Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V 1 y _ Established 1891. SHORT NEWS STORIES nnrvfti m m * P/M in/^rn rrvwivi IVI/\m i JUURLW During the annual parade <>l" the fire and police departments of Cleveland, Ohio, live robbers liold up the proprietor of a jewelry coin puny an I took $12,000 worth of Jewelry. The hands and feet of captured officers were cut off and the eyes of others were gouged out bv Bolshevik! at Ivanovka in southern Itussia. according t*> the testimony of l,icut.v Commander Koehlcr, an American. Asserting that his cotton crop lias been untouched by weevils, though surrounding plantations have suffered Tucker tiihson of Texas Parish. I.a.. trihuted his good fortune to the presence of hundred of toad frogthat have covered Ids plantation. State hcudquu rters of the Smith Carolina department of the \meriean , I .cgioti base been transferred from Columbia to Crccnvillc and the executive work of t lie organization astinned hy \V. It. XValkins of C.rccn\ille, the newly selected State adjuta lit. A 'TohliorY syndicate" which has luiili'd freight ?*ars at Danville. Ky? of fl'.Ti.t'Oii worth of goods within tbicc month", and sold them in various towns through "drummers," has boon unearthed. Arrest of between "r. and r.ti I *:111\ ilie persons i" expected as a result of an oitieial liupiirv. Irving and liorinan Art bur, negroes ag.? d 10 and "u years, brothers, \s ho l'*rida.v shot and killed their landlord, .1 II I lodges and his son. William iiiiii|ei'?, on i in1 inner s piare miriiieast of I'a lis, Texas, wore loirnoil at n stake on I ho fair ki'iuiikIs in I'arts Tuesday night at s o'eloek, having hi on taken from jail I?>* a inoli ear Iter ill t lie evening, wlio witnessoil the atrocities. The lift hah' of ttie lil"tl eollon crop. shipped to New Orleans. I .a., firm Kdinlmrg. Texas, was sold at * a in lion for 5 1 ihni. of whieh $7oo >' nil lo (lie Tnlsne college endowi*h nt fuiiil ami $::iM) lo tin* grower. The hale, whieh weighed ."70 pounds v:is ahoni a week earlier than tin lirsi hale of last year. I'inal figures on the la t eotton iron hased on revised ginning re ports for I lie season plaeed lie 0111 put at 1 1.J 1? II 1 running ha lor eotit'ting round as half hales, the census hurouu annonnees. That j oiantitv was eiiulvalent to 11.lift."!'? hales of f.00 pounds gross weight or 1 a ti'J.'! . f.I l' hales of ."tut tiounds not weight. IJovision of the figures wore n ade after the last ginning report or the 1 !i 1 it criip was issued in March. tiler one your of national prohl hition. whieh was the law of the land tot that period ai midnight June SO. oMielals of the hurcau of internal rex en no. eharged with the enforcement of tlio federal statutes against intoxicants, express tlieiusolves as encouraged hy the manner in whieh the < iiizensnip <u I in* country tuts ohshi'VimI the low. >in?l confident tliiit the second year of aridity will mark tti< disappearance of the moist spots now on the map of t he I'nited States. Armed rebellion hy the "working classes against the capitalist governmcnt" is a plank in (lie platform tolopteil in a secret convention of the newly formed I'nited t'omniunlst party, iield recently in the I'nited States at the request of the Amsterdam. Holland, headquarters, according to documents ami reports in the hands of the department of justice. 'I'lie report states that the I'nited Communist party promulgated a declaration of revolutionary principles asserting1 that the final struggle he tween workers and capitalists will take the form of civil war, and that It Is the function of the I'nited Coin munlst party to familiarize the working class with the necessity of armed insurrection as the only means through which the capitalist can he o\ ert hrown. Near Augusta, tin., otlicers who have been handling the express robbery of last Wednesday when it is alleged hy the authorities two bandits iii collusion with the express messenger stole J-Ml.T'-'o. I lie pay roll of the marines at l'arris Island, which was being shipped from Atlanta through Augusta to I'orl Itoyal. have made the statement that all of the money had been recovered Krnest liart. Milledge Herriek and W. .1. Qua 11 leba u m. who. the police say. confessed to the robbery, are in jail imbedded in a tooth of Knhl Abdul, a Syrian shipyard worker