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TOWN AND C TWO FIRES IN CO?NTRY Ginneiy of L.?D. Jennings and Dry Kfln of J. ?. Britton Burned The .grahery of Mr. 'L. D. Jen nings on his Anderson place northwest of Sumter was burned Thursday night. Tlje origin of the fir? has not been determined, but it is supposed to have been start ed by.a spark from the / boiler room. In addition to the ginnery building and machinery The fire de stroyed twenty-five bales of long Staple cotton, a quantity of seed and two hundred bushels of peas. Mr. Jennings carried no insurance"' on the building, machinery and Other contents, but his cotton was trader contract to the Cotton Grow ers* Co-operative Marketing Asso ciation, and it may be protected by the general insurance policy car-*i ried by the association. ' The total ; loss will approximate ten thou sand dollars; .?> ' ? ? . The dry kiln of Mr. J. B. Brit ton's mill at Britton's Siding was j burned Thursday night together: with about twelve thousand feet! of lumber. There was no insur-'j ance on the kiln and lumber. THE PRIMARY I RECORD VOTEi Sumter Democrats Cite the j \ Record in Flag of Honor ?^Contest To the Editor of The State: In your issue of the 21st inst. a ' "Wilson-Cox Democrat" says that "after looking over the 'returns of the 4$ counties I think a flag, of honor should be presented to Edge fleld county." Evidently, this good Democrat - stopped looking over the returns ~A before he got to Sumter county. j " The Gamecock county heads the list in rolling up a majority in favor of law and order and untaint ed Democracy- Edgefield came j second and did herself proud *at | that.'.." . i However, if "a flag of honor is j presented, the returns show that it ; must come to Sumter county. . ] S. O'Quinn. Another Wilson-Cox Democrat. j To the Editor of The State: I glory in the circumstances that j permit "a Wilson-Cox Democrat" to j suggest that-a flag of honor be pre- j sented to Edgefield county and rec ommend the award but while flags j / are...being passed around I rise, to j ask what is the matter with Sum- . ter county? From the official re- j ? turns we claim the country blue t ribbons with a 73 8-10 per cent, j record. We also think -our pre- j einct records lead with 95 1-10 per [ cent, at Hagood box and 94 6-10 5 p.er cent, at Ward 2,-City of Sumter box. There is an idea very general ly prevalent over here that Sumter has the most conservative and best ' poised citizenship of any county of j the state. We asfe you to adjudi- j cate. An Also Democrat, j Death. ^Mr. August Schilling, for the t past sixteen years Superintendent j iof the City Water Works pumping; 'station, died Friday afternoon af-j ter a long illness. Mr. Schilling; had been, in failing health-fori several months and it was known ? ?iat his recovery was impossible,! yet he did not give up and al- j most to the last gave his personal | attention to the supervision of th* j pumping station. The last time j he was down town was on the day of the last primary, when he came ! to the polls of Ward 2 Club and j cast his ballot. Mr. Schilling came to Sumte) j from Charleston to take charge of; the water works when the water j works system of Sumter was own-j ed-by the American Pipe Company, i ? of Philadelphia, and when the j rSyartem was taken over by the city j .he was retained in the same po- j sition. He has given faithful and | efficient service through all th? i years he has been in the employ i of the city and he will be missed. \ He is survived by one daughter, j Mrs. Ike Edwards, of this city and ? a brother and other relatives of j Charleston. The funeral services j were held from hfs late residence j at ? o'clock Saturday afternoon. ! Barbecue at MaycsviDe. The Mayesville Baptist church i gave a barbecue Friday night, the ; proceeds of which are to be us?d j in purchasing a carpet for. the I church. A splendid supper was! served from 6:30 uutil 10 p. m.. j and was well attended, approxi- [ mately three hundred people be- i ing present. The -proceed* of the supper ! amounted to * 123.-"if. which is ' itmpie to supply tlie carpet. ?:? The cow. the sow. and the he.i ? have won the fight against the j boll weevil in other sections, and ! Sumter county can win by the same , methods, but more cows, sows and ' liens must be put to work. The fire department was called out between 7 and *>' o'clock Friday night by an alarm from B??x 42. j The fire whs of small importance, . the roof of a small house on East Hamptou Avenue, owned by Mrs. j A. j. Tteardon haying-caught from a spark. The blaze was quickly extinguished and but little damage was done. A large p^rc^ntage of the cotton j gins of Sumter county are not run- ; ning this season and the others are running only part time. Trio situation is the same in Clarendon eonntv?onlv worse,! OUNTY NEWS j DR. EDMUNDS ENDORSES I - ! Analizes What Community Service Would Mean to Sumter As the matter of a Community Serviee for Sumter is now being | considered by