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; ' ; . ' i " X -v.- ; f % & ? v! r' Established in 1891. . BRIEF HEWS NOTES what has occurhid during weik Throughout counTRY and abroad EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE SMlMNi From All Parts Of TIM Olobo And Told In Short Paraarapho r ' mmmmmm?m Foreign? The American firm of Belanger's Inc., at Bluefields, Nicaragua, has {ail ed. The liabilities were placed at three miilon dollars. Max S. Green, chairman of the Irish prison board, was shot to death in Dublin, Ireland, recently. He was s son-inlaw of the late John Redmond the Irish Nationalist leader. Numemps clashes occur almost dai ly in th^dail elreann, the feeling run ning high. De Vaiera continues t< press for recognition of the dail's su premacy, but the ministers of the pro visional government hold firmly thai they are supreme and responsible onlj to the public. Three persons were killed and 24 others injured, some seriously, in t disturbance at Tanta, Egypt, 55 miles north of Cairo, says a Central Newt dispatch from Cairo. Native soldlen quelled the disturbance and restoret " order. Japan is disposed to recognize th( UU'IOI. Kuvvmniuni UI riUBBia unciei certain conditions, it is learned it Tokio from an authoritative source. In structions to the Japanese delegates at the proposed Genoa economic con ference are now being prepared, bul have not been completed. . A strike affecting 90,000 coal min era in western Canadian fields it threatened for April 1. Robert Livett chairman of the scale committee ol the United Mine Workers of Amer lea, declares that a walkout is pos , eible in the event that wage reduo tlon announced were put into effect The territory affected is district No 18, comprising southern Alberta and ' part of eastern British Columbia. March 8 is the date set by Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Brit aln for fulfillment of his ultimatum ttp Austen Chamberlain, according to s * report in parliamentary circles. 11 by then hi has not received satlsfac tory assurances of the loyal support of the Coalition Conservatives, it h said, he will present the king his res lgnatlon of the premiershlD. which he la now figuratively carrying In hit pocket. Lady Scott, widow of Cupt.. Robert F. Scott, Antarctic explorer, who, with four other members of his party, per labed during a blizzard while returning from the South Pole early in 1913 married Lieut. Com. E. Hilton .Young financial aectetary of the BritlsL treasury, In London, recently. The ceremony was performed In the crypt I of the chapel in the house of com ( mons by the bishop of St. Albans. Aus ten Chamberlain, government leader lr the house of commons, gave the bride away. All Paris is awaiting the outcome of an effort by Louis I^tzarus, retir lng editor-in-chief of the Figaro, tc obtain satisfaction from the new edl tors or the newspaper tor their lnl * tlal editorial, to which he took of tense. M. Latzarus first challenged Alfred Capus, but the latter, who li 4 years old, told Mt. Latzarus' sec retary he had long ceased to be evet amused by* such challenges, and thai anyway It was customary that the younger man should be challenged when two were Jointly Involved, re ferrlng to Marquis Robert de Flers aged 50, his co-editor. W ashing ton? Dk Hubert Work, first assistant postmaster general, was nominated bj President Harding and confirmed bj the senate to be postmaster-general He will suceed Will H. Hays resigned A deficiency appropriation of $108, 415,287, approximately $75,500,000 lesi than the amounted requested by varl ous departments, is recommended it a bill reported by the house appropri atfons committee. The supremacy of the interataU commerce commission over state utlli ties commissions and similar staU bodies in matters pertaining to th< regulation of railroads has been estab lished by the decision of the United States Supreme court in the Wlscon sin rate case The case was ovei the higher rates put Into effect in Wisconsin under act of the state leg Islature of i920. The Supreme court has upheld a do olslon of the Oregon courts giving the government a Judgment of $18,204.84 Against Willard N. Jones, who had a fraudulent scheme of putting old soldiers on homestead sites in Oregon and then binding them up in contracts under which the land would ultimately fall to him. . Mr. Heflln, senator from Alabama, has so far been unable to get u congressional Investigation of the Federal wn Reserve bank at At]anta. Complete reorganisation of the naval reserve is proposed In a tentative bMl prepared by the navy department and forwarded to officials of the naval reserve association by Secretary Denby for comment before it is presented to congress. Includecd in the proposed act la the provision for a merchant marine reserve section and for certain merchant ships to fly a res *5WjLii} - 7-JiV" - . . r! *4i