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Scraps and Jarts. ? Jess Willard, the ex-champion heavyweight prize fighter was arrested at Kansas City, Mo., last Sunday charged with profiteering in cordwood in violation of the Lever act. ? Suspension of all restrictions on the use of fuel and reinstatement of train service curtailed during the nation wide strike of bituminous coal miners was announced at Atlanta, last Friday night by the southern regional coal committee, acting upon orders from Washington. The order affecting fuel restrictions went into effect immediately, with the understanding that trains be restored immediately after midnight yesterday morning, the only exception being where the restoration of the passenger trains might interfere with trains carrying coal. ? "The final estimates show the Texas cotton crop to be practicall) the same in number of bales as the 1918 short crop," F. N. Gray, Texas cotton specialist, bureau of crop estimates, ^anortmiint nf aericul unuea isutics ....v? ture, said in the cotton crop report for his state issued last Saturday. Mr. Gray's report estimates the Texas 1919 crop at 2,700,000 bales, 500 pounds gross weight each, "based on 1,293,240,000 pounds of lint, picked from 9,948,000 acres of 10,755,000 acres estimated planted and standing June 25, which shows an abandonment of 7 per cent, since that date because of inability to cultivate account of continuous rains. The average yield of lint cotton per acre for the state, is estimated at 130 pounds." ? The National Association for the Protection of American Rights i& Mexico has sent out for publication in newspapers throughout the country a map and statement showing that 551 t Americans have been killed in Mexico, since November 20, 1910. Of this number. the association states, 423 were civilians and 123 soldiers.pr sailors. One hundred and sifcty-seven Americans were slain during the Madero and Huerta regimes, while 383 lost their lives since Carranza took .oqptrol of the Mexican government, according to the statement. In the list accompanying the map a number is .assigned to each American killed and- his or her name, date, place and manner of death and the source of information concerning the individual case are given. The manner of death ranges from "killed by stray bullet" to wanton murder and includes instances of alleged torture and mutilation. ? Continuation of tne nation wide steel workers' strike was vot^d Sunday | ?*.. nnnforonM in Washinirton of I uy UIO V.VU4V* V..VV ... w-the 24 presidents of unions connected with the steel industry. It was said there were only two dissenting votes, most of urfion leaders maintaining that victory in the controversy was ! in sight. Members of the strike com- | mittee commenting on the vpte declar- j ed that the recent cancellation >t>y the United States Steel corporation of the huge foreign contracts was one of the most favorable auguries of the eventual success of the strike. It also was asserted that while many steel plants had resumed operation, production had been far below normal with the" overhead charges of the company remaining the same as during normal production. ? President Wilson has before Jiim another memorandum on the Mexican situation. It relates to the interference of the Carrartza government in the operation of American-owned oil properties in Mexico and was prepared by Chairman Payne, of the shipping board, upon information furnished by representatives at. Mexican I oil producers. Chairman P&yne also j sent a letter to Secretary Lansing urging that the state department take action toward protecting the American owned oil proper#^s in Mexico. | By the stoppage of drilling of new j on wells unaer decrees of the Mexi- ] can government, the shipping board has become concerned over/the oper- j ation of the large merchant marine I as the bulk of the fuel for the 500 | oilburning steamers has been obtain- [ ed from the Mexican fields. Should this supply be cut off, it was pointed out that the operation of the, vessels necessarily would be curtailed sas only a small supply of oil is on hand. ? President Wilson int >rvened in the peace treaty dilemma Sunday with an announcement that he had "no Qompro mise or concession or any Kina in | mind," would make no move toward the treaty's disposition, and would continue to hold the Republican members of the senate responsible for results and conditions attending delay. The president's position, regarded as peculiarly significant in view of the 1 recent discussion in the sedate of a | compromise, was set forth in the following statement issued from the White House: "It was learned from the i highest authority at the executive offices that the hope of the Republican i leaders of the senate that the presi- j dent would presently make some move which will relieve the situation with ! regard to the treaty is entirely without ! foundation; he has no compromise or j concession of any kind in mind, but intends so far as he is concerned that | the Republican leaders of the senate I shall continue to bear the undivided responsibility for the fate of the treaty and the present condition of the world in consequence of that fate." ? Record prices and bountiful production sent the value of farm crops harvested this year to the unpreced- j eniea total 01 *14,092,740,000, exceed- i ing the value of last year's crops by almost $1,500,000,000. Final estimates of production have been issued by the department of agriculture and based on prices paid to producers December 1. The area of harvested crops tnis i year was more than 2,000,000 acres | larger than last year, amounting