Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"zr' v .••• ■±» •-'-*• / -• - .>i^W Leads Dunbar’s White Hussars at Chautauqua Jl IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER C* ' * * , IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR- SEVEN DAYS GIVEN’ THE NEWS jlHHE SOUTH What la Taking Place «n The South* land WHI Be Found In y Brief Paragraphs Foreign- AL SWEET. A1 will personally direct the well-known IMtuhar's White Hussars at the coming lied path Chautauqua. In addition to gaining fame us u hand leader he If known far and wide as a composer of melodic song hits and of large orchestral’* and band composi tions. tiermac’s obligation to the allies will he fixed at between 130 billion and J.10 .billion marks, says the Echo de Paris, which trdds that the exact fig ures will depend upon the solution of certain questions being considered. > No tiuce has been found r of the Italian steamship Monte San Michele, which New York February 2, with grain for Genoa. The- captain of the steamer San Pietro, which has arrived at Naples, reported that every effort by wireless to locate the ship had so tar failed, it is feared she was lost with all hands in a gale on the At lantic during February. A huge loan, possibly as high as $£0,- The’IVencb reply \to Secrets it of State Hughes’ notes regarding man dates. the only one thus far received from any of .the four great powers, has been made public. It is in the form of a letter, and 'States that a full reply cannot be made until after an- understanding has been reached be tween the governments of the font in terested powers at the next meeting of the supreme Council of the,allies. Col. George. Harvey of New Jersey has been nominated, by the president to be - ambassador to Great llritaln. Middlemen now are levying a toll of. 21 per cent on the value of all foods and most necessities used throughout \ the I’nited States, according to ^rice data now' in iKtssession of .Secretary of Labor Davis. ' .J— Association of Railwav Executives in , • ' ,i_: i conference with the president recently told him that rates could o!tly>.Jt)o re duced by a reduction in railroad operat ing expenses. . • ' The first move in the present con gress lookin gto world disarmament .from an American angle canto in a re cent resolution of Senator Roruh. Adjustment of the dispute between the United States and Great Rritain’ gi/owing out of the San Remo oil agree ment' comern mg Mesopotamia, has been suggested informally to the Unit ed States, it is learned officially at the state department. Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas has been appointed whip and Representative Hox of Texas, us- (>00,000 to tide Cuba over her finance.! I for the house Democratic or- crisis. is expected to be contaminated | ganization. The. selections, which in New York. Paris'advices say that Ambassador “Nothing But The Truth,” Sparkling Comedy, at Chautauqua tv > \ v?, Railroad May Be Abandoned.™" The South Carolina railroad mission, acting for the intentat^ commerce commission, will hojd a spe cial hearing at its offices on the question of the abandonment of the Orangeburg railroad. The hearing is being held at the request or the in terstate commission, which will -act on the evidence presented, the state commissioners only serving to obtain -.fOr the interstate body the informa tion on which to base its decision. The interstate commission will be repre sented at the meeting by A. M. Deal, who will act as reporter, taking all evidence which will then be sent to the interstate commerce commission tor action. The Orangeburg railroad. - which suspended operation about six months ago, is 14 miles long, connecting Or angeburg with the Seaboard Air Line yailroad at North. The state commis sion recently made a physical exam ination 'Ttf-Jhe company's property, finding that minor improvements were necessary before it woqld iu condition to carry traffic, safely. The hearing Wednesday was ordered by the int^ r ' state commerce commission upon th^ * filing with that body, of a petition «o abandon the road, which is now in the hands of a receiver. Juaneraud lias already given the French viewpolnt'on the mandate ques tion to the American secretary of state. ‘‘Aeroplane Bomb. January 30. 1918.” This is the' inscription on the wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, Rue do Choi- sepl. Paris, France, where the first and laxt bombs of the war fell. The British premier’s offer of tempo rary financial assistance to the mining Industry to minimize the hardships re^ suiting- from reduction Of wages, has been rejected by the mine owners and, in the. admitted impasse that has been reached by the three parties to the controversy, the situation has reached a crisis. There is but one ray of hope. That is the decision of the miners to withhold the final order for the gen eral strike. which was to have become effective at midnight, April, 12. until lifier later conferences. * The reply of the United Stall's to Germany on the reparations questions has given the greatest satisfaction to French official circles, where it is re garded as finaiy closing the door to all have been announced by Representa tive Kifchin of North Carolina, the