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X Mi a a. Gelebration CeBtenary of Sir George Wil -Iikbs* tie Founder, To Be ^Observed K*",Chicago, Oct. 18.?The centen ary Of* Sir George Williams of London, England, who founded .the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, win be commemorated here today at a gathering repre sentative of the international Y. M. C.A. WilHams was a poor unknown country hoy who came up to Lon, -don to go -Into business. He was but 22 when he started the Y. M. C. A. and at its jubilee 50 years later he was knighted. A feature of his centenary observance here will be the dedication of a repro duction of the room in which the fifst Y. M. C A. meetings were held. This original home of the Y. M. C. A^ was in a London business house. Effort has been made to ' duplicate exactly k even to ups and downs of the floor and ceiling and sag of the door. Working' drawings were made ; and furniture and fireplace fabri cated m London under the direc tion of architects who knew Wil hams, while his son Howard gave his help. This memorial has. been built: /"into the Chicago Y. M. C. A. Col- j I lege. The. commemoration day pro 'gram includes several speakers who . "kiiew. him, among them Richard j - C. Moose, consulting general sec-j retary of the International Com- ' .-/ mittee, and- messages from John j Ytannamaker and other contem poraries, j - - Dr.'Karl Fries of Geneva, Switz erland, ? general .-secretary of the world's committee of Young Men's j ' Christian Association, will direct 4n -international survey of Y. M. ' C. A. progress with Henry C. Wal lace,, secretary of agriculture pre siding. Dr.-John R. Mott, general secretary of the North American Y- M. C. A. will deal with "The :X: M. ?: A.^nd the Coming Day." j Dedication:-of the memorial room 'frill be under the direction of L. ?"Wilbur Messer, general secretary <>? the Chicago Association. Rep resentatives of the Y. M. C. A. from | England and Canada iwll partici-' vpate. \ - Sumter Y.M. C. A. Begins Campaign .'V I Money For Debt on Building Must Be Raised . Ah enthusiastic meeting of can vassers for $11,500 for the Sumter Y. M/C. A. building was held last Eight when $2,300 was subscribed by the.workers and five teams of six merTeaCh were appointed to sweep the.city, begnining tomorrow morning, the first team being com posed of the board of directors of the" association. Forty of the leading business men of Sumter were present at the meeting and are said to be back ing up the proposition to the full est, and it'^eems certain that the undertaking"will be a success and the entire; sum raised by the end pf the week. The occasion was a I send off supper for the canvassers j in: the drive. Sumter'has one of the finest Y. i M. C. A. buildings in the state \ though there is still a large debt j on it, and it is to make payment' on this that the drive is being! launched. Captains of teams appointed are C. E. HUrst, captain of the direc tors' team; H. W. McCollum. J. R. j Chandler. George C. Warren and j L. C. Bryan;' -Mr, C. B.-Lanham. State Boys' Work Secretary, of Columbia, will remain in Snmter assisting in this campaign until its close on Friday. Those in charge of the campaign are fairly optimistic as to its re sults. ' At the meeting last night alone the sum of $2.300 was raised. X)M Soldiers' Home New Superintendent Elected and Peace Restored Columbia, Oct. IS.?The up heaval in regard to the manage ment- of the Confederate in firmary, known as the "Old Sol diers' Hoine," located here, has j been quieted, with the election of ! ex-Senator W. H. Stewart of York \ as superintendent, to succeed Capt. Ben S. Williams. Capt. Williams' j resignation was accepted by the board of- commissioners of the home at a meeting in Columbia. Saturday. Senator Stewart is him self a Confederate Veteran. Meet ing with the board Saturday were the two ? new members, recently appointed by the governor. Dr. W. CTT. Bates'and Col. D. .?. Griffin, oT_Columbia. Others attending the meeting were Capt. Starling, of Co lumbia; Col. Welch, of Chark'ston: Mr. Caldwell, Mrs. St. John Law con,' of Charleston; Mrs. Swindell and Miss Barle, of Columbia. The upheaval started at a re cent meeting of the executive com mittee of the board, when th< former management was criticizr-d in a resolution, resulting in the resignation of two of the members of* the board, W. A. Clark and D. R. Flenniken, of Columbia. It is stated today that the man ^ agement of the home is now ex pected to develop a spirit of har mony at the home. Mr. M. B. Summer, treasurer of 8|*he Textile Industrial Institute. Spartan burg. S. C. was in the city Monday with the view of establish ing a "Character Cloth" store. The agency for this 1 well known fabric was