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8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 * 8 Loeal and Personal Mention. 8 j 8888 88888888888 Airs. Chas. II. Rounds, of Woodruff, is visiting relatives in the city. Mr. Gary 'Culbertson of Waterloo was a business visitor in the city last Friday. Mrs, Dr. W. A. Smith, of Charleston, spout the week-end in the city with relatives. Mir. W. G. Wilson left alonday for New York where he goes to purchase his spring line of dry goods. Mrs. J. 11. Smith has returned to the city after visiting friends and rel atives in neighboring towns. li is Charlot e lecGowan spent the week-end at home with her parents, Mr. and AIrs. F. 1'. M\lGowan. Miss Carrie Fleming, who is at tend ing Chicora College, swent Sunday and Mlonday here with homefoilks. .lethrs 1t . .\l. liabh and W. C. Ty lor, of the (Green Pond section, were visitors in the city Sat urday. Mr. Ii. Terry will leave Thursday for Baltimore and New York to com plete ils purchase of spring dry goods. Miss )orothy Angel has returned to th.' Julia Irby Sanitarium after hav ing been in ('hestet for several months bits. R. L. Simpson was called to Spartanburg Monday on account of the illness of her father, Ir. .1. A. Arnold. lr. It. F. Fleming spent the week end in Greenwood with .is. Flen Ing and his parents, Capt. and Mirs. R. F. Fleming, Sr. A. C. Todd and 1. E. flahb, nietmbers of the local bar, are attending the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Rich mond, Va., this week. Mr. .ames E. lemphill, a prominent .-oung architect of Greenwood, spent last Friday here on business. Mlr. Hlemphill will be the architect In charge of the new home of Mr. W. G. Lancaster, bliss Lucia Cockrel, of Jacksonvi'le, Fla., and l\iss Virginia Simpson, both attending Converse College, spent the week-end in the city, tile former with the Misses Simpson on East Main stre(t 0nd1 Ile latter with her mother, lr-. Foster Sitilpsol. See our line of Suit Cases in gcnu ine leather. S. M. & E. II. WILKES & CO. National Hloliday, " Thursday being the anniversary of Washingtons' birthday, Sunday hours only will be observed at the postofilce. The city carriers will make one trip for the day, but mail will be taken up from the street boxes during the morning and afternoon. Large size Aluminum Tea Kettle, only $2.25. worth $3.50. S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO. Death of .lr. Wood's Mother. The many friends of Mir. S. C. Wood, hlead of thie ladies dlepartmeint of Clardy & Wilsoni, will be sorry to lean of the death of his mother, which oc curr'ed several (lays ago at her home in Gastonia. She had been very ill for many week~s and her death was not IBunexpectedl. .\ilr. Wood returnedl yes terdlay after beinlg at her bedside for several weeks. 31.AY SEEK WiDE POWEt 01F CON(iIESS P'resideiit,rleoni to (Go llore (cin gress oni Siutmairitne Question. Washington, Feb). Ii7.-As the Unit ed States government tonight launiched into its third week of broken relations with Gertmany, President Wilson no tified1 members of congress that before adjournmtent, Mlarch 41, ho should be given the broadest powers for safe guarding Amnerican rights ini tile fu Itire. WVhqther the plresident will appea\ ilers- ally to congr'ess for these p)owers or depend upon adinitrtation leaderai to push through a joint reso lution to cover any eventualities has not bleen finally determined. ie dilscussed both1 courses of ac tion with Senator Simmons at the caplitol late today. Owings to differencees of oplinin in congress on the International situa tion, it was plointed out tonight that shouldl the president personally appeal fo'r power to be placed at his (displosal for the fiutre, lie would have to go before congress soon-ptosailbly early next week. Congr'ess Is in session b~ut ' twvo )moire weeks and suflient lime would have to be given the solons for their eustomar'y discussion of what, if any, freedom they were willing to give the plresidient in handling the situation. . Senator Simmons, however, de ,lared emphatically that no decision had been reached either as to the manner or time the power required will be sought by the president. -It is probable the president will de termine these two question within a fewdaya. WHAT THE LEGISLATUltE HAS DONE ED FAll New Laws lringing 'ire Insurance Companies Back Most Important. Columbia, F b.