University of South Carolina Libraries
\ r- ' . ' f ^*2 r '- ' r .' / fv/.- */ ^ 1 ' iC y- v , . ' 1 Vv .? 7] , COAST TOUR ENDS AT LOS ANGELES PRE8IDENT8 PLEA FOR EARLY RATIFICATION OF TREATY 18 HEARTILY APPROVED. IS INTRODUCED BY A WOMAN / Mrs. Cowles Tells the Audience That "Political Partisans" Are Out of Place In This Discussion. Los Angeles.?President Wilson completed his week of speechmaklng on the Pacific coast with a inopster mass meeting here at which thous ands shrieked approval of his plea for early ratification of the peace treaty. Welcomed to the city by a crowd which densely packed the downtown section, the President was cheered tumultuously everywhere he appeared daring the day. Along the line of a 'lO-mlle parade he rode in a din of applause and later at a public dinner cheers greeted his declarations that the treaty should and would be accepted. | When he entered the auditoiium for his night speech he was cheered for more than two minutes by a crowd estimated by the police at 6,000. The hall was jammed and outside were thousands waiting since early morning for the doors to open. At the auditorium meeting Mr. Wilson was introduced by Mrs. Josiah. Brans Cowles, national president of the General Federation of Women's clubs, who told the crowd that the league must and will become the bulwar of a war weary world for all time. The "political partisan," she as sorted, had no place in a discussion of the peace treaty. GENERAL PALMER RECOMMEND8 AN ARMISTICE OF SIX MONTH8. Freeport, Pa.?An absolute Industrial armistice for si* months was urged by Attorney General Palmer here to permit the solution of econom- i lc problems arising out of the changes wrought by war Such a period of freedom from unrest, he declared, would result soon in Increased production which would bring about an era of "easier living and better times" for all. On the othor hand. the attorney general warned, selfish demands by any one j class cannot stimulate the national prosperity or permanently benefit even those obtaining such demands by force. CORPUS CHRIST1 LOSSES MORE THAN $20,000,000. Corpus Christi, Texas.?Puller reports received from devastated storm area of which Corpus Christ! is the center, swell the death roll of last Sunday's hurricane and confirm estl' mates that the property damage will exceed $20,000,000. Little progress was made in the recovery of bodies floating on the bay, despite that there was no let up In this work. LABOR AGITATOR 18 8HOWN THE WAY OUT OF SAVANNAH. Savannah.?J. C. Sullivan, former member of the Macon fire department was taken into custody here by Police Chief Woods and will be placed on board a train for Macon. Chief Woods said that he apprehended the cx-flreman upon direct orders of Mayor Stewart. Sullivan, it was stated, had expectto call a meeting of firemen for the j fMirvVMiA rvf oYnlnlnina a#?won*e??? I rM. rvwV w* w?i? nuvaiita5co of unionism. Mayor Stewart in a statement declared that "there will be no unions In the Savanuah police or fire departments, and any man Joining a union will lose his Job immediately." TREATY SHOULD BE RATIFIED AS IT READS WITHOUT DELAY. Watertown, N. Y.?"The treaty should be ratified without delay and without change," declared Secretary of State Robert Ltanslng here in the first public utterance made by him since the statement of Wm. Q. Bullitt before the senate foreign relations committee, in which it was alleged that the secretary of state on May 19, in Paris, said that if the American people knew what was in the treaty they would defeat it. FRANCE PROPOSES TO HAVE PEACE ARMY OF 350,000 i Paris.?A peace time army of (50,00 men and reduction of the term qf military service from three years t.o one are rocommonded to the military committee of the senate in a report by Paul Doumer. Under his plan 200,000 men would he called to the colors annually by conscription ahd 160,000 others recruited through voluntary enlistment. ThL't system would make the French army on a war footing total 4,000,000. n-1_||M BEAUFORT PACKING COMPANY The Enterprise Is Capitalised at $150,000, and 8tock Is to be Distributed Among Five Counties. Walterboro.?A campaign has been conducted in Colleton county this week in the interest ot the Seacoast Packing Company of Beaufort. Meetings were lield at Walterboro, Cottagevllle. Smoaks, Lodge and Islandton, and the plans and purposes of the packing plant were discussed and subscriptions to the capital stock taken. Much interest was shown in the undertaking, but on account of the failure of the Orangeburg packing plant, there were not many large subI scriptlons taken. Colleton county will be expected by the Beaufort promoters to subscribe to $30,000 of the $150,000 capital. Beaufort will take onehalf this sum and the four adjacent counties