placed with the Sumter Dry Goods Co. The Textile Indus trial Institute is the school ?hat is doing so much to educate and Christianize the worthy poor boys Slid girls of our country.?Adver tisement. Mayesville News Letter Negro Man Shot in Face? Bad Road Blocks Travel. Boll Weevil Ravage j Mayesville. Oct. 3 o.?Mr. B. C. Chandler, our mayor, reached home yesterday from Anderson, where he had been under treat ment for tonsilitis with Dr. H. Yv\ Corbctt. He is doing nicely. Robert Moore, a colored man. came to town last night to Dr. Da vis for treatment with his face ; wounded by a gun shot. Have not learned how it happened. Mr. H. .V. Cooper on Wednes day made a trip to Sumter in -his \ auto. He stated that he was not going to try the trip again any! time soon, as the road was so bad that it would tear up a car unless J going 4 to 5 miles per hour. We j saw the chain gang out this way j and was in hopes they were at j work on this road. Our agent here for the A. C. L. for three years begged for a tele- J phone to be installed at his resi dence, and by some means the telephone company yesterday at noon went over and installed one for him. He certainly appreciates it and thanks the company for rushing this for;"him. I noticed that Mr. C. L. Evans, near town, came in with one bale of cotton and he told us this was all he had made on a two horse farm, and he guessed the landlord would come and take his corn for the balance of the rent. The farm ers must wake up, plant corn, po tatoes, some truck, melons, oats and hay and raise hogs; keep a cow and they will prosper. King cot ton will not do for the poor farmer or renter to deal with now. Trains Must Run Gov. Cooper Announces Thatj He Will Go to the Limit to i Protect Public j Columbia. Oct. 11.?Trains will be operated in South Carolina, I strike or no strike, provided vol- I unteers can be procured to man them, according to Gov. R. A. Cooper, who last night said, that if it were considered necessary, a I special session of the legislature i would be called in order to draw I up measures deemed expedient to j meet the emergency. It was as no foe of organized la | bor nor of collective bargaining that the chief executive of the state said j he spoke, but as an official who j realizes, in its fullness, the mean | ing of cessation of railway traf | fic in this state at the present time. ! The decline in the price of farm i I products raised in this state: the i increase in the price of products I raised in distant states and coun tres; the sufferin^and the misery that would follow in the wake of a j complete tieup of railway traffic j were visualized by the governor when he said "Trains must not stop." ''If this ' threatened railroad I strike becomes a reality." said the j governor, "it will mean that the | prices of practically everything we i have to sell will decline, while the I prices of products which we have j to buy will increase. "Freight rates are now sky high, and many agricultural products, especia?y those raised in the west, j can not be sold because of high j rates. "The employees of the railroads ought to understand that the pub lic is so vitally interested in the op eration of the railroads that, if sufficient labor can be had. the trains will be operated. 'In case the strike becomes a erality. it would be the duty of the j state to use every means in its ' power to see that trains were oper- ! ated. "If it should be considered ad visable to hold a special session of the legislature, I would not hesi tate to call it. "Neither would I hesitate to call I for volunteers to aid in running the trains. "I express no opinion as to the ; merits of the controversy between the railroads and their employees, but if the employees are receiving I a living wage, they will lind great j difficulty in satisfying a suffering public that a strike is justifiable at this particular time. "It would be advisable to begin i to take a census of the men who j are not members of the union with i a view to having the trains oper- j i ated. for the trains must run. i "The cotton farmer has suffered i j very materially by reason of the ? ? decline in prices of cotton as well j j as by the unprecedented low pro- ! . duction, and no one ougth to ex- j j pect a government, state or na- ! j tion, to fail to take any measures I which would prevent a further loss j J to those engaged in agriculture, 1 ? since agriculture Is the source of j I all our wealth. "I would not have it understood | ? that I say that the. unions have no ; legal right to go on strike, hut they ? have no moral right to call a strike j at a time when it would entail ir- i j reparable suffering. "The railroad managers and j employees should he willing to ! J have their controversy settled be ; fore the ^reat court of put.lie opin j ion. That court functions in many : , ways and while its decrees may be j delayed, it is inevitably the court of last resort. "The success or failure of the ! proposed strike will depend on j whether or not it is sustained by ; the court of public opinion." Negro Confesses Killing Girl Vineland. N. J.. Oct. 19.?Louis \ Lively, a negro, who is accused of '? killing a small girl at Hast Moores town. N. .