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AMERICAN MAKES NEW I RECflRI EDWARD STINSON AND MECHAN ICIAN IN AIR MORE THAN v ' , TWENTY-SIX HOURS. 4 ESTABLISHES WORLD RECORI Suffered Intensely From the Bitte Cold?Stinson Unexcelled as Stunt Flyer. Mineola, N. Y.?The Larson mono plane piloted by Edward Stinson which broke the world's continuoui flying record of 24 hours. 19 minutei and 7 seconds, descended shortly al ter 11.15 a. m., after having been ii the air 26 hours, 19 minutes and 3! seconds. Stinson, stationed at Kelly Field Texas, during the war, as a civiliai instructor, because of his delicat* health, probably trained more Ameri can flyers than any one man. Although more widely known to th< west than in the east, Stinson ha; participated in many big meets here His acrobatics attracted particular at tention during the Pan-American aero nautic convention in Atlantic City ant he was labelled a whole "flying cir cus." Happiest in an airplane, he climb! into his seat with as little concern a! the average citizen goes out for i motor ride. The love of flying run! in the family, for two sisters?Mar Jorie and Catherine?also are adep pilots. The pump used to inject oil into th? lubricating system from the auxiliary oil tank, went out of commission at J o'clock. The flyers punctured th< tank sat nn a tamnorarv tube anc begun feeding the lubricating systenr by hand, taking turns at the controls of the plane and at the oil tank. Both men were almost blinded bj oil when they descended. In additior they were suffering intensely from th< bitter cold, for although the plane was equipped with a cabin/ Stinson hac not left his seat in the open cockpii since 4 a. m.. and his mechiniciar found little time to seek shelter. Three fingers on Stinson's right ' hand and one on his left were frozen Bertaud's hands were numb. / Stinson who hails from San Antonio Tex., and Bertaud, whose home is ii New York, were a sorry looking pail when they stepped from thdir ma chine. Their faces were smeared with oil and their eyes bloodshot. Neither had had a wink of sleep since they toot off and Stinson said his only nour ishment had been a little coffee Newspaper men found difficulty in in terviewing Bertaud. who had beer deafened by the roar of the motor. DEBS FREE3_ASACTOFBRACf His Violation of War Laws Unfor given by Government, Says Mr. v KJ, ... Washington.?Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader, was granted his free dom from Atlanta federal penitentiary on Christmas by President Hardinf eolely as "an act of grace.'' His vio lation of the war laws remain unfor given by the government. This was disclosed by Attorney ' General Daugherty who made puhli< the text*of his recommendations t( the President in the Debs case. "It will be observed." Mr. Daughor ty said, "that a pardon was not giant ed Debs, but that his sentence was commuted. The action of the Presi dent in no wise condones the offense and relief was solely an act of grace The gratitude of Debs will be meas ured by his conduct in the future." The administration's theory of ac tion in the Debs case, according t< -Mr. Daugherty. is to be < onsiderec as the government's policy in rela tion to others imprisoned for viola tion of war laws, of which classes o offenders "probably no better cast could be selected." he declared, thai that of Debs. President Is Optimistic. Omaha. Neb.?Belief that the na tional business situation is goint to improve in 1922. was expressed by President Harding in a message madt public by the Omaha Chamber of Com merce in connection with an enter tninment in honor of traveling sales men who work out of Omaha. Presi dent Harding said it was his earnes hope that the traveling men "wil continue in the coming year the splen did work for American business nn< national confidence which they havt always conducted in the past. Dead Babies Remain Unburied. New York?The communists in Mos cow and Petrograd are reveling in lux uries of life while starvation is takini heavy tolls in the interior district! and heaps of dead hahies remain un buried. Carl R Floete, the America] relie fadministrrtion's representativ* in the district of Pugatchov. declared H? had just returned to this country I enine rode around Moscow in a luxu rious automobile, he declared, one the women's display of jewelry an< expensive furs outshone anything eve seen in any ot?jf city. Plans to Help Farmers. Washington.?President Harding it a letter to Secretary Wallace of th< department of agriculture, asked