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PRESIDENT ISSUES PI
DEALING WIT
New York, July 12.?President
Harding's proclamation on the shopmen's
strike resulted today in a public
declaration by the strike conduct committee
of the Eastern railroads that
they "continue on a strike until satisfactory
settlement is reached, even if
every mail train in the district is cancelled."
Washington, July 11. ? President
naraing m a proclamation issued at
the White House lat? tonight directed
"all persons to refrain from all interference
with the lawful efforts to
maintain interstate transportation
and the carrying of the United States
mails."
In the proclamation which was is.
sued after a day in which continued
reports had reached the postoffice department
of interference by railroad
strikers with mail trains, the president
invited the cooperation of all
public authorities, state and munici~
pal, and the "aid of all good citizens"
to uphold the laws and to "facilitate
those operations in safety which are
essential to life and liberty and the
security of property and our common
public welfare."
The peaceful settlement of controversies
between shop craft employees
and carriers, it was stated, "in accordance
with law and due respect for the
* established agencies for juch settlement
are essential to the security and
well being of our people."
The presi|ient took the position
that men willing to maintain the operation
of railroad trains in order to
transport mail have the "same indisputable
right to work that others have
to decline to work."
President Hatding was occupied
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Miiuu^ifvuv uic jrrviiuiK mvu iuc yi K:kJ~
ration of the proclamation, delaying
his dinner one hour in order to go
over the first transcript. He returned
to the executive offices after dinner
and remained there until the proclamation
was made public about 10:40
p. m.
Hie text of the proclamation follows:
'
A proclamation: ' ..
the government, created by law, and
charged with the duty of adjusting
disputes between railroad operators
and employers engaged In Interstate
commerce, and
"Whereas, the United States railroad
labor board has recently handed
down decisions, one affecting the
wage of the shop crafts employees and
the other declaring the contract system
of shop crafts work with outside
agencies to be contrary to the interests
of the transportation act, and,.
therefore, that such practice must be
discontinued; and
"Whereas, the shopcraft employees
have elected to discontinue their work,
rathi^ than abide by the decision rendered^
and certain operators have ignored'
the decision ordering the abandonment
of the contract shop practice;
and,
"Whereas, the maintained operation
of t^e railroads in interstate commerce
and the. transportation of Unit
ed States mails have necessitated the
employment of men who choose to
accept employment under the terms of
the decision and who have the same
indisputable right to work that others
have to decline to work; and,
"Whereas, the peaceful settlement
of controversies in accordance with
law and due respect for the established
agencies of such settlement are essential
to the security and well being
of our people:
"Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding,
president of the United States,
do hereby make proclamation directing
all persons to refrain from all
interference with the lawful efforts to
maintain interstate transportation
and the car* ng of the United States
mails, V>
"These activities and the maintain-1
ed suDremacv of the law are the first'
obligation of the government and all |
the citizenship of our country. Therefore,
I invite the cooperation of all
public authorities, ,state and municipal,
and the aid 01 all good citizens
to uphold the laws and to preserve thj
public peace, and to facilitate these
operations in safety which are essential
to life and liberty, and the security
of property and our common public
welfare.
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington,
this 11th day of July, in the year of
Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-two, and of the Independence
o f the Uhlted States, the one
hundred and forty-seventh.
"Warren G. Harding.
"By. the president:
"Charles E. Hughes,
"Secretary of State."
Chicago, July 11 (By the Associated
Press).?B. M. Jewell, president of
\^7 the railway employees' department of
the American Federation of Labor,
declared tonight in reply to a proela
tOCLAMATION
H STRIKE SriOADON
All Hope of Further
Meetings Abandoned
Hague, July 12 (By the Associated
Press).?Conference with the representatives
of Soviet Russia here broke
down this afternoon without any apparent
hope of further meeting.
