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CHARLESTON.-Dr. Charles I. Goodwin, of Holly Hill, who was driver of automobile that ran down and killed three young men, Hamp. ton H. and George B. Hilton and Thomas Smith, is exonerated by coroner's jury, accident being declared unavoidable. ANDERSON.-Misses Addie Lou Strickland and Anna Belle Bradley and John Hawkins are in a hospital suffering with broken bones, as result of collision between two cars. SPARTANBURG. - Blue Ridge Hosiery mill and the R. L. Lee & Co., damask mill have been merged, and will hereafter be known as Blue Ridge mills, with capital of between $150,000 and $200,000. COLUMBIA.-Govermor McLeod is petitioned by four of seven legislative delegation members of Spartanburg to remove Supervising Auditor Scruggs from office. COLUMBIA. - State Insurance Commissioner McMahan rules that fire insurance companies that belong to the Southeastern Underwriters' association, known as "board companies," cannot, under South Carolina law, withdraw their business from agents who also have nonboard-member lines, and ruling allays alarm that was spreading among agents by recent ruling of board companies. NEWBERRY.-Cotton ginnings in Newberry county, to December 1, have exceeded 16,000 bales, as compared with slightly over 10,000 bales last year. FAIRFAX.-Citizens bank, of Fairfax, J. E. Johnson, president, closes its doors and is now in hands of State Bank Examiner Bradley. ANDERSON.-Willis W. Scott, former member of legislature from Anderson county, dies at age of 65. SPARTANBURG.-Southern Power company has plans in making for 40,000 horse power hydro - electric plant at Duncan, in Spartanburg county. ROCK HILL.-John G. Anderson, head of Anderson Motor company, makers of the only South Carolinamade automobile, tells chamber of commerce company already has 2,600 orders for 1924, and outlook is promising. SPARTANBURG.-W. H. Carpenter, of Utica, N. Y., seeks local dentist who made diagram of mouth of his son, who was in Camp Wadsworth here during the war, and who was killed in France, hoping to identify body from such diagram. SPARTANBURG.-"Son" Rankin, negro boy, is being held on charge of murder, having run down with auto'an aged white man, H. H. Epton, who died of injuries. ANDERSON.-Anderson city council adopts ordinance making illegal the operation of pool rooms after June 1. GREENVILLE-Southern Worsted corporation's new textile plant at Sevier, near here, will begin operations in January.