of Cheater, l'a., a diamond worth $2.fhMl was found by a dentist to whom Abilul had gone to have his teeth cleaned. The jewel was ImndtMl down l>y his I'll her, and it was the custom. Abdnl said, to imbed it in a good tooth for preservation. The father had worn the Jewel Inserted between the two large front teeth, in keeping With a eustoin of his tribe. t'por; his death, in 1!?1 o. Ah.lnl fell heir to the diamond and has earried d sinee. William P. Cooper. a blacksmith, nit?1 Oscar ttodfrey, a horse trader, killed each other in Spartanburg Tuesday night in a pistol duel at Kinley's stable, inst off North t'htirch street. There was no eye witness, but a police ollleer ilearing the shots 1- in number, ran to the scene to tind Cooper dead and (Sodfrey dying. (lodfrey was still smippinx his emptled Kim at Cooper's hotly. Kach man had emptied his gun. The trouble is believed to have followed an HrRiiment concerning a trial of I'ttop er in the police court Tuesday morning for lighting In which tlodfrey was a witness. Both men were well along in years and luitl been residents of Spartanburg and well known about the town. rHE f SOUTH CAROLINA WINS ! i COLUMBIA CANAL SUIT I'nder direction of Judge W. H. I TiiWii.scnd the jury in the ease of the i ( State of South Carolina against the j ( Columbia Kailway. tlas and Kleetrie j } I v u... |..i . I m-.-'u.l ? lll^lll IMUIIKI1I 1?1 ; I a verdii't declaring the Columbia ; canal, its a|>pin Icnances and the ! lands held therewith, forfeited to the ' I Slate, t hereby lirinKiiig to an end the suit wliieli has occupied the atteii| lion of tiie court since Monday. June ! us. ?>n a undirected verdict the Jury returned a decision granting the Slate "no damages" for such income or rentals as the company may ha\c J i cceix la! in the interim between the | parage of t he act of 1!'17 and the beginning of the action. The decision id' iliis one point of damages v < nt to the jury at 7:1M> o'clock Tuesday night. a verdict being tnrued after tlelilieratiou of hardly two minutes, t'oiirt will l>e open, Judge Townsend announced, for the remainder of tiie week, it" necessary, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock being set as the 11 me for the hearing of any molions counsel for the defendant may c. isli to make. Judge Townsend's direction of a v? rdid as to tin forfeiture of the anal follow oil hours of argument de'ctetl largely to the i|iiestion of In tiler a reasonable time had lapsed. .Indite Townsend held. how. c\er. that- the act of the l.cgislature n March. 11* 1 7. declaring tin- failure d the company to compb-te tin- canal by that time was a violation of the terms of the contract and the canal therefore forfeited to the State, was I, iiMiii III ii :III?I 111:11 ill tlie rtl?1 nee of < \ i< 1 ?> 11 ? ?> sutlieient to prove ( the contray the court iiiust conclude , r !i:it the I legislature was justified in ( Is ilcclaratioli of forfeiture. Represent hp; tin- State in the suit were: Attorney ('intern I Sain M. Wolfe. It I.. Ahney, J. J-'ruzer I.yon. Xssistnnt Attorney Oeneral Morris ('. I.umpkin a nil James II. Hammond. Vttorneys for the company included: < .1. It. I.vies. It. Rcverl.v Herbert. William Klliott and W. r. Mcl.ain. The canal commission is composed ? ' \ttoriiev ticneral Wolfe, chairman. Senator Niels t'hristensen of Rean- < foil, chairman of the finance committee: Representative W. It. Itrad- t rd of York, chairman of the ways iml means committee; Senator t 'teoriti1 K. Uaney of ?"hestertleld. I.airman of the senate judiciary com- 1 nit t re, and Representative Joseph \ Horry of * 'rangchurg. chairman of > l.e house judiciary committee. The canal property is worth several 1 million of dollars. COX Wll.l. XV!".Alt IIO.MKSl'l'X. Next President to He Inaugurated In Old I'asliioued Suit. New York Kvcning Host. The next president of the I'nited ' States, no matter who he is. will he the lirst president since Andrew Jackson to he inaugurated in homespun, if the plans id' the Society . for the Revival id' Household Industries ami Moinestio Arts and of the Salvation Army do not fail. When | the whole shearing from the White House sheep was given this year, as i( was last year, to the Salvation At my. the <|Uestioii of how best to j handle it was ttirneil over to t he } rcently formed society hy