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Three Fires Cause Much Damage : Yesterday at 6 o'clock the fire department was called to the Avery and Penn-Sumter Lumber Com panies. When the fire department arrived the .fire was tremendous in j flame and smoke. Such was thej rapidity of the flames that it is not known where or how the fire starts ed. The damage was equally dis tributed between the two lumber companies. The boilerhouse,, dry kiln and sheds containing dressed iuznber was the main loss of the Avery Lumber company. The loss has not been named yet, but is es timated at $20,000. The damage was partially- covered by insurance. ..The loss of the Penn-Sumter Lumber Company was estimated at $20,000. Their planeing mill, rough and dressed shed, and sev eral car loads of lumber were com pletely destroyed. ? Practically all the damage was covered by insur ance. . The Northwestern and A. C. L. railroads wer also affected by the fire. The Northwestern lost two j passenger cars, one box car, one flat car, and one engine cab. The loss has been estimated at $3, 0.00. The damage was- partly cov ered by insurance. The A. C: L. lost one box car and their tracks were damaged. The loss is esti mated at .$1,50OV Many dangerous . . sparks were flying" over the city~ and Mr. John Wiiaon, who is in New York with his family, had the mis fortune to he a victim of one of these sparks. His home on Harvin Street was caught on the roof, a i very feeble flame at first but sin-1 ister in its nature, on account of j the difficulty of the fire department to reach it. The crowd observing' the first fire was so great that the j fire truck was unable to go. directly to the house, and lost twenty min utes in an effort to reach the house., The furniture was not damaged; ana the loss was very small, only the roof * being burned. The loss was entirely covered by insurance. The third fire was at four o'clock ! :last night. It proved to be a house j on Atlantic Avenue, too far for the fire department to reach," therefore* \ the fire department was unable to, be of assistance. j Brearley-Ma rion - Chester, Sept. 2?A wedding of much interest in this section of the state .was that of Miss Mar garet Douglas ^Marlon, only daugh tfe of Mr. and Mrs^ W.- F. Marion, t? Harry C. Brearley which was solemnized at the home of the "bride's parents on Wednesday af ternoon at 4:30 o'clock. ' The lovely home was beautiful j?n its decorations of flowers .and *ferns. The room in which the cer emony was performed was deco rated in bridal white and ferns. A musical program was rendered ?by Miss Maude Bberhardt, of At lanta. She also; played the wed ding march. The ceremony was performed by Dr. J. W. Douglas, of Baltimore, an uncle of the bride. The ring ceremony was used. The bride and bridegroom enter ed together, and the bride was giv "en in marriage by her father, W. F. .Marion. The bride was lovely in a traveling suit of blue poiret twill, :w5th brown accessories, and a cor sage bouquet of Ophelia roses: Immediately after the ceremony the guests were Invited into the . dining room', which w?s lovely dec orated in white. The table cen ter-piece was a-huge vase of white roses, from each comer of the ta ble streamers, of white tulle and centered beneath the chandelier in a large bow. Cake, cream and mints were served. ^ - . - Mr. and Mrs. Brearley slipped away to points unknown while the guests were busily engaged in look ing at the handsome display of ?wedding gifts. Mrs. Brearley is one of Chester's 'most attractive and accomplished young women. Mr. and Mrs. Brear ley will make their future home in Durham, N. C, where Mr. Brear ley will be an instructor in the Eng lish department of the Durham city schools. Mr. Brearley will pur sue a course in Psychology at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, about 12 miles from Durham and Mrs. Brearley will study English in the University of North. Carolina. The out of town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. C? D. Brearley. of Columbia. Miss Verm eile Montgom ery of St. George; Mr. Bean F. Scott, of Sumter; Mr. and Mrs. J. -A. Marion and family and Mrs. R. C. Allein of York; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Marion of Columbia; Dr. J. W. Douglas of Baltimore: Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Douglas of Winns boro, and Mrs, R. S. Hope and Dorothy Hope of Lowryville. Hatfield?Lackey. Miss Eva Hatfield and Mr. John R. Lackey were happily united in marriage at the Salem Baptist parsonage. Thursday, August 31st, at four o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. E. W. Reynolds performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends and relatives of the contracting parties. Mr. and Mrs. Lackey are both of Sumter county and will make their home in the future in the Privateer section. We bespeak for this young pair a life