Maxim LitvinofT, of the Russian delegation,
said on leaving the chamber
that further meetings were unlikely
as the non-Russians insisted upon the
Russians * making promises with regard
to property compensation and
giving guaranteed which it would be
impossible to keep until the Russians
knew what credit loans would be
granted.
LitvinofT added that the peace pact
would hold for one month after the
last meeting.
The morning session of the conference
on Russian affairs which is devoted
to consideration of private property
question, broke up amid consideraKIa
/vrnfiioion art/I mo?t? dnlnr???fno
?* !?%? MIWKjr UV|V5?WVO u?c
declaring: Russian replies meant m collapse
of the Hague conference inevitable.
No decision as to this, however,
has been taken to 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Moratorium Requested on t
Reparations Payments
Paris, July 12 (By the Associated
Press).?German representatives today
submitted to the reparations commission
a formal note requesting a
moratorium on reparations payments
for the remainder of the present year.
The note stated that 32,000,000 gold
marks which were due Saturday were
available, but recommended that this
payment also be waived.
Rumor That Irish Republic
Has Been ProclafapMg$
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London, July 12 (By the Associated
Press).?Rumor that the.|^i^ b~
lic had been ***
Don't forget the box and ice cream
supper Saturday, July 15th, at
Brown's Creek.
A good time is promised all who
come.
Will Make Bobbins
Greenville, July 11.?The second
factory in the South for the manufacture
of cotton mill bobbins will be in
operation in Greenville by October,
it was announced today by. D. L.
Norris, president of Norris Brothers,
Inc., manufacturers of shuttles.
The new plant will be located on
Bimie street, and will employ 100
persons. The exact name of the factory
has not been announced, but it
will be owned and controlled by the
Norris interests, which now own the
shuttle factory on Bimie street. The
contract for the structure will be let
July 19, it was announced.
Loses Life in Pond
Edgefield, July 11.?Yesterday afternoon
about 6 o'clock B. B. Thompson
was drowned in a pond about
eight miles from Edgefield. He
waded into the water and before he
began to swim stepped off suddenly
into deep water, never rising again
after disappearing. There were a
number of young people bathing at
the time and several went at once to
his rescue but when divers found his
body it was lifeless. His wife and
several of their children were present
and witnessed the unfortunate
occurrence.
Mr. Thompson came from Shelby,
in. u., to Kdgeneld several years ago
and has been engaged as machinist
by the Edgefield Lumber Co. The
body wil Ibe carried to Shelby tonight
for interment tomorrow at his fromei
home.
McKissick For House?
A. P. McKissick, well known busi.
ness man of Greenville, is being urgei
to offer for the house of represents
tives but he has not yet decidc<
whether or not he will do so. He ha:
had many assurances of strong sup
port in the event he should be a can
didate. He has never been in politic!
and has never sought public office.?
Greenville Piedmont.
mation issued by President Hardinf
fhnf th? WAV ts\ nn.l tka nroa t.
" v v??v vTvmj W Viau v ai>!inc TTHff ia
call a conference of shop crafts ant
the railway executives.
"If any one wants to end the strik<
they know how to do it. Call a con
ference of railroad executives an<
shop crafts representatives," he said
I "Pull responsibility for the presen
I situation and the continuation of i
rests upon the shoulders of the rail
road managements."
GERMAN CRISIS
TO RE RELIEVED
v.
Paris, July 11 (By the Associated
Press).?The reparations coirtfnission
decided today to relieve the Germau
financial crisis to the extent Of / seducing
the monthly installment nt
50,000,000 gold marks due next Saturday
on the schedule of payment to
32,000,000 gold marks. Germany had
announced her willingness to pay the
whole amount but the commission
ruled that in view of the crisis the
smaller figure was all that would be
required.
Credit to the amount of 18,000,000
gold marks was given Germany on
her reparations account for deliveriet
of dyestuffs made during the last few
months to the textile alliance of America
for all the allies and also for
deliveries of coal which had befen
made to Luxembourg at the request
of the allied governments. ^ These
credits .were due Germany for some
time, and the officials thought that
this time was opportune to alow.them
in view of the German difficulties.
