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p ? ? BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURINO WEEK THROUGHOUT COUHf TRY AND ABROAD : i tVEHTS OFJMPORTANCE QttMrH From All Parte Of TM ' Globo And Told In Short Paragrapho Foreign? Final settlement of the government's suit against the Derby Manufacturing Company, of Derby, Conn., growing out of war contracts, was announced by the Department of Justice. Under the terms of the settlement the company will pay the government $670,000. A necklace made of 209 oearls and weighing slightly less than 400 karats, which was sequestered from an enemy citizen, was sold at auction at Paris for 1,900,000 francs. Baron Sonnino, twice prime minister of Italy and also foreign minister during the great war, passed away. Recently Baron Sonnino attended a session of the senate as usual and appear-, ed in good health despite his udvanced years. 4 British and French officers of the inter-allied control commission, who announced'their intention to inspect a munitions depot at lngolstadt, Bavaria, were attacked on their arrival at the depot by a band of civilians, armen with clubs. A British officer was Turkey found the great powers of i Europe arrayed against her on the question of Western Thrace, on which she demands a plebiscite, and Greece, helpless and beaten by the armies of the Ottoman state, left a rather heat- j ed session of the Near Eastern conference with the feeling that she is no so abandoned as she feared. A preliminary agreement for laying down a direct cable from Italy to America was signed at I.ondon recently in the presence of Dr. Francisco Giannini, Italian commercial attache. The new cable will run from Fiumicine. near Rome, to New York. Roth Mary and Annie MacSwinney, sisters of the late Lord Mayor Terence MacSweney, of Cork, who went on hunger strike in protest against the Free ; State government, are in grave eon-1 dition. Following her physical col-j lansp Annia prow en wnolf thn* wnmo? ' friends removed her to a private hos- j pltal. Although so helpless that she! could hardly raise a hand, the starva- I tlon rebel stubbornly refused to take | the warm broth that was prepared for her. Federal inland revenue officers have attached Galli-Curci's share'of the receipts of a concert given at Ottawa, Canada, recently in an effort to obtain payment of income taxes of $2,000 alleged to be due for concerts. The sultan's wives and ladies of the harem are overwhelmed with grief and dismay over the flight of the sultan from Constantinople. The eunuch and the ladies of the palace, numbering 300, wept bitterly when the sultan departed. and soon the palace was in a state of commotion. Over four years after the Germans ran up the white flag on the western front in Europe, diplomats stood up before the plenary session of the near j eastern parley at Lausanne, Switzer-; land and pledged themselves to mark 1 "finis" on the world war. Delegates! ? I are said to be in accord that the near I eastern nuiddlo. which reached a climax ' when the Greek armies were driven into the sou by the legions of Mustapha : Kemal. Turkish Nationalist, was the "last pbar.e" of the conflict which started in 1014. Washington? Governor Groesbeck. of Michigan, was urged by the House appropriations i committee in a telegram sent by Chairman Madden to select representative j Pat Kelly to fill the unexpired term of , Senator Newberry, who has resigned. The telegram stated there was no attempt on the part of the committee to interfere in the selection by Governor Groesbeck, but the committee was actuated by a desire {o "use its in- i fluence in the public good." Enactment of th? administration mcr-i chant marine bill was urged upon congress by President Harding as necessary to reli"ve the government of the present stagering losses" in operation j of the war-built merchant fleet and to establish a program of assured shipping to serve the nation in war and' give a guaranty of commercial independence in time of peace. The bureau of labor statistics has reported to the department of labor that there is an indicated incr'-aee of 2% in the retail cost ot fr>o'J to ?rpr. age family in the United States during the month er.dine Ortnhor if. President Harding, in a proclamation made public at the white house, sets aside the week of Dec-ember 3 to 9 as American Education week. The government's policy wi'h regard ' to the cotton industry was outlined by i 1 members of the department of agricul- 1 ture's cotton council to the cotton con- i ference. held in connecion with the annual convention of the Association j' of Land-Grant colleges. ; < The nomination of Pierce Rutler. of Minnesota, to be associate justice of j I the supreme court of the United < States, to succeed William It Day, of j ! Ohio, resigned, was sent by President Harding to the senate. Mr. Rutler is i < an attorney of St. Paul, 