Charlotte, fell into the
hands of the sheriff. Local police said
Small was understood to have been
enroute to Charlotte. He was placed
in the Lincolnton Jail awaiting trial.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Protest by Smith and Dial.

Washington. - Vigorous protests
against abandoning the naval base
and harbor improvement projects at
Charleston, S. c., we're made to the
senate naval committee by Senators
Smith and Dial, of South Carolina.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Black Smith-Towner Bill.

Washington.-An organization, COM
posed of a number of men and women
prominent in various lines of activity,
has been formed to work for passage
of the Smith-Towner bill to create a
Federal Department of Education, it
was announced here.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
To Be American Cardinal.

Philadelphia. Dennis
]. Dougherty, selected by the pope as
the new American cardinal has sailed
for Rome to receive his red hat. He
will succeed the late Cardinal Farley,
who dide recently.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

Shelby.-Mr Miner, representing
the American Export and Import cor
poration has been in the county for a
week or more soliciting subscriptions
in low grade cotton in this new corpo-
ration and he has been quite sue
cessful, having received fully $50
bales from the farmers. The cotton
is being shipped to a South Carolina
port where it will be exported. Far
mers in this section are holding fully
$1,000 bales of cotton from the mar
ket.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24

observation-disclosures visitors, men
met with glad smile and greeted cor
daily as they have moved from the
southern end of town on northward
through Davidson to the county line
have been the squad of civil engi-
neers and road surveyors completing
the survey of the highway from CHAR
lotte to the Iredell line, as ordered1by
the state highway commission.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Expect New offensive.

London.-The opening of new Of
fensive by the Turkish nationalists
against the Greeks on the Smyrna
front is expected, says a Constantine
pie dispatch to the Evening News.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-24
Mills Work Two DaiIv Shifts,

Fitzgerald, Ga.-The Fitzgerald cot
ton mills are now working two daily
shifts on the entire 13,O0O-spindle
plant for the first time since the peak
of the early war demand was passed
About 300 men are now employed.