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SUN ___For the past several weeks the town of Summerton has been overshadowed with a cloud of dust due to the exten sive drought in this section since the first week of August. We have had comparatively no rain, with the ex ception of two sprinkles. Consequent ly everybody would feel greatly re freshed by a good shower of rain. Now it has turned, cool all signs of rain have passed and we are out for another two weeks of dust. The folks in the country have had an ideal sea son for gathering their crops, the best on record for this section, and in all probability it will be sometime be fore we have another season so well adapted for gathering crops. The third attraction of the Lyceum Course was held on Saturday evening in the school auditorium before a good crowd of folks from town and the nearer community despite the fact - that it was Saturday night and a great portion of the business folk could not attend on account of other business. This number was reported to have been splendid. Mrs. W. S. Judy of St. George Visit ed her parents Rev, and Mrs. Wiggins recently. There is a movement on foot which will form a company in Summerton to purchase the local telephone ex change from the Sumter Telephone 4 Company and operate same making Sumter a toll station. This Company is to be, as I understand same, to be connected with a company from Man ning which proposes to purchase the exchange at that place and act joint ly with Summerton and improve the service greatly. There is consider able room for improvements in the local exchange and there is a great demand for more phones. i'he ap paratus, sines etc., of the local ex change could stand a considerable amount of repair whieh is in part re sponsible for the poor service we have had for the past year. Very little cotton has been sold on the local market for the past week as most of the bale lots have been dis posed of and practically all of. the crop is being held by the lardi far mers who continue to hold for better prices. Cotton was sold on the local market for more than forty cents the past week, only one bale reached this high level, the majority of what was sold brought around 38 to 39 cents. Good cotton will bring a premium withiji the next few weeks it is re ported and it is known now that there is a good demand for good grades of white cotton. The low grades are a good bargain at the pre , THE UNIV S Reliable service for be had where experie using genuine Ford in charge of the work. T The tobhre Service teLt That Pays itsu S money wvell invested. to meet your wants an fit of standard Ford pr F. R. Dingle I SUMMERtT( If it's to Summet'to find it at H. P. SUMMERS "Home of Inv AL e Gasoline and HARR sent prices owing to the tremendous amount of this class of cotton carried over from the last two seasons with the principal consumers of these grades' bought ahead for several months. The demand for the better grades continues to strengthen and the time is not far distant when a farmer can get his price for the bet ter grades. Cotton is now however, above the minimum price set by the American Cotton Association for November. The latest crop predic tion made by the National Ginners association sets the cgndition at 52 with a yield of 10,601,000 and the Journal of Commerce set the condition at 48.1 with a yield of 10,300,000. 0 GRACE IS NOT. NOMINEE SAYS SUPREME COURT (Continued from page one) the hall from the thoroughfare. The committee is composed of 24 mem bers, equally divided between the Hyde and Grace factions, with the deciding vote in case of a tie being with Mr. Logan, who,. in addition to being chairman of the committee, is a law partner of John P. Grace. An other member o fthe committee, Tohn I. Cosgrove, likewise is Mr. Grace's law partner. The matter of determining the status of the 77 challenged votes was left with he committee on canvass, a sub-committee of the whole commit tee, composed of four Grace and two Hyde members. This committee heard 130 witnesses and 50 aflidavits on the challenged votes. Th. witness es were heard in secret, each witness being examined separately, and the challenged , voter was not allowed to hear the evidence against him. The committee, on a strictly partisan vote, accepted 39 of the 77 chatlenged votes and threw out the others. Of these 39 votes, 26 were counted for Grace 11 for Hyde and two for neither. No action was taken on the 14 alleged "mutilated ballots." Adopts Subcommittee's Report. The whole committee