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The Watchman and Southron Entered at the Postoffice at Sum ter, S. C, as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mr. James C. Hood arrived in Sumter this morning from Tucson, Ari., where he has been at work since leaving Sumter a year and a half ago. Mr. Hood will remain in Sumter for the wedding of his sis ter. Miss Bessie Hood, and also for the yuletide holidays. Messrs. Perry Moses, and T. B. Caudle retunred to Sumter this morning from a business trip to - ^Philadelphia, New York and Hart ford, Conn. ! Mr. T. H. Dick of Columbia spent last night with his brother. Dr. George W. Dick on Broad St. Mr. W. Lee Morrison has return ed to his home in the city from a business trip to Savannah and oth er points in Georgia. , Mr. John Montgomery of Harts y?le spent the night with Mr. J. M. Fr?ser on Broad St. Mr. R. F. Dennis, Jr., of Miami, Fla., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. h >'X<ee Morrison in the city. Mrs. Henry Deas and children of Charleston are visiting their family in the city. Mrs. J. W. Carroll has returned to her home in the city after hav ing visited relatives in Greenville. Mrs. J. F. Lyndon and little daughter. Marjorie Louise, left this morning for Greensboro, N. C, where they will spend several days. Mr. Oscar E. Hoist left this morning for Latta and Krngstree on business, after having been a visitor in Sumter for several days. Mr. Irvine Richardson is spend : ing the day with his parents in the 'city before leaving for Siler City. N. C.r where his work will carry him. Dr. IX W. Green and Dr. Ashley Mood have returned to the city from their hunting trip to Mur rell's Inlet. Miss Hettie Wbite aswi: Mrs. John O. Barwick were an:ong those attending a missionary rally held, at/Graham churchy .on last Thursday. Mrj and Mrs. Korn, Miss-Meli Myers, .Messrs. Lorlng Lee-, Hagen and Loring Lee, Jr., have returned i f^om their hunting trip Of several! days at the Brook Green cltfb house j at Waccamaw. I Miss L?ftte Mae Smith of York is! the visitor of Mrs. J. O. Barwick ! in the city. Mr, Wn. P. Barrett is spending the week-end in Colombia visiting friends. ' Miss Annie Beaty is spending several days in Georgetown visiting friends and relatives. Mr. Neill O'Donnell left" Sunday morning for Baltimore whete he was called oh account of ;the ill ness of Miss CeciHe O'Dqhnell of nock mn. Mr. Leon Green has returned to bis work in New York after having been called to Sumter on'account of the illness \a& death' 'ot his mother. Mrs. S.- O. Plowden and Mrs. J. J. Dargan are spending the day in Sumter. . Miss Eula Atkinson returned last night to Winthrop College after spending several days in the city. Miss Rosanna Wilcox of Flor ence was the . weekrend guest of Miss Annie Hepburn on Liberty St. Rev. Dr. Buckholtz is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hill on Wright St. Mrs. J. Walter Doar of George town is the guest of Mrs. E. S. Booth. Miss Eugenia Fraser has return ed to her home in Virginia after visiting her relatives in this section for several weeks. Mr. Hugh Plum passed through Sumter . this morning while en route for Bishopville. Mrs,' R. E. Hodge has returned to Sumter from her brother's home in Manning after the illness and death of her little niece Aza, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Morris. Nine Persons Seriously III Augusta, Ga., Dec. 4.?A sequel ?to the Beldoc mystery in which the wife and three children of J. W. Lee, a prominent planter, died suddenly a few weeks ago of a strange malady believed at the time to have been caused by poison, has taken place at Martin, S. C., about fifteen miles from Allendale, ac cording to information received in Augusta today, stating that nine persons are desperately ; ill at a boarding house there after eating biscuits made from flour taken from the Lee home at Beldoc. The peculiarity of the situation is the affairs occurred at the boarding house of Mrs. R. F. Creech, who is a sister-in-law of J. W. Lee, who now lies ill at. the Uni versity Hospital here. J . Officials state that following the death of Mrs. Lee and the removal of Mr. Lee to a hospital, Mrs. Creech went to the Lee home and removed a sack of flour and other groceries which she took to her home in Martin. Biscuits made from the flour were served to her boarders and it is said that all who ate of the biscuits were taken ill, the symptoms being similar to those in the Lee case. Doctors called to administer to the sick worked on the theory that their illness was caused by ptomaine poisoning from canned goods, although some of those af fected claim that they did not par take of the tinned salmon. Sheriff Bennett tonight, however, declared that he favored the the ory of the doctors but to be pu the safe side would have samples of the flour analyzed. ? o ?