The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, March 23, 1923, Image 1
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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.
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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§,
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