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01 DEBT HALE 0 COTTON. * ?"??? '' . ? * Laurens Man Has One That Was ked During Civil War, Recently. writes a Laurens corres pondent, ? story was carried in the Georgia newspapers to the effect that a Georgia farmer owned a bale of cot (oh t hat WAS thirty-eight years old, ami added to the Htatement was the claim that the cotton was the oldest ha le in existence. The Ueogia bale of the fleecy -staple is a comparative youngster when its age is chalked ui> against a well preserved, retired Lau lt i). (ounty produced bale, which will this year, mutely, though nevertheless truly/ celeBrate its sixtieth anniver ai y. The Laurens county raised bale of cotton may be the veteran bale of ? staple in the vyhole wide world. It is a relic of the ThompsonrFleming fam ily and has fer many years reposed in the archives of one of the local bonded warehouses. The bale is tho property of Mall Fleming, a young ' farmer of Ora, and was produced by Mr. Fleming's grandfather, Thomp son, on his farm near Mountville, in the year 1863. The bale which weighs about 400 pounds, was ginned and packed by the alow process that ob tained during those days, hoops being used instead of steel ties and bagging for wrapping as now. It has been re-baled once or twice and thus well cared for and preserved. The staple of the bale is very good, it is said, though it has never been sold, not withstanding the fact that fancy prices have been offered fo,r it from time to time. Since this bale has been in existence cotton has sold for GO cents a pound in gold, and the price fu,- the staple has sagged to the low level of 8 1-2 cents for the same grade Counting the war period from which it emerged, this artcient bale of cot ton has survived three wars, several panics and i$ entirely oblivious to the boll weevil struggle and menace that now attends tl^$ growing of the great est commercial commodity in the uni verse. " 1 ' The commercial value of the old bale of cotton today' is about $140. If its original owner had sold the cot ton when the staple commanded GO cents per pound and placed the pro ceeds at compound interest, it is cal culated to make the best mathematic ian dizzy in computing the accrued amount to date. Hilly Sunday Saw Execution. Columbia, March 15. ? Jake Terry, Hampton county negro, was electro cuted at the State prison here today for tho murder of another negro. Among the witnesses to the execu tion were Kev.* William A. (Billy) Sunday and Albert Peterson, a mem ber of Kev. Sunday's party, which is holding a series of services here. Kev. Sunday went to the prison !;o talk and pray with the doomed negro and du} not originally intend to wit ness. execution. As the prison officials led Terry to the death chair immediately after the lnief service, however, Kev, Sunday went to the execution room and re mained until the negro's body was re moved. ? * .yibert Peterson, custodian of the Sunday tabernacle, remained with the evangelist throughout. SUSPECT ARRESTED. Man Hold in .Mississippi Said To Be Mills Moore. York, S. C\, March 17. ? The sus pect held in Hattiesburg, Miss., ja s Mills Moore, wanted here for killing Policeman T. R. Peninger, at Sha ron, is the right man, according to a telegram received here this after noon from G. F. Peninger, son of the slain man, who went to Hattiesburg to identify him. Moore has just been convicted of -afebreaking, and sentenced to serve five years, but the Mississippi author ities are willing to^urn him over to the South Carolina officers, it is said. He still insists that he is not the man wanted here, Sheriff Fred K. Quinn will go for the prisoner as soon as requisition papers are made out und honored by the governor of Mississippi. % Mills Moore shot and killed Police man Peninger at Sharon September ? ?0, 1918, when the latter was trying to arrest him and his brother, Frank Moore, for alleged disorderly conduct. Hoth escaped for the time, but Frank Moore was subsequently captured in Haleigh, convicted of complicity in the crime and sentenced to setve ten years on the chain tfanK- After serv ing a year or more he made his escape and is still at large. A reward of $150 is outstanding for the arrest of Mills Moore. He formerly lived at (rreenville, and has a criminal record there, it is said. Mrs. Tillie Klimek, alleged copart ner with Mrs. Nellie Koulik, in the feminine "arsenic trust," and alleged to have murdered more than a dofcen ? friends, husbands and relatives, for life Insurance, was found guifiy by a Chicago jury Tuesday night and sen tenced to life imprisonment. NATION A I. J K\yiSII IIOS1MTAI. At Oeqver To Ik* Scene i>f Unique ( ons t i?i inn in June. Camden Jewry is interested itf the announcement that Was made today by the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver, Colorado, >f plans for a unique convention, which will IK' held there in June, and which many prominent loeal ? Jewish resi dents Who are supporters of the "hos pital have been invited to attend. While conventions usually mean th* coming together of a small body of delegate.