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jjpt Watchman and Southron ?stered at iSfe Postbffice at Sum tvr, ?? an Second Class Matter. k ? - :V__ _ PERSONAL. . Mr. Steve Bhore left Wednes day night .i/or Plant dity, Fla., where he has? established a fer tilizer plant. - Mr. Bifly Bowman went to ^Charleston Wednesday on busi ness. / Mr. O. W. Dudley, Jr., nas re turned from Danville. va. Mr. .Hugh A. Williford, manag er of the Sumter Leaf Tobacco company, who has been in Rocky M?unt. N. C, for several weeks, is in the city for a few days. Rev. R. L. Grier of Mayesville was in the city Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. MeTver and children left Saturday inorning for *Mt..Pleasant where they will spend the holidays.- .<* . Miss Lou rtohaker left Thurs day for Darlington where she wlil ^o public health service. She has been a member of--the nursing^ staff at Camp Alice for two years. Miss Frances. Sm&h* who has been on .an' extended visitv to her j aunt, Mrs. IT. T- Oliver, at City! Point, Va., returned Friday nforn-] jug. - / . Mr. John; B. Duffle spent two days this week at. Winthrop Col lege with a party of members of the legislature who visited the 1 'college for the purpose of- gain-j ing by personal observation an idea j of the needs of the institution. Dr. S. H; Edmunds went t? Or .angeburg Saturday to - attend an educational meeting. :Mr. O. C. Scarborough, of- Sum Wertor., was in the city Saturday. ? -MTt. E. C. Hutcheson of Colum bia is in the., city , for the week end. Mr. Kistler Warren, of the, Or angeburg Times & Democrat force, spent. Saturday - in. - town*- with friends. Mrs. W. O. Coutrright left Friday for .Savannah, Ga., to spend; the holidays wiih her parents. , She was,,accompanied- by her sister,] Miss Eleanor Mitchell, who has spent the autumn here. . Misses Doll Bultman and Car met McKiever are, at home from j Sty Joseph's College, Emmettsburg, j Md., to spend.the.holidays* Mr. George McKiever,_ who is, attending- St. Mary^s College, Em mettsburg,. Md., is. at home for the-holidays. Mrs^ M.. P. Cordes, who has spent the past few months at Xewry, S. p_ returned' to the city Saturday. Mr. c. W. McGrew went to | Columbia Monday to attend the! funeral of his brother-in-law, Mr. j John R. Dixon. Mr. Began Trippett, of Borden,] sp^nt the day in town Monday. j Messrs. Paul Hodge, Manning; and Ransom Richardson, of Pine wbod were among the visitors in ; town, Monday.. Sir. Geo. M. Saunders of Glare- j mont spent the day in town .Mon day. ~ , ? ? ? ? ? -- Clarendon Wants Bridge1 Across . k> Santee. Clarendon county is becoming actively interested in the pian to build a bridge across the Santee jit Pinckney^s Landing, connecting Clarendon and .Orangeburg coun ties, it is reported. This proposed bridge is one of the major bridge projects pn the State highway de partment program ,and is shown oh the-state -highway map, as a j needed link in the state system of j highways. It was stated a year or two ago that as soon as the Santee bridge at St. Stephens and the Wa teree bridge at Garner's Ferry were completed the Pinckney Landing! bridge .would, receive consideration. The Santee bridge is nearing com pletioh and will be opened for traf fic in the - early part of next year, I and the Wateree bridge has been j completed several weeks and will be open, for traffic as soon as the j swamp approaches are completed j early . in January. Therefore it ; seems that the time Ls opportune i for those interested in the Pinck- ! ney-Landing bridge to prese forj fiction on this project. In a good i manyf respects the Pinckney! Landing bridge would be of great-: er benefit than the Wateree bridge,! jsince it would give this town and j county easy access to a section of the state that, while only a short distance away in miles, is almost wholly inaccessible, except by rail road. A bridge located there would shorten the distance to Charles- J ton, Orangeburg, Augusta and all j of- country south of Columbia ly- I ing between the Santee and Sa- j vannah rivers and would open up! a trade territory that would enable j Stomter merchants- and other busi- j neees establishments to reach out for new business. The Sumter-1 Paxville-Summerton road, which will be paved to