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Tfce Watchman and Southron ?Published Wednesday and Satur day by Qsteen Publishing Company, / Sumter, S. C. Terms: - $2/J0 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: " One Square, first insertion >_$-1.00 Jfcvery. subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for' three months or longer will be. made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will oe charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect will be charged.for. _ The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True ^uthron in IS66. The Watchman Uhd Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly, the best advertising medium in Sumter. HAT FEVER PRECAUTIONS A newspaper, answering the in quiry of a suffering reader, pub lished recently a list of precau ?k.-^ns against hay fever, which had ? -been pretty weil agreed upon by a number of practising physicians. -Among them are: * . The use of amber-colored glasses* when, outdoors, preferably the sort .with side protectors; veiling one's . -&ce while driving; shaking and ?brushing garments thoroughly be fore going into the house;.. chang when in the house, to a . suit -or dress not worn outdoors at all; keeping outdoor garments away - fesin the bedroom; placing muslin screens in windows opened at mght; avoiding \ having flowers ground or smelling'them; discov ering,: if possible, what particular flowers increase one's misery, then staying aw?}' from them; avoiding sudden changes of temperature and <ever.-vigorpus exercise when out sids, and heavily scented powders ;OX.-p^fpmes; eating cooked fruits and vegetables, and omitting for. a ' -^hile_, raw fruits, green corn and celery. - . Anyone who wants to try these precautions may do so. On the whpje it looks as if it would be , abgilt as easy to keep the- hay fever. MEXICO It is disquieting to find so re sponsible a. newspaper as the Rocky -Mountain News saying; "One of . these months the United States will ?have to make up its mind whether it -shall undertake the invasion of Mexico.". It is some time now since sucja language has been expected from any but the Hearst papers. ^"' -.Things are shaping for something of {the, sort, says the Denver news ??pef*s. Professional revolutionists ipe. gathering on this side. of the ?feoyder, as well as on the other side; ifci*d among- them, as..lead er, is ? j Mexican leader who has been jcseping the peace, in the Tampico 01 .-fields in the interest of Ameri can ; producers. "If the people say no," remarks j the paper, quoted, "it will not be j 4??e. If they are in an aggressive ! niood, they may approve such a move to be. undertaken from Wash- j iogton." , Whatever may be , the mobd in 1 E> Paso .and Wall Street, it re-j quires -no .great perspicacity to see j that the American, public as a! ?hole is not looking for war with*, anybody at present, and doesn't! ^tasowva reason on earth why it i rn^wald: invite, one by invading j ; *?? The American oil interests are j able to fight their own battle, arid ] ^fiisrwe.been doing so with pretty! good success in the recent confer-! ence in New York with the finance \ minister.. of President Obregon's ! government. Obregon wants loans] and he wants recognition by the j ' United States. For these he seems j willing to make any concession that his own people will stand for: j and his people are not in the tru- i *? cuienx .rnqod that they were a few yeitf? ago. But even if negotiations fatUr. it will require a far greater i ".effort, than interventionists realize to persuade the country' to any hos tile move^.. WEATHER IGNORANCE Most of the people who read recently of the large number of Sfctalities that occurred in and ero.und New York City, as the re sult of a violent wind storm, doubt . leas .thought- of it as an "act of ?od", for which the victims were in. no way responsible. This is not necessarily true. The New York World makes the significant statement that in City ISland, where the greatest loss of life occurred, there was no local resident among the dead. The rea son is simple: \..._"City Island takes a business in terest in boating and in feeding water sportsmen, and measures its profits .and prospects largely by the batcher. Its people have not for gotten- how. to watch the sky for ftorm-signs. But New Yorkers I have ceased to be -weather-wise, j The penalty for sOme is death." The sfdrni grave plain warning of ?ts approach. Severe storms any ! where nearly always -do, whether ! on land or sea Sailors on the j Great Lakes, where the weather is ! considered particularly "treacher | ous", say there is always at least i two hours' warning of a squall. Kew Yorkers are not the only i j people who have lost their weather i ? v.. .