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and Jarts. ? "Every church should spend money for advertising and purchasingspace in the .newspapers, paying for space as conscientiously and continuously as it does the preachers' salary," declared Rev. J. T. Brabner $mith, ot' the committee on conservatism and .advance of the Methodist Episcopal church, New York. "Criti. olsm of the newspapers, unless it is just, is harmful and there should be cbrdial relationship and co-operation between the pulpit and the press. Both the good,, sermon and the good newspaper article have in them the elc. Stents 'of hu'ittah interest and welfare and are. centered round' some .personjtlity. Tbe great difference between a, newspaper article and a sermon is ?the preacher spends 30 minutes in coming to a climax, but a newspaper - * - *-:a- "W..11V- rt\*n in fl 1*SC t article .mis Lin- uiAu o-v.. v- ... v..^ ... sentence; the heart of the story is at the beginning and not at the end, like the sermon." ? The.Ku Jvlux Klan was,-, decried, and labor 'was called upon to:'destroy the organization of speakers at a widely heralded meeting called by the National Association from the Promotion of Labor Unionism Among Negroes in New York Wednesday night. The meeting was attended by negroes and whites, . A. Philip Randolph, secretary of the association declared the yvorking classes of the north should finite against the Ku Klux Klan. and if necessary call a general strike if the drganization "should dare migrate to the north." Joseph D. Cannon, organizer of the United Mine Workers of America, another speaker, declared the Ku Klux Klan was sanctioned by the present government heads. He said the Klan was organized to corn1bat and break down any attempt the Irish, Jews or negroes might make toward progressive measures. "I know that it is this invisible force that is to be used in emergencies in the north, as elsewhere, to protect the ill gotten gains of those who fear the ascendancy of the working class," said Mr. Cannon. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of v>? wnrtors' "Defense union of New I $ork, said the Ku Klux Klan will only survive in the south, where the pcry Rentage of illiteracy, of 100 per cent. Americans is almost as great as the Americanization percentage. "As for the Ku Klux Klan driving out foreigners,"' she said, "it ill-behooves those who came here on Monday to call those who came here on Tuesday foreigners." ? Lonnie Eaton, the negro whose date of execution was forgotten by the sheriff of Ouachita parish, will not regain his freedom because of the oversight, according to an opinion handed down by Attorney General Coco of | Louisiana last Wednesday. 1'rior to the rendering of the opinion many leading attorneys of the state contended that by reason of the fact that the negro's life had once been placed in je< pardy when the governor fixed the Viic ov^ention. and that.date UULC VI ntw, v , arrived without a reprieve being: granted he could not now be legally hanged, but that, on the other hand, he was legally dead and must be granted his freedom. This view was / not sustained by the attorney general, however, who said that he could find, nothing in the textbooks, ancient, 'or | modern, or in jurisprudence which 1 was the least basis for such an idea. The attorney general then ruled that it would be legal for the governor to J again fix a date for the execution of the negrb, who was convicted of the murder of Charles .M. Quiller a while ! planter, in 1917. Will Fiournoy. au-r J other'p >hv(i,uf qd *>l^ct?u?.pttcityj in the crime, is now serving a life sen .tence for his,part of the killing of the white man. which" occurred' in a. drunken browl. A movement has been started by a number of interested people in the state to have the 5<leath sentence standing against the ;negro commuted to lifo imprisonment.. - ?Great Britain will not undertaken ' race with the Vnjted States for sesi;power, Sir Philip Gibbs, British war ^correspondent, declared before the "house naval committee a few days "ago.. England hasn't the money, he ;said. and most Englishmen do not regard the American navy "as a men..ace." Sir Philip said that before any agreement for disarmament could be reached by the principal powers, the ' Russian question would have to be settled and the Russian people drawn 1 back ? into the "family of nations.'.' There is a spirit of revolt, entirely apart from Bolshevism, in Europe today because of the "general fear of another war, the witness declared, adding that the people felt that they had been betrayed in the last war, because they had been told that it'was a war to end war. The burden of ^armaments in Europe is greater togday than it was In 1914." he asserted. ^"England is spending 170.000.000 ^pounds a' year on its military-naval establishment. This sum is more than fctwice the entire national budget for ?hll purposes before the war." In Mesopotamia alone. Sir Philip said. Great j -Britain is spending 40.000.000 pounds' a year for military purposes. An in- j citation from the United mates jui j disarmament conference would meet with the approval of most of the poo- i pie of Great Britain. Sir Philip said, i although some sections of government. I are opposed to the general idea of I ^disarmament. Discussing the future J of the British navy, the witness told | the committee that the English people i 'did not consider another naval hill to ' \ provide "a strong and supreme navy" J necessary because "they realize that j Great Britain's