The members of* the reparations
commission spent all day discussing
the German crisis. Dr. Fischer said
Herr Schroeder conferred with the
members and had another talk with
M. Dubois, president of the commission,
in the course of which the German
representatives reiterated their
country's inability'to meet cash payments
after July.
The commission is expecting to receive
a formal request from Germany
for a moratorium in some form
tomorrow. Rowland W. Boyden is
keeping in closest touch with the developments
so as to be able to advise
Washington, but as yetj has not
changed his plans for sailf^ fog Njjftr
York on the steamship FrfocejpJMM
It yijL said thfr
?fepar?Ans cirdSs thjfljtbereJH a
disposition to ttka no^^otfjsgjpBUjS]
Sumter, July 17.
Bishopville, Tuesday, July 18.
Darlington, Wednesday, July 19.
Bennettsville, Thursday, July 20.
Chesterfield, Friday, July 21.
Florence, Saturday, July 22.
Conway, Monday, July 24.
Marion, Tuesday, July 25.
Dillon, Wednesday, July 26.
Kingstree, Thursday, July 2"^
Georgetown, Friday. July 28.
Manning, Saturday, July 29.
Camden, Monday, July 31.
Lancaster, Tuesday, August 1.
York, Wednesday, August 2.
Winnsboro, Thursday, August 3.
Chester, Friday, August 4.
Union, Saturday, August 5.
Rest eight days.
Newberry, Monday, August 14.
Greenwood, Tuesday, August 15.
Laurens, Wednesday, August 16.
Abbeville, Thursday, August 17.
McCormick, Friday, August 18.
Anderson, Saturday, August 19.
Walhalla, Monday, August 21.
Pickens, Tuesday, August 22.
Greenville, Wednesday, August 23.
Gaffney, Thursday, August 24.
Spartanburg, Friday, August 25.
New Sweet Potatoes
The first sweet potatoes of the season
that have come our way, were sent
The Times folks this morning by Rev.
, L. D. Gamble, pastor of Zion A. M. E.
, church. He has a fine patch of sweet
I potatoes as well as vegetables.
Baptists, Take Notice 1
A meeting will be held at the First
Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock looking to the organization of
a county-wide B. Y. P. U. Rev. J. L.
Baggott, state superintendent, will be
present to speak and assist in the organization.
He will also speak on B.
Y. P. U. work at 11 o'clock. Every
church in the county, whether it has a
B. Y. P. U. or not, is asked to send
representatives. It is earnestly hoped
" that every church will be represented.
Edw. S. Reaves,
" Pastor First Baptist Church, Union,
1 S. C.
3 . m 1
Monarch vs. Union m
There will be a ball game this af*
ternoon at 6 o'clock at the city parkUnion
vs. Monarch.
Come out and see the sport.
j Wanted
> i?
I Two hundred and fifty men, women
and children to attend Sunday school
e at Prdgett's Creek church Sunday
- July 16th, at 2:30 o'clock p. m.
i Mr. E. B. Smith of Union will be
I. with us and talk to the Baraca class
t and will also make an address to the
t Sunday school. A cordial w?lcom?
- awaits you. Come! "This meant
you." J. L. Murphy, Supt.
IviWAAv n
I iDvllvvLu
A- A Hichiu^^ H^dfoame warden,
itnnount^n ^y ' lhat he had
varions eountj^U^jjbadtera. The
vouchers covet JM Kunta earned by
the state game and the
paymontsrtnade enfore eme n t
in the counties'1|MBhout the state
and are to be uafHwu* school purposes.
The vouc&wHtere forwarded
yesterday except tflfte counties of
Cfllhmln DarlinfffA1?V)ll)nn Hamn.
ton, J^urens, LexflKon, Newberry
and tj^kin, whick SMnrtties have already
Received thotHproportion, according
Mr. HiokjM^on.