<. " r j eye. And it is only such a tragedy as this that reveals how complete ['.-"?? ? and lamentable the 'loss has been. i ?" ? ? It would not be . so bad if people haci become . wholly independent of ihe weather;?but they have not, ' even in the metropolis. A little practical attention to meteorology BHNMMBM would be profitable anywhere. ? m o SMALL IMMIGRATION The fixing by the Department of Labor of 357,903 as .the number of immigrants who may come into this country during the 12 months beginning July .1 does not .mean :;that many will come. The number of recruits is sure to be-much less. Some of the countries, will take I fail, ad vantage of their quotas, as they have done the past year. Otiiers will not. It. may be doubted whether the. total nhmber of en trants, will be more than 300,000. Recent.,figures have seemed to in ! dioate that the total for the present year, will fall considerably short of that figure. Moreover, there must be set off against these entrants the large number of immigrants already here who will leave during the year for the old country. There has been a I considerable emigration in the last i few months. Although dependable j ^gures. are not..at hand, it seems j safe to say that perhaps there, will! not be more than 100,000 net gain* in population Srom foreign sources either in the present fiscal year or the next one. This is a notable drop-from the years when we used to import a million immigrants, and keep two-rthirds of them. It has been reported lately, too, that most of ? the ? present immi grants are women, and that there is actually a net loss in male immi gration. This is a situation not looked for,?and one thai works with the three , per ..cent restriction law to jsave this, country from the cheap labor competition that was feared as a result of the war. Meeting of Tobacco Men June 30th. Mr. W. B. Lea of Florence, field service division a gent .and Mr. G. T. Reaves, , the local representative of the Tobacco Growers* Cooperative Marketing" Association with head quarters in the Sumter Chamber of Commerce have requested the local business and other organizations to assist in widely advertising %% rousing meeting at Sumter Court] House on the evening of Friday, June 30th at S:30 o'clock. It is ex pected that a prominent Kentucky speaker will address this meeting. The Sumter: Chamber of Com merce and Mr. Reaves are now do ing their .part in advertising this meeting and. would like for the Ro tary Club, Xiwanis Club, Young j Men's Business League and all oth- j er business men, of Sumter and the. farmers of Sumter county to ! help get but a. Sarge number cf to- j bacco growers and other business men for the meeting on June 30th. Six good Kentucky speakers have been secured for South Carolina and border cotmties in the wind ing up drive of the 1922 campaign to sign up tobacco growers in the association during the next ten j days. If Sumter desires to be a ? big tobacco market, it is up to the j Sumter business men and differ- j ent organizations to help the To bacco Growers' Cooperative Mar keting ^Association to organize. the tobacco growers to sell their tobac co for the highest possible prices j and show that, Sumter merchants, banks, and professional men and women are backing up the tobacco growers who sell or want to sell their tobacco oh the Sumter tobac co market. The Tobacco Growers' ! Cooperative Marketing Association 1 is well pleased with the co-opera tion given the association so far by Sumter's business and profes sional men, and" in so far as the tobacco growers of this county are concerned, they have lined up in splendid style with the association. Bur there are still many tobacco growers who are not in the asso ciation and the meeting of June 30th is for the purpose of having .speakers, who know a great deal j ^bout the association to inform the business men and the tobacco j growers of the benefits to the; farmers and to local markets, of j the association. Columbia, June 21?Mrs. Aliene ? King, Richlund county woman who j shot and killed her husband Clar ence King, at her home at Pontiac. i in the uppw part of the county, was indicted by the grand jury here yesterday afternoon, and will go on tri.il in criminal court here prob ably next week. Mrs. Kins is 28 years old. She killed her husband , as he was lying in bed. the load from a shot gun blowing off the ; back of his