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The Watchman and Sovthren Entered at the Postoffice at Sum ter, S. as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mrs. W. M. Thompson and two daughters and Mrs. Ella Hewson of Florida are visiting Mrs. R. P. Monaghan and family. Mr. J. M. Kotb left Friday morn ing for Asheville, X. C, to visit his son. Mr. T. J. Kolb, who is spend ing some time there for his health. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Rowland have returned home from Califor nia after a stay of several weeks. Mrs. Willie J. Stuckey and daughter, Myrtle, of Bishopville, are spending the day in the city. Chris Chokas and wife motored through the country Thursday to Augusta where they will spend a few days. Miss Clyde Martin, formerly of Sumter, now living in Mullins, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. F. P. Bryan on Oakland Ave. Miss Pearl Seale, of Wilmington, X. C, is visiting friends and rela tives in the city. ? Mr. J. C. Huger is at home -from Hendersonville for a few days. Mr. G. W. Glover of Blaney, S. C, has returned home after spending some time with his son, Mr. G. .M. Glover. Mr. E> C. Lee of Salem avenue is spending a few days at his farm in Stateburg. Miss Essie Bush who has been with the W. B. Upshur agency for the past six months, has accepted a position in Greensboro, X. C. Miss Pauline Haynsworth re turned Saturday morning from a two months' visit to her brother, iTobert Haynsworth, in Louisiana, j -Mrs. A. L.' Culbeyhouse and lit- i tie daughter, Mary, who have been] visiting Mrs. Elma Ramsey, have j returned to their home in Knox vxlle, Tenn. Mr. John M. Allen has returned j to Sumter where he will resume his j work at the Boys' high school. j ; Miss Dorothy Hook left Saturday | morning for Jacksonville where j she will attend a business college. Miss Elizabeth China left Tues day afternoon for Portsmouth, Va., where she has accepted a po- j Vitien to teach in one of the high i schools of that city. - Mr. Stanley Weinberg, who is a! member of the Citadel football team, left Sunday for Charleston! to begin ten days football training j with the squad before the Citadel i opens for the fall season. Miss Mary King of Wilmington j is "visiting her brother, Mr. J. Lern} Bang of this city. '4 Master Lemuel King, Jr., has re- I turned to-the city after a pleasant I visit with his aunts, Mrs. S. H. j Fulford and Miss Mary King of Wilmington, X. C. -1 Mis3 Effie Rose is spending a J few days in the city on her way to i Louisville to complete her <Jourse| In the Bapti'st Training School- f Mrs. W. C. Hatchell has return- | ed to her home in Darlingtoni after spending the week with her i husband at Mrs. Stewardt's on [ Harvin St. ,r Mr. Ansel Clowney and his broth- I ?r.l^ridclph, of Olanta are visiting j their aunt, Mrs. Stewart on Harvin! Street i * Mr. Dayton Tobias spent the j week-end with his mother on Kendrick St. i Hiss Allie Mae Clowney and herj ?ster, Lucile, are visiting their j Hunt, Mrs. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Turner of Greenville, X. C, have moved to our city. Mrs. W. M, Block of Macon, Ga., has arrived to be with her husband at Mrs. Stewart's on Harvin St j - Miss May Lowder, Miss Hattie! Boats eld. Miss Dawkins and Mr. i ? L. Mooneyham spent Sunday inj Kingstree. j Mr. I. A. Ryttenberg leaves to-j morrow afternoon for Portland, Maine, for a week or ten days' , st?*-. + + 0 . j DRILLS IN PLAY ; . TO EFFECT RESCUE Work Goes on Frantically to, Reach Imprisoned Miners - j Entonrbed Two Weens - I Jackson. Cal.. Sept. 10?Drills were whirling in the slate rock at the 3.900 foot level of the Kennedy; mine tonight as rescue workers j were trying frantically to break i through to the 4,?00 foot level of j the burning Argonaut mine, where | 47 miners have been entombed nearly two weeks. Drills, capable ! of 1,100 revolutions per minute, * were being used. Only 142 feet of rock now separates the Kennedy and Argonaut shafts at this point. On the 3,G00 foot level of the j Kennedy mine, 140 feet more of j progress were needed at 4 o'clock today to reach the 75 feet of hard j rock 'separating the rescue crew I there from the 4,200 foot level of I the Argonaut. Fred L. Lowell, safe- \ ety engineer of the California in- | dustrial accident commission an-1 nounced that a clear space had been j reached and the rescue workers j could see ahead for 25 feet. This fortunate circumstances will pull down the handicap of the Argo- j naut miners, who are working on i the 3.600 foot level in the race | against the Kennedy crew on the f 3,900 foot level, to release their j entombed comrades and incident- \ ally win the $5.000 bonus offered \ to the first crew breaking through t into the Argonaut mine. Denver family hats welcomed its nineteenth child: but wait until Christmas comes. Choose your words well. Some day you may have to ent them. We have wireless phones and j motoriess airplanes and what we j need is noiseless noise. 