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Parson, Sentenced to 20 Days, Dares Mayor to Jail Him; Case is Dismissed. Anderson, S. C., Nov. 4.-There has been much excitement in the lit tle Georgia town of 4,000 people just across the Savannah River from this county, called Hartwell, over the al tercation between the Methodist minister, Rev. Homer Thompson, and the chief of police, last Saturday. The final chapter in this encounter which has stirred the people so in tensely was written Thursday when Mayor Richardson and the chief of police, W. H. Locke, publicly apolo gized to the preacher. Men and wo men rallied to the side of the preach er, and it is said that in the mayor's court when Rev. Mr. Thompson was fined $10 that some women shook their fists in the mayor's face. One of the friends of the preacher paid the fine, the preacher being tried in his absence, as he was fulfiling an en gagement out of town. When he re turned he demanded a new trial, and refused to allow the judgment of the mayor and the imposition of the $10 fine to stand. Refuses to Pay Fine. Chief Locke admitted attacking the minister, and after hearing the testimony again the mayor fined the minister $10 and a similar amount to the chief of police. Rev. Mr. Thompson said that he refused to pay the fine, saying also, "I have no respect for the court that yields to petty, low, mean politics over right and justice. If conditions have reach ed such a point in Hartwell'that a man can no longer defend himself when he is attacked, then I want you to put me in jail, for that is the only safe place for me or anybody else. I dare you to send me to prison." Then the mayor called the court to order, and said, "Your sentence for contempt of court is $10 and twenty days in jail." Then Rev. Mr. Thompson reached for his hat, and told the mayor that he was ready to go, and again he said, "I dare you to put me in jail." An outburst of ap plause greeted this statement of the minister, and it was some minutes before quiet was restored. Counsel for the minister gave notice of ap peal, but was interrupted by the min ister emphatically declaring that he wanted no appeal, but he was ready to serve the sentence of the mayor dared to put him in the workhouse. Then he walked from the courthouse again being cheered. The case grew out of the chief o? police taking.offense at a sermon preached by Rev. Mr. Thompson against lawlessness, when he said that the law was not upheld as it should be in Hartwell. Two weeks la ter the chief attacked the minister on the street and it is said but for the interference of onlookers that the minister would have given the chief a good beating, although the chief is a much larger man than the minister, weighing about 200 pounds. Case Dismissed. Friday morning the case was again called against Rev. Homer Thompson and was dismissed by Mayor Richard son. This was followed by a state ment that Chief Locke had been sus pended from the police force. The board of stewards of. the church of which Rev. Mr. Thompson is pastor went to Elberton to visit the presiding elder and petitioned him to have Rev. Mr. Thompson re turned to Hartwell at the Methodist conference next week. And they guaranteed that he should have a raise in salary if sent back. The petition was a unanimous one from the membership of the Metho dist church, together with a large number of the citizens of Hartwell, who are not Methodists. Rev. Mr. Thompson will go to the northeast Georgia conference next Wednes day, and Rev. W. L. Pierce, the pre siding elder will present the petition of the people of Hartwell for his re turn to that city. to serve them again. Delicacies in Season. We want the Edgefield housewives to know that we are headquarters in Edgefield for all of the season's deli cacies. We carry a well selected stock of fresh fruit such as Bananas, Apples, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Grapes, Cel ery, and Cranberries. Selected Norfolk Oysters, nothing finer on the market, by express every week. Choice mackerel and imported canned goods of all kinds. Come in to see us or send us your orders. EDGEFIELD FRUIT CO. Farmers of Edgefield county should sow a large acreage in wheat and oats. We can supply them with seed wheat, Texas, Appier and Ful ghum oats at reasonable prices. EDGEFIELD MERCANTILE CO. $1,44?,48IS ? YEAR'S DIS?STEF! RELIEF COST Red Cross Aided 145,000 Vic tims in United States-Losses Total $30,000,000. Seventy-two disasters, with Iran dreds reported killed and injured, and more than 145,000 either homeless or requiring: assistance, called for emer gency relief measures and the ex penditure of $1,441,4S6.36 by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, according to a statement based on the forth coming annual report of the Red Cross. The greatest toll of life was taken by hurricane and tornado while the overflowing ot rivers, the breaking of dams and torrential rains drove the greatest number of people from their homes. The property loss was estimated at more than $30, 000,000. The year's disasters reported in eluded twenty-six floods, nineteen tor nadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemics two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks (one an airship), and a bridge col lapse, mine explosion, railway colli ?ion, and a drought. Of the floods In the United States that at San An tonio, Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $6,000,000 and the high mark of fatalities. 