}.. last spring was ;in>^ ed today after shoot ing a police ; man. The authorities say he con fessed the killing. A ci-?wd has [ Surrounded the jail, hut precaution has been taken to protect him. Ku Klux Klan Inquiry Ends Effort to Bring About Con gressional Action Appar ently Fails Washington, Oct. 17.?The pro posed investigation of Ku Klux Klan by congress blew up today. After a ten minute session he hind closed doors, the house rules committee, which at morning and afternoon sessions put William J. Simmons, the klan's imperial wiz ard, through a rigid examination, voted unanimously not *o call any more witnesses, certainly at this time. Announcement of the commit tee's action was made by Chair man Campbell, and while the chairman and members refused la ter to make any comment beyond the bare statement as to witness es, it is expected that an adverse report will be submitted to the house on a number of resolutions providing for an investigation. Final action, however, will not be. taken until several absent members return to Washington. but the house members accepted it as set tled that they were done with the Ku Klux, unless the department of justice, conducting an inquiry of its own. comes forward with un expected evidence. Still showing the effects of his illness, the imperial wizard's voice weakened as he sat all day an swering a whirlwind of questions. As on previous days he entered a ^categorical denial of charges of lawlessness by the Klan, and reiter ated that the total membership of the organization was slightly un der 100,000. There was an exciting moment at the outset when Simmons dra matically declared that, according to information given him by j Representative Upshaw of Geor gia, a man who .was supposed to | have been present stated that Chairman Campbell and Assistant Attorney General Crim had char acterized his collapse last week as a "cheap theatrical attempt to gain sympathy." Quick as a flash Chairman Camp bell declared there was not a word of truth in it. Mr. Grim, jumping to his feet in the confusion, de clared the chairman's answer went for him, and the wizard, still: smiling, said he was glad to know it. As,he left the stand Mr. Sim-; mons, apparently with deep feel-1 ing, sa.id that he wanted to thank j the committee for its considera-1 tion and courtesy. Reference to the daily presence j of the assistant attorney general ; and the one day stay of William J. j Burns, director of the department j of justice bureau of investigation, was made by Representative Pou | (Democrat) of North Carolina, i while he was examining the wizard. Asked if he had been intimated by the presence of Mr. Burns, whom he characterized as "the Sherlock Holmes of the United States," Mr. Simmons said ? he had not, and that he had faithfully tried to give the committee all the information it was seeking. Mr. Pou asserted it j was the first time in his 21 years of service that the department of justice had sent representatives to "listen in" on the rules committee. In rounding up what he termed the good points of the organiza tion. Mr. Simmons said that "the | military branch." not yet formed j was not more militaristic than the: patrol of the Mystic Shrine, that | members joining were required to help enforce the nation's laws only : as citizens, and that when black 1 sheep crept in they were kicked 1 out. if found. He had no person- ; al information as to whether the I chief of police of Norfolk, Va., was a member., he said, adding that , while there was no printed roster ' of members on file at Atlanta I headquarters, each klan or lodge kept a list of its own. There was J no rule, he said, prohibiting pub lication of membership lists. Getting down to the personal side j Mr. Pou asked the wizard point 1 blank how much he was worth j and the wizard replied that all of j his savings had been spent during the early light to put the klan on its feet. "I have no financial standing." ? he said. "I have had no pocket ' book of my own these past six years, and God being my witness, i I have tried to steer this organiza tion clear away from commercial- j ism." Simmons, answering Chairman | Campbell, denied that he had 1 claimed a membership of hundreds j of thousands who would go after} congress, hitting it hip and thigh, ; if it attempted to crush