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v,v f ET5JS," SV1- : ".' -v ' ljW,-.' ' * ' . M , ,.4> .. .. . . , ? Watch Label on your Paper i\ \ Xri* I I ifm WVi**'*' I The Date on the Label is the | # a^d Don't Let Subscription l3Ui0U 18^4010 |~ Paper WUIBel fc- -t 1 ESTABLISHED 1804 THE DILLON HERALD DILL SOUTH CAROLINA, THUR8DAT MORNING OCTOBER 21, 1020. VOL.27. Np. T~ 1 ?? ?' HON. JAS. NORTON DIED THURSDAY News was received in Dillon Thursday of the death of Hon. James No-ton. of Mullins. The end came , about 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Mr. Norton had been in declining health for some years, but he con- I tinued active until about a week ago , when a swelling of the lower limbs 1 compelled him to spend most of his time in bed. His condition was not ' regarded as serious until shortly be- ' fore the end, when it was noticed that < he was a very ill man. Up until the 1 last his mind was active and he faced the unknown with the same unfailing courage he had displayed in fighting life's battles throughout his long and a activ e career. : r For .many years Mr. Norton was ' active in the public affairs of the J state. He served Marion county in ' the legislature and later served two terms as comptroller general. From 1 > the comptroller general's office he J went to Washington as representative from this congressional district, 1 where he remained three terms. He < was a hard worker, thorough and < painstaking in everything he did, J and in every public position he made 1 the people an able and efficient rep- j resentative. He was a hard student, * a close observer and a deep thinker ( and no man in the state was better < informed on the issues of the day. j Even to his declining years he never 1 ceased to take an active interest in ' state, national and internatioal af- < fairs and his views on matters of < public policy were just as strong as in the days when he unflinchingly advocated from stump and platform j those things he believed to be right. Mr. Norton was a staunch friend J of the masses and was aiways i?U; > and willing to align himself with those who needed a wise counselor to help them in fighting life's battles. ' He was the poor man's friend. 1 His wife, who was a sister of the J late John C. and P. B. Sellers, pre- * ceded him to the grave several years 1 ago. He is survived by an only son, * Mr. Fitz Norton, of Mullins. 1 The funeral was held at his home * in Mullins Friday and the interment c was made at Miller's church that afternoon, with Masonic honors. 1 a -?. ' NEXT WEEK COTTON PICKING WEEK , Movement Vnder Way to Close t | Schools and Stores and Devote I v Week to Picking Cotton. I The movement to declare next ? jf week a county-wide cotton picking t r week by closing schools, stores and i all manutacturing plants seems to 1 have gained great momentum andji 1 maior-|( meets tne appxu?ai ui ?. 0.^~. , ity of the people who realize the danger of letting cotton remain in i the fields. t The matter was brought to the at- J tention of the Federation meeting v at Hamer last Saturday and strong ?. resolutions were adopted favoring the 1 plan and urging the schools and i other places to close for a week beginning next Monday morning. There is no market for low grade i cotton and another wet spell will i cost the county, so it is estimated by c knowing men, at least $500,000. Not * more than 40 per cent of the cotton i in the county has been picked, and t tor the past two weeks picking has 1 been practically at a standstill. One * farmer says the high price being paid t foi picking is responsible for this t . unusual condition. Lots of people < v. want just enough money to make l ends meet, and if a picker can go in t tl-e field and. in three days gather ^ enough cotton to support him for the i week he will not work the whole i wefk. 