then adopted the report of the subcommittee by the usual factional vote of 13 to 12 and rejected a motion by William Ii. Grim ball, a Hyde member of the commit tee, that all records and ballots be placed in n package under the seal of the committee with the chairman to be held for sixty days. This motion was made in view of the posibil ty of the case getting into the courts. ERSAL CAR Ford owners can only need Ford workmen rts, or materials, have his is why we urge you .ng your Ford car to us it needs "going over" ixing up. Careful at >n given to your cal. engthen the periodi of sefulness--prove to be We have every facility Iwe give you the bene ices. 4otor Works, N, S. C. be had in yajou will T R OY'S. TROY, rou, s. c. iting Eatables" so ,ubrienting 011. R Y E. COPELI The case was brought into the S preme Court on a petition for a wr of certiorari, which was granted. TI petitioners alleged that the action the executive committee was illeg arbitrary and deprived them of th< just rights. The respondents quo toined the jurisdiction of the Supret Court on the grounds that the matt under controversy was only politic and should be left to the party m chinery for settlement 'and that t Legislature has taken from the cour the right to review actions of coi mittees. The majority opinion ove ruled both of these contentions. In the minority opinion, Justi Watts held on this question that "t question before usis essentially poli cal and not judicial in its characti and the interference by the co-irts dangerous and contrary to the liber of voters and freedom of electioi and inimical of the doctrines, rul customs and usages of political pa ties." COAL MINERS' STRIKE IS CAL[D 0 (Continued from page one) nous operators of the country in Wa ington next Friday morning at o'clock, and replied to Mr. Brewst who requested a meeting of the cc tral competitive scale committee wi the operators of the district in Was ington, Monday, November 17, "to n gotiate a contract to be in force up the termination of the contract m in effect," that the miners already h accepted the invitation of M1Ir. Wils Copies of the miners' telegram sto Al Wilson and- Mr. Brewster were i available early tonight, but their cc tents were made public. Comments on Message. In commenting on the tiegran fr< Mr. Brewster, Ellis Searles, editor the United Mine Workers JournalI i other oflicials of the org'anizatic who were under the impl-ession ti Mr. Brewster's message was sent i ter he had received Secretary W son's invitation, declared they saw the operators offer a deliheritte tempt to entrap the miners into tacit acknowledgement that the Was ington wage agreement was still force. The miners have contend throughout the controversy that t wage Contract has expre. "It was a neat little political m on the part of the operators," sa f r. Searles. "They believed we woi necept their proposal and in so (oi admit that the Washington wa agreement was still operative. 'T inters, however, aicceptedl the offer Secretairy WVijson to meet himi Washington next F'ridaiy andl mern w"iredl Mr. Br'ewster' to t hat effe Also Mr. Wilson's mtessage was tim oneO hour eartlier' in filing than ' Brewster's. We h-ivo mainotain''-I along that the W'Xash ingt on con t r dIie'd wihtt the war activit ies antd ti at present the mine workers have conttract witht the operatorIis o'f th et fral c(litmpet itivye fiel."' It, was sidc at the internatior~ Iheadlquariters of the ( orgaiz'at ion It that, pract ically all of' the copies the otrder, which called oflfl tnatic widle bituimitnous cola IsCtrikce were thte mtails before the time limit by J1udge A ndersont, 6 o'clock thItis es nting. 'Te recall order prev'iously hi beetn subitbti ted to the cour t. whlo chi acterized it as a "good faith effor~ to cottply witht thle 'our't' nmanda IIThis was after tile general comitmitt of tite mtiners, composed of itntenrr tionat~l oflicials, distric't pre'isdents a mtemtbetrs of thte executive boardI a'li scale committee htad been int sessi approximately eighteen htours and -1:11t his molrnling dec idecd to comy j with the mandate of the conrt. Policy Comittee. After thle general conmmiittel' wi wentt ito session at, 2 o'clock tl a fternooti as a policy commttee, ht decided to accept the tinvitation Secreta-r'y Wilsont atnd refure that. Mir. 1Brewster thte comitttttee adjour ed at 5 o'clock and mtany of fthe ttet b~ers began to make prteplarat ioits f tI: :&I::t:tt::::u:::ttttttititttittttttttttti Wanted--Hej Of all kinds. Take care of yo you