mi nority leader. complete the organiza tion of thi! party for this session of congress. — H. M. .MeGtie,-Washington mer- chart, dropped dead of heart failure recently in front of his place of busi ness. He had not been in good health for several months, hut lately appear- j ed better. He was 37 years old, and J is survived by his wife anti four small 1 childreir. The body will he taken to t TimmonsviHe, X. C.. his former home, f6r interment. M ‘‘Nothing But the Truth,” widely-known comedy success, will he one of the notable features bf the mining Red- path Chautauqua. The plot of this great American play Is so full of amusing eotnpllrathm* and surprises that it Inspires one constant gale of merriment from first to lust. . v - W. D. Black, resident , H. M. Thompson, Vice Pres. J. J. Bell, Cashier. and Merchants Bank r Capital,. $25,000. Surplus and Undivided Prifits, $6,000 ^ WILUSTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. ? OUR MOTTO:. SAFETY & SERVICE, Domestic- Citizens of Melissa. Texas, have gone to work affording relief to a large number of families made home less by a tornado and storm which ► swept that little town causing tho --death of eight persons and the injury of many more. Five the dead aro negroes. Ernest E. Dallis, recently attending the annual banquet of the New York Directors: H. M. Thompson, Dr. j. L. Smith, Geo. E. Crouch. V W. H. Manning:, W. D. Black, f. W. Johnson, J. W. Folk, A. N. Garber, J. J. Bell. Advertising Agents’ Association, in escape by Germany from meeting her York, praised highly Southeastern liabilities under the treaty of Ver sailles. - - \ \ / * /V* •• N. - Neither former Kaiser Wilhelm nor the crown princo will be permitted to attend the funeral of the former kai- sertn at Potsdam, it is announced.-The kaiscrin realized that she wa,s "near death ami fayed the ordeal calmly. She spoke of her funeral, expressing the' wish that it he simple and that she lie buried near her home where she had ruled during her marired life for forty years. Requisition Papers Issued. Requisition papers for the return to South Carolina of A, V. Abbott anu J. Packer Smith, stock salesmen, wltd, the papers allege, sold oil stock in South < ’aroiiiv.t w ifhout t he permtssion __L_ of the insurance Commissioner ami in violation of the statute laws, wetfe issued by Governor Cooper 'on the p,. governor of Alabama. ) The papery set forth that the salesmen offered for sale and sold sfock of an oil company in Spartaa- hurg county,, Washington— Approval of aiA application for loan of two n,iillion dollars for finam ing cotton exports is announced ,by the war finance corporation. Representative Fish of New Yorjk haa4n trod need in the house a Vi'solu- y tToh~ , mphiaiUling the withdrawal of the occconation troops in Germany. Amendments suggested |or tlie fed eral reserve act to provide additional farm loan facilities.and for the federal farm loan act to allow the pooling of warehouse receipts on stored agricultu ral products against which debentures Industrial Schopl for Boys. ^ •The South Carolina Industrial School for Boys is a good school, con ducted with the object of developing all that is in its pupils and of ad justing those pupils to the trying con ditions of modern life.’Usays G. Croft William*, secretary of the state board of public welfare, * Mr. Williams has just returned.trom an inspection of Uie state institution j at Florence and he is enthusiastic j ls . ,U8 COD,en,,on - about its progress. “It is inspiring,” j would be issued were recently under discussion by the Amerjc.au aFrm Bu reau Federation in conference at Washington. * Raul VY. Cole, who resigned, ironi tlm United-States army in 1919 to enter the cotton "businesk'dii Savannah, Ga.. has .been reappointed a Ken tenant in tin* regular army. Legislation to put “teeth” in hor department efforts to conciliate la- l*or disputes is urged by Secretary Da vis. Both sides shfmld be compelled To live up to agreements reacted.or deci sions of arbitrators they ha ve accepted. newspapers as advertising mediums. National agreements defining work ing conditions for emplovees on all American railroads formerly tinder the federal railroad administration hava | * been ordered abrogated by the United States k‘hor board, effective July 1, 11*21. N. The Natimh*! League of Wdhien Vot ers, in .session at Cleveland, Ohio, w’ent on record as opposing war of any kind, and so memorialized President Harding to see to it thaf the matter is given -proper ‘publicity!. Four persons were killed,\foiir se- ribush iujitred aud two others badly bun in a collision of an automobile and a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad engine at a grade crossing at Coving ton. Ky. Police and newspaper men are search ing for an unidentified women who recently offered her baby for sale for L*on in Oklahoma City, Oklav The employees of the building trades industry have made a complaint to Secretary of Labor Davis against the contemplated wholesale.reduction Come in and make yoursel f at home with us while attend ing Redpath Chautauua. Five Big Days, beginning today. A t No one was injured, be said, “to compare this fine school with the treatment of delinquent boys a few years ago.” Ordinances^ofthe cities of Chuii-. ton, Muscatine anfhFairfield, iowa. re stricting the rates on electric current, and power have been knocked * nit in the .Supreme court. . ^ ^ Dial on Cotton Exchanges. A bill to abolish the railroad labor Washington.