Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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College Industry 6oiiege Players Hired to Play on Football Teams of Coim ?-^Towns--$l(jO,000 Bet Chicago, Jan. 2S (By the Asso ciated Press*.?The bitter rivalry between: .two country towns, which became- so acute that approximate ly $100,000 was bet on a footbail game, was the real cause of the athlete scandal which resulted in ^du'aEficatiou last night of nine University f?f Illinois athletes and which threatens to reach into Notre I*ame diversity. A group of citizens of Carlinviile, III., it was learned, decided last rail to "clean put," financially, the rival town of: Taylorville. 111., by obtaining ten. college stars to play on their footl>all team, and with victory apparently assured to bet the-limit on ihe annual contest be tween the two elevens. But Tay lorville learned of the plan, ob tained -nine college kars for its own team and not only defeated Car linvfilo. but con dos? to $50,000 . by7'covering every Carlinviile bet made, thus beating the rival town a: its own game. , " V Tcn Notre Dame players were in the Carlinviile lineup, according to statements by citizens of that town, while the i?ne Illinois men dis qualified last night played on the Taylorville, eleven. " Carlinviile. 111.. Ian. 20.?Rivers Anderson, business manager of the local fc4>thail team; tonight de clayed that he had personally "hir ed and paid*Xotre Dame University men to play for CarlinsviKe against Taylorville last fall." while Lionel! Mo3se. coach, of the team, said that '?to his;knowledge there was not a Notre Dcmc. man in the Carlinviile line-up." Both assertions were piiae' in formal statements to the Associated Press. - -? m m + ? Tobacco Growers* HoIdMeetini Meeting of District Do-egates to Elect Director of State Assocb ion A district-meeting of delegates of: the Tobacco Growers' Coopera tive. Association of the following 'counties will assemble at Sumter on February 2nd at 12 o'clock to elect a., director from that district: The. meeting will he in the Sumter - Chamber of Commerce, second floor* city hall building. ' Counties in ' district: Williams burg,. DarJng.on, Clarendon, Sum ier^Lee. Berkeley. Bamberg? Edge lleld. Doreriester, Orangeburg.^ Sa iuda, iX'xington, Aiken. E. 1. P.eardon. Secretary of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce and J. Prank Williams; County Agent have been Vccruested by T. H. -Young. StatJ Secretary and \V B. Lea, of the'.campaign committee of the "South,.Carolina Division o?T the Tri-Statc Tobacco Growers? Cog] operative Association to cooperate with the visiting delegates in every way In putting through the neces sary action to complete the district organization, and these two officials have cordially agreed and will. do theirfvery best. Sumter will be delighted to welcome the visitors^T ???tit'55 delegates are expected. .? g ???? ?* Presbyterian Church in United States. Des Moinea. la.. Jan. 20.?An hfcrease of more than S5.000 com municants - of the Presbyterian Church of The United States of America during 2921 was an nounced here by Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, of Philadelphia, Penn., slated clerk of the church,. Dr. Mudge .was in DesVMoines making arrangements for the annual gen eral, assembly, of the denomination to hi held here beginning May 18 and continuing for ten days. , Dr. Mudge announced that the number of communicants of the church now exceeds 1,700.000. This he " announced, is a gaip ^f more than S5.CO0 over last year. The church also'has more than 1.400, n?fl Sunday sehool members. Contributions during last year. Dr. Mudge said, exceeded $47.000. 0U0-of which rhore than $4.200.000 was-spent for foreign missions, S 1.7.01.?0t> for Home Missions and more than $l.000.u00 for educa- j tion. The Presbyterian church has 0.-! 970 ministers of the Gospel. The General Assembly is the nat ional legislative body of the church j composed of both ministers and! laymen, administering affairs of j the denomination through 40; synods, corresponding approximate ly, to states, and 702 presbyteries, (corresponding, to congressionaf dis- ' i rict:--. . In an official statement concern ing the church, by Dr. Mudge in the recently^ jssued Presbyterian: Handbook, it, is recorded: "The Presbyterian |hurch xtarfds. as it has stood during its entire history,; for the unconditional sovereignty ' or Cod. for the HtbU as the only iUtaliable rule of faith and life, for simplicity of worship, repre sentative government, a high, standard of Christian living, liber-| ty of conscience, popular educa- ! tion, missionary activity, and