-. Havre, Dec. 5. ? Charles W. Morse, whose return to the United States on the liner Paris was re quested by Attorney General Daugherty, boarded the liner today ? ? ? "Let us then be up and doing" 1s a good motto if we don't add the words "one another." District Attorney Will Present to . Grand Jury Charge That Attempt Was Made j To Intimidate Juror _ San Francisco, Dec. 5.?Milton TJren, assistant district attorney, announced today that he would lay before the grand jury tonight the charges by Mrs. Helen M. Hubbard, one of the two jurors who voted for the conviction of Roscoe Arbuckle, that efforts were made to Intimi date her into changing her vote. The federal charge against Ar buckle, based on the alleged ille gal transportation of liquor and charges of pejury against Mrs. Minnie Xeigrhbors, of Los Angeles, defense witness, in Arbuckle's man slaughter trial, are still to be heard Mistrial in Arbuckle Case San Francisco, Dec. 4.?After 41 hours of deliberation the jury, com posed of seven men and fire wo men, which tried Roscoe C. Ar buckle on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the d^ath of Virginia Rapp'e, was discharged to day when it was unable to agree upon a verdict. The jury was brought into court at its own request at noon, reported a disagreement and asked that it be dismissed. August Fritze, foreman of the Arbuckle jury, issued a signed statement tonight saying that one of the women jurors, who was in the minority, refused to consider the evidence from the beginning and declared that "she would cast her ballot and would not change it until hell froze over." There were two jurors who voted for conviction according to Fritze. Prison Breakers Captured Columbia, Dec. 5.?A prison de livery was nipped in} the bud at the state penitentiary today when two bad prisoners, C. D. Cooper, a mur derer from Marlboro county and Harry Gates, a man- sent from Spartanburg for five years on a charge . of safe cracking, were found hiding between the ceiling and the first roof of one of the prison buildings. They disappeared Sunday and were found this. morn ing. They had cut their way through the second roof of .the building and were hiding over the ceiling, where they had a store of canned goods sufficient for a week's sustenance. .While searching for these men the prison authorities discovered how Jack Fields, a Spartanburg prisoner who got away last week, made his getaway. They found an old abandoned sewer under the shop where Field's worked' into which he had dug an entrance, I storing canned(goods, and here he j lived until the extra guard on the j walls, placed when he disappeared, j was relieved, when he climbed the j walls of the prison and escaped. ! The cleverness with which the en ; trance to the sewer had been cov j ered up made it almost beyond ! detection. The Older Boys' Conference. Columbia, Dec. 5.?The great success,of the state 'Older Boys* j Conference held in Columbia last week, which had an attendance of over 3u0 from outside Colum bia, leads to the decision to have two conferences next year, one in Greenville and one in Charleston. A hard-boiled janitor can't scare a thermometer. There should be at least one ef ficiency expert on the job to keep the "system" straight while the others do the work. A lot of tax burdens will go down to the sea in ships. Many a neighbor's dog is a howl ing success. These other nations are not a bit backward about coming forward. The income tax permits us to de duct what we give to the Lord. Now if it would only permit us to deduct what we give to the land lord. Russia might create a new inter est in her money by getting out an occasional late editi m and calling it an extra. ? ?? ? ?? When the house gets reports from men on the road, it reflects sadly that a sales tax wouldn't hurt it much. ? ? ? Germany has classed women's hats as necessary, regarding them as the necessary evil, no doubt. Christmas cigars are made by the thief wlu has given enough rope. ? o? ? Th.- man who talks to himself has a sympathetic audience. ? ? ?> Church Holds Bazaar. j The Auxliary of the Church of j the Ascension, Hagood. will hold a bazaar at the Rembert school \ house Friday afternoon and even j ing. December 9th. In ;s<l<iiii'>;i i to the numerous hand-made ar j tides, there will be home-made j cukes, candies, ct<-.. for sale, i An interesting program has been [arranged for the evening. Re [ freshments. i Meeting Held to Form J Woman's Auxiliary j Charter for American Legion Women's Auxiliary to Be | Sent For. Gold Star I Mothers to Be Charter Members i _ I The meeting to formulate plans! looking to the organization of the Woman's Auxiliary to the American Legion was held yesterday at the i ! auditorium of the Girls' High | I school building with only a small 'attendance. It was decided to make immediate application for a char ter but to postpone final organiza tion until