journey rich with the wealth of a most joyous living. The election of Thomas G. Mc Leod Is assured if the friends of law enforcement and advocates of economy and efficiency in govern ment administration will turn out on September 12th and vote. Beauty hint: Stay at home with your hay fever. O?NTY NEWS j "CO-OPS" SELLING TO BIG COMPANIES The Tobacco Co-operative As sociation is a Success The Tobacco Growers' Coopera tive association announces that they have been successful beyond their hopes in selling the South Carolina crop. Ninety per cent, of the receipts having: been sold to various companies in green order at satisfactory prices. This assures the success of this great move ment of the farmers. Mr. Reaves, the Sumter Ware^ house manager, urges all the memr bers of the association to deliver their tobacco as promptly as pos sible, as. the tobacco is needed to fill the orders of the companies and to help in the winding up of the crop and payment of further divi dends as soon as possible. Ba.tes-M.ayes, ?- ^ Eastover, Sept.N 3.?A wedding of unusual beauty wa3 that of Miss Wilmoth Bates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Bates, to James Rembert Mayes, Jr., of Mayesville, which was solemnized at the Bap tist church Wednesday evening* the Rev. A. B. Kennedy of Columbia officiating. The church was beautifully deco rated, the colors chosen being white and yellow. Wild smilax vines made a background for marigolds and yellow daisies on the improvised altar on which were rows of tall white candles. Before the ceremony a delight ful musical program was given by Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun Hutchinson of Columbia and Miss Martha Bruce of Mayesville. Mrs. Hutch inson sang "Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms:'* Miss Martha Bruce sang, "I Love You Truly," and Mr. Hutchinson, "At Dawning," and "Until." At 8:30 o'clock the strains of ihe bri dal chorus from "Lohengrin," played on the violin by Miss Mar tha Bruce, ushered in the bridal party. First came two ribbon girls, Rachel Mower and Joe Ella Seay, then the ushers, Joe M. Ba'tes and H. N. Darby, then the bridesmaids and groomsmen, Miss Anna Louise Mayes and Scott Rawlinson, ,Miss Frances Beasley and Glenmore Bates, Miss JSsther Sealy and Jeff Bates, and Mrs. Harry N. Darby, sister of the bride, as dame of honor. . The bridesmaids and ribbon girls wore white and yellow organdie and the dame of honor d handsome gown of yellow lace. The bride came in with her brother-in-law, Harry ! Darby.^and was met at the altar by the bridegroom and his best man,. Livingston Greer. She look ed very andsome in her gown of silk lace with veil to match. ' A reception took pl?ce imme diately after the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents. Re ceiving with the bridal party were the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Bates, the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mayes, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Mayes, Mrs. IS. W. Glass had charge of the bride's book. In the dining room, j decorated in white and yellow, j Mrs. Elliott Darby, Mrs. Frank I Mower and Miss Blanche David j son served ice cream and cake, as sisted by Misses Mary Coleman, Violet Lowery, Ethel Seay and An nie Belcham. Assisting the hos tess in entertaining were Mrs. John Bates, Mrs. Fred Auld, Mrs. Brooks Bultman and Mrs. S. A. Ferguson. Under the tree3 in the (yard Miss Thelma Carroll, Mrs. i Tom Price and Miss Lucile Zeigler served punch from prettily ap pointed; tables. A large number of beautiful presents attested the esteem in which the young* couple are held. The bride, who has been teaching in Mayesville for ft year, is a young woman of lovely character and at I tractive personality. The bride I groom ^s a popular young business j man of Mayesville. Smoot-Mclnnis. A wedding of interest through j out state was that of Miss Lottie iSmoot and John Lane Mclnnes, i which took place Saturday after jnoon at 5:30 o'clock. September 2, j at the residence of the bride's sis tter. Miss Elizabeth Smoot. In the j presence of a few relatives the ring ceremony was performed by Dr. W. E. Thayer. The bride was attired in a suil of navy blue poiret twill with ac cessories to match. Mrs. Mclnness is the attractive daughter of the late ID. M. Smoot of Darlington. Since | her graduation from Winthrop College in 1918 she has been en I gaged in teaching, and the pas! 