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Foreign?
The -Panama canal was not affected
by the earthquake of recent date. The
movement Was not atrona enough to
be apparent generally, but was registered
by the aeismographic as,a pro.
' longed tremor. -Jt- >. *Y
A general strike of 260,OOQ German
railroad workers, cAlled for recently
was expected to tie up all long dis'
tance and Berlin passenger and freight
traffic.
Famine has reached such a terrible
degree in the Orenburg district of Russia
that people are killing each other
and parents are eating their children,
says a telegram recenved at Genera,
from a representative in Moscow of
> Dr. Frldjof Nansen, head of the international
comnulttde of Russian relief.
Preparatory to an invesion of Soviet
RubbIs, Herr Stinnes is conducting a
comprehensive economic survey of
that country through a number of
German experts representing many
, callings and professions.
The spokesmen for the German people's
party are unhesitating in accusing
Chancellor Wlrth of breach of
. faith in appointing Dr. Walter Rathe
una no uiUHOiPl Ui 1U1 Cl^II UIlHirB WllH"
out awaiting the outcome of negotiations
for the extension of thp present
coalition to the Inclusion of the people's
party led by Qutave Stiv.ssman.
Release and deportation of foreigners
now serving sentences in Cuban
prisons and pails, as part of the government's
economy program, will be
suggested to the chief executive, it
was announced recently by Manuel Alfonso
chief inspector of prisons. The
measure, it is added, would serve to
evltate complaints by foreign governments
concerning the treatment of
these prisoners who. with Cuban offenders,
are alleged to be suffering
from the action of the many state contractors
in refusing t6 furnish supplies
i-*,. until their bills are paid.
The Prince of Wales arrived at In*-4art^*Brttl8h
India. He received a cordial
welcome, thousands of persons
lining the streets to greet , him.
The president of the Italian senate
OnH AhaMka* A# J?- 41 " *
vi?>.uu<ii ul ut)|iuiieB nave aavlsedi
King Victor Emanuel to aak former
Premier Oiolittl to form a cabinet
in succession to the Monomi ministry,
it is understood, nays a Central News
dispatch from Rome.
Five hundred ruble notes are' no
longer legal tender in Mobcow. A
recent decree of the Moscow soviet announces
that hereafter street fnilways
and other government institutions will
accept nothing less than 1,000-ruble
notes, worth half an American cent at
the present legal rate of exchange.
Suddenly becoming violently insane,
a member of the pontifical choir created
a sensation in the Sistine chapel
during the celebration of solemn re,
quiem mass for the late Pope Benedict
XV by shouting "Down with the
pope!" Me was finally overpowered
by the Swiss guards.
Berlin reports are to the effect that
German civilians and French
recently had a clash at Petersdorf, Silesia,
in which several French soldiers
were killed and several Germans seriously
wounded. The allied commission
has ordered a state of siege each
v night between 8 and 5 o'clock in the
morning, to prevent future disturbances.
Washington?
Reports compiled by the eastern bureau
of the department of commerce
recently Indicate that there was a loss
of population in Sovit Russia of 18,000,000
people in the period of 1915 to
1921, the revolution-torn years.
Bootleggers throughout the country
are evolving a* new industry?the rectification
of denatured alcohol?prohibition
officials said recently, which
probably will necessitate a complete
revision of the government's system of
distribution. >
Plans to form a federation of Central
American republics have collapsed,
according to word received by the
state department recently from American
Minister Morales, at Tegucigalpa.
Honduras.
On the eve of delivery to congress
by Secretary Weeks of Henry Ford's
offer for the government properties at
Muscle Shoals, Ala., Frederick E. Engstrum,
of Wilmington, N. C., presented
the war secretary with an amended
proposal to complete, lease and operate
the Muscle Shoals properties.
Payment of $10,000,000 on surplus
supplies purchased after the war was
made to this country recently by
' France.
