Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COTTON GETS BUCK . TO NORMAL BASIS COMMERCE DEPARTMENT COM. PLETES SURVEY OF THE SITUATION. )IFTER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD ' i Weather Conditions and the Boll Weevil Are Now Principal Factors to be Considered. i. I Washington. ? World cotton consumption has returned to its pre-war level after a five-year period of low consumption, according to a survey of the international cotton situation covering production, consumption and stocks, as of April 1, made public by the commerce department. "The striking feature of the situa tion," tne aeparuneni sam, ib au indicated consumption of 21,000,000 bales for the year ending July 31, 1922, approximately 6.000.000 bales more than was produced for the crop year.'' The world carryover, the department concluded from its survey, will return to normal by August 1, 1922, while the outstanding feature of interest now is the degree to which the cotton production will return to the pre-war level, or whether it will continue on the basis of the last five years' average of 18.000.000 bales. Much depends, the department declared. on weather conditions and the extent to which the boll weevil proves to be a limiting factor. Little Change in River. New Orleans.?While water flowed through the three crevasses in the lower Mississippi river continued to cover more Iands.^ the fight to prevent other breaks in the levees was carried on without any let-up. Thousands ol men spent their Sabbath filling and piling sand bags to strengthen the weak places and to raise low stretches of the embankments to meet highei river stages than any yet recorded. In the third Mississippi levee district alone no less than 10,000 men were engaged in the fight to hold the swollen river in its channel, the 4,000 employed by the government in this district being reinforced by more than 6,000 civilians who have volunteered their services for the common protection of their homes. Church services were dispensed with in many places, the jgistors leading their flocks to the levees, where the day was spent in hard labor to prevent further flooding. Shoots Son and Commits Suicide. Chattanooga, Tenn.?Dr. W. P. Allen of Dayton. Tenn., who last December was acquitted of the murder of Burch C. Gardenhire, member of a wellknown Tennessee family, after one of the most sensational murder trials ever staged in Rhea county, killed his nine-year-old son, W. P.. Jr.. shot at his wife and committed suicide. The double tragedy occured three miles south of Dayton as Dr. Allen, his wife and son were returning from an automobile ride. Mrs. Allen said the shooting was done without any warning. She told SherifT Burnette, who made an investigation. that Dr. Allen, who was driving the car stopped at the side of the road, drew his revolver, shot the child through the head and then got out of the seat. She Jumped out on the other side, she said, and ran, as Allen started shooting at her. Captain Coleman Seeks Relief. New Bern.?At the jail here Arthur Coleman, captain and owner of the British schooner "Message of Peace," convicted of selling whiskey and sentenced to six months in jail by Judge H. G. Connor, said he erpected to be released on bail. His counsel, John D. and Emmett Bellamy, went to Wilmington to attend to securing the bond which was fixed at $2,500. Captain Coleman declared that he was far from being through with the case. He expects to sue for the recovery of his ship and Its cargo. Many Children Hurt. Rome, Ga.?Five children were seriously injured, one probably fatally and 18 others suffered bruises when they were thrown out of a truck tak lUft a vui ? c ucat ucj c. Ruth West. 13, of Llndale was reported to have suffered a fractured skull, and was not expected to live. Four others. Houston Hendricks, Richard Bean. Louise Mathis and Walter Green, also were taken to a hospital painfully hurt. The injuries to the others were chiefly minor cuts and bruises. Marshal Joffre Leaves New York. New York.?With the strains of "Auld Lang Syne," played by a municipal band as the liner Celtic speeded up off the Statue of Liberty. Marshal Joffre waved good-bye to America and began the last lap of his world tour. The hand was aboartr the police boat John F. Hylan. The marshal stood at attention for a moment after the band began, then suddenly waved his red and gold hat, grew more enthusiastic and waved this cane, while the big liner slipped away toward the open sea. Assassination Is Attempted. Riga?An