Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" p / fHTi The Union Daily Times ps PRESS " -1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY - E?t?bli*bod in 1850?CoaT?rt?(| to Th? Uaioo D*ily Timt* Oc iuk*t 1, 1917 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY ' * T li' ' ' Vol. LXXII No. 1448 .. Union, S. C., Friday Afternoon, August 4, 1922 3C Copy STRIKEBREAKER IS GIVEN FLOGGING Florence, Aug. 3.?Search is being made today for four white men who are charged by J. A. Jones, who came here yesterday morning to work in the Atlantic Coast Line shops, with having forced him into an automobile taken him outside the city, and then beaten him up ami thrown him into a ditch of water-yesterday afternoon. This morning Mr. Jones made the following sworn statement to the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company: "State of South Carolina, County of Florence. . "Personally appeared before me J. A. Jones, who on oath says: "1 live in Branchville, and came to Florence this morning (August 2) for the purpose of going to work for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, on instructions of Supt. R. B. Mare, i was instructed to report to Master Mechanic E. J. Smith who gave me a letter to Foreman Hedgepath in Columbia under whom 1 was -- assigned for work. About 11:30 a. - m., I went to a boarding house for dinner, one of the strikers who I did not know saw my tool chest and of course suspected that I was going to work with the railroad. This man then went to the proprietor of the boarding house, whose name I do not know, and after he conversed with him a few minutes, the prpiietor came to me and told me that he could not keep me any longer. I was later picked up by four white men, who took me in an automobile down the road out of town, when I was taken from the car and beaten and then thrown in a ditch of water. I am a stranger in Florence, and do not know any of my assailants. "J. A. Jones. "Sworn to iind snhspvilii'd hefori me this 2nd day of August, 1922. y King, "Notary Public for South Carolina." This is the first disorder of this kind authentically reported in FlorJ . ence in connection with the strike of the shopmen. No foundation could ?v . be found for-other reports of disorfcfe&i ders of this kind. Other points have & 1 ~ "had -gmch 4isorder?-and To date the only other trouble arising from the strike Was the shooting at Capt. George Rollins by two men alleged to be Alvin Broach and R. J. Revell, strikers, who are under bond now charged with the attack. Preaching at Mt. Vernon Preaching Sunday morning at Mt. Vernon, at 11 o'clock, by Rev. L. L. Wagnon. This ought to fill the church and the grounds around it. We cannot overstate our appreciation of Brother Kilgo and Brother Wagnon in doing this for us. The closing worship of the meeting at Mt. Vernon at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Dinner on the grounds. J. F. Matheson, Pastor. Ice Cream Festival at Monarch The ice cream festival and candidates speaking program at Monarch community house will be a very interesting event as all the candidates are beginning to get warmed up and the " ^ public is becoming daily interested in the coming race for office and a special invitation has been given to the state candidates who arc-at Chester today to attend this meeting. The people of Monarch extend a hearty welcome to all and the general public is invited to attend. Senator Reed Leading St. IiOuis, Aug. 4 (By the Associated Press).?With Senator Reed leading by 6,887 votes, Breckinridge Long based his hope on official count being made today to overcome the senator's plurality. RnaoVintl To mnppnw The Union Mill ball team will play the fast Buffalo team tomorrow at the City park. Play will start promptly at 4 p. m. It is reported that Dagenhardt of Shelby will pitch for Buffalo, although this is not oflicinl. .Tamieson of the Greenville Textile Circuit, will pitch for Union. This should turn out to be the best game seen on the local diamond this season as both teams' have enviable records and are pretty evenly matched.