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C .■WMWWi THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL, 8. C. fO«VEIERMS AT CRICK SP1GS UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BU. READ LEASES GREENVILLE PROPERTY. ro BE EFFECTIVE N!AV FIRST District to be Served Will Include the Two Carolines and the ' State of Georflla. Greenville.—A govommejit training center for disabled soldiers will be established near Oreenville^withm 60 da>a, official announcement having been obtained here that the large Chick Springs property, now used as m sanitarium, has been leased by the United States Veterans' Bureau for live years ami that an additional large brick building is to be erected there by the leasing companies, the Chick Springs Water company and the Steedley Sanitarium before the grounds are turned over to the gov ernment May 1. Leasing of the prop erty represents an outlay by the gov ernment, it is understood, of aroimd $160,000. The signing of the lease brings to a successful conclusion a great amount of work in behalf of Green ville. covering a number of months past, by Major O. Heyward Mahon. Jr., J A Hull. Fred V. Graham and others connected with the chamber of commerce and the American legion. The training center will be the only one of its kind in this district and one of the largest in the South. Two hundred and fifty men and In structors will be brought here when the property Is taken over, and this number will be Increased later The new training center Is to have no con nection with the public service hos pital at the old Gamp Sevier site. Veterans of the world war. sent to thla training school, will he taught a number of trades They will come here from points through this district, which comprises North and South Car olina. Georgia Florida and Tennes^e The present building wrhich waa for- ■serly the Chick Springs hotel, will be need for a do.vnHory, and the new building will he ua« d for i laaa rooms aa4 workshops Death Penalty For Two. Oreen*Ule. March 16 -4n the court of general sessions here Judge Frank H Gary Imposed death sememes upon CUE Hawrkins. while convicted of the murder of WlllUm Morgan, on the night of July 9 1921. and upon Will Wood, negro, convicted of the murder of U W Smith st I’ih* Mill Septem ber 21 1921 Hoth had been uuder death sentence pending appeals to the supreme court, the appeals being dismissed Itoth were re sentenced to die In the elect lie chair on April 2. bat ween the hours of 11 a m. and 4 p.m. TWO ARE LOST r IRE AT AUGUSTA. James A. Tant, te. 46, were burned when the Grand abandoned playhouse, by Are. The Tants home on an upper isuata, tojp%at iter; an ^ as gutted made their floor of the building. While the flremen were fighting the theater Are flames broke out in a pool room next door. The Are authori ties charged both fires to incen diarism and declare 'their belief that the several fires here during the past four months were the re sult of arson. The state fire mar shal has been summoned and local representatives of Are underwrit ers are demanding an investiga tion. The owner of., the theater has offered a $500 reward for the conviction of the firebugs and the city authorities announce they will on Monday offer a reward in the case. COMMITTEES WILE BOTH SENATORS AND REPPE- : 4. ■' ■ ' . _ SENTATIVE8 WILL VISIT PROJECT. $2,000 FOR EXPENSE OF TRIP Senate Agriculture Committee Start, For Muscle Shoals March 25. Will RESUME ISSUANCE OF QOLP CERTIFICATES Washington. — Issuance of gold certificates, without demand, die- continued in 1917, was resumed by the treasury. .Gold certificates have’ always been available upon demand, but during the war silver certificates were issued on ordi nary checks. Resumption of the ordinary use of gold certificates was said by treasury officials to remote the last artificial currency situation growing out of the war and to indicate a return to normal conditions. The treasury now holds approxi mately $3,00^,000.000 in gold and It was said there is now no reason why gold certificates should not be freely available. Washington. — Work of arranging for senators and members of the house > CHICAGO BLOCK IS BURNED % : WIND CAUSES TO SPREAD; DAMAGE 10 TO 15 MILLION. military committee to inspect person all^ the government’s war-initiated | project at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and : Gorgas, Ala., in a body, were begun by. officers of the two legislative chambers, Joseph Rogers, sergeant-at- arms of the house, to whom the duty of makjng preparations for the mili- CONFLAGRATION j tary committee was entrusted, opened communications with David S. Barry, j the senate sergeaut-at arms, imme- j diately upon passage by the house of 1 a resolution authorizing the visit and j appropriating $2,000 for expenses of ; 23 KILLED BY STORMS MAJORITY REPORT POINTS OUT -ADVANTAGES