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Scraps and .facts. ? Charleston officials and a great number of the people of that city, greeted the freight steamer, Washingtonian when she came into Charleston, Tuesday morning. The Washingtonian is the first vessel of the .Ameriean-Havanian line to make Charleston as a regular port by way of the Panama canal. The ship carried a cargo of salmon, a great part of which was consigned to Charleston for distribution in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. ? The third cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt, and issued at 10 a. m? on last Wednesday, announced that 7,610,682 bales of cotton counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1914, has been ginned prior to October 18. 'lhis compared with 6,973,518 bales, or 4 9.9 per cent of the entire crop, ginned prior to October 18. last year, 6,874,206 bales or 51 per cent in 1912. and 7.75s.621 bales, or 49.9 per cent n 1911. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to October 18, in the past seven years was 6,182,481 bales, or 48.8 per cent of the crop. | Included in the ginnings were 15,239 round bales, compared with 49.030 last year, 41,745 in 1912, and 53,858 in 1911. Sea Island cotton included numbered 30,070 bales, as compared with 15,960 bales in 1912, and 40,303 bales in 1911. ? Another rebellion has broken out in South Africa and it promises to be considerably more formidable than that which was inaugurated by Lieutenant Colonel Maritz, and which was put down in short order by General Botha. Gens. Christian DeWet and Christian Frederick Beyers are the leaders in the new rebellion. Both of these men were prominent in the Transvaal war and they have the confidence of thousands of their fellow countrymen. Gen. DeWet was commander-in-chief of the forces of the Orange Free State, and conducted the siege of Ladysmith. He has already captured some government trains and Inflicted other losses; but as to whether he will prove a match for General Botha, who remains loyal, is a question. The grievance of the Boers, who are ii rebellion is the action of the British in oonrtini? ? fnrre to con UlAlViil ill ov?.v...0 ? __ quer German South Africa. ? From a height of 8.000 feet, a French mechanic, in an aeroplane, piloted by Louis Paulhan, shot and struck down a German machine, after a thrilling machine gun duel, says a Paris dispatch of Monday. ."We were flying over the German lines toward Amiens, beyond reach of the enemy's aeroplane guns," the mechanic writes to the Temps, "when a Taube emerged below us from behind a cloud. Paulhan turned the nose of our machine downward. When we came to his level the German began to fire, but without effect. We swung within 600 feet of the Taube. As it swooped down it offered a splendid target. My first broadside inflicted mortal damage, the Taube falling from 8,000 feet like a stone. Our petrol tank was punctured by a bullet, but we succeeded in volplaning down in safety." ? The United States need never fear the results of any attack from the sea. according to Representative Sherley, of Kentucky, chairman of the house sub-committee on fortifications. In an authorized statement ? -? C*L/v?_ at L.ouisvine, weanesaay, mi. oimley declared the American coast is "so well fortified with the exception of two points, where work now is in progress that an attack from the sea probably never will be made." "The theory upon which the fortifications have been constructed," he continued. "is to protect important harbors from a direct attack by a hostile fleet. This has been done, except at San Pedro, Cal., where emplacements for guns are being built, and at the mouth of the Chesapeake, where land has been acquired and estimates shortly will be submitted for placing 16 inch guns along with other armament. Our guns are of the most modern pattern and are capable of destroying the most modern superdreadnaught." ? San Antonio, Texas. October 27: Denying the report that Francisco I. Murgia, who was reported to have been executed for an attempt on the life of Gen. Villa, had been hired by Gen. Pablo Gonzales, Gen Carranza, in a signed statement received tonight by Constitutionalist Consul Beltrand, denied that he had any part in the plot to kill Villa. Gen. Carranza admits the existence of a well organized plot to do away with the fighting general and mentions the names of Manuel Chao, Gen. Hosalio Hern enadez, Maclovio Herrera and Luis Herrera. Carranza asserts the plot has been in existence for some time, but declared he rebuked his generals and denounced their plans. Carranza says that he saved Villa's life at the time of their break when Chao and Maclovio Herrera were anxious to have him dispatched. Carranza also says the report that papers were found on Murgia connecting him with the Constitutionalist cause is false. ? "Crown Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria. brother of the Belgian queen, commanding the sixth German army corps, says an Amsterdam dispatch, has issued to his corps the following order: "We are fortunate to have opposed to us English troops?the troops of that people whose envy has been at work for years to surround us with enemies in order to strangle us. We owe to them the present bloody war. Therefore take reprisals for the cunning of the enemy and for all our sacrifices when we meet them. Show them it is not so easy to wipe out the Germans of history now that we are face to face with an enemy who is the greatest obstacle of peace." It may be recalled that Emperor William in congratulating the commander of the Bavarian army corps recently for the bravery of his troops said, according to the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, "I should like the English to meet the Bavarians just once more." ? The Federal reserve board on Wednesday night, notified all banks in the system that gold or legal money must be deposited in making the transfer of reserve deposits from the present banks to the Federal reserve banks. This step is designed to fill the vaults of the twelve reserve banks with money as soon as the institutions are opened, November 16. and will permit the ready issue of Federal reserve notes to member banks. The board announced also that this would apply to subscriptions to be banks by member institutions. the first installment of which is due November 2. The transfer of reserves will begin after Secretary McAdoo has announced that the twelve banks have been opened. The Federal reserve board appealed to "the patriotic spirit of all member banks to do their utmost in facilitating the difficult work of inaugurating the new system. No compilation has yet been made showing the exart amount to be transferred. ? Prince .Maurice of Battenberg, a cousin of King George and son of Prince Henry of l-'attenberg. has been killed on the battlefield in France. He was an officer of the king's royal rifle corps. Prince Maurice is the first member of the British family killed in the war. It was reported the prince was not actually killed on the field of battle but died from wounds received in an engagement. King Heorge and Queen Mary visited Ke sington palace to condole with Princess Henry, the prince's mother. Two brothers of Prince Maurice went to the front?Lieut. Prince Alexander of the royal grenadier guards, and Lieut. Prince Leopold of the king's royal rifle corps. Prince Leopold was invalided home recently, suffering from an injury to his knee, the result of a fall. Prince Henry of