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' GOVERNOR SIGNS ! ' NUMBER OF LAWS! 6EVERAL OF STATEWIDE EFFECT iS APPROVED; FOR COLUMBIA CANAL. ? fRANSFER MEASURE SIGNED: Chief Magistrate Places Signature to Large Number of Acts Passed By Legistlature. * Columbia. Governor Cooper signed a large ] number of acts pased by the legislature at the last session. Included in the list were several of statewide im- i portance and two of interest to Rich- i r * land county as well as numerous local . I measures. j The act creating a Colombia canal 1 commission to take charge of the Co, * lombia canal was signed and became law. This act provides for the appointment of a commission of three members to be named by the governor upon the recommendation of the chairman of the ways and means committee of the house and the finance committee of the senate, the chairman of the Judiciary committees of both houses and atorney general. The commission will not become active until the canal Is finally adjudicated to the state, if it is so adjudicated. Under the terms of the act the commission will take charge of the canal when it becomes the property of the state. The attorney general is made f legal advisor to the commission. Transfer Act Signed, i Senator Pearce's measure providing I for the transfer of a part of Lexington to Richland county was signed and became law. The act to allow the catching of non-food fish such as menhaden and | to allow them to be made into fertilizer was approved by the governor and also became law. This act places a | * tax on boats used for catching the L flsh| Representative Blease's measure to I give publicity to proposed bond issues * in cities and towns was another act to be signed and to become law. The act to create a bridge commis' sion for Calhoun and Richland counties for the purpose of erecting a bridge at Bates ferry across the Congaree to cost about $40,000 was also signed. The commission is to be I chosen, two members each, by the - ? Richland and W Calhoun delegations * and these two delegations in the geneial assembly are to choose a fifth member jointly. One More Member Here, The act to fix the apportionment of the members of the house of representatives in the general assembly so as to comply with the 1920 census was signed. By this act Richland and Florence counties gain one member , each and Marlboro and Bamberg lose one each. The three mill constitutional tax levy was given approval and became law. Representative Sapp's measure to issue a $25,000 stock certificate to Edwin W. Robertson in lieu of a lost certificate was another act to become law. Representative Merchant's act to alhaw the state highway department to refund overcharges for automobile licenses and the senate finance com mittee art to aiiow wit? ia* nimimasion to refund and rebate overpaid % taxes were both signed and became law. Senator Moore's act to provide for the forfeiture of concealed weapons , to municipalities by persons convicted of carrying concealed weapons was approved and hecame law. Senator Stabler's measure to provide for tbe drawing of teacher's warrants was another act to become law. ? Th? joint resolution to amend the constitution so as to allow counties i to assesR abutting property for permanent highway improvement was signed. Senator Colse's measure to require the sheriffs to settle with the county treasurers every 60 days was also signed and became law. To Build New Infirmary. At the meeting of the executive committee of the state board of health Fa committee was appointed to take steps looking to the immediate erection of the new infirmary at State Park. The committee will meet to complete arrangements for the construction of the new building and will let tae contra"! witmn a enorc uiue. This building will cost $10,000 and will house 20 patients. It will be construct, ed along lines somewhat similar to those of the present infirmary, it was understood. Two New Charters. The Electrick Maid Bake shop of Charleston was chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $10,000. Officers are: C. A. Robertson, president and treasurer; R. W. Carpenter, vice president; F. J. H. Haeslapp, secretary. ? The Sumter Canning company of Sumter was chartered with a capital stock of $30,000. Officers are: H J. Harby. president; R. A. Bradharn, vice * president; E M. Hall, secretary and I treasurer; H. A. Shaver, superintendent and maHcrer. Offers Scholarship. I Another four years' university course will be given this venr by H. S. FMrestone for the best essay on 'How Oor.d Roads Are Developed in My