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^ '''' ' "* ^ GfNERNOR SIGNS REVENUE MEASURES GAME PRESERVE BILL ALSO GETS SIGNATURE; HEARING8 ON OTHER BILLS. a >V INCOME TUX BILL PASSES Vote Close After Two Days of Continuous Debate; Fifty-five Hour Textile Bill Passed. Columbia. Governor Cooper signed the inhehitance tax and the gasoline tax acts, these being the first of the new revenue measures to become law. The governor strongly recommended the ' the measure in his annual message and when the bills were passed by the general assembly and ratified he did not hesitate to afTlj his signature t to them. The gasoline tax provides for two v cents a gallon on every gallon sold or distributed in South Carolina, which, it is estimated, will bring in around $750,000 a year or maybe a little more. One-half of the money collected from ,the tax will go into the general fund and one-half to the ' counties for road maintenance and construction. The inheritance tax is not calculat ?d to bring in much revenue this year as the retroactive feature for 1921 as originally contemplated was stricken out However, the act will bring in from $150,000 to $300,000 a year after this year, according to estimates. These two measures are the first real important acts to be signed by the governor this year. Another measure of Importance to the low country that was signed was the gamp preserve bill providing for a tax on All {arsons, firms and corporations, etc., oldlng more than 600 acres of land as game preserves. The tax is 10 cents an adre up to 20,000 acres, 26 _cents an acre from 25,000 acres to * ~6iF.dpO acres, and above 50,000 acres, 60 Scents an acre. Thia tax is to remain in the county where collected. . ' The governor heard parties interested in the university trustee bill and the Gerald arbitration bill. He heard a number of parties interested in both measures. The chief- executive is inclined to veto the trustee bill, it is understood. The Wells tax extension ^ resolution is also in the governor's hands as are a number of other measures. The senate passed the select committee Income tax bill framed largely on iha Unna aumrnol *?? O * ? vm v<*v iimvo pu^fscoicu ujr oouniur o. H. McGhee of Greenwood and pro? vidlng for a tax of 25 per cent of the amount paid to the federal government. The vote came aftqr nearly two days of continuous -debate. In a nutshell the bill attackp all the federal statutes, rules, regulations and other enactments into the South Carolina law and provides that the tax commission shall enforce it. Every person paying a tax to the federal government will make a copy of the return to the federal government after this year, but for 1922 only an * affidavit Is required to what was paid to the government. Every person, firm, corporation, etc., paying a tax to the-federal government must pay 25 per cent of snch tax to the state government. The 55-hour textile bill waB passed and returned to the house without a murmur against it. The amendments were proposed by the .committee on eoanlaerce and manufactures in the form of a substitute bill to eliminate useless matters from the house bill, those promoting the measure said. Senators Ybung, Pearce and McOee were named on the free conference to the J. O. Williams cut-out bill, the house refusing to adbpt the senate amendment allowing spotlights to be u?au ?ucu VU1>7 WOID WIOIUMIIN LM\t yards from an approaching chicle. Senator Miller's bill to amend the law in regard to the registration of legal instruments was sent to the house without opposition. The confcnittee oa banking and insurance returned without recommendation the bill of Senator Williams to prevent unlicensed foreign fire insnrknee companies or aaeociatloas'from doing business in the state; to prevent persons in the state from taking fire insurance on property within the state in unlicensed foreign ire insurance companies or associations. Senator Belles' bill to require the sinking fund commission to insure i school hpuses nqd school buildings ! against loss or damago from wind storms without additional premiums , was advanced to third reading. { The moving picture license tax bill was advanced to third reading with , the understanding that the discussion come then. The senate finance com- , mhtee's amendments striking out the , v ' tax on films and substituting a dl- , rect tax on theaters ranging from , S10 a 'theater a year to $160. according to the else of the cltf and the , eosting capacity, were adopted upon , (motion of 8enator Pea roe. I Representative Foster's bill to re- ] on ire textile Industries to pay their emnlOyeu during work hours was < passed,and ordered enrolled for rati- < fication without .objection. , ' W; ^ 'y- -;X " The I Senator Bethea's bill to regular at* torneys' fees In cases of notes, mortgages or other indebtedness or instruments of writing was passed at the day session and sent to the house as amended after the senate had refused to strike out the enacting words by a ote of 21 to 15. The bill provides that in such cases only a "reasonable" fee may be taken by attorneys aud If the parties cannot agree as to s "reasonable" f?e the courts can decide. The bill fs framed to prevent 10 per cent collections on promissory notes, etc. An amendment of Senator Watkins, which was adopted, struck out the clause where "r-rinfrort?" >>?