'This condition seems to be ( pretty general. The masses of the i workers have not realized that now j ?an anrii? is the time to earn an iu*j lay BOirt money aside for the "rainy J day," which will come before the < winter is over. If they could be i made to realize that unless conditions ' change there will be much want and < snaking betore the spring months t . come again they would go to the cot- i ton fields and work from daylight J until dark. 11 The object in closing the schools 11 is to save what cotton is in the fields * and at the same time let the money * drift into the hands of thrifty peo- 1 p'.e who will hold it until they are 1 obliged to spend it for the necessi- 1 ties of life. 1 The plan seems to meet with general approval. The movement ? was started in Darlington county 1 last week and it is said that it met j t tfiih much success. If Dillon canji save what cotton is in the fields it t will be able to weather the present j 1 financial crisis. ; t c o / K. of P. Meeting Postponed. * - . * J The regular meeting tonignt on Dillon Lodge No. 54. K. of P., hasj been postponed on accou:.t of tlie- {] county fair. The next meeting will | |be on the night, of the first Thurs-j] day in November. All former members who desire t< ! j reunite with this lodge can do so by the payment of either six months or i] a years dues, dating from October(; 1st of this year, when the ludae \:& 11 I reorganized. No back dues will b< asked for. C. 3. HERRING,- C .C. I D. S. ALLEN, K. P. R. and S. and M. F. 1 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Court of Common Pleas adjourned Friday. When The Herald went to press last week the court was engaged in hearing the case of Horace Peirce against S. V. Lane. The plain- ! tiff alleged that defendant arrested him for fast driving and put him in jail without giving him an opportun- < Ity to give bond. The jury gave Mr. Pierce $5 punitive damages. The court directed a verdict for ieiendant in the case of J. W. Bryant! against the Dillon Mills. The plain-!1 Liu claimed that the mills owed him ?1,000 on a certificate of indebted- j ness issued some years ago, by the Hawer Mills for his note. The note was not used and it was plaintiff's 1 privilege to surrender the certificate and get his note. The certificate was ! not surrendered and the mill con- 1 tinued to hold the note. 1 The court also directed a verdict 1 for defendant in the case of T. W. Bethea et al. vs. The Dillon Mills and f A'. M. Hauier. Plaintiff alleged that defendants were due him accrued dividends on certificates of indebtedness issued some years ago by the Maple Mills, the mill stock of plaintiff and his father, the late Dr. J. F. Bethea, having been purchased by Mr. Hauier. The defendant produced jvideuce in writing which showed that all of plaintiff's right, title and interest to accrued dividends went with the mill stock when the transfer was made. Upon this showing the :ourt directed a verdict in favor of .he defendants. o FLORENCE WOMAN NOT GUILTY lury Acquits Mrs. Edna Burges Charged With Killing Husbund Florence, Oct. 14.?Tne jury in the :ase ot Mrs. Luna Burgess, tried for he muraer of her husband, Guy jurgess, here July, 21 ot this year, liter deliberating one hour and ten mnuies, brought in a verdict of not ;uilty. On hearing the verdict Mrs. iurgess fainted, falling into the tniis of her sister, who sat beside her luring the trial. . i* Sne was assisted from the court- 1 ooui by the sheriif and on reaching ' ne street sne again tainted. The ' nal lasted lor tne greater part of f wo days, during wuicn the defendant stood remarkaoiy well the ordeal, hrough wmch she passed. the defense put up anu proved to he satisfaction of the Jury teni- \ Jorary insanity. The defendant was J put on the stand in her own benait j ind put through a severe exaimna-i .1011 oy Solicitor M. L. Gasque. She!! promptly answered every question r jut to her in a straightforward way!, md those she tailed to answerI lirectly, she said, "1 uon't know." j April, ot' this yearf( Mr. Burgess , showed an absolute and cold lnun-ij ereiice toward his wile, she claimed. (? ie'treated her harshly on seveiai oc-J( .