Pattenberg. father of the three princes, died from typhoid fever while on service in the Ashanti war. ? Comptroller of the Currency Williams on Tuesday night, made public ,j statement showing that reserves held by national banks on September 12. the dale of his last call for their condition, were $T>SO.OOO.OOO in excess of the amount required under ihe new banking law. of this sum. ?r,3.oit?.oan was in the Poston district: $K3.O00.onu in the New York district 570,000,000 in the Philadel-I phia district; $59,000,000 in the Cleveland district: $21,000,000 in the I Richmond district; $14,000,000 in the Atlanta district; $88,000,000 in the I Chicago district: $18,000,000 in the I St. Louis district; $43,000,000 in the Minneapolis district: $57,000,000 in the Kansas City district; $24,000,000 in the Dallas district, and $50,000,000 in the San Francisco district the total reserve was about $115,000,000 above present legal requirements. At present reserve requirements are $1,460,711,345 and the new requirement will be $995,792,269, the statement points out that $464,919,076 will be released under the new law. Of the amount jXew York city will contribute about $88,000,000; Chicago about $24,000.000; St. Louis about $8,000,000; other reserve cities about $203,000, and country banks about $141,000,000. (The -HiorhviUc (Bnquiw. Enteied at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.i FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914. Because Canada is helping England, Germany claims the right to attack Canada, if she can. As to whether she may be able to do so, there is no telling. ; But, of course, if Germany attacks Canada, she must give assurance that she means no permanent occupation of | American territory, else that will mean further complications. A*v?flri/>or> nmhncUnrlnr at Rorlin has notified Washington that Germany will require 50,000 bales of cotton per month and Austria will require 25,000 bales. Every effort Is being made to , secure American vessels to carry the ; cotton, Americans vessels being especially desired in order that they may bring return cargoes of dyestuffs, medicines. chemicals, sugar beet seed and commodities of a like character, of which this country stands in sore need. About one-hulf of the business people of the world are out of business. They are engaged in killing each other. That leaves us to build up among ourselves the business we have been doing with the other people. It means a readjustment of our affairs generally, and that readjustment calls for economy, self-denial, and maybe more or less hardship. All of us may as well make up our minds as to that and take hold of the new situation. And the best way to work out the problem to the best advantage is for all to work together. The business demoralization and uncertainty which began to develop early in the fall, has about spent its force, and the situation is now settling down ( to normal with every prospect of steady improvement, except that there < is very little reason to hope that the | price of cotton will advance to more than "i or 8 cents within the next six i months. That the next cotton crop will ! be 50 per cent less than the present crop is practically certain; but in the light of conditions as they exist, "even that does not argue the probability of much better prices. According to a Washington dispatch, 1 the postofflce department will this year use cotton instead of jute twine for wrapping the mails, and bids have just < been opened for the necessary purchases. The lowest bid for Jute twine was 10 cents a pound, and the lowest bid for cotton twine was 13 cents a pound. It is calculated, however, that the cotton bid is the lowest, because the yardage of cotton will be that much greater. In former years cotton was used by the postofflce department exclusively; but as the result of jobbing influences that used to be more potent with the department than they seem to be now, some jute operators succeeded in carrying the business to their very great profit. Reports from New York financial centres are to the effect that there is a growing belief on the part of the experts there, that if the demand of the warring powers for war material and supplies continues at the present rate for six months or a year, America will be able to pay all her debts abroad, and become the banking nation of the world. War materials, foodstuffs and the like.are being used at a more prodigal rate than has ever been known before in the history of the world, and European manufacturers of war materials are no more able to keep pace with requirements than are the European farmers. This is especially true, since so many laborers and workmen are now employed as soldiers engaged in destruction rather than production. Europe has heretofore owned more gold per capita than America; but the outlook now is that before the war is over America will take pretty nearly all that gold that Europe has. There is more or less apprehension on the part of some of the farmers ( that if everybody sows grain, the mar- i ket next year will be about like the 1 cotton market is now. As far as it is possible to judge of the future, we would say that there is no need for i such apprehension. It was all that Europe could do in time of peace to produce enough grain for her needs, | and as the war not only stops produc tion. but more than doubles the consumption, the demand will be some- ] thing enormous. As a matter of fact the foreign demand for northwestern grain has already given promise of being more than sufficient to discount the part that cotton has been playing in trade balances. Most of the extra ex- ( ports of wheat represent what we of this section have been buying from i the northwest and that can mean nothing less than an advance in the ' prices that our own farmers will have | to pay. The more grain the farmers raise the less they will have to buy, 1 and it is reasonable to assume that in . view of European consumption and European destruction, there will be a I market for all the supplies that this ' country will have to offer. In speaking in favor of tne passage of the bond bill last Tuesday, Repre- : sentative Stevenson stated that the j measure had been misrepresented by the newspapers in that they treated it very much as if the bonds were to be issued without any consideration, and , that future generations would be sad- t died with a debt for which there had been no value received. He stressed the fact that the bonds were to be j loaned on notes with cotton as securi- , ty, and that the bonds were to be tak- < en up as rapidly as the cotton was sold. He asked objectors if they did not think the credit of the state was good for the difference between 6 and 9 cents a pound, and he felt sure that if no one else would take the bonds at par, the guano companies would do so. He denied that there was anything revolutionary or radical about the bond proposition and insisted that whether the acreage reduction legislation went through or not, next year's acreage will be only 50 per cent of this year's, and as soon as this fact is appreciated prices will advance. He made no hesitation in saying that greedy specula- | tors are laying ineir pianx iu ^uuuic this year's crop and he thought it nothing but just and right for the state to use its credit to protect the cotton growers. He also made clear the fact that the bonds were to be loaned only to producers of cotton and on the cotton that was still in their hands. In a speech before the American