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. i t DAILY TIMES THE LATEST ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES 27th Year Florence, S. C. Friday Afternoon* March 23* 1923. $6.00 a Year PROGRAM IS OUT FOR BILLY SUNDAY SERVICE TUESDAY TWINS TtSTIMONY IH T™NE C»SE ARE ANNOUNCED Coit Street To Be One-Way Street From Front To Darlington Streets The completed program for the Btfly Sunday service at the Dixie warehouse No. 2 on North Coit street Tuesday morning of next week was announced this morning. The pro- 4mm is noticabie for its briefness. The committee, knowing that the people who go will go primarily to hear the famous evangel st speak, has taken up little time with preliminary Introductions in order to give Mr. Sun day all the time he wants. The pro gram is as follow*: 8:10 a. m.—Muse. Ie« d bv Rev. 0. T. Harmon, pastor of tiie Methodist church. 8:25 a. m.—Prayer, by Dr. F. H. Martin, pastor of the First Baptist church. 8:30 a. m.—"Ma” Sunday introduc eh. 8:50 a. m.—Billy Sunday speaks.- Song. Benediction by Rf. v . w. S Foyner, rector of St. John's Episcopal church Chief Mclver, of the police depart- ment. this morning announced his regulations for narking around the warehouse. There Is room for 100 SOUTH SWEET POTATOES | NEARLY! ALL , SOLD - I .< it '(7 1 ■ ~ * SCENE OF DISORDER T - IN PARIS ; OF DUTIES HOPEWELL CHURCH ivi J SENATE ADDS TAX ELECTION APRIL 10TH | ON MANUFACTURERS! (QUESTION < OF: ISSUING TO REVENUE BILL $250,OOOlSGHOOUOKOS ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE NOW LESS THAN 50 CAR LOADS IN STATE PREMIER POINCARE CALLS COM-/CONGREGATION DELIGHTED WltH ONE-TENTH Ot- ONE PER CENT MUNlSJ DEpUTY ANDRE. THt WUK* Or PaS I UK HfcV. , ON GROSS RECEIPTS IS DERTHAU A LIaH SPECIAL MASTER J. WAITES WARING. OF CHARLESTON, HOLDS HEARING 175 CARS HAVE BEEN |WAS ANGERED BY SOLD AT GOOD PRICESi HIS INSINUATIONS P. D. PATRICK CHARGED MEN’S MEETING ' iHOUSE MAY CONCUR HELD LAST NIGHT i IN AMENDMENT PROCEEDS TO PROVIDE FOR THE INDEBTEDNESS ON HIGH SCHOpL BUILDING <. AIMS TO ENLARGE COLORED SCHOOL The case of the Southern Belli PRFwmFNT vnilhir nt onrArn ALL EXCEPT COMMt'NISTS AND, GATHERING PREPARATORY TO NEW TAX MEASURE ALSO TAXES! MONEY TO BE SAVED BY TAKING ASSOriAT.ON ■ RADICALS CHEER PREMIER i THt BEGJNNING OF EVERY | TOBACCO. AMUSEMENTS. AM- UP OPEN .NOTES WITH BOND SALE ■ \ Qualified electors residing in the ASSOCIATION. RETURNS FROM EAST Telephone and Telegrnph f by A ^ C °g dinS y( |“ nK eStl "j^'care started a scene of wild diso der'> church in the Claussen neighborhood,; senate today passed, as an amendment J Florence schtol district wiLl" vote on against the Railroad Commission of'^ CaroIina s ’ p oUto ^ f ., in the chamber .f deputies today'8 3V e 3 splendid entertainment last to the stock and bond transfer tax j April lurn the question of ’ssuin* ' ’ -when he called ComTOunist Deputy, n f> rt t, the climax of which was a de*)®^* ^ !*n«I seUing bonds in the sum of 5250, WHEN BREAKS LOOSE Parir March 23.—Premier Poin- MEMBER CAMPAIGN The men of Hopewell PresbyterV.n MUNITION AND CANDY I Columbia, Murch 23—The state South caroima, a suit to test the! „„„„ I1C ., _ . . , . .— JU j,.,... ... . .. . , . ition this morning, the organirat»oni , . _ , . , ., ' lipimis fi«h*tew the onasinn beine a' anrt mines one-tenth of one percent • « um wi constitutionality of the rates estab-• , , Andre Berthou an ‘abominable ucious tisnstew, tne occasion oeing a, *i ip r prn -- .croinia xna me prcK’eeds of whieh wnnM r,» l6 r.'l.SeTfr J ' n wi?U.U.'.n« Mr. " r ,k “ “*"* 1 by ^ <**■'>*»*** °’. "!! -IKJ J*r. •*?«**«**' .«! m'l^r'toZ'^tZmonrZni iwn P0 ‘’ , ° T 1 " 1 "’ll hv"'itep!*"”"* ’u.udM, , 0 , ; .asa for II,. aupport n! Ih* church Smith of the Unit-S ah e w have heen 80 d i ,efore l he ,alist leader. ’munition and candy. The vote was 23! !?. fby Fv ' ir an ' 1 . Company of New ijto 19. As Hie original bill has , ork ’ whlcn vith interest, now to Judge H. A. M ed States court for the eastern dis trict of the state. Mr. Waring has just held a three day reference in At lanta, at which much testimony in the case was presented, and will hold other references soon. In these hear ings the telephone company is re presented by Hunt Chipiey, of Allan I.', Ha., general counsel lor the com pany; Messrs. )J. A. Hagood, ol Charleston; F. Barron Grier. ol Greenwood; W. S. Nelson, of Colum bit, and Henry E.