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crapis and Jattjs. ? Because the'-enforcement of the liquor laws is taking: up so*'much of the .time of the Federal courts to the exclusion of other -business, Attorney General Daugherty is working on a plan for the creation of a new system of inferior courts with especial jurisdiction over cases of this nature. "With provision for the necessary petit and grand juries "to" pass on indictments and judge the evidence, and by using United States' commissioners as judges, Mr. Daugherty thinks that there should be very little difficulty in erecting a system that will promote the speed and effective handling of cases of this nature. The creation of such courts, of course, cannot be achieved without congressional authority. ? "Gen." jacoo s. vjoxey, ?nu m 1S94 led the Coxey array from Ohio'to : Washington to protest against unemployment, declared a few days ago that if congress 'does not act quickly to relieve, unemployment he will head another invasion of Washington greater than the last. "Gen." Coxey is in Washington in the' role of lobbyist for a bill recently introduced in the house, intended to provide work for the unemployed on roads and other improvements, by permitting states to deposit non-interest bearing bonds with the .treasury to an \imount equal to onehalf of the assessed-valuation of prop- ; erty within their borders. The bill provides that currency equal to the amount of these bonds should be is- ' sued to pay for the.proposed improvements. "If congress had passed, this bill when it was introduced twentyseven years ago," said "Gen." Coxey, 1 "there would be:>no railroad problem : today, for the states could long since , have bought the roads. To pass the bill now is doubly "necessary ' to provide work for-more than 5,000,'000 unemployed." , ? France, in continuation of her pol- I icy of creating a Slav bloc about Ger- ( many and Russia from among the email or* r?ntirtn<? of Europe. has con- 1 eluded a secret offensive and defen- I sive alliance with>'?zecho-Slovakia, j according to advices received in Washington. The alliance follows closely upon that concluded by France with Poland. It is reported to be sim- i ilar also to agreements which France , , is understood to have attempted recently to negotiate with Jugo-Slavia, ] Roumania and Hungary. By the ' terms of the alliance concluded by ( France with Czecho-Sl.ovakia, the two nations are reported -to have given I' pledges to assist each other defensive- | ly or offensively in the event of any of the following eventualities: "Attempted restoration of the monarchial 1 form of government in Germany, Austria or Hungary; appearance of a bolshevist coup d'etat in either Germany . or Austria, or any ambitious effort put forward by Austria or Germany, 1 in the direction of union of the two 1 countries." " " 1 ?1 ? n tl-iu ?JUigm men weui un u i?. ... Mitchell superior court Camilla. Ga., . yesterday on a charge of violating the mob violence act.in connection with ! the death of Jim Roland, a prosper- I ous negro farmer on January 1. Nine j indictments, each on two counts, are said to be the first in the state under ' what is known as the mob violence ?' act. Each indictment also charges j murder. The men indicted are: J. W. Tucker of HUlsboro, Jasper county; ! Grady Spearman of Eatonton. Putnam 1 county: M. K. Boutwell and J. P. Bcttison, Mitchell county; 1'aul Gray, L. P. Iiar;Mlfr\Vill Reaves, #Cuy _Harrell nndX'bakli?,Lee ifarrell, 'Crady cbun- ] ty. All the indicted men except . Spearman have been arrested, and released on bond of $10,000 ea6h. Several panels of veniremen were sum- ' moned to appear in the expectation !; that considerable difliculty would be I, experienced in securing a jury. .Ml of the defendants with the exception ' of Tucker, are residents of this and l Grady, adjoining county, and are pro- , minently connected. The defense is represented by E. E. Cox, \V. M. Hoggard, both of this place, J. J. Hill of Pelham, and W. M. Florence of Mon- , lieolio. The state will be represented by Solicitor General B. C. Gardner, .J. t D. Gardner, C. C. Crow and ^1. A. j Warren. ? For Australia ever to take part in ( a struggle with the United States was something unthinkable and outside the 1 bounds of possibility, declared Wm. M. Hughes, premier of the Commonwealth, in concluding the debate in the house of representatives at Malbourne lust Friday, 011 the coming imperial 1 conference, at which Premier Hughes 1 is to represent Australia. The sub- 1 ject of the Anglo-.Japanese treaty was prominent In the discussion and, alluding to it, the prime minister said: "I have said repeatedly that the chief problem before Great Britain is to draw up a treaty which will not in- :' volve us or Britain in a struggle with j; the people of the United States. The | hope of the world demands upon some i sort of an understanding between ! America and the Empire, and it is to ! 