Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. - FIR: ? ! Greek troops J i 1 PRAYER WAS SUCCESSFUL Chinese Troops Asked for Rain and Got It. Ten thousand Christian Chinese troops and thousands of other Chinese, both Christian and non-Christian, . gathered In Honan province in a mon- : Rter onen-air oravw meeting for rain, ; according to representatives of the j Methodist Episcopal church, working in China. Continued droughts during the spring j and early summer in Honan province aroused fears among the Chlnecc peo- ! pie of a return of famine and whole villages went on pilgrimage to the temple of t'pe rain god in Yu Tao He valley to pray for rain. Major General Feng Yu Hsianf, member of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal church of Peking and commander of the Eleventh division of the Chinese armjr, sent out an Invitation to | all Christians to meet with his troopt, ' in prayer for rain. A grand review of the Eleventh dl- : vision was held. The national anthem was sung, and an address was given j and General Fend prayed that the sins ] of the Honan people bbe visited upon his head and the punishment of drought be lifted. I It happened that two hours after the < meeting' closed a heavy rain fell, missionaries report - ! i : . id. . SHORT NEWS PARAGRAPHS. Paragraphs Gathered Here, There arid Everywhere. General Pershing: will not rent the ! Sampliner estate at Elm Point, Great I Neck. Eons: Island, as reported in last i Sunday's newspapers, says the New York World. Mrs. S. S. Sampliner made this announcement last Monday. She said she received a telegram from 1 the general, at Syracuse, stating that because of publication of the story he would have to go elsewhere. Mrs. I Sampliner said General Pershing had planned to write a book on the World war, and wanted absolute privacy while engaged on that work. She said his brother, who lives at the Madison Square hotel, carried on the negotiations for the lease. ? G. K. Chesterton was confirmed Sunday night by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, High Wycombe, says a mnnUI nnt.ln .K < I J oKvuiui vault viAajJCtlv. Ji kiXJiik A^uj.r.i'il U? ' the New York World. The writer's ; confirmation follows his recent announcement that he had become a member of the Catholic church. A large congregation attended the services. ? The administration is now planning further sales of surplus war stocks to meet ht least part of the j nearly $700j000 deficit expected at the end of the fiscal year. However, there seems little prospect of realizing any j large sums. Much of the material Is rapidly deteriorating and the best has * already been disposed ol*. Hut Stcretrry of War Weeks has called for ev- ] cry effort to,se!l all the suiplus stocks by January 1. Buildings and r??i:ipment in camps which will he abandoned are to he sold, and the land will be sold or leased. The navy department and the shipping board are selling surplus stocks, hut neither is having great success. There is no market for the big fleet of tied-up ships. ? Dr. J. Fleinming White, credited with having much to do with the government's first successful experiments with guncotton, died at his home in Buffalo, N. Y.j> the other day. He was 73 years old. He spent years In rose-rch work for the United States povernment. and was for a time professor in chemistry at Harvard university. From 1SS0 to 18S6 lie was engaged exclusively with high explosives at Newport. ? Brigadier Lou's Reboulet. of the l'nris police, whose title corresponds to that of inspector in Now York, sailed for home Monday by the French liner France, declaring that New York is the "most wonderful city in the world," and wondered why anybody had the audacity to deride its greatness. Reboulet has been attending the conventions of the police heads in New York and also working on a secret mission. He claimed to be responsible for "Bluebeard" Landru. wholesale murderer of women. ? The arrival of an heiress to the great Goelet fortunes was announced Monday, said the New York Tribune, in dispatches frbm France, which reported that a daushtfeV has been born ST PHOTOGRAPH St flee in confusion in front of the Turkt SiiPr," %" "v" ' n> * ^ > : * " " '^C"' - 'I f>v - ; ' S> - . Jf&fJ'Jz* rs-SJ , i, > 'I >.? >.. V* : . *<' i *-f ;. :. ^ -V'i <% -: .i/-/:%\ ^t'&v ::' ' to Mrs. Robert Walton Goelet at Bor- ' deaux. The new addition to this I branch of the Goelet family will some j day take rank as one of the greatest heiresses of the world, as her father's wealth is now said to be nearly one . hundred million dollars. ? War veterans who served as enlisted men have organized the Ex-Service Men's Anti-Bonus League "to combat, as a matter of principle, all propaganda and attempted legislation to bonus or pension ex-service men who came out of the war physicallv and mentali ly uninjured." The organization was effected last Sunday at a meeting of the Barracks Club of World, War Veterans in New York city. ? The question whether we sleep too much would seem to have been answered in the affirmative by John | Wesley, remarks the Way of the World columnist of the London Morning | Post. The great preacher recorded that, finding he woke every night at about 1 o'clock and lay sleepless for some hours, he concluded that he was lying in bed longer than nature demanded. He determined, therefore, to rise an hour earlier than usual. Rising at 7, he found himself still waking tn the night, so the next morning rose at 6 and the^ncxt at 5. Still there was . the wakeful interval, though a shorter one. The fourth morning he rose at, 4. That night his sleep was unbroken, and at 4 he continued to rise ev- ' try morning, "ity the same expert- I ment," lie suggested, "rising' earlier and earlier every