* Davis, of Florence. The railroad commission has as its attorneys Attorney General S. M. Wolfe, of Co.'umb’a; D. W. Robinson, of Columbia, and Ex-Senator Frank A. Miller, of Hartsville. next potato season opens. 175 car- 1 chamber went wild with ,ie| u- . . . . . . .... ities hammering their desks, and ush loads have been shipped this season)^ ru8hing about tryjng t0 restore and orders are now being received : or( ’ er and filled in large numbers than at j The presiding officer vainly rang any time since the -.ules I'egm. t he bell for quarter of an hour to cet. He was con-' P*ewaratory to the every member can ! and its causes. j Principal Speaker* for the oc usion cui .. in the nmendment wsre. W. Marshall Bridges and Henry j _. E. Davis, oi Flmenfce. both of whom i Columbia. March made splendid'"talks bearing on the agreement having been reached on’ HENRY FORD CONFIRMS COAL LAND PURCHASE Detroit,. March 23—Henry Ford's | offices at Dearborm today conlrnied cars about the warehouse, and f 0 r • the report that he had purchased 120,- 50 on Coit street between the Colum-1000 acres of Kentucky coal laud, bla railroad and Darlington streets.' ~ * —— es ars a rr > «., pa / k hcre these spac-|CALL ON MANLY TO es are filled, or -until the services commence, p No mrs will be permit ted to approach Ihe warehouse after the aeri'ces begin. No cars can park on the west side of Coit street immediately In front of the ware house. As soon as the spaces me^ tinned are filled no more cars will be, permitted to go into this Wodc. Colt street- le to be a one-way street between Front and Darlington streets traffic to go north only. Those com- GIVE INFORMATION ATTORNEY GENERAL RETARY HOOVER TO JOINTLY INVESTIGATE SUGAR PRICES Washington, March 23.—The jus tice department today said the charg es bt* a conspiracy to raise'sugar prices warranted a preliminary In- . . ... . - . quiry by federal legal officers. Act u ii tim direction of^ng Attorney General Seymour and Darlington nre requested to turn to, Secretary Hoo\er of the commerce the right at McLeod’s cross-road* about two miles out and come m on the concrete road. The department will have traffic men on the spot to enforce these regulations. The list ot ush;rs is as follows: A. L. Hardee, general chairman. First Baptist—W. Mars) ,*1 Bridgers. chairman, R. K. Rutledge. W. M. Waters, J. B. Aiken. H. A. Smith, T. W’. Jones, D. T Riley, W B. Pettigrew, ] shortage. 1. S. Rainwater, B. W. Covington, F. 1 W. Willis. • department, conferred with a view to joint action. The justice department representative was instructed to ob tain from Basil Marly. Director of the People's Legislative Service w!nt information he nas to substan- (•tlste the charges. Man'y charged ♦ nat Pc. *f vur v Hoove.’ <arn*dy p'srona b i i-Hcause hi.* sia:*»:i.mt ha; hi on intttpreted ’s for:ustlni ^ Florence and Dillon counties have been sold out almost entirely and It is expected to clean tip Darl'ogton this week. When an order of any size is received now it is necessayv for a number of houses to be emptied in order to fill the cars, and there are only a few sections in th state where there are potatoes In any quantities. Before the season opened the asso ciation set a price for its potatoes, and has steadfastly held Ij th’s price throughout, although there has been keen competition from other sections of the country, especially from the Maryland potato section, which has sold potatoes, and Is still doing so at orices far under those being received for the South Carolina product. The success of the South Carolina sales has been largely due to the intelli gent efforts of the officials of the company to place the association on a firm business basis, and the exten sive advertising done bv the associa tion. putting South Carolina “sweets” before the consuming public. This AND SEC- has been done In many of the larger cities in such a unique and convinc ing way that thousands of consumers will not accept