<) ready been made. The general apropriatlon bill of the ways and means committee was sent to third reading upon motion of . Senator Gross, chairman of the finance \ committee. The bill is still in the j hands of the finance committee, but 1 the debate always comes on third reading in the senate. The "bad check" bill of Representatives Sheppard and Barnett was advanced to third reading with the fight ,to ?cotne then. Senator Harrelson moved to strike out the enacting words, but withdrew this motion to let the bill be advanced. Representative Barnwell's measure to amend the law so as to allow mechanics to sell property they have repaired if their services have not been paid for within two month's, instead of 12 as at present, was advanced to third reading. Senator Yo-^ig introduced a bill to amend Act. fW 105, approved March 13 ,1919, entitled "An act to authorize any or all incorporated cities and towns within the state to levy and enforce an assessment upon abutting property owners for the purpose of paying for permanent improvements on their streets nnd sidewalks," and to confer additional power in relation to special assessments and to provide for, etc. The Leopard measure was also sent to the senate without further opposi uoa. < in lis amended form the bill provides for an annual tax of $250 on all dealers in cotton, grain, stocks, bonds and other commodities for future delivery upon commission. The license fee will not be charged, however, when actual delivery is had. The Richland county Bupply bill was also among the number of measures given their third reading and sent to the senate while the ways and means committee bill to require the levying of tho three mill constitutional tax for school purposes was advanced from second to third reading, both without opposition. Representatives M. M. Johnson of Camden and F. W. Toole of Aiken introduced a bill to require all transient dealers in merchandise, selling and delivering goods by motor trucks to pay annual license fee of $100 for eaeh truck load. The various county authorities, under the provisions of the bill, would be empowered to re- ' duce the annual tax from $100 to $50 Y; I / FOR' ? TOST HILL, SEEKING HS FOR OWmUGTS YOUNG MEN'8 BU8INE8S LEAGUE OF 8UMTER TAKES INITIATIVE IN CO-OPERATlNG. WILL CANVASS THE GROCERS "Trade at Home" Campaign With Ob|ect of Having Sumter County Produce UAd In Local Markets. Sumter.?The Young Men's Business league is-about to begin a "Trade at home" campaign with the object of having Sumter county produce used in local markets as far as possible. One group of the league, composed of George C. Warren, captain; J. A. McKnight. II. E. Parker, J. Z. Hearon, C. J. Lemmon, James Cuttino, H. L. McCoy, F. M. Cain and Hugh G. Brown, has this subiect in hand to study and Is getting to work on It. They are going to canvass the grocers to see which of them use home products, which of them ^vill use them, and what quantities .they are willing to use. Ttio group will then take the matter up with the county demonstrators and other agents to get posted on what is to' be had and to put the buyer and seller in close touch. It is expected that tjje retail buyers will help create a market for home goocfe by asking for Sumter meal, Sumter hams and so forth when they go shopping. Another group of the Young Men's Business league is working up poultry products. The question of having hatcheries located here is betpg investigated. These hatcheries use about 4,000 eggs a month and they would have tb be supplied from local poultry raisers. The group is working to induce more people to make a business of poultry raising and is finding out about city markets. The committee at work on this proposition is composed of J. H. Levy, 8. F. Stoudemire and W. M. Levi. Another committee of the league is that on trucking and fruit, composed of H. A. Shaver. C. L. Strauss and J. C. Bryan. C. E. Hurst, O. W. Warren and H. P. Moses have been appointed to took into the feasibility of having a barbecnie an<T having at it representatives from other business organizations from other cities. Standing committees, the membership of which has been recently announced, are: Tobapco industry, S. L. Roddy, F. M. Moise, W. J. CroWson, Jr.; new enterprises, R. A. Bradham. D. R. MeCallum, H. P. Moses; lunches, F. M. Hall, chatrmnn. The president of the "league is Herbert R. Moses, and the secretary is Edward