100, while the flood in the vicinity of Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss., forced 31,000 persons from their homes. A National Calamity In the Red Cross disaster relief records there will probably remain for many years one calamity which touched nearly every state' with a sense of horror and of loss. This was the distressing collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D. C.. resulting in nine ty-six deaths and 125 persons Injured. Situated in the center of the beauti ful Northwest residential section, this motion picture theatre was patronized by many persons of prominence both i? the official and civil life of the Na tional Capital, whose family and per sonal connections radiated out over the entire country. The horror was intensifier by a terrific snowstorm which, though It retarded, did not block Red Cross relief. Airship Crash Finds Aid at Hand The crash and destruction of the U. S. Army's large airship Roma in Vir ginia last February with the loss of 34 officers and men and ll injured was the first disaster cf Its kind to call for Red Cross relief ia this country. The suddenness of the accident tested the preparedness of the organization and of the Chapter at Hampton, Va., but tue response was Immediate and relief furnished the survivors, also funds for the expenses of relatives of the dead, who came from long distances to ciato their own. In the year's oven?ea record for aid rendered by the Red Cross are two fires in the Philippines, one In Manila, which destroyed 1,000 homes,- with a loss of $1,500,000 and 5,000 persons made homeless, trie other at Tonio, which drove 3,000 irom their dwellings. In medical relief that wu* quiok and effective the smallpox epidemic in San Domingo, which had a total of 22.000 cas?s with 225 deaths In a single flay, tested the readiness of the Red Cross for action, and the same can be said of the San Domingo hurricane, which killed 12 persons and reduced the homes of 1S2 persons to wreckage. A flood in i?an Salvador, with a death toll of 50 and 2.000 refugees, was also effectually handled by the local Chap ter of the American Red Cross. Relief Machinery Perfected The year has seen the further per fection of disaster relief administra tive measures in every field of Ameri can Red Cross activity, and that the work may be carried on to still greater accomplishments the American Red Cross is appealing for widespread re newal of membership during the an nual Roll Call, to be conducted this year from Armistice Day (November ll) to, and including, Thanksgiving Day (November 30). Red Cross Roll Call Heard World Around The Annual Roll Call of the Ameri can Red Cross for registration of th? membership for 1923 will begin on Armistice Day, November ll, and close on Thanksgiving Day, Novembei 30. The ground work for tills stu pendous task of re-enrolling the mem bership throughout the world has beer, laid in a plan for the first complete and comprehensive system of registra tion of the Red Cross membership lr? all Its 3,300 active Chapters at hom? and abroad. An important feature of the round the-world Roll Call campaign will b? a universal effort to re-enlist the serv. ice of war-time Red Cross workers lr the peace program by their partici pation In 4he Roll Call. In this waj tlie vast army of volunteers will once more affiliate with the work of the Red Cross in its manifold phases. Co operation also has been assured bj Government and private maritime In terests in a deep-sea Roll Call thai is designed to reach every membei or potential member in every part oi the world who may be en voyage oi temporarily In any port. Thousands of Chapters will adopi the home canvass plan of enrollment which originated in Pittsburgh, when last year it resulted In a membershli Increase of 50 per cent. All record! j in this year's campaign will be kep cn standard size cards to be filed bj! each Chapter for future use. CAMPAIGN HAS MADE POSSIBLE i VAST ENLARGEMENT OF EVERY ; PHASE OF GENERAL WORK GAIN 500,000 NEW MEMBERS Effort Will Be Made to Enlist These and All Other Baptists in Shara in Forward Movement Dur ing November Total cash collections on the Bap tist 75 Million Campaign up to May 1, 1922, had reached the sum of $35, 152,211.69, according to the general Campaign headquarters. This repre sents an advance of nearly 520,000,000 over what Southern Baptists did for their general missionary, educational i PR. L. R. SCARBOROUGH General Director Baptist 75 Million Campaign. and benevolent work far the thret years preceding the Campaign, i The contribution of larger gifts to religious work has been accompanied ?by larger spiritual results In the local .churches, it is pointed out. For in stance, Southern Baptists baptized 150,000 more converts during the first .three years of the Campaign than (they did in the three years before, gained 3,000 new Sunday schools and .400,000 new pupils, enhanced the value of their local church property by $33,000,000, enlarged their contri butions to local causes by $22,390,000, and increased their contributions to all causes by $43,480,490. Baptist Institutions Grow Some other phases of denomination al progress made possible by the Campaign include increasing the num ber of Baptist hospitals in the South from 12 to 19, with three others un der