attempt was made to a* sassinate the members of the Russian soviet commission requisitioning church treasures at Tver, on the right bank of the Volga river, it was reported in soviet official quarters here. While the commission was carrying out its requisition, according to the reports received here, a member of the "black hundred" threw a bomb into the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, an ancient edifice of rare beauty, built in 1639. No one was injured. i ' i 1 [ BULLOCK FLEES CANADIAN I SOIL; FEARS KIDNAPPING I Hamilton, Ont.?bearing from rumors that members of the Ku Klux j Klan were intending to journey to Canada, kidnap him and return with him to Norlina, N. C., to face charges of murder and inciting to I riot, Matthew Bullock, negro of Norlina, has fled to a foreign coun- j try, according to his friends. Twice Bullock evaded extradi- j tion to North Carolina through pro- ' . ceedings which aroused widespread ' interest. Following his hearings, f reports of the intended action of the Klan caused his departure, it j was said. ^ Rev. J. D. Howell, who was active in the negro's behalf, said he had received a letter telling of Bullock's safe arrival "on another continent," but declined to say | where that was. | FRUIT REPORTED DAMAGED < IN UPPER OHIO VALLEY AND J UPPER APPALACHIAN MOUN" h TAIN REGIONS. * D Apparently Not Much Injury Was * Done in the North Carolina Peach a Producing Belt c _____ c c Washington. ? Much damage was <] done to fruit in the upper Ohio val-: r ley and central and northern Appa- I lachian mountain localities by the f recent severe frost and freezing tern-1 r peratures, the weather bureau said n in its weekly weather and crop re- I view. "The full extent of damage cannot'1 be definitely1 stated at this time"?the :1 bureau said in the review?the first1 c official estimate issued since the cold * wave. "Reports at hand, however, in-! * dicate that it was greatest in the r mountain sections of Virginia, West 1 Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, r - c i ne aeBirucuuu was uui su uuanj complete, nor so extensive geograph- j e lcally, as was caused by the freeze of}c last year, which occurred the latter ' part of March. It Is noted that this c year's fruit bloom was unusually j heavy and a large proportion could * be destroyed on the heavily laden ? trees with sufficient remaining to pro-: duce a fair yield of better quality, i' | "The greater part of the fruit ap-! J' pears to have been killed over a few 1 f extreme northwestern counties in Vir-, ginia, with progressively less damage :. southward in the state, but extending well into the centra! counties. | "Apparently not much injury was 1 j done in the heavy peach producing j belt of North Carolina, but some fruit, j was frosted in the northern and west-if ern portions of the state." j ^ Moisture conditions, however, the ? review said, were favorable in most i of the southern states for planting J cotton, although the soil was too wet I for satisfactory progress in a few I localities, especially in the northern j portions of Georgia and Alabama.il Work was interrupted in the north- j western portion of the bolt by the gen- . eral rains the latter part of the week. c Anastase and Bride in Trouble.- 1 New York. ? Anastase Andrevitch t Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky, 23-year-old * worker emnloved by the Baldwin Lo- j * comotive Works, and his 47-year-old 1 bride, formerly the wealthy Mrs. Ma- * rion B. Ream-Stephens, of Chicago, a were in New York to consult their at- 11 torney, Clarence Blair Mitchell, re-f x garding a sequel to their marriage, s which created quite a stir in social r circles when it was performed last j February at the Russian cathedral in J this city. j G The sequels which broke in upon the ? Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky's privacy af-!" ter they had taken up their residence j in Ridley Park, near Philadelphia, de-; veloped from Paris. Cable dispatches j nuoted a woman claiming to have wed b Vonsaisskoy-Vonsiatsky in the Rus- v sian cathedral at Yalta in the Crimea t in 1920, although the claim has been t made that it was illegal because the a bride never had been baptized. She c was alleged to have asked the Rus-! v sian Catholic metropolitan in America t to investigate the ceremony performed b here. c Orders Arrest of All Adult Persons. Manchester, Ky.?The arrest of ev-. ery person over 12 years of age in 1 (] the Mill Creek neighborhood of Clay ^ county has been