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^ ' ' rossmill,s. c, thtosday aootJst 14,1919 " 'iL26P?rsw. ^ [.sswm; * w ^Cpl^OMk OP REASONS C d ^*OPNECES^^E^^SlFi ^ v ' ONE REME^f WIW^ I ;fr> ' Reeornrrwitdcd Hiding B' ;i Vm?t Store* of AH JKlgd^. fi Washington.?President Wilson laid > jeveral specific proposals before Con- cress for. checking the highv cost, of *' j living, but. at the same time declared p ! ; permanent results could not be ex- v .pected until peace time bases were * fully restored by ratification of the I peace treaty. * :' High prices, the Prepijdeqt tol$ Con-1/ .^Cress, w?;e not Juetffiea^ny shortage c of supply', either.present of prospec- ? V tire,- finiMr^teVcfp^ed fix inany caSfEs f ^artiflcianlr'and'deliberately" by "yi-' a . clous prkctieelfcr n?tj?h?r?rt" h? _ , OUiV*? I \ were responsible in farge part for ex- J f Jtortionate prices. B ' Striked, tbe President warned the P jijlabor world.would .only make matters. l] < {worse aid7Vio\^ Who squghf to, em- A :ploy threats or coercion r were onfy '"preparl&g their own destruction." 0 * Leaders of organized labor, the Presl- t dent sai d. hf,*?# sure would present- <? ' ty vJeld sober thought, ' 8 "Illegai'' ani ^criminal" were tho i1 ' "words the President used in charac- v Sterlsl^-4^; jndtbpds Jiy -wj^ch some fi , . .^prea^ji^jy^^pr^efc'ihave beep brought ?aboaV'.'^*' 7 -Jf vi > PresK^^laws/ he said, wiodftd be eh. .'wrge^lcally employed to the limit to * ' force out food hoards, and meet the situation so far as possible, but to sup- a plement the existing statutes he spe> c ideally urged the following: to # 8peciflc Recommendations. t , it Licensing of all corporatibns en- j, ' . gaged in interstate" commerce, with _ specific regulations designed to se- t eure competitive selling and prevent . "unconscionable profits" In the meth- . rod of* marketing. w ,, v _ *4 ExteBgkm food control act to ^>eace trbies and the application of lits j, provisions against hoarding to fuel, q elothingj and other neceskies of life t ?s welNas food. <A penalty In the food control act for p N profiteering. . ? A law* regulating cold storage, llm- ^ % fting the t'me during which goods c anay be ^held,v*prescrlblng a method of s disposing of them if held beyond the c permitted period and requiring thai iwben rele*sedy goods bear the date f storage. * v:"' # t V Laws requiring. jtyit -goods released (rem stdrage for'Interstate commerce' bear the n?]1in? nrino?. wtiinVi ?. ( -^r?"p ar- * v " u*^u tucJ ^rent instorage tmd. requiring that 11 all goods destined "for interstate com- *" xnerce blahr the prices at which they * left the bandar. of the producer. r Enactment .of the pending bill for the control oflsecurlty. liSues. . Additional appropriations for gov- r rnment agencies 'which .can supply s the puhlfC wttij fulPln'formatlon as to f ' prices at which retailers buy. v 'Early ratification of the (Space .treaty h Sth&t^Lbe "free ..processes of Supply r d demand" can operate. *Immediate St?po Pronlsed. Immediate atepa by executive.ngon c efes pf jthe government ' promised by r|he President included: vfThl limiting and controlling of J^jtieat shipments and credits to .faclli- ' ' Itfiie the; purchase of wheat In Such a ? fwjay aa inot to raise, but rather to 1 lower tlis price of flour at home.', 11 i Sale af surplus stocks of food' and ^ Slothing* in the hands of the govern- a jLnt, 4; ? f. .The forced withdrawal from etonics v ah4 sale .of" surplus stocks In private d h^nds.'-Jp^V V Q^jflfc-lfraommendatlona. E ^^enefWs^cPmTn^ndactlons included: :jf;Incrdf|^ t* prpducttbn. j?<^ref$ bowleg'by housewives* riE&il .dealing with the neonle on the I of;producer*, middlemen and * merchants. . . b ."'I'hat tVerie be no threats and undue ^ mslstene* upon the Interests of a sin- 1 Ae clasa. c Tcorrec^Ion of "many- things" in the Elation'.between capita) and labor in a joapect to wages and Conditions ot laItTln coqfcludiiig (he 'president made a ilea fori "deliberate, intelligent.action, reminding Congress that an unbal- l' ejnced wflrld -was looking to the United J 0tates. ,8 Wr * $"We and we almost alone," he said, * "Slow h<>ld the world, steady. Upon " otar Steadfastness and self possession S dipend jtyie affairs of nations every^- * * where. .It is in this supreme crisis? " ' wis crista tor all mankind?th it Apier- o tta must; Avi^er ^ ^ % ? i ?.'j '* vf' " '> 1 ' |i V Mafc Discontinue SurcWirfe. J |Raleigh. N. C ?The 10 per cent ' earcharge put on fire Insurance' premiums l? insurance companion as apifted ln-1 North Carolina; along WftK b PS&f ***?