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SAWS CELL BARS. "JacV Davis is Detected hv Gtiard at Penitentiary. James "Jack" Davis, incarcerated: September 17, 1921. after being given a ten-year sentence for attempt-; ing to rob the residence of Dr. T. T. i Moore, in Columbia, was frustrated j in an attempt to break out of the: state penitentiary Friday morning. It appears that Davis, after saw-' ing the bars of his cell through and j dressing in civilian clothes, was ap-1 prehended by a guard before he could j lov er himself to the ground by a sti <r,g cord, evidently secured from th< prison chair factory. When his cell was searched three saws were found in the upright of the iron bunk in bis cell. The prison authorities i are jnable to account for these. , Davis, according to the prison authorities, has given a great deal of trouble since he was placed in the j state penitentiary. He was one of1 the leaders of the recent mutiny for j which he was diciplined. The penitentiary authorities 'do not intend to take any more chances witi the refractory prisoner. Davis claim, he is a native of New York state, j In view of the recent disturbance at the state prison and the attempted j escape of Davis, Col. A. K. Sanders,1 superintendent, made a direct appen1 . to Governor Harvey for addition, guards, which were authorized. Col Saunders stated that the situation at the state penitentiary was j directly different from what it was j formerly when there were negroes and delinquent whites incarcerated. Now there is a large population of intellignt criminals, many of them having served in the World War and they are much more difficult to handle. The last legislature rejected an increase, appropriation for more guards as requested by the superintendent. o Riopraohv of Candidates. For the benefit of these who are eligible to vote for a director for the ninth district composed of those who signed the cooperative cotton marketeting agreement in the counties of Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg, the following sketches were prepared by the undersigned committees ap-j pointed by the convention, held in Sumter at which Messrs L. D. Jennings of Sumter and Capt. W. C. Davis of Manning were nominated as candidates for the position of director in the association to represent the ninth district. L. D. Jennings, born in Sumter county fifty-one years ago. He is the leading attorney of the Sumter bar, mayor of Sumter and president of the Peoples Bank of Sumter with capital stock of $100,000. He is also : connected with other mercantile interest. Mr. Jennings was a leader in raising funds for prosecuting the war. He was one of the prime movers in | haping the streets of Sumter paved,! and helped to secure the bond issue in Sumter county for hard surfacing roads in the county. He is also chairman of the board for expending the two and a half million for buildin th^se roads. He farms sixteen hundred acres of land about four hundred of which is planted to cotton. He is the owner of the Jennings Du-1 roc hog breeding farm, one of the largest and finest breeding plants in the south. Mr. Jennings was president of cotton association, and took active part organizing the marketing association. Capt. W. C. Davis, is about fifty three years of age, is the leading attorney of the Manning bar, has been connev.ted with farming all of his business life and is now conducting considerable share crop farming. He j is president of the First National Bank of Manning. He took an active part in all kinds of war work activities and drives for raising funds. Capt. Davis is chairman of the commission for expending four hundred thousand dollars in building special highways in Clarendon county. He rwas for two years president of the cotton association and took an active part in organizing the present Cooper** ative Cotton Marketing association. J. Frank Williams, J. M. Windham, u. u. iuwutcacii) vvnuuibvwi i O Took His Word for It. a - An absent-minded professor return- j ed heme from a lecture one night very, very late. Ilis mind was filled; with u very knotty problem. Reach- i ing his room he thought he heard | some one under his bed. "Who is there?" he asked. "No one," replied the man concealed under the bed. The fellow was familiar with the professor's peculiarities. "That's strange," muttered the professor. "I could have sworn I . heard some one under there."