Community,' the scholarship to be awarded by the highway and highway fr'fODftrf The ? scholarship will be worth ?4.000. .xll ?. <i"Ti - of h.fh v< liool grade 1 ar? invited by Mi" commits to write ' s on the subject, the essay not to exc?ed 700 words. Teachers are asked to forward the three best essuys from aar h school not later than May 15. icaie teachers Close Meeting. The 4Sih annual session of the Stute Teachers' association closed j its three day session here with tile j election of officers and the launching j of a program for greaier intensity in , the organization in the future. A. Mason DuPre of the faculty of Wofford college. Spartanburg, was elected president of the association. \V. J. McGharrity of Aiken, and Miss Eunice Wilson were elected vice-presidents. The secretary and treasurer offices, held respectively by R. C. Burts of Rock Hill and W. E. Blank of Estill, are hold-over, the terms expiring next year. Members of the executive committee elected are: Miss Washington Pringle, Charleston, first district; J. D. Fulp, Abbeville, third district; E. C. Wade. Florence, sixth district, and A. J. Thackston, Orangeburg. The Dther members of the executive committee hold over for another year. One of the important accomplishments of the State Teachers' convention was the organization of the Music Teachers' Association of South Carolina with a charter enrollment of 62 tnembers. The association will be a member of the South Carolina Teachers' association and work as one of its departments. The officers elected were Dr. II. D. Guelick of Winthrop college, president; Dr. H. H. Bellamann of Chicora college, vice-president; Mrs. H. M. Stuckey of Sumter, chairman of the music department in the South Carolina'Federation of Women's Clubs, secretary-treasurer. Mrs. WiLon Caldwell Brown. Jr., of Newberry, was elected president of thj State Rural School Improvement association to take the place of the retiring president. Miss Mary Eva Hite. Mrs. Robert Generay of Anderson was elected recording secretary, these being the only two officers elected. State Borrows $3,000,000. The excellence of South Carolina's credit was well demonstrated in the success of the state borrowing committee's visit to New York, at which time a loan og $3,000,000 was negotiated at 4 per cent. The loan was made through the Palmetto National Bank .of Columbia and is at a rate of interest very much lower than that secured la6t year. "We caught the market just right and I heard of no one doing better than we did in the way of low interest,'' said Governor Cooper in discussing the loan. "You know Victory bonds are selling about at par and they draw 4% per cent interest." Governor Cooper added that he knew of no state getting as low a rate of interest and was much pleased with the arrangements the committee was able to make through the Palmetto bank. Plan Campaign For Education. A special campaign for education will be conducted in Orangeburg anu Anderson counties by the extension department of the University of South Carolina with the co-operation and assistance of the teachers and school authorities of the two counties. Tentative plans for the campaign were presented by representatives of the uni- j versify at a luncheon given to teachers j of the two counties at the university steward's hall. The plans as presented were approved by the teachers and arrangements made by the university to put on the campaign as early as possible, the exact date to be determined and announced later. Bide Being Asked. Bids for the construction of several concrete culverts on the WashingtonAtlanta highway in Chesterfield county will be received by the state highway department up to noon of April 5. The work will require some 14,2.19 cubic yards of steel reinforcement and additional concrete. Bids for the construction of a link of the York-Smyrna road in York county will be received up until noon of April 6th. 19 Prisoners Brought to Penitentiary. Nineteen prisoners were brought to the penitentiary to begin serving varying terms, this being the largest number to be admitted at the state prison in any one day in a long time. Sixteen of the prisoners were from Charleston county, two rrom uconee couniy aim one from Dorchester. The additions brought the total number of prisoners to 435 in the penitentiary and on the farms. This ia 155 more than the number on January 1, 1921. Governor Fills Places. Governor Cooper made several reappointments on state boards. G. B. Watson, of Columbia, was reappointed as a member of the board of examiners for public accountants. O. K. Williams, of