ti".'; . \ >J The Taking its first ratification roll call on the series of International core* nants negotiated during the arms conference, the senate ratified without reservation or amendments the treaty with Japan confirming American cable and radio rights on the island of Yap. A "demand'' was made on congress in a resolution. adopted at the closing session of the national rivers and har bors congress that It approve at this session not less than the amount of money recommended by the chief of army engineers as necessary for improvements of national Hvers and harbors. The hearing on the Ford proposal for Muscle Shoals, Ala., government , property has ended, and consideration . of other propositions will now be tak; en up. Thomas W. Martin, president of the { Alabama Power company, told the l house military committee that his k company had made a thorough study of power markets within a radius of 400 miles of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and that this company was surt that a hydro-electrlct power sufficient to Industrialize a territory 800 miles In dia* meter could be generated. The Supreme court, in a decision rendered by Justice Brandeis, has de^ clared woman suffrage in the United ' States to be constitutional. The Supreme court has held invalid I the Arkansas state law prohibiting 1 corporations doing business in that - state irom removing cases from state ' to federal courts. ' Francis I. Jones, director general of 1 the United States employment service of the department of labor, has been ' advised that employment agencies are r exploiting the people and preying up1 on the unemployed with prospective ' operations at the Muscle Shoals, Ala., J power and nitrate projects. L Domestic? Judge Julian W. Mack of New York i has been selected to serve the unex, plred term of Judge Kennesaw Moun[ tain Landis, whose resignation is al ready effective. Minor disorders accompanied the > re-opening of the Hope company's . textile plant at Hope Village, H. 1., in . the Pawtucket valley, with a score or 1 more of employees. William Q- McAdoo and Mrs. Moi Adoo will, in the near future, respond . to the lure of the wast and "open i spaces" and settle in Los Angeles, i Calif., permanently. 1 Kennesaw Mountain Landis, com missloner of baseball, who resigned as a federal Judge, will not go into polltics In Chicago, he has informed a friend in a letter, it became kiiown. Sylvester S. Shoemaker, 72, Memphis, Tenn., could not raise enough money to pay his life Insurance premium and suicide. His farewell letter to his wife asked her forgiveness. Five men held up and robbed William Orm8by, payroll clerk of the Palm Olive company, of ten thousand dollars just as he was getting out of a tuxicab in the company's Milwaukee plant. Mrs. Mollie Turner, Kentucky's first woman moonshiner in so far as it is known, is under sentence to serve three monthB in Jail and to pay a fine as a result of being convicted on that charge in circuit court at London. Ky. The threatened nation-wide strike of bituminous coal miners on April 1 may be averted, it is asserted in Chicago. if the policy committee of the miners will allow district presidents to frame state wage agreements with operators. Mrs. John Rupp recently told the Los Angeles police that she "kept ?- -? - " " I ..uuoo ivi iuo 911 urug peaaiera who t are said to have been implicated in t the murder of William Desmond TayI lor, film director. The police attach much importance to her story, and say that if her story is true, the murder mystery is solved. William F. Wendt, Los Angeles millionaire, formerly known as the "iron king" of Buffalo, N. Y., where the I courts recently held him incompetent, , has been found to be "mentally sick" r at a session of the Los Angeles county lunacy commission, and paroled to Mrs. Jean MoCracken. a court at. tache. It is planned to place him in , a sanitarium. The special grand jury lnvestjgating i the Lexington hotel (Richmond, Va.) , fire, February 7, found that the owners had been too prodigious in the , use of the word "new" instead of fix. ing the hostelry for the safety of the , lives of the guests and employees. tho/^ara daaoaoah ? "",j ?1 * * ~ , . ? u iiuunorcil nuuiu give IDS . country one of his broad smiles? if he I were alive. Mr. and Mrs. William Po. teet of Brownsville. Ky., have been . married six years, in which time, four , sets of twins and one set of quadru. pies have come to bless their home? twelve in all. Representatives of the manufacturi ers and of both unions involved in 1 the strike in cotton mills in Rhode I Island rejected the proposition of the | state board of mediation and conctlii atlon that the wage controversy be submitted to Judge J. Jerome Hahn, . chairman of the board, as sole arbiter. , Mary Plckford does not have to pay . Mrs. Cora C. Wilkenning any part of I the $108,000 which Mrs. Wilkenning