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I TOWN AND ( PROMOTING THE DAIRY INDUSTRY Plan of Development Board to luring Dairy Farmers to South Carolina Endorsed Forty citizens, among them farmers, merchants and hankers who listened to Senaior Christen sen of Beaufort, and Messrs Mc Keand and Horton of the South Carolina Development Board, unanimously indorsed the move ment to bring to South- Carolina in each of ten selected, counties, at least ten practical, experienced, and thrifty farmers from the west and northwest who will purchase dairy, cows and buy. land in Sum ter and nine other counties on which to do dairy farming, live stock raising, poultry and egg pro duction and diversified farming. E. I- Reardon. chairman of the meeting was directed to appoint a committee of five citizens who j will direct the effort to raise fif teen hundred dollars in Sumter county as the county's share of the expense in establishing an agency in the northwestern states, in conjunction with nine other coun- J ties, as a maximum, or five other j counties ' as a minimum, to thor oughly and systematically advertise | Sumter county and -the other j counties cooperating and to give! information about our climate, soils, churches, schools, hard .surfaced highways, health record, and opportunities in general for de sirable home seeking farmers, of the type that have made dairying and livestock a success in less fa vored sections of our country. A rising vote of thanks was ten dered Messrs. Christensen, Horton, and MtfKeand for coming to Sum ter and so interestingly and con vincingly present the plan. Mr. Reardon will appoint the commit tee of five, after conferring with a number of representative Sumter business men and' Sumter county ^farmers, and this general commit tee will in turn appoint sub-com mittees in eafch of the eleven town ships to solicit funds to be placed in .the hands of the Development Board to be used ? to the best ad vantage in securing for Sumter county ten of these experienced .dairy and livestock farmers, who will be able to pay their own woy. and who by hard work aad thrift will be valuable citizens a id ia no way objects of public cbjtrity. Special care will be exercised in i investigating every one of these prospects before getting them to lo cate in Sumter county. Coopera tion of land owners who have suit able lands for sale and of Sumter's business and professional men will ? be: needed if Sumter county is to put upMts fifteen hundred dollars., 'and share in the benefits of this j important movement. NOTICE TO THE PUKLIC. Detours-for traffic from and to ?Sumter as follows: Sumter to Camden: Bishopville road to White's Mill, Brewington .road from White's mill to the Knox 'placfe near Dalzell. Sumter to Stateburg: West Hampton Avenue road by Rich ardson's Grove and road by Camp Alice to the Myers residence . Sumter to Wedgefield: South Purdy street. Green Swamo road ] straight to Cane Savannah road. I Sumter to Manning: After] ',August 28th until further notice;: j .'East Liberty street, boulevard, Shi . loh road and the Radical road to the White property on the Man ,ning road. 1 I Sumter to Mayesville: East Cal- j houn street. Moses road to north ! side of Cowpen swamp, then] .straight by the Odom place to the Bland property on the south side of Scape O'er swamp. Roads open: Bishopville road, Paxvilie road, and Shiloh road. Lee, Pennell Murray & Co.. Engineers. ??? ? ? Miss Miller Entertains. Miss Fannie McLeod - of Rem bert was the guest of honor at a j .delightful par.iy Thursday night,' given by Miss Eugenia Miller. Va- j rious games and conversation were j enjoyed by all present untii refresh- ] ments were served, when a recess j was taken by all to properly at- ! .tend to the business in hand. A j most enjoyable affair was voted all j the guests, who were as follows: ! Misses L?hs McCollum, Mary j Bruntfon, Emmie Osteen. Esther i Osteen, Marie Brogdon, Sarah j Brogdon, and Messrs. Robert Edmunds, John Blanding, Donnie | Kirven, J. J. Brunson, James J Fogle, John Shaw and Henry Ed- j munds. Marriage License. Colored: David Dotts and Min- \ nie Dicks of Sumter. Two bales of new cotton were | 3old on the local market Fridaj'. j The cotton season is rather late in | opening this year, the crop having: got a late start. In some former j years a great deal of cotton has; been brought to market during the. month- of August. Eggs are getting scarce and cold storage from the northwest will be ; on the local market soon, unless ; Sumter county hens get on the! job. _____ ? Thursday night at: 32:30 o'clock, the fire department was called to '? Washington and Oakland avenue, i Upon arriving the fire department found that the fire was out of the I city and they went no further j than the city limits. Several barns ; were burned down, about three Quarters of- a mile from the city ; limits, near Green'Swamp. ; mm news The county fair week Campaign to Organize the Great Fair Association August 28th to September the 3rd will be "Greater Gamecock