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COUNTY OFFICIALS FORM STATE BODY AUDITORS AND TREASURERS OF STATE HOLD INTERESTING MEETING AT COLUMBIA. WANT A NEW PENALTY SYSTEM Resolution Adopted Calls on Legislature to Provide a Straight 5 Per Cent Penalty on Defaulters. r ? Columbia. Severe attacks on the present tax system of the state which was char* caterized as antiquated and burdensome and the adoption of a resolution calling for radical changes in the method of penalties on tax payers who do not meet their obligations in t<me, featured the organization meeting of auditors and treasurers. , Following a two hour session in the afternoon, which was spirited at times by the discussions in reference to tax matters, the asociation of county Auditors and treasurers of South Carolina was formed. t The afternoon session developed a e spirited discussion on several topics, ^ mainly the penalty question and the j, matter of too much revenue being de- ? pended upon from the property tax. j Both these discussions were caried j into the night and the penalty situation was hammered from all sides. T. M. McMichael of Orangeburg offered p a resolution, which was adopted in its essentials after being amended, call- ? ing on the legislature to change the t present method of assesing penalties, t The resolution asks for a straight 5 J per cent penalty to be placed Janu- * arv 1 and after fin days executions go I into the hands of'the sheriff under the terms of the resolution. The legis- c lative committee was instructed to ap- c pear before the proper committees in I the.general assembly and to see it v this change could be made. 1 Signature Campaign Extended . f At a meeting of the organization committee of the "outh Carolina Cot- r ton Growers' Co-operative association t it was decided to ex'end the campaign I for signatures to the contract at once f into the counties of York. Richland, j # Darlington. Lancaster. Greenwood, c Dorchester. Lexington. Chester, Dil- a Ion .Marlboro. Kershaw, Oconee Newberry McCormick. I^ee. Laurens, Calhoun. Greenville. Pifkens and Saluda. The committee exnressed delight at the progress being made in the cam- * paign and complete confidence was expressed that the 400.000 bales necessarv to make the contract effective - - ? ? *? < 1 AOO 1 would tie signed neiore amy 1, the final date named in the contract. ? d Orders to National Guard. c Federal recognition has been extended by the war department, mlli- 8 tia bureau, to Col Treiawney E. Mar9 chant, comanding the FirBt regiment. E South Carolina National Guard, orders to this effect being issued by the h adjutant general The recognition 1< was with the understanding that if p the entire First regiment is not com- r pleted by October 23 it will be with- t drawn. s Federal recognition was also ex- 1 tended to Capt. HRliard B. Thomas, c medical corps. Wh'tmire. First regi- a ment. and to Capt. E. E. Stuck, dental i corps. Newberry, First regiment. I .? r Clarke and Flenni''en Resign. W. A. Clarke, chairman of the com- . mission in control -?f the Confederate home, and D. R. Henniken. a member T of the commission, both submitted their resignations to the governor. "When asked as to the cause for their t resignations neither member would make any statement, but it is said ^ .nmo rliQriicqion in the commis sion effused the resignations. * * ??. Third Y. M. C. A. Conference. Thp third annual state Y. M. C. A. ' conference for older boys will he held in Columbia December 3. 4 and 5, f when approximately 3ft0 high school I boys from a'l over <5outh Carolina will f be the guests of h? city association ' and of the chamber of commerce, which la*er will give a banquet to f the boys December 2 at the Y M. C. A. ( gymnasium. T Sales of Tobacco Less. f Tobacco sales in South Carolina reached a total of 43.021.024 pounds i} durintr August as compared with oft.- 1 4M.7ft2 pounds for the corresponding 15 k month last year, acording to the Au- j t gu<t *-eport issued bv the state de- 1 ( pnrtm?n' of agriculture, commerce and industries. The total price paid I . for this nonndage 'or the past month 1 was $3,235 575.34 last year, a decrease tc / >f nr>r>rnvimntelv Jft.ftftft.ftfH) received 1 this year. f The average pr*re paid last month | t was ?12.1rt a hundred. 11 * Resicination and Commission. ' Adjutant Gene^l Grant accepted the resignation rf Second Lieut. (\ J Downire Hlounr. Pattery A. field artil- f lerv. Georgetown The resignation t was accepted at '.he request of Lieu- I tenant Plount. An ele'-tion to fill the \ vacancy caused by t^e resignation i was ordered bv the adjutant general to be held on the n -xt drill night after t m the receipt of th*> order. < Orders were alro isued commission- ( in? Lucius D. M-t-hews second lieutenant of fomnany I. South Carolina t National Guard. Rack Hill. < * No Motorcclcs in 6 Counties. ( Six counties in South Carolina have no motorcvcles within their bottn- t daries. according to motor vehicle li- 1 cen.