The nomination of Arthur G. Froe,
tre-zro attorney of Welch, W. Va., as
recorder of deeds of the District of
Columbia, was indicated recently by
Ssaaior EHtins, of West Virginia, after
a call at the White House. '
The charge, of certain railroad executives
that the government "rttfned'?
the roads is groundless, William Q. McAdoo,
former secretary of the treas1
urg and wartime director general of
teporta't# Wop? dMtag the pant
yeartell elf by more then (wo bflllo*
dollars, m compered with 1MB; whfle
exports tp .South America declined by
more than throe hundred million dollars.
is the statement ot the cbmmerce
department recently leaned. The
bill authorising the refunding
of the eleven billion dollar foreign
debt Into. securities maturing in not
m&re than .twenty-five years has been
passed by the senate?39 to 25. Final
enactment of the measure must ayrait
adjustment of differences between the
house and senate, which is expected
within s week or ten days.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa, leader of
the agricultural bloc and chairman of
the senate labor committee, has been
named by the president to be circuit
judge for the eighth circuit.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
announces the offer of an.issue of 4 3/4
per cent three-year short-term notes
to the amount of approximately $400.000,000.
The" issue is to provide for
current expenses, the retirement of
treasury certificates of indebtedness
maturing February 16, 1922,* and as a
part of the treasury's program for re
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unog ooiei maturing May 20, 1923.
The independent oflces appropriation
bill carrying a total of $494,804,238,
most of which Is for use by the
veterans' bureau has been passed by
the house and sent to the senate.
By fairly decisive votes the senate
refused either to require congressional
approval of the agreements to be entered
into with debtor nations by the
proposed allied debt refunding commission
or to limit the authority of the
commission in the matter of deferring
the time when interest payments on
the eleven billion dollar foreign debt
shall begin.
Railroads which earned more than
6 per cent upon the value of their
property used In transportation dhripg
the period from September 1, 1920, to
Jpnuary, 1921, are required, under order
of the interstate commerce commission,
to turn half of the excess so
earned over to the government.
Anent the recent Knickerbocker
theater tragedy. Washington newspapers
have gathered In tabloid the record
of many theater disasters in the
past seventy-five or eighty years. They
iouow: 1836, Lehman's theater, Petrograd,
700 dead; 1847, Carlsruhe, Petrograd,
200; 1876, Conway's Brooklyn,
295; 1887, Opera Comlque, Paris,
200; 188S, Banquet, Oporto, 206; 1895,
Front Street, Baltimore, 23; 1881, Ring
Theater, Vienna, 640; 1891, Central
Theater, Philadelphia, 100; 1887, Temple
Theater, Philadelphia, 170; 1903.
Iroquois, Chicago, 617; 1908, Rhodes,
Boyerstown, Pa., 170; 1911, Canonsburg.
Pa., 26; 1913, Calumet, Mich., 72;
1921, Rlalto, New Haven, 6.
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E. Lee Trlnkle, of Wytheville. was
Inaugurated governor of Virginia recently.
succeeding Westmoreland Davis.
Judge Joseph L. Kelly, president
of the state supreme court, administered
the oath of office.
Discovery of a tellumium gasoline
compound, which Increases automobile
mileage one hundred per cent over
present gasoline fuel, was announced
at the research laboratories of the Qen
eral Motors company at Dayton, Ohio.
Nine bodies, crushed to an unrecognizable
mass by a fall of slate following
an explosion in the Gates
mine of the H.. C. Frick Coke company
a few miles from Brownsville,
have been brought to the surface.
Counterfeits of the familiar 2-cent
postage stamp have appeared for the
first time since 1895. One of the new
counterfeits came Into the hands of a
New York collector.
Wilbur Burr Vollva, successor to
John Alexander Dowle as overseers of
Zion and head of the Christian Apostolic
church, Zion, 111., has completed
the fixing of dimensions of his flat
world, existence of which is now
taught in the Zion schools.
Fifty tons of Birmingham slag from
iron furnaces at Birmingham, Ala., is
now being shipped to Florida for the
foundation of 33 miles of standard
asphalt roads, which will be built in
that state at a cost of $6,000,000.