56 years old j i and a Democrat. j | The United States Supreme court re-1 cently decided that etate courts nave!] a constitutional right to bar the pub i f lie from trials. Tho case which evok-[ { ati Iho /loHslnn a/aa rnlr?.? ?? '- 1 . - ? ?" w h> IU 1IIW \ higher court from Glynn county, Oeor- i gla. The defendant contended he had not been accorded a fair trial on the ( premise that the public had been ad- , mltted to the court room. < The price of radium has dropped i froip $120,000 a gram to $70,000 and < Is no wlower than at any time since 1 radium began to be used In treatment J of cancer and other diseases. a 1 Former Premier Olemencean. of France, and hia mission to America, as well as the policies of the present French government, were subjected to a bi-partisan fire in the s?ate in a frank discussion of Franco-Amarican relations. An invitation to participate with the International. Federation of Trades Unions in a general labor anti-war conference at The Hague December 10 was rejected by President Compere and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. Mrs. William H. Feiton baa been formally inducted into office as the successor of Hon. Thomas E. Watson. She ie 87 years old, and lives in uartersville, Ga. Her husband. Dr. Feiton. was a member of congress in reconstruction days, and she is a woman of wide experience and knowledge. PrPfilHont UnrHIno I* la ani/l hv I hnuo in the know, will ask congress to pass legislation making it easier tor the farmers to obtain credit. The president has announced his intention 10 push this measure with every Intensity at his command Domestic? Men riding in elevators in buildings operated by the city of Cleveland are requested by Mayor Fred Kohler not to remove their hats. For the seventeenth consecutive timo Charles S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga., was elected president of the National Farmers' union in a recent convention held at Lynchburg, Va. Tom Dickson who ran away from the Maryville jail when his keeper was not lookeing, turned up at the state penitientiary, Nashville, Tenn., four days later and announced that he was ready to begin serving his term of one to three years. Days of the James and Younger boys in Missouri, were recalled at Gallatin, Mo., when six bandits robbed the First National bank of $4,000 in gold and currency. Oliver Dimitt, Ottunia, Iowa, mechanic, is in a critical condition from a bullet wound, which rrobably will orove fatal, inflicted by a stranger after Dimitt had remarked that the otranger looked like Tommy O'Connor, noted Chicago bandit. W. C. Marion, formerly cashier of the Jefferson County bank, which collapsed a year ago, and in connection with which he was accused of a shortage of $27,000, was found guilty of the first count of the indictment under which he was tried recently at Louisville, Ga. Harry Orchard, convicted slayer of former Governor Frank Steunenbergg. was denied a pardon by the Idaho board of pardons, which met in special session. Commutation of sentence was also denied. Rev.^David G. Wills, president of the Presbyterian Synod of America and pastor of a church in Astoria, died at a Long Island City hospital recently of injuries sustained when he was 3truck by a taxicab in New York. He was 62 years old. L. P. Lewis appeared before United States Commissioner W. C. Carter at Atlanta, Ga., to answer charges of violating the prohibition laws. He was arrested by federal agents, who said ho had four pints of whisky with him. Later a raid was directed at his apartment, it was said, eleven pints being found there. The town of Front Royal, Va., was almost destroyed by fire the other afternoon, because the water supply was not adequate to supply the fireman with enough pressure to successfully cope with the flames. Senator N. 13. Dial of South Carolina, speaking before the Southern Commercial Congress, in session in Chicago, the other day, said the present cotton ftures law did not protect the rights of the seller. Under the present system, he said, the growers sufers because purchasers sell out their hedges rather than accept delivery of inferior grades. Clemenceau, Tiger of France, was persuaded to permit two New York physicians to make an examination of hint, who reported that though he is 81 he has all the vigor of a man of 50 Two daughters of Morgan Pummil. who died recently at Sedalia, Mo, found $7,000 in pennies, nickels, dimes and silver dollars their father had bur ied in a keg under the smokehouse. Fourteen persons were injured, one perhaps seriously, when Missouri Pacific nass nirer train No 10:t from Kan. 8*1.s City to Little Rook, left the track six miles east of Russellville, Ark. Bishop Edgar Blake (Methodist) of Paris, spoke in Mount Vernon Place Methodist church near Baltimore the other day. the gist of which speech was: Germany is on the verge of collapse from the failure