-e registration figures compiled by t the state highway department. These t ffues sho'" that not a single motor- * cycle h is been registered from Ram- t 1 err. Barnwdl. C'lhoun. Jasper, Mc- t Cormick and York f Ann her interesting fac t disclosed 1 by the registration figures, compiled t * through August 31. is that in Rerkr- t ley county onlv one automoyile dea? t ?r ts registered | National Grand Allotments. National Guard allotments for 5outh Carolina for the present flsc:?4 fear give the state only a few units o be organized. As announced by Adjutant General Grant the allotnents are: One engineer battalion, me motor transport company and me coast artillery company. These mits include the entire allotment rom the war department, militia bi?eau, for the state up until June 30, .922. General Grant said that several apdications to organize a battery of ield artillery had been received from lifferent sections of the state and he s trying to get the government to aange the engineer battalion to an trtillery battery. He has received no leflnite answer yet. but hopes that he war department will make the hange as it is believed the artillerd tnit can he organized much more eadily than the engineer unit. General Grant, who has just reurned from his vacation, has also received notices from the government hat .he use of parts of Camp Jackson as storage places for the guard n this state can not be allowed. Use >f the rifle range for the guard will >e permitted, the war department adrises. .ast of Camp Jackson. With the completion of the abaalonment of Camp Jackson *with the exception of a small garrison to proect government property, Col. Jackion, commander of the cantonment, innounced that the government was eady to lease the site for residential >r industrial projects to a responsible essee. The lease would only be termnated by war. Jew Firms Chartered. The Men's Shop of Charleston, a ;eneral clothing firm, was chartered >y the secretary of state with a capial stock of $10,000. Officers are: Joseph H. Cohen, president; Morris tubin, vice president and treasurer; Jarry R. Freeman, secretaryThe Planters Gin & Trading Co., >f Greenville was chartered with a :apital stock of $5,000. Officers are: 2. B. Rhodes, president and treasirer; S. V. Taylor, vice president; J. D. Ferrell, secretary. tfay Suspend Magistrate. Governor Cooper issued an order equiring Magistrate J. E. Higgins of he Fifth and Fourteenth districts of 'airfield county to show cause beore him why he should not be suslended from office. Charges of mis:onduct in office have been preferred igainst the magistrate. rax Payers in Trouble. Two or mree numireu mwuc ?.?.? tayers in South Carolina will be fore d to pay the remainder of the tax hey owe because of their failure to aeet the third installment on time, t was said at the internal revenue offices. The third installment was lue September 15 and the majority if those paying on the four installments plan met their obligation, but ome 200 or 300 did not. istablish Loan Headquarters. Announcement of the opening of eadquarters in Columbia for the oaning of money for farming purloses in South Carolina under the agicultural credits acts was made by he committee appointed for this rate by the war finance corporation. Temporary headquarters will be loated at the Palmetto National bank ind all application blanks and other nformation can be obtained from W. ^atta Law, Jr., secretary of the coranittee. iheck Flasher Arrested. Henry A. Koch of Carlstadt, N. J., vas arrested at Chester on complaint >f the Gibbes Machinery company, vho claimed that the stranger obained a car on the payment of a heck which was not honored by the iank. SherifT Heise sent a special ifficer to Chester to bring Koch and he machine to Columbia. *: \ttractive Fair Permiums. Many attractive premiums nre ofered to growers of fine hogs in the )remimu list of the South Carolina itate fair, which will be held October 14-28. The total of the premiums, exclulive of the premium offered members )f the boys' pig club department, ia rell above the $8,000 mark. Motor License Plates Bought. The Pres-Teel Manufacturing and Enameling company of Cincinnati has >een formally awarded the contract or the manufacturing of the 1922 moc r vehicle license plates for South Carolina. Ttie contract calls for 113.850 dates, the automobile plates to cost '.84 cents each and those for motor ycles 4.75 cents each. This will iring the total cost to around $ 10.0'?0 is compared with $19,000 last year. Ml the plates must be delivered by December 1. 