true' Christian oatholieity." Fine motto: Never leave undone today what should have been <?.nied. There are men who live beyond their incomes, and there are men who can be trusted with the com pany fnnrls. Now that the nations have agreed to bury the hatchet, each will be careful not to leave its neek exposed. ? Well, suppose Prance does lose , the sympathy of the world. If her present plans work cut, she won't need it. The Sea-cut Canal Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River to Tidewater Duluth, Minm. Jan. 27.?Satis faction that the international joint commission could not have found other than that the lakcs-to-the ocean project is feasible; belief that congress, convinced by the west's unshakable determination to gain its rights will authorize the im provements, and confidence that the alleged "eastern interests" said to be fighting the scheme, will be swept aside in the ensuing Wave of governmental approval, is /contain ed in a statement made at head quarters, of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association here. The- statement followed an nouncement from Washington that tho state department would sub mit to congress the report of the international joint commission. **We.havo known for months," the statement continues, "that the favorable report was coming, even since the hearings, when the engi neers submitted their findings. Still :ii is good news to these eighteen i states handed together in the as sociation to promote the interests at this project. This news comes as a relief after many unavoidable delays, and in the face of other de lays that have ,been avoided. It is a culmination we have been working for these two years. "Formation of a legislative pro gram by the friends of this project in congress will >be eagerly expect ed. In the main, the course* is clearly marked; details have to be agreed upon. ' "It means a fight. Twenty-five year ago the interests whichj ^re trying to hold the country to a sin gle gateway, were fighting this same movement on the ground that the Erie canal was large enough for our needs. They urged the west to wait till they deepened the canal from seven feet to nine?it is now almost twelve?and they won for twenty-five vyears. They will try to put us oft* for another gen eration. "Opponents of the seacut say we are attacking New York, when we really are fighting against economic waste. We believe that it won't hurt New .York to have the coun try grow, that it will injure New York if the west is not allowed to grow. ? '? ? ? Tho Otirchlass Town Xow Has a Sunday School. Walcott. la.,- Jan. . 26.?Walcott is looking, up in a. religious way. This yillage. whose chief-executive. ?Mayor-Strohbian, no" less than three months ago boasted that it had never .had a church .within the limits of the community in the last .65 years now has a Sunday school. ? According to Dr. Leroy Coff man, pastor ot the First Presby terian church, of Davenport, la., the Sunday school was .established as a result of the influence of a little- girl who had attended vaca tion Bible school-at his church. Dr. Coffman states> "The mayor was opposed to its existence bV.t the written'permis sion of aiLother members of the school board of this city of Wal cott in response to general senti ment in its favor, obtained the school building for the Sunday school and it is now an established fact." Dr. A. Frank Houser, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of Dav enport recently made an inspection of this village and reports that "Some weeks ago a Sunday school was started in Walcott, perhaps the first- in all the" history of the town now in-its 65th year. There was no decided objection to the Sunday school being started by the young people ond children of the village but in case a church was * started the mayor threatened to close it. "We looked into the educational conditions and found that the reg ular school only this year was ad vancing to an intermediate grade preparatory to a high school course, which some of the students take in Davenport, twelve miles away. The town is sixty-five years old and has never sent a person to college from, it.