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>;? ' :5ji &/ : - 0*fj.t>. i' -V I * Established in 1891. ? BRIEF NEWS NOTES \ WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OMMPORTANCE Gathered From All Parts Of Tha Globe And Told In Short Ayi ?pn? % Foreign? Snipers continue their grim work In the disturbed sections of Belfast, Ireland. The total of deathB so far is eighteen, and the number of pounded is not less than fifty. The house of commons has voted an expression of confidence in the policies of Lloyd George, on every Issue, foreign and domestic, now before the British people. Chinese shipping companies, lacking { government production from pirates who have been seizing and looting ocean-going vessels in buccaneer taple, have taken to arming their ships and placing details of guards aboard. The Standard Oil company has definitely suspended all work at its refineries near Tampico, and workmen numbering upward of a thousand will be discharged immediately, according to advices from Tampico which say orders to this affect have been received from New York. Only the pump workers will he retained, it was added. The British military evacuation of Ireland is expected to be resumed it was declared by Michael Collins, head I of the provisional Irish government, on his return from London, where he interviewed, Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for colonies. General MacReady, British military comand-1 or in Ireland, visited Mr. Collins, and their conversation, it was assumed, I was in connection with the withdrawal of the troops. Up until recently the troop movement had not been resumed but preparations were under way for the immediate shipment of hundreds of tons of army Btores. The first person who can prove that supernatural causes are not responsible tor uncanny happenings at Alex MacDonald's farm in Caledonia .Mills, near Halifax, N. S., will receive $100 If an offer made by Detective Carroll of the provincial police and Harold W^ldden, a Halifax reporter, holds good. Firing In the Stanhope street area, when the disorders broke out anew recently, after a lull of several hours, became so intense that police, hurried to the scene, wore forced to ubo their arms to subdue the snipers. Protesting his innocence, the Rev. Adelard Delorme, Catholic priest, charged with the murder of his halfbrother, Raoul, an Ottawa university student, pleaded to be tried as soon as possible. The resignation of Czecho-Slovakia as "guardian'' of Austria is declared in diplomatic circles for discussion between Dr. Eduard Denes, the Czeclio /premier, and foreign minister and the British government during the visit k r In London of Dr. Benes. The permanent court of international Justice was opened recently at The Hague with fitting ceremonies. Several of the royal families were In attendance. An attempt was made on the life of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, the Hungarian regent, according to reports published in Vienna. Washington? Confidence that the work of the railroad administration will be "substan uauy completed" by January 1, 1924, and that the "entire liquidation of the obligations of the government arising during the period of federal control could be concluded without any additional appropriation ,for that purpose by congress" was expressed in a letter from President Harding to Speaker Glllett recently. The Kenyon bill to aid idle men of the country has been recommitted, and it Is believed that the return of the measure to the committee means its "death." Boax W. Long, American minister to Cuba since 1919, has tendered his resignation to Prestdent Harding to take effect at once. While the war department has no official advices as to the situation at El Paao, it has been known in Washington for some time, that a revolution was brewing across the border. The department has left the matter to Major General Howie, as it his business to take special precautions to protect the border at any and all times. Secretary Denby, in asking congress . for an appropriation of $350,000,000 for the navy next year, in a frank and detailed statement as to what the navy HonaHmon# * * * * ..rwMuum uu|niu lU UCCOnipilSn, lOltl the house naval oommlttee that his estimate called for a reduction of 10,000 in enlisted personnel, which was made possible only by putting about 100 destroyers out of commission and by sharp cuts in shore station forces. The war department has ordered further reduction of officers and men in the American forces in Germany. There remaips a total of 169 officers and 2,217 men. Proposals were made before the interstate commerce commission at the hearing by 8. Davie Warfield, president of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, preliminary to a report by f.he board of economics And engineering appointed by the association advocating methods for the economical handling of railroad equipment. .,v . , . ' :.;s,;.'' The A