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VOLUME 3CXXII
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932 ,
NEW TAX BILL
BEFORE HOUSE
Stirring Appeal By Garner For
Balancing Budget Meets With
Instant Cooperation. Success
Forecast for Pogram.
DID YOU
KNOW?
High Tariff Policy Is Now Wrecking
Our Foreign Trade, Says W. L. Clayton
IVashington, March 29.—Democrat-
‘ it* leaders 6f, the house hoped today to
put through their new tax program
with a burst of speed thht would dase
•the opposition and restore their lost
prestige.
Their carefully devised and conceal
ed progrram for making up $600,000,-
000 of lost .sales tax revenue was to
be presented to the house before
night, as soon as it is presented.
Speaker John N. Gamer in his first
speech from the floor this session will
demand fast action to balance the
budget. A drive will be organized to
force it through immediately.
By this strategy. Acting Chalirman
Crisp of the ways and means commit-• approach
tee hoped action might be secured be
fore those hit by the neAv taxe.s had
a chance to deluge the house with ob
jections.
•■It is^my desire,” he said, ‘‘to bring
the substitutes before the house—as
quickly 'as possible and to take them
up before we aie flooded with.tele-
gT*ams from ^those affected.*
Whether the plan" w-ould work was
a matter for s|>ecnlation. AKany rate,
Ju\
THAT—Larry Byrd Dillard is one
o^ the city’s diligent, dependable citi
zens whose friends are legion — both
in Clinton apd throughout the state.
Mr. Dillard was bom in this coun-
t>’ on April 18, 1880, at the old Dill
ard home place. His father was James
P. Dillard, who served in the Confed
erate army, 14th S. €. regiment, and
a son of Dr. Jkmes Dillard, who came
from Henry county, Virginia, to I.4iu-j
rens county as a general practitioner.
He used two horses for his widely-
scattered practice, and for a consider
able 4ength of time was the only phy
sician in the county. Mr. Dillard’s
mother was Irene Byrd, daughter of
Capt. Downs Byrd of this county. His
great*-grand mother w*as Mary Dillard,
who gave Sumter notice of Tarleton’s
towards Blackstock’s, His
World’s Largfest Cotton
Calls for Return To Jeffer^n-
ian Principles. Republican
Tariff Creates Eneni)& of the
Cutton Trade, He Adds. 1
The following is from an address
delivered at a conference of Texas in
dustrial and commercial leaders,-held
under the auspices of state research
agencies at Austin, Texas, Monday
■evening by W. L. Clayton, of Ander
son, Clayton & Co., Houston.
was
I
the Ways and means committee was
called into spe<*ial session this morn
ing to .sUn the 1^11 rolling.
The Ragon sub-committee
ready to report the new tax program.
It finished it at a four-hour session
la.st night. The plan was understood
to hinge around a five per cent levy
on automobile sales and seven per
cent on electricity, a tbree-^ent post
age Aate and levies on radios, phono
graphs and cosmetics.
These taxes brought a storm of
proteats when originally proposed by
the treasury- ^ ^ j:
Two items in the program were dis
closed. The committee announced it
had drafted an increased lev>—on
stoc-^i- exchange transactions with the
assistance of 'representatives of the
New Vork stock "Exchange and the
Nww York federal reserve bank. It
also decided to ifeliminate the conioli-
a^ed income tax provision un.ler wh’ch
corfiorations now balance profits of
one affiliate or subsidiary again.st
losses of another. This charge would
reejuire a tax to be*, paid on all profits
antf should yieht +roflv $80,000,QOU to
$100,000,000.
Bv acting swiftly, the Democats
great-grandfather, James Dillard, was
born in Culpepper county, Virginia,
(about nr).*!, moving to this county in
1772. In .\ugust, 1780, he was chosen
a captain in Col. Williams’ i*egiment
and served at King’s Mountain, ^lam-
hribnd’s Store and Towqiens. In'1782
he accompanied Gen. Pickens on an
expedition against the Cherokees. He
afterwards became a major in the mi
litia and died on Dec. 4, 1836.
As a young man Mr. Dillard moved
the early restoration of a fair market
value for this great crop.
“Over a hundred years ago, Thomas
.Jefferson said that the way to en
courage purchasers is tp multiply
their mea.ns of payment. In this coun
try we have adopted the opposite pol
icy. A disinterested onlooker familiar
lyith the post-war financial position
of^the world would almost be con
vinced that we had set about deliber
ately to destroy practically all means
of payment available to our foreign
customers. The close of the war
found the world deeply in our debt.