the Sumter county line, l^ads directly to Pinckney Landing, and with the construe ?ion of a bridge at Pinckney Landing would became one of the main traveled highways of the state. MISSIONARY KILLED BY SRARK Miss Katherine W. Bourne of Tarboro, N. C., Meets Death in Puerto Rico NVw York, Dec. 16.?Miss Kath erine W. Bourne of Tarboro, N. C\, a missionary teacher at St. John's school. San Juan. Puerto Rico, was killed by a shark while bathing on the beach at Borlin guen Park, near San Juan. De cember 14, according to a cable message received today at the Episcopal church mission house. The message added that Miss Bourne's body had been sent to Baltimore. HARRISON GRANTED STAY #EPC?TiON Judge Cothran Grants ; Petition of Attorney i^or Murderer Greenville, J)ec. 17.?A stay of execution in event counsel for Ira Harrison, sentenced to die in the electric chair on December 22, on conviction of the murder of J. C. Arnette of Columbia, wish to appeal to the- entire supreme court oi South Carolina, would be granted ih; the order of Associate Justice T. P. Cothran, following appear ance before him here last Friday o^B. B. Evans, Harrison's attor ney ,/appealing from the decision ot Judge Mauldjh, in circuit court on the sanity of the defendant, Judge Cothran- said tonight. The appeal to the entire court would be from the decision of Justice Cothran. who held that the decision of Judge Mauidin rela tive to the sanity of Harrison is not appealable. G^VEENOR : <s REFUSES PARDON Columbia, Dec_15.?One week from today F. M. Jeffords,, young Columhian, will die in the electric chair for the murder of J.. C. Arnette, filling station proprietor. The young man showed, slight signs* qf emotion when today he j received the letter , of Governor Harvey, declining to grant his pe tition for executive clemenej*, thus [closing in his face*the. last door df [hope, s His life will .go for one he \ took, to get insurance money. One of his two partners, in crime, Ira iHarrison, will not die on the 22nd, as an appeal notice has automati cally stayed, the execution. The other, Glenn Treece,. is serving a j life. sentence. .... "You will never know how sor I ry I am for you," the -governor wrote to Jeffords; "how I feel for you and your: dear ones and how I would like to give you some hope in your trouble. My heart goes, out to those who love you. and I only wish some real justification warranted me in being of help to you. The governor is not given the- power of clemency based on sympathetic grounds. There must be .-some reason not known to . the courts. You were duly tried ac cording to thevlaw, and appeals ; through the regular channels have all been exhausted, and interfer ence by me solely on grounds of kindness, sympathy and good .will, would, be to flaunt the duly pro vided system of trial provided by law." / STATE INCOME v TAX RETURNS -? \%i\Z Columbia, Dee. -IS.?The state [tax commission is to use a blank I form, similar to that used by Uncle I Sam, in getting income tax returns ifor the year of 1923. The blanks [have been prepared and*are to be ! mailed out early in uie new -year, j The blanks ask for the same in formation- as that sought by the I United States collector.- For the return on last year's income no blank was used for the returns on which the state income tax was based. The tax commission sim ply took an affidavit from each tax f payer as to the amount of tatf he I paid" the 'federal government, the 'amount. For next year, however, state tax -being one-third, of that rthe state tax commission wiil have its own blank. Returns on 1922 incomes w?l be. due March 15, on which date the first quarterly payment will also be-due. In making returns the income-earner makes*report of his total income, no matter what its sources, and of the possible deductions. The same deductions are allowed by the state income tax law as. by the federal. statute, for interest and taxes paid,, for losses by Gre or storm, for contributions and for bad debts.