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: JII1IIHH >??>? I I I ^J| III lllllll llllllllll -1?1 The Union Paily Times I ~ I <L PRESS ; ; o DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Established in 185S?Convene d to The Uftion Daily Times Oc tober t, 1*17 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY "'"Ml" "" / I 3 : 1 Vol. LXXII No. 1474 Union, S. C., Monday Afternoon, September 4, 1922 3c Per Copy UUVEKNMENT MAKES TO ENFORCE 4 Asheville, Sept.? ^ -^Freight and passenger trains are moving out of Asheville on schedule time today following the rearrangement of guards at the Southern depot yesterday satisfactory to railway switchmen and, firemen who walked out Saturday night because of the appearance of, guards and to the shopmen who quit because of temporary removal of! guards to appease strikers. ? ' umcago, Sept. 3 (By the Associated Press).?The beginning of the tenth week of the countrywide strike of the ] railway shopmen found 6,500 United: States marshals mobilized to uphold the drastic temporary injunction obtained by the government on Friday to prevent lawless violence and keep the nation's transportation machine running. From Chicago, as a center of rail- 1 road activities, was directed the work < of enforcing the injunction, pending i the hearing to make it permanent on ' ^ September 11. A mass of complaints and allegations of conspiracy and attempts to ruin property and jeop- j ardize life were being collected today ' for the use of Attorney General i Daugherty in support of his applica- 1 tlon to make the injunction perma- ] nent. It will not be alleged that the < strikers are guilty in most of the out- i breaks of violence reported, but the i government, it was said, will main- ] tain that actions of the strikers and i strike leaders caused the violence. Extra forces of deputies have been j sworn in by United States Marshal t Robert R. Levy and are being dis- j patched to railroad shops and ter- i minals to watch for acts forbidden by I the order handed down by Federal Judge Wilkerson. A thousand writs l were prepared in the federal building < and sent to all parts of the country \ for service on the labor leaders named 1 in the injunction. B. M. Jewell, head ; of the shopmen, could not be found < and it was reported he was in the ] Eiusu oonn scou, secretary ol the ] shopmen, remained at his desk at the \ r. . union headquarters. j , "I haven't violated any law," he; 1 WB) ing to carry on the work of the , union without fear or tremor, and T don't believe the injunction is intend-h ed to restrain us from so doing." i Meanwhile there are three different pictures painted by Western executives, government officails and union leaders. "We are moving the business; our f men are coming back to work in increasing numbers, general conditions are steadily improving and the strike is broken," was the consensus >f opinion of the executives. Federal officials engaged compiling the lists of acts of violence for the hearing on making permanent the injunction, pointed to the petition presented in court by the attorney general, in which he declared that half the locomotives in the country had been tampered with and that more! than 1,000 mail trains had been can-' i celled. i Union officials reiterated previous statements that if the strike contin- ? ued the railways would be "paralyzed ] within 30 days. * I j In connection with the appointment ] during the past two days of marshalsj and deputies, the following statute , was cited by officials of the depart-, , ment of justice, being Section Number! \ 788: "The marshals and their deputies < shall have in each state the same ] power in executing the laws of the < United States as sheriff and their j deputies in such state may have by , law in executing the law thereof." , Still further explaining the power j of the chief executive, federal officials quoted a decision by the su- j preme court, as follows: I "So if the president or the attor- | ney general is advised that the mails ( of the United States, possibly carry- , ing treasure, are liable to be robbed and the mail carriers assaulted and ( murdered in any particular region of i the country, who can doubt the ] authority of the president or of one , of the executive departments to pro. ( vide a sufficient guard, whether it be , by soldiers of the army or by mar- , shals of the United States." I One Killed and Two Injurod in Auto Wreck , ] Asheville, Sept. 4.?Home Ray, < aged 26, was killed and two others in- ( jured