University of South Carolina Libraries
BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WP(K THROUGHOUT COUN. TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE ,athered From All Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short . Paragraphs Foreign Winston Churchill, British colonial minister, recently underwent an operar tion for appendicitis. He is reported progressing satisfactorily. Development of dissatisfaction OnL the part of the conservative peers and the rank and file with the alleged packed character of the proposed Carl ton club meeting was the only new feature in the political crisis. There is increasing regentment over the limita tion of the meeting to members of the house of commons and the exclu sion of the conservative peers, it be ing contended that such a meeting would fail to be representative of the party as a whole. William Boyce Thompson, intimate friend of President Harding and "angel" of many a republican political campaign, is in Europe on a "special mission of inquiry and observation for the president of the United States." After holding the office of prime min ister through seven of the most critical years of British history-three years of war and four years of reconstruction David Lloyd George went into the wil derness. This was the description in his Manchester speech of his position it the unionist wing of his followers should desert him. Lloyd George, according to those in timately associated with him, will re main in public life and probably lead the most dangerous opposition ' any British government has encountered in a century. Former Premier Lloyd George, cheerful, bouyant .and smiling, told his friends that he is preparing. for the greatest battle of his political career. The premier and all his friends be y , lieve that he will "come back" without difficulty. Lloyd George has rear ranged his plans for a vacation. le is not going to take a rest, but is go ing to Leeds and make a political speech there, opening his own polit ical campaign. Finding no rooms reserved for her at the hotel, Ganna Walska McCor mich refused to sing at Poitiers re cently, continuing to Angoulemo, where she was scheduled for a con cert. In her spare time Ganna is .'htmlimg wedgewood and Sevres china - to add to her collection. She tells her friends this distraction serves to pre vent her "thinking too much of her self." ]Four persons were wounded by a . bomb ei.plosion at Belfast, Ireland, ro cently. Aim : ('rocker Gourand has settled out of ourt for $5;00 the suit brought aga inst. her on appea)..1l by Coun t Fesri Pisani, whlo alleged liupaid slary as her secretary. Wasington Alabama coal mine 'operators, Fed eral F'ue! DistrIibutor Spens announc pd, have agreed to limit the prices on that part of their output destined for domestic use to a scale ranging fronm $3.45 to $6 peOr ton, according to qual ity, and to cease charging on interstate shipmuents prices which have ranged from $4 to $7. Two steamships, as the result of ac tion takeon, will leave seen from Amer kcan ports filled with food and cloth. (ng for refugees in the Near East. Seizure by prohibit ion enforcement Dfficials recently of the Canadian schooner Emerald off the New Jersey toast has been made the ground for formal protest by the British govern ment, the contention being that the vossel was otutside American jurisdic tion. Pending detailed official advises from the officers who made the seig tire comment as to the probable atti tude of the Washington government was not available. Secret ary or War Weeks called a nuational conference to discuiss means of correcting p~hysical defects in Amer tea's young men. Civilians connect ed with educational institutions, aith letic association, the Y. M. C. A., Boy Scouts and welfare organizations have . been asked to meet at WVashington and form a permanent organzation. The Civil Service Commission cer tified to the Post Office Department that the eligibles for postmaster at H-artwell, Ga., resulting from the ex amination on July 18, are James L. 