'year in the Columbia City Schools. Mr. Mclnnes is the son of the late John B. Mclnnes, a resident oJ Charleston. During the Worlc j War he served fourteen months [ overseas. ? Immediately after the eeremon) Mr. and Mrs. Mclnness left foi j their future home in Columbia 'where the bridegroom is engagec i in business. Trying to Rescue Entombed Miners Jackson, Calif., Aug. 4.?Th? : night crew -of rescuers working ai : the Kennedy mine in an attemp to reaeh 47 miners entombed ir ;the Argonaut gold mine, declarec i on coming to the surface todaj Ithat when two signal blasts wen fired on thirty-seven hundred foo ! level, they were positive they wen answered by five explosions com ing from the Argonaut. PAVING BOND QUESTION - Small Number of Citizens At tend Mass Meeting for Dis cussion of Proposition - Only thirteen citizens attended the mass meeting at the Court House Friday night in reference to ? the proposed two hundred and fifty j thousand dollar bond issue for ad- 1 ' ditional paved streets and side walks. Mr. George D. Shore. Sr., was elected chairman, and called for a full, free and open expression of opinion from all there on both sides of the issue. Mr. E. I. Reardn mved that May or L. D. Jennings be heard from first and Mr. Jennings took the floor. He first read a most inter esting financial statement of the city's affairs from several points of view?the cost of the electric light plant and the net annual revenues therefrom, cost of operation, etc., j He told of the bonded and current indebtedness of Sumter, what had been done with the taxpayer's money, showed that the, water works and electric light plants are net revenue producing propositions and showed that Sumter's munici pal government is in pretty good condition financially and that cur rent revenues and "water'and elec tric light revenues have been spent to reduce the debt incurred for the electric light plant and for exten sion of water mains, increasing sup ply of water, improvements in elec tric light poles, wires, etc. His re port, which is a lengthy expert au dit by several accredited account ants, will be published later. Mayor Jennings then gave his hearers a very comprehensive and detailed account of what the pro posed two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars will be used for. He explained that the city council can spend this money only as called for. by taxpayers on streets that are not paved at present. That when the taxpayers on such streets desire their streets paved and agree to pay two-thirds of the cost the city at large paying one-third, that then and only then can council sell suf ficient-bonds and do the work/ It will not, in all probability be necessary to sell the entire bond issue at once, but it will depend upon the amount of paving called for.. He felt satisfied that the city (council will first connect up the west Liberty, street, ' Boulevard, North Main street arid Osw^ego road (within city limits) with the coun ity's hard surface roads in order to have a. complete system leading out from Sumter. His arguments in favor of street and sidewalk paving regardless of j temporary hard times and unpaid J county taxes, practically all city taxes for 1921- having been long since paid, were decidely convinc ing,, to all present but two citi zens, Messrs. Geo. D. Shore and S.; W. Walker. Mr. Walker took the position, as did Mr. Shore, that they both favored street paving and other progressive - improvements, but they thought that there were other i j things needed of more importance j ;at this time, such as improvements! j in the water mains,' more pres-i j sure, setting aside or leaving a mar- ] ; gin for another school building, etc., j I and that paved streets could wait j j until times were better, except that | both gentlemen would not object j i to spending sufficient money to i connect up the unpaved sections j of streets with the hard surfaced j county highways. Mr. Shore em phasized the importance of goingj show in increasing taxes and in- j creasing the burden of the taxpay i ers any more than-can be possibly helped for a while. Dr. Samuel H. Edmunds favored and showed why the bond issue in jfull would not be such a terrible j burden because when taxpayers ! themselves offer to pay for and j ask for paved streets and are wil i ling to pay two-thirds of the cost, i distributed over a twenty year pe jriod of time, that additional tax (j es at large would not prove unduly \ j burdensome. j Mayor Jennings then replied to Messrs. Walker and Shore. He ( showed where most of the alleged necessary improvements in the I water works mains referred to by ; Mr. Walker had been done just I before the present paved streets j were paved and that Mr. Walker's ' j belief that Sumter will eventually 1 have to practically rebuild its * water works mains was a mistake '; on Mr. Walker's part, even conced ' j ing that Mr. Wralker'3 opinion was ' j conscientiously expressed. Mr. ' j Shore and Mr. Walker based their '! opposition, if opposition it could !be called, entirely upon the hard ] times we are experienceing, ex ^jcept Mr. Walker's apprehensions " i regarding the water mains. Neither Mare opposed to the paving of streets i I and sidewalks later on. J j Messrs. E. W. Witherspoon, A. MS. Harby. S. K. Rowland, \J. H. "(Strong, E. I. Reardon and others t j were, in