OF THE PLANS OF THE BILL. REPORT FORMALLY APPROVED Brieves Plan Meets the Approval of Soldiers, Committee Says in Its Report. Washington. — The compromise sol diers’ bonus bill, as finally revised, was reintroduced in the house by Chairman Fordney, who submitted a majority report from the ways and means committee claiming the "ad vantages of the plans of the bill.” “First—No tew . taxation, no issu ance of new securities is at present required. "Second—It-provides for the vete ran in ’ need a method of obtaining aid. "Third—The amounts required each year after July 1, 1923. are small-com pared to those which have heretofore Louisiana, Mississippi; Arkan sas AND OKLAHOMA SUFFER BIG LOSSES. \& Storm in Lonake County, Arkansas, Leaves a Trail of Wrecked Build ings For Twenty Mites. Fire-Fighting Apparatus Within Five the house members. Miles Was Called Out in Series of Ten Alarms. New Orleans.—At lea?t 23 persons been met and can be provided without The decision of the senate agricul- 1 were ki,led and raaiiy 0ther8 were airy or derangement of our ture committee to leave Washington ' serioU8ly in j urt ‘ d a8 a resu,t of sturHl8 ’ fln:incial 8ltuat ‘ on March 25 was announced by Sena- ! at ^ . t0r '! “ " “ * (tor Norris, of Nebraska, a few mih- ♦V- •^>r> I Mrs. L Rierson Winston-Salem. N. C.—“I suffered for about eight months with nervous in- - digestion, and bad several doctors to see me but found no relief until a friend suggested Dr. Pierce’s Medicines. iVas not able to sleep at night and could not eat, just lived on sweet milk and bread. I began to take Dr. Pierce’* Golden Medical Discovery and took one bottle of Dr.’ Ilerce’e Favorite Prescription, with wonderful relief. I am now past 40, but feel Just as I did at 19. I also gave the Dis covery to my children, and now I am giving it to my grandchildren. "You will always find a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery In my home,* and I will recommend It to anyone suffering from nervousness.” —Mrs. Izie Rierson. 2415 Hege St. You can quickly put yourself in A-l condition by going to .your drug gist and obtaining Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, in tablet’s or liquid, ot write Dr. Y’lerce, President Invalids' Hotel. Buffalo, N. Y., for free advice. Chicago—-A spectacular early morn- u . pa \ )ff f ore house passed the Ing fire destrojed a full square of resolution. Several military ^commit- business buildings Just outside of Chi- tppmt , n sai(1 , hp date wouId >*. con . cage’s “I-oop,’’ or downtown district with a loss estimated from $10,000, 000 to $15,000,000 ( vFnteiit for them, while others .-favor- V— ed making the trip at once- so they The .fire started in return hM^ehird—begin imme- tbe center of the block bounded by dj a | ( » preparation of the rejitirf-^lhe \ anHuren. Canal and f'ltnton streets committee w ||| make the house oq and West Jackson boulevard, of un- |ht> . ))fr> . rs of 1!f , nrv Fl , rfi th „ Ala known origin, burned every structure barnn ., Wr CO mpany and Frederick in that area, leaped north across Jackson and wrecked the 21-story Chicago. Burlington A Quincy rail road's general office building, which also houses the Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank, and under burden of a Fourth—The plan tends to promote nadoes. which visited isolated sec- savings habits among the veterans, tions of Louisiana. Mississippi, Ar- “Fifth—It protects the veteran him- kansas and Oklahoma. -• self and his family from misfortune in Tile heaviest loss of life reported the future.* was at Gowan, Okla., a village 15 "Sixth—It will create a class of ; miles east McAlester, where 12 home builders who will greatly in- | persons were killed wheh a tornado ,-rease the mass of property in the swept through thw foreign section of country. tilt village.- Many others were slight- , "While perfect unanimity eould ly injiir»*4- * not he expected as to all details of the Six negro'es were killed when the hill," the report said. “th» majority of F Rngatrum of Wilmington N C 8tonn parsed through the uortheasi 'the committee l»e M eve that the plan in which have been under investigation ern * r ‘' ,lon of ^tlerym county an-l general meets the approval of the the southeastern section of Lonoke soldiers and all of those who are in county, Arkansas. The storm in this favor of granting to them additional I section left a trail of wrecked build-Mcompensation in any form whatever.’