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THEE 'tH1E NEWS<ANHE L Aola ESTABLISHED 1844 S . COUNTY REPORTED B1 MITFORD. Mrs. J. M. Smarr. and Mrs. J. W. senhower spent Tuesday with Mrs GrA4y Smarr, of Great Falls. Mises Jo Miller, Isabelle Glass and I&ry Raines spent Tuesday af ternoon hith Mrs. J. D. Grady. Mrs. J. S. Glass spent -Wednesday w th her daughter, Mrs. B. F. Ford, of Great %Falls. Mrs. Rufus Keistler motored to Chester Thursday on business. Mr. Rufus Keistler spent Friday th his brother, Mr. W. S.. Keist V jsr Miss Janie Belle Lumpkin and MTN W. B. Lumpkin spent Sunday with 41rs. J. S. Glass and family. Rev.' J. E. Brown spent Sunday bAiw .igons. and Mrs. J; R. Ligan and lit .,ter Elizabeth, of Rocky I -perat Sunday with the Ligons. .wary, Lois and Lucile r White and Mr.. Sher (ary Thomasson, of pfnt Sunday afternoon F. Thomasson. B. F. Ford and fam y afternoon with her S.. Glass. will meet Sunday church at 8:00 me to join with - wihe t Nukestion was asked as .e - censd- of thesbody of pecPle, a- -noat-oe shdwed who did not be J~on to some Sunday school. We wee glad to have some mem. bers of Winnsboro and Greenbrier schools and members of other than Methodist churches. The Rev., L. D. Gillespie did the talking in the morning and after noon, He was at home, as he is field secretary of the U. S. C. conference Sunday schools. At the morning hour he talked of life and its capacities. He told how serious it is to handle the young life about the time they; are beginning to think and act for themselves.' Only the heavenly Father, through (binist( can help them. .. The speaker, continuing, said that as the cotton seed must have proper enlture and help or iti will not make cotton. So the boy land the girl will make the best when Sthey are trained and cared for best. They must be allowed to be develop ed aecording to that, which God has placed within them. They can be pielped to make right decisions and grow right characters, not forced in- . '~ranything. e9 Rev. A. A. Merritt also talked1 a iiig the line of making the Sunday ceiol what it should be end then outside world will be attracted to the Sunday school. Lift up Christ1 to all and He will draw others. Miss Clements, our county nurse, with the women of the community,1 put on a most effective pageant. It was a decided success, very impres sive and carried home the lesson of true motherhood as evidenced by Bible characters that were used, from Eve to Mary, the mother of our Lord. Too much cannot be said of he good work Miss Clements is doing in our county. All the people went away glad that they had been to such a meet ing of enthusiastic workers in the school of the church. Shower for Miss Goldsmith. A most delightful social was given by Mrs. J. B. Brooks on Friday after noon, April 23rd, with a lingerie shower in honor of Miss Mary Gold smith, niece of Mrs. Brooks. At three o'clock the living room and front porch, which was made most beautiful and inviting with pot ted plants and cut flowers, was one. continuous hum of merry voices,; while many ladies and young girls -er bsily engred with their patch, NEWS AS CORRESPONDENTS work making a quilt for the honored guest. The prize winner was Miss Vick Trapp, who excelled in her needlework, and who also had the largest number of squares in a given time. * i 13 The quilt being completed, the guests were invitedi into the dining room by the hostess, which was very nretty indeed in its drapery of white and pink. Vases of white and pink roses were e'erywhere. From the ceiling hung rods and from these dainty gadhands of pink and white. As the guests were partaking of delicious refreshments, two old, ante belluih negroes entered carrying wash-boards on their heads, which were laden wih excellent gifts for the bride-to-be. MOSSY DALE. A good deal of cotton *ill be re planted as a result of the recent un usual cold spell. Wheat seems to 'be a total fal%*- e -caused by rust. I traveled from Winnsboro to Monticello by way of Lebanon church, the other day, and from Winnsboro to Little River has the appearance of being the most progressive section of the. couretr. - I passed for the first, timg the beautiful home of my dis tinguished friend, Mr. Mose Carrk, and as I neared thq spot where so great a man first saw the light I felt s though I should doff my hat and while it was not my pleasure Friend Clark' as I passed, I ME Ahe little ox he had been plow p tandin by the wayside with on., Sold Davis hme, too biggest. pile e phy-Johnnie didn't borrow money on it and quit dunning those who owe im. There has been a good deal of talk about the division- of school district o. 18, but the bolard of education :omposed of the best men in the :ounty has decided that there should )e no division at this time, which I iave no ddubt is best for all con :erned. I understand that W. W. Ligon made an able presentation of Facts in advocacy of the division. e is a very forceful speaker, any wvay, and when he is fully aroused ie dan roll back the clouds and pin them with the stars. I I am very sorry for Robert Mann. aturday