head. The woman claims that she was threatened by I her husband, who also, she says. ; threatened to drive h*r away from : home with her three children and \ install a negro woman in her place. ? ? -? ! Our own opinion is that normal ! conditions might return except for jthe fear of being called "nor i malcy." - ; "Repentance" comes after l "plenty" in the dictionary, also. TJimisual Abundance of Boll Wee vils This Spring Will .Kecessi late Some Mod ilk-at ion in j i Methods of Poisoning. j ?..? j (By B. R. Coad and G. A. Maloney I U. S. Department of Agricul ture) j For the past few weeks we have I been accumulating records on the j emergence of the boll weevil from nearly all of the cotton states and are finding universally, as we fore I casted some months ago. that the 1 number of over-wintered weevils is l'ar greater than usual; in fact, in many districts where accurate counts have been made it has been found that we have in the fields now as many weevils as are ordi narily present a month later when the first summer-bred brood has started to appear. With anything like normal weather conditions this is going to mean a tremendously rapid increase in the weevil dam age, and this will have an import ant bearing on the program to be followed by those using calcium arsenate for the control of the j weevil. In the first place it should be remembered that we : recommend starting poisoning when from ten to fifteen per cent of the cotton squares have been punctured by: the weevil. As a general rule j this condition does not arise until' after the newly bred weevils have j started to emerge from the squares.! This year, however, we have found j many fields where there are al- ? ready sufficient weevils present to: destroy practically all squares as fast as formed. In. other words, such cotton will never start bloom ing unless the weevils are con trolled, and from the very outset 50 per cent or more of the squares are punctured. Under such condi tions it is undoubtedly going to be! necessary to poison earlier than,' ever before. Of course, there Isi no advantage in poisoning the cot-j ton before the squares form, as j the weevils. are continuing to > emerge from hibernation vduring! this period and furthermore they j are doing the crop no harm. How-j ever, where such a heavy infesta-] tion occurs it. will be advisable to j make the first application just as soon as the cotton starts squaring freely, or about the time the plants average from 4 to 5 squares each, j The regular poisoning schedule j should be started at that time and I continued along the lines, of the' usual recommendations for con-; trolling this early infestation of; weevils. Another very important effect of j this heavy infestation will be-felt i later in the season. When.. the j weevils first emerge from hiberna- | tion and reach the cotton field they j move around very little as long as , they can find an ample supply of j unpunctured squares for their use, J but just as soon as the infestation j becomes sufficiently heavy to punc- ? iure practically all squares these! weevils start to move in search of\ fresh pastures. In an ordinary season this means that you usually! have only the weevils bred in your own cotton to contend with until some time from the latter part of July to the last of August, depend ing on the locality. This year, however, this movement of migra tion of weevils will probably start i several weeks earlier than usual. ? Consequently, it will not only be J necessary for you to start poison- j ing earlier to control your own in- ; festation. but you should also ex pect that, before you have had time to mature the fruit which your plants have set during this period of protection, you will begin to ex perience an immigration of weevils from unpoisoned cotton. Of course, this condition would not arise if every one in a district was success fully poisoning his cotton; but this I will not be the case, this year, and J just as soon as all squares in the j unpoisoned crops are punctured j the migration to the poisoned fields j will commence. This means that? every day a large crop of new j weevils will move into these pois- , oned fields, and it is going to take ] continuous, thorough poisoning to I protect to maturity the crop which j has been allowed to set' by the earlier applications. These two facts mean just this: ] Successful weevil control this year j is going to require more effort and j more poison per acre than has ? ever been the case in the past. On the other hand, wherever the land rs sufficiently fertile to justify such an effort, there is much more as surance of profit from the oper ation than is usually the case. The increase in the cost per acre brought about by the increased number of applications necessary will be far more than compensat ed for by the fact that the weevil damage without poisoning will be far greater than normal, and thus the margin of profit on the opera tion is tremendously increased. In other words, a heavy weevil infes tation such as we have this year means a greater expenditure per acre for poisoning to successfully control it. but it also means ? greater actual net profit in dollars and cents per acre from the pois- j Oning operations. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. Teftdyi Opfto Hfcb Loir Close Clos* Jan.. _ _ 22.07 22.17 21.90 22.08 22.15 March .21.95 22.06 21.80 21.94 22.04 May - _ . 21.72 21.82 21.72 21.82 21.82 July .22.35 22.52 22.23 22.38 22.47 Oct.22.30 22.48 22.22 22.38 22.42 Dec. .22.20 22.30 22.02 22.19 22.25 Spots 10 off. 22.90. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Yettdye Open High Low Close r.)o?? ' Jan.21.40 21.61 21.36 21.52 21.57 J March _ . 21.27 21.44 2.119 21.35 21.40! Jaly .22.5! 22.72 22.40 22.66 22.67 Oct. - ...21.95 22.11 21.82 22.05 22.09: Dec.21.58 21.81 21.54 21.73 21.76 Spots 12 off. 22.63. Liverpool Cotton. January . 12.47 March . 12.29 | May.- . 12.17 I July._. 13.14 I Uctober. 12.80 j December ._ ?2.56 1 R?-<-eipis. 1.00?: Sales. 15,000i Middling, i 13.5S; G?od Middling 14.04. These Only at The Sumter Dry (rOOd ?4 Co. A pretty line of new "Character Clotb" in both dress and shirting patterns now being displayed by j The Sumter Dry Goods Co.?Ad- j vertisemest. NEGROES APPEAL TO HIGH COURT Two Electrocutions for Fri day Staged Columbia. June. 21.?Governor Harvey advised yesterday that Jake Terry, negro, under death sentence for Friday, had appealed to the su preme court, this action automati cally stayed the sentence. CoL A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, was also advised of the appeal. Terry was convicted of the mur der of Thaddens Fulton, negro, whom he shot down in a church in Hampton county. Terry escaped from the-scene of the murder and in arresting him at Fairfax officers shot him down, bullets shattering his-left hip and thigh. During the trial at Hampton a short time ago Terry had to be carried into the court room on a cot, according to information brought here. When he was brought to the penitentiary to. be electrocuted officers- used a stretcher to carry him from an au tomobile to rhe prison hospital. Ernest Vance, Greenville negro, | convicted of the# murder of his i uncle, James Vance, and also un- | der sentence of death for Friday, j has also appealed to the supreme court, according to information furnished Governor Harvey. This carrying out of the sentence of the appeal also automatically stops the court. Vance, penitentiary offi cials said yesterday, has never been brought to Columbia, although the law requires that he should be lodged in the prison. - conway" ! welcomes editors! Royal Reception Given by "Independent Republic" :. : h-?. i Conway. June 21.?Conway took care of the South Carolina Press j Association today. Early this! morning cars began to leave Con- j way for Marion, where they were j to meet the editors. A committee from the Conway Chamber of Com merce boarded the train at Pee Dee Junction and by the time the ! train arrived at Marion" they had } the delegates all properly badged | with a unique badge in the form of I a key with the wording, 'The Key! to AH Conway, South Carolink?} Press A.^-jciation. June 21, J 922."! Immediately upon leaving the train the visitors were given places in cars awaiting them and the pro cession moved up the street to the Marion Public Library,: where . a' short address of welcome was de- ! livered by P. W. Johnson, editor of { the Marion Star. As soon as this j address was delivered the delegates j again boarded the care for Conway. At* the ferry they were greeted on j the river bridge by Miss Flora May \ Holiday, queen of the Palmafesta, j and were entertained by her maids, j The party arrived.in Ccnway about1 noon. After an informal reception j lasting about one hour luncheons was served in the city halL The menu was composed of Horry grown products entirely. At 2:30 o'clock some of the visitors boarded the yacht Jeanette and were car* ried to Peach Tree Ferry, where they were met by automobiles and carried on to Myrtle Beach. The rest of the party was carried through the country to Myrtle Beach in automobiles. The visitors