of her post-war industrial undertakings, with revolution imminent, ami the collanse of Germany inevitably would entail the downfall of France, Italy and the Balkan states and possibly the nations of northern Europ". Even more sinister, he thinks, is the menace of the victorious Turks in Asia Minor. The management of the Reilley Collieries company mine No. 1 at Spangler. Pa., was held responsible for the c;as explosion in the underground workings on November 6, last, when 77 men met death, in the coroner's verdict returned at Barnesboro, Pa. Seventy miners were killed and sixty Injured, some of them seriously, in a dust explosion In Dolomite mine No. 3 of the Woodward Iron company, nine miles from Birmingham, Ala., which trapped 480 worker* beneath the jurface, according to an official statenent issued by a mine official. Mrs. Louis C. Britton, of Showhegan, Vie., now is in the second week of i "hunger strike" undertaken, she has mnounoed. in the hope of winning back he affections of her husband, who has \rniiP' ht suit for divorce Georges Clemenceau laid at the door >f the United States blame for all the inrest in which Europe now Reethes. Speaking before an audience of bu?i* iohh men at the chamber of commerce >f the Rtate of New York, the aged rrencb war premier declared that America had left France " in the lurch" ifter the war i. , MP??? GOVERNMENT AFTER BUILDERSBF CAMPS SUES CONTRACTORS OF FOUR CANTONMENTS TO RECOVER MILLIONS. WANT TWENTY MILLION BACK Alleges Hardaway Contracting Comunv Snnnt in Fvr??? tRRIOftnn on Camp Jackson. Washington.-?Civil suits to recover more than $20,000,000 alleged by the government to have been fraudulently expended in the construction of Camps Upton, Jackson, Sherman and Funs- j ton, were instituted by the department 1 of justice against the contractors who ! were in charge of each project. The suits were said in official clr- I clea to be the initial step in a cam- I paign at law against war-time con- 1 tractors who were suspected, on the , basis of auditors' reports, to have gone I beyond the intent and purpose of the authority given them by federal departments. i iiuuuiuuui itt'iiiiuM are in prospect, it was said at the department of justire, as soon as complete reports have been made by the special force of auditors which has been engaged for 15 months in an analysis of construction records. Whether criminal action will I be taken in any case, it was said, would depend to a degree upon the re- j suits of the civil suits. Unofficial estimates place the total | which might be expected to be recov- j ered from all the construction cases i at between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. i In the cases filed the government al- 1 leges that the Hardaway Contracting 1 company spent in excess of $6,500,000 i in building Camp Jackson, S. C.; the I Thompson-Starrett company, $6,000,000 at Camp Upton, N. Y.; Bentley & Sons company, $5,000,000 at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and George A. Fuller & Company, $6,000,000 at Fort Riley, 1 i Kansas. The suits were filed at Char- j j loston, S. C.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Colum- j ' bus, Ohio; and Topeka, Kansas, respectively. * I Identical bills of complaint wore laid ' j in each case, the principal accusation I uriug iiiiti ilia conirucior vioiniea "a ! direct and Intimate relationship of ! trust and confidence'' in executing this > [ contract, while it was impossible, be! cause of the existing war emergency, ' : for the government to exercise normal I supervision and inspection of work. 1 | As a result, it is alleged, the contrac- i tor stands indebted to the government i for money in the sums set forth and for great quantities of mateiral, dei dared to have been purchased on gov- ' j eminent credit and misused. Moves to Settle Pay of Senators. Washington.?As an outcome of the recent discussion over seating of Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Georgia, as the first woman senator. Chairman Curtis, of the senate rules committee, introduced | a resolution to regulate pay of senators ; appointed arid elected to fill vacancies. It would give pay to appointees until | elected senators qualified and nor from I the date of their election. Under the , | resolution, Mrs. Felton would he paid I | until the day she retired and would operate immediately to reduce the pay of Senator George, democrat, Georgia, I who succeeded Mrs. Felton. Favor End of Rail Combine. Washington.?Challenging the con- i tention of the Southern Pacific railroad representatives that separation of their system trom the Central Pacific, ! as ordered by the supreme court, would have an injurious effect on obth roads and hamper development of the { Pacific coast, counsel for the Union Pacific before the Interstate commerce commission sought to bring out ; | advantages to be gained by carrying out the dissolution order. ! Farmers in Boot9 Will Demand Aid. Washington.?The Fanners National council announced that a "committee : of farmers in boots" will arrive in , Washington for a series of conferences with members of congress and govern- j ment officials relative to legislation to , aid the farmers. The committee, ac- j I cording to the announcement, will he | prepared to "let the government know what legislation is necessary to save the farmers from disaster." Negro Has 25 Children. Mobile, Ala.?William Oadson, a ne- ' gro, brought to Mobile from Cullomberg, Washington county, Alabama, nnd locked up on a charge of attempt in* n> n?