The Cherokee Times from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

I I BUY YOUR CHAUTAUQUA TICKETS TODAY CHEROKEE COUNTY'S MOST VALUABLE ADVERTISING THE CHEROKEE TIMES HAS OVER 3,000 BONA FIDE CHEROKEE TIMES IS THE CHEROKEE TIMES MEDIUM SUBSCRIBERS $2.00 A Year. The Mouthpiece of Cherokee County's Progressiveness. Established August 4, 1922 Volume 2. GAFFNEY, S. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1924 Number 82 DEMOCRATS MEET FOR CONVENTION MAY 21ST Convention Will Be Held In General Assembly Hall, State Capitol, at Noon DELEGATES FROM COUNTY Credentials have been issued and delivered to Miss Leila Morgan, Senator Thomas B.

Butler, Representative T. K. Vassy, Dr. William AnderC. D.

Meadows and Richmond son, Stacy, as delegates; and A. L. HallB. L. Hoke, Mrs.

W. S. Hall C. man, C. Kirby, J.

H. Turner and J. Bell, as alternates, to the state democratic convention that will be held at Columbia, Wednesday, May 21. The credentials were issued by the chairman of the Cherokee county democratic executive committee in conformity to action of the recent county convention when a new county organization was perfected and atelegates to the state convention and other officers were elected. While there has been no individual expression, SO far as general information goes, from the personnel the Cherokee county delegation, it of understood that all deleis generally will present their credentials gates in the convention.

Howfor seats should any of the delegates be ever, when the convention is called absent to order and gets under way a numof alternates elected by the counber convention will be in attendance ty at the convention to take the places such delegates as may be unable of to go to Columbia. The state democratic convention will meet in the hall of the house of representatives at noon, according to Harry N. Edmunds, secretary of the state democratic executive committee. Edgar Brown, of Barnchairman of the state commitwell, and a representative from that tee county, will call the convention to order. Immediately following the opening of the meeting a temporary organization will be perfected with the election of a temporary president and secretary.

A committee on credentials will then be appointed to pass upon the credentials of the delegates. Each county is allowed twice the number of delegates to the party convention as it has senators and representatives in the state legislature, accordling to Mr. Edmunds, and the inspection a of credentials is expected to 00- cupy considerable time during the early hours of the convention. To Organize Permanently When the last credential has been approved by the committee, a permanent organization will be perlected. Officers, a president and a secretary, will be elected to conduct the session.

The president will appoint a committee on rules and a committee on platform, both of which will report back to the convention during the lame session. At times the platform of the state onvention has had an important earing upon state democratic polics, Mr. Edmunds said, adding that other years the platform has been elatively unimportant. Frequently he platform has been largely devotto indorsement of the principles Dr which the party stands, he said. Speaking with regard to the of instructing delegates, Mr.

unds stated that the matter rests ithin the discretion of the convenon, which may or may not instruct indorse a presidential candidate. Majority to Rule If the convention does not vote a unit, the majority of the state legations would control the selecon of a candidate at the national Invention, he said. Just as the delegates to the state Invention represent a number twice at of the state representatives and nators, the delegates from rolina to the national convention bresent twice the number of repsentatives in congress and United ates senators. Fourteen delegates to the national vention are elected from the sevcongressional districts, two from ch district. The district delegaselects the representatives from district to the national convenThe four delegates for the te at large are elected by thi te convention as a whole.

-convention talk has it that ht delegates, each to be vested a half vote, may be chosen the state at large. It has been gested that one-half of the deleles from the state at large be men. A Al Smith's Manager AUTOCASTER Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1919, has taken active management of Gov. Al Smith's vention campaign for the cratic Presidential nomination.

A NEW FEATURE FOR THE READERS OF THE TIMES In our last Thursday's issue of The Cherokee Times, the cotton market as quoted by Hicks and Williams for the day was carried with their cotton letter giving the cotton outlook as it appeared to them. This is a brand new feature for The Times and it is hoped that the farmers of the county will profit thereby. This concern has kindly consented to give us their letter as soon as it is received in their office, which is about 3 p. m. and by 3:30 it will be set up and be run in the first papers of The Cherokee Times and will be in the business places of Gaffney.