* mgs for 20 mile*. Several were After a session at which the report. Sold by the Drop. A well-dressed wnmnri - stopped lr> front of the perfume counter in one of tbe*_ uptown stores, says- the In- diontipolis- News. t . . "I would like •some good perfume,” she fold the clerk. Pointing to a bottle tilled with pec 1 oiutlng to a pottle niiott with i>e£. fume costing SS an ounce, she ’ to sample it. * * ' \ f' for more than a month. The imposaihillty. however, of the aenatora departing before their votes are recorded on the four power Pacifu strong wind, dipped over VanHuren trpJ||y wai| ^ognUed hv house mem- • li « hl, ! r ‘ n J ur * d h *‘ r *- street southward and burned nearly bpn , „ a JuBt | flabl< , r „ aa(>n for wajt . Ing until March 26. Reasons of eeon- was formally approved with some At - Sulphur. Okla-, two white men rhangea from the original draft, ma te Harrlaon street. , nK unt ,j \| ar( .h 26 Reasons of eeon- w, * r * Nineteen ottadra were sa^Jorlty member* of the committee said The fire waa not brought under con- omy arere advanced by those r,ou * | y Injured and score* suffered the question of procedure In bringing trol until nearly 6 o'clock and even who a( tvocated the joint visit Hoth Injuries. Property damage up the bill in the house still was un- then flremen were fighting a doien different fires and others broke out Intermittent!/as the wind wafted the „ tk>n much leas expensively than sparks about One fireman was kill- t could In two or more groups ed another seriously Injured, ten or A1 , hmi(tb about 47 senators have eg- more slightly hurt, and an unknown preail( , d a to ^ lh# . sho .,. here Is estimated at $100,000. Fifty decided. senators and house committeemen, it was explained, could go as one dele- gliding* were completely demolish- thought nutbber of the hundred thousand spec tators who thronged the burning dta projects, it was the Impression that the 14 members of the agrl* ultnral %UKhtl9 One committeeman said he It was about ‘’flfty-flfty** ed and 200 people left homeless whether It would be taken up under Right homes were demolished at a suspension of the rule* or later un- Sunrlae. a village two mllea north of der a special rule. Baton Rouge. I*. and a negro wo- While the committeemen were In man and her child were killed Four i IUh-uiim* tire wrntmiti hn>kc<| jik If might nutke u purcluiM*. the clerk, >i<il:itiiiii <>f tin* <t<*re rule*, for |> fume deteriorate* when o|tene«l. i*er- inltted the Woman to take a whiff of It. ••Now. thfiF* pretty grewl." the cus tomer replied. *T think I’ll take n quarter’s worth.** r—£tvhy. Madam.'* the astonished clerk managed to answer, ••you’ve already had u quarter’* worth,* Explaining One Problem. Jnd Tonkin* says some of the mod ern problem* are due to the fact that there are .tm> many chefs and not enough hired girls. trlct slightly hurt by falling brick*. rmnInltt<M , wm)M hnxt . lb< . pr „ ff . f burning timbers or sparks The fire for a time threatened to assume virtually unlimited propor- ence and the others would probably await until th* committee had return ed before deciding whether they maid go. Senator Vorrta helfevej about flv« Twenty-live person* were Injured a number seriously, when the storm struck Corines. Miss More than ISO homes were leveled The storm swept a path more than 100 feet wide, rating seselon. Representative Llneberger. of California, a former service man. put . into circulation a petition proposing a ' conference of house republicans to i coh*dder the bonus bill, 1’nder the rule, fifty signature* would force a > conference and Mr I.lnehrrger expect- j ed to obtain that nunib< r. | Th*» majority ronor?. Th dlscaising! Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION spectlnn •-very building In its path. Report* dav* would be aectusarg for'the In ^ o«tTylni dttttfcii tell ot erable property damage A school the ot^et^op* ral-cd to the hank loan building In which were l.Oon children provision of the adjusted service cer : >>arely escaped the path of the storm, tlflcate plan, said the majority of the Leaa Unemployment Reported. An aged negro was killed and sev- committee was of the opinion that the Marlon Soils Bonds. * Marion The municipal bonds to tha amount of $lt>0.000 tor paving and other Improvements in the town of Manon brought 97 with a 5 per cent rate of interest when the bidding was opened at the city hall The bonds actually went at 94. but the bonus of fered by the Marlon National bank for the deposit brought them up to 97. A. T Bell A Co . of Toledo. Ohio, was th* firm that purchased the bonds. Represcntgtives from some seven or eight firms were present and made offers ranging from 92'i to 94 1 v As soon as the money Is placed with the Marlon National bank, the town conn ell will be In a position to go ahead with the letting of the contract for the construction work The engineering firm of Johnson & Roberts has been engaged to super vise the work Hons and every plere of firefighting apparatus within five miles was call«*d out In a sertc* of ten alarm* The rapidity wuh which tbw fire Spread was astounding.’