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SIGNS MARKETING CONTRACT Many Advantages to Be Derived From Contract. t ColumJbia Aug. 25.?In sending in his signed cotton cooperative marketing contract, Alfred Scarborough, of Eastover wrote Harry G. Rammer, of Gadsden, president of the South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative, Association, that he sees "so many advantages to be de rived from this legally binding contract over a period of years for the scientific handling and marketing of co?tg>n that I hesitate to write in oth r than general praise of it." Continuing Mr. Scarborough said: "It has absolutely been my belief for a long time that we would eventually come to the California plan with certain modificationSf and I believe that this is the first vital step needed - toward the permanent solution of our problems. What the farmer needs a apprOsition which is so substantial and remedial in its aatare, that though education and evolution be necessary to set him in* CO- lbj UWIUK Wi ira iiuiuwuvun.. need and absolute soundness he will learn to believe in it with all his keait. He thinks he has been stung wo often that he now* wants to start n Something alone that he 'feels Itads to a definite goal, and* I am convinced this plan will meet that *eed." ' Arrest School Teacher a , Spartanburg Aug. 25.?Miss Ernestine Leatherwood, rural school teacher in this county, was arrested yartcrday afternoon on the charge of smelly whipping a young boy pupil f her school. She will be given a preliminary hearing before a local ugistrate next Wednesday. Nearly all the pupils in the school have beeA summoned as witnesses in the case, and they are about evenly divided between the prosecution and the defense. WANTS | FOR SALE?(Ford Roadster in good condition. New top and fenders. See G. A. Neuffer, Jr. t \ FOR SALE?Dodge Touring car, in good condition. New batteries. This is a bargain. ^ Apply at Press and Banner office. ; 8, 19.4tcol. FOR SALE OR RENT?Modern six room dwelling in Due West, with electric lights, on three quarter acre corner lot with good garden and orchard, within two hundred yards of Erskine College grounds. Will trade or sell on good terms. 0. Y. Brownlee, Due West, S. C. 32-4tcol. ?OR SALE?Best quality cream at 60 cents a pint, also fresh eggs. Phone 1. Mrs. D. A. Rogers. 4-ltf V V v SCHOOLBOOKS v V V V Please do not ask us to ^ V charge School Books as the V V margin of profit is so small V it doesn't more than pay half V. V. expense of handling them. V V B. SPEED, Drug Co. V - V V igBBBijB^j Glasses HMwIIS Children: Schools will shortly open? studying will soon begin. That boy or girl of yours may badly need glasses. Have us make an examination and learn the exact condition of your children's eyes. DO THIS BEFORE SCHOOL OPENS. DR. L. V. LISENBEE OPTOMETRIST TELEPHONES: Office 276 Rea. 388 3 1-2 Washington St. Over McMurray Drug Co. ABBEVILLE, S. C. o? !?/ /llaanAa Pn?f Vft Uam\ fDQUVUllU^ uiaoovo vvav *iv mv*v/ j \ I . GERMAN TREATY NOT YET SIGNED UNEXPECTED TECHNICAL POINT RAISED IN CONNECTION WITH FORMALITIES CAUSES DELAY AS COMMSSIONER SENDS QUERY TO WASHINGTON ______ I Berlin, Aug. ?5.?The peace treaty between the United States and Germany was not signed today as had been intended. The delay in signing resulted from an unexpected technical point raised in connection with the formalities as arranged by Ellis Loring. Dresel, American commissioner, and Dr. Friedrich Rosen, the German foreign minister, yesterday. The ceremony of Signing was to have taken piace at noon today at the foreign office, but it was postponed at the request of Mr. Dresef, who asked the privilege of querying the Washington government on the mooted point. At both the headquarters of the American commission and the German foreign office it was said that i***TAl*TA/1 fV?n UltT bctlllliv;aiit)r vviliwa mrwucu Hit delay did not affect the contents or character of the treaty as both governments reached a? full accord on the official text some days ago. Although the point which was referred to Washington is said to be of minor technical importance, Commissioner Dresel preferred to obtain a ruling upon it from the American state department. If