The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-10-12
Domestic

domestic
The "ferocious man-eating lions"
that have been terrorizing the natives
| in the vicinity of Mount Victory are
two Aire dale days, according to the
keeper Of the Toledo, Ohio, zoo.
On his return to his hotel after hav.
ing been booed, Kissed and jostled be-
cause of the calling of recent worlds
series game, Judge Lands issued a
brief statement completely supporting
the umpires in their decision that it
was too dark to play longer.
Douglas Fairbanks, posing as Robin
Hood for publicity stunt of the Ritd-
Carlton hotel roonS shot an arrow into
the air, and Abraham Seligman, fur.
rier across the street, received the
flying shaft just above the heart and
was taken to hospital
The finger printing of every person
in the United States was recommend
ed in report prepared by the exec
utivc committee of the New York state
| at a meeting of the organization in
New York City.
| First test Of new tank, described
as smaller and more mobile than
nny hitherto used in warfare, will be
made by the United States ordnance de.
partment during the national conven.
tion Of the Americas: Legion at New
Orleans, October 1920.
Over an area Of more than 100 miles
| },1 ~,
northern Minnesota, while forestry and
state military officers made efforts to
subdue them and hopefully scanned
the skies for forecasts of rain, accord
ing to reports from st. Paul. MINI.
President Harding believes that the
railroad worker is Of such Importance
in our national existence that his
fhe works should be such as to make
his employment SO attractive so that
strikes will be impossible" Secretary
Davis of the labor department declar.
ed in an address at Detroit, Mich, be-.
fore the convention Of United Brother
hood of Maintenance of Way Employ.
ees and Railway Shop Laborers
Mrs. w. Fl. FELTON, has been appoint.
ed to succeed Hon. Thomas E. Watson
to the United States senate until a
successor is duly elected by the peo-
pie of Georgia
w. b. Cox, said to be a resident of
Quincy Fla, is in a local hospital
with his throat and wrists slashed with
a razor. 1t is believed he cut him.
self while suffering from temporary
mental alteration.
Forest fires raging through northern
Minnesota for several days have done
considerable damage, and at last re.
ports had not spent themselves.
| Lions have been terrorizing the vi.
cinity of kenton, Ohio. An aeroplanist
has been trying to spot them, while
posses are living in the woods in the
hope Of killing them.
Isadora Duncan, the granddaughter
Of General Duncan. who was on Cen
eral Washington's staff, demonstrat.
ed to the satisfaction Of the immigra-
ton authorities at New York that she
had not turned Bolshevist while ming.
ing with the people of Russia. She is
classic dancer.
Dispatches from Monroe, N. c.. saw
that because negro farmland was
Killed IN cotton field by lightning
the negroes in that section have be.
come so superstitious that thew refuse
10 pick cotton. They believe the wee.
VII Is curse. and that it must be
removed by superior power.
The army dirigible CO. after arrIv.
ing at San Francisco, sailed gracefully
on towards the landing field at Pre-.
sidio. Three army airplanes escorted
her. The CO began the flight from
ROSS Field, Arcadia, and made the
Journey none the worse for the trip.
The Greenwich (Conn) Cab compa-
ny claimed Mrs. Hanton, a New York
society woman, owed it $421 in fares.
She got funny" and sent keg con-
tanning $4,000 pennies and card say
ing 90 la la"
Cooperation between the insurance
agent and the insurance company as
an essential to the success Of both,
the need OF educating the public in fire
prevention measures and uniformity in
rate making featured the sessions of
the twenty-seventh annual convention
at Hot Springs, Ark. Of the National
Association Of Ina,ralfca Agent