'Good Night" to the Artillery. For the last time, perhaps, for ears, the streets of Columbia will respond to the rumble of army vehicles he blare of military bands and the )eculiar concatenation of sounds vhich acoinpanv the movement of an trtillery reginipnt. The departure of this unit signals, is it were "Good Night" for the amp. and the occasion will be mark >d with some ceremnoy. The regiment will be reviewed from he balcony of the Imperial hotel by 3ov. R. A. Cooper. Same Will be Plentiful. With the approach of real fall veather hunters over the state are ooking forward to a great season in he fields and those who have already rone forth on short trips say the jame will he plentiful. Although he season for hunting a number of tame animals has already opened, so ar as the law is concerned, only a imited number of hunters have enered the field except for doves as he weather is far from 'right." as he term is construed ly men who ollow the dog. 1?View of Travis and esc. Alary' flood. 2?Caskets of the American v home. ?Mrs. Raymond Robins abc Women In Geneva. NEWS REVIEW UF CURRENT EVENTS Congress Reconvenes and the Senate Is Confronted With Plenty of Work. PEACE TREATIES SUBMITTED Revised Tax Bill Reported But Not Before Radical "Drys" Get Into Action?Tentative Agenda for Arms Conference?Serbia and Albania Fighting. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Congress Is In session again, with the house marking time while the senate tries to catch up. There is a tremendous lot of Important legislation before the senators, and President Harding, through Senator Watson of Indiana, warned them that they must j speed up. not only for the benefit of the nation but in order that ttepunncan campaign promises may be redeemed. As a starter the President submitted the treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary, without a special message but with the understanding that they shall be ratified before the conference on limitation of armaments opens In November. The treaties were referred to the foreign relations committee and the old opposition of the irreconcilables, led by Senator Borah, developed at once. It centered on the section reserving to the United States the right to have a representative on the reparations commission. Borah contended that if this right were exercised this country would become involved immediately in the reparations dispute that forms the crux of the present European problems. At the first session Senator Penrose reported the tax bill as revised by the finance committee and he said he would seek to keep it before the senate continuously until it is disposed of. Next day the measure was called up for consideration. It may be two weeks before a final vote is taken on It. Senator Gerry was given permission to file a minority report for the Democratic members of the committee within seven days, and Senator La Kollette was accorded the same time to hie his dissenting views. The senate calendar, in addition to this tax bill and the treaties, contains such important measures as the tariff hill, the .<"<>0.000.000 railroad funding bill, the Borah bill to exempt American coastwise vessels from payment of I'anama canal tolls and the bill authorizing the President and secretary of the treasury to refund the $11,000,000,000 owed by the allied governments to the United States. Nevertheless, in what appears to be utter disregard of the best interest of the people, the radical "drys" made an atI tempt to capture the right of way for the Campbell-Willis antibeer bill. Senator Sterling of South Dakota forestalled Senator Penrose as soon as a niinmim nhll.Mllul (Itl.l IllftVOll TO j newal of consideration of that tneusure, the conference report on it being the issue. Senator Heed refused to agree to the fixing of a date for a vote. The "wets" then renewed their filibustering luetics, but failed to get | an adjournment. From now on there will he no lack of partisan polities in congress. This j was made evident on the opening day when I'at Harrison of .Mississippi en| tertuined the senate with a violent at1 tuck on the administration in which | lie asserted it had displayed "pitiable I inefliciency" and practiced "outrageous extravagance." He scored the l'resI ident because he plays golf and spends | week ends on the Mayflower. The j immediate cause of Harrison's outburst 1 l>v President WilN I III." nun - . v?v. ? Harding to Senator McCortnick of Illinois recounting the achievements of tin* Republican party since March 4. ; This, tlcclareii the Mississippian, was i for tin* purpose of influencing the New I Mexico senatorial election. Senator Lodge arose to reply to Mr. Harrison, i hut contented himself with reading tlie | returns from New Mexico, showing FINES 59 AUTOISTS BY PHONE All of Them Have Seen the Jail Building, So They Come in and Pay Up, Philadelphia.?Fifty-nine motorists accused of exceeding the speed limit of tifteen utiles an hour over the Leech speed trap received their trials by phone of Justice Leech of l'aoli, after their names had been learned via phone and