ordered by Circuit c Judge Hiram J. Jonnson in an eiron to break up lawlessness which culmi* I nated last week in the ambushing of j ] county officers who went into the dis- I trict to arrest moonshiners. Two I hundred warrants were issued by r Judge Johnson and orders were given t to confiscate all high-powered rifles f and large calibre pistols. t Patent Medicines Easily Bought. Pittsburgh. Pa.?Advocacy of steps to make intoxicating patent medicines c as hard to obtain as medicinal whis- J j key and to line merchants up with j c prohibition enforcement agents are in ' prospect at the convention of the j 1 United Medicine Manufacturers. |< The first gun in the prohibition is- f sue of the convention was fired by Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel 1 of the Anti-Saloon League, who urged t the manufacturers to adopt measures t to stop unlawful sale of their products 1 for beverage purposes. < Mix-up In Babies Corrected. Montreal.?A couple of two-year-old babies who got mixpd up in a hospital .1 four months ago and have since been i living in the wrong households, were < properly redistributed. The babies. Pansy Dyke and Myrtle < Bartlott. both web-footed, were given , t to the wrong mothers upon their re-: i rovery from diphtheria. Pansy is fair I and Myrtle is dark and while the par- j < ents now say they bad their doubts ; all along, it was not until a third' l mother began an investigation at the ' boenltol tha mistake was revealed. 1 IIR PRESIDENT OF FRANCE DEAD I J >IES OF PNEUMONIA FOLLOW-! ING ILLNESS OF LESS THAN A WEEK. 'REMIER POINCARE CALLS1 Vas Forced to Resign the Presidency Owing to a Sudden Breakdown. Paris. ? Pau). Deschanel, former 'resident of France, died after an illiess of less than a week. The passing of M. Deschanel, who or many years had been prominent in he Dolitical life of France, caused widespread sorrow. HIa friends had toped for his recovery, when the phyicians in attendance announced that ie could not survive. Mme. De9hanel was at the bedside when her lusband died. The former President's eagerness o be up and doing, notwithstanding lis long weakened condition, played m important part in the hastening if his death. He insisted last week in leaving his residence before he had : ompletely recovered from a cold. | There was a relapse and double pneunonia developed. Premier Poincare was among tbej' irst persons to call at the Deschanel esidence after the death of the statesnan to express the sympathy of the French government. Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel,, the enth President of France, entered ] | ipon a seven-year term in that office in . February 19, 1920. after having teen chosen by the national assembly he preceding January by the biggest najorlty since the election of Thiere, he first President of the present re-1 uiblic. Statesman and author and ' ine of the most brilliant public speak-1 T8 in France, M. Deschanel's politi-! :al triumph marked the, retirement i rom public life of former Premier 1 Jeorges Clemenceau. The campaign had been most sensaional and bitter, M. Clemenceau. then it the height of his power as the French war premier and one of the ; legotiations of the treaty with (ter-1 nany, was up until a few days before , he election, believed to be the only j andidate who had a chance for the ffice. Catholic and Socialist wotes n the French Parliament, however, j iombined with those of the political j nemies of the "Tiger'' and elected )eschanel. A few months later, when )eschanel had been forced by illness o resign. "The Tiger" was asked if le again would permit his name to be ised as a candidate for the presi-i1 lency. "I was too old to be elected last]1 January.'' he replied ironically, "and 1 feel too young to accept now. in case was chosen. I am going into India's ungles to hunt tigers, which is much i ess dangerous than French politics." .ord and Lady Astor in Washington. [ Washington/?Lord and Lady Astor \ i :ane to Washington, were guests at a j i luncheon at the capitol, spoke at { he National Press club and later in i he day attended a reception given,i >y Mm. Chfrles E. Hughes at the i an-American building for the Pantmerican conference of women. They ttended a meeting at Continental tiemorial hall for the Pan-American women's conference, at which the peakers were Secretary Hughes and | nembers of the diplomatic corps. From the time of her arrival Lady tstor was the center of admiriig ;roups. After the luncheon at the apitol she was the guest of Senator Iwanson of Virginia. i i Three Officers Slain. Beardstown, 111.?Sheriff Ed Lashirook, of Rushville, and two deputies yere killed in a fight with Greek sec- J ion hands near here. Thirty-eight of ;, he maintenance of way workers were :, rrested as they entered Beardstown t j m a train and efforts immediately I vere started to have them bound over o the grand jury on murder charges ; ( tecause of the high feeling over the | officer's death. 