our citizens, it is in- j teresting to note the comprehensive program of community recreation which was carried on during the j past year, the second in its history, by the Greenville, S. C, Commun ity Service. Three, play-grounds were operated the ' year around and also'pnc summer play ground, all with trained leadership. Among the play-ground activities were Playground Leagues, games and t athletic sports, story telling, folk dancing, handicraft, sewing, city wide i tennis tournament, picnics, and hikes/ Two hundred and s'ev-? enty volunteers were enlisted for j the community's service through! four training courses as follows: j Play and game institute, songj leaders' institute, story tellers' in- j stitute, dramatic institute. In hol-| iday celebrations, special pro-! grams "were* given for Valentine's f day, Washington's birth day. East-! er with two egg-rollyig events for j the kiddies: July 4th, Hallowe'-j en. Armistice-Daj' and Christmas,! with a city community Christmas', tree. ] * In music 33 twilight organ re-; citals were given, besides music j lectures, community sings. In dra- j matics the work embraced chil-j dren's neighborhood dramatics, a players' group, and culminated in j the magnificent pageant, *'The { "Keowee Trail." with a great cast, j chorus, band and orchestra. Grow-! ing out of the historical interest j groused by the pageant, the His-j torial Association of upper South j Carolina was formed. Among numerous - and varied i other activities mention may be! made of the formation of a story j tellers' league, assistance rendered; the civic and social clubs in their! recreational programs, the organ'! ization of the Girl Scouts, the giving Of grown-up play parties for thej churches, clubs, neighborhoods andj rural districts, maintenance of ai service bureau that answered o5t> | out-of?-town calls for information! in one month, and cooperation with the churches, schools and all \ l>he civic agencies. . j As so succinctly stated by Dr. S. j H. Edmunds, the revered superin. tedent of Sumter's schools, as well I as the president of her Y. M. C. j A. and Rotary Club, the Comrnun- j ity Service idea is that of the com- I munity serving itself through its! own recreational committee and i director, affording opportunity to j a? the people for healthful, ex pressive play. Dr. Edmunds' let-j ter. given us today in response lo a request for his opinion of Com- j munity Service for Sumter. will be read with great interest. It is as follows: City Public Schools, . 1 ; Sumter, S. C. "With all of her loyal citizens I am. of course, interested in any thing that is for Sumter's welfare.} I have listened with great interest j and ^mueh pleasure to what Mr. | Kluttz has had to say about the! work of Community Service. It has j impressed me that Community Ser- ? vice would be . of and for Sumter j and its whole policy would be di- j rected by Sumter men and women, i It has impressed me also that its j function is not to usurp, but to j supplement; not to hamper, but to ! stimulate. In other words. Com- j munity Service not only ha?, a dis- ; tinct mission, but every welfare i agency now at work in Sumter | will be stimulated to greater use- ? fulness and more effective service | through the presence of Comrnun- j ity Service in our city. I have been pre-eminently im- ! pressed with the fact that its chief L purpose is to minister to the play instincts of our children and thus I :o enable them wholesomely to ! rpend their hours of leisure. While Lhis is the outstanding purpose, it { serves at the same time to bring ill the members of our commun ity into closer fellowship and great er friendship. Since tbis is so, it seems very de- j Arable, especially at this time, to ! ttave an institution of this sort I runctioning effectively within our sity. For the sake therefore of the tvhols city, epseeially of the chil dren. 1 trust that it may be prac ticable for us to procure the ser vices of an expert who will direct L?ur minds and'purposes into thes< n-tirities that scientific experience has shown are best for communi- ? ties like ours. "Cordially submitted. (Signed) "S. H. Edmunds." i "Sept. 22, 1921'." COAL FOR SOUTH CAROLINA I _ i Senator Dial Interests Hira-j self in Relief of Fuel Shortage Columbia, Sept. 25. ? Infurma- j tion has been received in Coluni- j hia to the effect that Senator Dial j has had tru' matter of moving coal ! in South Carolina up with the in terstate commerce commission, j with the result that an inspector! has been sr-nt to the Kentucky coal fields, to see that needed coal cars ? are returned to the C. C. & O.j railroad, over which comes a large part of the coal for South! Carolina. The senator holds that the scarcity of cars rather than <>f \ coal is th?' cause of the shortage. : The circus will collect money from people that the tax. collectors cannot touch. The circus will October 1 4t h. visit Sumter. i 212 INDICTED IN HERRIN PROBE ! Special Grand Jury Charges ! That Sheriff Was Union