* Some predict that it will be a pitchers' battle. If so, it will have to be a good game. "Granny" Cudd will be one of the umpires and if another as sutisfacto. y can be found it should not be necessary to halt play any whatsoever over decisions, as I ns hanncncd nt'ten in past games. Mr. arid Mrs. ,T. E. Tinsley and Miss Edna Tinsley motored to Asheville Sunday and spent the day. The friends of Dr. Joe Morgan, who works at the Palmetto, are rejoiced to know that he is able to be out again after a two weeks' illness. RAILROADS TO HELP THOSE IN DISTRESS New York, Aug. 3.?As proof t President Harding that the railroad arc united in a determination to keo] trr.ins moving regardless of the sho craft strike, several roads toda; pledged themselves to send crews o mechanics to the rescue of fou Southern roads whose shops have bet. hard hit by the strike, it was an nounced by L. F. Lore'e, chairman o the Eastern presidents' conference. Crews of "picked" men. recruited 11 shops or roads in the Melropolitai district of New York, already are 01 the way South, Mr. Loree asserted The first' detail was said to be e: route to Richmond, Va.. where ti wa xpected to arrive tomorrow morning Although they subscribed to the re jection of President Harding's pcac plan when it came before the Ameri can Association of Railway Execu tivos last Tuesday the four roads t whom other lines arc now contributinj mechanics "frankly disclosed thei condition,said Mr. Loree. They vver the Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk 6 Western, Virginian and the Louisvill* Nashville, it was disclosed. Shipments of men were "assumed by the Eastern leaders to be en rout* also from -Chicago and other Westeri labor centers to locomotive and ca ?hops at division points of the fou Southern railroads. The present plan it was said, was to send men to Rich mond nnd Roanoke and Aussellvillc Ravena, Covington and Corbin, Ky, and Portsmouth, Ohio. Union leaders at the Eastern strik* committee headquarters tonight char acterized this latest move of the roadi as "another bluff to keep the presi dent from interfering with their pol icy." Brown's Creek The farmers have all finished u] laying by their crops. But they ar still picking up squares and bumini them. Think some are hunting th old troll weevils. They are findinj them in the blossoms. But most o the farmers have fine cprn in thi community. The health is very good in this com munity nt<Tft?'TiT*8ent-timo:1'1 Miss Nellie Jolly spent a few day locf lifolr ??if Vr kot* oniicin 1V*T i c a T?fkn iitni/ ?r vi\ n ii/ii uvi v.uu.itti) itaioo IJIIIV Low, from near Monarch. Miss Pearl Harris and this write spent Saturday night and Sunda; with our cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Wil Blackwell of Union. Miss Ethel Low from near Mon arch is visiting her cousin, Miss Nel lie Jolly, of Brown's Creek. This ewriter attended the picnic a Brown's Creek church Saturday Thero was a large crowd present ani every one seemed to enjoy himselJ Barbecued hash was served and it wa surely fine. Misses Nellie Jolly and Fthel Lo\ rp^nt Monday night with Mfte Jenni Palmer of this route. Miss Eloise Gregory spent Sunda; with Miss Bertha I\ey. Bomar Gault from Lockhart June tion was in this community Sunda; afternoon. Mr. J. D. Hancock had the misfor tune to lose one of his mules las week. Miss Jannie Palmer spent Wcdnes day with Miss Nellie Jolly. Don't forget Sunday school a Frown's Creek Sunday morning at th regular hour. "Tulip." Viscount Northcliff's Condition is Critica London, Aug 4. (By the Associate Press).?Great anxiety is felt toda; over the condition of Viscount Noth cliff e. There is some increase in hear weakness and he is in a state of gen oral exhaustion. Street Car Strike T? DoarllnrlrAr Chicago, Aug:. 