when his automobie was wreck- i ed near here this morning. * ' ' I Round Trip in Ford Car Mr. Wm. M. Tucker, formerly of ] Union, now of Huntsville, Ala., stopped over In Union Saturday and Sun. day. He made the trip from Huntsville, Ala., to Qreenville, leaving Huntsville at 2:80 o'clock Sunday af- , ternoon at 1 o'clock?pretty good go- 1 ing for a Ford car, we think. Mr. Tucker la in the automobile accessories business in Huntsville, and says he likes that county fine. j MOVE STRIKE INJUNCTION Moves to Dismiss Bigham Appeal Solicitor Gasque yesterday moved before the supreme court for a dismissal of the Edmund D. Bigham appeal on the grounds that it was "manifestly without merit." The court took the motion under advisement and will render an opinion 1 later. The solicitor moved under Rule 30 1 for a dismissal and presented his > arguments to the court, claiming that 1 the appeal had no merit whatever. A. L. King and Mendel L. Smith, at- i torney for Bigham, resisted the mo- < tion. 1 Mr. Gasque read the order of Judge S. W. G. Shipp declining a new trial when the motion was made before him. Judge Shipp refused the motion on a question of fact, the alleged new evidence not being sufficient to warrant a new trial, Mr. Gasque said. In regard to the 12 letters on which the defendant is basing his plea for a new trial, Mr. Gasque said both Bigham and his wife knew of these at the time of the trial, but no effort was made to produce them. These letters \vould not change the result of the verdict against Bigham, Mr. Gasque argued. Among the letters was one in which Smiley Bigham said he was going to kill all the family and "leave no one to tell the tale." He also said "you will not see me alive again." This letter is one of the main ones relied upon by the defense, but the solicitor said it would not have changed the verdict if it had been introduced. Mr. Gasque said an end to the litigation in this case should be reach, j ed some day. He spoke of the first: trial, the appeal and the affirmation by the supreme court and now this! appeal. "It looks like an endless chain of litigation," the solicitor said. He cited procedure to show that Big- j ham may continue to appeal for many, more times and asked the court to [ dismiss the present one as he did not think it had any merit. It does not Mintwithin any.of th^JRsqqimnents down tfce sufcrtfife court for an appeal, Mr. Gasque said. A. L. King, attorney for Bigham, ] ?aid the appeal had sufficient merit to jtay the execution of Bigham and toid the court that if there had heen no . merit in the appeal it could not have ] stayed the sentence. Mr. King dealt j fit length on the letters alleged to j iiave been written by Smiley Bigham ] to Edmund Bigham. Mr. King also i produced an affidavit from J. G. Miller | to the effect that Smiley Bigham told . tlim in Florence prior to the crimfe , that he (Smiley) was going to "kill < ?very one of them," meaning the Big 1am family. ( Another affidavit of much impor- , tance, according to Atomey King, was the one in which Mrs. Margie , Black, sister of the Bighams, was < quoted as having said that the fam- , ily sent for Edmund, to protect them | from Smiley, this being when EdmunJ j was living .in south Georgia. ] Mr. King also brought out the sui- ( :ide theory, claiming that the coroner , himself when he first sa wthe body of ( Smiley Bigham said "it certainly , looks like suicide to me." Mendel L. Smith said the case was , one entirely of circumstantial evi- < ience and had been built on the theory that Edmund came from Georgia to kill the whole family. Mr* J Smith read the letter alleged to have been written by Smiley in which Smiley said he was going to kill all the family, and stressed the fact that eight experts in penmanship have ' sworn that the signature to the letter is Smiley's. At this point Justice Watts said ! from his experience with the family, be having tried two or three of them, the Bighams always did things differ- ' ently. This was in reply to a state- j ment of Mr. Smith. Srkliritnr fJncmin in ronlv tnl/1 fh*? - ... - -rv ",w | :ourt Judge Shipp had examined Ihc letter alleged to have been written by Smiley in which Smiley said he was going to kill the whole family knd had found the signature thereon < to have been traced. Mr. Gasque I said the original signature was not 1 traced very good and part of the "1" and "s" in the name was left unI raced, this being apparent under a 1 magnifying glass. Mr. Gasque also pointed out that all the letters were 1 on the same stationery for a period of nearly three years. The solicitor said this "looks a little peculiar.