seem "well pleased with the enter- j tainment in Conway. The opening; session of the convention was held j at Myrtle Beach tonight. The Case of j Busch vs. Lasker That Chairman Lasker of the I shipping board exhibited a bad j temper in replying to the Busch I letter revealing .the sale of liquors j on vessels of the United States shipping board is an opinion here j among r.nany. Naturally to call j Uncle Sam the "biggest bootlegger! in the world" because of the sale of liquor on shipping board vessels! would roil Chairman Lasker, be-j cause in this matter Lasker, byi grace of President Harding, isj the representative of Uncle Sam, and perforce the epithet of boot- j legger also strikes at him. It is not understood just why Chairman Lasker should counter attack upon Mr. Busch and other Americans of German blood on the theory that they are trying to injure the Amer ican merchant marine, as he did in | the following: "It is. of course, notorious that Adolphus Busch, who founded J your brewery, was possibly the Kaiser's closest friend in America, J and that your family for many* years has maintained a castle in Germany; your action in any event will not displease your German friends, whose greatest hope of a restored German merchant marine is in a hurt to America's new-born merchant marine." As it is perfectly ridiculous to j assume that Germany could build ! up a merchant marine by destroy- ; ing the American merchant ma- j rine, this would indicate that j Chairman Lasker was not only sur prised, but confused and angry, at the revelation that Lasker's ships were "wet" when they were suppos ed to be '-dry." Candidates Cards FOR CONGRESS. I hereby announce myself a j candidate for Congress from the j Seventh Congressional District, sub- , ject 10 the rules of the Democratic.; party. I also wish to take this op- j port unity to say that if elected I j shall endeavor to faithfully dls- j charge the duties of the office and to merit the confidence and sup port of the people. ANDREW J. BETHEA, Candidate for Congress. - ; j About the only state that has mastered the Volstead law is the! state of inebriation. 1 To-day's Best Jokes ) .-. : ;f li ^ and Stories ; . ? j "Is she making a rich marriage?" I "I should hope to tell you; he I is a buroher who has been arrest ' ed three times for profiteering."? I Le Rire. -. Rub: "Do you ever mi?? a I meal ?" Dub: "Oh, occasionally I attend ! a banquet/'?Life. The Customer (in drug store): "You seem to have everything in this place but what a man really needs." Clerk: "And about how much of ! that would you like, sir?"?Life, i -j-r [ A hotel prospectus from Switzer I land announces that: , j "Weissbach is known as the fa j vorite . place of resort for those I who are fond of solitude. Persons j in search of solitude are, in fact, j constantly flocking here from the j four quarters of the globe."?Sun i day at Home (London). I "Are you of the opinion, James," I asked a slim-looking man of his ! companion. "that Dr. Smith's medicine does any good?" ?. "Not unless you follow the di rections." j j "What are the directions?" V "Keep the bottle tightly cork ed."-?Drugdom. "What do you think of this new feminine fad of wearing stockings with a roll in them?" U . "New? Why, women carried their rolls in their stockings before you and I- were born."?Boston Transcript. "And would you love me as much if father lost all his money?" ,. "Has he?" "Why, no." "Of course I would darling."? The Bulletin (Sydney). "Mary, You know that half dol lar you gave me this morning? Well, after buying lunch and pay ing my street car fare I've' only got a dime left, and? "John Simmons! I demand to know who you are running around with!"?Richmond Times Dispatch. "I see that the man at the head of the drug trust has failed." . "What has he been trying to do ?sell drugs?"?Life. . An amateur mountain climber, relating his experience in the Rock ies, said: "Going up you can mighty* nigh stand up straight and bite the ground;, going down a man wants hobnails on- the seat of ? his trousers."?Vancouver Province. North; "Has Alice any of the j old-time virtues?" West: *:I suppose so?most of j them are."?Kansas City Star. ' \ Beggar: "Please give a poor old blind man a dime." Beggee: "Why you can see out of one eye!" Beggar: "Well, then give me a nicklej"?Sun Dodger. He: "But my dear young lady, don't you ever wash?" She: "Certainly not! Only scrape | and rub" (?and there was no one i to tell the dear old thing at the I next table that they were merely J two artists discussing technique).? j London Opinion. Old Scot: "Dinna cry. ma wee j laddie! If ye dinna find yer penny i afore dark, here's; a- match!"