claims was duo her as commission for getting the film star a raise to $10,000 a week, was the verdict of a federal Jury at New York. Six more indictments, naming ten men whose affairs have been investigated in the bucket shop inquiry, were . returned by the grand Jury, at . New York, and three more broker> age houses became involved in financial troubles and were forced to suspend. rUK ?p?? FORT MILL, S fjMFJJJ? j \" LARGE NUMBER OF SUICIDES IN 1921 * REACTION FOLLOWING WAR 18 BLAMED FOR THE LARGE NUMBER. ALL CLASSES WERE INCLUDED Ages of Suicides Range All the Way From Five to Hundred Years, With-Males In Lead. Ne^ York.?Reaction following the war was blamed by the Save-a-Llfe league for the large number of suicides in 1921, 20,000 of which were i estimated to have taken place in this country. The number of cases brought to the league's attention was 12,144, of which 8,410 were males and 3,734 females. "This waste of life, the result of recent disturbed economic conditions and the aftermath of war," said a re portby Henry M. Warren, president of the league, "has caused commercial failure, loss of employment and much real suffering. The growing complexity of our modern life, the feverish unrest, crimes, divorces, questionable dress, unhappy home relhHlons, the decline of religious senti ment and other things have caused deranged nerves, depression and less self-control. With Improved business, which is sure to come, the suicide rate will be reduced and prosperity and happiness will return.'' One of the striking features \)f the report is the increase in the number of suicides of children which was 477 in 1919. 707 in 1920 and 858 In 1921. There also were 509 war veterans among the suicides last year. All classes of Bociety were included in the list of those who took their own lives. There were 10 educators, 40 students. 51 school teachers. 21 I clergymen. 39 brokers, 57 judges and | lawyers. 86 physicians, 7 mayors, 88 heads of large corporations, 76 millionaires, 30 wealthy women and 93 bankers, including 37 bank presidents. The oldest suicide was 100 years old and the youngest Ave years. All sorts of reasons were given by the victims. One man hung himself | because his wife was "too good' for him; another' because his wife was ] spending all his money; another because he could not stand the noise of a neighbor's piano, and am;her because his wife refused to kiss him One spinster took poison, leaving a note that "no man in the world is good enough for me."' And a mother ' took her life because her son would not marry to please her. One man left a note stating "beware of grass I widows," and another killed himself | for "the good of the I. W. W." la i New York City there were 840 sui cides last year, an increase of 103 over 1920. ' - % Charged With Murder of His Mother. lti ? * ? nainiuuisi, miss.?ruur men living near DentviUe, .Miss., near here, identified Milton Drury, held in jail nere charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Ada Drury Converse, near that place, last January, as the driver of an automobile they had helped to pull out of the mud on January 11. near the scene of the tragedy, according to a statement by Sheriff Ramsey, of Sdpiah county, who has conducted the investigation into the woman's death. Two Funeral Services For Comedian. New York.?Two funeral services will be held for Egbert Austin (Bert) Williams, negro comedian, who died at his home here of pneumonia. The family services will be held Tuesday afternoon at St. Philip's church and a second ceremony will be held Wednesday afternoon under auspices of St. Cectlle lodge of Masons, of which he was a member. Collision Death Toll 8txteen. Cleveland. Ohio.?The toll of death from tho ool 1 lolon of n Vaxm Vnnir Central express thain and an automobile bus at Palnesvlllo crossing remains at sixteen, with probabilities that the three injured will recover. Nick Nenno. the sixteenth victim, died in a Palnesvllle hospital. Southern Colleges Receive Donations. New York.?The general Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation has donated $3.016.791 to various universities and colleges which are seeking to raise funds, it was learned. Among the donations were the following: Hampden-Sldney College Hampden Sidney, Va.t $100,000 towards $326,000; University ofChattn nooga, Chattanooga. Tenn., $165,006 towards $600,000; Preabyterlan Collo^n of South Carolina. Clinton, S. C. $125,"000 towards $375,000. \ Tied Up For Lack of Fuel. Washington.?Secretary Denby announced that he ordered 50 additional dest shyers %nd nearly three score auxllary craft placed out of commission to conserve fuel. The d?stroyer.? are In addition to the 100 ordered out of commission some days ago and will leave the navy 76 destroyers In full commission and 40 with heavily reduced complements aboard. Among other vesae's besides destroyers ordered out of commission are Ave fuel ships and one colli sr. j J * ' . 0., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 19 NEXT MONTH SET FOR PALMAFESTA COLUMBIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DECIDE8 TO STAGE GALA EVEHT. M1NAUGH MADE CHAIRMAN * / 1 Will Be Same Spectacular Event That Delighted Thousands of Visitors Last Year. i Columbia.?Palmafesta, an occasion of merrymaking, display and jollity to which all bouth Carolina looks forward with pleasant- anticipations, will be staged in Columbia about the middle of April, according to a decision arrived at the meeting of the directors of the Columbia chamber of commerce. | John L. Mimnaugh, well known merchant of Columbia, was elected genj eral chairman of Palmafesta an'd was promised the cordial support and cooperation of the members of the board. | At a former meeting of the board it | had been decided not to have Palmafesta this year on account of condi| tions. but James M. Green reported that 96 citizens had signed a petition | that Palmafesta be put on again this year and had agreed to put up $100 I each to meet any deficit that might nrise. Mr. Green estimated that Palmafesta tMs year would cost appro*! 1 mately $16,000. After the matter had heen discussed at length James G. I Holmes moved that the chamber of commerce put on Palmafesta In April and that John L. Mlmnaugh he made general chairman. This motion was passed. Palmafesta this year will be the same spectacular event that delighted thousands of visitors last year; there will be numerous attractions and displays with a style show, street parades and queens from the counties. The details have not yet been worked out, but (he committees will be appointed at once and plans will be pushed forward to completion rapidly. In a short time a meeting of citizens will be held at the court house at which plans will be discussed in detail. \ Reorganizing Cannery at Greenwood. Greenwood.?Plans for a cannery to operate here on a large scale are being drawn an^ actual work will begin within the next ten days, according to G. Allen Banks, president of the Dixie Land company, whose firm has organized the Greenwood Cannery company with a capitalization nf titO ftrtfl Under the plans being perfected by the local cannery, machinery will be installed for canning all sorts of vegetables, fruits, berries and sweet potatoes. A large potato curing house will be operated in connection with farmers to grow vegetables for the cannery and the promoters declare thnt it will be one step in assisting farmers to diversify and plant other crops than cotton. Takes French Leave. Chester.?Osie Qore, a very desperate negro, in some unaccountable way managed to get a hack saw and sawed his chains loose from his legs and made his get-away from the Chester county chaingang. A $50 reward has* | been offered for his apprehension. Several years ago he was shot through the head by a Charlotte police ofTlcer at Charlotte, while a number of years ago he was shot through the mouth at Tampa. Fla., while in trouble there. Gaffney Proposes to Cut Expenses. Oaffney.?The members of the town council of Gaffney held a meeting and discussed some of the policies for the coming term. The salaries of all the officials will be cut. and the police force will be reduced to four men the request of Mayor tt. A. Jones, mayor-elect, his salary will be reduced $100 per year. While the reductions are not drastic, it will result in a considerable saving to the town. Asked as to the personnel of the police force which will be elected by the new council, a member said that it was not discussed in the meeting, and that this matter would be decided later. County to Borrow Money. Oreenwood.-? For the first time In the history of Oreenwood county, the annual county loan has been awarded to a hank out9ide the city of Greenwood, the Bank of Ninety-Six having been the lowest bidder on the loan ror tne coming fiscal year. The Rank of Ninety-Six offered to loan the county $80,000 at one forfy-seventh of one per cent, or a total of $17.02. fit y thousand of this amount was for school purposes, and w-Ill enable the schools of the county to run their normal terms. Parker Likes Cake. Greenwood.?The local post of the Americsn Legion la making an effort to learn the name of the maker of angel food cake which was placed on board Marshal Poch's train when It passed through Greenwood December 9. a duplicate of the cake being sought by the wife of Alton T. Parker, national American Legion executive committeeman, who helped eat the cake. In a letter to the local post, Mrs. Parker declared her cook has gofce craty attempting to make an angel food cake LL T 22. TAX RESOLUTION IS ' PASSED BY HOUSE THE ROLL CALL BALLOT SHOWED NINE MEMBERS IN FAVOR OF KILLING AMENDMENT. CHIEF EXECUTIVE SIGNS ACTS i A Large Number of Local Acta and Statewide Measurea Were Given