evening he bought a big. i roast of beef and put it in a box on. the front porch where it vould keep cool, then he invited his ncle and his aunt and his cousins o dinner :on Sunday; but alas, when ie opened the box Sunday morning he roast "were not present." I 1ave frequently warned him to keep m eye on Dr. Estes, ;and I think ;hat he will do so hereafter. ood roads. Old Tom is agood one. Some of the boys wish to serne idtice on the candidates that some ;hing more Bubstantial than cold Irinks will be expected this summer. I think that Beckham is going to >ecome a candidate-he is peddlint ish now-and when a man becomes ishy he is liable to do any mean The all day Sunday school meet ng at Bethel last Sunday was, we ;hink, a granid success. HICKORY RIDGE. Mrs. Clarke I4angford, of Blythe vood,' spent u few days the past veek with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. [im Timms. Mr. Raymond Young returned to iastonia last Saturday, after spend ng a few days at home. Mrs. Annie McNaul, of Columbia, spent the past week-end wih -her arents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Timms. Mr. Edgar Timms, who has been pending a few days with his parents -ed~ied to Gastonia Saturday to take 2p his wok again. Mrs. J. D.~ McMeekin spent a few 3ays .the past week at the home of Mlrs. Laura Timmns. Mr. and Mrs. J. H-. Timms announce :he arrival of a little son. (tnned o. page two.) HAPENINGS OVER THE WHOLE STATE Yoirk. - Tie White Rose town *rs the meeca of South Carolina Episco .alfans, who were drawn here by the seoWnd annual pilgrimage of the mem bers of that denomination to the Church Home orphanage of York. The 'ttendance was approximately OO, which, though satisfactory in point of ber and representative of the en * state, would doubtless have been enrlarger had not the day been de dedly'-crisp and cool. 4Th mrajority of the pilgrims made the journey by automobile. Among e cities and towns especially well presented-, were Columbia, Green ville, Spartanburg, Greenwood and Winnsboro. .From Winthrop -college came up.wagr of three score students, compauled by Mrs. Alex Long'of ek Hill. The central feature of the day was special service held on the grounds the4pen air at 11 o'clock in the orning, The sermon was preached y BishoV-'Guerry of Charleston and short aadress was delivered by shop .inlay of Columbia.~ In con ection with this toere was held a nfirmation service in which chil n of the orphanage and the parish re confirmed. Anfong those taking rt in this service were the Rev. F. Juhan of Greenville, the Rev. 'W. K. Pendleton of Spartanbarg and Rev. T. T. Walsh and the Rev. T. Noe of York, the latter the superin ndent of the , orphanage. Musical ers were rendered b the chil n of the institution an thd choirs ..church; Greenville, and the 'th o Jhe A'deftt, Spartanburg. t the 4- seryice was .en on. -'Jte, the c)R tution being the 2:30 o'clock I laymen's over by -Bishop A .4 welcome a York *-v. GreenvllaMaJr W. B. Modre of tori and Professor Vermont of the Con verse college faculty, Spartanburg. The visitors expressed themselves as enjoying the pilgrimage and as highly pleased with the work being done here for the wards of the church. It was also a great day for the chil dren of the institution, who were de lighte4 at the presence of so.many of their friends. Their siniling faces, childish candor and winsomeness will doubtless linger long in the minds of the visitors and ! spire the latter to greater efforts in their behalf. In future years he pilgrimage will be held on Mothers' day, the second Sunday in May. Killed By ,Automobile. Rock Hill. - Fred Hutchison,. aged 65, unmarried,- who resided in the In dian Hook community, eight iniies from the, city, was .almost instantly killed when struc- by 'an autorndbli4 driven by unidentified- persons. The 'accident occurred on Oakland avenue, near Wisthrop college. A man driv Ing a Ford car 'was seen to strike the buggy in which Mr. Hutchison was riding. The car wia backed out and turned back toward the 'city, no no tice being taken of the man struck. The victim was dying when specta tors rushed to his aid and he expired in a few minutes... No Free Cigarettes. Florence.-No more cigarettes for chaingang convicts at the expense of the county was the word passed by the county governing commission when checking up clainTs it came acrols one for $55 for smokes furn ished the convcets by the county since the first of the year. It is stated that' this has been the custoi here f or some time, the grade of cigarettes fur nished being Inferior. However,- free cigarettes will not be distributed any~ more. :. To Attend Assembly. Fort Mill.