?Judge. o The treasury has announced a reaction of $51,000,000 in the public debt during May. | Send your Job Printing to us NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS Sign l"p Warehouses with Cooperative Tobacco Association. Kinston, Rocky Mount, Farmville ami Vanceboro, among the last to bar their doors against cooperative marketing signed up warehouses with the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association in last weeks campaign which was the most remarkable series of meetings ever attended by tobacco farmers in Eastern North Carolina. The enthusiasm of 25,000 farmers who attended over 30 crowded meetings in a dozen eastern counties of the state, turned the campaign into a crusade. The crusade is rapidly developing into a landslide on which thousands of new growers and a number of warehouses have already come into the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association. "You will be able to raise more on 1 4. J ^; rm your auvance payment, uuu mc iSnment of your tobacco than you have ever dreamed you could get Out of tobacco," Aaron Sapiro told the thousands of farmers in Eastern Carolina who hailed him as the prophet of cooperative marketing in the five mammoth mass meetings which broke all records for attendance and filled theaters, waiehouses and courthouses to over flowing in Washington, New Bern, Farmville, Kinston and Goldsbo ro last week. The California leader of Cooperative Marketing Associations who represents 500,000 oryanized farmers and 60 associations with annual business of four hundred million dollars, made the prophecy that tobacco farmers of North Carolina would be able to raise more from their advance payment and the loan value of their participation receipt than they got on their entire crop last year. "Neither the outsider nor the insider would have gotten any decent prices for Burley tobacco in Kentucky if the association had not been organized this last year," said Sapiro. "I want to tell you that the growers in Kentucky the year preceding got an average of 8 to 11 cents a pound for Burley tobacco. The growers in the association (in Kentucky) this year will average 25 cents a pound net" declared the little Californian who called those speculators cowards, who circulated signed and unsigned pam?1 /lAAnnrofnrA mflrlfPtinPr plliCU) a^ailiiSb wvvyviuw?v 0 but feared to meet him face to face with arguments against this movement of the farmers. Speculators and warehousemen who were hostile to cooperative marketing, sat silent in meeting after meeting while Sapiro told the growers that no system could be worse than the auction sale of tobacco under which tobacco farmers have averaged only $340.00 a year income as compared to the income of $1,560.00 a year which our government states as necessary to maintain a decent standard of living for the average American family. More than ten thousand farmers heard Sapiro during his five days tour of Eastern North Carolina. At leant 15,000 other tobacco growers were present at meetings held in 28 other towns of the Eastern belt last week where five Kentucky leaders of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association convinced the farmers beyond a doubt of the success of the Kentucky Burley pool. "The minute the first payment of eight cents a pound was made to our Kentucky growers upon delivery of their tobacco the bankers came and begged to hold the participation receipts and paid eight cents more on them," said C. E. Marvin, prominent stock raiser and tobacco grower of Lexington. Mr. Marvin told the North Carolina growers that the Kentucky members of the marketing association really got an average of 16 cents a pound immediately after their first deliveries because the banks were eager to advance them money on the security of their warehouse receipts which the Kentuckians call participation certificates. W. H. Shanks, president of the Lincoln County National Bank, told North Carolina farmers in five counties that the participation receipts are considered the best security in Kentucky. "Why one galussed fellow to whom we wouldn't lend a nickel before, can come into our bank now and borrow hundreds of dollars on their participation receipts," said Mr. Shanks. Virgil Chapman, attorney for the Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Jno. O. Craddock. a prominent warehouseman and John Blanks of Kentucky roused other thousands of Eastern Carolina growers to the need of increasing the present signup in the old North State from 60 to 90 per cent, of all tobacco farmers and tobacco. An intensive campaign is now being conducted in which growers, merchants and warehousemen are urged to aid in gaining new members, for the association. After a lingering illness of several months, Mrs. Hartwell M. Ayer passed away Saturday at her home in Florence., | ^ .... V* Within Reason. Just as the guards were leading his client away, the lawyer stopped j and shook hands sadly with the recent defendant. "I'm sorry I couldn't do more for you, old man," he apologized. "Don't mention it, sir," replied the prisoner, politely, "Ain't five years enough?"