are expected to subscribe the balance. It is proposed to have 1 the packing plant in operation by September 1, 1920. Charleston.?For the first time in the history of Charleston a partial system of free school books will be in force this year, children of the first and second grades, primary department, being furnished with textbooks by the board of school commissioners. Columbia.?Frank A. Crout wai arrested and lodged in the Richland county Jail on the. charge of having murdered Mr. and Mrs. Oreen Medlin, his father-in-law and mother-in-law. The warrant also charges Crout with arson. Union.?M. B. Meador, a prominent citizen of the county, wbb run down by an automobile truck here and seriously injured. Several ribs were broken and he was otherwise badly bruised. He was taken at once to the hospital here and given medical attention. Sumter.?The meeting of the Sumter county division of the American Cotton Association at Dalzell school was well attended by the people of Providence township. L. D. Jennings, county chairman, made the talk of the evening and so impressed his hearers that besides a large number of them Joining the association they subscribed $21,000 as stock in the association to purchase all cotton offered below the minimum price fixed. Dillon.?J. O. Hyatt, an industrious white farmer living on D. W. Bethea's place near here, was in Dillon looking for his daughter, Minnie, 17 years old, wh'' disappeared from home several days ago. Mr. Hyatt is greatly distressed over the disappearance ol his daughter and has almost abandoned hope of finding her. He said she was a dutiful daughter, and he can offer no explanation for hei strange disappearance. Anderson.?The street car men ol this city have had their pay increased to 49 1-2 cents an hour, although they did not strike. They are the highest paid men of the service. This is on account of the one man safety cars which are used here. This allows the men here three cents an hour more than the oldest men in the ser vice. This one man system has proved a success. Spartanburg. ? The Spartanburg County Highway Commission sold the remainder of the million dollar bond issue, amounting to $499,600, to tbe Bank of Commerce of this city, the offer of this institution being the most advantageous according to county highway officials. The bonds mature in nine series and were bought by the Bank of Commerce on a basis of $85.60, the total amount being $477,256 65. Ridgeway.?At the same grade crossing at Smallwood where the ac cident occurred on August 17 in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Wray ol Ridgeway and the McCarrel lad ol Concord, N. C., lost their lives in an automobile wrecked by a freight train, occurred another accident when two mules drawing a wagon belonging to Levi Branham were killed outright by through passenger train No. 31. Hidden School Discovered. Greenville.?Hid in a mountain cove in the far famed Dark Corner section or ureenvuie county, away back In the dismal recesses of Glassy Moun tain. 30 miles from a railroad, a flour tailing school hitherto unrecorded and unknown to county school officials, has been "discovered" by Miss Eliza heth Perry, supervisor of rural schools, and Carl Drake, attendance ofTicer for the upper section, who ran upon the little building almost in the fn-ihion of revenue officers scouring this rugged country for stills. Lancaster la Acquitted. Columbia.?Eugene M. Lancaster Columbia policeman who bas been on trial on the charge of murder and carrying concealed weapons, was acquitted. Judge Moore instructed the bailiffs to keep the jury locked in for tha night, should a verdict not be arrived at before 10*30 o'clock. As soon as the Jury agreed, the judge was communicated with and the verdict was read as soon as the court officials could be assembled. Lancaster shot and killed his wife and Newton LorIck. her companion, last May. 'X;; - ' v.v,'. ' THE PRINCE OF WALES ; &\W. \ Vr TWr^r Latest photograph of the Prince of Wales who Is now touring America. FALSE PHILOSOPHY FAILURE Solallsm Has Now Proved Itself With Rivers of Blood and Suffering to Be a Positive Fallacy. New York.?Two "dominant convlc.lons" In the mind of Herbert Hoover after his five vearn' *?rvloo n H?