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* MgV * V MA Straps and .facto. ? London September 4: The reply of the Irish republic parliament to Prime Minister Lloyd George's latest communication rejects the British government's proposals for settlement of the Irish question on the ground that they I "* " *?"? KoooH nn ? dominion status aic JIV l UMVW v>> ?? v. ? . for Ireland. It leaves the way open for further negotiations, however, by offering at once to appoint plenipotentiaries on the basis of the principle of government by consent of the governed. ? Concord. N. C.,vKeptember 2: The textile strike ended suddenly here tonight when union men. in several | meetings here, voted to return to work Tuesday morning. It is estimated that 2,500 worke-s will return to their looms in ten mills. This embraces a majority of the employes who went on strike early in the summer. L. M. Barnhardt, member of the internation- j al textile executive committee, and F. | M. Sloop, president of the local union, were told today that under no circumstances would they be given their old position hack, but they are understood to have let their constituents know that should the latter vote to end the strike the action would meet with their entire approval. ? Chester, September 4: A meeting of farmers and business men of Chester was held in the court house Saturday morning in connection with the establishment of a creamery in Chester to be capitalized at $20,000, the par ? - n ti r I value or eaen snare to ue *iu. ?v. Schmolke of the extension department of Clemson college was present and addressed the crowd in detail as to the establishment and operation of a creamery. He consumed about an hour and a half in explaining: the matter after which subscription lists were opened for the subscription of stock. Those present subscribed about $3,400 and it looks us if the establishment of a creamery in Cheater is assured. The people of the county have realized that something must be done to combat the boll weevil antf the creamery promises to be the best solution at the present time and is something which can be put into operation in the shortest length of time. ? Washington, September 5: Preparations for advancing upwards of a billion dollars in agricultural and live stock credits under recent legislation have virtually been completed by the war finance corporation, officials said tonight. The corporation probably will be ready within the next week or so to function under its enlarged powers designed to afford needed credit relief to the farmers, it was said. To expedite the advances executive committees are being formed In agricultural and stock ruising sections of the west and south and will attend to preliminary details of applications, making the necessary investigations and determining the adequacy of securities offered. -Ten or 15 such committees are to be formed now and others" will be add,ed as the amount of business in the different localities warrants. The corporation's policy for financing advances, officials asserted has not yet been definitely decided, but it is believed that little of the $400,000,000 balance with the treasury will be used for agricultural credits. Demands may be made on the treasury to make the first loans, officials declared, but as soon as the volume of needed credits can be gauged, it is believed the corporation will begin issuing its own bonds. Current operations of the corporation in - """-^financing exports are being carried on utmost exclusively out of a revolving fund automatically established by the repayments belr.gr made' dh>the approximtUely $100,000,000 in advances now outstanding. ? Payment of its state property tax by the Ford Motor Company at Detroit, Mich., last Saturday, revealed that Henry Ford is on the way to become the richest man in the world. His taxable property as stated in his return amounts to $263,368,199. but Detroit bankers point out that these are only tangible assets and his ueal wealth will probably far exceed that | figure. Some bankers indeed say that | Ford is worth more than $750,000,000 when the good will and name of the Ford Motor Company are taken into consideration. Ford himself has said that he does not know how much he is worth and does not care. The statement filed in Lansing said that on June 3 the Ford Company had $54,844,538 in cash in hand, or in banks. Plants, buildings and improvements were valued at $46,926,010, and machinery and equipment at $21,183,990, while the good will of the company was set at $20,517,985. This last is considered low. Property in Michigan was at $133,025,079. Total capital und surplus were put at $173,951,172 and the amount in capital and surplus held in Michigan at $87,861,284. On these holdings the company sent the state a check for $10,000, the maximum payment in Michigan, for the Ford Motor Company, the Michigan Iron Land and Lumber Company, the ricm-bnin Realtv and Construction Company, the Dearborn Independent. Ford's weekly paper. State