This is good service and, and we can assure the readers that it is authentic. It is our intention of running this feature on the top of the editorial page, at which place it can be found in today's paper. DENTAL CLINIC BE ENDED HERE FRIDAY Clinic Being Had At Central School. Final Clinic Cherokee Progressive The dental clinic being conducted this week by Dr. C.

M. Douglas, of Winnsboro, S. at the Central school, and followed by a clinic at the Cherokee Progressive school, that is expected to end Friday afternoon this week, will mark the close of denal work done during the present campaign, in Cherokee county, by the state department of health, among the schools, Dr. Douglas said Friday morning. The clinic at Central school started last week when the work at the Blacksburg high school was finished.

When the dental work in this county among school children, has been done, Dr. Douglas expects to be sent by the department to some other county in the state to continue work, probably to a county in which an orphanage is located, because are now on the eve of their summer vacations, he said last week. However, he has received no official information to this effect from the state department of health. SENIOR CLASS TO PRESENT PLAY AT STRAND MAY 22D. "The Weaver of Raveloe," a play, will be presented afternoon and evenat the Strand threatre, Thursday May 22, by the senior class of the Gaffney high school, before what is expected to be large audiences.

The matinee performance will begin promtply at 3:15 o'clock. The curtain will be raised for the evening performance at 8:30 o'clock. The play is said to be an interesting one and those who will play the parts have had many rehearsals under expert coaching that has made them thoroughly familiar with the play's finer points. Those who have witnessed the reheasals predict that the audiences at the Strand will declare the play to be the best amateur production that has been presented before Gaffney audiences in a long time. CHEROKEE EVENTS OVER THE COUNTY OF LATE INTEREST Happenings Of Note In Various Sections Are Presented In Brief Form.

MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE Mr. R. J. Harris, of Pacolet, Route' 1, was a business visitor in Gaffney Friday and called by this office for a chat. Mr.

Harris has a son, W. B. Harris, in Louisville, where he has been for the past five years in a large Ford plant. Mr. Harris is doing well, and his father is justly proud of him.

Mr. Fay Barnhill, who has been suffering from double pneumonia for the past several weeks is so imimproved that he is able 1 to sit up, his many young friends will be glad to learn. Mr. Barnhill is a son of John W. Barnhill, of the Draytonville section and is a splendid young fellow.

Col. D. A. Thomas, of Carlisle is a pleasant caller to his many friends and relatives in Gaffney. Col.

as, despite his age is very spry and a splendid conversationalist, especially SO to young newspaper men, he being an old newspaper man of ye olden times. Mr. Dan McPherson was up town Saturday sporting the kind of clothing that young fellows of his age get married in, and some of his good friends were saying that he was living in anticipation. Dan is a popular farmer and monumental salesman and has a host of friends here. Making her way from Pensacola, where her husband recently died, leaving his family in financial straits, Capt.

E. G. Ball, of the Gaff'ney Salvation Army unit, aided a woman and six small children to reach Spartanburg, where the woman claimed to have relatives, last week, according to information given out at the Salvation Army hall last week. The woman, whose name was given, and her children had arrived at Gaffney by walking and occasional rides that were given by automobile travelers. Condition of L.

D. Breeden, Gaffney garage man, who has been confined to his home for several weeks by a cancer of the jaw was reported to be unimproved this morning. Mr. Breeden, a day or two ago, became unconscious and members of his family entertain grave fears that he may not recover, it was said this morning. P.

S. Courtney, proprietor of the Courtney Funeral Director and Em-1 balming Parlor, returned Friday ening from Columbia, where 1 he attended the annual convention of the South Carolina Funeral Directors and Embalming Association, held at the Jefferson Hotel. Mr. Courtney reports that the convention that has just ended was one of the most profitable, to members, that he has ever attended, and that its many features were enjoyable. Mr.

