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! r THE FLORENCE DAILY TIMES THK LATEST ASSOCIATED PftESS DISPATCHES 27th Year Florence, S. C., Wednesday Afternoon, March 7, 1923. $6.00 a Year t ATTEMP1 TO PROVE MRS, INGRAM AS AUTHOR OF LETTERS iAit Government Places Hand writing Experts On Stand Today INSPECTOR KNIGHTS HISTORY OF CASE Interesting Testimony Is Heard In The Course Of The Trial MORE CANDIDATES REVIVAL SERVICES METHODIST CHURCH GROW IN INTEREST WORK WILL BEGIN ON NEW WRITE WAY AT AN EARLt BATE FRENCH AND BRITISH ' j UNABLE to agree MOVING OF TROOPS BODIES OF DEPUTIES I SLAIN BY SHINERS j BURIED IN SWAMP MISS GANDY GOES FROM 4TH PLACE IN RACE TO THE LEAD i ATTENDANCE INCREASES AT EV- CONTRACTS LET BY CITY COUN- GENERAL GODLEY FLATLY RE-: ERY SERVICE AS THE MEET- I CIL AT A SPECIALLY CALL- FUSES FRENCH DEMANDS ING PROGRESSES I ED MEETING A AT CONFERENCE FOR COMMISSIONER splendid music ! ! J. C. KENDALL AND W. H. BERRY MAKE FORMAL ANNOUNCE MENT OF ENTRY Interest In the euv election con- GIVEN LAST NIGHT LOCAL FIRM IS TO INSTALL SYSTEM FEARS MAY CAUSE A GENERAL STRIKE MURDERERS CONFESS AFTER BE ING ROUNDED UP DY POSSE OF SCO MEN LEAD OFFICERS TO THE BURIAL SPOT ANOTHER CHANGE IS MADE IN DISTRICT TWO OF THE TIMES CONTEST WHO WILL WIN THE CASH ON SATURDAY REV. J. W. SPEAKE PREACHES A WESTINGHOUSE PLAN ADOPTED RIGHT TO RUN TRAINS WITHIN; TWO MEN HAD COVERED <.»ODI?.S NUMBER OF CONTESTANTS HAVE SPLENDID SERMON. TWO NEW SONGS TONIGHT FOR I LIGHTING THE BUSI NESS STREETS THE RP'T|?w 70rT TAUSE OF DEADLOCK London. Mpvch 7.—Reuter’s Co OF VICTIMS WITH CO*’S CARCASS Franklinton, La.. Monti T—The ALREADY TURNED IN SUB SCRIPTIONS ON OFFER t'on itself, for wh eh the meeting is. "rent chorus choir and accompanied ! of the city council veateiflav after i p r ,troons tlmni-rh the Hi tisli i w '“ re h,u ' itV i i» o prepare, approach. Today there) by a number or rmislcfil Instruments are two ne wcandidates in the field ; is being joined in hv the great con ' For the first time since District At torney Meyer made his opening state ment to the iury yesterday morning, attempt was made .irs morning to connect Mrs. L. <o. ingra-.n with me authorship trodueed in day in the against her. Her connection with Hie I Berry’s card appears this afternoon | rendered a beautiful number. Tonight " J " Mr. Kendall is the president and; two new songs will he offered. ; logne correspondent savs the French , bodies of Wesley Crane and Wiley In District One Miss Margaret Gan- v goes from fourth place to !eat*. tn The revival services at Central I With the awarding ot contracts In linues to grow as the time for the | Methodist church are growing rapid- ; connection with the installation of s leorganlzatlon ineeui. ft cf the demo-j lv in attendance, interest and insnira- modern white way ior i-o.ence.' and Brit an representatives are dead- 1 Plerce « deputy si „ Iffs. slain by J District Two Mrs. G. R. Qasklns mov- cratic party of the city and the plec-' ,ion Womlcrul sneine led hv a J which were let at a special meernc j locked on the question of aioving i moon8hinrr,i * xvei KJ IIll> ,0(la y- They Jed un from eighth place to third, with into which the' only a ISO vote lead over Mias Nora Mae McMillan. “• M ,U1 UK for ft'aces on the hoard of counci, | gregatlon. On last evening great >ake Florence the prettiest and moat! pa ot " : ^ 7 /me 1 pw?rVi n l‘ , t ,t v rH t in ' u en n Tlu;y ‘ are l C , t fr nda !l a i n f W ’ H* ve - S 0f r,"* fl,,rgftd thro,,Kh the attractive town In the slate was tak-'nounced he would appeal’to London . lhe b ° i the federal couit yester-1 H. Berry Mr. Kendalls official an- ditorium Jiftlng the hearts or men • en The French a-ked the right to run a ,ni1 * 1 ,r p case of the government I nouncement was made yesterday. Mr. and women to C.nd A male unarm The contract for the white wav' trains between Bonn and Neus* 't ,l in t leiters t afternoom ' rendered a beautiful number. Tonight . VitR given to the .Mann Klee ' which involves a thirty minute shunt here letters was mare during the testi-1 Mr. Kendall is the president and | two new songs will he offered ci.. fVvtnrva rw» n# f'rvlu m Hi n 11 r»’ i t w {*> t n * i l.