Wednesday, January 4th, j '1922, at which time itis hoped to ! have a larger representation pres I ent. While the petition for charter i I only requires ten names. ;t was the j ! opinion of those present that gold j I star mothers and wives be given an > j opportunity to become charter j members of the Sumter Auxiliary. : All mothers whose sons made the i supreme sacrifice in the world j war and wives whose husbands gave their lives to the cause of ' freedom, are urged to get in touch j with either Joe S. Chandler, com- j mander of the Sumter Post, or John i B. D?the, chairman of the Auxil- j iary committee at once if they de sire to become charter members of j the Sumter Auxiliary. Those in charge of final organisation believe that the proposed auxiliary should i be able to start off with one of the ! largest memberships in the State, j With this end in view each person present at yesterday's meeting was ; appointed a committee of one to j secure the names of all mothers,! wives and sisters of ex-service men ? residing in Sumter county and they; will be notified of the time and! place of the meeting to be held the first "Wednesday in January next. ?? > Tuberculosis Fight in Neighboring Towns. ! ,. . . . ? j ?- I The organization of tuberculosis 1 work in other towns of Sumter j county has been placed with the j j following persons: Mayesv?le?Mr. W. H. Brunsen, I j Mrs. H. W. Peal, j Pihewood?Mrs. W. D. Epper-! j son. Oswego?Mrs. M. M. Brown, j Stateburg?Mrs. J-. J. Dargan, j i Mrs. O. S. Plowden. { Hagood?Mrs.' J. L. Jackson. Dalzell?Miss Meia Boykin, Miss' j Grace Carson. Wedgefield?M iss Weinherg. Privateer?Mrs. Richard Fur- ' ; man. j Bethel ? Mrs. William Hayns- j I worth. Horatio?Mrs. C. J. Jackson. - ?? ? o -. j '?Goldenrod*' Butter is Name Sc- j lecitxi. In the contest recently run by the Sumter Creamery they offered j a cash prize for the person send ing in the best name . suggestion j for their butter, the winning sug- ? [ gestion has just been awarded to^ i Mrs. H. W. Sholar by the directors) I of the creamery who acted as. judges in the contest.- The name sent in by Mrs. Sholar . was Gold- j enrootL r Several- other people sent in the.- same but Mrs: Sholar was J given first for the reason that she j. j sent, in a pencil design with the name. A large number of sugges- j tions were received, and among j them a good many clever names; that could have been used for the ! brand. - Shower for Miss Hood. j On Wendesday afternoon Miss I Grace Reynolds delightfully en- j j tertained at her home on Hampton ! i avenue at a kitchen shower for t ; Miss Bess Hood, bride-elect. After the guests arrived they I were kept busy for sometime hem- j : ming cup towels. The needles and ' i thread being presented in ir.inia i ture kitchen favors, tied with red ; j irbbons to carry out the color1 -scheme of the afternoon. After' j the towels were hemmed the guests were given slips of paper with ; questions, the answers being kitch j en utensils. Mrs. Ed McCallum j j having answered most of the ques- I i tions was presented with a very i ; useful steamer which she presented j to the honor guest. All the guests j wrote receipts which were placed | j in a loose leaf book and presented j j to the bride for future reference, i j A delightful salad course and j ; coffee were served. Just before leaving the hostess' dainty little niece, Miss Jean Sory , of Atlanta, entered driving a wagon i j loaded with many useful gifts for j the bride. Those invited were: Misses Hood, Caroline Richradson, Mary I j Knight, Vermelle Pitts, Elizabeth Osteen, Mattie and Louise. Wil liams, Elsie Dowden, Sophia Brun- ! sou, Reese Chandler, Cora Duffie, Mesdames it. S. Hood. W. D. Boy kin, C. G. Rowland. Walter Mims. ; Paul (\ Aughtry, M. S. Boykin, Cra- : j ham Bowman. Rube Skinner, Ar- j jchie China. Robert Plowden, C. J. Lemmon, J-:d Wright. Ed Moore, Ed j McCallum, Jeif Williams and L II I ! Deas. ?? ?? ?-? j Two alarms we re sent in Th?rs- ] day night shortly after ! o'clock, j The first proved to be a fire out ' i of the city limits, west of Sumter. The second alarm was from box! i 2C. and proved to be a malicious j false alarm. The party responsi- j i hi? for this alarm has been made j to pay a fine. I -*??