During the ten years following the
war, we did a very large export trade,
mostly on credit — thus further en-
C. E. Union To
Meet In April
Speakers of Note To Appear On
Youns: Peoples* Organization
Program At Kingfstree.
The South Carolina Christian Fm-
deavor union will hold its ISth annual
convention at Klngstree, April 8, 9,
and 10. The Rev. .W. T. Palmer, D.D.,
pastor of the Presbyterian* church of
Manning, will deliver the opening ad
dress Friday night at 7:30, and Dr.
John MoSween, president of Presby
terian college, will deliver the closing!
“Texas and Oklahoma alone lave
this year furnished the world with
one-fourth of its supply of raw cot- , • • j j ^ au a
, V ix. larging the indebtedness of the rest
ton. For the seven and one-half i «ru
months of the present cotton season
more than 4,000,000 bales of cotton,
or two-thirds of our total cotton ex
ports, have sailed out of, Texas ports
for various parts of the world. Near
ly half of it, strange as tt may seem,
has gone to the Orient, the cradle of 1
cotton. In addition, nearly 2,500,000
bales are*now lying in storage in Tex
as ports and the great bulk of this
must also eventually find a market
abroad.
“The transportation cost to land a
bale of Texas cotton in .Shanghai or
Bombay, or Kobe, half way around
the world is less than the cost of de
livery to a South Carolina mill. In-
de<‘(l, the fivight on a bale of cotton
to Clinton "from his country home in i fro,m fjouston to .Shanghai, some 10,-
the Sandy Springs section, in the fall ooo miles, is less than it is from Dal-
of 1901 and accepted a position as
salesman with J. Arand P. S. Bailey,
making his home at that time with
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey. On
Aug. 31, 1907, he entered the gents
furnishings business with F. M. Bo-
,,land, under the firm name of Dillard
« Boland. In 1910 J. Will Dillard pur
chased Mr. Boland’s interest in the
firm and it then operated until 1922
as Dillard t Dillard. At this time he
acquired Mr. Dillard’s interest and
since that time has operated the busi
ness under his own name as sole own-
"""“"TopeTTp^gaTfTpresUg^^
sales Ux debacle and thus meet such
' arguments as that advance^ over the
ra<lio last night by RepresenUtive
Will Wood, Republican, Ind., chair
man of .the Repui>lican congressional
campaign committee.
.Wood contended the Democratic
leadership had show'n itself inade
quate in the tax fight. “They have
er.
On Nov. 14, 1914, Mr. DUlard mar
ried Miss Wrenn Flafner of Chester.
Their three, attractive daughters,
Masg Howze, Irene and Flmily, are
members of the eleventh, ninth and
fifth grades in the city schools where
they hold commanding positions and
are making envirfile records.
DilUr*! this cityt -ftTur sisters, Miss
Lila Dillard of Hendersonville, N. C.;
Misj^. .MarjLJH]J.grA.
.lessie Dillard Young of this city, and
Mrs. C. B. EKiott of Columbia.
Mr. Dillard is one of the city’s pop^
uar young business men and has al
ways typified those qualities and -vir
tues that count for a higher-standard
of citizenship. His pleasing personali
ty, his- uniform courtesy, kindness and
consideration to all with whom he
comes in contact daily, has made and
las to Houston,* under 300 miles. The
cheapest transportation in the world
today is the power-driven vessel on
the high seas. F'ortunately, the sea
still remains free — about the only
thing left in the world that is free.
With our remoteness from American
mills and our easy access to the sea,
tip wonder 86 to 90 per cent of the
Texas and Oklahoma cotton crop is
marketed abroad.
‘ “Can any one doubt our deep and
compelling interest in these markets
and in the buying power of our for
eign customers? Unfortunately, that
buying power, ds measured in price,
has given Texas $300,000,000 less for
this yeai~i cotton crop than a simi
lar crop should have brought at the
price of three or four years ago.
Three hundred million dollars is a lot
of money and every^itizen of Tex
as, indeed every citizen of the United
Mr. Dillard has two brother, John States, should be deeply interested in
H. Dillard of Augusta, and 'W.* FI
of the world to us. When our econoni
ic .situation commenced to show strain
and stress in 1928 and 1929, we sudu
denly discontinued further foreign
credits* as we certainly had the right
to do. This then threw our foreign
customers on their own resources to
pay for their purchases from us and
the interest on what they owed us.
