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to Death By Revival Meeting tt Blimey IN T*ftE PIEDMONT Mill Merger Report Vrem Greenville?Booze Meiler Arrested at (Jaffney Ana*r?<>n, Sept. 9.?The Bank of list on was burglarised, Tuesday or Wedtowlay morning early toe bank vault was blown, Be aml 1100 In silver was th bonds and other negotiable pfta? which will probubly amount tousands of dollars, missing from1 lock boxey of patrons of the bank. The robbery shows that It was done eapert yeggmen. 1 Mill. Sept. 9. -The Fort Mill I Itrfantry was reorganised at ah busiest ic meeting hell last nlghti ^g? the old armory, when 66 men as aamed the oath of alj^glance adminis? tered by MaJ. Frahk W. Glenn of the quarterinust*!-'? department of the State pf South Carolina. Aiken. Sept. 9 . - ?'harged with em heasloa^at. Hart F.rgle, Individual Wok-keeper at the Fi rut Nationatl task ^f Alken, wan held tor federal ?ourt by Foiled State? Commissioner Morgan after Ergle had waived pre Ugainarv hearing Wednesday. Bond was Ai?d at 16.mm. which Rrgle' has r*? t succeeded In making Shortage, aa determtr.ed by a national hank ex wi nines, who has been here since Mon? day, was approximately $3,141.46. The bank la t ihy secured against any low. the young man having been bonded toe 110,00M Osffm-y. Sept. I.?Cherokee county 9fAevrs yesterday * made a search of the pwmii?'i of J. A. White, a farmer who fives near Oaffney. and found hidden m axcotton field near his resi? dence s test gallon keg whlob^ wm about half ^ied with corn whiskey. Thu whiskey was brought to Oaf'ney, 4*itd tne defendant.was taken before a local ' raglstrate, who held him in a bond l $600 for his appearance before the next term of the court of sessions for hw? county, he having waived*si? tuation. Oreenville, Mept 9.?Announcement woe made here to-lay that the Wood sMe mterseta, known In the cotton mill tpaioess in the Piedmont section have aoqulrsd controlling Interest in the three plants of the Casley cotter! mUls, the deal Involving approximately ?1.000.000./Kasley ml|| No. t is located ? -" ? at Kaefey. and mills Noa. 2 nml t at Liberty. lMckena QOUnty. It. F. Gear, In reply to tin' inquiry for centlrmu tlon of th?* aale. IhtM afternoon ?lutea1 that the controlling Interest would he acquired by thv vYoodSlds cotton mills, but fith the understanding thut every , Stockholder would be allowed to dis? pose of hie stock at the name price and on the same terms The Easloy [ corporation was organised und man- j aged for a number of years by the late John M. tJeer and ia regarded as ? <mh of the beat buying cotton mill | properties in the south. Nothing deli nlte has been annoum ed as to the terms or when the transfer will take place. The three plants have a total of 7 ? .Od4 spindles. -.? ? olumhla, Sept. 10.?Kershuw eoun- , t\ has sold its road bonds and is ask? ing the state highway commission to ! expedite plans for the construction of tu*, road* within the county limits, it was announced yesterday. The Cam den-Bishopvilte road is to he recon- j siructed and the section of the Wash? ington to Atlanta highway In the county is to be repaired and rebuilt. These two stretohea of roadway are federal aided projects and the high j way commission 'Till furnish plans for them In a short tinw. Dorchester county has sold Usj ? bonds also, sccording to Word received by the commission, and w'll soon ad? vertise for bids, for the reconstruction of a considerable mileage in the coun? ty. The larger portion of the roads *Will be on the state system. Camden, Sept. 9.?Richard Horns by, a well known und familiar figure around Rktney, in this coanty, sustain ed injuries last Sunday night in tt. peculiar way from which he died the following day. Hornsby had been a sufferer with rheumatism all hia life and had been confine*! to a rolling chair. Sunday night there waa a meeting being held at a church near Blaqey. Hornaby was present and during the religious fervor membera of the congregation began ahouting. Hornaby's rolling i hair waa turned over and as aoon as quiet was restored, the young man was found to Hh badly injured inter? nally from beipg trampled under foot by some of the worshippers. coroner Dlxon went to Blaney Wed? nesday and held an Inquest. The jury's verdict waa that Hornaby met his] death from his chair being turned , over by Mrs. Mottle Brown. A war l rant waa accordingly sworn out for the arrest of Mrs. Brown. She la ex? pected to apply for bail for her ap? pearance at the next term of court Spartanburg. Sept. I.?S. F. Button, who was lodged in the county Jail yes? terday morning on a charge of mur? der, the outgrowth of the accident in which four young people lost their Uvea when Mr. Sutton's auto plunged into the railroad cut at Mayo, near thJa ctty, Auguat 1, has been released Mr. Sutton, it Is/reported, has engaged John Gary Evans and J. Gregg Gal braith as hie attorneys. It( is expected that he will be brought to trial during October. from cuatody Mabel Boardtiian Appointed Pres. Wilson Names Her as Member of District Commis? sion Washington. Scut. 11.?President Wilson has appointed Mabel Board man, who wan for many years a mem? ber of the executive committee of the Bed