Jonas Marsh Libbey, editor and International
authority on industrial
matters, plunged to his death from a
point high up on the twenty-fivestory
Municipal building at New York.
The Southeastern Express company
has extended its lines to take in Nashville.
Tenn., according to a wire received
at New Orleans. La., offices
recently from Atlanta, Ga.
Evelyn Nesblt, once one of the most
beautiful leaders of the gilded life of J
New York, central figure in the killing
of Stanford White by Harry Thaw, but
more recently one of the tragic figures
of Broadway, la missing, according
to published reports at New York. (
Twelve companies of Kentucky na- <
tional guardsmen were ordered to Ntfw- (
port, Ky., where a strike in the New- ]
port Rolling mills has been In prog- . I
ress for sometime. The tank corps of ,
Covington was ordered to move in j
and take control of the situation.
Solon H. Borglum, nation wide ,
sculptor, and head of a school of :
sculpture at Stamford' Conn., Is dead ,
His most recent work was at Stone ,
Mountain, Ga.
New owners of the Tennessee Central
railway have agreed to take over
for $146,000 rolling atock and prop- I
erty which was not included In the !
terms of the sale of the road for $1.- 1
600,000 recently confirmed by federal 1
court at* Chattanooga, Tenn. 1
William D. Taylor, director in Call- '
fornia for one of the largest film com- !
panics in Los Angeles aQd nationally
known in the motion picture industry.
Was found dead at him home under 4
circumstances that the police said indicated
murder. He bad been shot
through the neck. *
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FIXES DATES FOR INSPECTION
OF ALL UNITS.
WORK BY THREE OF OFFICERS
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Grant, Day and Glan Will Look Over
All Companies Except the Field
and Coast Artillery.
Columbia.?Adj. Gen. Rufus W.
Grant issued of-ders for the annual inspection
of the South Carolina Nattional
Guard, which is to be made beginning
March 2 and concluding
March 24. The inspection will be
made by Col. Frederick R. Day, inspeotor-instructor
of tbe guard in South
Carolina, Adjutant General Grant and
Maj. F. W. Glen. United States property
and disbursing officer. These officers
will inspect al} the units except
the field and coaBt artillery companies.
Maj. C. T. Marsh, coast artillery, end
Maj. Louis G. Osborne, the assistant
adjutant general, will inspect the field
and coast artillery units.
The Itinerary of the inspection is
announced as follows for General
Grant. Colonel Day and Major Glen:
Company I, One Hundred and Eighteenth
infantry. Rock Hill, the headquarters
compaipr of the Third battalion
of the One Hundred and Eighteenth
infftntry, Rock Hill and Fort
Mill, and Company K. One Hundred
and Eighteenth infantry. Fort- Mill,
March 2 and 3.
Headquarters company, Second battalion,
Easley. March 6. and Company
G, One Hundred and Eighteenth infantry,
Greenville, March 7.
Howitzer company, Greer, March 8,
and Company F, Spartanburg, March
9th.
Company E. Union, and the service
company, Union. March 10, and Company
A, engineers, Lockhart, Mar. 11.
Companies A and B, Charleston,
March 13, at the Mt. Pleasant rifle
range, March 14
Company C, Walterboro, March 15.
and Company D, Orangeburg, March
16.
Company H, Brookland, March 17.
and motor transport company No. 118
at Olympia, March 8.
Company H. Camden, March 20. and
Company L. Hartsville, March 21.
Headquarters company. First battalion;
Timmonsvllle, March 22, and
the headquarters company. One Hundred
and Eighteenth Infantry, Columbia,
along with the state staff corps
and department and regimental staff
and state arsenal and depots, March
23 and 24.
Coast artillery company No. 428,
Dillon, will be Inspected February 28
by Major Marsh and Major Osborne.
Battery D. One Hundred and Fifteenth
field artillery, Georgetown, will be Inspected
March 1 and coast artillery
company No. 427, Beaufort, on Mar. 2.