officials hold, however, that Ford will have to pay $10,000 on the motor company alone and separate taxes on his other holdings. The returns do not take Ford's railroad holdings into account or any of his real estate throughout the country. ? Desperate efforts are being made by labor leaders throughout England to stem the unprecedented trek to the poor houses by hundreds of thousands of unemployed. The situation is admittedly hardly less critical than during the coal strike of last spring although the latest weekly reports on unemployment show slight decreases. More than 1,600.000 are wholly without work while 470,000 others are only working part time. Many thousands more are out of work but not registered. l'ratically every municipal borough in the com.try is wrestling with the problem of providing adequate relief. London boroughs controlled By labor ?? ? morollntori men arc kiuiihiis laiiiiiim sums, amounting in case involving' children to nearly twenty-five dollars a week. This is higher than the workers average earnings. Thirty meml?ers of the Poplar borough council will he committed to prison tomorrow bee: use they refuse to levy rates to the Ixmdon country council for police service. They men claim that all the money the borough can raise must go primarily for the r< iief of the unprecedented distress. All the big industrial centers report paredes by hordes I of jobless. They ait; demanding substantial increases in unemployment does and in many cases the municipalities are yielding, fearing the alternative of serious disorder. The state unemployment allowance is now $3 weekly. labor's present fight is to bring this to an adequate level by additional grants from the municipalities. Officials of the Lloyd (Jeorge administration are assuring the workless that they are victims of world trade paralysis and that the United States is suffering even greater than they. Confirmation of this is contained in cable dispatches from New York newspapers placing America's unemployed at nearly six million. This is a staggering revelation to the British public, which has been under the impression that the I'nited States was still enjoying a fair measure of prosperity. Sir Edward Maekey Edgar, who recently returned from a business trip to America, said today: "If any one feels Britain has all she can bear, let him go to the United States. He will see there a country two and. n half times as populous fis ours and two and a half times as distracted and despondent. America has lost her old confidence. She is suffering intensely because of the break down of purchasing power in Eur9pe. It would be difficult to point to any section of American industry that is better off than another. The reaction of the war has pressed upon the United States with a severity unknown by any of the European belligerents." ?hr \lovhvillr (Snquiro. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of tha Second Class. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1921. The boll weevil cannot harm this country any more than deflation did, and by the time the people of this country get themselves properly adjusted to the boll weevil they will also be adjusted to the deflationists. It is tVm >\Annlo hfivf? llhf'Tl PYnloltinC this country?the circulation manipulators of the great financial centers who are going to suffer the most inconvenience on account of the boll weevil. When it comes to guiding the law along the lines of Justice, there are none superior tp Hon. R. Withers Memjninger. No other judge in the state has presided at a larger numMr of more difficult trials?cases of the most aggravated and unreasonable crime where great wealth sought to weigh down Justice that rich and powerful malefactors might escape. It was because of Judge Memminger's determination that the mujesty of the law should be upheld that W. T. Jones was convicted of the murder of his wife, regardless of the powerful array of counsel hired with Jones's money, and possibly of brided witnesses. It was Judge Memminger who made short work of that Bigham murderer down in Florence, and except for Judge Memminger there would probably have been no conviction. That fellow Tom Harrison, who was on trial in Greenville last week, was about as unspeakable a wretch as thin state has known during his generation. He was a liquor seller, a gambler, and trader in the moral degradation of men and women. His wife was of the same stripe. She had amassed wealth along that line before the two united their fortunes in marriage, and of course she was no truer to Harrison than Harrison was to her. It was during a debauch at Tom Harrison's house that the shooting occurred. Harrison came upon Monk Young, another worthy of the same stripe, in companionship with Harrison's wife under conditions that aroused Harrison's Jealousy to murderous frenzy and started him to shooting. Harrison's wife was killed and Young was shot up so badly that it was thought that he would die; but he recovered. Common opinion in Greenville