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TREASURER'S ROBBERY STORY A FAKE Marion, 0., Jan. 29.?Treasurer Harry C. Forry, of Marion county, who reported Wednesday morning1 that he had been robbed of $14,303,1 by two bandits who knocked him un-! conscious in his office in the court house, was placed under arrest ear ly today and confessed to the theft of them oney, police announced to day. Written Confession Not satisfied with his story of the I robbery, police became suspicious I of Forry and late last night obtain-! ed a written confesion from him.' 9 J " ' * 1- ? I tney say, ienmg now ne atuie mc money from the court house safe Tuesday night, taking It to his home where he hid it in a chest. Forry was placed under arrest early this morning, almost immedi ately following the arrival of a new baby at his home. He is the father of three other children and is the son-in-law of Representative Horace W. Cookston, representing Marion county in the legislature. Forry is 35 years of age. He was defeated for re-electino last November. Forry's confession was made to G. Farr Larie, justice of the peace in the form of an affidaivt. , Hit Himself iWth Hammer Wednesday morning Harley Bene dict, entering the county treasurer's office to pay his taxes, found Forry lying on the floor, apparently un conscious. He rendered first aid and called a physician and the police. "ni/l Wa wAii+l?fn1 KonHito KqH I' Vily oam wttu jvruviuLut wh<*u*vw hit him over the head with a revol ver and had walked off with the money later found to be about $14, 300. ,In his signed confession, Forry said hef ramed the robbery story to cov er his theft. He admitted having scratched his face and hit himself over the head with a hammer in or der to make his robbery story more realistic. Worried Over Debts Forry, in his signed confession, said he went deeply into debt last fall during his campaign for re-elec tion and had heavily mortgaged two nwned. His friends be lieve that his mind became deranged with worry over 'his financial obliga tions, and his defeat for re-election. Mrs. Forry knew nothing about the rolbbery, she told police, until this morning after the birth of her baby. Her husband's confession was her first intimation of the trouble. Police first became suspicious when a private detective from Cleveland told them yeterday that the finances of the treasurer's office did not appear right. A thorough in vestigation of the cash was made, and later Forry was quizzed. Late last night he completely broke down and confessed. Forry is beingx held without bail and probably will be arraigned late 1 today or tomorrow. Frozen remains of a mammoth, : i now extinct, have been found in Si beria. The animal was preserved so 1 well that dogs really ate the flesh. 1 As a protest against the display of luxury in times of stress and mis ery an old gentleman, well-dressed and of distinguished appearance, smashed the window of one of the most fashionable jewelry stores in Paris recently. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN T Ifcmb tic The Volunteer Proof Reader, alias the Printshop Pest, Loafs 'Round the Office, Entertains the Printers, Pies Type and Soaks Up all the News In advance by Reading Proofs and the Copy on the Hook. He's as Welcome around this office as a Bolshevist at an American Legion convention and any body who Gets Peeved at this Recog nizes the Description. ??J BUILDING IN SOUTH IS AGAIN RESUMED Baltimore, Jan. 29.?Indicative of the upward trend in industrial, municipal and housing developments in various sections of the South are the many reports from railroads, municipalities, industrial corpora tions, building and loan associations good roads commissions and similar bodies, outlining the expansions planned for 1921 as published in the columns of the Manufacturers Re cord this week. Prominent among these announcements is the expen diture of $18,000,000 in extensions and improvements of the Norfolk ahd Western railroad; the develop ment of a 1100-mile system of good roads in Georgia, some of which isj complete and the remainder in course of construction at a total cost of 'more than $17,500,000; construction of 390 miles of high ways in Mississippi, partly complete entailing a cost of $4,000,000; the launching of big programs for muni cipal improvements in many cities ' in the south, together with increas ed acitivities in industrial and build ing developments , as indicated by ^ the increased volume of permits is sued during the first few weeks of the new yera; the bringing in of oil wells in new fields in Texas and Ar- 1 kansas, and the optimistic spirit re vived in textile mill centers as a re- J