Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-02-01
WARRANT EoR SENATOR c,l,;' MASON
Issued at Sene I, nIawful Conncc-
ton with Liquor Charged.

(Farm and Factory, Jan. 2e.)

(Farm and Factory, Jan. 26.)
Chief OF Police p. Williams has
in his possession a garrant. in which
Oscar Ellenburg n assistant to tho
police chief, alleges that Senator w.
P. Mason, on a recent trip to Seneca,
was in some way unla @fully connect
ed with contrabandSliquo The paper
was issued at the request OF Mr.. Ell
lenburg by ]. N. Hopkins, clerk OF
council. Hugh P.3HoNeman, w. NJ.
Kay and Wallace Kay are named as
witnesses.
Senator Mason, who is now in Co.
lumDia in connection with his duties
in the Legislature. denies Intentional
infraction Of the laws, and, according
to information which Farm and Fac
tory has received through a third
party, is deslrous that his friends
form no opinion until they have
heard his side Of the incident leading
up to the issuance Of the papers.
Mr. Mason was in town Friday and
returned to Columbia Tuesday. His
position makes him immune from
detention until ten days after the
sine die adjournmcut.a af, the General
Assembly, and Chief Williams will
hold the warrant, he says, until after
that time.
The case in which this prominent
citizen is involved has caused much
talk in Seneca and in other parts or
the county, for the news that the
warrant is in possession of the officer
has become generally known.
THE PRESBYTERIA rs GRO WING.
Church Added $4,000 Cnn,nunicants
During tho Year 1921.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 2G.--An
increase Of more than $4,000 commu-
nicants Of the Presbyterian church
Of the United States OF America dur
ing 1921 was announced here by Dr..
Lewis Seymour Nudge, ofPhiadel-
phia, Pa, stated clerk of tho church.
DR.. Nudge was in Des Moines making
arrangements for the annual General
Assembly Of the denomination, TO be
held here beginning May 18Sand con-
tinuing for ten days.
DR.. Nudge announced that the
number Of communicable OF the
church now exceeds 100000 This.
he announced, is gain OF npre than
$4,000 over last year. Th4 church
also has more than 1 1,4oo,oo&unday
school members.
Contributions dur ne last Ssur, DI
Nudge sald, eNL eeled $47lS!h00G,
OF which more than si,20n,00G VAS
spent for fOreiGu missions, iS,7nl,-
600 for home missions and. more
than $1,0O0,000 for education.
The Presbyterian church has o.
979 minister's Of the Gospel
The General Assembly Is the ma
tional legislative body Of the church,
composed Of both ministers and lay
men, administering affairs Of the de-
nomination through 46 synods, cor
responding approximately to States,
and 702 presbyteries, corresponding
to congressional districts.
In an official statement concerning
the church by Dr.. Nudge in the re-
Gently issued Presbyterian Handbook
1t Is recorded: "The Presbyterian
church stands, as /. has stood during
its entire history, for the uncondi-
tional sovereignty Of God, for the
Bible as the only infallible rule Of
faith and life, for simplicity of wor-
ship, representative government,
high standard Of Christian living, lib
erty of conscience, popular education
and missionary activity, and true
Christian catholicity."
Farmers Body Found Near Still.
Henderson, n. c., Jan. 2G.-The
body Of G. G. Pulley, farmer, age 35
years, was found on the banks Of