to a total of 359,124,473 acres. Corn easily maintained its place as king of crops with a value of $3,934,234,000, while cotton, including cotton seed, was second with a total value of $2,332.913,000. The hay crop was third with ?9v?9ftR7noo Whpat. combining the winter and spring crops, was fourth with $2,028,522,000. Oats, a billion dollar crop last year reached a total of only $895,602,000, because of decrease acreage. Record crops of winter j wheat, rice, sweet potatoes and hay were grown, while the production of all wheat, rye, and tobacco was imxt to the largest ever harvested. Prices i paid producers were higher this year; for every crop than they were last year with the exception of beans, cranberries and oranges. ? In her note replying to the last i entente communication demanding the signing of the protocol preliminary to putting the peace treaty in eiTect, | which is now on its way to Paris, Germany yields in her stand on the Scapa flow issue to a certain extent. It is j learned that in the note the government reiterates its desire to have exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty effected at the earilest possible date. It gently hints that the entente , is responsible for the complications wh'oh have delaved the exchange of ratifications for more than a month, j It declared that Germany has not and 1 is not now making the flna* ratifica- j tion dependent upon the clauses relating to war prisoners or the extra- j dition of German subjects for trial, al- ; though it expresses the hope that the allies will permit themselves to be convinced that both issues have an im- [ political situation in Germany. On the Scapa flow issue the note expresses a willingness to yield to the extent that Germany will consent to make reparation for the sinking of the German warships, in order to remove what is characterized as the final obstacle to the definite conclusion of peace, although, says the note, reparation cannot be made in the manner suggested in the demand for 400,000 tons of shipping. On this point Germany proposes negotiations by the entente with a board of German shipping experts. The note declares that the prospective temporary absence of Americans from the commissions established under the treaty has not influenced the attitude | of Germany towards the questions of | final ratifications. She ijoritvilU (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919. f Oil wells and mines are the principal source of friction between the United States and Mexico. Having: put ti e treaty to sleep, the Republicans do not know what to do with it. . The flexible levy having been tentatively placed by the general assembly at 9 1-2 mills, the comptroller general has ascertained that the increased assessed valuation of the taxable property of the state warrants a reduction to 9 mills and has so announced. Since the Columbia Record has passed under the complete editorial control of Charlton Wright, its quality as a really representative South Carolina newspaper has been tremendously enhanced. The United States Supreme court on yesterday handed down a decision upholding the constitutionality of the war time prohibition law, and this means that the flood of liquor that would have otherwise been turned loose between now and January 1C, the date on which national prohibition goes Into effect will be held in check. We have been unable to see any good in all or any of this price control business that the government has been undertaking to pull off either before or since the war. There has been no end of profiteering among the big fellows j throughout the country, and about the I only folk who can have suffered hardship have been the little fellows. To us it looks very much like the control has been exercised mainly against the little fellows for the benefit of the big fellows. If the consumer anywhere lias derived any benefit, we've been _nable to see where that benefit comes in. Although not a believer in Federal competition with individuals in business that individuals can and should operate, Congressman Stevenson is inclined to the view that since the government is doing its own printing, it should take steps also to make its own paper. This strikes us as being wise and sensible. The government is the largest single consumer of paper in the country. It consumes enough paper to warrant the establishment of the largest paper mil's in the world. It already owns more raw material, especially in the shape of wood sufficient for paper making than all the paper mills of America combined, if the government would undertake to make its own paper, it would remove itself from competition not oniy witn ins primers but with the public, in the purchase of its paper stock. While it is not to be understood that Congressman Stevenson has definitely committed himself to the idea of government paper mills in the Northwest and in Alaska, it is gratifying to know that this whole important subject is receiving his serious consideration. We have very little sympathy with the efforts of Congressman Byrnes to do away with Bolshevist newspapers. We are afraid that Air. Byrnes is not as broad on the subject as he might be. To be sure there are many newspapers that are teaching doctrines that seem repugnant to common justice and common sense, doctrines that are impossible of realization and doctrines that would be impossible even if they could secure temporary acceptance. But we are persuaded of the fact that the best way to kill a really vicious doctrine is to expose it to the light and the best way to prolong the life of such a doctrine is to attempt to nquelch it by