sweet potatoes* unless they have the South Carolina brand on them. WhHe In some sections of the country, the potato crop has proved a flat failure In so far as the price received Is concerned, the South Car olina product has steadily sold at the price originally set. and sales are now better and In larger volume than at any time since the season opened a hearing and calm the chamber down; **' • “That man,” shouted Poincare, pointing at Berthou, ‘•dares to say he had against me ami mine abomi nable evidence I feared to be publish ed. He lied when he said it." The deputies, most of whom had ■ot heard Berthou’s accusation, jumped to their feet. AH. except communists and a few radicals, cheered Poincare madlv. (read ypassed the house the only step ,IT,0 " nt -^bout $225 000: to make i necessary is lor the house to co n. 1 rvovisioti frtr the enlargement nr the colored schools which are now Method st—J. I. Tingen. ’chairman, i SESSION A R. Sellers, C. L. Terry. !. B. Brown, I J L. DuffeV, Dr. F. H. Guice. J. M. ! Harlee, Dr. M. R. Mobley. LeRoy Car- te’i A H Hayes, George Rollincs )THE PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FOR CAROLINA DOCTORS Presbyterian—S. J. McCown. chair man, L. B. Ferrell, J. H. McCown, S A. Campbell, R. H. McIntyre. T. R Barringer, J. c. Barr nger, Jr., M. G. Scott, Ennet Gregg, Gordon Me- Cutheon. Lutheran: J. A. Self, chairnnn, H B. Wesninger Q. G. Coble, J. H. Schnlbben, W. S. Houck. Immanuel Baptist—E. M. Singletary, chairman, N. B. Hicks, , H. R. Smith, Curtis Cox. Episcopal—R. W. Sharkey,, chairman* R. E. Rivers, I. L. Tobin. The ushers are requested to meej at Dixie Warehouse No. 2 on Monday afternoon at 5:30 p .m., in order that fir»il arrangsments may be made for seating of the crowd anq for taking of the collection, it is very important that attend, in order that this Uv portant part of the program may be carried out expeditiously. CHARLESTON IS A MOST IN TERESTING ONE Charleston, March 23.—Charleston ! is preparing te entertain the largest j number of South Carolina docton. nurses artd public health officials ever assembled here at one time on April 17, 18 and 19, when the South Caro lina Medical Society, the South Caro lina Nurses Association, the South Carolina Public Health Association, and the South Carolina Pediatric So ciety will hold .their annual meetings here. The occasic-* will be marked as a '•home coming week'’ for the . South Carolina Medical Society was organ ized in Charleston 75 years ago. Be sides, many graduates of the Medical College here will pay their first visit to their alma mater since graduation during the convention. AH South j Carolina .doctors residing outside of | the State have been invited to attend > the various exercises dn connection X| cp*rc nCITIPCDC I w ^ b tbe home-coming. I O UrrlUtno I Programs for the various orean'.za- jtions will be arranged in detail by of- PARK SCHOOL CLASS ELECTS OF- ! ficials of the respective bodies, but FICERS FOR CLASS MEET- 'the general program (or the conven- : INC LAST NIGHT Ition is in charge of Dr. E. A. Hines, of Seneca, secretary of the State CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE DECIDED TONIGHT M'COLLL GIRLS TO PLAY SIMP SON V I L L E FOR STATE HONORS IN BASKETBALL BENTON CASE IS POSTPONED HY JUDGE 'Hie case of the stat i against E. J. D. Renton, chprged wit i murder, was today postponed until khe next term of criminal court. This case, which was slate! to com e up for trial today, drew a large crowd to the court nouse to witness the trial. M. E. Brown, was convicted this morning of transporting liquor and sentence! to six months on tha gang. Five months of ttye ^sentence was suspended. WilMe Swinton. colored, came clear on a charge of murder. He was tried for cutting another negro. David Moses, to death in 1915. He immediate- lv left for parts unKnown and waa only recently caught in Cblumh'a and brought back to Florence. Self defense was his plea The court is now trvieg Nicholas McWhlte, who on Christmas dav shot and killed Zach Timmons, snother negro, in the Salem section below Kingsburg. John W. McClam was later yester day afternoon acquitted by the Jury on the charge of