Member and Failed to Prevent the Mine Riot Marion, III., Sept. 23.?The spe cial grand jury investigating the j Herrin mine killings made a final reprt today with additional indict- | ments "bringing the total to 212. Today's return ? included four j murder indictments and an ar-1 I raignment of certain authorities, j charging them with "failure to I protect life and property" in -not I sending for troops when the mine . trouble seemed imminent. The report discussed the action j of the Southern Illinois Coal com- j pany in operating its mine during'. the strike and says that the prin- j eipal owner. W. J. Lester, either} was woefully ignorant of the dan- j ger or blindly determined to risk'; strife and conflict.if profit could bei made." The report denies the statement j of Adjutant General Carlos Black. ? made shortly after, the mine kill- j ings. that he had no authority .to! call out troops unless asked to* byj the sheriff and said that there was no law which forbade the adjutant general to call troops. The jury ^returned 58 more in dictments for conspiracy to com- i mit murder and 54 for assault tot commit murder. The jury previ ously had returned 38 murder in dietments and 58 for conspiracy and rioting. Sheriff Melvin Thaxton is ac cused of failing in his duty. On this point the jury says: "Sheriff Melvin Thaxton is a member of the miners* union and aJso is a candidate for county treasurer and he failed to take adequate measures to preserve the peace because of his sympathy for j the union, or for fear that it would] hurt his candidacy.. '"The attack on the strip mine i had been, planned several days and | Sheriff Thaxton had ample time to j learn of the proposed movements of the non-union .meu." "Ransacking of hardware stores j for arms and ammunition just be-; fore the attack, says the report, ' was the result of a telegram from i John L. Lewis, president of the j United- Mine W orkers ? to j Senator William: S. Speed, declar- \ ?ing'the non-union men to be strike- ! breakers. ; ( Senator Sneed is a sub-district president of the miners' union, and i the report stated the telegram was j posted at, various places and that j the miners- rifled the Stores with i the assurance that the United j Mine Workers would pay for' the '. articles they took, BIG FIRE IN ATLANTA Loss Estimated at Nearly j Million and Half Dollars Atlanta, Sept. 21.?After doing damage variously estimated by the i Police and fire department officials j at from. $700.000 to $1,500.000. a; tire that started in the heart of Atlanta's retail business district about midnight, apparently had' been brought under control short ly before 2 o'clock this morning. Starting from an explosion on^he second floor of the , Kress Five and Ten Cents store, according to j Robert Wagner, lieutenant of po- { lice, the fire quickly spread through j the rear.of the building and jump-! ed across, an alley to the Childs j hotel, sending more than 1G0 wo-1 men and men guests scurrying! scantily attired to the streets for j safety. ; Surrounded on all sides by the i buildings bounding Whitehall, I Broad and Alabama streets, and the i Western and Atlantic railroad j yards, the flames quickly jumped ; to other adjoining buildings. INJURED IN I AUTO WRECK; Three Occupants of Car Have I Limbs Broken Darlington. S<>pt. '24?In a col-j lisibn between an automobile a?id | a carriage on the Lamar road about j three miles from Darlington last i night, Tom Cross suffered a brok- j en ankle, one daughter had a leg] broken and another suffered ; broken hip. His wife and father-j in-Taw wer*', badly shaken up, while his son, who was drivinj. j was uninjured. Sam Truett. the j driver of the car, was cut about! the face, CO stitches being taken, i The oth^r occupant of the car was only bruised. The car and car- i riage wore demolished. The horse j had to be chut. It is said that the j automobile had a lantern for a. light. Arrangements have been made j with the Supervisors of Registra- j tiun to be in their offices at the ' OOFurt tluus*-- Tuesday and Wednes- i day. October 3rd and 4th, as well : as on -Monday. October 2nd. the: regular day ior registration, in or- ; der that every unregistered voter in the county who otherwise qualified, may obtain a r?-riificaTe ? >r' registration. This arrange ment for two extra days tor r*-^- j istratipn, the last opportunity be t?re the general election in No vember, was m.i'ie Saturday by County Chairman 11. Osteom j An effort will be mad*' by t!i<> coon- J ty and city Democratic organiza tions to obtain a lull registration) <>r Democrats and to poll a full j v<?j?- in ihe general election. Every}, loyal Democrat is urged toco-oper-J ate in t!ie effort to obtain a 100 per cent registration and tbe big gest vote polled in the general election in mauv years. I: m'm m- j, Th?*re is little cotton cominsr to!.' market, compared with normal] years before the boll weevil era. I IFUROPE ! ! WATCHING j NEAR EAST 1 _:_ . j 'The Question of Peace j or War at. Constan-j ' tinople Will Be De-j cided by Leader of; j Turks L'ondon, Sept. 22 (By the A.