-, immediate village, pre cincts. Several have taken to aca demic and normal courses atCedar and Iowa Falls, but no one entered college. There, have been three from the country or from houses who attended Ames Agricultural College; b?4 I could only learn of; one that took the full course." Dr. Houser also reported that | almost the entire community ,that located here arc known to have immigrated to this country from Holstein and the. Danish lihenish borders, about 1848. This village,! during the world war was known as "Little Berlin." Sweet Potato Curing House to > Be Established Will Be Operated in Connec-j tion With Plant of Sumter i Canning Co. The Sumter Tanning company has decided to put in a sweet po- \ tato curing house with a capacity of 30,000 bushels, the curing house to be operate-; in conection with the Canning Company's plant. The j ""'orto Pico variety of potatoes will1 be handled exclusively. If this; project proves profitable; the ca-1 pacify of the curing house will, in all probability be increased to 50.- j 000 bushels. A .Jersey man. arrested with :t j worthless cheek, said he was a "kit** flyer." The judge sent him A woman has agreed to accept $5.000 for her husband. His picture shows she made a fine bargain. * ??ST*-* Trouhst- with high rents is you've : got to keep moving. The Lancaster Mercantile Co. I Charges and Counter Charges Between Members Lancaster, Jan. 30.?That Leroy Springs and -lohn T. Stevens wil fully sold goods below their mar I Icet value, and in other , ways de ! stroyed the assets in order to in ! jure the Lancaster Mercantile Co., ! and other serious charges are made I by Chas. D. Jones, of Lancaster, in ! his answer to the suit of the Ca | tawba Fertilizer Co., against the I mercantile company, in which Mr. ; Jones is a party defendant. Mr. i Jones was arrested some weeks I ago and charges -made against him, i alleging shortages in the affairs of ' the mercantile company, of which ! he was manager. In his reply Mr. Jones charges the failure of Messrs Springs and Stevens to account for various moneys of the mercantile company. '., / . The fuss between Mr. Jones and Messrs. Springs and Stephens, has the town of Lancaster split into two factions. Mr. Jones was man ager of the big stores from 1917 I to last July, at which time, Mr. J Jones .alleges in his reply, he was deposed. Among the charges made by 2VJr. Jones in retaliation of the charges made against him ! are the following: I That the suit against the mcr | cantile ^company was instituted i through "spite" and "fraud," to j wreck the Lancaster Mercantile Co. i That the books of the company were fraudulently audited, its , solw ncy being concealed. That the. suit is a' "wilful and ! deliberate proceeding under the j guise and protection of this court, i to obtain the valuable assets of de J fendant Lancaster Mercantile Co., i for far less than they1 are really j worth, and to eliminate 'Mr. Jones ! "as a business competitor." j That the two defendants, Messrs. j Springs and Stevens, sold goods below market values, honored ille Lgal claims, refused to pay just J obligations against the company, j and in other ways wasted the as i sets of the company, i Failure to pay for cotton sold to j a Chester mill largely controlled by i Mr. Springs. j That Mr. Springs sold to the mill in Lancaster in which he has an ; interest cotton - belonging to the j mercantile company, at 12 1-2 i cents a pound, eau: rng the com I pany to sustain a" heavy loss. That Mr. Springs "did illegally and wrongfully keep and convert to his own personal use" the sum of; $50,000, profits/on the salo of 2,000 bales of ''cotton, bought for the mercantile company in Now York and sold at a proiit. That certain, other property of the mercantile company has been converted to Mr. Springs' personal use.- ? ? ? ? ?. :' ? '':<? ?' Blind, Student* at rmversi*y.! An. Arbor, Mich:, Jan. 25?Han : dicapptd by either total or partial ! blindness, four 'nv?n are obtaining a higher education at the Univer sity of Michigan, and despite their condition are making records en vied by those with normal eyesight, according to University professors. Although no special means are employed by the faculty to assist these students, the four are being aided by teachers and fellow stu dents in devious ways. Friends j read to them and take notes for them in the various lectures, i One of the most notable of the i quartet is (lern* G. Ensing of Hol 5 land, Mich. Mr. Ensing is totally I blind, yet is obtaining an education in machine shop \vl5rk. ile has developed a point.system for taking notes in lecture courses arid expects to.become a teacher at some school ! for the blind when he completes j his course this year. He is aided J in his reading by his wife, who j has come here to reside, i Xed Smith of Detroit, a fresh j man. is preparing for law and is rc | garded as one of the most am I bitious student at the University. ? He* goes about the. campus unassist I ed, feeling his way. Friends read j to him and copy lectures. Smith's later ambition is to study mcdi i cine. j John Bezlodk of Detroit, a sonh j ombre, is partially blind, being un ? able to read. If is