tha the latter call a national eonferenci at Washington to "suggest practica ways of improvement'* for the "seven agricultural depression which exist throughout the land." Prompt actioi was taken at the department of agrl culture in response to the request, tel egraphie invitations being dispatehe< immediately to a number of organiza tions and individuals. Date for th< meeting has not been set. RAILROADS PLAN TO I INSUREJODKER! . MANY RAILROADS OF COUNTR MAY FOLLOW STEP OF THE DELAWARE & HUDSON. ] BOTH LIFE AND OISABILIT Group Insurance For All Who Hav Been With the Company For Six Months or Longer. New York.?Many railroads of th * country soon may insure their en , ployes, it was indicated after tlv s Delaware & Hudson company ar s nounced it had taken out group lif - and permanent disability insuranc i for everyone who has been on it > payroll six months or more. Large insurance underwriters sai , that other railroads were negotiatin i for similar protection for their en j ployes. Each Delaware and Hudson en ploye of two years' standing wa ; insured for $500, and those in th 5 service six months btit less than tw j years for $250, the company to pa I the entire cost, and the men to st . j lect their own beneficiariea. ] I At death the insurance will h . paid in a lump sum, and to perms nently or totally disabled worken in monthly installments. A plan b 3 which the workers banded in clas 3 groups could increase the amoun 1 to a maximum of 15,000 each, th 3 company to pay part of the addi tional premium and the men th remainder, was also announced. I) addition the company said it had ai ; ranged for the workers to takej ou r "at exceedingly low 'rates" insui ' ance against accidents not coverei ; by the workmen's compensatioi ' laws, loss of work through sicknes ' and also unemployment. 5 Employes leaving the service fo any reason can exchange ' their cei r tificates without medical exgminatioi l j for policies of the same amounts i! paying the regular rates for thei 5 ages at the time of substitutions. I Groups of employes, consisting o t not less than three-fourths of thos* i ; in any one class, who desire insui ance above $500, must apply for i t before March 31, next. For each ad . j ditional $1,000 the insured employ* j must pay CO cents a month, the com pany premium in excess of thi: | amount. Freed of Every Charge But One.' Waukegan, Ills. ? Governor Lei Small was freed of every charg* against him except that of conspirinj with Lieutenant Governor Fred E 11 Sterling and Vernon Curtis to ae '! fraud the state of $2,900,000 durini " i Mr. Sterling's term as state treasurer "! Governor Small issued a statemen 1 declaring that "what occurred in th< circuit court of Lake county will la; bare to the public mind the method " j employed and the inspiration causinj ^j these indictments." . Relief Workers Banished. Moscow.?Banishment to Totma, i I small village in Vologa province mor , than 100 miles from the railway, i the penalty imposed upon Dr. N. M - Kishkin and nine of his associates oi the All-Russian committee for famim r relief who were arrested threi ' months ago just as they were pre paring to leave for England to enlis I foreign aid in the battle against fam ! ine. r I 1 Farmers Will Operate Stores. > Pittsburg.?Townspeople and farm | etrs mu.st put themselves in an atti tude of making concessions or as ai | alternative cooperative stores estal: 5 lished by combinations of farmer will ultimately drive local merchant - j out of the business, John M. Gillette of the University of North Dakota told the members of the America] Socialogical Society at its annua meeting here. ) ' Hawaiian Sugar Crop Short. * | Honoulu, T. H.?The sugar produt tion of the Hawaiian Islands for th f crop year beginning September 3C *; 1920, and ending September 30. 1921 11 totaled only 539.196 tons, the lowes j in the past ten years. E. Faxon Bishoi 1 Active Spindles Increase. "i Washington. ? Active cotton spit * dies in November aggregated 34.4S6 ?; 669 as compared with 34.221.646 ii - November, 1920, the Department c - Commerce announced through th - Census Bureau. Based on an acti\ ity of 24 1-2 days for the month, th t statement said, the average nunibe 1 of spindies operated during Noven - her was 36.074. These included: 1 Georgia. 2.473.S24; North Caroline ? .".138.730, and South Carolina 5.015 692. Christmas Liquor Takes Big TolT. New York.?Death, blindness am -! sefious illness that have followed i ? the wake of the Christmas liquo s bottle inspired the King's count i- grand jury, sitting in Brooklyn, t l seek means of checking the distr b I bution of poisoned alcohol. 