Provision Is made for the inspection
Of several nlHeern nnl mlth tKn ,,o?u..
companies, such as medical officers of
the state staff corps, etc.
May Discontinue Almshouse.
Columbia.?8. H. Owens, county supervisor,
has appeared before the Associated
Charities and presented the
plan of doing away with the Richland
county almshouse and building a district
almshouse which would Include
the surrounding five counties. The
Associated Charities heartily agrees
with this plan and has appointed a
committee composed of P. C. Withers,
Morton Visanka and Dr. W. P. Cornell
to consider this plan, and present it
before the Richland county delegation.
Foreign Exports Reach High Figure.
Charleston?Foreign exports from
Charleston during the month of January
were valued at more than six
times exports for January of last year,
according to the records of the local
customs house, and Charleston's
showing in this respect is expected to
prove much better than the average
American port. At a time when there
Is a general depression in foreign
trade, and when the tendency is to
show a falling off. Charleston's volume
Iff PAwe .. At
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Interest In Tobacco.
Conway.?Much Interest is being
displayed In the operation of the cooperative
tobacco marketing plan to
be tried ont in Horry this year. No
one seems to know yet Just how it will
be handled. Some seem to think the
warehouses will not be operated while
others think they will run. One warehouseman
is advertising that his house
will be open for business. However,
avery one is anxiously awaiting the
resnlt of the meeting of the state aslociatlon
at which it Is presumed the
marketing plan wlP be worked out.
Nurses Hold Meet.
Sumter.?Miss Llla Davis, secretary
of the Second district of the
3outh Carolina Nr.rses' association, is
back from the district meeting In
Florence and reports the following officers
elected: President, Miss Pretto
Lock wood, Darlington: vice presilenta.
Miss Bessie Lee and Miss Camphell.
Florence; secretary. Miss Lilo
Davis, Sumter; treasurer. Miss Fran:es
Strieker, Hartsville.
Directors: Miss Cora Belle Dickens,
Florence; Mrs. J. A. MrEachern, FlorICC6;
Miss Lou Mclver, Darlington.
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INSTEAD OF DEFICIT'IN THE
GOVERNMENTS FINANCES
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President Addresses More Thai^ One
Thousand Officials at Government
Business Meeting*,
Washington.?Presiding at the second
business meeting of the government,
President Harding announced
that instead of a deficit in government
finances, as was forecast in December,
there now were prospects of a.
surplus of receipts over expenditures
when the books are balanced at the
end of next June.
The President further announed it
had been possible to reduce the government's
expenditures from a scale
based on $4,500,000,000 a year to a
scale of $3,974,000,000 and declared
"that even in Its formative period the
budget system has Justified our most
confident expectations.''
I More than a thousand officials from
all the departments * and establishments
of the government met with
the President and received the report
of the various co-ordinating agencies
transmitted by Director Dawes, of
the budget bureau, whom the Presldescribes
as the "genius" who made
possible the ?Ut in expenditures.
The President and Director Dawes,
of the budget, who followed him, announced
to the meeting that direct
savings of 132,000,001) and indirect
savings of more than $104,000,000.
had been accomplished in less than
six months through the operation
alone of the budget bureau's co-ordinating
agencies.
Mr. Harding expressed the further
opinion that the efforts on the part
ot pie government toward economy
had been reflected among the people
at large.
"I cannot but feel that the government
has in this budget organisation
set an example of care and thrift
that has helped greatly to'make saving
fashionable. If' to some extent
the government has been a leader in
so praiseworthy a cause, we ought all
to bo gratified to have had a part in
the affair. Much of the extravagance
of government has been due to a lack
of sense of individual responsibility,
and the same is (rue in the corporate
businesses and the private affairs of
the people. If our efforts here shall
set a standard and Inspire an ambition
for greater economies and higher
efficiency, we shall have served not
only the government, but the whole
public particularly well, perhaps our
example will be of service to the
world."
