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I Scraps and |arts. " G ~ pi Peace was celebrated throughout France with the utmost enthusiasm tr last Saturday night. At Marseilles, a] Toulon and Cherbourg, as well as other P] Beaports, warships were dressed in flags, salutes were fired, church bells were rung and there were illumlna- p tions and torch light processions. At 81 Bordeaux the departure of the Amerl- can students from the university was * made the occasion of a brilliant fare- | ronontion bv the municipality. ? The governor has been requested to I E appoint a commission looking to an election which will decide whether or not about 32 square miles of territory now included in Spartanburg county shall be annexed to Greenville county. A petition calling for an election and signed by. 637 voters, has been filed 4 with the governor. The population In ; the area which includes the town of f Greer totals 4,200, and the taxable j property is >850,000. J ? President Wilson and party are on ' the way to the United States. They boarded the U. S. S. George Washing- ton last Sunday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, and set sail within a few minutes afterward. President Poincare : and other French and American officials were on hand to see the president and party off; but there was not a 8 great deal of ceremony about the departure. It is expected that the trip across the Atlantic will be completed ? In about eight or nine days. ? Washington, June 27: The cotton crop of 1918 was 12,400,532 bales, according to a bulletin Issued by the bu_ reau of census. The production in all ? the cotton-growing states except Texas. Louisiana, Oklahoma and Florida, are said to have showed increases as compared with the preceding year. South Carolina showing the greatest s Increase with 26.9 per cent. Sea Island, 52,298 running bales last year, was the smallest shown for any year since 1899. This type of cotton, how- a ever, represents only a very small t fraction of the total crop, the propor- 0 tion for 1918 being less than one-half of 1 per cent. All sea island cotton grown in the United States is produced in Florida, Georgia and South Car- s olina. Orangeburg, S. C had the sec- f ond largest crop in 1918, according to t the report, with 110,718 bales. The German government, headed 1 by Philipp Scheidemann, had planned to refuse to sign the peace treaty and to permit the Allied troops to march u Into Germany as far as the Elbe, where it would be attacked by strong German forces, the Danzig correspondent ' of the Tageblatt declares in a dispatch a describing the details of a certain plan p to create a seperate state in northeastern Germany. The plan failed because 11 of Jealousies and differences of opinion s v. ??, covprnment and the army Ucvncvu b??v D?. leaders, the correspondent says. (A report from Geneva Thursday night _ said Herr Scheidemann had arrived L In Switzerland after crossing the fron- t tier on foot. The last proposal made t: by the conspirators planning to oppose the Allies, it is said, was to ask Poland to combine with eastern Germany in u the formation of an independent re- o public. The offer, it is declared, was rebuffed by the Poles, who asked why it had not been offered 10 years ago. 0 The Allied and associated powers 1 will not ask for the extradition of the former German emperor, the Paris correspondent of the Telegraaf says he D learns, but will ask the Dutch government in the name of the league of na- * tlons to see that Herr Hohenzollern t does not escape the moral conse- n quences. It is expected that as a mem- . ber of the league, Holland will inform the former emperor that he must ap- v pear before an international court or ti leave the country. A highly placed French authority on international law J that the Dro- v IUIU IIIO W1 ft VOyVMV?VM* _ ceedings against the former emperor u would be on moral grounds and the sentence would be of a moral character entirely. There is no question of a death sentence or of imprisonment, P the correspondent told. It is probable, li the correspondent continues, that the c crimes of the former emperor against , International morality in starting the 1 war and in violating Belgian neutral- ii ity will be condemned severely, the jj Hohenzollerns will be declared forever deposed and it will be made impossible for the former emperor to do further d harm by assigning him a place of resi- n dence from which he was not to move. j( ? Some of the Berlin newspapers, announcing the signing of the treaty, appear in black borders with captions on their Versailles items such as "Ger- J many's Fate Sealepl," "Peace and An- j nihilation." The Tages Zeitung, in closing an editorial says: "Clemenceau Lloyd George and Wilson and their ri accessories have sown dragon's teeth ti of eternal enmity." The whole German a press writes in the strain of melancholy pessimism. The Tagelische Rundschau says: "What we need is U a despot to compel the nation to work. q If we are unable to install him, our enemies will send him." Dr. Dernberg, c in the Tageblatt, says: "The cup is n drained to the dregs. There is no sense n In continuing the controversy. It Is better to endeavor quickly to find our feet. The concessions made to us are not without value and open the way It to certain alleviations." The Frei- y heit, Lokal Anzeiger and Vorwaerts all protest against the idea of revenge; c Count Max Montegalas, writing in the o Tageblatt, says: "There is no choice a but to observe the treaty to the ex- . treme limit of what is possible. Absolute candor and sincerity must form f< the lodestar of Germany's foreign o policy." v The world war came to a formal end five years after the assissination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and two years and two days after the first t American troops landed in France. The t! Austrian heir-apparent was killed at j. Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. The first American contingent disembarked in * France June 26, 1917. On July 28, 1914. J one month after the death of Francis v Fedhiand, Autria declared war on Ser- . bia, marking the beginning of hostilities. On August 1, Germany declared 1 war on Russia and invaded Luxem- t: burg. Germany sent her ultimatum to 0 Belgium, August 2, and declared war on France August 3. The next day 0 great Britain declared war on Ger- g many. June 28 also is tho anniversary j of the renewal of he triple alliance between Germany, Autria and Italy which has been broken by the war. On June 1 28, 18D0, the German reichstag adopted t a bill creating a new German army, v the organization of which is greatly diminished in power by the treaty c signed today. In American history s June 28 is the anniversary of the battle e of Monmouth, New Jersey, where in , 1778 Washington defeated a force under Sir Henry Clinton. I World peace was signed and seal- s ed in the historic hall of mirrors at t Versailles Saturday afternoon, but un- T der circumstances which somewhat dimmed the expectations of those who r had worked and fought during the long a years of war and months of negotiations j for Its achievement. The absence of the Chinese delegates, who at the last c moment were unaoie to revuuvue mew- selves to the Shantung settlement, and left the eastern empire outside the formal purviews of peace, struck the "first discordant note in the assembly. A written protest which General Jan I Christian Smuts lodged with his sig- a nature was another disappointment to j the makers of the treaty. But, bulking larger, was the attitude of Germany 9 and the German plenipotentiaries, which a left them, as evident