Approval. Columbia. The house of representatives, following the lead of the senate, passed the tax extension resolution over the veto of Governor Cooper by the overwhelming vote of 79 to 9. Debate on the resolution was unusually brief and was confined entirely to the arguments of proponents of the tax extension that the house should override the chief executive's objections to the measure. The resolution thereby became part of the law of the state and the- time for the payment of state and county taxes, under the provisions of the act, has so been extended until June 1st, with no executions to be served until September 1. Penalties are imposed" on delinquent tax payers as follows: For taxes paid during March, 3 per cent; for taxes paid during April 6 per cent; for taxes paid during the month of May 6 per cent, and for taxes paid during and after June, 8 per cent. Executions for unpaid taxes will be drawn up on June 1, but under the provisions of the resolution will not be placed in the hands of the sheriffs until September 1. Representative J. J. Evans of Bennettsville opened the fight to secure the passage of the resolution over the governor's veto, taking up the arguments advanced by the governor and liplnsln. ^.,1,1 ?.. ??. >. -V. UI lllffiup, O T 1VICI1V.C \\J I DlUlC LUCI11. I II*J objection raised by Governor Cooper to the proviso carried in the bill to allow persons paying their taxes by June 1 to cast their ballot as usual, that this provision of the resolution was unconstitutional, Mr. Evans contended, should alarm no one since this did not affect the other provisions of the measure. The governor had also been misled, he thought, in arguing that the postponement of the time for the payment of taxes would injure be state's credit. "Governor Cooper," Mr. Evans said, "has argued that the passage of the resolution will 'materially injure the credit of the state," forgetting the fact that the sheriff's gavel will fall on many homes in the etnte if it is not passed." T. K. Vassy of Cherokee, E. R. Buckingham of Aiken. J. O. Wolling of Fairfield and J. R. Bryson of Greenville also spoke in favor of the passage of the measure over the governor's veto, advanced practically identical arguments with those raised by Mr. Evans. Julius S. Mclnnes of Darlington then moved the previous question and the vote was taken on the passage of he resolution, the objections of the governor to the contrary notwith standing. Governor Cooper signed a number of acts, several of statewide Importance, the acts becoming law with the signature of the chief executive. The McElveen - McCutchen - LewisFord bill to regulate the fees for the selling of leaf tobacco on the floors of warehouses was signed. This act makes several changes from the old law. The measure to regulate the fees charged by sheriffs in serving processes so as to provide that a sheriff cannot charge mileage for serving af three or four parties in one community at the same time was another act to get the approval of the chief executive. Representative Bradford's joint resolution to give the general assembly power to regulate the state printing waq another measure to get the signature of the governor. Representative Foster's bill to require textile corporations to pay their employees during work hours was signed and became law. The Blease measure to provide for the borrowing of money by any school district in the state and to pledge the taxes for the payment of obligations made was in the list to be signed. The well known "corn cob" bill was another to receive the approval of the chief executive. Representative Duke's bill to amend the highway act so as to provide for the highway department to take over and maintain roads in towns up to 2,600 persons, instead of as now pro viaea. was anomer 10 De signed. A large number of local acts and other state-wide measures were given approval. The floance committee returned a favorable report on the ways and means constitutional three mill levy bill. The Simonhoff marriage license bill, which had been advanced from a second to third reading by a practically unanimous vote, was ordered recommitted on the motion of Representative J. R. O'Rourke of Charleston, the i vote standing 4ft to 35 in favor of recommitting the measure. This action I Is practically tantamount to killing I the bill as the time of adjournment Is I so near as to practically make it Impossible to secure its passage even though the committee should report it out again. The house, however, refused to apply the parliamentary clincher bv a vote ot 9ft to ii. ^ _ ? . v SUL . . * t I \:; t? . I'J. ;> IMES 1 After a general agreement ?w i reached \o include In the Atkinson public service commission bill an ; amendment so that the law would not break up existing contracts or interfere with municipally oVrned utilities, the senate, by an overwhelming majority, passed