1 1 A Model Modern f Mffl Village Pacolet, Spartanburg County, Is a Unique Industrial Com munity (Spartanburg Herald). . During recent years the Faeolet Manufacturing company has been spending a great deal of money in betterments, including what is i known as welfare work. All the j operatives' houses have been le j built, the old type; of cotton mill houses' having been replaced with modern homes of the bungalow type, and nearly all of varied de signs- Each house is equipped with electric light's, baths and sewerage and running water, and the houses are well built and comfortable. The streets run in graceful-curves and twists around the roiling hilb? of the village, arid the whole effect is one of picturesque beauty. Surmounting the highest emi nence in the village is a new $125. 000 school building, one of the finest in the state, equipped -with modern school- furniture and**'fix tures, including ? domestic science kitchen for "the girls, and facilities for teaching the rudiments of car pentry aqd other "trades to-the boys. The school last session had an en^ ?rolhuent of 530 and has a full staff of efficient teachers. A uhuiq?e plan in operation at Pacolet is that the teachers are employed for the full year instead of for the school term. They are given -vacations, of course, but their whole time belongs.to the schools ami there is always work for them to ?o. t - '??< ; Community Building. Down in the village there is an [ unusually iarge -and- well ' equipped [community building, including a [large and well - fitted -auoitorrom, ; club rooms for men and boys, read !ing rooms, etc. In the basement is jthe largest department store in ; Spartanburg county, carrying a full [ stock of every class of goods; Near by is an immense meat market and .cold -storage plant, while the mill village has its own- ice plant, laundry and other utilities and con veniences. Pacolet is complete in itself and does not have to draw on other towns for anything. In the village there is a well fur nished club house for girls, a flour ishing Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., and the various denominations have handsome and well furnished churches. Day Nursery. The day nursery for the benefit of mothers who work ih\ the mills is an attractive and wonderfully in teresting place. Competent nurses are in charge and about 35 babies and small children are cared for every day while their mothers work in the mill. The nursery is provid ed free of charge by* the mill com pany for the benefit of its em- . ployes, and while the cost is con siderable, the company officials say , they have found it to be a good in- . vestment in that it means loyal . and satisfied employes. The mill officials do not look upon the day \ nursery as a charity but as an in vestment. The company has spert more than half a million dollars during the past few years in bet terment work which it could have ; avoided if the officials had been ? content to run along in the old way, but the investment has proven to be sound. "This mill belongs to the employes quite as much as to the stockholders," said one of the offi cials. "The employes run the mi!l and make it pay, and they are en titled to a fair share of its earnings in things that make life pleasanter' for them. Money spent in beauti fying homes and grounds and in providing good schools and recre ation and social centers is just as well Invested as money spent for improved machinery or for any thing else." This explains why so much mon ey has been spent on landscape gardening in the village and in lay ing out parks and playgrounds. The mill village is a wonderfully attractive place. A lady visitor re marked yesterday that she believed when she wanted another trip she would go to Pacolet rather than to the mountains. She was in love with the day nursery and said she intended .to visit it again and spend hours in playing with the babies. Pacolet