force. Th?at has been human experience from the time of the creation. The Jews tried to blot out Christianity by murdering Jesus Christ, and the Roman Catholics tried to obliterate freedom by means of the inquisition. The murder of Christ, u s lie himself foretold, was the real birth of Christianity, and the inquisition did more to purify the Roman Catholic church that was guilty of it than it did to put down religious freedom. Right is right and wrong is wrong, and the re is no power in the earth below or in the heavens above that can change the quality of either of them. Fire and flood may be stayed but right is as sure of vindication as Cod himself. Freedom of the press, in our opinion?the right of the people to express their thoughts?is the most vital guarantee of the American constitution, and the only safe check on this privilege is the sense of right among an enlightened people. Should Mr. Byrnes get through his bill, which we do not look for, like the Spanish inquisition, it will eventually defeat its own ends and eventually right will rule. There is some right in the the I. W. W. and in Bolshevism and a whole lot of wrong in both of them, and while the wrong will give trouble for a time, in the end nothing will survive from either but that which is right. Following the conference between Lloyd George and Clemenceau last week it is announced that the Allies have definitely decided to leave Russia J to settle her own affairs. All along their had been a feeling among the leaders of the different Allied governments that it would never do to allow the establishment of Bolshevism in Russia, and the inclination was to give all possible assistance to the elements that were fighting Bolshevism. Great Britain has furnished men, munitions and money to the anti-Bolsheviki leaders, Kolchack, Denekine and others. The United States has tried to be neutral and France for various reasons, has held aloof. For one thing there is lots of Bolshevik sympathy in France, enough to be dangerous. For another thing, the people of France hold hundreds of millions of Russian securities and. they hope some day to realize on, provided the Russians do not repudiate them entirely, and for still another thing, France is so exhausted that she does not-feel inclined to take on any more trouble than can [ possibly be avoided. The govern-1 ing classes of England are not at all reconciled to leaving Bolshevism in undisturbed pursuance of its ideals; but as in France there is in England also a strong and widespread sentiment in support of Bolshevism. The effect of the decision to leave Russia to settle her own affairs in her own way will be to put the radical, social and economic ideas of Lenine and Trotsky on their merits. If there is enough in these ideas that is sound, they will stand. Otherwise Russia will have to work out her own salvation through more bloodshed. The history of York county Is tremendously rich in literary material, if only those who are qualified by education and natural tallent to tell a good story in a pleasing way would take the trouble to collect the necessary facts Viam in readable shape. This county, so far as we know, did not produce any Revolutionary heroes who especially distinguished themselves, >r at least who have won places in the hall of fame. There are some of whlci we know, who are entitled to fame, and who have never had fame accorded them, and there are others no dcubt, of which we have no krtowledge, tVho are entitled to the same thing. For instance there is Dr. Joseph Alexander the scholarly old preacher and tet.cher of Bullock's Creek, who if he had lived in a country whfere literature is held in higher estteem, tvotlld have ranked In American history along with Benjamin Franklin, John Laurens, and others no less distinguished. It is a fact that leading patriots of this section gathered at Dr. Alexander's home during the darkest days of the revolution to consider the question of taking British protection and giving^ up the struggle, and it is a fact that, they v/oull have ' S v done so except for the determined advice of Dr. Alexander. They went away from that conference, whipped Houck at Williamson's, Ferguson at King's Mountain and Tarleton at Cowpens. The surrender of Corriwallis at Yorktown is traceable back to this conference. There are pretty well authenticated family traditions of the doings of Various heroes in Revolutionary times. Then there followed a, long period during which the thoughts of the people were directed to the pursuits of peace; but in which there developed the woof and warp of many a pood story which, properly presented, would give us a much richer heritage in our past than now we know of. Also there are many old time witch stories and ghost stories, some humorous and stome tragic, that are well worth 'present day telling. The Enquirer would be exceedingly glad to get hold of some material of the character suggested, told by our own people, over their own names, and in a manner that would be worth while. Such liter tture would be of interest to this whole section, and it is not at all improvable that some of the writers might win for themselves most enviable fame. ? The British prime minister. David Lloyd George, and the French pr< mier M. Clemenceau on Saturday night in London completed a three days' conference on the main outstanding international questions relating tc the peace settlement, principally that concerning Turkey. The American Japanese and Italian ambassadors, and French and British financial experts were called in at various times, while the Italian foreign minister, Signer Scialoya, took a prominent