-asions, spent her savings ot $bUO|t :ash and tequired her to sell her ma- tJ nond earrings to meet his bills, she j said. ( Gets Hold of Letter On the evening of the fatal tragedy J drs. buig^ss received through thej, nails a letter written to her husband | , >y a woman in Knoxiille, Tenn.Jj igned "Beniice.'' Her husband came | n at 5 o'clock and in their room sue tsked thai he allow her to sit on , lis lap. He repulsed her and saiu, j 1 don't want you to ever touch me , igain," she testified. She then knelt1] lelore him and asked that they iia\e , in understanding and start hie over ( 01 getting the past, she said. He rose'j o go and got his hat, she threw herj urns around his necK and said, "Guy, jj ou can't leave me, just tell me that!, ou love me a little and if you won't i, lo this, then be lair with nie and telii) ne who Bernice is," she testified. ( this, she tesified, he pushed her', iway, saying "1 don't know whoj( dernice is and I am damned tired!' if you and am going to leave youi j low." She ran to close the door andh emembered nothing else for several ( lays, she declared. She shot her lusband three times, one ball enter-!] ng penetrating the heart causing al-1] liost instant death. mree snots i( vere tired in the room and two others | n?the yard where her husband fell.j< she was in the county jail for sev-i| ;ral dayB before being released on a!] >ond of $1,000, after which she wenth vitu her sister to Atlanta, coming 11 lere only a few days ago to stand m rial. While in jail she was constantly ] inder the care of a physician and j lis testimony thht the long and con- ] inued strain with the mental shock u eceived on reading the Bernice let-1 er, caused temporary insanity andi. le gave as his professional opinion , ,hat she was not responsible fof her lets at the time of the killing. , 0 i SERVICES AT JTHE Mfc'lHUlMM ininv nj ; X i. Main Street Methodist Church.? ji Dr. Watson D. Duncan, pastor. |; Sunday school at 10 a. in., Mr. W. i H. Muller, superint* ndent. Preaching at 11 a. in. and 7:30 ] p. in., by the pastor.x Morninp subject: "The Devil and , His Work in Dillon;" evening sub- . ject: "How Christ Destroys the iYorks of The Devil." Prayer service on Wednesday a; 7:30 p. m., followed by choir prac lice. ; Public cordially invited to all services. % TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR ROW LAX 1' Gin Boiler Bursts, Kills Five Men and Fatally Wounds Sixth. A small way station on the Alma Southbound railroad, three miles northeast of Rowland, was the scene of a terrible tragedy Friday morning about 9 o'clock when a 50-horse boiler at a ginnery owned by Bridgers & Pate bursted without warning. The dead are: Robert Bridgers. Henry Bracey, Jessie Bracey, Arner Ozendine, Spencer Oxendme, and Mose Taylor, who died after being carried to a Fayetteville hospital. Robert Bridgers was a bro'.Vr of Mr. J. L. Bridgers, Atlantic Coast Line agent at Dillon. The explosion was heard in Dillon, Little Rock and Hamer, and at Rowland the concussion was so great that buildings rattled and window panes svete broken. The first person to arrive on the scene was a Mr. Bullock, who operates a gin about a mile from where the explosion took place. He heard the explosion and jumping in his automobile, drove to the scene as rapidly as possible. A gruesome sight met tils gaze. The boiler room was a mass of debris and half of the ginbouse had been torn away. Mose Taylor, colored, who died later at the hospital, was crawling around on the ground moaning piteously and callng for a doctor. Both eyes had been blown out, his shoulder was :>ioken and there were deep gashes on bis head and face. Others began to arrive and the work of rescue began, but the five men who were in the boiler room when the explosion took blace v^ere beyond human aid. Four bf the five were dead and the fifth K*as breathing his last. A horse and mule standing hitched ;o a loaded wagon near the boiler -oom were killed outright, and the rotton in the wagon scattefed on the ground. The fragments of a cat hat must have been in or near the boiler room were found in the top of i tree a hundred yards from the icene of the explosion. So great was :he force of the explosion that clothng was stripped from the bodies of :he dead men and hurled up into :rees. The body of Arner Oxendine, the fireman, was hanging over me jin-house rafters. The ginnery was owned by Messrs. Bracey & Bridgers. It had been in iperation aLmost continuously since the opening of the season. A few lays ago boiler trouble developed ind the plant was shut down for repairs. All the day before they had jeen working on the boiler, competing the work early that morning. The boiler was fired up and they .vere getting ready to gin. The Messrs. Bracey were in the boiler *oom sitting on a bench and a few uonients before the explosion Mr. Bridgers drove up his car and went into the boiler