<- inn iiihiih u) aeiraiui, tie- i dared he was the father iA 25 chll- j dren. 23 of whom are living. Gadaon 1 aaid that he was twice married. Tell Harding to Urge Reclamation, j Washington?President Harding was asked by a delegation of house mem- j hers from western states to include j ! In his annual message to congress next month a recommendation for the pas- | j sage of the Smith-McNary reclama- J J tlon bill. This measure was passed J by" the house at the last session and j , the senate attached it to the soldiers' j i bonus bill which failed of passage over President Harding's veto. The delegation was headed by Representative Smith. Parson-Sheriff Executes Slayer. Fort Madison, Iowa.?Sheriff W. B. Robb, war chaplain of the 168th infantry, and until recently pastor of a Des Moines church, sprang the trap at the hanging of Orrle Cross, at the state, penitentiary here. The parsonsheriff also sprang the trap at the execution of Eugene Weeks, on Septomher 1R. convicted with Cross of the murder of George A. Fosdick, a Des Moines grocer. The Iowa law places the duty of acting as executioner upon the sheriff of the county in which the I crime wu committed. j SENTENCE IN FORCE WHILE ON PAROLE i SUPREME COURT ORDERS QROVER CROOKS RELEASED FROM CUSTODY. RULIN6 IS OF WIDE EFFECT Decision Handed Down Is of Much Importance; Governor Was Without Authority. Columbia. Holding that tlfa sentence against a prisoner out under a parole from the governor continues to run while the prisoner is at liberty, the supreme court recently handed down a decision ordering Col. A. K. Sanders, superintendent of the penitentiary, to release Grover Crooks from his custody. Crooks was convicted of assault and battery in Oconee county in November, 1916, and sentenced to serve six years. He was paroled December 22, 1921, by Governor Cooper "during good behavior" and September 13, 1922, Governor Harvey revoked the parole because Crook's .lie said, had violated its terms. In the decision handed down, written by Justice Marion and concurred in by Justices Watts, Fraser and Cothran, the court said that the parole granted Crooks did not suspend his sentence, but that Crooks remained in contemplation of the law as if in legal custody and continued to serve his sentence. Chief Justice Gary dissented from tho opinion. Crooks' sentence had expired by virtue of the operation of the law on April 5, 1922, and there was no further service due the state by the petitioner, the court holds. The court draws a distinction between "suspended sentence" and "conditional pardon" along with "parole." The governor could grant a conditional pardon or suspend a sentence nnrl a nrlnnnor wnnlh ka llnhlo a plete the remainder of his sentence if the governor saw fit to revoke his act giving clemency, the court says. Crooks was in the custody of the sherifT of Oconee county at the time his parole was revoked, being under charges of breach of the peace. The court orders him returned to the sheriff. The case was argued before the court on a petition for writ of habeas corpus, taken out before Justice Watts, but returnable before the full court. The recent decision was of farreaching effect. It applies to the Reed Shaw case in Anderson, Judge Prince having released Shaw under habeas corpus proceedings because he held that Shaw's sentence had expired. The court, while not considering the Shaw case, upholds the action of Judge Prince. Shaw's parole was revoked by Governor {larvey after his sentence had expired, considering that it ran concurrently wiin me parole and was not held in abeyance, as was decided In the opinion. Several other cases are likely to develop within a abort time. Revenue Cornea From New Law. Nearly $2,000,000 has already been collected this year from the new revenue bills, taking into consideration Ihe old three mill corporation license tax and the domestic corporation It cense tax. according to figures compiled by S. T. Carter, state treasurer, The exact amount, including collections for November 17, was announced at ll.S02.063.37. Of this total the income tax money was far ahead with $909,696.99 and the gasoline tax was second with $529,153.05 to date. The income tax has already reached a figure higher than was