Rock Hill, was re- j apopinted financial agent for the Catawba Indians at Rock Hill. A. M. Hiott was appointed coroner for Beaufort county. V. B. Lawsoc and Thomas McDaniel were named as rural policemen for Union county. Names Delegates For Conference. Delegates from South Carolina to the illiteracy conference of the southern states to be held at Birmingham. Ala., were appointed by the governor. Those named as delegates from the state were: Mrs. O. D? Plowden, Manning; Morhis C. Lumpkin, Columbia; Miss Will Lou Orev, Columbia; Dr. Patterson Wardlaw. Columbia; John E. Swearingen, Columbia; Miss Mabel Montgomery, Marion; Dr. S. H. Edmunds, Sumter; Dr. C E Hurts, Columbia; W. A. Shealy. Columbia. Officers Given Recognition. Permanent federal recognition was I granted the following national guard ! officers of South Carolina. Col. T. E. Marchant. commanding the One Hundred and Eighteenth infantry; Capt. Alfred M. McLeod, Capt. Brooks W. Summer, First Lieut. O. W. Johnson. First Lieut. B. K. Johnson and Second Lieut. J. E. Campbell All these officers have successfully passed the necessary examinations. Federal recognition was also granted to Company It. One Hundred and Thirty-third engineers, Spartanbur* i xirj uxij >-rsswa3fiJiea*CS3S '-a&BZStiZ, : 4%?ssxscsff?B::rc:? ' I TIT A p 1.?Launching at Essex, Mass., ol men's race next fall; America won th with the President at the White Hous worth, Fess. 3.?Viscount Peel, new ? '- ? ? ? AM I NEWS KtVIti UE CURRENTEVENTS Four-Power Pacific Treaty Is Ratified by Senate After Bitter Debate. HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL ; President Orders American Army Home From Rhine and Hughes Notifies Allies They Must Pay Expense Bill? Moslem Unrest. , By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN , THE l'our-power Pacific treaty was , ratified by the United States , senate Friday, March 24. By agreement made ten days In , advance the vote had been set for | that date. It came as the climax to a , week of strenuous oratory. The bitterest debate was precipitated Mon- , day when Senator Borah (Republican ( of Idaho) read into the record a steuo- ( graphic report of a statement attrlbuted to Paul D. Cravath, "the representative of the Morgans and the , ltyans," to the effect that the United ( States had entered Into a secret agree- , ult?iii IU tvuiieiuic Willi uicui in nam ugalnst Japan In the Pacific. Senators ^ Lodge and Underwood, Itepubllcun and Democratic floor leaders and American delegates to the conference with Secre- , tary of State Hughes and Ellhu Root, ( denied the ulleged Cravnth statement. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, leading the Democratic opposition to the treaty, demanded a senatorial Investigation and asked that Secretary Hughes and Mr. Root be called before the foreign relations committee. At ( this point Senator Lodge said: "This debate is proceeding upon the theory that the four American delegates were not only ignorant and in- 1 competent but that they were prepared 1 to betray their country. It Is an im- 1 plication against the honesty and pa- ' t riot ism of the President. I believe 1 that they are as patriotic and as de- ' sirous of protecting the interests of their country as those who are slandering them by implication and insinuu- 1 tlons. ,1 will trust the people of the ' United Stutes to stand by the President and the four delegates in this great conference." Later Mr. Cravath emphatically de- 1 nied the statement attributed to him. Secretary Hughes wrote a letter in which he said: 1 "In my letter to Senator Under- 1 wood on March 11th, in relation to 1 the four-power treaty, I said: " 'There are no secret notes or un- 1 derstundings.' 1 "Permit me to express the hope that the American delegates will be ' suveu IUiliitT us^i^ivua upuu intri* veracity and honor." To the Man In the Street the astonishing part of this Is the fact that anyone?United States senator or anyone else?should expect to get across with chnrges, direct or Indirect, against either the honor, the efficiency, the veracity or the patriotism of the four American delegates. PASSAGE of the "four billion dollar" bonus bill was accomplished by the house Thursday, March 23, by a vote of 333 to 70, four voting present. A two-thirds majority wus necessary to pass the bills under a suspension of the rules. The bonus bill was put through In accordance with a program announced the preceding Tuesday. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee sub- , mltted a resolution providing for suspension of the rules. Chairman Ford- 1 ney of the ways and means committee ! was recognized by the speaker for the offering of a motion to suspend | the rules and pass the hill. Four i hours of debate followed, with time i divided. 1 Any forecast of the treatment of 1 the bill by the sennte Is largely guess- i work. Certain Republican senators | have expressed opposition to the bill as reported to the house by the ways i and means committee. It is common report that any bill passed by the senate will contain a provision set- i ting forth the necessary taxation plan DIFFER AS TO CONSTITUTION Zionists and Arabs in Violent Dispute 1 Over Terms of Document Drafted for Country. Jerusalem, Palestine.?Lord North- < clifTe. British newspaper publisher, expressed surprise on his visit here that it was deemed necessary to meet him and escort him through the streets , with armored cars. Voicing regret j that he found Palestine so unhappy, he ussorted that the British public | CjAA YV UHXVV/11 iv;uiJ, v/iiun. yBSBSSBMS&Rw&r- ' ' ' 'XfW'Z'***' .... \ ) \ ! > % f i \ . > | ^ .' schooner Puritan, American conten e iirst nnd Canada the second. 2.?] o tlie bonus bill: (left to right) Mon'l British secret/iry of state for Indii to pay the bonus, which Is omlttei from the house bill. Some politico prophets predict a deadlock betweei the two houses. Nobody pretend: to ho able to say whether or nol President Harding will veto the bill. President Harding, upon his retun from a short vacation In Florida, wa: called upon Monday, March 20, at tin White House by a delegation from tin iiouse: Floor Leader Mondell (Wyom ing) and Representatives Fordne; (Michigan), Towner (Iowa), Cauipbel (Kansas), Longworth (Ohio) and Fes (Ohio). They discussed bonus legisla tion for two hours, with this result according to the official communique "The legislative situation relatlnj to the bonus bill was fully presentet to the President, with detailed ex planation of the provisions which re move the menace- of excessive draft! on the treasury in the Immediate fu ture and avoid any progrum of addet taxation. The President went ove the entire situation with an appraisa of commitments made. He advisee the committee that the legislation ii a responsibility of congress, and Ii view of expressions previously mad< lie did not think it essential to oflfe: any recommendations." The President's "expressions previously made" were recommendation! of a sales tax to provide the revenu* to pay the bonus or postponement c: the passage of the measure until th< funds were In hand. The delegatior kvas divided as to whether the PresI [lent would or would not veto the bll [f passed. Everybody was on hand when thi house opened Monday and nobodj seemed to know whut Speaker Gillet Intended to do. Garner (Democrat Texus) asked that Mondell be givei two minutes to tell the status of tin bonus bill. Campbell called for th< regular order. The speaker announce! that no one would be recognized tha lay to bring up the bill. Then then was a conference In the speaker's jrtice. It got nowhere. The speakei held that he would not assume the re sponslblllty of letting the bill conn tip until he had the express commam :>f the majority members. Democrat!* members of the ways and means com mlttee made a minority report whicl [ ailed the bill all the finaneial. eeo aomlc and political names on tin calendar. Tuesday a definite progran for the passage of the bill Thursday jy the house under a suspension of thi rules was announced by the Republl can leaders. PRESIDENT HARDING has ordere< ull American troops lu German: returned to the United States by Julj 1, the beginning of the 1023 fiscal year This 'was the American government'! tirst answer to the refusal of the alllet reparation commission to pay its bil for $241,000,000 for the expense oi United States troops on the Uliine ui to May 1, 1921, out of a billion golt marks recently paid over by Germany The allies argue this way: The able! ire not bound by the Berlin treaty lust as the United States is not bounc )y the Versailles treaty. America's Lialm Is based on the Berlin treaty Therefore the allies are not bouni to pay the American claim. Secretary of State Hughes has madt the government's second answer. Ir iffect he has served notice on tht allies that they cannot dodge pay^ inent of the Rhine debt by attempting to hide behind a technicality whlel doesn't exist. Identical communica tious were placed Wednesday, Mart! 21, by American ambassadors befon the governments of Great Brltuln France, Italy, Japan and Belgium Secretary Hughes insists that tin right of the United States to be pail Is not only