South Carolina News Roundup Reflects Local Incidents and Decisions
Reports range from municipal and state finance to crime and court actions. Highlights include Clinton planning a half million for improvements, Greenville closing all pool rooms by ordinance, York sheriff overpowered and jailed, and Kingstree Bank shuttered and sent to state examiners for 30 days.
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City of
Greenville
Bank of Kingstree
Williamsburg County
State Bank
South Carolina Supreme Court
South Carolina News Roundup From Spartanburg To Hartsville
Clemson extension foresees 250 car loads of produce for South Carolina with none from Spartanburg. A Charleston auto train crash yielded 34 500 in railroad liability perjury verdicts. National Guard inspections flag one unit as unsatisfactory. James Lindsay and Roy Fowler charges for attacking three women dismissed for lack of evidence. Local student suspects held on bond. Land settlement drive advances via Clemson extension and legislative committee. Gov McLeod mulls blanket pardon for women prisoners. Five SC students graduate Yale Divinity School. Berry to study abroad. Smith wins Mersick prizes. Rural officer Snoddy of Spartanburg killed resisting a liquor violator. Harrison at large after escape with lynching rumors.
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James Lindsay
Roy Fowler
Spartanburg
F. M. Gregory
Ec. Stafford
H. Wyatt
South Carolina
Yale University School of Divinity
James B. Berry Ofburg
John O. Smith
Johnston
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Anderson Peenage Cases Explained and its Wider Impact
A regional column argues that four white men convicted in a peonage case reflect broader labor tensions. It notes a white jury verdict, discusses the prevailing but informal practice of returning runaway negro labor, and warns that the ruling may influence local attitudes and enforcement in farming communities.
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Tue Anpesson
United States
Germany
Farmers Hope Peonage Verdict Does Not Invite Trespass
The article notes a peonage case verdict and that farmers fear potential unwarranted trespass on the peonage law’s spirit, despite questioning the verdict’s justice. It mentions release of a tenant with full payment of debt accompanying it.
First Shot Recalled by Prof Sams of Gaffney
Prof R Q Sams recounts the firing of the first shot of the Civil War from Morris Island. He notes the Ordnance of Secession acts December 1860 and describes Major Stevens command, Star of the West fortifications, and the warning shot fired by Cadet G E Haynesworth before the ship withdrew to a Northern port.
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R. Q. Sams
Gaffney
Citadel
Tur Garfney Leport
North
South
Sams
Tue Lepeer
South Carolina
F. W Pickens
T. F. Stevena
Morris Island
Fort Sumter
Star of
United States
T. F. Stevens
G. E. Haynesworth
Sumter County
Redemption Through Prayer, Says Senator at Gaffney
United States Senator Cole L. Blease urged a convention in Gaffney to seek national salvation through family prayer not politics. He spoke on the Red Men principles freedom friendship and charity and noted their support for widows and orphans while stressing respectful, nonpartisan civic ties.
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United States
Cole L. Blease
Gaffney
Improved Order of Red Men
Blease
Red Men
Branchville Citizen Fights for His Town
A Branchville man Nelms from Georgia quarreled with Ernest Byrd of Branchville over the town. Nelms declared he would leave and drew a knife after Byrd retorted that no one cared. Byrd restrained with a chair, but Nelms slashed at him.
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Branchville
Nelms
Ernest Byrd
Oliver
Byrd
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Ralph R. Tison
Jasper County
Clinton
Gilliam
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Convedee
Fred E. Quinn
York
Carroll Orr
J. Madison Heap
Charleston
Edward Davis
David Simon
Columbia
Abbeville
A. E. Schiletter
Clemson College
Spartanburg County
South Carolina National Guard
Legislative Committee On Land Settlement
Extension Division
McLeod
J. R. Snoddy
Oliver Harrison
Harrison
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