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'VOLUME XXXVII. LAURENS.) SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921.NuMFDA AR[ D[[NIED BAI Hearing Before Judge Coth. ran Yesterday BOTH CLAIM DID NOT SHOOT Attorue)s for Luther iinions and M Iroe Willard Appeared Before JU0ge Thom. 11. C"othran lit Green. ville and Applied for Ball. Solicitor UlAckwyell for State. Lutheor Timmons and Monroe Wil lard, public service drivers of Clinton, charged Jointly with the murder of Policeman Hosa Martin, of this city, on the night of Deceinber 14th, were refused bail at habeas corpus hearing held before Judge Thos. P. Cothran, in Greenville, yesterday.. Feather stone & Knight, appeared' as counsel for the defendants and Solicitor 1. . Bracldwell alvcared for the state. Timmons and Willard were brought up from the state penitentiary at Colum bia Monday and are now in the county jail to await trial at the next term of critminal court .in March. In their. first public statement since the night of the tragedy, as contained in their aflidavit filed in the hearing, 4both Tininions and Willard deny hav ing shot a single sliot and claim that -they did not know that anyone had been killed until three o'clock the next morning, about four hours after policeman Martin was wounded. For the first time, also, Tininions publicly clahned that he himself receivedi a wound in the back on the night of the tragedy. Afidavits in addition to those made at the inquest were filed by Rural Po licemonO 'eis' And Abrams, the first being made' to prove that, the two de fendants iwere on an unlawful errand and 4tho latter to rebut the testimony of the defendants that they were not armed on the night of the tragedy. F'ollowing are the affidavits of the two defendants and the two officers: Affidavit of Defendants State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. Personally appeared before me t Luther Timmons and Munro Willard each of whom after being duily ;worn, says: That on the night of December the 14th last, they were traveling to gether with no one else in a Ford tou;ing car on the road leading from -Maddenl Station in eaid County and State to Clinton in said County and i State and while so traveling these de- I ponents unexpectedly met two cars t with eteral men about the hour 11:30 near Tis.bon Church 'between two said pointa or places, and these deponents did not see or discovor said ears and in~on until they were right tupon them In. .the road, and in coming in contact , with said men on'e of said I'arties ran :around and undertook to stop these delionents without disclosing wvho they were or what their purpose05 was, and 'these depononts not kndwing wvho they were or what they wanted, with sonlo dlifficulty drove arounid between said ears to avoid .trouble or being lield up, and as these depononts drove their ear between the two standing cars in the road aend after hir'ng1 -piassed one standing car and1 while . a-bout opposlte the other, several shots were fired behind these deponents< moving car nd on of said bullets hit ing the d d~nent in the back of the I left shoulder. Neither of these d1ei;onents werd armed on said occasion not having a 4 .pistol of any description and those depononts further sayeth, that neither1 of them fired a single shot during said night while on said road. These doponents after passing said] piarties and their automobiles in said road, iwent straight On to Clinton and upon their arrival at Clinton, wont immediately to thew rdom of T. 3. Leak for th'o purpose of having him to ex atnine a pistol wound in the shoulder of the said Timmone and see how so riouis it was. Thence they,. went to 'King Stroud's residence in the town of .Clinton, and that these deponents (did nott learn until about three o'clock the next morning that any one in sMid ,inirty, had 'boon shot and killed. eernming the foregoing suffieient foi Libi rdeent we Aier~by. reserwit the rtg#ht to' testify more fuliy~aid iti de tftes4hO1 day of our trial An Court. -r en-tO , anubertbod, t'o abfore FOR N EAR V1'AST Wrote ('hristmaats Appeals fin Behalf of Starving Victimas of Turks. More 1inids Needed. 