“Only two means of payme? v wor«
open *to them, the shipment of gold
and the shipment of goods. Except
for F>ame, we already -had most of
their gold. As for payment in goods,
promptly closed that nu-t''o(l by
the passage in 1930 of the ll.»wlev-
.Smoot tariff act, carrying the high
est rates of duty ever put into law in
this country.' ' ,
“Month by month the figures of the
department of commerce regisUm the
unparalleled success of this measure
as a destroyer of our foreign trade.
We had ample warning that it w’ould
do 80, hence acted with our eyes wide
open. Almost the whole world has re
taliated. In the past two years prac
tically every nation in the world has
increa.Hed its tariff rates,, or imposed
import quotali or restrictions of some
kind. At least one class of our exports
has increased heavily and that is the
export of branch factories to Canada
and England and other countries in
order to operate behind their tariff
walls. * '
“Cotton’s greatest enemy is not the
boll weevil, but the tariff. The boll
weevil deatroyt a portion of the crop;
the tariff not only destroys the means
of payment of those who would buy
the. crop, but adds heavily to ihe cost
of making .the crop and Ihus impbse.x
a double butden.’’
the Baptist church, Kingstree; the
Rev. J. E. Clark, pastor of the Meth
odist church, Kingstrt'e; the Rev. F'.
K. Garrison, presiding elder of Kings-
tree district, Kingstree; the Rev. .lohn
L. F'airley, D.D., of. Richmond, V’a..
the Rev. S. K. Phillips, Colunvbiu; the
Rev. .Joseph H. i'udlipp, director of
religious t'xlucati'on of the Synod of
South ('arolina, Columbia; the Rev.
t'lartmce F], Piephoff, (irwnville, and
the Rev. P. I). Miller, edut;^atii>nal sec
retary, home mission board of the
Southern Presbyterian, church, .\t-
lanta, Ga.
'Two interesting features of the pio
gram will In* a young people’s service
conducted by the young pt‘ople of In-
diantown, and reports from the eight
district preside ns.
The entertainment features will
consist of a social hour under the di-
,rection of Mrs. Carl G. Henderson,
recreational superintendent of the
State ChrlstiaTi Endeavor Union of
Walhalla, on FJriday night at*the con
clusion of the program, and a fish
supper on Saturday night.
The officers of the State ('hristiaU
Endeavor union are as follows: the
Rev. J. W. Davis, president, Kings
tree; the Rev. R. H. Ratchford, asso
ciate president, Greelyville; Miss Le-
ola Hines, secretary, Seneca; "Miss
Frances Glenn, treasure.r, Columbia;
and the Rev. S. K. Phillips, director
of finances, Columbia. |
An attendance of a large number of
young people from every section of
the state is anticipated.
CONFEREES At
WORK ON BILL
Makinic Progrress In Draftinir
New MeaASure. Legislature Ex
pected To Adjourn At End of
This Week.
Columbia, Marclr 29?=^.*\njotTir re<io-
lution submitting the 18th amendment
to a popular vote in thi^ year’s Demo
cratic* primary wa.s defeatecl in effect
by the house tonight when debate on
*^t was adjourned until .April 15.
. , , , Over the protest of the re .oJution’s
address on Sundry night at S o clock, sponsors a motion by Repi csenUlive
Other speakers appearing on thejCb E.!^Jones, of I/e.xington, l.o postpone
convention pro^am are as folowa:: cU'bate was caiTied, 19 ty 17. The vote
the Rev. James WfM!t*'”**v, nastor of|wa.s in about the same ratio that the
C’ooke bill to repeal the state prohi
bition laws was defeated.
City Primary
Comes In June
College League
—rxzr ” 'tr—
Ppens Today
demonstrated they are unable to gov-1 held for him a wide circle of friends
ern themselves, and therefore it land an extensive acquaintanceship,
stands to-reason they cannot be ex jHe is a past president and charter
pected to govern the country,’’ he j member of the Clinton Kiwanis club
said in what apparently is to be a Re- j and one of its most active members
Pre(4byterian and Indians Meet
In Newberk'y In First Game
of Seaaon.
publican campaign cry.
The house appeared to 'le in a good
mood for any new tax plan. It show
ed a dispjasition throughout yesterday
to follow its leaders.
Baptist W. M. U.
