Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V 4 BIG m FOR THE iERIGHN LEGION ANNUAL CONVENTION WILL IE ✓ HELD IN HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. STRONG SPEAKERS EXPECTED It Is Planned to Make the Convention The Big Event of Tuesday DuHng Holding of State Fair. Columbia. Tuesday of fair week will be a big dag for the American Legion of South Carolina, for on that day the annual convention will be held in the hall of the house of representatives. Gov ernor Cooper will be speaker, and an address will be made also by either Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, or Henry' D. Lindsley, chairman of the national or ganisation of the American Legion. ... By the-time of the atata convention there will be a flourishing post In every county in South Carolina and each of these posts will be wt/ll repre sented at this meeting. T?tuyorgani- zatlon of the legion in Sou'Vb'Tarolina is progressing with marked success, and from all sections of the state, en couraging reports are being received. It is planned to make the meeting of the legion the hig event of Tuesday at the fair and the fair officials, no doubt, will do all in their power to co-operate with the officials of the le gion in making it such. Sanders Must Show Cause. Ju-’ge Ernest Moore has issued an order requiring Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the state peniten tiary to show cause why county super visors should not get convicts for county road work from the state pen itentiary. The case is brought in the name of Sumter county by L. B. Jen nings county attorney. Harris Questions Report “There is something rotten in Den* mark/’ says Commiss*oner Harris, in discussing the ootton situation. “Who is to blame for it The truth will come out In the washing, within the next 90 days and we will see who Is the best guesser on the ootton crop con ditions. Mr. Harris evidently is skeptical as to the accuracy of the government’s crop estimates and condition re ports. “I see,” says »Mr. Harris, "that the August 25, 1919 condition report is- A-end* 4h»i August. condition report for 1918 is 67. This is remarkable. In fact I have never known anythhig like this before. The estimate made for the 1919 crop is 11,230,000 bales. We all know that to take the situation In the entire cotton belt the cotton crop Is the poor est prospect that has ever been known since cotton has been planted, according to the acreage.’* Meet of Labor Convtntlon. Indications are that the fifth an nual convention of the South Caro lina Federation of Labor will- be the largest in point of attendance ever held in this state, according to a statement made by John. L. Davis, sec retary-treissnrer of the** state federa tion. An urgent invitation has been extended to Samuel Qompers. presl- time. Another death occurred when Ray mond Bayers of Cambridge, tried to escape from state guards who had rounded up a group of 75 participants in dice games on Boston common. Bayers was shot through the neck. Governor Coolidge today wired the secretary of the navy a request that naval forces be held in readiness for a call to supply additional troops for Boston’s protection. With six regi ments of state guards under arms, the governor has mobilized all the forces at his command. Possibility that the situation would develop into a general strike as the result of the action of the state branch of the American Federation of dent of the American - FedeF&Tton Labor, to address the convention. Mr. Gompers will attend If he can pos sibly arrange to do so. The secre tary stated that he had definite as surance from the international union of - plumbers and fitters, sheet metal workers, carpenters and Joiners and the typographical union that each of them would have an international of ficer in attendance. It is expected that there will be'at least ten inter national representatives of Interna tional unions present. The Staff to Attend. The staff of Governor Cooper will attend the reunion of the Thirtieth division to be held at Greenville, ac cording to an announcement made by tbe adjutant general. The staff consists of 40 men from various parts of the state. Dial Opposes Bill. Washington (Special).—During con sideration of a bill in the senate to extend the food control law to ctotb : ing and food containers and provide a penalty for profiteering, Senator Dial. Democrat, of South Carolina op posed tbe bill vigorously as an unne cessary extension of war purposes. Improve Rosds Against Winter. At the meeting of the state high way commission, federal aid requests to the amount of $83,090 were approv ed and considerable consideration given to the present condition of the roads in the state. • • ‘‘Roads in South Carolina are going to be as bad this winter as they were last. Unless steps are taken *to put them into condition to withstand win ter traffic,” said a member of the commission in speaking of road prob lems. Conference of Social Work. At a meeting of the executive com mittee for tbe state conference of so cial work, hild In Columbia, a tenta tive program for the meeting to be held at Sumter November 18 wae adopted. Among the features of the program outlined are included "The Home Ser vice of the American Red Cross,'* un der the direction of J. C. Logan of At lanta; "The Commission on Child Welfare,” under the direction of Wal ter B. Wilbur, of Charleston; "Work Among ^Juvenile. Delinquents.” han dled by Miss Olivia Connor of Char leston. Mrs. Ella G. Perry, superin tendent of the South Carolina Indus trial School for Girls, and others. Dr. John E. White, president of the Col lege of Anderson, will make the open ing address and will sound the key note of the conference. FIVE DEAD, SCORE INJURED IN BOSTON Some Success in Quelling Riots At* tended by Death and Injury to Population. Bos tori; Sept. 11.