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was distributed until it was called to my attention. When it was. I took it up with council at its next meeting, to have it re-distributed in the proper proportions. You will see from above list none of this money was on deposit with the- Snmter Trust Co., and none with j? the First National Bank. Council di rected that it be redistributed and tee Sr.mter Trust Co., be given its . proportion, but did not direct that any be placed with the First National v. Bank because the First National Bank /? had all of the sinking fund of the schools, which amounted to $11,777. > 73. You will see from this that the National B'ank of Sumter all the while had just a little more of this fund than V' the Peoples Bank. ' Yet if Mr. Booth's charges are accepted. I was using my official position to aid the Peoples Bank, but when the facts are stated Mr. Booth's charges are nothing more than chaff before a mighty wind. 2 hope Mr." Booth will not keep un der advisement for too long a period of time the matter of transferring the ,$25,000 where he can get a higher , rate of interest. I will state to him now that I will guarantee several of " the banks in the city will pay 6 per ' cent on this money, b?t, of course he has it within his power to continue it on deposit in the National Bank of Sumter at 4 per cent until he decides when the jail shall be built, unless the v'J legislature decrees otherwise at its next session. He states this $?b,vuu is a nigger ? in the wood-pile. Personally I care nothing about that, but the money was raised to build a new jail and re move the old, unsanitary and un sightly jail from but of the heart of the city and up against the hospital, and if this, jail were removed this lot could be improved, a?d I have been in formed that the moment this jail is moved M/r. ..'Epperson will tear down all the unsightly and unsavory houses he has in that .neighborhood and this will very rauch improve this part of the city, jnuch more than the little difference in the .cost of the jail. I am not for the use of this money in the Peoples Bank or any other bank, but I am a citizen'jahd~ taxpayer and am in favor of the new jail, and I will criti cize whenever I;.see fit any action of any public; official, whether he likes it or not is immaterial to me. I am sofy to. have used so much cf your space, but I hope it will not be necessary to refer to this matter again as I, ^ m satisfied I have not stated a single fact in this letter that Mr. Booth can. disprove or show any ?thing to tie contrary in the slightest degree. ? L. D. JENNINGS. Grassels Sprouts. Always high priced in the market, it is surprising that more home gar dens do not contain a few plants of Brussels sprouts each year. It is one of the most delicately flavored of the cabbage family and it has no require ments to exact any unusual skill of a gardener that be must not also give to a cabbage. The Brussels sprout are a convenient vegetable to grow be cause they are not at their best until after touched by frost and therefore the plants are not to be started until late in season. Seed sown in a seed bed in May- to be transplated once be fore being placed in permanent quar v ters will be ready to follow the peas when their season of bearing is over. Late June or early July will be plenty of time to set out the plants and the> are all the better for two or three transplantings, the plants be coming stockier and earlier producing the sprouts which are really miniature cabbages which grow thickly alorg the stalk after the early leaves have grown, covering the trunk of the plant which bears a few large leaves at the summit. Sprouts need a space of about two to three feet between them and good cultivation to flourish. They are sub ject to the same pests as the cab bage, particularly the cabbage worm. The sprouts are ready for use after the first frosts, and before freezing weath er sets in a few stalks may be dug up. placed in a box with a shovelful of earth over the roots, placed in a warm cellar or cool room and their season may be prolonged. One of the main objections to Brus ? sels sprouts from a cooking stand point is the fondness of the green ap his for the te. der little heads. Before cooking they should be soaked for an hour or so in strong salt water. Any plant lice will be detached and come to the surface so that they may be cleaned readily. It is best, however, to get after the plant iice early in the life of the par ent plant and then there will be no trouble with them when the sprouts are cut for table use. Bergdoll Lacked Physical Courage. Washington, May 24.?House com mittee hearings in the investigation of the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft evader, came to an end today, although Cb'drman Peters announced the mat ter might be reopened later. The principal witness heard at the closing session was Charles A. Braun, a brother of the slacker, who testified he had changed his name because of his brother's escapades and that he knew nothing of the escape or of any buried g<?d to search for which the prisoner was released under guard. Braun asserted that his brother was lacking in physical courage and strongly pro-German, adding that a