the klan. ! He asked congress to go ahead and investigate. ? ?? ? Southern is Satisfied . Has Made No Request For; Wage Reduction Richmond. Va.. Get. IS? The Southern Railway was not repre- j sented in the Chicago executives' meet inn nor has it made requc*st <>f the railroad labor board for a further reduction in wages, ac-j cording t<> :i telegram received to night by C. ft. Arthur, superintend ent, with headquarters; in this city, and signed by lc. 10. Simpson, gen eral manager of the Southern Rail way lines Fast with offices in Danville. The telegram follows: ".Mr. Harrison authorizes me t>> say t<> our employees thai the Southern Railway was not repre sented in tie- Chicago executives* meeting, nor has it made request of the labor hoard or the men for a further reduction in wages. Vmi are ;i' liberty to impart tins hi for mation to the press and to ;ill em ployes, a i feel they should know it." Paris. Oct. 2<K?General I'ersh ing l<-i't tliis morning lor Cher bourg. ?-11 route to the Fnlted Bad News From Ireland Ulster Volunteers and Sinn j Feiners Getting Ready For Warfare Belfast, Oct. IS.?Reports thai the Ulster volunteer force is being reorganized arc confirmed. The leaders say the Sinn Feiners arc drilling. Harvest Sweet Potatoes at Once Early Frost Makes Early Harvesting a Necessity Clemson College. Oct. 14.?That the recent killing frosts make it necessary to harvest sweet pota toes earlier than would otherwise have been necessary and that if potatoes cannot be taken out of the ground at once after frost it is necessary to remove the vines to prevent the frosted sap from de scending and contaminating the potatoes is advice that the Clem son College horticultural authori ties urge every potato grower in ; South Carolina to give immediate ! attention. Prof. C. C. Newman. Chief of the Horticultural Division, issued this morning the following | statement regarding tbe matter. "The Horticultural Division has advised sweet potato growers t?' harvest their potatoes before frost, if possible. The recent kill ing frost makes it necessary that the potatoes be harvested within the next few days, otherwise seri ous injury may result. The frost | having come two weeks earlier than usual it is necessary for many farmers to dig their potatoes before they had planned to do so. It will j be necessary also for practically all of the growers in the upper half of the state to dig potatoes at the same time. We wish therefore to j impress upon the county agents and farmers the importance of har vesting, grading, and storing pota toes at the earliest possible date. "If frost has occurred and the potatoes can not be dug immediate ly, the vines should be removed to prevent the potatoes themselves from becoming contaminated by the frosted sap in the vines." Fraternities at the University Trustees Consider a Select Or ganization For Students Columbia. Oct. 1.".?A movement was started by the trustees of the University of Smith Carolina at their first Fall meeting Thursday afternoon, which will likely result in the establishment of a new kind of fraternity at the University, a fraternity basing its membership on- character, merit and scholar ship, rather than on social and fi nancial standing. The trustees authorized Pres dent Currell to make a thorough investigation of several national fraternal organizations, whose memberships ar not solicited, but whose requirements are fixed by the institutions in which they are allowed to operate. If the inves tigation nveals that these frater nities are strict in their member ship requirements, as to charac ter scholarship and merit., then the trustees will probably allow the establishment of such fraternities at tli" University. Greek Letter fraternities. in which membership is elected by the fraternities themselves, are not al lowed at the educational institu tions supported by tin- state of South Carolina, and in recent years a warm legal fight has waged in the legislature over this law. \' the new form of fraternity is allowed its membership will be determined by the University faculty. Tin- at torney general has expressed the opinion that such fraternities would be legal. ? ? ^ Clemson College News Football, The Center of Stud ent Activity and Interest Clemson College. Oct. IS.- <>n last Friday a great surprise was sprung by Auburn, wen the Clem son Tigers mot the Auburn Tigers on I>rake held and were defeated .")