1.1 It was announced semi-officiall '. that the grand jury would return .- report urging co-operation of gran 1 ' juries and other law enforcemen agencies in the metropolitan area i r j a campaign to punish purveyors c wood alcohol "whiskey." Lake Commerce Broke Records. 1 Chicago.?Chicago's lake-borne coir ? merce broke the records of 20 year t e in 1921 when 78.378.979 bushels c 1 | corn were shipped to foreign market! e according to a report of William ? s : Claire, collector of the customs, a More than 3.000 vessels, with a ne |.i tonnage of 5.821,981. cleared from th |.! Chicago and Calumet river harbor j during the year. Duties callected o L.( imports totaled $9,426,210.42, slightl ? | more than a million dollars below th J high water mark set in 1920. m New Postmasters to Go to School U| j Washington. ? Beginning with ;T [ the new year, under orders issued ^ by Postmaster General Hays, new- r )ly appointed postmaster will be required to attend school, where ^ :hey will be taught, among other things, how to meet the public, y their places in the community, how through publicity to educate the people in the use of the mails, $ aow to handle complaints, guard the mails and maintain proper relationship with the department. < Y Central accounting postoffices i will be designated in each state ,110 is schools for the instruction of postmasters of the second and e :hird classes, under the direction )f First Assistant Postmaster Pro 3eneral Word as "superintendent'' )f schools. ? i FRENCH AND BRITISH IN CLASH :,i 1 | boa | bee e PLAIN SPOKEN DISCUSSION OF i a t S ; ; THE POSSIBILITIES OF WAR jcon 1 I ing d | BE1WEEN THEM. I to j f. imit ' I que French Delegates, Upon instructions j l" From Paris, Talk With Air j cial of Finality. i sist J ,fc ' prei !- Washington.?Efforts to limit sub-, )b f marine and auxiliary warships came visj e ! to an abrupt end after they had drawn | i-1 the French and British arms conf- j 1.1 erence delegates into a plain-spoken j 1 y exchange over the possibilities of a j todi s , future war between France and the I t0 ( t1 British empire. | . e : The French, acting under renewed J d.ir* !-1 instructions ffom their government, ! slor e told the conference naval committee j mei a | with an air of finality that France j ?00, ! must remain free to build a subma- 0 t: rine flotilla nearly three tipes as ) the '* j great as ,that she now possesses anil | T d to construct, in addition, cruisers, de- j ma' 0 i stroyers and other auxiliary craft up'at I 8 to a tonnage of 330,000. : wor To the proposal the Americans,: nag r Japanese and Italians replied with 1 A ' i expressions of surprise and regret, J nier n p'hile the British charged openly \ esta ' | that such a building program must j loai r j be regarded as a menace to British j the i shores. Arthur J. Balfour added boa: ' that he had no doubt, if occasion at r B 1 arose, Great Britain would be equal i exa '* to it. but only if she reserved com-1 firsl t plete freedom of action as to the con- (this '*13truction of all types of auxiliaries Pinj e | which might be useful against under- ava '* j water warfare. j can 3 ; Agreeing that further argument , Ir \ would be useless, the committee,cen1 J turned its attention to collateral sub- J *he - ! rpfti jects, including regulations ior iu-1 1 ture use of submarines, proposals for j ab,e e limitation of the size and armament of j * f individual auxiliary vessels and details j ' I of the agreement already sealed in on ' I principle regarding capital ships. ?! For the American delegation, . Elihu Root proposed a joint declara- j* * tion reaffirming the obligation of ista, e! submarine commanders to warn | leas ^ j merchant ships before attack, to re- i (jhr s frain from sinking vessels whose port 5 crews and passengers could not first Soci ! be placed in safety, and 'to conform ' ?] in general' to all the established , mo\ ' practices on international law. In J -j 1 addition, Mr. Root also suggested a c]as e change of existing usage to prohibit fort 8 ; attacks on merchant vessels, alto- |)0{j ; gethor and to make submarine com* j ?' a|manders who violate the regulations prjs e ' liable to trial ac pirates. j Was !! / don t| Big Increase in Crop Vilues. i-1 Washington.?The country's impor-1 \\ i tant farm crops were valued this year I j at $5.675,S77,000 based on prices paid | itfen j to farmers on December 