*-o The installation services for the Masonic officers and banquet which, j (was held in the Masonic Temple I I Thursday evening proved one of j I most enjoyable events of its kind 'ever held here. There were about : five hundred persons prescm < ::- j joying the ceremonies ard the j ample and sumptuous banquet. The : address by Mr. W\ \V. Wannamaker. i of Orangeburg, was extremely splendid. only 12 \\ < re bagged on t!i<' firsi day of Ohio's rabbit hunting. : Tv. < i. hunters. Memorial Exercises Held by Court ._ Court Suspends Session in Afternoon for Memorial Ex cercises of Deceased Bar Members __ Friday afternoon, December 2nd, | by a request from the Sumter Bar ! Association and by order of Judge ' T. J. Mauldin, presiding, the ? court of common pleas suspended ; its regular business session during tin- hour from five to six o'clock ; and appropriate memorial exercises \ were observed in the court room ! for the memory o: John H. Clifton and Lucian W. McLernore. mem bers of the Sumter Bar who have j died during the last year, and for j George W. Reardon, deceased, aj former clerk of court for Sumter j county. Short addresses were made by Bar members Mark Reynolds. Da vis D. Molso. L. D. Jennings and Judge T. J. Mauldin. The following resolutions were ,' passed: Resolutions Passed by the Sumter i Bar Association on the Death of ? John II. Clifton. * "Whereas, John H. Clifton, long a ' leader at the Bar of this county, ; and for many years its senatorial representative in the general as sembly of the state, was claimed suddenly by death on the Cth day of November, 1921, while at the very zenith of his intellectual pow ers, and in the full current of suc cess in the practice of his profes sion, and Whereas, information thereof has been formally communicated to the members of the Sumter Bar Asso ciation, assembled in special meet ing on the 7th day of November, 1921, now therefore be it Resolved, That the Sumter Bar Association learns with the deepest j grief and regret of the untimely termination of this brilliant and noteworthy career; That in the death of John H. Clifton his state has lost a public servant whose able mind and con- i scientidus regard for its interests j were of inestimable value to it in j the performance of the legislative functions of government; That the Bar of his county and of \ his state have lost from their ranks I a lawyer whose understanding of j the law was broad, enlightened and ; profound, and whose genius as a! practitioner was such that he would have been marked a figure of dis- j tionction at the Bar of any state,! and in any time; That the community in which he made his home has lost a citizen j acutely conscious of his civic duty, ! whose energies and whose funds j were ever at the disposal of any! cause which had for its object the public good; That his friends have lost a bril liant and lovable associate and companion,? whose abundant sym pathies'and whose constant flow of: clear thought and keen and origin- { al humor did 'much to brighten the ; rough and darkened pathway of' life for all around him, one who ! possessed as an attribute of his re- J markable personality the ability to , create in the hearts of all who I knew him the desire to win and retain his approbation; That the poor and oppressed have lost a friend and protector, I whose substance and whose able services were theirs for-the asking: ?if their destitution was actual and their needs great?one whose j heart was powerless to resist the ' appeal of helplessness and distress,! one who can contemplate without | fear the admonition, "In as much as ye have done it unto the least j of these ye have done it even unto j Me." Be it Further Resolved: That the warmest sympathy of this Ear, in the great ' sorrow which they are called upon I to boar, be communicated forth with to the widow and children of the late Senator John H. Clifton, I and that they be assured that their! grief and sense of irreparable loss ' arc widely and deeply shared: And be it Further Resolved: That ? copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of the court, and that aj copy thereof be delivered to the family of the deceased. Respectfully submitted, I. C. STRAUSS, L. D. JENNINGS, BENJAMIN D. HODGES, j Committee on Resolutions. fn Momorian Lucian Winter Mc-. Lemore. Lucian Winter McLernore, Esq., j passed away in the city of Sum ter on the night of December 6th,, 1920. His death was attended with unusual sadness as it came to him suddenly, away from his family and friends, and while he was in the prime of physical life and in tellectual vigor. He was born in Augusta, Ca.. about 18S6 and his parents dying when he was at an early age, he was deprived of that | tender love, consideration, and care j at-that formative period, which : should always leave its impress upon li."