S. Buok. To Put Wires Underground. Florence.?At its regular meeting the city council passed to second readincr ?n r>rH Innnro I - U W.WIMWBSVV ?C\|UII III ICIO* phone, electric light, telegraph companies and all other concerns maintaining poles and wires to place the wires underground. The ordinance, without doubt, will pass Its third reading and will then become law. Under the ordinance the companies are given 60 days after Its passage to begin work of laying the wires underground and nine months in which to complete the job. A penalty of $100 a day attaches for every day the law is violated. Robbers Visit Little Mountain. Newberry. ? Robbers entered the stores of Counts & Shealy and W. P. Derrick, of Little Mountain and broke open their *wo big Iron safes. They succeeded In securing $326 in 'currency, $60 in silver, $15 in gold, $500 In T IKo.tv W/..J - u>uvi?/ iiuuuo, fiwu in wir anviugi Bt&mps and $365 In cbecks. Two hundred and froty dollars of the above amount belonged to the express company, Mr. Derrick being their agent at Little Mountain considered It safe In ' his big Iron safe. ' 1 Hauling Fertilizer. HartsvHle.?Farmers of this section are taking advantage of the good weather to haul fertilisers. Quite a lot is being distributed. Hear 8unday Again. Spartanburg.?Rteps are being ttfken now to send a-special train from Spartanburg to Charleston. W. Vs.. to take a party of Spartanburg people to the revival which Rev. W. A. Snuday will open there. The train will leave here March 27 and return March 30, thus giving those who go a chance to hear Mr. Sunday preach four sermons. The" engine will carry in front of It a huge sign 4x6 feet with the Inscription: "In God We Trust, and Believe In Billy Sunday. Spartanburg, S. C." Sell Cotton In Gaffney. Oaffney.?Considerable cotton has been sold in Gaffney this week, the 1 increase in price having the effect of 1 moving much of the staple. Farmers i of Cherokee, almost without eacep- < tion, say that they intend to reduce their acreage this season and plant ' early, as they believe this Is the < only way to successfully combat the 1 boll weevil. S. C. Stribling, county ! demonstration agent, is advising thie < course, and the large majority have ' indicated a willingness to take hla 1 advice. ' ' * on small trucks. The bill was referred to the ways and means committee. Senator Molse's bill to fix the powers of circuit judges at chambers also occasioned a fight, especially upon the part of Senator Laney, who declared he had been fighting just such bills to grant default judgments at chambers for years and intended to continue his fight to prevent any such law. He said this was not the time for such acts. After the amendment proposing that default judgments be obtained at chambers was tabled and other amendments offered by Senator Moise adopted so as to clarify the present law, the bill was passed and sent to the house. Senator Moore's bill to mend the criminal code so as to provide for tho forfeiture of weapons to municipalities where persons are convicted of carrying concealed weapons was advanced to third reading. The house refnsed to concur in the amendment of the senate to the J. O. Williams cutout bill providing for the use of spotlight when the lights are extinguished within 200 yards of an approaching vehicle and the senate Insisted on the amendment. A free conference will work out the differences in the bill. Senator Crosson introduce*! a Joint resolution to authorise the sergeantat-arms of the senate to employ and direct such laborers as may be needed during the session of the general assembly in the senate chamber. To Improve Ssrvloe. The South Carolina Railroad Commission has issued orders to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, instructing it to install a double daily passenber service on the Walterboro branch of the Atlantic Coast Line between Ehrhardt and Oreen Pond. The trains are to be operated under practically the same schedule as was In effect prior to the operation of the mixed train Bervire about a year ago. This service, according to the order, is to bo operated for 30 days as a test out. Mill at Gaffnsy Given Charter. The secretary of state chartered the Alma Mills. Qaffney, with a capital stock of $600,000. The mill will manufacture cotton yarns, cloth and other textile products and generate 3team and electric power as well as lo a fanning, grain mill and general mercantile business. W. C. Hamrlek Is president and treasurer and W. C. Hamrlek. Jr., Is secretary. The Conway Building company was ihartered with a capital stock of $10,-, >00. Henry L. Scarborough is presl y -J - :"->v V- . - . ~y -. -/? . * r Mi S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUAB ' : / GENOA CONFERENCE TO OPEN APRIL 10 I PREMIERS LLOYD GEORGE AND POINCARE AGREE TO POSTPONE CONFERENCE. IN FOUR-HOUR CONVERSATION Reach Full Understanding