the public 3orvlce commission measure, thus ending the most determined fight of the legislative year. ' When the amendment to exempt contracts already existing and municipal plants were agreed to the whole fight on the bill practically collapsed, only seven votes being cast to sflke out the enacting words as against 31 not to strike out the enacting words. The bill was taken up and also the efforts to recall the Miller railroad | commission diu irom the hands of the governor, and the two matters were debated at length. Senator Miller led an untiring fight to pass the public service commission bill and to prevent the recalling of the railroad commission measure from the hands of the governor. He spoke for over an hour and h half and declared he was absolutely determined to see that the public service commission bill had a square deal for once. He spoke on the- effort to recall the railroad commission bill and declared that if the senate passed a concurrent resolution to ask the governor to return the bill the house of representatives would not for a moment agree to it. He said such a resolution would get no further in the house than "a Bnowball down below.'' The committee on military affairs made a favorable report, with amendments. on the bill to enact a new military code for South Carolina. The senate concurred in the house J amendments to the bill to incorporate | the Superannuate Aid association of j the South Carolina Methodist conference and the bill was ordered enrolled for ratification. Senator Luney's code amendment measure was passed and sent to the house. The Richland and Calhoun delegations' bill to provide for a bridge across the Congaree river at Bates ferry was advanced to third readiug with an amendment by Senator Pearce to allow for 8 per cent interest instead of 6 if necessary. This amendment was adopted. Several statewide bills were advanced to third, reading with the understanding that the debate come Auitiuniy 10 increase its capital stock from S50.000 to $60,000 was granted by the secretary of state to the Spartanburg Coca-Cola Bottling company. Authority to Increase Its capital stock from $125,000 to $155,000 was granted to the Charleston Warehouse and Forwarding company of Charleston. Authority to increase Its capital i stock from $6,000 to $25,000 was ! granted to Beaudrot-Belrs Quality i Shop of Greenwood. ? , Two New Charters. The Barron-Caldwell Motor company of Rock Hill was chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $20,000. Officers are: J. R. Barron, president and-treasurer; J. N. Caldwell, vice-president and secretary. The Johnson-McCracken company of dewberry was cbarteed with a cap'tal stock of $50,000. The firm will conduct a general mercantile business. Officers are: J. Duncan Johnson, president; J. Thaddeus MeOracken, Ire president, secretary and treaia* yrer. The free conference report on the J. O. Williams cutout bill was adopted. This report recommended that the j senate amendment allowing spotlights to be used where they are extinguish- ! ed within 200 yards of an approach- 1 ing vehicle be adopted. The report recommended the change of the title | of the bill so as to take i/i spotlights. The bill prevents the use of cutouts I 011 public highways. A concurrent resolution by Senator Goodwin providing that the general assembly adjourn sine die not later than 11:55 o'clock, March 11, was adopted by the senate. This resolution also forbids that the clocks of cne iwo nouses no run up or stopped. The finance committee bill to amend j the law in regard to fees for the in- I qulry and reporting of the origin of I fires was passed and sent to the house Senator Rogers' bill to regulate health and accident insurance companies collecting premiums by the week, or by the month, known as Industrial companies, and to levy a tax on their premium collection and to provide for the better supervision of such companies was passed and sent to the house. The finance committee bill to authorize and empower the tax commission to order an abatement or refund of taxes in certain cases was sent to third reading. The committee on education's measure to allow the state hoard of education to use its discretion in the selection of school texts upon which the prices have been raised was given its third reading. On motion of Senator Duncan the vote whereby the Sapp engineers' license bill was killed -/as reconsidered and the bill placed back on the calendar. It developed that the records of the senate had shown Senator Ragsdale voting to strike out the enacting words of the bill, when he was | not present. An unfavorable report by the finance committee on the bill from the house to authorize the governor to have the Washington monument in front of the state house repaired was adopted and the bill killed. Increase of Stock. . ^ * * *1 j i ;' $1.80 Par Tear. x ' Is MARLBORO SETS NEW RECORD