1, the depart-1 yeai ' ment of agriculaure announced in its i viol ' final estimates. The sarfte crops, j Deb n i which comprise 90 per cent of the val- j od 1 ? i ue of all farms crops, were "valued iina* 8 , last year at $9,075,2SS,000. j fore 8 The ,area devoted to important , Hav ' j crops this year was 348,336.000 | i., acres, compared with 349.067,000 ; n acres last year. Final estimates of j pj 1 ; production and value announced in- : Rej, ! tlii/lafl j | viuu<.v> . | icn Corn, production 3.0S1.251.000 bush- | yea j els, valued at $1,305,625,000. jn j i Winter wheat, 587,032,000 and $558,- natj e 725,000. leg b j Spring wheat, 207.861,000 and $178,- rjfle l* 343.000. the t All wheat, 794.893,000 and $737,- mjj( >. 06S.000. Oats, 1,060,737.00 and $321:540,000. Barley. 151,181,000 and $08,788,000. Jal Rye 57918,000 and $54,680,000. H Buckwheat 14,079,000 and $11,438,- inte i 000. , cig( ft Flax seed 8.112,000 and $11,737,000. if Rice 39.653.000 and $28,189,000. j ? e Potatoes 346.823,000 and $385,192,- S0 1000- M"( e Sweet potatoes 98,660.000 and $86.- ! 4 r 910.000. j ne.^ i- Hav (tame) 81.657.000 and $989.093.-, 000. | (,!sr i. Hay (wind) 15.235.000 and $101,083.- i d .- 000. witl Cotton 8.340.000 and $674,877,000. I 1)tnv Tobacco 1.117.682.000 and $207,570,000. d Cotton seed 3.704.000 and $107,972,- . noon. h?? r Beet sugar 2 024764,000 and blank. 1 la v Cane sugar 534.000.000 and blank. ^ar o! Peanuts 816.465.000 and $32 288.000 -vea i- Beans 9.118.000 and $24.29S.000. Rav at y i Rockefeller's Daughter Gets Divorce. "lox a Chicago.?Mrs. Edith R. McCormick. :,u'' d daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. T" t millionaire oil king. was granted a 1 ei n divorce from Harold F. McCormick. exP( if president of the International Harv- conl ester company, in superior court. ' Begin Billy Sunday Meeting Jan. 8. ^ i- Spartanburg. S. C.?Fred W. Rapp. a; manager for Rev. W. A. Sunday, ar- mjj] f rived in the city from Winona Lake, yea j,' to be here through the campaign. He !he [. announced that, owing to a severe tod; J cold which Mr Sunday has contract- and it ed at I.os Angeles, th? evangelistic mar e campaign, which was to begin here indi s January 1, will not open until Sunday. eni[ n January S. After closing his revival pen y at Tulsa December lfi. Mr. Sunday con e went to Los Angeles, Cal.. for the hoi- "hi* idays. Jonlj I IN SUBSIDIZING SB IF iEJGAN SHIPS p iCIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY SEN ITUATION AND SUBMIT RE- sy PORT JANUARY 6. GE ACTION ON SUGGESTION FEU pose to Establish a Revolving Loan r)jed Fund of Hundred Million Dollars. Washington.?A final conference of ^ cials of leading marine transposta- g i companies with the shipping rd's special subsidy committee has n called for January 5 to pass upon entative plan formulated by the imittee providing for the subsidit - morrhant marine , ui uit Auicncou ? pnys nsure its maintenance. The comtee was formed to study the broad dQct< stion of subsidies at the suggestion wag President Harding, who made spe- Nc reference to this method of as- pr^g( ing American ship owners, in his isage to the last Congress. The a he 1 when finally approved will be howj sented to President Harding, who he h sxpected to adapt some of Its pro- T0Qn ons- in a message to Congress. De 1 Its present form which, members ;he committee emphatically stated prjvt ay was not official and is subject changes in any one of its features, most plan proposes both direct and in- .Th fct aid, the former through diver- wa8 l, and the latter through establish- by E it of a revolving loan fund of $100,- SiCja 000. Th ther suggestions now comprised in easil plan are understood to include: been hat the shipping board sell its re- and ning fleet as rapidly as possible was jrices not to exceed the prevailing had Id market price for similar ton- Year q. start mendment of section 11 of the side> chant marine act to permit the floor iblishment of a merchant marine was i fund of about $100,000,000 under administration of the shipping rd for the purpose of making loans ju easonable rates of interest, not to were >ed five per cent per annum on t0 g : mortgage on American flag ships; wbjc fund not to be limited to ship- nuaj ? board transactions but to be ureg liable for financing of all Ameri- 1920 ship opera-ting organizations. brou icome tax relief *to create an in- victj tive to shippers to use ships flying rjod American flag, providing for a La jction from net income tax pay- -2 i ! on the