from the official e program of the day and from the expression of M. Clemeneeau, still outs'do any formal reconciliation and 8 made actual restoration to regular relations and intercourse with the Allied nations dependent, not upon the signature of the "preliminaries of * peace" today, but upon ratifl- ? cation by the national assembly. To ^ M. Clemenceau's stern warning in his opening remarks that they would be expected, and held, to observe the d treaty provisions legally and complete- y ly, the German delegates, through Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen, replied after returning to the hotel that, had they c known they would be treated on a dif- ii ferent status after signing than the al- j lied representatives, as sho\?n by their separate exit before the general body 1 of the conference, thev never would c have signed. Under the circumstances t the general tone of sentiment in the t historic setting was one rather of relief at the uncontrovertible end of hostilities than of complete and unalloyed j satisfaction. The ceremony came to a j, dramatic close, in fact, reached its highest dramatic pitch with the wild u ithusiastic reception of President Tilson, M. Clemenceau and M. Lloyd oorpe by the crowds outside the ilace, who ignored or disregarded the linor discords of the day. They tore le three statesmen from their escorts tid almost carried them bodily in their t ogress through the chateau grounds, -a part of the program which had been ) watch the playing of the fountains lanned as a dignified state procesonal of all the plenipotentnries. Ehe \jotkville (Enquirer Intered at the Postofflce ar Tork ae | Mall Matter of the Second Class. | TUESDAY. JULY S, 1919. Yea, it is an alarm we are trying to ound. for it is an alarming situation. The peace treaty has been signed; tut still there is little hope for peace. "In the exercise of my personal liberty," protested the ruffian who assasinated his neighbor. So far as the United States is conerned the war was ended with the igning of the armistice. Certainly there is no greater force ,mgns men than Integrity of charucer; but it is only those who are withut sin who can afford to throw stones. It is stated from Washington that as oon as Germany ratifies the treaty hat was signed at Paris last Saturday, he general blockade and all other rade restrictions will be removed. For the bold bad man who will hold p and rob the wayfarer at the point f a pistol there may be hope. He at ?ast shows a certain amount of cour ,ge in risking his life- But the man rho will seek easy money by selling Iqi or in violation of the law is only a neak. The full programme of the North >akota Non-Partisan league legislaion, voted on in the referendum elecion last Thursday, was endorsed by a ubstantial majority as to each particilar item. The most important item f legislation in the programme was hat of establishing a state bank based n a bond issue secured by the credit of he commonwealth. If congress does not act in the neantime, the understanding is that he president will suspend the warime prohibition law as soon as denobilization is completed, which will >e within the next seven or eight reeks- There is some question yet as o whether the president will feel waranted in raising the ban on beer and rine only and leave spirituous liquors mder strict prohibition. Get the idea in your mind of the >ublic highways lined on either side by ang rows of beautiful shade trees. Of ourse there are those who would say hat the trees will make the roads wet a winter and perhaps some other way i lummcr. But that is bunk. The oads of France are well paved, well rained and altogether the best and lost pleasant in the world. We Amer:ans can do It too, if we will. That is a well deserved tribute that ohn R. Hart, Esq., paid to Magistrate t. L. A. Smith last Friday afternoon, nd The Enquirer is in full concurence. It is hardly up to the magisrate to do the work of a constable in ddition to the work of a judge, cerainiy not at the pay; but Mr. Smith ikes the responsibility of his position uite seriously. Under circumstanes where it seems that a raid can be lade more effective by his presence, a Anoa nnt hooitatp tf> cn himself. The Id gentleman might have his limitaions as to technical knowledge of the iw as practiced by some of the lawers, bat there is certainly no disount on his common sense, physical r moral courage, or ability to arrive t substantial justice. He enforces the iws without fear or favor, and never ails to command the fullest support f the law abiding people of his ballirtck. Under the prohibition amendment to he constitution of the United States, he manufacture and sale of intoxicatag liquors of all kinds is prohibited hroughout the United States after anuary 16, 1920. Under an act of Noember 21, 1918, the sale of lntoxicatng liquors was prohibited after July 1, 919, until the president by proclamalon should declare the demobilization f the armies completed, un tne zuin f May, 1919, the president asked conxess to repeal so much of the act of Covember 21 as applied to wine and teer. Congress has so far declined, 'he whisky people have been In hopes hat previous to July 1 the president rould declare that demobilization is ompleted; but July 1 finds still in the ervice a full million men who were nlisted for the war and the president s unable to see that e can issue a reclamation that wo' <d relieve the ituation under the law It is possible hat congress may yet t .ke action that rill open the floodgate! of liquor until lext January 16; but tl at is not prob:ble. In the meantime there is absoutely no such thing as the lawful sale >f liquor for any purpose within ths imits of the United States. A Dangerous Situation. The story of that meeting of the Jroad River Improvement association, ,t Hickory Grove, last Friday, as pubished elsewhere in today's Enquirer, hows not only that there is quite an larming state of affairs in Broad Rivr township; but that the good people 1 ' 4 A?Anofl/1 ?A thd iver mat way are ueiu^ aiuu?? ituatlon. When it comes to the question of the ight or wrong of liquor drinking, here may be two sides. There are a ;reat many people who insist that here are two sides. In our opinion here is but one side. No man can Irink intoxicating liquors without larm to himself, harm to those with phom he is in close and intimate asso iation and harm to society. But that s not the question here. The question lere is the supremacy of the law of he land, the only guarantee that any pf us. whether weak or strong, have in he enjoyment of life and liberty and he pursuit of happiness. Because of its strong appeal to the physical appetite intoilcating liquor lsj ield In more or less esteem by most of m. We want it beeauae of the exhller-' atlon and excitement it producea, and there are times when almost any of us will go to great lengths to get It. That Is the plain truth and there Is no use 3 In trying to deny the truth. But all reasonable men who hav e tried intoxi- , eating liquor, as well as those who have not tried it, know by experience 1 and observation that the use of lntoxl- 1 eating liquors is narmiui LU U1C1U uo | , well as others, and for that reason the stuff has been put under the ban of . the law, not only of this great state; but of this mightiest of all the nations. ' Ordinarily the appetite for intoxicating liquors knows no law, and it will ' stop at nothing not even murder, to , satisfy its hellish craving. This is not theory, it is fact, and because of this ' fact we have one of the greatest prob- 1 lems known to our law. The greater < the scarcity of liquor the higher the price and the more uncontrollable the , cupidity of those who See in liquor making the road to easy money. , It is clear to the intelligent people of Broad River township that if they al- , low the illicit liquor makers full swing, their fair country which has made , such splendid progress during the past two or three generations will degener- ' ate into a howling wilderness of barbarism in which decent people can no < longer make their homes, and it is be- < cause of this that they are becoming aroused. , While the problem in Broad River is first a problem for the intelligence and decency of that community, their neighbors to the north and south and J east and west cannot remain indifferent. If the degenerate and abandoned i in Broad Elver shall win the people ' who aspire to better and higher things than mere indulgence in low physical | appetites, then the fight will be as j strongly up to surrounding neighbors as it is now up to the people of Broad River and the end will be difficult to foresee. 