1 Patterson Heads Publishers' Body. New York.?Paul Patterson, of the Jaltimore Sun was elected president if the .American Newspaper Publish- 1 irs' association at the final session ' if its convention. Other officers elected were: Vice-11 Resident, S. E. Thomason, Chicago;: rribune, secretary. John S. Bryant.1 tionmona tNews-i-eaaer; treasurer, Joward Davis, New York Tribune, J jew directors, T. R. Williams. Pitts- j, >urg Press; Harry Chandler, Los An-' :eles Times; Charles H. Taylor. Boson Globe, and Frank G. Bell. Will Meet Next at Seattle. New Orleans.?After electing off!-1 :ers for three years and selecting Seittle. Wash., as the next convention :ity the 35th conclave of the Knights Templars came to a close. Leonldas | Newby, of Knightstown. Ind., was \ dected most excellent grand master, i tucceeding James K. Orr, Other olTicers elected were; Wlliam H. Norris, of Manchester. Iowa, ! leputy grand master; G. W. Vallery j )f Denver, Col., grand generalissimo; ! William L. Sharp of Chicago, grand captain general. Join in .Honoring Grant. Washington. ? Southerners joined leartily in the celebration of the 100th . mniversary of the birth of General Jrant. The gray uniform of Gen. Julius ?arr of North Carolina, commander of he United Confederate Veterans, was esplendent in the parade nmldst the due worn by more than a hundred vet?rans of the Grand Army. The marine corps which headed the parade was commanded by Capt. i rhomas P. Cheatham of South Carolna. I INDICTED WITH MOUSE UNO SONS :harged with having used the mails to defraud investors. , ADVERTISING THROUGH MAILS William A. Barber, Former Attorney General of South Carolina, Among the Accused. ?? SLIGHT INCREASE IN EXPORTS OF COTTON ( Washington.?Cotton export?, increased slightly during M*rcli as compared with the same month last year, according to foreign trade reports issued here by the commerce department. < Cotton exports for the month aggregated 461,000 bales valued at $48,000,000 compared with 757,000 bales worth $27,000,000 in March a year ago, while for the nine months ended with March cotton I exports totaled 5,000,000 bales val- I ued at $442,000,000 as against 4,000.000 bales worth $518,000,000 during the corresponding nine 1 months of 1921. FLOOD STRIKES FORT WORTH. i SEVENTEEN PROBABLY DEAD \ AND PROPERTY DAMAGE ES- 1 TIMATED AT MILLION. { Scores of Residences and Small Build- < ings Are Swept Away; Streets < Inundated. < t Fort Worth, Texas?John J. McCain, ( Fort Worth city engineer, issued a t statement in which he declared the levees around the rivers, which broke < here and flooded lowlands of this city, t were "dynamited by unknown parties," i and that an investigation by a grand 1 jury would be demanded immediately, t Seventeen probably dead and property damage estimated at approxi- 1 mately one million dollars is the toll 1 of a flood which swept Fort Worth, carrying before it scores of residences I and small buildings, overflowing hun-! i dreds of acres of land and Inundating several city streets. : f The estimate of possibly 17 dead j was made by Major L. G. White, in ( charge of Red Cross relief. ( The flood was confined chiefly to the 1 lowlands adjoining the tributaries of the Trinity river. Marine, 3ycamore, j Clearforks and the Trinity river were r swollen, overflowing the bottoms near-. by. The flood is the most severe in the j city, according to old-time rseidents. { Coming on the heels of rain, the ! heaviest in the history of Fort Worth, j j and a wind and electrical storm, the ( flood took scores of people by sur-' ( prise. The lowlands adjoining Syca-: \ more creek were the first to suffer, j and at one time water was standing , level with the roofs of residences. ; i Word reaching here from points to i the north of Fort Worth indicate that; ( a further rise of the water is expected, s Rescue workers are laboring tireless- f ly in bringing relief to flood sufferers, j 1 With boiler rooms of the city power j ( and light plant flooded, residential 1 Fort Worth is spending a night in,' darkness. I( ' ' ' ' *- - - '4 ? * ? ? ~ ?? 