county fair week" and during this [ week it is proposed to organize a county fair that will make the State Fair unnecessary. Fifty public spirited men and wo men will go out next week to raise forty thousand dollars for a site and buildings, race track, foot ball and baseball grounds, auto mobile track, and other necessary equipment to make the Sumter County Fair hereafter a regular Eastern Carolina Exposition of which the whole state can feel very i proud. Every wideawake Sumter ' county man and woman is request ed to do his or her part. Listen to the committeemen and commit tee women and do your full duty to your own city aaid your own coun ty, Sumter. Because every man will natural-' ly want an excuse to talk to the pretty lady solicitors as long as he can keep them talking to him, and will stall along as long as possible* this scribe is not going to tell a lot of things that the ladies will have to tell the men. The Sumter county women do not have to be talked to very much by either men or women solicitors for county fair support. Forty acres of splendid land have been purchased by the Sumter County Fair Association just outside the limits of the city of Sumter. So get busy helping to finance a proposition that will be a dividend paying enterprise to ?start with, and a money maker and a big advertiser for the whole county of Sumter for years to come. boys to camp IY. M. C. A; to Take Small Boys on Three-Day Trip I On Tuesday morning at 8:30 a group of boys, age from 10 up will go to Second Mill \for a three day' camp. The Y. M. C. A. has been lucky enough to secure a screen ed house for the boys tc% stay in. The swimming is real good and no parent need worry about their boy going. T. C McKnight will be in charge and will have several good leaders, with him. If you want to give your boy a nice trip where he will be looked after properly and under good supervision call up T. C. McKnight and tell him that you want your boy to go. The day will be spent in a systematic way. Bible study, athletics, swimming and boating. At night we will have campfire and in all there will .be an interesting time and well worth while. The ? cost will be $2.00 and after the actual expense is taken ? out if there is anything it will be returned. The following things will prove to be useful and each boy will be expected to bring the following: One Bible, $2.00, old blanket or quilt, tooth brush and paste, night gown, bathing suit, a change of old clothes, tin ?plate and cup, knife and fork and spoon. Boys leave the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday morning at 8:30. A truck will carry the packs and the boys [will hike. Let's get a good hike i before school begins again. -?? ?. ? A Card of Thanks. I wish to thank the Sumter chap ter of Winthrop Daughters for the shower of useful gifts that was given me Wednesday afternoon, August 23. There were many sent in without cards, therefore I could not write each one a personal note of thanks. I want the Daughters of Winthrop to know that I deep ly appreciate what they are doing in my behalf and shall strive to prove myself worthy of the honor of holding their scholarship. . . Emily Smith. Dalzell, Aug. 25. Death. Mrs. Mary E. Jones died Satur day morning at her home in Har vins, at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Jones succumbed to a long illness at the age, of 63. The funeral services will be held at the cemetery in Sumter Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband. Mr. J^ W. Jones, three married daughters, Mrs. E. Brun ?on, Mrs. T. O. Foxworth. and Mrs. Joseph Tobias, and five sons, Messrs- F. C, J. I., M. W., O. M., and L. V. Jones. If one hundred land owners and business men can be found to contribute $15 each Sumter county will be able to participate in the plan of the South Carolina De velopment Board to bring experi enced dairymen to this state as permanent settiers. . The plan should appeal especially to farm ers who have large areas of land that they will find difficult to culti vate themselves or otherwise use profitably under boll weevil condi tions. Ten experienced dairy men located in various sections of the county on their' own small farms would prove very valuable j to the county and an object lesson to afl neighboring farmers who must learn the dairying business by "observation and experience if the industry is to be established on a profitable basis. There is room in this county for hundreds of dairy farmers, for there are j thousands of acres of land that have not been utilized to best advantage, and under existing conditions the I prospect is that much of the land ! heretofore devoted to cotton will lie idle in the future, unless new lines of farming are adopted. Men | who have more land than they can ; use profitably should be the first to j see that the bringing in of ex- i perienced dairy farmers is to their direct and immediate benefit. The Municipal Abattoir ! _ j (By P. O. Browning, D. V. M., City Health Officer). There has been a great deal said ] about the municipal abattoir which has developed from uninspired j sources giving out facts which are [ not in keeping with the proposed ! policies of managing the abattoir that it is deemed wise at this j time to make a statement of what; these policies are and how they ! will affect the patrons of the abat- j toir and everyone else concern- j ed. ! r The abattoir has only two ob- j Ijects in view. The first and most! important is to provide clean and j inspected meat for the city and to j eliminate the present unsupervised | meat supply. The second object is j for the abattoir to provide suffi- i cient financial return's on the in- { vestment in order that it will not i be 'a burden on the taxpayers to I provide the inspection. Contrary to general opinion, i meat inspection and the supervis ion of the handling of meat by le gal procedure is not a recent thing. For a more detailed account of the i history of meat inspection the read ! er is referred to. references on the j subject. The ancient Egyptians had ceremonial' forms and rituals governing meat which were car ried out by the priests, and no doubt Moses was influenced to some extent by Egyptian customs in giving the law governing sacri ficial and other animals (See Lev. Ch. XI and Duet. Ch. XIV) since ! swine were forbidden by the Egyp-r jtians on account of being unclean and the cow was^also forbidden be-i cause it was considered sacred, j I The Greeks and Romans develop | ed inspection from the sanitary i standpoint and pork was held in 1 high favor. The supervision of j meats in Europe started about the .middle ages and hai developed steadily until at present practical ly the entire meat supply for Eu ropean countries is supervised. In 1881 Italy discovered Trichinae in American pork and excluded our pork products from their country. The other European countries! quickly followed suit. Later Eng land excluded all American meats, j except those on the hoof. These I acts were a hard blow to the meat I industry qf the United Sattes, as j meat exportation Tind become an enormous industry. In 1801 con gress enacted a meat inspection law governing exports which was soon extended to cover meat in in terstate traffic- The present meat inspection law dates from 1906 and is the result of congressional j investigations brought about by the! meat poisoning episode of the! Spanish-American war and Upton ! Sinclair's book "The Jungle" which | was an exposure of the method in i which meat packers handled meat at that time. Previous to 1906: federal inspection had little author ity over sanitation in packing plants and their injunction practically | ended after they had passed on the condition of the animal as to health' i and fitness for food. Although the | bureau of .animal industry had fre quently asked congress for author- j ity and appropriations to make in-! spection cover the establishments; in which meat is handled as well ?s the ante and post-mortem'in spection of meat producing ani- j mals, only country wide criticism j in the press awoke them to iheir j duty. j The above would indicate that congress thought the meat of this nation should be inspected and ap I propriated sufficient funds and en acted laws for the purpose, which are enforced through the United; States bureau of animal industry, j The law of state rights does noti permit the government to supervise! meats produced and consumed I within a state. Only when one j I state ships meat into another state. j do they have any authority to su- > fpervise and control the method of! (handling and quality of the meat.! jThe duty of the' inspection of! ? meafs handled within the state! } then falls to the state and mu- i r : j nicipal authorities. The state of j ? South Carolina does not supervise; the meat supply of the state and if any supervision is necessary any- { where within the state, it becomes j a local or municipal problem. Should Meat for Public Consump- j tion be Supervised in&umter? | If diseased meats go on the mar- j : ket. If animals are slaughtered ! in such a way. they do, or are likely j j to, infect animals of their species) I or other species, then there is need j j of inspection. If there is ever a case where j I meat i:- handled in an unsanitary 1 manner and meat due to this un- j I sanitary handling is likely to af-J j feet public health, then there is! j need for meat control. j In answer to the above the; (board of health wish to place be- | I fore the public a few facts which : j have happened fh Sumter. These j Jare not imaginations but actual; ? happenings, and it may be pre- j J sumed tha', similar thkigs have j i been happening vright along un- j known to the board or anyone' I else. i j j Last year a producer of cattle ( ! in Sumter county sold to a local j ' butcher seventy-two head of beef ? j cattle. Twenty-two of these cat I tie were resold In Columbia and in I going over the killing floor of the j ! abattoir sixteen of the twenty-two i j were found to be tubercular or j [seventy-four per cent. The pro- : I