suit of the placing of new orders of ] substantial size permitting the oper- 1 ation of quite a number of mills at i full time. J Cotton spinning mills in the vicini- ! ty of Greenville, S. C., have just re- 1 ceived large orders for print cloths, 1 pajama checks and similar goods, ( permitting resumption of operation 1 on a 48-hour basis, following a read- < justment in wage scale of from 25 1 to 40 per cent reduction. Several 1 Gastonia, N. C., mills similarly have 1 resumed full-time operations, indi- ? cative of the upward trend, and J some mills are running day and ? night, witn orders now in nana in- < suring operations at this capacity ] until April. Orders for yarns and all kinds of textiles are increasing in volume and prices are improving, soj that a general feeling of hopeful ness and confidence is being esta blished. Oil developments of considerable magnitude are now transpiring. Last week a unique well was brought in near Fort Stockton Tex., with an initial flow of 600 barrels an hour at 96 feet, and finally set tled down to 400 barrels daily. Union county, Arkansas' dream of oil has become a reality with the Krincrino- in of 10.000 barrel daily s oil gusher near Eldorado. c Building activities continue to in- * crease, as indicated by the number s of permits issued during the first * bwo weeks of the new year, and ar- J chitects and contractors in the va- 1 rious States report that early spring k will see the inauguration of a big t industrial and housing program, g More than $1,250,000 will be ex- t pended in Norfolk this year upon s streets, sidewalks, sewers and simi- t lar improvements following the t completion of a $1,000,000 program b in 1920. Work is progressing upon a the constructoin of a $600,000 of- r fice building for the York-Bousch a Corporation. B. H. Gruver of Wash- t III^LUII, piHllO A va. vv.. struction of dwellings to cost $250,- s 000. At Palm Beach a $200,000 t building and loan association was t organized last week. If half of the i projected construction projects are \ started this year in Mo<bile, Ala., it t is said that the city will experience t one of the most active building year J in its history. Winston-Salem has c employed a Pittsburgh firm to draft | a city plan to relieve congestion on t the downtown streets and suggest ? needed city improvements of all t kinds. A sanatorium at El Paso, ( Tex., is being erected at a cost of j $400,000. Reports from Wheeling, r W. Va., show that a number of the j steel mills and similar plant in the i territory are operating at or near l capacity, with work in hand for ] many months. , j One of the most modern acid phos- i phate and complete fertilizer manu- 1 facturing plants has been placed in 1 operation at Savannah by the Sou- i thern Fertilizer and Chemical com- i pany. Good roads improvement continue; i to be pushed vigorously in the va- > rious States, and efforts are b; in? : made to make available bond V- tes ! voted some time ago but held up be- : cause of high prices for materials < and labor and the low prices offer- 1 ed for the bonds. GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM tobacco makes 50 dnnH ridarpff-ec fnr 10c HAVE NEW HEARING IN GOSSETT CASE Death of Judge Hydrick Compels Supreme Court to Review the Appeal The following is from The Green /ille News: The death of Associae Justice D. E. Hydrick of the South Carolina Su preme Court makes it necessary for that tribunal to have a second hear ing on the appeal of Kenneth Gossett poung ADDevnie wnite man, unaer sentence of forty years imprisonment for criminal assault upon a young white woman of Abbeville a number jf months ago and if Solicitor Black well, representng the State, gives his :onsent the case will be submitted this time to the court of last resort without verbal argument, to enable Shief Justice Gary and Associate Justice Gage, who were not present it the first hearing last fall and who ire still indisposed at their homes, to ;o pass upon the appeal. Bonham and Price, Greenville attorneys represent ng Gossett, yesterday agreed to sub nit their contention in the form of i written brief, without a verbal learing, but consent to such a pro cure must be given by the solici ;or before it can be carried through. At last fall's sitting of the Supreme 2ourt only Associate Justices ,Hy Irick, Watts and Frazer were present Dhief Justice Gary and Associate Jus- 1 ;ice Gage being ill at their homes in Vbbeville and Chester, respectively, rhe Gossett appeal, along with a arge number of others) was argued 1 >efore the three first named who con tituted a auorum of the court. No lecisicn had been rendered at the : ime Associate Justice