1 CHARTER FOR HUMAN LIBERTY i 1 President Wilson So Designates ths i Peace Treaty, , The following address by President < tVilson to the American people on the occasion of the signing of the Peace 1 Treaty was given out Saturday by < Secretary Tumulty: "My fellow countrymen: The treaty of peace has been signed. If it is rat- 1 ifled and acted upon in full and sincere ) execution of its terms it will furnish , the charter for a new order of affairs in the world. It is a severe treaty in 1 the duties and penalties it imposes i upon Germany; but it is severe only because great wrongs done by Ger- . many arc to be righted and repaired; it imposes nothing that Germany can- ' not do; and she can regain her right- ' ful standing in the world by the prompt and honorable fulfillment of its terms. "And it is much more than a treaty of peace with Germany. It liberates 1 great peoples who have never before been able to find the way to liberty. It ends, once for all, an old and in- 1 tolerable order under which small 1 groups of selfish men could use the ] peoples of great empires to serve their , ambition for power and dominion. It associates the free governments of the ' world in a permanent league in which ] they are -pledged to use their united | power to maintain peace by maintaining , right and justice, ' "It makes international law a reality I suppoiied by imperative sanctions. It < does away with the right of conquest and rejects the policy of annexation and substitutes a new order under j which backward nations populations j which have not yet come to political consciousness and peoples who are ready for independence but not yet i quite prepared to dispense with protection and guidance shall no mpre be , subjected to the domination and exploit- ' ation of a strange nation, but shall be put under the friendly direction and afforded the helpful assistance of governments which undertake to be responsible to the opinion of mankind in the execution of their task by accepting the direction of the league of nations. "it recogni:'..s the inalienable rights of nationality, the rights of minorities and the sanctity of religious belief and practice. It lays the basis for conventions which shall free the commercial intercourse of the world from unjust and vexatious restrictions and for every sort of international co-opcration that will nerve to cleanse the life of the world and facilitate its common action in beneficent service of every kind. It furnishes guarrrtees such as were never given or even contemplated for the fair treatment of all who labor at the daily tasks of the world. "it is for this reason that I have spoken of it as a great charter for a new order of affairs. There is ground ho:e for deep satisfaction, universal reassurance, and confident hope." Thanks God for Victory. David Lloyd tleorge, the British primo minister, on his return iroin i'aris Sunday owning, drove with the king to Buckingham Palace, being acclaimed with uiumpii&ui oncers by ircinendous crowds along the whole route. After paying his respects to the queen, the prime minister immediately drove in the royal carriage to Downing street. Similar ovations greeted him along the way and in res- 1 ponse to continued cheering, Air. Lloyd c George came to the window of his res- s idcnce and briefly addressed the assemblage. He spoke of the peace which ^ had come to the world and in closing said: "1 sincerely trust that the unity of r spirit and concord which won this j great peace will continue until we ha\c established on a firm foundation thr new world won by the sacrifice of j millions of brave men. Let us thank < God lor the great victory, not in a i spirit of boastfulness, which was the downfall of Germany, but in a spirit of re\erence worthy of noble sacrifices , that have been made." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. The Clemson college summer school for farmers opened Monday. Miss Vergie Mayfield, a popular i young woman of Chester county, died Friday, aged 25 years The body of an unidentified white man was found in Wateree river near Eastover last week. A total of thirteen illicit liquor stills were captured by state constables in Aiken. Florence and Darlington counties last week. Boyce J. Whitehead of Union, hus been appointed a supercargo with the United States shipping board at Washington. The appointment was made bySenator Dial. The Powell Fuel company has purchased the remount depot at Camp Wadsworth, including 60 buildings, 35 000 feet of fencing and a large number of hay sheds and other property. Now that the majority of soldiers of Camp Jackson have been discharged, there is considerable decrease in the amount of mail being handled through the Columbia postoffiee. Three negro children were burned to death near Swansea, Lexington county, Saturday evening when the house in which their parents lived was burned. The parents went away, leaving the house locked and the children inside, when it caught fire. The governor has appointed John M. Kinard of Newberry, J. M. Mixon of Charleston and J. W. McKown of Florence. as the three additional members of the board of exports and marketing who together with the commissioner of agriculture and the state warehouse commissioner constitute the board provided by the last session of the legislature. Granitevllle, June 27: Mrs. Anna Ramsey, mother of Otis Ramsey, a oo-iman Inst in the mVStcriOUS disaD peaiancc of the United States collier < Cyclops, said Thursday she had re- i ceived no word from her son as re- i ported Tuesday in Columbia. The Co- 1 lumbla report was that a telegram bearing tht son's nam? had been sent her from New York, saving he was 1 safe. < LOCAJL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS I. W. Johnson, Mayor?Invites citisens of the town to decorate business houses and residences for Fourth of July, ifork Banks?Give notice that they will be closed on July Fourth?legal holiday. R. J. Davis. Clover No. 2?Tells the public his roller mill is in first class shape for work. W. B. Moore, Promoter?Solicits offerings of land for site for new thread mill. ft. B. Moore and Others, Incorporators?Give notice of opening of books of subscription to capital stock of the Waltmore Thread mills. F. C. Wilborn?Offers some attractive farm property for investment or otherwise. Star Theatre?Today's programme includes a serial and a comedy. "Wanted for Murder" tomorrow. Alice Joyce on Friday, ifork Supply Co.?Calls attention to the superior qualities of Pratt's foods for animals. Carroll Supply Co.?Asks you to make its store headquarters on the Fourth. Sam M. Grist?Expects to move today to room 206, First National Bank building. IfcConnell Dry Goods Co.?Has boys' pants, serge suits for men. Ingersoll watches, etc. ifork Auto Association?Gives notioe that exhibit hall will be open 9 a. m. to 10 p. m., on the 4th. Smith A Kluttx exhibit, ifork Automobile Association?Don't want you to miss the Exhibit hall on July 4th. Some of the exhibitors. ^ Sfork Automobile Association txxenaa a cordial invitation to everybody to attend the Good Roads Rally and Picnic July Fourth. Sfork Motor Car Co. Wilt- have a Fordson Tractor and new model Ford car on exhibition next Friday. Sfork Furniture Co. Invites you to make its store headquarters next Friday. First National Bank, York Insists that you 1 systematize your business. Start with a checking account. 