'Teasloy, John G. Massey and Paul P. Harrison, in the order named. This is a second class post office with sal ary of $2300 annually. The dlepart -ment has asked the Geor-gia Repub lican leaders to recommend one of the eligibles for the appointment. Edward Eyro Hunt, wvho served as .secretary to President IHarding's con ference on unemployment, has been named secretary of the United States Coal Commission. *A committee from the United Mine Workers will meet the United States Coal Commission at Washington for' the first conference of the newly creat ed government fact-finding body. President Lewis expects to meet with the commission later. H-b is engaged at the annual meeting of the Inter national Board of the Mine Workers' Uinion a Clevl. Despite the- destruction by fire of he hydrogen-filled , dirigible Cs, the rmy's immediate plans for the devel piuent of lighter-than-air - craft will ontinue, Secretary of War Weeks has nnounced following aiconterence with dajor-General Patrick, chief of the I rmy air' service. The American farmer, who for two rears has borne the brunt of the post war falling prices, will be approxi nately $3,000,000,000 better off this rear than last, according to statistical axperts of government departments. Lhey figured that with bumper crops md increased prices the farmer will xave a successful year. Growth of the narcotic drug habit nd of bootleg drinking was indicated )y the prohibition unit of the Treas ury, in reports from all parts of the United States. Arrests this- year of 12,000 Volstead law offenders is an increase of 10,000 over the year 1921. Aggregate fines imposed upyon viola. ors amounted to $3,000,000. Domestic Rev. James Matthew Maxon, rector >f Christ church parish, Nashville, was ,onsecrated bishop-coadjutor of Ten lessee recently. Crime though incurable can be min mized and controlled, and capital pun shment is a deterrent and does reduce nurder, Henry Barrett Chamberlain, )perating director of the Chicago crime ,ommission, declared, speaking on the subject, "The Importance of the Death menalty for the Murdered," before the merican Prison association at Detroit, dtich. Wabash train number 2, fast pas enger train east, was derailed near Mest Lebanon, Ind. It is reported that Dngineer Charles Schmuggee, of Deca ur, Ill., is buried in the wreck which a burning. Despite efforts of conservative lead. rs, the American Legion has come in o open conflict with the administra ;ion on eve of a national election thru ts demand for the removal of Briga tier-General Sawyer, chief co-ordinator ,t the federal hospitalization board. kdded interest attaches because Saw er is the president's personal and life ong fripnd. Rank and file of the leg. on got up on their legs in convention it New Orleans, La., and ran away Prom the leaders who had been fol owing docilely. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the United States army air :ervice, set a new official world's speed record when he flew over a one-kilo meter course at Selriclfe, Mich., at an average speed of 224.05 miles an hour in four heats. Efforts of the American Public Health association to prolong the expectancy of life at least twenty years within the next fifty years was set as the goal of the association in a resolution adopted at the annual convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Notice of a motion to (issolve the interlocutory injunction restraining the striking railroad shopmen and union officials from interfering in any way with rail transportation was served on the federal district attorney by the tounsel for the shoperafts at Chicago. Mrs. Ivy Giberson was found guilty of the murder of her husband, in Lake THurst. N. J1., and was immnediamtely son teed to life imprisonment. She killed him on the 14th of August. The jury dleliberatedl more than four hours. Mr-s. Gibersonm kept a calm dlemeanor- when hearing the sentpnce, as she had done throughout the trial. Francis Schlatteir, nationally known "mh'acie man"' andI "divine healer," is (lead in St. Louis, piresu~mably from pneumonia. A woman claiming to 1)e his wife notified a physician of his illness, and stole away. The physician refused to give a death certificate. Herbert Wilson, Los Angeles, Calif., gnown by police and federal operatives as a "master criminal," convicted of the murder of his pal, escaped from jail with another convicted murderer, Adam Ward, and Guido Spignola, held on a robbery charge. A memorial to Miss Belie H. Bien nett, consider-ed by Methodists as one of the lending figures in the religious woi-ld, will be erected, it is announced by Methodists in Nashville. Tenn. Jud~ge Walter F. George was selected as the Democratic candidlatoe to succeed H-on. Thomas E. Watson in the United States senate from Georgia, pilingI up a large majority over all the candi dlat es, among whom was the governor of the state, Thomas WV. Hardwick. Cotton warehouse receipts issued dur ing the current year in Memphis, Tcnn., by thme Memphis Terminal corporation areo being checked over by federal in vestigators. Five bandits, said to be armed with sawedl-off guns, bound and gagged three guard(s at the Rugby dlistillery at Lou isvillo, Ky., and. escaped with three truck loads of whiskey. Thg National Poultry, Blutter and Egg association, in session at Chicago, predlicts cheaper turkey for Thanks giving this year. The