1 A# <4 o rlr. I I wun me cuv laciug a ui^ui ui uui?ness. 500 members of the American Legion were patrolling the streets, 1 augmenting the police force. ] Many highways were cover0 with , water, cutting ofT traffic. "It is our opinion that the levee did ( not break of its own accord, but was T dynamited, and as soon as the situa- , tion is relieved, we are going to place |( the facts before the grand jury and ] demand an investigation,'' McCain de- ( clared. j T Aeronautical Problems Being Solved. > Washington. ? Aeronautical prob-1 * lems which have baffled the best i * minds of the scientific world are be-!' Ing solved with marked success 1 through experiments in the laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, under the direction of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, Joseph A. r Ames, chafrman of of the executive c committee, declared in an address at i the concluding session of the National i Academy of Sciences. 11 There are three outstanding prob- t lems in aeronautics, Dr. Ames said, < those involving the discovery of a sub- * stitute for the gasoline engine, deter- i ruination of the shape and section of a wing which will improve the per- ? > nf on oimlnnp and the re- ( LUl lliatll/C ui au f.. ,..M placement of th > ordinary experiment * on models of airplanes or their parts 5 by a method giving complete informa- I tlon concerning full sized machines. * To Pay Acceptances. New YoTk.?The Cuban Cane Sugar corporation announced that $7,000,1)00 of acceptances maturing May 1, will j be paid. The original amount of $18.- i 000,000 was reduced last October to 1 $13,500,000 and In January another 1 payment of $6,500,000 waa made. 1 Officials of the Cuban Cane corpora- 1 tlon would not discuss Industrial conditions in the Antilles, but the recent < trend of the raw and refined sugar i markets point to marked recuperation t from alst year's severe depression. s Jewels For Poland. Warsaw?field bars, diamonds and other precious stones valued at 10.- \ t 000,000 gold rubles, or approximately 1 J5,000,000, have been received by the < Polish government from Soviet Russia t in lieu of rolling stock due Poland by < virtue of the Riga peace treaty of '< 1921. This la the second installment, i the first payment of gold and precious t stones having been made last December. The shipment came in spe- 1 cial cars convoyed by armed guards < and were placed in the vaults of the t Polish government bank. i Women Take Up Henna Bathing. London.?A henna bath cult is forming among London's more ultra-society j women who reem olive colored skin something wortn acquiring. The craze is said to be of French ! or American origin. Baths, strongly tinctured with henna dye. are taken ( monthly and impart a delicate tint 1 which looks well with the evening 1 dresees of Oriental shades. i Immersing is declared to be easier than treating only thnt considerable t portion of the body exposed by the i modern evening gown. 1 * 1 New York.?Charles W. Morse, New fork financier, and his three sons and .wenty others, some prominent in ihipping, legal and brokerage circles, were accused in a federal indictment with haying used the mails to defraud nvestors in the stocks of various iteamship companies. The aggregate authorized capital )f the sundry corporations ran into icores of millions of dollars, and in:luded the United States Steamship company and its subsidiaries, United States Transport company, Inc., and he holding organization known as :he United States Shipping corporadon. The "principal defendants." charg;d with conspiring Bince May, 1919, .0 defraud investors and put their illeged swindling scheme into effect jy use of advertising matter, sent :hrough the mails, included: Charles ,W. Morse end his sons, 3rwin A., Benjamin W. and Harry F. Worse. O IIIAI, f/MTTYiorlr aoaictant Ylcll till J. VJillCll, lunntitj uoMtwvM-. :o the chairman of the United States ihipping boai^l. William A. Barber, former attorney general of South Carolina. Mark L. Gilbert, former president if Shipping, Construction and Trading :ompany, Stonington, Conn. George M. Burdett, attorney for the Worse enterprises. Richard O. White, of New York, 'ormer president of the United States Transport company. Stuart G. Gibboney, lawyer. Glenhard S. Foster, Orange N. J., ormer head of G. S. Foster & Co., curb irokers. These men, the indictment alleged, lave since May, 1919, conspired to iefraud investors with a view to their iwn profit by divers schemes and arificesj Among these were alleged