Bar association some days ago, President Wilson maintained the desirability of shaping the law in the direction of justice, and away from the mere matter of upholding legal precedents. It is pleasant to have the president, who was once a lawyer, doing missionary work along this line; but people who have a fairly comprehensive knowledge of conditions as they exist, will not take a great deal of encourage-j ment. The great masses of the people even now think that the chief office of the law is to secure justice; but lawyers generally know very much better. With them the main object of a suit at law is to settle the issues involved. As to how the issues are settled, whether justly or unjustly is a matter of very little concern. Precedent rules everything, and as both the law and the facts depend upon the testimony, the all important thing is to secure the testimony looking to that end. For instance, though a man maybe alive and in the court room, it may Judicially established that he is dead, and though a man may have deliberately and by design sustained great personal damage, it may be judicially established that a railroad corporation nr an individual is resnonsible. Of course to do things like this generally involves lying and perjury of the more flagrant and conscienceless kind, that does not matter, because the common rule is that if it can be gotten by the counsel on the other side and the judge, it is all right. President Wilson is exactly right in his desire for reform in legal procedure; but he will have to do quite a lot of good missionary work along that line before there can be a great deal of hope for practical results. TRYING TO HELP COTTON Secretary McAdoo Undertakes Big Task in Business-Like Way. Washington, October 29.?Secretary McAdoo tonight made public a letter he has sent to clearing house chairmen throughout the country urging support of the $135,000,000 cotton loan fund. He said the cotton situation presented a problem "of the most urgent character," and declared his conviction that prompt subscription of the loan fund would "be productive of immensely beneficial results." The contemplated acceptance of subscripts" certificates as a basis for emergency currency issues, he added, "should greatly facilitate the banks in making and taking care of their subscription." More replies favorable to the loan fund plan reached the Federal reserve ! oard today, but members of the board pointed out that consideration by the locrino Viftiioo oaonplfltlnns and then hy individual banks might delay action In the matter for several days. : e retary McAdoo's letter to the learing house chairmen follows: "The cotton situation in the south presents a problem of the most urgent character. It Is imperative that some intelligent financial measures shall be immediately adopted to relieve that situation. The problem is not local, but national, because a serious hurt to the south affects the entire country. To help the south in this emergency must appeal, therefore, not only to our better instincts, but also to our material interests. Qovernor Hamlin, of the Federal reserve board, has sent you a letter today, together with a plan which the board has approved for raising a fund of $135,000,000 to be loaned on cotton. It is our firm belief that the prompt subscription of this fund and its use as proposed in the plan will be productive of immensely beneficial results. I wish earnestly to urge upon you the importance of the banks in your city and in your Federal reserve district promptly subscribing the amount allotted to you. New York has already led off with a $50,000,000 subscription and I sincerely hope that there may be no doubt whatever about the raising of the remaining $85,000,000 *n other leading financial cities of the country. I am sure that we may confidently count upon the loyal and patriotic support of the bankers of your city in this emergency. The Federal reserve board itself, notwithstanding the onerous duties which now devolve upon it in the organization of the Federal reserve system, has nevertheless, consented to constitute itself a voluntaiy committee for the purpose of supervising the administration of the proposed fund, because of the seriousness of the emergency and the necessity for unselfish service on the part of every citizen who wants earnestly to help his country. "In order to assist the banks which may subscribe to this fund. I desire to say now that in the exercise of the power and discretion vested in me by law, I shall, upon compliance by the banks with the terms and provisions or me Aiuricn-\reejunu uui, on amended, accept the class 'A' certificates referred to in this plan as 'securities' at 75 per cent of their face value, as a basis for issues of so-called 'emergency currency" when presented to me through National currenry associations. This should greatly facilitate the hanks in making and taking care of their subscriptions. "Will you be good enough to telegraph me on receipt of this letter if we may count upon your co-operation ?" The secretary said that in order to help the southern banks which may subscribe for class 'B' certificates, he had determined to accept them also is 'securities' as a basis for the issue )f emergency currency. BOND BILL PASSES. Much Debated Measure Passed by the General Assembly. .After a lot of filibustering both in the house and senate, the cotton bond ssue bill was ratified this morning, tml the bill now needs only the signature of the governor to become a law. The bill as passed is a substitute for the original bill already printed in full. It provides for the issue of $24,lOHt.iMM) of state bonds to be loaned on the cotton crop on a basis of 9 cents i pound. I efore the bonds can issue, the action of the general assembly has to be approved ly the governor and by i two-thirils vote of the people at next Tuesday's election. As to whether Governor Blease is .*< it g to sign the hill, is veiy doubtful, and if he should sign it. it seems impossible that all the steps necessary to dace it before the people could be aken in time for a vote next Tuesday. 1'nder the circumstances, however, icople who are interested, will do ivell to go to the election with their cgis'.ration certificates, so as to be on he safe side. (5. Owens, for many years sheriff of Colleton county, died at lis home near Uidgeville. Colleton utility. Tuesday, following a stroke >f pai a lysis. LOCAL AFFAIRS. + NEW ADVERTISEMENTS J. T. Crawford Ginning Co. and W. H. Williamson?Give notice that their ginneries will operate only four days a week after next Monday. Bank of Clover?Publishes its statement of condition at the close of business on October 21. Has assets of $173,563.51. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Calls special attention to its big stock of shoes and says it can please men, women, boys and girls in shoes. J. M. Stroup?Wants you to know that he sells Headlight overalls and has tHom in all q!7oc Alert hue m hitr line of work gloves up to $2 a pair. Thomson Co.?Invites you to visit it for blankets, winter underwear, and made-to-measure clothes. Standard Oil Co.?On page four gives further information about the many convenient uses to which Perfection oil stoves can be put. Lyric Theatre?Announces the production of the first part of "Trey O' Hearts," Tuesday, and "The Southerners" on Thursday?3 reels. Carroll Bros.?Suggest that you sow more oats, and have Bancioft seed oats. Also have three foot oat plows and other farm tools. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Offers 200 ladles' ready-to-wear hats, worth $1 to $3, at 89 cents. W. E. Ferguson?Calls your attention to the many new things he now has for your table. Fruit cake ingredients are now in season. First National Bank, Sharon?Says that it is still taking care of its customers in a satisfactory manner. There are hardly one-tenth as many York county people attending the state fair this year as there were last year. A traveling salesman who was in YorkvlUe this week, said that more than 400 drummers who formerly traveled this state, have been taken off the road. The Royal Baking Powder company of New York, is among the large firms that have Joined in the movement to invest in southern cotton, and has instructed each of its dozen or more distributing houses in the south to make liberal purchases. The Royal people have advised us in a note, that having always enjoyed a liberal patronage from the south they feel an especial pleasure in doing what they can to help the situation. "Yes, times are pretty hard, but I've seen 'em harder," said a citizen of Clover, yesterday. "Still, York county is not suffering greatly, and in spite of the low price of cotton and the hail storm which struck this section last summer, I guess folks can make both ends meet. Anyway, what's the use talking hard times. We'll get along a lot better if we keep a stiff upper lip and grin." The Ladies of the Clover Betterment association deserve great credit for the good showing made by the floral fair, yesterday. Those Interested have worked hard on the project the past few days, and it was only right. that they achieve success. The fair was not given for the benefit of any particular person or thing, but rather for the advancement of Clover, the money earned by the association from time to time being used for that which is good for the entire town and vicinity. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Several ladies of Yorkville, lost a umher of their prettiest chrysanthemums as the result of the heavy frost l'uesday night. ? As the result of a recently perfect- ( id arrangement, Manager McManus of i the Lyric, is now giving a still higher quality of pictures than heretofore and is able to present them thirty days newer man unoer ms ioriner arrangement. \ THANKSGIVING. ? President Wilson has issued a proclamation setting forth Thursday, November 26, as a day of Thanks- ] giving and prayer. The proclamation is dated at Washington. October 28. 1914, the 139th year of Ameri- i can independence. The text of it is as follows: "It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn year in praise and thanksgivirr to Almighty God for his 1 many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The year that is now drawing to a close since we last observed i our day of national thanksgiving, has been, while a year of discipline be- j cause of the mighty forces of war and of change which have disturbed 1 the world, also a year of special blessing for us. "It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with honor, and in some part to succor the suffering and supply the needs of those who are in want, we nave Deen privileged by our own peace and self-control in some degree to steady the ( counsels and shape the hopes and purposes of a day of fear and distress. Our people have looked upon their own life as a nation with a deeper comprehension, a fuller realiztion of their responsibilities, as well as of their blessings. and a ; keener sense of the moral and practical significance of whnt their part among the nations of the world may come to be. "The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own industrial and commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual interdependence upon J one another and has stirred them to ' a helpful co-operation such as they have seldom practiced before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their unmistakeable 1 ardor for peace, their earnest pity ' and disinterested sympathy for those ' who are suffering, their readiness to ' help and to think of the needs for < others, has revealed them to themselves as well as to the world. 1 "Our crops will feed all who need | food; the self-possession of our peo- < pie amidst the most serious anxieties and difficulties and the steadiness and resourcefulness of our business men ] will serve other nations as well as our , own. i i ne DUoiuesB 01 me country nas ] been supplied with new channels of trade and Intercourse. The Panama anal has been opened to the com- ' merce of the nations. The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friendship. New instrumentalities of International trade have been created which will be : also new instrumentalities of acquaintance, intercourse and mutual service. Never before have the peo- ] pie of the United . tates been so sit- i uated for their own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors, or so ] equipped to serve themselves and | mankind. i "Now therefore, 1, Wood row Wil- , son, president of the United States of j America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th day of November. ne;t, , as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and invite the people throughout the , land to cease from their wonted oc< upations and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks , to Almighty CUod." CLOVER'S FIRST FLORAL FAIR. i Ladies of Clover held their first annual floral fair in the opera house at < that place, yesterday, and as a result ' of the day's attendance, proceeds and J favorable comments, are well satisfied | with their first display of beautiful t flowers, fancy work, candies and other ix things. The floral fair was held under the auspices of the Clover Betterment association, an organization which has been in existence for some time past, < and the revenue from which is devoted j to the Improvement of the Clover high < school building and grounds, and other worthy causes. The officers of the association are: Mrs. E. W. Pressly, president; Mrs. S. L. Clinton, vice president; Mrs. M. L. Smith, secretary; Mrs. R. L. Wylie, treasurer. Forty-four people, (mostly ladies, of course), compose the association at the present time. They are Mesdames W. E. Adams, J. E. Beamguard, Ed Brison, S. J. Clinton, J. W. Campbell, I. J. Campbell, R. A. Counts, J. D. Duff, W. P. Grier, J. Howard Jackson, Fred Jackson, H. B. Jackson, R. A. Jackson, J. M. McLain, Morton, McElwee, F. E. McClain, W. D. Moore, Z. M. Niell, Jas. A. Page, E. W. Pressly, Wade Pursley, Hope Sifford, M. L. Smith, John Smith, E. P. Smith, John Knox, H. L. Wright, Geo. W. Knox, Wood, R. L. Wylie; Misses Wilson, Annie Williams, Annie Neil, Mary Moore, Beulah Matthews, Edith Jackson, Bessie Love, Jennie Currence, Cornelia Barton, Pearl Blakeley; Mr. B. C. Riddle. The auditorium of the opera house was beautifully decorated for the floral fair. Green was the dominating color, and the various booths were planted in various sections of the spacious room. The dining room was in the rear of the auditorium, prettily decorated; the stage contained beautiful bronze and white and yellow chrysanthemums in addition to potted plants and other pretty flowers. A small army of pretty Clover girls were kept busy during the day in serving the many people, both from Clover and the community surrounding, their noon tide and evening meals. Many good things were offered to eat such as salads, chicken, pickle, cake, cream, etc., and the ladies in charge took in a goodly