Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|^^' Kff^ftWBriniEd 1^ 18^1i ' J>' ' '^i''"'' | T^^tnm^6A.Y *"' ' '' * ' ^*-.' "f "^ ^ r ' '"' ' ' .-1 (I STILL DISCUSSING L THE PEACE TREATY SENATE MAY REJECT ENTIRE DOCUMENT SHOULD PENDING RE8ERVATION8 WIN OUT. If" _ | OBJECT TO LABOR AMENDMENT Late In the Day Senators Lodge and Hitchcock Held a Conference With the Vice-President on Subject. Washington. ? Further Indications that the peace treaty fight may lead to a continuing deadlock developed while the senate leaders were trying in vain to fix a definite date for a roll call on ratification. Administration senators suggesting that the final vote be taken indicated a purpose to defeat ratification by combining with the treaty's Irreconcilable opponents should the reserve tlons adopted by the foreign relations committee, be written into the ratification resolution. An hour of debate on the subject got nowhere, and the senate went back to its consideration of treaty amendments. It may reach a vote on the amendment hv Sunotn. t - ? ^ wwuw%w> t/a-ruilCllO, republican, Wisconsin, to Btrlke out the labor provisions and then, unless some new plan is devised to hasten action, other amendments and a long list of proposed reservations will be taken up under the tedious rule of unlimited debate. Senate parliamentarians said there was no precedent to throw light on the question of whether defeat of the committeo resolution would be final rejection of the treaty, or would leave the way open for offering other ratification proposals. Iaite in the day 8enators Lodge and Hitchcock conferred with Vice President Marshall on the subject. TREATY WITH GREECE IS APPROVED BY COUNCIL. Paris.?The supreme council, sitting under the chairmanship of M. Pichon. French minister of foreign affairs, approved the draft of a treaty to bo concluded between the allied and associated powers and Greece, concerning the protection of racial and other minorities. The council decided to request the Polish government to open to traffic certain railroads crossing the GermanPolish frontier north of Warsaw. The council soon will examine the question of the future of eastern Galicia. formerly Austrian territory. POCAHONTAS FIELD IS OPERATING NORMALLY? Gtah&ro, Va.?One hundred and twenty tons of coal were mined in this portion of the Pocahontas held operators declared, and reports coming here indicated that the entire Pocahontas field was operating normally. A report here late from the St. Charles area of the pocket section of the Appalachian field was to the effect that 900 miners had struck there. It was said by operators here that only 350 of these are members of the onion. THREATEN TO IMPEACH THE JAPANESE MINI8TRY. Honolulu.?Tho Japanese privy council 1b in f?*vor of the impeachment of the ministry of Premier Hara and the Versailles peace delegation for the unsatisfactory peace termfe, according to a cable received from Tokio by The Hawaii Sochi, a Japanese dolly newspaper here. MEXICAN STRIKER8 CALL ON Q0MPER8 FOR FAVOR. Laredo, Tex.?Striking Mexican workmen will ask "material aid" from Ajcuaecalients. in the Mexican state of the some name, where decision to that effect was reached by the strikers' control committee. THE RUS8IAN SOVIET FORCES REPORT CAPTURE 1,600 MEN. London.?The Russian soviet com"monlque received by wireless from Moscow, claims the capture of 1.R00 prisoners in the taking of Peitropavlovak. 16 miles west of Omsk, from the Kolchak forces Tho statement also reports fighting of the fiercest character in the Fln^ niah gulf region and a continued advance by the bolshevfki all along the line against the Russian northwestern Army of General Yudenltch. GOVERNMENT MAY CONTINUE SUPERVISION OVER SUGAR Washington?.The McNary bill pro posing continuation of federal control over sugar during 1920 was rePorted to the senate and placed on the calendar with a view to early action. In a majority report. Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon, author the bill and chairman of the senate agricultural sub-committee, declarserious situation will ensue" If the sugar equalisation board's control . oTSr sugar is not continued. ENDOWMENT OF CONVERSE To Establish a Softool of Practical Arts Keeping the Institution in Operation All Year Round. 8partanburg. ? Converse College ;rustees gave out definite announcment concerning the $600,000 ndowment campaign to be put on the middie of the month. Spartanburg will be asked to contribute S200.000 of the , amount and an organisation of local business men has been perfected for directing the drive. It is the purpose of the school to establish a school of practical arts keeping the institution in operation the year around. Additional buildings will also be erected. Lake Clty.