1 lind a way of realizing that hope that , the minds of those attending the conference should be directed, it is un- ( thinkable and not within the bounds 1 we should ever take , Ui. jJUOOiwiu^ part in a struggle against America. | We cannot, be, bound by any treaty which we do not ourselves ratify, al- j though the practical consequences of :, war between Britain and America, whether Japan was or was not her I ally, would have to be faced by us." j The prime minister's statement was | ( brought out by expressions of a it pre- j, hension on the part of some of the |1 Labor members in connection with the j treaty renewal discussion, that Aus- ; < tralia might be drawn into a war with j. the United States. ? After the French Chamber of dep- ' uties had on last Saturday unanimous- I ly adopted an amendment to the am- ; nesty. bill, under which an appeal may j be taken "from any and all sentences imposed by courts martial during the war upon the simple request of the soldier affected, if living or his heirs, j. if dead," the general amnesty bill was j. passed this afternoon. The vole on i the measure, which embraces virtually all offences against the military j laws, except high treason and. dosor- | tion in the face of the enemy, was 52S | for, to 14 against it. Mutineers of the j Black Sea fleet are not included and: must serve their sentences. Adoption; of the amendment came, after a dra- |r matic speech by Dc-puly Jade of Fin- : I..X ,..un onmni'i 11,led ;i company \ JISltM I C, throughout the late war. He recalled j. that before Souain, in Champaijrne ; orders came to execute a surprise at- i tack in broad daylight without artil- i lery preparations. Jade refused to send his company over the top but lie was not courtmartialed. .According; to the narrative of the deputy, the officers of the company next ini. lino ordered their men to attack but! ihe latter refused t<> leave the treneh- i es. saying they preferred to be slrnt and buried where they were rather than hang on the barbed wire for days. The general commanding the division then ordered the French ar- 1 t i I lory to turn its guns on the trenches where this company was stationed. The onioned commanding' tiie artillery. Z\f. Jade said, refused point blank, but : lie was not court ma rlialed. A few days later, continued th" speaker, several men of the company were Iricd I atuT shot, <n]thn,ugh a short time previously they had volunteered for dan-l. > gerous and hazardous missions. Deputy Ignace, who had opposed the amendment, immediately moved its adoption, Louis Barthou seconded it, and the amendment was voted unanimously. ?he ^ortaiUc (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York as Mail Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1921. Where do we go from here? j i Q i I Mecklenburg county is arranging to 1 embark on a ?2,000,000 road campaign. 1 The money has already been voted. < While maybe we arc not getting as j' much for the money we are spending' on the i-oads as we should get, we are getting a lot. t m , 1 It is going to take business and in- 1 dustry to restore prosperity and prosperity is not going to be restored in any other way. ' m i An Associate Press cable from Berlin sa'ys that Germany agrees to pay 200,- : 300,000,000 gold marks by way of In- 1 Jemnity against the 226,000,000,000 de- } manded by the Allies in their Paris 1 terms. The offer, however, is very in- > tricate and inVolvecl. ? a < ' 1 Of course the Democrats have as much right to nag at the Republicans is the Republicans had. to nag at the Democrats, and perhaps it is just as . well, for neither party could or should ' 2\*er be trusted with complete and unjuestionod authority. i _ That is a good move that Georgia is making against the lynching business, provided she does not make the usual fiasco of it. But the chances are that the prosecutions she has instituted under her new laws will come to naught the same as under her old laws. V Senator Dial voted against the ratification of the.treaty with Colombia, :ind Senator Smith voted for it. Senator Dial said that the United States lad' already made those people down that way rich and does not owe them my more. Senator Smith said that he liad always favored the treaty, as i matter of justice to Colombia and to ourselves. The Yorkville Enquirer is not im- j pressed by the proposition'1 that there is any scarcity of raw cotton or that there will ever be. There is more cotion than the mills can spin and so long is that is the case the producer is at the mercy of the spinner. Cotton production is at best a precarious specula ing him to put bouiii *_iuuiiiki. .1. lion-wide movement having for its purpose the complete extermination of all rats in the country by 1030. Mr. Walker estimates that South Carolina has 1.6S3.000 rats and that they cost the state an average of $3,336,000 annually. Although The Yorkville Enquirer does not know anvthink about this man, ana it is entirely in the dark as to how be gets this information to the rat population of the state, it is nevertheless J impressed, with his suggestion. Whether or not it is true that rats have destroyed more human lives than have ill the wars that have occurred in the ' history of the race, there is no question of the fact that the rat is a mii- ; sanec and should be exterminated. i The action of the Itepublican senate in ratifying the Colombian treaty for Mr. I larding after it hail refused to do Lion, ana me souui smouiu imu other outlet for its energies. The sales tax people who want to get rid of so-called excess profits taxes claim that a sales tax system would reduce the amount the public has to pay from 25 per cent of the cost of j goods purchased to 3 per cent. Among! other things it is claimed that it costs the business people of the country $100,000,000 