friends assist j him in obtaining a literary edu cation. J. M. Caldwell of Indiana. Pa., totally blind, entered the Univer sity last fall as a means of "pass ing the dark hours." ;vs he ex pressed it to friends. lie employs two readers in the academic course he is taking. Each of the four entered the University after being afflicted. Sumter Def eats Hyatt Park School ?.? Sumter high evened up its Co lumbia trip by defeating Hyatt Park Saturday afternoon at the Y. .M. C. A., Id to 12. The teams proved to be pretty well matched, with Sumter having the slight edge. Green played best for Sumter and R. Walker excelled for Hyatt Park. Only a small crowd was on hand to watch the game. Sumter returned home Saturday afternoon after winning one game Lnd losing one. the contest with Columbia high Friday night hav ing gone to the Columbia high school by a decisive score. The Sumter-Hyatt Park game a' Sumter. played three weeks resulted in a victory lor the Came, cocks. The line-up: Sumter (Hi) Hyatt Park (12) Wray.F_. Sammon Skinner .. . V.. . 11. Walker Wright _. ... _C_. Withers Felder ... ..(].. .11. Walker Planding ... _?_(].. Helms Substitutions: Sumter. Cromb. for Wray. and Green for Skin inf. Hyatt Park. Keister lor H. Walker Referee, Crauel. 'Excess Profits Must Pay Taxes __ j Railways Ordered to Give Ac count For Four Months I Washington, Jan. 28.?Railroads ; which earned more than G per cent j upon the value of their property j used in transportation during the ? period from September 1, 1!>2(\ to January 1, 1021, are required un der an order issued today by the interstate commerce commission to turn half of the excess so earned over to the government. The order as issued by the com mission makes effective, sections oi* the transportation act of 1920 and prescribes rules for the application of those sections. Railroads during the four months' period specified in the or der are understood to have earn ed a considerable amount in ex cess of the (i per cent limitation prescribed by congress but the val uations list having been given out for the individual lines the amounts can not yet he calculated. The transportation act in addition to providing that until .March 1. 1922, rates should be made* by the interstate commerce commis sion sufficient .to give the roads at least 5 1-2 per cent." on their properties provided for the recov ery by the government of a halt* of all the. amount earned by any roads over 6 per cent. JThe vommission in "fixing the rates found a* tentative value for railroad property by groups throughout the United States but did not. segregate this to individual roads. ' General increases were granted in rates in 1920 and during the last four months of the year while tradio volumes we're large raibroad earnings were reported in excess of the. H per cent, clause but for all of the months of 1921 and so far in 1922 the returns have not indi cated that any sums could Ije col lected by the government under the law. ? Rep *rt of State Highway ( ommfc sion. i - * \ ? Columbia, Jan. 30.?a total of 782 miles of tho state highway system was constructed during 1921. at a total cost of $4,97g,8s3, according to the annual* report of the State Highway Commission and ;ts chief engineer,.Chas. II. Moore lield, which is to be made to the legislature this week. These totals include 290 miles of road con structed by the counties,-independ ent of the state highway . depart ment, at. a cost of. $1,510.000.. a total of 50$ miles was.graded by the state highway department, at ;a cost of $3,4Cg",8S3, 492 miles be long, completed. SIxtyrfive bridges j of more .than twenty feet in span j each were completed during the j year. .' . > / V 1. The report shows that the pro ?j grata already in sight for 1322 .to j (als $5^429.90g. under the state .de partment, and $2.250.00.0 by the i counties. Oh the last day of the year the department had approximately five million dollars worth of road work under way, providing for the con struction of approximately ..450 miles of road, and eight bridges. The, report shows also that 411 miles of road were maintained by the department throughout the i state, -at an average cost of $^51 ! a mile. I The cost of operating the state j highway -.department ? was only ! $213,712. It spent for road work i in the state $3,738.797.. Of the j funds used $1.359.453 was-federal aid; 5c?8.132 was .motor vehicle li cense receipts: $1,081.212 was fur nished by the counties. Included in the cost of operation. was the cost of handling $/jG.S:10 worth of war ; material, furnished gratis by the j federal government, and also the cost of issuing automobile licenses. During 1921 the,state highway j department licensed 91,361 motor ! -vehicles, as compared with 94.7511 in 1920. The receipts were $733, ! 