--Mrs. Chalmers Truluck Is seriously Injured as a result of an automobile collision while she and her , husband were returning to Olanta. Washington (Special). ? Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial of South Carolina was i among the new comers welcomed at the meeting of the informal Tuesday , club which has grown out of a custom developed during the war by ladles of the senate of meeting onc? a week to knit warm woolen gar ments for soldiers and sailors. Rock Hill*?Victoria mill village observed field day and the several hun' dred residents of the village enjoyed | the numerous games A holiday, had been declared and everybody was on hand at the playgrounds for the va' rious contests. The crowning event ' of the day was the organization of a branch Y. M. C. A. Spartanburg. ? The Spartanburg County Warehouse Company the conj earn growing out or the organization of the Spartanburg Cotton Association which purchased the warehouses ! fill tit hv thft ornvornmonf ? ~j .MW 0w?viiitMVM?, av voiuy Wadsworth announced that there were now stored in the warehouse more than 6,000 bdles. Gaffney.?The Gaffney Manufacturing Company is experimenting in the erection of two "ready cut" bungaIowb on its property here and if they prove satisfactory it is probable that a number of similar houses will bo erected here. Theee are the first buildings of the kind to be erected In Gaffney, and as a consequence are attracting muoh attention. McCormick. ? Samuel Daker of Greenwood, engaged as a contractor in the construction of the McCormick Memorial Baptist church, was found dead here, sitting on the seat of a motor truck with the eaves of a shelter he had oonstructed to keep the truck out of the weather under his chin his head thrown back and hla neck broken. Benettsvtlle.?One of the most important land sales ever held in the state was In Marlboro oounty, October 28 when the estate lands of Lewis Hunter, situated sevten miles from Bennettsville in the Hebron section of Marlboro oounty, containing 96.66 acres, sold for 661.236.88, an average of 6332.71 per acre. A part of this land 37.6 acres sold for 6762.60 an acre. Anderson.?At a meeting In the chamber of commerce rooms of a i.uiiiiiiiiiov irum ?Bcn cnurcn or the city, called by John E. White, Jr., secretary of the chamber of commerce, It was decided to celebrate the signing of the armistice by giving all of the boys who served In any capacity, at home or abroad, a dinner. The program has not been definitely decided upon, but Governor Cooper will be asked to come. Chester.?The Catawba Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church held its regular fall meeting In this city last week. Catawba presbytery consists of the South Carolina counties formerly belonging to First presbytery, which latter body as now constituted Is made lip entirely of North Carolina churches. The division was made last spring and the meeting held In Chester was the flrsrt meeting of the new body. Land Suits Piled. Charleston. ? Three land suits, brought by North Charleston Interests, against the United States gov I s.uiuvui, wrre mea in tn? roderal I court, asking for compensation of over $1,000,000 In settlement for several hundred acres of lands rqulsitloned by the war department for sites for the port terminals construction and for which the government appraisement board made an award which li declared by the plaintiffs to be fai too low for the value of the property. Cherokee County Leads. QafTney.?A. letter which was received a few days ago by County Superintendent of Education J. L Walkei from Miss Will Lou Gray informed him that more people were taught to read and write during the month of August in Cherokee than in any other county In the state. The work which wa sdone by the teachers was largely due to the interest whlcli was token therein by Miss Run tee Ford, of Limestone College, who w*? untiring In her efforts to get good results from the schoola ELBERT H. GARY '* ^" ': ' ';< % *f " "** '.?-: " ' Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the < board of directors of the United 8tates i Steel corporation, whose refusal to | have any dealings with the represent- i stives of the union steel workers pre- i cipated the strike. QUEEN FELT MUCH AT HOME < President Was Greatly Cheered by J the Visit of Royalty and 8aya He < is Feeling Much Better. i Washington. ? King Albert and President Wilson clasDed hands, th?l meeting at president's bedside, brief as It was, proved the climax of the I American visit of the Belgian mon- I arch, and he left Washingtn a happy < man. to sail iul home from Newport ! News on the transport George Wash-j1 lngton which brought him to this ; i country. From the day he landed the ( pleasure of his tour has been marred i by anxiety over the president's condition. and he had