current turkey crop is said to be0 unusually large and the supplly of egga the greatest in mnany years. Mrs. Harry [Lachman, who was with Max Moser. New York jewelry sales. man, previous to the time he was rob h~ed of $15,000 worth of diamonds, told the Chicago polie she warned Moser that a touring car was following them when they were walking along the sit-eet a short time before the robberyI occurred. Thren unmasked men held up the Security National Bank at D~ewey, Mich., locked tihe cashier andl book. keeper- in the vault andl escaped in an automobile with all the currency in the b~ank(. several thousand dlollars Bacl 'Ii .IDEPENDA DEE CLERK'S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PICKENS COUNTY. IN COURT COMMON PLEAS. J. C. Redmond, Plaintiff, against J. P. Ballenger, et al, Defendants. Pursuant to an Deccretal Order made in the above stated case by his Honor Judlge Tr. S. Sese, dated October 6th, 1922, to me dlirecting, I wvill sell to the highest bidder for CASH on SA LES DAY IN NOVEMBER. 1922, the same being November 6th, 1922, during the legal hours for sales at Pickens Court H-ouse, S. C., All that certain piece, parcel or lot ,of land lying .and being in the above named state and County, on both sides of Garrette's Creek, wa ters of Oolenoy river, and containing three hundred nine andl half (309 1-2) acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Temnpy Chastain, James Keith es tate, and others andl more p)articu larly described in. Deed from David Lawson Benjman Masters and Re beca Masters by H. A. Richey, Sheriff of Pickens County, South Carolinn, on 4th (lay of November, 1885. This being part of the land conveyed to me by 0. S. Stewart, Clerk of Court of Pickens county, South Carolina, in Vol. L.L. at pages 359, and by Mrs. Margaret Elmyra Miasters by her deced dlated May t1th, 1921, dind re corded in office of Clerk of Court for Pickens County, South Carolina, in Vol. I.1.1. at page 320. TERMS. Cash on day of sale, pur chaser to pay for all papers, ievenue stamp~s and recording'the same; if the purchaser fails to comply in one hour tho same wi'll be resold the same (lay or sonme other convenient sale (lay at thee rilii and expense of the former purchaser. 0. S. Stewart, Clerk of Court, Pickens' County, S. C. October 12th, 1922. CLERK'S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PICKENS COUNTY. IN COURT COMMON PLL16AS. Ernest Folger, Plaintiff. against ~ R. F. Looper, A. J. Looper, and Sadie B. Craig, Defendants. In pursuance of a Decretal Order made in the above case by his Honor T. J. Mauldin. the 7th day of JTun 1922, I will soll to the highest bidder or the terms here':nafter named on k to 15 *, D elco-L YOU elects Model 84 $1 Simila other sty At the install D time witl can buy Seet th the new Light plh DELCO Sub ?LE LCO SALES DAY IN NOVEMBER, 1922, the same being November 6th, 1922, during the legal hours for sales t. Pickens Court House, S. C., the fol lowing described tract of land to wit: All that. certain lpice: , plarce r1. tract of land, lying and being situate in the State and County aforesaid, in D~acusville. towVnship), contain ing forty (46) six, acres, more or less, being known as tract No. 1 in the division of the lands of B. 11. and Roberta WVhitmire, bounded by lands of J. L. Looper, Tract No. 2 and 3 of the Whitmire lands, and being the Same tract of land conveyed to R. F. Looper b~y B. HI. and Roberta Whit mire, Dec. 31, 1919. Reference be -ng madle to saidl deed for a complete desecription. TERMS: One- third cash on clay of sale, with purchaser to have the right of paling all or any greater portion' on clay of sale, and the re maindler payable in three equal an nual instalments, of one, two and three years, said credit portion to bear interest at eight per cent per annum from date of sale and to be secured by first mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay fo? stamps and all papers- and rm~ording the same. If purchaser fails to com.. ply in reasonable time the same wvill be resoldat the risk andl expense of the former purchaser. 