820. as compared with $527.s?;s the j year before. Battleship Wreck is 1 sed for Li quor Transfer Station. PensacoU, Fla... Jan. 24.?When ? Uncle Sam's gunners made a tar-j get of and sank the old battleship i Massachusetts with shore and nu>- i I hile batteries of big guns two miles ' [from shore in the Gulf of Mexico; ! off here last year they unknowing- | ly provided liquor runners with an ? I ideal transfer point for cargoes of wet goods from the Bahamas for^ j Florida. The Massachusetts is lying .in j J about fourteen feet of water at low [tide with part of the hulk pro-; Meeting above the Surface;., Pro Hibitio'n officers recently learned that the vicinity w.-is frequented by i many fishermen, although there were few fish in the adjacent waters,'and suspecting something.] j went aboard. i Xo liquor was found for Un reason that the importers prob-1 ably hail been tipped off* to the im pending visit but the sleuths dis-j Covered hundreds of whiskey bottle j 1 labels, broken bottles and cases, [while the atmosphere rcoked with 'the odor associated with saloons and distilleries. I ?? I Liquor runners had been storing their cargoes in the hulk and speed j boats and fisher craft had been taking it ashore. Court Decides Boundary Line Washington. Jan. Ho.? The su preme court has decided the boun dary line between Georgia and South Carolina slutll he midway between m normal flow tide in riv er v. lu re there are no islands, and where there are islands shall be midway between islands and the South Carolina shore. A lot of < hildren see objection able movies" because they can't be left at home alone. MONEY TO GIVE A WA Y The man who has money to give away is hard to find. Now, more than ever before we mu st spend wisely and buy for quality as well as price. Men Know the quality of the merch andise carried by this store, the repu tation it has built for selling the best and giving fullest value at all times. When therefore, we announce a final price cut. on all OVERCOATS, WINTER SUITS, SWEATERS, WOOL SHIRTS AND WINTER UNDER WEAR to clear our stocks and make room for spring goods, the careful spender will recognize in this offer a b?ying opportunity he cannot af ford to miss. New prices in effect no w. Retter call before what you want is gone. Chandler Clothing Company J4 N. MA IN STREET Chamber of Commerce Notes | Sec. Reardon, the Apostle of Progress, Writes an Epistle to the Brethren at Mayesville - j Mayesville is an important trad ? ir.ga.nd banking community with : many stores and a number of large [farmers ? and merchants who are [amply able to put up the necessary j money for a large sweet potato : curing and storage house. Muycs i ville has the railroad facilities a ad .plenty of cheap land on which to [erect such an enterprise. The orer ] head expenses of operating such a j plant in Mnyesvilule would be a great deal Jess than in- .Sinatt-f or |in a larger city or town than Sum ter. ; .Mayesville also has sufficient j money to put up a good sized can . ping factory and put in a sweet 'potato curing house in connection I with the' cannery as Sumter is do ling. Mayesville is dependent upon farming for i(s commercial exist ence and Mayesville can do just as j much for the farmers who keep up Tdayesville's stores, banks sales {stables, fertilizer dealers, school, 'churches, railroad facilities and [other means of existence as I'ine iwrtod can do to take care, of the ? people of Pine wood, and the mer | chants, bankers, and farmers of ! Pinewood are getting ready to do i by putting, up a sweet potato cur ling house, organized ;i truckers' i association and a cooperative mar keting Association to sell the field :and garden products intelligently 'and profitably so that the farmers : wlit) support Mayesville r an make a living producing and selling [something besides cotton. By furnishing* facilities for cur ling, storing, grading and selling ! sweet potatoes, by furnishing can nery facilities for different kinds of truck Mayesville will help to re establish prosperity among the hundreds of farmers who do their trading and their banking in Mayes \ille. MayiVjville. nk,. Sumter. can not exist without profitable farm ing around Mayesville and a found Sumter. Pinewood has discovered these important facts .is Sumter has. Then why is it that no busi ness man. ho large farmer, who not only has thousands of acres of land heretofore devoted t<> cotton, but from now on must be planted to other cn?ps and these substitute for cotton crop intelligently mar keted, but wh<> can get the money to do