—(Special.) - Senator board was introduced in the house on Dial announced that be would rein- SI® ^ rsl P re8en * session, troduce his amendment to the cotton I Kailroads of the United State* suf- tutures act under which a buyer from fered a deficit in February of the cotton exchanges -wili be permit- ot>U. while 106 out of 20 roads raport- ted to select half of his purchases mg to the interstate commerce cpm- from two of ten giwdes, and required mission failed to earn their expenses to accept the other half from two u>d taxes' as against a deficit of $1,167,- grades named by the exchange. .This advantage held by the ex- ohange,” said Senator Dial, “consti tutes the greatest evil mitigating against the cotton 800 for January, with 109 out of 202 failing to make expenses, according to tabulations made public recently by the Associution of Railway Executive*. of wages in that industry'throughout the country, _ Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts- recently before the Episcopal diocesan j council deplored the fact that many ' ministers were entering the business > world to supplement their salaries. The home of Magistrate A. Dl Plum mer. near Greenville, S. C„ was vir- ' tuuHy riddled with bullets recently by two men believed by officers to. have -1 become antagonistic toward the mSg- 111 * Istrate because of his acthity iu raiding illicit distilleries, however*^, A bill has keen introduced in the Michigan legislature which would com pel a change of policy in The Dearborn Independent (Ford's magazine) toward ttie Jews, or prevent its circulation in the state of Michigan. Reports from Johnson City, 'EJenn., say wheat and barley are damaged as a result of the recent cold sua. The fruit Crop and tender vegetation are lit erally w iped out. Children uf foreigners in Westfield, Mass., have beent given ether to satiate their- ’appetites and quell their beds- terousness. The school authoritie* are “hot In behind them.” Rear Admiral Benton C. Decker, IT. S. X., 53, and Mrs. Alice K. Grossman, 51,-have filed notice with the city clerk of Newton,- Ma»s,., of their intention to enter the connubial state. Both hgve bwu dlYorcedZU w THE BIGGEST LITTLE TOWN IN SQUTH CAROLINA. t- ' * Unexcelled for health, good school and church facilities, com- t . ^ - - - fortable homes for rent or sale on easy terms, good banking facili-.. ties, excellent stores, up-to-date light and water-works system. In a community not dependent on cotton. Largest asparagus shipping ooint in the United States. • , ... v 3^ * • ■■ -5r ? ' Headquarters for South Carolina^ Asparagus Growers Associa- , —— . * ^ ^ - * —T . 1 -^ tion, Dixie Produce Exchange and the North American Fruit Ex change for South Carolina and Georgia. Ten thdusand-bushel sweet p otato curing house, ice plant, crate and basket factory for ail kinds of truck. v Large growers and shippers of tomatoes, watermelons, canta- , beans and oth«r truck. To Organlx* Health A**oci*tl*n. Plans for the o»j[apization of* the South Carolina Pawm Health associa tion have been drawn up in part and I will be ready for consideration at The-wet*-T>f-tbe na t Ion afe^hegin- ning to marshal their forces in Wash ington with a determined purpose in view to repeal the Volstead act and to substitute- for it less drastic legisla tion, going as far for ltglrt wines and beers as practicable undef the eigh- the meeting to be held later in this teemh amendment. month. The association is io bn or ganized under the auspices of the South earottna Mwdtcat assoclationrlt will have four sections, viz., Red Croat, national tnherculosis, health of ficers of counties ijid. cities, and pub lic health nursas.. The executive committee of the American association of stite highway officials; in xtnijunction with the pres ident aud idvisors, has completed the admirirLation program for federal aid to post roads, and the same will go | immediately to congress. X loupes, cucum BUILDING MATERIALS. Brick, cement, plaster, lime, rough and dressed .. -t ^ ^ lumber, shingles, etc. Attractive bungalows for rent or sale on easy terms etc V ... — -4 r UVE STOCK . - " < . a Buyers and sellers of horses, mules, cattle, VFHtri.ES Weber, White Hick ory and Piedmont Wag* ons; Tyson & Jones, Car- olina, Ames, Wren and Connorer Buggies; Lap Robes; Harness, Saddles, Whips, etc. -The dignity, of luonBignor and do mestic prelate to Pope Benedict XV has been conferred upon Rt. Rev. Mon- aigner Marion of Asheville, N. C. The investiture services were held at Rap eight, N. C., recently, and the,mon signor was robed in clerical vestments made by French peasants valued at {60,000. Investigation of charges that ignor ant Mexicati laborers aie being held in a state of peonage by rancher* In west ern Tens will start within ten day* at Abilene, Texas, frheu the federal grind jury meets. WILLISTON. SOUTH CAROUNA. Make our place your headquarters while attending the CHAU TAUQUA, April 21st to 26th, inclusive. . - >*L . . i. .1. ’