chief menace, the Ger- ! man navy, has been crushed forever." I He added that there had been much j discussion in England lately about the ; idea of a hig American navy, but that j "most of our people do not regard the j American navy as a menace." ? "We are engaged in a terrible' task," said Premier Lloyd George in a i "" | liberal I speecn xu inu nnn ?? . council in London Tuesday, in which in impassioned words he defended the coalition government and pleaded ardently for a continuation of political unity, "it is something inure important than defending myself and my administration," he said, and declared if the dangers were past he would resign. A world reeling under the most terrible blows ever dealt, was the way he described the .situation today. Gignn- J 'tic events are in the making and old factional fights among various parties j should not be resurrected until the ; peril is over. He was answering vig- , orous attacks against the coalition ; guyejpmont and the breaking a fray of ! some coalitionists who have decided the time has come for them to stand lor their own parties. Alluding to Ireland, he said the coalitionists had given Ireland a greater measure of homo rule than either Gladstone or Asquith had proposed. "But." he add- ' ed, "they say they won't take it. They J must have an Irish republic, an Irish . army and Irish navy. They won't get | it, and if they don't get it we are told they will kill our policemen and our j soldiers?not in open lighting, hut hid- , ing in homes, walking as respectable j tenant farmers or swaggering along ! the road until they come to a hiding.' place where they liml rifles, passing ' ,perhaps the very policemen they are | about to murder as though lhoy were | ttfrtbeent;" Are we to "allow-that sort | of thing to be done without protecting I the people we are sending there'.'j (Cries Xo, no.) There is no is$ue between us and our political opponents on home rule. We have gone one better than the Gladstonian home rule. There is an issue about setting up an independent country by our very gates, bv the places where submarines used to lurk, and seek our ships and endanger our commerce and the life of the nation. There is an issue as to whether the policemen and soldiers who are there upholding the lion or of the fla^ are to be shot down by men who lurk in houses. I know of no other issue." ?Mtc Ijothville inquire?. Entered at the Postofflce. at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY, -FEBRUARY 11,1921. The best thing that the people of this country can do about the revival of the Ku-Klux- organization for any purpose is to don't. I _ The principal factors in the speculative cotton market now are probable acreage of the next crop and the amount of fertilizers to be used. The speculative interests are watching developments along these lines narrowly. The general assembly is not going to pass any bill that attempts to compel reduction of the cotton acreage, and it should not do so. That is a matter that every individual should handle'for himself.^' There is no other reasonable way for it. The American Cotton Association gives the grand total of the 19*20 crop at 12,9S7,000 bales. The carry over from the 1919 crop was about 4,000,000 bales. This gives 17,000,000 bales on August 1, 1921. From this is to be subtracted 7,300,000 bales consumption to that date. That will leave a carry over of 8,700,000 bales. The balance of the world will Vcarrv over 1,SS0,000. bales, making a, grand total for th ; world of ll.SSO.OOO bales. That means that the- world is going to have as much cotton as it can spin next year, even if no more cotton is raised this year. An imaginative newspaper writer a few days ago sent out from Washingfn iiio offpp) that the chom ical warfare service of the army is arranging' to lay down in the boll weevil infested sections of the cotton belt gas barrages that will exterminate the boll weevil. The story went to the New \"<>rk Times ami was accepted by the unthinking.as .a.^yt^Ui^o^ ^uurse. ajjd with approvur iis a most excellent method of getting rid of a lot of gas on hand. But it appears that there was absolutely no authority for the story. It is pointed out by experts that in the first place it would be impossible to gas the cotton fields without gasing all the people in the country surrounding, and as the boll weevil can stand more gas than the people, there would still be plenty of boll weevils after the people were all dead. The Columbia State, the Rock 3-Li 11 Record and other South Carolina papers are discussing the revived proposition to lift the .state line from the south of Fort Mill township and drop it to the north, thus bringing that excellent community into tlie still more excellent household of North Carolina. That is going to happen some day and then Fort Mill will be where it was origi nally intended that it should be. It is an old story, if the reader will turn to a state and county line map, it will be noticed that a* very curious wedge is driven into Mecklenburg from South Carolina territory, it happened this way: The surveying party w;us making straight for the river at the .southernmost point of tiie Mecklenburg territory, arriving at which it would have cut across eastward in a direct line for the Union county corner. That would have taken in all or Fort .Aim ana intervening section to the Catawba river. But when the surveying party was resting from its labors one day, when at a point where it had run the line a little over half way down the river it learned of a still a little way into Mecklenburg to the northeast.