*, this hospital, eager to hava all those ,who are supporting it, see the institution and take part in its ad ministration, has sent out a general call for the convention to fifty thous and men and womefl throughout the | United States* who are helping its work, and is urging them ,to particl | pate in the preparations which will be .made ^t the convention for the cele ! bration of the twenty-fifth anniversa ry of the founding of the institution. The National Jewish Hospital for ! Consumptives was the first free hos pital in the United States for the care of tubercular poor. Men, women and children have come to it for treatment I from all parts of the country, and since it was opened, with a single small building, it has grown to be an extensive institution with twelve buildings contributing toward the health of thousands qf sick patients. The first building housed sixty-four patients. To date more than four thousand persons have been treated at this hospital, and sixty per cent of these have been restored fully to health and economic independence. Of the remainder, fifteen per cent have been improved in health, and those whose cases had advanced beyond the stage of improvement wero made comfortable and contented. A new building for j the care of children was (recently opened. Occupational therapy is an impor taut phase of the work i?f (his hospi tal, turning, m>i only to gWfc the con valescent patients occupation for hands and brain, but to stye t h*-m skill in paying and healthful ocupa tipns. The hospital has its own trade, school where in addition to Knglish, Jiph\ , l>tt.)kk?'t i>inK and tailor ing are iaugftt, The research labor atories of this institution have concen trated their efforts upon f\nd4ttg per manent cures and methods of stamp* ing out tuberculosis. Originally sponsored by the 'Order B'nai Brith, a great national Jewish bOdy, the hospital now has directors in all parts of the Unityd States,. The national officers are N. L. Dauby of Cleveland, president; Rev. W. S. Fried ham of Denver, vice president; David May of St. Louis, vice presi dent; Hermon August pf New York, B. Flesher, of Denver, vice president; Chaa. H. Studin of New York, vice president; Herman Wile of Buffalo, vice president, MrB. S. Pisko, of Den ver, Secretary, Ben Altheirier of New York city, treasurer. The executive eo'inmittee is composed of Ben Al theirter, Hermon August, Louis D. Beaumont, N. L.- Dauby, Alfred A. Bint^ch, [J, Flesher, Rev. Dr. W, 3. Friedham, Sol S. Kiser, Adolph Kraus, David Kay, Nathan J. Miller, and Chas. H. Studin. Among the local residents interest ed in its work is Mr. L. A. Wittkow sky. Penitentiary Recruits. Camden sent five prisoners Friday morning. Four white men and a De gressive re in the party from Ker shaw county. Loyd Weaver will serve two months for larceny. M. O. Hat field will sorve one month, and Willie Atkinson will ^aerve one month for violating the prohibition law. W. P. Hughes will spend six months for bi gamy. Charity, Green, negress, will spend three months for housebreak ing and larceny. ? Saturday's State. . 0 The Drunk Man in the Car. One day l?st week a ulch young follow, Cull of whiskey aiul hilarious in tlu- ownership ill' a h ?k K - 1 k?\s f ? ? il automobile, run into a crowd getting off a street car in Philadelphia, dash ing three people to death. The affair served to emphasise the condition of recklessness which prevails there. The indignation aroused caused a sudden activity on the part of the police in suppression of speeding. On the Virst day, 500 automobiles were placed under arrest for reckless driv ing. The majority of the parties car ried to the court hail no license or were driving when drunk. The con ditions of recklessness thus revealed no doubt prevail to a more or less extent in ail cities ? -it takes an affair like that which aroused Philadelphia to bring the public into realisation of the situation. The Philadelphia po lice declare the campaign against reckless driving is to be prosecuted permanently, but unless history fails to repeat itself, the agitation will die down and things will lapse into the old condition and remain so until another killing occurs. -Charlotte Ob Server. ? '? ?- ' ? " ? ' Large Still Captured. I*nncaster, March 20,-^-What is said to be the largest and most modern still ever seized in Lancaster county, was brought'to town Sunday night by Sheriff John P. Hunter and a party of officers. The still, which was of cop per. and 75 gallons capacity, was found on the Rich llill place of the Southern Power Company, 30 miles south of Lancaster. The still was lo cated in a deep ravine, which was sur rounded by high hills so inaccessible that the distilling was done in day light. Twenty barrels were found at the still, three of which contained 150 gallons of mash, which was destroyed. Leading from the still was a well beaten path, which led to the house of Hen Montgomery, a negro, who - A Nation's Prosperity Is Founded on Its People's Savings , It is the individual savings' ' of each , man, woman and child, coupled- with' cd~ 1 ucation, invention and enterprise, that j makes a nation grOttt and prosperous. America ? the melting pot of the na tions? has been particularly blessed. It is the richest nation in all the- world, and its people free, enlightened, loyal and de termined. ? V ; ? ? ? ?. \ . ft* - 4. . . Opportunity plays no favorites. What another has done, you can do. If you are not already a member of this big, loyal, saving family, come in to the* First National Bank and start an account. As your sav ings grow, your pride will grow with them. v- - * * " ' 1 ' ' . ? \v. ' : ? with Robert Carless, Jim Stekenson and George Nelson,, nefrfoes, wore brought to jail, where each of them, according to officers, made a full con fession and implicated a prominent white man of the community. A warrant has been issued for his in vest. Not knowing the still was lo cated in Lancaster or Kershaw eoiinty Sheriff Hunter hail ?Magistrate Wil liams of Lancaster urn! Magistrate Cook of Kershaw in the raiding1 par ty, in order to be prepared. This is the first still captured in the eounty since last October when Judge Peurifoy sent 1*1 men to the roads, without a fine, for violation of the prohibition law. ? Meet our Chera-Co! bottle Chero-Cola is now sold in the new twist bottle ? "The most beautiful 5c package in America. " More Pure Sugar More Fruit Futvoi More Wholesome Refreshment