3lty Pharmacy, Clover Has a full line of Ingersoll watches $1.75 to $7 each. Sfork Drug Store Says it is looking for you on the Fourth and invites you to make yourself at home with it. < Atlantic Coast Realty Co., Petersburg, Va. Handles real estate everywhere. See rage 4. ? A great and glorious Fouith next Friday. To get an Idea of a really bad road try It from Sharon to Hickory Grove. That road is something fierce. If York county is to make corn worth 1 bragging about this year, It will come from the later plantingThere Is plenty of fine cotton all over the county; but some of It has been , getting grassy during the past week. The Broad River Improvement association has among its membership a 'ew individuals who are suspected with being connected with the illicit vhlsky business. The understanding | is that If any such shall be caught , ind convicted, what the court will do j for them will be a plenty, , Mrs. M. E. Nichols, the postmaster was inadvertentl*' misquoted in regard , :o the matter of 1 cent postage on ru- i ral routes and In town. There will be no 1 cent postage except for circular matter. The rate on drop letters and ] R. F. D- letters Is 2 cents per ounce or iny fractional part of an ounce. The misquotation was entirely the fault of The Enquirer. Clark's Fork, Bullock's Creek and rurkey Creek were all out of their ] aanks last Friday afternoon- Betyveen ! Hickory Grove and Sharon there was 10 trouble about croesing Clark's Fork because the bridge was sufficiently i high above the stream as were also the ipproaches. Ii the case of Bullock's 3reek it was different. The bridge was , blgh enough over the Main stream; ; out the water covered the approach on the east side for about a foot. Between Sharon and Yorkville Turkey Creek covered the bottoms from hill to hill. < Sura the real estate agent is a useful institution and very contrary to what is a common opinion, is easily worth his hire. Where a man knows how, it is , as easy to make a big transaction as it is to make a small one; but most J people become more or less flustered m making transactions that are above the average of those to which they are ordinarily accustomed, and that is why in making a real estate transaction they are generally at a disadvantage. To the experienced real estate agent a real estate transaction becomes almost ?is natural as is the matter of selling a sack of flour by a merchant. But it is a common thing for the ordinary proper ty owner who does not know how to make a good trade himself to envy the eal estate man his commission. The layman is inclined to look upon that commission as a pickup, even though through the help of the real estate man he gets enough more for his property than he could have realized him- , self to pay the commission twice over. Then too, the real estate men very I cften make the mistake of not treating ! :helr commissions with proper consideration. Some of them, especially the , nexperienced ones, are inclined to give t away, or divide it. The real estate i man is just as much entitled to his 1 commission as is-the merchant to his profit, and he should not give it up or ' ihars it, under any circumstances. INCREASED LEVIES. i By a vote of 19 to 3. voters of Cotton ' 3elt school district on Thursday de- . ;ided to increase the special levy for school purposes from 5 to 8 mills. Votes of Allison Creek school disrict have decided to increase the special school levy from 2 to 4 mills. An election on the question was held last rhursday, the result beins unanimousy in favor of the increase 7 to 0. The election in District No. 8 to intense the levy from 2 to 4 mills was leld at the Cannon Mill school last Saturday and resulted in favor of the ncrease by a vote of 18 to 0. By a vote of 0 to 0 Turkey Creek school district, No. 34, has decided to ncrease the special levy for school purposes from 2 to 8 mills. NEW MILL COMING. Yorkville is to have a new cotton mill as soon as the necessary plant can be established. It is to be capitalized it half a million dollars, with approximately 8450,000 paid in. It is to be ocated on the northern outskirts of lown, equipped with 10,000 spindles, I ind known as the "Waltmore." The pending organization of the j promised enterprise, now assured, has , jrown out of the efforts of Major Wal- ( ter B. Moore, who not long ago proposed that he and associates would put up $250,000 for the erection of a half million dollar mill if the people of 1 Vorkville and community would put 1 up the remaining $250,000. The local people, people of the town and surrounding country have put up all but a i few thousand of the amount asked of < them, and Major Moore is going on with the undertaking. While the subscriptions of the local i people were still short of the amount specified, Major Moore went ahead and i sxercised the option he had for the ad- i rantageous purchase of machinery, \ under which option there is a saving j of more than $40,000 over present j prices, and also with subscriptions still coming in he applied for a charter ( first for a capitalization of $450,000; Put later recalled the original applica- . tion and made it $500,000. , Thp nrnnosed new mill is to be lo cated on a most excellent site Just \ without the northern limits of the town, which site Major Moore purchased some time ago for the purpose of erecting a cotton mill. There are some important contingencies still to ; be settled with regard to the site one i of them being the approval of a committee that is to have charge of the , matter, and another being agreement , on the price; but no complications are ( expected to develop, for the reason that the site in question is one of the . /Sooirohlo in tVi#> rommunitv and ' UiUOl UVOiiMw?v ...v ,r the price will be a matter of easy ad- 1 lustmentWork on the proposed new mill is to ' ) commenced without unnecessary ' Ittlay, as soon aa the different con tract* Involved can be let and the mill la to be rushed to completion as rapidly as possible. TRANSFERS OF REALTY. The following transfers of real estate have been indexed In the office of the auditor since the last publication of the record: Bethesda Clarence S. Bratton to R. Moultrie Bratton, 67 3-4 acres; consideration, $1,070.63. Ira B- Dunlap and J. H. Miller to C. W. Ratterree, 87 acres; consideration <1 3K0 Clarence S. Bratton to John Smith, 117 1-2 acres; consideration, $3,231.25 Clarence S. Bratton to Isaiah Thomas, 61 3-4 acres; consideration, $1,698.12. Bullock's Creek G. W. Wilkeraon to M. Lena Wilkerson et al, 362 78-100 acres; consideration, $4,000. Catawba Laura Hall to John Knighton, 1 lot; consideration, $500. P. W. and S- R. Spencer to Sarah E. King, 1 lot; consideration, $2,300. J. F. Mills to P. W. Spencer, 1 lot; consideration, $850. Charles A. Mobley to Anna H. Mobley, 1 lot; consideration, $5. Ebenezer A. T. Quartz to T. C. Haddon, 1 lot; consideration, $825Lucy