a year to put their books in the shape that the government requires :ind that the cost of collecting the excess profits tax is not less than $25,000,000 a year. Postmaster General Hays is represented as being anxious to reorganize Lite parcel post business of the country I so as to improve its efficiency, more es- J pecially as to prompt deliveries. The parcel post business is in the hands of the second assistant postmaster general. and inasmuch as the salary of the office is nothing like adequate compensation for the talent and ability of a man big enough for the task, Hr. Hays is hoping for the help of a volunteer who will do the work for patriotic considerations. \ The general plan of the Allies in the enforcement of their reparations demands against Germany, contemplate next the occupation of Essen and Husscldorf and then Frankfort. Following I that, they intend to take over the Kiel ind Hamburg areas, and next they pro- j pose to go to Stettin. If that does not accomplish the desired end, it' is their | intention to take over Berlin, and hold ; on to the country until they get complete satisfaction. II is about the same plan that was followed, by Napoleon; but without accomplishing the ends ;hat great general sought. < i Governor Cooper lias a letter from ) one Wendell Walker, of Chicago, urg so for Mr. Wilson, is not without a certain speculative interest as to the underlying1 motive. While it ought not to be so, it is a fact that each of the two . parties frequently take one side of a question because the other partytakes the other side. This might easily be an illustration of this circumstance. Then again it may be that Mr. Harding has been able to show the senators of his party that ratification ivas the wisest and most expedient thing to do. It will be remembered that in his first campaign for the presidency, Mr. Wilson urged free passage for American ships through the Panama ca!nal but immediately upon taking office he called an extra session of con gress to repeal a law that the Republicans! fiad passed to carry out that pledge! It is commonly believed that the reason for his action was a threat of war from ' Great Britain, ok what amounted to that. Mr. Harding, in the past also advocated free passage for American ships. Conditions are iifferent now in that England is not so formidable as she was; but as to what is tq become of the free tol'.s proposition remains to be seen. The act of former Attorney General Palmer in trying to repeal the prohibition amendment to the constitution of the United States with a ruling that he surely knew had no foundation in law, reason . or morals, was probably one of the most contemptible and disreputable to be found in the records of this government. Any idiot knows that if the prohibition amendment to the constitution of the United States means anything at all it means that alcoholic liquors of whatever nature are outlawed for beverage purposes. Also everybody, whether idiot or not, irnrnv* that nobodv ever takes alcoholic liquors, whether straight or under pretense . of medicine, except for the "jag" it imparts. Palmer's opinion was just simply a sneaking contemptible effort to set aside the constitution of the United . States and that was all there was to it. But from dispatches of yesterday it appears that Mr. Volstead of the house judiciary committee proposes to checkmakc all that. He declares that there is no real necessity for beer as a medicine and he has introduced a bill to prevent the sale of beer to the sick on a doctor's prescription or otherwise. There is good reason to believe that the bill will be passed. ? "Big Bill' Heyward, the I. W. W. has frilled to show up to serve his twenty years sentence in Leavenworth, along with other J. W. W. compatriots, to. whom the United States supreme court refused a new trial after conviction of the espionage law. All the other convicts have surrendered; but Big Bill," the arch leader, does not fancy giving up his liberty in any such way. He has left his bondsmen to hold the'bag, and it is said that he is now in Russia with the idea of helping Lenine and Trotsky make Bolshevists of the balance of Europe. Just what the feelings of his I. W. \V. followers are cannot be definitely known; but there is very little reuson to suppose that they could think very much higher o,f a leader like that, no matter how much Ills alleged purpose may have their approval. It has not been definitely established that Big Bill is in Russia. There are those who believe that he is in hiding in this country. It is certain, however, that he has not surrendered to the authorities for the Fort Leavenworth trip. Arms for Postal Employes.?That the j'ostoffice Department means business in its campaign against mail bandits was demonstrated last week, when, by arrangements with the War Department, a large number of .-ID caliber automatic pistols and repealing - . .1? < vi.r. were dis snoiguns ul mi; >iuv patched to all post offices handling; valuable mail and to employes of the Railway Mail Service. Shipments were made also to Porto Rico and Hawaii, and in every case ample supplies of ammunition accompanied the arms. . "Many of the employes are men of great nerve and experienced in the use of firearms through military and naval service and they will give a \varm reception to tnail robbers," said a statement from the postmaster general's office.