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SOUTH CAROLINA 



universal suffrage, the vote having been ex- 

 tended to women in 1899. Justice is adminis- 

 tered by the supreme and vice-admiralty courts 

 and inferior courts. E.B.P. 



Consult Blacket's History of South Australia; 

 Cockburn's South Australia, in British Empire 

 Series. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Adelaide Great Australian Bight 



Australia Murray River 



SOUTH BEND, IND., the county seat of 

 Saint Joseph County, situated in the north- 

 central part of the state on the south bend of 

 the Saint Joseph River, eighty-six miles south- 

 east of Chicago. Railroad lines entering the 

 city are the Grand Trunk, the Michigan Cen- 

 tral, the New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois, the 

 New York Central, the Lake Erie & Western 

 and the Vandalia. South Bend has electric 

 interurban service. The population, which was 

 53,684 in 1910, had increased to 68,946 in 1916 

 (Federal estimate). The area is more than 

 fourteen square miles. Two miles north of the 

 city is the University of Notre Dame. Promi- 

 nent features of South Bend are the Federal 

 building, courthouse, city hall, public library, 

 two public hospitals and city parks. The city 

 has a large trade throughout a rich farming 

 section, and is the home of two firms of inter- 

 national repute, the Studebaker Wagon Works 

 dnd the Oliver Plow Company. In addition, 

 there are manufactories of varnish, sewing 

 machines, .watches, automobiles and a great 

 variety of other articles. According to local 

 estimate, the value of the annual output is 

 $60,000,000. 



The site of South Bend was once occupied 

 by a Miami Indian village; later it was the 

 home of the Potawatomi tribe. The place was 



visited by French trappers and missionaries, 

 and in 1824 a fort was established by Alexis 

 Coquillard. An old Indian portage once passed 

 where the city now stands. The town was in-' 

 corporated in 1835 and became a city in 1865. 



SOUTH BETH'LEHEM, PA., a city in 

 Northampton County, in the east-central part 

 of the state, and on the south bank of the Le- 

 high River, opposite Bethlehem. It is served 

 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad and by electric 

 interurban lines. South Bethlehem contains 

 the Lehigh University, Bishopthorpe Manor 

 (a seminary for girls), Moravian Ladies Semi- 

 nary, Moravian College (theological), Sayre 

 and Lehigh University parks, Saint Luke's Hos- 

 pital and public library. The erection of a 

 $100,000 Federal building was begun in 1916. 

 Iron and steel works, foundries and machine 

 shops, knitting mills, zinc and brass works, and 

 manufactories of silk and furniture are the 

 leading industrial establishments. The output 

 of the city's industries is sometimes over $26,- 

 400,000 a year. South Bethlehem was settled 

 in 1742 and became a city in 1865. In 1910 

 the population was 19,973; in 1916 it was 

 24,204 (Federal estimate). 



SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS., a township in 

 Worcester County in the south-central part of 

 the state, twenty-one miles southwest of Wor- 

 cester. It is on the Quinebaug River and 

 on a branch of the New York, New Haven & 

 Hartford Railroad and interurban lines. The 

 city has a town hall, public library, Y. M. C. A. 

 building and Notre Dame Church, and im- 

 portant manufactories of optical goods, woolen 

 and cotton goods, knives, shuttles and cutlery. 

 Southbridge was incorporated as a township in 

 1916. The population, which in 1913 was 12,592, 

 was 14,217 by the state census of 1915. The 

 area is twenty-one square miles. 



Ordinance of 

 Secession 

 was 

 ssed 



OUTH CAROLINA, kairoli'na, the 

 smallest of the Southern states, distinguished 

 for its aggressive and important part in United 

 States history at a critical time. It was one of 

 the thirteen original members of the Union, 



and at all times has been true to its motto 

 "Ready in soul and resource." The state be- 

 longs to the South Atlantic group, and is popu- 

 larly known as the PALMETTO STATE. It has 

 never adopted a state flower. 