Brass Band The candidates last night were; treated to a eoncert by the Pacolet J brass band, a musical organization! about a year old, composed of boys! and young men who work in the j mill. Wadge George is band leader; and he has developed splendid mu- j sical talent. The band is one of the best to be found anywhere, j Members of the band also com- J pose an orchestra, which furnishes j music at picture shows and other j entertainments given twice a week j in the town auditorium. A Prosperous Bank An insight into the kind of peo pie who live at Pacolet is given in ; the statement by the Employes j Savings bank, which is owned and j operated entirely by the employes i of the mill. The bank began busi-? ness in 1J>17 with a capital of $5,-! 000 and the capital has since been j increased to $10.000 out of the; earnings and at the statement made j on May 22 of this year, there was also a surplus of $10.000 and un-1 divided profits of $3,355.60. The! bank hud on that date deposits of $3 9,').516.05. and loans and dis counts of $165,491.and cash in) vault and in other banks amounting! to $50,330.73. The bank has nev-| er borrowed a dollar. For every dollar of cm pita 1 stock the bank had loans and discounts of 915.55, cash to the amount of $3.03. surplus and profits to the amount of $1,34 and deposits to the amount of $19.35 There are 400 families in the vil- i l?ge and the average savings per, family amount to $351.60. The! white population of the village j amounts to 1,850. and the p*>r cap-j ita saving's amounts to $76.02. The] bank has 757 savings accounts:, and the average amount per account is $185.76. The average number of savings accounts per family is 1-89, 01 nearly two to each family, while 41 per cent of the white people oi the village, or nearly half, have savings'accounts. The stock of the bank is owned entirely by employes of the Pacolet mills, and the board of directors is composed entirely of the employes [of the'company. The state bank i examiner, after a recent inspection, j declared there was not another j bank like this in the state, and j perhaps not another cne like it in I the country. Coal Economy Needed in Home.. j Washington, Sept. 8.?While the ; average household heating plant is reliable, so far as the- factor of j safety is concerned, this is not al ! ways true in economy, says the bureau of engineering of the de partment of the interior, and in vi^w of a possible coal shortage this winter, the householder will have to be very economical in its use. ' ? The engineering bureau has com piled a few facts on coal and its use, to aid the public until coal returns to normal production. The maur point of the bureau's papers is the need for economy in burning coal. It has been stated by good au thority, the paper * said, that 25 per cent, of the coal wasted irt home heating can be saved. The main point in economy is cleanli ness of the plant as soot is an in sulator against transference of heat and must be kept out of the furnace and pipes. Soft coal demands greater care in firing, in putting in fresh coal, it should not cover all the burning surface. If it does, the gases driv en off are not ignited and escape. If the shape of the firebox permits, fresh coal should be placed over the front of the fire near the door, then as the gases are driven off, they are ignited over the bright rear surface and add to the heat. Later, the coked coal is pushed to the back of the surface and fresh coal again applied to the front. In the case of round heaters, it was said, spread the coal on the lower side only and the gases will be con sumed by the heat on the other. The grates should be left in a fiat position, no part protruding into the fire, the department said, the ash pit-should be kept clean, as ashes cut off the air supply, which may cause the grates to warp or burn out.? A bed of ashes should j be kept on top of the grates to I prevent burning out, reducing it in size as the weather grows colder, i a.nd should never be shaken until five coals fall out. There should be a- check draft-damper in the \ smoke pipe of the hot air, steam j >r hot water heating plants orf kitchen ranges, beside the turn j iamper, -to control the ->rate at j ?rhich the fuel burns it to increase ? iraft. All heat pipes in the cellar [ ;hould be covered to conserve heat, \ and the use of weather strips, i rtorm windows and storm doors! about the house will be valuable, i Place pans or open-top