?j Wayside Tales. ? Popular Fiction.?"Let Bygones Be;" by Gones. ? ? ? ' r "Yes." by George. "Rock A." by Baby. "Theory." by "Night. "Man Cannot Live," by Bread A. Lone. * ' ~ \ "Not," by A. Jugful. "Missed." by A. Mile. "How to Beat Wall Street," by Hooker Crook. ? "Margot Asquith's Auto," by j Ograpby.?Life. Killjoy: "You go back to work j tomorrow, don't you?" Brighteyest' "Oh, not at all, old i bean?merely back to the .office." I -r-Judge. ? A letter was received from our local reporter who is in New- "fork enclosing four locals of Sumter people. There isn't many papers the size of The Item that have j special New York correspondents, j An Irishman's wife had twins. | both girls. They did not know what to name them. Pat says, we will j call them Kate and Dupli-cate.? j From James Daly. Don't Blame Him. An elderly man all alone in t'ic i world and quite wealthy looked so lonely some ladies became inter ested in him. "Why not let us select a nice wife for you about fifty years old," they asked him. He replied: "I would rather have two at twenty-five."?From James Daly. Ahe- Erlangrer. wise in his years,. | used to say that he never saw "any prima donna get temperamental with a policeman." But during the j theatrical rehearsals it becomes static. The contagion of temperament reaches even the stage carpenters, i and they tell of one who suddenly | threw down his hammer with: "I j drive the best nail in town but no- | body appreciates me." ? Atlanta! Constitution. If thugs should threaten to kill some officers of the law, it would be rank flattery. Flies keep a lot of people from worrying about something else. WIMS HOLD FIRST JWEETING Local Order Ushered into International I at Initial ; Meeting! and Banquet ' With enthusiasm at a high pitch, | the Sumter Kiwanis Club was last evening officially ushered into I Kiwanis International at a meet ing and banquet held at the Ciare mont hotel.. The spirited initial gathering was in charge of Kiwan ian Geo. A. Selg. Field Representa tive of Knoxville. Tenn.. and augurs well for the success of the local club, which starts out with a mem bership of fifty-one of the business and professional men of Sumter. The gathering last evening was called to order at 7:45 o'clock un der the sponsorship of the Colum- i bia Club of which A. IT. Lumpkin j is president and District Lieut, j Governor of the Carolinas. Gov ernor Wilson G. Harvey, of the Charleston club, was introduced to the members of the Sumter club and in a few well chosen remarks told of the fellowship found in Kiwanis ..and the spirit it fostered! in community leadership.- In be'-] half of the State -of South Caro- I ?Una he asked all citizens to lend j him a helping hand in the enforce ment of law and in the discharge of the solemn duties of governor I which became his lot by reason of Governor Cooper's resignation. His remarks were made in an earnest vein and he was liberally applaud ed. Alva M. Lumpkin next told of the dissemination of Kiwanian principles of far dealng and prac tices and of the observance of the golden- rule in private, civic, scoial1 and business life. He urged upon the members of the club the dis cussion and study of the science of business building and ? the promo tion of fraternal fellowship between ] its members in the development of the various lines of endeavor they represented. He then turned the meeting over to Kiwanian Geo. A. Selig, who completed the organi zation. The first Kiwanis club was or ganized at Detroit, Michigan, in January. 1915.' The following year two more clubs were established, one at Cleveland and the other-at Pittsburgh. In the second year So clubs were established and in the third year 35 more clubs were added to the list, there being ! 73 . clubs in 191-8. When the Birming- I ham convention was held in 1919 there were 137 clubs with about 16.500 members. In 1920. 