*so-j elated Press).?The question of peace or war in the Xear East seems to turn tonight first. aupon whether the question of the fu-! iure status of Thrace can be ke;it! separate and distinct from the j question of neutrality and free dom of the Dardanelles, and. sec-' ond, whether the guns begin toj speak before the negotiations be- j tween the allied representatives in Paris have ended. .! While..there is not the slightest; diminution in the announced de- i termination of the' British govern- j ment to uphold the neutrality of! the sraits of the Dardanelles a! very significant semi-official state ment issued this evening seerae to j indicate some modification of the! British policy and its attitude to- j ward Greece in Thrace, which it may be assumed is the outcome of the Taris negotiations- in which I Lord Curzon. the British foreign j secretary, participated. This statement declared she was I seeking nothing for herself but thai I she would insist on neutralization I of ?Jhe Dardanelles and fres pas-1 sage of The waterway under the league of nations or some othei" in- I ternntional organization.. All otiier j questions were secondary. The negotiations in Paris have j not yet been completed, but ac-j cording to advices received tonight,' from the French capital Premierf Poiheare is hopeful that by to nor-j row a formula- will be found - ac- ; ceptable to all parties which -uill; enable the allies to send a collec tive note to the Turks suggesting' a conference to arrange a peace be tween the Turks and the Greek's^] One of the strongest Charge?! mode against Premier Lloyd George's Xear Eastern policy, es-! pecially by the Labor partyvhas been its pr?rGreek character. Ute I Labor party announced that it was | unwilling to engage the nation inj a war for the fulfillment of Greek;! ambitions. . It has been com mented upon as strange that after j the premier's conference with t he j labor leaders on /Wednesday no j report of the speeches made were published by either side to the j conference. This silence, especially on the j part of the Laborites. was consid-j ered in some quarters to indicatej that some explanation of couces- j sion to the viewpoint of labor was! made by the premier. A possible | explanation of the silence is j thought by some tonight to be found In the authoritative state-,' ment made public during the' evening clearly intimating that the Question of Thnn e rm?y be regard- ? ed :is a secondary matter and sua-'j ceptiblc." of arrangement by nego tiations. ; According to Constantinople ud-t vices received here Mustapha Keni-j al Pasha, the Turkish nationalist* leader, demands within 4S hours; guarantees for .the evacuation ofj Thrace by the Greeks. On the I other hand the Greek government i expressed the strongest determina-^ Tion to hold Thrace at all costs.; France is supposed to be willing! to see the Turks back in eastern*' Thrace, and if an agreement be tween the British and .French gov- j ernments on this matter is reach-j ed it is believed Greece will not he; likely to oppose the views of the united entente. The foreign office has no con- ' tirmation of the report that Kcmal has fixed a time limit of 4S hours' for the earning but of the requir5 ed guarantees of any advance movement by the Kemalist troops. 1 The government, however, is con- ; tinning its preparations; for anyj' eventuality, but at the samt- time-: declaring it has no desire to pre-! cipitate hostilities. jj According to the view expressed i in official quarters, the issue lies in Kemal's hands. There is m"> secret about the., strength of the force that the Nationalist leader is! able to put in the field. Xb weight j is attached to alarmist and exag-j gerated ".stimates of that strength.! White -waiting advices from Kenial regarding his intentions,; i Winston Spencer Churchill, se<?.ro-'i tare for the colonies, and Sir! Laming Worthington Evans, sec retary- of slate for war. hold a eon- - rerence tonighi with war office of- j ?clals to 'arrajige for possible troop} movements. It- is understood that! the British liner Ehupress of India! ; has been taken over by the govern- m ment ?<? convey the Grenadier)* Guards io tbe Xear Sast. Thej war office announces That a large}., number of former officers are ? nnteering for service. The colon-1] ial office today received a despatch-j from the governor general of New; Zealand saying that although no j, call for volunteers had been m.-nTv'i more than 12,000 former officersi, and men had tendered their sec- , vices. There is considerable specula tion here whether the fCemalisl have guns of sufficient caliber ;o! interfere with the British Meet orj drive it from the straits. It has I j been reported that rh.- Turks !??ng ? since have been provided with] heavy guns with the object of forc ing ;d! naval vessels from ;he! straits ..r for i.otTling up the sea! of JIarmoraJuid (he Black sea. JtV is ^.