-.Hn IV. I noon, another step in the plans to j zone . General (iodley flatly refused J bodies had been pressed, and covered i the French demands at a conference | with the carcass of a dead cow. „„ " y ' The Florence Daily Times grand bodies were found a qunrter ot I prizes, including the ?1,750 Studebak- om the destroyed moonshine ! er Light Six Sedan, the $607.20 Ford niony of Postoftlce Inspector Knight. < manager of tlie Florence Builder s Mr. Knight stated that in his opin-! Supply Company find is interested in ion Mis. Ingram was the author of! numbers of local enterprises. He has the letters. B. C. Farrar, chief ac u i». countant of the postoffice division of the 1’nited States treasury depart ment at Washington, an expert made ho.->ts of friends s’nce cumins to Florence and is highly regarded h' his business associates as lie is ir Washington, an expert in fact by all who know him. handwHting, and wln> made the com-] Mr. Berry has had experience in parison between the known handwrit- city government having served as c f T ’" of Mrs. Ingram and that of the member of the board of aldermen ur obscene letters, stated that in his i dcr the old form of government dur- opinion the author was the same. Mr.| ing one of the Gilbert administra Farrar was on the stand when the tioiis. In u later election lie ran c court took a recess at l::io o’clock this afternoon for lunch. The case was continued this morn- dose second race with the late F. P. Covington who was elected eunimis sinner. Mr. Berry has been a real ing with lohn R. Rogers, superinteu-1 dent of Florence for many years and dent of the Columbia postoffice being 1 represents large property interest? called to the stand. He told of how * here. the postoffice had placed a watch on' boxes in several sections of the city in order to trace from whence the letters came. L. R. Rawls, a city mail carrier in Columbia, also testified as to this. T. B. Madden, postmaster of the Columbia postoffice, explained to the jury what steps had been taken by| the postoffice to trace the place of GRAND JURY FINDS TRUE BILL mailing of those letters. AGAINST JOHN HARRIS. OTH- I ostoffice Inspector Knight stated - er INDICTMENTS that he received the first complaint' MURDER TRIAL IS SET FOR TOMORROW regarding the letters on June 5, 1922, "■he gr.nd jury in the United at winch tjme tin* letters were dac-J states court has returned a true b’ll ed tn tils hands. He went over them,}against John Harris, charged with saw that they were a violation to I Hun'ilor on the high seas. Harris was the mailing laws and at once pro- a seaman on the Ameriran sailing ceeded to work. Ho said that during | v 0R sel “Zebedee E. Cliff” and is last summer the letters stopped com-; charged with killing G. Karlson while ing and no more were received until the latter part of September, when the ship was enroute from Tamm to Wilmington. The case Is set for trial they began to he mailed again. He | tomorrow. A number of witnesses, in- said that during the summer he ex-, eluding .the crew of the vessel, are hausted every means he knew ib trace i,ere for the trial, the author, but as no more letter' * \ true bill was also returned were being received he made little aga’nst H. L. Jacobs, an alderman of progress. G, e city of Charleston who is charged Finally, ho said, he Investigated> a with violating the prohibition laws number of the charges made in the xt, s | 8 the second offense against letters .dative to happenings that j t , C obs. It is not likely that Hus were claimed to have taken place at,case will bo tried here, the McGregor home, and finding that a bill of indictment has also been they actually took place, decided that J returned in the case of William Hop- the person who was writing the let- king who is charged with senumg ters had intimate knowledge of what obscene letters through the malls to was going on at the home. He then members of the Vanderbilt and Car secured specimens of the handwriting : negie families and to President Haid- of all the members and domestics of, ing and other members of his official the McGregor homo, and of all those family. Hopkins is in jai.’ here. living in the neighborhood who could possibly have known of these i |OUT PHIUIDAMV DHVC happenings. When he came to the Limn I UUIVIrAIMI DU TO home of Mrs. r Ingram, across the street, he found that she was absent fiom the city on a visit, presumably . , , . * , . * in Hendersonville. It was then, he !n an interesting game last night said, that he got Tom Boyle, who had 1 011 u,p local Community Service vol- known her In Sumter. Mr. Boyle’s* 1 ^ bal1 <ourt - the Palmetto Light & home town, to write her a letter, the! P owor Co - won from the Methodists contents to he such that would re- in a splendidly played game. The ouir«' an answer. At this time. Mr.lP 0 ^ pr boy !,> 00 ^ tbe J , 1 r . f l t .’ tbt L ae ?T! Knight said, Mrs. Ingram was not WIN FROM METHODISTS Rev. J. W. Speake was at his best on a great subject. He snoke tn t art us follows: “At the beginning of life we have only the horn cells of a longer life. We bring into the world rapacity and energy. The life we are to find It held liv the social order to which we are horn “No definlt’on i»f a hov is large enough that doesn’t include not aione wiint he Is in himself, but all of that ! fe which he shall touch on the out side. “The lower animals bring with them (i complete life, bh'ds sing with out going to school, bees work with out courses in elvM engineering, in the higher form of life, the life of hu man beings, l‘fe must be found and aehieven. “Intellectually, our children are correlated to the whole nature o r truth. They are socially related to all created beings, and spir'tua’lv re lated to God. They are not fully born till they have found I hat larger life from the outside. Children have ca pacity for language. The language they speak 's the accident, of birth. The God they worship Is the God re vealed to them hv others. “We are all debtors to the past. AH cherished institutions, home. etc., are Hie g'fts of those who have gone be fore us. As we live upon founda tions laid by otners. so we are obli gated to those woo come to us. What we are, nml wnat we know and what we have received, is the measure of ootir responsibility to others.” Mr. Speake. at this point, called a boy to the platform and presented him to me congregation, say’iig: “l do not know this boy, he belongs to you. What he Is to be. depends upon tne quality of your consecration to so sacred a task. He has capacity for Hcnven. and for Hell. The Heaven into which you call him or the Hell to which you send him.” The preacher then exhorted all the people to so consecrate themselves to a program of Holiness, so that by no single word, example or attitude, this boy could he robbed of that life to which the principle of a “souare deal” entitles him. As the weather becomes cooler the building will be comfortabiy heated. All the people of Florence are In vited to enjoy the feast of song, the ‘nsp’ring messages, and the sneclal presence and fellowship of Jesus Christ in these services. “i-et him that is aiturst come. Let him that heareth, say: Come. And whosoever will let him come.” trie. Company of Columbia. Council has adopted the West'ngtiouse svs tern which is claimed to be Hie most up to date of the manv systems of iured on the market. Bids for me lamps, standards, enbte and other iph- tei »( entering into me woik were icaue separately. The white way w 11 cost n the neighborhood of $9,000 v al though these figures are not exact. The Fortner Electric Company of Florence was awarded the contract for the installation and Palmer and Conard were the lowest bidders on the concrete bases for the standnrds. There will be seventy-four lights m the new white way which wil>l ex tend from the post office to Ravens! on East Evans streat, aud from Chcves to front on Dargan street tJimps upon brackets extending from iron poles will be run from Ravenol street to the Atlantic Coast Line do pot to complete the system, the Pal metto Power and Light Company put ting in this part of the system The white way will consist of suicedil standards capped with beau tiful lamps, one to each standard. This method of street (lighting has lias been adopted in many progressive c’ties. It was stated today that Pal mer and Conard would begin immedi ately the work of building the bases of concrete aud that actual instaiia. t;on of the white way would beg n as soon as the material arrives. The wires will be removed from the streets, it was stated, as soon as sat- isfactory arrangements are completed for run ways in the rear of the build ings. mg opeijition in the Cologne station Hie swamps eight miles from j k’oupe, the two $464.72 Ford Touring here | (ars were displayed on the streets John Murphy and John