Regarding the General Lines of the FranceBritish Treaty. Boulogne, France. ? Agreement to the postponement of the Genoa economic conference until April 10 was reached by Premier Polncare and France and Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain at their conference here. The conference originally was called to meet March 8. Mr. Llo^d Qeorge said- aftef the conference there would be no necessity for a further discussion of the Franco-British pact as both parties wero entirely agreed as to all its essentials and that the pact would be ready for signature in a few days. The two premiers by the& meeting broke the deadlock into which a brief trial of long-range discussion after the old diplomatic style appeared to* have led them on questions concerning the Genoa conference. This was accom luiniiea in a iour-nour conversation during which they reachod a full understanding not only as to the conditions under which Hie Genoa gathering should be held and its postponement until April 10, but also regarding the general lines of the FrancoBritish paot. "There is nothing further to be digcussed about the pact," Mr. Lloyd George said after his interview with M. Poincare. "We are in perfect agreement on all the essential points, and the document will be ready for signature in a few days.'' ' The question as to whether disarmament would be discussed at Genoa was not mentioned. Both parties expressed great satisfaction at the results of their talk. Premier Poincare left for Paris and Mr. Lloyd George motored off on his return journey about the same time. The official communique issued af ter the conference read: ^ "Messrs. Poincare and Lloyd George met in a four-hour talk, during which they examined in a most cordial spirit a certain number of problems,.particularly relating to Genoa. "They agreed on the political guarantees to be secured in order to prevent encroachments either on the rights of the League of Nations, or on the treaties signed since the peace conference or the rights of the allies in reparations. "The experts of the different powers will meet in London soon and the Italian Government will T>e asked to call the Genor conference for April 10. "A complete understanding was reached and i two premiers carried away with them the certainty that the entente may confidently be expected to produce the best results, and that there are no difficulties of a political character that stand in the way of the two nations working." Shoots Wife and Cuts Her Throat. Miami, Fla.?Edgar C. Frady, president and treasurer of the Chicago Automobile Sales company, shot his wife probably fatally and cut l\is own throat at a hotel here, according to police. Both are in a hospital in a critical condition. Fruits From Chile In New York, New York. ? One hundred tons of peaches, melons and vegetables, the full capacity of the ship's refrigerating plant, were landed from the steamBhlp Essequtbo, from Valpariso and other Chilean ports. The movement of South American produce to a northern market first attempted in experimental way last fall, has becbme successful enough to warrant its continuation, Chilean consular officials announced. Will Not Affect American Attitude. Washington.?Postponement of the Senoa conference, it was said in official circles, will have little influence an the attitude of the American government toward its participation, unless it affords the nations of Europe ? desired oportuntty to see their own houses in order before the delegates gather. Entry of America to the proposed conference is a matter contingent more upon the agenda to be considerad than upon the time or place of the meeting, it was said. Landru Pays Death Penalty. Versailles, France. ? Henry Desire Lnndru, "Bluebeard of Gambia*,'' convicted of the murder of ten womeji ?nd one youth, gave his life in exchange for the eleven he had taken. The triangular knife of the guillotine 'ell at 6:05 o'clock, 25 minutes after he time originally set for the execu:ion, the delay causing many to express the erroneous opinion that LanIru was making a confession. Myste-ious until death, Landru resented father Lotsell's puery as to whether le had any confession to make. f " % x T HHi JjJLi t j T 28, 1922. BRIEF NEWS NOTES; WHAT HAS OCCURKED DURINQ ^ WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN- j TRY AND ABROAD < EVENTS OMMPORTANCE ? c SrtNrH- From All D.>4. n4 ta. r Glob* And Told" In 8hort c Paragraph* Foreign? 