construction and four more def intely planned; strengthening of 17 Baptist orphanages and the establish ment of two new ones, lifting $3,000, 000 indebtedness ? on .119 Baptist 'schools, colleges and seminaries com pletion and projection of-permanent improvements there in the sum of $4,000,000, and the addition of sub stantial sums to the endowment funds. Over 2,500 ministerial students are enrolled at Southern Baptist schools. Church Loan Fund Raised Among the outstanding accomplish ments in the work of the Home Mis sion Board are the aiding of 1,000 churches in building new houses of worship, the completion of the mil lion-dollar Church Building Loan Fund, strengthening; the work among the foreigners and Indians and the 38 Mountain mission schools. The Board has employed an average of 1,495 workers during the Campaign and re ports for that period 134,832 bap tisms, 218,371 additions to churches, 2,276 Sunday schools and 759 church es organized, and 1,409 houses of wor ship built or repaired. On the foreign fields the equipment for mission work" has been practically doubled, more than 250 new foreign missionares have been sent out, more than 400 new native workers have been employed, and the Board has entered the new fields of Spain, Jugo slavia, Hungary, Roumania, Southern Russia, Palestine and Siberia. The Board reports for the period of the j Campaign 117 now churches on the foreign fields, 21,723 baptisms, 211 1 new Sunday schools, gain of 17,576 1 pupils, native contributions of $1,003,- j 390.68, and 529,642 treatments admin istered by medical missionaries. Another rerult of the Campaign is 1 that the Relief and Annuity Board, < which is seeking to care for the aged , dependent ministers and their fam ilies, has been enabled to double the number of such persons helped and the amount that is given these bene ficiaries. Last year the Board was able to dispense $128,966 among needy ministers. It has invested as sets of $1,149,088. Receive 500,000 New Members ' More than 500,000 new member* 1 have been received into the local j Baptist churches of the South since the Campaign began, and in the hope of enlisting all these in the Cam- 1 paign, as well as reaching the older ( membeiB of the churches who have not shared in the forward movement 1 heretofore, the month of November 5- ' December 3 has been designated as Re-enforcement Month by the Cam paign Conservation Commit?,.;', u. Dur* . lng this month it ia planned that ev- 1 ery Baptist church in the South will , call upon all its members who are not already participating in the Cam paign and secure subscriptions from ' them covering the two remaining , years of the movement, and cash of- ! ferings to the Campaign Jrom all the members. Dr. L. R. Scarborough, of ? Fort Worth, TexaB, who was general | director of the original Campaign, has been elected to serve in that capac- 1 lty for the Re-enforcement program, although the details are being work? ( ed out in the various states under ' the leadership of the secretaries ot 1 the state misson boards. It is hoped \ to secure several million dollars in ? additional subscriptions and several miMlion in cash as well by Decena The package suggests it. Your taste confirms it. The sales prove it. Over J billion sold yearly ? LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. Southern Farmers Find Trac tors Profitable. Although tractors have been used more generally in some other parts )f the country, a canvass by the Unit id States Department of Agriculture clearly indicates that they^can be used profitably on many Southern farms. Eighty-six per cent of the owners interviewed believed that ?heir tractors were proving profit able. Ninety-six per cent of 'these men declared that they intended to use them the following season, as lid also 52 per cent of those who did not believe they were profitable. The canvass, which was made in the spring of 1921, included 684 trac tor owners in Alabama, Georgia, Morth and South Carolina, and Ten nessee, all of whom had bought their tractors new between March 1918, and September 1920. A noticeable feature concerning the farms reporting is their large size as compared with other farms in the same state, more than 90 per cent of them being larger than the average for that section. The average size of the 684 farms is 290 acres, while the 1920 census gives the average size of all farms in these states as about seventy-five acres. As would be expected corn and cotton are the principal crops. The saving of time and labor made possible by the use of the tractor was jiven by nearly half the owners as their answer to the question of what they considered its greatest advan tage. Other replies were better work, releiving the horses of hard labor, re duction of expenses, and the belt cvork possible-Farm and Ranch. Census Complies Reports on Jails. Washington, Nov 4.-The depart ment of commerce announces that ac cording to returns received by the sureau of the census, the number of persons confined in prisons, jails, main or road gangs and police sta tions in the state of South Carolina m July 1, 1922 was 2,704, of which lumber 509 were reported for the state penitentiary, 479 for 36 county ?ails, ,1527 for 44 chain or road ?angs. and 189 for 17 cities. The to ;al for July 1, 1917, does not include ;hain or road gangs, concerning ivhich no data were secui'ed. for 1917. The comparable totals for the two pears are, therefore: 1922, 1,177; L917, 815. These figures include per sons awaiting hearing or trial and :hose held as witnesses, as well as prisoners serving sentence. The returns were obtained in re sponse to a circular of inquiry, which ;he bureau of the census mailed to ;he various institutions, as a prelim inary to the complete decennial cen sus of prisoners, which will be taken lext year. President Issues His Annual Proclamation. Washington,. Nov. 4.