* so it made a diversion in that direction, running the line to the still house, thence south to the Union county corner. That's "how come" the Avedge in the survey and the exclusion of Fort Mill. Of course Fort Mill, being located east of the Catawba, geographically belongs to Mecklenburg, and whenever her people get ready for a pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether. they have only to give the word and Mecklenburg will lend a willing hand.?Charlutte (>bscrver. Very interesting all that, and quite correct as to most of it, except that as excellent as is this North Carolina household, it is not nearly so excellent as is the South Carolina household. As to who started, that annexation story does not. matter: but it is doubtful as to whether even the author of it would like l<> see himself annexed to North Carolina. Then another consideration that makes impossible any present or future change of the state line is the fact that while surveyors may continue to go to and from stills as in the old days, they no longer mark their trails on the map so such trails may he followed by prohibition officers. It is commonly accepted that there is a time and plate for all things, and if this is true, the proposition is probably broad enough to take in a little swearing. Ordinarily swearing is not nice. Possibly it is never nice. If it ever is nice, however, it must lie handed to Charles <!. Pawos that ho has discovered the right time and delivered the goods at the proper place. Certainly many dreadful mistakes were made in the world war. The (Senna lis made mistakes, the Mritish made mistakes and so did the l'*reneh. Then came lhe'Americans and made more mistakes. But v^ould not Americans have stood branded as -a cold blooded crew, otherwise? The idea of going' into such a wholesale affair as that world war as deliberately as we would go into the erection of a public building, or the deepening of a waterway without making a mistake. It is horrible to" think of it! But America did not make the mistake of underestimating her job. She started into that war as if she anticipated that it might last lor a generation and she made her preparations accordingly. She had sense enough to' see that there'was far less danger in overdoing than underdoing, and when she got through it was not surprising that she, had.some left overs of which she m'isjjt have felt serious need had she proceeded otherwise. Then came the Republican politicians, after the big job had .been accomplished, to find fault ' in their investigations. They did succeed in stirring up a little muck; but not enough to make their % efforts seem respectable, and the littleness of their proceedings was having the effect of making people forget that America had just put on record the most brilliant and magniflcient military achievement the world has yet witnessed. By accommodating his language to a level of the procedure, Gen. Dawes has succeeded in diverting the attention of the people back to the previous riuestion and the probability is that this partisan muckraking has been shamed out of existence. Yes, there will be very little more of it fiom now on. An Unworthy Grand Jury. As perfect as is our criminal judicial system theoretically, it often falls down in sections; but thanks to the high standard of manhood in South Carolina, it seldom falls down in all its departments at the same time. In the constitution of the state, there is a wise guarantee of civil liberty, coming down from the magna 'charta, which provides that no man shall be put in jeopardy of life or perso/i before the law, without first having been presented by a grand jury. The simple meaning.of this is that the petit jury cannot take jurisdiction until the grand jury has said that there is possible g.uilt. It is not for the grand jury to try any man or to say whether he is guilty as charged; but only to say that it is possible that he is guilty. Jf it were not for the grand jury, it would be more easily possible to railroad an innocent man before a corrupt, prejudiced and packed petit jury and convict him regardless. The power of a grand jury is almost without limit so far as the same is necessary to develop information. There is no man, woman oi; child beyond. its reach. If a man's presence Is needed in any inquiry of whatever nature. the grand jury has only to send for hint and he must come unless he is able to resist the combined power of the commonwealth, and behind that the nation. The only check on the grand jury is his oath, lie swears not to be Influenced by fear, favor, reward, or hop* of reward. He swears to be just to high, low, rich and poor, and in every case that is presented for his consideration he is as much'on trial as is the accused. in Anderson, lust September, two young men, J. S. Fowler, Jr., and Rupert Miles drove a five thousand dollar automobile belonging to Fowler into a freight train, got themselves badly injured and smashed the car. Policemen | who were summoned to the scene found in the ear a gallon of corn whisky contained in two half gallon 'fruit cans, the find being- witnessed by other reputable citizens besides the policemen. There grew out of the circumstance an indictment against the two men charging them with transporting. Because of the prominence of the family of the young man owning the car, there was a lot of talk and much j speculation as to further developments. | The grand jury, in the face of all the | facts, returned the indictment as "no bill." That made more talk, for there was no question of evidence sufficient to establish a presumption of guilt, and why should, the laws of the land Re suspended because of the wealth or social position of the offenders. The matter came up again last Tuesday, Judge Seasc presiding. It is a very unusual thing for a solicitor to give out a bill a second time after it has been turned down once. Theoretically Solicitor Harris hud discharged u:" ???"