dueer learning this fact called on: i the government for a test for tu- 1 I berculosis in the remainder of his i herd. Half of the remaining cat ; He reacted or were affected with ? ; tuberculosis. This {eaves fifty head unaccounted for as they had al-l ! ready gone on the Sumter market! and had been consumed. It is i reasonable to suppose that some ; of them were "tubercular. The parties concerned in this transaction are gentlemen and there [.was no criminal intention on their j part. They had no way of know- I ! ing these animals were tubercular, j Without special training, tubercu- ? i lous animals will pass through the ] j hands of the layman, butcher and I market man unrecognized, unless J the animal happens to be in the ! last stages of the disease. Only the accident of the animals going over the meat inspection floor of the Columbia abattoir brought j these facts to light. The cattle type of tuberculosis is transmissible to man. Author!-: ties estimating that seven to twen ty-five per cent of tuberculosis pa tients are affected with the bovine type, and is transmitted' to the human through the milk and meat supply. Hogs are very susceptible j to this disease, and if allowed to run with tubercular animals on a farm a large percentage will be af- j feeted. I Last winter there wras a hog on i j exhibition in Mr. Tisdale's window, j IThis hog had what is commonly j . called measles in pork. Measles is j one xtage in the life of a common j jtapeworm in man and the dog. (This tapeworm to make its life: complete, must pass through two j ! hosts, the one essential host is the ] ! hog. If there were no hogs there] I would be no tapeworms of this i species. It can be seen that when ever this infection exists in man | it was contracted through the meat supply. There is a similar condi- j tion in beef for another kind of j tapeworm. The writer found five | per cent- of the cattle inspected at one of the large packing plants in Mississippi affected with this disease. In reference to sanitation, any taxpayer in the city of Sumter can very easily, if he desires, verify the fact that meat is not handled at present in a sanitary way. Most any of you would refuse to buy meat that has been slaughtered at the dump grounds for the city which are located near the brick yard, yet this place has been used very recently for that purpose, and the meat sold in Sumter. But why eliminate the garbage heap as j a slaughterhouse? There are other j places just as bad being used for j the slaughter of beef and hogs. Anyone saying that an abattoir is j not needed is blinding himself to j the facts. In the abattoir now under con struction, sanitation is amply pro vided for, and in this respect there! !is no better abattoir anywhere, j The floors are all graded to several I i < i large drains which connect with.j ! the city sewer system. The fear of j [stopping up the sewer system or septic tank need worry no one, as I only liquid waste enters the sew- ! ers. Any soild material is trapped | within the building and solids ac- j cidentally getting into the trap are; placed in the tank after each day's 1 kill. The water will be supplied j [through a two-inch main from the I city" water system. A special ar-j j rangement takes care of the blood j [and no blood will be seen on the! j dressing floor. All offal including !the blood goes to the tank as fast' las it accumulates, where the fat is j [extracted and drawn off. and a.-dry! j tankage from the cooking being' blown out into excellent fertilizer! ! or hog feed. "When an abattoir! ? creates a nuisance or is a nuisance! j it is most always due to the opera tion of the tank. The steam from the. cooking being blown out into [the air. The tank to be installed ! here is odorless due to some simple !.mechanical devices attached to it. I The writer has been familiar with [this make of tank for ten years ! and knows it will do everything ! claimed for it. \ / ? . ? ?? [Does the Abattoir Interfere With the Farmer in Selling His Produce? Any law tnat changes conditions necessarily works a hardship on [some individuals and in the minds ; of some people the abattoir will [work a hardship on them. But we I wish to state here that every [hardship caused by the operation j of the abattoir will be offset by ad vantages much greater than the j hardship worked. The law provides for two in-1 ispections. One before slaughter or I live inspection and another inspec tion while the animal is being : dressed. In order to make these I inspections, all animals will have to be slaughtered at the abattoir. After the inspections are made the owner can dispose of the carcass . in any way that he sees fit so long las he handles it in a cleanly man ner. Xow we are going to ask the \ farmer or producer of hogs or cat tle to place the two operations of j slaughter alongside of each other j 'in his own mind and think out 'which he would rather do, kill the animals at home or take them to the abattoir? We will say for in stance he has a few hogs finished and ready