demand for an Immediate investigation of reports tliat the "fertiliser Industry" is maintaining an expensive lobby not to defeat Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate project was made in the senate by Senator McKellar, Tennessee. Congress was torn recently between passing a sales tax to pay p soldier bonus and dropping altogether the cash bonus, stipulating therefor paidup insurance or land grants. This was the situation in the wake of President Harding's letter suggesting the sales tax for abandonment as the alternatives for the bonus. Traffic over the Pennsylvania lines between here and Baltimore had been resumed recently after several hours' interruption caused by the derailment at Odenton, Md., of two cars on the Buffalo express. Four persons were injured, two seriously, and several hundred yards of track were torn up in the derailment, necessitating the routing of Pennsylvania trains over the Baltimore and Ohio tracks until the damage was repaired. The senate judiciary committee, as a means of relieving congestion in certain judicial districts, has agreed to report a bill providing for nineteen additional United States district judges and one additional circuit judge. Domestic? i Scores of ships of all kinds from battered tramp steamers of the seven seas to graceful pleasure-freighted pas| sengor liners left New York harbor on a mission of mercy?an a^temVt to res- ] cue John Birkner, 24, the sailor who was cast adrift from the steamer Gaffney, 700 miles away, in an unfrequented part of the Atlantic. New Orleans telegraph advices show that the cotton market is taking its usual spring rise, and in one day the gains ran up to 55 points over the previous day. Futures also responded with a healthy rise. Pussyfoot Johnson was ejected from a'Chicago cafe, the other day, by the waiters and other restaurant employees. He was literally kicked from the the "Joint" and his coat and hat thrown out after him. The playing of dominoes or loitering about domino parlors in the military area at Mexia, Texas, will constitute evidence that persons so engaged are vagrants, according to an order published by Brig. Gen. Jacob P. Wolters, commander of the National Guard forces there, to restore order and break up alleged trafficking in whisky and drugs. Hugh C. Fisher, district attorney for the federal western district of Louisiana, has been disbarred from that court for six months on conviction of contempt of court. Reports of the court's action have been forwarded to Washington. The banker for Lorenzo Guissi, under arrest at Oakland, Calif., on a charge of failing to render assistance to a woman who had been run dow-n by Guissi's automobile, took a wagon load of half dollars?$2,00 in all? to Jail for Guissi's bail. It took police officers near eight hours to count tho money, which was finally chocked as correct. Dispatches from El Paso, Texas, say feeling is tense in Juarez, across the border in Mexico, and at Fprt Bliss, where reports have caused emergency steps to be taken to get ready for a threatened Mexican rebel attack on Juarez. Five thousand American soldiers have been mobilized at Fort Bliss "to protect the border." The grand Jury recently returned four true bills against Mrs. Catherine Rosier in connection with the killing of her husband, Oscar Rosier, and his 19-year-old stenographer, Mildred Rickett in his advertising offices at Philadelphia, Pa. Fire at Dothan. Ala., destroyed the plant of the Dothan Syrup company, causing an estimated loss of $75,000, covered by insurance. A terrorist program of international scope may be revealed through the arrest at Los Angeles, Calif., of eight alleged members of a band of extortionists, it was said by federal and other officers who participated in the arrest. George A. Bowen, attorney, shot and killpri hi ft wifp Mnrv PnHnn 17 of age. and her mother, Mrs. Julia Taylor, 66, and then ended his life in his wife's home at Los Angeles, Cal. Detectives investigating the slaying of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, continued interviewing persons thought to have information possibly bearing on the case, but without definite results. District Woolwlne announced at Los Angeles, Cal. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., addressing the Westchester County Chamber of Commerce at New York, told another story on himself about his recent visit to China. In one town he visited he caused removal of the top of the sedan in which he was being carried to that he might tetter see the sights. The populace greeted him in such a peculiar manner that he made inquiries, | eliciting the information that he was riding in state only accorded to crim nut in uo incir way to be executed. Tabulation of Alabama official re* turns from the special election of Januray 30, submitted by all counties, show that 111,524 votes were cast for $25,000,000 good> roads bond issue amendment and 22,918 against. Harvey Church, condemned to die in Chiengo for murder of two automo* bile salesmen whom he had lured to the basement of his home in order to gain possession of an expensive motor car, must live to die on the gallows, county Jail officials have decided, so they broke his hunger strike by forcibly feeding him through a tab*. FOR' POET MILL, 1 STATE TEACHERS TO MEET NEXT MONTH ASSOCIATION WILL. PROBABLY BRING FIFTEEN HUNDRED TO COLUMBIA. OPENING SESSION MARCH 10 Glee Clubs of the University, Chlcora College and Columbia College Are Invited to Take Part. u_ Columbia.