Meets At Warrior
— ‘The 'annual meeting of the V\’. M.
U. of the Laurens association will be
held at Warrior Creek church Satur
day^ April 2, at 10 o’clock, Mrs. F:d-
win B. Young, of Wayne, .Neb., Miss
Bertha Smith, of China, and Mrs. L.
L. Carpenter, of Gaffney, president
of the northern division, will be on
Likewise, he is a charter member of
the Chamber of Conrimerce and has
always done his part through this
organization for the community’s ad
vancement. He holds membership in
the following additional organiza
tions: Knights of Pythias, .Masonic,
Junior Order and Odd Fellows. He is
a deacon in the F'irst Presbyterian
church and since his infancy a devot
ed member of this denomination. In
1912-1.3 he I'cpi esented ward two as^ a
member of city council.
Mr. Dillard’s hobby is athletics —
alwa)'8 manifesting a keen interest in
all sports at Presbyterian college and
is an ardent backer of the college stu
dents in all their activities.
The iresbyterian college baseball
schedule, as recently announced,
shows “that the Palmetto Intercolle
giate baseball loop, of which P. C. is
a member, will begin activities this
afternoon. The Blue Stockings’
first game will be at Newberry col
lege. The second game of that series
will be played the next day, also at
Newberry. ^ j , _
'The first home game will come
Monday, April 4,^ when the (Carolina
Democrats Will __
~ ReorganTze^oon
Executn F . AppoiirtR
Enrolling Committees To Pre
pare Rolls for Contest.
a -J
Precinct- Meetings To Be Held
In Every Section of County
On April 23.
■ In accordance with the rules of the
Democratic party of South Carolina,
the precinct meetings will be held
throughout every county in the state
on Saturday, April 23, for the pur-
llope F'or Adjournment '
V Columbia, March *29. —- Announco-
un*nt that the free conference com
mittee would attempt to bring tint its
se<.*ond report on the general appro
priations bill in time for sine die ad
journment this week was made as the
general assembly opened the 12th
wt-ek, of the session today.
TTle six conferees held morning, af-*
ternoon and night sessions. Other
than to say they hoped for termina
tion of the session this week, little
news emanaie<l from the eommittee
room. The conferees, it was presumed,
were discussing pq|f<ibil^ies of cut
ting the bill belo^ the ^,2r».'),000 to
tal provided in the first report, re
jected overwhelmingly by the house.
By a nearly unanimous vote the
house again today moved to extend
the time for payment of county and
state property taxes until June I
w’ithout the 5 per cent penalty, sched
uled to go into effect April 1.
A “bob-tailed” bill providing tnis
was approved and sent to the senate,
after amendments sponsored by Rep
resentative Senseney, (’harlesteu,
were adopted. He argued coastal
farmers had been financially embar
rassed by recent frosts.
Some weeks ago a joint resoluti-jn
authorizing an extension until Jun» 1
was sent the governor, who vetoed t.
The house over-rode the v<to but tee
Nenate refused to do so. A. J. Beattie,
comptroller-general, then (authorized
an extension until April 1, when toe
5 per cent penalty is to be added. A
1 per cent penalty for the months
January and FVbruary now is in for' e.
The senate did not return until i
o’clock tonight. With the end of ♦'le
session possible soon, numermis “b*' -
tailed” bills - appeared on the ho
calendar. There, was a rush to get \v
ried legislation through.
The city DemotTatic executive com-l The senate bill authorizing esti'-
mittee met last Thursday evening at Hshment Of" cash deposit(»rie.s wis
the call of the president, Dr. Duiiley ann*nded, passed on third reading a nl
pose of reorganizing and electing del-
riv(
egates to the county convention which
in turn will reorganize and elect dele
gates to the state convention to be
held in the .State Capitol on Wednes
day, May 18th,
- AlLpresidents of precinct clubs* will
brganize their clubs and the clubs
Jones, to appoint enrolling commit
tees in the respective wards and plan
for the primary otr the second Tues
day in June to’name a mayor and six
aldermen for a two-year term of of
fice.
le following enrolling committees
named;
leturueil to the senate for com urren *o
were
in amendments. A number of safv*'-
guards have been thrown around the
bill, including a requirement that of
ficers be bonded.
A provision that the defiositoii.M
might advance loans to aid farmeri
J.