'llded by Gov. Robert A. Cooper of South Carolilna, sixteen State 10xe Cltives who atteiided the recent Gov ernor's Conference at Charleston have written Christmas time appeals to the )Cople of their states in behalf of thne work of the Near Blast Relief, accord ing to advices received at Columbia from New York and announced by Congressman A. d. Lever, Honorary State Cliairm.n. According to -Mr. Lever, this is the second time the Governors of the country have recognized the services of the Near East Relief 'in succoring the victims of Turkish barbarity. and hatred for Christianity. At the con Ference in -larrislAirg, Pa., last year they passed a resolution of endorse nent, but this year have gone further mdi made individual appeals.t In addition to Governor Cooper, the rollowing .State Executives have signed tppeals for the Near East Relief tnis rear: Rob't. D. Cary of Wyoming, Wm. J. Sproul of Pennsylvania, Tios. E. lilby of Alabama, Edward I. Edwards )f New Jersey, D. W. Davis of Idaho, W. D. IVenny of Delaware, IEphrain F. Qiorgan of Wiest, Wrginia, .J. M. Dixon )f Montana, Henry J. Allen of Kansas, 3has. 0. uMabey of Utah, Thos. E. ,ampbell of Arizona, J. 'B. A. Robert ion of 'Oklahoma, Nathan L. Miller of 40w: York, 10verett J. Lake of Con iecticutt and Jas. Hartness of eVr- t nont. The Near 10ast 'Relief has undertak n to raise $100,000 in South Carolina >efore June 30 next, to carry on Its t hild-saving workc in Armenia, Georgia ad other fansine and Turk-ridden Uttes in Transcaucasia, Syria, Pales Ine and Mesoiotamia. The Palmetto ftate is talking care of 1,665 children I vhxose parents were murdered by the P7urks foi' refishxl#to rendance Christ fnd become Mohammedans. )EATHI OF. MRS JANIE PINSON rl leloved Woman Dies at Her Home at U Cross Hill. a Cross .Hill, Dec. 26.-Death again d ntered our midts on Wednesday, Dec. A Ist, and claimed one of our conse- 1 rated Christian ladies. Mrs. %einson, I houigh feeble, owing to hgr advanced C ge, was seriously ill only #fow hours, I o her death came as a shock to her iany friends. She was a consistent f riember of Liberty Siprings church. i Mrs. Pinson is survived by her hus- 4 and, Mr. .1. S. Pinson, and one daugh er, Mrs. S. A. iToaman, and one son, Ir. T. M. Pinson, of Cross 11111. One 1 rother, Dr. J. H. Imillor, and one sis- 8 er, 31rs. W. V. 'Payne, of Petersburg, P ra., also survive her. t The funeral services were held at Aberty Springs church on Thursday, 1 )ec. 22, at 3 o'clock, being conducted ti y her pastor, Rev. W. D. .Ratchford, asisted by the ,Methodist and BRaptist e oastors of the town. t The remains were interred at the "resbyterian cemetery. The active t >allbearers wvere nephews of the de.. t eased. Our community deeply sym- I >athizes with the bereaved family. Waterloo Teacher Dead ( Miss Sarah Stuart, princip~al of the c Vaterloo school, died at the Green- 't voodl hospital Monday night after a 1 >rief illness. She first became Ill Imn- r nediately after the Christmas exercis as at the school Friday night and the iext morning was carried to her home n Coronaca, -being carried from there o the 'hospital at Greenwood. The 'unoral services will be held today atI ~oronaca, a large number of patrons mad pupils of the school going over to lay their last respects. Miss Stuart1 vras vpry -pellmlar both among the chil Iron andl -people of the community and ior death is 'doeply mourned by all vlho knew her. Death of a Child ... Boyce Madden, the four year old son >f air, and Mrs. W. Earl Madden, who lve on Sullivan street, died at 3 a. mn., sunday morning and was 'buried in ~he local egmetery Sunday afternoon it 4 o'clockc. The sympathy of the amimunity goes out to the bereaved (>arents in their sorrow. COotton Market Stronger The cotton marloet showed an up-4 ward tendency yesterdey, s it did sev sral days previod(s to the- Christas w holidays, The linarl~ot advaniced about I rorth pints yesterdely,.-041 nst $3 THREE MORE WC IN ADVERTIS Chock Them Full of F Rewards Justifies of W Contest Closes Promptly I* * * * * * * * * STANDING OF CONTESTANTS * The following is the standing * of candidates: * * .Mrs. .. Connor Fuller .. ..664,000 * Mrs. 1ilayne Taylor .. ..6..60,000 * Mrs. J. N. Hudgens .. .. ..650,000 * Aliss Henry EIta Owings 648,000 * Mr. W. A. Wilson ... .630,450 * 'Miss Elberta, Teague .. ..602,500 * Mrs. M. F. 'Medlock .. ....600,000 * Al'iss Lillie 3Mao Cox .. ..590,000 * 'ilss Eva Bolt .. .. ....440,000 * 'Mis Laurence Culbertson 430,000 * Miss Bessie Gillespie .. ..421,500 * Miss Mary Sue Dagnall ..411,100 * Miss .Daisy Belle Owings . .401,550 * 'Mrs. Hogan Walker .. .. ..401,000 Miss 'Louise Saxon. .. .... .400,000 * Miss VFrances Blakely .... 