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By STECK, BHELOK * SCHRODER.
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"TO THINE OWN 8BLP BB TROB, AM) IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NICHT THE DAV: THOU CANST NOT THEN HE FALSE TO ANY MAN.
WALHALLA, SOI TH CAROLINA. WE
DAV, S10FT. 21>, 11M5.
New Series No. 910.-Voltmio LXVt.-No M).
Bovs' C
We have the
selected stock o
Boys' Clothing
carried. This
bought cheap a
you extra good 1
special attentioi
Suits.
C. W. J. E.
WALHAl
"IT PAYS TO B
Thirty Million
the ?
is being featured in the newspap
What does it say? This money
serve points and in financial ce
deposited with the country bank?
are we going to get it? By pay
AS USUAL.
England has declared Cott
something must be done. Keep p
?lone before you allow the polit
Banks. We are glad to say p<
themselves these days. We can
terners the beet propositions gc
will have to judge what we wi
have dime in 1l.e past.
Westmini
WESTMIN:
30 PERSONS REPORTED KILLED.
state. Department Receives Notifica
tion of Mexican Conditions.
Washington. Sept. 25.--Thirty
persons are reported lo bo ve been
killed when thousands of shots were
fired In the streets of Cananea, Mex
ico. Thursday afternoon. No for
eigners appear to have been killed.
Thirty American women are reported |
fleeing In automobiles to the border.
"Tho Carranzista forces which ar
rived at Cananea at noon on the 23d,"
said a State Department announce
ment to-day, based on official dis
patches, "evacuated the town at 7
o'clock in the evening of the same
day. This evacuation is said to have
left the town without protection, it
is also reported that during the after
noon thousands of shots were fired in
the streets, and that 30 persons were |
killed. Thirty American women j
have left Cananea in automobiles for
the border.
SUNDAY SCHO
"Every Baptist in Walhal
Day"--Big Day
Address by F. M. Burnett, of An
derson College. Good singing, reci
tations, marches- something enjoy
able for every one. A souvenir for
tho oldest and youngest In servi' ?>
and present In tho Sunday school.
We are wanting every Baptist in
Walhalla, old and young. Come.
HUT Mt MD-; YET.
Every Sunday school advocate, of |
every denomination, in Walhalla and
Wagener township, come to the audi- j
lothing.
largest and best
f Children's and
we have ever
Clothing was
nd we can give
values. We call
n to our $5.00
BAUKNIGHT,
.LA, S. C.
UY FOR CASH/'
Dollars to Help
5outh
ers these days. Read on, friends.
will be deposited in Federal Re
nters. How much of it is being
I who u>e on the tiring lino? lloyv
'iiig for it if we do get any of it,
on contraband, and, of ?ourse,
losted well anti see what is realty
lei ar. 3 to get you to cussing the
?opie are beginning to I link for
say that we have given our cus
>ing in the past years, and you
II do in the future 'hy what we
ster Bank,
STER, s. a
"Tho Department has been In
formed that (len. Maytorena, of the
Villista forces, intends to send a gar
rison to Cananea. It was reported
from the border on September 23d
that announcement had been made by
Gen. .Vaytorena that, on account of a
burned bridge, it would be necessary
for his troops to march to Can anea,
and they could not arrive there under
?ts hours."
A telegram to tho department from
101 Paso says trainloads of Americans
detained at Chihuahua because of
congestion due to military trains,
were expected to leave there last
night. Reports from the west coast,
dated yesterday, indicated conitions
were quiet. A dispatch from Vera
('ruz told of the arrest and release on
bond of W. ll. Wo ff ord. an American.
X'o reason was assigned.
Wa ter po wei' turbines, aided when
necessary by electric motors, enable
a Swiss waterworks to pump water to
a town 1,500 feet above ?I.
OL RALLY DAY
la at Sunday School Rally
in Anticipation.
torium at 3 o'clock j?, m.-Metho
dists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Epis
copalians, Baptists-everybody, any
body-como!
