The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-09-07
Domestic

G. G. Hudson, Jr.. 10, Jacksonville,
Fla, Is facing trial on forgery
charge
Aerial attack against The cotton boil
weevil was recently made at Scots,
Miss, in test undertaken by the gov
ernment supervision to demonstrate the
practiability Of the airpane as Il poison
distributor to rid infected fields of the
pest.
The Canadian dollar touched par
in Now York City the other day for
the first time since August, 1915.
Governor Hardwick, of Georgia, who
has been considering the appeal of
Frank B. DuPre, under sentence of
death. whether or not to commute his
sentence to life Imprisonment, after
a thorough investigation. has declined
to commute the sentence.
Twenty per cent increase in the pay
of more than 1000 employees was an.
nounced by Sloss Sheffield Steel and
Iron company Of Birmingham, Ala.
Will NJ. jerks. As, Of Lottie, Baldwin
county, Alabama, was arrested at the
bedside Of his wife, Lemma jerks, at
a Mobile hospital, and charged with
lnflicting what physicians say is a
fatal wound
Directors of the Coco-Cola company
Yesterday declared regular quarterly
dividend of $40 share on the capital
STOCK, payable October 1, to stock of
record September ID.
Advancing the date of the national
'Forget-Me-Not day" from Armistice
day to Saturday. November 4, Nation.
al Commander c. Hamilton Cook, of
the Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, made public recently.
The spectacle Of race across tho
country between ar army drigible
ana reconstructed De Haviland air.
plane Will be witness on September s
ana e, according to dispatches from
San Deigo. Calf.
Michigan police are stationed at the
state reformatory at Iona, Mich. az
the result of an outbreak among the
inmates.
Seventy-five men, comprising the en-.
tire nlght force of the Argonaut mine.
jackson. Amador county. California.
are entombed in the mine as the re.
suit Of fire which recently broke ont
in the mine.
Two of the thirty-five men Jailed
IN the wholesale roundup of alleged
confidence men at Denver Colo, have
peen identified by investigates from
the district attorneys office. They
are Eddie Schultz Of Knoxville. Tenn
ana Z. " Wilson of Toledo, Ohio.
| One man was killed outright and "a
persons injured. some believed seri.
ously. when an auto truck carving
strawride party was ditched over
steep embankment near Baltimore. Ma.
ryland.
Nine men are in custody and four OF
them have been implicated in an nj.
leged plot declared to have been in.
splred by radicals in connection with
wreck of Michigan Central ex.
press train at Gary, Ind, several days
ago. Further arrests are expected.
Il tornado which swirled throueh
Henry county, Kentucky, did property
damage estimated at 100000, not in.
clnding the destruction Of the tobac.
20 crop valued at 100000.
daring plot to escape from the
federal ponitentiary at Leavenwortb
kans., by dynamiting gates and shoot.
ing down the guards was frustrated
ny the confession Of a trusty.
County police questioned Mrs. George
Cline in an effort to obtain moro in.
formation concerning the killing Of
John Bergen, motion picture actor,
by George Cline. the woman's husband
just as duel was to have taken place
In their homo at Edgewater, N. ].
Twenty three additional warrants
calling for total Of forty arrests, in.
cluding five women, were issued in con.
nection with the Communist conyen.
tion by federal officers at Bridgmau,
Mich.
DR.. e. j. Mcguire, weighing ITO,
recently proved at Warren. Ohio, that
man can maintain normal on fifty
cents OF food u day.
A big crowd marched through the
city Of Chicago the other day demand.
Ing a referendum on the manufacture
of light wines and beer.
Lila and Madeline Wells, 6 and 8
set out to meet their father, Or his
way home from quarry. Half
mile away they saw their father. who
saw them. He saw fast approaching
train and ran to save them. He lost
the race. and all fhraa x,a~o IN, !