* The computation of the tax, on jthe blank foims, is similar to that for the federal collector. It is 'computed at four per cent, the fed I eral income tax, and then one-third j?f the amount is paid to the state ! treasurer, the state Jaw specifying fsimply that the slate income tax i shall be one-third of the federal ^income tax. I The income tax law of the state is I proving to be a great success, ac cording to W. R. Bradley, head ; of the income division of the state jtax commission. The federal in Icome tax, Mr. Bradley says, basing j his statement, on a report made to him by John F. Jones, collector of federal revenue, paid in South [-Carolina this year, on 1921 incomes, l will total between three and four million dollars. The state tax being*, one-third should total approximately one million, and Mr. Bradley says this amount is already collected or in sight. Prior--to his service with the j state tax commission, Mr. Bradley lwas chief clerk of the federal col lector. He is an authority on in !come tax matters. Mr. Bradley i predieted when the stau* income jtax law was enacted by the 1923 j legislature, that the new law would j net the state approximately three quarters of a million. The total, (however, he says, will reach a i million in round numbers. He considers this good, especially when it is considered that the state is not as well equipped for col lecting the tax as is the federal [government. ? ? ? We swear off en'Now Y*?ar and after that we swear off and on. ii " * *?**."*> DRIVE F?R BONUS BILL CONEN Conference of Veter !N ?ns Yftvo Are L)e manding Bomls Told That Harding' Now Favors Measure Cincinnati, Dec. 17.?rAssurance that .President Harding- would sup port a bonus for ex-service men, providing a feasible means of financing the bonus can be found, was given ex-service men by Col. C. R. Forbes, director of the Vet erans* bureau at Washington, be fore a joint conference of nation al and state executives of the vet erans of foreign wars,, here today. In the conference were the mem bers of the national council of ad ministration and the department of commanders of the veterans', or ganization. - Immediately following Forbes' address and a discussion wffich. re sulted in strong approval of a sales taxi . the executive unanimously adopted a resolution, indorsing a sales tax with food stuffs exempt ed, as a means of raising the nec essary revenue to finance the bonus. . C. Hamilton Cook, Buffalo, /N. Y.,. national commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, who was attending the conference^ by invitation, .said his organization would take immediate action to support the resolution. The American Legion, which is I the largest of the Veterans' organ i izations, was not represented at the [meeting. "This means that the bonus bill i is liable to be passed'at the com-: ing session of congress," Col. T. L. Huston, "New" York, National com mander of the "Veterans of Foreign j Wars, said after the meeting. ? Colonel Forbes -called President Harding, by long distance telephone shortly before, going into the con ference, and in the course of his address referred to his conversa jtion with the president. . 1 "I called him up because it was suggested to me that the -bonus might be touched upon," he said. "I- wish you knew the pulse . of President Harding. 1. wish you knew hfs innermost thought.- I wish you knew how he loves the ex-service men. "Harding is not opposed to a i bonus. He will neverr-be opposed I to the bonus "if they will provide* a j means for financing it. All sorts j of legislation have been sought; all ?sorts.of means have been mehtion jed; and the most simple means of all those that have been brought to my attention is-the sales tax to meet .this obligation. ,"If congress had brought to the j president the solution Of the fin jancial problem of this additional j financial responsibility, he would j have signed the bill. . I believe the ! sales tax is the means whereby this obligation may be paid and the sales tax:is the answer to the prob lem of paying the bill."* I FLU SITUATION i tMPitOVlNG j State Health Department Has j -? Encouraging Reports ? ?<?? j Columbia, Dec. 15.?