Millions Lost in Fires.
new tone. ? Three hundred and
thirty-four thousand dwellings at $5,000
each, sufficient to house 1,700.000
persona, could be built with the money
lost in flres in the United State; from
1916 to 1920, according to figures given
oat by the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
The board places the national fire
loss daring the five-year period at
fl.672,722,677. based on an examination
of over 3,000,000 reports of fires.
Matches and smoking hazards are
held responsible for $90,000,000 of losses,
according to the report. Next
comes electricity, which caused flres
ooating $86,000,000. Stoves, furnaces,
boilers and pipes caused a loss of
$63,000,000 and "exposure," which
means communicated flres, $283,000,
000.
Conference Nearing End.
Wasblngton.-'-Except for the formalltles
and frills that are to attend
its adjournment, the Washington conference
on limitation of armamnnt and
far eastern questions is over.
At a plenary session the remaining
treaties and resolutions are to be
formally approved, and the chief delegates
are to say good-bye to one . another
in speeches expressing the gratification
of their governments over
the conference accomplishments.
_ Bill te Cut Down Offioara.
Washington.?A bill to reduce the
number of army officers to 12,000. as
oompared with 17.000 now authorised.,
was transmitted to .congress by General
Pershing as chief of staff, and introduced
by Chairman Wadsworth.
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British Exchange Gains.
New York. ? British exchange extended
its advance to 14.30 for demand
bills representing a gain of almost
10 cents in the past fortnight,
and marking a high record for over
two years.
Pour Buildings Wrscksd. ,
N?w York. ? Explosion of several
stills, with the consequent wrecking
of four buildings and serious injury 1
of three men; selsure of several hun- i
dred gallons of alcohol, whiskey, I
wines and mash and one, death from I
drinking poisonous liquor were the 1
high spots on the reoord. of prohibition
enforcement agents operating within i
a radius of "45 minute* from Broad- I
day.- ' i
William Space was the third nfan to (
die of alcoholic poisosing at Jersey i
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LARGE NUMBER OF LOCAL MEASURES
AND A FEW STATEWIDE
APPROVED.
BOTH HOUSES ARE BUSY
Revenue Act is Being Beaten Into
Shape and Fnal Vote is Expected
Soon ? Many Changes Made.
Columbia.
Both houses of the general assembly
are showing speed and numerous
measures atire being eliminated either
by ratification or the striking out
of. the enacting wordB. Only a few
of the statewide measures have been
disposed of but action 1b expected very
soon . ~
Bills providing for a revision of
the code of the government of den- |
tal surgery, requiring the Southern
Bell Telephone company to reduce its
rates, for the teaching of fire preventlon
in the public schools, and permitting
Clemson college to borrow $150,000,
were approved by the house and
sent to the senate.
The Sapp resolution, providing for
a constitutional amendment placing in
the jurisdiction of the general assembly
the establishment of a system of'
raising an equitable revenue unanimously
was passed to third reading.
Bills providing a schedule of auction
fees for the disposal of tobacco,
placing trees, plants and bulbs for
propagation purposes under the state
pest commission, and providing a system
of reporting for paroled convicts
were Introduced.
On a compromise, the senate bringing
to a close the most heated and
prolonged debate to the present session
of the assembly, passed the Miller
bill revamping the present railroad
commission, increasing its personnel
from three members elected by the
people to seven members elected by
the general assembly, one from each
congressional district. The bill would
have been rejected had the author not
submitted to the three elective mem
bers remaining in office, with Frank
W. Shealy, of Lexington, aa chairman,
at their present salaries.
Should the bill pass the house four
members of the commission will be
elected by the legislature this year
on a per diem basis.
The telephone bill, which was introduced
by Representative M. C.