sum from this department. A unique feature of the floral fair was a Halloween booth. The roof of the booth was composed of corn husks and the sides of the compartment were made of green tissue paper, bunting and ivy. Pretty towels and bags were for sale here and practically the entire stock was sold. The candy booth, the doll exhibit and the embroidery department were all artistically arranged, and did a good business. At all hours of the day the building was well filled with visitors, most of whom purchased some article or articles before taking their departure. Mesdames Hope Sifford, Geo. Knox. Samuel Clinton. Beatty Smith and Miss Lila Jackson exhibited beautiful chrysanthemums, and other ladles ex-1 hiblted various beautiful plants. Following are the prize winners: Best white chrysanthemum?Miss Lila Jackson. Best collection of Ave chrysanthemums?Miss Lila Jackson. Best yellow chrysanthemum?Mrs. George Knox. Best two yellow chrysanthemums? Mrs. George Knox. Best vase of cut flowers?Miss Ida Adams. Best fern?Mrs. J. B. Jackson. Prettiest centerpiece?Mrs. J. D. Duff. Best crochet work?Mrs. Felix McClain. Prettiest Odd Piece Fancy Work? Miss Jessie Nell. The judges were: Mesdames Ida M. Wylie and W. F. Marshall and Misses Lesslie Witherspoon and Rose Lindsay of Yorkville; and Mrs. Jess Ford, "t Clover. Tho mprnhprs of the Clover Better ment association are well pleased with their initial effort and are even now preparing plans for a greater and better floral fair next year. # ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. J. S. James of Yorkville. is attending the Spartanburg fair. Miss Emma Wilkerson of Yorkville, is visiting friends in Blacksburg. Miss Fannie Strouo of Yorkville, is visiting friends in Charlotte. X. C. Congressman P. E. Finley arrived in Yorkville, Wednesday night. Mr. Jas. F. Thomson of Oastonia. was a visitor to Yorkville, this week. Mrs. J. G. L. White of Chester, visited relatives in Yorkville. this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Beard of Clover, visited relatives in Gastonia, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Stockton, of Yorkville, are spending a few days in Richmond, Va. Miss Frances Grist of Yorkville, is spending this week with relatives in Columbia. Dr. and Mrs. W. G. White celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding, last evening. Mr. W. B. Moore. Jr.. of Charleston, visited his parents in Yorkville, this week. Miss Barnette Miller of Yorkville Xo. 6, is visiting Miss Wilma Adams at Bowling Green. Mr. J. A. Tate of Yorkville, has been attending the state fair in Columbia, this week. Rock Hill Record, Thursday: Mrs. D. E. Finley of Yorkville, spent yesterday in the city with friends. Misses Elizabeth Finley and Ola Allison of Yorkville attended the state ball in Columbia, last night. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fisher of Wlnston-Salem, X. C., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry James in Yorkrill e. Misses Annie May and Madeline Pryor of Chester, visited their sister, Mrs. R. H. McFadden, in Yorkville, this week. Miss Sallie Smarr a graduate of the 1913 class of the Hickory Grove high school, is teaching a school near i iiiirifMiun. Rev. J. H. Machen and family who have been spending a few days in Laurens and Greenwood, are expected to return to Yorkville, tonight. Miss Zula Stephenson has returned to her home on Yorkville Xo. 5. after an extended visit to relatives and friends in Georgia and Tennessee. Mesdames Robert Caldwell, Leon Vlams, \. A. McLean, Reagan and J. Frost Torrence were among the Gastonia ladies who attended the florl fair in Clover, yesterday. Mr. A. Rose of Leesville. visited relatives and friends in Yorkville this week. Mr. and Mrs. Rose intend returning to Yorkville next spring, and will reside here permanently. Miss Vivian Neely and Mr. Perry CTill of Rock Hill, and Mrs. J. C. Blair ind Miss Kittle Blair of Plairsvllle, acre among the York county people who attended the Guy-Caldwell wedling, Wednesday evening. Rev. Palmer C. DuBose. a returned missionary from China, who has been In this country for several months ivill occupy the pulpit at the First Presbyterian church, Sunday morning. Fort Mill Times. Thursday: Miss Dora Grler returned to her home in this city. Tuesday morning, after a visit to friends in Yorkville and Charotte. Mr. William Riddle of Bowling Green, attended the wedding of his Brother, Rev. F. Ray Riddle to Miss Fannie Chandler, in Mayesville, this Messrs. Clnud and Glenn Inman ind Misses Sudie and Ora Inman of Wilkinsville, i>assed through Yorklie, Tuesday, on their way to Ro<'k Hill, to attend the Featherstone-Innan wedding. Chester News, Tuesday: Capt. VV. H. Edwards has been invited to bring greetings from the S. C. division of the L\ C. V.. to the annual meeting of the U. D. C., which meets in Yorkville, December 1. Among the Yorkville people who attended the floral fair at Clover yesterday were: Mesdames Ida M. Wylie, Sue Cain, Withers Adickes, S. M. McNeel, II. N. Moore, W. H. Fowler, J. S. Mackorell, W, F. Marshall, J. R. Lindsay: Misses Mary Williams, Rose Lindsay, Lesslie Witherspoon, Carrie Cartwright; Dr. A. Y. Cartwright. Mr. T. J. Nichols of Yorkville No. 5, went to the Magdalene hospital, in hosier, yesterday, where he will undergo treatment for sarcoma?a growth under his left arm. Mr. Nich>;.< has been suTering with this troujle for six weeks or more. It is ciuite ikely an operation will lie ne essary o eliminate the trouble. Mr. Nichols vas accompanied to Chester by Miss Annie G?udon, a trained nurse. LOCAL LACONICS Dotton Ginning in York. Mr. Joseph M. Taylor, special agent if the census department, reports that there was ginned in York county up to October 18, 17,146 bales of cotton, against 16,417 bales to the same date last year. Repairing Trestle#. Section forces of the C. & N.-W. railway have been busy of late in repairing the Eeaver Dam and Allison Creek trestles, substituting new crossties, etc., on the bridges. The two trestles have been in need of repairs for some time. Lyceum at Clover. The first number of the Alkahest lyceum course held at Clover, was presented in the opera house at that place, last Saturday night, to a large I audience. The entertainment pre ! sented by Mr. and Mrs. Potter or the j I Alkahest company, was of a high | order. The artists remained in Clover j over Sunday, and rendered two selections at the Clover Baptist church, Sunday night. First Heavy Frost. The first "killing" frost of the season occurred Tuesday night and was in evidence during the greater part of Wednesday morning. A light frost was reported in low places some days previously; but it was of little consequence. On Wednesday morning the potato vines were black and cotton leaves were killed not only in low places, but on the high ridges. Almost every kind of vegetation that usually suffers from frost was included in the kill. Beautiful Flowers Killed. Hock Hill Herald, Wednesday: As a result of the frost of last night, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Pryor lost about 400 chrysanthemums, among them many handsome specimens which had been saved for the flower show. The precaution of covering the flowers with cloth was taken, but the plants froze under the cloth and all were lost. Mrs. Pryor had spent money and much time on the flowers and their loss is a great disappointment. About a dozen which were in the house were uninjured. Rock Hill Secretary Leaves. Mr. Colie W. Roberts, who for the past