- "These employes will be used to instruct others in the use of firearms. A number of employes have been killed or injured in recent months, in the performance of their duties, by mail robbers, * Serious consideration is being given to recommending to congress an amendment to the penal code providing severer sentences for such bandits." ? Columbia April 21: American Legion posts throughout the country are being asked by the government to recruit men for the civilian training camp to be conducted at Camp Jackson, during the summer, beginning about .July IS. it is expected .that hundreds of, men front the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida. Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana will attend the camp. All men over eighteen and under 35 who arc physically fit are eligible for the training camp. There will lie three courses, the "lied," the "White" and the "Blue," each varying in its subjects, but all fitting men for reserve corps service, in addition .to a certificate from a physician as to his physical fitness, each man who enters the training camp at Cainp .Jackson this summer must present a certi ilea to from a clergyman, pnesi, nmui . or schoolmaster, to the effect that he J is of good moral character, and that ! he possesses average intelligence. This means that the civilian soldiers who come to Columbia this summer will he men of high type. The men who attend the camp here in the 'summer will he paid their railroad fare and subsistence, in travel, and will be furnished with clothing, meals, equip- ; ment ami other necessities while in ; camp. The camp offers, slate army ; officers here, an excellent opportunity j for up-standing young men to get ; training physically, mentally and mor- J ally, at no expense to themselves, and under direction of picked army officers. ? Sheriff D. Clobor Anderson, who was so frightfully wounded some time ago by Sam McCullough and who has since been in a hospital, is able to walkabout it little; but it will slill be several; weeks probably before he will be abloj to leave the hospital. Keen after there began to develop hope for the sheriff's life. it. was feared that lie would never be able to talk again: but now tt appears he is able to arljeulale quite satisfactorily. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS :E*qio A ?,, Williams Optical Company, Rock Hill? Economize by securing the best. Logan Lumber Yard?Fly screens. The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?Mary Miles Minter tonight. Ferguson & Youngblood?Flour. F. P. Glenn. Executor?Notice to debtors and creditors of Thos. B. Glenn deceased. S. D. Boyd, Secretary?I. 'O. O. F. Banquet Friday night. A. C. Moorehead, Sec.?Meeting of U. T. W. of A. next Saturday night. James A. Armstrong and Samuel A. Bailes, ?Notice to debtors and creditors of Mrs. McLilly Armstrong, deccnsed. Loan and Savings Bank?An unexcelled medium. Feinstein & Krivi6?The cash store. McConnell Dry .Goods Company?Strap Pumps all the rage." Chapin-Sacks Corporation?Velvet Ice Cream. Clover Hardware, Company, Clover?Kurfce's Flat tint wn.'l "finish.)' *" York Furniture Company?It is worth pro tectihg. In Charlotte's elimination primary yesterday James 0. Walker was overwhelmingly chosen for Mayor and James E. Huneycr.it and W. S. Stancill were chosen fo' commissioners. Mr. J. R, Hudson, of DeQueen, Ark., who has many relatives and friends in York county, where he was born and reared, writes that the fruit crop was killed in his county by the frosts and that also watermelons and canteloupes were badly injured. Mr. Hudson is now 83 years of age; but his handwriting indicates that he still has good control of his pen. CHINESE RELIEF. The Yorkville Enquirer is receiving, acknowledging and forwarding to" Vernon-Munroe, treasurer, Bible House, New York, such contributions as may be made to it for the China Relief fund: * i*'" Previously acknowledged $52 33 J. D. Land, Filbert No. 1 5 00 Total ?$57 53 j THE MARRIAGE RECORD Since the last publication of the record in The Yorkville Enquirer, the following marriage licenses have been issued by the judge of probate to the following: -Aprii IS?Joseph F. Helms, 27, Rock Hill and Hattie Brooks, 24, Charlotte. April 19?Jiles Mason, 43, Charlotte, to Dochia Sweat, 24, Rock Hill. April 21?John Lee Hall, 28 to Edith Lawrence, 23, colored, Bethel township. April 23?Frank Mackey, 35, to Esther Gaither, 23, colored, Rock Hill. April 23?Oscar Moore. 21, to Azalie Brown, IS, colored. Rock Hill. April 23?Eugene S. Lachicotte, 26, to Frances E..-*Massey, 27, Rock Hill. i-riMMOM DI FAR With Judge John S. Wilson, presiding', the April term of the court of common pleas entered upon its jury work yesterday'morning-. While it is possible that the work of the term will extend through.tomorrow lawyers and court attaches this morning expressed the opiniun Uvat^ iJL would, in,.all probability fall. Ih'i^ugh today. Petit jurors excused by his honor yesterday morning were J. T. Roddey, R. W. Bratton. J. C. Cork. x The first jury case taken up was that of the Co-operative Grocery Co., ^gainst S. B. 