clearly equitable but fret from any technical objection. He set: forth in detail this right, as' establlshei Jointly under the terms of the artnls tlce, the treaty of Versailles and tht treaty of peace between the Unitet States and Germany. He says tht United States will welcome any sug ""Ofirm from the allies for reasonablt adjustment. And In the meantime wll they please refrain from giving effect to any arrangements for the dlstrlbii tlon of German cash payments to thf exclusion of the claim of the Unitec States. Evidently the situation Is one wide! requires an able secretary of stnte. Ii apparently has many complications, in debate In the senate Senator Lodgt said that our claim had nothing to dr with either treaty, that it was buse< "was imperfectly informed regardinj the feeling in Palestine," and lie add ed that he hoped Palestinians wouU not move too quickly and make Pales tine "another Ireland." Publication of the newly pmpose< constitution for Palestine, which wa: completed after long discussion be tween representatives of the Rritisl government and of Arabs ami Jews o this country, while it caused wide spread rejoicing, also brought a gooi ileal of dissent. It is evident that tin extremists on all sides of the contro I ff , w. v. der in the third International FlsherItepubllean house leaders who discussed ell, Fordney, Towner, Crtmpbell, Longi. succeeding E. S. Montagu. 1 on an agreement made under the 1 armistice and thut evasion was a i mere technicality. Senator Underwood s agreed as to the technicality and then t said this In effect: "Nevertheless, payment rests In the i reparation commission. The supreme s war council?not to be confounded i with the supreme council of the League ? of Nations?was ?lven churge of winding up the war. We had a representaT tive on that supreme council until af1 ter the defeat of the Versailles treaty. 3 That supreme council turned over to - the reparation commission the ad, ministration of the funds to be col: lected from Germany to pay the troops ; on the Ithiue. The commission is now ] handling these funds. The only way - we can get our share is to sit in at the - reparation table." 3 Close observers In Washington say - that the President's informal utter1 ances ludlcate that he would look r with favor upon the appointment by 1 congress of un American representa1 tive on the allied reparation cora? mission. He will not propose it, but t he thinks congress should realize its u necessity. LLOYD GEORGE has announced that he will attend the Genoa con3 ference. Viscount Peel has accepted j the post of secretary of state for f India, after Lord Derby had declined ? it. So it looks as if the British cabll net crisis growing out of the indlscre tlon and enforced resignation of E. 1 S. Montagu Is over. Back of It, however, is a condition of world-wide 3 interest?unrest and concerted action f in the Moslem world of quarter of a 1.1111 I rA on lotO Who t I U1IUUI1 illuuui iU icu^iuiuaia. *t iiuw the Moslems consider the 111 treatment i of Turkey since the World war has } hound them more closely together and ? quickened their activities. They ap1 pear to be In touch the world over and t propaganda Is everywhere. The dej mand of the Indian government for i the restorntion of Turkey Is convlncr Ing evidence of Moslem solidarity. The . sultan of Turkey as calfph of Islam ? Is leader of all Mohammedans. EUROPE Is confronted by the danger of a devastating plague of i typhus, according to the health depart. ment of the League of Nations. Ten ? million emigrants hearing typhus ! germs are bearing down on the westi ern frontiers of Russia and no bar? rler European nations can erect will . stop this panic-stricken horde of peasants tleelng from famine and death. Already the Polish barrier lias j been broken down; 000,000 Russians . have swarmed Into Enstern Gallcla. j Everywhere the route of the hordes Is lined with unburied corpses. In j the famine districts they are dying i so fast that little effort Is made to j bury the dead. The league will atj tempt to establish a sanitary cordon, j Iiayonets will be abandoned and an j attempt made to cleanse and cure the millions. 