# la^ he ^lSt r continue* Augufit 15,^following the' * ajoptlon^of resolutions insisting that ttyis be done by the special eommlttee n of the n*ii?*l conception, ot;state la t urance auumli.lnnom. ji -iptuxahca ,'Ctnpmiseionor ,James R. , ti cam* returned froaioNe* Xj.)f% and. r brtaght this Bitkof tottrttstfakg new* | h lomhiM r ON 'PIHNGIPt^ JHlEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAIRMAN CONFERENCE. . . A * v | [ETC TO POSITIVE SOLUTION American .People Are Aeked to Wolgh Carefully and Without Prejudieo All phases of Plumb Plan. Washington.?tA national conference o Consider all plans submitted to longreBS for solution of the railroad roblem will be held here October 6, inder auspices of the Plumb organise- < Ion bureau. In making public announcement of Q he meeting, Chief Justice Walter h Hark, of the North Carolina supreme ? "ourt, and chairman of the Plumb plan " relimlnary conference, said special I ommittees would be appointed to an- I lyze the different proposals. The American people were urged by udge Clark to consider all the propo- " als "without prejudice and without lassion, and to examine those which ave been outlined in the light of the irlnclples which w4 hare enunciated." HapIq rlno? Vi a ?/*/*?_ my 1q transportation are the keys to { he solution of the problem of the high ost of living,.Judge Clark added that B ny plan for solution of the railroad ^ iroblem "must meet the test that it d 'ill provide transportation at actual ost" s. ^ * APANESE EDITORS CALM ' ? ON SHANTUNG QUESTION. 6 Tokio.?The newspapers generally n re treating calmly in their editorial t omment the various phases of the de- a ate in the United States senate on he question of Shantung. The opin- u on most widely advanced is that the '% epublican senators who are opposing v he provision in tho peace treaty re- ^ ating to Shantung are using their arluments against Japan^mostly for -v political purposes. ' . - B After pointing out that it Is Japan's $ ntention to restore Shantung to | !hina and to conduct economic underqk^igs In Shantung Jointly with.the e IhineBe, The Hochi Shlmbun inter- r >rets the attitude of the republican c enat6rs as being based on America's a lesire to achieve a world economio t (inquest including China, from which p he desires to oust Japan economi- e ally. y r VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE TO e droro iwtn DPnnrrcDiMA f ' h Richmond, Va. ? Governor Westnorelarid Davis announced that he vould have two bills offered in the peclal session of the legislature, diected to curb the profiteering in food. Ono of the bills calls for a rigid enorcement to prevent hoarding and naking it a crime t<J fail to report at tipulated intervals the amount of ood held in storago. A license also rill be demanded of the storage warelouses. The date of storage also aust be stamped on the product and he date of its removal.' iONFEDERATE VETERAN8 IN ATLANTA IN OCTOBER. Mobile, Ala.?General William E. fickle, chief of stafT, United Confederate veterans, has announced that he next Confederate reunion will he leld in Atlanta. October 7, 8. 9 and 10. . 'he annual meeting of the Confeder,te Southern Memorial associations nd the Sonn of Confederate veterans rill be held In Atlanta on the same lates, General Mickle announced. f EVACUATION BY RUMANIAN \ ARMY BODES NO REAL GOOD. .