*' They were all typewritten, Mr. Gasque said, when Smiley was known to have transacted his business in long hand with his banks and other places.?The State. I 1 ^ ' 1 Miss Prudence Thomas has return*' I ed to her home in Gaffney after i spending the week-end with her sis- < ter ,Miss Anne Lou Thompson, at the 1 Wallace Thomson hospital. < - 1 Mr. Dan Hix of Augusta, Ga., u i visiting his mother, Mrs. Jesse Hix. | MINES OPEN 1 NEXT WEEK Washington, Sept. 3.?The passage of the anthracite strike, in the opin- i ion of officials today, has raised much < of the burden of the industrial crisis i from President Harding and the ad- i ministi ation, it being pointed out that i although rail entanglements are still 1 to be faced, the government's decision c on policy has been taken. Attorney i Geenral Daugherty's legal action la3t week in seeking to restrict the scope c hitherto takekn in the strike by craits I unions whose members left the ra;.l- r road service July 1 apparently stood ? out as representative of an unalter- J able course which the administration t had adopted. r Future steps entailed in the policy o are considered in official circles to he I clearly marked, and to exclude possi- t bilities of negotiations, mediations, or ether contact with transportation or- d ionizations except in so far as tl.c v enforcement of law, the prosecution d jf disturbers and possibly the guard- s ing of railroa 1 centers, may occupy d the attention cf responsible officers. I Congress, since the Strike injunction t arder was obtained, has appeared in. I; disposed to interfere with any de- h cision which the executive department i> has reached in dealing with the industrial situation and its members s hnve in general refrained from corn- C ment. o President Harding spent today t quietly at the White House and what- n ever reports were received from the ft anthracite settlement or the railroad s situation, did not occasion public com- c ment. Secretary Davis, who repre- e rented the administration at the final ft conference in Philadelphia before the b tentative agreement for resumption ii >f work kin the anthracite fields was reached, left for Mooseheart, 111., to a deliver a labor day uddress. It was b 3aid by - subordinates, however, that I department information made it ap- P pear certain that the agreement b would be ratified by the operators and t miners whose leaders have drawn it e ap. . li Labor leaders who renn <ed here t ?ver the holiday issued no \ ?mment n jn the situation today. * s A Live W??-p Evangelist | a v :!c%nrd'^o%6^.. The revival campaign which Sunday morning at Green Street Methodist church is now in full swing. Dr. Lee Starke, the evangelist, of Brooklyn, N. Y.^ arrived Saturday n and conducted two services Sunday. i; In spite of the hot weather large t audiences were present at each serv- 8 iee. All who came were amply re- ? paid for his messages were delivered j, with such earnestness, zeal and en- h thusiasm as to make it contagious i, and the interest of his hearers was t unabated throughout. The theme a Sunday night, "The Power of Faith,"' e was extensively treated and abun- v Jantly illustrated in a manner that j] was original, simple and covincing. A fine chorus is being organized, ^ the newest revival books. Victory longs are being used exclusively in ill the services, the singing is one of the attractive features of the meet- ^ ings. Miss Stockakrd captivated the . hundreds who heard her sing yester- ^ lay. Her sweet voice, graceful manner and strength of personality swayid as she rendered her charming \ solos. Subject tonight, "Christian Citizen- Ir ship." Come early and avoid the rush. u rhe public cordially invited. J. B. Chick, Pastor. ^ ? II Vline Workers Approve t( Agreement Entered Into p S( Philadelphia, Sept. 4.?The, scale _ committee of the anthracite mine * workers early today approved the agreement entered into by its subcommittee with mine operators set next Wednesday afternoon as date for Tri- 11 District convention to ratify the pro- 8 oosal, thereby bringing suspension to 1 an end formally. The convention will 0 be held in Wilkesbarre. 