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BANK CLOSED; TO BE LIQUIDATED | Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14.?The Mutual Savings Bahfc of Bennettsville, of which Thomas B. McLaurin is Dresident, will liquidate and go out of business, according to a statement issued Saturday by James H. Craig, State Bank examiner. Immediately after Mr. McLaurin disappeared a few days ago, the bank was closed and an examination of the records ordered. Mr. Craig emphasized that the bank is solvent and that if the family of Mr. McLaurin will make good "alleged securities and hidden liabilities" the ^ depositors could be paid in full. Mr. McLaurin is said to be in a sanitarium in Asheville, where he was taken ] after being located in Atlanta. Mr. Craig conferred with Attorney General Wolfe Saturday relative to the appointment of a receiver for the bank, which is capitalized at $25,000. Mr. McLaurin was also presi1 x ~ itrova^Aiico A cil*. | ' ueill OX a tUlluu TYaivuvuwvt * | cuit judge will be asked next week j to name the receiver. Mr. Craig's j1 statement follows: "I have applied through the attorney general for a receiver for the ! Mutual Savings Bank of Bennettsville. Examination of the affairs of I of the bank discloses that the bank was carrying as securities to loans , cotton certificates of the Bennetts- . ville Warehouse that were either bogus or worthless. In addition the president had made large personal , obligations for his own account with banks and parties which he endorsed as president of the bank but con- , cealed from the bank's liabilities Aside from worthless securities pledged in the form of warehouse certificates ?nd concealed personal j liabilities of the president, the bank I was found solvent. These, however, I were of such proportions that the I examiner with the approval of the director decided to close and liquidate the institution. If the president and his family should make good the alleged securities and hidden liabilities the depositors could be paid in full." I RALEIGH MAN FINED $500 FOR WHIPPING HIS STENOGRAPHER Raleigh, Nov. 13.?L. K. Rutter, Raleigh mill supply man, charged with assault on his stenographer by whipping her with switches, was today fined $500 by Judge Kerr in oupenur cuuu. Rutter offered a plea of guilty today and his attorneys made a plea for mercy, contending the humiliation resultnig from the crime had been such that Rutter's family was forced to leave the state. Rutter offered no excuse for his action, which attorneys for the prosecution declared put Rutter in the class with Thaw and Frank, a moral degenerate who should get the maximum punishment. CROP REPORT Saluda, S. C., Nov. 13.?The average yield of corn in South Carolina this year is 19 bushels per acre, as compared with 16 bushels last year and 17 bushels in 1919, the total production being upward of 42,500,000 bushels. The average yield for the United States is 35.9 bushels per acre, against 28.6 bushels in 1919. The total production this year is eatomated at 3,199,126,000 bushels as compared with 2,917,450,000 bushels in 1919. Weiarht ner measured bushel of wheat and oats is reported at 59 and 31.8 pounds respectively. The average yield of potatoes in the state this season is estimated at 100 bushels per acre, as against an average of 85 bushels in 1919, the average yield of sweet potatoes being 105 bushels per acre as against 90 bushels last year. The average yield of potatoes in the United States is 109.4 bushels per acre, total production of the former benig 421.252.000 bushels, and the latter 105,676,000 bushels. The average yield of tobacco per acre in South Carolina this year is 650 pounds, the average for the j United States being 793.9 pounds ' per acre. t Estimates of acreage and produc-| tion of the various crops in the State will appear in December report by counties. B. B. Hare, Agricultural Sta-i tistician for S. C. MILDRED CHAPLIN GRANTED DIVORC Not to Use Charlie's Name Profe sionally?Property Settlement Out of Court. Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 13.?M dred Harris Chaplin was granted decree of divorce from Charlie Cha lin in the superior court here late t day. Mr. Chaplin, whom Mrs. Chapl charged with cruelty, was not court, but was represented by a torneys. It was stated a property settl ment, involving about $200,000 ht been made out of court and an agre ment reached by which Mrs. Chapl would not use the name of Chapl professionally. REPORTED CLARK WILL OPPOSE, SENATOR REE Washington, Nov. 13.?Forrrn Speaker Champ Clark, who was d feated for re-election to Congress w ?o upon the lecture platform for tv years and then be a candidate to su ceed James A. Reed in the Senat according to reports that reach< Washington today. The former speaker is the thii oldest man in point of service in tl House. "Uncle Joe" Cannon ai Speaker