1 Pope Plus announced the appoint- t ment of Monslgnor John J. Swint, of ( Weston, W. Va? as auxiliary bishop f of the diocese of Wheeling, W. Va. ( The Genoa conference will open t March 15 or 23 instead of March 8, , as originally planned, it is announced ( It Rome, Italy, because arrangements f have not yet been completed. ? Lady Feodora Gleichen, unmarried daughter of the late Admiral Prince i Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, died l recently in Londoh. < It is stated in dispatches emanat- 1 ing from Dublin that the Irish fac- * tlons have come to an agreement < wherelfy it is hoped that peace will be i established. " 1 Several persons were wounded at 1 Belfast in a fresh outbreak of firing on ' the East Side, said to have resulted from a vendetta against saloon keep- 1 ers of that section having Sinn'Fein c sympathies. Military guards were sta- s tloned at all the saloons in York 1 Street District. * Nearly 12,000 miners in the Pennr- 1 roya district went on strike recently 1 in consequence of an announcement by 1 l their employers thnt they intended to I reduce the miners* wages 25 per cent, i | The strikers' ntfttiifta an in ' but they express determination not to return to work, declaring it is tm- , possible to live on diminished wages ] while every article of consumption is, j increasing in price on account of the ( now customs duties, says a dispatch t from Madrid, Spain. ( Peter 'Ceregin, head of the Russia i religious sect known as the Buckhob- ( ours recently confirmed "reports that i he had suggested a plan whereby the children of the colong under ten years < of age, together with the aged Ihid in- f firm, be drowned as a protest against f alleged exorbitant taxation. Once rid < of those unable to travel, Veregin pro- ^ posed that his followers abandon their t farms and wander over the country, < preaching the coming of Christ and liv- , ing as the "vagrant working class." t A London dispatch says that Ainer- ( ica joined in the prpises of A. J. Bal- t fcur, head > of the British mission at t the Washington conference in his wel- j come to the homeland, when the Amer- t lean ambassador, George Harvey, ad- t dressed the Pilgrims' Society dinner < at which \hree hundred persons were { present. The duke of York represent- ^ ed the royal family and the others j Included ministers of the cabinet, civil , and military leaders and official and j unofficial represenatlves of the Ameri- | can community. It was a "personal welcome" for a groat pilgrim, according to Lord Curzon, In contract to the official welcome accorded Mr. Balfour by th<5 government luncheon recently. W ashington? The senate failed to decide what it would do with the resolution of Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, providing for an investigation in nlleged political activities of the Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta, Ga. Iiurton B. Sweet, Republican member of the house from the third Iowa district, announces he will enter the Republican primaries in June as a candidate* to success Senator Kenyon, who will become a federal circuit judge. A movement to establish a prohibition bureau as a separate government agency distinct from any of the deportments was understood to be gaining favor in officials circles. Legislation to the end, it was said, might be introduced in congress in connection with the consideration of the proposed scheme for the reorganization of the administrative departments of the government. c Consideration was continued by both j the war department and the hovse mil- t itary on the question of disposing of f the government's power and nitrate ? projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., to private enterprises or completion and operation. To write in the proposed contract c a definite guarantee to produce- fer- " tlllzera in their finished form at a given annual mltilmum tonnage; to ? capitalize tho operating company which is to be created for the purpose of supervitins the Muscle Shoals operations; to revise the language of the so-called farmers' clause in order to f ; insure the delivery of fertilizers from * tho producing plant to the consumers d at a profit not exceeding 8 per cent 1 j>ased on the cost of manufacture. c These are the*three changes that Her- ^ ry Ford agrees to make In his bid for 1 the Muscle Shoals property. '' President Harding has informed the flenatj .that ho cannot comply with its S runnnol #/>r " *vP *u" J ?...?. w. .evuiua ui ?.u?j tuurpower 11 Pncilfc treaty negotiations because no u such records ever existed and because c he considered it incompatible with the public Interest to reveal "Informal and p confidential conversations." A resolution designed to bring about t the recall from England of Ambassador Harvey was introduced by Repre- v sentatlve Ryan, republican. New York, ti The measure proposes a congressional 11 investigation of statements made by fl the ambassador while abroad. u *' >';%>* ' ? ' ? V [MES Administration leaders In the sen* ite cleared away many of the obstacea In the pathway of the four-power Pacific treaty by indicating that they vould accept without a fight a blank>t reservation drafted to cover the obectlons of those who oppose unrelerred ratification. Di*/arenoes between the Republicans if the senate finance committee and he houee ways and means committee ?ver tariff valuation principles were eccntly aired at a three houre' secret inference without any tangible conre ce result. The Joint congressional service pay sommisslon completed its work recenty and ordered favorably reported to he house and senate a bill providing i new basis of pay for the personnel >f the army, navy, marine corps, coast kuoiu, puunc ueaun service, ana mo :oast and geodetic survey. The measlre, its framers hope, will save the jovernment ultimately a total of $28.