> . j Berlin.?The retirement from Buda- { test of the Rumanian army, owing to e rcssure from the entente, is proha- ^ ?le. but It will he a sullen withdrawal, j todlng no good for the future, accordng to dispatches from the Hungarian ( apital. c iTEPS TAKEN TO CONFISCATE v 8UGAR UNLAWFULLY HOARDED. ...... ? % Richmond, Va.?United States DIsrtct Attorney Hiram Smith received ^ ostructlons from Attorney General A. c .1 Itch ell Palmer to take immediate ^ teps for confiscation of alt foodstuffs t Dund to have been unlawfully hoard- t d. Advices have reached Attorney 0 Imlth that large quantities of sugar ( re being hoarded here and active r earch has begun. Tw(^ department n f justice men were placed on the r m: I EVEN BURNED TO DEATH h ON A "SCENIC RAILWAY" Montreal. ? Seven persons were iurnfd to death in a fire on a scenic K ail^rsy St Dominion park, an amuse- r deist resort near this city. A The bodies of three men, three wo- n sen and a boy were recovered from h he mips shortly before midnight. It ^ s feated several more' persons lost heir lives and thut the bodies will be g ecOvered wben search Is resumed. It c as been Impossible so tar to Identify _ he dead. a CHIEF JUStjOE WHITE wf y- * I m vklui FT 7. w > ; : ; W'iv ^'^4^ ? Chief Justice White of the United " Itates Supreme-; court has been tug-jc tested as the American representative in the court which will try theiformer . :aiser in London. c i ?. ' i | IAS NOT A SUPER MEMORY! i y I Ask the President" Is Reply When Pressed for Details, on Shantufg ( and League of Nations. ( j Washington?Secretary Lansing, be- i ore the senate foreign relations com- 1 nittee, expressed the opinion that the j lhantung provision of the peace treaty ( lid not Bquare with President Wilon's enunciated principle of .self-de- | ermination, but maintained that the reaty as a whole carried dtft "subtantlally" the president's H.pointh T ueciaring hla unfamiliqrlty with : , riany details of the peace negotia-, 1 ions and of the treaty itself, the | * ecretary told the' committee he was j inable to answer many of its ques- ( ions and reminded senators in ans- i rering others that he merely was ex- ' iressing his own personal views. 1 "Ask the president," (he secretary ( aid wl^en pressed for details of the | Shantung and league of Nations hego- * iations. On three of the points rais- j id he asked-permission to refresh his , aemory and make a statement to the ] !ommittee later, and when he was j isked for a detailed construction of ' he labor and reparation clauses he 1 irotested that he could not be expect- ' id to carry the miautae of an 8P.OOO- < rord document in his mind, and re- I nlnded the committee it was much asler to "ask questions prepared bef- < ore hand" than to answer them ofTland. -IRINQ SQUAD MAY YET B? ] NECESSARY FOR PROFITEERS , < 7 . 1 Washington?Organized labor's rem- 1 idy for. the high cost of living?a bill 1 hat would turn over the railroads to j he public, operating officials and la- ] >or?was presented to congress by1 < nen high in the council of the orjiani- 1 ;ation,k who . declared with, utmost i rankness conditions were so deeper- i ite it might be necessary to advocate i l firing squad for Droflteers. i With equal frankness ' memberh of '' be house interstate commerce comnittee indicated during the examine- < ion of Warren S. Stone, grand chief if the Brotherhood of Railway Locouotive Engineers, and Prank Morrlon, secretary of the American Peder- ) iHnn of I.nhor that thA hill emhnrtv. nf what has come to be known as the ' ?lurab plan, was too radical, and fall- . >d to strike at the high price evil, , I rOOD CORPORATION BUYS i. I "FLOCK" OF COMPANIES. 1 . I New York.?The United States Food 1 'roducts corporation announced that ( t had purchased the sugar products lompany, the Pure Cane Molasses Company of the United States, "the hire Cane Molasses Company of Qanida, the British Molasses Company of . Jre.-rt Britain, upd the Tres company, , if Oreat Britain. VALUABLE EVIDENCE FOUND AGAINST SUGAR PROFITEERS, Pltfesliurg.?Valuable evidence has i teen found of alleged profiteering, Ipecial Agent E<Jjjar K. Speer, of the lepartment of justice said, following ( he arrest today of three officials of i he Central Sugar Company's branch' j ifTlce here for alleged sugar profiteer- ( ng The men are charged with conspl- j <1 Off VIAIQI A QaaH An A A# t V A *AA?I tn.j iu ? ivmio ucv uwii -v ui iur ivmju 4 ct of Congress which holds it unlaw- r ill to charge unreasonable, prices for j he necessaries of life f * 11 4EGR0ES DRIVEN FROM I LINCOLN, NEB., BY WHITE?, *; Lincoln, Nebr.?A number of n?