-Improve ; ment in the influenza situation j throughout the state is reported by the state health department to day. Only two cases were report ed for the day. ? . - ' i? . From Orangeburg T. S. Dibble, clerk of the health board of that city, reported to the state health officer here that of a total number iof .295 cases of influenza, 18S had' been dismissed. There are now in ! Orangeburg, the report shows, 213 J cases of influenza under treat iment, with two pneumonia pa jtients* Orangeburg reports no ! deaths from these diseases. Dr. J. B. Edwards, of Swansea, .j reports 60 cases of "flu." with j several entire familief stricken, j A report from Cross Hill, in i Laurens county, shows eight cases j of. flu there. j Current rumors * in the capital jcity, that the University of South 1 Carolina would close on account of the number of cases of in fluenza and pneumonia were denied by the health authorities. There are only a few cases at the Uni versity. In the city of Columiba the city health authorities report to the state health officer today that the ! number of influenza eases so far total 1,176, pneumonia cases 45, and deaths from the two 16. City Health Officer La Borde reports I this as a rather high" death rate, j but he says he is confident a ! number of pneumonia cases have^ j not been reported. More than j half of the pneumonia cases re I ported to the health officer of this jcity have been discharged, and ! Dr. La Borde reports today that the (situation shows great improve j ment. "The epidemic in Colum bia is on the down grade." stated Dr. La Borde, in scanning the re ports of health nurses of this city. WALLACE REID SERIOUSLY ILL By the Associated Press j Los Angeles. Dec. 18.?Wallace [Reid, motion picture star, has not j been expected " to /live for several j days, according to his wife. Dorothy j Davenport, in an interview today j in the Los Angeles Examiner, and lone physician at the sanatorium j corroborated this statement. The [doctor said he was either suffering from complete exhaustion or in ffluenza, but denied his illners was I due to narcotics. Paris, Dec. 15.?Premier P?iri care in the chamber of deputies today said he was ready to with draw if the. chamber thought another cabinet than his would do better work for. France. He sketched the reparations and Turk ish peace problems optimistically. Washington, Dec. 15.?Group meetings for the discussion of co operative marketing problems fea tured today's session of the nation al council of Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Associations. Various government officials spoke on the subject of . credits for farmers. . Cadd?, Okla., Dec. 15.?Five men held up the Caddo slate bank today and stole ten thousand dol lars in Liberty bonds. They lock ed fourteen persons in the vault. Lcnucn. Dec. Id.-?-The British parliament .adjourned today until February 13th. The effort of the Laborites to block adjournment, pending the finding of a solution for the unemployment situation failed. Lexington, Ky? Dec. 15.?Bob Baljard* leader of the Menifee county nfoonshiners gang and Guv Cole, a prohibition agent,' > were slaih in a battle between twenty officers and moonshiners today, ac cording to. word Received by Pro hibition Director. Sam "Collins. Charles Ballard, an alleged moon shiner, who was wounded, , was ; a member of the gang sought for. killing two Officers last week. Washington, Dec. 15.?The Nor ris bill, establishing a hundred million dollar government corpor ation to .finance the .sale of agri cultural products was ordered .fa vorably reported on by the senate agricultural committee. Spartanburgv Dec. 15.?Clyde McG?wan, Jame? Welch, Joseph Herlong.and Dewey Millwood, the runaway Union boys were taken from a freight train here today. They said they had started for Florida,, but when a train camo going, the other way they decided to go West. Greenville, Dec. -15.?The South ern Intercollegiate Athletic Asfio-. ciation meeting here, today ^sus-* pended the, Chattanooga Univer sity for violating .... th# freshman rule. Washington, Dec. 16.?Supreme Court Justice Pitney resigned to day, effective January 1st. ' Warsaw, Dec. 16?Gabriel Naru* towicz.^the Polish president, was as sassinated while attending an art exhibition. There have been contin uous disorders since, his election last Saturday. The disorders the day he was elected unexpectedly by the Na tional assembly, led to .four, deaths. Xarutowicz took the oath Thurs day. Maciez Rataj,. speaker of the ?house becomes acting president. ??:?.? ? ? . . - Death. ? ? i i ? ' j Mr. William. Wallace Sumter, of j Stateburg, died at .3 o'clock Mon day -morning at the home of his brother, Mrx John .K, Sumter, on West Hampton avenue, aged 65 years. He was the. eon of the jlate Sebastian D'Amhlimont Sum ter, and ha.