>00,000 annually in the pay of the ilx services based on the present itrength of each. The condition of the wheat crop durng the first half of February ranged rom "generally good" in the East?rn section of the country to only 'air in several of the middle Western states, according to a report by the lepartment of agriculture. Conditions n the far Wesera states were said to 3e favorable. The state of the winter *ye crop was reported as gcneally ;ood. Investigation by a special senate ommittee of his charge that officials >f the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank ind of the federal reserve board, had >een responsible for a movement to mrb his attacks, was recently proKJsed in a resolution introduced in ho senate by Senator Ilcflin, Demorat of Alabama. flnmoc !/" . l?VAA1VO 11V Governor Lee M. Russell, in a special nessage to the legislature at Jackson, Miss., charged the old line fire insurance companies which withdrew from he state last year following instituion of anti-trust legislation, with fosering the $100,000 seduction suit filqd igainst him by Miss Frances Blrkhead >f New Orleans,. his former stenog-apher. The Roma, largest semi-rigid aircraft in the world, made a careening jwoop down from the clouds. Sho shuddered as her huge bag came into contact with high-voltage' electric vires 200 feet from the earth. Then ;here was a deafening roar and a towering sheet of flame. The giant turned turle and, keel in the air, crashed ;o earth at Norfolk, Va. Thirty-four >f her human cargo?army officers ind few civilians?were thrown ino or about the blazing wreck?and eerished. Eleven others, some of .??ui iciiimj uijureu, survived. ui lie survivors three were not hurt. 3uch is the story of the greatest disister in the history of the American irmy air service. As in the case of the ntal explosion of the ZR-2 over Hullcnglan, last August, the airship was ine purchased from a foreign governnent by the United States. The ZR-2 was purchased by the navy from Great Britain. The Roma was sold to the irmy by Italy. Milton Drury, former cotton mill worker, of Winona, Miss., a son of drs. Ada Drury Converse, whose parially burned body was found near ^lazlehurst, about ten days ago, is jeing sought by Sheriff H. E. Ramsey, it Copiah county, for questioning in connection with the crime. With the arrival of four companies it Rhode Island coaft artillery at Pawucket, following the most serious riotng of the New England cotton mill 111 me, me city was very quiet. Chief of Police Talbert arrested a nan at Concord, N. C., suspected of peing Edward F. Sands, who Is wantsd In connection with the willing of William Penmond Taylor, the movie ilrector. In California. Judge Morris, In the United States llstrict fcourt, Wilmington, I>el., recenty granted a dismissal of the complaint, wfth costs to the petitioners, 'or a receiver for the Columbia Graph>phone Manufacturing company. The wife of Rev. Thomas N. Denny, fr., aged 33, dean of New Orleans Colege, Delaware, Qhlo, has preferred ibarges against him for non-support. Je disappeared last July, and she hought he had suicided. When she ound he was alive, she filed charges ?f ^non-support against him. The Nebraska board of education ias decided that Instructors In any >f the Nebraska normal colleges hereJter will ?be refused leaves of absence o study or attend the Universities of Columbia, Chicago and Northwestern, because it has been shown that stulents at these Institutions smoke clgaettes, especially the women." Supremo Court Justice Mullan of Jew York denied application of Edith Celly Gould for an order vacating the llvorce decree obtained in Paris some ime since by Frank J. Gould. The ourt set forth that the action had not ieen brought in good faith by the ac rese and that "the limit of her hope 3 to coerce the defendant." Fifi Potter Stillman, father of Mrs. itillman, who has been in the limeIght for some time, died in the eubrbs of Richmond, where he had reently gone from New York. The Nashville, Tenn., electric light lant was recently gutted by fire, with n approximate loss of one hundred housand dollars. Lieut. Clifford E. Smythe of Chicago rrote his father after the first trial rip of the Roma in Washington, that >. would be criminal to attempt to ly the dirigible unless some Improvements were made on the vessel. .. mam &SSBB