this reply is received Thursday, it is probable that duly executed copies of the treaty will be exchanged that day. The signing in "Vienna today of the peace treaty between Austria and the United States was said to be a mere coincidence with the date on which the Germaft peace treaty was to have been signed, as it wa3 declared that neither German hor American officials here had been informed of the signing of the Austrian treaty. Vienna, Aug. 25.?The treaty of peace between the United States and Austria was signed here this afternoon, Arthur Hugh Frazier, American commissioner in Vienna, acting for the Washington government. Such expedition and secrecy attended the preliminary negotiations and today's simple ceremony that the late newspapers today furnished the first news that the United States and Austria no longer' were even technical enemies. The terms of the treaty are being withheld for the present. It is understood that the government does not desire public discussion of the treaty pending its ratification by the foreign affairs committee of the parliament. The ceremony of the signature was devoid of formality. Mr. Fx-azier, accompanied by Secretary Shoecraft arrived at the foreign office at 12:57 o'clock this afternoon. They went immediately to 'the chancellor's bureau, where they were received by Chancellor Schoeber and a few other officials. The document was in readiness and was signed at once. A brief and informal exchange of congratulations followed, Mr. Frazier saying the occasion marked a vital step in the restoration of peace and expressing the hope that it would have a great moral as well as material effect upon Austria. Chancellor Schoeber, with ill concealed emo :on, voiced deep gratification upon the restoration of relations with the United States, Already Before Senate Washington, Aug. 25.?The new treaty with Germany was laid before members of the senate foreign relations committee today and was received by them with some expressions of uncertainty but with a general show of approval. The text of the treaty was not! made public pending word of its signature in Berlin, but it became known that the document reaffirms in exact language the principal features of the peace resolution and gives force to various portions of I iL - dWMo'ltfi A J n n i-t* A f Tfrt O 111 AC* tat; umauueu ticat^ ui vaoamvo. | A first impression of approval was voiced by Republicans and Democratic committeemen, alike, and although final decisiors were reserved there appeared little prospect tonight that the treaty would lead to a lo :;T Mtter fight when it is sub TARHEEL MINERAL WEALTH , * 4 North Carolina's Production Valued At $8,000,000 Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 25.?North Carolina's production of minerals during the year 1920 was valued at more than $8,000,000, according to information given out today at publicity headquarters here of the Made in Carolinas Exposition, bafed on compilations furnished by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, director of the Nortk Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. Dr. Pratt, who is organizing with notable success a great exhibit showing the diversity and value of the natural resources of the state, plans to make possible a broad study of the state's mineral resources by AvnAoiflAW VlQlfATM tAyUkJiWlWU ? *v* k/. The production in mineral wealth for 1920 shows a tremendous - increase over 1900, when the total value, of such products was only $1,604,078. The figures exceeded the $2,000,000 mark for the first time in 1902 by just $3,000, but dropped back in 1903 aijd 1904 to $1,900,000. In 1905, an increase of $500,000 was shown, and the total for 1906 showed another increase of $600,000, the $3,000,000 mark being exceeded by $7,000. A slight increase was shown in 1907, but the following year a reduction of about $8,550,000 was shown, and the totals fluctuated around the $2,850,000 total during the next five years, the total of 1912 falling to $2,514,000. An increase of ,$1,300,000 was shown by the total of $3,879,000 for 1913, with slight decreases being sjjown for 1914 and 1915. The total of $4,746,000 for 1916 represented an increase of $1200,000; the