-Declaring that the estate of the nation "pre sents very much to justify a nation wide and most sincere testimony ol gratitude for the* bounty which has been bestowed upon us," Presidenl Harding, in th?! annual Thanksgiving proclamation calls upon the Ameri can people to observe Thursday, No vember 30, "as a day of thanksgiv ing, supplication and devotion." The test of the proclamation fol lows : "By the president of the- United States of America: "A proclamation: "In the beginning of our country the custom was established by the de vout fathers of observing annually a day of thanksgiving for the boun ties and protection which Divine Providence had extended throughout the yearj It has come to be perhaps the most characteristic of our nation al observance, and as the season ap proaches for its annual recurrence, it is fitting formally to direct attention to this ancient institution of our peo ple and to call upon them again to unite iii appropriate celebration. "The year which now .approaches its end' has been marked, :in the ex perience of our nation, but a complex ity of trials and triumphs, of difficul ties and of achievements, which we must regard as our inevitable por tion in such an epoch as that through which all mankind is moving. As we survey the experience of the passing 12 months, we shall find that our es tate presents very much to justify a nationwide and most sincere testi mony of gratitude for the bounty which has been bestowed upon us. Though we have lived in the shadow of the hard consequences of great conflict our country has been at peace and has been able to contribute to ward the maintenance and perpet uation of peace in the world. We have seen the race of mankind make gratifying progress on the way to permanent peace, toward order and restored confidence in its high dis tiny. "For the divine guidance which has enabled us, in growing fraternity with other peoples, to attain so much of progress; for the bounteous yield which has come to us from the re sources of our soil and our industry, we owe our tribute of gratitude, and with it our acknowledgement of the duty and obligation to our people and to the unfortunate^ the suffering, the distracted of other lands .Let us, in all humanity, acknowledge how great is our debt to the Providence which ha3 generously dealt with us, and give devout assurance of unselfish purpose to play a helpful and en nobling part in human advancement. : It is much to be desired that, in ren # ? dering homage for the blessings which have come to us, we should earnestly testify cur continued and increasing aini to make our great fortunes a means of helping and serving, as best we can, the cause of all huamnity. "Now therefore, I Warren G. ^ard ing, president of the United States of America, do' designate Thursday, the 30th day of November, as a day cf thanksgiving, supplication and de votion. I recommend that the people gather at their family altars and in their houses of worship to render thanks to God for the bounties they*| have enjoyed and to petition that these may be continued in the year before us. "In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington this 2nd day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nin^? hundred and twenty-two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the One hundred and forty seventh. Warren G. Harding. Dasheen, a New Vegetable, Increases in Popularity. The dasheen, introduced into the South a few years ago from the trop^f ics, is gradually increasing in popu larity, and the annual shipments to Northern markets are now about ten carloads. It is estimated that be tween 2,000 and 3,000 farmers and gardeners, mostly in Florida, grow this new potato-like vegetable. The total . acreage is not yet very large, ^ but the yield per acre is large and al ready many people in the North have become acquainted with the food. The dasheen becomes available on the market toward the end of No vember along with turkeys, other poultry, and cranberries. Soon after^ it began to be used in this country it was found to have a flavor sugges tive of chestnuts which makes desir able as a dressing for turkey and oth er fowl. The United States Department of Agriculture ?has been carrying on experiments in the growing of dash sens and has prepared them in many iifferent ways. The department does not expect the tuber to take the plac? Df the potato except perhaps where it is obtainable at lower cost, but it is a wholesome and nutritious vege table that grows exceptionally well in certain localities. For this reason the department believes it is well worth developing. The new vegetable diet will furnish a pleasing variety to the, diet. fe Although the composition of the dasheen is much the same as that of the white potato, it contains a high er percentage of protein and carbo hydrates. Recipes may be had by writing to the Department of Agri culture, Washington, D. C. ^