** ' ? roes at Lexington, Nebraska, 175} a lies east ofCbere, were forced to ^ Bave the towi by a crowd of white : 1 aen, according to a report here. The ' i >ome of one negro was r^ldled with c lulleta, the report said.., t The trouble, according to reports.! i tarted after a negro Lad been die- i overed in a while man's home. The c iecro escaped but was later eaught i i ad beaten by white men. , j I ,1 I" . t= fflOi- CROPS SHOW BMRP^SfiEASE^ DROUTHS AND PESTS IN M\JCht OF THE GREAT PRODUCING AREAS CAUSED DECLINE. M^SS'l^RtMENDOli 1 A Drops of Corn, Oats, Barley and Potatoes Also Show an Appreciable' Loss in Almost Every Section. . 4 , J ' " Washington. ? With livings costs loaring, the nAtion's principal food, rops showed sharp decreases during o luly, resulting from drouths and pests v >ver niuqh ,of the .growing area. Wheat production fell 'off 221,000,- r >00 bushels during the month, accord- j ng tb the fj^echst of-the department >f agriculture; corn showed a reduc- 5. lion of Z7 ?OOijOOO * bushels; oats 137,- ' >00.000 bushels; barlet 27,000,000: * )U?hels and white potatoes 34,000,01)0 >ushels. Rice alone of all the crops ibowed an increase. Total production of wheat was foreat 940,0(^^)00 bushels, ljut this r raft'an inciPsfe^K 23. Wo.00i6> bushels v >ver the forecast last December 1 and a 149,000,000 bushels over the five-year iverage from 1913 to 1918. Winter ivheat showed the greatest loss with ( 124,000.000 bushels, with spring Wheat ' production showing a decline of 97,>00.000 bushels. . 3 LUM B CALMLY TALKS OF A [ REVOLUTION AS ALTERNATIVE l Washington.?All'day.-long from a witness chair before the house inter- 8 state commerce committee,'Glenn E. 1 Plumb, coupsel for the railroad broth- x jrhoods and author Of organized la- a por's plan for trl-partlte control of the 1 railroads, responded to sham ones tioning from the semi-circle of com- F nittee members who called on him to explain every phase of the labor. Mil. Gravely,; Plumb talked of revolution as an alternative in case the adop-. tlon of "some such plan" Wft8 not obtained by political action through ? Congress, and said that was the de- ? termination of the . masses of men : whom he represented, "though I hope never to live to see the day." The Income of the Plumb plan league, organized, to forward the labor bill's passage, he said, was "in the neighborhood of $100,000 or $126,)00 annually now." though only organized in July. y I ' COMMITTEE OF CONGRES8 WILL PROBE INTO MEXICAN MATTER. ( Waging ton.?Blanket authority to bring out all the facts about Mexican jutrages on Americans and American property, and to formulate a remedial *1 program, was given to the foreign re- J iations committee bv the senate. 1 ?iiiiuut ueuaie una ay unanimous 1 rote a resolution directing the Inquiry was Adopted after its provisions had been stiffened in committee so as to' make subject to investigation "any and all acts of the governments of Mexico' and its citizens in derogation of the rights of the United States or of its citizens." 1 WAR DEPARTMENT ISSUES PRICE LIST OP SUPPLIES. Wasington.?The war. department made public a complete price list on all subsistence stores available tor aale to the public through the parcels post or through municipal selling ^ agencies. oats ot the commodities to 4 the government, the department said, ' bad been 'disregarded entirely in fix- 1 Ing the prices of sale which are ma terially lower than prevailing market ; rates. ? The prices quoted are f. o. b. and from storage points in each of the 13 Slstricts into which the country Is dirlded for war department subsistence purposes. The department now is redistributing the food supplies in the 13 areas in order that each may have Its proportion per population of the 72 articles offered for public sale. . h? r. r-:?? SOLUTION OF THRACfAN,.. 