had it that Harrison wanted to kill his wife so he could marry her younger sister, who had been educated at his expense, and he wanted to kill Young so as to justify the killing of his wife. At the trial, however, he sought to make it appear that he had shot Young in protection of his honor, and had shot his wife by accident. It was a most noisesome mess. Big money had been spent of course, and the jury had been selected with great care. There would have been a "mistrial," except for the fact that Judge Memminger had made it clear that he would hold the Jury until it agreed upon a verdict. Of course the lawyers for the defense thought this was "horrible." Then there was the usual motion for a new trial, which motion Judge Memminger overruled. In sentencing Harrison, Judge Memminger told him he had gotten about what was coming to him, declaring that even if he did not intend to -kill his wife, he was guilty of manslaughter all the same on account of his reckless disregard of the lives of the people around him. His honor said that the killing of Monk Young would have probably been a good thing for the community. Also his honor took occasion to remark that men like Harrhxm might violate the law until they had a contempt for it, but they could rest assured that the law would ; get them sooner or later. Following notice of appeal Harrison's attorneys sought to have him kept In Jail pending disposition of the case by the supreme court; but Judge Mcmminger j signed an order for his immediate transfer to Columbia, explaining that the case is now out of his hands and it is up to the supremo court to do as it sees proper. Of course there are those who complain that the judge is highhanded; but in point of service he is the oldest man on the circuit bench, I and the records show that all of his important rulings are upheld as the ' best of law. West Virginia Insurrection. Reports from West Virginia indicate ' that quiet is being restored with the ' coming of the Federal troops and that | the establishment of martial law will i hardly be necessary. I-Yiim Federal corresnondenth on the scene, it appears that the trouble has | developed out of protest against the ' state government for backing the mine ! operators in policing the mines with Hald'vin-Felts detectives, reporting to the mine operators instead of to the : state and county authorities. For some time past tlie miners have been guarded by hirelings of' the operators, and .their hirelings have been acting in an offensively highhanded manner, tho miners saw proper to take the situation in their own hands. On. the march of thousands of miners into the mining- -egicns, the state government called upon the county authorities to back the mine operators and sent state troops to back the county authorities; but the miners showing contempt for such opposition, continued on until the governor of West Virginia found it necessary to call upon the Federal government for! troops. Upon the arrival of Federal troops j to the number of several thousand men in the disturbed regions, the miners j quietly subsided, saying that this was all they wanted; that they knew they had no hope of Justice from the state authorities; but that the Federal au-' thoritles 'would see that the square thing was done. The forces of the miners include the residents of the country?miners, J farmers, ex-service men and natives generally. They have been acting in a determined but very orderly manner,! and have been seeing to it that no whisky should be pllowed in their ranks. In fact it is said, that they have hunted down and destroyed all the illicit stills for miles around. What is going to happen next rerrtains to be seen; but the leaders "ot the miners say they have no intention or desire to attack the Federal troops. On the contrary they welcome the presence of the troops as their only hope of protection against the lawlessness of the mine guards with which the country has been filled. WEEK IN COTTON All Indications Point to Continued Upward Trend. New Orleans, Sept. <1.?Cotton this j last week was active and stronger than it has been for many months previous and prices were sent to new high levels for the season and to the highest points registered since early last winter, October rising, at its best, to 17.56 and May to 18.22. January touched 18 cents a pound and the later months crossed thtjt mark. The opening session saw the lowest levels of the week and the closing session the highest. New high levels for the season were made daily. At the highest the leading months were 221 to 235 points over the close of the preceding week and at the lowest they were three to five points under. On the close the market showed net gains of 214 to 227 points. October closed at 17.49 and May at 18.10. In the spot department middling J gained 212 points in the net results, closing at 17 oenjs. A year ago middling closed at 2o.75. The one great factor back of the ad- ! vance was the government's report on the condition of the