abandoned hope , of being able to see him. , As his majesty was leaving, he i leaned over the bed to shake Mr. i Wilson's hand again and said: "1 hope your ideas and ideals will | be carried out and I believe they will i be." < After the departure of the king, the president expressed a desire to see I Queen Elizabeth, who was having tea , with Mrs. Wilson. Dr- Grayson con-} sented and her majesty eagerly went to the executive's bedside, where she j i remained five minutes. She told Mr. 1 Wilson, with one of her charming i smiles that she felt much at home with 1 persons who were ill. I Dr. Grayson said his patient had ] been greatly cheered by his talk with ( the Belgian monarchs and that their i NEW "PET NAME" FOR WILSON I GIVEN BY LABOR LEADERS. Indianapolis, Ind.?After dispatching to Washington a telegram to Sec- 11 retary of Labor Wilson in which the President's proposition on the coal < strike was characterized as that of an l usurper, the executive board of the < United Mine Workers of America < turned to routine business. GOVERNMENT PUTS ON ITS FIGHTING CLOTHES AGAIN Washington.?The government put on its fighting clothes to meet the coal strike. Most drastic of all moveR during the day was the order of railroad ad ministration for seizure of coal in transit for roads requiring it, with rationing of stocks on hand to essential industries. CONFERENCE 8EAT8 GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN DELEGATES I Washington.?With only on? dele- i gate dissenting, the international la-i bor conferencve voted to admit the representatives of Germany and Aus-,, tria to the conference sessions. ! ( Protesting against international "politics" in the international labor j conference. Baron des Planches, Ital'an government delegate, told dele- j gates from more than 30 nations that "we must look to the future rather than to the past" and admit Germany ( and Austria to the conference. WOMAN RED CROSS WORKER TELLS 8TORY OF ATROCITY. I Warsaw.?The Polish government is compiling the story of the atroci- j ' ties committed under the bolshevik ( reign in the city of MinRk. now occupied by the Polos. The Intent, brought by an American Red Cross! worker who returned from a relief assignment in the newly occupied city, concerns the murder of a woman hospital assistant who was rash enough , to express the hope that conditions would improve when the town fell. !1 FEAR OF EXPLOSION CAUSES 1 8TOPPAGE OF RESCUE WORK. ___ Steubenville. O.?After battling | their way to within 150 feet of where ' 20 miners have beon imprisoned, res- ( c :e workers were ordered out of the 1 Y and O mine No. 2 at Amsterdam, O., ( by mine officials and state mine in- 1 cpectors, who feared an explosion 1 might occur, according to word re- 1 ceived here. Hope has been aban- ' doned that the minors are alive. f Rescue parties worked all night long in the gas filled mine. < NOTHING GUN STOP I IMPETUSOF STRIKE THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER CAME TOO LATE TO HAVE DE8IRED EFFECT. SOAL IN TRANSIT IS SEIZED The Operators, So Far, as Available Reports 8how Have Not Made Any Plans to Combat 8trlke Chicago?Information obtained from I the bituminous coal fields of the Untied States, in which more than 400,--j )00 members of the United Mine; Workers of America have been orderid out on strike, indicated that there would be nothing which could check the momentum of the walkout, deipite the temporary restraining order which was issued in the United States district court at Indianapolis. Deprived of the directing hands of Its leaders, as a result of the injunction. the memberbershtp of the union was prepared to enter the first full working day since the strike order became effective In an efTort to demsnstrate its ability to halt the pro-1 Juction of soft coal throughout the i lation. The operators, so far as available reports show, have not vet mns.* plans to combat the strike. Reports from various railroad centers showed that seizure of coal in transit as ordered hy the federal gov- j ernment, had begun. Hundreds of coal laden cars in transit wero taken over by regional directors of the fuel ad- j mlnistraton and were sidetracked to' iwait possible distribution under the id ministration priority schedule. Much Interest was expressed by iterators' representatives as to the exact manner in which the restrain-( rig order would be considred by anion leaders and their followers. Some union district chairmen have publicly stated that the strike movement has gone too far to be influenc3d by any writs or injunctions. PERSHING IS FOR REDUCTION IN PROJECTED SIZE OF ARMY. Washlngtn. ? Dissenting In many respects from the program recommended by the war department and the general staff, General Pershing :old the military committees of Congress