R. D. Webb, general secretory of
the Interdenominational Sunday
School Association of the State, will
address the meeting, We have a
great time for everybody. Come!
.1. W. Shelor,
Executive Committeeman for Wago
ner Township.
FEARFUL GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
40 Persons Killed-$500,000 Prop*
<kity Damage at Artimore.
Ardmore, Okla., "Sept. 27.-At j
least a score dead, 200 persons in- j
jured and property damage of ap
proximately $000,000 to-night wero ;
considered conservative estimates of
the havoc wrought here to-day by the !
explosion of a car of gasoline In the
Santa Pe railroad yards.
Burning oil Scattered.
The force of the explosion wrecked ,
a dozen or more buildings in the 1m
mediate vicinity of the railroad yards
and scattered burning oil over the
business district, starting fires which
for a time threatened to sweep
through the city. Tho fires were
brought under control early to-night.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined. Several men were
at work on the car repairing a leak
j at the time and one theory advanced
was that a spark from a hammer ig
nited the escaping gas fumes. The
I bodies of the workmen were torn to
j fragments.
The city was placed under martial
law to-night and a systematic search
of the wrecked buildings began. In
their first exploration of the ruins
rescue parties removed the bodies of
15 persons, several charred beyond
recognition and others so badly man
gled as to make identification diffi
cult.
The Buildings Destroyed
include the union passenger and
freight stations, used jointly by seve
ral railroads; the Whittington Hotel,
Madden & Co.'s department store,
Pennington Wholesale Grocery Com
pany, Swift & Co., and DeWitt Cigar
Company. Not a building on Main
street escaped damage and practi
cally every pane of glass in the city
was shattered.
" All of i Iii? guests or Hie Whitting
ton Hotel are believed to have es
caped without serious injury. Scores
of young women were employed by
Madden & Co., and at a late hour to
night some still were unaccounted
for.
All public buildings were convert
ed into temporary hospitals to-night,
and physicians and nurses wero hur
ried herc from nearby towns on spe
cial trains to aid in caring for the
I wounded.
WOMEN TO MEET NEXT WEEK.
Seneca Preparing for Presbyterial.
Cotton Brings D'11 Cents Tuesday.
Seneca, Sept. 28.-Special: Dr. E.
C. Doyle and Judge J. E. Hopkins
attended the horse show at Fairview,
Greenville county, last week
Miss Florence Reid, who is teach
ing at Easley, spent the week-end
With Miss Kittie Sligh. Miss Reid
made many friends In Seneca during
her stay of two years here, where she
taught in the graded school, who
were ost pleased to see her again.
The millinery openings in Seneca
last week attracted large numbers of
shoppers, and the milliners report
splendid sales. There were numbers
of visitors from neighboring towns
and the country.
Mr. and Mrs. ll. F. Alexander at
tended the funeral of H. G. McDaniel,
at Pickens, last week.
Dis. E. C. Doyle, J. S. Strlbling
and W. C. Marett are attending the
Pickens County Medical Association
at Easley.
The South Carolina Synod leal will
meet in Seneca, at. tho Presbyterian
church, next week for two days, the
opening session being set for Wed
nesday evening, the 6th. The first
executive session will be held Thurs
day morning when the Synodical will
be formally organized. This organi
zation is the largest, in scope of wo
men's organizations in the Presbyte
rian church, in the Slate, being rep
resented by all the Presbyte, ?a's in
the State, and it will bring together
tho most prominent women of this
denomination. Tho president is Mrs.
S. h. Lobby, of Charleston; tho sec
retary. Mrs. M. B. John, of Hennetts
ville. Por the day sessions there will
be only tho business conduct of the
Synodical, hut to these and all other
meetings the public is cordially in
vited. The evening sessions will con
sist of an address and splendid music
program, and it ls earnestly hoped
that these will he fully attended by
our citizens. Members of the Mis
sionary Society are sending Invita
tions to all societies within reach to
attend tho day sessions and to be
Fearful Condition? ltei>ortied-People
K, tty Thousands Are Dying.