^-Preparations for the annual meeting of the State Teachers' association are going ahead rapidly, the speakers having been secure.d, the department meetings arranged and the program having been placed in the hands of the printer. The opening session will be held March i6. The meeting of the association will close March 18. The regular Sessions of the association will be held in the high school building, in the Washington Street Methodist church and in the Sunday school building of the First Baptist church. The evening meetings will be held in the Columbia theater. The glee clubs of the university, Chicora college and Columbia college have been invited to take part on the general programs, and two of these have already accepted. The attendance at this meeting will probably be 1,500 and in order to accommodate these visitors it will be necessary to call on the people of tha city to open their homes, according to the members in charge of the meeting. Families who are in position to furnish either rooms or table board or both have been invited to notify the secretary of the chamber of commerce so that the rooms may be listed. Rates and the number of teachers that can he accommodated will be desired by the chamber, ns the teachers will make application direct to the secretary, and the secretary will assign the teachers to the different residences. , State Sunday School Convention. Spartnnburg.?The preliminary announcement of program for the annual State Sunday School association convention was made by the program committee. Among those who have already accepted places on the program are Dr. H. E. Tralle of Philadelphia. bead of the training work of the American Baptist* Publication society. Dr. Tralle will speak each day of the convention. Dr. Robert S. Truesdale, pastor of Main Street Methodist church. Columoia. will speak on "Sunday School Evangelism." Dr. Truesdale is secretary of the evangelism committee of the State Sunday School association, and is widely known for his interest in this phase of church work. Dr. Watson U. Duncan, pastor of Cheraw Methodist church, and one of the most populur lecturers in the state, will speak on "The Discovery of a Little Child." Dr. D. B. Johnson, president of Winthrop college, will preside over the convention sessions as president. The convention sessions will be held at the University of South Carolina and the date has been set for June 20, 21. and 22, in accordance with the wish of the university authorities, this being the week following commence ment. Fires on Officer at Close Range. Rock Hill.?By striking down the pistol of Manllus Owens, just as he was pulling the trigger, S. M. Willlford, policeman, probably saved his own life. The officers hand was burned by the discharge while the bullet ripped through his coat, just missing the skin. Had his hand been a fraction of a second later the ball would have doubtless penetrated the body. Owens was arrested by Constable Allen a minute later and gave bond in the sum of $500 for appearance at the York court of general sessions on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Death Claims Able Attorney. Florence.?Philip Allston Willcox, general solicitor of the legal department of the Atlahtlc Coast Line railroad and recognized as one of the ablpst lawyers of the South, died here after an illness of three weeks. He was 55 years old. / Growers of Peanuts Organize. Clover.?The Clover Peanut Growers' association was organized at a meeting of leading farmers of the community in the opera house here. L. H. Jackson was elected president, Arthur Quinn, vice president and V. O. Hambright, secretary and treasurer. The association will undertake to encourage farmers of the community to plant at least 100 acres in peanuts this year. Interest in the growing of peanuts has been promoted largely through the efforts of the First National hank. More Marlon Tree*. Marion.?Many new trees dot the public square and line the streets of Marion as a result of the work of the tree commission recently created by the town council. Due to the urgings of a committee from the Civic league, the council was moved to further beautify the town of Marion by expending some money on trees. The commission is composed of the following citizens: J. W( Johnson, chairman; L P. Byars, E. B. Hamer. Mrs. Henry Buck and Miss Mabel Montgomery. \rs . ; ; 3 *'\y':' \ ' '' , r Mi] 3. 0., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY " I . HOSPITAL PLANS I ARE ANNOUNCED | ADDITIONAL HOSPITAL CON. STRUCTION TO CARE FOR FORMER SERVICE MEN. IN VARIOUS PARTS OF COUNTRY | Proposed Program Would Include Many Beds Needed for the fcare of Mental Patients. r WRHh in f?tnn nalalliul _0.^?. v.iuitvu icvuiuuiua* dations for additional government hospital construction in various parts of . the country for former service men framed by a conference of specialists on mental diseases were made public by the veterans' bureau. The proposed program would Include a J total of 12.000 beds needed for the care of mental pntients. Location of a hospital of 500 beds in the western part of Massachusetts to receive pa tients from Vermont, New Hampshire and northern Connecticut towns was recommended to replace the hospital , now in use at East Norfolk, Mass., while the use of Fort Hoover at Buffalo was suggested. Increase of the hospitals at Perryville and Gulfport, ? Miss., were recommended together with the construction of a new in- , stitution of 500 beds to be increased later to 1,000 beds in district No. 7, comprising Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Disapproval of the use of the 1 hospital at Maywood, III., was expressed and a new hospital of 1.000 beds to be increased to 1,500 beds was 1 urged for district No. 8. comprisinp Michigan. Illinois and Wisconsin. A new hospital of 500 beds to be increased to 1,000 beds was urged for 1 district No. 9, comprising Iowa. Mis- ' souri, Knnsas and Nebraska, to re ( place the present institution at Knox 1 ville, Iowa. 1 A hospital of 500 beds was recom ' mended for district No. 10, compris ' ing Minnesota, North Dakota, South ' Dakota nnd Montana. A hospital of 250 beds to be in- 1 creased to 500 beds was susreestefi for district No. 13, comprising Ore- 1 gon, Idaho and Washington, which 1 would care for patients from the western part of the Tenth district and the northern part of district No. 12. com- 1 prising California. Nevada and Ari- zona. ' An increase in the capacity of the ' hospital now being built at Fort ? I.ogan H- Root, Little Rock. Ark., was also recommended. The program was said to be under ' consideration by the bureau which ' was awaiting the action of congress ' upon pending legislation to provide ] $16,000,000 for further hospital con struction. Much Electric Power Promised. i Washington.?Supply of hydro-elec- i trie power for municipal and industrial purposes throughout -the region with- ] in transmission distance of Muscle < Shoals, Alabama, estimated by engi i neer experts at 400 miles, was prom- \ ised by Thomas W. Mastin, president i of the Alabama Power company, in j the event Congress accepted the of- i fer of that company for purchase and i lease of the shoals projects. Mr. Martin's statement pointed out < that the offer to operate at Muscle < Shoals under the federal water ! power act obligated the company to function as a public utility "bound j ! to nerve everyone without discrimt- ] I nation, either In rates or in service." I ( Photographers Pay to Snap Wedding , London.?Completed plans reported | for photographing Princess Mary's , wedding on February 28 reveal the fact that photographers, in order to | procure desirable vantage spots for j their cameras, will be called upon to ( pay huge sums of money. From 40 to F>0 motion picture cameras will be employed and about 100 , press cameras for snapping photo- , graphs of the procession. A favored , I place for taking pictures will be near , the Westminster abbey gateway where ( | the bridegroom. Viscount Lascelles, | King George. Queen Mary and other ( members of the royal family as well as the chief guests, will alight from . their carriages ' Cross Border Into Mexico. Mexico City.?Thirty men crossed the American border Into Mexico at Columbus, N. M., according to advices sent by Governor Enriquez of the state of Chihuahua to the war office. The advices said the men were being pursued. Rebel forces of Rosalio Hernandez, under close pursuit by federal troops, have been driven from Chihuahua across the boundary line into the hills of the state of Coahlula. says a message received by the department of the interior from Governor Enriquez. Plan Expansion for University. Washington. ? A nation-wide campaign (or two million dollars as an endowment and expansion fund for Lincoln Memorial university, a school located in the mountains of Tennessee, has been started here. It would provide facilities for a thousand or more students. Governor Taylor declared the memorial university already is working wonders In the regeneratiou and development of the hill country. It was founded 25 years ago at Cumberland Gap. ? - LL T 21, 1922. n c . IPPBOPRHTIOH BILL S PASSED BT HOUSE JILL CARRIES TOTAL OF $5,672,768. ONLY SLIGHT INCREASE ALLOWED. iOVERNOR SENDS MESSAGE 'leads With General Assembly to Support Schools?Gerald Bill Is Made Law. Columbia. Carrying a total of $5,672,758.51, an ncrease of only $1,073.84 over the neasure as reported from the ways ind means committee, the general ippropriation bill was given its final passage in the house of representa.ives and was ordered sent to the senate. The general appropriations bill ran he gamus of as thorough debate as iny measure of its kind has ever revived in the lower body. Discussion >f the measure was commenced Thursday night at 8 o'clock, and this :ontinued until Friday morning at 2 j'clock and, after a respite until 10 j'clock, was again resumed and continued until 2:30 Friday afternoon, when a recess was taken for lunch. The debate was resumed at 4 o'clock, !