?/! ti?n u rwi further re ma UULV <4111.1 Ulbiv ?c?o 14V 4U> ...V. - _ sponsibility on him; but lie knew that the "no bill" was a lie and lie would notjrtand for any such perjury, so he presented the charges again. Again i the grand jury said, "no bill." According to all precedent this was the end of the matter; but here Judge Sense took a hand. .Recalled the grand jjury into open court, administered janew the oath to the foreman and then ! ; to the other jurors, laying particular j stress upon their obligation to dis- ' charge their duty without fear or favor, and without reward ?>r hope or reward. Then he called the witnesses, swore them, examined them, and made I out a ease that would warrant a ver- i diet of guilty from a petit jury and sent the jurors back into their room. The jurors wrangled for quite a j ; while this time and finally returned a j third time with "no bill" written across j ; the indictment. At tlx.' cud <if his row, Judae Sense told tht* solicitor to take the bill back and present it to some other grand jury a year from now, or at some other date. There is very little occasion for comment on the story. It is obvious that j no matter how perfect the judicial machinery of the state may be theoretically, unless the men who are necessary for its administration have regard for their oaths, it is worse than useless. Then? is a strong probability, according t?> Senator Jjfrirt, that the state highway commission will be abolished at the present session of the general assembly. The state board of charities; and corrections will not b<> abolished. The compulsory attendance officers | in the various counties of the state mm* employed for all their time, will he j done away with. There has been a great deal of inter- j est. according to Senator Hart, in a bill ; which would abolish free range fur cattle in a number of the counties in the coastal section of the state. Under the present system people residing in that section have the right to let their entire range at will. The hil! abolishing' free range will in all probability be I tion held in that town last Tuesday. He defeated Mr. W. L. Jlogue, an employe of the Hawthorn mill, by a vote or 127 to 41. Aldermen were elected as follows: Ward 1, V. Q. Hambright. 28; Ward 2, Dr. J. 13. J3ri#on. 2S: Ward 3, W. N". Jackson, 45; Ward 4. .T. C. Faris. 13; W. ft. Ha pa ns. 15; Ward 5, J. Clyde Ford, 21; Ward fi. C. X. Alexander, 11; Felix Robinson, !). George W. Knox was elected a member of the hoard of health from Ward I. receiving 20 votes, and W. H. Dickson was elected a member of the board of health from Ward. 4, receiving 12 votes. Dr. It. Tj. Wylie was re-elected a member of the" board of public works, receiving 100 votes. A total of .181 'citizens of Clover were registered to vote in the election and 172 votes were cast. .Managers of election were J. B. Wood, Thud P. Clinton and S. J. Matthews. Officers elected will servo two years. WORK OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY Senator John R. Hart came up from Columbia yesterday in order to attend ; to some necessary legal business. The I senator said that both the house and the senate we're now down to business.; largely being engaged in wrestling with (lift , t l.in 111 II. of deputy marshals for the western district of Soujth Carolina and Marshal C. Lyon, of Greenville it is understood will be asked to appoint a Rock "PIill man to.at least one of the vacancies and have1 his office there. REAL STATE TRANSFERS. The following real estate thinsfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor since the last publication of the record in The Yorkvllle Enquirer: Broad Rivjr?L. M. Mull to Ferguson Livestock company. l-l'J 3-4 acres $!n)0. .1. L. W'hitesides to Tom Sanders, 47 acres, $S33. W. L. Hill to W. T. Ramsey, 108 3-4 acres. $5.437.?0. Catawba?Charley C. Robertson to Frank Steele, 1 lot. $400. East Rock Hill Realty Co. to Martin Maddox, 1 lot. $1.7<M. Mamie E. and Orne Steele to Odessa McCardell, 1 lot. $100. Frank S. Barnes to Mary R. Klugh, 1 lot. $4,000, John Harper to Arcade Cotton Mills. 1 lot. $000. Ebenezer?Jas. White, E:cr., to J. J. Porter, 3 3-10 acres, $SS0. CLOVER MUNICIPAL ELECTION. Dr. I. J. Campbell was re-elected mnvm- nf Plnt-nr lit a mUllicinal olCC " J-Oll nave nuusenum . inquired the" clerk, "Yes'm," replied Van. . ' vVhat is it's value?" inquired the clerk. "Ten cents," replied Van. , "Why you can't make a return of household goods for less than $5," the clerk informed him. "All right ma'am, jest put it $5," said Van. AFTER, TH E JOB Following thg statement of Magistrate R. L. A'.' Smith of Broad River in The Yorkville Enquirer recently to the effect tlujt^ he proposed to try to have a Federal phohibition officer assigned to York county for all his time i with headquarters in Yorkville, two applicants for the office which is by no means certain have loomed up. They ar&L Messrs. Weldon Neil and \V. S. Peters." It* is reported that Constable Frank Allen of Rock, Hill would like to have the place and'the' Rock Mill Chamber of Commerce, it is learned, is making an effort to have a Rock Hill man appointed and the office headquarters stationed in that city. There are two vacancies in the force 3E.PCAL, AFFAIRS, v. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS People's Bank and Trust Company? ' Feeling at Home. D. _M. Parrotl,. Clover?Wc are doing our part. York Supply Company?Roofing. The Star Theatre?Programme for next three days. McConncll Dry Good Co.?Last chance. First Baptist Church?Programme for Sunday. . . .J. M. Si roup?High grade shoes for ladies. The ground hog must sure''y have seen his shadow. Still very little inquiry'for commercial fertilizers. There will be some demand; but not.a great deal. It is a matter of very little financial, concern to the publishers of The Yorkvillc Enquirer whether the paper has 2,000 subscribers or 5,000 subscribers. The price of the subscription is scf nearly the cost of the white paper that the queslion of profit does not enter either way. Tile price of the advertising is fixed on a basis much less than is warranted by circulation and the publishers, because of overhead charges, have no intention of raising or lowering that price during- the coming year, whether the circulation goes higher or lower. But The Yorlcville Enquirer is a good newspaper, well worth while to the people of York county, and the greater its circulation the more it is worth to the county as a whole and to each individual subscriber. * For that reason and for that reason alone, the publishers would -like to see a large increase in its circulation. f VALUATION DECREASED That the value of household property of numbers of York county people has decreased materially in the past twelve months is evidenced by the returns of property that are being made by many people at the office of the auditor of York county. Van Ross, colored, was among those who came into the office of the auditor yesterday to make return of property for 1921. 1 """ ' * v^.^aUaI/I nrnnnriv*I . " ' *>, ' passed at the present session', according to the York county senator. V TAXPAYERS' CONVENTION. John L. IJainey and P. Bi Kennedy of Sharon, were in Yorkvillo yesterday en route home.from Columbia, where thoy represented York county at the statd taxpayers' convention, held in Columbia Wednesday afternoon. Claud II. Inman of York No. 1, who was among those appointed to ,thc Columbia conference at the York County Taxpayers' convention in Yorkvillc Monday, was also in Columbia. "I don't know, that wc, accomplished a great deal at the Columbia convention," said Mr. Raincy yesterday, when asked about the action of the state convention. "The principal effect was to let the general assembly know just where the people/stand on the matter of increased taxation and what they are thinking. . : "Twenty-one counties were rcprc.sentcd at the convention in Columbia. Laurens and Sumter counties, especially, had large delegations and there were a number iTf delegates who stated with,-, out hesitation that they did not knotty where they were going to get the money to pay their 1920 taxes. "The principal tiling wc did was to recommend a reduction of 20 per cent in the appropriation bill of 1920. Not 1921, now mind you; but a 20 per cent reduction in the appropriation bill of 1920. "Whether the general assembly win pay any aiiumiuii tu uui j ptuiu" mendation or not, I don't know. I doubt it. "It was made plain to mo at? the Columbia convention," Mr. Rainey vent on to say, "that people all over Jie state are groaning under the burden of taxation and that there has soon got to be a halt somewhere. Delegates stated to me that the limit had been reached." "I found," said Mr. P. B. Kennedy, "that a majority of the members of the general assembly are lawyers. They listen absolutely to what the educated people have to say and are guided by them entirely. They do not pay any attention to the common people and their wants." ABOUT PEOPLE W. W. Louis, Esq., of Yorkville, was a visitor in Columbiatthis week. Mr. J. N. Strain has moved his family to York No. 2. W. L. Jamison of Yorkville, was a visitor in Lancaster this week. Henry Massey of Rock Hill, was a visitor in Yorkville,"yesterday. Charles Dorsett of Yorkville, has a place as 'clerk in the Gettys hotel at Blacksburg. Mr. C. R. Simmons, formerly proprietor of the Shandon Hotel, Yorkville, has leased the hotel in Lancaster. Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Hunter of Sharon, visited relatives in Rock Hill this week. Mr. J. B. Felton of Anderson, state supervisor, of colored schools, was a visitor in Yorkville this week. riAffvc! r\f Vnrlfvillp rA ivirn. rju? ai u uvuj^ w... .. ?, - porte'd Tuesday 'as being in a critical condition in a Chester hospital, is improving. , M. E. "Wood, who is engaged in public road construction work at Rutftcrfordton, X. C., is visiting relatives on York No. 6. Mr. R. E. Steele, formerly of the Charlotte. X'. C., police force, visited his brother, Chief of Police J. Cal Steele, in Yorkville Wednesday. Mr. ! Steele expects to return to Charlotte as i soon as he can get a house." ! . I .Dr. and Mrs. O. L. Jones, and O. L. I JfiVics. Jr., who have been spending several days with Mrs. Jones's parents, Captain and Mrs. J. W. McNeil, in Parrott, Ga.. have returned to their home in Clover. Information from Mr. John Knox, Confederate soldier and one of the old| est residents of Clover, who has been | ill at his home there for several weeks past, is to the effect that he is