Bays Moore to Louise Treverton, 1 lot; consideration, $2,000. James P. Kinard to J. W. Moore, 2 lots; consideration, $6,000. Thomas William Faris to S. B. Collins, 1 lot; consideration, $400. W. H. Matthews to A. R. Reinhart, 1 lot; consideration, $600. P. B. Lynn to J. M. Cothran, 1 lot; consideration, $3,400. Fort Mill Mrs. Mattie E. Stephens to J. J. Porter, 1 lot; consideration, $200. J. J. Balles to A. L. Ott, 3 lots; consideration, $2,800. King's Mountain Mrs. Lena E. Wright Campbell and Emily C- Wright Stephenson to Frank C. Horton, 1 lot; consideration $3,200. York Mrs. Emma Dorsett to J. O. and S. M. Robinson, 1 lot; consideration. $900. Thomas C. O'Farrell to Church Home Orphanage, 1 lot; consideration, $1, 400. J. L. Staley to W. D. Bewley, 15 lots; consideration, $583.87Frank C. Riddle to S. L. Courtney, L4i acres; consideration, $1,160. ALL OF THEM BAGGED .Clarence Jones, Vernon Johnson, Vance London and Alex Feemster are the four negroes who were at the illicit still that was raided by Magistrate Smith and party at Leech's Mountain luring the rainstorm last Friday afternoon. All four of the negroes were taken over by Sheriff Qulnn on warrants issued by Magistrate Smith. Jones, Johnson and London are in jail and Feemster is at liberty on bond. It turns out that Vance London is pretty badly sprinkled with small shot "in the hind leg," as the sheriff puts It; but he is not seriously hurt. When the officers raided the still the negroes ran away; but Clarence Jones turned and fired a pistol back at the posse. The posse replied with a fusilade and tbat was where London got his. Some say that it was Magistrate Smith who shot him; but that does not matter. All four of the negroes got away for the time being and they managed to take London up to Shelby, N. C., who he lives and where he was arrested. Clarence Jones admits having start* *v- -1 K,,? nloimo that it was ea me SllUUllllg uui. ... accidental, his pistol having been discharged as he fell over an obstruction; but the officers have it straight that he turned deliberately and fired. Jones, Johnson and Feemster, no r'oubt under the advice of white men or others who understand the legal status of the situation are telling that it was London who was operating the still while they were present only as visitors and possible patrons. This is on the assumption that the small shot in London's "hind leg" have made his case hopeless, and since he will have to take legal punishment anyway, the others might as well go free. But it appears that London is not exactly in that frame of mind. If he sticks to present intentions when he goes on the stand he will tell the whole truth about the affair truth that will not only involve the other three but several others including some whites who are now only suspected. 1 ABOUT PEOPLB Geo. W. Kunz of Rock Hill,..was a 1-14 ?- An Qo tnrHa v visitor in luinimc vu ,. P. Earl Gaulden who recently returned from service overseas, has arrived his home in Yorkville No. 3. Hunter Morrow of Gastonia, N. C.f spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Yorkville. Messrs. W. A. Carroll and Llndsey Templeton were visitors in Lenoir, N. C., last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Riddle of Clover No. 2, visited relatives in Yorkville, Sunday. Mrs. J. H. B. Jenkins, Jr., has returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to relatives at Grover, N, C, A. D. Sligh of the 81st Division, is now at Camp Jackson awaiting his discharge. Mr. and Mid. Lawton Ashe and little laughter of Orangeburg, nr< visiting Mrs. Ashe's father, Mr. H. Y. Williams in Yorkville. Mrs. 1'. R. Bratton who has been spending several days in Charleston, has returned to Yorkville. Mrs. J. D. Brown has returned to her home in Anderson, after a visit to hbr mother. Mrs. D. E. FInley in yorkville. Messrs. D. P. and J. D. Lesslie of Lesslie, were visitors in Yorkville, v* Mrs. John S. Jones and daugi ter, Miss Sarah of Yorkville. are at Montreal N. C. Misses Lucile and Ruby Sherer if Sharon, are visiting their sisters, Miss Mary Sherer and Mrs. Samue.' M. Barnette in Rock Hill. Miss Grace White of Rock Hill, spent the week-end with the family of H. J. Sherer, on Sharon No. 2. Mrs. J. M. Ferguson, who has been undergoing treatment in the Baptist hospital in Columbia, has returned to tier home in Yorkville, Mis, R. E. McClure has returned to tier home on Yorkville No. 5, after a risit to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carroll on Clover No. 1. Mrs. Herbert Wright has returned to her home in Clover after undergoing treatment at Dr. Kelly's hospital in Baltimore. Mrs. Frank C. Walker of Filbert No. I, is undergoing treatment in a Gastcr.ia hospital. Her many friends will u--? rt Inn ?? hot oV?n la P-At finer LTJ ^ KlU iu team unu ouv, .? Sv..?0 ilong nicely. John Finley, Clarkson McDow and Rudolph Logan have returned to their respective homes In Yorkville after a camping trip into the mountains of western North Carolina. Di. D. 13. Johnson, president of Wlnthrop college, Rock Hill Is attending the National Educational association which is being held in Milwaukee, Wis. [)r. Johnson is former president of the association. Friends of Private Luther Branch will be pleased to learn that he has arrived in the states after serving with. ' A ' ' - ,. , v, i f V\ o f I tne American iurces u\fi?ccia auu wi*u?. tic will soon be returned to his home in tho Eastvlew section. Dr. T. L. Glenn of Yorkvillo, attendid a meeting of veterinarians at Wrightsville Beach, N. C., last week. The meeting was in progress at the time the Seashore Hotel was destroyed involving a property loss of $150,. D.00. WITHIN THE TOWN Have you arranged to decorate? Most other people are making arrangements. Yes. there will be a big crowd in town on July 4 a tremendous crowd, and it is not going to be disappointed either. Josh Smith, a well known and highly respectable negro, died at his home on East Madison street Sun3ay. He was about 71 years ot age, ind had been a resident of the town ill his life. There is a general sugar famine ICfca. throughout the country, and aB la the case elsewhere, the stocks of local grocers are quite low, with little chance ol their being able to get any more before August 1st. Governor Cooper, who Is to speali at the big Fourth of July celebratior next Friday, will arrive in Yorkville or Thursday evening at 8.10. He will b< the guest of the Automobile association of course; but will be entertained at the home of John R. Hart, Esq. The present needs and future requirements of this town demand a Union depot. There is absolutely nc good reason why a town of this sizf should have two passenger stations the more especially with both railroads under virtually the same ownership. In a one-sided baseball game plaved on the colored people's diamond here Saturday afternoon, a team representing the Neefy Cotton mi?! defeated a team from Rock Hill, by t. score of 7 to 0. Carl Oaulden, pitch'ng foi the locals, held the visitors at hli mercy. The Waltmore mill, soon to be erected on the northern outskirts 01 Torkville, will be about the same sized plant as the Cannon, possibly a little larger. When it Is completed and ir operation the present number of mill operatives in the town will be almost ii not quite doubled, and the business arising from this source will be very materially increased. At a meeting of the directors of the Peoples Bank & Trust company lasl Friday, it was definitely decided to organize the Peoples Cotton Warehouse company of York with a capital ol $26,000. The plan is for the Peoplei Bank & Trust-company to take half o1 the capital stock and distribute the balance among the farmers of the surrounding country and the people ol the town. Already a considerable pari of the stock has been taken and the balance is being subscribed for, without any possible question of the raising of the full amount desired. Mr. J. T Crawford, of McConnellsvllle, Is to be president of the new company, and the directorate Is to consist of the presenl directors of the Peoples Bank & Trust company along with four additional directors to be chosen from among the stockholders of the bank. The warehouse lot is located on the C. &N.