for market. If he wishes 'to take them to the abattoir, he can load them in a cotton frame and send them to the abattoir by one! of. the hired men. which requires j the use of two mules, a wagon and one man. At the abattoir they are weighed in, placed in a separate; pen and the driver is given a re-j ceipt for so many hogs, weighing! so much alive and the driver and j team can-return to the farm and resume any labors there with very j little loss of time. The owner has! either the option of selling his hogs j alive or dressed, how and to whom! he pleases. If he wishes them to be dressed, they will be dressed in their turn provided they are cool and fit for slaughter. After being dressed they are stamped stating that they are "Inspected and Pass ed," also weighed, which gives the producer the- grb:*s and not weights. They are then run into' a chill room having a temperature j from 38 to 40 degrees Farenheit I and remain there until thoroughly chilled. From the chill room they j pass into the cold store room j which will have a temperature from j 32'to 33 degrees Farenheit, a tem perature just above the freezinjg pofnt. They can be held indefi- ! nitely in this room, and the owner is given seven days free storage j here. He can sell when conditions are right and sell to the best ad vantage. He dot's not have to take j any price offered since his product j is not perishable and he can hold it. Contrast this method with hog killing time on the farm. You all I know what a job it is and there isj no use for any of us to teli you. Xote the disadvantages of hog kill ing time. If the weather is warm I your hogs might spoil or you are forced to take any price the mar-; kets offer. If the weather is cold. ] it certainly is a disagreeable job. j and there is that uneasiness of mind j about the weather turning warm.! With the abattoir method July looks like January. When the hogs! are ready for market, kill them, no ] long feeding periods waiting for] [the weather to get right. Meat Curing The advantages of the abattoir 1 do not stop at helping the market-j ing of your product. In connection with the abattoir there will be aj curing department of which you I can take advantage. This room J will be maintained at a tempera- j ture of 40 degrees Farenheit and j equipped with individual bins. This { department will safely cure your j meat any time in the year, for aj small charge. This feature should) appeal to anyone who has lost! [ meat on account of weather condi- | tions. Sausage The inspection law would miss fire altogether if sausage is not in Ispected. It is impossible to in spect sausage as such, and the in spection is made the same as for meat for any other purpose. There are two ways in which the pro ducer can manufacture sausage and dispose of same in Sumter. Hogs for this purpose must be kill ed at the abattoir in the regular way and the carcasses can be ground into sausage at home and can be sold by those holding cer tificates of inspection. To make this problem less bur- I ! densome it is the intention of the board of health to equip a room j with drainage, hot and cold wa-j ter. ventilation, screens, blocks, tables, mixer, grinder and stuffer. j (The machinery to be motor driv ien). The patron furnishes the; j meat and spices and does his own j ! work. His product will be no dif- ! ferent from the one which he: turns out on the farm, only easier! to make. It is not intended that this department should be a money I maker, and a small fee will be I charged to cover upkeep I Fees The amount of fees for dressing ' animals will have to be passed on j by the city council at some future ; date. The plant will be operated! ! as economically as possible and fees will be Jbased on cost of operation, \ [upkeep and interest on the invest-;! i ment,' and it will be necessary to ! provide a sinking fund. The con j struction and the machinery is such I that tfre first cost is pretty high, I but the deterioration will be small, i It is also constructed along a convenient method and very little labor will be required to accom plish the results desired. Some people are under the impression : that the abattoir can be operated , by the income derived from the [ offal or fertilizer and grease man ufactured. This is a mistake, as jthe amount received from the fer tilizer and grease will not much more than offset the cost of reduc-1 ing the offal to fertilizer and grease. These products are made only for one purpose, and that is to get rid of the refuse in the only sanitary way possible. Any other method of reduction would be eith er expensive or dangerous to public health. Therefore the abat toir will have to be operated on the revenue derived from the dressing fees. The abattoir by doing all of j the killing business for the city j can kill animals and give seven j days storage for less than you can do this work on the farm. i The abattoir is a great advertise ment for the local producers by providing a wholesome, clean meat suppig to the community. People who rarely