(", to 0. It was not known that the Auburnitcs were so strong. The game was fought to the finish l>y the South Carolinians but the much greater weight of tin- Ala I jam inns overwhelmed the Palmet to bunch. One feature of the game was a UU-yard punt by Au burn. Yesterday on Ftiggs field the University of Georgia reserves played the Tiger reserves to a 7 to 7 score. The Georgia eleven great ly outweighed the Tigers but the line playing of Turnipseed. LJurton and Dolteivr for Clemson held them down. It looked several times as if the Tigers were going to carry the pigskin for another touchdown, but were foiled ??ach j time. Next Friday aboul one o'clock the corps of cadets will entrain for Greenville where the annual Clem son-Fur man game is pulled off. Last year the Purple Hurricane beat the Tigers, but this year there will h>- an entirely different I tale to tell. "Doc" Stewart's men have had the l><st of cpaching as practically the whole Learn is new ! ar the job. The freslimaij elites this y.-.n- is the largest in several years, be ing nearly four hundred. There are at ?Out nine hundred in the corps and tie prospects are bright for much larger classes. Col. Pear son. Who succeeded Cid. J. M. Cummins has created a machine gun company, there beins twelve companies and the band. Other changes have been made and many improvements are now being c;u rled Oil. j ! j Clemson at State Fair Squad of Students Will Give; an Exhibition of College j Work i i | Clemson College, Oct. 17.?Fifty ; I Clemson students, working in two I shifts of 25 each, will give an ex- \ j hibition at the state fair in Co i lumbia. Octobe*- 24th to 29th. dem onstrating th work that is being i done here by the youth of South j Carolina. 1 Every line of work done at Clem- j j son will be exhibited at the fair for the interest and education of I the thousands of visitors. Of par ticular interest at this tmc will be j the exhibits by students of the j entomology department, inspect ing sueh insects as the boll weevil, and of the crop rotation and soil j analysis classes, dealing with pres | ent day Carolina problems. C. VV\ McSwain, an instructor in I the textile department, will be in charge of the exhibit and will be I I assisted by Prof. A. F. Conradi and j I Prof. A. X Harris. The fifty) j students who are to he selected for j the f-rip will cam]) on the fair j 1 grounds. ! All in all the exhibit is expected] to he one of the most interesting to be shown at fair and that it will attract interest from virtually every one present is the expectation. In the textile department there will he numerous testing machines for cloth, yarns, cotton fibres, etc. and instructive experiments will Lbe made before the \ery eyes of j the onlookers. I The military department will : demonstrate the building of trenches, fortifications, bridges and i ? other appliances of war. Students from the chemistry de- ; partment will make an analysis of j fertilizers as well as of chemicals i used in laboratories. One of the most interesting, phases of the exhibit is expected to he that of the netology stu- j dents. They will make a study of j different inserts, particularly ?>f J the boll wet vi 1. which is now so J common, in virtually all parts of j the state. The botany students will make j an actual study of all kinds of: plants and crowing things. The soil exhibits are expected i j to i>c of considerable interest to! ? farmers as an analysis will be I j made of the various kinds of soil! ; to he found in tin? state, j Dealing with the rotation of ; crops, the crop exhibit is sure to attract more than ordinary inter est as such a large part of the farming population is today inter- ! ested in the subject of crop rota tion. The selection of seeds will be j another interesting exhibit as stu-j dents will make a selection of va- I i rious kinds of seeds, eliminating I j the had species and choosing the j ones best adapted to South Caro- j lina farm conditions, i Students in the farm manage-J ; ment class will give demonstra- ! jtions in the planning of crops, pas- ' ! tur'-s. buildings, etc. j The farm machinery exhibit will ! deal with the erection and instal-j j lation of all kinds of labor and J ' time saving devices which have J I been found practicable on the farm I j or in the rural homes. Agricultural education will be 1 'demonstrat'-d. showing the plans ! used in establishing agricultural f j schools, etc. j Students from the electrical en- . gineering department will test elec- I j trie generators. i In the mechanical laboratory ex- ; hi bit students will make tests of I engines and coal, with a view of! j as certaining the heat and power i I to he obtained from certain tvpes ! i ot engines ami different grades of j .' coal. The X-ray. wireless telegraph i and similar devices will be dem- ! onstratcd by students from the! physics department. Civil engineering students will show methods of testing concrete.^ i The wood shop, machine shop. ' forge and foundiy will he a veri- j table education, showing the con- ! I tinuous method of making ma- j j chinery. The model will be made j I in the wood shop, forged in the! foundry and constructed in the; machine shop. -?????