-tid ti> because of this re- j ] port that the British will hold le- J nacibusly to Chanak, the ground j 1 being taken that no naval assist- < ?nee can reach the straits utiless h they ha ve sufficient land on hoch j * -?ides of the. waterway to prevent {] the T?rks from planting heavy J.' batteries; Many fears were ex-*? T?RK ARMY HALTS BY REQUEST Allies Are Dealing With Victorious Moslem Horde With Utmost Courtesy? Note From Allies on the Way Constantinople, Sept. 24 (By the Associated Press).?The British announce that Turkish forces of 1.100 cavalry, which crossed the neutral zone at Chanak Saturday night, retired today on Bairmajik following a meeting at 6 o'clock this morning between the com manders <Tf the Turkish and Brit ish forces. No shots were fired. The Turks retired under a white flag. ' \ The Turks stopped their advance when the British notified the Turk ish commander that a further for ward movement would cause the British to open fire. The Turkish ultimatum allowed until 5 o'clock yesterday .afternoon for guarantees respecting the re turn of Thrace, and it was because no guarantees were forthcoming that the Turkish cavalry crossed the border. London. Sept. *J4 (By the As sociated Press).?The agreement of the allies on the political side of the Near Eastern problem leaves the general situation much clearer and transfers the interest to the Dardanelles, where today's news proves the combustible nature of the problem to be solved there. The first actual "incident" be tween the British and Turks has already occurred in the shape of Turkish violation of the Chanak neutral zone, but has ended happi ly after a conference between the British and Turkish commanders. This incident, while seemingly dis playing the prudence of the KemaJ ists in not precipitating a conflict, will undoubtedly be seized upon by those critics of the govern ment at home who call for British evacuation of the Chanak zone, as the FreTtch and Italians have al ready evacuated, arguing that the presence of a British garrison there is likely to provoke just such oc currences endangering the preser vation of peace. These critics are apprehensive that some similar incidents will happen when the Turks may be dis-j inclined to withdraw, as they did! today. - The joint note of the allies has; gone forward to Mustapba Kcmal pasha at Smyrna; but a reply is hardly expected until the French; representative. M. Franklin Bouilon, j has had time to confer with the j Nationalist leader. According to a Paris dispatch re- ? ccived in London. Kemal Pasha, j notified of the coming of Mi ' Fmnklin I-.ouilon. replied: "I shall j expect you, but you must hasten." j The message is also rendered in ? mother form, as follows: "I j await your arrival. Your friend. j Kemal Pasha." j ^This has given rise to comment j on the different significance of the ? two messages. Two of the greatest difficulties j presenting themselves at the pres- j >nt moment appear to be, first, that! the Kemak'sts, while disposed to! accept" the allied invitation to a j conference; are likely to insist that! Russia, also shall be invited to sit ? n this conference, and. second, f that they, are not disposed to sus pend hostilities during the confer- j ?nee. but on the contrary maintain j heir right to pursue the defeated i Greeks into Thrace and protect I ;he Moslems there from possible] iJreek reprisals. With regard to the former con-1 lition it is pointed that the Keni- I i lists are hound, by treaty with i lie Soviet, to insist upon the pres-j fnce of Russia in the conference.j ft is therefore evident that the j mestion and the question of get-j ii:g the Greeks out of Thrace still! present difficult problems for al- j ied diplomacy. The British government and' military authorities are continu- ! ing-preparations for all eventuaU'- i .ies. British troops in Constant!-j iople have been ordered to Clia- i tafc. while there is an almost con stant movement of naval units from j Jilbraltar and Malta in the direc- i ion of Turkish waters. According to a statement given j :o the Glasgow Sunday Post byj \Iaj. Gen. Sir Charles Towhshehd. ,vho has just returned from a j risit to Kemal Pasha at Turkish) leado.uarters, Kemal has; no desire! o fight Great Britain. General! Townshend says that Kemal Pasha j las n?-ariy 3Q'v.')u6 armed men un- ' ler his orders, nearly all of them j 'hard bitted and well set up fei-I ows." -? ? ?- i A police patrol of the residence i streets at night would yield a rich j iarv* st of fines for speeding. Forty j niles an hour, with the mufflers n i<le open, is nothing unusual fori some "f the night riders. Rector of St. Aime's. Bishop Russell, of Charleston,-! appointed Rev. Father Quinn.J >? Orange1>urg. to be rector of Ht.-' \unc*s Church, this city, to succeed i [lev. J. F. M;ihoney, who recently lied. * I ?ressed locstlly today that Great Britain was drifting into a new! v.