Market Urged for Farm Crops in South Carolina
Dispatches from Columbia report a joint conference on charities and corrections and common good urging curb markets to back diversified agriculture. Ira B. Dunlap cites Rock Hill’s six month curb market as a model with housewives’ attendance key to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Conference For Common Good
Ira B. Dunlap
Union National Bank of
Rock Hill
Mr. Dunlap
Penitentiary to Supply Free Medical Care for County Convicts
The state penitentiary will extend hospital care and its medical staff to sick and disabled convicts from county chain gangs at no charge if counties pay 30 cents daily per convict. The move follows revenue depletion at the penitentiary and a plan to return convicts to their home counties when healed. Also announced is a meeting call for the South Carolina Association of Stenographers in Columbia on Thanksgiving Day with plans for speakers and venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Jamison
Manning
South Carolina Conference of Charities and Corrections
Johnstone
State Board of Charities and Corrections
State Penitentiary
Columbia
Vey
Stenographers
South Carolina Association of Stenographers
Columbbia
Columbia Representaives
Kate H. Armistead
Columbia Group
J. J. Brennan
Sumter
Association
Ernest L. Allen
Florence V. McMillan
Joseph B. Morris
W.T. Rison
Edith Poreher
Marguerite Bradford
L. E. Wood
Miles Wood
Edgar Brown
Pardon Board Hears Three Capital Case Requests
The state board of pardons considered three capital cases in session. Joe Malloy, a Marlboro County Black man under death sentence for killing two white boys, seeks commutation to life. Four Chester County Blacks on death row for electrocution September 29 seek life terms. Willie Bethune of Clarendon County, whose death sentence was affirmed by the U S Supreme Court, also appears.
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Pardon Board
State Board of Pardons
Joe Malloy
Marlboro
Opening of New Grist Mills Bridges South Carolina Markets
Commissioner Watson was asked by a large Tampa wholesale firm to provide names of responsible South Carolina millers using the old burr grinding system to produce water ground meal in quantities for car load shipments to Florida. The note signals strong interest and broad possibilities in the water ground meal business sparked by new grist mills.
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South Carolina
Watson
Tampa
Fla
National Guard Camp in Charleston Praised by War Official
Henry Breckenridge, assistant secretary of war, congratulated Gov. Manning on the South Carolina National Guard camp at Charleston. He expressed pleasure at the successful results attained at the camp and commended the Guards.
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Henry Breckenridge
Gov
Manning
South Carolina National Guard
Charleston
Dispensary Sales Report from Charleston in August 1915
John Marshall secretary of the Charleston dispensary board reports to Gov. Manning that August 1915 saw $65,026.41 in beer and liquor sales, compared with July 1916 at $65,199.61 and August 1914 at $51,128.15, noting nearly $14,000 more sold than the prior August.
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John Marshall
Charleston Dispensary Board
Manning
Dispensary Board of
Charleston
Henderson named advocate general by Confederate Veterans
General Barnett Young of Toutsville officiates as commander in chief and appoints D. S. Henderson of Aiken to the post of advocate general. The honor is described as the highest appointive office within the Confederate Veterans and elevates Henderson to the top legal position among the veterans.
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Henderson
Barnett HH. Young
Toutsville
United Confederate Veterans
Local Companies Chartered With Various Capitals In Camden Area
Several firms received charters with stated capitals. Kershaw Motor Company of Camden, $5000, officers Geo DP Shore president treasurer, D C Shaw vice president, J D Shaw secretary. Columbia Granite Sheds Company, $4000, officers W B Sullivan president, William Watson vice president, J N Joyner Jr secretary, R L Mann treasurer, M L Mann general manager. Bealy & Co of Union named in charter with $5000, petitioners D C Beaty, RR P Morgan, J G Hughes. Greeleyville Motor Company, $2000, officers D C Shaw president, C L Montgomery vice president secretary treasurer. Ninety-Six Warehouse Company, $1300, H T Sloan president, D M Lipscomb secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kershaw Motor Company
Camden
Geo
Shore
D. C. Shaw
J. D. Shaw
Columbia Granite Sheds Company
W. B. Sullivan
William Watson
J. N. Joyner, Jr
R. L. Mann
M. L. Mann
Bealy & Co. of
Union
D.C. Beaty
RR. P. Morgan
J. G. Hughes
Greeleyville Motor Company
C. L. Montgomery
H. T. Sloan
D. M. Lipscomb
Souchez Alive in Fire as German Front Ends Worse
In a report from the Western German Front correspondent Bernhard Kellermann describes trenches near Souchez under heavy shellfire. German troops led by a former high school professor-turned-soldier recount brutal fighting, grenades, and counterattacks amid ruined trenches and advancing French forces.
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Bernhard Kellermann
International News Service
Souchez
Gravelotte
Woerth
Loretto
Meutenant
Silesia
Queen of Bulgaria Wears Native Costume in Sophia Portrait
The latest photograph of Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria shows her in a simple native outfit on the Sophia palace porch. Formerly Princess Eleanore of Steutz Konstritz she was a Red Cross leader, heading a major hospital in the Russo Japanese War and may again aid Red Cross efforts if Bulgaria enters the current conflict.
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Eleanore
Bulgaria
Sophia
Steutz Konstritz
Red Cross
Confederate Twins from Pittsboro Photograph in Their 77th Year
Messrs. James and John Turns, county residents in Pittsboro, are likely the oldest twins in North Carolina at over seventy seven. Both served as Confederate soldiers and recently had their pictures taken together for the first time in their long lives.
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Pittsboro
N.C
James
John Turns
Chivalry Lives Among British and German Flyers in War
British aviators say chivalry endures between foes as both sides report fates of downed pilots. Messages, bags dropped from planes, and quick communications link comrades and families, while flyers endure nerve tests and dramatic survival tales from dusk to dawn patrols.
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Frederick Palmer
International News Service
France
England
Flying Corps
Tes
Ile
Belgium
Mrs. Clara Pay Left Clear funeral Plans at Death
Saw Far Ahead. Wichita, Kans where Mrs. Clara Pay aged seventy seven died recently and had prepared for her demise leaving nothing undone funeral or burial arrangements.
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Wichita
Kan
Clara Pay
Ahab Faces Defeat as Youthful Forces Rise in War
In this September 19 lesson from International Sunday School, O B Sellers argues the defeat of Ben Hadad stems from Jehovah’s zeal and the Syrians’ contempt for God, not mere drunkenness. God delivers Israel through 33 princes' sons leading 7,000 troops, showing youth as decisive in victory.
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Ben-hadad
Jehovah
Ahab
Israel
Mediterranean
Egypt
Samaria
Abhab
Ahlab
Lincoln
Gideon
Benshadad
Benbadad
Nazareth
Saiyetlan
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State Capitol
State Board of Education
J. H. Swearingen
Winthrop
Clemson
University of South Carolina
Citadel
Gov. Manning
J. I. Swearingen
D. LB. Peuritoy
S$. McG. Simpkins
A. G. Rembert
W. R. Koon
D. T. Kinard
A. J. Thackston
Czar and
Czarevitch
Czar
Russia
International Sunday School
Be, Sellers
Moody Bible Institute
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