4.?The fourth da of Chicago's street car strike saw bot sides in apparent deadlock over term of settlement. Meanwhile Mayo Thompson and the city council ar considering plans for the purchas and operation of city-owned moto busses. Killed by Poison ' Anderson, Aug. 3.?William Wij! gins, 18 months of age, the little so of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. WigginB, die Inst night from eating a tablet of poi son. Every effort was made at a hos pital *o save .the life of the child, bu th? dcndlv noison had been taken i too groat quantity for the antidote to have any effect. The funeval was held this afternoor ,*rr ices conducted by the Rev. L. F McGee of St. John's Methodist churcV Mrs. Mollie. Hawkins of the Carer I community is a visitor in the cit | today. Mrs. Lemmie Odell, who has bee 1 quite sick at her home on Route 3 i much improved. This is gratify'.n I rews to her many friends. PLANS FOR COAL > SOON FUNCTION * ????? o Washington, A?J?. 8.?Jfew prlor^t: s orders for the transportation of fofl p will be -issued immediately by th' p interstate commerce commission, Fed y oral Fuel Distributor Spencer an f nounced tonight, with the purpose o r | facilitating the distribution of coa nder the administration emergency program. f The district committees represent ing the federal organization in th< ri producing coal fields will be function n j ing by Monday, Mr. Spencer said n. Today's discussions by the commit I. tee, he declared, were confined tc n routine matters and no importan s conclusions were reached. Efforts to bring government influ - ence to bear upon coal mine opera c tors, who have been unwilling to at - tend the central competitive wag* - scale joint conference which John L 0 Lewis, president of the United Min< * Workers, has called for Monday a r Cleveland, with support of some op e erators, was understood to have beei * the purpose of the visit here of Sam e uel Glasgow, general attorney for the union. Mr. Glasgow held a prolongec interview today with President Hard B ing, being accompanied to the Whit* House by Secretary Hoover. Botl r refused to discuss the purpose ot r their visit, however. '? Mr. Glasgow was understood t< * have suggested that Illinois mini '? owners, who have so far refused tc '? join the Pittsburgh Vein Operators association of Ohio and the scatter e ing list of individuals in Ohio, Penn "I sylvania, Illinois and Indiana whq s will meet as employers with the union, might be induced to change their position if President Harding urged it. The Illinois operators will meet on Friday to consider their decision on Mr. Lewis' last offer. Uj to the present time, most of the op p erators belonging to organizations ol e, employers in the four states named *, with the exception of the Pittsburgl e - Vein association, have refused to en j ter into interstate negotiations witl I the union though tendering separate district or state conferences to fij wage rates. Don't Forget Meetin* " sj I The women of Union and Unioi ? county are urged not to forget th? i opportunity they have to hear Mrs ji Wallace and Mrs. Drake, two of oui state candidates for superintendent o: education. We have heard what splen did speakers they are, and both ar< I interested in education and child life t! therefore, their talks should prove es pceially interesting to mothers. The meeting will begin promptly a " 5 o'clock in the high school audi torium and after their talks, an in formal reception will be held and al ' will be given a chance to meet Mrs v Drake and Mrs. Wallace personally. | Miss Ethel Hicks and her musi I class, Miss Catherine Layton and Mrs ^ Devereaux Turner will furnish a mu sical program at this meeting. Mrs. W. T. Beaty, y Chairman. * Greeks Decide to Occupy Constantinople Athens, Aug. 4. (By the Associatei t Press).?Responding to Allied power t, notes of July 31, the Greek govern I ment says it has decided to occup; I Constantinople in order to bring peac j by means of decisive military actioi | against the Turkish capital. The re j ply reiterates continued delay in con , tiuaiun ui licmc i rtvn CttlHUHWt? to Christians ein Asia Minor. y, ~ Illinois Faces Coal Shortage Chicago, Aug 4.?Illinois is restrict ed to its own supply of coal and face a critical situation, according to Rob j ert M. Medill, state fuel director. Undergoes Serious Operation y h Mrs. Lewis M. Rice was operate 3 on yesterday afternoon in the Wal r lace Thomson hospital. Since Salur e aay she had been ailing and yestor e day, upon consultation between >.e r physician, Dr. J. G. Going, and Di Steedly, It was deemed imperativ that the operation be performed. Thi was done at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon. She rallied from the oparatioi '"i and appears to be making fine moa n ress towards recovery. The ope ratio, was to remove a tumor from ih pelvic cavity. For several years, o intervals of several r. mt.hs she hai '*! suffered an attack of mor? or less vio n! lent nature, and the physicians f?nall; *1 decided the trouble required an opera tion. The patient, as we go to press ' seems to be steadily gaining, and i thought to show excellent chance o ' speedy recovery. n Miss Lucy Salley and brother, Ker y neth, of Salley are guests at the horn of their sister, Mrs. Ned Arthur, n .?. s Mr. Michael Sally of Lincolnton, J? C., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Georg Kellar. ? NEGRO REMAINS ! I1 IN PEntENDAKY ; f David Bran*!