G’deon Res-' Tuesday. They excited the usual The British contended this would I ter, the slayers, hiave confessed I “mount of comment, and many were hamper tra'.flo and cause a strike ; They led the officers to the burial ] !be remarks • ! wish t were going to SLAYER OF FARMER RUSHED TO COLUMBIA GEORGE ALLEN. NEGRO, ARREST ED SHERIFF’S POSSE NEAR ANDERSON TODAY went to the Methodists^ and tthe third to the mcandescentR. Tonight the lawyers, a now team in the field, will - ^ up against the Pal metto Power « '.iglit Co’s, linesmen, also a new tea.i. Although these teams are new in the field they have received practice, and a most excit ing game is ant ic mated. Tomorrow night, the Lutherans will play the Southern Motor company, and the following evening the Bankers will go up against the Atlantic Coast Line railroad bunch. AGENT OF STATE INCOME TAX HERE suspected of the authorship of the letters any more than other neigh bors living in that district of the city. Prior to this, Mr. Knight said, the letters in question and a large num ber of the handwriting specimens from the neighbors and members of the house had been forwarded to the government at Washington where a ha ^writing expert examined them. When Hie answer to Mr. Boyle’s let ter' was received, Mr. Knight was out of the city, and he did nal see the letter, which was turned over to Christie Benet, the McGregor's at torney, who forwarded it to Washing ton to Senator Dial with the request | that it be given to the handwriting > An agent of the South Carolina expert. This was done, he said, and Tax Commission, Income Tax Di scon a report came from the expert vision, will be located at Florence in to the effect that the author of the the Court House, on March Uth. 14th letter to Mr. Boyle was also the au- and lilth, 192:5, for the purpose of thor of all of the other letters. * assisting taxpayers in executing state Tlie climax came on the evening of income returns. All persons should October 12th, the day of the McOreg- avail themselves of this opportunity or-Boyle marriage, when a letter was of securing,competent aid which will received by Dr) Henry B. Phillips rec- be cheerfully given without charge. tor of Trinity Episcopal church. Svlio —— officiated at the marriage, which FLORENCE COMPANY stated that if he performed the "cere-i GETS CHERAW AWARD mony “he would get his," and that, the author intended to “shoot up the W. J. Wilkins and Company, areh!- church" if the marriage was carried tects. yesterday awarded to the Bryce out. On this date a letter of a simi- 1 Plumbing and Heating Company, of lar character was also received by! Florence, the contract for heating Tom Boyle. Mr. Knight attending and plumbing in connection with the court in Aikeu at the time and both. erection of Cheraw’s new High school of these letters were turned over to building. The figure was S5.681. J. Mr. Benet. who at once called in an! F. McBride, a former Florentine, was alienist who passed upon them, stat- awarded the contract for the build ing that In his opinion the author of I ing. Ifls hid being $46,000. Bu$h letters was dangerous and might I attempt to make the threats good. ! MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE Mr. Benet 'Immediately got in; FROM HIGH WINDS touch with Mr. Knight at Aiken over] long distance telephone and uPged Atlanta. Mar. 7.—Considerable him to return to the city at once, j nmperty damage la reported from which he did. Arriving in the city! various points over this state and in in the narlv evening Mr. Knight mid;Florida by the Wind last night. Tele- he called up Mrr-Ingram and'request-1 phone nnd telegraph communication -• • W reported nearly normal this aftar- (Continued on page 4) coon. - / MRS. FORBES WILL * ADDRESS MEETING There will he a special meeting of the Florence County Poultry associa tion tonight at eight o’clock at the Court house. The address of the evening will he made by Mrs. Fran cis Forbes, of the Quaker Oat com pany. She is the vice-president of the Poultry Judges* association and is said to be the only woman who has ever judged poultry at a world’s fair. For several years she was the poul try specialist at the University of Tennessee. Members of the local as- soclatt'm are glad of this opportun ity of hearing a famous expert talk and will attend the — -ting tonight in large jiumbers. All interested In poultry are invited. LEGION TO INVITE COMMANDER HERE COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED AT ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING LAST NIGHT Anderson. Mar. 7.