Following is tke'lst of amounts
sent to tke various eittntise which to
be credited iQr school purposes:
Abbeville,'y$687.16ffriken, $758.30;
Allendale, $351; Anderson, $1,616.40;
Bamberg, $397 80; J* ffcrnwell, $477;
Beaufort, $603.45; Berkeley, $713.70;
Calhoun, $330.30;. ^Charleston, $2,243.70;
Chierokee, $739.35; Chester,
$1,039.95; ChesterfiejL $871.20; Clarendon
$614.70; .. $?3fl$ton, $373.95;
Darlington, $918.45r/piUon, $286.20;
Dorchester, $489.00; Edgefield,
$275.40; Fairfield*- $^6.15; Florence,
$1,265.05; Georgetown, $1,568.70;
Greenville, $3,037.05?fO*"eenwood, $1,626.75;
Hkmpton, -1733.05; Horry,
$721.35; Jasper, $1^W6.85; Kershaw,
$1,005.30; LancasteM $808.65; Lau,rens,
$2,859.35; Leaf! $433.80; Lexington,
$1',528.65; MfcOprmick, $540.45;
Marion, $389.70; llalboro, $473.85;
Newberry, $l,284.75yf|kionee, $675.90;
Orangeburg, $1,257JB; Pickens, $1,167.30;
Richlapd,. ?86.95; Saluda,
$864.45; Spart*j|HBr^ . $2,816.55;
City Park TO afternoon, at
when Kit team of the
ning game after ggme since they reorganized.
When thes?< two teams
meet it will be a stfgggle from the
beginning until the lflBball is thrown
for each team will tr]j| jiggd to add one
more victory to their jpz^yous record.
Jonetville Jaibi
We have had a fine rain up here
and everything needed it.
The farmers are picking up the
cotton squares and looking for the
boll weevils.
Mrs. G. W. Barnett is on the sick
list.
Miss Charlie Mae Garner, who has
been working at Lockhart, has come
home to spend her vacation with her
parents, M r.and Mrs. T. J. Garner.
The Elford Grove school started
Monday with Mrs. Ed. Aycock and
M>ss Beatrice McDaniel as teachers.
A. R. Robison spent the Fourth in
Gaffney.
Misses Gertrude Barnette and Mittie
Home spent the week end with
Mrs. John Robison near Kelly's.
Bomar Gault, of Spartanburg,
spent the week-end with his uncle, T.
B. Kelly.
Mrs. A. R. Robinson and children
spent Saturday with Mrs. George W.
Barnett.
Miss Rosa Lee Knox spent the last
week with relatives at Spartanburg.
A crowd of young people gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
if in m i _ a.
miner lueuuuy uigui ut mi ice cieuni
supper. All reported a fine time.
Tom and Wallace Pickens were
visiting in this community Sunday.
Henry Home and Mr. A. B. Blackwell
were shopping in Union Friday.
Picnic Thursday Afternoon
Miss Minnie Gregory, superintendent
of the beginners' department of
Grace Sunday school, will give the department
a picnic Thursday afternoon
at the pump station. the children and
their mothers are requested to meet
at the church at 4:30 o'clock Thursday
afternoon.
These plans will be carried out if
the weather man sends suitable
weather.
Monarch
Mr. R. L. Knight continues to grow
worse and it seams his days are
shorter. He is very disheartened and
his friends are slack about visiting
and helping him. Rice, editor of
i Th? Times, and Mr. Aubrey Greg1
ory came to see him iSOBday and were
, big-hearted enough {bo look aftar his
medicine. Mr. Cragmg also gave him
a fine load of WKxIMMI of which is
i Christian-lika. wEjpJIw good editor
and friend Gragor^laa^do, we, as
> church membere|r*ep;dOi'HkawiHe.
i ' Mr. Knight hmkdbg, the brethren
is supreme. C. T. Q.