*, tfyt ' X netro who ha been dearth t^n?. 1 e i t^nce at the penitentiary since 8$p-' ' -|'? i bor of 191?, gets ho action in his , -1 c . despite consul e publicity f rnrruh <>r mere a-jv|?and remains in ( 1 his cell at the prison However, he! / it said, that he is nbt Worrying over the situation. Brannun was rorwwted of attemped ? crimihal assault <** Crshgcburg eoun ty in September of^H&tX and brought . here then. His easterns "lost In the - shuffle," apparently, as nothing has> been done in four years. An appeal t to the supreme court held up the negro's electrocution 'and is *MU hold ing it up, so far as the penitentiary - authorities are concerted. The prison officials are still wait3 ing on somebody to^Mo something one p. way or the other. They are not !n? terested in the ouMme, but the net gro is being held mnding some de cision and is therefgpi "dead Umber" f i for the prison. Aitgg>peal has been - made to the governed commute the 3 sentence, but he hasfaot acted. No 1 court action to settJh- the case has - been taken so far a*{ls known here. i Bald Rock'Hews August 2, 1922. > As I have been abafent for the past j two weeks I will trWto write a few ? lines, although newsjr^s very scarce ' with me this time, ftThe farmers in thi^ community are rejoicing over the nlcjhrelih which fell i Sunday afternoon..surely made! i the crops look lots titter., I am not' > bragging, but 1 beli^vfctfjaVJfcere are; ; better crops !n t his.mftniflKy than * Thomag Gregory of Lookhart spent 1 i the week-end with his family of this , 0 community. Miss Lois Sanders returned home r Sunday after spending several days f near Wilkinsville with friends and rel-j . atives and is now spending a few e days with friends and relatives at Monarch. I Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bentley spent a; few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. t C. H. Gault and Mr. Jamie Howell . near Kelly. Mrs. Willie Kirby of near Wilkins-: 1 ville is spending a few days-with hev i (> sister. Mrs. G. S. Sanders, of this 1 community. j c Lonnie Scales and Elzie Bentley L spent Sunday at the home of this! _ writer. Camillas Fan of Adnmsburg was visiting at the home of this writer! Sunday. Sbuler Gregory of Lockhart spent, the week-end with his parents. Mr I . and Mrs. Thomas Gregory of "Bald Koek" j This writer attended a picnic at Brown's Creek church Saturday, j There was a large crowd present and, there was all kinds of things to ea*. j ^ There are some good people at' X?1U WII S c?I III aiQU OUIIlt' Kuwu* looking girls. They nil know how to give everybody a good time. I hope' to go back again before long. 3 m Dead Congressman Given Nomination Nashville; Aug. 3.?Despite the factj < s that he died yesterday, former Con- j - gressman Lemuel I'. Padgett of Co-, lumbia has been renominated for congress from the .Seventh congres- i sional district. He defeated his com-, i petitor, William .C. Salmon, also of Q Columbia, by a majority of between I- 1,000 and 1,500 votes, according to in-1 - complete and unofficial returns. These - returns show that the deceased con-11 V gressman carried six of the ten conn- < r. ties in the district. i s The rfiovem^pt to nominate Mr. a Padgett for his 12th.term, despite the , fact that he is dead, took form yes- ' r> terdny afternoon when his friends - formed hasty organization and made n public an appeal to vote for him. 0 What effect the nomination of the t former congressman will have is prob- ' d lematical. The purpose of it was to - force a new election and to permit y other candidates to j?