mail front the Motor License bureuu in llurrisburg. They LW'I^P Illll'fIBBBBggaa^^ ^^11^.11 s streets. Snn Antonio, when the water ther ictims of the ZR-2 disaster on the deck of t >ut to sail for Europe to preside over the i that Holm O. Bursum, Republican, had been elected by a large majority. Mr. Bursum fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert Fall for the purpose of entering the cabinet. President Harding made two diplomatic nominations last week. Joseph Grew, who Is now minister to Denmark, Is appointed minister to Switzerland ; and Dr. John D. Prime of New Jersey Is named to fill the post in Copenhagen. Dr. Prime is a professor in Columbia university. The conference summoned by the President to devise measures to relieve the stress of unemployment and business depression is now in session in Washington. The conferees, who were selected by Mr. Harding and who number forty-eight, include Secretary of Commerce Hoover as chairman and the country's leading authorities on economics and Industries. Four women are among them?Elizabeth Christman of Chicago and Idc M. Tarbeil, Mrs. Sarah Conboy and Mary Vnn Kleeck of New York. Monthly reports of the bureau of labor statistics show improved employment conditions In a number of indusiries. In nine groups of industry there were increases in the number of persons on the payroll In August as compared to the July payroll and in five a decrease. Presumably all the powers Invited to the conference on limitation of armaments and Far East questions have indicated their approval of the tentative agenda submitted by Secretary of State Hughes, for an outline of the proposed outline has been made public in Washington. It is as follows: Limitation of naval armament. Basis of limitation, fulfillment of conditions. ! Rules for control of new agencies of t warfare. n Limitation of land armament. r\ *t.. neln. \ Vursuuns reiuuu& iu vuoiu, |inuciples to be applied. f Application to subjects: (A) TerrI- < torlul integrity; (B) Administrative In- * tegrlty; (C) Open door. Equality of ' administrative and industrial oppor tunity; (D) Concessions, monopolies f and other economic privileges; (E) t Development of railways; (F) Prefer- I ential ruilroad rates; (G) Status of existing commitments. Questions relating to Siberia. ? Similar questions relating to China. I Mandated islands. t From London comes the regrettable > news that Premier Lloyd George and 1 Foreign Minister Curzon will not be t able to come to the conference. Their ' constant attention will be required by I Great Britain's domestic problems. 1 The prohibition unit of the treasury department gave the home brewers an awful jolt last week. To dispose of unfounded reports that permits were I 1 being issued for home manufacture of wine and beer, it Issued a statement in which the following things were declared illegal: 1. The manufacture of any Intoxicating beer, wiue or spirits in the 11 home, even for strictly private home 1 consumption. ?. The manufacture of any beer or wine of any alcoholic content with- 5 out a permit, which permits are not 1 issued to home brewers and wine makers. ,'i. The sale of any hops or oilier "makings" to a person without a permit, which permits are not issued to home brewers. Only nonintoxicating fruit juices may he made without a permit, to the extent of -IK) gallons. The railways are facing the prospect of another big strike, with the probability of disorder and the open shop as results. The six federated shop crafts unions have voted to strike against the general railroad wage reduction of July 1. last, hut have deferred action until the United States railway labor board promulgates the working rules it has been considering. The men are bitterly opposed to many <>f the decisions already made by the board. They believe the railroads want them to strike so that the open shop may be instituted. The union carpenters of the Chicago district, who refused to be a party to the I.andis arbitration, have voted to maintain their position, and consequently the contractors are beginning were told how constables had timed them over the eighth of a mile trap on the Lancaster pike at its intersection with Valley road. "Although our speed limit Is fifteen miles an hour, you were going more j than thirty an .'lour," said Judge Leech in every instance. "Your tine is $10 t ami the costs are $".."0. Come in and i I pay or seud a check." 