short talks or expres sions of opinion, in favor of the ' I bond issue, j Replying to *E. I. Reardon's sug i gestion that it will not be neces rsary in isolated sections of the {Boulevard and Shiioh road connec ting paving and on the Calhoun j street and Oswego road sections * i within the city limits where there. I are no houses, to pave more than j twenty feet width streets to match !for a time at lea^t the county hard j surface highways. Mayor Jennings j! said that in such instances the 'i streets will be paved to match in > j width the connecting hard sur t j faced roads. Mr. Jennings predic t i ted an easy victory for the bond * j issue on September the 12th and li showed where in saving in cost of H gasoline, oil. wear and tear on cars, * I extension of life of cars and trucks, t j etc., that the citizens will have i j more in a few years than the actual -! cost of the additional paving. His 1 facts and figures evidently convinc ed all present except Messrs. Shore and "Walker, who, while conceding the value of paved streets, were standing on conservative, and "wait a while" platforms. It is evident from Mayor Jenning's* statement i last night that Sumter's financial! condition in so far as municipal affairs go is much better than has been reported and that with electric | light and water revenues and other j special revenues, Sumter will be i able to pay off the current indebt edness of less than a quarter of a { million, and the most of which was j incurred in the building of the elec- ! trie light plant, in a few years, and ; without increasing the tax levies; to a burdensome point. Mayesville Xews Notes. ____________ i Mayesville, Sept. 4.?Mrs. C. E. Jones of Nichols, S. C, is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. j A. F. Raga.n. j Miss Julia May Wilkes has just returned home from ? visit to rel-j atives in Spartanburg. Mrs. J. C. Parnell left Tuesday) for Charlotte, N. C, and other points in North Carolina where she will spend some time. Misses Gussie Mae and Master Earnest Wilkes of Winnsboro, are visiting Miss Julia May Wilkes j this week. Rev. J. W. Roger and family of j Lynchburg wasj a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ra gan Thursday. . Mr. J. Fleetwood Bass, Jr., left Friday morning for his class at Clemson College. Air. and Mrs. J. Rembert Mayes, Jr., will be at home to their many friends September 4th on Chandler street, Mrs. W. S. Wheeler who has re turned home from Hendersonville reports a pleasant stay in the mountains. All three of our cotton gins are running on full time and local cot ton is being shipped daily, averag ing fifty.bales. The weevil in some places did great damage and oth- j er places the damage is not very j much. , The Atlantic Coast Line rail- ! way is remodeling- their cotton i platform in expectation of a large | lot of cotton being moved this sea-! son. It was almost at the point of falling down and they just! started the work in time to save j it. Tift-Ledingham The marriage of Mr. Allie Led-j ingham of this city and Miss Mary; Tift of Chattanooga was solemniz ed at a quiet home wedding at Chattanooga. Tenn., last Wednes-j day, only friends and near relatives being present. Shortly after the ceremony the bride and groom left for Atlanta, returning to their future home in Sumter on Satur day. Miss Tift is originally from Tifton. GaV, but for some time has made her home with her mother at Chattanooga. Friends of both the young people wish them much happiness for the years to come. Births and Deaths Vital Statistics for the Year Columbia, September 1?South Carolina had a lower birth rate and a higher death rate during the first quarter of this year than in the corresponding period of 1921 according to figures just received in Columbia from the census bu reau in Washington, The same condition holds almost entirely throughout the country, according to the census report. Despite the. increase in deaths, South Carolina holds third place in the percentage of births per 1,000 population for the first quarter. North Carolina was first. Virginia second. In the deaths per 1,000 South Carolina stands seventeenth below the highest mortality rate. The highest rate is 17.6 in the Dis trict of Columbia. South Carolina's rate is 12 per 1,000, Wyoming's death rate iSf lowest, 9.6. For all the states the death rate for the first quarter was 13.7 per 1,000 population, as compared with 12.G for the first quarter of 1921. South Carolina's rate for the first quarter last year was 11.2. The South Carolina birth rate for January. February and March was 25.S as compared with 28.4 for the same months of 1921. For all the states the birth rate for the first quarter this year was 23.3: for last year 25.3. The births in January this year, totaled 3.S59; February 3,455; March 3.6 SO. Last year for the some months the figures were 3, 909: 3.741 and 4.321. Deaths in this state in January totaled 1.807; February 1.620: and March 1,622. For the .same months last year the deaths numbered 1, 628. 