>ut the house was then weary, and :he bill was given its second reading it 5:50 o'clock. It was then decided .o adjourn until 12.01 Saturday morning, pive only third reading to the measure and quit. There was a determined effort on the part of a minority of the house to materially reduce the bill by offering amendment to practically every Item. But these were unavailable, ex :c|ii in uiruu cases. ine Dill was intended eight times, but five of these intendments were from the ways and means committee which held such an unbending front under the leadership af its chairman, T. E. Humpes, of Marion, and two of its influential members, C. N. Sapp, of Richland, and R. B. Reiser, of Sumter, that the measure went through almost as it was introduced. The only changes adopted were: Amendment by A. O. Hydrick, of Orangeburg, and R. J. Wade, of Aiken, to delete the item carrying an appropriation of $2,500 for a summer school for coaches at the University [)f South Carolina. Amendment by J. C. Kearse, of Bamberg, to decrease the pay of G. Croft Williams, secretary of the state welfare board, from $3,150 to $2,500. The ways and means committee had previously reduced it from $3,150, or 10 per cent. Amendment of J. K. Owens, of Marlboro, to increase the pay of the stenographer of the state bank examiner from $1,200 to $1,450. Amendments by the ways and meuun cuHiiimi.ee 10 inorease toe pay of inspectors of the state department of agriculture; the chief inspector from $2,160 to $2,400; first factory inspector from $1,600 to $2,000; second factory inspector from $1,600 to $1,900, and seven other inspectors from $1,500 to $1,900 each. Amendment by the ways and means committee to increase the balance flue on 1921 building contract at Confederate home from $568.80 to $802.6 4. The insurgents against the ways and means committee bill were ably led by J. K. Owens, of Marlboro; J. K. Hamblln, of Union, and R. J. Wade, of Aiken, but their efforts were futile against the close formation front of their antagonists, except in three small amendments. The major fight, precipitated by the governor's special message Thursday night, was on the appropriations for the department of education. Several rather severe cuts were made and a prolonged effort was made, covering about five hours, to have them reinstated, but they failed. After the ways nnrl mpnno *? c~u* v/V>Ul*ti VtVV/ null 113 U^lll tin this section the members who wanted to amend the hill sepmed to lose heart, and they gradually began to drift out of the chamber until there was barely a quorum to give the measure its second reading. Governor Cooper sent a special metBoth legislative houses adopted the free conference report on the inheritance tax bill, recommending that all .uo ocnaic siuenamenu De agreed to save one. This amendment was to tax any Rift or deed made within two gears before death, this time being construed to be in contemplation of leath. The bill was ordered enrolled for ratification by the house and so will be the first of the series to become law If it Is not vetoed by the governor. The house favored no limit on the the years at all, but the senate finally agreed to two years. Among the number of measures killed were: W. R. Harris' measure to require the publication at the end >f each year of the total amount of fees received by the various clerks of :ourt, probate judges, auditors and sheriffs of the state and the Mclnnes bill to prevent the sale and use of Reel traps In the state. The measure, introduced by J. K. Hamblln, to proride that no suit be brought against i county or highway commission for lamage to property by reason of the t>,ulldtng or repairing any road within two years of the time of such alleged lamage, was also klllfed _ V IMES ?; sage to both houses of the general assembly in which he said he was gravely concerned in the proposed appropriations for the public schools. The governor called attention to the advancement of the school system and how the appropriations recommended in the ways and means committee bill would seriously cripple the work. He urged the legislature not to reduce the common school work a3 a sacrifice for the institutions of higher learning. In the senate the massage, upon motion of Senator Goodwin, was