basis of a small percentage ejgbi he freight paid on American flag stat >s, or through a greater allowance force lepreciation on ships. be I3 Si; Debs Issues Short Statement. ing ew York.?In a message to social- ern i , Eugene V. Debs declared his re- were e from Atlanta penitentiary on put 1 istmas was due to the loyal sup- The : he had received from American deatl alists. He said further: sault Uy lips are not sealed and ray Th ements are not curtailed. lows am an enemy of the capitalist Mi s and in me they shall find no com- thret as long as there is breath in my ing i y. rest, The administration that put me in temp on knew that, and that is why I ing 1 there. The present administra- cial also knew it and kept me there." clast assis 'ashington.?Freed by President e<1 a ding from the Atlanta federal pentiarv, where he w?s serving a tenr sentence for making speeches in ation of the war laws, Eugene V. Ry 1 s, socialist leader was reprimand-1 *om >y the union station police here for ring a speech without a permit be! leaving for his home in Terre curr( ,i as si ite, Ind. AI < 6; G Execute Mexican General. iana. ogales, Ariz.?General Francisco N'ort aa, who had figured prominently in Tcnr )lutions in Mexico in the last ten rs, was executed by a firing squad Qern Mogales, Sonora, across the inter-) onal line from here. He was al-1 fotlvv d to have been caught digging is, saddles, and ammunition from j^arl ground near Canosa, Sonora, 15 ;s west of Nogales. ters Seen sanese Interpretation of Treaty. onolulu.?The official Japanese "a rpretation of the four-power Pa- ^nit !\treaty is that it does not apply he principal islands of the empirse recoi far as internal disturbances are new cerned. according to a Tokio ca- was tram to The Nippu Jiji, a Japanese piled 'spaper here. tive The Japanese government," the smal latch says, "will handle all internal Snial urbances in the principal islands since lout appeal to the other signatory jn tl ers." derei er yi Big Decline in Foreign Trade. 'ashington. ? American business ses exported $1,ISO,193.000 in mer- ivic ndise in the first 11 months of this r. \ Lment of commerce, which also thre< r, according to figures by the de- secoi e imports for the period as valued way $2,271,979,000. In the same 11 prise iths in 1920 exports totalled $7,- conv 729,000 and imports $5,012,424,000. i declining trade was shown fur in statistics for November when oh arts aggregated $294,437,000 as was ipared with 343,597,000 for October fire i $676,528,000 for November, 1920. die Nort pend Billion Dollars on Movies. ?The American people C aouiu^cvu. nd from seven hundred and fifty pn ion dollars to one billion dollr..-- * r to see moving picture ssorwa, (>f senate finance committee was tolf senp ty in the course of arguments Kv case.' against a high tariff on foreign tain le pictures. The investment in the the jstrv totals about $250,000,000 and shorl doyment is given to about 250.000 shoa 30ns. Only 4 per r^it of those mast nected with the industry make N'ass ; money" and 96 per cent mak? Nass r "a living wage." tryin his s * n PEIMS ASSES SUDDEN t IOR SENATOR FROM PE 'LVANIA SUCCUMBS TO / TACK OF HEART FAILURE. LOUT OF CHAIR TO FL Shortly Before Midnight f Year Before Doctor Coul Reach Him. asbington. ? Senator Boise one of the leading republ: ie nation, died here just b light from an attack of 1 re. The senator was sittini his bed ?"ien he suddenly chair to the floor. His peri ician, Dr. Roy Adams, wa room with him and, when sr reached his side, the sei dead. i members of the family snt. nator Penrose had been ill avy cold for a week. His d ?ver? was entirely unexpect( ad been able to walk abou i during the day. ath came at 11:30 o'clock. ie senator was stricken in tte apartment at the Wan : Hotel, one of Washing ; fashionable hostleries. e International News Se informed of the senator's < ?r. Roy Adams, the senator's n. e senator seemed to be re y," said Dr. Adams. "He about the room during the was sitting beside his *>ed. apparently in good spirits a been talking about the 's celebration, which had ;ed. The senator suddenly vise on the bed and slipped t When I reached his sid dead.'