six months or more, has been secretary 01 me iiuck nui cimiuuei of Commerce, left that city, yesterday, for his home In Atlanta, where he will be connected with the Chamber of Commerce of Birmingham. The directors and members of the Rock Hill organization have been well pleased with the services rendered by Mr. Roberts, who has made many friends throughout the county. His successor has not been appointed, although there are a number of applicants for the position. Accident Near Crowders' Creek. A traveling man named Wise was rather painfully hurt at the crossing north of Crowder's Creek trestle yesterday morning by jumping from an automobile truck on which he was riding. Mr. Wise, who sells undertaking supplies, was riding on a CocaCola automobile wagon which encountered southbound freight train No. 53, near Crowder's Creek crossing. Thinking the train was going to run Into the automobile, Mr. Wise Jumped to the ground dislocating his ankle. He was brought to Clover and Dr. E. W. Pressly of that place set the dislocated bones without any trouble. York Exhibit At the Fair. While York county has many different kinds of her home raised products on exhibition at the state fair at Columbia, this week, no exhibit has attracted more attention than the ovkiiKltc nf Yf r* W P Simnann of Catawba. Mr. Simpson had an interesting exhibit at the York county fair in Rock Hill, week before last, mention of which was made in The Enquirer. That exhibit, with several others, is now being shown at the state fair. Mr. Simpson owns the largest apiary in South Carolina and it is said that he sold more than $1,800 worth of honey between April 15 and June 15, of this year. Mr. J. M. Cherry of Rock Hill, has an exhibit of alfalfa grown on his farm near Rock Hill, at the fair. Featherstone-lnman. Miss Laura Featherstone, daughter of Mr. R. W. Featherstone of Rock Hill, and Mr. Claud F. Inman of Clemson College, were united in marriage at the residence of Mrs. J. B. Black in Rock Hill, Wednesday evening. A large number of friends of the young people witnessed the ceremony. The home was beautifully decorated for the occasion, the decorations being pink and white. The bride was quite pretty in her wedding gown of white crepe meteor. Rev. J. W. Nelson, pastor of the First Baptist church, performed the ceremony, and the young counle left immediately there after for WHkinsville where they will spend several days with relatives. Mr. Inman is a son of Mr. C. F. Inman of Cherokee county, and is well known in this county. He holds the position of assistant professor of chemistry at Clemson college. Guy-Caldwell. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Guy, six miles north of Chester, was the scene of a pretty wedding, Wednesday evening, when their daughter, Miss Dora Lindsay, became the wife of Dr. John C. Caldwell. The home was prettily decorated for the occasion, color scheme in the parlor being white and green; the dining room pink and yellow and the hall red and green. Autumn foliage and beautiful potted plants were also abundant. Rev. F. A. Drennan, pastor of Lowryville Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony. The bride was beautifully dressed in white charmeuse and wore a string of pearls, the gift of the groom. After the ceremony, a reception was tendered the young couple. Dr. and Mrs. Caldwell will reside at Williamston, S. C., where Dr. Caldwell is engaged in the practice of medicine. The bride is well known in York county, various sections of which she has often visited, ' A number of York county people attended the wedding. 1 ! Chandler- Riddle. The home of Mrs. Minnie Chandler in Mayesville, S. C., was the scene of a 1 happy occasion at eight o'clock Wednesday evening, when her daughter, Miss Fannie, became the bride of Rev. F. Ray Riddle, pastor of Allison 1 Creek, Beth-Shiloh and Beersheba ! churches in this county. There were j quite a number of friends and reia- . tives of the contracting parties in at- J tendance on the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. William Chandler, a brother of the bride. Immediately j after the ceremony Rev. and Mrs. Rid- 1 die motored to Sumter, where they j took a train south. They will be away about two weeks, after which time 1 they will return to Yorkville and reside J here. Mrs. Riddle is a granddaughter of Mrs. W. B. Steele of Yorkville, and 1 is well known in this section where 1 she has often visited. Rev. Riddle has j been connected with the religious life ' of the county as pastor of the three ' above named churches for more than a year and is held in high esteem by ' a wide circle of friends and acquain- 1 tances. As Mr. Blair Sees It. Columbia State, Wednesday: "I be- 1 lieve that the hail storm will prove a ' blessing in disguise to the farmers of 1 York county. It has taught them the ! benefits of diversification," said J. R. ' Blair, county agricultural agent ior York county. Monday, as he explained the excellent exhibit which has been sent to the state fair. The exhibit has ' been prepared by Mr. Blair and A. A. * \TeKeown. agricultural agent for the < Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce. Mr. t McKeown was for some time manager 1 of the Fairwold farm in Richland j t county. A big section of York county f was practically devastated by a severe I hail storm July 6. Practically every 1 farm crop in the section was destroy-,! ed. The farmers were in a serious !? plight. However, they went to work|( and with the expert advice of Mr. Mc- it Known and Mr. Blair have succeeded t well. The farmers planted corn, pota-11 toes, cowpeas, millet and sorghum and t they have made fairly good crops, i "They have plenty of corn in the de- j s vastated section," said Mr. Blair yes-1 > terday, "and some of the farmers will < make from 2.1 to 30 bushels per acre I t despite the fact that it was planted 1 after July 6." The farmers in the dis- t trict damaged by the storm will make s from two to four tons of hay to the c acre, according to Mr. Blair. They ? will make about about 20 bushels of I peas to the acre. i Gig Raid Near Battleground. Policeman \V. \V. Bindeman of Clover, Constable Hedricks and Deputy Sheriff Quinn captured six gallons of whisky and about 1,600 gallons of beer at a still located something like two miles east of King's Mountain battleground on Tuesday morning. Three white men who were operating the illicit distillery, made their escape and though the officers have no evidence as to their identity, they have a good idea as to who they were. The officers having obtained information of a still in the vicinity of the battleground, spent the entire morning in search of it. \bout eleven o'clock they gave up all hope of locating it, when suddenly they came upon a man in the woods gathering dry wood for fuel. The man "burnt the wind" immediately, and with him ran two other men. who were operating the distillery nearby. Pursuit of the blockaders was useless and the officers had to rnntont t honisf>lvr.? with dpsfmviniT the outfit which was intact. The worm and still were brought to Yorkville, the whisky and beer were poured out on the spot. When the officers returned to the place where they left their horses, they came upon several revenue officers who were in search of the plant which had Just been destroyed. Fort Mill Flower Show. Fort Mill special of October 29, to the Columbia State: An event of considerable Interest and deserving special mention, was the annual flower show of Pleasant Valley, which was held