Cross, as commissioner of the District Of Columbia, effective n-ext Wednesday on the retirement of Com? missioner Brownlow. She is the first woman ever appointed a member of I )ist rict^government. The Cotton Situation. (Manufacturers Record) Knglish cotton experts at the World's Cotton conference in New Or? leans last year Insisted that the world needed a 15,000,000-bale crop from the south this year. They repeated the statement over and over again when they got back to England. They Warned manufacturers of a world cot? ton famine already in sight. The south has* not raised the 16,000,000 bales ror which they begged. vIts crop will be several million bales short of what they said was absolutely needed; /but under the drastic defla? tion Work of the federal reserve board, which has brought stagnation where abounding activity prevailed, cottoif I buyers in Europe and in this country and the bear gamblers are using the \ opportunity thus created to drive cot? ton prices down below the cost of pro? duction. Betrayed in the house of its suppos- j ?ed friends, its credits curtailed by the action of the board, the south must , face a tremendous tight to protect its I cotton against all enemies, open und secret; The planters should, after i paying their debts, hold their cotton j and store it, knowing full well that If they assert their power they can con? trol the marketing of their staple. The age-old custom of rushing cot? ton to the market In the fall only played Into the hands of the buyers l who, having forced prices to the low \ cs^ point, stocked up heavily, and then prices advanced, to their profit but to ! the loss of the growers. Let the south hold its cotton and market it slowly, during twelve I months, instead of in four, and the producer will then soon hold the whip handle and no longer be driven by the lash of the buyers. At the same, time the south should give its attention more largely to diversified agriculture, raising a full supply of foodstuffs, for its own use and to add to tho nation's food stores, making cotton a surplus crop. For a quarter of a century the Manufacturers Record has sought to drive home the idea that every Bouthr em farmer sohuld raise his own food [ stuffs and then plant In cotton his surplus land only. . In that way lie prosperity and safety, and in that way I'only. the State Ware house System i I More Than Four Hundred Wart> houses Added to System Within Recent Months Columbia, Sept. 10.?Almost over? night, the state warehouse system has doubled itself. Within the next month according to State Warehouse Com? missioner .J. C. Rivers, there will be more than seven hundred cotton warehouses in the state system, and ther-e are prospects of still others. At the beginning of this past sum? mer there were about three hundred | warehouses in the state system. There are now the three hundred and, four hundred more in cotlrSe of construc? tion, and before the cotton is all in these will be completed. These new warehouses, Mr. Riversr says, are the result of the warehouse campaign waged by Clemson College, the warehouse commission and th*T cotton association during the past summer. These warehouses will hold from 200 to 2,000 bales of cotton each. New ' warehouse* are bplng received Into the state system now at the rate of abopt four or live a day, Mr. Rivers says. Darlington county leads. There are forty-six pew warehouses either under construction or in pros? pects in that county alone. "This is an indication that the farm- ! ers of the state are determined to hold their cotton," Mr. Rivers says. "They are more determined along4 this line than ever before, and 1 believe their concerted action will bring re? sells in higher prices for their staple." "The \warehouse commission Is very anxious," Mr. Rivers said further, ' "to see the farmers protect their cot? ton and better its gr-^de. It is the high-grade cotton that they will make money on." Wilson Refuse** Request President Declines to Reopen Anthracite Mhw Wage Question Washington. Sept. 10.?President Wilson today declined to grant the re? quest of the anthracite coal miners to reopen the wage hearing. Supplies Stolen in Constantinople American Relief Organizations Loses Stores .?Constantinople, Sept. 13.?Supplies Valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen from the American relief organIzatibn, accord? ing to evidence placed before the American consul. Dishonest employes are partly to blame, but goods also were subject to theft en route from the United States. Orangeburg Favors Toll Bridge brangeburg, Sept. Jo.?An enthus tie nieeting of citizens of Orangeburg county was held/here today in t^ie court house to consider the proposed bridge across the Santee river at Pinckney's Landing. The meeting was presided over by A. H. Marchant, and. Former Gov. D. C. Heyward of Colum? bia made a strong speech for the prop- I ositlon. The idea advanced at a re- i cent meeting in. Summerton to form a ! dtock com pony and to build a toll brldjpe was unanimously indorsed and .1. M. Brailsfotd of Orangeburg and H. A. Parier of Parier were tentatively selected as Orangeburg's representa? tives on the board of corporators. The attendance at the nieeting