Courtney was accompanied to Columbia by Mrs. Courtney. :0: COLD WEATHER HAS HURT COTTON CROP With crops in the county not less than two weeks delayed in the planting, because of unseasonable weather conditions, especially in the case of cotton crops, farmers in many sections of the county face the necessity of having to replant cotton, it was said by several leading farmers from the county while in Gaffney Saturday afternoon. There are instances, it was said, in which farmers will be compelled to replant all land that has been given over this year to the production of cotton because the plants have been killed by the cold weather that has prevailed and in the fact of which cotton plant life is unable to endure. Replanting cotton will necessarily throw the next cotton crop, already late in being pitched, still later than has been expected by farmers, would be the case.

However, there are farmers in the county, and successful ones, who yet feel that if weather conditions for the balance of the crop year are favorable, the yield, per acre, may not be materially curtailed. Swiss Cows Wrestles for Title AUTOCASTER An annual wrestling tourney for cows is held at Martigny, Switzer. land, which is attended by thousands of farmers from all sections. The cows wrestle until one trots off in defeat. The final winner is crowned queen and given choice grazing pasture for one year.

Photo shows the final tussle for the title. CHAUTAUQUA TICKETS ON SALE TODAY; BUYING URGED Owing to a considerable delay on account of the local Chautauque officials being out of town, the tickets for the Cautauqua which is to entertain here beginping next Friday, were not offered for sale until early this morning. Mrs. George G. Byers, the chairman, has just returned from the Southern Baptist convention in Atlanta, and this morning held a meeting with the guarantors of the Chautauqua and it is said, laid out plans for the sale of the tickets.

Just what plan that has been decided upon could not be ascertained. On account of Mrs. Byers being out of town and with no other person here to take the initiative, the tickets are benig offered at rather a late moment, and The Cherokee Times has been acked to state to the public that the situation will be greatly helped if those who are intending to buy OLD CONFEDERATE DIED OF NEURITIS LAST SUNDAY A. M. Long in Feeble Health Mr.

Jeff Lipscomb Dies At Home On Pacolet Road INTERMENT IN OAKLAND Long in feeble health, Mr. Jeff Lipscomb, 78 years of age, one of the best known farmers in Cherokee county Sunday morning at one o'clock of neuritis, at his home on Pacolet road, about four miles from Gaffney. The deceased was a Confederate soldier, serving with daring and fidelity in the armies of the Confederate States during the civil war. He was born and reared in Cherokee county and was personally and intimately acquainted with nearly all of the older citizens of the county. His family connection i is one of the largest enjoyed by any person in the county.

Mr. Lipscomb was a consistent member of the Baptist church, and had been for a long number of years at the time of his death. Besides his widow, Mrs Lipscomb, the deceased is survived by two brothers, Mr. McNeely Lipscomb, White Plains, and Mr. Robert Lipscomb, Arkansas.

The interment took place Monday morning at 11 o'clock in Oakland cemetery in the presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends of the family, Rev. A. D. Davison and the family, Rev. A.

D. Favison and Rev. B. L. Hoke performing the obsequies.

The burial was directed by Shuford and LeMasters, funeral directors. HOPPER FAMILY REUNION BE HELD BUFFALO CHURCH The Hopper family re-union for this year will be held at Buffalo Baptist church, this county, according to M. D. Hopper, of Shelby, N. C.

The -union will be held on May 24. Dr. R. E. Lemmons, of Shelby, N.

will deliver an address at the reunion, it has been announced. Relatives expected to be at the reunion are: Mrs. Henry Hopper, Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Sallie Green, Barnesville, and Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Hopper, -of Falfurrias, Texas and others. Can He Stick? 4.a. (AUTO CASTER) Branded a "political blatherskite" by Senator Reed; charged with the responsibilty of hiring and sending stool-pigeons to Montana to get evidence against Senators Wheeler and Walsh without the knowledge and consent of President Coolidge; further charged with trying to read Senators Borah, 'Norris and other Republicans out of the party, Washington is now speculating whether Geo. B.