murdering bis nephew.. R. Colon McClam. Court is expected to adjourn lira afternoon or tomorrow. RECREATION CLASS The state champonshtp in high school girls baske*b4ll will be decid ed tonight in a game between Me- Col,I and Simpsonville in the univer sity gymnasium in Columbia. McColl yesterday afternoon defeated Orange burg 34 to 24 and Simpsonville won from Anderson, 41 to 24, these elimi- nation games being played at the university. The line-ups for the games were as follows: LOWER STATE McColl (34) Orangeburg (24) Misses Position Misses Hamer (23) Brantley (17) Forward •Bundy (8) Sturkie (7) Forward Tatum Waunamaker. E. Center Morrison Wannamaker. L. Center Parker Dantzler Guard Liles Collier Guard Substitutions: Orangeburg—M'ss Wolfe for Miss Dantzler^ Miss Dantzler for Miss Wolfe. Miss Wolfe for Miss L. Wannamahvr. Referse—Miss i’ara Godbold, Um pire, Miss L. Godbold. UP COUNTRY Simpsonville (41) Anderson (24) Misses Position Misses Richardson (21) Cathcart (7) Forward. Turner (20) Burke (17) Forward. Thompson - Hammond Center WARNS AGAINST PLAYING ON DITCHES rA.tc- the addresses the meet ing wes 1010*11 open and a number cf short sneecnes were made by various members of the congregation, if was a most enthuBimsttc meeting and augurs well for me success of the camoaign which will soon he under war. The fish stew was served in the school house by Mrs. F L Howard and Mrs. R. H. Pearce, assisted by Miss Annie Pearce and Miss Dorothy McPherson. The Rev. P D. Patrick, nastor of Hopewell, presided over the busmess mrt of the meeting, He is very popular with his congregation all of whom point with pride to the great increase in membership. Since he took charge of the pastorate two years ago, the membership has grown from 40 to 116, and is still grow.ng. The men's bible q'ass is now one ot the strongest in the county and all of the other organizations of the church are throbbing with new life and oc complishment. Hopewell church is one of th? oldest. If not the oldest church in Florence countv. It- is well over a hundred years old. having been found ed by the Witherspoons’ who. also established ihe Presbyterian church in . Kingstrees. WH.'iamsburg county' the item of the general appropriation bill by its conference committee it probably will be reported to / lhe senate and house today, according to Senator H. H. Gross, chairmen. It is unofficially understood that the bill will carry aggregate appro priations of approximated 7,300.000 and a,evy of about ten mills. The conferees were ^pledged to secrecy, but variously supposedly authentic whispers of their decision were floating around c.ne of which >*v»b the item 'ior a womans dormi tory at the University of South Caro lin* was retained It is definitely known that the agreement was for a total of slightly less than the bill as it went from the house to the senate. HEROIC CAREER OF SERGEANT FOLK SOUTH CAROLINIAN AFTER 25 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE ARMY congested, an d to install therein a 23—Tentative i r,roppr am * * rM tly needed heating system The election Will be held under a resolution adopted by the school board March 22 persuant to authority con tained in the act of the legislature ap proved March 16. 1923. The official notice of the election is printed on another page. The elec^ Hon will he liel d on the same qpv as the first primary for the nom nation of city officiate . The debt which It is propo=ed to provide for bv the issuance of bonds was created by iiie authority of a (Iti- ’?ns meeting which was called when it became certa’n that due to war prices of material and labor th» Flcr enre high school building could not possibly be comn'Med within the coat origin?,’ly estimated. At this- meeting the school board placed the situation squarely before the people of the Florence school district and the vot« was unanimous that the hoard be instructed to conMnue with the work of providing Florence with an adequate I high school building and to finance * be Opposition as best it could. The W'nks of Florence came to the as sistance of^ the senool board in did sprit and through them open miteq Washington.. March 23. The re- were sold to Ever and Company for tirement after twenty-five years, with-j about $175,060. Principal and interest out medals but with record of "he- ! 