room. Just as lie en.ered tne boiler room the explosion ook place. A few minutes before he explosion took place another Mr. Bracey had been on top of the boiler ookmg at the pop-on valve. He :ame down and walked about 1U0 >ards to his house to get a knife to :ut some bagging. Just as he entered he house the explosion took place, hiis wife, who was at the door, was turled backward with great violence, jut she sustained no injuries. The ati-horse boiler was strongly mbeuded in a brick foundation ana irick were hurled a distance of 500 raids. Brick dust covered the ground 'or a radius of 100 yards. Buildings 11 the vicinity rocked as if shaken >y an earthquake and glass crumbled nto dust. It is not known how much steam pressure was on the boiler, but those who heard the explosion and saw he wreckage say the boiler must iave carried from 250 to 300 pounds if steam. It was a 60-horse boiler, but would have stood under ordinary conditions a pressure of 100 pounas. The theory is that the pop-otf valve 'ailed to work and the steam guage was out of order. This is the only explanation that can be offered. Although the Messrs. Bracey, Mr. Bridgers and Arner Oxendine, the Ireman, were within a few feet of :he boiler their bodies were not ladly burned or mutilated. One side }? Mr. Bridgers' face was crushed in jut there werp no bruises on his face. It is thought that all five men were killed by concussion, although they, were buried under heaps of a reck age. A colored boy who stod near the lorse and mule that were killed could [lot be found, but it is probable that tie recovered and ran away from 'right. The boiler was laid open as flat is a pancake. It did not rip at the rivets, but split between the seams. The flues were blown in every direction, some of them being found 300 ^ards from the scene of the explosion. A strange fatality seems to have followed the Bracey family this year. Jessie Bracey, one of the victims of the explosion, was a brother of the young Bracey who backed his car under a tree a few months ago and was choked to death by an overhanging limb. Mr. Bridgers leaves a wife and v umnll children. He was an indus i nou:- man and was making splendid headway in the world. If he had !>?en three minutes later in reaching ihe irin-house Friday morning he would not have been numbered among the victims of the tragedy. His aged father iives at Elrod. It was the most terrible tragedy DILLON'S BIG FAIR Large and Varied Aggregation o County's Products. Dillon county is not going to hav a big fair?she's having it. The bi| jvent is on and the thousands of visi tors this week will be surprised a the remarkable showing Dillon make at the first effort. It is above th< average county fair?and that i saying quite a great deal becaus< there are some mighty good count; fairs in South Carolina. The live stock exhibit features. Ii the hog department there are no bet ter specimens at the State Fair o anv other fair. Dillon county ha some wonderful hogs. They are ther to speak for themselves. They tel an eloquent story?and that is tha Dillon has not been lagging behim in the movement to improve th< breed of porkers. The pure bre< hog is the boll ngevil's worst enem; and when the weevil reaches Dilloi county it will find the enemy prett; well entrenched. In addition to th< hogs there are many fine cattle oi exhibit. The ladies have done their par well. The fancy work, art and frul departments are pretty. In each o these departments there is a prett; collection of very interesting articles well displayed and attractively ar ranged. The interior of this build ing presents a charming and delight ful scene and its collection of exhi bits is a distinct credit to the goo< taste of the ladies who arranged it One of the features of the fair wil be the midway which has a larg< and interesting collection of shows including a wild west and a }1,00< monkey speedway, Eggbert, the worl< champion motor cycle rider, am many other attractions. There an 215 people with the carnival. ' At the racing stables there ar 94 horses which will make up tlr several classes for Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday. Many of thes* 'horses are from a distance, and fron Dillon they will go to the State Fat at Columbia The races bid fair t( be one of the best features of th? week. There are several other pretty ex hibits, in eluding the agricultura and county health nurse exhibits, th< school exhibits, etc., which will havi to be mentioned in the next issue o the paper. 