Tuesday afternoon at the home of D. O. Potts near Fort Mill, and which was largely attended by the people of the community. The show is held under the combined auspices of the School Improvement association and the Homemakers' club. Mrs. D: O. Potts being president of the former and Mrs. M. L. Davidson of the latter. The rooms were banked in prolusion wun specimens or rne products of the contestants. The affair was formally opened by an address of welcome by Mrs. O. W. Potts, which was followed by a speech by N. D. Duncan, who has charge of the Pleasant Valley school. A feature of the programme was the recitation In appropriate costume of "The Gypsy Maid," by Miss Lillian Fickling. A partial list of the prize winners gives Mrs. O. \V. Potts first prize on geraniums; Mrs. Louise Culp on chrysanthemums, while the latter and Miss Bertha Wolfe tied for first prize on ferns. A prize offered for the greatest improvement in home premises was awarded to Mrs. J. O. Hall. An added feature of the show was the better babies contest, in which there were three entries. Dr. J. Lee Spratt, as judge, after considerable deliberation, finally awarded the prize to the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bryant. Coffee, sandwiches and cakes were served to all who attended. Big Enrollment for Clemson. There has been a report in Yorkville and other sections of the county during the past few weeks to the effect that the enrollment at Clemson college has been greatly decreased this year on account of the low price of cotton, and that the college is in greatly straightened circumstances. The following dispatch of Tuesday, to the News and Courier, shows the report to be without foundation: "Complete enrollment figures issued by President W. M. Riggs at the end of the first month of work at Clemson college develop the remarkable fact that, despite 'hard times,' the college has already enrolled 61 more full-year college stude its than in all of last session and that the enrollment is so large as to strain the limits of the institution's capacity. Dr. Riggs makes the following statement: 'The session opened with the return of 492 old students out of a possible 552 in attendance at the close of last session, after deducting for those who graduated and finished the one-year courses, and 13 not eligible to return. The new students numbering 322, making a total of 814. This total represents men in the full-year courses. Last session the total enrollment was 818. this num ber including 47 preparatory students, and 18 one-month agricultural men. It will be seen from this statement that we have already enrolled 61 more full-year college students than during all of last session. We have an attendance at this date, 32 more men than were in attendance last session at this date. Even with the one-month agricultural course transferred to the summer and no preparatory class the total enrollment for the session will exceed that of last session. This is a remarkable showing considering the abolition of the preparatory class and financial depression and uncertainty existing in the state this fall.' The total student body is divided as follows: In agricultural courses 52i per cent; in all other courses, 47J per cent. REASON OF THEIR VOTES Senators Place on the Record Their Attitude to Bond Bill. After the passage of the bond bill by the senate last night a number of senators oreoared exulanations of their votes for the journal. Among the explanations so recorded are the following: Senator Beamguard: "I voted against the bond bill because in my opinion the bill as amended in the house is impractical and will not give the relief needed. Also for the further reason that the time intervening between the passage of the bill and the date of the general election is insufficient for such a measure to get to the people." Senator McLaurin: "It is the world old light, the dollar against human tlesh and blood. The bond issue is a life preserver thrown to a drowning man (the farmer) and the banks and cotton factors, like beach combers, | living upon wreckage, would snatch it away to profit by salvage levied upon | a people's misfortune. I voted for the ( bond bill because I believe that it is a function and duty of a government to ( do that for the people which they are ] unaoie 10 uu mr iiiemseivca. "These bonds will be sold, they will be used as a collateral to a note for a < debt incurred in making the present , crop. This note with the bond which has been received in exchange for a , warehouse receipt will be discounted , by the Federal reserve bank at its face , value. ( "I think from the letters I have been receiving that other states are watch- ( Ing to see what South Carolina is do- | ing and that similar action will be taken. The Georgia and North Caro- i lina farmers will never stand seeing i aur people just across the line receiv- , ing 9 cents and they only getting five. } If this action is taken, general credits j will be unlocked, payment of debts < contracted for making the crop will , begin and an upward movement in , cotton is sure to come. The farmers , will pay the expense of this issue. Ten , per cent is taken out when the loan is , nade to meet expenses, and as the cot- , ton is sold the bonds are automatical- ' y retired with the proceeds of the j sale. The government issues money di- , rect to banks and permits them to i charge high rates of interest. Why is ] t looked upon as revolutionary for the | government to lend its credit in this , crucial time to the producers of all wealth?" ] t ? Columbia State, Thursday: Mes- < sage No. 13 of the extraordinary ses- j !r> tKo OfinQto \*OCt PT- t lay from the governor. This was in he main an argument against the proposed bond issue, based on technicaliies of the constitution. The first artument was that the author of the jond issue project, Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry, was not legally a nember of the senate, in that he was i trustee and chairman of the board >f trustees of Clemson college. Anoth r was that all bills providing revenue, should originate in the house. The hird section questioned the legality of he senate's action in continuing as nembers of the sinking fund commission the chairman of the ways and vays and means committee and the hairman of the finance committee in he senate until their successors had seen chosen. In conclusion the chief xecutive raised the question that the state could not issue "scrip, certificate ir other evidence of state indebtedness xcept for the redemption of stock, tonds or other evidence of indebted>ess previously issued." THE WAR IN EUROPE ^ News Paragraphs Telling of Happenings at the Front. Major General Hughes, Canadian minister of militia and defense, says there are 200,000 citizens of the United States in Canada, who are anxious to go to war with the Canadian troops. The Germans are demanding $200,000 from the Prince of Monaco, threatening to blow up the prince's famous Chateau de Marchals, near Rheims, If * the money is not forthcoming. Describing the sinking of a German flllhmarina V\ir hn /I not pniror Rofliyor a few days ago, a British sailor says: "We were cruising off the Dutch coast Just before dusk when a suspicious looking object appeared ahead. The ^ commander gave the order to ram the ? enemy and we raced at her full speed. The submarine went down under our bows, and as we drew off our guns tired parting shots at her." According to a Berlin dispatch, the Russian fleets in the Baltic and Black seas, have been placed under command of British admirals. The British war office has contracted for the entire output of a number of the largest English motor car factories M for the coming year. A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland, says that the most powerful Zeppelin dirigible balloon yet built, has Just been launched at Friedrickshafen. It is the thirty-first of its kind to be built. According to a Berlin correspondent, t the combined armies of Germany and Austria are hereafter to be under the supreme command of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. The British government has cornered the sugar market of England, and the price of sugar has been reduced 60 cents per hundred weight. The French government has placed an order with a Fort Worth, Tex., firm ^ for 10,000 horses. A A correspondent writing from Petrograd, says that German and Austrian prisoners in Russia, officers as well as privates, each accuse the other of cowardice in the fighting. 