'Collins. The plaintiff brought to recover $155.83 and interest from January 1, 1920, claiming that the sum was just and owing for groceries sold to the defendant. The defendant in his"'unswer acknowledged the account but claimed that he held stock in the co-operative Grocery Company, now extinct to the amount of $250. He decided to leave Rock Hill to move to North Carolina and being told that his stock was worth par value he requested that it be taken in payment for his grocery bill and the balance of $93.17 lie paid him in cash. He further claimed in his answer thn the company was due' him that am.uU.nt. THE CEMETERY FENCE A neat fence around the old Metho- I dist cemetery in Yorkville, similar to j the one around the Rose Hill cemetery j will cost approximately $345. This is according to estimates made on a basis of careful calculation by a reliable contractor. The Yorkville Enquirer is volunteering to take suc/h voluntary contributions as may be I made for the purpose of fencingjn this | enclosure, ancf'.if provided with tliei necessary funds will look after the work. The following subscriptions have so far been offered: C. F. Sherer, Yorkville $10 00 J. A. Sherer, Yorkville 10 00 F. E. Moore, Yorkville 5 00 F. L. Feemster, Yorkville 5 00 C. A. Honey, Yorkville 3 00 Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Galbraith, Spartanburg 25 00 York Lodge, No. 14G, I. O. O. F., Yorkville - ? 10 00 R. F. Dunlap, foreman, jury largess 2 00 Total $70 00 Those who are interested and desire to subscribe may send checks fbr such sums as they desire to contribute. 4 "" TttHl lio rlnlv HP All cnecits reumvcu ?<?.. ( knowlcdged and deposited to the credit of the fund indicated and if, after a reasonable time, say by June 15, a sufficient amount has not been raised, all subscriptions will be refunded to the subscribers. DEATH OF JEFFERYS RECALLED People hereabouts recalled yestcr- ! day that April 25, was the twenty- I seventh anniversary of the death of i Thomas Smith Jcfforys. Jefferys, it j is claimed, was the first man in the; United States to use cotton sacks for shipping flour. That was back in 1852. In those days South Carolina, now one of the leading cotton producing states, was one of the leading wheat producing states. Wheat was one of the chief articles of export in York county instead of import. Pi',in* rii-im- tn 1S52 was shipped in barrels instead of sacks. Nobody, it I appears, had thought of using a sack J for the purpose. There were hundreds of Coopers in the state then. The first railroad in this section of Softth Carolina?the old Kinir's Mountain railroad, w.as built in ]Nf?2. Jeffreys, then _T> years old. was in wheat and flour export business. A l?i?r order for flour was received by him. There was a shortage of coopers at the particular time tind lie was unable to obtain barrels in which to ship flour over the little railroad. bought cotton sheeting and gave orders to hisoj wife and other, ladies called in tn'sisfdst. to make the sheeting .into sacks'. The shipment went out and the idea of cotton sacks for shipping purposes spread throughout the country. Born in Yorkville February, 5. 1827, Jeffery's life was one ot' great activity. The War Befween the States coming on he volunteered for service in the Confederate army. He was commissioned captain of ctuarfermaster corps and was stationed in Columbia during the war. After the war he returned to Yorkville. In 1S77 he organized the first bank. He remanied interested in the banking business until his death April 25, 1S94. He left a large' estate. His father, James Jefferys, was the first man in South Carolina to organize a Sunday school outside the two lnn/yr.et aUIao * V?r* ctoto Phn rinctnri and Columbia. ' ' ' * ABOUT PEOPLE D. L. Moss of Rock. Hill, was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Paul Faris of Rock Hill, was among the visitors to Yorkville yesterday. ' Kip Woods of Rock Hill, was a visitor in Yorkville on Sunday. Geo. C. Cartwright of Yorkville is a visitor in Washington, D. C., this week. Miss Annie Ashe . of Charlotte is visiting the family of her mother, Mrs. S. C. Ashe in Yorkville. Misses Mabel and Esther Ashe of Great Falls, were visitors in Yorkville this week. Mr. H. F. Horton of Sharon R. F. D. was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. S. W. Plyler of ' Rock Hill, was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hogue of Columbia, visited relatives in Yorkville Sunday. Mrs. D. M. Parrott of Clover, recently visited the family of her father, Mr. B. Barnett In Yorkville. ...Miss Ruth Crosby of Spartanburg, recently visited her mother, Mrs. Mary ! Crosby in Yorkville. . Lewis Caldwell and Lawson Brown, 1 United States navy, Norfolk, Va., are visiting their respective parents in Yorkville Mr. W. P. Neil who has been visiting his family in Yorkville, has gone to Danville; Va., where he is in the employ of a construction company. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hargett and Mrs. F. P. Dove of Chester and Mrs. Sep Huey of Sharon, visited the family of Mr. J. L. Huey in Yorkville Sunday. Frank James, for more than two years in the United States marine service has returned to the home of his father, Mr. H. B. James in Yorkville. Rev. B. H. Waugn and family left last evening for Lamar, Darlington county where they will make their home in the future. M. Stowe Turner, contractor of Yorkville, broke two fingers of his left hand yesterday while working at the new Beth-Shiloh school when weights used at a sliding blackboard fell on the hand. * Lunelle, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Thomasson of Clover No. J, while playing in the yard at the home of her parents was clawed by a dog believed to be suffering with rabies. The Pasteur treatment is b^ing administered. / William, 3-vear-old son of Mi*, and Mm W: P. Noil of Yorkville, was bad ly scalded Sunday when a pot of hot coffee was poured on his arms and legs. The little fellow had climbed up oR..tt!Q. table gnd turned over the coffee x5ot, the' hot -liquid TaTling- on^dits hands and legs. He was getting along nicely yesterday. Lieutenant Senior Grade Howard White, United States naval medical cervice for several years is stationed on the transport Kittcry which is engaged in transporting replacement troops to Haiti, Cuba an dother countries where the United States government has army posts. His rank of lieutenant senior grade is equivalent to the.rank of a captain in the army. | WITHIN THE TOWN ? Why should not the town be clean.ed up? ? Isidore Christ, proprietor of the Yorkville Candy Kitchen pleaded guilty in police court this morning of selling goods on Sunday. He paid a fine of $25. ? Straw hats on the heads of men have made their appearance in considerable numbers for the season. Most ot the young men are wearing straw hats of the sailor pattern. ? The colored baseball team of Yorkville defeated a colored team from j Lowell, N. C., on the colored lot here yesterday afternoon. The score was 19 to 5. ? People, from the surrounding com-| munity had strawberries in town for | | sale yesterday. They had, no trouoie in disposing of their supply at a good price. ? It is not the dirtiest town in the couiky by a good deal. There are plenty of towns that are dirtier than this; but there is no reason in the world why this town should be as | dirty as it is. | ?Mr. R. E. Steele is to be Chief of Police vice J. C. Steele, recently resigned to accept a similar position, at Great Falls. Mr. Steele, the new chief, is a brother of the late chief. He has had many years experience in police [ work, mostly in Rock Hill and has a well-earned reputation as an officer of j discretion and ability. He took the oath of office yesterday. ? A negro boy apparently about 1G | years old who gave his name as Macon was arrested Saturday afternoon at I the home of Mr. Henry B. .James on I King's Mountain street and is now in J the county jail with a charge of house| breaking and larceny against him. { Mr. James went home Saturday afternoon 011 some errand and hearing a noise in the house is said to have found the negro in a closet. Special | Officer Frank, Faulkner was summoned and the boy was carried to jail. ? Jack Sadler, colored butcher of Vorkvillc, who lives in the southern section of town didn't know that a hen had taken a notion to make a nest I in his buggy. He came o\er to East End Sunday to get George Jackson, k#>l I known colored cook to take George to services at Gold I-Iill colored church near Tirzah. When he arrived at Jackson's house he found, the hen in the buggy. He left her in Jackson's yard. While there she laid an egg. Jackson kept the egg. ? A live passenger, Oakland automobile, the property of Geo. W. Williams and driven by his daughter Miss Martha Williams, 14, was badly wrecked yesterday afternoon at the Madison street crossing when it collided with a passing Carolina & Northwestern freight train, north bound. The young lady's In-other. George Williams. Jr.. was in the automobile with her at the time of the accident, but neither of tlie young people ".vere hurt. The body of the car was badly crushed and tlie right rear wheel was smashed. The automobile was going east at the time of the accident, it is said. ? Plans for the proposed new municipal building, as drawn by J. S. Starr, architect of Flock Hill, arc in the hands of the town authorities and it vv J-l ~ . r \ .... was stated yesterday- that a call for bids would be made May 2. According: to the plans, on the ground, floor of the two story structure will be an office for the water, light, and power commission: office of chief of police: fire truck station; room for firemen; council chamber and office of the city clerk and treasurer. On the second floor there will be an auditorium with a seating capacity of 540 and a stage 25x20. It is expected that the building will cost about $15,000 and it is proposed to erect it on the lot betw-een the residence of Miss Sallie Adickes and the C. & N.-W. railway station. ? Police officers had a^busy day of it Sunday. Isidore "thrist proprietor of the Yorkvilie Candy Kitchen was arfested charged with selling goods on Sunday the sale of which goods is prohibited by town ordinance. He deposited a bond: of $100. When officers returned to his" i>lace later' he was arrested a second time lor a similar of lense ana requireu iu jjul up uu auu>tional bond of $50. One person was arrested charged with the recldess .driving of arrautomobile; another was arrested charged with recklessly driving a buggy while, four persons were arrested charged *with drinking too much moonshine mixture or other substance with a kick. The. four drunks were brought before Mayor Hall yesterday and were fined in amounts ranging from $10 to $15 each. ? The American Legion Club, the quarters of Meech Stewart Post No. 66, American Legion were formally opened Friday evening when people of the town and community generally were invited to inspect them. Because of the. threatening weather