recent letter from Grover in Germany "was so antagonistic to this country that 1 threw it away." Population of South Carolina Washington. May IS.?The nc^ro population of South Carolina in 1920 numbered 864.719, according to sta tistics made public today by the cen sus bureau. This was an increase of 3.5 per cent for the ten years. Whites numbered 818,538, or an increase of 20.5 per cent. South Carolina's for eign born white population was plac ed at 6.ull. or 0.1 per cent, of tin total population, which was the same as ten years before. There were 838.293 malvs and 845,431 females, or a ratio of >j<j.2 males to loo females. MggggMjWjMjjM gj gj ?IUI Hl?a Boll Weevil Like Equally! All Varieties of Cotton j Adapt Themselves Rapidly to New Conditions and Carry on Their Destructive Work l - J Boll weevils develop about as rap i idly and live as long on one kind of ' j cotton as on another. They seem . to adapt themseves to new conditions j rapidly and become* organized to car- . ry on their work of destruction with- j out delay. These points are brought out in detailed studies of the pest in the states east of the Mississippi river. ! covering a period of two years, con- j ducted by entomologists Of the Unit- j ed States department of agriculture j at Madison, Fla. j A complete report of the studies , has been published in Department Bulletin 926. Studies in the Biology j [of the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil on . Short Staple Upland. Long Staple Up- j j land, and Sea Island cotton. Since : i methods of control are usually bas- f ed upon facts secured from biologi- j cal studies, the results of recording the life history of the weevil in this bulletin are of considerable import ance to the cotton growers east of the Mississippi River. Weevils Mature in Same Length of j Time The studies were conducted both j tinder outdoor insectary conditions {and actual field conditions, the main j j object being to determine the differ- , J ence. if any. in the biology of the j j weevil on the different kinds of cot- i ton. The results all indicate that wide variation exists in the length of time required for the weevil's de- j velopment under insectary conditions } compared with normal held condi tions. On Sea Island cotton plantlets the hibernated weevils lived 11.05 days. I The first and second generation wee vils fed on Sea Island cotton squares lived 10.7 days, while the weevils fed on Sea Island cotton bolls lived 15.3 days. It was found that there was practically no difference in the longe vity of boll weevils on Sea Island and upland cotton. The largest number of eggs de posited by a single female weevil was 432. This record was made by a hi bernated female on upland cotton squares under insectary conditions. The largest number of eggs deposited during any one day was 25. The field- j j bred weevils showed more vitally i than those bred under artificial condi- j tions. Under field conditions the average length of time infested squares hung on the upland cotton plants after egg puncture was 11.5 days. The time re quired to complete the development of the immature weevil after the in fested square dropped to the ground was 10.S days in the upland cotton squares. There was practically no difference shown in the length of the developmental period of the weevils bred in short-staple upland, long staple upland, and sea-island cotton squares. The hibernation of the weevil at j Madison. Fla., is incomplete, and the j adults are seldom inactive more than i 30 days at a time. They emerge from hibernation very gradually, the total daily emergence bearing a di rect relation to the total daily rainfall. The weevils survive the winter in large numbers, but it was found that only 7.C4 per cent of the hibernating weevils survived the winter of 1918 19. Pres. Harding's Pestiferous Sister Washington, May 25.?Mrs. Caro | lyn Votaw. sister of President Hard | ing. was made the defendant in a I $25.000 suit for alleged libel, filed in I the District of Columbia supreme court by Dr. G. R. Lee Cole, who claims his good name and reputation were damaged as the result of a let ter written by Mrs. Votaw to Justice Stafford during the trial of the do mestic difficulties of Cole and his wife. I Weekly Government Report of Weather and Crop Conditions. ! Texas?C< tton made very good to excellent progress, (rendition very good in southern, rather poor to very good in northern half of state, re planting in good progress except in dry areas. Oklahoma?Planting cotton made excellent progress except in southwest where delayed by dry soil, coming up to fair to good stand crop unusually late. Georgia?Cotton made satisfactory progress stands still poor, consider able replanting going on, boll weevil j j appe aring c hopping and cultivation j continues. j Alabama?Cotton improved sught |ly. Replanting continues; stands and j condition generally rather poor to ) fair. Some very poor; chopping pro ? grossing. Mississippi?Progress and cultiva tion of cotton satisfactory; cotton is small and stands pool-; late planted germinating poorly on upiand on ac . count of drought. Arkansas?Progress of cotton sat isfactory to very good; condition rath er po< r to satisfactory; crop late, con siderable portion