-Col. Thomas B. Spratt has received appointment as commis sioner to the general assembly of the Southern Presbyte-ian church 'lthich convenes In May in Charleston, W. Va. to represent Bethel Presbytery. Will Sell at Home. Greenwood. - A system to place home grown and home canned fruits and vegetables .ca the local market, thereby creating home industries and. bringing .in revenue to farm homps, has been worked out by .Miss Janie Roberts, home demonstration agent of. this county. Miss Roberts has sigied a contract with a local wholesale ;ro cery firm to handle over 100,000 cans of home canned fruits and vegetables during the following season. All of 1the products will be standardized and sold under ne label. NEWS FROM THE WINNSBOROM Mrs. Annie Blocker, after being away for several yeeks, has entered again uponI her duties in the new. spinning room. On last Thursday Mr. W. E. Sen tell, Robert, Ben and Tom Sentell and Rev. G. C. Gibson attended the state high school oratorical contest held at the University of South Car olina in COdumbia. Mr. Tom Sentell was one of the contestants. He won a place in the preliminaries and rep rekented Mt Zion schQol in the fi reals. He eqtitted himself -well, biA . judges',decided against him. Hcowever, Tom, is a good loser and always accepts' the decisions of the judges as fina: After all, it. isn't] how we won or lost but how we played the game. The ball game. wi+h areat Fals last Saturday -'was .p , stjned af Jupiter Pluvius agme ': bat knocked a home run. WIWI learn to plif. baseball in e will not have'to put off gaii* cause the diamond is floodedF 4ger Smith asks us to say has a good game booked h' .this Saturday with Pacific M Columbia. The game will be a 3:30. Be sure to see this Pacific Mills boast of a great but if they win they will be is the way we think. What Be out there Saturday to tel you feel about it, Mr. Darby Floyd; who s wild about the successful of th~ band, came. with oiGftz. let the .eertainly& When make music Fellow, he is some instrei the 'thingthAt tickles us'is tatthe fellows are up to their necks in tls thing. I never saw such enthusiasm I No smoking, cussing, drinking oz. poker playing in that band room now. No sir! But you ought to see how those fellows work. Mr. Corres pondent,, just slay in the news col umn that if there are two or three other good, sincere, earnest men who want to learn some band minsie that they can get in if they hurry."] With that, he strutted off down the strtet to the band hall. *Each night last week in the tem porary quarters where the Methodist folk are holding their religious ser-: vices, Rev. R. F. Revis, pa of the Methodist - church, .ondu re vival meetings. The meetings were largely attended and much interest was manifested. We feel that great and lasting good was doue. .On Tuesday evening 'the .cottage prayer meeting held by the Metho dist church each week was held at the home of Mrs. Abbie Summers. A large number were present. Rev. R.. F. Revis conducted the ervice. Net ,nusday evening at 7:30 the I service 'will be held at Mrs. Starnee', 1 t 1315.1 Mr ad Mrs. S. V. Wylie had as I their guest last week, Mr. Wyi's i sut. 4 .)aster ;Gene Wylie had the mis otune to tumble dowa the steps one AMy last week, and breakerhis .collar Mr. W. E. Sentell has.. ~ busy ,:frYathe past few days 7pu ' g the < streets in good shape. As a finish-' ing-touch a good coat of oil is being i applied. This may cause the house- 1 keepers a little trouble, but it will I not be so bad as the clouds of dusti tht we are accustoned to have in< the summer. .Mr. Clayton Conyers has been very < ill for several days, but we are glad to report that he is impro'ving. I Mr. Sam Cherry left several daysi gq, for Charlotte, where he goes toli accept a position as carpenter. ] NOTICE TO WOMEN VOTERS. Have you registered? The reg istration books are open the first Monday in each month at the sheriff's office from 9 a. m. til 2 p. m. THiECO It would have been good of people with the blues to bei, preseut a~l omity .convet4iia-bsk *btd' was the most meeting since dtbe~l *eseg n vasio of Firn an is' t is have, Oa. far in .g inun good in the comin Mmm of clianginv social and eepnomdonditionP am our population. - Just as soon Ashe basiness for which the cogvenlion is h6lMigould be concluded, and the political 1 put in motion, which was aew.vi ; Pished *ithout the sligbet tion, the meeting, as by one ousent resolved itself into a Of wM thil to consider- the~ii people . Edwin McDonald struck keynote of tbp WhOle proceedi he jase aind asked one 4nd wi1'soon be inwithE,the 2 thewio ~ p n nw rari4 . 'et c cmditionas ft uto oftt fie. Tenow ish down to Ridgeym. His propo4tien a :orsed, and then followed r 3 orough, of Jenkinsville in ing a resolution setting o*rti ecessity for the budn gW From the Richland line" village to reach, via MOticll bridge to be placed acrisi River at or near Shelton. This, as well as the subject of rood roads generally as indsea ale, was also endorsed by rom Rev. Mr. Sharpe, Revj Gilhoa >f the mill, and others, andi unani nously adopted. These matters unavoidably brought nto consideration the other side of ;he proposition-the question of de raying the cost of them, whether by * munual i!eY or issuing bonds, In reply.. for information, Repse. - entative Wollig~ stated the annual ~xpenditure on 4el'oads of Fairfield ast year. asaeDWM0..iksras the >rought to the rensileration et the neeting thd question if it were no*R onal expense, .to take,.pa $25,000 