5 MAINE furnished the first test of strength In the congressional j elections. John E. Nelson, Republican, defeated Ernest McLean, Democrat, in 1 a special election In the Third district. The Republican victory was , In the face of "Democratic weather." ( Tne uemocrais cut uown me niajumy, ? however, In a district which Is normally strongly Republican, basing their , campaign largely on the bonus and | treaty Issues. Query: What does the . test of strength show? 1 i OTEFANSS0N, the Arctic explorer, , O has planted the flag of Great Brl. tain on Wrangell island and claimed ; It for the British government. Just I the same, In 1881 Capt. C. L. Hopper ? of the Convin and Lieut. Robert M. j Berry of the Rodgers landed on Wran1 gell lslaud, erected an American flag, took possession In the nurae of the ? United States by right of discovery 1 and left a written record in a cairn. ; The Island is Important?If It Is Im portant?because of strategic doml? nance of northeastern Siberia. t '""pHE United States Supreme court A has held valid the New York rent > law of 1920 curbing the rent hog. 1 The court held that the social emergency caused by a shortage of dwell. i lngs warrants the use of police powv t by the state. Anyone desiring to study modem ? warfare should visit the trenches on j > Hip border between Ulster uud South 1' Ireland. versy here are not satisfied, hut on the other hand there is an apparent n.a- , 1 jorlty who regard the new draft as a , - compromise which should satisfy the aspirations of all concerned. These , 1 generally express tlie hope thHt the s new constitution will he adopted and , - confirmed by the League of Nations. i The dissentists, Arabs and Jews f alike, have organized themselves to - obtain the modification of some of the , I terms in the draft. The Zionists ob-1 -* ject to giving the Arabs a majority in I ( - the legislative council. ji Xjfie AMERICAN LEGION* (Copy for Tbla Department Supplied by the American Legion New* Service.) WILL WRITE POST'S HISTORY Rupert Hughes, Author, Will ChronIcle Happenings to Members of Robert Stowe Gill Body. The history of one American Legion post will be written by no less a light than Rupert f ^ Hughes. With an Tj&v eye to his versa k | tile pen, mem;^e1 ^er8 ?' the ^0,)" Ipr ert S t o w e Gill vk post of the LeI'W g Ion in New ?J?mk *' York, nuve maue *'ie aut^or t',elr j0i historian. The jf , membership of i'ie p?st is ina<^e ; llP entirely of r jtEsBvWZw*m members of the Lamb's club?writers ami actors for the most part. "Long in time and short in importance" is the way Mr. Hughes describes his military career. As a matter of fact he was a fairly important soldier. He started as a privute in the . Seventh regiment in 1897. Ten years later he was offered a lieutenant colonelcy, which he did not accept. He served on the Mexican border as a cnptain, and only deafness kept him from service abroad during the World war. During the raising of troops in New York he served as adjutant general, where his deafness was an asset rather than a liability with the pacifists tooting their tin whistles, and then he became a captain in the Intelligence service, being Just as Intelligent when deaf as when sharp of hearing. "I joined the Legion,'" Mr. Hughes wrote, "because I believe in its principles and I believe it to be one of the jiost important organizations in the country." Mr. Hughes has recently" come Into public notice for his stand against censorship. HIGH ON LEGION HONOR ROLL Minnesota Newspaper Man Wrote vr 236 Personal Letters to "Home" Workers During World War. One of the world's most enthusiastic letter writers is M. W. Grimes, editor of the Le . 230 men and seven women to the colors. Editor Grimes sat down and wrote them 3,230 personal letters while they were uway from home, un average of one letter a month for each tighter or nurse. In addition he mailed a copy of the hometown paper to each of them every week. The letters were not the "Dear-Jlm-I-remaln-yourstruly" variety; they contained the hits of "homft gossip" and local color for which the doughboys were willing to give their last eigurette. When the veterans returned, Editor Grimes assisted in the formation of a tmnHnnii I.AcInn iind de [fUSl VI HIV iluiv.vu.. voted an entire edition of the News to reproducing the pictures of every Le Sueur boy that had lost his life in the war. AN EYE ON NEXT CONGRESS Official Washington Is Speculating on How Many Ex-Service Men Will Be Returned. Official Washington Is wondering how many ex-service men are to be returned to congress at the election next fall. Speculation is rife, with the bonus controversy at full tilt. Veterans of the World war already have formidable strength in the house, 31 seats being occupied by former service men, according to a canvass by the American Legion. The senate has two veterans?Senator Newberry of Michigan, and Senator Klkinis of West Virginia. Twenty-one states are represented by ex-service men In congress, New York leading with four, Massachusetts