Hydrick died ' uddenly in Washington, so that now it least three of the Supreme court udges must review the case again. < rhe two who were ill when the first ] learing was held are still confined o their homes and the only way to ;et the appeal before a majority of < he members of the court any time i oon is to submit the printed briefs 1 o them. The clerk of the Supreme i ribunal is sending out from Colum- 1 ai inquiries to interested lawyers < sking if they are willing to have '* e-hearings by thie method in cases rgued before the three associate jus- < ices last fall, explaining that such eviews can ue neiu uniy upuxi cuii- ' ent of both sides. James H Price of he firm of Bonham and Price, yes erday received one of these inquir es in the Gossett case and he for warded it to his partner, State Sena or Proctor A. Bonham, who is at ending the sessions of the General Assembly in Columbia, with the rec >mmendation that Senator Bonham jive the firm's consent and suggest ;o Solicitor Blackwell that he do the same in order to get the rehearing at he earliest possible time. With Dhief Justice. Gary and Associate rustice Gage still absent and w:th rhomas P. Cothran of Greenville, lewly elected associate justice re naming a member of the House of Representatives for some days before eaving it to take his place on the Su ireme Court bench, Mr. Price ex jlai'ned that it will be a good while ?efore the second hearing can be leld unless both sides agree to have it conducted without verbal argu nent. The Gossett case, which originated many months ago, was one of the nost sensational ever tried in th:s section. A mot:?on for a new tr a1 in Sessions Court, which motion con sumed much time before being fully denied, delayed the appeal to the tri bunal of last resorts until the fall of 1920. NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT Stute of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. Notice of Settlement and Applica tion for Final Discharge. Take Notice, That on the 31st day of January 1921, I will render a fin al account of my actings and doings as administrator of the estate of E. E. Williams, deceased, in the office of Judge of Probate for Abbeville County, and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust, as such. All persons having demands a gainut said estate will .present them for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or be for ovor linrrpH E. A. WILLIAMS, 1, 14?3t Administrator. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF AD MINISTRATION The State of South Carolina. County of Abbeville. Probate Court. By ,3. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge of Probate: Whereas, Jame3 S. Cothran hath made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of Wade S. Cothran, late of Ybbeville County, deceased. These Are Therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Wade S. Cothran, deceased that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Abbeville Court House, on the 2nd day of Feb. 1921, after publication hereof, atll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if a.ny they have, why the said Ad-i ministration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal of Court this 19th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty one and in the 145th year of American Inde pendence. Published on the 20th day of Jan. 192l in the Press and Banner and on the Court House door for the time required by law. J. F. MILLER, 3t. Judge of Probate. MASTE R'S SALE The State of South Carolina. County of Abbeville. Court of Common Pleas. CARRY GARY, Plaintiff against GEORGE WILLIAMS, MARSHALL WILLIAMS and others, Defendants. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville Gounty, in said State, made n the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbe ville C. H., S. C., on Salesday in February, A. D. 1921, within the le :al hours of sale the following des cribed land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and bein? 11 Abbeville County, near the City >i Abbeville, in the State aforesaid, :ontaining Fourteen (14) Acres, nore or less, and bounded on all sides ay land now belonging to T. A. Put lam, and being known as the Charity Pressly place and being the same land :onveyed to her by Thos. C. Perrin md others. TERM OF SALE?CASH. Pur :haser to pay for stamps and papers. THOS. P. THOMSON, St. Master A. C., S. C. : I GERMANY BATTLING TO REGAIN SILESIA London, Jan. 29.?Germany and Poland are battling bitterly to win the plebescite in Upper Silesia March 15. By this plebiscite the people will determine whether they will come under German or Polish rule. Both countries want this territory because