-W railroad to the rear of Carroll Bros.'i store. The warehouse Is to be erected at once, In time to take care of the growing crop, and is to have capacity for 2.000 bales to begin with. There li good 100m for 2,000 bales additional and more warehouse capacity will be provided as necessary. It has beer definitely decided that the warehouse will be in charge of a firm of independent outside cotton buyers, who will assure the farmers of the country surrounding a competitive market as high and as fair as any market in this whole section. AFTER THE MOONSHINERS. "The president of the Association having been suddenly called away by an unforeseen business engagement, has asked me to act in his place thU afternoon and the meeting will please come to order." This was the explanation with which Mr. W. T. Slaughter opened the advertised rnee ing of the Broad Rivet Township Community Improvement association irf the school house at Hickory Grov^ last Friday afternoon. In the call for the meeting, Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, the president had designated his office as the place of gathering, provided the attendance could be accommodated there, and otherwise the people were requested to go to the school house, located nearly a quarter of a mile out. Up to within a few minutes of the appointed hour, it looked that the magistrate's office with a seating capacity of fifteen or twenty would be ample, but seemingly all at once the crowd began to swell to larger proporr tions and notwithstanding threatening drops of rain from the black clouds overhead, the people on the initiative of two or three leaders began moving toward the school house, some in well filled automobiles and others coming along on foot. There were about forty men in the building when Mr- Slaughter called th9 meeting to order and this number vraa ouuorqucuujr u^icaocu ivr auuui sixty. They Included citizens of Hickory Grove and the country Immediately surrounding and about half a dozen leading citizens of the sister town of Sharon In the south-eastern corner of the township about five miles away. "I can tell you something now that I did not deem it wise to say anything about before," Mr. Slaughter went on after Rev. E. B. Hunter of Sharon, had by request, opened the meeting with prayer. "Mr. Smith was at his office up to a few minutes before the time for opening the meeting and he was fully expecting to preside as usual; but word came of a distillery in operation at a place a few miles away and he and Secretary Wilkerson and two ol* three others have gone out to see what could be done," Although stated in a matter of fact way without any suggestion of the dramatic, the effect of Mr. Slaughter's simple announcement was electrical. There was a spontaneous outburst of applause that lasted for a good part of a minute and which seemed to be charged with appreciative admiration of Magistrate Smith. The pattering of tho rain on the roof with its usual accompaniment of flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder, though entire1 . nnnn #wAm Vi a nwAnoa/1 in Pfl | iy ofpai txto xi win mc pi ucvoumo^ seemed to add a solemn emphasis to the occasion. "The old man is not going to be able to get anywhere In a storm like this," remarked a little boy who was sitting near the representative of The En| quirer and several older men who heard the remark seemed equally concerned for the comfort and success of the magistrate and his party. The noise of the storm outside subsiding somewhat, Mr. Slaughter introduced as the first speaker Hon- J. S. Brice, who made a plain practical talk on the seriousness of the situation and how to deal with it. Mr. Brice recalled how in his last political speech in Hickory Grove while a candidate for the senate without opposition he had spoken favorably of the state dispen?nrv nvBtem and how Mr. W. S. W?l kerson and the Methodist minister at Hickory Grove had taken public issue with him. Long before he retired from the senate he realized that he was wrong about the dispensary and did what he could to make amends. He commended unqualifiedly tho stand the good people of Hickory Grove are now taking on the liquor question and said that it was the only thing to be done under the circumstances to protect the peace, property and well being of the community for while liquor drinking is not the source of all crime, it is the source of so much of it that with liquor drinking eliminated there is but little crime left. As to how successful the people would be in their efforts depends upon public sentiment. The people must refrain from liquor drinking themselves and they must oppose liquor doubly because of the harm it does. They must not be influenced by spite or malice and they must be absolutely impartial in prosecutions regardless of who may be the offenders. The failure of prosecution, Mr. Brice said is attributable to tho fact that there are too many liquor drinkers on the Juries. Where the jurors are friendly to liquor they will not convict. He advised that under any an.l all circumstances the law must be upheld and prosecutions conducted purely by orderly processes. Mr. Brice was heard with close attention and unqualified approval. "Before I say anything; further," commenced Mr. John R. Hart, "I want to remark the striking; circumstance that was presented to us all at the opening of this meeting in connection with the absence of your worthy president, Magistrate R. L. A. Smith. Mr. Smith as we see here is not the man to say to you "go and get it boys;" but he leaves some one else to tell us - " T" t l ?,,Kof T mil he's gone aner u. ni? ia ? the right spirit the spirit that wins. That is the kind of a man to follow. And let me say right here that so far as my knowledge goes and I have reason to be pretty well informed on the subject, Mr. Smith is the best and most efficient magistrate in the .vhole state of South Carolina . (Loud arplause.) Mr. Hart agreed with M . Brice in commending the people jf Hickory Grove and community in the stand they are taking as to enforcement of the lawe. He pointed out the i tremendous temptation held out by the high price of whisky and the generally t demoralizing effect on every interest . of the community unless the good substantial citizenship of that community c is up and doing. He referred to the , reconstruction period when the people x could look out from their houses at j night and see the country 11* up with ' blazing gin houses and residences flr[ ed by ignorant negroes acting under the influence of vicious whites. The undeistanding is that most of this il licit liquor making is by negroes; but 1 as in the old days it is safe to assume 1 that dangerous white men are backing them up. The remedy lies in a right. eou.s fearless public sentiment that 3 will not tolerate violation of the law bj anybody white or black?a senti. nient that will follow such leadership I ac is furnished by your fine old mag. 1st rate here and which will not ask . him to do it all; but which will back ? him up and help him to the