The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-11
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
the NEWS OF the SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In the South.
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.

DOHtcStlC.
Cook Clayton, clerk OF the United
States court for the southern district
of Georgia, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury at Macon for the
embezzlement Of $4,000 Of govern
ment funds and for making false
statements to the attorney general as
to his accounts.
Perhaps the most extraordinary rec
ord set in all the record smashing OF
the Sixty-fifth congress was the yot-
ing OF more than twcnty.onc billions
Of dollars for the first year of the war
without dissenting voice in either
house.
Notice to the public to make its tax
returns to the government under the
new war revenue tax law has been is
sued All individuals receiving in
comes Of 81 1000 and over come under
the operation of the new law Per
sons failing to make returns will be
prosecuted as slackcrs.
1t is pointed out since congress has
adjourned that the administration has
had it's way in every instance save
one-that Of cCnsoring the newspa
pers, and the newspapers practically
volunteered to preserve the interests
Of the country in the publication Of
war news.
Mighty few people, ii any, can pos
sibly escape the new war revenue law
It ls incumbent upon practically every
man and woman to make returns to
the United States authorities as soon
as possible.
Following a conference between rep
resentativcs Of the freight clerks Of
the NJ, G. e. st. l.. and the w. & A..
who walked out in Atlanta, officials
OF the roads, at which no agreement
was reached, a formal order for a
general strike OF all members OF the
order of the brotherhood Of Railway
CLERKS on these two roads was issued
by j. j. FORESTER, grand president OF
the order.
The Greater Savannah Commercial
Club adopted resolutions asking for
the expulsion from the United States
senate Of Senator Thomas w Hard |
wick Of Georgia, declaring that his |
published uttcranccs and mtagonistic |
attitude toward the government .hc- |
mandGd that such be done.
Twelve people were injured, the ma
iorty only slightly when one Of the
big trolley cars Of the Stone Mountain
line turned turtle on Il sharp curve
Just behind Agnes Scott college, in
Decatur Ga, killing a negro and max.
ing mass Of wrcckagc out of the |
car
In Newark. N. j., the offices of the |
New Jersey Frcie Hcitung were raid
cd by federal authorities and the pub
Usher, Benedict Prieth. and two edi. |
tors, William Won Kaepezlcr and Henry |
Wechtcr were taken into custody. The |
men were arraigned before the United |
States commissioner charged with pub
fishing seditious matter.
price of 80 cents a pound to the
farmer was agreed upon at a meeting
in New Orleans OF men Interested in
marketing and growing Of cotton in
Ten Southern states as being justified
by the present selling prices Of manu-
factured cotton products.
Southern farmers in a meeting at
New Orleans went on record as on.
posed to federal fixing Of the price Of
cotton and urged instead the creation
OF an official marketing board through
which to obtain q correct estimate OF
fair and equitable price.