-r.o rl are that socialism is "bankrupting Itself and that America must not abandon its moral leadership in restoring order in the world nor permit itself to be used for "experiment in social diseases." In an address at a dinner of the American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers at which he was the guest of honor, he declared that the philosophy of Lenine's and Trotxky's was destroying itself "from a startling quarter in the extraordinary lowering of productivity of industrial commodities to a point below the necessity for continued existence of their millions of peopled* Referring to the revolution in Russia. be said: "Although socialism has now proved itself with rivers of blood and suffering to be an economic and spiritual fallacy and to have wrecked Itself on the rock of production1. I believe It i was necessary for the world to have i had this demonstration. It is not necessary, however, that we of the United States, now that we have wit[ nessed these results, pluuge our own population into these miseries and ; into a laboratory for experiment in , foreign social diseases." [ PERSHING RECEIVES GREAT OVATION AT WASHINGTON. Washington.?Hoarse with cheer, ing, Washington rosted satisfied that it had paid full honor to General John J. Pershing and the fighting men of the First division. The nation's victory parade was over. For noarly throe hours a rolling flood of soldiery, guns and horses, 1 tanks and motor trucks had poured up Pennsylvania avenue without check or halt to pass the reviewing stand wheie stood Vice President Marshall, representing President Wilson. : DEATH LI8T CONTINUE8 TO ' GROW AT CORPUS CHRI8TI. I 1 Corpus Chrlsti.?Darkness fell on the storm stricken city of Corpus Chrlsti and environs with the list of dead from Sunday's hurricane approaching 300 and with a heavy rain 1 which fell almost continuously throughout the day hampering the ! work of clearing away the debris and Increasing the suffering of thousands of homeless. ' REPORTS SAY PRESIDENT OF PERU 13 ASSASSINATED. Santiago, Chile.?Persistent rumors ' are in circulation here that Augusto B. Legula, president of Peru, was as sassinated. Dispatches roceived by ' the foreign ministry from Jquique say that in Iquique the rumor is bellved to be true. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE TO SECURE PEACE FOR RUSSIA 1 Copenhagen.?An Important conference has been In session at Riga considering not only peace with the I soviet goevrnment of Russia, but the > formation of a Baltic federation, according to advices from Lettish ' sources. It is understood that the 1 Baltic federation idea has material 1 ixed to the extent that an agreement 1 has been reached for a common cur! rency and a customs union of Latvia, Ksthanin and Lithuania. AIRPLANE IN AIR CONVERSES WITH 8UBMARINE SUBMERGED I New London, Conn.?A radio experiment made off New London in Long Island Sound by the experiment station, naval section. established communication, both telephonic and telegraphic, between a hydroairplane flying two thousand feet In the air and a submerged submarine several fathoms in the water. This was a demonstration for the delegates to the annual convention of the Edison Society of Electrical Engineer!. FIFTlf THOUSAND HEARjnENT BOTH ROOSEVELT AND LODGE QUOTED A3 ENDORSING IDEA OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS. EFFICIENCY OF ARBITRATION "Would be Death Warrant of Children of Country" Said the President, Should the League Fall. San Diego, Calif.?An extract from a magazine article written in 1914 by Theodore Roosevelt waa read by President Wilson in an address here as an argument in favor of the league of nations. Speaking to a cheering crowd which filled the great San Diego stadium, the President also quoted from Senator Lodge, one of the most bitter opponents of the treaty in its present form, and declared that in framing the league covenant, the Versailles < conference and followed the advice of i these and other republican statesmen. I "I am glad to align myself with such utterances," said Mr. Wilson, while the crowd cheered. "Here in concrete form is the fulfillment of the plan they advocated." The address was Interrupted many times by applause from the crowd, 1 which local officials estimated at more than 60,000. Emphasizing the arbitration feature of the covenant, the President said an example of the efficiency of discussion was r.hown in labor controversies. He asserted that whenever either side to such a controversy refused to discuss its case the presumption was that it was on the wrong side. It would be the "death warrant" of the children of the country, declared the President should the league fail. N NEW POLICY INAUGURATED FOR WATER TRANSPORTATION Washington.?A new rate making policy for the protection of water transportaticn was urged before the house interstate and foreign commerce committee by ex-Chairman John H. Small, North Carolina, of the rivers and harbors committee. Mr. Small asked that the Esch bill be amended so that railroad lines competing with water lines may not destroy water traffic. This should be supplemented, he said, by legislation permitting cities and towns along streams to erect terminals. RETAIL PRICES FOR FOOD INCREASED DURING AUGUST i I. Washington.?Retail prices of food , Increased