Lockwood, tary of the Republican National Committee, will survive when Wm. M. Butler succeeds John T. Adami as. chairman.

in. June. GLADDEN AND HILL ARRESTED BEFORE DAY ON SATURDAY Tipped Off Men Were Expected With Cargo of Whiskey. Still Hunt Instituted LIPSCOMB IS ARRESTED Walt Gladden and Roy Hill, young white men, were surprised and arrested at four o'clock Saturday morning by J. P.

Scruggs, L. H. Allison and J. W. Vassy, county prohibition enforcement officers, after the officers, in hiding, had been on the lookout for the young men nearly all of Friday night.

Ten gallons of whiskey were seized by the arresting party, when the arrests were made, according to officers. The arrests were made at the home of Minningthal Lipscomb, colored, shortly after the arriva loohfyu shortly after the arrival of the young men at Lipscomb's home, it is said. The whiskey was found in the house, the officers say. Lipscomb was also arrested in connection with the capture of the whiskey, and was imprisoned in the police barracks. While the prohibition enforcement officers were conducting a still hunt for Gladden and Hill--the authorities having been tipped off that they expected to be at one of two places in the city sometime during Friday night with a cargo of whiskeyChief of Police R.

B. Bryant and Police Officer Puttman were awaiting their arrival at another point, according to the police. Men Under Other Charges Gladden and Hill were held at the police station from the time of their arrest until today, in default of $200 bonds, police records show, for their appearance this morning to answer charges of transporting whiskey within the incorporate limits of the city. Minningthal Lipscomb was also held by the police, in default of bond, on a charge of transporting whiskey. Similar charges are already standing in the mayor's court and the state court against all three defendants.

Gladden and Hill were tried and convicted by a jury in the mayor's court a few weeks ago and sentenced to pay fines of $100 The verdicts and sentences were appealed to the general sessions court. AGED WOMAN DIED SATURDAY MORNING Mrs. Frankie Anne Blanton, aged 81 years, died at her home in the Midway church section, at an early hour Saturday morning of senile causes. For several months the deceased had been in feeble health incident to her advanced age. Bsides her husband, Mr.

J. C. Blanton, the deceased is survived by several children and grand-children, and a number of other relatives. The interment took place Sunday afternoon in the cemetery at Corinth Baptist church, a number of relatives and neighbors being present. Shuford and LeMasters, funeral directors, were in charge of the burial.

The burial rites were conducted by Rev. F. C. Hickson. SHOOTS BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER IN ANGER; SUICIDES Solon Pruitt Shot K.

F. Farley, Near Limestone Mill, Friday Afternoon, PRUITT THEN KILLS SELF tickets will do SO WHEN THE TICKETS ARE FIRST OFFERED TO THEM, thereby saving much time and enegry to those who are making the canvas. The people of Gaffney are fully acquainted with the high class of attractions that has been offered here by these people in the past, and we are assured by. Mr. Jackson, the advance man that the attractions offered this year will be still better than those of previous years, which fact should be enough to cause the citizens of Gaffney to buy and buy at once.

The amount that the half dozen progressive citizens here have guaranteed that this town might have a Chautauqua, is no insignifiicant sum and those who are not the guarantors should be only too glad to purchase, and purchase without stint, and it goes without saying that if they will then go out to the entertainments, they will be amply repaid. CHAUTAUQUA WILL FILL ENGAGEMENT STARTING MAY 23 First Number of Program Will Be Presented By Dunbar Male Quartet Friday SEASON TICKETS OFFERED The Chautauqua opens in Gaffney Friday, the 23d with the well-known Dunbar Vocal Male Quartet and Bell Ringers Company. For many years, a Dunbar quartet and bell ringers company has been one of the most popular of Chautauqua attractions. The present company was organized by Ralph Dunbar of the original bell ringers, and is most worthy of bearing the Dunbar name. The members of the Dunbar company carry nearly a hundred hand bells upon which are played some of the best overtures and solo numbers.