?American Legion Weekly. o B. C. King, a farmer living at Pontine, in upper Richland county, was killed by his wife last Friday morning. She used a shotgun and the discharge entered the back of the j head. It is said King used abusive j language towards his wife and a quarrel ensued. The case of J. D. M. Benton, charged with killing Fay Poston, at Johnsorville sometime in December of i last year, was postponed again at 1 this term of the Florence county | criminal court. The state had to ask ! for the continuation because some of I th? witnesses were not present. The world's largest paper machine j makes a stub of paper 12 feet, 2 inches 1 wide, 327 miles long every 24 hours, using 110 cords of wood. Three thousand five hundred acres of pulp wood are required to furnish the paper for one day's i^sue of the newspapers published in the United States. James Vaughan, B. J. Vaughan, Miss Minnie Austin and Miss Laura Austin, all of Union county, were killed Saturday afternoon when the Carolina Special struck a Ford au! tomobile in which they were riding, when the automobile stopped on the crossing, at Bpnham, a little flag station one mile north of Union. A bill substitute an "aristocracy of brains for an aristocracy of birth" has been presented to the British House of Commons in an effort to reconstitute the House of Lords. The measure provides for a reduction in members of the upper house from 740 to 300. apart from princes of the blood. The measure also provides for i the creation of peers for life with uninheritable title and privileges. In a fit of despondency due to ill , health Henry J. McLaurin, a prominent citizen, and widely known lum| berman, committed suicide at his i home in Sumter last Saturday by using a short barrelled shotgun, loaded with buckshot. He w as a director in the NationalBank of Sumter, and a member of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian vchurch. He was born in Sumter county about fifty-three years ago. He is survived by his widow, two sons and one daughter. A bridge has been designed to span the Hudson river at New York which will be the most important gateway to the west. Its lower deck will carry 12 railroad tracks, its upper deck roadway, two and a half times as wide as Fifth Avenue, will take care of 16 streams of vehicles. There will still be room on the upper deck for four surface car lines and two sidewalks. Although the bridge will cost $130,! 000.000 it is believed it will pay for itself by cutting the cost of bringing goods across the Hudson from $2.28 to 50 cents a ton. When you need printed matter, any kind, The Record is the place to have it done. CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS. To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth Congressional District: I hereby announce myself a candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. F. PATE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection to congress from the Sixth congressional district subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. PHILIP H. STOLL. W. R. BARRINGER Florence, S. C. CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS 6TH DISTRICT FOR STATE SENATOR. I am a candidate for the State Senate, subject to the rules and the regulations of the Democratic primary. I believe that I can render real service to the County and State in the matters of taxation and of education. WM. W. DODDIE. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. In response to the urgent appeals of a number of my friends throughout the county I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. WILLIAM R. SCOTT. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the legislature, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. JAMES P. ADAMS. To the Voters of Williamsburg county: I hereby announce myself a candidate for the legislature, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I respectfully solicit your support. H. D. FERRELL. _ . i UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ENTRANCE EXAMINA*. ! TIONS. Entrance examinations to the Uni-1 versity of South Carolina will be held by the County Superintendent of Education at the county court house Friday, July 14, 1922. The University offers varied courses of study in science, literature, history, law and business. The expenses are moderate and many opportunities for self-support are afforded. Scholi arships are available. For full particulars write to PRESIDENT W. S. CURRELL, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 6-l-15-29-3t. CHURCH SERVICES Kingstree, S. C. : liaptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins, Pastor. Sunday School?10:00 a. m. Preaching?11:00 a. m. Billy Sunday CluD?3:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U.?7:00 p. ra. (Evening Service?8:00 ! Weekly Prayer service?Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Presbyterian Church, J. W, Davis, Pastor. Sunday School?10:00 a. m. Preaching?11:15 a. m. Christian Endeavor?7:00 p. m. Evening sendee?8:00 Weekly Prayer sendee?Wednesday ?:00 p. m. Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pastor. Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding Elder, Kingstree District. Sunday School?10:00 a. m. Preaching?11:15 a. m. Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Epworth League meets?7:00 p. m. Evening service?8:00 Episcopal Church, no services during June. jfc KINGSTREE Lodgp; No. 4fr A. F.M. Meets the second Thursday night in each .nonth. Visiting bretheren cordially invited. H. U. Kinder, W. Mm Donald Montgomery, secretary. jBrickj j are Advancing | I Due to the Coal Strike | {Buy Now!) 1 Shipments Within 48 I ! Hours After Accept- " ance of Order m LAYTON BRICK WORKS i 1 Established 1885 | MARION, . . . . S. 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