- IS.--'t'he General As sembly may adjourn tomorrow night, or It may continue in session several (lays. 'T'le liquor question has not yet been settled. The Senate i)ultait "(luart-a-mouth-on-pirescripion" bill and the Ilouse "bona-dry" bill have beeni sent to free Conference, arid what. the result of the conference will be nobody Ca~n foretell. The liquor mattetr is probably the only thing that will p rolonlg the session, so If the con 'ees lit on a satisfactory compro mise there is no reason why fnal ad .oun1111lenlt shoul not come at Ionst The appropriation bill Is also in free conference, bl I It was aio(n111ce in the hou0se last night by .\Ir. ('ofllran onC of tll, (onferees, that work on the I'l'Io riatiol tbill :would bo e lmleite'd bi' 2 o'clock tom1iorrow :;[ter noonl. The D'Clle of the Sat, natur:tally, a.'e' .. l!n " what has til he G eetl .\:. C'. bl ncomli hed10( at this sorsion. \ ury lit;! radiel:al or f'ar-rma hing; I(' ilahtion w:ill find Its w:a ton the statute books. Ily far the lmost oVerslladlowin-l amd I in'leIraly important work Was the alopt 'inI of tlie series of hills pro posed by the .lanning Fire Insurance Conmmission. It is not to be argued Whether the isirgent comp)anies were justItled ill twithdrawing fromt the State' after ItIe passage of the 1,au(y Odom Act. The fact is that the insr ing public Was m1et wIthI a condition and not a lheory, and the General As sellbly with the full endorsemnent of Governor .\lannilug did absolutely ev .erything that was thloughl necessary to insure theI retuIrn of the wIthdraw ing companies. Seven bills were pre sented and suggested by the 'ommi.s sion and of this number all of them were enacted into law with the excep tio11 of tlhe one that related to the valued polcy clause, which iI was thought would only compliate tile sit huntion and was not a direct repeal of the "valued policy" law which was de slred by the fire insurance interests. There was no evidence of opposition ii either the house or Senate to the desire to have the withdrawing com panies return to d0 business In This State and the (ieneral Assembly, fig uratively speaking, could not have clone more than to have pased a resolu tion of apology. If mischief was done by the passage of tile Ialln-Odon At it has been Complet ely undone by Ihe lenaclmiients at this session of the Gen eral Assem3ly. Perhaps Ibe next most important matter was tlhe universal ex-I)ression of approval of the perlal nent highway development in -oath ('arolina. Spmrtanhurg Coiuty alone 'oted without aI referendum, to un deIrtake a million dollars' worth of permanent road work in that count ' alone. A dozen other counties fol lowed tihis example and during the year of 1917 there will lbe millions and not a few dollars expended Onl the permanent road work of South Caro lina. To insure the permaney and the cooperation of both the federal and State authorilties a highway conmls shen bill was ennotnl. Thor' were a series of proposition along this line. In the Senate the principal sugges tIlons camve from Senators Sinkier, Prlee and .lohnson and over on the Ilouse si(le the Crumi-Carter 1erry sug gestions were those most generally considered. 'T'he situation, however, resolved itself into such wide Ciii ference: that a compromise was ef fected in free conference. 