crop on August 25. Prior to this report there was heavy buying on anticipations that it would be bullish and there was eVen heavier buying after it was issued because it was more bullish than expected, the percentage of 49.3 being the lowest condition report ever Issued by the government. This condition pointed to a crop of but 7.037,000 bales and some of the buying the last two sessions of the week was due to the claim that the crop had deteriorated since August 25, and that the chances were for another bullish' report in September, which would send the Indicated crop I figures below the 7,000,000 bale level. Supplementing the crop report as a bullish factor were accounts from the ontt eoods centers of the country. telling of an increasing demand and very strong resumption of the strength, in cloth was derived from reports thatl many mills and wholesalers were with- I drawing lines of cotton goods from the I market and that Jn many other in- j stances they were refusing to sell large J quantities of goods at the prices pre- | vailing. MERE MENTION The American Bar association, in session at Cincinnati, a few days ago passed a resolution condemning Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis for accepting private employment as baseball i arbiter while acting as judge _...The | city of Raleigh, N. C., threatened for some time past with a water famine, was relieved Saturday by a heavy rain.| Charlie Parker of Gastonia, fatally wounded Hall O. Duren because the latter failed to fulfill his promise to marry Parker's daughter The Ford Motor company on last Friday announced a cut of 14 per cent in the price of all models of cars Junius T Mnt-fnllr unh on last Sat urday elected commander of Virginia division of the American Legion The "big five" packers have announced a wage cut to go into effect on Sep-| tember 15 U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock at New York, on Saturday received a package of $25,000 worth of negotiable treasury certificates, accompanied by a note in which the writer said that the certificates were being restored because his conscience troubled him. IN THE SPORTING WORLD Many Youthful Wonders Have Been Developed This Year. Many youthful wonders representing every section of the country, have been developed this year in American fields of sports. The names of Alexa Stirling and Robert T. "Hobby" Jones, the golf marvels of Atlanta and Vincent Rich - | arcLs, the New York tennis star, have j been on the lips of spoil lovers for several seasons. To this select group there has been added this year: Miss Helen Wills, 15 years old of Berkeley, California, winner of tlie national girls singles tennis championship. Julium Xaglowski, 15 years old of 1 Indianapolis winner of the national i boys singles tennis cnampion. Klmer Hiarrold, 10 >ears old of Asli' kum, Ills., winner of the American I junior championship for marksmen | with a score of 18 hits in 50, Dorothy Smith, 18 years old of ' Cotuit, Mississippi, winner of the ' women's national archery championship. Miss Mercian! Hums, 17 years old of Kansas City, whose sensational play in the western women's golf tournament carried her into the third round. She was defeated by a veteran in a brilliant match. LOCAL " AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Gaston County Fair, Fred M. Allen, Sec.?York county entries are welKir. i ? A ho hoM Hptn. tunic IU LUC UI? mil IV vv IIV? ww- ? ber 11-16. ' I J. B. and W. M. Kennedy, Exrs. of the estate of Rachel A. Kennedy, deceased?Notice of application for final discharge. i The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager ?Alice Brady today and Geraldlnc Farrar tomorrow. : Ferguson & Yourigblood?Cotton seed wanted. Dr. C. L>. Wooten, Clover?Offers his i services in dental surgery. | Hawthorn Park, Clover?Clover vs. Victoria Mill at Hawthorn park next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Loan and Savings Bapk?An institution of service. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?We are very busy. , a Thompson & Fewell?Wny some people buy Kelly-Springfield tires. W. j. Fewell, Manager?Baseball Wednesday, Friday tuid Saturday. J. M. Stroup?Children's school shoes and pweaters. Garrison-F^aris Seed Co., Rock Hill? Seed oats, vetch, alfalfa, clovers, rye, barley, etc. Logan Lumber Yard?Demostration of 8, 9 and 10. Th? annual meeting of the stockholders of the Carolina & Northwestern railroad Is to be held In Chester, on September 15. Under conditions as they existed a lew months ago there was no reasonable hope that people would be able to get even this fall. The present situation promises a great deal mo;e hope, can be ginned. As to how those Chester people are coming out with their creamery proposition, the Yorkville Enquirer is not prepared to make any predictions; but the thing is well worth a trial. With the right management th6 creamery can be made to pay. A picnic at Ogden is very suggestive of a big family rcupion. It Is not to be understood that