>ter the race. British Will Bofy ! Many Airplanes 1 I Pbndon/i Aug./I (.By the Associated i- Press)'.?Premier . Lloyd George an- | e nounced in the house of commas thfs j afternoon that the government h'ad. decided to adopt a recommendation ^f; L the air ministry to provide ,50? air-1 ? planes for home defense at a cost of 2,000,000 pounds. ? ? -..~..0v vwv |/voiviuii tnnni jy the railroads in the meeting of August 1." The Southern, the statoiient said, was not a member of the issociatlon, had not voted on the :>resident's oplnn at. the New York necting and "unlike the great m. lorlty of railroads of the counry, hj.. employed no new men." Richmond, Va., Aug. 3. ? Striking ihopmen of the Southern Railway (hops in this city will meet tomorrow at 3 o'clock to discuss the company's proposition to take back the itrikers without prejudice to their leniority rights. No action will be :aken, however, until word is received 'ram headquarters in Chicago. "We came out in a body and none will return until we all return," s i d W. C. Burke, \ice president of the Zity Federation of Shoperafts, this jftemcon. There is no change in the situation is to the Chesapeake & Ohio and the railways?""* Society Happenings Of The Week One of the loveliest parties of the season was the one given by Mrs. W. II. Hope on Thursday afternoon. The spacious verandas were decorated in large baskets of sunflowers and patted plants, and made quite an attractive setting for the four tables <>' br'dge placed there. After many games the hostess was asni-tcd in serving a salnrl and iced couv??* by Mcsdnmos ?nm Harris am! I Geo. \V. Kellar. Mrs. Thomas McNnlly was hostess this morning to the Fortnightly club at her attractive home on South street. Eight tables of bridge were played in rooms abloom with beautiful yellc w marigolds and other midsummer flowers. A delicious salad course was served. M'ss Fay Fuller entortained several cf her friends last evening at her hoire en South Church street. Tables were placed in the living room where Rook and other games were played. Delicious refreshments of cream and cake were served by Misses l.ois Fuller and Sara TTollingsworth. * -+ _ Gift From Ku Klux Spartanburg, Aug. 3.--When the collection was being taken at the revival tent on Magnolia street last] night three men in the robes of th Ku Klux Klan entered the tent and' presented the Rev. S. T. Creech with an envelope and quietly walked out, *1? ' '-ii o<i i' j'v<i i 111 ^ ill if iC UUIlvlll'SS ll'UIIl whence they came. When the envelope was opened it was found to contain a check for $50 and a letter commending him for the work* he is doing in Spartanburg as president of the Creech orphanage and as a minister of the gospel. He preached to about 2.000 people^ last nij^ht. Outlaw Strike Ends Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 3.?One hundred and thirty-two maintenance of way men, including 25 firemen, retin ned ft) work in the yards of the Now York Central railroad today, breaking, railroad and union officials rMaim, t*he outlaw strike of the last five days. mi L r 1 AA i ?11 i mere are huuui iuu men sun oui, but the union and railroad official's claimed that most of them will be back at work tomorrow. The decision to return to work is the result of a visit of E. J. Stover, chairman of the executive committee of the maintenance men, who told the men th^>j were in danger of expulpJon from the union. SOUTHERN FINDS SHOPMEN SILENT Washington, Aug. 4.?Reprosentntire# of six striking shop crafts unions ra the Southern Railway will meet in Washington tomorrow with H. W. Miller, vice president in ctiarge of operations of the system to consider proposals for settlement of the strike >n th$ basis suggested by President to :he executives of all roads The Southern, acting separately from othei laTge lines, hns made no attempt to sreak the strike nor lias it refused i e turning strikers seniority privileges. Washington, Aug. 3. Headquarters >f the Southern railway here had rereived no reply up to a late hour t<>vlght to the invitation of that system :hat its shopmen return to work on he basis of President Harding's plan ?or settlement of the strike. It was eported that officials of the locals, representing the Southern's cm. iloyees, had called a metlnjr to eonilder the offer but the decision of this inference, if any was reached, was lot announced. The Association of Railway Kxecuives, in a statement issued today, 'ormally announced that the action oi" ;he Southern "does not in any way iniicate a ch?nn?o in u ? COUNTIES GAIN S IN ENROLLMENT; Enrollment figures from 15 | ties, received by H. N. Edmonds, ?eo-' int retnry of the state Democratic corr -1 to mittee. snow a gam of 23.