0 n these notes, which bear six Deroent roic achievement." of Sergeant Levi ( , nt er*Bt. niakee the total now abript _ E. Folk, was revealed hi army or-1 *200.000. A new roof for Central in 1734. Hopewell stands at present | d 61 " 8 today. The surgeon general in | school, a residence for the school on the original Witherspoon grfint. his summary of his services says I .--.iinerlnt^ndent (made absolutely Polk nursed yellow fever patients In j necessary by the housing shortage at the Columbia barracks In Cuba. He 1 the time it wns purchased) the bu dl- then submitted to experimentation to - ing of janitors quarters, and bther determine the method of transmittiig necessary repairs to school buildings, I yellow fever. Fblk enlisted In Com- I pany B. First South Carolina volun teer Infantry, 1898. He was born in i Newberry. Folk holds nine honorable dischaig- COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCE * fl ln the^uSS^hedTerv^cVSliM l!'t" ^ af,d ’“o nal ' i * 25 ' 0ft |* I (° r P rov j' d j a S pi Awe xn prfvfnx MEET. m . a,sun * ms,iea serv'ce tross in f or the negri school children of thq any of the wars he served through i c jty i a situation which is deemed of With W’alter Reed he was a pb'neer j j m p e ,|,tive necessity. At present 2.- in the yellow fever conquest. ' CLEARING BUREAU TO BE ESTABLISHED INGS ON THE SAME DATE makes the grand total of indebtedness secured by notes approximately $2.5.' 009. . . . Th? school board is asking for a bond issue of $250,000 intending to City Manager Brown wishes to again call to the attention of the parents of the city the danger of the children playing on the hanks of the excavations which have been made in various parts of the city in con nection with the paving program. Several water connections have been broken by them recently and a sec tion of the city was cut off from wa ter a short time ago while one of three breaks was being repaired. The city manager states that one lit tle child fell Into one of the ditches. Community Service has Instituted a "Dating Clearing House”, the purpose of which is to prevent as far as possible more than one clty-w'de gathering coming on nny one eve ning. The bureau will have no In terest, of course, in the club or social meetings in the . ity. but is only tor meetings of a city-wide interest. It is requested that any committee or organization in the citv planning for a meeting of general Interest to alt of the people, please noUtv th? local community service executive of the date set. and she will state whether or not f h?re is another meet ing for tftit same date. If she finds on her reco-:! that another meeting has been called for this dale, then it wil be easy to change to another date before public announcement of ths gathering Is given. Two instances have occurred with in the past few davs. both of which SAUNDERS GATHERS IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 10t 0 n“gro school children are crowd ed into on? building, which s hT'tecl bv stoves. As a result of such heating arrangements the frame building was burned some time ago and another building had to he erected. The school j board is now renting quarters for some of the children who cannot be accomodate! In *he Wilson school i. build’ng at a higher cost than It cifs.% *23—Cterence t 0 p^y The board has in mtnd eithse enlarg ng the Wilson school or erecting a smaller school building in the east ern portion of the city upon a site to Memphis, March Saunders, president of the Pigglv Wiggly stores incorporated, today offered to settle with New York trad ers who sold the corporation stock^p e doteimineti short, on ths basis of a hundred dol* lars a share and while it suffered no serious inju- . if _ » « u ries. it was merely good fortune * ho ^ *he for such a date clear which saved the child from possible! ^ bou8a - Dn ^ pr '. 1 9 l!?