one per cent In August, as 1 compared with July, and reached the ( highest point in the nation's history I despite the government's Campaign to ( reduce the cost of living. |( The increase?probably already ap- , parent In the consumer?was revealed , when the department of labor's bu- , reau of labor statistics made public its | monthly report. The foodstuffs increasing in price , were eggs, rice, potatoes, milk, pork chops, butter, cheese, coffee, sugar, . dry beans and bread. Prices declined j for sirloin and round steak, rib and chuck ioasts, onions, bacon, flour, cab- , bage and canned peas, corn, beans and tomatoes. RECOMMENDS DECREASE IN NATION'S WHEAT ACREAGE Washington.?A reduction In the ' acreage to be sown to winter wheat this fall of approximately 16 per cent 1 from last year's acreage was recom- ' mended by the department of agri- 1 culture. This reduction, which would 1 mean a total of about 42.000 000 acres 1 this year, was recommended, it was 1 | said, on the basis of prospective condlttions of world sunnlv and demand < an judged by specialists of the depart- 1 ; ment who were sent abroad to report 1 I on the crop status of European coun- 1 ' tries. 1 i STOCK OF RAW COTTON SMALL IN HANDS ENGLISH SPINNER8 WoihlxotAn T> 1 IT KOUIUAIIIU 1 1 cnoill HIUCKII OI raw cotton in the hand* of British spinners are very small, probably no mill ( having a supply for more than two or ( three weeks ahead, according to a re- j port from the American agricultural trade commissioner at London on the | cotton situation in United Kingdom. , Labor conditions and the high price ] of cotton, together with the uncertain- ] ty of exchange, have made the spin- j ners cautious. ( DRIVE 18 ON TO ORGANIZE ALL , EMPLOYES IN NEW YORK CITY New York.?A drive to organize all employes of New Yom City, Including ( policdmen and firemen into one union , to be known as the "central union," j affiliated with the American Pedera-'] tion of Labor, was well under way. N Work was being directed toward ob- j talnlng a age Increase to meet the , i increased cost of living and to organ-1 : izlng city employes who have not yet' j Joined any union. Increases of as i | {much as 65 per cent are discussed. ' ,$ / QUEEN OF BELGIUM ( : 1 1 *' +*** < s<:' V:QP9f^B^^^BBH0HLy jl|^y tsga / ' i v*> ;V^ va^?< ? ?>. ><* - - '<* ! e Litest portrait of Queen Elizabeth R if Belgium, who with King Albert and e their three children Is to visit the b! United States In the near future. PROPERTY LOSS $10,000,000 ; ti Relief Trains Have Reached Stricken 8ectlon Bringing Medical Supplies Q Food, Bedding and Clothing. b a Dallas, Tex.?With the known death 11 o list at least 29 at Corpus Christ! and j estimates that the toll will amount to 75 or 100 In that city alone, the o situation in the Btorm-swept west a gulf coast region of Texas continues . uncertain. w While the death list in the affected p territory outside of Corpus Christi q probably is considerable, there was Y no confirmation of reports placing the total well into the hundreds. Proba- ? bly the most definite news came from Corpus ChriBti in the statement that E>6 bodies, none of which had been identified, had been discovered be- u tween Portland and Taft. it Machinery for the relief of storm V sufferers was completed late by Qov- c Brnor Hobby, who ordered units of P the Texas national guard to relieve c federal troops in charge of the situc.- a tion at Corpus Christi as quickly as n transportation could be arranged. The w governor Issued a proclamation urg- F ing prompt contributions of money c and supplies. Three relief trains reached Corpus y Christi with food, bedding, clothing n and medical supplies for the thous- 1( ands of homeless und stricken residents and other trains were en route. n Two relief train-j were reported stall- w Bd by washouts at Alice, Tex. ? Latest estimates placed the prop- a arty loss in Corpus Christi at $10,000,- a uuu, ana meager advices indicate the damage at Port Aransas would be very heavy. Rescue workers faced a tremendous task of clearing the debris. Blocked streets and a steady rain which set in at noon, turned the ^ streets into mud. a The storm carried buildings and wreckage many miles inland, according to reports from Odem and Sinton, p in which region 70 victims are reported to have been found. ri ti WILSON SILENT REGARDING REPORTS FROM KIAO CHOW. F On Board President Wilson's Special Train, Slsson, Calif.?Associated Press dispatches from Honolulu quot- n Ing Japanese sources to the effect that c< the United States had asked the Jap- II iinese government to set a definite ti time limit for the return of Kiao Chow tl to China were shown President Wilson en route to California. O' The President declined to comment c; on the news reports, but it was