want meat under pres- , ent conditions, will under the abattoir conditions use more meat j and thus increase the demand for j meat. The surrounding towns will buy meat from the local dealers! and they will be in position to fill j the orders with good stuff. The abattoir will improve the quality ?f meats. Fresh meats which I are aged a week or ten days in j storage are better than meats un- ! cooled for the simple reason that I the connective tissue, the part that I makes meat tough and which has; no food value, degenerates in storage and allows the meat to be- i come tender and wholesome. A bat- ; toir meat is not cut while warm, the whole carcass is refrigerated ' and there is no waste in trimming j when the meat arrives at the mar ket due to the fact that cut places I in warm beef turn dark on cool- ! ing and have to be trimmed off. ; This trimming represents a loss- j Farmers will also find a big differ- : ence in cutting refrigerated meat j and warm meat if they wish to ped die it. It can be peddled out in 1 small quantities, the balance being J left in storage with no opportunity for loss. The board of health is j aware of one instance where a ! farmer attempted to peddle a beef, and lost an entire half on account | of not being able to dispose of it on the day on which it was killed. ! Meat cured in salt in storage' takes the cure better, than when I i subjected to the variations of at-! mospheric temperature. Abattoirs ar<* never dismantled I if they produce the goods, i. e.! clean and inspected meat, and are' themselves capable of being kept; sanitary. They very early become a part of the community service j and are looked upon as being of j as much importance as any of the c.un in unity utilities. After reading this it can he seen that the abattoir will not interfere with the farmer or anyone else in disposing of their product It is ( necessary in order to procure an inspection, to change some of the methods of handling meats, but they do not constitute a Chinese j wall. In fact the advantages of the abattoir to the farmer are so i great that he should not complain at tiie disadvantages. Bern fools seldom outgrow it ] AMERICAN LEGION BACKS BONUS BILL Convention at Florence Stages Great Fight Over Question ?Senator Smith Speaker, Brice State Commander Florence. Aug. 24.?The Amer ican Legion closed its fourth an nual convention here today after what many term the most con structive session in its history. The last day was crowded with busi ness and filled with wild scene on the convention floor, where many important questions were discussed and passed upon. The convention went on record in favor of the adjuted compena tion measure now before the sen ate. This question brought forth some.hot debate and when, the re sult of the ballot was announced showing that the resolution had been adopted by a big majority, the convention was in an uproar for several minutes. Other im portant matters included a general attack on the veterans' bureau; a resolution of thanks for Col. Chas. R. Forbes: the elec onoitLfuerht R. Forbes: the election of Luther K. Brice, of Spartanburg, as de partment commander; selection of Greenville as the convention city for 1023; a resolution asking Gen. Sawyer to step aside and cease in terference in the hospitalization program for disabled veterans and endorsement of the Towner-Sterl ing educational bill. Senator E. D. (Smith, of South Carolina, was an unexpected vis itor to the convention and spoke briefly, inentioning hte adjusted compensation bill. Florence was praised on every side by the delegates and visitors for thesplendid' entertainment af forded the legion. Mrs. James Catheart, of Colum bia was elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary. The auxiliary convention was well at tended and handled many questions of interest and importance to the organizaiton. Other officers elected by the con vention include Col. Henry T. Thompson, of Florence, vice com mander; Thomas B.' Spratt, of Fort Mill, national executive com mitteeman; the Rev. Mortimer Glover, of Hartsville, chaplain; F. TV. Bradley, of Columbia, historian. District executivemen: James K. Jachles, Walterboro: Dr. Hall Farmer,( Aiken; E. R. Rosenburg, Greenwood; Guy B. Foster, Green ville: F. Murray Mack, Fort Mill; Duncan Mclntyre, Marion and Geo. D. Levy, of Sumter. The feature of the morning was the parade which formed in the heart of the city and marched to the convention hall several blocks away. The parade was headed by the rifle squad of the Florence post, in command of Col. Henry T. Thompson, and was composed of the delegations from the various posts in the state. ? ? ? ?: ? Growing Tobacco in Anderson Antreville Man Has Splendid Crop and Well Cured (Anderson Mail). That tobacco as a money crop would be a boon to Anderson coun ty is the opinion of several Ander son gentlemen who recently went to the farm of Mr. A. J. Quick, below Antreville, where they in spected his tobacco barn, and saw his tobacco being * cured. These gentlemen are