of its great coal resources. Germany, which has had to sur render the Saar Basin coal regions to France, for 15 years, says it will mean total ruin if it loses the Sile sian coal fields. Poland claims she must have them x_ J* 1 1 ?? -1 a? to iuei ner industries. Both sides charge unair campaign methods, intimidation and violence. Though most of the people speak Polish, the territory has been under German rule for 700 years. Political leaders in Germany talk of violence if the allies avrard the territory to Poland, Vice versa with Polish leaders. The Polish legation announces that the Polish general staff is reor ganizing a regular army according to military standards. But It denies That the army is being mobilized in full strength: That the Poles are concentrating troops on the Esthonian, Latvian and Rumanian frontiers; That there are prospects of re newal of warfare between Poland and Bolshevik Russia. The legation blames the Germans for the baseless mobilization report, which is to depress Polish currency and credit, to otherwise weaken the country, and to influence the plebis cite. It reports that five classes of the army have been demobilize and that it now numbers only 300,000 pien. The legation says the Polish high command expects a peace treaty to be signed with r,he Rolsheviki in February. In China all the land belongs to the state, and a trifling sum per acre, scarcely altered through long centuries, is paid as rent. BIGGER TO TH1 FOR every crop you plan to especially designed to in soil. For prize crops of c Fertilizer. 90 to 95 bushels of acre are records established thr izer on Southern farms. They success throughout the South j has used them and he will say: PLANTERSI DOUBLES ' For many years Planters Ferti the South's most successful fari sible to produce bigger* better this year-GET RESULTS ' I C /inctilf nnr A rrAn t- fnr PVpp write us direct?TODAY. It r Planters Fertilizei MANUFA Charleston ? "Some people of money by in Thnsp. nf ns who havfi at, scant of funds appreciat observation. If you have ever experie of being short of money, count for something? Build up a Savings Accoi able feeling that accomji financial reserve. INTEREST PAID O Planter "The Frien ABBEVI The Home of Over II $16,509,877.64 TOTAL COLLECTED BY BAPTISTS IN $75,000,000 DRIVE Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 27.?Col lections, of $16,509,877.64 in cash on subscriptions to the Baptist $75, 000,000 campaign were reported here today by the Conservation Commission as it assembled to lay plans for a spring cash round up during March and April. The money collected has been ap portioned among the causes of for eign, home and state missions. Christian education, hospitals, or phanages and ministerial relief in accordance with the original cam paign program. Flowers growing in the Polar re gions seldom have any perfume. COMPLAINT TO SELL LANDS TO PAY DEBTS. The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville In Probate Court. CATO RAPLEY, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of ; Nellie Greene, deceased, Plaintiff, : aeainst I Fleming Rapley, Ben Rapley, Mary Rapley, Eulus Rapley, George Rap ley and Florence Rapley, 1 Defendants. Pursuant to an order of the Pro bate court, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville, C. H., South Carolina,, on salesday in February, 1921 next* for the payments of debts, the fol lowing described real estate, belong ing to the estate of Nellie Greene, 1 deceased, situate in the County of Abbeville, in the State aforesaid, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land known as the Nellie Green place con taininff Tuiolvo Acres ntnrp r?r Ipsk and being bounded by lands of Jim Klugh, Robert Jay place, Miller lands and public road. This land will be sold at the risk of the former purchaser. i TERMS CASH?Purchasers to pay for stamps and papers. J. F. MILLER, 1, 21, 3t. Judge of Probate YIELDS n 4 /MT\ri LALKL sow, there's a Planters Fertilizer crease the productiveness of your :otton, corn, truck?use Planters corn?1 to 2 bales of cotton per ough use of this reputable fertil have been used with unvarying [or years. Ask the farmer who FERTILIZER HOUR YIELD ilizer has been the preference of mers, because it has made it pos crops. Make every acre count fHAT WILL PLEASE YOU. ' nue, liiiui iiiauuu aiiu iriices?ur neans dollars to you. ' & Phosphate Co. CTURERS - South Carolina learn the vaue it liavincr anv ri uu t nig unj one time or other been e keenly the truth of that need the trying sensation , make that experience nit and enjoy the comfori ianies the possession of a N SAVINGS. s Bank idly Bank" LLE, S. C. 900 Bank Accounts.