1 , b -abor Has Made Great Strides, Says Sec'y Davie Mooseheart, 111., Sept. 4.?American labor made great strides in the ? past year, Secretary of Labor Davis ^ declared today in a labor day address, i In spite of unemployment, he said, it had fouorht off all the attemnta to I decrease the wage levels set up dur- > ing the war and safely passed the war t crisis. Working men, "gTOwn accus- t tomed to comfort in life not tasted t before" now find them preserved t throughout the future. Windmills for Ships Windmills to drive ships are the t product of the French Inventions De- i partment, and official war agency that < lias been continued. These windmills 1 ire intended to enable countries with- t )ut coal or oil fields to sail the seas \ without coal or petroleum. The pow- i ir of the windmill is transmitted below decks, where it later appears at the propellers.?The Nation's Busi- i less. ] .d I WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN NIAGARA Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 3.?An aut< nobile plunged over the ?1 iff near tl :ataract at Niagara Fall* this uftei loon and was dashed to pieces 20 "eet below on the river's lnargin. Mr, \gatha Miiler, 54 years old, wife c 5. H. Miller of Cleveland, fell to he leath with the car. Her body wa ound on the water's edge. The accident happened just nort >f the upper steel arch bridge. Mri tlillev was alone in the car, in tn ear seat. The car was'pprked on tk jrass near the customs office at th \nierican end of the bridge, facin he river on a slight slope. There i io guard rail at the clift edge. Th wner and driver of the Car, Ed war deyers of Buffalo, had Ifcft it as h hought safely parked. V For some reason it tygan to sli lown the slope and Mrs.* Miller, wh /as of very heavy build*'realized he langer. Her screams aroused the by tanders and two men, Marry Ar irews, a negro, of Buffalo, and Josep >oldberg of West Toronto, grab bo he rear fenders and strove desperate y to stop the car. They kept thei olds until it reached the very brin1 nd plunged into the gorge. Mrs. Miller tried to eilricate hei elf, but she was not quick enough .. E. Darling and Eusace Evans, boti f Elkhart, Ind., were standing belo. he bridge looking up and Saw th aachine come over the bank and Mrs filler's body fall from Ji. The ca truck the slope at the foot of th liff and plunged on to the river' dge, a tangled mass of debris. Mr: filler's body was recovered on th ank at the base of the cliff. It wa dentified later by her husband. The Millers and Mr. and Mrs. Mich el Kerrigan of Cleveland came t lulfalo this morning and hired Myer o drive them to the fall* sightseeing ts they were about to cross th ridge into Canada, the Canadian au horities refused to allow^ them t nter because Myers did.not have hi icensc card with him. Ifyets parke he car while we went loj See if th latter could be adjuat*d$THis pas engers, all save Mrs. Jrjj^jer, wen /ith him. She was left alone in th utomobile and the acoMf folio wee jj"' i " soverament Paymf /.^ Attention to Loose Tall Washington, Sept. 4.?The govern nent is paying no attention to loos< irresponsible talk about the injuni ion procure in Chicago against th triking shopmen, Atorney Gener? )augherty said in a telegram to th Jew York Herald. The paper invite ,im yesterday to reply to charges o awful acts prohibited by injunctio hat it is in violation of the Clayto ct. Daugherty added that "the gov rnment's answer to all discussio rill in due time be made in open cour f it is necessary." .argest Airplane in World Being Tested in France Raphael, Sept. 3.?What is said t e the largest airplane in the worl i about to undergo tests at th rench Naval Air Station here, o le Mediterranean coast. The ma hine is a quadruplane. fitted witl lur motors, each pf 270 horsepowe taking 1,080 horsepower in 'all. Th 'ings measure nearly 100 feet froi j) to tip, and the machine is 21 fee igh and 66 feet from back to front t can descend either on land or wa ?r, and is intended for the futur assenger air service between Mar ailles and Algiers. 'resent Prince With a Yach Tokio, Sept. 2.?In celebration c he Prince Regent's forthcomin narriage a pleasure yacht to be cor tructed at a cost of 50,000 yen, co! ected from the leading govemnier ffk'ials, will be presented to th 'rince Regent. The vessel will b milt at the Yokosuka Naval Arsena Lawson-Bogan Miss Inez Lawson of Cedar Hi tnd Mr. C. P. Bogan of West Spring vere happily married Sunday mori ng, September 3, 1922. The ceremony was spoken by Re L. Wagnon at his home in Unioi V large party of friends and rch ives were present to bid God-spec o these; deserving young people ? hey embark upon the journey of lil ogether. Vl-\- I I M..I. Illtacu uy 1TIUIV Ernest Parham, a colored la< ibout nine years