The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-09-08
NEWS in GENERAL

the most disastrous month in it's his
tory. The indie = al crop will be tho
sr'I!. est in the l'st 2: y,ars while
the condition now is the lowest ever
recorded in any month in the history
of the industry. Ravages of the boil
weevil are principally the cause of
the crop amounting to loss of l.
10000 bales in prospective produc-
ton since last morth's force lst. The
department of agriculture in an
nouncing today it's forecast of to-
tai production of 100000 cquiva-
lent 500 pounds bales based on a can
vass made August 25, declared every
thing seemed to have gone wrong
with the crop.
Major General Leonard Wood has
announced his acceptance of the post
of governor-general of the Phillip
pines rendered to him by President
Harding. Gen. Wood notified Secre-
tary Weeks that he would retire from
the army to accept the governorship.
He said he believed it to be his pa
triotic duty to accept the position,
owing to the seriousness of the stu
alton in the Phil ippines.
Making good his threat that he
would never be taken alive, Clayton
Smith, gangster, gunman and outlaw,
wanted for shooting Deputy Sheriff
Walter Clark at Chattanooga last
February, bolted from his home at
Bridgeport, Ala, early Friday morn
ing with his revolver flaming fire and
was riddled by posse of officers who
had surrounded the house. Alabama
officers learning that Smith would Wis
it his home, wired Sheriff Bush at
Chattanooga and eight heavily armed
deputies to help affect the capture.
Sheriff M. c. Thomas, who led the
posse, knocked on the front door of
the Smith home and demanded ad-
mittance. Smith dashed out firing
and was instantly killed. Deputy
Sheriff Clark, who was shot by Sheriff
while the latter was resisting arrest
last February, was a member Of the
posse from Chattanooga.
Two negroes arrested and placed
In Jail in Je sup. Ga, charged with
attacking a white woman, were spir-
tied away when crowds gathered and
made threats against them, and later
representatives of the demonstrators
were allowed to satisfy themselves
that the men were not in the Jail,
Sheriff I. w. Rogers had previously
pleaded with the crowd to let the
men be legally tried.
Some Improvement i'm industrial
conditions in the South is shown in
the monthly survey of the employ
ment service of the department of
labor for August. The brightest spot
in the South appears to be in Florida,
which reports practically no unem-
ployment and a statewide shortage
of labor.
There is every reason to believe
that Henry Ford will agree radically
to amend his original offer for the
government plants at Muscle Shoals,
and that, as a result, the secretary
of war will feel justified in asking
congress for authority and money by
means Of which to complete Wilson
dam, and lease water power subse-
quently to be available to the highest
bidder. For, following the favorable
action of congress, it is reasonably
certain that there will be other bid
ders. In the meanwhile the South
clamors for the acceptance of the
Ford offer, in response to which clam
or the secretary can not act without
congressional authority. Conflicting
with the insistence of the South, are
various interests, political and in
dustrial. Still another school, of
which Clifford Pinchot, the ultra-con-
servationist is typical, wants to be
Shown" Pinchot declares Ford's
too low and too indefinite, especially
touching his guarantee of cheap fer
tilizer.