misrepresentation in "advertising that the tJnited States Steamship company, vith an authorized capital of $25,000,)00, and its underlying companies, such as the Croton Iron Works, Virginia Shipbuilding company and the Hudson Navigation company, were joing concerns with large contracts, 30th governmental and private, for lullding and repairing ships and carrying freight, and that they were laying bona fiide dividends and were lacked by valuable assets, and that herefore. to buy stocks in these or canlzations would prove profitable to nvestors both in speculations and divdends. The contracts were not as represent;d, the grand Jurors alleged; nor vere the assets, and the companies vere not paying dividends. The lnlictment charged that the defendants cnew the Investors had been preclud?d some profiting by their own misnanagement. The "principal defendants" knew vhen they sent 1.000 letters through he mall, the indictment alleged, that he assets and prospects of the comjanles were not as valuable as represented. 300 Miles on Gallon of Fuel. Syracuse, N. Y. ? Three hundred niles by an automobile on a gallon >f fuel costing five and one-half cents, s the claim H. H. Elmer, treasurer ind special manager of the Globe Malleable Iron and Steel company, of his city, makes for an engine deslgn>d by himself, revealed to the directorite of the company at its anual meetng here. Internationally known enginering ixperts, including Arthur West, the :hief engineer of the Bethlehem steel corporation, have inspected Mr. timer's engine and are said to have >ronounced it hundreds of years ihead of time. Use Clover to End Dust Cloud. Mexico City.?After years of experinenting in an effort to stop the dense :Iouds of dust which sweep down on Vfexico City at certain regular periods. the Department of Agriculture las decided to plant clover and alalfa in the bed of Lake Texcoco, a ake bed near the capital which has )een dry for several years. Agricultural experts believe well :ultivated verdure will invite moisture n greater quantities and will prevent he dust from rising in the dryest teaBons. Defense For Jazz. Princeton. N. J.?Jazz is no worse han the old-fashioned waltz. Frits {reisler, the famous violinist, said re:ently. Looked upon as a clever saire and a humorous turn of the musi :al world, mere is noming- uojecuuiiible about It, he declared in discussng modern music before his concert it Princeton university. "If the drinking and general high ife which haB characterised Its existence can be traced to it* door, Jass is ;o he deplored." he added. "But I do lot believe thin Is true" Bryan Invited For Second Time. ColumbuR, Ohio.?Reissuance of an nvitation to William Jennings Bryan o speak at the International Sunday ichool convention at Kansas City next lune was decided upon at a meeting >f the convention program committee. Withdrawal of invitation extended Mr Bryan last December had brought nunerous protests. Action was taken after constdera:ion had been given to these protests end representations had been made >y a delegation from Kansas City. If,SIT ORPHANAGE AT YORK Approximately Six Hundred Episcopalians Go From Ail Sections of South Carolina. York. ? The V.'hito Rose town was the mecca of South Carolina Episcopalians, who were drawn here by the second annual pilgrimage of the members of that denomination to the Church Home orphanage of York. The attendance was approximately 600, which, though satisfactory in point of number, and representative of the entire state, would doubtless have been even larger had not the day been de ciaeaiy crisp ana cucu. The majority of the pilgrims made the journey by automobile. Among the cities and towns especially well represented were Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Greenwood and Winnsboro. From Winthrop college came upward of three score students, accompanied by Mrs. Alex Long of Rock Hill. The central feature of the day was a special service held on the grounds in the open air at 11 o'clock in the morning. The sermon was preached by Bishop Guerry of Charleston and a short address was delivered by Bishop Finlay of Columbia. In connection with this- there was held a confirmation service in which children of the orphanage and the parish were confirmed. Among those taking part in this service were the Rev. F. A. Juhan of Greenville, the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton of Spartanburg and the Rev. T. T. Walsh and the Rev. T. P. Noe of York, the latter the superintendent of the orphanage. Musical