ifthis moey and fct, at fveper ent, a half-million dedsr bond is ne. the expenditure of whilswould ot only give employment -to Joany itizens now~ hard-prespe4 to make Sdaily living, an~d whi*b woul4 by ~~ irculating the next tigee, or four rears from the bank to the pay roll, hen to the merchants, ag4 -back to he banks, constitute a .revolving - und of several mirion dolrs dur ng a transformastion perjo# when ash money would be sorely needed; nd would hasten the development f a highwayy ystem .equitabhe and eneral throughout the entire counlt y within a period of, say, five years, nstead of one hundred years, which s the perida it will take under the resent annual levy, building about ve miles only each year, to com lete the job. In uddition, the difference. between 25,000 and $36,000, now being an ally spent on the roads, would af ord approximately a fund that woiild etire the entire bond issue within forty year period; each year in (Cinudonpgeto GENERAL-NEWS OVER THE WORLIP Washington. - World cotton co qumption has returned to its pre-w~k level after a five-year period of AN consumption, according to a survey the international cotton sittation coy ering production, consumption * and stocks, as of April 1, made public bi the commerce department. "The striking feature of the site tion," the department said, "is an dleated consumption of 21,000, bales for the year ending July 31, 1924 approximately 6,000 000 bales mi4 than was produced for the crop year.' The world carry-over, the depart ment concluded from its survey; will return to normal by August 1, 1922 while the outstanding feature of in tereet now is the degree to which the cotton production will return to the pro-war level, or whether it will con tinue op the basis of the last ivi years' average of 18,000.000 bales, Much depends, the department declar d, on weather conditions and the ex test to which the boll weevil proves to be a limiting factor. Little Change In River. New Orldans.-While water flowed through the three cree's in tie lower Mississippi river continued t( cover more lands, the fight to preveni othet breaks in the levees was carried on. without any let-up. Thousands of men spent -their Sabbath filling and piling sand bags to strengthen the Wea places and to ra-jaeow.stretches of thf- km'ents 'to 'rset highei river stages than any yet re6eLded. In the third Mississippi levee'-Jis trict alone no less than 10,000 mez were engaged In the fight to hold the swollen river in its channel, th 4,004 employed by the government in thi district being reinforced by more than 6,000 civilIans who have volunteered their services for the common teetion of their. homes. "Church jer ijees were dispensed with in iany the pastors leadIng their flooding. Shoots Son and Commits Suicide. Chattanooga, Tenn.-Dr. W. P. Allen of Dayton, Tenn., who last December was acquitted of the murder et Burch C. Gardenhire, member of a well. known 'i nnessee family, after one of the most sensational murder trials ever staged in Rhea county..killed his nine-year-old son, W. P., Jr.. shot at his wife and committed snicide. The double tragedy occured three miles south of Dayton as- Dr. Allen, his wife and son were returning from an automobile ride. Mrs. Allen said the shooting was done without any warning. She told Sheriff Burnette, who made an inves tigation, that Dr. Allen, who was driv ing the car stopped at the side of the road, drew his revolver, shot fthe cbird through the head and then got dat of the seat. She jumped out on the other side, she said, and ran, as Allen started shooting at her. Captairs Coleman Seeks Relief. ' New Bern.-At the jail here Arthur Coleman. captain and owner of the British schooner "Message of Peace," convicted of selling whisker and men. tenced to- six months In jail by Judge H. 0. Connor, said he erpected to be released on bail. His counsel, Joh D. and Emmett Bellamy, went to Wil ington to attend to securing the bond which was fixed at $2,500. Captain Coleman declared that he wr far from being through with the ase. He expects to sue for the recov ry of his ship and its cargo. Many Children Hurt. , Rome, Ga.-Five children were se riously injured, one probably fatally and 18 others suffered bruises when hey were thrown out of a truck tak ng a curve near here. Ruth West, 13, of Lindale was re orted to have suffered a f-actured skull, and was not expected to live. our others, Houston Hendricks, ichard Bean, Louise Mathis and Walter Green, also were taken to a ospital painfully hurt. The injuries o the others were chiefly minor cuts and bruises. Marshal Joffre Leaves New York. New York.-With the strains of 'Auld Lang Syne," played by a mu ncipal band as the liner Celtic speed e-d up off the Statue of Liberty, Mar shal Joffre waved good-bye to Amer ea and began the last lap of his world our. ~The band was aboard the police oat John F. Hylan. The marshal stood at attention for amoment after the band began, then uddenly waved his red and gold hat, rew 'nore enthusiastic and waved~his ane. whilie the big liner slipped away oward the open :sea.