1 All of the fifty-nine, like I>avy ] Crockett's 'possum, caiue down. They t had read of Mie log stone burn opposite < the justice's oflice which, it was said, I e was 20 feet deep, during the great i he British cruiser that brought them c* International Congress of Working w o1 G N to employ non-nnlon men. Judge Lan- hi lis is reconsidering some of the awards g] lie made, at the request of some trades a< liiat tiiouglit they got too much the bi worst of It. The latest war to break out in this SI peaceful world is between Albanin and , V| Serbia, and the Immediate objective is possession of a zone twenty miles long ind eight deep. The Serb commander: >n the frontier ordered the Albanians c. SI :o evacuate six towns in that territory, tnd twenty-four hours later began lostilitles. Bishop San Noll, Albanian B( lelegate to the League of Nations, reported the affair to that body, and M ater it was secretly considered by the ?ouncil of the league. The Serb dele- 1 ?ate was quoted as saying fjlerbla .vouid not permit the league to Intrude nto the Albanian question; that the di mpreine council of the allies must fix d he frontiers of Albanin and thus Jugo- fi lavia would be protected and guar- S niteed by Great Britain and France. le riiough the actual war In this case c< nay be comparatively trifling, the mat- w er is fraught with serious complica- si ions. Serbia, it is said, plans to cut t< hrough to the Adriatic by way of b: rirana, splitting Albania in two, and ei lopes eventually to absorb the northern half of that country. Greece Is credited with an ambition to grab the m lower hnlf. Itnly stands ready to tl =eize the naval base and port of Va- tl ona. which would make the Adriatic in Italinn lake, and this Is vigorously 0: ipposed by Great Britain. d; jt The League of Nations admitted p hree new nations to membership. They ire Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, rhe vote to take them in was unaninous for the several nations that were | ipposed refrained from voting. The council of the league set a precedent ?j >y referring to the assembly for set- 0 lement the dispute between Poland ind Lithuania concerning Vilna. ' Intervention In the Greco-Turkish ^ ,var was suggested by several delerates and probably It would be welcomed by Greece, for her army In \sia has met with another setback, a rhe Snlt desert again proved itself an fc 'fficient guard for Angora on the west Ie ind the Greeks have once more re- cl Ired to the Sakarla river with the ai vemalists In hot pursuit. ci g' Of writing many notes there is no ?nd, apparently, In the Irish affair. >e \aiera wants rue proposed conrer nee with the British cabinet, hut he sj vants it on his own terms?that the rish delegates enter It as representsives of a sovereign state. From this ^ ittltude he dare not hark down, for ds own "official" status depends on m lis firmness. Lloyd George is equnly intent in denying this demand, and s fully supported hy the cabinet, vhose members returned to Scotland d' vhere the premier was somewhat un- S( ler the weather at Gnirloch. In one ? if his latest notes De Valera suggested hat Britain and Ireland conclude a 'treaty of accommodation and asso- F iatlon," expressing the belief that tlds in vould end the dispute forever and enibie the two nations to settle down in leace. ; l | w Tlie British official announcement, tevernl weeks ago, that the Moslem ^ evolt on the Malabar coast of India i lad been suppressed was premature, i'tie trouble is about as acute as ever, y tip ri-hpls control Inrirp districts and. t_. ? I in xcept where troops are stationed, the ives and property of r..on-Moslems are tot safe. The P.ritish authorities in -n( India have obtained a document callng on all Mussulmans in India to lroclaiin complete independence from 3reat Itritain and set up a republic fr n the event that the Rritish take ac- | jy ion against the Angora government of p, Turkey. ai The greatest industrial catnstrophe j P' Germany ever experienced occurred j Wednesday when a large synthetic nl- j rate plant at Oppau blew up. Probihly l.fiOO persons were killed, thous- ?" inds were injured and the entire town ^ ,vas destroyed. The shock of the two ^ >xplosions was felt and damage done t efl kvithin a radius of fifty miles. Among j lie victims were French troops on j a :uard duty tit tlie works and others on 1 m i transport. Oppau Is In the Rhine j * I'alatinate in ti region that was devel- tr iped during the war into one of the next extensive and productive of t'Jerunity's chemical munition supply dis- | irlets. 'e iad been fitted up as a jail to receive speedsters refusing to pay and they gr iad no notion of putting in the rest th jf tiie month in box stalls. ! th 5 Killed Child While Chopping Wood, th Welland, Can.?Mary, infant dnugh- di :er of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Piper, was te iceidentally killed by her grandfather, ?r DanieJ Welland, while lie was chop- Pi ping wood. The child got In the way ro if the man, who Is almost blind, and ivhen he made u stroke with the nx It at landed on the top of the Villd's head. ^ BOUNQS FQRNEWBERRYCLU6 leal Spot Leased Containing Fifty Acres With Several Srlngs on it, and Good Grounds for Golf. Newberry.?The Newberry Country ub has leased 50 acres from Welch 'ilbur, near Mr. Wilbur's home, two id