**, lived all his life at the old Sumter .home, at State burg. .. > V The relatives ' and friends of i William Wallace Sumter, Thomas j S. Sumter and John R. Sumter are j invited to attend the_ funeral of William Wallace Sumter at the Church .of theHoly Cross, State burg, at 12 o'clock Tuesday, De cember 19th. ? ? ? ? s Death. ? i mi * Mrs. J. R. A. Whitlock. former ly Miss Kate DeLorme, of Sumter, i died Monday morning at her home j in Powell, Wyoming, after a long ?illness. She is. survived by her husband, Dr.. j. r! A. Whitlock, and her mother, Mrs. Emma De-? Lorme. , , .. ? ? ? County Fair -Meeting. I At 11 a. m?tomorrow, Tues |day, December 19th, at Sumter j Chamber-of Commerce the annual j meeting of the stockholders of the j Sumter County Fair Association will be held. Every stockholder who possibly can ought to attend tomor row's meeting and help to start the movement for a Greater Game cock. County fair for 1923 and for years to come. The etockholders ought not to expect a few directors to carry the burden of continuing a county fair, but the stockholders should themselves pitch in and help to make our annual county" fairs what they ought to be. The annual election of officers and directors will occur at tomor row's^meeting. . ? ? ? Tuonicy ( mist maw Charity Be - quest* ? ? '. ? j The question having been rais-1 ed at the Christmas Fund mass] meeting as to the terms of the i Christmas charity bequest by the! late Mrs. Ella Tuomey, the follow-! ing section of her last will and] testament is published as a matter! for information: . Seventh: I direct my executor to invest the sum of three thou sand dollars in good securities, and to pay over annually at Christmas to the city council of the city of Sumter; South Carolina, for dis tribution amongst the needy poor of said city, in such manner as said city council may deem best, the annual interest or income to be derived therefrom. It is too late now to shop early. Lives of Members Ap pearing I a s Wit nesses Will Be Safe guarded, Says Re port M?rion, 111., Deo. 16 (By the Associated Press).?Sworn to pro tect the lives of their members who have testified for the prose cution at the trial of five men charged with murder in connection with the Herrin mine riots, a sec-, ret organization of farmers today was reported to have been formed in Williamson and Johnson coun ties, according to investigators i from the office'of Attorney Gener- j al Edward -Brundage. .."For the life Of every farmer taken as .the results of his testi-j raony, we will exact ten lives of his attackers," were said to have been! the words spread over the coun tryside. One: of the witnesses heard yes terday just before the. adjournment over Saturday and Sunday was said by one of \ the state's lawyers to have broken down and wept just before taking, the stand and to have pleaded that he be excused. "I don't '?. mind for myself," he was quoted as having said, ^mit I have a -wife and family to consid er." . ? ? *<mmm William Goodman, a farmed who took the stand yesterday in overalls and testified that he had seen Otis Clark, .one1 of the de fendants, in the crowd coming from the mine with. 30 of 40 prisoners, was asked to tell what he heard, dark say.. t "Do'I. have to answer that?" he asked the. judge, and when answer ed in the affirmative he stated: . "Well," he said, . :"we ought to take these men out and kill them." Equal reluctance was experienc ed with several other farmer wit nesses, who have . appeared dur ing the first three days session of the trial and have pointed out sev eral of the defendants as men they had seen with g?ns on the morn ing, of the tragedy. Both the defense and prosecu tion expressed pleasure today with the course the trial has taken and the speed with iwhich the witness es have been heard and legal tech nicalities been cleared away. Monday the state will continue the. introduction of testimony de signed to show how the non-un ion, workers at .the "strip" mine had been attacked and had been shot down after they had sur rendered