® I Club will appaiar In Florence. On the ; same evening. Mrs. Heywood is ached- ! uled to come to Florence under the ! auspices of the association of ctv'lege permanent injury. AGED NEGRO DIES RESULT OF BURNS A. Center. Jones, J.. Feamao. Guard. Woodslde Pearman. G.. . Guard. Substitutions: Anderson. The Mihs- es Eskew, Lumpkin, Holley, A. Pear- man. The recreation leaders class pro- I Medical Society. Dr. Hines, predicts gram at the Park school last night |»hat at least 600 visitors will attend was a very enjoyable one and a large (hfe various meeting^, number turned out to witness it. At | D r - Clarence - Smith, health - officer the close of the program the children , of Greenville, is reported to be pre- were taken into the basement and parfng a program for ttye South Caro- entertained by Misses Seurborough | lina Public Health Association which and Sally, and the class was organiz . 1 will have for its purpose th# focusing = T . 1ImnUin ed and officers elected. The officers of public opinion throughout the ^ 0 "*"* are as follows: President. N. R: state' on the necessity .of public Hicks: vice-president.' M. H. Gallo-I health activittea.; ^ ' 5 wav; secretary, Mms Anna Capel’e. | The conventlan of the Medical Sd- Prociam 9ommittes, Mrt. Marion {pietr will be marked by lectures by Brandt. Mrs. Laughiin. M. H. GpUo-] eminent physicians and surgeons, and wa y the reading .of technical papers end The class will meet regularly ev ! discussions of various details of the ery third Thursday night. Although ; practice of medicine, an Interesting program is put on at j While representatives of .the Medl- each meeting, the class is organized I cal society and allied organizations for the training of adult recreation ! are preparing their respective individ- kadera. - nat programs, the local chamber cf i commerce la planning to assist in Probable the onlv woman who acts | handling some features of 'he con es a ship’s captain is Mrs. T. Aitken i vention. Dirk. She is the owner of the •‘Flame.” a vessel of ninety-two tons, engaged in the English coasting trade, and bias decided that she will command it herself. She started off on her first voyage not long ago, leav ing London for the Iile of Wight. She has a crew of three, who answer her orderg wttlr r brisk--“Ayei-nye,-m m ^ ment announeed-todayr- ' t* BANK AT DUNN ORDERED CLOSED Raleigh. March 23—The State Bank and Trust Company, of Dunn, das dosed temporarily pending an Inves tigation the state banking depirt- PURNELL’S SECRETARY ON STAND TODAY Grand Rapids, Mich., March 23- Father Hansell, for 13 years pri vate secretary to R«*n.iamin David Purnell, head of the Isaellte House of DavitL was slated to return to the witness stand today to tell about the practices and beliefs of the Benton Harbor cult, she is the chief witness for her parents-in-law, who sudd Purnell for $80,000 for property they Citified they turned <>v§T to ..hi®, ■ ‘ — - x Mnry Ann Hin?s. an old negro wom an, said to be mure than 90 vears of ase, died this morning from burns sustained while washing clothes on' f or their wives'. As soon ns these March 7. The old woman, who was | date9 had been dec ded uvon had there exceedingly active for her age and been a central place where Ihe infor women to speak to the members of the federated clubs. On Tuesdav eve ning of next week there is to be a public coneert at Central school, and on the same evening the Masons are to have a big party at their temple one of the best liked negroes in Flor ence was at the home of Mrs. Frank Basnett on West Palmetto street, do ing the family wnsh when she was burned. While standing over an open washpot tn the yard, her clothing caught on fire. After the burning clothing were put out. the o,'d woman said she was not burned much except on tha hand, hut went to her home and began to set wprpe An examination waa made anti it watt found that she wns badly burn ed on one side also "Aunt" Mary was one of the few |« rema ning old lime negroes, who was born in slavery, and for many years lived on the Diace of Georga Phillips, before coming to Florence sieveral years ago mat ion could have been given in it wonld have been a very easy matter to have changed one ol them to some otheu awning. .At. it is numbers of those who wish tb attend both of the gatherings, will nave to pass one of them up. BUYS ROY’S POOL ROOM FOR