1.622 and 1.646. There 'are two lessons to be drawn from the fire yesterday af ternoon?there is not an adequate supply of water in that section of the city and the city should adopt an anti-shingle roof ordinance. If the water supply had been adequate and the pressure sufficient the lire men could have male a much more successful fight against the fire that destroyed the lumber ?mills than they did. The water mains in that part of town are small and the volume of water that they car ry is totally inadequate to supply the fire pumps when they are cull ed on to run at maximum capacity. To make the situation worse yes terday afternoon, it is stnfed that the standpipe was not full at the time the fire started and the pres sure was therefore not up to the maximum. If Mr. John Wilson's house had had a metal roof it would not have been set afire by a spark from the lumber mill fire several blocks away. A movement should be started as soon as possi ble to eliminate all single roofs in the city. The fire hazard would be greatly reduced and there would be a proportionate decrease in the insurance rates. TURKS WIN OVER GREEKS IN ASIA MINOR Three Greek Army Corps Almost Anni hilated by Turkish Nationalists Adan, Asia Minor, Aug. - 4.? Three Greek army corps in the Eski-Shehr sector of the Greco Turkish front have been dispersed and almost annihilated by the Turkish nationalists, according to dispatches received today from Angora, the seat of the Kemaiist government. The Greeks are re treating in disorder, and the Turks have advanced to within twelve miles of Brusa. Athens Dispatch Confirms Defeat Athens, Aug. 4 .?The capture j by the Turkish nationalists ofj Uchak, an important position on the Greco-Turkish front in A:-ia Minor was confirmed here today.' Dispatches to the newspapers in dicate that Brusa also may soon fall into* the hands of the Kemal-1 ists. BIGHAM CASE NOW BEFORE SUPREME COURT Arguments Made on Motion to Discuss Appeal For New Trial J - j Columbia, Sept. 1?The supreme court in special session this morning; heard arguments of Solicitor Gaso'ue, of Florence, for dismissal \ of the appeal of Edmund Bigham, j 'convicted of^the murder of his! ! brother. Smiley, and indicted for I murdering his sister, his mother and his sister's two adopted chil ; dren. j; The appeal was from a . deci l sion of Judge Shipp refusing a ! new trial on .the ground of after j discovered evidence. The solicitor i then made argument that the at torneys for Bigham had set up as ! one of the prinicpal defenses that j Smiley Bigham had killed seve . eral members of his family-and then committed suicide and that the I letters found after the trial al leged to have been written by Smil j ey Bigham were of no consequence :and not permissible to be reviewed 1 before the supreme court. He held ? the letters would not change the re sult. Judge Shipp had passed on ; the case and had declined to grant ja new trial on the after discovered I evidence and Mr. Gasque contend Jed that the case was not now re I viewable before the higher tribu i nal, unless there was shown an er I ror in law. He contended that Judge Shipp had not abused his discretion. Marriage Licenses j White: '/ John R. Lackey of Tindal and 1 Eva Hatfield of Sumter. J Colored: : Hiliard Windham and Hannah ! Johnson of Sumter. i Jake Jones and Dorcas Black of j Wedgefield. Joseph Ballard and Sarah James i of S?mter. ' m m m Legislative Race in Ricland. Columbia, Sept. 1?W. -i D. Bar nett, member of the legislature last year, was the only one of nineteen , candidates for the House renomi ! nated from Richland county in the j primary of Tuesday. Ten others J run over: Claude X. Sapp and A. i A. Gerald, members of the last ; legislature: Jodie M. Rawlinson, ; member of a former legislature; I and Frances H. Weston, former ? state senator and recently United j States district attorney; White ; Evans, Hugh Clinkscales, George j Thomas, George Ellison, S. W. j Miriams and Jeff B. Bates. The \ county committee declared the re ; suits yesterday's afternoon session. Sweet Potato Seed Selection. j Clemson College, Aug. 28.?Seed 'selection of sweet potatoes is just as important as that of corn, cot ; ton or any other crop. You can not expect good yields of sweet ? potatoes from scrub seed any more , than you can expect good yields of milk from scrub cows. ? Seed selection has two distinct advantages: 1. It increases the yield by making possible a good stand of strong plants and the development !bf high yielding strains j 2. It reduces the danger from I diseases, many of which may be ; effectively controlled by this ; method. The horticulturists say that care I ful selection should be practiced in the fall ;>t digging time, the po tatoes selected being