My. wi
Re Art
bondon, Sept. 25.-"The Turks are 1
gradually but effectively exterminat
IngSthe Armenian people," sa.VB the 1
D^?aghatch correspondent of The
Tiroes. "The modus operandi is to
! from each Armenian village day ;
hyjdny as many persons as a train
oflScnrry. When they arrive al Ko
ti?uB? or some adjacent station they
a^Kurned out and an escort supplied
?>^A ,'u> TiUI,lKS mountains.
;MPnce o ii the other side they are
simplied with enough food for a few
da? and told to continue their jour
ri?jBto the neighborhood of Nosul, as
th? will now he In perfect safety.
HuB in point of fact, the region is
nc?ing hut a desert, and before
mw hours maurauding bands of
K?S or Bedouins rob and pillage
th?! helpless men, women and chll
dr&. so that those who are not actu
al H01ain die cf Inniger and thirst
Ni ?one ever readies the intended
dejnnation. for should any one try to
esAie in another direction Turkish
shAherds have orders to shoot them
Stimm- Children Into Hiver.
nhe consequence is that many dis
IraEed mothers throw their children
inwthc Fuphrates rather than.see
th? (ni ff cr. Some even sell them for
whaj they will bring before starting
on fjtair journey.
$ widely known American mis
who arrived at Constantino
first week in September, de
d. he saw as many as 15,000 Ar
jiins collei ted around one station
?g to be sent on this journey,
hich none would ever return,
can missionaries scattered
Asia Minor, and particularly in
thLArmeuian districts, gradually are
'ftwTu'ft upon the advice of their am
bassador. The attacks upon Armen
ians are said to be excused upon the
ground that they assisted the Rus
sians in the occupation of the town of
Van."
Many Children Starve.
The Chronicle's informants charge
that many children are sent out alone
aliuig the roads to fall victims of
starvation or robber bands.
Massacres are reported to have
taken place in the provinces of Khar
put and Diarbekir. especially at Mar
din. Women deported from the prov
ince of Erzerum, it is said, were, left
for several days on tho Kharpyt
plains, where they died of hunger.
At Sari Kichlla a caravan is reported
to have been compelled to proceed,
leaving the children of both sexes be
hind.
America Th .?lr Only Hope.
Home, Sept. ?".-The Apostolic
delegate at Constantinople, Monsig
nor Dolci, has sent to the Vatican a
report (iescrii)ing the massacre of Ar
menians. He says that in the pres
ent situation of the European pow
ers, Germany and Austria cannot in
terfere because they are allied with
Turkey, while the other powers can
do nothing because they are at war
with Turkey.
The only possible assistance, adds
Monsignor Dolci, can como from
America, whoso ambassador is using
every effort to relieve and protect tho
persecuted Armenians.
Hinging- at Madison.
There will be an all-afternoon .sing
ing al Madison Baptist church next
Sunday, beginning at 1.30 o'clock.
We are expecting to have the follow
ing musicians with ns: R. W. Grubbs,
.lohn A. Durham. R. P. Hall. R. N.
Smith, J. P. Morton. R. E. Lorn. M.
C. tirant, and others. Public cordi
ally invited. .1. W. Reynolds.
guests of these ladies for di nr. ar. A
list of the representatives and their
homos will ho given next week; also
the music program.
Mrs. C. H. Ellison entertained the
?ra? hers last Friday evening in honor
ol Miss Florence Reid.
Mrs. T. M. Gal ph in returned last
Friday from u visit o? several .voeks
to relatives and friends at Orange
burg and Hepsibah.
Miss Sue Ellen Hunter leaves this
week for Richland county, where 3I10
will teach,
Monday was one of the hottcBt days
of tho season, and Seneca is also very
dry.