LABOR HEADS'
TO CONFER TODAY
New York, July 12.?In an effort
to prevent a walkout of 15,000 clerks
and station employes of the New York
Central lines between here and Chicago,
the company officials today entered
into a conference with the representatives
of men who are now taking
a strike vote on the question of
wage reductions, loss of vacations,
sick pay and contract labor.
Chicago, July 11 (By the Associated
Press).?With state troops and
United States deputy marshals on
guard in half a dozen states to avert
violence and prevent interference
with the movement of the mails or interstate
commerce, leaders of the Big
Four railroad brotherhoods and railway
executives were hurrying to Chicago
tonight to confer tomorrow on
issues growing out of the shopmen's
strike.
At Bloomington, 111., where state
troops have been guarding the Chicago
& Alton railway shops, engineers,
firemen, trainmen and conductors,
members of the four big brotherhoods,
voted today not to enter the
shops or yards as long as troops are
Btationed there.
Union officials ordered their men
to keep the mail trains running however.
Clerks employed in the yards
and at the depot walked out last
night, refusing to work under protection
of the troops.
The day passed quietly at the
shops. Only two shots were fired
during the day, and both were traced
to accidental discharges of sentinels'
rifles.
The matter of working with guards
and state troops on duty was expected
to be one of the matters taken
up at tomorrow's meeting.
Another Issue to be discussed will
alleged insistence of the carriers
that members of the "Big Four"
do work rekularly assigned to the
crafts how on strike. The United
States railroad labor board last week
rendered an qpinion that the members
of one craft of workmen were
not required to do the work of another
union whose members were on
strike, unless they did so voluntarily.
Memtews of the Big Four unions .also
protested that rolling stock has not']
been kept in condition since the strike
of shopmen, enigneers claiming that
engines with, defective brakes, headlights
and air equipment had been
turned over to them.
A rift in the strike clouds appeared
today with the announcement of
D. E. llelt, president of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen, that his
14,000 menU^rs would not strike at
this time bu?' expected to open new
negotiations with the individual carriers
regarding their grievances. I f
unable to reach an agreement, the
entire matter will be referred to the
nilroad labor board, he said.
Armed with three federal injunctions
issued against rail .strikers,
United States Marshal Moore of th?
Peoria office went to Clinton, 111., to
serve the papers. The writs restrain
the strikers from picketing, interference
with the operations of trains,
intimidation of employees or any conspiracy
to tie up transportation.
The shop craft leaders assumed a
more hopeful attitude today with receipt
of advices that, all told, IS
railroads had made conciliatory expressions
looking toward a settlement
of the strike and that some already
were conferring with the system
federation committee.
No settlement will be considered,
however, except on a national basis,
the union heads insisted, adhering to
their original attitude that the railroads
deal with the six international
shop unions as a whole.
Negotiations have progressed so
far on the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern that R. A. Henning,
chairman of the strikers' committee
at St. Paul, Minn., came to Chicago
today to comer wirn president ?. m.
Jewell and other federation officers,
No definite conclusion was reached,
It was said.
To the Members of
Grace Methodist Church
To the Members of Grace Methodist
Church:
This is to inform the members ol
our church that I shall be away foi
the remainder of this month. Therefore
the church will be closed unti
further notice excent the meetintr 01
the Sunday school and Epwortl
League.
The regular Wednesday night pray
er service will be held this evening.
J. W. Kilgo,
Young Men's Business League
There will be a meeting of th<
Young Men's Business League tomor
row evening at 8:30 o'clock in th?
rooms of the organization and ever}
member is requested to be present.
L. B. Woodward,
Secretary.
BOTH TRACKS OF SOI
WRECKING CREWS I
SIDELIGHTS ON
RAILROAD STRIKE
Dennison, Texas, July 12.?J. W.