attendance was curtailed to some extent. Jas. D. Grist, post commander presided over the exercises and short talks were made by the following: Paul R. Bratton, "The American Legion Baseball Team;" Hal R. Mackorell? "The American Legion Club and What We Hope to Make out of It;" Hon J. S. Brice?"The American Legion;" Senator John R. Hart?"The "Value of an American Legion Post to a Community;" Rev. J. L. Oates?"Why Every Service Man Should Join the Legion;" Rev. J. K.. Walker?"What We* May Expect of Legionaires;" Rev. T.' T. Walsh?"How the American Legion May Be of Service to the Cause of Religion." Refreshments consisting of punch and sandwiches were served by a number of ladies during the evening. The new club rooms include a main lobby and reading room and a large hall where formal meetings-of the legionaires are held. The larger hall is also adequate for dancing purnoses. A shower bath -and toilet fac ilities are also included Jn the club furnishings. ? Hon. Sam Small, the famous orator a'nd evangelist of Georgia, will be the speaker at a patriotic rally in Trinity Methodist church, Thursday evening April 28th at 8 o'clock. The subject of Dr. Small's address will be "The Salvation 0$ Uncle Sam" and a very timely and. interesting discussion is anticipated. For nearly three decades Dr. Small has been one of the prominent figures on the American platform. With Sam Jones, Dr. Small held evangelistic and tabernacle meetings in every section of the country and. the two "Sams" were heard by thousands. His quaint and peculiar way of expressing his thoughts, coupled. with the oratory which makes the speakers, of the southland attractive, has placed Dr. Small as a favorite before the public. He is a man of exceptional attainments and his practical experience as an attorney, journalist, author, soldier, minister, evangelist and lecturer has -given,him a wealth of material upon I which to draw. ur. s:nun 1 it 11 ?ilUUi jr | and Hc-nry college man, and is considered as one of the most noted living graduates of that old Virginia school. Tayloi* university conferred the Ph. D., upon him and the Ohio Northern university the D. D. He wears the button of a Confedex-ate soldier and the pin of a Spanish war veteran and his three sons were in active service during the great war. But it is his remarkable vitality and his versatile manner, both of thinking and speaking that draws large audiences wherever he speaks. The meeting is. under the local direction of the local ministers and of the National Reform association, the oldest reform organization in the United States, which is sending Dr. Small on a tour of the principal cities of the south in a campaign in behalf of the application of Christian principles to the unsettled problems of the present day. LOCAL LACONICS Blacksburg Bankrupt. W. S. Bird of Blacksburg has filed a voluntary, petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities are placed at $9,000 and his assets at about $S,000. Cow Went Mad. A cow .belonging to Mr. J. W. Love of the Beth Shiloh section went mad last Saturday and had to be killed. Theory is that the cow was bitten by a muu uujj. y Good Sunday School Work. At the recent meeting- of Catav/Oa presbytery the Sunday school of the Yorkville A. R. P. church was complimented because of its hign enrollment in proportion to church membership. The Yorkville Sunday-school made the best showing of any Sunday school in the presbytery. York County Schools Close. The school at Beersheba Miss Maggie Bolin, teacher, closed a-six months term Friday and the school at Tirzah, Miss Margaret Atkinson and Mrs. Tom Oatcs in charge, closed a seven months' session Friday. The Philadelphia school, Mr. Carl J. Gaulden and Miss Marie Moore, teachers in charge, has closed the work of the session. Old Men Play Ball. Old men of the Edgmoor section are finding much fun and amusement in the great American game of baseball, according to J. Alex Williford of Rock Hill who was in Yorkville this week as a juror. "The older men of the Edgmoor community are playing the school boys at Edgmoor every other Saturday afternoon?men as old as 1 am," said Mr. Williford. He is over 50. ' Paid Fine in Gold. There is still some gold money in the hands of individuals hereabouts. Constable Jiile Robinson of the Aragon Mill village, Rock Hill, arrested 1 n miln thorn l.-ist wppk eharsred with carrying a pistol. Bond was fixed at $35 anil the man paid with a $20 gold piece, a $10 gold piece and a $5 gold piece. Constable Robinson turned the amount of the bond over to the proper officials in currency and silver and | kept the gold money himself. Making Potatoes. Mr. J. A. Williford, of Rock Hill, is in Yorkviile this week on the jury. In a talk with the reporter yesterday he ' incidentally mentioned how it came < that he hasxan abundance of fine fresh | Irish potatoes that he got off a small fraction of an acre of land. He plant- 1 ed the potatoes last summer?the Look- 1 out Mountain variety?and when fall 1 canto he did not need them, so he decided to leave them in the ground. To protect tiiorh through the cold weather ] however, he covered them with a thick 1 coating of fine needles, and when he < dug them a few weeks ago he got. fifteen bushels, with only a few pounds . of rotten potatoes in the whole lot. ' DEMAND FOR RAW COTTON American Commercial Attache in London .Prediots