old, was kicked by nule yesterday and his Skull wt :rushed in. He was carried to Wa ace Thomson hospital for* surftic; Teatment and a piece of the sku was removed. It is possible that 1 nay recover. Mrs. D. A. Boyd, who has" be en vii tinR Mrs. Hay Pant, will return < Lancaster tomorrow. w STRIKE BURDEN V PARTLY UFTEE >- Philadelphia, Sept. 3.?Anthracit le miners and operators having settle* t- thoir wage differences after mor 10 than five months of controversy, ev s. ery effort will be made to start pro duction of coal as soon as possible >r The scale committee, summoned earl; is today, went into session here tonigh to consider and approve the agree h ment reached at midnight last nigh ? and to call a delegate convention o' o miners at Wilkes-Barre this week t< p ratify the pact formally, e It was the first time in the historj ? of anthracite wage negotiations that 3 miners have met on a Sunday, th* e precedent being broken in order t( get quick action. Leaders expressec - thp <inininn thnt. thp hard rnal minps would be in operation by the first ol P next week and that normal produc0 tion would be quickly reached. r The production is estimated at about 40,000,000 behind last year. The settlement announced by Unit11 ed States Senators Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania came after an all day session of the operators, which r resulted in their accepting the com14 promise proposed by the senators and a three hour joint session of miners and operators. In the joint confer' enee the miners also accepted the n proposition and an agreement made v subject to the action of the miners' ~ convention, it was added, such being the rule of the United Mine Work+ 9 era. The terms of the agreement as an8 nounced are as follows: 'The contract in force March 31, e 1922, to be extended to August 31 8 1923. "The prodi tion of coal to begin at once <) 'The miners and operators to join in a recommendation to congress " lhat legislation be forthwith enacted creating a separate anthracite coal commission with authority to investigate and report promptly on every j phase of the industry. "The continuance of production after the extension date to be upon ^ such terms as the parties may agree upon in me ligni 01 me report 01 me I commission." Coupled jvith; tk(r0 announcement was a letter rr%' % i and operators by President Harding in which he urged both sides ir the name of public welfare to accede l~ to the proposal that had been advocated by Senators Reed and Pepper. e Death of Mrs. M. M. Railey tl e Mr3. M. M. Railey died in the Bap tist hospital, Columbia, this morninc ^ at 8 o'clock, and her body will be II brought to Union tomorrow (Tuesn day) afternoon on the Carolina Spe cial. The funeral procession will g( n direct from the train to Rosemonl cemetery, where the interment wil take place. For the past 12 years snc had made her home in Columbia. Mrs. Railey is survived by her hus. 8 hand, Mr. Levi Railey, and four ehil dren. She had been in poor healtl o for time sime. She was carried Satd urday night to the hospital in Colum e bia, where she underwent an opera n lion for appendicitis. Rev. A. B. Kennedy of Columbia h will accompany the body to Union an,-] r viii conauct tne uuriai service. e 1 1 ' i) Death of Aged Man t t. Mr. I. From received a telegran - Sunday morning stating that his fath e er, Mr. S. Fram, had died suddenly a I - his home in Worcester, Mass. He wat ill only a few days and was 75 yearof age. He was a native of Lalvonia I which before the war. was under Rus s;an rule. He came to this country ir ^ 1904, after several of his sons ha< come to this country to make then " home. He is survived by his wife and si: " children. it m , lP Important to I Football Candidates All candidates for the Union higl school foot-ball team are urged to bi out for the first practice at the higl it school building on Wednesday after ;s r.oon, September 6th, at 5 o'clocl i- sharp. All are urged to come out ti practice to make the Union higl v. school football team the best in th d. upper part of the state. A. A. A. i- r 1 j Turks Capture Important is Greek Positior 'e Athens, Sept. 4 (By the Associatei Press).?The capture by the Turki3l Nationalists of Uchak, an importan position on Greeh-Turklsh front 11 Asia Minor, was confirmed here to (jt day. Dispatches to the newspaper a indicate that Brausa also may sooi iS fall into the hands of the Kemalisis il( Lieutenant Hinton ill Hops Off Toda] ie St. Petersburg, Fla., Lieut. Walte Hinton and hia South America bound fliers hopped off for Key Wee s- on the second leg of their trip i to Sampiao, Correia, I. I. at 8:35 thi morning. SEVEN EMPLOYEES ) PERISH IN FLAMES ? e Pittsburgh, Sept. 3 (By the Assort ciated Press).?Seven car repairmen 1 e recently employed were burned to 1 - death; ten men were injured, several 1 - severely, and property loss of .