* Die at Mob's Hands. skegee, Ala.? Sixty-four pei lynched during 1921, acco: gures of the Tuskegee inst h were made public in its report on the subject. Thi compared with 61 lynchfn* and, according to the inst ght the total number of ms to 4.096 in the 36 years since 1885. w officers prevented lynchin nstancea, the report decl t of these being in nori is and 64 in the south. A is were used to repel six w inching expeditions, cty-two of the mob victims the year were lynched in s 3tates, the report declared. burned to death and three to death and their bodies bu charges against those burni l were murder and crimina and murder, e others were charged as irder, 11; attempted mu 5; wounding men. four; fur ammunition to man resistin two; criminal assault, 15 ited criminal assault, three; nen in altercation, four; no charge, three; leaders in i, two; charge not repnrtei ting man to escape who had a officer of law. one; makini er remarks to woman. iteDing to kill another, one g young woman's room, one ng woman, one; writing no an, one; attacking a man an, one. e states in which lynching 3d and the number in each 5t forth in the report follows ibama. 2; Arkansas. 6; Fit (eorgfa. 11; Kentucky. 1; I 5; Mississippi, 14; Missour !i Carolina. 4; South Carolin lessee. 1; Texas. 7; VirginU lany and U. S. Kesume rteiai asuingtun.? DipioiuatfcC reiu e.n Germany and the U js 'vera 1 counted uti'ictally 1 Lang, charge a uliaires iron n gcnernuitiit, presented his ot credence and was receive etary Hughes. ilway Mileage Shows Deere; icago.?Railway mileage in ed States declined 1.200 i lg the year 1021 and a new rd in improvements made equipment ordered and acqi made, according to figures by the Railway Age. Lot and freight car records shov lest number ordered and lest number built and deli\ ; statistics have been kept, le number of passenger car 1 and built have there been ears. ' Forges Own Parole. mtgomery, Ala.?C. A. Leon V. Jones, serving from tw ; years in the state prisor ad degree forgery, forged to freedom from the Al( n camp, according to the ict department. Fire at Biddle University. arlotte. X. C.?A loss of $10 entailed in the destructioi of the Industrial building of university, maintained by hern Presbyterian church. Capture Big Cargo of Liquo rtsmouth, N. C.?The three-i British auxiliary schooner er of Peace, with a cargo of 3 of whiskey, was seized by Walter Yeoumans and ere Portsmouth coast guard sti tly after she ran aground < 1 just outside Ocracoke inlet, er of the vessel. A. Colema au, declared he was hound au to St. Pierre. X. S., and g to make Ocracoke to repl upply of food, water and oil. [ MD UP SHIPMENT OF HOGS W| II I) Colleton Farmers Ship Two Carloads If of Fine Animals to the Richmond Markets. INN- Sp, Walterboro.?County Agent H. M. ' Kinsey, working with the Colleton Products association, assembled and shipped to the Richmond markets more hogs than has ever been assembled in a single shipment in lower nnD South Carolina, if not in the state. U|| UUII fpjjjg wag pUreiy a co-operative ship- llll ment, made up of hogs brought in from a radios of 10 miie3 of WalterLast boro, there being 40 individuals bring- ?pi Id ing hogs, numbering from two to 25 f hogs. The returns from this shipment are being awaited with interest, as pen. this is the first shipment made by leans many of the farmers shipping hogs. It g efore shows that there are other things toe heart tlian cotton which can be sold for tic< ; be- mooey, and that the farmers of this Qr( fell county can raise hogs cheaply and as pia jonal sood as can be found anywhere. Oth- wb B in er car load shipments have been sent prc the out ?* county this year, the same frj ? nconpv havine shiDDed two cars pre- tflf naior ~o ? vious to this, and a number of cars woie being shipped by private individuals. Another lesson which was taught joc with by the shipment v/as the value of prf eath Pure bred stock against the scrub. A 0f ;d as large number ot the hogs shipped were t0 t his Pure bred, the Duroc and Poland- an( China being the leading breeds. Many ^ others were the results of a cross bei his tween a pure bred sire and scrub dam. 0c iman 1? all these cases the farmers here pe< ton's bad a clear demonstration of what fis blood lines mean in hog raising. hai rvlce This 'shipment is also evidenoe of 0j leath the fact that the farmers of Colleton al)( phy. county have an abundance of mint, po( and this is surplus. A great many y0] sting have already killed their year's sup- jj0, had Ply an(l are now marketing the sur- cr( i day PlusHe It was an inspiring sight to see the s we numerous wagons assembled. It re- * New minded one of the big gin days of just several years ago when the fanners en< fell would bring cotton and await their orc o the turn at unloading. In all there were ^ei e he 254 hogs and the total weight was C#I 36,235 pound3. It took two cars, one me of them being double-decked, to carry ^ the hogs. peJ ? ? County Agent Kinsey, who worked on( rsons .. . , . . n. - thf rdin up shipment, and Mr. Shaffer, lut itut^ Presldeut of the Colleton Products as- tio j an- 80c'at*on- w'ho furnished the machln- 1 fi ery for shipping and in whose name wi' g the shipment was made, express them- rea [tute* se'ves as being delighted with the re- t0 'mob aponse- ^'? commissions will be O* charged and the farmers will get ev- en( 1 '^3 ery cent the shipment brings, less the 'ot . actual expenses. at ss in * wil .