stored in sep arate crates and given special care. They should not be handled or sorted until time for bedding in the spring. Only medium sized.' well shaped potatoes free from disease and from hills producing not less than five marketable tubers should he selected. It would produce quicker results if the standard were set at ten to the hill. The growers on the eastern shore of Virginia practically doubled their yield by following hill selection for two years. Different varieties of potatoes should never be mixed; the mar kets do not want mixed lots. It is best to confine the crop to one or two of the best marketable varie ties such as the Nancy Hali and the Porto Bico. STATUS OF THE RAIL STRIKE Atlantic Coast Line Reports Steady Gain in Shop Force Wilmington, X. C.. Sept. 1?The General Manager's condition report for morning, August 30th shows: Total number of men now em ployed in shops, 4,403. Percentage of normal forces, 76.1. Old men who retained their po sitions, 701. Old men who have come back since going out, 115. New men employed. 3,587. The above figures show an in crease over the previous day of 141 men. which includes 12 former em ployes who returned to work in the last twenty-four hours. Re ports from all shop points this morning are very encouraging. The volume of work both as to running anck heavy repairs increasing rap idly and efficiency of new men de veloping to a marked degree. At our larger shops where the most important work is performed this is particularly noticeable. At 26 shop points, we have full normal forces and at all other shops we have from 50 to 75 per cent of normal forces. All passenger and freight trains on schedule, no delayed freight on the line and our freight traffic\ since August 1st shows, increase of over 20 per cent as compared with the some period of last year. TRAGIC DEATH AT NIAGARA FALLS Automobile Plunges Over Cliff With Woman Passenger Buffalo. N. Y., Sept. 3.?An au tomobile plunged over the cliff near the cataract at Niagra Falls this afternoon and was dashed to pieces | 200 feet below on the river's mar gin. Mrs. Agatha Miller, 54 years old. wife of D. H. Miller of Cleve- j land, fell to her death with the car. J Her body was found on the water's edge. The accident happened just north of the upper steel arch bridge. Mrs. Miller was alone in the car, in the rear ^seat. The car was parked on j the grass near the customs office j at. the American end of the bridge, I facing the river on a slight slope, j There is no guard rail at the cliff edge. The owner and driver of the i car Edward Meyers of Buffalo, had left it as he thought safely park ed. For some reason it began to slip down the slope and Mrs. Miller, who was of very heavy build, real ized her danger. Her screams arous ed the' bystanders and two men, Harry Andrews, a negro, of Buffa lo, and Joseph Goldberg of West ) Toronto, grabbed the rear fenders and strove desperately to stop the car. They kept their holds until it reached the very brink and j plunged into the gorge. Mrs. Miller tried to extricate herself, but she was not quick enough. G. E. Darling and Eustace Evans, both of Elkhart, Ind., w%re j standing below the bridge looking ;up and saw the. machine come jover the hank and Mrs. Miller's jbody fall from it. The car struck jthe slope at the foot of the cliff j and plunged on to the river's edge, 'a tangled mass of debris. Mrs. I Miller's body was recovered on the [bank at the base of the cliff. It jwas identified by her husband. The Millers/and Mr. and Mrs. j Michael Kerrigan . of Cleveland i came to Buffalo this morning and hired Meyers to drive them tb~ the falls sightseeing. As they were about to cross the bridge into i Canada, the Canadian authorities j refused to allow them to enter be ! cause Myers did not have his li-. j cense card with him. Myers park ;ed the car while he went to see if the matter could be adjusted. His passengers, all save Mrs. Miller, went with him. She was left alone in the automobile and the accident j followed. TRUCK RUNS INTO BUGGY j Horse is Killed by Collision Saturday night between 11 and 12 o'clock a truck driven by Na ! thaniel Jones, who works for O'Donnell & Co., ran into a horse and buggy owned by Mackey James of Cane Savannah. The horse's front and rear legs on his j left hand side were broken, and Policeman Owens was forced to kill him. The truck was damaged 'considerably, but no one was in ! injured. The accident took place j on Purdy street. ? ? ? Columbia Sept. 4.?Prof. Elbert |D. Easterling, assistant state super intendent of education, is this week preparing to leave the city for California, where he will make his j future home. He has accepted a ! position as head of the history de partment of the. Redland High School. Rodland. Ca!. Xo announce ment has as yet been made re garding his successor in the office of the state department of educa tion. j