sell, try Sam -Before anyone else. suttttittttttttttittittitimt::iitiiti j K5EaAAE8, 1.3. .Je kND, Correspon a- their homeward trips, those going to h it Washington for the Friday meeting p ie making railroad reservations for the p of East. il, The Wilson invitation was not limit ir ed to the scale committee of the mine s- workers as was the Brewster proposal tLI is for a conference. William Green, f, er secretary-treasurer of the union, ex- ti al plained that every district in the' '1 a- United States would be represented in d !lo the conference Friday from the State ti ts of Washington, to Maryland. The to n- miners, who will attend the meeting n r- will include the internaclonal officers, h district presidents or whomever the cc districts choose to send, members of h he the executive board and of the scale G i- committee, practically the same make d ,r, up as the general committee, which o is has been meeting here. tLi ty Although the strike has been called is, ofi' court action in the strike case has e !s, not been completed by any means. si r- The miners' attorneys are preparing ( their writ of error with a view to ap- e: pealing the case to the United States s Circuit Court of A ppeals and expect, 0 to file their petition for this step es f within the next two or three days. a Plan to Carry Case Up. d The attorneys stated that they ex- f< peeted to carry the case to the high- tI sh est tribunal of the country if the gov- f 11 ernment is upheld in ast olwer courts rin its contention. s 1.. From the standpoint of the govern- u th ment the miners themselves are not p h- absolved from further obedience to n e- the court's injunction through with- t1 -n drawal of the strike order and unless ' ,w the case is dismissed, injunction writs ti as served on more than sixty of the a an United Mine Workers' oflicials are [r. returnable before December 2. of ''lirty-one officials of the organiza n- tion were served with copies of the temporary restraining order issued October 31, retuarnahle November 20. ,. About thirty-five othrs were served of during a session of the conference yes ad terday with copies of the temporary i , restarining order issued last Saturday p at There was much speculation tonight Lf- as to how the notice of withb'a wal of il- the strike order would he received by l in lhe miniers in the fiels. In some I t.. quarters it was believed that. the men as would return almost as a whole on h- orders from their union heads. Iow in ever, there were indications that in ecl some districts a feeling against obey he ing the order to resume work existed. )elegtates to the conference who were ye questioned on this suhject would make id no predictions. hd Patriotic devotion to the govern mg ment and American ideals and institu ge Lions caused the United Mine Workers he' of America to comply with the order of of the UnJoited Staotes oeu rt to with - in drannw thle strike order, atccordling to a lv statement made tonight hy Elllis Seaor le.s,-edlit or of the U nit ed Mline Work (1 ea Jounal. lR[D8 8dOY DONN ut WORL.D WAR 11H [ ('ontinud fromt paige (one al mein were the c'yniOsure of t he hutn. r'e dreds of womienl and chiildreni wvho in-. n-As theo coltumn swung arounid the et avenue, the band struck til a pao e- trliotic marchl. T1hen bullets came inito uli the ranks from ani unseen e'neimy . arj MXen fell to the patvemenit and~ tiny ";rivulets of blood showved tile spec tatoris e. what had ta ken place, the (rack of ee tile rifles of the assassinls having betn', a- drowneud by the blare of the bandi. idi Tiny puffs of smloke from the roof ad1 of Ci a liary building indicated whence mI the bullets h'ad colle an th1 le neariness at (If the( I. W. W. hall led to the. quick ly decision that, the heroes whlo hand weant hered the sanguminariy battle tields (If Eurmope hadei been sla in finom amnbtush "1h by r'ad icals who oIpposed( thle Amileicanit is syte of govenmlent. tod The nmarch ing soldiers id nlot linger of to awa it the order to fall out boit a wvith seeming intuitioii rushedl inito the a- nearby structure and sought their way nl- toI the roo0fs. 