Cotton brought 1 1 % cuts in Sen
em Monday, and is bringing 12 V*
cents to-dny (Tuesday).
TENANT SHOOTS HIS LANI>IX)R1>.
Spartanburg Tragedy Occurred Lust
Friday-Motive Unknown.
Spartanburg. Sept 24. Robert
lianna, a large land owner in the
lower part of Spartanburg county.
was shot ?ind probably fatally wound
ed early to-day by Cliff Codfrey, a
white man and tenant on Hanna's
place. The shooting occurred at
Godfrey's home. Godfrey is said to
have (ired three times into Hanna's
body with a single-barrelled shotgun.
Physicians of the city were sum
moned to Hanna's home Immediately
and have been at his bedside since.
lt is said by lianna's neighbors that
they entertain little, If any. hope of
his recovery. The wounded man is a
son of C. A. Hanna, of Antioch, and
is unmarried. He has taken an ac
tive part in the politics of his section.
Hanna Hied Later.
Spartanburg, Sept. 2t?.-The coro
ner's jury to-day held Cliff Godfrey,
a young white man. responsible for
the death of Robert Hanna, who was
shot down in Godfrey's home Friday
morning near Enoree. To place the
responsibility for the death of Hanna
was a mere formality, but the inves
tigation brought 200 men, women
and children to the Hanna home,
where they crowded about the coro
ner's jury with breathless silence and
listened to the t gtiUiOny of wit
nesses.
The witnesses told how Hanna was
shot three times, the first shot fired
having taken off his lower jaw, yet in
that condition, and with Godfrey fol
lowing him and firing two other
shots into bis body as he crossed the
held, he walked a quarter of a mile
to his home before he gave way from
loss of blood.
The witnesses to-day were God
frey's wife. Dr. Hanna, who attended
t lu- de.'.d wan, and Capt. C. A. Spen
cer, an employee of the C. and W. C.
Railroad, who came upon the scene
of the shooting in his lever car just
in time to see all that occurred out
side the house. He testified that
Mrs. Godfrey ran between her hus
band and Hanna at one time and
Godfrey said to her: "Get out of the
way, -you, or I will kill >ou!"
Mrs. Godfrey testified that she had
broken a gun belonging to her hus
band to pieces a few weeks ago to
keep him from killing himself with
it. She says she has no Idea why
her husband should have wanted to
kill Hanna, unless li was because he
was in debt to him.
Mrs. Godfrey was Miss Maggie
Wood, of ('ashville, prior to her mar
riage, and was at one time connected
with the Spartanburg Telephone Ex
change. She has two children. The
family had lived on the Hanna place
le^s than a vear.
Godfrey has surrendered to the
officials of Spartanburg county and
Ms been placed in jail.
.ne County Formens' Union.
The C .-onee County Farmers' Un
ion will meet with Ebenezer Local
Union, at the Ebenezer Academy, on
Saturday, October 9th, at 10 o'clock
a. m. All local unions are requested
to send delegates, as business of im
portance will be before the body for
consideration.
T. Y. Chalmers, President.
J. H. Garrison, Secretary.
Fairview Local Union.
Members of Fairview Union, No.
85, will please take notice that the
regular meeting has been changed
from afternoon at 2 o'clock to night
at 7.30 on October 2d. Every mem
ber must come without, fail, as this
will be the most Important meeting
of the year. J. H. McMahan,
President.
Cross Kio Grande ?
Washington, Sept. 28. - Conditions
along the Mexican border again have
become acute, Major Gen. Funston re
ported to-day, and a battery of moun
tain artillery has been disj tvtched to
Progresso, Texas, to prevent a raid
hy 500 bandits who threaten to cross
into American territory.
Col. Blockson reported, through
Gen. Funston, that the bandits seem
ed to constitute an independent
band.
