Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PRICE CUTTING GAINING GROUND Marks First Pronounced Drop in High Price of Foodstuffs. , i I New York, May 21.?Iniluenced by the nationwide price cutting agitation that is steadily jraininjr ground, the principal commodity niarkeis of the J country. today continued to "mark down*' quoted values, cotton, sugar ami corn op:ion broke violent here! k and in Chicago and cereals and pro-J I visions, including pork, also suffered. I sharp reactions. Significance was I I attached to the drop in the pork ' prices as marking the firs;. pronounced { break in high priced food stutfs. , The stock exchange showed im- j provement on a sharp recovery of' Liberty bonds and Victory notes. A large part of today's liquidation i in cotton and irrains was attributed I i i to the further scaling down oi creaits by banking institutions here and in other reserve centers, evidently in conformity with the request of the federal reserve beard. in the local cotton market May t contracts broke almost 400 points, with equally sharp reactions in New Orleans. The Liverpool market al-j so reported substantial reactions. Domestic and foreign metal markets quoted lower prices for spot and further deliveries, silver proving the I only exception at a slight rise in LonLittle business was done here in copper for immediate delivery. Banks in the uptown or wholesale , dry goods district, reported additional loan contraction and most of the retail shops advertised "cuts" of 21 , to 40 per cent in women's wearing apparel. Dealing in Liberty bonds and Vic tory notes failed to reach the huge totals o* the two preceding days, but most of the business was on an ascending scale. Practically all the Liberty issues closed at the day's maximum quotations, gain extending from 1 per cent, to 3 per cent. i Washington, May 21.?Continued outcries in the senate against profiteers brought matters to a head there today when Republican leaders , promised that the resolution of Sen- , ator Harris, Democratic, Georgia. Coiling for corporation income and excess profit tax returns, will be taken up tomorrow for action. With'certain amendments, Senator Lodge, v majority leader, said he saw no rea son why it should not pass. Senator Harris widened the scope < of his proposal, which would bring ! tne records into the senate, to include 1918 and 1919 results as weir as those of 1917. ; "Members of the senate," he said,! "stand on the floor denouncing profiteers. Here's a simple resolution that only seeks to name them, which has, been waiting six months." :, The senator forced the issue by j moving to discharge the finance committee from consideration of the! resolution, but withdrew his motion: on the promise of immediate action. i: The house also saw legislation J trained on the profiteers. Represen- j IT? or PormV?lir?.an Illinois, in-! Oi*C 9 J t troduced a bill to prohibit federal j reserve bankers lending funds or re- i discounting commodity notes, drafts or bills, which, he said, would force ^ hoarded commodities on the market. Senator Calder, Republican, New; York, joined in the senate discussion j during the day, urging steps to strengthen depleted plant facilities I as a means of increaseing produc-! tion and striking at high prices. He j referred to "unsuccessful experiments in price fixing" and the "hand to mouth policy" practiced during the war. ; "Plant development in the United! States today is riot adequate for do- j mestic needs," he said: "the United. ^ States can not meet world competi- j tion until it has corrected this situa- j tion and has facilities for the pro-; duction of necessities in excess of those required at home. "People have been lulled into a false sense of well being and pros-! perity by inflation of cuijency and credits. Meanwhile the depletion of j the national plant has been so gradu- j f" " | . A MAN MAY BE KNOWN BY HON. MITCH. Attorney General of the Unit the Democratic Nomi [ HAS MADE ENEMIES < PRO-GERMANS RED REVOLUTIONIST PROFITEERS HOARDERS * W H BECAUSE, As