-ir w liieh would injure the mid-! lie classes of the poputa?oh, vhose income taxes lately had! Iropped from six shillings in r ii? - ?ound to five shillings, and which mother war probably would raivei i?aiti. 1 SHOPMEN TO ! APPEAL FROM ! INJUNCTION ! ? I !Attorney for Strikers: Will Carry the Fight: Against Judge Wil-j j -kerson's Order t o Higher Court Chicago. Sept. 24.?There will I be no protest by the railway shop ! crafts against the form of the or-! ider in the injunction case against! {the strikers. Donald R. Richberg. j ! attorney for the unions, announced! i tonight. As a result, it was expected Fed- j j eral Judge Wilkerson will accept; j the proposed" order drawn up and j j presented to the court last week by j ? the government. This would mean! i there would be no modification of j ! the . present temporary restraining1 i order. ; Mr. Richberg stated he^would j I raise no objections to the form of: [the restraining order but would; ! withhold all action until he appeals! 1 Judge Wilkerson's decision to the \ j circuit court of appeals next month < ; on the grounds that the district : court did not have the -power to; j issue such an injunction. J ; The case will come up in district i i court tomorrow simultaneously! j with hearing before the railroad ; j labor board of a petition by the ; ! signalmen for an increase in wages, j ?The wages of the signalmen were! j cut at the. same time as those 'of!j ; the shopmen".' but the former de- j I cided not to. strike whep they | .wer*? promised a rehearing on the! decreases. Richmond^ Va.. Sept. 24?The ! ranks of the striking shopmen of [the Chesapeake & Ohio lines will j be broken at 7 o'clock tomorrow j morning when the first contingent i \ returns to work under the "settlo | ment made last week, j Tiie reinstatement program is ex- j [pected to extend over a period of; i 13 day:-, and by that time,both! j company and union officials hopo to! ?have the 8.000 craftsman who Walk-' I ed out in the nation-wide move-! .ment July 1 back at work, j The group of workers returning ? (tomorrow includes those employed"! j east of Rohcevorte. W. Ya. Tues- ? ? day the movement will be extended: ? to take in the points west off j Ronceverte. I Strikers met. at Richmond. New-; j port News. Clifton Forge and ? i Lynchburg today and were inform-i , ed by union officials of the terms: I under which they are being rein- i I stated. Chief among these is that ; the men ar^ to be brought inj the order in which they stood on! I the seniority lists prior to the j strike. ? 1 Similar meetings will be held at \ i various other points on the Chesa- j peakc & Ohio tomorrow. , i Dynamite Charge Fails to World Effort Made to Blow Up ? Trestle in Georgia?No i Delay in Traffic ' j Macon. Ga.. Sept. 24?A charge; of dynamite sufficient to blow up i two big trestles or wreck a big of- j fice building, according to sher- ? iff deputies, was exploded under a: Central of Georgia trestle on the j Atlanta division ;of the Fdrsytb road underpass here early today.; The explosion was of s6ch force j as to shake buildings within a ra dius of two miles, but county t of- | ficers worked until this afternoon j before locating the scene of the j Mast for the main abutments of; the trestle and the roadbed were j not damaged. A passenger train from Atlanta j crossed the trestle two minutes be- J fore the blast. Several other fast ? trains followed, unaware of what' had occurred. Central of Georgia ! officials reported tonight that con nteralde damage was done to the st ructure, but the bridge -was pro i nounced safe for scheduled traf I To P?*stroy Rome. Birmingham. Ala., Sept. 24.- ! Tile live*'of Mrs. R. H. Massey and her. seven children were endanger- I ed early today when a dynamite! charge exploded on the steps of \ their residence near the Louisville: & Nashville roundhouse in Boyles. . Massey. an-employee of the road.: was away from home at the time.} The front porch of the house was i badly damaged by the explosion.! but members of the family In the j rear of the building were not in 1 jured. N ' _ j; Four Men Wounded. , New Orleans. Sept. 24.?Four , men were shot in a pistol battle between Texas &- Pacific railroad, guards and alleged strike sympa-!' thizcrs in Gretua. La., today. Eight!] men were arrested by United States | marshals and are belog held for*' violation uf the federal railroad i"- . junction ? ? -- Every Democrat who voted in the primary took an oath to support the nominees of the party. This means that the primary voter is j pledged to vote in the general elec tion in November. To be able to j vote tme must possess a registra- | ? ion certhicate. Those who are not ? now registered can obtain a cer tificate on Monday. October 2nd. \* Tlie American Legion, cooperat- < ing with tlie merchants of Sumter, j: will put on a style show on Octo-; ? ber !2th. The plans are being ' made to make it the biggest thing 1 of its kind ever held in Sumter. -, ? m m - -Women Will Speak" headline. 