$220,r. 000 was wrought by tire which starter ed at dawn today in a bunk house in t the Thirtieth street yards of th?* - Pennsylvania railroad and swept t through the building with almost inf creditable speed. ) Nearly all the bodies were charred beyond recognition. t The corpse of J. F. Carr of Baltit more was positively identified, how5 ever. Railway officials made a check ) of all employees living in the bunk 1 house and gave out a list of six iniss? ing. f Search of the wreckage failed to reveal an eighth body. Railway representatives said it was possible that < one of the missing'men failed to report after he had fled from the blaz- * ing bunk house. The most seriously ~ I injured were hurt when they jumped ' from the second story of the hunk 1 l house. I Investigations immediately were " I started by the railroad, the police v I and tire departments and by the do v partment of justice. They were in ' progress tonight, with announce- " ment by the railroad that it has been 1 unable to "determine the cause of the ~ fire." ^ N. P. Good, chairman of the strik- *' ing shopmen on the Pennsylvania sys- M tern, in a statement tonight deplored " the fire and said it could not be x > charged to the striking shopmen. ^ 'The shop destroyed was under I guard, as I understand it," said Mr. 1 II Good, "and could not have been -v ! reached except by some one having ( 11 free access to the yards." : 1 E. K. Kennedy, a watchman, saw ' ' smoke coming from a section of the 1 1 [ building which, in addition to hous' i ing workmen, was in part used as a ' 'storehouse and a commissary. Run- c | ning to the place, he saw the interior x " j of a room filled with waste was a ( 1 mass of flames. He turned in an : alarm. 4 Knowing that 60 men were sleep- c ing on the second floor, Kennedy v ; dashed up the stairway. He was ? fli it eh lc*ck by dense smoke but made * another attempt with better success. 1 Many of the men sleeping near !, windows tumbled out on the tracks, and those flio were uninjured ran j from the wards. Others trapped in their bunks perished. The building was set in a network C of railway tracks and fire companies ' lost time in reaching it. When they ^ finally arrived the oil soaked floors ^ had fallen in and the sheet iron sides ' J had been twisted into a pile of junk. Exploring the ruins taxed the re*1 sources of the firemen but by 10 x 1 o'clock the bodies had been removed. f 1 , * District Attorney Harry H. Ro- ( wan, conducting an independent in- t vestigation, gave out this statement: "If facts warrant a grand jury will s make an investigation of the fire." j 1 Rowan declared, however, that his f preliminary investigation had not thrown any light upon the cause of . the conflagration. 1 ? * ] I Greek Army 1 Almost Annihilate! 1 Adan, Asia Minor, Sept. 4 (By the . Associated Press). ? Three Greek i lj army corps in Eski-Shehr, sector of j Greco-Turkish front, have been al U most annihilated by the Turkish Na- i 5j tionalists, according to dispatches re>| ceived from Angora, the seat of the I Kemalist government. The Greeks J are retreating in disorder. The Turks ^ have advanced to within 1*2 miles of ( 1 i Brusau. r , m - Party at Ottaray Miss Mary fanip entertained her friends at her home at Ottaray Saturday night. 1 The guests were entertained with , music and games until a late hour. e Delicious refreshments of cake and ^ punch were served. < Chero Cola Contest Closed Saturday h 6 Mr. Claud Wilburn of Cross Keys ] I held the lucky number and was awarded the Ford automobile offered by the Chero Cola Bottling Co., in a | 1 drawing contest which ended at 3 ^ o'clock Saturday afternoon when lit^ tie Miss Billy Jones, blindfolded and * standing on a raised platform in sight n of the crowd, drew the winning num" ber from the box which held duplis cate of all numbers held by the asn sembled crowd. ' It is estimated that a crowd of 4,000 was present for the di awing, the streets being bloeed for a good f distance each way. The drawing was r conducted by Mayor O. E. Smith, n Chief of Police L. C. Wharton and H. it Willard. n Everybody says that the contest s was conducted with unimpeachable fairness. i TERRIFIC DAMAGE BY BOLL WEEVIL Washington, Sept. 3 (By the Ass?