the reci|i- , ients. . Spinning and all the activities attendant upon spinning l>y which cloth j niateiiali/.es from llax and wool are ( the chief concern just now of the so- | eiety in whose headipiarters lessons are heiiiK Kiven every day. The wool j from t In- dock tin the White llouse ( lawn is to lie carried and spun hy hand hy workers of the society ami , hy the Salvation Army women, who , will lie taimlit in the meantiuie to card and spin themselves. And the lirst leiiKth of the woven stuff lolly: , eiioimh and hroatl enoiiKh to cltithe | a candidate will he made into the | suirytesied inauguration suit. Needles to say. the homespun will not he cut and fashioned until election day is | past, so that the physical measure , in t he wearer may he had. , l-'ir-l Woman Sheriff. The lirst woman sheriff of the i Southwest was installed recently t when Mis. William Hates took the oath of ollice as sheriff of Stephens county. Oklahoma. "There will he no hoot lettKiliK or mooiishiiiintt in these parts." Mrs. I Hates announced as the chief plank of licr platform, and to prove she meant what she said, she seized three stills within a week after she assumed ollice. Mrs. Hates succeeded her husband, who while on his deathbed summoned | the three commissioners of Stephens ( a nil asKi il llii'lil In I'IPCI Ills | ( wife In I In- otllce. Tlie.V promised that they wnulil <lu so anil that Is v liy Mrs. f Sates became I In- tirst j | wiiiii.in sheriff of i hi- Southwest. ] ( 1.11 Heavier Hotel CliiM'll. 'riii- hotel at I..uicaster. ,\V. T. Wil- | | llama, proprietor, lias been ordered ! , closed liy J. II. Womlwai'il, hotel ami | restaurant inspector, according to i I announcement liy Mr. Wooilward. I j | Tho hoti-l will imi In* opened again. < Mi. Wooilwanl saiil, until it has l?een ; put in such condition as to conform I i with th?* rcijuircmcnts of the hotel ' ' .iii?l restaurant act passed at the last i j s* sslon of the tSonoral Assembly. The | j hot el was closed because of its un- ! ] , sanitary contlition and because of the j < failure of the proprietor to put it | ? into condition after two weeks' notice i .given by Mr. Woodward. [i I ORT I FORT MILL, S. C., THUI ^ORPS OF TEAC HERS < COMPLETE FOR YEAR All doubt as to the personnel of he teaching corps of the Fort Mill > guided school for the 1920-21 ses- 1 Ion seems to have been removed by t otters received by the hoard during ' I he lust few days from each of the t r.uiiriH rifin-u aKn'fin^ to unaer- i ake the work. Kor gome time there i a its doubt as to whether two or three 1 if those elected would accept the t [lositions, but within the last week i Ihe board has received assurances hat put behind it the question vex- , |>K the school authorities of so many ] owns?whether the school would | have to open with and perhaps run , lluough the entire session short of , he necessary number of teachers. , The trustees and superintendent of | the Hurt Mill school, W. W. Ward, ! re looking forward to the opening < -f the session next September with ] nustiul interest, anticipating one of ( he best, if not the best, years In the | Itlstory of the school, extending over < the last -10 years or more. It is ex- ( l.ected that the auditorium for the | chool will be completed by the tinte ; he session begins and that the mod'in sanitary system which the true:ces are planning will have been ustalled in both the old building j nd the auditorium by that time. Vmpletion of the auditorium, in the ' i.sement of which provision is made or live class rooms, will add much ^ o the etflciency of the school, rellev- ^ ug the crowded condition of the obi ( tiding, which has retarded the na-rk considerably during the last "ear. The teaching corps for the' next session follows: t I'Mr.st tirade?Miss Minnie Harrison >f l-'ort Mill. Miss Marie Mauney of , -helhy. N'. t'.. Miss Ethel l.oftis of ( 5 reenville. Second tirade?Miss Agnes I.ink of < l-'ort Mill, Miss Julia Armstrong of | l-'ort Mill. Third tirade? Miss Zelnta Phillips 1 -f l-'ort Mill. Miss Esther Meacham ,r vtiii I ' Fourth tirade Miss Ethel ArmHong of Fort Mill. Miss Thelma ??tt Fort Mill. Fifth tirade?Miss Carrie Spenrer I Itock Hill. ' Junior ami senior hirrh school ( ouchers: EhkIsIi ? Miss lOtliel Mare of Sumcr. Latin Miss Dorothy Ber>rstron? of Fort Mill. History