Pike, senior, said to be employed by
the Missouri-Kansas-Texas road, was
shot and seriously wounded and several
other men severely beaten in a
clash between the strikers and their
sympathizers and the men believed to
be strikebreakers here today.
Chicago, July 12 (By the Associated
Press).?The settlement of the rail
strike seemed possibly a step nearer
today when it was disclosed that secret
conferences had been held be-,
tween Chairman Ben Hooper, of the
Labor Board, and leaders of the six
striking shop crafts. No definite conclusions
were reached, but the disclosure
of the conference is described
as more personal than official and
raised nopes in tne railroad world.
Cincinnati, July 11.?Clerks on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad have voted
to strike and have been Riven
strike sanction, it was reported unofficially
toniRht. Armed with this
authority it was said officials of the
union are meetinR at Richmond with
executives of the road in an effort
to reach a settlement before a strike
is called. It was said approximately
2.200 men are affected.
Crewe, Va., Russell WiRgins, Norfolk
& Western yard office clerk, was
killed, unidentified man wounded when
some one shot into a crowd of picketinR
clerks at the station here 1 st
niRht.
Dallas, Texas, July 12.?Reports to
Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad office
here stated one man was wounded and
dozens of others, some of them deputy
United States marshals, were kidnapped
from roads shops at Denni on
by a mob of a thousand persons, and
taken to the woods and beaten.
Chicago, July 12 (By the Associated
Press).?No definite reply to shopmen's
strike settlement proposals Riven
to Chairman Hooper, on the Labor
iwal, by represaetaiivs of. railroad
executives at noon conference tod ly.
Executives said they would notify
Hooper of answer "later."
Today's Cotton Market
Open CI >se
July 21.81 22.20
October 21.95 22.32
December 21.85 22.19
January 21.55 21.92
March 21.43 21.80
N. Y. Spots 22 50
Local market 22.00
Attorney General
Offers Reward
Chicago, July 12.?Attorney General
Brundage, of Illinois, today offered
a reward of $1,000 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the persons who committed
murder and assault in connection with
the strike of coal miners of Williamson
county.
PERSONAL MENTION
Dr. and Mrs. James Kilgo will lea\>
tomorrow for a month's vacation to he
spent with relatives in Darlington.
Gibson and Wadesboro, N. C.
c n cs,? i: 11?
in i n, vi, v. o ii 111111 y auu mur
of Columbia, spent a few days last
week with their mother, Mrs. W G.
Gault near Union and have returned
home, accompanied by her sister, M>ss
Virginia Trefzer.
Dr. F. CI. Salley spent the week-end
with his mother, Mrs. I. E. Salley, in
Columbia.
Mrs. W. W. Summer has returned
from a visit, to relatives at Clinton
and Newberry. She represented the
missionary society of Grace church
at the annual conference held in Newberry
and was accompanied home by
her sister, Mrs. Kate Smith, of Kin
ard.
Mr. and Mrs. I,<>uis Gilliam arc occupying
apartments at the home ol
Mrs. W. W. Sumner on South street.
Mrs. Judson Little of Kelton i?
' visiting in Union today.
Dr. 0. L. P. Jackson spent Sunday
at Winthrop College, where Mrs
r Jackson and his daughters, Misses
' Ferrol and lionise Jackson, are study
| ing this summer.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Guy Poole and familj
1 have returned to their home in Mul
:ins, S. C.f after a visit to their pa
" rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Poole, 01
South street.
Mrs. John K. Hamblin and childrei
have returned from Tryon, N. C.
! where they spent several weeks.
Rutlcdge McGhee is in the city or
1 business this week.
e In New Holland the women cu1
/ themselves with shells, and, keepir.f
the wounds open a long time, fron
scars in the flsh, which they deen
highly ornamental.
JTHERN BLOCKED:
tECLINE TO RESPOND
Spartanburg, July 11.?The main
line of the Southern railway was
blocked by the wreck of a peach train
at 7:15 o'clock this evening between
Wellford and Fair Forest in this
County, 15 miles west of this city, and
wrecking derrick crews called here
and in Greenville have refused to respond.