their arms on the prom ise of safe conduct out of the dis trict. , WATEREE BRIDGE : CELEBH?tl?N Secretary Reardon Receives Encouraging Letters From Columbia j Columbia is lining up in fine I shape for the approaching big celebration of the opening of the jWateree River bridge. The fol lowing well known citizens of that : city" have written the Sumter j Chamber of Commerce in part as i*follows: -Honorable W. A. Coleman,- may or of Columbia: "I shall refer this matter immediatley to F. Wil liam Cappleman, president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce for consideration af this evening's meeting of that body." \ \ Mr. E. O. Black, president of j the Standard Building and Loan ! Association writes.also: "I wish j to congratulate your organization j on its good judgment in celebrating the opening of the Wateree River bridge. In my opinion, it is a good occasion for Sumter and Columbia and it is indeed appropriate and fittirte that something ^exciting, as an evidence, of appreciation, be done. From your interview in The State and Record of last Sunday, I would judge that you intend to pull this affair off in very appropriate style. President F. William Cappleman of the Columbia Chamber of Com merce has written: "I know that our Chamber of Commerce and all orgnizations of. Columbia will be glad to coopeate in this celebra tion proposed. I hope to be able ' to write you definite plans in a few I days." v ... Eastover is wideawake for this celebration and getting ready to do its part in hospitality and jubila tion if that town is selected for the celebration. Sumter will be i there as "the daddy yof the cele i bration" and "twin sister" with [ Columbia in starting the move i ment to have this great bridge I erected: Just as soon as the state [ highway commission says when it j will throw open this bridge for I traffic there is gibing to be some I thing doing in Sumter and Colum I bia to put on a historical celebra ! tion that will long b** remembered j in South Caroline?. Troubl? with a man who is a wonder at talking is wonders never {cease. . ? ? ? j Cuff links are suitable for a man. Give him sets to send to the laun !dry with every shirt. Hell hath no fury like a woman when you track mud in her house. Columbia Looks Forward to the Legislature The Annual Meeting of the General Assembly is the Big Time of the Year Columbia, Dec. 15.?E. B. Jack son, lieutenant governor-elect, was a visitor in Columbia today, as was also M. M. Mann, clerk of the senate. The two had an in-. formal conference regarding the session of the general assembly, which convenes January 9, and of the work of the new senate. Mr. Mann was in the city to have cer tain necessary printing done, prep aratory to the session of the sen ate. ? An interesting point discussed by the two officials was the calling of the senate to order and the presiding officer for the .opening days. A new senate starts with the convening of the general as sembly, and the new lieutenant governor will not -be inaugurated for a week afterwards. There is ?no lieutenant governor now, Lieut. Governor Harvey having be come governor the middle: of the year. One of the first, matters to' come before the senate will be the election of its officers, including a president pro tern. Mr. Mann, who is an authority on senate rules and practice, stat ed that it would be the duty of Sen ator Allan Johnstone, of Newber ry, who is a hold-over senator and who was president pro tern of the 1922 senate, to call the 1923 sen ate to order. The senate will then go into the election of a president pro tern. Should Sejnator John stone be nominated for this office, and his name has been mentioned in-this connection, Mr. 