jars of) ivater on radiators or in front of! registers to keep air in home moist.' NO GENERAL STRIKE NOW: Atlantic City, X. J., Sept. 10?j Demands for a general strike of all j Drganizationg.of the American Fed-! station of Labor which are re- j ported by its officers to have_ been 1 pouring in since Attorney-General! Daugherty obtained his injunction j against the striking rail shop crafts I svill be first on the program for con- j ?ideration when the executive coun- i :il of the federation resumes its j annual conference here tomorrow, j Veither Samuel Gompers nor the I ten others on the executive council j made any official 'statement eon- j ierning the probable outcome of j tomorrow's session. Expressing their individual opinion, however, j council members without exception were strongly opposed to a general strike although they were unani mous in denouncing the injunction as a "blow to the rail crafts and a threat to all organized labor." The labor chiefs are united, they assert in the belief that too much uncertainty has been aroused in the nation's industrial life by a state- . mcnt of Mr: Gompers issued at Washington which was interpreted I by some as a general strike threat, j Since then scores of telegrams, j it was said, have been received de- \ manding the general strike. At the same time large employ- [ ers of labor throughout the coun try have besieged the federation oifieials with requests for* assur ance that their contracts with in-j dividual labor unions will not be< cancelled through any nation-wide walkout. "We believe the American public j is entitled to know where it stands j and I predict that a formal assur- j ance that the American Federation j of Labor contemplates no general j strike will be one of the first rets Of this council." said a member of that body today. Stranger who dropped dead on j Wall Street may have been a farm er learning the price of wheat. _- ? COTTON MARKET j NEW YORK COTTON Yeetdy? Oms Htjrb Lorm Close Clos? lan 22.00 22.07 21.55 21.55 21.85; March - 22.06 22.20 21.65 21.69 21.99 Kay 21.98 22.15 21.62 2!.62 21.95 j July 21.42 21.75; Qct 21.75 21.9?. 21.43 21.43 21.72 1 Dec 22.00 22.18 21.69 21.69 21.95 | NEW ORLEANS COTTON fettd)! ; Odo? HI** Tow Close How ' Jan 21.51 21.66 21. ?0 21.13 21.43 March 21.65 21.74 21.25 21.25 25.23 ' Dec 21.48 21.64 21.10 21.12 21.40 Svusj off. 21.13. LIVERPOOL OOTTON January . 12.20 . March 12.17 i May 12.09 July .. . . .. ?1.9? I October 12.39 December . 12-25 Receipt?. 9.oft*: Sulc*. 8.0?0; Middling. 13.08; Good Middling. 13.33. ' f world 11 Birmingham, Sept. 8.?Charlie ' J Studemeyer, a negro sentenced tc j be hanged here today for killing j James McDowell, a salesman, re ceived a communtation of his sen tence to life imprisonment from [ GrOv. Kilby shortly before the hour j set for execution: i ???? I Washington, Sept. 8.?The long ; delayed administration bill, pro : viding twenty-five additional feder j al judges was finally completed to ! day by the * senate, and goes to j the house. Chicago, Sept. S.?Persistent ru I mors of impending peace or a par tial settlement of the railroad strike continued here today, with out tangible foundation in way or definite statements by rail or union ! officials to substantiate the re ' ports. Washington, Sept. 8.?Despite industrial difficulties the country's economic progress is continuing steadily toward normal conditions, I the commerce department declared j today in a survey of the general situation. Paris, Sept. 8.?Georges Salem, an' Egyptian student, fired a shot at an automobile in front of the j palace of Elysee today, believing j the car to. be that . of President Millerands. The shot went wild. ! President Millerand was at his j country home at Rambouillet- at the time. Dublin, Sept. 8.?A disagree ment between the two irregular leaders operating in County Ker ry is reported to have caused a j sanguinary fight .in which rifles bombs and machine guns were used by the opposing forces. Steady progress by the nationals is report ed throughout the country gener ally. Washington, Sept. 8.?A board investigation into the methods and practice employed in marketing, cotton' was ordered by the senate in the adoption of a reSolution by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, which seeks to determine whether, there is any interference with the law of supply and demand in the cotton market. Roanoke, Va., Sept. 8.?The body of Col. Robert E. Lee, grandson