limit, . (Applause). j Mr. W. D. Grist, editor of The Yorkvillo Enquirer was called upon for a few remarks. He said that while cot f prepared to make a speech, he wanted . the good people of Hickory Grove and , community to understand that they r had his sympathetic admiration in I connection with the problem witli . which they were wrestling and he wanted them to understand that The r Yorkville Enquirer could be depended upon to do all in its power to help strengthen and further their efforts. i Rev. E. B. Hunter, of Sharon came t forward with a very practical sugges tion based upon information of one negro having had six bushels of com C ground at one mill and another six ' bushels of corn ground at another mil! f all within the same week. Everybody s in this country knows that no negrc has legitimate use for six bushels f of meal in a single week. It is cleai t that this corn is for whiskey making, i and the circumstance suggests as one means of keeping tab on the moon; shiners, the co-operation of the mili. ers with the members of the associas tion in finding out who is grinding too > much corn and what they are doing t with it. t Rev. B. G. Pressly asked of Mr t Brice a question intended to develop ? how an automobile known to carry . contraband liquor could be lawfully . arrested. Mr. Brice said that any cltii zen has the same right as an officer to [ arrest any violator 01 tne law; out ne j made It clear that there must be no r shooting except in the -case of armed , resistance or in self-defense. It was permissible perhaps to shoot into the J tires of a fleeing automobile known to j contain contraband; but It is with the , understanding that the shooter takes . all risks as to consequences, both as to . hitting the vehicle or the fugitive. A , man would be held liable for killing or L injury to a fleeing suspect; but an of, fleer who kills a suspected malefactor in self defense will be held excusable. There being no further speeches and the secretary not having returned, Mr. W. S. Wilkerson asked for applications for membership from the floor. Two or three applications were re' ported, with indications that there , would be many more, and it was de, cided that all such applications be turned over to the secretary in the 1 form of signed pledge cards. Mr. G. W. Whitesides of Sharon, reported that he i had eleven signed cards and 25 cents . for each one. "With regard to this matter of ap; plications," said Mr. W. S. Wilkerson, ; with considerable feeling, "We want it understood that it is your active sym| pathy and co-operation we want, not , merely your name. If you are not going to help us we don't care anything [ about your name or your money eith, er. As a matter of fact, we don't want t either one. This whole country around k here, waving his hand in a wide sweep from the southwest through the south to the southeast and east, is or, ganlzed against us. And they arc organized too, let me tell you. Magisi trate Smith cannot move in any direci tlon without they know it They watch ( him like a hawk. They've even got - their dogs trained to bark at posses | as they go by, and on the bark of some , of these guard dogs you hear a shot . or two, followed by answering 3hots and spreading out until all the dlstill, era in that particular section are aroused. Yes, they arc organized and , we've got to organize and uphold the L law or the country won't be worth liv, ing in. There is a right and wrong to everything. The only thing I am afraid | of is to do wrong. But we are right in ' this. I am ..ot afraid to do right and | I have no respect for any man who is unwilling to do right. We might have . a few right in here who are subject to ' suspicion; but the majority of us are . on the square and we are not going to ' be very badly fooled I guess." About this time the entrance door I to the auditorium swung back and Magistrate Smith appeared. The rain had ceased a half hour before; but Mr. t Smith was still wet and dripping. , Bareheaded, coatless, shirt collar open thin reddish grey hair disheveled, brownish pantaloons clinging to his limbs, his kindly face a little paler than usual with an expression more determined than hard, he presented a figure which to say the least was unique. His attitude was apologetic ; rather than timid for more than other| wise he seemed concerned at having 1 I I- !? ? f/v ~ ??rVtlstVl Kuucu 111 iuic iv/ a. uiccnug up/u niuvu ; he should have been in attendance from the beginning. Upon the appearance of Mr. Smith, there was an interval of several seconds of silence, about which there was nothing awkward or oppressive. Mr. Smith seemed to be getting a line on what the meeting was doing and , the meeting seemed to be taking an inventory of Mr. Smith. It was concerned first to know that he was all right and second to hear what he had to report. Presently without a word on either side, all at once there seemed to develop a mutual understanding and the meeting broke out in a prolonged round of appreciative applause. Mr. Smith's face lighted up with a pleased smile that extended into a broad grin. Following a request from the floor to "tell us about it," Mr. Smith stepped further into the room and began: "About the time I was getting ready * * M T r?n IU CUIIie IU II1IS IUCCklllK 1 6vfc ?T Uiu that some fellows were working at a still over yonder (indicating a direction to the southwest), and if we went right away we could catch them. Well several of us had been out after this same crowd last night at one or two o'clock, and I know that we were within a few hundred yards of them, but the rain was coming down in sheets and it was so dark you could not see your hand before your face and we had to give it up." He broke off here long enough to say: "I tell you this kind of thing is too much on a man of my age:" but he said it like it was a matter of unavoidable misfortune rather than otherwise. Then he went on: "I did not like to miss this meeting and I did not want to miss this chance. You all know how they watch me anyhow. So I asked Mr. Slaughter to take charge of this meeting and we went after that still. It was raining again when we got to the place. We were right upon them before they saw us and began to run. They fired back at us and we fired some shots too. They did not hit us. Whether we hit any of them I don't know; hut T would not be surprised. Anyhow we got six gallons of whisky, and turned over several boxes of beer or slop?one or the other. I don't know the difference. The whisky is down there in the automobile and you can see it if you want to." There was more applause. Mr. Smith said the still was close to beech's Mountain: but whether on the Leech land or the Wilkerson land he did not know. There were four negroes tKrt "till % *3 iitama mon In t Via o I- iiic OUII UIIU UICIC ?Cit iuvii m mc party who could swear positively as to the Identity of all of them. ttefore adjournment the Association accepted an invitation to hold its next meeting in the hall over Shannon & Plexico's store at Sharon. Friday. July 11. at 3 o'clock p. m. LOCAL LAC0NIC8 The Governor In Rock Hill. Governor Robert A. Cooper delivered an address at Wlnthrop college in Rock Hill, Friday evening, in the presence of a large audience. State Aid for York Schools. John E- Carroll, county superintendent of education has been notified by the state superintendent that York county schools will receive >2,567 in term extension aid from the state this year. The total amount of term .extension aid distributed in 176 sehool ) districts of the stats this year was $62,' 893. ' Pressly Principal Speaker. Dr. E. W. Pressly of Greenville Is to ! be the principal speaker at the gradu> ating exercises of the student nurses : school of the Fennell Infirmary, Rock i Hill, which are to be held at the hospital, Tuesday night. , Raised Large Cotton Fond. Rev. E. B. Hunter, pastor of the A. ; R. P. church of Sharon, has reported ( to the A. R. Presbyterian that the ; members of the congregation have . promised 2,785 pounds of seed cotton : to the cotton fund this year. Last year the church cotton fund totaled $357. . ContiiMwl (Mil 1 Magistrate R. L. A. Smith and party captured another still on the Cap Leech place out from Hickory Grove last Saturday afternoon. The operators had "Jumped out of the ditch" and gone when the magistrate and party arrived but the still ' was hot and ) smoking. No arrests were made at the * I time. 1 Rock Hill Red Men Elect. Calumet Lodge No. 36. Improved i Order of Red Men of Rock Hill, have i elected the following officers: John i Mullinax, aachem; Vance Morton, sen? ior sagamore; J. B. Garrison, junior I sagamore; G. R. Wingate, prophet; R. S. Sweatt, chief of records; G. W. Ayers. treasurer; J. W. Wilson, collector of wampum. Missionary Day at Ttrmh. l Missionary Day was observed by . Tlrzah Presbyterian Sunday school [ last Sunday. A very interesting and instructive programme was carried , out, participated in by members of , the school. Pastor J. C. Bailey gave a . very interesting talk on the mission work that is being done in Korea. A \ very substantial collection was taken , | for the cause of missions. Will Work to York County line. Within the next few days Chester 1 county authorities will begin work on ' the highway from the town of Chester to tne York county line. Three road forces will be employed In working ' tho highway one to be stationed In ' Chester; another at Lewis's Turnout r and the other several miles out of Chester. The contract calls for a com' pletion of the work by December 1. ^ ; Discharged From Service. [ The following York county men have i been discharged from the military seri vice, according to announcement of the > War Camp Community service In Coi lumbia: Edward EL White, John H. i Hamilton, Edward H. Bryant, Ernest L. Robinson, M- S. Summers,- L. E. Don . John C. Agurs, Howard C. Drernan, > Clarence L. Adams, Luther J. Mullis, W. P. Slstar, Roby Lynch, Ben S. Mer ritt, Robert E. Mlckle, Newton Haglns, Edward Roach, John R. Miller, Clarence L. Adams, David M. Stewart. Lambrick Thomas. John O. Pace, Baxter E. Wright, John J. Boyd, Samuel Barnes, Hubert S .Sanders, Gordon Hagans. B. B. Wallace, Frank M. Love Chas. Strait, Guy K. Sturgls. Broad River Pledge Card. , Following are the obligations to which members of the Community Improvement Association of Broad River pledge themselves on initiation: "As a pre-requisite to my becoming a member of the Broad River Township Community Improvement Association, I herebv nledse mvself Immediately to Inform one of the executive committee of the association as to any knowledge I may obtain of any one's violating the law against whisky making or selling, and also give such Information as to other law violators; and I further pledge myself to co-operate with the other members of the association in using my best efforts and influence, as opportunity may ofTer, to drive out the spirit of lawlessness in our community, to cultivate the spirit of civic righteousness and to promote the social, moral, educational and business interests of the community." MERE-MENTION v It is proposed to send 40,000,000 gallons of liquor now in possession of distillers in Kentucky to Europe Mr. and Mrs. John J. Milner were killed near Milner, Ga., Saturday when their automobile was struck by a train. Frank Penton, chief of police at the Pensacola Shipbuilding company's plant shot and killed W. P. Cox, a brother policeman last week. Penton has surrendered -President Wilson is on his way home from France. He will land in New York Repeal of the postal zone for newspapers and periodicals is proposed in a bill by Representative Mondell of Wyoming, Republican house leader. Under the measure second class mail would be N ' 1 mailable at the flat rate in force before the War revenue bill of 1917 was passed Dr. Walter Keene Wilkina. aged physician of New York who waa ..iflt/vJ P.IJA.. ?d mi.M/tAH A# KU uuuviuieu r i luaj ui iiiv; uiuj uci wi mo wife, committed suicide in the Nassau county jail Sunday. The act was committed with the aid of a rope and prison attendants are at a loss to under- ^ stand how the rope came into the physician's possession -.The Federal revenue department has decided to eliminate revenue tax on all county fair tickets, admission and grandstand where the fairs are not conducted for profit Maj. T. J. Bedford, said to. be the oldest Mason in the United States, died in Vicksburg, Miss., Sunday, aged 91 years. He was a Confederate veteran George Bruce Oklahoma state commander of the United Confederate Veterans was instantly killed Saturday at Checotah, Okla, while attempting to board a . train Charles McDaniel and J. R. Hayes, white, were killed at Columbus* Ga., Sunday by a single shot which was fired by Robert Parr at Ollle Jones, with whom he had a fight. Jones was uninjured but the two innocent bystanders were instantly killed The ^ average size of the army for the coming ^ fiscal year has been fixed at 325,000 officers and men. Tourist travel from the United States to France will not be permitted before next year, according to the department of state Canada defeated the United States in a game of baseball at Pershing Stadium, France, Saturday, by alscore of 2 to 1. However, the pitcher of the Canadian team was an American, as were two of their other players .Texas has ratified the proposed Federal woman suffrage amendment- It is the ninth state to do so Even money is being wagered on the outcome of the Willard-Dempsey prize fight at Toledo, O., on July 4. A. L. Walker of Columbia university, won the intercollegiate golf championship of the country last Saturday, by defeating J. S. Dean of Princeton university Union la- v. OBITUARY nivn. At her home on No. 2 York ville, Sunday, June 29, at 7 p. m.. of heart failure, Mrs. H. N. HAMEL, aged 61 years, 7 months. She waa Miss Harriet Catherine Youngblood, daughter of the late W. O. Youngblood. Besides her husband, she is survived by the following children: Alex and Weldon Hamel and Mrs. Mary Boyd. She is also survived by two brothers, Rev. W. A. Youngblood of St. Matthews and Calvin Youngblood of No. 2, Yorkvllle. The Interment was at Beth-Shlloh yesterday at 4 p. m. At her home at Clover, on June 22, following an illness of two weeks, Mrs. ELIZABETH HANNAH YOUNG-. BLOOD, aged 74 years, wife of Mr. 1 Ironton Youngblood. Deceased was before marriage Miss Elizabeth Hannah Currence, daughter of the late Milton Currence. She is survived by her hus? band and three brothers, Messrs. J- F., A. P., and A. B. Currence and two sisters, Mesdames J. L. Jackson and R. j J. McGill. Interment was in Woodside cemetery, Clover, June 23, following funeral services conducted by Rev. W. P. Grler, assisted by Rev. J. E. Berryhill. June 20. at the home of her daughter Mrs. J. N. Gaston at Edgmoor, Chestot* oniintv Mrs MARY ALLEN, aged 80 years. Deceased was twice married and is survived by the following children: Thos. E. Paton and R. W. Patton, Roddeys; James S. Patton, Monroe, N. C.; John R. Patton. Chester: Mrs. David Downes, Providence, N. C. Mrs. J. X. Gaston, Edgmoor: Mrs. George A. Cowan, Rock Hill. Interment was in Neely's Creek cemetery, June 21, following funeral services conducted by Rev. R. A. Lummus, pastor of Neely's Cresk A. R. P. A church. 1