part. The conference covered a wide range of subjects and a brief official statement records that "satisfactory agreements were arrived at on all outstanding points." So far as is known the American ambassador, John W. Davis, participated only in the Adriatic discussion. He emphatically denied the report that the conference had submitted proposals to President Wilson for the revamping of the treaty, and that he had been called in to discuss | them. What was wanted of him or ho mnv 1151 vf? trivfn is care j AY I lil I ivv ?iv ?.??.? ...... . fully concealed. The London political J writers are at wide variance regarding the proceedings of the conference, [none of them appearently being really informed as to what has transpired. j ?The increase in the assessed valuation of the taxable property in South Carolina for the year 1919, according , to figures given out by Rut 1.. Osborne, comptroller general, amounts to $2i!,(>81,448. The increase in the item of I merchandise alone amounts to nearly 1 $20,000,000. The total taxable property of the state is now $402,81)!),947. | Charleston county leads in the comparison with figures of last year with an increase of $2,.199,889. Spartanburg comes next with $1.7.80.288; (Ireenville, third with $ 1,7.78,Son; Richland, fourth with $1.74.'!.410. Four more than $1,000,000 in the order named are Anderson, Orangeburg, Sumter and Darlington. Because of this increase. Mr. Osborne was able to reduce the state levy of nine and one-half to nine mills. i I local a ffairs, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Farmers Hardware and Supply Company?Has a page of store newt. suggesting numerous useful and attractive articles, suggestive of holiday shoppingFirst National Bank of York?Makes timely announcement of next year's Christmas Banking Club and points out the practical advantages to members. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey?Offers the Perfection Oil Heater as a safeguard against sudden cold snaps. Frank L. Grayson, Teacher?Gives notice of Box Supper and Cake Walk at Hopewell School House next Thursday evening at 7.30. J. M. Templeton and others?Publish warning to trespassers. Jno. R. IiOgan, C. C. C. Pis.?Gives notice of sale of land in case of J. B. Mills, P'aintifT against Alva Nivens and T. B. Spralt, Defendants. Jno. R. Logan, C. C. C., Pis.?Gives notice of snle of land in the case of Alexnader Wilson, Plaintiff, vs. Lilly Canty, Lula Baker and I Laurence Wilson, Defendants. Kirkpatrick-Belk Company?Has a store full of pretty and useful things and advises customers to come early so as to avoid the rush. P. T>l?v:?? CKorftn?TTas n rnmnlptp department of good things to eat. Sam M. Grist, District Agent Mutuc.l Benefit Life Insurance Company?Advises people who are considering insurance to loik before they leap, and suggests some of the advantages of the contracts he has to ofer. Peoples Furniture Company?Under the text that a comfortable home is a silence influence for good, tells what to do to get a | comfortable home. D. M. Parrott. Clover?Tells of attractive line of Christmas specials. F. E. Quinn, S. Y. C.?Gives notice of the sale of several tracts of land in the case of Carrie A. Watson, Plaintiff, against Virlie May Blackman and others Dedfendants. * Cotton Belt School?Will give ai Box Supper next Thursday night. Maynard C. Grayson, teacher? Gives notice of a Box Supper to be held at Laney next Friday night. J. Q. Wray, manager of Star Theatre?Will present Jane Eldridge today, William S. Hart tomorrow and William Duncan Thursday. The City Pharmacy, Clover, J. E. Brison, I proprietor?Has a long list of offerings, especially appropriate for holiday shoppers. The York Drug Store?Will not disappoint the hundreds of shoppers who are looking to it for Christmas souvenirs and other emblems of good will. J. M. Stroup?Gives a list of practical gifts for Christmas that he has in, stock. McConnell Dry Goods Company?Reminds the public that there are only seven more shopping days till Christmas, and they have the goods. E. N. Stevenson, No. 5 York?Ha3 taken up a dehorned Jersey cow, which the owner can have by paying expenses. The Peoples Bank and Trust Company?Will take subscriptions for the Country Gentleman. Williams Optical Company. Rock Hill?Wants to know whither your eyes tire you. The Yorkville Enquirer goes into with more than 3.000 SUb gcribers.Next Tuesday's issue of the Yorkville Enquirer will be the last for this year. The next lssoe following will be that of Friday, January 2. Clubmakers who have names to renew for next year will confer a favor on the publishers' by getting them in as soon as ^possible. The revision of the Enquirer's mailing list within the short time that'Is usually available is a heartbreaking^ task. Voters of the: county are warned if they want the privilege of voting-next year they must pay their poll and school tax and secure their registration receipt not later than the 31st day of December. Failing to do this and they will be debarred from voting in the numerous elections that are scheduled to be held during the year that is near at hand, 1920. e YORK COUNTY CENSUS TAKERS A partial Hst of the persons who will be employed in York county next month in taking the decennial census of tho United States government, has been announced by S. C. Carter of Chester, supervisor of the census for the Fifth congressional district of South Carolina. The census enumerators begin their work about January 1, and within the next few days will receive instructions as to how to proceed. Enumerators by townships as announced by Mr. Carter yesterday included the following: Bethel, S. S. Baird, Arthur C. Barrett; N. G. Brandon; Bethesda, J. W. Moore, Broad Iliver. W. T. Slaughter. Bullock's Creek, H. E. Hood, C. E. McOurkin, Robert M. Mitchell; King's Mountain, \V. R. Koon, \V\ H. Hcrwell, Walter J. Benmguard; York, I.esslie Smith. Resslio McCorkle. Mary Ferguson, S. S. Hartness; Fort Mill, 15. C. Blankenship, J. A. C. Bells, C. \V\ White; Ebenezcr. T. B. Good, J. B. Swinnie, T. W. Jackson; Catawba, Gill Gregory, E. C. Collins, W. C. Hutchison. HERE AND THERE "1 don't know whether I ought to say anything about it because I am not sure that I am in season on it; but I killed a woodcock or marsh hen the other day wsile out after partridges." said a prominent farmer of the McConellsville' section last Sunday. "The marsh hen is rather rare in this section and I didn't know what it was until after I had killed it. 1 do know that it is better eating than even a partridge. The woodcock or marsh hen, lives almost altogether in a swamp 1 " > ?"?omn that I killed HMO ll nan 111 u _ this one." A man from King's Mountain townshin met Here and There on the street in Yorkville on a Saturday night several weeks ago. The man was all "lighted up." having imbibed freely of that product sometimes manufactured in King's Mountain townshin which looks as clear as King's Mountain ( spring water; hut acts like a big black buck on emancipation day. The man j was acting thnt way. He stopped Here and There on the street and he said: "I want you to put my name in thel paper." Here and There told him he would but really there was nothing to justify his name being in the paper unless it was to say, "Mr. was | in Yorkville today quite drunk." And j the man saiu he guessed he didn't want | his name in the paper. Yesterday the I man was in town again and he was | quite sober and solemn and sad. He remembered the incident and he told Hcjre and There that he guessed he didn't want his name in The Enquirer j today either because there was nothing I to say about him except that 'Mr. I was in Yorkville today quite sober.'" There is a sign of the approach of Christmas about the office of The j j Yorkville Enquirer that never fails. Were the members of the staff without knowledge of the felicitous season from any other source, that sign woulr bring remembrance. Already it is quite evident. It has been apparent for two | weeks. Other newspapers received Uy j < The Enquirer make a big accumulator in the course of a week. In the cours? of a few months that accumulation li tremendous. Twice each ?week?or Tuesdays and Fridays after suet of those papers that are wort! reading have been read, the papers are wrapped into bundles ol several pounds and placed in a sectior that is reserved especially for them Toward the approach of Christmas colored people begin coming to Th< Enquirer office for those papers, say ing that "I want them to fix up mj house." The old exchanges are usee for papering walls. From about Dec 1 up until Christmas day they come foi those old papers?come in numbers am get roll after roll until the. supjNy h exhausted. When the first heavy cal for old papers comes?when as manj as twelve or fifteen people come foi bundles of old papers in a day, Micky the "office devil," takes a peen at th< calendar. "Gee," he says. "It ain' but about a few days to Christmas an I hadn't thought about it in most i year." AEOUT PEOPLE. Archie Barron of Chattanooga, Tenn. is visiting relatives in Yorkvillc. ?.tr. and Mrs. C. C. Owens, of Barn well are. visiting Mrs. Owen's t'athe Mr. M. E. I'laxlco, in Yorkville. Chester Alexander of Yorkville spent Sunday with relatives and friend in Chester." Mrs. .John S. Jones of Yorkvill spent Sunday with her brother Mi Reqben McConnell at McConnellsvilU Mr. and Mrs. John James of Yad kinville, are spending the winter witl Messrs. John S. and Henry 13. Jame In Yorkvillo. Mr. John A. Ratterree and family fo several years past residents of York ville and formerly of Yorkville No. moved this week to Rock Hill. Mr. R. K. Allison and family, resl dents of Tirzah, since 1883, have mov ed to Rock Hill, where they will re side in the future. R. L. Youngblood, Southern railwa; agent at Tirzah has been ill for severa days past at his home. During hi illness Robert B. Dickson has been ii charge of the office. Rev. Guy H. Frazer, for some tim past rector of the Episcopal church i Rock Hill, has accepted a call to th pastorate of Grace Episcopal churc in Anderson, and enters upon the du ties of his new pastorate this week. William Allison, son of Mrs. Nannl G. Allison of Yorkvilje has received a appointment as an auditor in the ir ternal revenue department of the Fed eral government. Mr. Allison lei Monday afternoon to enter upon hi new duties. Morris F. Cobb, formerly cashier ( the Loan & Savings Bank of Vorkvilli who has been undergoing teatment I the Fennell Infirmary, Rock Hill fc some time past, has so far recovere as to be able to move to the home c Mr. W. A. Fewell in Rock Hill. M Cobb expects to resume his duties a cashier of a Lumberton, N. C., bank i (he near future. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The following transfers of real ct hnon in/icvpd in the office < iaic nan; ww.. ... the county auditor since the last put lication. of the record in The Yorkvil Enquirer: . Bethel?S. A. Reece to W. B. Reece, I acres; consideration, $1,9951 I J. Li. Thompson to Paul C. Harpe 147 1-4 acres; consideration, (2,028.20. Mrs. E. C. McCarter to V. Priedlieil McCarter, 18 8-10 acres; consideratioi $1. Mrs. P. Lula Sturgis to V. Friedheii McCarter, 77 atyes; consideration, (7 700. r E. C. & V. P. McCarter to F. Gettj McCarter, 82 acres; consideration, (5 ooo. N Ella Brown Currence to Arthur i Parham, 50 acres; consideration, $2.50 S. S. Shuford to Harvey N. Hame 390 acres; consideration, $10,000. Broad River?J. E. Westmoreland i R. H. Westmoreland, 4 1-2 acres; cor sideration, $1,200. J. D. Hope to Nannie V. Pratt, 4 lot! consideration not given. J. L. Rainey to S. B. Pratt, 1 lol consideration, $312.50. D. A. Whisonant to H. L. Byer 120 1-10 acres; consideration, $2,202. I. B. McGill to R. A. Bolin, 4G84-K acres; consideration, $900. Mrs. Vessie R. Brant to S. B. Prat 11-2 acres; consideration, $650. Bullock's Creek?W. Lon Plexico 1 Lawson McCaw, 148 acres; considers *7 nan HUH, W. J. Wilson to W. R. Hays, SO acres consideration, $2,000. Catawba?A, E. Hutchinson, et al? t Thomas J. Hutchinson, et al., 207 acr< and 5 lots; consideration, $1. Thomas J. Hutchinson, et al to A. 1 Hutchinson et al, 8 lots; consideratioi $1. Thomas J. Hutchinson, et al to Mai garet L. Huff and Annie L. Johnson Ar derson, 2 lots; consideration, $1. J. W. Moore to J. J. Hoke, 138 1acres: consideration, $922.18 R. W. and T. E. Patton to Jno. I 'Williams, 100 3-4 acres; consideratioi $4,552.75, G. A. Cowan to Frank D. Green, lot: consideration, $1. F. R. Hood to C. F. Sturgis, 1 lol consideration, $2,000. R. H. Sistar to J. C, Mitchell. 62 1acres, consideration, $1,987.50. Mutual Investment Co., to Henry Al len, 1 lot; consideration, $1,350. James S. White to Mrs. Maud Quee Gladden, 1 lot; consideration. $68.30. W. E. Miller to W. H. Gladden, 1 lot consideration, $1,260. Hattie I. and Hiram H. White t Blue Buckle Cotton Mills, 12 8-10 acres consideration, $8,500. Mrs. Anna Eliza Sneed to George / Cowan. 1 lot; consideration, $6 000. J. Lee Gates to Isaac R. Oates, 35 acres: consideration, $4,500. Jas. S. White to W. G. Stevens, 4 lot consideration, $320. Ebenezer?\\ 11. Williams to J. T Antlers, "J mis; consiueniuim. | Miss Bessie E. Hall to Mrs. M. I A mints, acres not given; consideratior $1,875. Hock Hill Land and Town Site Co to F. Lula Sturgis, 1 lot; consideratior $400. Alex Long to W. A. Beehtler, 1 lot consideration. $1,250. P. M. Blanks to J. Edgar Poag, 3 lots consideration, $10. .1 B. Johnson and T. L. Johnston t J. Edgar Poag, 3 lots; consideratior $452.50. J. Edgar Poag to Peter W. Bowen, lot: consideration, $23. York?H. E. Montgomery to .T. L Huey, 1 lot: consideration, *3.500. I'rudy Jane Alexander to Berth: Sanders. 1 lot; considerat'on, Funnie Mexi>n<'<>r to n?rth: Sanders, 1 lot: consideration. $175. T. \V. Anderson to <1. W. Hill, ; lots; consideration, $300. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Dr. D. I.. Shieder is preparing t< move into the J. CI. Dickson house or King's Mountain street. Mr. J. O Dickson and \V. S. Dickson w ill oceup> the Hall house on King's Mountair street formerly occupied by Mrs Sonora Carroll. Mrs. Carroll movei her family into a house on Lincolr i street, the property if J. M. Brian some I i time ago. e ? The coming of Christmas this year J $ ! finds everybody in the town in fairly j ( comfortable if not prosperous circum- j (stances. According to the official head j Jof the municipality and the local1 ,ipolicemen if there is a single person,( | in the corporate limits of the town I f without food and clothes and in dire (, ; j need of the necessities of life, they|f know nothing of that person. r ?Walter Ried, colored janitor at thr i 1 courthouse took down the town's ser vice flag which has been hanging for ' r months over the front door of the ' courthouse yesterday morning. Th | ' flag is faded and worn. It will be i ' placed in a box for safe keeping am j ' will likely pass into the hands of sorr? | r patriotic organization to be kept among ; the relics of the town's history in past < i wars. 1 t ?Indications that the holiday season t j is fast approaching is to be found in j the fact that the number of traveling men coming into this territory is beginning to drop off to some extent Mr. 1/1 r> nHnn.latA,, VTntol V.-, I\. CililillUIlO, icivi v/i AAVkva , Shandon said yesterdav thath e was now able to take care of all his guests without seeking room elsewhere, a conp dition that has not existed for a week at a time in several months past. The. traveling salesmen, according to Mr. ' Simmons begin to go home about ten 8 days before Christmas and hence the let up in the number coming here Just e now. , ? Clarissa Harold, reader and interpreter of dramatic art who appeared ' in the courthouse here Friday evening 1 under the auspices of the Redpath 8 Lyceum, charmed an audience of more than 200 people, holding their complete r Interest for more than an hour and a - half. Hers was a reading and inter1 pretation of the beautiful love of King George III of England, who as plain - George Tudor, won the affection of - Hannah, beautiful Quaker inaid and - how the Quaker maid, discovering after the marriage that she was the .. wife of the King of England and being 1 made aware of the dire consequences 8 that might befall England and world (l politics generally should she demand recognition as England's queen, retired to her simple house on the side of e the road and lived a life of obscurity, n faithful to the head of the House of ? Tudor to the end and yet happy In her sacrifice. That Miss -Harold is an artist of ability was proved conclusively to an appreciative audience which e was charmed with her masterful intern pretation of the several characters in' eluded in her subject. The reader " carried her auJience from mirth to pathos, from laughter to teal's, furnish 8 ing an evening of most delightful entertainment and impressing all of her >f hearers