'T'ile crux of the hlighiway' 'omilssion situiatilon is that thle bloardi will consist oif tlive m~~lembes, thr lee beiig Itlhe heads1 of tihe departmenC~ts of thle enigiieering diepar't mlent at the U!nlvers5ity of gsouth Car olIna, Clemasoni and Ithe Citadel, and Iwo to lbe appoInted by3 the governor. 'Thle suppor0lt of t his boardl Is to Colle by3 wayl3 of a lieense tax 0on all auto moblies operatinug In the State. Th'is tax Is to r'ange from flve to ten dlollars per ('ar1 and~ Is to he in lieu of city and1( countyI3 lleense fees. The nmajor' lportion12 of thle funds Is to lie expIendI Cd In the couinty where Ithe 11icense Is col lected. The proportion Is 80 per1 cent to Ithe c'ouunty and 20 1o the State. TUhe dispiosit Ion oif the General As sembihly was i unfalterinig Iin its Supplor't oif the comm~ioni schools1. A diirect In 'rrease of $50,000 w"as granled aiS a subsidy for the weaker' schools thrioughiouit the0 state maiklug the fund dIstrIbuted along this line foi' the va rious gradles or' schools aggr'egate about $400,000. The bIll looking toward the estab llssiment of an inistitution for the eai'e of the feeble-minded of the State passed the house, hut was not pressed In the senate, where it wouldI have piassed had it becen Insisted uplon, but the diposltion Is altogether ifavora bule for some such work. It Is po0s sible that it might be worked out as a coordinate branch of the Florence Reformatory. Theo aylumi policy' of developments wvas conitinued. 'Three hundred thou ~.and dollar's has alr2eady' been exipendC edI in the matter of permanent devel opm~ents and r'epairs and the assemly thIs sessIon made amiple prlovlsioni for the conittintion of thIs hiluane work. As a sidle Issue, so to speak, of the liqulor legislation wvas the passage of a bill whichi prlolhlts ablolutely all 101u0r adv~erI emnent s In South I (Cario Ilina. The bill also pr2ev'ent s the sale of perIodiucals or muagaz'inmes conltalin I i l1iquor1 allvertIisemeints andio some of Ithe outsidle maagaz.ines Ithat are no(w oni the news ittands will probably havie to cliIp Ithese allv1ert Isements01 or lie miagazines themselves wi'll have to get (oit edlItIOns sulitedi to the Slates that have this law. The war'ehouise sItuation seem11 to lbe qiecen0Rt. All appIropia~t Ion of $1 0,000 wvas made for the continued support of the system, but there seemis to be no enthusiasm about it and therie were frequent remarks thlat if the adminis tration and members wore not com mitted to the continuatIon of the sys temn that it would have been another of thie efforts - o the State to go into buitieis that would have gone on the +1' SOCIETY. W1hit lock-Tim meripan. Miss ilunette Whitlock and Air. Al bert Timmerman, both of Greenwood, were married at Cokesbury last aoni (lay. The groom is the brother of )r. r. ''imuermall, of this city, and has visited heje on several occasions. The mtl'riage was a sit'prise to their faim ilies and friends. 000 iParroji-liit ch. .\lrs,. Itahbbe U. P~arrott and( .\lr. .\1 I,. litch, both of Gr'ecnwood, wr'e nar riei in that city February 10th. intcrest in the event. is felt, in this ('cou'nty Ont accoutc of the fact. that. Ithi of th1em(c were natives of iilsl coil1n1 1'. .\1:s. fliitch ';a:; teaching In (iren w':ood while .\fr. ilitchl htol a r'esponl :aile posiition inl the G;reenw~ood mill1. o 0 0 lIc( d-Sitgre'ales, 11*. .lulius : i;g reaves and \1 1ss Sarah eiid, the attractive daughItr of Shier'iff and Mrs. S. C. ield, were ctldie. ly marricd at (he homie of Rev. S. it. Templemiian W\,ednacday evening, in the presence of several friends of the bri'de and groom. Both of the young people have many friends who are in ierested in their marriage. The bride is a greduate of the high school here and is endowed with nacy fine quali ties of ind11 and heart. Mr. Sitgreaves holds a position in the Watts 'Mill of fice. 000 Wednesday ('luh. The Wednesday Club met at Mrs. Carlos .loseley's