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TT v v. , BIG SHOE CONCERNS ENTER INTO MERCER; $40,000,600 CAPITAL Boston, Mass., May 17.?The mer ger of the International Shoe Com pany of St Louis and the W. H. Mc Elwain company of this city, shoe manufacturers, was announced to day. K tarings together companies whose cofttbmed sales aggregated $130,000,000 last year. A joint capi tal of $40,000,000 is said to be in volved, merging of which is to be effected by exchange of securities j Without public financing. j The announcement stud that the' Merger takes in tiwty-tw? shoe fac-j . Sv. a- a. tOTies OI me laticiuawvutu w??v| Company in Illinois, Kentucky And Missouri; three tanneries of Kristler tesh and Company of Boston, re cently merged with the St. Louis concern, in .Pennsylvania and North Carolina; 10 shoe factories, two tanneries and four shoe materials iectories of ; the W. fl. McEhvarne Company, all located in New Hamp shire. 'The merger is the result," said J. F. McElwain, president of the W. H. IfcEJwaine Company, "of a long standing kinship of purposes and ideals between the two companies, and of the desirability of solving jWntly the problems of the future. The companies do not compete ex cept on the fringes of their respec tive lines." 1 A statement by P. C. Rand, presi "'ieut of the .International Sfcoe Com pany, also was given oat here. ,,"Fot more than three years,' he Mid, "we have not0 been able to make as many shoes as our custom GLAD YC ?FOLKS OF ?and the response v Drennan made many -; when he was there in making many friends ducting THE 600 BANKRUI Of The PRATT i $32,000 STOCK < HERE'S RARE OPF FOR THE MEN 1001 MEN S $15 ( OXFORDS 1 ?Yes Sir! They sold I Black Oxfords, then there are English La nation Lasts? 1 AND BEST OF ALl 1 nn Sole TUESD4 THE BOI R. BEN TA Successors to PRAT' GREENWC Chas. A. Drennai SUIT FOR $50,000 IS FILED AGAINST WARE SHOALS MFG. COMPANY Greenwood, May 17.?A com plaint, asking damages in te sura of $50,000, was filed Saturday against the Ware Shoals Manufacturing company of Ware Shoals, by Leroy Jackson, through his attorney E. J. Best, of Columbia. The plaintiff al leges that" he suffered injuries, imaging to the exteat of |50,QQ0 when a platform, erected and owned by the defendant company, fell with him on July 23rd. The accident which caused the al t\4 4hi> Wan the wmie wfe'cli resuHed ^fi tfc? death of .Miss Neva Dallas, the daughter <xf Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dallas, of this city. If the complaint the plaintiff al leges that while outwalking with several companions, a platform erected and owned by the defendant company, projecting outover the riv er, gave way, plunging the party on the rocks below, resulting in the death of one member of the party and the injury of others. Porpoises are the greatest enemies of sardines. Asphalt as produced artificially in making coal gas. ers wished to buy from us. Through- j out the dull period of the past six months, we have not closed down a factory. With this added strength, the International Shoe Company is prepared to produce 120,000 pairs' of shoes daily." IU CAME ira6 appreciated. ?DRENNAN. friends in Abbeville December. He is 5 in Greenwood con I SHOPS rr sale fc TAYL0R, Inc., OF "Fine Shoes" 'ORTUNITY! . V* t r . * fj ; Pairs |>3. for $15.00; there are 3 are Tan Oxfords, sts, there are Cortibi L?-They will be plac lY, for $3.95 a Pair. m\ 11 SHOP .YLOR, Manager. T & TAYLOR, Inc. 1 K)D, S. C. 1 i, Sales Manager. % g 3ROTOl^f3n3ipiri3fi3ff3f^n3[?8nTO(i3fi3fi3rrWi^ln>li^l GRAMME OF RADIUM IS GIFT OF WOMEN ' TO MADAME CURIE Famous Polish Woman Scientist at The Capitol?Gift from Women Washington, May 21.?Madame Marie Curie, the eminent Polish scientist came to Washington today from New York to receive from President Harding the gram of ra dium which has been purchased for her by the women of America. The presentation is to take place at the White House at 4 o'clock this after j The distinguished, victor was | ported to the home of the third assistant secretary of state and Mrs. Bliss where she will be a guest until her departure on Monday for New York Madame Curie was accompani ed by her two daughters and Mrs. William Maloney of New York. Madame Curie will be the guest at a dinner Saturday night at the French embassy and Sunday night at the Polish legation. RAILWAYS MUST REDUCE COSTS Snyth of New York Central Teeti fie*?To KMdjuit Kale* \ Washington, May 21.?American raKroads must 'get their costs down' and must 'not be tied up so tight' if they are to be placed on a profit able basis, President A. H. Smith oi the New York Central testified to day before the senate interstate com merce committee, which is investiga ting .the transportation situation. "Labor costs, fuel costs, tax costs should be reduced," he said, "while the interstate commerce commission should give the roads 'more rope.' " In reply to a question of Chair man Cummins directed at his state ment concerning the supervision of the interstate commerce commission, Mr. Smith said regulation had tend ed to go too far. " We have to come down here nad have long hearings before we can do anything, except run the properties the way they are,' he said. "Rates have got to be adjusted," he contained, "because we have listed all of these rates by percent- j ages for the last three years or more and any one knows that if you take 76 per cent, of 16 cents and 75 per. cent of 120. cents you jack them all. up the same, you are going to tip over after a while. Therefore, we have got to go back and stientifical ly or properly, at any event, read-j j 9> ? jusi xnese rates. Mr. Smith whoee testimony will be continued when the committee meets again Monday analyzed repair shop costs on his road, showing great increases in expenditures