396,000 * Miss Mary A. Powers ..395,500 * * * * * * * * * * Just three more days in which to trive for those four ,grand prizes and ommissions. The leadel's for the past breo neeks still hold their own, but he rewards for steady, faithful work i my see a great and radical change by be. time the three judges render their ( ardict| No one 'has an absolute cer- c rinty. Not one. has an iota of advan- i go or favor. Every cash prize, ev- 1 APTISTS PIRTEST I TROQr WITHDRAWAL end Petition to President to Speak to I Frmue in Behalf of Armenians. The 'First (daptist church of Lau ens, at the morning services Christ ias day, adopted resolutions voicing y protest, against the reported with- t rawal of the French troops from I .rmenia, thus leaving the defeuseless e coplo of that country to the further v ossible atrocities of the Turks, and t ailing upon President 'Warren G. t larding to use his good oflices in an ffort to save the Armenian people f -om another ma4sacre. It was stated i press'dispatches a few days ago that Lie French troolps probably will be rithdrawn from Armenian territory anuary 4, and that appeals had -been a iade to the president of the United tates to intervene to the extent of reventing the contemplated step at ts time. The resolutions, as adopted by the kaptist congregation, is a strong peti- 11 Ion to the president " to heed the cry f a defenseless and doomed people, ] ud to save them from the terrible 'agedy that threatens them." t C. I. Roper, who read the resolu ions, was5 aili'POlinted as chairman of he commttlee named to present the etition to the .president through ~ [nited States Senator N. 91. DIal, and Sis 'understood that Gov. R. A. ~ oop~er, who is a member of the board f deacons of the Laurens Bapt'ist hurch, will be asked to sign the roe-. muons along with ether officers and members of the church, including the astor, the Rev. Samuel H. Temple san. Negro IKilled Another Casper Thompson ism dead and Ju lus Finley is behind the bars at the eonity jail, also painfully wounded, e .5 a result of a lAght which took place , 'etween thenm near the old Pitts place, y a Scuffletown townsh-ip, Tuesday at--~ ornoon. According to reports 'of by- ,3 sanders, Finl'ey shot Thompson in ho back witih a 32 pistol after Thomp on had fallen on the ground. Finley, vho was serilously cut while the fra as 'ass in progress, came to Laurens or medical attention and was arrest 'd by Sheriff Reid while his wouna vas being dressed. *Taxes Being Fald Slowly Taxes are coming in slowly, said I ounty Treasurer Young, yesterday.1 V/ith only this week left during whiph I ounty taxes nmay 'be paid without pen city, he sadd, a 'very smlali proportion >f the taxes had boon paid. People iavo a tendency, hdImeter, to tput off b9 $OM phyig questidn' Unmtil the last ##~t6 Mu4 the troeurer is looking RKING DAYS ER BIG CONTEST lersistent Effort for the the Hardest Kind rork at 1 P. M. Saturday ary standing has been won by straight mt, honest, work and merit, ainxd that's the way the four valuablo prizes will beA won. The publisher and contest ianager have no favorites excipt in iofar they admire a persistent, never iay-die worker-a nworker who does lot get discouraged and will not icknowledgo defeat for the highest roal till the last minute has passed. Mrs. L. Connor Fuller took the last mash prize of $7.00, winning by a small nargin over Mrs. layne Taylor. The extra vote for the week ending 3ccember 31st (end of contest) will be 0,000 for each $15.00 in subscriptions urned in. Now, for those Now Year's gifts in )rizes and commissions. Who will vin the Big Pour? CROWD IN THOSE 'LAST THREE )AYS A WHOLE W1l,.K'S 'HAIU'D VMIK. 'Let us have an I1th hour whirlwind inish. And remeiber, TH11I CONTMST LOSES AT 1 1P. M. 1PROMPTLY. All ontestants having business to turn in lust be in the Advertiser omle at that our. ,AD MAKES GOOD WITH OWN DAIRY 'Cargin Poole, 1eginning on a Small Scale, Has Large Dairy in Laurenis County. Gray Court, Dec. 26.