un- jn derstood that he has not yet received any information from the state de-1 partment relative to any action it may ^ bave taken concerning the Shantung 51 3ii.uouuil. ; u KITCHIN DEFEATS PERSHING T SWORD AWARD PROPOSITION. Washington.?A proposition to have CongrMs give General Pershing a $10.)00 svrord, in addition to the thanks ni af Congress for his part in prosecut- w ing the war against Germany, made P1 considerable headway here last week, a' but stout opposition from Represents- fli tlve Claude Kitchin killed it. Mr. Kitchin took the ground that Congress las done enough for General Persh- 9< Ing, and should now turn Its atten- < A Lion to the soldiers under him. A FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL NOT S STRIKE TO ASSIST POLICE | Boston.?Officers of the Are department will not join in a sympathetic i st itrlke to aid the policemen. This was b< announced after a meeting of the di- ai rectors of the Officers' Club, which 02 epresents 15 per cent of the Arc b< lighting force of the city. The vote w was unanimous. ol Plre Commissioner John R. Mnr-: PI ?hy announced that '*ne had reason to th believe" that the Aremen, as a whole, j trould remain loyal to the city. lv> SOUTHERN OS 1 IN GRAIN LROPS G STIMATE OF PRODUCTION 18 Ol THIRTY PER CENT OF THAT I OF ENTIRE COUNTRY. ALUED AT S3,000,GOO,000 Nl otton Must This Year Give Place In 8e Size and Value to the Three Crops I of Corn, Wheat and Oats. Baltimore.?The total grain crops < f the southern states for the present cai ear, according to statistics compiled rai Co y The Manufacturers Record, will ^ how a gain of about 326,000,000 bush- jn Is over the crops of last year, while W i the rest of the country there will e a decline based on the September iZE col estimates, of about 357,000,000 bushca Is. The south has thus, by the enorious increase in its grain crops, su.vd the nation from a disastrously hort crop. pe The total grain crops of the south an tils year will aggregate about 1,645,- m) 00,000 bushels, while the rest of the ountry will have an output of about ^ ,831,000,000 bushels. In other words, j tie south this year will produce more lan 30 per cent of the entire grain rop of the United States. The value lrl f the south's grain crops this year. a astd on September first nriees wmilH b>' mount to nearly $3,000,000,000, or an lcrease of $935,000,000 over the value f the grain crops of the south of 918, no The value of the corn, wheat and at crops of the south this year will ggregute, based on September first St gurea of prices on the farm, about pr 4,775,000,000. The three crops, corn, fa rheat and oats alone will exceed by lai robably half a billion dollurs to three tli uarters of a billion dollars the total Mi alue of the south's cotton crop. TEEL WORKERS REFUSE TO , LONGER PUT OFF STRIKE. pa Pittsburgh.?The steel workers naional committee made public a letter ; has drafted and sent to President ^ Alison giving eleven reasons why it ' oald not comply w'th l.is request to ostpone the steel workers strike on ailed orf September 22. The letter lso recites the lnstory of tae movelent to better the conditions of the or rjrkcrs and expresses faith in the ! ' 'resident's "desire to bring about a an onference with employers." in "We regret that for the first time an cur call on organized labor cannot *? leet with favorable response," the th stter states. "If d^lay were not more co tian delay, even at the cost of loss of lembership in our organizations, we rould urge the same to the fullest of re ur ability, notwithstanding the men nh re firmly set for an immediate ]p; trlke. But delay here means the an urrender of all hope." Co IO PROFITEERING IN COTTON AT PREVAILING PRICES HERE. Washington.?Director Phillip S. Kennedy, of the bureau of foroign ^ nd domestic commerce, writes Sena)r Simmons that he does not think a rice on cotton of 38 cents at Liver- ^ ool indicates profiteering when tho ^ rice is 30 cents at Shelby. He was eplylng to a letter from Hush Stroup, reasurer of Cleveland county. * Tn OOD PRICES FALLING ACCORDING TO REPORTS. Rr Washington.?Reports to the depart- ^ lent of ustice frojm 12 states indiate there has been a decline of 10 to ( E> per cent in food prices since the me the fair-price committees began loir work. From four states have come reports ' n wholesale prices indicating a de- ; ' " lipe of 2 to 6 per cent. Virtually no , r sductions in clothing prices have mi een noted. ^ The reports on retail food prices ere said to have been from cities ro' nd counties well distributed throucb- I Pn ut the country. the WO HUNDRED AND FIFTYSIX DEAD HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED ( thf Corpus Christi, Texas.?The death ill in Corpus Christi and vicinity R'>' s a result of the hurricane and tidal ,irr ave, stood at 256, according to rearts from burial squads. The gener- Rpr lly accepted estimated was that the ,)ll! Th nal figures would reach 500. 