that 300,000 men, raised entirely by vountary enlistment, should be the outside figure considered for a itanding army. NO BREAD IN PETROQRAD FOR THE PA8T TWO WEEK8. I Helslngfors, Finland?Petrograd has been without bread for the last two j weeks, thousands of persons dying : daily, according to information | brought to Helslngfors by a Finn, who , escaped from a prison camp at Moscow. SIXTY-EIGHT WEST POINT a kkoi ntm ents in SOUTH Washington.?Southern states hare 58 of the more than 300 vacancies that rmain in the list of candidates for admission to West Point for the term beginning June, 1920, the war depart- j ment announced. Members of con-, gress who have unused designations at their disposal have been requested j to act at once, in order that the list may be completed in time to makei preparations for the entrance examinations to be held February 17, 1920. BIG GALE IN NEW YORK CAUSES LOSS OF $60,000 ' i New York.?A fierce northwest gale tore 20 lighters and scows from their docks in Brooklyn and blew them down the harbor. Before they had 1 been picked np by tugs several hours later, merchandise valued at $60,000 j bad been blown their decks, including coffee, sugar and telegraph wireless equipment intended for American i forces in Siberia. MEXICAN REBEL SOLDIERS OCCUPY REYNOSA GARRISON ? i Brownsville, Tex.?General Andrew I Almazan. Mexican rebel commanded. with about 70 of his men, occupied the town of Reynosa. Mexico, opposite Hidalgo, Tex., according to reports here. The railroad bet worn Matamoros ind Reynosa is inundated by flood waters from the Rio Grande, no trains ire being operated and It is believed Matamoros Is safe from attack. R.e-ylona is 60 miles west of Matamoros. DESPITE INDUSTRIES UNREST COUNTRY SEEMS PROSPEROUS ?? Washington. ? Despite disturbed ndustrial conditions, great prosperity 1 >btains generally over the country, ( iccording to reports for October received by the federal reserves board ^ Tom its agents In the sever&l districts .A strong demand for oom- j nodltles, verging at times upon reck-i, essnean In buying was noted In practically all sections. h Tbe strike has not seriously hamp-'4 sred production. [, ' DR. ANNA MOUTET | .? \?4 g Dr. Anna Moutet of France is one/ B of the noted woman surgeons here for the convention of women physicians called by the social morality commit- c tee of the Y. M. C. A. She has re- 1 celved many decorations for heroic * and skillful work on the battlefield. a c GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED . L u Attorney General Palmer Resolved to ii Exhaust Every Resource to Prevent a National Disaster Impending. a Washington. ? The government ^ moved swiftly to meet the nationwide coal strike. o Refusal of the miners' organisation o at Indianapolis to withdraw the order calling out half million men brought instant announcement that drastic a action would bo takon to keep the h mines in operation. Ak to those miners who go on strike g and thereby curtail production the (ii food and fuel control law with its ii added criminal penalties of fine and i ii imprisonment will be enforced with- s out regard to persons. The attitude of the government, Attorney General p Palmer made cloar, does not affect the right of workers to strike for redress of grievances in other cases where no violation of the law is involved. f Every resource of the government, ? in the words of Attorney General Palmer, will be used to prevent the "national dlsnster" certain to follow 1 the stoppage of work. n Adequate police protection, with e troops as a last resort if necessary, will be given those men deslricg to n remain at work. Reports from gov m uiudui iineius snow mat a big part " of the miners ordered to quit work 1 want to Btay on the Job. n ALL AMENDMENTS TO PEACE 11 TREATY GO BY THE BOARD. 9 Washington.?The 46 amendments attached to the peace treaty by the foreign relations committee passed into history when the last survivor of (l the group, a proposal by Senator ^ Moses, republican, New Hampshire, to revise voting strength in the 11 league of nations, was consigned to the discard in the senate by a vote n of 47 to 36. c As if gaining impetus by this ac- * complishment, the senate then upset 8 two more proposed textual changes in I the treaty brought in by individual B senators. One of them, presented by Senator Sherman, republican, Illinois, and proposing to write into the treaty r preamble a reference to the Deity, j ^ was laid on the table by a vote of 57 a to 27. The other, sponsored by S?n-1 ^ ator Johnson, republican, California. ^ as a new solution for voting inequal- 14 ity in the league, was killed outright * by a court of 43 to 35. w b MILLION VETERANS WILL ATTEND LEGION MEETING. F I New York.?Approximately 1,000,- ! 