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I Our ft Durii IWi B I SALE ON AT 1 LIBERAL PARTY LATEST FORME Another Political Movement Und< Way Chicago, July 17.?Another pol tical movement, the Liberal pari was launched today by formi members of the Committee < jForty-eight who bolted from thi roeanization. Judge Arthur W. Gray, mayor < York, Neb., and Allen McCurd; keynote speaker at the conventioi head the new party. The convention was confined 1 those persons, some 50 to 60 i number, who signel its call, and a other Forty-eighthers were exclut ed from the hall. i Lester Barlow, leader of t? world War Veterans, attempted 1 make an address but was invited 1 leave. He threatened to call sti another convention. "I have nev< seen so many nuts collected i Chicago as during the past fe days," Barlow declared as he marcl ed out. A. W. Ricker, * chairman of th Chicago committee of forty-eigl also was asked to leave when it wi discovered he had not signed tfr I Our nev stock op Tatp St m & % |! Building & L? II of Ah G. A. Neuffer Pres. fflyafiyHBfifatitiBH; $40,00 og OUR BIG ONVERT I 2 will not Move < UY NOW J. M. A i BOTH STORES. call. id D McCurdy announced that theje> principal purpose of the gathering' tr sr was to oppose any attempt to nomi-jSi nate Senator Robert M. La Follette, jm for president and William Jennings ,th >. IBrvan for vice nr?*rident. It is hi ty probable that no presidential iicketjst will be named by he Liberals. Ilii jr * ,f , COX TO HELP SUFFRAGE Ife FIGHT IN TENNESSEE 'ri >f !V y. Columbus, Ohio, July 17.?Gov-jai ? ernor James M. Cox, Democratic ei n, ' i presidential nominee, promised Fri-,b< day to dedicate himself in the ef-j ln fort to put Tennessee over as the | M II thirty-sixth State for woman suf-j frage. He came out unqualified and ; i asked Alice PauV leader of the suf-l jfragist lelegations to appoint a com-lcc _ _ _ _ ... . jmittee with which he will co-operate sin devising ways and means to put c< ' the amendment through, when a J* special session of the Tennessee c? >ri Legislature convenes on August 9. m n ; m' W DECLARES THE GOVERNMENT ;b< v IS SUPREME IN ai LIQUOR CASES PJ ie ci it | Asheville. N. C., July 17.?The d< is federal government has the power, "cc ie' under the law, to try a case on j jjjj / series of ens today |j ock Now IJ ian Association | : i !ii_ i" luevuie |p J. S. Morse jjj Sec. ||c m 10.00 Si IS OFFERED REMOVAL V/IT^D/^LI A \ \ my more of thii AND SAV i NDERSC v i larges of violating the liquor laws, 'gyi ren after a defendant has been ^anc iel by the state courts. United anc tates District Atorney W. C. Ham-| 1 er of Ashboro, rulied here today in Co: te trial of George Cathey. Cathey ha\ id been arrested by the city and mo: ate authorites on charges of tho quor violations and came clear and hot ten his case was taken up by the J deral authorites. On Mr. Mammer QU iling United States Commissioner r?nnn fJndcpr fnnnH nrnahlp r>aiisp id bound Cathey over to the fed al term of court here, under a me >nd of $500. ton [ORE COTTON IS BEING Te? CONSUMED IN SOUTH woi for Washington, July 14.?Ootton at msumed in the cotton growing anc ates was 56.4 per cent of the hor >untry's total consumption during ( ine, compared "with 54.4 peV cent sail >nt a year ago, the census bureau |tin< onthly report.' today disclosed. | da j here was increased consumption jit >th in the cotton growing states jdia id the rest of thei .country com-jfer ired with a year ago but the in- dev ease in the southern states was enf >uble that of the remainder of the qu? mntrv. the Active cotton spindles during J une showed an increase of 55C,9G of which the greater portion or!the 39,748 were in the cotton growing So ;ates. |ac< cie IGHT MILLION BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE WILL BE AUCTIONED OFF IN FRANCE \ Paris, July 13.?Eight million m( ottles of champagne will be among wl he items on the last commodities H< be placed on sale January 28, by jhen the sequestered property of thi Jaron Walter de Mumm will be As uctioned off. This property was of eized in 1915 subsequent to the M< ?aron's resumption of .German inj itizenship when the war began. Pa The number of bottles in the o* iron's cellars in the vicinty of El theims, where the sale will take ilace, was gTeatly diminished dur- mc tig the war. When