Alien Property Custodii Used it to Help America > BECAUSE, He is Driving the Alien A MUNISTS and I. W. W.'s * BECAUSE, He is Prosecuting those and UNREASONABLE P Country. BECAUSE, He is Arresting the HOAF the Sale of Commodities 1 PRICES. r BECAUSE, He Forced the "Big Five" Which Limits their Activi tion of Meats and PREY Unrelated Lines of Indust BECAUSE, He Acted in isenau 01 j> Labor Agitators Who Sou COAL in Mid-Winter, tin Starvation and Cold. BECAUSE, He Opposes the STANDP LICANS and Fights for < MITCHELI It 100 Per Cent American ar cniiTu n w) U U l ii V i Is Also 100 Per Cent Am Demcx THEREFORE South Carolina Should and His Candidacy. WRITE?For Palmer for President ney General Stands for and what he I C. C. Carlin, Chairman Palmer Frii sey Blag., Washington, D. C. * al that its cumulative effect has riot yet been fully realized. "It is futile simply to attribute high prices to inflation, profiteering, hoarding, inefficiency of labor or diversion of capital. , "Our national objective must be ever increasing production, but to increase production we must first increase out means of productions. Hand to mouth policy may be necessary during war. but it is impossible during reconstruction." Paris, May 21.?The American "economy campaign" has made itself felt in Paris. It was learn?d today f ,>-..1 >-,<! kn\T?vo n-J-in rivA liovp nil LilCiO lliail(N LfUtV V. I O ?? 14V W 4>W ~ - behalf of large department stores and firms in the United States have been notified to reduce their proposed purchases. j It is said that some of the representatives within the last week or ten days have received cable dispatches pointing out that the "overall", movement in the United States has been a great success, and that the whole country has joined in a move-1 tnprtf to reduce the cost of living. i FEAST OF WEEKS OBSERVED MAY 23rd j Shabouth, the feast of weeks was! observed in all congregations of the j Jewish faith on Sunday, May 23rd.! Orthodox congregations also observe the day following. This festival is! one of three agricultural feasts which 1 were observed in the ancient Biblical J era. The Feast of Weeks was in Biblical times a farmers holiday,] celebrated at the end of the first ; seven weeks of harvest. The ceremonial consisted in offerings of the field brought as a thanksgiving token for the new crop that was being harvested (Deut. xxvi: 9.) This feast of the first fruits, like other agricultural festivals, was gradually transformed and invested with symbolic significance. In course of time the Jewish people developed a historical consciousness and linked traditional events with these institutions and festivals that were transmitted from a remoter ancestry. In - * ? + T*T _ 1 J_1 the case ol tne Feast or weeKs, giving of the Decalog was associated with the feast of the first fruits, and so commemorated unto this day. By this combination a universal significance'was attached to the festival in which the ripened fruits of the field were offered in praise^ and thanksgiving as an offering from the People of the Covenant. All synagogues read the Decalog on this day j and renew their pledges of loyalty to j the Covenant of Israel as their fathers did in days of yore. During the last century the F^ast rr Weeks was .enriched by introducing a confirmation ceremony in conr ?ct'on with its observance. The confirmation ceremony was sponsored by the leaders of Reform Judaism vho made of it a feast of consecration of the Jewish youth, boys and prirls, to the ancient covenant of their fathers. The confirmation service does not exact from the confirmants any other confession than that of a belief in one Gpd, and in His justice and truth as manifested in history. Confirma tion Day in some congregations synchronizes also with graduation from the religious school in which the confirmants have covered an eightyear course comprising Biblical and; Jewish hisiory, Jewish ethics and l iterature and an introduction to the Hebrew language, including a reading knowledge of the Prayer Book in its original language. Caused By Fools. Sumter Herald. TTTI-T.: 4-^^*- +1,^ V. ? 