on February [-ith, with a large attendance. The subject. of the day was "Mov ing Pictures." Mrs. 1H. S. lBlackwell read a clear and concise paper on "The Influence of Motion Pictures Up, on the Rllsing Generation", prefaced by an illustration from life. Mrs. 1B. T,. Parkinson gave her idea of a "llet ter Film" and made a plea for more "better films", while Mrs. Brooks Swy gert. i'cal clippings about "Leading l'hoto-P'lay W1ritrs". Then followed an animated discus sion by all the club members as to how "better films" may be secured for Laurens. After the usual business meeting, delicious refreshment'. were served by the hostess and the meeting adjourned. ('ninon Exploded. Mauricle Glenn, the son of Mr. and Mirs. J. E. Glenn, was painfully though nut ierisiily imnjuaed several days ago by the explosion of a toy cannon. The young fellow had made tle cannon himself and when ho went to shoot it. it blew off the cap, a piece of whleih hit him on the foot. ('lint ion for Letters of Administration 'T'he Slate of South Iiarolina, 'ounty 1'of Ilaauirens5. I ly 0. G. Th'lomp soni, I roba te .1 udge. Whereas Liillie i31. ltudd made suit to mue to gr'ant hei' I .etIer's of' Adini ist rat ion of thle estate and effects of These are therefore to cite and1( ad mi)Ishi all and1( si ngculari the kinadred anad credlitors of the said T4'da l.i'lnudd deceasedi that they be and appear' be fore me, ini the ('ourit of I 'robat e, to be hld at L auriens ('ourt 110ouse, Lausc 10ens, 8. C., oni 1the (th d~(ay of M\archl, 19117 next, a fteri puibilcatlion hereof, at II o'clock in thle f'orenoon, to show caulse, if' any t hey have, wily thle said Adin istratilon should hinot lie grcanted. (ilven under may iiand this 19th clay of Febru'airy, Annlo i)ominl 191L. 0. 0. Th'lompsoii, Pig line of IRugs just received, newv hattei'ns. S. M1. & E. HI. WILKES & Co. Junk l.eap. M\ore legislation was enactedl at thuis session of a local character* than has ever been knows before. H-uindr'eds of b)ills referr'ing to local b~onpl issues wer'e eniacted and propositions all the way from a new county Jail to the op ening of new county iroads con sumned legislative time and as Sen ator Chr'istensen remarked, eithei' all or this legIslation will have to b~e handied in a different way or' the sos sion wvill have to be lengthened, Speaiking of the miatter' of thle 'oin gestin of legisiationi thier'e is stressed this year' ens much as ever' the uittiter hleOsness of the General Assem bliy acting upon0 imiport ant matters early in the session cor at least a few days befor'e tihe adjiurn ament rulshi. Th'is Is the for'tlethi day '' the session and y'et all of tile ineasuc. <' State wide limpiortance, or' 1 aton tho.ce that ai'e atti'acting the miost 2 oa Ollent iion, are0 still ini t'ree ('onlference 01ort tl u ihshed. Tihis inclu tdes lihe hiigh-. way comiicssioni lull, 11(1uor1 legisla 1tioni, the gceeral appr)1opriationi lill, wiihi in corpiocat es thle piollecy of tile State with refereiice to the lawv en for'cement ftund; thie suppily bill1, canal resolution, the general game law, the act relatIve to the present ehief game warden, and the general county of fleer's salaries. All of these neasures are being jammod through In the last few hours of the session and pr'acti cally all of thorn are now in the hands of six 'men, members of the commit tees of free conference, who handle sutCh affairs uindor legislative roa-a A SPECIAL SHOWING OFA DELAYED SHIPMENT OF HAND PAINTED CHINA i New Shapes---Beautiful Decorations These goods should have arrived last ; fall in time for the holiday trade, but were delayed on account of the war. To move 7; them quickly we have marked ther at ex- p t:remely low prices. The assortment is very complete and includes Tea Sets, Chocolate Sets, Berry Sets, Salad Sets, Nut Sets, Sugars and Creams, Comports, Nut Bowls, Bon Bons, Salads, Coffee