The feature which characterizes the programs of the Dunbar quartet is the absolute blending of their elections into a complete whole. There is a consistency in these programs which has distinguished them among all the Chautauqua programs of the last double decade. No feature will be remembered longer than the beautiful chimes and harmonies which are introduced in the sacred selections. The original transcriptions in which are heard excerps of beautiful songs sang to the accompaniment of the bells will be counted by many the most beautiful music they ever heard. The young men introduce a suffiprogram properly and to sustain the program property and to sustain the reputation long held by the Dunbars as musicl entertainers extraordinary.

The season tickets are on sale now and those who expect to buy season (tickets, are urged to supply themselves early. The demand for tickets is said to have been larger than was anticipated. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and good neighbors of North Limestone street for their many acts of kindness and words of sympathy during the illness and death of our little son. May the great Deity look on you with a loving heart. Respectfully, MR.

and MRS. R. C. WILSON. The dead body of Solon Pruitt, 35 year old white man, was found half a mile from the boarding house of K.

F. Farley, in the Limestone Mill section of the city, late Friday afternoon about 30 minutes after the boarding house proprietor had been shot by Pruitt, receiving a serious abdominal wound, after a discussion, growing out of domestic troubles between Pruitt and his wife, when Pruitt appeared at the boarding house and demanded that he be permitted to see his wife. Mr. Farley was carried to the city hospital for surgical treatment where his condition was pronounced to be. serious by hospital surgeons, though it was thought that he had a good chance to recover, but it may be several days before it will be definitely known whether or not he will recover.

Coroner Holds Inquest "We, the coroner's jury, find that deceased, Solon Pruitt, came to the his death from a gunshot wound by his own hand," was the verdict rendered by the coroner's jury empannelled by Coroner Parker to hold an inquest over Pruitt's body Friday evening, before whom several witI nesses testified. Mrs. Jesse West, daughter of Mr. Farley, testified before the coroner's jury that Pruitt came to her father's home and demanded to see and talk to Mrs. Pruitt, who had left her home several days ago following alleged mistreatment by her husband, taking refuge at the Farley boarding house, and that Mrs, Truitt refused to see him.

The witw ness testified that she, her father and Truitt were standing on the fornt porch of the Farley home when a heated discussion took place between Farley and Pruitt. She ran into the house as Pruitt fired two shots, one of them being at her, the witness said. Testifying before the coroner's jury, Mrs. Pruitt said that she left the home of her husband several days before the shooting on account of abusive treatment, and took refuge at the Farley boarding house. She saw Pruitt, she said, coming in the direction of the Farley home, and hid herself.

She testified that she heard two shots fired. A post mortem examination of Pruitt's body showed that he had been shot through the heart with a small calibre revolver, of the same size as that with which Pruitt shot Farley, and of one by his body when found sheriff's by L. H. Allison, one of the posse searching for Pruitt after the shooting of Farley. Pow.

der burns on Pruitt's body showed that the wound which caused his death was inflicted at close range. GILES HILL DEAD AT CHEROKEE AVE. HOME THIS A. M. For many months, a sufferer.

from chronic stomach troubles, Mr. Giles M. Hill, aged 67 years, passed away at an early hour this morning, at his home on Cherokee avenue. Though he had been in feeble health for several months, Mr. Hill's, condition did not cause immediate alarm to the members of his family.

until two weeks ago when his family and physician became apprehen-. sive. The deceased was well and favorably known in Gaffney and Cherokee county, and enjoyed wide sonal popularity. He was a consistant member of the Cherokee Baptist church, and had been for a number of years at the time of his passing away. Surviving the deceased are his, widow, Mrs.

Melissa Hill, four sons, E. Boyd Hill, this city; F. K. Hill, Greenville; 0. B.

Hill, Liberty; M. W. Hill, Hartsville, and three daughters, Mrs. Tom Webb, Mrs. 0, B.

Embore, and Mrs. Walter Kirby, all of Gaffney. Funeral arrangements had not been made this morning, though It was announced that the interment will take place on Tuesday..