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I TMt -— l - Dally Except Sunday at florence. 8. C., by iUNtON AND GARDINER l^san C. Drunaen, Editor. Gardiner. BualnoM Manager EtSI . AfECRIRTlON RATES .Payable in advance. ...$ .16 .60 1.76 3.60 ... 6.00 b * TODAYS-AMNlVSRSAR«:i»- 4 ♦ •J* 'I* 1732—Samuel Vetch, flrat British gov — London. Born In Edinburgh, iV’-t King Oeorje at winuro^ Cas 9, 1668. 1803—By purchase, the United States acquired the claims of France to| * + ♦ ♦ <> ♦ 4 4 4 4; 4 Hold' , HeaHngs On' ""Ufij r ONE TEAR AGO TODAY - t!™ rnS.f«v. > in the war. 4 Traffic Conditions *-♦ 4- 4 4*d r *4'-4*4 , *4;4 4 4.’4 f •' • ‘ *v Florence Times Bureau, Wyatt A. tie. Column!!; April 29.—The South Italian Parliament Indorsed I're Carolina Railroad Commission yester niter Orlando’s stand on Flume. day L dd the first of a series of hear- Unitert States battleship Tennoss ings regarding railroad and traffic 1*1 lir»r»V»/wl o ♦ 1VT ‘' "' r 1 Brooks,, Florence. ( , ' , Matters oil mutual Interest ^iu, the ( conduct of the work tire being discus- j sed in .thp conferbrit^../. » ’ » * V *_ ♦ 4 I i - . . L-.- * in various parts of the ^inths Vi.. Lt ■mm accood class matter 6, 1909, at Florence, 8. C. •UfeO SCRU Oregon. ’ p e launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard, conditions 1841—New Zealand was declared in i — j state. dependent of New South Wales. 4444444*444 The commission is today hearing 1970—Charleston became the seat j > TODAY’S EVENTS 4| representatives of the Charleston and of state government of West Vln > * ********** * * Savanna* division of the Seaboard ginia. , - 1 Air Line with regard to passenger 1879—Sarah J. Hale, who edited thej „ _ V - | fares. The commission wants to William II. Crane, dean of the Am-! ! erican stage, is 75 years old today. first periodiral puhlishrd in Ami' l ira i ** i.noiii ii. i ittiii-. ticiiu Ul l!ie Ain-; I i . »’«iiin iu 1 —* — ... .bring the fare down to three cents a Relief of Tb4 Aoooclated Preoo . gtod Pr«»» lo exclusive. J6!e4 to the use for republlca- l.AJf ell news dispatches credited f.Mnt otherwise credited In this ai also to the locnl news pub- tereln. ■' THURSDAY APRIL 29, 1920 , ,'V« » F- FfUDAY APRIL, 30, 1920 " Tfte, greatest crying need cf the of Florence today la lor more in which to live. This need - being supplied Just as npldly as however. There are now of construction two hun- [' Abuses, but they are already sold. Ehfery contractor in really more tt^an he can ' ’ tbly do for months to come. MVfdny’s bally Times carried .a fiJtojjy of more than passing in- ,;- An enterprising local man, thi need, grasping the oppor- ’aW realising the possiblli- is organized a Home Building ty for the purpose of building ftt the city to rent. Work on lii»m will’ commence at once and be ed. As rapidly as possible. The L d"I(j hete and the spirit of 8iii>- ,; the demand is a characterls tFforence and one of the fac Which has counted wonderfully if t %rbWth and development. /it is desirable that Flor peopled as far as possible h> fhers yet often this Is neither leaner . practical r There will liy-be renters and the Times . *?f t° know that this demand fcour city will be met to some ex atiJeW • isrw...* 1U ■ . ;ON FIRM foundation justly proud of the "Pur town, county and section jr-within the past few years have already accom 5e4. however are but a prelude to we»»re capable of accomplish- (WhAB what we will accomplish, _ Jp next few years. * k doesn’t take the oldest citizens )hese - parts to recall when Flor- |i-.Trts*a mere.station on the rall- no modern conven- ‘1# a dvantu^es; a mere ham- K a’few residences, scattered 4Wll: there, with a few general M by merchants, who at son of the year, with nothing L’lMportant to do would look up ■mr spot, armet with pocket _m^d white pine board would rj hours and swap yarns ;Bis ‘neighbors who also had lit- ‘ log else to do. . _ ►v > “*t quiet, free-and-easy vll- fJ^'^'SPrung up a modern South- ; ;«tty. pulsating with life, throb [ >«h activity, bubbling with jjjyrefot forward In the march ♦resa. by leaps and bounds at °t development that it for ^' ,ts w »y steadily forward *^”8 Of the cities of the state today there are but four others ! hY6!La.greater population and aiHiy not One ahead of.lt in real ' ‘■v^opment. l -town anywhere is growing fast- none along more sub £,w! ae '-<. M future of the city of Florence S w e ,S bu,,d,n S a firm Jtlon. Her present growth is a ° f a 8 P asmo Uc spurt / c< »oth»uous and steady growth supstantfal lines. ^* >. 