Shortage. The world's cotton acreage must undergo a veKy. marked expansion in the years to come if the supply of raw cotton is to keep pacp.with the world's needs, Alfred P.Dennis, American commercial attache at London, reported to the department of commerce after an exhaustive study of the world's capacity for consuming , cottpn goods. At the present, he. paid, there is a record carry-over- ot; raw . cotton.. Combined with/ this .there is an im7mense amount of undpr-production in the chief cotton spinning centers, of . the world. There has-been a marked,, set-back to the purchasing power of the world in the amount of cotton goods and a corresponding setback to the production of cotton. "It is obvious^" says Mr. Dennis, l that the world has "emerged from the war with a production, capacity ui raw cotton considerably below its requirements. Coincideptaily there has been a marked decline in the output of manufactured cotton stuffs, that, in turn, being a reflection of reduced buying power in the great cotton consuming centers of the'world. "With the return of the world to a normal state of (economy, buying will be resumed, idle and short time looms and spindles will J$e speeded up, and an insistent'demand for raw material may be anticipated. "Far-sighted representatives of the British cotton "trade 'are already agitating the question" of increasing *dhe production .of raw 'cotton within the empire. \ "It seems established that the need of .the ..world for cotton goods within the near future will grow more rapidiy than will the extension of cotton growing areas. Increase in the siijpply' of cotton depends.', very largely on the finding of fresh cotton territory and 'improving the strains of existing known cotton. _ . '"The crop in America, which had been averaging for the five years, 1895-99, 10,000.000 bales,' jumped 10 years later or for the five years 191014, to'an average of 1^,500,000 bales. Production in other countries also increased. The inference must he'accepted, therefore, that through the increase in the .world's' 'population' and thrnne-h the extension of consumption to new markets, as well as through the inclusion,of cottpn into new utilities, .such as automobile tires, the world required an increase in its supply of .cotton. It is staffed on high authority that the world'in 1914 was in a position to absorb in ' manufactured (goods at least 700,000 bales of cotton ' more each, year than it' consumed the year before. V , "One. of the prime factors in the present day equation is the impover- * ishme'nt of the world. Trade with both1" Russia and'' 'Germany '..'has amounted to little, and' while the capacity in gerieraf of Central and Eastern Europe to buy cotton goods has ' not been destroyed'it has been greatly impaired." IMMIGRATION ' House Repasses Measure that Has Been Several Times Vetoed. A f+eir* lv\cr o v% . omnn/I monf cpplr^ ing to open, the doors of the United States to foreign political refugees, the. house on Friday passed the immigration restriction ^ bill substantially in the same form it went through last session only to be given a pocket veto. The bill now goes to the senate, where Republican leaders sly it will be passed without delay. The measure is designed to be operative over a period =bf 14 'months and will limit the entry of aliens to 3 per cent, of the, number" rof nationals of any country In- the United States at the time of the 1-910 census. Three amendmerntlV'slightly modify- ' ( ing its provisions" were .adopted by the Jiouse, although it was said that they might be stricken out by the senate. One would permit admission in excess of the limit of all aliens clearly pro viding they had been subjected to religious rtersecution "'in their native land and 1 were seeking refuge here solely to avoid such hardships. The second would; admit 'of American citizens under 18 years of age, independent of the percentage of limi- ^ , tation and the third would give preferehce to families and relatives of American citizens and former service men honorabiy discharged from, the army or navy, regardless of whether they had been. naturalized, in deter- . mining the question of admissibility under the restricted total. The principal fight was over an amendment offered by Representative Sabath, Illinois, ranking Democrat on the imrtiigTation committee, to open the gates to political"'refugees. This was lost after.a long debate "Which, was closed by Representative Mondell, Republican leader, who said that under it even the former'German emperor could come -here. r. This question was bitterly discuss- - * ed by Representative Cockran, Demo- ' crat, New York,, insisting that the former emperor would be met by strong hands ready to throw him in prison. Mr. Cockran declared that t the one time emperor- was actually a refugee from the United States. Mr. Mondell was vigorous in denouncing the plan to, open the gates for political refugees. "Under the amendment offered" he said, "not only could William, the damned, come here but Charles, late, jemperor of Austria, and all the kings and princes who have been spurned and spewed out by Ihe people of Europe could come. Not anly that, but every Russian opposed to the regime of Lenin and Trotzky would gain admission to our shores. They, Lenin and Trotzky. and all the foul hordes that Lave, followed them, coiild come in, and we.could not closo . _ . .