1 This, however, is not news. il STATEWIDE, CONVENTION AT COLUMBIA Farmers, Merchants, Bankers and Other Allied Interests Urged to Attend Cotton Growers' Conference A full attendance of the State Executive Committee of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association was held at Columbia, on Wednesday night, September 20th, in response to a call by President J. B. Johnson, of Rock Hill. The following im portant matters pertaining to the future work and activities of the division were taken up and after discussion, acted upon: It was" unanimously voted to re move the headquarters of the di vision from Columbia to St. Mat thews, and consolidate with the offices of the American Cotton As sociation. Secretary H. C. Book er resigned, as he had been elect ed secretary of the South Carolina Cotton Growers* Cooperative Mar keting Association. Mr. John T. Mac key also resigned as treasurer, and Col. Harvie Jordan, secretary treasurer of the American Cotton Association was elected secretary treasurer for the South Carol!na Division, American Cotton Asso ciation. A state-wide, educational campaign in the interest of the re habilitation of the agricultural and cotton-growing industry will be ac tively conducted from St. Matthews j and the ..full membership of the i division maintained and increas j By unanimous action of the com-; mrttee. President J. B. Johnson was authorized to issue a call for \ a state-wide convention of farmers, merchants, bankers and all other affiliated interests, to be held at i Columbia. Wednesday, October 11. j 1922. The purpose .of the meet-; ing is to arouse renewed interest j in the educational work of the di- ! vision: inaugurate an active cam- ' paign for increasing small srai.i ? acreage this fall, and thereby bring j about a'drastic reduction in the cotton acreage for 1923: to em phasize better practical methods for boll weevil control; to urge the er?- j actment of federal legislation for, the appointment .of a special com- j mission to investigate the .ent'ro j cotton-growing industry: and to de- j vise financial relief measures that; will aid in the rehabilitation of the j agricultural industry of the stabil and south. Urgent letters of invitation have j been transmitted to Hon. Wm. J.! Bryau and Secretary Henry C. j Wallace to attend the conference; and deliver addresses on the sub jeet matters which will be propos- j ed for discussion. It is believed j that one or both of these notable j speakers will.accept the. invitation extended. A large ^attendance at the conference is most earnestly desired, and the invitation to all in- j terested is most pressing. After a thorough discussion of; the average cost of growing the i 1^22 cotton crop, as ascertained by j the American Cotton Association:! the present shortage of cotton sup- '? plies and the prevailing low spot j market values offered the grow ers, the committee unanimously j recommended that spot cotton be' held off the market for an aver- j age of ah grades of 3u 1-2 cents j per pound, as a fair and reasonable ! price. The cotton growers through- j out the state and south, and all j Co-operative Cotton Marketing As-; sociations. are urged not to sac-: rifice the staple at prices less than | the cost of production plus a rea-! sonable profit. It was the con- j census of opinion that if war starts ? in Europe, the price of cotton will' advance to very high figures. South-wide Campaign Endorsed. The committee passed a strong I resolution calling upon the Amer- f ican Cotton Association to' imxne-! diately begin an active and per-; sistcnt south-wide campaign for j greater crop diversification, drastic; cotton acreage reduction in 1923. i and urging upon all growers to \ *top selling cotton at present lovv prlces and refuse to market the staple for less than- average cost, plus a reasonable profit to* them selves, it w; s confidently believed by all present at the meeting that \ if strong resistance to existing low markets is made by the growers i s 11 over the belt, that in a very i short period of time the legitimate ! laws of supply and demand will function, with much higher prices] prevailing in the open markets. Strong and impressive talks on the cotton situation were delivered b?y. Chairman J. B. Johnson. Rock Hill: President J. S. Wannamaker! :?f the American Cotton Assocla- ? ion. St. Matthews: Captain J. JT. j .taffy. Oran;?eburg: Mr: L. [. "uion. Lugoff: Col. B. Harris. Co-.! lumbia: Mr. R. C. Kamer. East-1 ner. anu Mr. T. L. Manning. Dil-j on. Twenty members of the com-; nittee were present and all were j ?trongly of the opinion that if 10,- ' ?00.bales of cotton iu\19i2. svith practically, no surplus, will j lot afford the growers cost prices i or growing the crop, that pro luction must be reduced to not ex- j seeding 8.000.000 bales in 1923. j The press of the state was cor- i lially requested to give due pub icity to the proceedings of the eon - nittee meeting as above ser forth. ! J. B. Johnson, [ President S. C. Division. Amor- I can Cotton Association. Harvie Jordan. Secretary. Neu Rector Kor Summerton. j i