1 1 A~ MERE-MENTION The government of Greece has announced to the powers its intention of provisionally occupying northern Eplrus, owing to the necessity of suppressing the anarchy prevailing there as the result of the breakdown of the Albanian government The thirty-third _ annual convention of the National Fu neral Directors' association was held in New Orleans, La., this week Prominent Methodists from all parts of the United States, in session in Washington, D. C., this week, agreed to inaugurate a campaign to raise $5,000,- w 000 for superannuated Methodist clergymen The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding, of the United States navy, went ashore at Lynn Haven inlet, near Norfolk, Va,, early Tuesday morning, being driven ashore by a heavy gale. ... .Two hundred and fifty miners were entombed in a mine at Roylton, 111., on Tuesday, due to a gas explosion. More than 100 of the entrapped miners were rescued A Fulton county, Ga., grand Jury has refused to indict Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, charged with poisoning her husband, Joshua Crawford, an Atlanta capitalist, who died In 1909 The British freight steamer, a Manchester Commerce, bound from Manchester, England, to Montreal, Canada, struck a mine in the Atlantic ocean, Monday night. The captain and thirteen members of the crew were drowned Lieut. Gen. Sir William E. Franklyn, who commanded the a third division of Lord Kitchener's new ^ army died suddenly in London, this week Heavy earthquake shocks were felt in various parts of Italy, on Tuesday Charles H. Cowles, Progressive Republican candidate for United States senator from North Carolina, in filing Tuesday, a report of his campaign expenses, announced that he had retired from the race Freddie Walsh, lightweight champion of the V world, Tuesday night defeated Matty Baldwin in a twelve-round prize fight in Boston, Mass The steamship West Point from London, is to due to arrive in Philadelphia on November 5, and will have on board the largest cargo of wild animals that ever cross- ? ed the ocean in one ship Prince Oscar, son of the German emperor, is critically ill at Copenhagen. His condition is said to have been brought about by shocks, Turcos having killed all the officers of his stair Colonel Roosevelt is making a whirlwind campaign tour through Pennsylvania this week. He is flaying United States Senator Penrose as the candidate of the liquor interests President Wil- % son has written a letter endorsing the candidacy of Congressman J. O'Hair of Illinois, who is being opposed for reelection by Uncle Joe Cannon The Antarctic expedition under Sir Ernest Shackleton, sailed from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday. The ex- % plorer expects to spend a couple of years or more in explorations and observations in the south polar region. It is said that the expedition is the best equipped that ever started on a polar expedition... .Mrs. Florence Carman was released from the Nassau county, N. Y., Jail on Monday, under a bond of $25,000, after the Jury had failed to agree on a verdict in the trial of her case on a charge of murder The marriage of Mrs. Eloise Hughes smitn, a wiaow, wnose nusoana io?i his life in the Titanic disaster, while the pair were on their honeymoon, and Robert Daniel, a Philadelphia broker, has just been announced in Philadelphia. Daniel first met his bride on the Carpathia, after their rescue following the sinking of the Titanic Dr. Rich- ^ ard C. Flower, old and penniless, en- ^ tered a plea of guilty in a New York court, Monday, to two indictments charging him with grand larceny. Dr Flower made millions in promoting mining swindles and for eleven years evaded arrest, finally being captured in Toronto, Canada, last week Philadelphia has raised about $25,000 for the relief of the Belgian war victims. The relief fund raised in New York, is over $100,000 New York city's tax budget for 1915 totals $204,129,441.44 an increase over last year of about $10,000,000. The total assessed valuation of the city is $8.400.000,000 The Illinois Steel company at South Chicago. has commenced a campaign against liquor drinking among its 20,000 employes and is using electric flash signs m with inquiries like this: "Did booze ^ ever contribute anything to the happiness of your family?"... .Kansas politicians are reported to be all at sea on the outcome of next Tuesday's elections, because they are unable to figure how the 250,000 to 300,000 women of the state are going to vote Fire at Antietam, Md., this week, caused a property loss of $300,000. The fire started in a garage Dorham J. Sinclair, a millionaire banker of Steubenville, O., was shot and fatally wounded Wednesday, by Chas. Gil- * more, a lawyer. Gilmore killed himself S tfter shooting the banker Eighteen passengers were injured when a day coach and three Pullman cars jumped 'he track of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad near Barbourville, W. Va., carlv Wednesday morning Presl lent Wilson stated officially Tuesday, m that he has no Intention of calling a special session of congress after the November elections The Virginia nembers of the D. A. R. held their anlual three days' session at Alexandria, ra. this week Four persons were billed and several others were seriousy wounded when one of the principal inlldings of Sampson, Ala., collapsed Tuesday The city of Elizabeth, S\ J., celebrated its 250th anniversary his week Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman of Indl>na, has brought suit for $25,000 damiges for alleged slander, against Deleran Smith, owner of the Indianapolis SVws Stockholders of the New i'ork, New Haven and Hartford rall oad. in annual meeting in New Haven, ~Y>nn., this week, decided to decrease he number of directors of the road rom 27 to 17 members The Arcansas Bankers' association in session n Little Rock. Ark.. Wednesday, enlorsed the $125 000 000 cotton loan ind tentatively pledged the $2 000 000 vhirh Arkansas banks are expected to contribute The United States ag- ' # icultural department nas declared a quarantine against the shipment of done from New England quarries, on he ground that egg clusters of the gtply moth are being distributed on stone md quarry products to other sections if the United States In the forth- A oming Norris investigation provided ^ >y the Norris resolution, witnesses will estify that a million dollar slush fund vas raised to insure the re-election of ?oles Penrose to the United States lenate from Pennsylvania.