these tilings why is it that npno of tin- well to do and intelli gent, successful business men and : leaders are doing any thing to ward furnishing the farmers with some wa\ of making ;i living in order thai Mayesville can continue to live as a prosperous commercial town in the future as Mayesville has been in The past. Tile lack of ?'pulling together" for Mayesville ami for tie- agricul tural territory surrounding and that has supported Mayesville is the only obstacle in the way of Mayesville being one of tin- big gest and most important links in the chain of new endeavor thai must and will put Sumter county back into i I'm procession of pros perity ami progress. Mayesville has the intelligence, money, busi ness acumen, transportation facili ties, rich agricultural background w Ith thousands of intelligent and bard working farmers <:' produce hundreds of thousands <?! dollars annually of marketable sweet po tatoes, truck, poultry, hogs, butter fat, eggs and other farm products if only tie- town of Moves vi He and hs influential, monied men will si ift t In- ball to rolling to furnish Mayesville and Its fartmu'-Mistom ? rs with guarantees ot markets im thousands of dollars worth oi sal able products. the money froni wbieh will I..- spent oe banked in Mayesville. Mayesville has tu do something fpretty cpriek, like Sumter had toi i start doing, .and IiI:?- Sumter will' ihave to greatlv enlarge upon and ? continue to d?>. and like Pinewood J is getting ready to."so if Mayesville j expects to keep its stores and its l>anks horse and mule stable, for jtilizer dealers, agricultural imple ment dealers and other business, j places going, all ihat is needed in 'Mayesville is "the man of the hour." and every emergency since the stone age has furnished "the ?man of the hour." who went forth ?and hiintod?up and joined together ?many other men who "put it overj ' the top." If Mayesville will just i I say that she wants a number of. Sumter's business men to go to, I Mayesville and help push, and get ? the machine to rolling, all Mayes- j [ville has to do is to tell it to tin-, : Sumter Chamber of Commerce'and ; .'that body with the Young Men's1 i Business League of Sumter. and! .the Sumter County Committee of i Progress will start filling their [gasoline tank-, and it will simply j In' u ease of "let's go" to Mayes ville. A tirst meeting, a first start must be made in Mayesville. | j Sumter is just as much interested^ ' in Mayesville as Mayesville people ! .'ire. Sumter sells Mayesville men and women hundreds of thousand I of dollars wort It of goods annually. Sumter is just itching to go to Mayesville and help Mayesville get things going. Who will be the j "man of the hour" or will it be ' : amiss in these days of woman's op rportunity; "the lady of tin- hour" in good old Mayesville? Tin- same ; arguments can be put up about necessity for sweet potato curing 'houses, truckers' associations and : marketing associations all over j Sumter county. Sumter is organ ized to render organized assistance .to every part of Sumter. Lee*and Clarendon counties. ! As a matter of curiosity to find out whether anybody in Mayesville ' reads this article, afid to see if any one there, lady or gentleman, is in terested, E. I Reafdon, secretary, j of the Sumter Chamber of Com merce invites all the .ladies and (gentlemen of that progressive lit tle city who are interested to just write on a postal card' the words: "1 read it?let's go," and mail the card to him ? and then Sumter's business men will know whether they are wanted in Mayesville to help start something, if sufficient [?replies are received to this article, and better still, if a committee of ladies and gentlemen of Mayesville] will say that Mayesville is ready to go to work organizing Tin- sec retary is betiing that the lady of the hour" will be the first heard from in this matter. Put then: as j everybody knows. Sumter's com mercial secretary is very partial the ladies, and doubtless lie is hop ing and hinting that .the Mayesville ladies will invite him and his fel lowmen of Sumter to attend a meeting in Mayesville in which tin- audience will be composed largely of Mayesville ladies. Picture Film of Suiuter. Following %l lie showing in mo- ? don picture theatres over this j country of the Pageant of Progress E arade on Sumter County School, Day at the I!?JI Sumter County Pair, are coining inquiries from all over tin* Putted Slates for informa tion about Sumter and Sumter county. Travelers from many states have reported seeing this, picture in different parts of the [,'nited States, and Winthrop ami Clemson College specialists and I niied States Department of Agri culture specialists have reported seeing this picture ai different places ami that it is htrractius much attention not withst anding the fact that the film was reduced ;?