and Tennessee being second with three each. Far-sighted persons have hazarded the opinion that when the votes are counted in November, it will be found that the number of ex-soldiers In the house has been materially increased. Only Ex-Service Men Wanted. When Edward Hlnes, millionaire merchant of Chicago, wants help In his lumber yards, he sends to the American Legion. His employment officers have been instructed to nire wny veterans of the war in the yards. HInea Is the donor of a memorial hospital at Maywood, III. Single Track. "When Is your daughter thinking of getting married?" "Constantly." ? American Legion , Weekly. The Crank. Officer?He's crazy, yer honor. I found him down on the main street trying to crank a car. Judge?Why that doesn't prove he's :razy. Officer?Hut there was no car there, yer honor.?American Legion Weekly. Among the Best Sellers. Hlnckstone?Have you ever written mythlng for publication? Webster?Only a couple of love letters to a movie actress.?American Legion Weekly. ? ] PEMM'S SPELLS CHEWING TOBACCO Perm's spells quality. Why? Rp^qiica-_ wvvwugv Penn'9 i9 packed air* tight in the patented new container ? the quality jg 9ealed in.So Penn'g i9 alwayg fregh ? an entirely new idea for chewing tobacco. Have you ever really \ chewed fresh tobacco? Buy Penn'g the next time. Try it. Notice the fine condition. And after that, U9e fresh chewing tobacco ? Penn's. STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE. Barnwell.?Three fires, all of them In the residential section of the city, have occurred here in the past week, entailing a property loss of many thousands of dollars. r Lydia.?W. R. Rhinehart, postmaster at this place and proprietor of the Cash and Carry Grocery company, had the misfortune of breaking his leg a few days ago while engaged in a friendly tussle with T. E. Bell. Walterboro. ? Harold Hill, 11-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hill of Round, while playing around a grist mill, was caught on a shaft extension and whirled round and round, meeting instant death. Greenwoods?Following a personal encoutner in the dining room of the Oregon hotel in which he was struck over the head with a water pitcher by Frank Sampson, L. D. Smoot, paving engineer, is in a local hospital for treatment. Mullins.?H. G. Martin, who went on the police force of Mullins about two weeks ago, is being congratulated upon his good work in checking up on what is believed in Mullins to be a well laid plot to rob several stores of this place. Officer Martin arrested negroes single handed in the act of robbing Mucins' biggest department store, the Rasor & Clardy company. Hartsville.?Appeal to the people of the state to carry forward the fight for reduction in telephone rates and for a community long distance service that will better meet their needs was made by the Telephone Subscribers' association, through its president, A. L. M. Wiggins. It is the first public announcment by the association since the beginning of the fight in the legislature to reduce the rates and to reorganize the railroad commission. Chester.?Congressman W. F. Stevenson has been appealed to by the chamber of commerce, co-operating with Postmaster T. M. Douglas, to secure parcel post delivery in the business section of Chester. Bamberg.?Nathaniel Z. Felder, Jr., member of a prominent family here, was fatally shot by Policeman T. C. Hutto. Mr. Felder was put on a train for Charleston, but died when he reached Branchville. Camden.?R. B. Pitts, president of the Hermitage cotton mill of this city, has installed in his home a wireless radio phone, and has been entertaining his frienda with concerts given daily out of Pittsburgh and other places. Greensboro (N. C. (Special).?Willie Wiles, automobile racer of Columbia, was fatally injured when the machine he was driving turned over here. Ernest Brown, his mechanician, escaped . L Ml. Wiloo Hfpd Wlin Sllglll. mjuiica. mi, fu.vu ? in a local hospital. Greenwood.?The Rev. C. E. Gammon, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Hampden-Sldney, Va., wa3 extended a call to the First Presbyterian church of Greenwood at a congregational meeting. The local church has been without a pastor since the resignation of Dr. J. B| Green last summer. Laurens.?Guilty of manslaughter with recommendation to mercy was the verdict, and ten years each in the state penitentiary was the sentence of the court for Luther Timmons and Monroe Willard. young men of Clinton, who were being tried on the charge of murder in the killing of Rosea O. Martin. Laurens city policeman, last December 14.