Miss Clarolene Carol hers .f Fort Mill. Mathematics?Miss Edna Tlndal i f I leiulerson ville. N*. C. Home Economics?Miss Emma An- < 'erson of ttock Hill. i Agriculture?Hrnce H. Stribllng of i >? item. ; W. II. \HI>ltF.Y ItiSTM \STKH. I Well Known ItnsiiicHs Man Takes Ihrr Office Temporarily. j \V. B. Ardrey. well known business ' nan. last Thursday became post mas- ' er of Fort Mill, succeed!ng B. H. Massey. who resigned some weeks 1 igo. after tilling the office for the 1 last quarter of a century. Mr. Ar1 ley's tenure of office is somewhat inh Unite, as he is to hold on only until i permanent successor to Mr. Massev s selected by the civil service com- ' oission, which may lie within a few ' weeks or the appointment may run Tor several months. Early in June an examination was held in Lock Hill by the civil service ommission to create an eligible list from which a Fort Mill postmaster would l<o selected. Only two ap- < pllcants for the ottioe, Joe M. Relk tnrt TT. H. Kodgers, mail currier on route No. I from the Fort Mill postdflce. stood the examination, the remit of which is not yet known. In giving up the postotllce Mr. Massey takes with him to private life | I he good wishes of the thousands of patrons he has served since he first liecatne postmaster on January 1. 1 > J* 4. During the many years Mr Massev served as |>ostmaster the office has tieon conducted in strict ac'ordauce with the regulations of the lepartment and he had the reputation of being one of the most careful and painstaking postmasters in :i.e Southeastern section of the country. Mr. Massey gave tip the office >n account of ill health. BOTH HANKS l?KORPKIt(l!'8. Tort Mill Institutions Kc|m>i1 t.ood Half Year's Business. Moth the First National Bank of Fort Mill and the Savings Bank of fort Mill have just closed their most prosperous half year's business, acording to statements made yesterday l>\ officers of the institutions. The usual semi-annual dividend of 4 per rent, was paid out by both institutions on July l. "The Savings Bank of Fort Mill 'i: x ri: 11 * n?? lien six months this year >l any like period during its long lite." yesterday said \V. B. Meachim, president, "and we are looking forward to like or greater prosperity luring the remainder of the year." (>n Jul> 1 the Kirst National hank I >3i i ?1 out to its stockholders $1,600 t: semi-annual dividends. Col. T. B. rtprutt. president of the hank, calls ittrnlion to the statement of condition published in this issue of The rimes by order of the comptroller of lie currency, saying that it shows the iffalrs of the hank to he in a most w.tIsfactory condition and that the L'omparatlve statement published in .-onuectlon with the condition statement bespeaks the splendid growth < if the bank during the last year. ' tflLL ' tSDAY, JULY 8, 1920. ZOX and roosevelt < zzz :democratic ticket Jumes M. Cox. governor of Ohio, vus nominated for president of the Jnited States in the Democratic national convention at 1:40 o'clock Tuesday morning. The nomination nine at the conclusion of a 44th halot struggle in which he had steadily >eaten down the forces of William G. VlcAdoo. former secretary of the reasury and President Wilson's sonn-law. ?? ut'n me naiioting on the 44th ? >'ote hud gotten to a point where Cox Had "02 votes and was rapidly ap- , proaehing the necessary two-thirds, ] jr 72!*, Sam 14. Antldon of Kansas, | manager of the McAdoo forces and | /ice chairman of the Democratic na- j ional committee, took the platform i ?nd moved that the nomination of i riovernor Cox be made unanimous. , Immediately there was a roar from j :he tired and worn delegates which | lasted for a full four minutes hefore | Chairman Kobinson could put the ( question on Amidon's motion to suspend the rules and nominate Cox hv i icclamation. At 1:4.4 o'clock Tuesday morning the tuotion was formally voted over with i rolling chorus of ayes and a crash- i ng of the brass bands. State standirds which had surged back and forth in the desperate battles of the deadlock raced to the front of the hall and to a place before the plat'orm. Franklin D. Itoosevelt of New Vork. assistant secretary of the navy, was nominated for vice president Tuesday by the Democratic national onvention in San Francisco and be ame tbe running mate of tlovernor lames M. Cox of