0. S. Stewart, Clerk of Court, Pickens County, S. C. October 11th, 1922. SHIERIF~F'S SALJF STATE OF SOUTH CARc ~A, COUNTY OF PICKENS. IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The Bank of Commerce, a corpora, tion, Plaintiff, against E. W. Tate, D~efendlant. By vi'rtue of an execution to me directed in the above entitled case, I will sell at public auction, for d*sh, ini or in front of the Court House at Pickens, S. C., on Monday, the 2nd day of November, 19,22, between the hours of 11 o'clock and 4 p. m. ninety six shares of the Capital Stock of the Bank of Norri-s, situate at Norris, S. C., represented by certificates Nos. 34, 35, 40, 52, 58 and59, or so much thereofr as shall be necessary to sat isfy the.,,judgement, interest and costs in said., case. -This property having been levied on a' d to~ he sold a. the property o' ~E. W. Tate to satisfy the aboe sitt ight Price R Now in E an now buy the m ic plant ever built, 6, for 7 5 less thar two yeas r reductions have b( les and sizes of Del se low 1917 prices, y elco-Light for less t in the past five yeas it on easy payment e local Delco-Ligh price and terms on At best fitted to yoi Made and Guaranteed Bi LIGHT COMPANY, D idiary of General Motors Cot R. E. STARNI Greenville, S. 4 AI. e'd executlin a ni Costs. R. It. ROA lua. Sherilf Pickens County. CIER K'S SALE STATE 01" SO U U l CA ROLI NA, 'N COuRT CJOAION PLEAS. Bank <.f I lodges, Phlannilf, John DJill, et al, Deofendan ts. 11n p)ursuance to a de4.cre'tal ordier maide mi the~ above stated case by3 his Honor .Judge T1. J. Mlaildin, Junte 7th, 1922, 1 will sell to tho highest bidder on toe termrs hereinafter named, SALE~S DAY IN NOVE~MBER, 1's22, the samec being November 6th, 1922, during the legal hours for sales at He~kens Court. llouse, S. C., the fol lowing described tracts of land, to wit: No. 1. All that~ certain piece, lpar eel or tract of lanid lying and bemng situate in the State and county aboved named, and being netter known as part of the Silas Williamrs place, econtaining one hundred and thirty (1;0) acres and for a moure complete uescripticn of the said tract. of land reference is craved to deedls mane by John Diil to Clara Beile Payne, daited Fecby, 9th, 1921, anu re coried in Vol. K.1K., page 172, wh~ich will dlescribe the metes anid bmuds of the above tract o1 land. Tract No. 2. All that cer'tain piece, parcel or lot of land lyinrg and being situate in the aboved State an~d Coun ty, conltaining ninety-live (95) aces as showvn by dleed recorded in Vol. j..K, age 174, reference to said deed( for fil1l descriptioni as to metes and bounds. 'Tract No. 3. All that certain piecej piarcel or. lot of land lying and being situate in thre above State and CJoun ty', and being part of thie bilas Wil. hams tract of land, contaima~g One( hunzr'ed (100) acres; reference is mane to deced of John DJid to A. G. Morris, dated Oct. 8th, 1921, recorded in Vol. K. K. K., p)age 17.1, re.er'encc t(o said deedl for coaiplete desc.ription ok mectes and bounds. TViRMS~: One-thnirdl cash oa the day of sale, and the balaince in two equai annual in~talments secured by tnet bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the p) ~inises sold, the credit por tion to bear interest from day os saL( at the ride of seven (7) per annunm and the prchaser shall be required. to) in~,urec the buildings on said premi. ses, and to keep the same insure. rices' i eductions ct ost popular Delco-Light es ago. sen made in co-Light. Du can now han at any -s. And you s if desired. t dealer for the Delco ir needs. ayton, Ohio poration , r*1 HT Uem a ainst. l:s by tire dttrain- the ..lif of said mort'tgagc in a sun,.. ' les ti hn thr ee thousand de||at ** in the polic~y to the said Clerk o Court :ts additional security. P'urchaser to IaY for all papers revenueI stat- s and r'eeerinjg th< samIe. Should thle I.Uuehmser fail t< e(mlyi with the terms of sale ir rePasonable~ time the samie will be re sold at the risk and expednse of th former purchaser. 0. S. Stdwvart, Clerk of Court, Pickenis County, S. C. October 12th 1922. CLElRK'S SALE STATE OF SOUTrH CAROLINA, PICKENS COUNTY. IN COURT COMMON PLE~AS., Ella Newton, Pla-:ntiff, Against J. L,. Burnes, Djefendlant. In pursuance to a Decretal O:di made in thie above stated case by H Ihonor Judge T1. J. Mauldin, Septer her 16th, 1922, SALES DAY IN NOVEMBER, 192 the same being November 6th, 192 during the legal houtrs for sales Pickens Court House, S. S. All those two peices, parcels< tracts of land1( lying and being si vte in the State and County afor said on waters of Rices Preek, Tlrac*t No. 1 containing thirty- acr and adioining lands of Elbert We born. M'ss Sula Hall, W. T. Bowe e't al; Tr'act No. 2 containing Five a: seventy-nine (5 79-100) acres, a: adljoining lands of Miss Sula He Mi s. Lida Iherdricks, Mack P. Fari er, eL al; both tracts beingsthe sa: land con)veyedl by W. C. and E Newton.' to J. L,. Burnes. Refere to saiid (leeds for full deCscripti-oi said lands. Timl'MS: Cash on (lay of sale, pN chaser' to pay for all papers, roed stamps and recording the same purchaser fails to comply -with terms of the sale in reasonabje I the same wlli be resold at the arid expense of the former pureW 0. S. Stewart, Clerk of Coutt Pickens County, (, October 11. 1922. U Gc.-me Occupy Little 8..*, t, illu finiut or gerhou en '."e 4