—George Allen, r. regro, charged with killing Cecil Hall, a white farmer here Monday, was arrested by a sheriffs posse near here today. He was rushed to Colum bia for safe keeping. The arrest was made on information supplied hv Stonhen Banks, a white farmer. Feel ing is running high against the negro. tolbertTaynot DRAW HIS SALARY 'i.»t District Judge Front ss G. Clara announced. They previously ban been rounded up with ten others by a posse of eight hundred armed men who hud been beating the woods ami swamps ever since the deputies were reported missing. The deputies left last Saturday on u raiding expedition and were not seen again until the bodies were found. The slayars said the deputies airested the maud raided tin’ll still. They then started across lhe swamp on foot, and coming to a place where they had to walk single fl,'e Murphy drew a concealed gun, and shot Pierce. They then killed Civtin. FARM LAND TAXES MORE THAN DOUBLED Washington. March 6.^-Taxos on farm lands more than doubled In the last eight years according to the agriculture department. The aver lige state, county and local taxes paid by farmers was 31.4 cents an aero in 1914, compared with 70.9 last year. South Carolina jumped from thirteen cents an acre to tIHrtv- live and North Carolina from sixteen cents an acre to fofty-four. The important matter taken up at the regular monthly meeting of the Fred H. Sexton Post No. 1 at their hall last night, was a discussion of bringing the national commander. Al vin W. Owsley, to Florence, for an address tomorrow night. He will leave Wilmington Thursday afternoon for Columbia, where he is scheduled for an address and will pass through Florence at 7:13 o’clock. A commit tee was appointed last night headed by Dr. J. D. Smyser, to get in touch with him and see if arrangements could not be made to have him stop off here for an address tomorrow evening. A telegram was sent him last night, and an answer is ex pected some time during the day. If it is impossible for the national commander to stop off in Florence, then the members of the legion in a body will meet the train and have a conference with him during its short stop at the depot. The meeting last night was a very enthusiastic one, business being laid aside for pleasure. The members of the Ladies’ auxiliary served sand wiches and coffee, and the members of the post had their wives and sweethearts out for the evening. A Community service program was put on consisting of singing, games and other forms of entertainment. The evening was a very pleasant one and thoroughly enjoyed by all pres ent. RECESS APPOINTMENT CAUSES CONSIDERABLE SURPRISE CONGRESSIONAL CIRCLES Washington, March 7.—Consider able surprise has been expressei' here in Congressional circles at the present recess appointment of Repub lican National Committeeman Joseph W. Tolbert as Federal Marshal for the western district of South Caro lina after the repeated failures of the senate to confirm his nomination tor this position. There Is speculation as to whether Tolbert will receive any salary under the recess appointment. It would appear from section 1761, of the revised statutes of the United States that he cannot he paid until he Is confirmed unless Congress should specificially provide for his payment, that section is as follows: “No money shall he paid from the treasury as salary to any person ap pointed during the recess of the sen ate to till a vacancy in any existing office if the vacancy existed while tl\e senate was in session, and was by law required to be tilled by and with the advice and consent ot the senate until such appointee has been confirmed by the senate.” CONTRACT LET FOR BUILDING SIDEWALKS AWARD GOES TO PALMER AND CONARD. WORK TO BEGIN IN FEW DAYS win that Studebaker Sedan which The Florence Daily Times Is giving away.” Who Will Win Cash Saturday There is no question but that a real race is on for the $45 tu cash j special prizes to go next Saturday, March 10th. 6 p. m. $16 of this 143 will be awarded the candidate who turns in the greatest number of new subscribe! s, while $15 ta cash will also he