^94 over the m< 1920 enrollment. These 15 counties So include Ri'hland. Greenville and Yorl\ mt three counties larger than the aver- Co age size. 1 Mr. Edmunds vestsrJay uddresseJ cal another letter to the county secie- Mi tunes, railing to tin ir attention the jnj importance of getting the final enroll- erg ment in as early as possible in order nl8 that arrangements for the balloting wii on August 29 can be completed. The 15 counties heard from so far nit show the following enrollment of vot- ne, ers, the 1920 figures also being given: 9j0 1922. 1920. lea Anderson 11.250 80f*'lma Bamberg ?,080 1,474 ' ?U Fairfield 2 2 T. 1,458 otl Abbeville 3.2?i4 2,491 Ronlf. i-i i it-? i*-' ? '""I ( Berkeley 2,276 1.351} bis Chester 3,472 2,467 J hai Clarendon 2,906 2,071 j 0f Gieenville 16,132 11.406 j sta Lexington 5,517 4,666 i wj] Newberry 5,874 3,398' ti Richland 12,669 7,1711 , Sumter 3,270 1,950' th^ Union 5,554 3,4061 . \ork 6.772 3,878 I ne; 1 Total 84,436 54,042 Mi t t sa; Monr.rch no Rev. Charley ?!oss filled his ap-1 ^ pointment at Mon-Aetnn chureh Sunnuy night, preaching a tine serman from "Prepare to meet thy od." Rev. Iloss held his large audience speli- ^ bound throughout his sermon r.nd it coi was an hour well spent. Mr. Moss u- a young preacher just starting oul, hut he has the good* and can deliver them in a touching and feeling way. ^ Mr. Lester Knight is getting ? u fairly well at this time and his friends _ nre still remembering him in the san e old way. If wo can Veep him supplied pj with medicine for a month or so 1 think he can .valk and gain his health and strength again. Here's hoping the inedieino will be atintilied from tim. *> MiW,?- $9 There was another prayer meetin ? at Mr. R. L. Knight's Monday night : nd a good crowd was out to sing and on pray. I.et the good work continue, for tu God will hoar and answer prayer. ta' C. T C. co p New Union Formed By Textile Workers New York, Aug. '{.?Delegates representing 150,(l(t() organized textile worker:; in Eastern and Southern j states today signed the constitution m of the newly formed Federated Tex- ^ ?il? Urions of America and an- To noun- -?I they would direct all ofTovt town i h' lping Nov.' England workers win their strike, which has been in Li progress sitae last winter. Sixty-six officials of nine .'''afis several of them women, attended the opening conference of organizers. 1 '' They will continue in session for 'll three days, it was announced, elect- st ing officers and planning a campaign '*' to completely organize the 900.001) 01 employees in the textile industry in a nt America. The row federation was described j hy delegates as the progressive lab r element of the industry. It will have ^ no affiliation with the United Text*it? Workers, which claims a membership y of nearly 100,000. and it is the rear gan'zaed branch of the American Federation of Labor hut will cooperate with both organizations in tinan- \ 11 rially supporting the locals now on 1' strike, it was stated. 1 )f>li>irati>K runic f mm nrnet ienllv all Atlantic- states, from Maine to Georgia. ,n Found De:\d in Room Spartanburg, Aug. 3.? Elmer Lew ia pencil vendor, who makes Spar- * ti.nburg eveiy montn, spend ng eev. < ral days hi re cn each trip, was found ^ dead inJiis room in a Magnolia street c? hoarding house yesterday afternoon. The man was a cripple and went ot. ^ crutches, lie left nothing to ind:c iu where his family is. lis bodv was taken to the undertaking parlors of ' John i?\ Floyd to be l.c'.d until his f.imi'.v ran lie eomminiefiteU with. hut si ? ? ? A fj?r there is no c'lie to where they live. Mr. Lewis was well known at the j boarding house, but was never heard j to mention his family. Yesterday morning he went t"o the kitchen and ^ asked for some water to shave with ^ 1I0 went to his room and when he d d mt turn up for lun<h a lad was sen! V1 to call him. The boy found the man ( King on his fare on the floor and went >:ivirg that h? could not wake him up. Investigation disclosed that he was dead. It was apparent that he had been dead but a few minutdS. Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, candidate for state superintendent of cdu cation, will be the guest of Mrs. J. W. ^ Mixson while in the city. L TATE FACING COAL FAMINE South Carolina faces a fuel fam S liardly trough coal on meet the demands of industry fci >rc than ten days or tXro week: stated Frahk' W. Shoaly, chaii in of th? South Carolina P.ailroaJ mmiaaion today 'We are being flooded with appl.liona for permits to receive coal.' Shealy stated, "and we are dor t V?<* Uaat 1" ? 11 > v.*x? y.tiu xjy an i.UII9UITli, lyt It looks like a shut down for iny of the industries of the state thin the next few weeks." Mr. Shealy stated that the brick inufacturers seemed to be 111 most L*d now. and the railroad commisn is endeavoring to supply ut ist twenty-live per cent of the deinds, especially for those who arc pplying bri.-ks for hospitals and tcr public buildings which sei-\e ; public. One large manufactory in. Coluiui, using cotton in its production s arranged to cut its consumption coal to one car a week, Mr. Shealy ited, and it is possible that this 11 assist it in meeting the situan. Mr. Shealy stated that he regards ; situation as serious. The no.', v days will see it aiute and the ?ct two weeks will see many plants ut down throughout the state, he ys. The cotton mills of the state are t seriously aiTecteu by th" situan, Mr. Sheily stated, and they will rdlv have to close down. Most of ;m operate on hydro-electric powAtlanta, Aug. S.?A serious coal jrtage within the next few week* afronts users throughout the stat?-, rticularly industrial plants t\ urphy Candler, chairman of *tlie ite railroad commission, announced lay in making public the tesults of questionnaire sent out from his of p. ckets Fired Upon From Ambush Today Stirunton, Ind., Aug. 4.?Tirst hosities in connection with taking over e mines by the state occurred today ion pickets on guard duty were fired from ambush. The fire was rerncd by the guard. Later firing was ken up over the entire area and was ntinued for over an hour. ibinet Busy With Coal and Rail Strike Washington. Aug. 4. -Members of e cabinet took today's meeting of ports on coal and rail strikes a> ithored by their respective depart cnts. It was indicated that the ses ?rt would be given almost Svhe'.'v a discussion ol the situation in t'r to industries. ttle Hope Jor Settlement Of Wage Agreement Chicago. Aug. 4.?A canvas- of c>.;.i levators m central eonipetit'vi t'.ei-: coming to announcement ot :vn ntativo of 11 inois operators, Midiited only l>i<trict light "f 01.a>. impripinp about "> p< r tv: : toj.n: i:. the entire field wo v. 11 bo pu .-m a wage conference c. lied for or day in Cleveland by .loir i ".vis, international prosid nt of rv The local coal circles ?ee lit: >pe of wage agreement. housand Men are Fighting Forest Fires Spokane, Aug. 4.?A thousand men o engaged in fighting fo^-s' tiros oni Rocky Mountain in IS^tntans t" olunibia river in Washington and i to 100 miles from the , Canadian >rder. Many hundred of acres of le timber.has been burned over. PERSONAL MENTION The Misses McCutchoon' from Mon eh will leave next week for Sumr to visit relative? for sometime. The familie^ of Supt. McNeil and r. Ha is of*Monarch loit today for a imping trip ..at Chimney Kock. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Arthur and son, apt. J. Miller Arthur, ar?Nleaving to lorrow for a- few days' visit to relaves in Fairfield county. From there ley will go to Itock Hill and will be ccompanied home by Misses Alice rthur and Margaret Speake. Miss Then) .Young has returned :<me after ? delightful-visit to Miss ucia Miler of "Summerville. Miss Carrie Smith arul Mrs, liayncs mith of West Springs spent Thursay in the eitj Mrs. S, M. Bradley of Abbeville^is iftitinp: at the' fk>me of Mr. and Mrs. . T. Bradley on Douglass Heights. Today's Cotton Market Open Closj >ctober .. . .' 21.38 21.25 ecrmber 21.40 21.23 unuary 21.41 21.12 larch 21.20 21.10 lay .. 21.20 21.00 r m ?ocnl market . . 22.00