Ohio. Democracy's I -hoice for the presidential nominalon. The lirst cries of "Cox and Kooserelt" rang through the convention hall and were, mixed with the shouts ?f tbe vote of acclamation by which >e was nominated without a ballot. At .1:29 o'clock in the afternoon | 'be convention had finished its work rd adjourned for the last time. Franklin D Itoosevelt was a ulsnnt relative of the late President rhfodorc Uoosev??lt. He has always ' orn a Democrat and is 38 years of ire. MUX WOltKFTIlS FX.IOY l>AY. I'irnic for Employees of Fort Mill Manufacturing Company. As a mark of appreciation of the services of its hundreds of employees ?nd their families the Fort Mill Manufacturing company Saturday ; lotted hoth its plants and nine a picnic and barbecue for their pleasure nnd recreation at Spratt's spring bout a mile front town, where the Krltlsh general Cornwallis is said to have camped overnight on his march through South Carolina during the Revolutionary war. There was an abundance of barbecued meat and thcr dinner for the hundreds in attendance, and various games nnd contests in which prizes were given those who excelled proved an interesting feature of the day's pleasures. In the morning a baseball game was played by the "Fats" and "Leans" which was won by the "Fats" and Ir.te in the afternoon many of the picnickers repaired to the ball ground and saw the Fort Mill team defeat the "College Stars" of Chester. Work of Country New*pa|>ers. Merchants Weekly. After all. the country paper In reporting the wholesome life about, is itoinK that which is worth while, for the real America Is outside of the hip city. It is in the .quiet country places and in the small towns where the strenRth of the nation is rooted, where its wealth Is created. and where its most important and precious ideals are cherished. These country papers- must he true to country life, of which they arc an important part, if they are to live and do work of the highest value. Their continued effort in behalf of community betterment is of more worth to the nation than all the efforts of the hijf city papers that are devoted to the huildintr up of ureal cities. Some one has said. "God made the country, and man made the town." and if thut be true, then God must certainly look kindly r?n the country papers which are devoted to the work of community bet- | terment in the country and the small towns. Col (on IH'mI Fortunate. I?r. Harry J. Heltelden. the Chi- 1 I'iiKo physician who refused to operate on deformed children to save their lives, died in Havana a yeur ago. leaving an estute estimated at $25,000, but it has since developed that it was much larger. Six months before he died. I>r. Heiselden gave his friend. K. W. Wagner, a broker, $f?.OftO to buy 200 bales of cotton. The cotton wan bought at 15 cents a pound. >nce ho was told he hud a big profit. His r? ply was to buy more. Mr. Wagner followed his Instructions and bought more cotton. By ati order of the court, the broker has closed the cotton ileal at a profit of $170,000. "I simply did whut any man in my position would do." Mr. Wagner said. "1 saw no reason to close the account as long as it was increasing so fast." A niece is the sole heir to the Heiselden estate. Mrs. S. W. Merritt, who receutly urJerwent an operation in Rock Hill, hat returned home much improved in health. Time? GOVERNMENT OFFERS TO "SALVAGE" CRIPPLES The government, on July 1, began its new policy of "salvaging" per'ons injured in industry. Under the lew law. federal aid, in cooperating sith State aid. will provide training to enable injured and crippled men ?nd women to earn their own living A recent estimute places the number of industrial cripples in the United States at 2.122.000. Six hunired thousand of these are classed I. S. Huwklns, chief of the division if vocational education, who is to have charge of the administration of the luw, said every Stute now had the basic machinery with which to play Its part. The federal act specifies that the State boards of vocational education, already established, ihall work out the plans for training. States must give an equal amount of money to that furnished from the federal treasury. The federal act provides $1,000,000 annually for foui years, this amount being allotted to the different States. The amount in the initiul appropriation is only u fraction of what it will become. In the opinion of officials. Congress appropriated the comparatively small amount in order to give the State the opportunity to develop their training system under federal supervision. While the law is aimed to carr> '?n industrial rehabilitation in mucl the same manner that disabled soldiers are being given training, the persons aided need not have necessarily been injured in an industrial occupation. The aid extends to any disabled who is unable to earn a living. I WKI.VK UK<il-?T CITIES. Detroit antl San .