: 'was stricken out. The hill’s purp-ne
Wkrd 1*—Mrs. Russell (h)oper, .Mrs, 1 is to aid towns without banks by a!-
B. F'rontis, .Miss Mayme I^eake. i btwing establishment of the dcpo.i-
Ward 2—A. Ross Blakely, Mrs 'toiies.
Clyde l.ankford, V. I*. Adair. | Apprcjval was given a senate SM
Warr) 3—W. K.'Denson, Walter A.' retaining the number of members f
Johnson,-R. J^ Pitts. '.the railroad- eWnmU-iion at sev,en.-
Ward 4 — (Joyne L. Simpson, MFs.
Gamecocks* come here for a two-day
engagement. The season will end with
a two-game series with Carolina on
May 3-4 in Coluutbia.
P. C. will play a total of sixteen
games during the season, eight at
^ome and the same numlber on the
will elect officers and UHinc delegates"' He^nnis Sowers, Wm. Brooks Owens
to the county convention. ^ ‘
road. Two two-gam€ series will be
the program. Attention is called to
the fact that the meeting this year is
being held several weeks in advance of
the usual time.
Death Claims^
•1
Fanners Meeting
At Shady Grove
r
There will be a farmers meeting at
the Shady Grove school houye Friday
night, ApriL*'l, ‘at 8 o’clock. Cotton
-fertilizers Will be discussed. .All the
farmers in the Tabernacle and .Shady
Grove communities are urged to at
tend this meeting.
The meeting wMl be conducted by
S, P. Harris,-teac’nt r of vocational ag
ricUlture at thi; dush River
school.
GIFT FOR THORNWELl
Fldna Jean Baldwin, one-year old
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
j P, Baldwin of this city, died last Fri-
I day afternoon from whooping cough
and pneumonia following a’ critical
illness of several days. The funeraP
service vvas held from the residence
of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. McMillan, on .Saturday afternoon
with Rev. H. 0. Chambers and I>r. D.
J. Woods in charge. Interment fol
lowed in Rosemont cemetery. The
large number of friends, the beauti
ful flowers, the eyes wet with tears,
high j these united in a rare tribute of re-
I membrance tp the little soldier who
bore her intense suffering so bravely.
played with each team in the league.
All games will be played on .M'^mday
j and Tuesday, or Thursday, and Fri-
j day, except in case of rain on the last
; game of the series, when the play-off
] game will come on Wednesday or Sat-
Little Girl
The complete schedule follows:
March 31-April 1 — Newberry at
Newlierry.
April 4 and 5—Carolina at P. C.
April 1 and 8—f^lemson at P. C.
April 14 and 15—Erslcine at P. C.
April 21 and 22—Clemson at Clem-
.son.
April 25 and 26—F^skine at Due
West.
April 28 and 29—Newberry at P, C.
May S and 4—Carolina at Columbia.
The meeting of the ejuhs, precinct
and county, will he followed by the
opening of the books of enrollment
and later in the sj^mmer by the (;oun-
ty campaign.
County Contests
Friday Evening
Gijie commi.^sioner is ele< ted fr mi
'•lich congressional (fi.strict, which hci*
to be iciiuced to six The old congre*
Mc.Ncace, FMward Ray, Jr. si(tiial <ii.siriets will l>e known is
Ward 6R. W. f Phillips, Mrs. F'u- “railroad commission districts.”
nice Bagwell, .Mrs. Nell Howard. .Marion Grcs.'*eite, ( alhoiin, oppo-*-
Entry fees for candidates were fix- cd the bill, contending that one
ed tfs fidtoWSF MayWFy $20.IMI; abler- niissioner shouh! he eliminated, h*it
i men, $.').00. .Sei'tft'ai-yAjuiury, $50.00; , he wa.s defeated. to 11.
! managers of election $2.00 per day j A hoii.'e bill was approved cK*Lngiug
, Two vot4p|f precincts wbre provid- Lhe imme of the Ktate^ Industrial
edT the ('luiton iClijl box at the band .<eho(d for Girls_ to-the South Ca o-
Thc annual county high school ex
pression and declamation contests
He
, , , . „ , . . , I five ancTsix will only
will be held together this year, with Glinton mi
Information has been received here
of a bequest of $1,000 to the Thom-
well orphanage in the will<rf Mrs. J.
M.-High of Atlanta, fil^d liwt Satur
day. Mrs. High, a wealthy AtlanUn
and life-long friend of the local insti
tution. died last week.