Foster, of Spartanburg, was given its
third reading and pent to the senate
withoyt opposition, having come
through unscathed the Are of opponents
"debate on second reading. This
measure, which provides that the telephone
rates which were in force i
throughout the state January 1, 1921, '
shall be the maximum charges to be
asked In the state, would reduce tel- i
ephone rates approximately 20 per <
cent, according to Mr. Foster. i
The tax resolution, fathered by Sen- i
ator M. P. Wells ot Edgefield, was
also' sent to the senate despite the j
opposition of Representative Reiser, j
the only record vote on the measure ,
showing a majority of 49 to 41 in fa- |
or of the resolution. The house (
amended the resolution in mingr de- |
tails on second reading and therefore ,
its final passage sends it back to the j
senate for action on these amend- j
menta. The bill is imperfect in its |
present form on account of an error in f
its title and the senate is therefore expected
to refuse concurrence in the ,
house amendments so as to throw the
resolution into free conference where .
these errors can be corrected.
The Ptckens and Anderson delegations'
measure to require the clerks of
conrts of the various counties in the
state to issue and collect for motor
vehicle licenses and to empower the }
county authorities to retain 86 per (
cent of the moneys so collected was
committed to the ways and means
committee, which now has under con- '
sideration a bill to accomplish much 1
the same end. The motion to commit i
th* Kill ? J- w_ T-,
u... nnD .unuii u; rvnifi enouiuil VB
O. A. Hydrick of Orangeburg. * <
A divided majority unfavorable re- c
port was made on the bill establish- 1
ing a board of examiners for chlro- c
praetors. v
The joint resolution to provide for
loans to Clemson college was also (
passed on third reading and sent to
the senate with minor amendments. f
The unamended bill has already passed
the senate. 1
The Sapp bill to provtde for the 1
creation of a board of engineering ex- e
aminers was ordered recommitted to ?
the judiciary committee for amend-'
ments. The bill as originally framed t
received a majority unfavorable report t
from the committee, but with 'the *
amendments to be p.oponed it is ex- o
pected to receive the unanimously fa- t
vorable report of the committee. a
Favorable committee reports were
made on the Leopold bill, placing a v
license of $60 a day on cotton and
stock exchanges; on the, tax luxuries; c
requiring executors to enter into bonds c
the same as administrators, and glv- o
Ing priority to artisan's liens for v
soring and equipping wells.
Unfavorable reports were made on c
the bill allowing graduates of the Char- d
eston Medical college license without u
i tan ding the state medical examination,
and on the bill making insur- a
ince policies incontestlble after two ?
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The Sapp resolution, which li Identical
with the similar measure bow
before the senate, would provide for
the amendment of the state constitution
so ss to empower thA general assembly
to establish a "Just and equitable
system of raising public revenue."
This amendment, which will
be submitted to the qualified electors
of the state at the coming general election,
should the resolution pass both
houses, would empower the legislature
to vary the tax rate upon different
classes of property taxed. The resolution
had hitherto been held up oh.
the calendar on the objection of Representative
L. C. Wannamaker of
Cheraw. Mr. Wannamaker withdrew
his objection and the measure was
passed without further opposition.
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bill was also passed or. third reading
and sent to the senate. This measure
would continue in existence the board
of medical examiners, but carries various
changes in the present laws governing
the practice of dentistry in the
state. It would allow a dentist to quit
the practive of dentistry in the state
upon notlflcatldn to the board of examiners
and would not provide for
the cancellation of licenses if the holders
fail to practice for a period of IS
months as under the law now in
force. The bill would also require
that applicants for admission to the
practice of dentistry in the state present
uncontestable evidence of their
identity before they will be allowed
to stand the examination.
The act to require tobacco warehouses
to pay an annual license of
15.000 if they handle or sell ungnfded
and untied tobacco was among those
ratified. This $5,000 is said to be
practically prohibitory. The fines
would go to the county Bchool funds.
Penalties of not less than $1,000 nor
more than $5,000 and not less than
six months or more than one year are
provided in the act.
Senator Ldghtsey's bank slander
measure, providing for punishment of
all persons who circulate false statements
in regards to the solvency of
any bank, w'as also ratified. If any
person so circulates an oral statement,
wilfully and with Intent to injure, it
convicted, the punishment will be not
iwbh man ?iuu or more than J500 or
not more than one year in prison.