trorning, any one can find out how much sleep he really wants." ? The fashion of plucking the eyebrows has long been popular with the Araucanian Indian women ?.f South America. W ? ^ I ^ Tho picture above was takei Botton row (left to right)? McQ Nehf, Stengel, Jennings, Manage Hill, Jess Barnes, Virgil Barnes., j/ ^ Rowing suburb o i, burn'ng villages cn their passage. NEW SPARTANBURG PAPER. A. M. Carpenter Is Going Into Business for Himself. Mr. A. M. Carpenter, formerly editor of the Daily Mail, will shortly establish a newspaper in Spartanburg', which Will make its appearance In OcCAN HOLD STRAITS. ^ I Major-Gen. Frederick B. Maurice. British military expert, just returned from a visit to the British positions at Chanalc, which terri- i tory he is confident the English can hold against the Turks. THE GIANTS' HAT! u on September 27, the day after they Sill" M..-r>]iin Uo?i/-.rr>ff rillimp Pill :r McGraw, Coach Dolan. Gaston. Smi Robertson, Snyder. Fourth row (left ? v.-; ') n 4 Tl ,V v ^5*3a Afc//W1 WyffiflKagrglgy J //l.'l,. . i .i;\ ,'-v n-v-1 1 Jlfl \ 1 MA MM Lte' \ , ^ SUPE I:/ ;*=? v.- IfiCOMPflR I iKv-Afi f-' "*. X ' 1 ^ >; ' '' 'V'S- v^X t F SMYRNA IN FLAP Here is the outlying suburbs of Smy -M ' 'V- ..'V>A < tober. Mr. Carpenter is one of the I best newspaper men of the state, and is certain to get out a good publica- | tion. The Spartanburg Journal cf Thursday has the following on the J subject: "The stockholders of the Citizens I Publishing company met this morn- j ; ing and took steps to incorporate the 1 | company which ^ ill publish a weekly | paper here. The corporators will be j ; A. M. Carpenter and W. A. Carpenter, j When the charter is secured the or- , gnnh'.ation will be completed. "A. M. Carpenter, formerly with the I Spartanburg Journal as managing ed- J itor, will be editor of a weekly paper which will be published here. A build- ! ing is being erected on South Church j street by E. L. Stallings and It. O. : Sickens as an office, and the order has been given for the press, linotype, type and equipment for the new paper. "The name of the paper has not been definitely fixed.' It will come out once r week and will make an effort to give in a> short form the news of the county, state and nation. Mr. Carpenter states that the capital stock of the comjKiny will be $10,000, and all of it has been subscribed. The paper will make its first appearance about the middle of October."?Anderson Daily j Mail. ? The ancestral home of Miles S'and- ! ish ir. to bo brought to America. With- " in six months the four rooms of the j Stondish home, now located in the I c parish of Standlsh, roar Wipan, Lan-'a caehire, Kngland.will be fitted Into the n house { r some American whose family r history jn this country goes back to r Mayflower days. The Standlsh house ! a has b en occupied by the S'tandish j t family since the Norman conquest. ' 1 3 ARE IN THE RING. - -jfejbctl " ^ , ~ 1' ^ ><> , *. ' <f * ?.v f 1^1* WI'IM 1UWIW^*^ mmttl.UVfW V. JA... .!|11 11 ml JII won the pennant. The Yankees will l iningham, Groh. King, Rawllngs. Seco: th, Frlscla. Third row (left to'right)?Mc to right)?Bigbee, Shincers, Jonnard, Kc &Sf=is-2?i OTM L!VksfbCK' SHOV rb PCijLl\RVi Display ?e ?5R!cucrysftL exhibits' UT0-HARNE65 ^UfW-G 4 ojjHwJS' i FIREWORKS ,.^':LY^.--^V^1 -<CV.d: *1ES. rrna in flames. j 1 l v.; >/.-,;i j Ji VENIZELOS SILENT. tfCv. . ' - . A. .J . ... ' I . . ,V. V J When questioned as to the part he might play in the new Government in Greece, Eliptherios Venizelos, former Premier, re plied that he wished to be considered dead. ? Aroostook county wants to sever onnfctions with the state of Maine nd become the seventh New England itate. The county is located in the lortheastern part of the state and ocupies about a third of the state's .rea. The county has grown more ban 30 per cent, in population since 000 and 300 per cent, in valuation. I ( ; irobably be tho opposing team, ad row (loft to right)?Young, (uscl. J. Johnson, Maguire, Ryan, liy, Scott. pjl m AV 'mo D'JHT ^^ - ' The Florsheim Shoe After you have worn Florsheim Shoes you can truly appreciate the satisfaction ?the extraordinary endurance ? underlying their refined, graceful appearance. f=* You will find a splendid line of these famously good shoes for Men at this ' store?all Leathers and styles, correctly priced. J. M. STROUP WHO CARES ... - ' ' Winthrop College Artist Course 1922-1923 Sing'e Admission October 10,1922?2:30 p. m. Russian Symphony Orchestra of 50 pieces. Probably the best known Orchestra in the country $1.50 November 13, 1922?8:00 p. m. Riceardo Martin, Leading Tenor of the Chicago Opera Company $2.00 November 17, 1922?8:00 p. m. Tony Sarg's Marionettes ~ $1.00 December 8,1922?8:00 p. m. Hugh Walpolc, English Novelist and Literary Critic $1.00 December 15.1922?8:00 p. m. IMiclia Lovitski, ranking first among Famous Pianists of the day $2.00 January 19,1923?8:00 p. m. Schuman-Heinck, Contralto, known to all $2.00 January 22,1923?8:00 p. m. Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and their Company of Artistic Dancers, who divide honors with Pavlowa $2.00 February 12, 1928?8:00 p. m. Mabel Garrison, Popular Soprano, Metropolitan Opera Company $2.00 March 12,1923?8:00 p. m. Erika Moriui, Violinist, Ave 11 known on every continent and who has created a great sensation in New York since her appearance in this country $2.00 March ?, 1923. "Book of Job," Play. One of the greatest plays of recent years. J las a large and well known cast - $2.00 $17.50 Season Tickets $10.00 Send your check and choice of seats, to the "Wmtkrop College Office, and tickets will he mailed you for the ten entertainments in time for you to attend the first number, which will he given on October 10, 1922. ?