with the fact that she is a e. reader and interpreter of history, flcn tion and romance most superior and )r excellent. c} ?Couple of young women, said to r have come here from Union?the kind J of women who use "japalac" on their n faces and stare hard Into the faces of men they do not know but want" to; and wlio cause men to look hard and women to whisper to one another * - * ? ? J ? n?A TKC.1 blGW IntO TOWn a IPW wcci\a 411a/ f got rooms and the next day the ] "brother" of one who claimed to be a " sister-in-law of the other came to >- town and to live with them. He was a |r. traveling man, he said. They walked the streets by day and visited the stores and sometimes they walked the '7 streets by night and even into the country, . They liked the town, they r- said, and they believed they would stay. Nobody bid them welcome and m nobody bid them go. They wished to n. buy furnishings for their apar tments and groceries and tliirrs and they m wanted to buy on the installment plan. Divers goods were purchased that way. November air, in their domain rs at least became rather chilly when the atmosphere was agreeable enough in most other quarters and they decided 3. to leave two or three Sunday morn0. ing ago. With them went some of the >1, ecods which they had possessed: but for which they had not paid. Word to came to some of those merchants 1- whose goods they had that they were in a neighboring town a few days ago and those merchants sent representatives to see and to collect, if they saw. t; They didn't. The accounts have been charged to profit and loss. And the s> oldest inhabitant who sees everybodv and knows everything I3 saying, "1 10 told you so." ? The advertised sale of the O'Leary t. land between Charlotte and Lincolr streets in town lots by the Piedmont o Land Auction company last Saturdaj l- did not take place because of the disagreeable weather. It had been rains' amine Kridav and Friday nigh ' "'h ?? *. --o - .and still raining Saturday morn in !o The rain was not exactly Coming ?* *s in torrents: but it was falling in a fine disagreeable drizzle well calculated tt 3. discourage the outcoming of the kind n, of people who ore generally depended upon to buy town lots either as a ? speculation or as an investment. There i- was quite a bunch of people on hand "t the appointed hour, however, some 2 who had their eyes on certain of thi lots that thev hoped to pick up i* t. prices seemed to meet their notion: a, of what they should be, and others ou' of curiosity. But it was evident from 1 the beginning that there would be-very spirited competition and this naturally t; dampened somewhat the keenness o those who had really ccfme to buy. Mr. 2 Webster who had charge, had his auctioneer to test the temper of those |. nresent sufficiently to proye what he had reason to anticipate and the sab n postponed. The tract that has been cut un into lots has advantages and dis- ;; advantages, the main disadvantage being in the fact that there Is not sufo fie'ent choice of outlet, except toC'hari; lotto street: hut also it has the advantage of being close to the main par* ^ of town and furnishing, the largest 1 ?f liuilriin? sites that I ailllllKT Wl ? nr.. .. - ! are now available. Mr. Webtser did not sjiv definitely what he intended to do s with the proposition: but intimated that lie would probably develop his j, nlans a little further. rive them, the benefit of more exploitation, and probably set another day for an auetion Me feels quite sure that there will h* ' ,i lively demand for the lots and that eooner or latpr all of them will contain creditable buildings. : LOCAL LACONICS. . Carrier for Guthriesville. I Charlie Williamson, well known citio|7.en of Cuthriesv'lle. has been appoint-I i,' ed carrier on Guthriesville, It. P. D. I No. 1. 1 Whitten Get? Increase. \t. a nooiinj of the ben*vl of atew[ards of Clover circuit of the Methodist v Pniseopal church in Clover, hist Saturday afternoon, 't was decided to in : . | crease the salary of the pastor. II. A. Whitten. from $1,115 to $1,SOO. ' December Ginnings. According to Joseph M. Taylor. ! special agent of the census bureau, j there was ginned in York county up to ' t December 1 a total of 59,346 bales of j cotton as against 30,134 bales up to the : same date last year. < Many Hogs Slaughtered. , I Scores of York county people have [ < I taken advantage of the cold weather of ithe past several days to kill hogs and ' I reports of unusually heavy porkers are > i numerous. Several Clover residents i I i 1 lave recently killed hogs weighing In < xcess of 400 pounds. 1 several Applications. There are several applicants for the >osition of carrier on McConnellsville ? t. P. D. No. 1 made vacant some time * igo by the resignation of Mr. Clyde Jilnton who resigned to enter the firm )f the Farmers' Hardware Company of forkville. It is understood that an 'xamination is to be held some time lext month for the purpose of selectng Mr. Clinton's successor. ?1.588 Additional for York. State Superintendent of Education Swearlngen has completed the apporlionment of the balance of the state 1 apportion for aiding weak schools. This f julance aggregates $27,831. It goes to \ 298 districts in 32 counties. Sixteen } listricts of York county are among the 4 oeneficiares and they get an aggregate A $1,588. Rock Hill Gets County Field Day. The county school field day for the current school year is to be held in Rock Hill. At a meeting of the York County Teachers' association at Winthrop training school last Saturday it was decided to hold school field day in Rock Hill on the last Friday in March 1920- % About 40 teachers