planted third time; fairly well cultivated where up. South Carolina ? Progress and con dition of cotton rather poor to satis factory; plants generally small; stands j of replanted rather poor in north west; chopping continues. North Carolina?Generally favor-' able for farm work out only two ? warm days during week; too cool for cotton which made slow growth: late planted coming up. Tennessee ? -< *ot ton stands generally! poor with much replanting but pro- ' gress satisfactory this week. Florida?Progress and condition of cotton rather poor, owing to heavy to i excessive rains, but some late cotton j came up since rains began. Louisiana?Progress oT cotton very good, though condition still general- j Try unsatisfactory: replanting: cotton] nearly completed* I SMALL NAVY WINS IN SENATE Republicans Join Democrats in Economy Movement at the Capital Washington, May 23. ? Another successful attack by economy forces in the senate against the S4S5.000.000 naval appropriation bill resulted to day in defeat of the naval commit tee's plan to establish a Pacific coast base at Alameda, Cab. by a vote of 30 to 40. the item was stricken from the bill. Advocates of a reduction in naval expenditures then launched a drive to reduce the navy enlisted personnel from Il'O.ooO as recommended by the seriate committee, to lOo.ooo men as voted by the house. A vote on this question went over until tomorrow, but with prediction of a closer re sult than that on the Alameda base appropriation. ? In the vote on the Alameda pro visions eighteen Republicans joined with twenty-two Democrats in oppo sition. The committee amendment would have granted an initial ap propriation of $1,500,000 to start dredging on the new site and author ized the government to accept free upwards of 5.000 acres of land for the site. No further effort is planned to re store the Alameda base provisions, acocrding to Senator Poindexter. Re publican, Washington, in charge of the bill. Neither of the California senators, Johnson nor Shortridge. spoke in behalf of the provisions and in the absence of any fight by them it was said that the new Pacific coast base probably would go over for con base probably would go over for con sideration next year. In the opening fight on the enlisted personnel, Senators Lafollette and Lenroot, Republicans, of Wisconsin, urged economy in naval appropria tions. The former, in an address of about three hours, charged that "cor rupt" influence! were working for large appropriations for profits on government armor plate and armor contracts. He charged existence of an "armor ring" and in this con nection named Bethlehem. Midvale and Carnegie steel companies. He also criticized the navy league and national security league for their a - tivities in behalf of armament. Cooperation. Weekly News Letter). "Farming in the future will no longer be a matter of brute force. It will be a business for brains, organ ization, intelligence." .Reads as if it were taken from an editorial written yesterday, or a speech by some ex tension worker out in the held. The quotation represents the vision of one John Skinner, editor of the American Farmer, the first edition of which ap peared in Baltimore in April, 1S21, just 100 years ago. The thing of chief interest now, perhaps, is found in the fact that the editor, influenced doubtless by th^ current discussions around him, be gan writing 100 years ago about the subject which has never ceased since his day to engage the attention of thoughtful people everywhere. Inves tigation shows that men have been trying all these years to achieve the perfect organization for agriculture, and they still are trying. The minds of farmers today are turned, for the most part, toward co operation as a means of reaching suc cess. Just how far they may go with their efforts is a disputed matter. Many business men. many of the great consuming public, appear to question the farmers' right to pro tect themselves in this way, forget ting that every branch of business has done precisely this thing. "There are about 15.000 farmers' organizations in this country today." said George Livingston, chief of the Bureau of Markets. United States de partment of agriculture. "These or ganizations have a membership of approximately 2.000,000. A move ment so widespread should benefit both producers and consumers. Once I the public believes cooperative mar keting, for instance, will result in bet ter quality, a standardization of pro ducts and packing, the reduction of I waste, the public will wish to do its part to encourage such united effort. ifEverything should be done to dis courage a seemingly growing belief that such organizations are for the purpose of controlling prices. The public should be brought to under stand that farmers are organizing to get for themselves and their families a fair reward for the labor they have put into production, with the object of having higher standards of living, better homes, schools, and churches. Although he may not know it, every man in town or city has a close, ! personal interest in the success of American agriculture. It is, or should Vie. a cycle in results; better farming, better prices, better homes, better people, because the strength of the cities, as