'Theo sn ipjers lad diisap) 1)r Ipeared(, but the service men sought~ les and Skins lighest Prices Paid uir hides and before Richman Next to Candy Kitchen. titttttttttitittttttntt t::tttttititltttittittt URI dent ighways and byways for all sus icious persons and then sent ou ioneers into the timbered countr' round the city. Sudden Terror. Wives daughters and sweethearst o te paraders after a momentary paus om the sudden terror of the situa on rushed to the aiti of the fallen hat the firing was intended for sol ers was shown by the fact that al e killed and injured were in the mil try section of the parade which wa ade up partly of residents of Che dlis. Arthur McElfresh was found t 've been killed instantly but Warrer rimm did not (lie until later. Grim' Bath added to the fury of the crow( F civilians that swarmed later abou te jail to demand vengeance. le had been an idol of the tow1 en before the war, as he was ar football player at the Universit: Washington. Ile had added to th ;teem of his townsmen by a profes (nal career until the war for dem "aey called him. IHie had been we! )led home with all the plaudits du( warrior and his death at the hid. ?n hands of those who opposed tha )r which he had faced the enemy it e open, drove men and women t( cnzy. As soon as the first excitement sub dtledl somewhat., word of the attac as sent to Governor Hart. att iym ia. le communicated with Depart ont of Justice officers at Seattle an en11 dispatched 75 members of th hird Infantry, National Guard to Ce alia. The soldiers a-e expected t( rrive by morning-.. Mob Hangs 'ra;oner. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 11.--About 'lock the miob surroundingi? the Conl il jail succeeded in getting ott f the I. V. V's. arrested out of th til and into ant attomobile rushin im away before the guards coup revent it, telephone reports hier tid. OUND THi HE AMERIC Repatriat 3.. When ostlftie ceaed tere :nl fpioner of wa opel 'hom istell kho w toe all ther wo mthilie~i r ;lie's of ilin ,:e icint* iiI )erintit, Riit ldie wou'1 oft gettinlg Ite ries was soon0 Itigitn. Iii Ihis phttu .hat Will varry thunt out of bom lagE .kOUND TH)l - Public He In the tmidst of its mutltifarious tot neglect its obligations to the ei ho coiliet it maintained its Hureau rat aidi, horti nursing andt~ saniitati heir' work for thte babies was effot ecottnpanylng photograph shows a Ii Imother in the nronar ntroaratin 4 ,m~AU. At 7:30 tonight the city's lights sud t denly were cut off and a volly of r shots rained lown Pearl street. It was during this peroid that the pris oner was taken from jail and spirited f away. He was rushed toward a near by wood and at last accounts the - crowd had disappeared with him. - the As A great many people in Clar I: endon have already taken advantage I of the government goods, and have s bought freely. They save a great, - deal by buying these goods. Post master Bralham will be pleased to or > der your goods at any time. FOIR SALE 100 acres, more or less, of the best land in South Carolina, within three miles of Pinewood. About 80 acres cleared, several tenant houses. Good conmunity. FRED LESESNE, Manning, S. C. NOTICE We will sell for cash at the Court door at public auction on the first Monday in December, December 1st, 1919, at twelve o'clock noon the fol lowing property purchased by us un i der foreclosure of Mortgage of W. N. > R 'sh, to wit: A Il thi t piece, parcel or lot of land lyine-. bring and situate in the Town ~ of Sardinia, County and State afore C' ri(. measurin.g fifty (50) feet on its - Northern and Southern lines and hav _ mg a tiniform depth of one hundred and fifty (150) feet and bounded and h-Itt ii1'" as follows, to wet: North by Pecan Stoet : East by lot of E. J. Budd im: South by lands of Garland, and West by lot of W. N. Rush, the 'ot of lhnd labove describeod being i -..t,-' as lo. No. 5 on a Plat of Town lots at Sardinia, and being the sa1' o msnon which the reldionee of the said W. N. Rush was situated. ALSO - All those three lo's of land in the Town of Sx! ini i. ('liren-'t'n (o-intoy. South a('rolin-. knows, -'s Nos. R :n 7 unon a plat. thereof boun'led Nort.h by Pecan Str'et: Ltst byn ho, of .1-ets I Budd in: South by lot of Mary E. Gar land, and West by lot aho-:e descerib ed. Clarendon Building & Loan Company. WORLD WITH AN RED CROSS.+ ing Prisoners. re In the handi~s of t hir Toutllon entptors "DII ,'l .na I'csliitr ',.-ntrtd the a is.i s t he rillitar uv horithowlI s wouiii risonIers startled back to their (oV~n COunI og * I .:oup 'it' lthese' le are sE'enI 4 like nor mai ll heLh, awaiting th~Le trin WORLD WIT AN RED CR0SS. alth Nursing. wa'ir (dutils the American ltedi (i'oss dlid viliani popumlatilon at huome. Th'lroughout of.Putbl ic I leialthi Nurilng, lust rutloon In on, and disaster rolef. Paurttlenlarly3 In by public heaul it nurnes mpoirtantm.Th ed( Cross( pulic~~l heal th nurse~ InstructIng af the baby's diet.