> Railroads Los j I ing Money| Columbia, Oct. IS.?The Sea-j heard Air Line Railway has filed with the South Carolina Railroad! Commission a petition for the dis continuance of several of its local i trains, the petition setting forth! that tin- revenues of these trains] are far short of what they were! last year, the travel being off a| third or more. The railroad com-; I mission will go into the matter j of t!ie petition this week. I The Seaboard asks authority to j discontinue trains 1!? and 22 be j tween Columbia and Fairfax, on the Columbia-Savannah division.! iThis division, says the petition, has, .not earned enough money for the' I lir.->i eight months of this year to j i pay expenses and taxes. The nutn- j j he-- of passengers has decreased | i :i4.>> per cent, as compared with ! [the same period last year. The I revenue i.e]- train has decreased! 21 per cent. The loss on this di vision for tiie tirst right months of I this year has totaled $39.659, it is , set forth. '!'!ie Seaboard also asks permis- I sion to take oft trains 30 and 21 ! and trains 2S and 39 on George- { town-Charleston division. and trains and 22, on the blorence Mcl ice line. The trains on the ["Georgetown-Charleston line have earned 'ess than 38 per cent this year us compared with th<- s;mie j period of 1920, says the petition. -m> ?? ? TRIAL OF BIRMINGHAM'S PREAC HER NEAR END Birmingham, <>et. 20,?The tak ing of test imony in t he trial of Rev. t Kdwiu P. Stephenson, charged with second degree murder for kill- \ \ ing Rev .lames B. Coyle, is ex-' I pected to he completed late today. ! Breaking Cot ton Market Columbia. Oct. 20.?"The selling or dumping of cotton by individ ual growers under present condi tions is one of the greatest con ceivable bear forces on the cotton market, "says Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, X. C. in a letter to Harry G. Kaniiner. president of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association. "It is one of the strongest forces for breaking prices every fall on every pound of cotton we soil." Dr. Poe declares that the per fection of the organization of co operative marketing association over the belt will put an end to this practice and will mean that there will be no distress cotton each fall to bear down the price of cot ton. In further development of his idea that the dumping of cotton by the individual growers breaks the price every fall. Dr. Poo says: "Suppose a farmer has good mid dling cotton that is really worth at the time is offered 21 cents a pound. Suppose a buyer says to him, 'I will give you 17 cents for your cotton.' Suppose the farmer finally gets 10 cents. Then when another farmer comes along with good middling Mr. Buyer says, ?Well, I have just bought a bale as good as yours for 1 9 cents' or 'we are paying 19 cents for this grade today.' The result is that the second farmer is likely to take 19 cents also. And so on with other farmers who come to the market. And the same depression in the market is forced by all other buy ers of the less scrupulous sort. (Of course there are many buyers who want only a fair profit but the farmers cannot discriminate). "Now what happens further? The average price paid for cotton on the market that day is reported. Then the average for all grades is seen to be considerably lower than standard marrcet price. Con sequently word goes out that 'farm ers are letting cotton so at such and such a price: why pay more?' And on a thousand markets all 'bear' prices. The average price paid for cotton basis middling in each market is reported and the cumulative result is highly import ant. For New York, New Orleans and Liverpool betting is simply bctting on the price at which the farmer will turn loose his cotton and when he is known to turn it loose at less than a standard fig ure all prices drop accordingly." Dr. Poe declares that in actual practice there "a very great pro portion of our cotton buyers be come 'bear influence' beating down prices in the way just suggested." "<)n the other," he says "the strong, capable, highly efficient sell ing agencies for cooperative mar keting associations would become one of the most powerful 'bull' influences, and influence for main taining and boosting prices." ? ? ? COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. Ystdys Open High Low Close Close January .. 18.40 18.64 18.23 18.55 18.08 March 18.20 18.43 18.08 18.35 17.89 May .17.85 18.01 17.60 17.97 17.55 July .17.30 17.60 17.30 17.53 17.10 October ...18.35 18.35 18.31 18.50 18.25 Decerr.ber .18.55 18.92 18.50 18.77 18.37 Spots 4-") up: Diddling 19.20. WEW ORLEANS COTTON. Ystdr* Open High Low Close Close January 18.05 18.34 17.84 18.