—The death today of a young woman believed to be Miss Margaret Walsh, brought the number of last night’s riot victims to five. The young woman was shot during the dis turbance In the South Boston district, where state guards fired into a crowd. Two men were killed at the same i •of' •fgrbor-tn-OT'dbrtog a sympathetic strike „ vote of the Boston unions tonight, was discussed on all sides. Carmen, fire men, telephone workers and several other organizations had already of fered their support to the police through delegates to central body. Traffic conditions in the business sections were greatly improved today with the assignment to duty of volun teer traffic officers and a squad of fif ty men composed largely of automo bile salesmen and chauffeurs. Public cooperation in the restora tion of law and order was sought by Mayor Peters In a proclamation in which he urged all inhabitants of Bos ton to do what they could to help. jn<OOD idea r Open your Xucky Strike pack age this way—tear off part of the top only. Protects the Lucky Strike cigarette—a ^cigarette made of that delicious real Bur ley tobacco. It’s toasted. Qp Guaranteed by i m m •*»<»aA'rco agiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaijBig^^ Prices Must Come Down. ~ ~ That the time has arrived when the retail and wholesale foodstuffs mar kets should reflect the decline In prices on primary markets, is the opin ion expressed by A. D. Oliphant, "fair price” commissioner for South Caro lina. ~~ Engineers to be Employed. - At a meeting of the canal commis sion it was decided to employ an en gineer or engineers to make a com plete survey of fhe canal properties for the state preparatory to pushing the case which the state has in force to recover for the people of the state the canal property from the Columbia Railway, Gas & Electric Company. The survey is being madfe for the pur pose of ascertaining the possibilities of the canal as a navigable body of water and also as a generator of elec tric power. Doctors Enroll for Service. Two responses to the call sent ont by Dr. C. V. Akin, assistant state health officer, for volunteers to work in case influenza should assume epi demic proportions during the fall, were received. Several days ago. In accordance with advices received from the sur geon general, the state health depart ment issued a. call for 100 physicians who would be willing to serve under the direction of the state health de partment during the fall and winter Should influenza become epidemle. State Leads in "Y” Work. T. B. Lanham, state genezal secre tary of the Y. M. C. A., received word from W. G. Carlich, secretary of the second general assembly of associa tion workers with boys, .which is to hold Its great conference at Blue r Ridge, N. C.. May 19-31, 1920, at which 600 of the picked leaders of associa tion boys’ work of the entire country will' assemble, that South Carolina baa beaten the entire country in Its registration of seven delegates to this assembly. South Carolins is the first ■tats to reach Its quota- Arretted in Raid. J. O. Kelly, state constable. Depu ty Sheriff Peele, Rural Policeman Rog ers and Jackson and Chief of Police Cunningham of Bennettsville made a big haul in Marlboro county a few days ago. Five white men. all resi dents of North Carolina, were placed under arrest. The officers destroyed 1,000 gallons of beer, seized 500 pounds of sugar and destroyed a 70- gallon capacity copper still. Piedmont Counties Join. B. F. McLeod, state manager of the South Carolina Cotton Association, re turned from a trip to Oconee and Pickens- counties. The campaign for members had been delayed in these counties because of local conditions. Mr. McLeod returned very confident, however, that both counties would go ver the top. Life Tniurance Losses. Life Insurance payments Ip Sonth Carolina in 1918 amounted to thous- ands of dollars, the state suffering heavily from the influenza epidemic and from pneumonia which followed close on the heels of influenza in many cases. Statistics recently compiled show, according to the Life Insurance Preas. that In 1918 In Charleston alone pay ments amounted to ’383,000, while In Columbia payments amounted to $276,750. Orangeburg comes third on the list with payments of 156,500. Total losses thronghout the state were $2,^97,37*. Shortage of Teachers. Public school superintendents and school trustees are finding much dif ficulty in signing up teachers for schools that, in many instances, be gin work in September. School offi cials are becoming uneasy over their repeated failures to secure satisfac tory tsAchers, and in many cases are probably beinr compelled to get what they can and not exactly what they want. Only the small boy Is viewing the situation with exefhplary compla cency and is rather hoping that the whole profession will go on strike. Bank Recerds Broken. Record breakIhg deposits have been reported by the banks of South Caro lina to the federal reserve bank of Richmond, the amount of money in current, or circulation, accounts and in sayings deposits being farcin ex cess of anything ever before experi enced in the history of banking In the state. Comparative figures Just com piled show, for Instance, that from January 1, 1917 to January 1, 1019. the tots! volume of deposits in the South Carolina banks increased more than 950,350,000 or 51.07 per cent. Clothing Circles You Can Economize __ / In Clothes Here 4 II THIS is an up-to-date store with a diversified fol lowing-young men, middle-aged men, elderly men, college men and youths early in the dignity of long trousers. . Each class demands definite details of styling, patternings, colors, textures and physical proportions in their clothes. Even men in the same general class are at variance' in their ideas. 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