Prof. Easterling spent the sum i mer at Redland and while there was elected to the high school pro? j fessorship. The Redland school is j one of California's model high ; schools. Mrs. Easterling is now in California. For a number of years Prof. ! Easterling was professor of math j ematics at the University of South I Carolina. He has many friends i throughout the state. Washington. Aug. 4.?Emer gency control of distribition. and prices of anthracite coal will be taken up soon by Secretary Hoov er at a conference in Philadelphia with operators and miners, it was said today at the commerce de partment. HARRISON CLAIMS GAIN Says Southern Shop Force- Is i Increasing "Washington, Aug. 31?President j Fairfax Harrison of the Southern j Railway anounced today that \ workers engaged in the shops of j that system now represented 51.2 j per cent of the normal force. The j 50 per cent mark was passed yes- j terday. the statement said, when the rolls showed 5,961 at work in the shops against a normal total force of 11,563. '?During the past week." Mr. Har rison said, "our efforts have been concentrated on increasing the! number of skilled craftsmen with the result that many men employ ed when recruiting began have been weeded out and discharged The number of cratsmen now at work in our shops constitute 32 per cent of a normal roster, while a week ago we had only 20 per cent. "Additions to our shop forces are being made daily, but only skilled men can now be accepted, as we have a full complement of com mon labor." MURDER IN C0LLET?N _________ Man Kills His Wife on Public Highway Walterboro, Aug. 31.?Mrs. Myr tle Evans, wife of Tudor Evans, "was shot and killed in the public road near Thayer's mill, five miles from Walterboro, Tuesday night., by her 1 husband. At the time she was shot she was in an automobile with Robbie L. Hiers. There had been trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Evans, and they were not .living together, and it is said that the relationship between Mr. Hiers and Mrs. Evans was largely responsible for this domes tic infelicity. They had been to gether a great deal for some time, and it is understood that Evans had made threats. At the time of the killing Mrs. Evans was living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs..Al len Herndon. Her brother was working at Thayer's mill and Mrs. Evans had gone there to pay him a visit. Mr.. Hiers, who is a con tractor, was engaged in erecting a building for the mill, and Mrs. Eyans had requested him to take her back to her parents* home. While in the car just after starting, Mr. Evans, who had also ' been working at tlfe mill hauling logs, met them in the road and ordered them to stop the car. Mr. Hiers fearing trouble declined to stop. Evans fired just as the car passed him, the entire load of buckshot entering the left side of the back of his wife and penetrating her heart caused instant death. Other shots were fired at the car but none other took effect. Coroner Dopson was notified and held the inquest at the home of her parents where the body had been taken by Mr. Hier3. The fu neral will be at Grace church this afternoon. Mr. Evans was brought to jail i yesterday morning 1 by Deputy Sheriff Benton. It is thought, he I will arrange for bail imnie*diately. Mrs. Evans leaves a father and mother and three small children. I ULTIMATUM DELIVERED To Cuban Government by General Crowder ; . Havanna, August 30?An ulti i matum was delivered to President ? Zayas and the Cuban Congress to I day by Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, i personal representative in Cuba of ' President Harding, that unless Con I gress before September 9 acts up ? on the five measures he has sug ; gested for the purification of the j administration, he will abandon his ! mission to Cuba and submit a final i report to the Washington govera ! ment, personally, if necessary. Xo threat of American interven tion was made by Gen. Crowder in delivering his ultimatum. j Orderly Lynching Held in Georgia Negro in Georgia is Hanged to Limb of Pine Tree Athens. Ga., Sept. 2.?Jim Pieed Long a negro, who was arrested early today for striking Miss Vio let Wood. 19-year-old daughter of the Rev. John H. Wood, of Rome over the head with an iron bar j when she screamed on finding him j in the act of burglarizing the house ! of her aunt, Miss Pearl Saunders j of Winder, Ga.. whom she was vis | king, was taken from Sheriff j Camp, just outside of Winder; late I today by a mob, and hanged on j the limb of a pine tree. The sheriff was in the act of [taking the negro to Atlanta for j safekeeping under the orders of ! Judge Blanton Fortson of the Su [ perior Circuit Court, when the road I was blocked and the negro taken j from the sheriff. It is said that ; the lynching was conducted in an I orderly manner, and that no more i trouble is anticipated, j Hundreds of automobiles