While the wreck is on the
Greenville division, the Spartanburg
division forces stationed at Hayne,
the junction point, were called upon
by Superintendent Maxwell of the
Spartanburg division to aid in clearing
the main line. The reply of the
foreman of the crew, according to Mr.
Maxwell, was that unless some one
was under the wreck, the men would
not work. While no one was injured
and the wreck consists of only four
cars loaded with peaches, they are
so situated as to block both the north
and south line and thus stopping all
traffic. Passenger trains are being
held both here and in Greer, but with
little prospect that the line will be
open before well in the day tomorrow.
Under normal conditions, according
to officials of the road, the wreck
should have been cleared in something
like two hours and but for the
strike of shopmen little interruption
of traffic would have oecured.
At Spartanburg 12 men are out of
the Hayne shops. There has been no
break in their ranks.
It was reported here late tonight
that a volunteer wrecking crew was
being made up at Greenville and
would be sent to the wreck.
Spartanburg, July 12.?A freight
wreck, which under normal conditions
would have been cleared in two hours,
occurring at 7:15 o'clock this evening,
blocked the main line of the
; Southern railway near Fair Forest,
ten miles west of Spartanburg. At
2 o'clock this morning the wrecking
crews at both Greenville and Spartanburg
have refused to work. The
efforts to clear the tracks are being
made without the assistance of derricks,
locomotives being used to
"butt" the derailed cars off the
racks.
While the wreck is not on the Spar:
tmibu*|f 4ivHuo? of the Southern, hut .. on
the Charlotte division, only a few
miles from where they join at Hayne,
Supt. William Maxwell of the Spartanburg
division early in the evening
called upon his derrick crew for service
in clearing the main line. The reply
came back, through the foreman
of the crew, that the men would not
go unless it was a matter of saving
human life. "If somebody is under
the wreck we will go, otherwise we
will not," was the answer given Superintendent
Maxwell, according to
Ids statement tonight.
Mr. Maxwell was not informed, he
said, as to what experience Superin
tendent Mungcrford was having with
his derrick crew at Greenville. It
was reported in railway circles at
Hayne, the junction point, tonight
that a derrick had been taken from
Greenvillle to the wreck, but was not
in operation, the engineer refusing to
work. It was understood here tonight
that the action of the foreman
| of the,derrick crews was in sympathy
with the striking shopmen, since they
are not supposed to be involved in the
t strike. No statement was to be had
fiom union sources.
The wreck is holding passenger
trains No. Mil. northbound, in Greenville:
No. .'to, southbound, at Hayne
No. 4b and 2Mb at Spartanburg. At
2 o'clock, it was stated, there wa^
some prospeet of having the south
hound track open by 3:M0 o'clock.
Married
A. (J Mize and Miss I^eila Arrow I
wood wort- married duly Gth at the
heme of llenry Howell, Third avenue,
the Rev. J. B. Chick, pastor of Green
Street Methodist church, performing
t l?e ceremony.
Hosts of friends unite In good
wishes for them.
William Chapman and Miss Lily
P Patterson were married July 9th at
the home of Mrs. G. C, Wilbanks,
West Main street. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. J. B. Chick and
witnessed by a few friends.
This couple has many friends who
. wish for them long life and much happiness.
. Mr. Gore and Mr. Beaty
. | In the Roll
i In our published list of candidates
, who had qunlified, we inadvertently
i! left out the names of Mr. Thos. H.
,i Gore, candidate for magistrate in
' .Jonesville, and Robt W. Beaty, cani
a?<late for the legislature. Both these
j gentlemen qualified and paid their assessment.
It was the slip made by
t' The Times man that omitted their
t1 names. We make this correction gladi
ly, fo? the reason that we would not,
i wittingly, do either of them a WTong
Times Editor.