> dated Press).?The boll weevil. J-. stroyer of potential wealth in cotton and bugaooo of the cotton grower, bad a record year and did itself proud r the fields of thi South last year by preventing production of 6/'277,000 jules of cotton, which with the seed ;hat would have been ginned, was ,vorth $010,311,000 based on fatin >rices of December 1. A careful study of the damages to otton by the boll weevil and other :auses has just been concluded by the iepartment of agriculture, whose re>ort shows that during the 13 years. 909-'21, the hypothetical value of lie.* rrevonted production of cotton from ill causes totaled $11,473,599,000. Of hat amount the boll weevil damage imountcd to $1,101,152,000. The farm alue of cotton, including seed, proluced in those 13 years aggregated il5,040,523,000, or an average of $1,!03,378,700 a yar. Actual production of cotton in those 3 years aggregated 159,048,000 tales, while damage from all sources iggregated 109,434.000 bales, of vhich the boll weevil is credited k ith pr? venting production of 27,770. 00 bales. The potential production t cotton in the United States lor hose years, therefore, aggregated 09,082,000 bales, or an average of 0,098.515 bales yearly, while the reliction of the crops because of dnmge from all sources averaged 8,418,00 bales annually and the boll weed's average toll 2,213,538 bales yeury. from point of loss in production hrough all causes 1921 was a record ear. The estimated potential pro luetion aggregates 18,GG6,000 bales, >revented production being 10,712,UU<J tales, for which the boll weevil was esponsible for G,277,000 bales. The ictual production was 7,954,000 bales, 're vented production therefore far xceeded the actual crop and the weeil caused a reduction equal to 79 per ent of the actual crop. Mad it not teen for the weevil last year's crop ould have been obtained from GO per ent of the acreage cultivated. The weevil was more destructive than all ther causes of damage combined, beng credited with 59 per cent of the ota] damage. Jitney Bus Partially Burned One of the jitney busses of Mr. Robert Griffin was damagea by lire resterday morning at Buffalo. The :ar was badly burned about the ront; the top and the wheels on one ide were badly injured. Mr. Griffin ens Jlhnllt rosxlir fr\f u i r-i r> t,\ Otiu' anhurg when the the occurred. PERSONAL MENTION Mr. and Mrs. Edward Townseiul. vho have been visiting at the homo >f their parents, Mr. and Mrs. I) .1 Gregory, on Route 3, have returned o their home at McDonalds, NT. C. Victor Gregory of Petersburg, Va., spent the week-end a the home of lis parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Greg, try. on Route? 3. Mrs. U. T. Beaty, Mrs. W. N Reaty ind children, Miss Cornelia Citip of Union and Misses Edna and Hetue Parkins of Greenville were in ( ross Keys Friday visiting in the home of Mr. J. C. Whitmire. Mrs. Cynthia Brawn has returned 0 her home in Union after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Storm at Norfolk!;, ^a. Mr. J. E. John>on and daughti : Miss Pearl Johnson, were visitors i 1 nion today. Rev. Carter and wife of Cab svere visitors in the city today Miss Gladys Whitlock left today for Birmingham, Ala., to resume hei studies at Howard college this fall. Miss Grace Breaktield has returned o Brevard Institute where she is corresponding secretary to Mr. Ore, president of Brevard School. Mr. and Mrs. Manly Sanders of Columbia spent the week-eknd in Un ion with relatives. Miss rearle Kelly of Kaleigh, IN. ( is visiting relatives in Union. Mr. Ted Garner spent. Sunday with his parents, Mr. an.l Mrs. Fred Garner. Misses Mary Jones, Vera Murrah. Margarite and Mary Flynn arrived in Union Saturday from New York. Miss Doris, milliner for Wilburn Rros., has returned to Union. Mrs. W. H. Hope and children are vistng Mrs. Hope's parents in Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Storm are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Storm on Church street. Messrs. D. N. Wilburn and Claude Bennett spent Sunday in Greenville. Mrs. Eugene Spears and Miss Annie Tinsley are spending the day in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. ftolton are visitors in Spartanburg today. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tinsley spent the week-end in the mountains. The record number of lightning flashes for England in 1244 in two hours, counted on June 6, 1889. In 1891 the United State produced 1000 tons of steel.