referred to the finance committee. The house received it as inofrmation. Final passage of the Gerald bill requiring street railway companies and their employes to arbitrate their disputes was a feature of the senate session, the measure being passed by a vote of 27 to 7. This bill, while farmed as an act not applying to any particular company, in reality affects only the street railway company of Columbia and its employes as it applies to counties having incorporated cities of more than 30,000 and less than 50,000 inhabitants. Senators Pearce, Miller and Ragsdale led the fight for the passage and Senator "Watkins against it, as he thought the bill unconstitutional and voted against it on that ground. The joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee composed of three members of the house and three from the senate to investigate the advisability of erecting an office building in Columbia to house the state offices was killed by a large majority. The program to provide for biennial sessions of the general assembly and for four-year terms for state officers encountered an impasse in the house of representatives when the first of the series of seven joint resolutions, required to make these changes in the state constitution came up for consideration and failing to muster the needed-two-thirds majority, was killed. The other six resolutions, following the defeat of this first measure, Iwere tabled and withdrawn from the files of the house upon the motion of Representative Eugene S. Bleaso of Newberry county with the concurrence of F. G. Harris of Spartanburg, one of the three authors of the bills. The record vote on the bill stood 53 to 52 In favor of its passage. The resolution upon which the fight was made was the bill to provide for the amendment of Article 10 of the state constitution so as to provide for the levying of the state taxes biennially instead of annually as at present. \V. P. Robinson of Lancaster led the attack on this bill, opening the discussion with a motion to strike out the enacting words. This brought a number of the young members of the house to the defense of the measure, chief among these being Representatives J. R. Rryson of Greenville, F. G. Harris of Spartanburg and Julius S. Mc.Innes of Darlington, joint authors of the series of resolutions. Of the 4S states in the United States 40 of these, it was pointed out. now operate under the biennial system. while only six ? among these South Carolina?still cling to the annual meetings. In two states the leglislatures meet every four years. Similar resolutions, it was stated, were passed by both houses of the general assombly several years ago and submitted to the people of the state with the result that ufter changes had been agreed to by the voters of tho state the general assembly "for some reason" failed to ratify the election. James DeTreville of Waltetrboro and J. O. Williams of Easley also spok6 In favor of the measure. The committee on banking and insurance returned favorable reports, with amendments in certain cases, on the bills by Senator Hart to further regulate the banking business, with the exception of the measure in reference to a certain reserve fund, whi'-h was given an unfavorable report. Senator Chrlstensen's bill to amend the fish and game laws so as to Btrike out the clause providing for a $5 license for fishing boats in the low country and requiring owners of such boats to report the number of fish caught and also striking out the clause making a closed season for terrapin until July 15, 1925, as well aa amending the law so as to allow terrapins five and one-half inches long to be caught instead of five inches, was passed and sent to the house with no strenuous objection. Senator Hart interrupted Senator Chrlstensen's explanation of the bill long enough to ask him what Griffenhagen said about the bill. Prospects for an adjournment of the general assembly within the constitutional 40 days look rather slim at present with the senate legislative mill grinding exceedingly slow in comparison to the house. Those in touch with the inner workings of the assembly seem to think that several extra weeks will be necessary unless "more gas is turned on" and the mill speeded up. One official said that if much more speed was not shown within the next week he was convinced the two bodies would be here until April 1. That, however, 1b probably a little far-fetched. Governor Makes Appointments. Governor Cooper made the following apointments: W. T. Giles, J. D. Epps and T. J. West to be supervisor of registration for Union county. T. E. Stanley to be magistrate at Marlon, vice D. E. Godbold, who was appointed to succeed Magistrate Whilden, but declined to serve. J. W. Fulmer to be master in equity of Saluda oounty. Capt. Ellas Day. S. H. Tlrown and J. A. Brown to be supervisors of registration for Pickens county. v?i ; 91.60 Per Year, WomiED IN EXPLOSION } - j [ Barnett Griffin