all thoughtful persons know, lies in the strength of the country, by which I mean the rural regions." In his weekly conference with representatives of the press recently. Secretary Wallace, of the United States department of agriculture, said in speaking of the meeting of the Committee of Seventeen in Chi cago: "There seems to be a fear that the farmers will z<> to price fixing, but 1 think this fear is un founded. The Chicago gathering should give reassurance as to the | farmers' ability to bring about a mo nopoly. It should be remembered compulsory pooling of agricultural products was rejected, and that the final vote gave a majority for option- j h l pooling. The conference gave < hopes of much improvement In grain 1 marketing methods." Belfast. May 25.?Wholesale charges! of intimidation and personation dur ing the bailotting in the parliamentary elections are being made by both nationalists and unionists. The re snts of the election proba.l>lyy will not be known for a day or two. REPORT ON CITY TREES Mrs. IHHon Gives Results of In spection ond Census of Shade Trees on Streets Editor Item: The enclosed report of the work done on the street and park trees of of the city of Sumter answers so many questions that are being constantly asked of me that I hope you will be able to find space to publish it. Just as soon after midsummer as it is safe to begin work I shall finish my census and takie up the trees that have been left. We also expect to plant new trees in the Fall wherever they arc most needed and can be faken care of properly. Yours truly. JULIA LESTER DILLON. Number and condition of trees on streets of the city of Sumter, as giv en below. Work done in December, January, February, March. 1920-1921. Streets, condition of trees: Purdy?'38 good, 10 medium; total 48. Edwards?15 medium, total 15. Blanding?4 2 good. 5 medium, 2 bad; total 49. Wright?43 good. 15 medium, 3 bad; total 61. Chestnut?46 good, 3 medium, 4 bad; total w>3. Folsom?13 good. 4 bad; total 17. Harby Ave.?4 3 good, 5 medium, 2 bad; total 50. Council?17 good, 18 medium, 3 bad; total 38. Church?108 good, 36 medium, 37 bad; total 181. Salem Ave-?209 good, 36 medium, 24 bad; total 269. Washington to Dugan?87 good, 14 medium. 21 bad; total 122. N. Main. Live Oak to S. Main R. R.?452 good, 42 medium, 17 bad; to tal 121. ! Park Ave.?17 good. 6 medium. 1 bad: total 24. Hampton Ave.?99 good, 21 me dium. 22 bad; total 142. j Liberty?165 good. 18 medium, 49 , bad; total 232. j Calhoun?159 good, 54 medium, 22 bad; total 235. Haynsworth?65 good. 2 medium, 7 bad: total 74. Oakland Ave.?100 good, 73 me dium. 20 bad; total 193. Partlette?4 8 good, 13 medium, 7 bad; total 68. Kendrick?29 good, 2 medium; to tal 31. Warren?16 good, 14 medium, 20 bad; total 5.0. Broad?114 good, 8 medium, 7 bad; total 129. I I Dugan?4 good, 1 medium; total 5. I Dingle?4 good, 7 medium, 20 bad; total 31. Hazel?10 good; total 10. Saratoga?5 good; total 5. Memorial Park?50 good, 10 me dium, 4 bad: total 64. Graham Park?3 good; total 3. Grand total?1.605 good, 428 me dium. 297 had. 2,330 in all. I Good means that with regular in spection and care these trees are all i perfectly healthy and sound, and will j need only occasional care in future. ! Medium means that with slight re { pair?holes in branches filled, bark wounds cared for, root holes repaired, these trees will go over into the good class. j Bad means that much work will be necessary to save them. Many of them '?'"ould have the bad limbs tak en off. root holes filled with cement, and with ordinary care will last many more years. Some of them are not worth the work it would take to re pair them and new trees should be planted instead of working on the old. All of the above trees have been worked on this season. On Hamilton and Liberty streets my help was so poor that I did not dare to attempt to remove even dangerous branches. In the fall I shall have to do this. There are some trees on Church and Washington that will have to be gone over this fall, because the lateness of the season prevented my giving them adequate pruning. The other streets will need no more pruning of the good trees other than a limb here and there that hangs too low over the street. The varieties of trees are as fol ; lows: Common name, number of trees, standard name: Water oak, 70S; quercus nigra ac quatica. White oak. 771; quercus acquatica. Willow oak. 137; quercus phellos. Pin oak, 4S; quercus plaustris. Live oak, 16; quercus sempervirons. Red oak, 51; quercus rubra. Sycamore, 264; Platamus occiden italis. E3m. 34; Ulmus Americana. Cherry. Carolina, 21; Cerasus Caroliniana. Pecan. 52; Hicoria pecan. China Berry, Umbrella, 26; Melia azederach umbraculiformis. Maple, 53; Acer platanoides. Carolina poplar, 50; Populus Car oliniana. Lembardy Poplar, 6; Populus nig*a( fastigiata. j Crepe Myrtle, 7; Lagerstroemia in dica. Black gum, 6; Nysua sylvatica. Black gum. 6; Nyssa sylvatica. Sweet gum, 3; Liquidanibar sty raciflua. Holly. 2; Ilex opaca. Cedar. 7: Juniperus Virginiana. Mulberry, white. 28; Morus aba. Mulberry. French. 2; Morus. Hackberry, 6; Celtis occidentalis. Pino, l?; Pinns strobus. Mimosa. 2; Albizzia julibrissin. Catalpa, 2; Catalpa speciosa. Ailanthus, 3; Ailanthus. Cottonwood. 