0 DILLON A NOISY TOWN? Kecent Sojourner Says Mill Whistle YY as to Too Much Meum ant Lenergy. "You nave a fine town and lots o very hospitable people," remarked i gentleman who speht several week: here recently, "but I must say Dilloi is the noisiest town I ever lived ii auu my business has taken me t< nearly every point in' the Unitet States. I have no criticism to mak< of trie several excellent gentlemei who own your various enterprises out I must say the employees wh< liave control of the steam whistle seem to be licensed to do as the; please." And then this gentlemai went on to say that about 4:30 ever: work-day morning he was aroused b; the incessant blowing of a whistli and the moment this whistle stoppet another whistle just as loud made ih< welkin ring for eight or ten minutes About the time he would doze off iut< another slumber another whistle ii some other part of town would emi terrible shrieks and from then on til 7 o'clock there was a constant blow ing and bellowing of whistles, the lik< of which he never heard before in hii I life. The indictment is true. rn< men who manipulate the whistles ii the various enterprises seem to hav< very little regard for the rights 01 comforts of others. Time and agalt we have hela the watch on some o these whistles and they continuec blowing for as long as five minute: without a pause. Not long ago j physician told us he was watchinj the labored breathing of a little chil< who was very ill. The child wai nervous and along in the early morn ing hours the stillness was brokei by tl.e hoarse bellowing of a whistle The child was aroused from its fitfu slumber (the first it had had fo many hours) and the incessant '<>? ing of the whistle almost threw . into hysterics. It was with difficult: that he managed to hold the child 01 the bed and the longer the whisth continued to blow the more seriou: the situation became. There an uiany sick people no doubt greatl; annoyed by this incessant blowing o whistles and certainly it is an in jus tice to those people whose work re quires them to remain up at nigh and sleep late in the morning. Thi steam piantB have a right to blov their whistles but there should bi """? "'lo ?< low refillnfinir thi oviuc i nit v/* >u ?? * ? length of time they should be blown Thirty seconds is long enough to noti fy employees of the arrival of thi work hour, and if 3d seconds of tin blowing we have been accustomed t hearing will not awaken an emplbye< tin enterprise for which he work should furnish hint an alarm clock It is not riirht to wake up the whol community 111 waking up a few em ployees. that has ever bc<?n visited upon tin i o:<.-unity and the people wer shocked and stunned by its sudden ness and.the fearful loss of lit", fi nnon Friday hundreds of automobile ftotn a radius of many miles hat gathered at the scene. ROBERT E. LEE'S COOK IN HAMLET f Says White mul Blacks on Same e Plane Only While Roastin' g 'Possum. - Hamlet Messenger, t With but a few of Hamlet's colored s population to form a hurried recepe tion committee, Rev. William Mack 8 :Lee, General Robert E. Lee's personal e body guard during the Civil War, y'spent a few hours in Hamlet Monday 1 while en route from the Confederate 3 I reunion at Houston, Tex., to his home . in Norfolk where he is pastor of a r large colored congregation, a W. M. Gordon, of Monroe, who rode e with William Mack Lee from Union 1 county capitol to Hamlet, quoted the t aged negro as follows: i "&or four years I was Marse e Robert's cook and , personal bodyi guard. I cooked what little food I y could secure for him; looked after t I his personal wants, and was ever Y ready to defend him from harm, e After the war he gave me eight hun3 dred dollars with which to educate myself, and I attended Washington t and Lee University for eight years, t Then I went into the government f postal service, working in this dey partment of the government until rei( tired with a pension. My old Misses, . MTs. Robert E. Lee, left me five . thousand dollars in her will.'