numbers were rendered by the children of the institution and the choirs of Christ church, Greenville, and the Church of the Advent,Spartanburg. At the conclusion of this service lunch was eaten on the grounds in picnic style, the children of the institution being the guests of the pilgrims. At 2:30 o'clock there was held an informal laymGn's conference presided over by Bishop Finlay. The address of welcome was made by J. S. Brice, a York citizen and member of the executive committee of the institution. Other addresses were delivered by Major W. F. Robertson of Greenville, Major W. B. Moore of York and Professor Vermont of the Converse college faculty, Spartanburg. The visitors expressed themselves as enjoying the pilgrimage and as highly pleased witty the work being done h.ere for the wards of the church. It was also a great day for the children of the institution, who were delighted at the presence ot so many of their friends. Their smiling faces, childish candor and winsomeness will doubtless linger long in the minds of the visitors and inspire the latter to greater efforts in their behalf. In future years the pilgrimage will be held on Mothers' day, the second Sunday in May. Killed By Automobile. Rock Hill. ? Fred Hutchison, aged 65, unmarried, who resided in the Indian Hook community, eight miles from the city, was almost instantly killed when struck by an automobile driven by unidentified persons. The accident occurred on uaaianu avenue, near Winthrop college. A man driving a Ford car was seen to strike the buggy in which Mr. Hutchison wa? riding. The car was backed out and turned back toward the city, no notice being taken of the man struck. The victim was dying when spectators rushed to his aid and he expired in a few minutes. No Free Cigarettes. Florence.?No more cigarettes for chaingang convicts at the expense of the county was the word passed by the county governing commission when checking up claims it came across one for $55 for smokes furnished the convicts by the county since the first of the year. It is stated that this has been the custom here for some time, the grade of cigarettes furnished being inferior. However, free cigarettes will not be distributed any more. To Attend Assembly. Fort Mill.?Col. Thomas B. Spratt has received appointment as comrais! sloner to the general assembly of the I Southern Presbyterian church which i convenes in May in Charleston, W. i Va.. to represent Bethel Presbytery. Will Sell at Home. Greenwood. ? A system to place home grown and home canned fruits and vegetables on the local market, thereby creating home industries and bringing in revenue to farm homes, has been worked out by Miss Janie Roberts, home demonstration ageat of this county. Miss Roberts has signed a contract with a local wholesale grocery firm to handle over 100,000 cans of home canned fruits and vegetables during the following season. All of the products will be standardized and sold under one label. Plan For Convention. Columbia.?C. D. Brown of Abbeville. grand keeper of records and seal of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias, is sending out notices to evei;y lodge in the state giving information relative to the grand lodge meeting to be held at Spartanburg, May 23 and 24. The first session will convene at 11:30 a. m., Tuesday, May 23. Pythians throughout the state are advised to write to Charles W. Anderson of Spartanburg for hotel reservations. Grand lodge officials anticipate a large attendance. Date to Open Market. Florence. ? Independent tobacco warehousemen, those who have not I turned their warehouses over to the Tri-State Growers' Co-operative association. meeting here, decided to open the market of South Carolina August 8. the s^me date that the market of .Vorth Carolina will open. It is stated that there was no agreement between the North Carolina and South Carolina association of warehousemen concerning the date for opening. North Carolina will open her markets some weeks earlier than usual. mm GATHER I IS SPRING MEETING I OPEN IN COLUMBIA WITH AP- B PROXIMATELY 200 DELEGATE8 B IN ATTENDANCE. B GOVERNOR COOPER SPEAKS 1 First Day,of Carolina Convention is Divided Between Business and Pleasure. Columbia.?The annual spring rally and district convention of the Kiwanis clubs of the two Carolinas opened in Columbia with approximately 200 delegates in attendance, the first day's program being practically evenly divided between business and pleasure. The delegates were extended an enthusiastic and whole-hearted