4^4 4 .4 4 * 4 » .♦ »T4 4 4 4 4 4 blndsay, presidenl r Pah Academy of Political hlch mgels In New York o discuss the high cost of 1/v IM «ther post-war problems, is America^ sociologist and edu it. »L V ^ 0f P « tf, h<irg, he »u Pb. B. degree from the aj. Pennsylvania at the <■'«>«<■« th.n ,.|,l , brmi „, ° , ve yearH ,n no* 11 !I4- 7 bS r« V, the un,ver «“y^ . Jv. Vl «nna, Rome and j rFor Some time after his re merica he filled the chair * h ,i y at th « University of Pa Signed to accept his 'dft?*. 1 a8 Professor of soda! »•» In Columbia University f«canf years professor Lindsat C.nqs.bnen, parted upon In ro serVft a> ^"'mission, aid ero B y om!i Pq ^ H0Ha, • flnan economic problems. for women, died in Philadftjphih. r—*" • i: ’ ,u 0,u luua - v - | mile' on this road, whereas it has Born at Newport, N. H., Oel. 24. Denver \,ill. put daylight saving in ( been, during federal control more 1788. t<> offect at midnight toniglit by set ! t i uin threo c . entBi flll< , t0 the g0 v P rn- 1884—Sensation created by the dis-jting .he clocks ahead one hour. ; ments pro rating of charges, covery o? dynamite cartridges un-j Tlie anneal convention of the Nat-| The commission is also considering! der the Parliament House in To- tionul Print Cutlers' Association will {today the matter of express service ronto. begin its'sessions today in’New York j at Society Hill. 1888lrlsh I.and Commission bill lias- j city. j Another hearing begijn yesterday is red by the British House of Coin j Fresno, California, will hold its an in regard to the hours for opening and mons. j ntial RaisOn Day Carnival today, with closing of the passenger station at 1895—The. Dowager Duchess of Marl-j p-niiine Frederick, thjp popular ac-{ Salters depot. borough and I,ord William Deres ; trees, as carnival queen. Still another matter under consider- ford were married Hi London. j Harvard men from all sections mjation by the commission is in regard America will gather tocay in Wash j to the establishment of an agency on • 4 444**4444 j+jington. I). C„ for the aunu;* meeting | the C. & W. C. railway at Cold Point, j 4 TODAYS BIRTHDAYS 4 'of the Associated Harvard Clubs. between lireenwood and Laurens. j 444 4444*44444444 Today has h^en set as the date 1 Next Wednesday the commission 1 * for dedicating the Grand Canyon Nat! will* have a conference with F. M. • Princess Juliana, heir to the throne jicmal Park, in northern .-.rizona, crea! Hardin, of the demurrage bureau. At of the Netherlands, born at the Pul-1 ted by act of <'ongress a yf-ar ago. i lanta, with regard to the re-estah- ace of Het l.oo. 11 yearaagotoday. j Former President William H. Taft lishment of reciprocal demurrage, Maj, Gen Henry 0. Sharpe. U. S. A. jand ether notable speakers are to be) which was effective before the gov- re tired, late commander of the South .beard today at the fifty-second anni | eminent took over the roads. Recip- eastern department, born at Kings ! versary exercises of Hampton Insti , rccal demurrage is a charge allowed ton, N. Y’., 62 years ago today. [lute. ‘shippers against the railroads when Franz Lehar. composer of ‘The j Government ownership of the rail-' the roads delay the placing of freight Merry Widow.'' and other popular roads is to furnisfi the subject fo’- • {curs on sidings. The roads are op- Lght operas, born in Hungary, a(, : (|.| n | lgt1 ]ar debate this evening ho i posing the plan to re-establish this de years a K° today. {tween student teams of Colhv Col ! innrrage. Homer S. Cummings, chairman ol ji Pg ., T , lfts ro i lPK ,, an> . r i ark Un j j the National Democratic Committee.j VPrsjfv DISTRICT CONFERENCE born in Chicago, 50 years ago today.. Post-war problems ns affectin'*! 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