of the Confederate general, will- be taken today to Lexington where* the funeral services will be heldj tomorrow morning, followed by in terment In the Lee mausoleum, at Washington-Lee University. s I Chicago, Sept. 8. ? Adolph J Kuntsler, said to be a New Tor-k^ jeweler, was assaulted by three] men today in a restaurant on up-J per Sheridan road, and robbed of; gems valued at fifty thousand dol- j lars. according to a report to the police. The bandits escaped. Rutland, Vermont. Sept. 8.?Thej body of Lieut. Belvin Maynard, the j "Flying Parson," who was killed j with two companions in a plane accident yesterday, is today home-! ward bound for Kerr, X. C. Chicago, Sept. 8.?A meeting of several western railway executives' with Daniel Willard. president of j the Baltimore &' Ohio was held; here this afternoon. B. M. Jewell, the strike leader; W. H. Johnston,} head of the machinists' union and j Martin F. Ryan, president of the j Carmen's Brotherhood, arrived to day from the east. They were] served with the notice of Attorn ey General Daugherty's injunction. Washington, Sept. 8.?Cotton j ginned piior to September 1st amounted to 817,171 running bales, compared with 485,887 to the same date a year ago, the cen- j sus bureau announced today in thej first ginning report. ? Washington. Sept. S?A tempo- I rary injunction restraining Unit--; ed States Marshal Snyder, from in- j terfering with the meeting of the | Brotherhood of Electrical Work- j ers, one of the striking shop crafts, j or from doing anything to pre-1 vent strike activities, in the District of Columbia restraining order, wasj issued today by Justice Bailey, in j the District of Columbia supreme court. The court denied a peti tion for a similar injunction against District Attorney Gordon. Columbia, Sept. 9.?Judge Maul din has dismissed the appeal of Theodore Aughtry, who was con victed of manslaughter in Rich land county, and county officers will search for the defendant. Aughtry gave bond in the sum of ? $2.500 pending a decision in his j appeal case and yesterday it was: Said that officers must make efforts ? to locate him and fail to produce I him before the bond money can be collected. Darlington, Sept. S.?Joseph W. i Tolbert, Republican boss for South j Carolina: was in Darlington last night and today. While it was not ; learned what Mr. Tolbert's mission i here was. he was seen in company; with George McKie'on several oc- \ casions. It was reported that Mr. \ Tolbert was asked why he was in j Darlington and that his reply was,; "Wait until after the election and I vou will know.'! _ "fork; S. C, Sept. 9.?Fred Tay-j lor, aged 22, the fourth victim in; the shooting affair at Clover Wed-, nesday. when William C. Farrjs is alleged to have shot six members of the Taylor family, died in a! Gastonin hospital this morning. Washington, Sept. 9--A confer-' ence will be held in New York to- | YS IN BRIEF J day between Judge Elbert Gary, of the United States Steel Corpora tion, John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers and the rep resentative of department of labor, looking to the ending of the coal strike in Connellsville, Pa., coal region, according to official infor mation here. Asheville. X. C, Sept. 9.?E. Koontz. E. R. Henderson and Frank Briggs, striking Southern Railway shopmen were 'each sen tenced to seven years in the pen itentiary at hard labor by Judge Lane in the superior court, fol lowing their conviction yesterday on charges of assault and the kid napping of Sam Harris, a young shop worker. Washington, Sept. 9.?The al location of ten thousand tons of bituminous coal to South Carolina was ordefed by the federal fuel distributor Spencer today, after he received reports of serious diffi culties in keeping the industries in that state running. Dublin, Sept. 9?William T. Ct > grove., a minister of the local gov erment was elected president of Dail Eireann. by the new parlia ment in its inaugural session today. The only votes cast against him were the labor members. Chicago, Sept. i).?A motion to vacate the Daugherty injunction so far as it applies to B. M. Jewell and John Scott, president and Sec retary of the railway employees department of the American Fed eration of Labor was filed in thej federal court here today. Constantinople, Sept. 9.?A move ment for the dethronement of King Constantine of Greece and the establishment of a republic was reported by a Greek newspaper to be under'way on the