1 PROBLEM IS REACHED. * ? Paris.?The peace conference reached a solution of the Thracian problem icoording t j The Intrartsigfliant, by ' llVldlng Thrace, some going to Greece ?nd others being designated to form future fr?? state state of Constannople and a new free state under the enguo of nations. I Th* solution arrived at, according to' Phe Intrairtigeant. provides for dlvld-j Kg Thrace- into eastern and sjestem rhrace. ( " v. 1 ITRIK1NQ CHICAGO SHOPMEN '< RETURNING TO TH^IR JOBS. ... -v? ?rr ' *" Li-.' Cbicafh.?A hr?ak f?me Irt the'strike railway shopmen when several housand strikers returned to work In *esponse to President Wilson's request .and the appeal of international ; epresentativea of the six crafts idroiveit I>1 rector *R. H. Atshtea, of the northwestern region, and Hale Holden, | ?f the central western roads, said there , van rruch encouragement In' the situ-: iticn. { c . -.1 :i" v WILLIAM ). GltAHAM Rtprcs c n^a chat r ma n f the house committee investigating var department expenditures; 'ROFITEERS TO BE PUNISHED $?Mj*' aovernment'f Guarantee on Price of Whjpat to Be Maintained as Guard Against Higher Price Later. Washington.?These deilslons were eached by the government agencies working to reduce the cost of .living ind allay the country's unrest: President Wilson decided to adIresti a message to Congress recomnending additional ^legislation to aid n reducing the cost of living. AgentB of the department of Justice vere ordered to ferret out all hoardire of necessaries and profiteers hroughout the country they are to be >rosecuted under the food control' act. Director Julius H. -Barnes, of'the :raln corporation decided to mainain the government's guarantee on vheat-at $2.26 a bushel as a "reterve protection against a higher >rice later." ?IEtt OWNERS AND LESSEES GARNERED EXTREME PROFITS. S\ Washington.?Pier owners and lestees in New York garnered extreme >rofits at the expense* of .the governneut during the war, th^. shipping >oard disclosed in making public a re>ort regardingterminal chrffges at Jnited States ports. It was declared hat .'the board of appraisal of the ?rmy in hearings'on the value of pier ?ases of the Bush terminal showed hat during the war berthirfg charges n New York harbor were $25(Mo $500 i day. whereas before fthe war :karges for the same berths for .ocean iteamships had oeen from $60 to $80 i day. RIOTS LEAVE BRITISH CITIES WITH BAD NAME. London.?Liverpool, Birkenhead and Luton people are finding that the re ecent riots have left them with n jad name. Some residents who had cooked rooms at the seaside have low Ijeen called upon to forward substantial deposits in advance as a.guar intee. of good faith. Others are in sven worse plight,, as - the deposits they had sent for rooms have been returned with an intimation that neither the'r money nor their presence is desired. Reputable citltena^^ have tiad to E(ubmlt to such insulting mes sages, as "we don't want any of the Hooligans or anarchists here." n - , FHE 8ENATE HAS' ANOTHER DAY OF BlYTER DISPUTE8 Washington.?The league of nations lud tho Shantung settlement both same.in for more bitter criticism in the senate's consideration of the treaty w,ith Germany. At a public hearing of the foreign relations committee, issues of the league .controversy started a dispute which bordered on an uproar, and in the'-sAnate chamber an attack on the 3han^tung provisionally Senator Wat ion, republican. Indiana, developed a series of sharp exchanges. The committee's clash over the league grew out of the examination pi Norman Davis, a financial advisor 4c the Versailles peace coitference. * ? * WILD FLURRY IN CORN ON C.HICAGO BOARD OF TRADE , > Chicago?Efforts to anticipate the results of any quick switch in the Eovernment policy for disposal of the L919 domestic crop of whc^t knocked .ne DOtiam out ai v?tuph uu witj wmru of trade Downward plunges In t^ie prices of corn the chief trading commodity, did not stop until fhe market a as 32 cents a bushel lower than ivhen the qampaign against the high :ost of living began a week ago, DENIAL MADE THAT ARMOUR '? 18 USING UNFAIR METHOD8 ?. > * Washington.?F, E. White vice president of Armour it Co. appearingx before a senate ^pmmittee Investigating he high cost of living In the District >f. Columbia denied that his company eras profiteering or using unfair methods in ttie distribution gnd sale of neat. He declared the compruy had made no profit on its beef business his year and that it would welcome in Investigation of its books, ^ad ecorda. ?"**f?' y Authorizes hines IB DECIDE DE1NB . .i ^ . . ?? . 