very enthusiastic over the possibilities of tobacco as a money crop here Mr. Quick declares that his to bacco wj.ll yield him about $200 per acre this year, and that the cost of production does not exceed that of an acre of cotlon. The cli mate and soil conditions here are especially well adapted to the cul tivation of tobacco, he says, and this country would grow as fine to bacco as can be grown anywhere, except for the chewing tobacco. Chewing tobacco, he declares could hardly be grown here. Mr. Quick has about 5 acres of tobacco this yeara nd has a big barn already cured and ready for the market. He was completing his curing yesterday when the Ander son gentlemen went to his place and showed them all of the steps through which the tobacco must pass. The bright leaf tobacco into which he had cured his crop, he said, brings the best prices and on the current market he expects to get about GOc per pound for his crop. Mr. Quick is an experienced to bacco man. and knows how tO care for and gather his crop. Tho tobacco is placed,in his- curing house or barn, and this barn 13 heated to a certain temperature. The tobacco must be carefully at tended while curing, and when the proper color is secured, then the temperature is rapidly raised and the curing is quickly com pleted. The leaves of tobacco giv en the local gentlemen were rich gold colored, and seemed well cured. Mr. Quick takes his crop to Timmonsville by truck. He says that upcountry land will grow much better tobacco than the lower part of the states, and-says he doesn't see why Anderson farm ers can't have this as another good money crop that comes in in Aug- i us:. The hot supper and barbecue at Britton's Store Thursday night was great success, more than four hun dred persons, many of them from this city, attending. The candidates for the legislature and county of fices were present and spoke to the assembly. ? ? ? "U. S. would end pollution of wa ters by oil." With that done, it might be well to try it on inter national relations. j Charleston Yard Will Be Closed j November 1 Set by Acting j Secretary as Date for End | ing Work. Decision "Un | changed" * _____ Washington, A ug. 21.?Acting Secretary Roosevelt today set the date for the final closing of the Charleston. S- C Navy yards for next November 1. It had been expected the yard would be clos ed about September 1, orders having bene issued that it should be closed as soon as possible. Owing to the unemployment at Charleston, however, the acting secretary, decided to defer the clos ing and provide for the gradual discharge of the employees. In an order signed by Colonel Roosevelt, he said the department's decision to close the yard remains "unchanged" and the conditions which necessitate this action have in no way been altered. (FRENCH WARSHIP WRECKED Dreadnaught France Strikes Rock in Quiberin Bay Brest, France, Aug. 26.?The French dreadnaught France has capsized and is sinking in ten fath oms of water in Quiberin Bay, af ter striking a rock. The number of casulaties is yet unkown. Fifteen of Crew Missing Paris, Aug. 26.?Fifteen mem bers of the crew of the dread naught France are missing. It is feared the vessel will ne a t >tal loss as the result of striking a rock and capsizing today. Federal Reserve Board Vacancies President Harding Will Make Two Appointments Soon Washington, Aug. 25.?Unless unexpected developments prevent. President Harding will announce * within the next few days the ap I pointments to fill the two vacan 1 cies on the federal reserve board, it was stated today at the White House. The president was represented as personally not opposed to the reappointmen.t as governor of W. P. G- Harding of Birmingham. Ala., whose terms as a member of the board expired'-on August 10, j but to recognize a divided senti J ment against his retention. At jthe same time the president was declared to be faced with the dif Jficulty of the geographical repre sentation on the board in deciding upon the new "dirt farmer" mem ber. In some official quarters the view was advanced tonight that President Harding was not as yet decided us between W. P. G. Hard ing and D. R. Crissinger. the comptroller of the currency, A or the post of governor of the federal reserve boardv with the sugges tion advanced that if a selection is not made soon a compromise selection may be made. Opposition to the reappointment of former Governor Harding, ac cording to some close observers of reserve board developments, is mainly from the section of the country represented in congress by the "farm bloc" while business centers, on the other hand, are said to be opposing Mr. Crssinger be cause of his suggestion for a three and one-half per cent rediscount rate on farm paper contingent upon not more than six per cent, being charged on the original loan by banks. DYNAMITE HOME OF COUNCHjMAN Jacksonville. Fla., Aug. 24.?Dis orders of the last twenty-four ; hours' incident to the shopmen's I strike here culminated tonight :in ! the dynamiting of the home of J A. Williams, a city