Georgetown. Sept. 2 4.?The Rev. lohn E. H. Galbraith. for the past : I I years in charge of the parishes j ?f Prince Fcedcrmk's. Pee D*?e : tnd All Saints. WaccaJuaw, will j eave soon to assume the rector-; ship of St. Matthias at Summerton.j ?Lr. Galbraith in the face of many iiscouragements and hardships ha.s ! lerfornied faithfully and well a1 rreat work in this country, and he | arries with him into his new field; >f labor the love, gratitude and respect of all. SIX KILLED IN AIRPLANE WRECK Lieutenant and Five Enlisted Men Killed at Mineola Field When Huge Martin ? Bomber Crashes to Earth - ?????? % Mineola. Sept. 23.?First LienL Raymond E. Davis. United Stat army air service, and five enlisted^ men were killed when a huge Ma tin bombing plane crashed to earth at Mitchell field, late tonight. , The enlisted men killed wer* First Sergt. Thomas? Benfleld. Cori>. David Stiven and Pvts. Edward H. Kane. Henry Ray Nichols and Irving M. Whitney,~all stationed it Mitchell field. A report of the accident as giv en out several hours later by the adjutant's office .at the field aa>a jlhat the plane had been inspected shortly before leaving the field anJ that the cause of the -fatal acci dent "probably never would be mown." "Soon after leaving the field:" the report said, "the plane passed out of the rays of the huge search lights which had been arranged and used in the night air maneiv vers The plane approached - a steep angle and then suddenly w?ent into a nose dive. m "There were no lights on th* plane as it felL The crash o> mrred some distance from thV field." ? FIGHT ON BOOTLEGGERS Gov. Harvey Has Started Vig orous Campaign Against % Criminals Columbia. Sept. 25.?Gc-v Har vey has made known his inten tion of waging a vigorous warfare on the bootleggers ; <af the state. In fact he has already launched the fight, and he announced to day that already, excellent rt?ahs have been accomplished, with state and federal, officers co-oper-^ ating. Governor Harvey reports a num ber of cases where the officers hafl made big raids, and he stated that he proposed to keep his state constables at work in the cam- - aigu against the bootlegger. > During recent days the state and federal officers have been ac tive in the eastern part of the state, and in Columbia several seiz ures have been made. The presence of a circus in Columbia Saturday was believed to be the drawing card for some whiskey, and on Laurel street the officers seized thirty-nine gallons. On the out skirts of the city the officers seiz ed sixty gallons, the whiskey said to "have been stored for an al leged Columbia bootlegger. Governor Harvey states thai ho is receiving the close support of federal officers in the anti-boose campaign. He is receiving reports frofti many parts of the state and his constables are working over time. Complaints from people >of tite state serve as the basis for the greatest activity on the part.of the prohibition officers, the gar ?M*nor states. Misses Hasty Give Birthday Party. On Thursday. September 21st, Evadne and Rose Hasty entertain? ? ed a number of their little friends at a joint birthday party, at their home on Wright street. ' At 4 o'clock the little folks b% gan to gather and amusing games were played^until 5. !it which timfe the children were ushered into the dining room which was tastefully decorated with ferns and cut flow ers, and from the chandelier to the four corners of the room, were gracefully hung, many colored . draperies. In th,e center of the table occupied by Rose Hasty and her little guests, was a huge birth day cake, with seven candles, o?*e for each year, while in tlie center of the tab Je occupied by Evadne and her guests, was tlie birthday cake with the nine candies. The smaller cakes bore the letters E. H. and R. H.. the initials of the lit tle hostesses. The^souvenirs, which consisted of m/nature toys, sus pended from ribbons, were tied about the neck of each child as At took its place'at the table. After partaking of the refreshments, which consisted of ice cream, cake and mints, the children again gathered in the yard to play. At six o'clock they took their depart ure, all declaring they had spent a most enjoyable evening. Those present were: Robt. Ro land.. Chas. E. Harris, Mary Alice Baker. Elaine Lowry, Bessie Lee Cherry. Rleka Cherry. Mary Meli Cherry, Julia Cherry, Cliff Brown. Tack Gerard; Lawrence Yates, Robi. !'. Robinson. Jr.. Ewing Robinso?iJ? Evelyn Matthis. Nell Wise, Inez Wells. Frank Weils. Jr.. HelenJ|| Watts. Billy Lew is. Sarah Lewis. Mildred Farribeau. Selma Wheeler. Sarah Raldwin. Wallace Baldwin, Edna Drayton. Dorothy Ramsay. :^ Aline Slovis, Marjorie ' White. Frances Smith. Mable Smith, R*i ta Sidnor. Louis Femberton, Rose recile. Loyns, Floride Watts. Theo dosra Fludd. Roberta Andrews. Rose Hasty and Evadne Hasty.,, We eat 2,500.000,000 eggs year-js ly. No wonder a hen looks mad. ? MSI!" FOR THE RELIEF OF, Pain in the Stomach and Bowels, Intestina! Cramp Couc. Diarrhoea - SOLO EVERYWHERE - *