a half miles northwest of New ?rry. It is an ideal place, with sev al springs on it and a stream ol esh spring water flowing through it -including the spot where the Wil ir brothers had a large flsh pond >me years ago. There are excellent rounds for golf links. The place is (ached from Newberry by the exten on of Nance street?a good roao 3w and can be made better. The lease Is for $400 a year, with te privilege of extending it to 3( sars. A call is made upon the mem srs of the club for the first install ent of $20 of the membership fee le balance to be paid in eight install ents of $10 each .beginning Novem ?r 1, An agreement between Newberry )unty officials and the state high ay department to build a bridge rer the Bush river on the road tc reenwood, about five miles out from ewberry, has been reached. The [ghway department has agreed tc rant federal aid for the structure tc jsist the county in erecting the ridge. Gaffney.?W. C. McArthur, county jperintendent of education of Chero ee county, said that he would have > employ a secretary to help him ith his mail since the item was sen! ) the newspapers in regard to th? lortage of teachers in Cherokee Mi^tv. Mr. McArthur said he ha<3 3 far received some 40 applications hlle his deficiency is only 25. "II loroughly convinces me," said he that there is nothing like printer's lk when you want something." 3? Lexington.?"Guilty with recommen ation to mercy" was the directed ver let in the case against James Bar eld, Sr., Mrs. Julia Cook. Ira C. Cook arah Mimie Cook and Henry Whee sr, charged with the killing of Mar alius Cook near Steedman severa eeks ago. Each was sentenced t< arve life terms in the state peni sntiary. The dead man was the hus and of Mrs. Julia Cook and the fath r of Ira Cook and Mimie Cook. Batesburg.?What was perhaps th< lost disastrous fire in the history o: le town of Batesburg swept the en re business section on the west sid? f Granite street with the exceptioi f three buildings, two of which wen amaged and the contents badly in imrf with water. Tlie total loss wil! robably reach $150,000. Columbia.?D. W. Alderman, presi ent of the Alderman Lumber com any, of Alcolu, in Florence county ne of the biggest business concern! f this state, and himself one of th< ealthy men of the state, died at hit ome of heart failure. He had noi sen ill and his death comes as s lock to the entire state. Greenville.?When a man is running race against the stork, it is no tim< >r the law to interfere, Mayor Harv iy decided when he dismissed i large of exceeding the speed limit ?ainst a young nan who drove hir ir 50 miles an hour to the hospital tc reet the arrival of a son. York..?While under the influence oi hiskey and apparently in a spirit o] leer bravado, Robert McOinnis, 4' aars old. hostler of the Southern rail >ad, shot and seriously wounded F . Hinnan. 35 years old, one of th? roprietors of the Palmetto Monu ent company. Spartanburg.?O. L. Johnson, candl ite for mayor of Spartanburg in a ;cond race with Mayor I. F. Floyd, in statement given out withdraws from le contest. Mr. Johnson's action leaves Mayoi loyd the only randidate for mayoi i (ho socnnd nrimarv election. Westminster. ? The postoffice at ong Creek. S. C., 16 miles from here, as totally destroyed by fire, believed > be of incendiary origin. Duke Visits Great Falls. Great Falls.?J. B. Duke of New ork City is spending a few days are as the guest of Robert S. Meine. Mr. Duke, is here looking over s many interests in and around ?re. He is very much interested in s farming interests here, on which i is having something like 50 farm veilings erected on the new road om here to Wateree Station. Mr. uke has been a great factor in the ogress of this section, and his visits o always looked forward to with ensure. Case of "The Law's Delay." Lexington.?The case against Newt elly and Frank GolT. charged with e murder of David Shull in New i-i?a i?o foil hoa lidpn cnntinil nUFKIAUU mow tun, ..Mu WW I to the next term of court. Cole L. lease, representing Kelly, asked for continuance on the ground that the inutes of the court did not shav at thp grand jury which returned a ue hill against the defendant had en sworn according to law. and idge Sease held that the minutes lould show that the court had beer gaily organized. Heat Retards Cotton Picking. Chester.?The executive heat is eatlv retarding the picking of cotton us far this year. A rather strange ing, different from many years, 1s e nights have been so hot, causing e pickers to suffer much with heat iring the sleeping hours. The innse heat has caused the staple to ten earlier than usual. Reports from aces just north of Chester, like Mone, N. C., state that never before ive cotton pickers suffered with heat night after picking cotton during a dwr. ? COMMERCIAL PEACH! GR1INGKHED PIEDMONT SECTION IS ALIVE TO GREAT POSSIBILITIES OF 1 PEACH CULTURE. : MEETING IS HELD AT GREER i i Thirty-five Acres of Bearing Trees Last Year Netted Fortunate Own^ er the Sum of $20,000. i I Greer,?A meeting of the commer. jial peach growers of the Piedmont , section was held in the offices of the . chamber of commerce. There were . 