attended the meeting of the association which was presided over by the president Prof. John Thomason of Rock Hill. Only One County Prisoner. While of course business may pick up In the next few weeks, especially in view of the fact that the Christmas season is fast approaching there has been little doing in police circles throughout the county in the past several weeks and at present there is only one county prisoner in jail. He is A. M Giles, photographer of Rock Hill who is charged with the murder of his t wife. , Rebuilding Hull House. The Clover Cotton Oil company Is making preparations to rebuild its. hull house destroyed .by fire several <|ays . ago. According'to J. E. Beamguard V secretary of the company it will require several days' time to put the building back in shape. Insurance In the sum of $2,200 has been paid the company on account of the loss?$1,800 on the hulls destroyed and $400 on the house. Coming Home This Week. York county's population will be.increased by some several hundred thi3 week due to the fact that the many boys and girls attending various school and colleges in the Carolinas and other states will begin coming ' . home for Christmas next Satur- i1 day. Most of the institutions of learning close their doors for the CnruAmas season -next Friday. York County's Stats Taxes. ' York county taxpayers will be called j upon to pay $106,244.07 in taxes this * year for state purposes. York cbunty property Is valued at $11,804,897 according to the books of the comptroller general. A levy pf mine mills on t\n t 4/vin) tnvoKlo rvrAruirf ^ iU-,00 ~J,V 4 * IIIC iiricti WAttuiv r. V|rw. >., of the state as shown by the reports of the comptroller general will produce $3,625,730.52. Because of the increase during: the year of $26,681,448, the levy has been reduced one-half mill. Two Weoks for Chrittmad. Of great Interest '?o school children especially will be the news that they are to receive two weeks' holiday this year on account of Christmas. John 1?. Carroll, superintendent of education - J said yesterday that the county board of education had recommended a two weeks' holiday in all the rural schools of the county ort account of Christmas with the suggestion that the Y\ile | tide rest begiir with the end of the s. j school day Friday. To Have Pastor for All Time. # Olivet Presbyterian church at,,McConnellsville proposes to employ a pastor for all of his time and the unI deratanding is that the congregation is now looking around for a pastor. For | many years Olivet has beep groupeu with Bullocks's Creek Presbyterian (church; but when Rev. 4. B. Swana resigned the pastorate some weeks ago it was decided to dissolve the group and Olivet expects to stand alone. Many of the members are anxious to secure the services of Rev. John A. McMurray, former pastor of Bethesda Presbyterian! church as pastor Rev. McMurray Is now serving a pastorate at Fayetteville, N". C. but the understanding' it that Olivet will likely place a call in his hands. No Appreciable Increase. There is no appreciable increase In the sale of patent medicines having a laree alcoholic per centuge since the action of Judge Thos. S. Sease, pressiding over the York county court of Teneral sessions, in directing a verdict of not guilty in the case of w. S. Alston, negro druggist of Rock Hill charged with selling patent medicines for beverage purposes. The judge declared that the law under which the prosecution was brought had for its object the protection of the drug stores. According to York county prohibition officers numbers of empty patent medicine bottles are to be found in back-lots ""H other places where booze comraedians usually go to take a drink; but there is no appreciable increase in the number since the bars were let down. Rock Hill Fraternities Move. Rock Hill Herald, Saturday: There . is to be more or less moving around of ??Houh secret orders the first of the year, and the members of several fraternal organizations will find their feet turning to new halls after Janur ry 1. The Elks have leased the entire upper floor of the White building on East Main street, now occupied b" the Red Men, Woodmen of the World and the Federal Union; also that portion occupied by Max G. Bryant fc offices and the dental offices of Dr. W. <. >'mpson. Some improvements aro to be made before the Elks take Shandon. said yesterday that he was \ have leased the hall at present oc |->v the EP's. Tbe Red Men have leased quarters from the Odd Fellows, \vl<i meet in their nan. in me Fobb-Stnrgis building on Hampton street. It is not known where the Fraternal Union will meet. Farmer Boys Will Report Harvest. John R. Blair of Sharon No. 1, York onnty farm demonstration agent la fv>o1 n?*?*>%nrvp|ponfo V?^ $*-? /? f\ Rnnual meeting of the York County ...a' corn aim ?-ig cll)Ot>. Mr. Blair said yesterday that the anmini mooting would bo held in fho court house in Yorkville on next Satiif-'sv beginning at 11 o'clock when the prize winners would be announced and ?-e orizes awarded. A feature of the meeting Mr. Blair said would be an iddress by District Demonstration Agent A. A. McKeown of Rock Hill "H H. K". Sanders, farm demonstration agent for Chester county, the experts to address the audience on the AHvnnoo of the Roll Weevil." > 3irdo Best Boll Weevil. "Now that the boll weevil is fast ipproaching York county it becomes loubly important to protect our insecivorous birds in the interest of our ' o- > n .t a er'ci'lture." said County Game Warden D. T. woods this morning. "Well have b?* o t i'-ds been termed the 'Follcelien of the Air.'and without them we iVouKl be overwhelmed with noxious % I \ .