'Mann, the clerk, will take the desk and pre side until the president pro tern is chosen. Tlu's new official will' then have charge of the delibera tions until the new lieutenant gov ernor, Mr. Jackson, is sworn in. The inauguration of the new gov ernor, Thos. G. McLeod, and of the new lieutenant governor will take place on the second Tuesday of. the session, January 1G. On that day; Governor Haryey will surrender the chief executive of fices to Mr. McLeod. The general assembly of 1923 will have some important matters before it. One will be a series of elections, chief of which are four circuit judgeships. Successors are 'to be chosen to three ? circuit judges who died during 1922, Judges Ernest Moore, Edward Mc Iver and Frank B. Gary,.and to Judge James E. Peurifoy, of. Wal jterboro, who has Sent to Governor Harvey his resignation, to take ef jfect January 20, or sooner, if his successor can be chosen before that date. Numerous candidates are already being brought ferward for these positions on the bench. A superintendent*of the state j penitentiary is. also to be elected. Col. A. K.- Sanders, considered the best superintendent the pen itentiary ever had, will be a candi date for re-election. He will have several or/ponents. Keller Ref uses To Testify Committee Appointed to De cide What Actidn Should Be Taken By the Associated Press ? ? ' V"-** ?' ' '? ' . Washington, Deo. 18. ? The j house -judiciary committee today j appointed k subcommittee to in-. I vestigate what action should be j taken in connection with the re | fusal of Representative Keller to I testify before the committee re ! garding information on which he based his impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugh erty.. ; . DOINGS OF THE DUFFS > ?'? " -v?.: - HELEN. A&E YOU IN THERE AGA IM? AREN'T YoUFEELING WELL? OH I'M ALLRKSHlf DON'T let me. J INTERFERE WITH v your. <S01N<3 out: P ;i J OUT AG AIM ! K \ ' OOT AGAI 5TRANGE CONDUCT ^HERE LATELY.1 EFFORT m LODGE Charges Filed in Sen-; ate Against Henry! C?bot Lodge ? The1 Greatest Enemy of; World Peace x COUGH v FOR THE?Ett?FOl^ - Coughs, Colds, Group WHOOP1NG C??GH, HOARSEN ESS -SOLO EVERYWHERE- H? LEAVES FOR Washington, Dec. 16?Vice-Presi-| dent Coolidge today received aS "protest and challenge against the election of Senator Henijy Cabot Lodge; of Massachusetts at the i November election", sent by Conrad j W. Crocker, attroney for John A. I Nicholla; who was the prohibition candidate against Lodge. He said he was not representing; William A. Gaston, the defeated; democrat. The papers were referred to "sen-j ate privileges and elections com-1, mittee. Apparently it will be press- j ed when the' new congress con-1 venes. It cannot be taken up now. The papers charge flagrant irr eg"- j ularities, referring to Lodge as the j "minority" winner, .and saying "that! he has been "repudiated." He asked i for an immediate hearing, Creoker j said, the move: was non-partisan, j but was designed to "unseat a man j who his accomplished more harm j as an obstructor of world peaee and j -the. natural expression of liberal j thought than any man since Nero." f 9 m m LEESVILLE W. E. Moore to Move From this City % 1 Mr. W. E. .Moore, who has been a resident of Sumter for a num ber of. years clans to-leave for Lees ville, S. C, next Monday where-he has accepted a position as cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of that place. ? Mr. Moore will be greatly missed from Sumter by his large number of friends. His activities in;.'all public affairs in which he took an interest and especially in musical circles has made him one ' Of Sunv ter's most popular residents, and -his ability as a vocalist has gained for him4m enviable reputation in thiff section. c Although Sumter regrets to see him leave, the best wishes of all for his success go with him to his new home. N - . ; : Washington, Dec. 18.?The sen ate . judiciary committee unani- j ; mously ordered the nomination of j ! Pierce Butler, of Minnesota, to be . ?associate justice of the supreme court, reported to the senate. DIVORCED FROM DANISH ?EPLOMAT ?> - - .' ? ? ?.,. ? - Portland, Maine; Dec. IS.?-Mrs. Madeline Masters Gron today ?was granted a divorce from Neal 'S. Gron, a Danish diplomat. -" She was also awarded custody of.'their son. EVERETTTRUE 1% a PWno Solo* -M<?.y?e<?ti**C'S> l De "Pot?Nip (a>/u- ?^etg^beR T?e F4fttv4^J Once UfoevrH th<s <PraCc a^nt^t?*! it* H&y play It ft* fce.yvi-irr x.ne;. HELLO, 15 MR DRAKE ? THERE? HELLO CHARLEY SA^. DJD V?o GET I TH05E FIGURES -FOR. ME? >/0O DID. Fl ME - KLL RUN OVER ANpGET THEW W UKE.T? LOOK. 'EM ?VE12 ToNJGHT " ALU?1GNT GCODEYE BY ALL MAN DADDV 15 GOING To PUT VO? TO 6ED - tfE HA5 TO GO OUT ON A LITTLE. EfftfAND - ) ITS SEENA lOMG TIME. / 5INCE I'T?CKEP VOO IN./ ISN'T ? _^r?^ ,?Ws-*^ ( \5HOOLD i