total for 1917 was $5,192,000; 1919, $6,457,000. With some figures yet lacking, the 1920 total stands at $8,051,000, and Dr. Pratt expects the final total to be about $8,250,000. The figures given represent the production of granite, sandstone, marble and other forms of limestone; brick, tile, pottery, potterj clay and kaolin; sheet and scrap mica; sand and gravel; gold, silver copper, lead, zinc, iron, manganese feldspar, talc, soapstone, mineral, waters, corborundum, emery, mill-stones chromite, barytes, quartz, graphite coal, peat, tin ore, monazite, ziron rare earth minerals, including sam arskite, uranite and columbite; precious stones, including amethysts garnets, rubies, sapphires, acqua marine, beryls, emerald beryls, em erald matrix, rhodolite, smoky quartz rutilated quartz and moonstones. WANT PETROLEUM. Australia Offer* $175,000 Reward tc Diicoverer. \A7 o 1 rtA- a w An c* OK TUa Alio ?T aouillg lu 111 AUg. J* Urn X UC /XUJ tralian government has offered ? re-wiard of $125,000 and the Govern ment of New South Wales has offered $50,000 to any one who discovers peroleum in paying quantities acording to advices received bete to. day from Sydney. Hundreds of thou sands of pounds sterling have beer expended by the Government anc by private concerns In an' endeavoi to find oil in Australia, but so fai the discoveries have been practicallj negligible. Interest has been distracted fronr Australia to the neighboring territory of Papua, where oil seepages oi rich promise are said to have beer found. Thus far, however, engineers have been unable to discover petroleum in paying quantities. Australis is now compelled to import all hei crude oil and petroleum derivatives and the prevailing prices are relatively high. mitted formally for ratification. Its submission is expected as soon a: the senate reassembles a montf hence after the congressional recess Among the first to express a fa vorable opinion from the Democrats side was Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska, who, as senior Democrats i member of the committee, led th? [fight for ratification of the Ver sailles treaty. Declaring he had re ceived a 'Very favorable" impressioi of the newly negotiated pact, Mr Hitchcock said he saw no reason whj it should not be ratified promptly Similar views were expressed pri vately by other Democrats, aithougt none would talk for publication. Peace Treaty Signed. Barlin, Aug. 25.?The Treaty o: peace berween Germany and th< 'United States was signed here at I o'clock this evening. I MARRIED FOUR HOURS, DIES < 1 Woman Becomes Wife and Widow In Brief Time. Atlanta, Aug:. 26.?Four hours afi ter she became a wife, Mrs. Otto ; Rehm was a widow when her husi band died about 1:30 o'clock Thurs day morning after a fall at the Terminal Station. i The bride was Miss Emma E. i Venaible of 286 Gordon street. Mr. i Rehm arrived in Atlanta from New : York about 6 o'clock Wednesday : evening. At 9:30 they were married ; by the Rev. Richard Orme Flinn at pt.V < ' North Avenue Presbyterian Church, , and aferwards they went to the bride's home for a wedding supper. About 12:30 o'clock they started to their hotel, Mrs. Rehm said, and went Dy tne Terminal station tnat Mr. Rehm might get a package he had left there when he arrived earlier in the evening. He left her in the waiting room and when he failed to return for half an hour she was informed that he had fallen and injured himself. He died without rei gaining consciousness before an ambulance arrived. They were to leave on their honeymoon trip Thursday morning. The cause, of Mr. Rehrii's death Tiro a r>rvf TVio ahIw ' ness was Claude 'Harper ,a negro , porter, of 169 West Hunter street, , Harper said he saw Mr. Rehm walk into the men's lavatory at the sta tion, apparently norm&l, when he suddenly threw up his hands and . fell over backwards. A gash of aibout an inch long in the back of , his head was caused by his fall to ? the floor and the emibalmer at Pat( tar son's under/talking estatblfldhmenlt j to which the'body was taken, said i the skull appeared to be fractured. Whether death was caused by a , heart attack or apoplexy or resulted from concussion of the brain after a ? slight fainting