Gillett alone have serv< longer, forty-four and twenty-eig! years, respectively. Mr. Clark w have been in the House twenty-s years when his present term expires A private in the United Stat army, with specialized knowledg :an earn $60 a month. H Copyright 1910 The He*.. Nev ' $20"$2i . No eservatic: I prices, reductio sire and < committees appointed :e Columbia, 'Nov. 14.?Philip B. :8" Warner, executive secretary of the South Carolina Tuberculosis Associatoin, announced yesterday that il_ the following charimen had been ap a pointed for the coming Christmas p- seal sale: o-| Anderson, Miss Martha Bonham; ; Barnwell, Miss Josie Davis; Beauin; fort, Deloss Springs; Calhoun, Dr. C. inj B. Kinzer; Charleston, Mrs. W. W. t-!Scouten; Cherokee, D. Walter I j Boone; Chester, H. S. Adams; Clare* endon, Carlton Durant; Colleton, l(* J Dr. S. R. Turner; Darlington, Dr. C. e* H. Verner; Dillon, Mrs. Evans; 'n Edgefield, Mrs. Jas. H. White; 'n Florence, Mrs. E. R. Howell; Greenwood, Warren T. King; Greenville & Spartanburg, Miss Harriett Shepard; Jasper, Mrs. A. B. Arnsdorf; LexD ington, Mrs. Wilbur Caughman; Laurens, Mrs. Robert Roper; Lee er County, Dr. E. Paul Knotts; Marion, e-|Mr. Peter C. Evans; Newberry, Dr. ill j Roy P. Finney; Oconee, Miss Sue fo j Gignalliatt; Orangeburg, Dr. Richc-lard Bailey; iPckens, Mrs. Jas. P. e, Carey, Jr.; Sumter, Mrs. Louis Wili/l I tiomcnn- TTninn Mrc W W MlXSOn! York, Mrs. Louis Friedhiem; Wilrd liamsburg, E. C. Epps; Fairfield, Dr. le Hamilton. id "Enough tuberculosis Christmas ;d seals have been printed and distribuht ted by the national Tuberculosis Asill sociation to reach more than half ix way around the world," said Mr. . Warner. Nine hundred million seals have been distributed _ to the es forty-eight state tuberculosis assoe, j ciations and the more than eleven 'hundred local anti-tuberculosis assot (uppenhe ^OOP ' ''''' .'' '' ? it Prices ;35-$40-$45 Fincke Detv are made. Every suit ns from $ 1 0 to $20. t] 3ur desire for lower pr PARK SPEND MUCH MONEY de Uniform Cost Accounting Method* ^ Sought w} | New York, Nov. 13.?More than bu I $150,000 is to be expended in estab- wz I lishing uniform cost accounting er methods in the garment and cloth- au | ing industry, it was announced to- ou night by the International Associa- ? ' tion of Garment Manufacturers. 1 ,* A feautre of the organization's plan is the operation of a service bureau and school on a self-sustaini ing basis. The purpose of the reform, it was said, was to save the ' industry and public whatever burden is now imposed by reason of a lack of generally accepted standards and ! methods of cost finding. I! ! : ! ciations scattered throuhgout the ' United States. If placed in a row, these seals would measure fifteen' thousand miles. ; "Approximately nine seals for| , 1 every inhabitant of the United States have been prepared. In addition an attractive health bond will! be used in the Christms seal campaign, this bond guaranteeing to the purchaser returns in individual and community health. "The sale of tuberculosis Christmas seals will extend from December 1 to 11. More than one hundred thousand workers will be engaged during that period. The seals are sold for the support of the National, state and local anti-tuberculosis associations in the country." Legal Blanks for \ Sale Here.? j ?he Press and Banner Company. m / imcr y L1CU Ne^ ebT*T? d? 0/\ $DU^OO Att Special Overalls, $3 and overcoat in our ne J This action represents I/~^o nn nronrl rlnfhmo" IV^V^U VIA g\/V/V% ER & F One woman who can laugh at the mands of cooks and housemaids is iss Leah White, of Evanston, 111., 10 has built for herself a spacious ngalow in which the heating,' ishing, cleaning, cooking, and othhousehold tasks are performed tomatically by means of ingenis electrical devices and apparatus. To Those W The B GROCI Give US yo\ WE'LL MA i We always have the market aff< satisfaction assu W. D. BA iwerP v?Not Six Moi ANTICIPATE clothing costs n : now make a co ion of our prices level. Not a s inite downwarc e same high irchandise, but a ly lower prices w Overcoc $25-$30-$35-$ a garment w fall stock repres our sincere effort t Greatest values of tl tEESE Beneath the ruins of a temple in Egypt scientists have discovered a subterranean necropolis containing1 thousands of mummified bodies of the sacred Ibis ^each neatly packed in crumpled papryus (ancient Egyptian manuscripts), which, say investigators, appear to consist of everything from love letters to washing bills. i ho Demand est in ERIES ir' order and KE GOOD / on hand the best ards and your i is always 1 red. RKSDALE : ' , v .<* =================== i rices I " ;V M iths Hence r f / )N of lowext spring mplete re- . s to a low-\ ale, but a I 1 revision. I quality of I it substan- I right now. I it Prices I 40-$45'$50 I ents, at the new || o meet your de- ?j lie season. ? ?-J