Eleven Thousand Bales Signed In Week; Darlington Still Leads State In Number of Bales. Columbia.?All records In the.cot.on co-operative marketing campaign were smashed by Marlboro county when 11.032 bales were signed up in six days, according to a statement given out by officials of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative association. This puts Marlborfe county in second place. Darlington county having held its place in the lead of the procession. Sumter county is tfcii d and Dillon fourth. | Enthi? dasm in Marlboro for the I plan is declared to he ninnies' hl?h and S. E. Evans, the county agent, and E. Wallace Evans, the county director expect to sign 25,000 bales In that county within the next fewweeks. They have written headquarters they hope to overtake Darlington the coming week. Darlington, which now has approximately 18.000 bales signed, has been leading the state in the number of bales signed practically since the beginning of the campaign. Georgetown Road Pleases Drivers. Georgetown.?The people of Georgetown county have for the past two months and more been convinced by actual demonstration of the tremendous transportation advantages and the renl joy of riding over a first class sand-clay highway. The highway from Georgetown to Andrews was completed. concrete bridges and all. about the first of January, a distance of 18 miles. It was built with federnl aid ? under supervision of the state high way commission, and the maintenance work is being looked after by tho county authorities. The total cost ran up to nearly $200,000. making the cost to the county approximately $100,000, perhaps a little less than that. But ||?1 imllov aonn.o l,,oiinn.l In tk. ~?-.l that will accrue. The road is a perfeet thoroughfare for travel, and the intercourse between Oeorgotown and Andrews has been greatly Increased. White Men Attack Operator of Cafe. Chester.?Considerable excitement was caused at the Seaboard Air Line railway station when an attempt was made to rob a cafe. Tom Deakos, who operates the cafe, says three white men came to the cafe, and one asked to get a bottle of ale on credit, and he was in the act of presenting him with the bottle, when a second member of the party picked up a bottle of ale and hurled it at his head, while the third member of the party extinguished the lights. Then when everything was dark an attempt was made to rob him of his money. He fired' a revolver upward, not caring to Injure any member of the party, in the meantime making an exit from the rear door. Assailant Firi?rt LnaH nf Riicl/chnt Columbia.?C. P. King, of Pontine in a patient at tIks Columbia hospital suffering from gunshot wounds inflicted by the hnnds of unknown parties. Mr. King was shot while he was placing his motor car under a shed on his premises. The assailants used buckshot shells and the lead missiles fractured the right arm and punctured the right hip. SherifT Helse was immediately notified of the attack and he made a fast run to the scene. The county officer said Mr. Kinx was in the act of leaving his machine under a shed when some one concealed in a shed close by fired a load of buckshot at him. Large Volume of Llnters Exported. Charleston.?Eighty per cent of the linters exported from this country last year went abroad from Charleston. There was a concentration here of a large quantity of this cotton by the government after the war. There Is fAmnnrntlvnlu lit fin r\f #hl? vftlntno llnters left now at the port terminals, as, after It had been disposed t of by the federal authorities to private Interests, the hulk of It was sold In Europe, Germany taking a large portion of the export. During 1921 over 167,000 bales of llnters went across the Atlnntlc from this port, leaving on hand less than 50.000 bales. Many of the steamers going abroad from Charleston took llnters / along with other cargo. Germany finds varied uses for this cotton in making shoddy and other goods. j For Track Meet. Columbia.?Plans for the state track meet, which will be held in Columbia April 26-27-28, were discussed at a meeting of the committee In charge of the contest. The committee Is composed of T. H. Ilanna, Anderson; W. P. Crawford, Hartsville, and A. C. Flora, Columbia. It was announced after the meeting that a bulletin would be issued in regard to the meet by the university. It is expected that 60 schools will be represented. _ * Row at Barbecue Costs Life. Greenwood.?One man is dead and another shot through tho hi??i no a result of a brnwl at a barbecue on tho hanks of Saluda river about two miles below Dyson near the Newberry county line. The row is alleged to have followed a chicken fight to which participants are alleged to have come from Laurens, Newberry and Greenwood counties. The dead man is Meadors WilliamSon. a white man, who is alleged to have been shot by "Coon" Abrams, a young negro. _ 4 , v mISS