BANK *+♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦+♦+♦♦ * « • ♦ * * 4) TIMES’ PHONES Editorial and news depart ments. social and persohal Items. Phone 225. Business Department, adver tisements. complaints as to de livery of paper*, subscriptions, contest, Phone 60. »r »• * J. D. GILl AND RIDS IN PROPERTY AT $10,000. BUSINESS TO BE * REOPENED Acting as attorney for the Bank of Florence, J. D. G Hand .today pur chase! Rov’s un**! room "with the cpfeterla adjoining, and all equipment pertaining to both establishments, for $10,000. the-bid of the isttorney be inc the highest o'fered. There was one other bidder on the property, Mi. Levi of Charlottee". The sale was made by the sheriff’s office under foreclousure of a $21,000 chattel mort- gaga held by the Bank of Florence. The business was reopened at once under the direction of T. Douglas Martin. There was much interest manifested in the sfcle and quite a crowd was present ^urjnj; t)ie Ridding The school board has given careful study to the problem of its f nances and has concluded that the bond'i^huW New York. March 23—Experienced which it is asking the people of the traders todav estimated Saunders and strict to voce, is the correct solution, hsi associates hpd made paper prof't j j t will take care of the open notes cf two an d half to seven and a half | am j results in a saving of money. million dollars out of the Piggly Wig- gly stock corner. .PRESIDENT HOPES TO ! END CRUISE TOMORROW INCREASED GASOLINE TAX BILL Daytona, Fla., March 23.;—Pre&l- PASSED. dent Harding aboard the houseboat “Pioneer.” today continued his erntse Columbia. March 23.—Six roll .calls cn Hallfix river toard St. Augustine, were required before the senate could i9 expected to arrive there tomor- finally dispose of the House bill to row provide that the gasoline tax be in creased from two to three cents. The bill was passed after numerous amendments had been offered and re jected. It w-as skfTfully defended bv Senator A. H. Williams. Jr., who had a bill of the same nature. Efforts were made to turn this into a revenue hill. It .was claimed that COTTON LETTER DAILY MARKETS (Courtesy of H. and B. leeri Liverpool was lue 1 to 15 un by New Orleans: unchanged to 12 higher it would bring In nearly a million dol-1 by New Yo> k; most on nears lars which could go into the general | Kouthern spots yesterday were un treasury. The strenuous objection changed to 18 ip except 25 lower was raised 1 that owners of autouio- at Memphis where was quoted too high biles pay enough tax now for the sup- Dallas ten up middling 29 00 sales, port of the government, but tn«v will, none, all tO|ld 2.278 ys. 2.938 Thur*- not object to paying more for the (laT : ■ upkeep of roads, hut for no other pur- Spinner takings for we^k will run pose. pga’nst 190,000 last year a^d 200.000 iu 1921: were 202.000 last wp?k. If spinner takings for weak are a« targe ns last year, 190,000 world's .v slide of American likely sljpw decrease for week of about 100.000 vs. deerwnse last year of 99.000. In that event worlds visible of American would be reduced to about to 2.293 000 vs 2.393.000 last week 3.- 586.000 last year and 4,191.000 in 1991 As yet, however there arpeart to be no improvement ,iin the spot demand in th# interior and at the ports remaining very smell and un less the demand improves, traders a r * apt to continue the policy of buying on bulges. Sgnguino bulls, neverthe less appear patient, remaining confi dent that it is only a question of time when the Spot demand will plel* up and it is possible that the weather may remain unsatisfactory. Sentiment rather confused for tha (Courtesy of H. and B Beer) New York Cotton , Open High *Low Close March . 30 45 30.45 50.20 May 30.52 3,1.5 3>>.10 C,i 10 July .. 29.65 29 65 29.25 29.25 Oct. .. .. _j.--6.30 26.35 25 67 26 67 Dec. 25.79 25.79 25.13 25.10 New Orleans i Cotton Open High Low Ckse March . 29.76 29.93 29.80 _ „ , _ May .. __ ,29.75 29.80 29.42 29.42 Jul* -- .. ... 29.46 29 52 29 11 29.11 Oct. — 25.80 25 80 25.17 25.17 Dec. 26.35 25.36 24.73 24.73 New York—Spots quiet, flve pciuts down. "0.65 New Orleans—Spots, steady, un- ch^f§d, 30.26, .— ttm_e J>ein§, 'tjk ,