spell- caused him to fall will be investigated by Coroner Paul Dnnolirtn TVmrsrtmr Mr. Rehm's home was in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was Pullman/ conductor on the New, York-New Orleans Limited on the Southern Railway and was widely known to travelers 3 between New York and Atlanta, the extent orf his run. He spent much time in Atlanta, where he became acquainted with Miss Venable. He was 41 years old and is survived by his widow, his father and two sisters, who live in Brooklyn. Mrs. Retom said the body would be taken to Brooklyn for interment, probably Friday. KILL ESKIMO "BAD MAN;" LYNCHERS TO BE TRIED \ > Canadian Mounted Police Bring Tale of "UnWfitten Law"?Native Women Aided Strangling I Ottawa, Aug. 25.?A strange story . of the course of justice in the Cana . dian northland which resulted in the I 5 summary execution of an Eskimo by| strangulation was brought here today . by the Royal Canadian Mounted i Police. I The victim of the unwritten law, . one Ahkak, was himself a murderer, i * the police said, and adjudged by his r fellow-villagers in Konghermuet, an Eskimo colony on Prince Albert i Sound, as dangerous to the commu nity. f In the summer of 1919, the re( port reads, Ahkak murdered Agluetik 3 Shortly afterward Ahka made a hunt. ing pact with Olepsea, by which they i were to share fortunes and the wife of the former. 5 In March, 1920, when the hunters . returned to their base, the Esimos ?f Konghermuet, both men and women, found Ahkak. Seemingly aware of j their intent. Ahkak told them of a!1 3 deer skin line outside his hut which i would serve their purpose. It was with this lin6 that Ahkak - was duly strangled and two Eskimos, ; Kasahovi and Amokuka, charged - with being chief actors in the drama, ; were arrested last March by Corpor; al E. H. Cornelius and Constable J - Brockie of the mounted police. They will be held'in Harschel Isi land over the Winter and will be | . brought out for trial next Spring. I Hope Springs Eternal. - Birmingham Age-Herald. u "Bibbles is an optimist?" "He certainly is." "In what repsect?" "He's always trying to do some-, f thing to 'moonshine' to make it taste! ; like something else." >| 666 cures Biliou* Fever. / v The Rosenberg Mi ttob ^Department ?! FODR STORES ^ \ Copyright 1921 Hart Sciuffner & Marx See How \ you save I i . fr ? Clothing* is "a ner cent, lowt M year ago. We've cut oui of profit to where we ca get by. Extreme values in He Marx new fc vi n L ' ine noseiwerg Compa The home of Hart Scfiaffn SIXTEEN ON TRIAL thro licit( Greenville Court Begins With Heavy no ^ , Han Docket. ... this Greenvilk, Aug. 25.?Sixteen murder cases are on the docket of ,. * whic the court of general sessions which conevened here Monday. Many of t-Viaco oro .-misps hrous^ht over from previous terms of court. As yet none of them have come up for trial. Nu- Y< merous other cases, including negr charges of assault and ibattery, ar- died son, house breaking and larceny, vio- age, lation of the prohibition laws and here other Tfesser offenses, are a part of j H what is said to be one of the heaviest j fune court dockets in the history of the slavt county. sick Among the more important cases livin that may be tried at this term of Brat court is that of Tom Harrison,! is qi Greenville man, charged with the! least murder of his wife last December. | Harrison's case has been continued j ercantile Co. Stores MARY DEPARTMENTS Much this fall bout 35 ;r than a 1 ( margins ?J a point n barely I rr/ Schaffner & ?JLf ? ill suits. f 4 Mercantile ny er & Marx clothes y ugh three terms of court. So)r David W. Smoak, has made announcement as to whether ison would be placed on trial at term of court or not. idge R. W. Memminger is preig over this session of court, h will last for two weeks. < M Slave Woman, 110. 1 jrk, Aug. 25.?Martha Ratchford o woman, aged 110 years, who sunaay 01 tne mnrmiues 01 oia was buried at Mount Zion, near , Monday. undreds of negroes attended her ral. Martha, who was born a is reputed never to have been a day in her life. She had been g on the farm of R. Moultrie ton, near here, and Mr. Bratton uite positive that she was at 110 years old. I Rub-My-TUm cures tore*. ; J # t