-- and character. Under hard circumstances young McLe more had to obtain what education ' and training v/as available in the j city schools of that time, and sub- j seouently without any other means! ro make his way in life. He had j the determination to succeed, and' in leisure moments read and. studied much. He was filled with | the ambition to be a lawyer. Ho studied law in the offices of Messrs. Willcox and Willcox of Florence. S. C., and his success especially in! corporation law was phenomenal, j He reached the rank of Division j Counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line! Railroad within two or three years j of his admission to th<- bar: Whereas, his untimely death came as :i shock and a painful epi- i socle t<> tin- Ear and the commun i i y: it Therefore Resolved that! in the death <d' Lucian Winter Mc Lernore. Es-*., the Bar of Sumter! deplores the loss of an advocate of1 unusual ability: a thorough law-, yer hi his work, of keen pcrcep-; lions, who had the most desirable': gift of the clearest and most logi cal and lucid language: who had a high ideal of the ethics of th< profession: one who was always fair in his practice and thoughtful and j considerate of his fellow prac titioners; who hail the faculty of making and retaining many friends, who were brightened and entertain ed by the brilliance of his intel lect and the cheerfulness of his spirit. Resolved that for the purpose of placing upon record the apprecia tion and sentiments of the Kar of ; Sumter, these resolutions be in scribed upon the minutes of the j court. Resolved That a copy of the! same be transmitted to the family | of the deceased, and published in the daily paper. Signed: MARK REYNOLDS, D. D. MOISE, R. J. BLAND, Committee. - At the conclusion of the me- , morial exercises held in honor of Messrs. Clifton and McLemore, on ! a motion of the president of the ? Bar Association a page of the j Journal of the Common Pleas Court was ordered by his Honor, Judge! T. J. Mauldin, presiding, be dedi- j cated to the memory of the late George W. Reardon and is to bear i the following serpition: This page is inscribed to the memory of George W. Reardon. Born June 20th. 1843, in County Kerry, Ireland. Died at his home in Sumter. S. C, November 2Gth, 1921. A Confederate Soldier, and | for Twelve Years, Clerk of Ihis Court. <>??<> Boys' Conference Closed Sunday The third and greatest cf the three annual meetings of the Old er Boys' conferences which was j held in Columbia this year, came to j a close last night with the evening session at the First Presbyterian ! church. The feature of this last j session was the address by j C. C. Robinson; international boys' work secretary of the Young Men's Christian association, j This morning the exodus from Co- j lumbia began and the 359 boys, representing 61 different communi- j ties throughout the state, that were present at the conference, returned to their homes, taking with them the inspiration to better lives and ; more Christian work. There were | twenty-six boys representing Sum- j ter and these splendidly chosen ! young men brought credit to them- j selves and to their town by their j exemplary conduct while in Colum hia and by the most creditable showing which they made at the j various meetings. This conference was declared a most] splendid and successful one j and. was indeed crowned with ; what, is bound- to be a great and lasting good among our future citi- j zens, ;, our bovs. ?*?<>? Two Campaign Meetings At a meeting of the candidates for j election to. the Senate and House; of Representatives, held today in the office, of John B. Duffie. Esq.. j chairman of the board of election ; commissioners, it was decided to j hold two campaign meetings for! the purpose of affording the candi dates an opportunity to present to i the voters their views on the issues of the day. The first meeting will be held in the Court House, at 12 o'clock noon,' Saturday. December 10th. The second meeting will be held at 8 o'clock p. m., Monday, Decem ber 12 th. Scout News Troop No. 2. The scout of Troop No. 2 held a meeting Thursday night at G:00 i o'clock and heard a very interest- i ing talk given by Mr. W. H. Bow- | man, who has formerly spent a number of years in the United ! States naval service. He told us about the pearl divers of foreign seas, of the revolutionist j Df Cuba and of the hunting of the ! shark. We all enjoyed the talk and hope to have Mr. Bowman back again. The scouts came prepared to initiate Austin Stubbs, but it waS decided by the scout master that we i wait until the next meeting which j will be next Thursday at C:00 j o'clock. Maxie Alperi and Mertock : Walker will probably be on the list I also. The troop now has 21 mem- j hers. When we began we only had six. A Scout, o ? Death of Infant. The four weeks old infant son j Mr. and Mrs. W. 1). Eraser died this j morning at ten oclock. The funeral ; services will be held from the i home, No. 250 Broad streit, to morrow morning at eleven o'clock : and the interment will take place at the cemetery at Hebron church. The sympathy of friends is with this family in their bereavement. - Columbus. Or.., Dec. 5.?Ala- j Dama authorities began an investi-! gaiion of the Hogging of M. C. j White, sixty-five year old Alabama farmer, near h< re on Saturday night, and Lhe slaying of Stanley Greene, whose body was found hatless and with pistol holster empty. Emory Wilkinson, the 11 year-old grandson of White, who] was shot in both legs, was report ed to have tired on the mob, w ouncing a man. - Washington, Dec. 5. ? Heavy snow over sections of the middle AS lanl ic states and upper ?