General Luden- He orff was making his furious drives oward Rheims and Eperney p he wine cellars were used as shel_ ers for the troops and the men rere given almost priceless wine Tr rith their meals. In addition to the bottled wines ee here are 500,000 litres of wine in l casks, these being stored in ware- ' ouses, mansions and cottages as 1X3 rell as secret hiding places beneath r,e^ ineyards in the champagne couny. ou; gel KIDNAPPED IN ST. LOUIS; IS LOCATED IN HAVANA wii ha1 Havana, Cuba, July' 15.?Jessie ' ostello, 10 years of age, daughter hai f John Costello of St. Louis. Mo., ev< lid to have been missing from her ' ome since April 15, was rescued ret might by detectives who raided a Ba ause in the Jesus Del Monte 'su- ' rb of Havana and arrested a gir :ock ol SALE At IDISE IN i Stock than rE THE 1 3N CC h^hmii J'C f . > / . >sy woman named Milano Merin i her son and daughter, Georg I A I niuia. 3esides abduction of the chilc stello charged the gypsies wit ing robbed him of $1,750 i ney, which, according to the au rities, was found in the raide ise. ARANTINE ON COTTON FROM BOLL WORM ARE) IVashingto, July 15.?Establish nt of a federal quarantin rinst interstate shipment of cot from sections of Louisana anis infected by the pink bol rm, will be effected within tnight, it was announced toda; a conference of cotton grower [ state officials with the federa ticultural board. Chairman Mariett of the boan i the final draft of the quaran ; order would be ready in te: rs or two weeks, and he expecte* woyld become effective imme tely after its issuance. The con ence was held with the view o eloping some uniform plan o 'orcing both the state and feders irantines to prevent spread o pest. Mo agreement was reached, hov jr, the state officials assertin ;y were without authority to ac me indicated their willingness 1 :ept the federal action as suf tnt. JOHN T. ASHLEY DEAD Ir. John T. Ashley died yesterdi )rning at 4:30 at Ware Shoa lere he had lived for some tim ; was 42 years old. He is survivi his wife and one daughter. Al: ree brothers, J. M. and W. ' ihley of Anderson, J., W. Ashli Abbeville, one sister, Mrs. Liz; Dore of Abbeville, and the folic i I half brothers and sisters: J. ] irker, Ernest and Claud Ashle Abbeville and Misses Minnie a: eanor Ashley of Abbeville. The funeral will be conducted t >rrow at Keowee church, nes mea Path at 11 a. ROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC The correspondence files of tl easury Department hold moi ms of purest ray serene than tl llion vault, if we may judge b ;se excerpts written to the d< rtment by relatives of soldiers i ference to allotments of pay: "We have another war baby i r house. How much more do t " "Dear Mr. McAdoo: I have fe and four children. Should ire more or less?" "Please send me my allotment, re a little baby and knead i ;ry day." 'To whom it may concern :Pleas urn my marriage certificate by hasn't eaten in three days. 'You have changed our littl 1 into a boy. Will it make an; f Merch; A Big Sa< TO CAS we are Forced U DIFFERENt iMPANY MOVING DATE, S o differenceV* ' , e "Please let me know if John has put in his application for a wife and I, child." h "I am writing to ask why I have n not received by elopement money. [- His money was kept from him for d the elopement I received." "Just a line to let you know I am a widow and four children." "I have a four-months'-old baby ^ and he is my only support." Dear Mjr. Wilson: "I have al" ready written to Mr. Headquarters 6 and received no answer, apd if I don't get one from you I am 1 going ^ to write Uncle Sam himself.", "I did not know my husband had a a middle name and if he did I y didn't think it was none." s "You ask for my allotment num1 ber. I have 4 boys and 2 girls." "I received my insurance polish, and have since moved my post of"fice." n . . d ; i. The Queen of the Belgian is a B t_ clever playwright and nas written \ f several stories which are popular in j f Europe. |, ij jiS 7 r " ?. Pick the Pair 2| You K r- ' Be jy yoi '.y hoi K' Fo a. edj y, pai ld Hy S ? * AMA-tma BAB OH HOTR ? "?_ J COOLEDGE HYGBADB p These two letter* Miore yon that yom w letting the bMt patat mule for the Southern ClintUt ie e gpW lor ttie Jc 7 " '-i :ritice I u ' '-pi lit I > 'M 'i2 r do. pi T. 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