improving. Mr. Knox stepped upon a nail ! several months ago and the wound that it caused has not healed as rapidly as had been expected. His general condition, however, is reported as much bettCr* > WITHIN' THE TOWN i ? Except for the paving what would, the streets be like after all this rain.? ? All grumbling and dissatisfaction about the automobile ordinance seems to have passed away. ? Wages of laborers employed on the streets of the town and other public works have been reduced from $3 to ?? per day. The half holiday privilege on Saturday has been discontinued. Work must go on Saturday until 4 p. m. ? incessant rains of the past several days, have caused cellars in numbers'or residences and other houses of the town to become idled with water, according to inquiry made yesterday. There are several inches of water in each of a number of the cellars. ? ()ne of the horses brought to Yorkville for first .Monday for February was so poor and decrepit and old that the owner did not think enough of it to take it hack home. The animal, which had only three good legs, was left in-a barn belonging, to Carroll Bros. * The animal was later turned loose and wandered. to the tracks of the C. it X.-W. railway. Being unable to 'gel out ot 111G Wfiy OC a p<tS$in|, iicim, it wcia utruessary for the engineer to stop and assist the old horse to a place of safety. The home was later turned over to the town. ? Captain 0. C. McCclvey, principal of the Yorkville Graded school, has returned to Yorkville, after a stay in the Walter' Re id hospital in Washington, where he went for expert examination. Capt. MeCelvey sustained severe gas burns in France during the war, and has been under medical observation since. The army medical people do not tell him anything. They just call him up at stated intervals, make their "observations." and let him go buck home in accordance with a regularly prescribed routine. The captain is not suffering any discomfort on account of gas or anything else, and feels no apprehension over his condition. ? Nathan Johnson, negro, escaped a jail sentence of ten days last Wednesday when he .threw an epileptic lit in .Mayor A. J5. Hall's court, where he had been brought to answer a charge of vagrancy. The negro had hardly been brought into court when he was seined with a spasm or tit. Realizing that lie would he a charge upon the town because of iiis physical condition, Johnson was discharged. Johnson, together with Charlie Williams and Rob Kirk, colored, were arrested Monday by town officers. One of the negroes was trying to sell a pair of new trousers for $1. and another of the negroes had on two pairs of new trousers. Not being able to give any account of themselves the trio was Indite! in jail. Kirk and. Williams were convicted of vagrancy when brought before tin; mayor ami were sentenced to pay a line of $lo each or to serve ten flays in jail. . Ueing without funds they look the days. ? Agitation for a high school building for Yorkville, has been resumed and it was learned yesterday that a public { meeting is to be held in the near future | ?. / Hare, agricultural statistician tor ouum Carolina. There were 2,300 horses in York county last year, valued at $308.200. The total number of cattle, including milk , cows was J.5,000, valued at $580,500. the total number of hogs in the county was 27,000, valued at $304,000. . . I Will Re-open Business. At n meeting yesterday in Yorkville of creditors of \Y. O. Harshaw & Company of McConnellsville. who entered into voluntary bankruptcy several weeks ago, arrangements were .made whereby the business will he reopened. \V. O. Harshaw will be in charge. W. \\*. Lewis, Esq., was appointed trustee. An advisory committee of creditors was appointed as follows: J. II. 13. Jenkins,'Jr.; J. S. Mackorell, Henry Masscy, A. T. Hilrt. Agencs to be Retained. ? Recommendation of the York County Taxpayer's convention that their services be dispensed with to the contrary notwithstanding. Farm Demonstration Agent John it.- Blair and Miss Jannita Xoely, woman's home demonstration agent will he employed during 1921. "The county delegation voted to retain the services of the two agents several weeks a mi," said Senator Hart yesterday, "and there will be I no change in that decision." j Not Pleased With Order. j Citizens of Rock Ilill arc much disI pleased with a recent ordQt- of the postI master, general-requiring that the postI ofliee in Rock ilill be'locked each night \ side court. Mai! Held Up. John \V. Miller, carrier on York Xo. i] and C. H. Smith, carrier on York Xo. 4, were unable to make their complete I round yesterday because of high water ! tfs a result of torrentiah rains of the j week. All of the other carriers covered their'respective routes, according to1 Mrs. M. E. Nichols, postmistress, although some of them did not get back to the postol'fice until nightfall. Released On Bond. Floyd Hunter, white youth, who has been held in the county jail 011 a charge of housebreaking and larceny, was released this week on bond in the sum of $1,1)00, Hunter and Paul Sistare were caught while robbing the store of a Rock .Hill wholesale grocery concern, several days ago. The capture of the hoys was effected by Frank Allen, young son of Constable Frank Allen of Catawbi^ township. Sistare gave bond at the time of his arrest. York County Livestock. There were in York county in 1920 a total of 0,900 mules, valued at $1,2S3.400. according to the report of B. B. of the board. Claims Accidental Shooting. Mote Moore, Fort Mill