* Marshal Buckley, assistant fire chief said That the ortgiifal blaze from which the conflagration grew poaslbly was Washington Reports from widely erjl | alight ly injured and a score amount that would be borrowed from of Incendiary origin .waa the state- eeperated states, from Mlchlgm to D f houses were destroyed at Arkansas hank* on the certificate would be ment of Shirley F High, city fire at- • nd from .New York to Kansas. p| t y Ark "comparatively small ” torncy. who announced the arrest of "how an Improvement In the employ- Only meager details are available "Although they constitute ideal *•■ an unnamed man on Information sup- ment situation, according to Colonel f rom tb * sections vlalted by the storm entitle* for the savings hanks.** th^ rw plied by H T Srhlff. president of the Arthur Woods, chairman of the enter M , n account of the damage to wire port skid, "any bank may. If tr'IemT Confectionery Specialty company, at *** nc J r committee of the president a communication, and it feared the Inquire into the nece*slty of makin 1 521 West Jackson boulevard where conference on unemployment death .toll will be greatly Increased, the loan before It la made and It I* the fire started. Referring to the "unprecedented’’ when complete returns are available believed a majority of the soldier* will Mr High refused to divulge the amount of winter outdoor work and Little efforts'have been made to eetl- not. in any event, ask for a loan upon name of the man arreated. but aald the added Improvements to he expect- mate tly property damage, which, in the certificates unless they have some that he was being questioned regard- *1 the approach of spring. Colo- addition to destroying home* and special need for the money. |t la *•« Ing threatening letter* Mr. Schlff said n* 1 Woods said: other buildings include damage to timated by the committee and the the man. a former employe, had sent "There seem* to be a slight falling crops and destruction of livestock treasury that 70 per. cent of the vet- to him Mr Schlff told Mr. High the off ,n number of applicants for Rivera snd smaller streams in prac- erans will take the certificate plan, man was discharged when he became wor,t t* 1 ** employment^ bureaus, all* the section* visited by the Assuminc thlA.10 be cnrr**:l the utmost Incensed over refusal to permit him 1 » coupled vith a <urmspondln*. IncreaaA storm, which was accompanied by that could be loaned by the hjnks. If purchase stock in the company and the number for whom work is found heaFy raiqs, are swollen, and some ap- all applied for loans, would be $550,- within the past two months had made by these same bureaus.” prehension is feR on this score. ,000.000. n series of threats Mr Schiff placed The storm was accompanied by the — • his personal losstat $50 000. •, Boston Jbelebrates. usual freaks, the most outstanding of Will Command Prohibition Navy. Mr High summoned several of his Boston.—The llfith anniversary of which was reported from Kennet. Washington — Lieutenant R. L. Jack; aides while the fire was at its height, the evacuation of this port by British Ark • vhere a 12-day-old Infant was 0 f the coast guard, has been made "ad and said an investigation would be forces was celebrated. The feature blown from a bed on which It. was miral” of the ntjwly created prohlbi- begun Immediately. He placed the to- waB a parade of 10.000 regular and ly' n K- across the -yard* where ’ts tion “navy.” . • tal loss at from $10,000,000 to $15.- s t a t e troops and war veterans. A re- clothing held it sukpende* to a p.^ t The duties of the new “admiral.’* It . OOfi.OOO. _ viewing stand was provided for Sena- fence until the storm abated. The was said, would consist in disciplining , . . t ( 0r Stanley, of Kentucky, guest of baby's parents were seriously injur- and training the crews for the prohi 6 BeLl-ans Hot water • Sure Relief Farmer Breaks Leg. Anderson.- Jones Williams, a farm er, had the misfortune to break his leg when he jumped from <1 buggy to stoj> a pair of runaway mules. Mr. Wil liams fell In a ditch and his U"4 was so badlv fractured that amputation may be necessary. He lives on the Hammond farm near Wllliamston. Pershing Registers Protest. the day. Governor Cox and others. Washington. — House appropriation coqimittee proposals to cut the regu- Negress, 122. is Dead, lar army to 115.000 enlisted men and Mount \ernon. 111. Margaret Ed reputed to be 122 Mount 11.000 officers aroused General Persh- tnison. negress ed. t bftion vessels, which are now being re- : cruited .in Baltimore by General Pro- Cctton Consumed During February, hibitlon Agent Elmer Kirwan. It was Washington.—Cotton consumed dur- expected that the new arm of the t> r °- ing February amounted to 473,073 hibition forces will be ready for seqr- bales of line and 38,509 bales of lin- vice within a week or two and mean ing to a renewed declaration that the >'' ears °l d - dead at her home' here. . ., whole national defense project put She was almosrbllnd and very feeble ters. compared with 395,11d of line, while, it was underttood, Admiral through in 19'’0 would be imperiled if f° r several months hbfore her death. and 37.565 of linters consumed in [jack is clearing the decAts of his min- the slash recommended was made by *ke was said to have been born in .