(9 17.67 March . 17.77 18.10 17.66 17.85 17.40 May .. 17.25 17.60 17.14 17.44 17.02 July 16.97 17.06 16.74 16.97 16.60 October 17.99 18.18 17.99 18.05 17.50 December 18.12 18.48 18.00 18.27 17.80 Spots -? up: middling lS.r>0. LIVEP00L COTTON. January. 12.02 March. 11.73 May . 11.52 July . 11.26 October . 12.47 December . 12.12 Sales 8.000: Receipts 6.300. Middling 12.;:;;: Good middling 10.23. -? ? ?? Court of Genera! Sessions. The case of the State vs. Willis Jones, charged with murder, was continued in the court session of today. Progress in this case is be ing made but very slowly and all witnesses so far placed upon the stand have had to endure a very severe and rather lengthy and gruelling cross examination. Tin State placed its last witness upon the stand this morning before the adjourning of the court for its noon recess. Willis Jones, a boy of about 17 years, is on trial for the murder of John Scott. Complete Picking in South CaroTina _______ Ideal Weather Prevaile i Al most Over Entire Cctt n Belt During Past Wet \ Washington, Oct. 10. ? Ideal weather foi picking and ginning cotton prevailed during' the past week and very rapid progress was made in all .sections where this work has not been completed, ac ; cording to the national weather \ and crop bulletin issued today, j Killing frost occurred in the north i em sections of the cotton belt, but f without material damage, accord ing to the bulletin, and it added: "Picking has been completed in South Carolina, except in the northwestern portion, and the crop has been mostly picked in Ten nessee. This work is far advanced in Arkansas, is well along in Okla homa and has been completed in Texas except in the northwest por tion. Picking has been practical ly accomplished in Georgia 3nd has be<m finished in most sections of central and southern Alabama, while rapid progress was made in North Carolina and Mississippi and the crop has been mostly picked in Louisiana." The seeding of small grains made rapid progress during the week in the southern portion of the winter wheat belt from the Mississippi Valley eastward, but the soil has become too dry for wheat in the Atlantic coast states from Virgin ia southward, and in Oklahoma. Rain is needed also for fruit and j fall truck in all parts of the south. j Dial Attacks Harding's Plan - i Says Civil Service Examina tions Nothing But a Joke j Washington, Oct. 17.?Taking as I his text the recent complaint of j Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, ! to President Harding that Demo j crats were not being turned out of j office, fast enough, Senator N. B. j Dial today addressed the senate at ; tacking the administration's meth I ods of making appointments of { postmasters. j The South Carolina senator de ! scribed as "a farce and a traversty" I the system of taking any one of the {three highest applicants certified ! by the civil service commission, in stead of the highest qualified ap plicant, as under the Wilson ad ministration. He also said that there is nothing in the president's i order, just announced, that the I civil service commission shall give j preference to ex-soldiers and their I widows in postmastership examina tions, as the law already requires this; and he further noted that talk of waiving the age limit for veterans in these examinations is empty in view of the fact that no soldier of the rceent war could now be sixty-five years of age. Senator Dial said that the quota of South Carolina for general po j sitions under the federal civil ser j vice'is 65. but that the Palmetto State now has only 301 on the civil service rolls. Reverting to the present admini stration on the appointive power as to postmasters in South Carolina, Senator Dial declared that the question of the civil service to this category of appointments is a prac tical nullity. He spoke of a case where a vacancy occurred and an examination was ordered, but an ' acting postmaster was installed and I the order for an examination can I celled and no examination date set | ! since that time. The object of this, j the senator said he suspected, was I to permit a "practical outsider" to ! qualify for the position of post-; I master by acquiring two years of j I residence. "I enter my protest to j any such procedure," asserted the I senator vehemently, "we are very j glad down south to have good j people move amongst us, but we f think they should come for some other purpose than to fill the of fi<-'js." It is understood that Spar tanburg's postmastership is the one Senator Dial had in mind in his illustration. ; Washington, Oct. 20.?Pronounc-1 I cd earthquake shocks continuing i nearly two hours early this morn ing were recorded at the George town University scismographical