township negro, who was committed to the York county jail this week charged with the killing of John Glenn, negro, in Fort Mill township last Sunday, insists the killing was accidental. "That nigger was hugging my wife when I shot him," he told Sheriff Fred Quinn. County Medical Practice. Dr. M. J. Walker, of Yorkville, has been awarded the contract to look after medical patients at1 the county home and county jail for $99 a year. During the past two years Drs. Glenn, Hunter and Barron of Yorkville, have been doing the practice for $150 a year. Win for Yorkville. The Girl's Basketball Team of the Yorkville High School defeated the Winthrop Training school in a game of basketball at the Training School in Itocl# Hill, last Wednesday. The score was 24 to 14. The game was played on a court in the training school building and was the first the vnrkvilifl irirls had played on an in iur me j/ui _ delivery service, the entire receipts from it going to the pay of the boys who do the work. If the receipts should aggregate more than enough for fair pay, the charge will be reduced accordingly, so as to keep the subscripti/ki price to tile local subscriber in as exact proportion'as possible to the mail subscriber. But let there ^e no confusion about the matter. The publishers assume that they are under implied obligation to deliver the paper to local subscribers who pay their subscriptions before February 19. . LOCAL LACONICS. Catawba Commissioners Organize. . Dr. J. B. Johnson of Rock Hill, has been elected chairman of the Catawba township board-?<of road commissioners. \V. Hall Spencer has been made secre r* n * T-fpid is the third member I tCl'CCI Ulicr mat uaw. nvi ^ .u uation. All newspapers everywhere charge a dollar or such a matter more 'for papers delivered by carriers than for papers sent by mail. There is a reason. The local carrier service is so much more expensive than the mail service. For instance the circulation of the Yorkville Enquirer is approximately 3,000. Of this approximately ?;?00 papers go by mail- and approximately 250 by carriers. The cost of the mail service is $20 a month and. of carrier sendee $10- a month. The postoffice regulations provide for the free delivery of papers to subscribers who oall for them at the post office; but for local papers delivered by the department's local carriers the charge is 1 cent per copy. There is to be no change in the subscription price to those who get their papers at the post office; but if the delivery service is to be maintained after this year it must be maintained at the expense of those who get the benefit of it. The charge for this service on all subscriptions received after February 19 will be 50 cents. I This extra charge is to be used solely I ?? mmnc,-, nf maintaining the at which time the matter ;}vill bo put squarely up to the patrons of the School and. citizens of the towh. The present school building', it is said, is overcrowded and "even now quarters for classes have to be obtained in. private I residences- -near the school. Classes are crowded into the basement of the j present building. These rooms are illI lighted and overcrowded, making it im- J possible for pupils to lend their best ef- | forts to their tasks. Superintendent of Education John E. Carroll said yesterday that it w.us estimated, that a new high school building such as the trustees have in mind, would cost in the neighborhood of $125,000. An additional school district levy of from 12 to 14 mills wouia oe nceueu iu wine u?uc ui u. I bond issue for the-purpose, siwuld such be voted. A movement having as its object the erection of a high school building, was b?guji last year and-after signatures of numbers of .taxpayers and citizens to a petition asking for the calling of an election on the question had . been Secured, the matter was allowed. to drop. The' school is at present without an auditorium, the -former auditorium having long since been partitioncd-off in order to be used in providing room for the ever-increasing enrollment. Those familiar with the situation say that the conditions under which the children are attending school daily are such that they cannot continue unchanged very much longer. ? On and after February 19, the expense of the local delivery service heretofore borne by The Yorkville Enquirer, is to be borne by the subsfcriber. This does not apply to subscriptions returned and paid for before February 19; but to all subscriptions to be enf fhr* sit. when the last clerk l?a,ves.% . Jt is argued that occasionally business men of the town have to reply immediately to letters coming in on the evening trains, it being important that 'replies be forwarded on early'morning trains. "When j the olfi.ee is locked there is of course no way of mailing replies and in the case of mail directed,to Yorkville, especially, the answers cannot get off until late the following afternoon, when they arc delivered. >' Held for Federal Court. James, Kennedy, negro of Bullock's Creek township has been placed under bond to appear for trial in United States court in Rock Hill on a chargb of transporting" liquor. United States Deputy Marshal' Mirrph was in Yorkvine Tuesday and "bond 'v?'as arranged Tor Kennedy!."' The negro ' pleaded guilty at the last term of cotfrt of general sessions for York >county'-tb a charge of transporting liquor and paid a fine. I A Federal;-warrant- has also been issued .for. Erwin Dovcx-, white, of King's Mountain township, charging him with operating an ; illicit' distillery. Dover