\ it t onto Slutw lieniurkablc (iivwtli. Census figures have piogressed sutflclently to rank the 12 largest oitle in the United States, population coun. on all these cities, except Philadel phia. having been completed. Philidelphia's estimate is given as 1,800,000. The first 12 cities of the country, with their 1020 population tignies. are as follows: 19 20 PerCent City Population Increase 1. New York ... 5,651.151 17.9 2 Chicago 2.701,212 22.6 2. Philadelphia . 1.822,158 17.7 4. Detroit 092,729 112.4 5. Cleveland ... 796,826 42.1 6. St. Douis .... 772,000 12.5 7. Boston 747,022 1 1.5 8. Baltimore ... 72.2,826 21.4 9. Pittsburgh 588.192 1 1.1 10. Dos Angeles . 575,480 80.2 11. San Francisco 502,410 21.9 12 Buffalo 505.878 19.6 Dos Angeles, with the largest rate of growth of any of the large cities, has advanced from 17th place to tenth and dlunlnou ... ..uiimo. .-IUII Francisco retained 11th place and Buffalo dropped from 1 Otli to 12th. Milwaukee was also forced from 12th to i:tth place. Cincinnati. 13th largest city in 1S10, now ranks as 16th having been passed by hoth Washington ami Newark. New Orleans, through the advance of hoth Isjs Angeles and Washington, was forced front 15th to 17th place, while Minneapolis retained its rank us 18th largest city. FAI.I. 1KINII POTATOKK. Seeoiitl Crop ('uiisidend S*ii|M-rlor to llrsl Crop. Though grown and appreciated by few. the second or fall crop of potatoes, through Its superior tuble and keeping qualities, is of greater importance in the home garden than s the spring crop It may he growr cither from tubers of the previous year's crop or from those of the spring crop of the current year. Best vsults are obtained from potatoes held over from the last year's crop: hut if these are not available, seed of the current season's crop may he planted. i ne rail crop should he planted any time from July 15 to August 18. depending upon climatic conditions. It requires 12 to 14 weeks for potatoes to mature from seed, and therefore they must be planted that much ahead of the earliest frost date. The preparation, fertilization, and planting of the second crop are the same as for the first crop except that the seed are put down in a water furrow and covered a little deeper than with the spring crop. Frequent shallow cultivation is necessary for good results. OTY WATF.lt ITKF. Slate Hoard of Health Makes Analysis for Fort Mill. According to a report of the State hoard of health, received Mouduy, by I>r. J. B. Klliott. chairman of the local hoard of health, samples of the city water taken front each of the four deep wells from which the city's supply is pumped have just been analyzed hv the State chemist and found to he free of contamination. the analysis howing negative torts in every instance. Recently fear had been expresed that the water was not as pure as it should be for human consumption and a few days ago Dr. Klliott forwarded to the State board of health samples for analysis. "The test showed the water to he absolutely pure." Dr. Klliott remarked after reading the report, "and this should be reassuring to all who have suspected that the water was not free of contamination." $1.25 Per Year STREETS OF FORT MILL SURVEYED FOR PAVING A corps of surveyors from the engineering tirm of Juudon & Co. of Savannah Monday morning began I be preliminary surveys for paving certain Fort Mill streets and it is hoped that the actual work of laving the paving will be under way within the next two months. The surveys will be completed by the end of the week and at once forwurded to the department of agriculture in Washington for approval. Then the fund of $1?'