60 present. The meeting was arranged by A. E. Schilletter, assistant hor ticulturiBt of the extension depart ment of Clemson college. The object > was to bring the peach growers toi gether to study the peach growing i : industry and necourage ft in this sees tion. Experts from Clemson college i and county farm demonstration agents ? from Greenville and Spartanburg i counties were presnt and assisted in profitable discussion. After the meeting a trip was made to Mt. Vernon, , the splendid peach orchard of J, V. Smith, four miles from Greer. Mr. , Smith conducted the visitors over his j 35 acre orchard and gave practical , demonstrations in pruning, spraying | and cultivation. Mr. Smith's is the , largest and most profitable orchard I In the Piedmont s&Kfon. Last season the 35 acres of bearing trees produced j 20 carloads of peaches and netted an average of $1,00 per car. J The organization of the First National bank of Greer has been completed by the board of directors. Aiken.?Aiken will entertain, as attendants upon a three-day short course the home demonstration agents of Al' lendale, Barnwell. Bamberg, Colleton, Charleston, Calhoun, Hampton LexI ington, Orangeburg and Richland ] counties, together with a number of experts in poultry raising, cooking, canning and conservation, sewing, dairying and household management, and the elevenpriie-winnlngclubgirls from the counties comprising the district of Miss Bessie Harper, of the | home demonstration work. , Saluda.?During the past week J. , Kleazer, county agent, and Dr. Urich j of the Clemson college live stock sanl. tary office finished testing 800 family I cows in the county for tuberculosis. This work is being done on a community basis. All of the cows to be tested are assembled at some central ' point and the tuberculin is injected. " On the third day they are reassembled and observations are made and reJ suits determined. I | Chester/?Chester and this section t was visited by a terrific electrical storm, the most severe seen here in many years. The rainfall was torrential. Reports received from the tern5 porary Chester camp of the Fifty-first i artillery states that the soldiers went " through the severe storm excellently 1 and that no damage of any conse' quence was done. ' Columbia.?William Burns, one of the gang of alleged automobile thieV%& rounded up by Richland officials in 1 June, and charged with operations covf ering several southwestern states, * was sentenced in criminal court here * to serve three years on the theft * charge, and a year and a half for at5 tempted Jail breaking. Greenville.?Kenneth Gossett young white man of Honea Path, 3. C. sent . to the state penitentiary for 40 years , on a conviction of criminally attack, ing a young girl of Greenwood. S. C., t but recently ordered by the supreme court to a new trial was granted bail . in the sum, of $6,000. Orangeburg. ? Abraham Williams, negro, was convicted of criminal assault in the Orangeburg court here. * * ' ? v,a imnosftd as j A aeain semeutc 1 no recommendation was carried in the verdict rendered by the jury which sat on the case. Death of Doctor Daniel. Kingstree.?The Rev. W. Daniel, D. D., former president of Columbia college and a leading minister in Ihe Methodist Episcopal church in South Carolina, died suddenly here at midnight. Dr. Daniel had been in declining health the last few months, but was able to attend the opening exercises of the Kingstree high school. He had returned from his summer vacation only a few v eelcs ago. and it was thought his health was much improved by the rest and recreation h? enjoyed. ' Times" Moves to New Home. Fort Mill.?The Fort Mill Times, the local newspaper, issued from its new home on the west side of Confederate street, a building specially erected for is use and admirably adapted for its purposes. Since me | Interests of the paper were acquired several years ago by W. R. Bradford. | many Improvements have been made In the appearance a?l matter contained in the week'y issues. For many years a "patent outside" was used, but the paper has been all home print for seevral years. Progress in Road Building. Conway.?Horry county is keeping well abreast her plan for good roads inaugurated two years ago by means of a bond issue of $200,000. The first work was the building of a splendid sand-caly road from Conway to Galivant's ferry, connecting there with a good road to Marlon, thus giving / Conway a direct highway connecting with the main highways of the state. The next road was the ConwayNtchols road. This has all been completed except a gap of about eight miles. * * j .d