000 American veterans of the world war will be represented at the flrBt ^ national convention of the American (1 legion to he held in Minneapolis No-,1' vember 10. 11 and 12, it was announced at legion headquarters here. ^ seven radicals arrested 7 by cleveland detectives Cleveland, Ohio?Seven persons, a** men and one woman, charged by the police with being identified with a radicals In another plot to terrorize the nation by a series of oomb explo- j sions next spring, were b Mng held by | n police and were being sought ?n what w is expected to be a national cleaning 11 of revolutionists . Police in Reveral Eastern clt es have j been asked to arrest a man said to be ^ (he leader of the plot. jt! british government faces * many critical members London ?National finance was the topic up for debate In the h? use of ol commons with the governmer* facing; P probably as critical a bo v of members as ever in the hiBic-y of parlla- 7-' ment. More than lOrt members had ' H given notice of a desire :o speak and ui all were understood to be prepared to J ol belabor the government 'or Its al-1C leved waste and extravagance. Some gi of government's keenest critics are oi among supporters of coalition. -di NJUNGTION STOPS I MINEOFRCIftLS I tAILROAD UNION MEN DO NOT ft PROTEST BUT OFFER THEIR SERVICES IF NEEDED. 'ROTEGTION FROM PARALYSIS amuel Gompers Says Injunction Will C Only Bring In New and Disturbing Issues to Complicate Situation. Washington.?Railroad union offiials conferring with Attorney General ? 'aimer, entered no protest against the e ijunctton issued in Indianapolis c gainst calling of the coal strike, and T endered the good ofTices of their oranizations in attempting to arrange a r ettlement of the strike. y Mr. Palmer said he told the union c sen that they were at liberty to say a o either sido in tho strike that the a 'resident was ready to act iminedlater to have the controversy settled h mlcably whenever the strike was t ailed off. b President Gompers and other offi- v ials of the Ameiican Federation of s ,abor were said, however, to have n rged their views on the matter of the ajunction in their conference with the f ttorney general. j, "I explained tho norossiiv for t ction," Mr. Palmer said. "This is the government Itself, us- ^ ng its own courts to protect Itself c rom paralysis. It is not an injunction ^ btalned by employers, not for the ben- 1 fit of employers, not to settle the con- P roversy, but to save the people of the ntire country from disaster. It doesn't d ffect the right of a man to work when v e pleases." f Snmuel Gompers, speaking for or- n anized labor, declared the injunction B a the coal strike case "can only result c a creating new and more disturbing ssues which may not be confined olely to the miners." c c ORMAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR * EARLY FINAL VOTE BEGUN. ? a Washington.? Formal negotiations ^ or nn early final vote on ratification f the German peace treaty was munched in the senate. o Proposal that a final roll call bo c aken Wednesday, November 12. was p lade by Chairman Lodge, of the for- s ign relations committee, while Sena- v or Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the ad- I linistratlon leader, presented a coun- t er proposal to limit to fifteen mlntes each senator's debate on all queslons, but without proposing a defl- b ite datp for the ratification vote. fi Both proposals, submitted formally H a writing, went over. t \ HORT HOURS AND INCREASING s WAGES ALLIES OF PROFITEER, it t: Hagerstown, Md.?The short work h ay and the "ever increasing wages F emanded by industrial labor," were eclared to be "allies of the profiteer i keeping up the high cost of living" n l a resolution adopted by the Far- F iers' National Congress at its con* v luding session. The congress also h rent on record as opposed to "all v trikes." a 1ELGIAN KING AND FAMILY ARE NOW HOMEWARD BOUND p II 'ortsmouth, Va.?Albert, king of tho A lelgians, Elizabeth, his royal consort, o nd their son. Leopold, Duke of Braant, accompanied by Ambassador n Irand Whltlock, bade adieu to Amer- g ra, sailing on the presidential steam- 6 hip George Washington. which t] reighed anchor from Hampton Roads n ound for Belgium. s UEL ADMINISTRATOR ISSUES ORDERS AFFECTING COAL, o h Washington. ? Fuel Administrator d [arfleld signed an order reviving the q istribution and diversion orders of R tie fuel administration under which c! tie old list of priorities immediately g ecomes effective. In ROOPS RUSHED TO WEST VIRGINIA MINING FIELDS n Louisville, Ky?Under instructions rr rem the central department of tho d rmy. 900 troops of the famous First T ivicinn pnTYinnfllncr o nsowiol/mol Kof- L ilion, were on four trains early en c< oute to coal fields of West Virginia a 'here they will patrol disturbed min- w ig districts. 