. t ——
Ray Pitta, Bobby Steer and Joe
Worlfean, atudenta at Clemson col-
Edna Jean was a bright little girl,
loved tenderly by all who knew her
for her winsome and attractive dispb-
aition and loving manner. Her pdr-
Methodut Men
To Meet Again
The men of the Broad Street Meth
odist church will have a supper again
on Tuesday evening, April 5, at 7:30
eat? have the heartfelt sympathy of j o'clock. It will be held in the Masonic
many friends in their great loss.
She is survived by her parents, four
sisters, Sara Frances, Elizabeth, Alic8
and Catherine, and one brother, \V. P.,
Jr.
Are spending the spring holidays
with thepr-parents.
Garrard Johnson and Thurston
Gilim spent the week-end in Atlanta
with Dickey Blumberg.
hall on South Broad street. Commit
lees are at work endeavoring to se
cure a good attendance. All men of
the church are urged to attend. Plates
will be 26 cents each.
An interesting program is being ar
ranged and a good time is promised.
It is likely that a permanent organi
sation will be effected at this time.
the girls speaking first. These con
tests are to be staged in the I.,auren»
school auditorium on F’riday evening
at 7:30.'F^lementary speaking contests'
will be held at the same hour in the!
F'ir.st Baptist church of that city. Rep-j
resentatives for both meets are re-;
quested to be present at six o’clock to
decide upon the speaking order. The
county spelling contest will- take place
in the afternoon at 3:30. Rules gov-j
ernihg the contests have been for- ’
warded all school principals in the
county. They have no connection with i
the high school league, but are con
tests sponsored by the county teach
ers association.
stand for yrards five and .six; police ^ Una Keformatorv for Girls.
head(;uarter8 for wards mu*, two,* .•\ emicurrent rcAolutioTi reipie.st’ng
j three and four. The comir^tec fur- the state board of_fisheries to extend
j ther ruled that the voters in wards? the shall .season from .\pril 1 to April
he allowed to itmn coastal counties, and to Ap**’'^
1 box.-It was I 2.5 in interior counties was approve'!
also ruled that ab.senlee voters will lie and sent to the senate after a fight
allowed t*) vote under the stat u.** of ; for the measure by Representalive
the absentee voting clause of the Davi.-^, Georgetown.
state D'dmcK*ratic chib.
All details pertaining tcc the bold
ing of the election w(*re placed in the
handvS “Qf the newly elected secretai\^.
H. L. BicheJberger.
V
Abrams Enters
Mayor’s Race
Cotton Ginnings
Exceed Last Year
Former Sen. Dial
Has Operation
('otton ginnings !n Laurens cou*i-
ty for the sea.son just closed exceede<l
the ginnings of last s«*ason'liy ne.i’'iy
3,000 bales, ac*cording to figures
j sued from the eensu.s bureau ar. i
young made public March 21. The ginnirgs
for the county this year were 37,H»v.i
bales, as compared with 35,044 bales
H, Y. Abrams, well known
business man of the city and proprie
tor of Abrams Barber Shop, announc
es 'his candidacy in today’s pajier for;lHst year. The total for the state wa.i
mayor of Clinton in the/approaching 1,010,325 bales, as compared wit h
primary. He is the second caiTiSi'*date 11,01 .'>,273 bales last year, total
to publicly throw his hat in the ring, t otton crop for all states was 16,59'.,-
for this office. ! 780 running halgs *of|^■17,060,772 equiv-
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Mr. Abrams is at present a member alent .>00-pound bales. The total crop
' city council as representative from I la-st year was 1.3,755,518 running
Washington, March 27.— Former I of
Senator N. B. Dial of Laurens, was ward six, and needs no introduction to, bales
operated on here yesterday at the Clinton voters, since he has lived) Spartanburg county led the state v)
Episc'opal Eye and Flar hospital for a i practically his entire life here, during | production with 81,602 bales. Ander-
cateract on one of his eyes, h was
said by attending physicians today
that he had stood the operation well
and that in all probability he would
be able to leave the hospital withinj
C the next two weeks. > ,
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which time he has always exerted his > son was second, Orangeburg
influence for the advancement of the! Greenville fourth, Marlboro
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city’s interestii He liXs many friends York sixth and Laurens seventh.
who will welcome his announcement,
and who are certain that he will be
a formidable candidate.
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Charleston county had the smi
^production wHh 740 bales, and
was next lowest with 920 b<slti«