-What a young ian can accomplish by staying on 10 farm, applying himself earnest r to the tasks at hand and being ternally amobitious is shown by a isit to the dairy of Yeargin Poole, iree .miles from Barksdale and twice iat distance from Gray Court. This young man, who returned roin the navy three years ago, has lown that brains and pluck will off et extperience In managing a dairy. [e was a student at Clemson before ntering the navy and after tossing bout on one of Uncle Sam's floaters ),r 15 mfonths :waq eager to return 3 the farm. As many persons know (and some ave experfenced) the farm has a ark side as well as a bright one. The berty, the freedom from alarm lock and houily .bell are offset by Io heat of summer, the cold of win )r and the uncertainty as to a imar et for farm products. Young -Poole decided to laulnch iln a the dair'y business for two rea one. Thle first of these, ho said, was ecause ho wanted to stay at 'home nd quit traveling over the country. 'he second was because a man from. partanburg w'hio v'isited the place, uggested a dairy, offering to buy all 'f the milk young IPoole wold ship here. Beginning on a small scale tile ormer sailor has expanded until he as 21 cows, many of them register'ed erseys and Guernseys, andI many ther hlead of cattie. The adjoining elds, Wiere ls glNwnl most of the orage necessary to sustain the cattle, ho0W benefits of fertilization and~ are keen contrast to the red hills whlere sany flarmers still persist in placing ily fertilizer that Is sold in sacks. lastly (If this might he termed pr'og ess) young 'oole has systematized 1is marketinig and ships cream each nlorning to Greenville, haying aban loned Spartanburg as *a market. lie is yet a young man, being only veil statrted in his twventies, but unl ess there is a change he says he >ro'bably will keetp at thle dairying in ilstry. lHe has learned much about t, he says, although modestly admit ing that what he doesn't know rould fill a book. But the farm, the arge mil~k cans which each morning Ire ca'rlie'd 'by trucks to the railroad ttion anid .the line herd .of cattle peak suocess for the lad more Plain y than do any of his own 'words. Mr.'P. B. Irby, of 6astonia, Is spend. ng the holidays in the City. WO'i1,1) GET $400,000 UNIER NEW 11V I) PLAYN overn1or's igha11y Prograimi Would ('1a11 for 76 Miles (of improiei Illigh waVys in IdLurons. Inder Ie State Iliighly programil, whllich Governor It. A. 'Cooper will presCit to the legislature at the comn ing session Laurens county will Ie ceive a total of $500,000 for Ihe cOn struction of 76 miles of roads. The attache' tabuilation shows what each coun ty's share in the pro posed road construction find would hc: AlEnd .- . .--..... 1 0 0 0 43 0 Anderson 920,000 150 Bamberg ..220,000 50 Barvll .... ..2.... 260,000 64 Beaufort -9.......... 0,00o 55 Berkeley .......... 180,000 120 Caloun--.-.... .....200,000 54 Charleston .. .......I80,000 98 Cherokee .............320,000 48 Chester......... . 380,000 73 Chesterfleld.. .a..... 380,000 93 Clarendon .:..1..... 340,000 37 Colleton -........ 360,000 88 Darlington ........ 500',000 52 Dillon - ........ 280,000 41 Dorchester-....... 210,000 62 Edgefleld ...... ..240,000 52 Fairfield ...... .... 3'0,000 55 Florence... 580,000 62 Georgetown ..........300,000 73 Greenville ........1,140,000 131 Greenwood.. ...... 460,000 86 Hampton .......... 240,000 61 Horry ..........380,000 75 Jasper --........ 180,000 53 Kershaw ........380,000 89 Lancaster ....-....280,000 61 Laurens -.-.........500,000 76 Lee .280,000 58 Lexington .1. ......460,000 82 McCormick ..... . ..180,000 64 Marion -- .....260,000 54 Alarlboro -...... 420,000 1 Newberry.--...... 410,000 80 Oconee -..-...... 360,000 44 Orangebu rg ........60,000 180 Pickens ... ......320,000 57 Richland ...1.. ...1,100,000 79 Saluda -..-.... ...240,000 38 Spartanburg .. .. .. 1,100,000 116 Smnter ---...... 480,000 64 Uinon .---...... 340,000 61 Willliamsburg ...... 400,000 86 York ............540,000 86 Total..... .....$20,000,000 3,414 Total mileage - --... ..3,414 Constructed' or provided for . .1,600 To be constructed..... ... .1,814 TORE LIQUOR CAPTURED Hose of Mack Reynolds In Clinton 14ided and Eight Pints of Whiskey Captured. Reynolds Arrested. Eight pints of Christmas joy .hile was side-tracked from the main line Friday andl detoure'Cd to the sheriff's ofmee as the result of a rid made in the Clinton cotton mill village by Sheriff Reld, Rtiral Policemen Owens and Abrams and Chief of Pollce Mason, of Clinton. The house of Mack Rey nolds was searched and eight pInts of whiskey taken, besides two emp~ty ten gallon contaIners and a quantity of empty 'bottles. Reynolds himself was arrested and birought to the county jail, ('olebrates 69th1 Birthday The home of 'Mr. and Mrs. Tr. Mae lRoper. was mado happy on last Mon day when all of theIr children, grand children and .great-grandchildren, with tho exceptIon of 1 daughter and 3 grandchildren, gathered to share in the celebration of Mr. 