1 ? ISIllilg IV LCOO V/UV kUC ll. V. ?. proposition, a shoe dealer, who had received a shipment of shoes which he could sell at $5 and make a reasonable profit, decided to divide the lot into three parts. One he marked So, the next $10, and the third $15. Judge his surprise when a few days he found his $15 stock exhausted, a few gone from the $10 lot, and the $5 lot still intact. Is it a wonder that he worked the profiteer business a little as a side line? THE ENEMIES HE MAKES! ? ? ? 4 T ? ?T-*TV fcLLL FALIVllLK :ed States and Candidate for nation for President DF THE FOLLOWING: Bif?j PACKERS 5 RADICAL LABOR 3 AGITATORS * REACTIONARY if REPUBLICANS >> . p Y ? in he Took ENEMY PROPERTY and ; T (VIN THE WAR. ! .NARCHISTS, BOLSHEVISTS, COMBACK TO RUSSIA. rho seek to Extort UNWARRANTED 5 ROFITS from the consumers 01 m? j LDERS and Bringing out and Forcing i \HEY ARK HOLDING FOR HIGHER c i . PACKERS to Accept a Court Decree ! 1 ities to the Production and Distribu- z ENTS Them from MONOPOLIZING ( ry. . lLL THE PEOPLE Against Radical ,l ght to Prevent the PRODUCTION of r is Endangering the Entire Public to ATISM of REACTIONARY REPUB- J :LEAN and HONEST POLITICS. . J3 PALMER ;{ id 100 Per Cent Democratic f AROLIN A ^ erican and 100 Per Cent c :ratic o r Stand for Mitchell Palmer f i ? t Literature Showing what the Attor- c LJ a c nnMC lino L^vy i * k? . msry Campaign Committee, 805 Mun- | ^ _ d ! $3 tar i \ - i t -ks) o 8 \nf is u\ i w $ I ?f N ^ /;' :v ?# / (?2320 The! V WK< i?~\ T ever coul( Tt abou A m on h very was IVv novrj deft: peel! one F ' J?AV V. < any 1 \ Ti why and Selc corc thei lass whe: to b< Nob \ J. J. AMICK I C,. OXNE NEWBERRY J. M. NICHO .Stomach ills crmanently disappear after drinking the slebrated Shivar Mineral Water. Positively iinrantpeH bv monev-back offer. Tastes ne; costs a trifle. Delivered anvwhere by ur Newberry Agents, J. W. Kibler Co lu?ne them. MOTICE OF SPECIAL TAX ELECTION IN DEADFALL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9. State of South Carolina County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resi lent freeholders and a HKe proporion of the resident electors of the ige of 21 in the Deadfall school listrict No. 9, the county of Newjerry, State of South Carolina, lave filed a petition with the county >oard of education of Newberry ounty, South Carolina, petitioning md requesting that an election be ield in the said school district on he question of levying a special -* ? /o\ w>;iic nr, fnvnVilp dX Ol UVU } 11U1IO UU uuv iroperty within the said school disrict. Now, therefore, we the underigned, composing the county board i education for Newberry county, Itate of South Carolina, do hereby rder the board of trustees of the )eadfall school district No. 9 to hold n election on the said question of 2vying a special tax 01 two {zi nuns o be collected on the property loated within the said school district, rhich said election shall be held at he Deadfall school house, in the aid school district No. 9 on Saturay, the 29th day of May, 1920, at ^arv / ^ Q, : \?*\ <*.?> /">. j3?I :oM mJ?zk! Mm * i| used to cai Ok Aim las &/?? fin' fern n<e HAT was before the days when pretty nearly ybody owned one?or i, if he wanted to. lere was a lot of waste t motoring in those days.. an spent a lot of money is car and never thought much about what he , getting in return. il rhen a man buys a tire 1- e* V.QC Tirf=>i"t~\7 3.V . J 1--.W t* i J tite idea of what he cxs to get out of it. le der.!c: who sells him taac givtfc. him less than spects isi/t likely to get more cf h:s business. lat's one of the reasons we handle p. S. Tires? recommend them to the ct your tire# ac? ' ting to the roads jhare to travel: mdyor hilly country, -ever the going is apt e heavy?The V. S? . .. _ fiENMCDSD-rc&tf Ktt WJ. United St R MACHINE & AUTO 1 >LS which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trustees of the said school district shall act as managers of the said .election. Only such electors as reside in the said school district and return real! or personal property for taxation, ? j ?i- ~ fqv nriH rpp'is- I ana wnu cAinuiu wvu v.??. ?0? tration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed j thereon, and each elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals this the 13th day of May, 1920. C. M. Wilson, 0. B. Cannon, T P TIq rw o?' County Board of Education, New-| berry County, South Carolina. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION IN TABENACLE DISTRICT NO 50. I State of South Carolina j County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resi: dent freeholders and a like proj portion of the resident electors of ! the age of 21 in the Tabernacle {school district No. 5U, tfte county! ! of N'ewberry. State of South Caro-1 ! lina, have filed a petition with the ! jcounty beard of education of New-j 1 berry county, South Carolina, pe-1 , litioning and requesting that an ! election be held in the said school i district on the question of levying a special tax of six (C) mills on; J J ft tfcs -'vv >y I /*&' ' -a fill S/\ ri. J {\'j {-SL i \ Ml; //.,* Ssss if a g "SI f" an \ motorists of this comm ill The U. S. reputatio quality is not built or one tire. There is not one stai for largeU. S. Tires and a er standard for smail Every tire that bear "TT k,,:I. name u. o. uun best way its makers how to build it. The c and largest rubber co: in the world cannot t to play favorites in se its pulilic. IV Come in and tell us you are looking for in We can probably tel whether you need a Nobby, Chain, Ucco, 3 cr a Royal Core. vFor ordinary c i& h*'m? reads?The U. S. If I Jill ?^ ^or ^roa^ v/bee!s Iff For best results? OtVN-USCO "PtAflV ZhJe ~~ u- sCorcis. ates Tires Ch ] WORKS N< Sito JUST R] A shipment of Player a: ner Pianos. Will save y< every day. See me at G. ] J. L. B Factor the taxable property within the saic school district. Now, therefore, we the undersigned, composing the county boarc of education for Newberry county State cf South Carolina, do herebj order the board of trr?tees of the Tabernacle school district No. 50 to hold an election on th^ said question of levying a special tax of six (6) mills to be collected on the property located witnin tne saio school district, which said election shall be held at the Tabernacle school house, in the said school district No. 50, on Saturday, the 12th day of June, 1020, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trustees of the said school district shall act as managers of the said election. Unly sucn electors as reside in the said school district and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes*' \ ? /cI O ^ t ij ?. J h fj \. \k.\ ft ? * ^ V-1 'i \ w /?i-i irSScrs^". i port i iitija ... A . t \ ; unity. j n for | S \ any j i'i x > I loard I ncthones. I s ? J s the i t the i know i eldest ncern I ; ifford K eking j I I what tires. [1 you U.S. Plain, f f ountry K. Chain g ? Tte K everyRoyal * tappells, S. C. I ftinards, S. C. a ewberry, S. C. |j rerstreet, S. C. s ? ?- ,J1 ECEIVED nd Straight Schulz and Wer- f ju money. Prices going up B. Summer & Sons. OWLES j y Agent. I written or printed thereon, and each* i elector opposed to such levy shal? .icast a ballot containing the. wordi [ j "No" written or printed thereon; Given under our hands and seals* r! this the 14th day of May, 192(L ,! C. M. Wilsan, i 0. B. Cannonr J. B. Harman, , County Board of Education, Newj berry County, South Carolina. 1 ESTATE NOTICE. J Notice Is hereby given that I wiHl ! make a final settlement of the estate? of Sallie C. Metts, deceased, in, tie? ; Probate Court for Newberry Connty, S. C., on Wednesday, May 26t!x,. ' 1920, at 11 o'clock A. M., and imme, diately thereafter apply for a discharge as Executor of said estate. : All persons holding claims against;, said estate are hereby notified to? present same, duly attested, to ise? or ray attorneys, Hunt, Hunt & j Hunter, on or before the 19th day i of May, lyzu. JOHN B. LATHAN, j As Executor of the Last Will arte Testament of Sallie C. Metts. deceased. April 23, 1920. ; _