islands of the Grecian Archipealgo. Greensboro. N. C, Sept. 9? Rocky Mount was chosen as the 1923 convention city by the Xorth Carolina department of the Amer ican Legion here this morning, winning over Wilmingtno. Chicago. Sept. 9?A heat wave which in four days has been held ! responsible for ten deaths and nu merous prostrations, ended today, and after intermittent showers, the temperature dropped to seventy two. The maximum yesterday was! 96.4 degrees. Scranton, Sept. 11.?A contract that sent one hundred and fifty five thousand miners back to work at old wages was formally signed today by representatives of min-j ers and operators. Baltimore, Sept. 11.?Maryland j voters went to the polls today to ( choose candidates for senator sv;d congressmen. The only Republi can contest is for the senate, Sen ator France being opposed by John W. Garrett, secretary of the Wash ington armament conference. Dem ocrats had a three cornered fight for the senate nomination and) contests in five congressional dis tricts. TARIFF REPORT I IS READY! __ ! Expected to Be Laid Before! the House Tuesday Washington, Sept. 9?Republi can conferees completed today their task of rewriting the administra tion tariff bill, and it was announc ed that the measure and confer ence report would be presented to the House next Tuesday. Action by the House is looked for Wednes day and then the report will go to the senate. Those in charge of the j bill hope to have it in the Presi- | dent's hands by the end of next j week. American valuation as the basis for assessing tariff duties was dis carded, the House managers yield ing on this and accepting the so calied flexible tariff as a substitute after that had been broadened so as to give the Presdent authority j to declare American valuation in any cases where investigation j showed that an American industry could not be protected by assess ing duties on the foreign valua tion. Authority for the President to increase or decrease rates also was approved. There was a compromise on all of the high spots in the bill. In the case of sugar the conferees agreed on a duty of 2.20 cents x yound, of 1.76 a pound on Cuban sugar, as against the senate rates of 2.30 cents and 1.S4 cents, re spectively, and the House rates of 2 cents and 1.6 cents, respective- j ly. The present rates are 2 cents and 1.6U, and those in the Under- j wood law were 1.25 cents and 1 J cent. With the tariff bill out of the ! way. the conferees plan to get to work next week on the soldiers' bonus bill, with a view to having that ready for final action by the Senate and House before the end of the week. Democratic managers from the \ House and Senate will be called j into conference on the bonus, as ! that is not a partisan measure. They wer?- excluded from consid- ! eratior of tit** tariff, but will be j invited in after the completed bill has been printed, and will cast their votes on the measure at that time. Average Hfe of a coin is 25 years. Do not keep orre fttry longer. Tell the truth. Didn't yon brag 1 about this town on your vacation/ I Cheaper Freight Rates jDr. W- W. Long Announces State-wide Campaign - Florence. Sept. 7.?Plans to pro cure cheaper railroad rates on ag ricultural products for the farm ers of South Carolina were an i nounced here today by Dr. W. W. I Long of Clemson college, director of the extension service of this I state. In Charleston tomorrow he will open a campaign, which will be statewide in its scope and cul minate in the formation of a South Carolina shippers' league to take the. case eventually to Wash ington. All the civic and com mercial organizations of South ' Carolina., including Kiawanis. Rot | ary, and Chambers of Commerce, are to be enlisted in the project. ?'I am not fighting the railroads'.' Dr. Long emphasized, when outlin ing his plans here today. "But we hope, before finishing this work, to show them where their rates in ! this state oh agricultural products are too high. And we hope further! to have their co-operation in ar- j riving at fair and equitable rates, which will put us on a parity with other states in going to market] with our produce." Already Dr. Long has compiled voluminous data, which he believes reflects that the rates on South) Carolina produce are too high. For instance, Paul Sanders, of Ritter, shipped 22 cars of cabbage. He got $2,000 for this cabbage and paid! the railroad $5,000 for its services two and one-half times the pro ceeds to the