expected when the law was at first put into operation, but has iioi yci auaineu tne mark estimated by the free conference on the general appropriation bill this year. They es. timated the tax would bring in a rev enue of $1.000 000 and this figure may be reach before the end of the current year. Of the $909,693.09 some $10,000 will have to be refunded, Mr. Carter esti mated, some overpayments having been made. The foreign corporation annual license fee has brought in $51, 666.53 to date and the domestic corpor ation capital stock licenso fee has net' ted $222,845.57. aeenrdine to Mr. Cur ter's tabulation. The three-mill license tax amounted to $83,704.23. i ne income uix collection is not yet complete and three more month? are yet to run on the gasoline tax The gasoline tax will for the ten months of the vear amount to some thing over $700 000. judging by the records of the past seven months. The tax was not operative until March Greenville Firm Will Build Road. J. T. Blassingame, of Greenville, was awarded the contract for constructing the road from Cleveland, Greenville county, to the North Carolina line at a price of approximately $178,000, It was announced at tho offices of the state highway department. The road is about 15 1-4 miles long and six and one-fourth miles will be constructed of clay-bound macadam, while the re malning nine miles will be of top soli. The road goes by way of Caeaar'fl Head and opens a new route. Road Authorities Moot in Chicago. State highway department ofTicfali have been asked to have represents tlvea of the department attend th? 13th annual American good roads coa gress and the 14th annual national good roads show to be held at Chicago January 15-19 of next year. The congress will hold its sessions at the Con gress hotel, while the show will be in the Coliseum. An intensive program dealing with controversial matters pertaining to road construction, highway flnanci and othsr topics has baen arranged. DMltri' Plates to Salesmen Only. . The state highway commission adopted a plan whereby it if hoped to stop the universal abuse ot demonstration plates by dealers throughout South Carolina. The commission adopted the suggestion of a committee of the Columbia Automotive Trades association and will hereafter Issue to dealers demonstration places equal to the number af boda-flde salesmen employed by -each dealer and the plates will be issued personally to each salesman. * \ The commission also increased the price of the plates from 60 cents to 92.00 in an effort to stop the abuse. An affidavit will be necessary from every dealer before the demonstration plate is issued, under the new plan adopted by the commission. Dealers all over the state have violated the privileges of the demonstration plates, according to the commission, and several w.eeks ago an effort was started to arrive at some plan to stop this general abuse. At the October meeting of the commission Prank Gibbes, Clarence M. Asbill and Robert D. Lambeth appeared in behalf of the Columbia Automotive Trades association and suggested the plan that was adopted. The increase from 60 cents to $2.00 was thought advisable as this will in a measure cause dealers to be more careful, it is thought. Prof. Walter Rowe. head of the civil engineering department of the u^iver* . sity, appeared and discussed plans for I a road institute to be held under the auspices of the university and the highway department similar to former Institutes held. The late Prof. M. Goode Homes originated the road institute plan. The commission pledged its hearty support to the plan. It I is planned to hold the institute early I in February. C. J. Hill, chairman of the Alkon county highway commission; Dr. W. A. Whttlock and J. E. Yaun, members of the commission, and J. H. Shuler, engineer. appeared to renew their re| quest for $10,000 additional federal aid 1 for the Ninety-Six road and $45,000 for the Sand Bar ferry and Ellenton high way to connect with the new Sand Baa/ Ferry bridge. The commission pledged the $10,000 for the Ninety-Six road from first funds available, but deferred action on the $45,000 request. Engineer Moorefleld was instructed to utilize available funds up to $10,000 on the road project from Blackstock to Winnsboro. Considerable attention was devoted to matters to be reported to the leg1* j islature and Chairman R. Goodwyn i | Rhett, Commissioner C. O. Hearon and I Engineer Charles H. Moorefleld were requested to prepare recommendations ! to be made to the general assembly. : Some new plan for maintenance will be drawn up in the hope of obtaining I legislative action in favor of more I money to keep up the roads and the | matter of eliminating grade crossings will he dealt with. Repair of roads In the counties is causing the commission considerable thought and this will he i another subject in the recommendaI tlona. i Arrangements have been made, the *| commission announced, whereby Aiken , county will build the Hatesburg-Mo> ! nctta road from a point near Monetta t to the Saluda county line. ; i Road Contracts to be Awarded. Bids for the construction of six sections of roads in South Carolina, totaling approximately 52 miles, are being asked for by the state highway department, four for December and one for November. The county commissioners for AlkI on nnnnt., t .. At ?