367 clubs were in existence with a total j membership of 37,000. At the con-* i vention now being held at Toronto, j Canada, there are over 800 clubs j represented and a membership of j nearly 75.000 of America's leading business and professional m<*n. The mission of Kiwanis/ is two fold. First; it creates that spirit in a -community which enables other existing organizations to ac complish more easily the things for which they were organized. Ki wanis readily lends its support to the Chamber of Commerce, the church, the school, the Boy Scouts, the Y. M. C. A., and other organizations, working for the pub lic good. * Its second mission is to develop community leaders, tak ing the man who has been indif ferent to community affairs and teaching him that he has a definite responsibility to his community. Its slogan is "We Build." The notable gathering last even ing had'as its guests and visitors the following: Governor Wilson G. Harvey, of the Charleston Chih, and - Messrs. A. M. Lumpkin.AG. Trez Pressley. W. T. Love, J. Pope Matthews. Wm. S. Matthews. H. E. Coleman, J. E. Madre, T. B. Pearce and John M. Coaart of Columbia. The Atlanta Club -was represented by LeRoy Wallace and J. L. Res pass: Hartsville by O. F. Crow, and j C. W. Ten Eick was present from I the Florala. Ala., Club. The officers and personnel of I the local club is: President H. Ii. ( Scarborough; Vice President, Dr. j H. L. Shaw; Secretary. John- B. | Duffle; Treasurer. A. M. Brough- ( ton; District Trustee, W. I. White- I head: Board of Directors: B. C. j Wallace. S. A. Harvin. Geo. W. || Hutcheson. R. B. Waters. T. Cutti-lj no McKnight, Dr. W. E. Thayer. and Herbert A. Moses. Charter members: E. E. Austin, J. G. Bagnal. J. J. Brennan. J. H. I Beaman, A. M. Broughton. R. T. j Brown. R. W. Beaty. W. B. Bums, | Jr.. J. W. Carroll. Frank W. Chand- || ler. W. E. Du Rant. M. A. Doughty, j J. B. Dufffe, R. D. Epps. I. A. Ed- I wards. F. E. Gibson. G. W. Hutche- j son. S. A. Harvin. John A. Hughes. | G. E. Haynsworth. E. M. Hall. J. I Z. Hearon. J. Lern King. T. R. \ Littlejohn. John D. Lee, Frank A. , McLeod. T. C. McKnight. J. A. Mc Knight. R. Leland Moore. Herbert A. Moses. D. R. McCallum. Samuel O'Quinn. D. L. Pierce. W. R. Plow den. W. R. Parker. H. E. Parker. J. C. Pate. S. F. Stoudenmire. H. Ii Scarborough. H. L. Shaw. Major W. Shelley, W. E. Thayer. W. S. Vati Auken. W. I. Whitehead. R. K. Wilder. J. Frank Williams. J. J. Williams. B.' C. Wallace, R, B. Waters. Milton Weinberg. The <-lub will hold bi-weekly meetings on the first and third Friday in each month at 2:30 o'clock. m ? ?? Ohio man named Corn is run ning for office, but some voters are going against the grain. 666 quickly relieves Colds, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. c^t#oops slay ; Thousands Part of Northern Forces in Mutiny Shanghai, June 21 (By the As sociated Press).?Between 10,000 and 15,000 northern forces sent against Sun Yat Sen's army in Kiangsi province ?mutinied as Kiangfu, burned portions of Kiang fu and other nearby cities and kill ed thousands of the Residents, ac* cording to unconfirmed but appar ently authoritative > reports from various sources at Hankow and Xanchang. The troops were under command of Gen. Tsai Chen Hsun, military commander of Peking. The rebellious soldiers are re_ ported marching back northward and n^aring Changshu Ki, a city about 100 miles north of Kiangfu and 50 milse north of Xanchang. ? A despatch from ? Hankow says the British gunboat Cockchafer is speeding up the Kan river toward Xanchang to bring out the foreign residents. The American gunboat Monocacy is coaling at Kiukiang and will proceed to Xanchang as soon as possible. The American gunboats Isabel and Quiros and the British gunboats Bee i and Foxglove are held in readiness at Kiukiang to rush to the disturbed area if necessary to protect nationals. The situation at Canton is quiet bui ominous. Messages from ad herents of Sun Yat Sen's southern govern merit at Canton and Hong Kong said Sun has ordered his main force in Kiangsi to abandon the expedition against the north and return to Canton. Sun; Wu Ting Fang and other leaders of the Canton government are reported to be still aboard Chinese warships in the neighborhood of Canton await ing the return of the Kiangsi army. If Sun persists hi his determina tion to regain control of Canton from Chen Chinng Ming, who drove him out last week, the re turn of these troops may precipi tate serious fighting- for possession of the city; The report that Sun's army is to return to Canton:" was given color tonight by reports from Hankow and Kiangsi cities of Kiu kiang and Xanchang indicating fighting in Kiangsi province be tween the northern and southern troops had ceased. The report that the northern army had. muti nied and was returning northward also tended to confirm belief that forces are returning to his capital. The protest of the American consul at Canton against bombard ment of the city by Sun's gunboats will, it is believed, insure cessa tion of his firing on the eity. to have ' 12,000 officers 1 Washington. June 21.?House and Senate conferees on the army appropriation bill agreed late today on a maximum