0( Colonel W. S. Harrell, commander of ri le Sixteenth infantry, Is commanding hi ;e battalion, which, it is said. w>U de- c aln at Huntington. W. Va. bi 25?,OOO.rOO IS 8AID TO HAVE BEEN SAVED ON SUGAR C New York ?Governmental control oi f sugar has saved the American pe?- S le a possible $256.00*,000 in the year fc nded July 15, 1919. the sugar ec.uali- ai ition board announced. In addition bi le board will turn over to the troas- h ry $30,000,000 made from its margin hi f 38 Vi cents per hundred pounds on fr uhan sugars, which sum would have pi one to refiners or Cuban producers, hi r would have been lost between pro- ai ucer and retailer. c. MUCH EVIDENCE OF MARCH DFPROGRESS MOVEMENT ON TO ENCOURAGE RAI8ING OF SWEET POTATO AS ONE MONEY CROP. iERSEY BULL CLUB FORMED '.otton Grader Saves one Farmer 8lx Hundred Dollars by Grading One Block of Twelve Bales Cotton. Clemson College.?Five carloads of rire fencing have been ordered co-opratively by farmers of Allendale ounty through County Agent Z. D. tobertson. A 12.000-bushel sweet potato atoage house is being built at Varnville, lampton county, to save the potato rop and encourage heavier planting nother year as one money crop gainst the boll weevil. The Colleton Products Association as recently been organized at Walerboro. capital stock $100,000, to iuild potato storage houses, grain eleators, warehouses, and to buy and ell agricultural products. ThiB is a aovement to beat the boll weevil. September tobacco sales in South larolina amounted to 11.8SS.768 ounds. at 18.51 cents per pound, giving a total return of $2,190,105.19. A Jersey Dull Association of fpur docks has been formed in Lancaster ounty with blocks at Elgin, Antioch, ran Wyck, and Pleasant Valley, ^hree of the four bulls have been daced. The official cotton grader at Anlerson saved a farmer over $600 last kreek on twelve bales of cotton. The armer had been ofTered 84 cents in a learby town. He took it to Anderon, had it graded, and sold it for 45 ents. It had a staple of 1 1-8 inches. Greenville.?Preparations have been ompleted for the 17th annual session f the Woman's Baptist convention, 0 be held in Sumter November 4 to . according to announcement made t Baptist 75 million campaign headuarters in Greenville. Anderson.?Approximately 50 milea f road will he contracted for, the onstruction to he begun as soon as lossible after the highway commision has let out the work. This work fill be top soil or sand-clay roads, 'ids for the work were asked for some ime ago, but all bids were rejected. Lexington.?Dr. C. A. West has een appointed county health officer or this county to succeed Dr. B. E, [neece, who has resigned to pracIce his profession elsewhere. Dr. Vest has Just returned from a year's ervice in France in hospital work. He 1 a native of Camden and was for hree years connected with the state ospital in Columbia before going to 'ranee. Chester.?In an atitomobile accident ear Chester V. B. Griffin of Rock 1111 was seriously hurt when the car rhich he was driving turned turtle. Ir. Griffin is a veteran of the world far. E. R. Hunter of Chester waa lso severely injured. Columbia.?A. D. Ollphant, fair rice commissioner for South CaroIna. has submitted his resignation to l. Mitchell Palmer, attorney genera) i ine united aiates. In his communication to Mr. Poller. Mr. Oliphant says that he has iven nil pf his time since September to the discharge of the duties of he office without compensation and ays be can not longer continue to do o. Orangeburg.?The annual meeting f the Orangeburg Shrine club was eld at the Masonic temple. It was ecided that a special train be renested of the Atlantic Coast Line :ailroad company for the use of the lub and friends to make the fall pllrimage to Florence for the ceremonil of Omar tomple Thanksgiving Day. Money for Hospital. Marlon.?Marion county's dream nj county memorial hospital to th< lemorv of the boys who fought 01 ied In this world war has eomo true he campaign to sell $50,000 worth ol ullding certificates was sucli a sue pss that that amount is deemed in dequate for the kind of liosplta' anted and a new goal Is set at $100, 10. In one week the town of Markir, nhscrlbed $40,000 to the hospital. It iblitfon to that amount In money itlzens have offered magnificent adding sites In the town. Teat Cass In Cotton. Anderson.?Two men of the Brushy reek section are making a test case P their cotton. Dr. Tripp and Mr aearman The local cotton gradet >und It to he of extra length, about a inch and an eight staple, and while nyers have told them that It was a igher grade of cqtton and should ring a premium, when the time came >r selling they were not willing to ay more for It. These young men are prepared samples for shipment, ad the result will affect many In thi* lmmunltT