>. ? - ?- - mi luuiiij, in io-iiiiitiiiiuii wun ins | highway department, will receive bids until noon of December 7 for the construction of 14.709 miles of state route No. 39 in Aiken county, beginning at the Aiken Orangeburg line and extendI lng toward Monetta. Hids will be received up until noon , of December 6 for the construction of I ' 8.36' ml)p? of ihp utnte route No. 26 in Kershaw county. . Bids for the construction of 13.953 miles of state route No. 36 in Jasper , county will be received until noon of ( December "? by the Jasper county comi nissioners and the highway depart| i mint. The work will bo awarded in i.ir- i\!<r;?Miiii(] U?lllKOn* J villo stretch of 0.702 and the remainder of the rood co the county line, , j about nine miles Ions. On the latter section one creosot*d timber bridge I is to be built. At noon on December 1 the county , commissioners of Newberry county | and the highway department will open bids for the construction of 12.6 miles of state route No. 22 between a point I nenr Newberry and Flroad river. | Bids will be received until noon of ( November 28 ioi Hie construction of a two-mile section of state route No. 9 , in Union county. I Wateree Bridge Now Completed. The Wateree river bridge baa been completed and accepted from the contractors, it was announced at the offices of the highway department. The Btructure is not yet open to traffic. Ginning Figures Below Last Year. i Ginning statistics for South C'aro; lina up to November 1 show that a i total of 412,860 bales of cotton were ; ginned as compared with 622,815 bales ? for the same period of 1921, accordi ing to figures announced by the d?| partment of commerce at Washington. I Qno ** Q nKlt*?rr /.????< *? ; I ^imiiuuiillip, V UUII KJ icaun Ulf Binif I with 43,425 hales while Horry has the smallest number ginned with 413. > A ikon, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Hampton counties have glnnod i more balen than at thia time last year, the report shows. Farmers Mutuals Adopt New Plans. i Adoption of plans for re-lnsuranca among themselvea and for the organh > satfon of methods for live stock in surance by the farmers were the I two outstanding features of the state > convention of mutual insurance asso clatlons at Columbia. Oeneral discussion on a number of i topics and the election of officers for the ensuing year were also important i actions of the day's session, i D. E. Boney, of York, was re-elected ? president of the state association and Bright Williamson, rice-president. . * STATE ITEMS | OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE* Marlon.?The business section of Marion is a scene of great activity at this time with the paving work going on and much building In progress. Work on the new National Bank and the new quarters for the Davis Drug Store is going forward rapidly. Anderson.?Two young womeif were injured in an automobile accident wuen a rora car ariven oy Miss Wiirelmina Broyles turned over on River street. It was said that Miss Broyles made a sudden turn and had not given the car enough room and so it was overturned. Bellwood.?A greftt many sweet potatoes have been t i*sed about here this year, and a number ot faremrg have placed a portion of their yield in the Potato Growers' association curing house at Eastover to be cure! and marketed by that organization. Greenwood.?The faimrre of this county are plowing under cotton stalks and cleaning up fields in preparation for the campaign against \the boll weevil next year. During the good weather of the last few weeks, many farmers have turned under ntnllrn nnH other farmers are beit-g urged to do the same. Hnrtsville.?Mrs. Trolly, of the Baptist Sunday school board of South Carolina is conducting a class in the study of the Sunday school manual at Coker college. Two hours a day are devoted to this work. Mrs. Trolly's lectures are very interesting and instructive. A large number of students are taking the course. Charleston. ? It was formally announced by their presidents that the People's National bank and the Dime National bank recently converted from the Dime Bank and Trust company, a state corporation, have agreed on terms of consolidation which will be submitted for his approval to the comptroller of currency at Washington. Marion.?The town of Marion has purchased an American-LaFrance Are engine ai a cost or $lz,bUO. W. F. Miles, chief of the Are department, announces. The engine will be