>hio with freezing temperatures t<> Montgom- | cry, Alabama, and heavy frosts to the Alabama coast and northwes tern Elorida, in the last twenty- j four hours are reported to the weather bureau. Frost as far j south as central Elorida are fore-; cast for tonight. i Bequest For Christmas Fund Will of George W. Reardon Provides Bequest of $500 Jn the will of the late George W. Reardon, of Sumter. who died last Saturday, provision is made for turning over to the City Council of Sumter the sum of five hundred dollars to be invested and the in terest ther- from applied ro th<* an nual Chrisimas collection for the poor of Sumter. or to be used at any other rime of the year for the poor in the discretion of City Council. In this bequest, small though it be in comparison, to other and larg er contributions, running as high as five thousand dollars for The an nual Christmas found for the poor, it might not be amis; to call at tention to the fact that Mr. Rear don has established a precedent that if adopted by other charitably inclined citizens, be the contribu tions large or small, might even tually' lead to th-> founding of a large sum of money for the chari table work among the poor, the public appreciating small bequests as much as the Iargrer contribu tions, a Not being', or not feeling able, perhaps, to contribute five thou sand dollars. Mr. Reardon did not stand on the looks of the les ser amount, bat did the best that he could, no doubt feeling that every five hundred dollars left for the benefit of the poor means just thai much more in the aggregate an nual interest to be distributed among the needy and the afflicted. Burn or Plow Under Cotton Plants To Control Boll Weevil The great destruction wrought by the cotton boll weevil this year has made the problem of its con trol a vital one to practically ali cotton planters. Everywhere th* question is heard, "What can he done to avoid this Jess next year?'' For many years prior to the de velopment of poison-control meas ures the United States Department of. Agriculture advocated fall de struction of cotton plants by burn ing or plowing under, as* the most important step in controlling the boll weevil. It is still good practice as an auxiliary to control by poison. The proper time for the destruc tion of the plants in the fall is whenever the weevils have become so numerous that there is no pros pect that any more cotton will i?e made. It is an easy matter for ary planter to determine this point by an examination of a few plants in his field. Whene\er it is found that all. or nearly all. o-" the squares ana some of the bolls are being punc tured, there is no hope for produc ing any mor? coiton. The farmer should then wait until tiie bolls al ready set on the plants have*opened, and destruction should then :.ak\, place immedialoH. By all means, if possible, de struction of plants should tak-2 place before fro&t, but destruction after frost, th'-ugh not nearly as efficacious as early destruction, should always ho practiced; when :t it has n.>t been possible to remove the plants j reviotisly. The plants should be phev.-d under deeply, or completely destroyed by fire. No sprout cotton should be left to fur nish breeding p'aces for the weevils. There are four principal reason5 why the process of fall destruction should be practiced universally by planters in infested regions: First. Fall destruction prevents absolutely the development of a multitude of weevils which would otherwise become adult within a few weeks of the time of hiberna tion. The destruction of the imma ture stages of weevils in infested squares and bolls is accomplished, while the further growth of squares which may become infested later is prevented. This stops materially the development of weevils which would normally hibernate success fully, and by decreasing the nun: ber of weevils which will emerge in the spring the chances for a suc cessful crop the following season are very greatly increased. Second. A proper manipulation of the stalks will bring about the destruction of a great majority of the weevils which are already aduiv. Third. It has been shown con clusively that the bulk of the wee vils which suriviye the winter are those which reach maturity late in the season. It is evident that the weevils that pass the winter and attack the crop of the following season are among those developed latest in the fall and which, in con sequence of that fact, have not ex hausted their vitality by depositing eggs for any considerable length of time. Fall destruction of the plants, increasing the length of the hibernating period, reduces many fold the number of weevils in the field that would otherwise emerge in spring to damage the cotton. Fourth, ("learing of the field in the fall makes it possible to prac tice fall