awarded District One and Dis trict Two. as follows: $10 to the contestant w’ho turns In the great est amount of cash subscription buat- nc ss for the week ending March 10th. ii p. m., and $5 to the candidate turn- ins in second greatest amount. It la possible fur a contestant to win $15 for turning in the greatest number of new subscriptions, and also win tha JM In his (or her) district for hav ing the greatest amount of cash sun- :u i ipiiou business, thereby making the week’s work bring $2S. Votes Count Heavily Each $21 in business turned in this week will give 190,000 Extra Votes The following contestants atreaiiv have cash amounts on their drat 190,000 coupons as follows: Mias Kthel Werhan, $16: Miss Marsarai City council has awarded to Palmer , and Conard, of Florence, the con-! tract for laying 20,000 square yards Gandy, $15.25; Miss Annie McDaniel, of sidewalks, the hid of this firm be ing $40,i40. Council reserved the right to either lessen or increase the amount of side walks to be laid at tlie figure placed in the bid. Other firms bidding on the work were the Byrun Construction company, Oxford, N. C.* General Roads company., Columbia: Concrete Construction company, Co lumbia: G. L Bobbitt Construction company, Hendersonville. N. C.; Southern Paving and Construction, city; Chester E. Storey, C. E. Jones company .and Claussen Lawrence Construction company, of Augusta. Ga. It has not been determined as yet when the work of laying the side walks will lie begun, hut council i man. 69 cents. THE WEATHER For South Carolina: Fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight. Frost to the const. Diminishing north west winds. “BOLL WEEVIL” IN THE TOILS AGAIN FORMER SECRETARY OF PRESIDENT IS DEAD Now York. Mnrch 7.—Charles Dver Norton, hanker and former secretary of President Taft, died here today of inlluenza. JURY INVESTIGATES DEATH OF NEGRO Tlie coroner’s jury investigating the death near Effingham of Ren Graham, a negro, Is not altogether satisfied that the negro came to his death accidentally and after going ever the evidence of some of the wit nesses at the inquest pestponed its verdict and will hold another session pending the report of special investi gators. Graham was shot Sunday night lust as he entered his home. His wife is the only eye witness that has been found. She claims that a gun leaning n a corner near the door fell to the floor as her husband entered and that it was discharged as he bent over to pick it up. Graham lived sev eral hours after the shot entered his body but made no statement. He died Monday morning. Wilson Johnson, alias “Boll Weev il,” is in the toils of the law again, havinc bean arrested last night hv Police Officers Kellev and Ham. He is charged with having used the au tomobile of Dr. E. W. Miller without permission. It appears that while the car was standing in the garage for a time the negro removed the hinges from the door and at various times took the automobile out and used it. Tite negro Is well known among po lice circles, having been up a num ber of times before for various charges. SEES NO EXCUSE FOR FURTHER DELAY Washington. Mnrch 7.—President Harding in a letter written lust b# fore he started Sonth informed rail way shop crafts officials he saw no adequate question of nrincinie war ranting further delay In settling the shopmen’s strike in all districts. He declared the minority of interests in volved was largely responsible for the unsatisfactory conditions In some sec tions of the country. $14.75; Miss Addle Eagerton, $11.50; Miss Margaret Nelson, $11.26; Mrs. B. L. Hyman. $12.75; Miss Marie Richardson, $8.25; Miss Eluise l?ole. $14.25; Miss Myrtle Godwin, S6; Miss Myrtle Stackley, $5.50; Miss Marv Fetner, $6; Mrs. Donald McLaughlin. *4.50; Miss Lizzie McIntyre, $4.25: Miss Mary Graham. $6; Mrs. Louie Palles, $:>.25; Mrs. Janie Parrott. $7; Mrs. R. 1). Sanders, $2.25; Miss Noal- ie Brigman, $2.50 ;Mlss Nora Mae McMillan, $1; Mrs. J. E. Koopman, $6; Ernest Haselden, $iH -Albert Tai lor, $2.75; Mrs. G. R. Gaskins. $4.10; Miss Salma Floyd, $1.75; Miss Doro thea Waters, $5.50 Andrew J. Cole- liopes soon to have the improvement under way. It is hoped to cover as much of the city as possible under the terms of the present ccntract. ENGINEERS ADVISE USE OF CAST IRON City Manager C. G. Brown, in dis cussing the advisab’lily