* The old cook showed Mr. Gordon . several letters which he had rei ceived from the Governors of North and South Carolina, Georgia and j Kentucky, and from other notable e southern figures, the Confederate flag it which he carried in the parade at 3 Houston. i During Lee's short stay in Monroe, j the Journal of that city quotes him e as saying: "The only time, when the negro e and the white men are on an equal e plane is when the 'possum is roast. ed and the 'taters are ready. After e the feast is over they fall back into 3 their natural places." r On the breast of the distinguished 3 old darkey, who is beloved by the e entire Southland, resposed twelve or fifteen medals which had been bestowed upon him for his loyally and - care of the great Confederate leader, 1 and in his pockets he jingled, five e hundred dollars, contents of a purse b presented to him at Houston. Alf though eighty-five years of age, "Marse Robert's'' cook is well preserved for his age, stands five feet eleven inches in his barefoot, is as straight as an 'arrow, and he is the possessor of a kindly but sad face. s He sports a Van Dyke beard, which j like his hair, is grey. o ~f WHITE CAPS HIDE 1 JXTO LAKE CITY s ^ j As n Itesult of Visit There Are 3 Plenty of Cotton Pickers, Cooks . and Washers Thero Today. Florence Daily Times, j White caps were abroad in the Lake City community last night and J as a result the cotton fields of that 1 vicinity are well manned with cot. sjton pickers today, and the farmers , who have been facing ruin from low . |grade cotton are today hopeful of ^'gathering their entire crop before ' jbad deather sets in. jj In addition to the freshly discovI ered hords of cotton pickers it is re8;ported that cooks and washerwomen ''are plentiful at Lake City, j! "They were knocking on the doors early this morning, looking for jobs," 11 said a Lake City citizen to a Times J reporter this morning. ~j The white caps appeared in Lake f I City about midnight last night two ? onH "! hundred strong, cum 1 1UC1 O auu " | their horses were shrouded in white B I and the sight was enough to cast j^the fear of the Lord into the hearts 'of all beholders. J Older citizens of the town say it j' brought the scenes of 1876 to their ! minds afresh. i First the night riders visited sev? eral farmers who had been paying as |/high as $1.50 a hundred to cotton , J pickers and advised them that it was j a good time to quit this practice. ^ | Then the calvalcade made a call op the negro section and suggested that j I more work and less loafing would be 'a good thing for the colored residents of Lake City. Mayor W. H. Whitehead was also '.visited. The white caps told the JImayor that he must enforce the vaj grancy laws more vigorously and in ore rigidly. Mayor Whitehead told p|the spokesman for the party that he 'had attempted to enforce the?e laws j to the best of his ability but had ' been cit\cised severely in some quarters for his activity. He declared f',n' tn mate thp laws more effective *"! he must ?ave the undivided support ^,of the community. This support he thought he would receive from the e looks of things last night. 1 i The white caps went about their ' business calmly, and from the reports " there was no evidence of any intenF tion to offer violence to any of the e j persons* t ^v visited during the nieht. ' ISut it is said that they meant busie j ness. J 0 f t.\KI> rit(?! >IK. JACKSON To th,. readers of The Dillon Herald: I w i.-li to extend many thanks to all who helped me to the e hospital, and as for Mr. Max Pass. e|I must thank him many more times -jthan ! can express for his kindness yi and the interest h,. took in my wels| fore, and not in this case alone, hut 1 in many more in the past. LEVr JACKSON*. U. C. V. i COUNTY NEWS. OAK GltOVE Superintendent of Education R. SL Rogers was here Monday afternon to. confer with the building committee, of the new school house. He expressodL 'v himself as being well pleased with. the type of building that is being erected and the manner in which the work is progressing. The building, when completed, will rank favorably with any of the modern rural school, buildings of the county ana will no doubt meet the demands of tins, community along educational lines ' for fifty years hence. Notwithstanding the high cost oc labor and all building material tiu; nuances have been so managed