Cups and numbers of other odd pieces in fine quality of thin, hand painted china. We invite you to call and see this dis play. S. M. & E. H. WILKES & COMPANY !ions, and have the right to make or Mr. Palmer Roller, one of 0r high-- 1;cital at (ray ('otrt.O lnis. a thlae partlar masteuerthe 13' esteemed nlew near-by residents was 1lthparl icularna h asues. If soutional In town yesterday. ie has recently On Friday evening, .hiss Martin's convention among the ;inhi bitios of moved from Laurens, having bought inusic class will give a recital at Gray ('ais.at nou. omtgeia to be a thaovisi i tlhe Mr, Irvin Robinson home. When Court-Owings school. The program '-. 110 measure ('fi( :ti:.:; more thou Il No (tiley should ni:td into law a good name follows you to other begins at 7::10 and the public is invit i,c (ay s before the adja In u:n'- of places and high recommendations for ed to attend. No admission will he assembly and hat the date of excellent qualities, one is safe in cha-rge for the recital; b it the high o tavtied aic shious d govetn o s lIeavi g thir old home in quest of school boys will serve oysters begin o avoid ua no legisat ion eent d t 110" ones. This is what a "little bird nfing at tG: 0 o'clock and continuing his timtle with reference to the rate of whispered in our ear. .)o you hea r uiti 9 o'clock. A small sitm, collect lterest, the taxat iou of miortgages, this young ladle- You don' ev - , - - itny lot'he nti al o otns, (Ir k5 lay.---roy Cor., Greien wood Index. thieirt ha se hail. llThe ti petr cent Iaw~ passed tihe house _____ -- . - --.. )it it taet With) no0 ct(ouragemtit on lie senate side. The propositiont to reduce passen er r'ates to 2 cents per tmlle barely botht legislative bra nches it was ha ni - 'I 'appled wvith an untfavorabie rep~ort. TPhere waIs pract ially no tc di splay or A ntiton of unartisan Ilol itieos anid fac lonailisma was doirmanit. 'The genera lesire selid toVe toNwGr NorAth tpbtildiing of the State, liatiitularly II ong educattalI lint'es. 'PThe only evi let factlot) feeling was itjected it)nf he legis;lat ion connected wviith the tre-I etiotn in oliee 1)y legIslative enct~ - tiet of thle presen t chief' game war letn., Vithi thle PP rm)anent Imprliovemnets n the State and the effort to take iar'e of the hack indebtedness, the0 s'tate levy' had to lbe iincteasedi. Trhe otal apprtioprtiat ion for thle rtunnintg ofRI H Saigsth mgt 1)0 State now aggrecgates thtree tmil- bhn rseiio.i ion and it takes mtonecy to mteet. these )lh. The General Assembly thotghtisteky ofi ncaid hat the only safe andi sane thing to lo was to raise the r'evenuie by (directpe eceadreom fm taxes and,'- therefote, increased Ithe evy to 8 1-2 mills. Th'le tax comis dlon, It Is sitggested, has listed con- wry- ti h a uderabie puropety thant has hieretofore "an ascaped taxation. 'The Getterai As-fud whc alosyut tembly has, however, dieclined to passalan serioes of ills that weire urtged by w ahr cniin lie tax ('ommitision depiartmentt as neans of facilitatinag ail increasing cru sacs lteir nsofttlntess. IlThese bilhls remnain mthe calendar ifor (considertation ne:<t RgtSvn nter tbn "0a)r.-Au-Mgust K~ohn In News and ---This Mllioi DolTr BanL is the iealra to aniaone. ('Oh1'hlN. ~ilNS'l'EL~.oendtenc en freedom~t from wrliabiit of this "rinyitday weather allvi l't'icotnditionsIA !l'and lrumesancs n. ('obit rti'ht teavtngiinMtlhetrightsbank )~akc tltit' It-dalis10t)atidealteroatd toD.money tolittlreliabilityfofi thistinstitution 'd.'llie 'ii 1)21' ~ll ya atth Geen oorotch Caorifnas-oed )le' ius n co'gt h d Ods n togs ak ipns arencoon out. Crn'tots Grectevdb Managterwl nakter the hsaveto a unsl tie JKsRT rsdn.J .A ,Csir thon thi sason. hyarley Grd. Tis j .SEPVc-rsdn.H 1 IAe.Csir hgaynawithrthemrnd the u a isod- .TWSN.AssatCsir ~ranew nots. heries of ManugAe.rTRDE, itntCsir tiow ares6season. a rle Gano00s