‘February last year, the census bureau ( iature warships for action under the congress Must Muzzle Dogs. Manning.—Two small children were recently bitten by a mad dog while they were walking along the street. Arrangements were quickly made to give the Pasteur treatment by local physicians, and the results have been satisfactory. The town council has or dered ail dogs appearing on the streets without being muzzled to be shot. A number of dogs wore bitten by the mad dog that bit the children and of fleers are aiming to clear the town of all dogs without muzzles. Plan Consolidation Railroad Syatems. Washington.—- The interstate oom- ■Rlchmond, Va. announced. Officer* Fight Pistol Baft I a. - New York.—Fifteen special revenue merce commission moved Jo take up agents Arrested 24 men after a pistol prohibition flag. Belfast!* Casualty List. ** Belfast—Belfast's casualty list from the activities of gunmen and bomb Investigations of Chicago Fire. Chicago.—Several separate invest!; gations of the disastrous fire which the plan, authorized in the transpor- battle aboard a two-masted schooner, throwers in ten weeks total 83 dead swept a city block and burned bttlld- tation act for bringing about the con- Said to have been loaded with con- and 15, seriously, wounded, according , ings in two others with a loss placed solidation'of the principal American itraband liquor, in the East river at to the Northern Whig, which ^declare. : by insurance trfOclals and property ex- railroads into nineteen major sys- the foot of Tiffany street. In the Bronx. . this ‘relatively more terrible than perts at $8 000.000 were continued. tem*—A “hearing - was ordered for More than 30 shots were exchanged. . t° r the whole, year 1921. Shirley T. High, city fire attorneyLSX-., April 24 before Commissioner Hall, qt | The schooner, whose cargo of liquor- The li9t : wouJd -have- beMi-greatly pressed conviction that the conflagra- whloh consideration will begin of the was said to be worth nearly .half a swollen the newspaper adds, if all tion the most serious one since that consolidation proposed for the South- millfon dollars, was seized, together those who recently received bullet;of 189,, which virtually destroyed eastern region as the first phase’ of: with two automobiles and a large, wounds were-included Jt po.nts out | Chicago, was of incendiary origin.. An the public, inquiry into the plan whffh i moving van, which -the authorities ah the.worst feature.of IhfiToqent ouL empteye-of-a concern which was already has been the subject of con*! said were to have beep used in trans-, breaks number of Women and among- the first to gp up in flames siderable preliminary study." New Bank Organized. Anderson. — The Carolina National bank was organized 1 with a capital of $200,000. At the meeting the officers #bre elected and E. I*. Vandiver was elected president; J. W. Norwood." ot Ofeenville. vice-president and chair man of board of directors; John A. Horton, vice-president; T, Sloan Ban- Ister^ cashier;. P. E. JBrQwJL assistant 'cashier. At the meeting for the or sanitation O. Pierce Browne was made chairman and John A. Horton, secre tary. Fourteen member* were ejected mm the board of director*. Bonus Bill to be Introduced. Washington. — With only a single porting the contraband. Cotton Seed Report: v Washington —The cotton seed, pro- children who were struck. was sought. New York Girls Need $250 Annually. t Newspaper* Suspended. " New York.—It costs New York »Berlin. *— One ,hundred and fifty- girls at. lea^t $25(1 annually to Clothe seven G'n’Hian newspapers and period- . I Hnr jb j T _ .. ■ . change'from the form In which it was. ducts report for the seven-month pe- themselves properly, members of the fra'is have suspeqded publication diir- approved last-week hy the ways and riod. Augqst 1 to February 28. issued-- League of TlirD’ Clubs announced. * ing the last two moqths. due to the means committee "nwjorUy. the com- by the Central bureau, shows . ••'the report, filed after the working ‘increased cost of print papef. promise soldiers' bonus MU 'was ap- Cotton seed crushed-’ 2.625 &20 40ns girls composing-the league had an*-; The price of print paper has par- proved at a iheeting of the''-entire compared with committee, the vote being 19 to ^»^perlpd the Pi^lj with three di?mocrlt* and tWcTrellub- a? - ifeiH* February 28th, 256.872 tons licans opposing the meiaure. • compared ^itb-4247--'7, N*yr York tlslng: The tlnut at which the bill will be Crude oU'produced *03.439 496 lb* . 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