plowing, which is not only the proper procedure in any systen. of cotton raising, but also greatly facilitates the early planting of the crop the following spring. The ground becomes clean by this prac tice, so that but few places for shelter are left for the weevils, and various climatic conditions still further reduce the number of the survivors. The early planting of the crop next spring and the use of an ear ly maturing variety are also strong ly urged. The fall destruction of plants will reduce the number of we. vils which will survive the win ter. By getting the cotton crop started early it is often possible to get it wei' on the way to matur ity before the few weevils surviv ing the winter have time to propa gate to the point where they be come destruct Lve. Destroy the cotton plants in the fall and plant early the following spring. -o-> Every once in a while you meet a fellow who thinks he is a big gun, but is only a smooth bore. Negotiations Have; Collapsed and Sinn' Fein Delegates Will Leave For Dublin? LloydGeorge to; Issue Statement - London, Dec. 5?The Irish i crisis today held the exclusive at- ! tention of ciiicial circles. Premier j Lloyd George explained the situa tion to King George at an audience, this morning. British peace rep-1 resr-ntatives then held a conference! followed by a meeting of the entire j cabinet. Another meeting between j the Sinn Fein delegation and gov- j ernment representatives has been arranged. London. Dec. 5.?The Irish peace , I negotiations have collapsed, accord : ing to statements in responsible quarters and the Dail Eireann dele ; gates are expected to return to: : Ireland tomorrow or Wednesday. | ; The full correspondence in con ! nection with the negotiations will i ; be made public by the govern- j ' meat, it is stated, and Premier j : Lloyd George is expected to make i ? an explanatory statement. The truce remains in effect, how- j j ever, and no immediate resumption j of hostilities is anticipated. ? o ?> ; Graduating Entertainment For Miss Lapsley. I A beautiful party was given by i the nurses of the Tourney Hospital i for Miss Sarah Pratt Lapsley, j graduating nurse of the hospital, i The entertainment, held Friday J evening at the nurses home on the I hospital grounds, was in the form j of a reception from eight until '; nine o'clock and to which the older 1 guests were invited. In the receiv j ing line were Miss Lapsley, Miss j Mary E. Heinrich and Miss Lila. ' Davis. Fruit punch was served and a delightful refreshment ? course. From nine o'clock until : twelve the young folks were enter j tained by a delightful dance. The 1 music for the occasion was furnish ! ed by Girard's Orchestra. There j Wf re one -hundred guests invited to ; the reception and the dance. -? <? <> Washington, Dec. 5.?A quad ! ruple entente as a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese alliance is. j being considered by governments of United States. Great Britain, Japan j and France, it was learned today. -^-<-o j A grave situation never dis courages the live ones. CONGRESS RECONVENED JO-DAY Nearly a Dozen Ques tions of Importance Confront Members ?Majority Party Faces Cricis Washington, Dec. 5.?Congress convened at noon teday for the regular session -after a recess of two weeks. Xearly a dozen ques tions of legislative policy confront the members while scores of lesser matters, long pent up in the crowd ed calendar of business, will be pressed for action by their spon sors. President Harding plans to give his message to the new session Tuesday. Xew and added promi nence is attached to the event from the fact that, probably for the first time in American history, the mes sage to congress will be delivered in the presence of'members of an in-, ternatlonal conference. Many cf the delegates to the conference on armaments ire expected to attend. Any action by the conference on naval or army reduction is regarded as certain to be reflected in appro priation bills for these services and leaders say there probably will be frequent outbreaks of dis cussion on the floor concerning the arms conference and its doings. Birmingham, Dec. 5. ? Mrs. Frederica Virginia Underwood, mother of Senator Underwood of Alabama, died today at the homo of her son, Fred V. Underwood, of heart trouble. The annual Christmas fund mass meeting will be held in the Opera House on Sunday afternoon, De cember 11, at 3:30 o'ctock. When you meet a girl whose breath smells of onions, you know her heart is innocent of guile. Let us hope that the only man hereafter to speak of "my navy" will be Davy Jones. How easy it would be to persuade Japan if the rest of us had been honest with China. The female after specie knows how to work the male. Among other things gradually getting back to par is idealism. r WANTED ? Pure Iron. peas and mixed cow peas. 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