delivered some time shortly after the first of the year. It will be the last wor$ in fire fighting apparatus. The equipment will include chemical tanks and a 750 gallon electric pumper. Greenville.?When hiE overalls were caught in the machinery of a gin near Greer. Alvln C. Dobson's right leg was severed between the knee and the ankle. and Fred White, n negro who saved Mr. Dobson from probably more serious injury by extricating him form the machinery, suffered severe lacerations when his clothing also caught in the machine. Spartanburg.?Jobn Millar* aged 72, car inspector for the Southern railway at Havne. was seriously Injured When repairing a leaning air nose netween freight cars. The engineeer started j the train, not knowing Miller was in danger. When the wounded man was released It was found that both his legs had been broken and a rib fractured. lie was taken to a hospital where it is believed he will recover. Greenville.?In an effort to shoulder the charity responsibilities of Greenville county and at the same time slice the cost of hospitalisation, a committee from the county delegation at a , meeting with the county board of char) ities and corrections considered a plan | for the establishment of a county I hospital adjacent to the county home. ---HI !_ .... i i u? juaii win in' considered runner at an early meeting. | Spartanburg. ? By January 11,400 : peach trees will be planted In the orchards of the Ixme Oak Nursery comj pany, four miles out of Spartanburg, Just ofT the lnman road. Two years ago J. J. Cudd, of this city, started on the ! development of a commercial peaeh j orchard on the land and today he has | 6,400 trees growing and is preparing i to plant 5,000 more. This means that i In the Cudd orchard there will be 100 i acres of bearing trees. Greenville.?City council has put on I first reading the regular supply bill to . raise revenues for the coining year. I There are vlrtuallv no chnnirna In ti.o business licenses and the property tax is fixed at the same figure as last year, 29*4 mills, with the addition of the special tax of two mills for the support of the city library voted at a special election recently. This will make the total city property tax 31V4 mills. Chareston.?It is learned from Col. I Mdgar Jadwin, United 5i.ui.en umiy er. glneer here, that the sand sucking dredge Winyah Bay has been sold to the government of Colombia, South America, for $20,000. Most of the Winyah Bay's service was at Georgetown. For nearly a year the dredge has been laid up here. A special craw will come here to take the Winyah Bay to Colombian waters. Greenville.?Ambrus Clifton Brown, aged 41, was fatally injured in front of his home when losing control of the automobile which he was coasting down the Incline in an efTort to start its motor, he was hurled into a fence and was pinned by the rushing machine. His c^est was crushed and his head badly Injured. Clinton.?From all parts of the state former students of Prfybyterinn College of South Carolina aro expected to flock back here on Thanksgiving, which has been doBlgnated as "home coming" day by the AlumnJ association of the local college. Chesterfield.?The tenth annual Chesterfield county fair held here for four days was In every sense of the word a success. The weather was ideal and the attendance was large from the first day to the end. There were many visitors, not only from all parts of the county, but also from other counties and North Carolna. Chesterfield.?Robbers entered the store of C. C. Lisenhy Just above here nuu inrnm nwiiy rmciirniiy ?very ar ticle In the store that was of any value Mr. Llsenby's store is on the Calhoun highway and In all probability th? thieves had their ear with them. Iiiliiiiirrlimntiff ? Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION <V~ r?i^r^?\ |wffiSS5?y It^?SE!^^6Bcllan s IJJGiS? Hot water Sure Relief DELL-AN S 83i ?wd 7M PACKABE3 EVERYWHERE a nasty usparture. "I understand the boys ran that bootlegger out of Crimson Gulch." "Yea," replied Cactus Joe. "But there Is some doubt about whether they dismissed him Indignantly an*" forever, or Jes' sent him over to Mesaville for a fresh supply." -Mothers Ruin Babies' Health by Harsh Drugs There are thousands of children and grown-ups whose health has been wrecked simply because they were given strong laxative cathartics when a baby. Baby often needs something to clean out the little bowels of clogged waste, but for goodness snke give him a medicine made especially for a baby. Give him Teethlna. It's perfectly harmless and yet brings quick relief without hurting the tender little Intestines like the strong drugs you use for yourself do when given to the little folks. Teethlna Is Indorsed by physicians and has been used for fifty years. *Get It at your druggist, or send 30c to the MofTett Laboratories, Columbus. 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