'Roper's 89th birthday. The long table made ready for the occasion was laden with good things to eat, the handsomely decor ated -birthday cake forming the center attraction. There were about 30 pr1es ent, four generations being represent Stock to be Rle-Sold The W. 0. tWilson stock of dry goods sold at public auction last week to 'Mr. C. J. McWhirter, of Newberry, is to be re-sold, aeording to ad vertisenments made aby Mr. Thos. D. Wilson, brother of the deceased owner. It is understood that Mir. McWhirter failed to coon~ly with the temsl of theo W'ale. MrARTIN FUND TO 8 [N[ARED Christmas Fund to be Made Endowment SANTA CLAUS VISITS ORPHANS ('8risima111's for Orphaned Martin (IL11. dren is Made Happy by Generouis P)ublic. Fund to be Enlarged so as to 'orii Permanent Maintenance The orphan children of Ilosea Mar tin, killed in an attempt to halt al leged tior ruqnners on the night of December 14, were enabled to enjoy a visit from Santa Claus like other children as a result of the open-heart ed response to the appeal for that cause as contained in The Advertiser last week. The nail of The Adver tiser has contained checks from this city and other cities in the state, as seen in the list of contributions be low, and a ipersonal canvas by 'Mr. L. Cr. Roff, a member of The Advertiser force, brought still other contilbu tions. The total sum thus far real ized amounts to $106.86. The editor of The Advertiser, after conferring with friends, decided that it would not be 'wise to expend this large sum for Christmas presents alone, especially since it had been found that a few gifts had already been sent the children. It was there ore decided to oxfpend a reasonblo sum, about $10, for toys and trinkets for the children and enough money, $4.40, to buy a case of condensed milk for little Lois, the infant child. The Advertiser ds informed that the five older children are to be taken into an orphanage. The orphanages at. this time have more applications than they can possibly comply with, we are -told. To accept no many chil dren from one family under the pros ent conditions is readily seen to be out of .the ordinary and for that rea son The Advertiser is goinng to place itself at the service of a sympathetic public in helping to give reasonable assistance to the orphanage in caring for these children. Therefore, unless objection is raised by the donors to the fund to date, the balance of the fund, amounting to $92.45, will be made a nuelleus to be enlarged Into a substantial fund to be presented to the orphanage as an endowment fund, known as the Hosea Martin Endowinent Fund. This fund we hope to make at least $1,000. The interest from this, of course, lw-ill not. commence to pay the expenses of these children while they are in the orphan age, but it is expected that the fund will remain with the orphanage in popetuity, thus sorving to repay in part the debt of gratitude on the part of ,the public and at the same time creating a memorial to the dead officer which shall instill into the minds of future generations a reepect and ad miration for lawv enforcement. W. R1. Richey, Jr. .... .......$2.00 Red Cros .. .............10.00 Advertiser ..............200 W. Mf. liundley .... ..........50 'Miss Bleth Shell... ... .. .. .. 1.00 [Dr. W. D). Ferguson.. ......1.00 M rs. L. Conner Fuller.... .. .. 1.00 IFrnest T~asterby ........ ....00 S. B1. Sexton .. .... .... .... .50 Jim Moore............ .... .50 T. L,. Monroe .. .. .... ...... .50 W. P. Tihomason ........... .5. WV. U. Lancaster.. .... ........50 Laurens Kennedy.. . .. ... .. ..2 C. Ii. Roper .. .... ..........50 'Stanley Crews.. ..........1.00 Cash .... .......... ......25 Owings & B~obo .... ..........50 Mrs. Clara M. D~avenport, (Gireers 2.00 JT. M. Clardy .... ............25 Oscar Hende~lrson .......... .50 Oash.--............ ........10 W. S. Power.. .... ..........25 C. A. Pdwer'................. .25 Rosa D. Young .... ........1.00 0. 'P. Jenkins...... .... ....'.. .50 WV. Solomon....,,........ ....25 12. 0, Roff .... .... .... .... .50 A.i. Mahiaffey......,,.. ........50 T. L. Timmnerman ........ ....50 J. T. Crews ,.... .... .., . 2.00 S. C. Wood .. .... .. .. ....s.5 C. K. Ray -.--..,.. .. ... .... .50 RI. iL. Walker . .. ... . 1.00 T. T. Easterby....--.........60 E.A b. ,..,. .. .... .6 W. P. Gludgens.... .. ....... .25 (Ointtae4 an q Vr