gath i ered about the scene of the lynch j ing and the crowd viewed the bul ; let-riddled body. Although .Miss Wood's condition j is said to be serious, it was be j lieved tonight that she would re j recover. Geneva. Aug. 4.?The third as ; sembly of the League of Xations {was called to order this morning I by Chairman Domicio da Gama of Brazil. There was a large g,ath iering of spectators. WAGE SCALE APPROVED, Anthracite Miners' Union Pre paring to Resume Work Philadelphia, Sept. 4. ? The scale committee of the anthracite mine workers early today approv ed the agreement entered into by its subcommittee with the mine operators and set next Wednesday * afternoon as the date for the'tri district convention to, ratify the proposal, thereby bringing the sus pension of mining to an end for- * mally. The convention will be held at Wilkesbarre. GROWING WEALTH! By John A. Murkin, Publicity Di rector, Southern Packing Corp., ; Orangeburg, S. C. Poultry growing, like every other ,, branch of agriculture, can be.made* more profitable by improvement m both quality and quantity, and it -is to the interest of every citizen. of the States to see that this is done, because the prosperity of our farm* ers will be reflected in every other line of business. More poultry on the farms in the Southeast! Better care at poultry, greater production on "all farm? flocks. Tb;e average farm h^n produces around '6 5-eggs a year. Flocks well bred, and properly cared for average twice that num ber. There is more money in . poultry, for the amount invested, than in any other department of - farm work. Like hogs, good poul try and eggs can be produced -at. less cost in the South and South- . east than in any other part of the * country. Raising purebred chickens should be a part of the business of every farm. The sooner the farm ers realize this, just-so soon win the profits from the farm show an increase. The raising of purebred, live j stock reflects upon the man him self. He is doing good work and - j it makes him a better man. It* ; brings inspiration for greater ac- : complishments as well as content. . [It is worth many, many times the ; effort and expense to get into .the - purebred animal business. xOhce 2 in the business, you are there "to 5 j stay; the increased interest ' and - ! profits will keep you . there fox* 7 good. There is much satisfaction- .in 3 owning a herd of purebred animals.*- * jAsk a farmer to let you see ; b$s : I stock. If they are purehred, he r [ cannot show them to you quick j enough, if they are scrubs, he ? doesn't seem to care to;,have, you - j see them. He is ashamed of them/ j Personal satisfaction . cannot be ; measured in dollars and.cents be | cause it is, too valuable to be j measured by such a standard. A i man has to be satisfied with what^ j he has and with his work to I succeed, an'd he cannot ? make a j success these days, and times with ? a lot of scrub" stock around eating^, j up the profits, if he is any kind- of !a farmer at alL , v i Speaking in the Congress of' the j United States. Senator G ooding j said :? "If we destroy the livestock ' industry of America; we destroy . civilization. The agriculture :of j this country cannot survive with j out livestock, which affords na ? ture's remedy for keeping up the (fertility of the soil, without which j the citizenship cannot be main*- ? j tained." The preceding is more . - ! than a preachment. For the suc IcessfuJ farmer.-it represents a rule !of conduct, and stands for a prac~? 'ftice which all must approve: The "Pigs in Clover" are the I good hogs In the -Southeast. If you don't believe this, get'a few j good hogs and try it out. It wiH make you smile. The big State Fairs in the South east have long ago outgrown the* "Big Pumpkin and Fat Hog** class, even though both are to be found j there, but additional thousands and j thousands of interesting' and edu cational features have been added I until they are now rightly classed j as among the "biggest and best shows in earth", and with educa ; tional features surpassed by none, - j As a result, the farmers and city j people all over the Southeast, make* : it their business to attend these j big annual expositions, and arrange i for weeks and months in advance ! to meet their friends and ac quaintances at the State Fair, so j that they may learn and all have a j great time together. The State 'Fairs of the Southeast are doing I a wonderful work for this favored i section of America. HAWAIIAN VOLCANO IN ERUPTION Silo, Hawaii. Sept. 4.?Kilauea volcano is in eruption and a ne^ ? flow of lava is reported on the south side of Salemaumau fire pit i in the same location as the out ! break of last July. Prof. . Jaggs; la local authority, declined-to pre* ! diet the duration of the latest out break. FOR THE RELIEF OF? * Pain in the Stomach and Bowels, Intestinal damp Colic Diarrhcea, SOLO EVERYWHERE -