of 12,000 officers as the* permanent strength for the army-of the next twelve months. The House had provided for only 11,00 Oy while the Senate had amended the bill' to provide an average of 12,500 for the coming year. The agreement leaves orly one question of Importance to be de cided, the committees already hay-, ing settled on an enlisted scrength of 125.000 for the next year. Meth ods of reducing the number of of ficers from the present number of more than 13,000 to that pre scribed by the bill have proved a stumbling block, and it was :3atd af ter today's meeting that in all prob ability the Senate- amendment cov ering-the reduction would have to be rewritten before it-would be ac- j ceptftble to* the House delegation. Several members of the conference ] felt, however, that another day or two would result in an agreement on that feature. Few Americans are : class-con scious, but some of the dolled-up; flappers on the street appear dis tinctly conscious of class. I First Case of Its Kind For State ; Tax Commission Case of Spartan burg Mer | chant Who Refused to Show His Records is Carried U ! Court Columbia, June 21.?The first j case in which the state tax com j mission has had to go to court to j force a tax payer to produce his I records that the commission might [review his return, came to a heaoi i with the agreement of J. L. Car - j son, prominent Spartanburg busi | ness man, to appear before the tax > commission today and furnish in~ [formation 'desired in connection with his tax returns. The case w?e ! argued before Judge Sease, in Spar tanburg. last week. Assistant At torney General Daniel represent ing the tax commission. Mr. Carson is head of the Stand> ard Drug Co.. of Spartanburg. The tax commission asked for certain : information regarding his tax reU turns, and he declined to give it. The commission then ? ordered hi?* to appear and present his books. This he declined to do and the ; tax commission went to court/ as : required by law. * While m the Piedmont section, I Assistant Attorney General Daniel also represented the state in' an interesting case against'the state reformatory for white girls, at Columbia, the case being" brought against Mrs. Mary W. B?rgel,-mavr tron of institution, by Mrs. Melissa Rigdon of Gjreenrille, whose daugit ter is in the reformatory here: Thh case was brought in an effort to have the young Rigdon girl releas ed from the institution, the alle gation- being that she was ??? gaily committed. Judge Mauldin dismissed-the petition and heidthat the girl had been properly com mitted and ordered that she be held in the institution until she is twenty-one, unless she is' released at some future date in accordance with the law. VICTIMS ?R3E Family Wiped Out in Wreck at Macon Macon, Ga., June 21.?The bodies of six persons killed here yester day when a passenger train sfcraek an automobile, 'will, be buried here, it was announced late today. No. close relatives of the dead per sons have been .found, but Centra^ of Georgia railroad officials claim to have established the identity as : follows: J. P. Taylor and wife, Nicholas j vffie, Ky. Their daugher, 0?rs. Howard Cox and year old child. Lee Taylor, said to be an adopt ed son of the Taylors, and Mar cum Taylor, a grandson. The family was traced from Nicholasville, Ky., to Fort Lauder dale, Fla.., from which place they recently moved to Quitman, jGau, and this week started to1 return to their old Kentucky home. A coroner's jury investigating the accident found the train crew blameless. FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROOM ? Atlanta, June 22.?J. W. San~ ders,1 local agent for the Life In. strrance Company of Virginia, wad found dead in his room at a boarding house here today with ? bullet wound over hfa right ey^. The body was discovered by Mr& N. M. Kohn, a barber, whom th*$ proprietress of the1 hOuse told the police visited Sanders in his "room last night, and returned there ear*? today. Both were former resi dents of "Union, S. C. The woman denied visiting Sanders last nighty but admitted she had been 'with him on the streets/ and that they had quarrelled. Some day all available parking space will be occupied by aabe-r. shine and fruit stands, and what will aliens do then, poor tbirigs? _? ? ? . j ''.V .,..::> 251 f DO YOU REALIZE IT There are so many people who keep their money at home or carry it 'about on their person, without the least thought of the risk they are taking, not only of losing their money, but their lives as .well. 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