Dies at Hospital In Columbia?Details of Gaston Saw Mill Tragedy Meagre. i Columbia.?Barnott Griffin, of Gas^ ton, died at the Baptist hospital as tho result of Injuries received In a boiler explosion which also Instantly killed Griffin's brother and Injured a thlrd_ man. Barnett Griffin was only about 15 years old. The explosion was that of the boiler of a saw mill at Gaston where, according to the information reaching Columbia, the two Griffin boys and several other persons were working at the time. A piece of flying debris struck Barnett Griffin in the head, fracturing his skull, while his left arm was also lacerated severely. Tlio explosion also caused a deep burn about the abdomen. Barnett Griffin was brought to the Baptist hospital where he underwent an operation in a vain effort to save his life, living only about half an hour aftor his arrival here. Young Griffin's brother was almost instantly killed by the explosion, according to the information received in Columbia, while a third young man was almost completely buried beneatli the debris to escape with minor hurts. Outlines Program for Convention. Sumter.?I'ost G of the T. P. A. gavo a smoker for its members for the purpose of considering plans for the state convention which will be held in Sumter May 4 and 5. The smoker was held at the Y. M. C. A. building and the repast was served by the high Bchool "Y" girls. H. L. Scarborough, who is president of the local post, placed before the members a tentative program which he had outlined and which had heon approved by various posts and members to whom ho has submitted it over the state. The principal features of this program are a compact business session for the first day, with a lunch at mid-day, a chicken siew jute in tlie afternoon nnd an entertainment that evening; for the second day a short business seslon that will ennhle up-country delegates to take the noon train for their homes. Bank in. Operation. Anderson.?The Citizens' Bank of Honea Path opened its doors after being closed for almost a month. Tho directors are optimistic ahout the future of the bank, and tendered a vote of thnnks to James Craig, state bank examiner, and his assistants in reopening the Institution. During the first hour after tho bank reopened deposits amounted to $5,000. The old depositors guaranteed to leave their deposits in the bank for a year. Hundreds at Work on Bridge. cjnariesion.?nie scene ai tne sit? of the Santee river bridge and the approaches thereto is a very busy one at present, with something like 300 men at work, and the big construction project is shaping up very well, the prospects being that the bridge will he completed about this time next year. Work on the sub-structure, on the piling nnd on the iilling is proceeding rapidly and the substructure is approximately three-fourths finished, it is estimated. Work on this end of the project has been slowed up a bit because of the high water, hut that has not hindered activity on the shore ends. The Simons-Mayrant company has this construction in charge. It is of interest to note that material for the superstructure or bridge proper, is arriving and the Atlantic Bridge Co.. contractors, will in due time commence work on this feature of the project. Killed by Automobile. \ Anderson. .? Abraham Paletr was struck by an automohilo and died from his injuries shortly after he was taken to a hospital. Tho car was driven byHenry Hill, young white man from Equinox mill. Charlie Hill, Raymond Morris and two other men. named Heller and Freeman, are being held at tho county Jail. These four men are said to have been in the car. Train Kills Two Mules. Fort Mill. ? Southern railway pas senger train j>o. in, nnnnnoumi, ana due in Fort Mill about noon, ran into a team at Spratt street crossing, killing the two mules and demolishing the wagon which was loaded with wood, while the driver, Tom Smith, narrowly escaped with his life. . Ji Selling 8weet Potatoes. Mnnning. ? The Manning curing house shipped 560 cratos of sweet potatoes. These potatoes wore sold by the South Carolina Sweet Potato association to a firm in Washington and broCTjht a fancy price, showing decidedly the value of co-operative marketing. The grading and packing of the crates were under the supervision of L. H. I^ewis, marketing agent of tho extension forces. Large numbers of farmers observed the manner in which the potatoes were handled and gained much valuable Information. ? i Poe Discusses Marketing Plan. Newberry.?Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, addressed a large gathering of farmers in the court house here. The court house could not accommodate all who had come to hear this student of agricultural problems. His subject was the co-operative marketing or pooling of cotton in connection with the campaign being pressed over the state. At tho meeting 1,253 bnles of cotton were pledged. Major Andrew Bram* lett, of Rock Hill, was another speaker.