evi? denced Orangeburg's wide interest in the bridge, there being representatives present from all over the county in? cluding Elloree, Parier and Holly Hill. There were present also several men from adjoining counties, particularly R. B. Belser from Sumter, ex-Senator i C. M. Davis from Clarendon, and F. H. j Murray, former state highway engi? neer, and I. F. Belser from Columbia. Several interesting speeches on the subject were made. Former Gov. D. C. Hey ward, in a very happy speech ( stressed the importance of the bridge as a connecting link between the east? ern and western halves of the state. He also said that the people of this state qah no ionger tolerate a condi? tion which separates the state into two practically distinct sections. R. B. Belser showed that there is not at the present time a single high? way crossing the Santee river. He j also said that a bridge at Pinckney's j Landing could be built cheaper than at ! any other point, the swamp at that point being less than two miles wide I and relatively high and dry. He esti- j mated the cost at from $400,000 to $500,000, at which figure it was pro? posed to cai>ltallz?e the proposed com? pany, and calculated that the corpora? tion stock would probably pay a rea? sonable dividend of from 5 to 10 per ' cent. 'Mr. Carson of Holly Hill told of two old Confederate soldiers who, living for 50 years on opposite sides of the Santee, could only communicate with each other by blowing the whistles of their respective mills. He heartily in? dorsed the plan proposed. Irvine F. Belser urged that the peo? ple develop the cooperative spirit to a greater extent, and said that money put into the bridge would yield re? turns in three ways; first, by enhinc mcnt in the value of land in the com | munity; second, by the dividends on j the stock, and third, by prolitable sale I to the state. At the conclusion of the meetinf it was stated that a determined effort would be made to rata? urangeburg's i quota of the stock, and it was decided to have a meeting and a barbecue at [ Elloree at an early date in connection j with the project. - Buenos Aires, Sept. 11.'?Recog? nition of the Hungarian republic has been ajpeorded by Argentina. Using Allies' Ammunition Bolsheviki Are Fighting: Poles With Arms Taken From Denekine and Kolchak London. Sopt. 11.?Just a? imper? ialism killed czarism so will imper? ialism 1)? the death of Russian soviet ism, is the prediction made to The Associated Press correspondent by M. Piip, the Esthonian foreign minister in London, in analyzing the conse? quences of the bolshevik offensive in Poland. While foreign minister, last year If. Piip pitted his wits against the bol? sheviki at Dorpat and he is regarded as one of the best authorities in Eu rope on Russian political and eco? nomic conditions. In common with representatives here of other Russian border states, M. Piip is watching with" profound concern the developments in Poland. 4 The bolsheviki are fighting Po? land with the allies' ammunition which they captured from Denikine and Kolchakhe said. * This is now almost exhausted and Russia cannot renew it." Discussing <he possibility of an at? tack by the bolsheviki on Esthonia, M. Piip said: "We are ready for them. The Es? thonian frontier is now closed by our troops except the gates through which we are trading with Russia. The soviet government must know if it succeeds in obtaining a foothold in Esthonia the allies would instantly cut off Russia from the vitally needed supplies it is now receiving through US. We might perish but soviet Rus? sia would go down with us.'* M. Piip asserted that Russia's eco? nomic condition was rapidly getting worse because this season's crop was a failure. He said it was not unlikely I that the cities will soon be wholly de? populated. "The soviet government dare not reduce its enormous army,' he eon tided. "Unemployment is now a critical problem throughout the whole of Russia and if the men who, as sol? diers are comparatively well cared for, were thrown on their own re? sources a revolution would result. The chief terror which the soviet rulers have to face is peace and dem obi lira - I tion." The High School Annual Here Charlton Wralsh, the business man? ager of the Sumter High School An? nual, asks us to announce that 'the Annual is here and will be delivered st once. Those who have not already procured theirs may get a copy at the high school buildings on Monday.. Mr. Walsh expects to leave for college on Tuesday morning and he is very de? sirious of closing up this matter com? pletely on Monday. V With the opening of the Fall Season we have opened up our Ready-to-Wear department better equipped than ever before, but our new fixtures are the smallest part of the improvement. These were necessary to take care of the growing business. N The real improvement, is in the merchandise you will findldisplayed here. In selecting these garments we had only in view Style, Fit and Service. SUITS $25.00 TO $95.00 COATS $15.00 TO $75.00 Also a full line of Children's and Misses' Coats. A beautiful collection of wool Sweaters delightfully comfortable for cool mornings. It is always a pleasure to serve you. O'Donnell Dry Goods Co.