4 *' i. ' DIRECTOR GENERAL IS GIVEN ;; iFREE HAND IN' MATTER OF STRIKING SHOPMEN. ?i i OBSTACLE IS SELF CREATED tiffttil the Meq Recognize Authority . * of Their Leaders by Returning to* Work No Action Is Possible. Washington.;?President Wilson has notified Director General Hines that he was authorized to take up the demands of. railroad shop employees for higher waged and decide them on their merits. The President said that the letter . sent him Ifr Senator Cummins, chairman of the* committee on interstate commerce, .'"had set me free to deal E as I think best with'the difficult question qf wages of certain classes of the railroad employes," but added: "The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by .the men themselves. ' "They have gone out on strike and repudiated the authority of their offli cers 'at the very moment \Vhon they were urging action in regard to their interests." * # The President's decision was an noitnced from the white house in the form of a letter sent by him to Mr. Hihes. The President said that "until the employees .return to work and again recognise the authority of their organization, the whole matter must be at a standstill." . ANNUAL C08T OF ARMY AS PROPOSED IS $900,000,000. " ; 'j . . .1 Washington.?The permanent military policy recommended by the war , department. Involving, under revised estimates, a standing peace army of576,00.0 and universal n\Jlitary training for youths of 19 years of age, would, cost the country $900,000,000 annually:'. Gen. 'Peyton C. March? chief ' of staff, told the 'senate military sub committee, considering. army legislation. \ * > General March, who nppenred as the first witness in behalf of the department's bill, was unable to conclude his ( statement and will appear again. Seci, retary Baker will present his views ? to the committee next week and Gen' eral Pershing and other experts later, i Of the $900,000,000 which the program would cost. General March said, $798,660,000 would be required for the upkeep of-the proposed standing army while three months' intensive training ' for 19-'year?old youths would cost $94,' 066,500 annually. He estimated the percnpita cost for this training at $144.75. V ECONOMIC OUTLOOKr OF EXPANDING BALKAN AREA. London.?With the Rumanians in Budapest, the economic outlook of the expanded Balkan kingdom has brightened. Many of the most Important unuan nrms ana comoines nave Rent | out representatives to study the ground and accept orders. "-Numerous | smaller firms are doing a good business, . British Commercial Attache Adams has just come out and is supporting ,the representatives of British firniH "by" his first hand knowledge of > tb?L country. Thus with conditions which favor i the introduction df British morchanL. diae. a broad vista of activity opens out before us. Large deals have been 1 transacted Just lately. UNITED STATES SENDS 1 . , ULTIMATUM TO RUMANIA. i * i London.?A dispatch from Vienna 1 by way of Copenhagen to the Ex change Telegraph company says that > the United States has sent an ultinmtuin to Rumania demanding with1 drawai of the severe armistice terms presented to Hungary, on pain of a ' I cessation of the shipment of food to ' Romania. 1 HOOVER STOPS ALL FOOD EN ROUTE TO BUDAPEST. \ Paris.?Herbert Hoover, head of the ? inter-allied relief eommfssioh. has , stopped all relief supplies on their way ; to. Budapest", taking the* position that he would be unwarranted in letting supplies reach Hungary while the Ru1 .^nanians are now depriving the peo , pie oi loousiuns. ^ Members of the American peace I delegation aalcl that thero are no American troops now in Dudapest, and ?hat none will be sent there. COTTON MARKET BREAKS $7 A BALE AT NEW YORK. ' ;NeW YoVk.-r-There was a rertewal of general selling In the ootton market I and r break of approximately $7 per bale which sold at the lowest level touched since the advance. Reports of labor troubles in some ' of the southern mills nnd that some j ocean freight room booked for Oerrtianv had been cancelled, owing to | the inability of shippers to make satisfactory credit arrangements, were j factors on the decline. PREACHER PROMPT I IN PAYINB FINE 1 I ,.% ?>* ? . COLLEGE PRESIDENT ^AffFT ij .' DOUBT IN THE WORLD tH^AT HE WAS GUILTY. WAS ATTENDING ASSOClM .