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Established in 1891.
. BRIEF HEWS NOTES
what has occurhid during
weik Throughout counTRY
and abroad
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
SMlMNi From All Parts Of TIM
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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
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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
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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.
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LARGE NUMBER OF
SUICIDES IN 1921
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NEXT MONTH SET
FOR PALMAFESTA
COLUMBIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DECIDE8 TO STAGE
GALA EVEHT.
M1NAUGH MADE CHAIRMAN
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Will Be Same Spectacular Event That
Delighted Thousands of Visitors
Last Year.
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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.
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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
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TAX RESOLUTION IS
' PASSED BY HOUSE
THE ROLL CALL BALLOT SHOWED
NINE MEMBERS IN FAVOR
OF KILLING AMENDMENT.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE SIGNS ACTS
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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
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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. ^ _
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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