> the International News Com pany in its productions A young lady of Sumter recently returned ] from Florid.'i reports that this pic i ure i'rented much in! eres! In a winter resort and thai several of h,.r friends seeing t his pb tnre vveiil ""it of the theatre to html her up so she could see "Sumter on i he nna ion piet in e screen The Adventure Film Corporation j of Xew York City lias written the [Sumter Chamber of Commerce to l find'out whether this organization ' will lead a movement to advertise 'Sumter through a larger and more detailed motion picture which will ; include not only Sumter at its best, but important personages and com mercial houses, the cost of the pie-, ture to he split between the busi I ness establishments, that is those that are to be filmed and adver tised. Secretary Reardori has re quested further information re [garding this proposition. In the] j meantime every individual ? r firm interested in this proposition is in- ; vited tf> say what they ihink so""thaf-' an expert representative of the Ad- . j venture Film Corporation may; come to Sumter to take this matter ! up with business concerns through the Chamber of Commerce. Death of a Famous Horse. Estevan. Sask.. Jan. 21.?Para-? j mount Flashwood, a famous sire jt ' the Belgian breed of horses, is dead at the farm of George Rapp near 1 Lampman. Sask. He was only six years old and his death is regard- ; cd as a blow to horse breeding in j western Canada. \ As a three-year-old, this mag- ' nificent specimen of horse-flesh j won the grand championship of his breed at the international fair at Waterloo. la.", in 1919. Immed iately aft'-r his victory which rank ed him as the best Belgian stallion , on this side of the. Atlantic. a I'nited States breeder offered $21, 600 for him and r? was refused by ; his owru r. New' Auto Plates. Columbia, Jan.> 30.?-The state j highway department Saturday re ceived a carload of 1922 automo-. bile license plates, and these are ready for distribution. The delay : in the .delivery of the plates, which recently caused the depart ment to order from a new manu- j facturer. has caused tardiness in the delivery of plates to many mo tor owm rs throughout the slate, but these are, to be delivered imme diately. Many inquiries have been received by the department as to when the new plates would go out. A man has left $100.OHO to-a girl who refused to marry him. Her kindness was never forgotten. Methodist Loaders Gather at Mem phis. ?_? Memphis. Jan. 2S.?Methodists from all over the south will gather here next Tuesday, January 31, for what is ri&id to be one of the largest conferences ever held by that de* nomination. It is expected that 500 or more leaders will be pres ent. This number will include air of the bishops, presiding elders', and many of the pastors and prom inent laymen of the 37 annual ?conferences of the Methodist Epfivv copal Church, Sourh. The object of this meeting is to bring together leaders of the church for the purpose of consid .ring con ditions: in the missionary world in relation to the. Methodist Episco pal Church. South, and more par ticularly, in relation to the Centen ary of Missions movement as fos tered by that denomination,' through which $37,000,000 new money was subscribed for world wide missions and. relief work. This amount, together with the ?13,0*00.000 coming through regular channels, set a new record, It is claimed for missionary*enterprises of evangelical churches in Amerr ica. On the strength of this offer ing. Southern Methodists opened up new mission states and enlarged work already projected in eight for eign fields and in America. * * In addition to prominent church men of this country, there will be. present at the Memphis meeting missionaries from China. Korea. Japan-, Mexico. Brazil, Cuba, Afri ca and Europe, who will make re ports for the ,foreign missic"p iields maintained by the MethocKst Episcopal church. South. Home mission workers engaged in special work in cities, rural sections, moun tain schools, mining and industrial centers, will give an account ?ue their work. I>r. IV. R. Reauchamp. director general of the Centenary' of Mis sions movement, will -preside ovor the'convention. which 'will con tinue through February 2. As we understand it. the peas ants furnish the muzhik for. the* new Russian dance steppes. ??? ? All the world doesn't love a man wno is in l.?vc with himself. Money is so close and yet so far. 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