% Th thern Sumter.?The special election neia r rmed here t0 select a state senator to sue- su* ould- ceet* the late Senator John H. Clifton and to choose a successor to Davis D. ? (jur. Moise, who resigned from the house outh- ot representatives, resulted in the ow Four eiec'tion of DrvIs D. Moise to the sen- a were ^on of ^ Bossard Britton to succeed . rned. ate an(* tlie returns indicate the elec 3d to M?,se- On'y a light vote was cast v.? j as. and it is not thought that additional ?' returns will change the result. With fol. 11 out of 19*precingts heard from, in- 0 eluding the city vote, the vote is: For ir(jer senate, D. D. Moise, 331; J. J. Dargan, f nish- F'or house: J. K. McElveen, 52; J*0 K ar. J. B. Britton, 256; E. W. Dabbs, Jr., "e> . at. 16!) and Edgar Skinner, 55. Little inHD terest was shown in the election. ^ KU1" bet sperace Spartanburg.?As a result of an ac- f j, 3; cident some weeks ago when Sara kill- Stewart was killed and several others , . g im- who were working with him at the ^ one; time were injured when a pipe the * ; en- men were taking from a ell at Dray>j in- ton mill came in contact with the _ te to electric transmission wire leading to ' and the mill, a suit was filed by Walter Smith, one of the men alleged to , 3 oo- have been injured, against the South ? j state Carolina Light. Power & Railways Co., j : the Drayton Mills and P. S. Manus for trida. $30,000. JjjJ -ouis- fhf i, 1; Spartanburg.?The Spartanburg city Rr( a, 5; school trustees awarded contracts ' i. amounting to $19,000 for equipment a j and furnishings for the Frank Evans lions, high school building, soon to be com- .. lions Pleted at a C03t of $300,000. The sue- ^ nited cessful bidders were the Carolina aQ( when Supply company of Charlotte, the a?r' l the Southern Supply company of Raleigh, cQr 3 jet. and the E. H. Sheldon company of ,4 by Muskeegan, Wis. Delivery is to be gt made February 1. , An Jse> Think of Congress. the Greenwood.?According to close ^ niles Mends of Sam H. Sherard. member jow of the South Carolina house of repand resentatives from Gre-'nwood county ^ ' Hired he *3 stroncrly considering announcing jgr bis candidacy for congress from the | com- omo Th'r(1 congressional district. Mr. ^ f the Sherard will not confirm or deny the (ip. the rumor- wh tered Attorney General Sam Wolfe of An. wa Only dprson is also r morted to be consfd- }i.'s s Up. ering making the race for congress anf low- from the Third .list Met. He will also neither confirm nor deny the rumor, i _ I me Manager for Greenville, alias Greenville.?At a recent r eting the 0 tt Oeenville Baseball association de1 for f>l<lpd to accept the terms submitted her hjs to them some days aco by Cliff Blank- cot Jric>? enphip as mnnacer of the Spinners for ^ej T"--i..??l,in wnc u-lrrrl tna state npXl seasnn- nn-ir-.,, ? | wo and has been asked tn confirm the a3i( riosing of the deal which, it is be- sio liev*?d. he will do. He is now in Oak- tlia 0,000 'and. He managed the Seattle ma j by and Salt T,ake City Hubs in the Pa- gaE rifle Coast leapim and is a former the the rather for the Washington Ameri- fcej cans. got r- Charters New Firm. nast Columbia.?The Catawba Securities s company of Rock Hill was chartered tar; 1 noc? hy the secretary of state with a cap- con ^ ital stock of $25,000. The firm will do , w of a general stock, b#tod. mortgage and tba ation rea' estate business. Officers are John wjt on a ^hurley, president and treasurer; trjj. Tht w- R Klugh, vice president and sec- nnp n. ol retarv- ca8 from Authority to increase its capital mo was stock from $200,000 to 1600.000 was reg inisb *raRted to Norris Brothers of GreenI Tine- llm INTER CROP OF M POTATOES *RTANBURG FARMER TELLS HOW TO RAISE POTATOES , IN MID-WINTER. iHLY FERTILIZE GROUNU anted About the First of January, 'otatoes Will Mature About the ^ Middle of February." ipartanburg.?naming irisn pota j s in midwinter is a regular pracs with