and lessening of output, which, he said, dated back to the albolition of piece work during government control of the roads. Reducing output was "human nature when men found they were being paid for putting in i time and not for results," he ex plained. "I am not running my repair shops now because we haven't got the money to fill the pay car to pay the men," he exclaimed in discussing present conditions, but he expressed the opinion that "business will come back and we ought to be getting ready for winter now." MASTER'S SALE The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, Court of Common Pleas. W A TPTT Plaintiff against MIKE KUSTAS et al, Defendants By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in aaid State, made in the above stated case, I will offer j for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbe ville, C. H., S. C., on Salesday in June, A. D., 1921, within the legal I hours of sale the following described land, to wit: All that tract or parcel | of land situate, lying and being in ' the City of Abbeville in Abbeville i County, in State aforesaid, bounded bySpring St., lot of Charlie Hurst, Spring street, lot of Charlie Hurst, Livery Stable, lot of Mike Kustas, and lot of G. A. Neuffer and G. E Calvert, and being a part of the Den nis O'Neill property, bought by i Mike Kustas from J Allen Smith, and having a building thereon known as the Greek Hotel. TERMS OF SALE?CASH. Pur chaser to pay for stamps and papers. THOS. P. THOMSON, 5, 13-3t. Master A C, S. C. X BABY PILGRIMS COME TO UNITED STATES New York, May 21.?Plymouth rock history repeated itself tonight urith some variations when 15 Eng lish baby pilgrims?each less than a year old?reached an America as be wldering to them perhaj&s as to their ancestors who climbed out of the good ship Mayflower on the New England coast These infant adventurers, how ever, iare not Buffering from the af tormath of a storm tossed voyage, for they have been tenderly mfrad^ died in cabins of the luxurious sttfcini ship, Aquit^nia .hy,.;aurs?s. who Mil. cikre for them until they air* adopted in sumptuous homes of Wfew Yo*k society. Through the influence of the Na toinal Adoption Society of and the American committee of that oigajdCssfion, these British war or phans wikhin a few years will be listed in the social register, instead of figtotnig an uphill battle in Lon don slums. ? A number of governmental im ir;i|:ration regulations had to be abrogated to allow the infants to take domestic refuge in America. Through the department of labor, ti e literacy test at Ellis Island was: eliminated, there being no mention of baby talk in the literacy law, an<l members of the committee deposited bonds against the likelihood of their be coming public charges. The chairman of ?the American mittee of the adoption society ie Miss Clara B. Spence of New York, who haB been instrumental in obtain in# homei; for several hundred or phans. Other members of che com mittee" are Miss -Charlotte Baker, Bishop William T. Manning of the Episcopal diocese olf New York, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Dwdgiit Chapin and Miss Josephine Plows-Day, and Eng lish woman who has been associated wivh the London headquarters of the society. I ?'Witch the label on your piper and renew your subscription promptly. * TF\I/ ryj^VY' / X il tisinj of local touche sources i ity. It i ctdvertis' 1 portun: consum locality. /' THE III BEER NOT MEDICINE I SAYS FOOD EXPERT Dr. Wiley Before House Judiciary Committee-? I* Not Medicine Washington, May 21.?Beer has not been recognized a medicine by the mediical profession in three or four decades. l)r. Harvey W. Wiley, pure food export told the house ju diciary committee today at hearings on the Volstead hill to prevent sale of beer to the sick. "There are no medical properties in beer, whatever may be said of it as a beverage, Dr. Wiley declared. "The nearest tiling to it is malt ex tract, wfcteh is so made as to practi cally exclude even a trace of alcohol. I never saw a firesaafption which eon tained beer as a remedial agent. It is solely regarded ais a beverage. "The man who drinks too sxuchj beer ,is apt to devtkm obsety andL obsety is recognized as a disease. It a is better to be under normal weight than over." "How about home brew?" Dr. Wiley was asked. "Its poorest brew and the most dangerous in the world," he replied. "If you are going to have beer, it ought to be made scientifically." "How about home made liquor," Charmum Volstead asked. "WeB to get that you have a, still. I see where they attested a Harvard professor for making it which shows that the low brow habit has been picked up by the high brows." Mi Gr DESK MANl EREC The U SPAPER adver se is the lifeblood trade, because it s all consumer in everycommun jives the national er the same op ity for complete er appeal in any More than |700>00< last year for newip t by merchant* and z PRESS AND BAI :XPECT SETTLEMENT IN CLOTHING STRJ1GE 3 X; New York, May , 21.?Settlement >f the differences between Ute ' .'I Clothing Manufacturers' associativa ind 40,000 members of the Amfept nated Workers' Union, who have >een on strike since December 3, ast, is expected to be made iji ep? erences next week. Sidney HiHna% jresident of the workers' oixanza ion said today. Opening of a peace parley ? ? nade -possible, Mr. Hillman sa"d? s* he resignation of President Wldn JL handler and 25 firms of the asmcw Tbn; Wicf ions- with the worker. Surty-i?. inns remain in the associativa. Mr. Blandler, in announeing 3m esigTatrioTi, stated that the 25 Itmm eko left the association wHk %Sm 1 I ven Brothers irble and aniteCo. JNERS JFACTURERS TORS irgest and beat equipped bobi< intal mills in the Carolina*. GEENWOOD, S. C. I . I 1 p 4 i 3,000 was spent a per advertising naaafectorers. m