* ! f" f-1 ' "i ' , _ >\ V p Anderson Mayor Notified' Delinquent - of Hie Predicament and'bWSck'tw Cover Fine of $29 -|a -Se*4i > i ill \ '' i f ! /? ** S; . , Anderson.?John E. White, D. D., pastor of the First'Baptldt Cherub and president of Anderson Cottege, vtaa reported for speeding by two dp Anderson's vigilant cops. Aa'Xhr- White was attending the Saluda X.ssdc}$tioEt the cops could no.t arrest'"hint, and1 upon hs return he weni?io the mountains of North Carolina ?o? * jpert of his vacation. So'the rt>ayoi' pdtlflefi him of the charge against- biifi, and Dr. White replied at once, a -otieca for $25 accompanying the reply. i *" *3?wii ^ . , CQlumhia.?Directors ot. th,a. Richland county Tuberculosis' Assocfatioai have decided to continue thfe!$l mem*; borship drive for a few day*;-the campaign having fallen short by about $300 on the date schedtiled for clos-' Ing, August 1. A drive is being mad* ior >i,OdO to 'aid in. ridding Richland county of the dread disease and citizens are asked to ? contribute $1 or any higher amount they may with to give. '? . *r: 1 i Baaufqrt.?The city of'Beaufort had' decided to take advantage of. the recent offer of the government to buy iti car lots canned goods and other com*, miasary supplies, which axe being disposed of to municipalities. . 1 '' ? Walterboro.?Colleton' county's campaign, to stamp out Illiteracy ? tinder the efficient management of 'Mrs. f. D. Ackerinan, Is progressing very satisfactorily. Already ten schools' have been organized .anil many others am. n. in progress of organization. . \ r i - .** / r* S| Columbia.?Primarily due to the announcement by Cole L. B lease, ex-gOV* ernor of the state, that he intdnds to enter the general election for Congress front the seventh congressional district as an independent,. there w^s a rush of voters here to get regisiffction tickets. * V Aiken.?Congressman Byrnes, who has been making a fight against thw : bill fixing h price of $250 on potna^ says that the Republicans will be tillable to secure action upon the bill tin- ' til the house feconvenes In September. He says that while there is bo certainty of the fipal defeat of the measure thut this postponement la * victory for the opponents of the bill. 'KV Greenville. ? Approximately 90 Southern railway shopmen, employed at the round house here, struck ah the result of Instruction from the tbeadr quarters of the .organizations.. The ' shops here are virtually idle. The strikers include carmen, machinists. helDers. etc. - " i?4" Oaffney.?The town coqncll of Oaffney at it* regular meeting decided! to lay dbwa at once 15 additional -t)io?kH J of paying, and to park Bhford street, which moans that this street will be paved on each side, and trees and grass plantod in the center. - The width of this street will permit*.this being done, and it will be ohe of. Oka prettiest thoroughfares in the town; or in any othfg town. s Sumter.?A mass meeting for the purpose of organiglpg the Snmter County Cotton Association was held at the court house: The meeting ' had been called by and Was presided ore* by Mayor L. D. Jennings who told of tho " importance of organising. Re said they should organize to -put the speculator out of business \ they mtaat organize for self preservation, self defense and self protection. Cholera In Richland. Columbia.?Richland bounty Camera I)ava lost thousands of dolbuca worth of hogs blnce last spring-from cholera according to J; ttttett Clark, farm demonstrator, who has boen kept busy^much' of hls,T tlms inoculating swine In all sections of this county. Pure brads have suffered, as welt aa scribj but the latter to a larger ex- ' tent. 1 j * * V In the last .three weeks Mr. ptirk ** has Inoculated over 1,000 hogs yhtnh. means a saving of several thousand dollars to the farmefs. '> **'' 9 ' . Red Spider Active*** Rlapkville.-?-Thk fbd spld^is take Ing quite a toll fpom thd'cbi|f>n crop around RladttrHle. ttp^to'tkw recant heavy ralrtw' theto-trad a of a good crop. Tha'rnlna'have damaged the crop quke considerably, but tko i fed spider haq .caused a much greater, damage. Some farms have been poetically ruined. One reason It -1*a? spread so. la the fafmers were not-faithniar with it and let It get too much bold before doing anything. In many Instances It wss thought lightning had struck the cotton. I *. " f.