Dr. W. H. Kelly of Walnut )ve, Spartanburg codnty. Dr. Kelly nts the tubers in pine straw or eat straw, and in this warm bed. >tected from the winter winds and sts, they grow and make fine po- , oes. Asked for his directions, Dr. Uy said: I take and place railing about a it an da half high around a well \( spared and highly fertilised piece ground. After planting my potass I cover the ground with straw j keep piling it on until all the ice ^within the railing is filled to > depth of about a foot and a-half. casionally the top of a potato vine N jks above the warm covering and nipped by the cold, but no serious rm is done. Planted about the first ^ January, Irish potatoes will mature jut the middle of February. The :atoes grow in the straw, and when \ a get them out to eat you are not thered with the grit attached to sps of tubers dug out of the ground. , 3reenwood.?A movement to estabi a large peach packing plant, large sugh to take care of the output of shards throughout this section, is ? ng launched by the Dixie Land npany, according to an announcent by 0. Allen Banks, president of s firm. The establishment of the ich packing plant is believed to be 9 measure which will help solve V > boll weevil problem in this sec- ? n. Jnder the present plans the plant II be erected at once and will be idy at the beginning of next season accept peaches from the growers. rners of orchards who do not grow >ugh peaches to ship North in car s themselves, irtay sell their fruit the packing plant, wnere snipmema N 1 be made at regular intervals. ose In touch with the operation of ' :h plants declare that this system I lenable the owner of only a few es to turn his output into profit. t is proposed to begin by planting ned by the stock company owning arge acreage in peach trees to be i packing plant. The output of ise trees will be shipped in addition the fruit brought to the packing ise by individual growers. 4 lorticulturists declare that this secn is ideally suited for peach grow; and they believe that eventually ) growing of peaches and o^ier A its will be an important industry e. Vnderson.?All sorts of plans have ?n devised to outwit and outda tbe 1 weevil, and the Anderson county mers hit the pest between the eyes en they decided that they would ild a sweet potato curing house, ;h a capacity of approximately 25, i bushels, at a cost of $6,000. committee composed of H. A. r, chairman; W. E. Gallant. R. E. mpbell, Foster L. Brown and B. B. ;ckley was appointed to formulate , . ns and working out details with ^ erence to the association, toland Turner, general agricultural ;nt of the Southern Railway comly, and T. B. Young, president of # s South Carolina Sweet Potato Dwers' association, made addresses the meeting held in tne coun uuuoc. r; S. Cureton of the Piedmont & rthern Railway company, who is ! moving spirit in the formation of * s- association, made a short talk, i offered froip his railroad a site the building. The committee will isider the organizing of a stock npany, capitalized at $10,000. the * ck to be subscribed by farmers of derson county. Death in Accident. Chester.?A distressing accident oc red in the Edgmoor section of ester county when Grady Thomas, i 13 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. ^ nes Thomas, accidentally killed iself with a 22 caliber rifle at his ^ ne. According to information rpved here, he was cleaning the rifle en in some unaccountable way It s fired, and the bullet/penetrated right temple. He lived two hours 1 a half after being shot. Everypt r?o9sihle was done for him along ^ dical lines. War on Bootlegger. inderson.?T. L. Clinkscales. mem- m of the legislature from Anderson inty, states that he is going to the :t general assembly "armed to the th" for bootleggers, and they need ; no mercy; and that instead of 0, or six months on the chaingang, t he is going to introduce a bill g king the selling of liquor a chainig or penitentiary sentence. "That's only way to stop the sale of whis' that I know of, and something's to be done to stop it" Rates Reduced for Meeting. ipartanburg.?E. B. Walker, secr^ y of the Spartanburg chamber of imerce. who is chairman of the asportation committee for the lly'* Sunday meetings, announces t arrangements have been made ^ h the Southern railway for round > tickets at the rate of one and -half the regular one way fare in e of parties numbering 125 or w re. These parties can leave on ular or special trains from any % nt on the Southern, with a time it of two days. . * . I