3. Laburnum, 1; l aburnum vulgaris. Sassafras. 1. Walnut. .Japanese. 2. Magnolia. 2; Magnolia granditlora. Bay. 1. Wild cherry, 2. Apple, i. Total. 2.320. My field book is marked oft in I squares that measure 50 feet. I have measured the distances between the trees listed above and plotted them in my book so that I can transfer them to the city map. This I will do this summer and then you can see at a glance where we need to plant the new trees. Each page is 350 feet, which gives me a fairly accurate estimate of the distance covered by the trees plotted. One side of the street is 23 and 133 144 miles. Both sides would be near ly 48 miles of tree3 that have been pruned, studied, and filed for future reference in the months given. We should have ordinances cov ering the protection of the trees al ready growing and governing the planting of new ones. Many of the trees listed above are utterly unfit for street trees, both from the stand points of beauty and sanitation. JULIA LESTER DILLON. HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL State Championship To Be De cided in Columbia Columbia, May 24.?The state high school baseball championship will be decided by a game to be played on the University athletic field in Co lumbia at a very early date, probably next week, to be announced by the executive committee of the state amateur athletic association within a few days. Considerable interest is manifest throughout the state in this contest and a number of prom inent high schools have teams con testing in preliminary games, for the honor of playing in the final game. For the lower part of the state the lead has narrowed down to the teams of the high schools of McColl, Florence and Lake City. Charleston, Florence. Orangeburg, Columbia and Sumter have been eliminated in re cent games. For the upper part of the state the sectional championship rests with one of the four team's, Woodruff, Spar tanburg, Hastoc, in Spartanburg, and Greenville high schools. Chester has won over all teams in her section of the state, holding the divisional lead all alonet The winner of the Pied mont group of four schools will play the Chester team. The winner of this game will play the winner in the group of three schools in the lower part of the state. This will be the championship game in Columbia next week, and the team that wins it will be the state champion. Congratulations Pinewood. (University Weekly News). "Your schc.-l has a record that can't be beat. How do you do it?" The above question by Mr. Van Me ter and a request that I write the an swer for the Weekly News is the ex planation of this article. To begin with, Pinewood High school, with eleven pupils finishing work in 3 years, every pupil enter ing college and doing creditable work, challenges any school in the state to measure up to the stnadard set. To go further, those who finish this term have already made prepara tions to go to college next fall, and have their admission cards already approved. The eleven referred to above are distributed as follows: Four at Wofford. One at Georgia Tech. One at Danville. Va. One at Winthrop. Two at Columbia College. One at Coker. One in training at Tourney Hos pital. This record for a small high school, and from a community where very few of the people have had the op portunity of training above the com mon school, is a cause of pride to every patron of the school. The reasons for this effort to secure an education, as I see them, are sev eral. I will name only one or two of the more important ones. First, I think, might be mentioned a gener al dissatisfaction with conditions brought about by the lack of an ed ucation, and a wholesome desire to improve these conditions. Next that might be mentioned, is the realization that an education is the best way to improve conditions and to make the community a good place in which to live. Then the desire of the pupils for a higher education in order to "do things." not to watch someone else "do them." No pupil is permitted to go through a single year of school without hav ing the advantages of an education pointed out. Those who reach the last year of high school usually have already selected the college they wish to enter, and look frward to com mencement as the last step in their preparation for the pleasures of col lege life. During the past three years only four of those who entered the high school dropped out before finishing, while four others left during their eighth and ninth grades to take up work at some other preparatory in stitution. The effort of the people of the community to make the Pinewood high school one of the best in the state, is being realized. The fourth year will be added next term, and with additional teaching force we feel that the class of 1922 will con tinue to hold the record of 100 per cent, of the graduates continuing their studies at institutions of higher learning. W. O. TATUM. Jr.. Superintendent Pinewood School. Alexandria. May 25.?There was de sultory firing in the streets last night, following the recent riots in which nearly fifty persons were killed and about two hundred were wour.ded. Los Angeles. May 25.?The body of the elderly woman found at Santa Monica. Sunday has been identified as that of Mrs. Catherine Fields, a