Senator Williams' measure to appor^
tlon lines imposed by mayors, magistrates,
intendants, etc., where part of
the sentence has been imposed was
ratified. This act provides that if a
prisoner has served part of his or her
time and then wants to pay the fine,
that a proportionate part of the fine
shall be reduced.
The bill to permit graduates of the
Furman university law school to be
licensed for the practice of law in
the state without examination before
the state board of law examiners, was
recommitted to the judiciary committee
upon the motion of J. It. Bryson,
of Greenvillo, the author of the measure.
The University of South Carolina
law school, the only state law school.
Is at present the only institution so
favored by the state, applicants from
all other law schools being required
to stand the regular examination. Mr.
Bryson proposes to amend his bill
to provide for the admission without
axaminntion of the graduates of all
accredited law schools, approved by
the state board of law examiners.
R. I. McDavid. of Greenville county,
Is the author of a bill to provide that
Insurance policies shuli be Incontestable
after they have been In force
two years. Under the provisions of
this measure policies, when they have
been in force two years, can be cancelled
only when some of the provisions
of the policy are violated or the
premiums not paid. The bill was referred
to the committee on banking
ind insurance.
Representatives Hydrlck, Glenn and
Kennedy are the authors of a bill to
repeal the^present military code of
:he state. The bill was referred to
:fee committee on military affairs.
Two New Charters.)
The Carolina Plggly Store, of Greenwood.
was chartered by the secretary
>f state with a capital stork of $60,(00.
Officers are: A. W. Allison, presdent:
N. S. Allison, vice-nresident
i. O. Fochall, secretary and treas*
irer.
The Weiner Construction company
>f Charleston was chartered with a
capital stock of $5,000. Officers are:
i. P. Weiner, president; Judah Weinir,
vice president; 11a Weiner, treat*
irer; Archibald Weiner, secretary. 1
hooper Names Tax Commissioner.
Governor Cooper appointed J. Fraliar
Lyon, of Columbia, former attor- ,
ley general of the state, as a mem- i
?er of the South Carolina tax commit* '
lion to succeed A. W. Jones, its chair '
nan, whose term of office expired. 1
Chairman Jones, with the other '
wo members. W. O. Query, of Spar- '
anburg, and J. P. Durham, of Con* '
ray, have constituted the personnel 1
>f the commission since it was en* <
ablished by an act of the general '
ssembly in 1915. <
Vllliams Gets Third Reprieve.
Abram 'Williams, 55-year-old negro, ^
onvlcted in October of attempted
riminal assault on a young white girl <
f Orangeburg and sentenced to death, <
fas reprieved for the third time. 1
Sentenced to die in the electric <
hair Friday, the governor today or- l
ered that the'sentence be reprieved 1
atil April 7. 1
The negro was convicted in October 1
nd sentenced to die October 28. The 1
sntence was deferred to December ^ y
nd then to February 3. '
FIRE DOES DMU6E lit CUB flj
Damage Approximately $125,000; Rw r-Si
D. Quick Daahea to Death to - Vryl
Escape Palling Wall*. H
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Clio.?Fire destroyed business es- j|
| tablisbmenta In Clio and entailed a ' \1
| loss of approximately $126,000. *"
tragedy in connection with the
fire was the death of R. D. Quick,
who collided with a truck as he dashed
to safety from a falling wall and
was killed almost instantly. The
truck was drives by P. H. Lipscomb.
The body was held in a nearby building
and the coroner notified. The
tragedy Is greatly deplored but could
not be avoided by Mr. Lipscomb, who is
deeply affected by it.