.000 recommended by the State highway department for use in paving tho part of the State highway system within the town will become uvuilable. The $10,000 will be used only on the street running through Sprattville and on the street from the IJailes I.umber comimnv's .? mill No. '? of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company. An election was* held in Fort Mill in April at which the proposition of issuing >30.000 worth of bonds for permanent street Improvements was authorized and from the sale of the bonds and the Federal fund reu*?.utnended for use in town it is hop< d to pave approximately one and onehalf miles of street. The kind of paving to be used has not yet been selected by the commission, hut it is understood that preference hus been expressed for concrete. The kind of prvlng finally selected, however, will d? pend upon the amount of the bids submitted for the work. The statement was made a few days ago that il was possible the commission would finally decide not to have the work done bv contract, but would intrust the direction of it to the chairman, I.. A. Harris, who would employ the labor for the job. Mr. Harris has had considerable experience in sidewalk paving and with the assistance of a competent engineer it is thought that he could save the town considerable money under the plan suggested. Paper Pulp From OX ton Fiber. Announcement that a process lias been discovered for making paper pulp from cotton tlber has been developed and that a company has been formed to begin production soon in Virginia is of much interest. If true, to publishers und consumers of impel as well as to Southern cotton interests. Various experiments have been under way for some time for finding a substitute material for wood pulp in the manufacture of paper. The serious shortage and the high prices of paper have encouraged extraordinary efforts to lind such u substitute. Southern cotton wood hus been tried as a material for making pulp for certain varieties of paper, and it is probable that cotton wood will yet be used in a large way by paper manufacturers. Some paper is now being made from cotton wood and investigators have been in Texas recently mnking inquiries about the supply. A mill in (at orgiu is now making paper out of cotton linters. if cotton tilier and cotton wood both prove susceptible to manufacture Into paper, it may mean the bringing into the South of a lurge part of the paper making industry. The South is rapidly increasing its consumption of paper as its cities grow and its population increases. Institute- for Tcaclicri. An Institute for county organizers and teachers of adult Hchools will he held in the University of South Cardim! beginning Monday evening, July 12, and ending Wednesday evening. July It. This Institute is for the purpose of truininK organizers who arc to work under the direction of the county superintendents during the "lay-by schools" and for the purpose of acquiring teachers with the problems pceuliuT to adult teaching. The State department of education and the Illiteracy commission wish to enroll lO.OOli pupils during I he "lay-by schools." Drowned In Itnwul Itiver. Klvthe Drown. one of ('hpslcr's popular young men, wan drowned Monday ufternoon in Hroad river about 20 miles from Chester. He wu? 19 years old and was a member of a party of seven younK men enjoying Independence day fishing and swimtiling. They came to where swift Turkey creek unites with Hroad river and before they were aware of it the swift undertow had swept all seven off of their feet and for u time it looked as if ull seven would be drowned and it was a buttle for life for each man. All reached the shore except Hrown. GAllDMCK IN l?KFK,.\TT-:i>. North Caroliiu Ihiuoci-at.* Nominate Charlotte Man for Governor. Keturns from HO of the 100 counties in North Curolinu giving the vote in the Democratic primary Saturday for governor indicate a majority of about 9,000 for Cameron Morrison of Charlotte over O. Mux Gardner of Shelby, who has conceded his defeat. The entire vote of the State was about 120,000. The complete vote In Mecklenburg county gives Morrison a total of 3.450 to Gardner's 1,508. It has been officially stated In Washington that no proposal whatever has been made by the allies to the United States for the eanec nation of their debts to this country. Nor have the allies suggested that payment of their debts be made by reparations by Germany.