weal thy retired business woman of Chica go. The police express the belief that sU'f v'as murdered. . The Boll Wee^l ?. i Alabama Interesting Letter From Heart of Boll Weevil District. Ex penence is a "a rd Teacher Editor Daily Item: Two Irish bachelors operating in JLrowns, Ala., have bought goods from us for the last twelve years, and while amply solvent they have been very slow pay, especially during the first two years of the boll weevil.Each order had to be passed upon before shipment was made, the same as a new order. But on the last two shipments made this year both bills were discounted, and we had an idea that the boll weevil had a. favorable effect on their fin-' .cial standing, and we wrote thenuSto know about the effect that the *>cil weevil had on their community; and while they do not give the boll weevil credit for their improved commercial standing their letter is very interesting. It occurred to us that it might be of interest to some of your subscrib ers, as it comes directly from the in fected district. You can publish it if ycu wish. Yours truly, Witherspoon Bros, and Co. May 24, 1021. Witherspoon Bros, am? Co., Sumter. S. C. Dear Sirs: ReplyijJ? to your inter esting letter of 16tl||wish to advise it is the writer's opinion that the boll weevil was not a blessing to us in this community for the reason we did not pay strict attention to the ad vice given us by people having the experience, including county farm demonstration agents, government of ficials and other writers and speakers from the weevil infested districts that had years of experience. It is true we reduced the acreage consid erably, but not enough and ever since the advent of the boll weevil here since 1914 nearly every acre we plant ed in cotton was an expense instead of a profit. That expense was made up from our other cops which con sisted of hay. live stock; live stock products. If we ha.5 discarded cot ton entirely I firmly oelieve that the boll weevil would be a blessing in stead of a curse in our community, as we cannot raise cotton at a profit under weevil conditions and now es pecially since the price of cotton is so low. The boll weevil reached us in the fall of 1914 after we had a very fine crop already made that year. The following year, 1915, we planted about 75 per cent of a cotton crop and our yield was about 20 per cent; 1916 we plan* i about 60 per cent and made aboi , 10 per cent of 1914 crop. The hig^water and over flows of July 5, 6, |, and 8th were partly responsible, ijht boll weevils got all after that overflow. In 1917 we planted about 40 per cent of nor mal crop and it being a good dry sea son we made about 60 per cent of a normal yield per acre. The advance in price made the crop profitable that year. In 1918 we v.ade about 50 per cent of normal;a 919 we planted about 75 per cent #nd made about 30 per cent yield?'the season was wet and favorable ;or boll weevil. 1920 we made about 50 per cent yield per acre and had in about 75j per cent average. For 1921 we have about '0 per cent normal acreage. The heaviest infestation of the wee vil was the second and third season we have them, and from my experi ence with them I would not plant any cotton at all those two years, if I was farming again in their path. We tried peanut culture here but not on a large scale as most of our lands are black lands, not enough red lands and no sandy soil. There ar6 nearly all negro farmers in this sec tion the reason there is so much cot ton planted at a loss; and it is a hard matter to get the negro renters to reduce the cotton acreage. With the advent of the boll weevil in your section I hope your people will be easier advised in planting the proper crops than we were in this community. Yours fruly, H. B. ildea and Co. Browns, Ala., Me. 20. Murderess Coming Back For Trial Honolulu. May 25.?Gov. McCarthy signed extradition papers for the re turn of Mrs. Paul V. Southard to Twin Tails, Idaho, where she is want ed in connection with the death of Edward Myer. her fourth husband. The deputy sheriff will leave with her June 1. Americans Go To Russia Berlin, May 23.?(By the Associated Press).?William H Johnstan. presi dent of the International Association of Machinists, and Frank L. Mulhol land, of Toledo, Ohio, attorney for the same association, who recently arrived here from the United States, will leave Berlin Tuesday for Riga., on the way to Moscow, where they will investigate trade possibilities and the labor sit uation. As yet Johnson and Mulholland have not received permission to en ter Soviet Russia, but as they have been authorized by the International Association of Machinists to make an investigation on its behalf, it is re ported the Bolshevik minister in Riga will permit them to -roceed into Rus sia. Buenos Aires. May 25.?Two per ?ons have l>een kilk*' in fighting here between union and non-union port workers. Chicago, May 25.?The Chinese students at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, num bering more than a hundred and fif ty, have agreed to limit the cost of :heir food fo 65 cents daiiy during the next three months. The money saved will be sent to China for the relief of famine victims. The railroad question is deep? ivast* deep,?NorCoQs Virginian PiJ