"If Carranza does not stop these
bandits," he telegraphed, "I believe
we soon pl all be compelled to follow
them across."
WIDI, ?IAVK I INC PLANT.
Walhalla CoiiuiilsstonerN anti Council
Decide on Municipal Ownerslilp.
Tho I inability lo secure sat
isfactory electric lighting service for
the town of Walhalla and her citizens
has put the local Co m missioners of
Public Work8 nm! the City Council to
work in an endeavor to secure for tho
town a service that would provo moro
satisfactory and better meet tho
needs of the community.
Some two weeks or more ago tho
Walhalla Power Company's plant was
damaged hy lightning, and a I nee that
time ibe town baa been in darkness,
or at least it would have been so ex
cept for the kindly assistance of tho
moon. The company has not as yet
been able lo replace the coll that was
burnt out, but as soon as ibo dam
age can be repaired, we understand
that the company will again turn on
their current, which will be con
tinued until th?' local plant can bo
put into operation.
The plan decided upon by tho joint
session of the Commissioners and
Council is the purchase of two 25
h. p. Deisel engines and machinery
outfit which goes with them for tho
completion of two electrical units,
thus making an Ideal "twin"' plant.
Mayor W. M. Drown, Commissioner
G. A. Norman, Me??rs. Vernor and
Hetrick, of the Council, and w. K.
Seaborn visited Saluda, N. C., last
week, Inspecting the plant there, with
which they were greatly pleased, and
which is said to be giving ideal ser
vice. After their inspection and rc
l>ort, it was decided that the town of
Walhalla would purchase a similar
plant and thc contract for asme has
been signed up, tho order given, and
within 30 days the engines and mate
rial should be here. In all probabil
ity they will be ?cady "for seivica
within that time. The outside date
set for the completion of the plant in
operating condition is November If?.
The Deisel engine is said to bo ono
of ?he most economical and yet ono
of the most efficient engines ever pro
duced. I'.til banks, Morse ?i. Co., ot
Chicago, whose manufacturing plant
is at Delolt, Wis., are the makers ot
this engine, and it bas the unqualified
hacking and guarantee of that strong
company, who aro recognized as tho
very top-notdvers in gasoline and
other oil engines in this country Tho
plant com pie lo is to be under tho
guarantee of this company.
The local plant will be situated in
South Broad street, near tho Blue
Ridge depot, slightly back and to the
east of C. W. & J. E. Bauknight's
warehouse. This situation will give
easy access to the railroad for un
loading and will be convenient for
the receiving of the heavy fuel oil
with which the Deisel engines aro
run.
The entire plant will be installed
in accordance with blue prints fur
nished by tho manufacturers of the
engines and other machinery essen
tial to the plant. The whole work will
be. done In accordance with their
plans and under their direction, and
when finished will he as a whole
ready to bo taken over under the
makers' full guarantee as to effi
ciency.
Superintendent Janies W. Harri
son, in company with W. B. Seaborn,
a few weeks ago, visited the plant, at
Saluda, and it was their opinion that
the plan! as a whole was practically
perfect. Their opinion is concurred
in hy the gentlenven who have since
visited the plant and seen lt in ope
ration.
lt is understood that tho plant of
the Walhalla Dight and Power Com
pany will be utilized for various
commercial purposes in the near fu
ture. The new milling plant, owned
and operated by Messrs. Strother Sc
Phinney and the Neville Brothers, In
Wost Union, it is understood, will bo
operated 'by current furnished from
the Power Company's dam. Tho fur
nishing of day current will not In
terfere with other users of tho
stream, as water can bo Impounded
at night, the stream being allowed to
flow naturally d iring the day.
Tampa Marshal Killed by Negro.
Tampa, Fla., Sept. 25.-Marshal
Joo Walker, of Port Tampa City, was
killed to night hy a negro, who was
resisting arrest. Another police offi
cer was seriously wounded.

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