welcome to the state and city at the opening session at the Columbia theater, the Rotary, Focus and Lions clubs joining 41? I^ltnoniona onrf dtfttA lUC IsUlUiliLM^ ixtnnuiMuw %. and city officials in bidding the visitors from both North Carolina and South Carolina welcome to the city for the two days. Frank Broadnax? former president of the Columbia Rotary club and general convention chairman, presided at the session. Gov. Robert A. Cooper was the first speaker, welcoming the Klwanians to * the state and its capital city. "There's just one Carolina." Governor Cooper said, "despite the fact that for certain presumably good reasons we have seen fit to divide the two states by an imaginary line." The chief executive also took occasion in the course of his short ad-, dress to pay tribute to Kiwanis clubs and similar organizations. "I know that any community," he said, "will , benefit from a Kiwanis club and I would have littlfe faith in the country or the state if I did not believe that an organization of this kind would do good." Mayor R. J, Blalock also added his voice to the welcoming chorus presenting the Kiwanians with a huge "golden" key, which he assured the visitors would open not only the "outer gates' of the city, but also the city "temple" as well. The two "official'' addresses of welcome were followed by short talks by representatives of the Columbia Rotary, Focus, Lions and Kiwanis clubs. The Rotarlans supplemented the oral welcome voiced by Christie Benet, a director of the Rotary club, with a "stunt" that drew considerable applause. Forty or more Rotarlans, led by Mr. Benet, marched on the stage, each bearing a yellow card. Upon a given signal the cards were#reversed one by one to spell out the club'a word of welcome, "The Rotary Club of Columbia Welcomes Kiwanis." C. E. Bineau, president of the Focus club, and J. C. Townsend, president of the Lions cl'ib, each extended a welcome to the Klwanlans in behalf of their organizations. The final address od welcome was made by Alva M. Lumpkin, president of the Columbia Kiwanis clyb and one of the lientenant governors of the district. W. B. Merrlmon, of Greensboro, N. C., district governor of the Carollnas district, responded to the various welcoming addresses, thanking the Columbians for the hearty welcome accorded the visiting delegates and commenting upon the spirit of cooperation and friendship existing between the Kiwanis clubs and the Ro tary clubs, Lions chibs and other similar organizations. Lecture by Brough. Qrangeburg.?Former Gov. Charles H. Brough, of Arkansas, during the course of a Ave months' engagement with the Redpath chautauqua, is filling 15 engagements in South Carolina. * He spoke here on "America's Leadership of the World," to a large audience and was well received. He paid a glowing and eloquent tribute to American achievements along all lines of human endeavor and recounted in a forceful way the resources and possibilities of Arkansas. < The speaker made an earnest plea for the construction of permanent, hard-surfaced roads. Want Curb Market. Chester. ? The chamber of commerce is interested in establishing a curb market in Chester, as the de- . mand here seems to justify the effort. However, definite plans have not been worked out. Miss Blanche Tarrant, district home domstration agent, who has had very unusual success in establishing curb markets in a number of places throughout the state, has been invited to discuss me nmuei with the woman's council of the chamber and the chairman of the sir farm councils in Chester county. Miss Bulow Elected President. Greenville.?Charleston was selected as the next meeting place by the South Carolina Graduate Nurses' association as its final session here. Although no definite date was set for the 1923 meeting, it was agreed that it should be sometime during April. Miss Frances Bulow of Charleston was elected president of the association for the ensuing year without opposition. while Miss Margaret Gtilledge of Columbia was given the position of first vice-president. ? \ South Carolina Methodiats Meet. Conway.?The Marion district conference of the Methodist church. South, opened here with Presiding Eldor D. A. Phillips in the chair. A large number of delegates were present at the opening session. Many prominent men of the church were present and made talks during the conference. The meetings ran through t the next morning. In the afternoon the Marion district Sunday school conference opened to run through the following afternoon. I