t $1.50 Per Tear. " ' 1 ? FUR LOSE LIVES IN FIRE Wife and Three Children of C. E. Monte Perish In Flames Which. Destroys Their Home. Aiken.?Mrs. C. E. Monts and three of her children were burned to death in their home here shortly after midnight Flames had largely enveloped the house when Mr. Monts was awakened, and in his efforts to save his wife and children he was seriously burned and Is a patient in a hospital here. The dead are: Mrs. C. HI. Monts, about 85 years' old; Eugene Monts, oldest Bon, 16; Clarence Monts, 14, and Eugene DuBose Monts, between two and three years old. Mrs. Monts wa^ the second wife and before marriage was Miss Nannette DuBose of Washington, Oa. * * Mr. Monts Is ticket agent for the Southern railway here and is a hlirh. ly reBpected citizen of the community. It is not known how the fire sarted. Appointed Chairman of Publicity. Columbia*? Mrs. W. P. Cornell of * the diocesan headquarters of the Episcopal church, has been appointed chairman of the department of publicity for the dlocebe of South Carolina and a member of the advisory commission on diocesan publicity of the national church. This commission has just been recently established with William Hoster, newspaper man; at its head in New York city. News bureaus are now being formed in all of the 90 dioceses and missionary districts of the United States and these will co-operate with the national bureau. * Working with Mrs. Cornell in this diocese the following publicity men have been appointed: The Rev. A. S. Thomas, rector of St. Michael's church of Charleston; the Rev. Walter Mitchell, D. D.. rector of the Porter Military academy of Charleston; the Rev. H. W. Starr, Ph. D.; the Rev. H. D. Bull, of Charleston, and the Rev .Tnhn s Llghtbourne, of Georgetown. The oresent plan is to establish a diocesan bureau at the diocesan headquarters, 1019 Sumter street, Columbia. - j Completes Highway. Conway.?The last link In the Conway-Nicholls highway has been co upleted near Bayboro and, considering the extremely bad weather of the la't fewNveeks, is in fine shape. This gives Conway two main improved highways Into other counties now. The Conway Marion highway has been completed more than a year. On the ConwayNichols highway a road is being built from Tabor, N. C., to Whitevillo, N. C., where It strikes the Wilinlngton-Charlotte-Asheville highway, thus giving Horry another splendid outlet. "Flu" Closes School. Honea Path.?The Honea Path high school was closed by the local board of health for a period of one week on account of an epidemic of influenza. Out of 42 pupils enrolled in the high, only about 20 were present for roll call, and it was after this that the board of health decided that it would be best to close the school for a few days. The type is very mild, accord ing 10 a local pnysician, and the situation will be easy to handle if the people of the town will obey the rules of the board of health. ^ - Heavy Loas in Firo. QafTney. ? Claude B. Poole of the Poole-Oriffith company, whose warehouse and contents were destroyed by Are, estimates the Toss of the company at between $30,000 and $40,000. Mr. Poole said that the loss is practically covered by insurance, but that four trucks which were badly damaged would be a total loss as no insurance was carried on them. There were a number of cases of matches stored in the building, and it is the general opinion that the Are was started by rata and matches. i Laurens County Teachers Meet. Laurens.?At the monthly meeting of the Laurens Connty Teachers' assoation the feature of the session was the excellent address by Professor Traywlck of Wofford college, who spoke on the aims of education. A well arranged program, including department subjects, was carried out, being led by the county superintendent of education. 8partanburg Man 8h?ots Burglar. ' Spartanburg.?H. P". McOee, a former president of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce, and a leading merchant, shot and killed a negro burglar In hla home on Rast Main street here. The negro walked fnto a bed room of the home In which Mr. and Mrs. McOee?were and discovering thalr presence started to retire when Mr. McGee snatched a pistol from the drosser and fired four times and followed the man into an adjoining room where he fired two shots, all of which struck the man, killing him instantly. To Install Wireless Telephone. Mc.Ooll.?The Pioneer Club of this place has secured a wireless telephone receiving apparatus. The device will be equipped with tbe attachment for magnifying tones and will be used to give public concerts from the station in Pittsburgh. Local pastors hRve arranged for use of the equipment to bring tho voicee of noted evangelists to their audiences here. ' This club, which has been In existence for two years, is becoming one of the most influential organizations of Its kind In this section. I N i ? *