of property owners changing their sewer connec tions from terra cotta to cast iron, stated today that tlie engineers hove advised that this change ho made im mediately on the street* where prep arations are being made to lay the paving. It wil,' be an expensive prop osition to repair breaks in terra cotta or clear tlie pipes from roots, etc., after the paving is laid, and expenses ihat w'll fall altogether on the prop erty owner. Mr. Brown stated that al Iwho wish to make the change, should call at the office of the city clerk aud treasurer at once an,i make the necessary arrangements. The city is doing this work now at actual cost. FRENCH WILL ASK FOR RATIFICATION OF TREATIES Paris. Mar. 7.—The French govern ment will ask the deputies to ratify the. treaties signed at the Washing ton Armaments conference, Marine Minister Raibertl told th* chamber today. - 1. ! RESIDENCE BURNED ( . ; The residence of James Brewton on^ the eastern end of Day street was destroyed by lire Monday night. The residence was a total loss. The fire truck crtuld not approach close to the scene of tho fire because of excava tions. Hose was stretched to the lire by hand, but U wan impossible to savt> the bouse from destruction. GOVERNOR HARDWICK WILL RESIGN TODAY Atlanta. Ga.. Mar. 7—Governor Hardwick, of Georgia, was expected to announce his resignation today In order to' accept an appointment by Prwsident jHan’ing as special assist ant Attorney General In charge of war fraud prosecutions. He Is ex pected to issue a statement later. EDGEFIELD MAN IS SENT UP FOR LIFE Edgefield March 7.—Elliott ('til breth. charged with killing Con stable W. W. Edwards in Saluda coun ty two years ago, was found gu’lty here today and sentenced to life im- prisonmew. This is his second trie,! PLAY ATEVERGREEN FRIDAY EVENING Evergreen, March 7.—(SpeeiuD— The' play, “tYubbin’ the Husband," will he presented at the Evergreen school Friday night, beginning at 7.30 o’clock. The play is a three-act comedy and is considered a very splendid one. The actors have spent a great deal of time getting ready for the presentation and those who attend ire assured of a full evening’s entertainment. The door receipts will be used for improving the new school building With this cash start. It will be easy for any one of the above w-orkers to complete the $21 necessary which en titles them to one 100,009 Extra Vote Coupon, and soon as one club of $21 is finished the live-wire worker is going to start after another club of $21. Next week it will take $24 to win 100,090 Extra Votes and the tlnal week of the race It will take $27. so the wise workers will turn In all Jios- sihle while it takes the lesser amount to win the 100,900 Extra Vote Cou pons. • " 11 DISTBtCT 1 Florence Mjss Margaret Gandy 542,450 Mrs. B. L. Hyiriin 539.350 Miss Ethel Werhan 639,000 Miss Marie Richardson 536,650 444,87* 435,275 435.225 .357,325 . 355,675 . 340.075 . 327,000 NEGRO IS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH FIRE Albert Taylot Miss M|try Fetner Mrs. J. E. Koopman Miss Dorothea Waters .. Mrs. Donald McLauchlin Miss Lizzie McIntyre ... Mrs. R. D. Sanders Mrs. Louis Pallas 304,725 M ss Myrtle Stackley 251,000 Miss Stella Pope 250,000 DISTRICT 2 Scranton Miss Mary Graham §47.5o0 Florence Gen. Del. Miss Nea’ie Brigman 538,176 Klngbsurg Mrs. G. R. Gaskins 486,600 Mars Bluff Miss Nora Mae McMil(an 486,500 Florence, R. F. D. 1 Ernest Haselden 442.875 Lake City, R. F. D. 3 Miss Myrtle Godwin 440,01* Timmonsville, R. F. D. 1 Miss Elolse Cole 406,900 Pamplico Andrew Coleman, Jr 397,250 Leo, R. F. D. 1 Brs. Annie McDaniel ....... 209,500 Cowards Mrs. Janie Parrott 254,500 Bannockburn, R. F. D. 1 Miss Add'e Eagerton 250,400 Timmonsville Miss Margaret Nelson 221,350 Lake City, R. F. D. 1 Mias Selma Floyd 176,000 WIND BREAKS WINDOW During the high winds which swept the eity last night the large plate glass in the west window of the lliley Drug Company’s store was blown Into the store and broken into The owner of lhe build Washington, Mar. 7.—Archibald W. | Shaw, a negro laborer In the govern-j small lets, ment printing office was held todav.ing stated todav that he had carried •n eonnectlon with a (Ire that did plate glass Insurance for a number of $15,000 carnage to the office on Mon- years but luid recently allowed it tu day. .... jlapsa. L ■ • ■ -7