observatoy. The center was esti mated at forty-four hundred miles j The State University Columbia. Oct. 18.?The erec tion of the first unit of a v/oman's building at the University, and the refunding of $50 000 of debt are rwo of the largest items provided in in the budget of the University of South Carolina, for 1922, adopt ed at a meeting of the board of trustees in Columbia Thursday af ternoon. The trustees will ask the 1022 legislature, which meets in January, to provide $50,000 to wards the erection of the woman's building. The University's budget, adopted Thursday, totals $340,000, as com pared with a budget for the past year of $164,000 and as compared with 1921 appropriations of $234, 000. Of the increase $50,000 is for the women's building and $54,500 t^ pay back money borrowed from the state's sinking fund for the erection of new professors' homes. The trustees received report from the University officials to the ef fect that there are 86 women stu dents at the University, and six out of every seven of these are taking complete degree courses, a higher percentage than among the male students. The enrollment of wo men would be increased, it was shown, if there were accommoda tions for them. The trustees want to ^see the woman's building erected in unit*, and they are asking $50,000 for the erection of the first unit. The trustees were told at the meeting Thursday that for that day the enrollment was 564, the largest enrollment for the same date of any session in the Uni versity's history, larger by fifty seven than the, largest enrollment for a single session at this time, in any year past. This is in the face of the fact that the University j is adhering strictly to its increased standard, of? fifteen units, the I highest standard in the state. The trustees decided to ask the j legislature to allow the university j to join the Carnegie pension fund plan. The legislature will also be asked to provide for the erection of a fire proof annex to the university library. For one of the valuable books there the University haa been offered $9,000. The school of commerce and finance at the University was au thorized to open night classes. Prof. Olson is head of this depart ment. Additional seats in the Univer sity chapel were authorized. The trustees were delighted with a twenty-cent meal they, got at the Univerrfty cafeteria. It was an nounced that there would be no "Founders Day" celebration during this celebration. Game Laws. Columbia, Oct. 17.?The arrival of October 16th greatly simplified thee nforcement of the game laws in South Carolina relative to dove shooting. At the last legislature, an act was passed making the state law for doves open August lv. whereas the federal law did not al low the shooting of doves until Oc tober 16th. This caused a great deal of confusion and in many in* stances got hunters Into trouble with the federal authorities. The dove daw is now open for all hunters to go in the fields and shoot doves both in accordance with the state and federal laws. Thousands of people of the state will go hunting this fall and most of them will have good luck; for, the abundance of game this season is due to the sportsmen of the state and the people generally throughout^ the state .being in sympathy with the laws and co operating with the game wardens in seeing that the laws are obeyed; that no hunting is indulged in dur ing the closed seasons, and that the bag limits are observed. Some hunters, of course, will take a chance and hunt before the sea sons open up, or hunt wtihout li censes, but they are surely to be caught for all game wardens have been instructed to stay in the field and demand of every hunter to see his license, and to prosecute those hunting out of season or hunting without licenses. In 15 or 20 years game will be twice as abundant as now if hunters will obey the law; and. there is no excuse for not knowing the law. This department has secured from the United Staes department of agriculture a num ber of Farmers' Bulletin No. 1235. Came Daws of 1921. and anyone may obtain a copy by sending two cents in stamps for return postage. A. A. RICHARDSON. Chief Game Warden. Pay Your Insurance Premiums To All Policy Holders: Premiums on insurance policies must be paid not later than the 25th of'this month. Now that money, is circulating again the Companies are demanding from the Agencies prompt remittance for policies written. We have but two courses open to us: to collect and remit, or to cancel the policy and return it to the company. Do not let your policy be cancelled on you-?remit by the 25th. Central Insurance Agency. Citizens* Insurance Agency. U.S. Hood. Henry P. Moses Co. Iii ley and Company. South Carolina Insurance Agency. Walsh Insurance Agency.