producer. The Mutual Trading Company, of Blackville, shipped a carload of cantaloupes to Boston and had to pay $290 for freight. Another shipment, of cucumbers by the same company, soldf or $88.90 and netted the rail road $194. He has large files of such instances as these, where the quality and pack of the product were undisputed. He believes the freight rates are absorbing too much of the difference in the gross price and the net price to the pro ducer. Supporting 'the contentions of Dr. Long that the freight rates out of this state on agricultural products are too high, he has let ters from reliable concerns in Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Greenville, Boston. Washington, Buffalo, New York, and other big market cen ters, who say positively that they cannot possibly sell South Carolina produce with any fair percentage of profit to the producer because of the high freight rates. Just as soon as the proper inter ests of the state are aroused to the situation, Dr. Long wants to get the organization to carry out the contest of the rates. Attorneys will be employed and the matter carried before the congressional delegation in Washington and thence to the Interstate Commerce Commission. In the interim comparative rates ,f on comodity agricultural products are being procured from other states, notably Georgia and Flor ida which have done much, among Southern States, in produc- ! ing equitable rates for their pro ducts. NEGROES ATTACK i WHITE MAN! _______ f Atlanta Attorney Seriously Stabbed in Los Angeles Los Angeles, Sept. 11.?Kennon Mott, of Atlanta, Ga., an attorney who is here on legal business, was stabbed over a dozen times last night when four negroes attacked i him, following an argument on a J street car between Mott and a ne- j gro woman. Another burning question: "How much per ton?"- 1 Fault is so easily found the hunt ing isn't worth while. DOINGS OF THE D?FFS ? I WONDER WHAT * WERE TALKVNG ABC TWEY STARTED I* THEY HAD SOMET) to TELL ME AND WITH OUT TELLING SAID ANYTHING TC ABOUT IT VET- WOf -?t SE&O YES, 1 JUST HEARD Al IT THIS MORNING- \S s GOING TO GET A OIVO I SHOULD THINK SHE WC H? looks LIKE KIND OF FLV BIRD ANYWAY - WH OP BUSINESS IS HR. DUFF HAS HE GOT ANYTHING ? MRS. HARDING A SHADE BETTER Encouraging Bulletins From White House This Morning Washington, Sept. 11. ? Mrs". Harding spent a "fairly restful j night," but there was no marked I change in her condition, Secretary I ! Wallace was informed at the^ j White House when he called short f Iy after eight this morning. Sec- j j retary Weeks, who also called; j early at the White House, said the j j slight improvement, which set in i I yesterday, was continuing, with the j patient's temperature getting near- I ! er normal. Brig. Gen. Sawyer issued a bul- ! ! letin shortly after ten saying "Night less restless; elimination increased/ i complications subsiding; general ! appearances indicate improvement. , I Operation procedure deferred." They are GOOD! OFFICER UNDER j Alleged to Have Aided Spiriting Witness Away charged with having beaten girl almost to death when one of the men accused her of taking ^a SERIOUS CHARGE ?,wh;ch J leged to have been later found in his own pocket. Clayborne Mctf m Dowellis a son of Officer vMcDow^ ell. The trial of Officer McDoweH and the negro transfer "driver ?vrBt. probably come up at the Court ^ of General Sessions which convened liceman J. T. McDowell and Tom Monday, with Judge Hayne F. Ric* Javers, a negro transfer driver, Piding, County Solicitor. San ders states. - ?4 negro were arrested today on Charges of obstructing justice, spiriting away, bribing and intimidating a witness. Kid McCoy takes his ninth wifev; Both were released on bail. The Dempsey also wants a- fight. | warrant was sworn out by County ? ? ? ? Solicitor Marshall F. Sanders be- The man who .does his best ka* fore Magistrate D. S. Jones.' It al- no reason, to expect -the worst. * leges that on July 9 and "on di- ?'? ? ? verse, other days" Officer McDow- Dancing teachers have thought ell and Ja Vers intimidated, bribed, up a. model dance; but can't thinlt* coerced and spirited away Ineaup anyone to -dance it ? >? Fisher, a negro girl, to prevent her ? ? ? - testifying against E. C. Johnson, Home is where the phonograph^ J. C. Deal and Clayborne McDowell.is.' * ' s v EVERETT TR?E *jH4T'5 THIS * to6D?>f*QL inv|T4T^Ofet H(3 3*? aMJ^Y t?U30?W^? 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