that the building will be completed and equipped without any great burden in taxation to the people of thuv school district. An up-to-date school building ane an attractive church ought to be the vride of the people of any community. The people who take an interest in such institutions wili develop, into larger usefulness. Rev. C. S. Felder preached an able * sermon last Sunday morning on vhaL constitutes a good church. Albert Layton", of Marion, was here one day last week. The Home Demonstration Ciub met at Mrs. J. S. Fair last Wednesday afternoon. The good weather of the past three weeks has been of a great advantage to the farmers in gathering Che cotton. ' o ? SELLERS On Thursday morning, October 14?. at his home In Mullins, the spirit of. the Hon. James Norton took ita - Ua, flight to the regions 01 me uieai. was buried on Friday at the Miller*, cemetery, by the side of his devoted. v.iie, whose maiden name wan H4*Kachael Cochrane Sellers. "W?r would not attempt to write an obituary of a man who has done so moMu ior nis town, county, state and natkHi as has the Hon. James Norton, hat. will leave that task to more competent writers. xiiursday night about 9 o'clock. Tilghman's Are alarm sounded, and' it was found that the residence of Air. D. B. Spell was in flames. Mr. . Harrelson's house was burned also, i.ne store and postofflce. This Loan iiL oniy partially covered by insurances Mr. Burgess, of Floyds, had protracted services at the Methodist tiiurcn here last week. .urs. B. B. Sellers, Mrs. O. R. Edwards, Mrs. H. Vv, Kiich, Mrs. J. C. Sellers, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Watson, miss Mattie Price and Miss Jessie Smith attended the Federation at Hauler on last Saturday, j Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. FSl.aokleford, a daugnter, Frances, nouise. I ltev. W. C. t osier will preach ou the nfth Sunaay alternoou at An' vicch. This was done in order tnat *-- - '' ? luvmon'i; 'the churcu lUigru aueuu ? ... ' meeting at the Dillon Baptist church on uie nist buuuay atternoun in Nu; vember. .tii'. and Mrs. J. G. Bak^r had a. f tew friends with them oa Tuesday 'e\ening, it being the U'Jth annivesMX^lot tneir marriage. o JbYrltK Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rogers and' ana Miss Lucile Bethea, of Greensboro, N. C., spent the weekend here. Mrs. McLauriu, of Hope Milts. NTC., is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Katie Roberts, of Smithboro, is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Gorce Carmichael. Airs. Annie Carinkhael is visumg Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Carmichael, ot 1 Rowland. I Mr. R. C. Simpson, of Taturu, was. in town last week. * U will sell cawing club puaouca?r , Columbia, Oct. 19.?The South. Carolina Development Board, through. Ills commission markets, will : strive to lind a ready cash outlet (or I every pound oi xood produced In the. state. I One class of food, about which . there has been some diflicully in llu* liasi, was that produced oy the; .?u..ierous canning clubs. Though ort high quality and relatively cheajy. price, lack of efficient marketing, l.acnines has caused a laige anuuaw I less. ! conferences are now in progress; I between development board oftlciais> 'and Miss Christine South, state dill ector of the home economics forces, at Winthrop College, looking to a. satisfactory market for every pound of canned goods put up by the girls, in the home demonstration clubn. t., a item alone, thousands of cans Ail UUV ? v ? , | 01 toinatots are turned out each year ! b> these girls, and even so, other ! thousands might be if there wa:, market. the development board has u?vtv taken up the matter oi tne su:e o canning club goous with one of the a Iiargest cham grocery store corpora* pons in the country. Officials of thi*. I company have expressed thmselves am |anxious to handle the products of 1 I the noine economics members. They l ! will ilo m), thev say, on a busitvesK- I basis, ami by placing the goods iin then- htinuivus of stores, hml a quick market for every can protlui-eo. ibis matter will b' brought up .ir the next meeting of the board's mar kets commission tor uolinife action. .Miss South will attend the tiiveinifr and act as the representative of (he lubs in closing the negotiations.