1 " The official figures of casualties are. on( Corpus Christi. 54; White Point, ',v J; Recoita and Portland, 80; Port rkansas, 5; Odem and Stnton, 11; r,n rkansas Pass, 2; Rockport, 8. m'' TEAM8HIP AND RAILWAY { CLERKS VOTE ON STRIKE tlo: Louisville. Ky.?Two hundred thou- wa md railway and stamship men, mem- ^asrs of the Brotherhood of Railway an< id Steamship Clerks, freight hands, ^r< (press and station mployees, have ?er. ordered to take a strike vote It as announce d here t?y J. J. pYirrster vlc ! Cincinnati, president of the Broth- 1111 hood, to enforce demands made to ' le railway administration. ,n Orders have gone forward to every ^ea d*e In the country, it was said. OT ROAST GIVEN OL1HAMBER ?GAN IZATION SAID TO HAVK DECLINED TO AID AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION. )T IN THEIR LINE OF WORK | * veral Warm Speeches Were Mad* by Columbians Against Position Taken by Commercial Body. Columbia.?Members of the Amerin Cotton Association severely arigned the Columbia Chamber of ramerce at the meeting held for ) purpose of launching a campaign Columbia for members, when Gen. Hie Jones, chairman of the execue committee of the Columbia organitlon, stated that the chamber of mmerce had refused to conduct the mpaign in Columbia to help the tton association. General Jkmes Id he and B. F. McLeod, state ornizer for the cotton body, had spared before the board of directors d the board told them conducting a smbership drive for the cotton asciatlon was not in the line of work the chamber and the directors resed to sanction the plan. Several warm speeches characterng the chamber of commerce as loose useless body were then made prominent Columbians who thought e cotton campaign should have been Iped by the commerce organization, oring the chamber for its action In t fostering the cotton association. Laurens?The Peoples Co-Operative ore is one of the newest enterises launched here. Heads of 70 milies, residents of Watts Mill vil;e. are stockholders, it is said, and e store is being conducted by M. L. cites as general manager. Bamberg?A series of robberies has ken place in Bamberg during the st few days which have completely ffled the police. Miss Pearl Counts, to resides in the heart of the reslntial section of the city, had a valuile watch taken front her home while e was absent from the house for ly a few minutes. Oaffney.?Miss Eunice Pord, county ganizer of adult schools, said that [>77 persons were taught to read d write during the month of August the adult schools of the county d that the people became interested such an extent that numbers of em hnve asked that the schools be ntinued. ? Orangeburg.?The boll weevil has ached Orangeburg county a year ead of the time expected J. K. Easi, entomologist of Cletnson College, nounced after an Inspection of the Ids here. York.?-The relentless warware wagby York county officers against xmshining has resulted in the capre of two stills within the past few ys. Charleston.?Litigation relative to e recent municipal election in Charito nwas begun when Tristam T. rde. W. P. Sellers and Thomas Mctrthy filed a petition against W. irner Logan, chairman of city Demratic executive committee and other ?mbers. A writ of certiorari was anted by Chief Justice Eugene B. ry In Abbeville. The respondents vo 14 days in which to answer. riemson College.?The first chapel srcises of the current session were id at which Dr. W. M. Riggs, presint. made a strong though brief ndpss to the students stressing espeilly the value of courtesy and optism. [i is wormy or note that Clemson 8 the largest senior class ever enled here or likely at any college tirelv for males In this section of > country. 143. Coastwise Service Resumed. Charleston.?J. I,. Doten, agent for > Baltimore & Carolina Steamship mpany announced that the steam p Lake Clear would sail from Ballore for Charleston, thus marking resumption of a coastwise freight vice that has been much missed by ?innss men for the past few months. 0 Steamship Lake Huron is a sec1 steamer allocated to the company the shipping hoard for use oo thla Itimore-Charleston route, which indes calls at Georgetown and Wilngton. Labor Meeting Comes to End. Spartanburg.?The annual convenn of the State Federation of Labor s brought to a close after a twor session. Two meetings were held fl were very well attended. Ad- / >ssos were made hy George Marill. president of the Machinist Innational union and D. I. Campbell, ^president of the Intematltmal tesolutlons favoring a eugenics litw this state, better salaries for schooV chers, and endorsing; the league oil * dons wore adopted. J i ^