Just how the fire originated is not
known. The first evidences of it
were in the Blackman ft Mclnnls
Drug store about 11:30 o'clock and
tor more than two hours it raged with
the resultant loss as follows: Blackman
A Mclnnis Drug store, 38,500.
with 33,000 insurance; Covington Co.. $
376,000, stock insurance about 60 per
cent; Covington company's buildings,
325,000, partially insured; Wright ft
Powers, stock 36.000, with 32,500 insurance;
D. K. Wright's building. 35,000,
partially insured; J. C. Covington's
building, 35.0C0, partially insured;
Southern Bell Telephone company's
office equipment, unknown. J.
E. Harrison, telephone operator, lived
over the drug store and all his personal
effects were loBt, as he and
Mrs. Harrison were away when the
fire was discovered.
Bennett Hedgepeth Hardware company
had a loss by moving out their
36.000 stock which was covered. Damage
to the 'Aelinda building in which
Bennett Hedgepeth compapy were
located was considerable from the
falling wall of the Covington company
building.
A lot of cotton was ignited from
falling sparks at the Atlantic Coast
Line depot, which is a loss to the rail- V
road, as it was covered by bills of
lading, ten bales being damaged.
Plan to Erect Potato Houses.
Greenwood.?Discussion of plans to
aro/tt atvaof
a wwv jrvjicxivs vui uifs uuiioua Willi #
a capacity for 100,000 bushols will
feature the next meeting of the dlrectors
and advisory council of the
chamber of commerce, ncnrding to a
statement recently given out. With
ten sweet potato houses alromly in J
operation or proposed, indications are
that next year will see the pota*r-h*~
dustry a potent factor in meeting boll
weevil conditions.
According to L. B. Altman, county
agent, farmers who this year had potato
houses are realizing good pro (Its
from their potatoes. A co-operative
potato house at Hodges in this couuty,
with a capacity of 20,000 bushels,
is being operated successfully, and the
potato association there has been offered
above $1 a bushel, run of house,
f. o. b. Hodges, for the entire contents
of the house. Other potato
growers have been offered $1.50 for
cured sweet potatoes.
A number of small towns and country
communities in Greenwood county
plan co-operative curing houses.
Ninety-Six is planning a 25.000 bushel
house. Klrksey, Woodlawn and other
communities are also contemplating
the erection of houses of large capacity.
'
Will Establish Poultry Plant.
Greenwood. ? A commercial, poultry
plant will be located In Greenwood
in the near future by Will Griffin, of
Newberry, according to a statement
by Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin proposes
to operate a large poultry farm, baring
selected Greenwood as the best
site in this section on account of its
unusual railroad facilities, which'
make it possible to ship both livs and
dressed poultry, day-old chicks and
eggs in many directions with 'the'
minimum loss of time. t j
York Cotton Yield Above Average, j
York.?That the 1921 cotton crop
for York county was one Of the largest
yields In years is disclosed by recent
government ginning figures, the
amount ginned being 41,092 In cniu-(
parison with 40,076 for 1920. Not oely
was last year's yield large, but It wa?
one of the cheapest produced cr>p?
on record, this being due to marked)
retrenchment in the use of comiuor-.
cial fertiliser and economy all along
the line. A large proportion of the
crop is still in the hands of the producers,
as they refuse present prices.
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fttudents Meet to Make Plans.
Greenwood. ? Completion of plans
for the annual state oollege oratorical
contest te be held here on April 21,
marked the meeting of the executive
council of the South Carolina Intercollegiate
oratorical association which
met here. Representatives of all the
male colleges of South Carolina except
the University of South Carolina,
whose representative could not
sttend, were present. No important
changes were made in the constitution
and by-laws governing the association.
^
Dr. Eaton to Visit" Gsffney. 4
Oaffney.?Officials of the Gaffney
Rotary club announced that Charles
fcubrey Raton, president of the American
Educational association, will
:om? to Oaffney on Tuesday, March 7,
to deliver an address along educational
lines. Dr. Raton Is pastor of
the Fifth Avenus Baptist Church In
rhiladelphia and ia far famed as a
public speaker of uncommon ability
md already great Interest Is being
nanifeeted locally in his approaching
rlslt. "America's Greatest Need" will
Mi the subject discussed.
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