councilman and foreman of the boiler fcrces at the Seaboard Air Line Railroad shops. The front end of Williams* home was damaged by an explosion about 11.30 o'clock. He aaad his wife were asleep in the rear of the house, and were unharmed beyond being momentarily stunned. Sher iff's deputies who rushed to the scene escorted the couple to the downtown section. Earlier in the night the sheriff's forces had responded to two calls from the shops. A dynamite ex plosion occurred at the main en trance of the board wall enclosure and slightly injured a guard stand ing ner*-by. No damage was done beyond that of slight extent to the fence. A later call from the plant is believed to have been prompted by pistol shots. Shortly after midnight last night I two sticks of dynamite were aimed ! at the plant. One fell this side ofj the fence anu ploughed the earth, j The other went over, barely miss; ing a switching crew, it is said, and damaged several crossties and some trackage. Williams represents in the city council what is known as the Lackawanna section of the city, j comprised mostly of shop employes i of whom about S00 are on strike, j NOTICE?Can furnish room and board for four high school stu dents. Mrs. J. A. Warren, 126 N. Salem Ave. STRAYED OR STOLEN?Friday night, light red cow and dark I red calf. Cow has four white; feet, and blaze face. Black spot j in hock of hind leg. $5-00 re- ! ward if returned to N. W. Moses,! Cor. Penn & LaFayette Sts. IyFOR THE RELIEF OF Pain in the Stomach and > Bowels ?intestinal Cramp Couc, Diarrhoea SOLO EVERYWHERE - BONUS BILL BEFORE SENATE Several Amendments Sug gested to Pending Measure / Washington. Aug. 25.?For two hours* today the senate heard ar guments for and against the sol diers' bonus bill, but it took n* action on any of the pendin? amendments. Senator McCumfc^r (Republican) of North Dakota, fa charge of the measure, made an effort to get a? agreement for ja vote before- adjournment tomorrow; but although, unsuccessful was hopeful that the bill could be passed early in the coming week. ^ Two additional amendments were offered today by Senator Smoot of Utah, ranking Republican on the finance committee. One propose? that the amended house measure with its" optional bonus plans be financed by a manufacturers' sales tax, at the rate of one-half of one j per cent, for the first three years* and one-fourth of 1 per cent, thereafter. ' The other amendment was in the nature of a substitute for the pending bill with a paid up" in surance plan in lieu of all other options, that, too, to be financed by a manufacturers' sales tax,-, bet at the rate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. In each case the proposed tax would become effective next November 1 and exemptions would be made in the cases of all..farm products and manufacturer* doing a business of less than $6, ??0 a year. In the debate today Senator Reed (Republican) of Pennsylvan ia, a former service man, declared his opposition to the bonus, his ad> dress being his maiden effort in th* senate. Ke . said. the : plain, . fact was that the country could nbtiaf* ford to pay the bonus" and addefl that, in army parlance, :.he -did , not. ? propose to "pass * the b#ck" to the. president. Speeches ' in opposition to the bonus riso were made by Senators; New (Re'publica)' of Indiana 'and ? Myers (Democrat) of Montana, I while Senator Bursum' (Republic ca n) oi; New * Mexico spoke in sup - port of the bonus and his amend ment under which the veteran? would be paid in cash within thf next' five years. Senator McCum ber also joined in the discussion to reply briefly to a statement made yesterday by Senator Wads worth (Republican) of New .York. TWO ACCI?MfS IN GREENVILLE Little Boy Instantly Killed When Track Crushes Head Greenville, Aug. 24.?Two autoc mobile accidents occurred today near Greer. In one accident, W1I-. liam Brockman, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Major Brockman^ was instantly killed, when a large hauling truck wheel passed over his head, crushing it. In the oth-"' er accident two men, Lee Heathy erly and Henry Barfield, sustained painful bruises when an automo bile, driven by E. C. Wilson, struck? the two on a road near Greer. Sheriff Carlos Rector arrested Wilson and brought him.to Green ville pending the outcome of the accident. He arranged $500 bond and was released. The two men were not seriously hur.t This- ac-' cident occurred about 11 o'clock in the morning. ' ^ ? ? ? - Columbia, Aug. 26.?A total o? approximately $75,000 has already been collected on the gasoline tax for July, according to figures an nounced yesterday by the South Carolina tax commission. The July figures are expected to be larger ihan any past month, sep era' delinauent checks still being out. Chicago, Aug. . 26.-An in crease in the mininpam wage, for four hundred thousand mainten ance of way employees from the present rate of 23 cents an hour tti 48 cents will be asked Monday be fore the railroad labor board, it was announced today. ITHACA WIN& I