likewise pleaded guilty to j a charge of blockading . at the November term of the-court of general sessions. * ' settlement one mile from Oconee, Georgia shortly after the noon hour Thursday, brought death to two white persons and nearly 30 negroes, and serious Injury to Ave white .persons and more, than a score of negroes. A stretch of land extending from Oconee almost to Toomsboro in Washington county, nearly Ave'Thiles long "and. about one-half mile'wide is as barren ' as a prairie, not a building nor a tree left standing. Among the dead is Benjamin Franklin Cftr, 14 year old youth who'was decapitated. His head had not been found at a late hour. /* The only other white~person who met death in the tornado fs the .three year old daughter of E. L. -^finor, manager of Shepherd's commissary at the plant / of the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber company. / ?< * , / '1* ? One vote only was cast for the presidential -veto- of the resolution limiting the size of :the army to 175,000 men, when it'was called up'for action in the senate Monday afternoon during the discussion of ttfe sundry civil bill. Senator Joseph F. -Kirby, of-:Arkansas, voted against " overriding the veto, while sixty-seven members'of the body cast their votes as in opposition to the . secretary of war. and "the president. The action of the senate means that the . war d.epartrrfent must stop immediately- . . all recruiting! Secretary Baker has been attempting to get the army up to a strength of 280,000 authorized under the army reorganization act and has refused heretofore .to make the size of the army conform to tiie appropriation of congress. - The present strength of the army is more than 220,000 men and the maximum'strength called for in the congressional resolution will not, it has been estimated, be .reached before September of this year. . ? Frank P. "Walsh of :New York, of .''I council for Thomas* Jw Mooney, convicted of murder-in 'San Francisco in connection with the preparedness day bomb explosion in 1916 has telegraphed San Francisco authorities apprising them of an alleged confession by one of the witnesses in the case that he had given purjured testimony at the trial. A special grand jury is now investigating an alleged conspiracy to convict Mooney. The witness named " by Mr. Walsh was John McDonald, now a resident of Trenton, N. J., with whom Mr. Walsh had a strong conference last night. According to Mr. - , Walsh, McDonald declared- in an affidavit covering thirteen (13) typewritten pages that the case against Mooney was a "frame up." "McDonald swore in his confession," Mr. Walsh says, "that he could not identify Mooney as the man he had seen with a suit case prior to the preparedness day explo~ -Vio t/lAMtlflnrl \fnftnov HIUII, clJlIJUU.^ii mciutu&u ,. during the trial. -: He'said District At torney Fickert, the San Francisco prosecutor, t had forced him to make the identification." Nine persons were killed in the preparedness day parade explosion. Mooney was sentenced to death and Billings, another defendant, to life imprisonment. After every appeal from the sentence had failed, President Wilson interceded in Mooney's hehalf and the sentence was commuted to life Imprisonment. The first k charges in which the' prosecution of Mooney was characterized' "a frame up" were made recently by Policeman Draper Hand, another important figure in, the case. , SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Florence, February 0: Warrants sworn out by Coroner W. Marvin Smith, charging Edmund Bigham with the murder of five persons, all members of his own family except the two McCracken children, .who had been' adopted by his dead sister, were read this afternoon to Bigha'm. There were five separate wan-ants, covering the ' < murders of Mrs, M. M. Bigham, Mrs. Margie Black, Leo McCracken, John McCracken and L. Smilie Bigham, and they were taken out by the coroner in accordance with the verdict the jury of inquest rendered on the night of January 26 after an entire day had./ been passed at Pamplico in the takingr of testimony. Deputy Sheriff and Jai'er Jacob S. Cook read the warrants to Mr. Blghqfh, while the accused man stood qyietly in his cell in the Florence counjty, jail. "Who swore outNthe warrants?", asked .Mr. Bigham" at the conclusion of their reading. ' Coroner Smith," answered the deputy. This was all that passed between the two. nien. - Tt~is stated that the pallor of Mr. Bigham's face increased as the readinjf of the warrants progressed. He was quite pale when the i deputy turned to leave. Until the coroner's warrants were served on Mr. Bighorn this afternoon he had been held, in custody under a warrant taken by John McCracken, the father of, the jwo dead children. It was at | first decided to stay service of the coroner's warrants until the accused 1 I ..u?.1.1 <v,,. Ii?;i on,l nnuiuu lllclivc ilpfiJivilLluii 'mil, UI<\| then, in the event that he shoukl secure his freedom, again arrest him under the several charges of the coroner's jury. The effect of this would he to larjre'.v increase the nmount of bond which Mr. Btgham would have to furnish. Today, however, the officials concluded to serve the warrants and they were read by Mr. Cook. It was stated authoritatively today that Mr. Bi;?ham so far had not arranged to secure legal representation and. therefore, made no application for hail. When th^ case will be called is, of course, undetermined, as yet. The next term of the criminal court will be held tin Florence beginning; March 21;