blood relationship exists to that extent; but the folks are as much at home with each other as are I members of a family. And as for outside visitors who do not belong in the neighborhood, why they feel Just like the rest of them. Although September is notoriously dullest month of the year, this September promises to be an exception. Cotton is opening with unusual rapidity, and the cotton pickers are busy. While most people who have cotton in the warehouses are content to let it stay there for the present, it is reasonably certain that much of the present crop will go to the market as rapidly as it Contract cotton opened in New York this morning: abput 120 points above Friday's close. There was no market Saturday or yesterday on account of Labor'day holidays. A local dealer said this morning: that if there was anything offering:, new cotton ought to bring slightly over 19 cents and old cotton should bring slightly over 20 cents. He also expressed the opinion that as n genial thing new cotton will go on the market as fast as ginned, while those who have old cotton will continue to hold on to it. So sudden and marked has been the deterioration in the condition of cofton throughout this section during the past week that there is pretty general belief that another condition report this month would show a decline of 10 or 12 per cent additional, as compared with Auguet. The deterioration of the past week is commonly attributed to the unusually hot, dry weather under which fresh, green cotton leaves have wilted and shriveled up as if scalded. The vigorous growth has been suddenly checked and in addltionto that there Is a fear that with the migration of the recently, hatched boll weevils late squares and small bolls will be destroyed to a disastrous extent. The public remembers that from time to time last spring it would hear of some fellow who had borrowed money at the bank on warehouse re- j ceipts, give expression to the unworthy suggestion that "since the value of his cotton has gone below the amount of his debt, he is no longer interested; that the bank can take it." Of course nobody paid any attention to this kind of people except to remember them, for where they denied morr.1 obligation argument was useless. Now these same people have become interested again, and without exception they are begging the banks to hold their cotton on and on so us to give them as much margin as possible. But where such people are still expecting consideration they are showing themselves to be even more foolish than they were last spring. THE MARRIAGE RECORD. The Judge of probate for York county, has issued marriage licenses to the following: Sept. 1?T. Thomas Bolln, ?3, and Lillie Belle Watt3, 21, Lancaster. Sept. 3?Henry Gibson, 20, Huntersville, N. C., and Eva Woodward, 19, Clover. Sept. 3?Alexander Well, 21, and Eva Crook, 18, Mountain View, N. C. Sept. 3?A. Churlie Craig, 46, and Janie Pugh, 35, Clover. Sept. 3?McKinley Allison, 23, and Edna Adams, 19, colored, Bethel town ship. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Reul estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?Cottage Home Building and Losn association to Capt. W. E. Morehouse, Jr., 1 lot, 72,600. N'annie Crawford to L. and Morris Caldwell, 1 lot, *80. Catawba Heal Estate Co. to Ralph H. Dunlap, 1 lot, $325. Ebenezer?Mrs. I. H. Wilson to P. W. and S. R. Spencer, 1 lot, $1,025. King's Mountain?R. Lee Blanton to J. N. Lovelace, 55 ucres, $900. J. N. Lovelace, to Geneva Lovelace, 55 acres, $&0u. DISTURBANCE AT SMYRNA C. Guy Castles, intendent of the town of Bnjyrna was in Yorkville yesterday where he had warrants issued 1 fur the arrest of Charlie lilrd, South- | ern Railway engineer of Blacksburg and Krvin spencer, wiuie spencer ana Walter Cole, farmers of the Smyrna section charging them with disorderly conduct growing out of a disturbance at Smyrna Baptist church last Saturday 'night. According to information obtained yesterday, the row started when. Policeman E. L. Hanna, of Smyrna, attempted to arrest Willie Spencer who is said to have been raising a row in the vicinity of the church meeting. Hanna put his man under arrest and then the three decided that Willie Spencer should not be arrested whereupon the policeman drew his revolver and gave the trio to understand that the prisoner had to come along or else. It was stated yesterday that there Wits IUUl'll luuu. univ auu vu< ... connection with the affair and the situation was quite delicate for a little while. There was more or less moonshine liquor in evidence, it is said, and had it not been for the mixture perhaps there would have been no disturbance. 16 is expected that the whole matter will be threshed out before Intendent Castje and a jury on \Vjednesday afternoon. SIDELINE STUFF ? Cotton Belt defeated Sharon 'it Sharon Friday by a score of 8 to 6. , ? W. L. Hogue, baseball fan and good sport of Clover, has recently made several baseball bats in his own workshop that are f^r superior to anything in the sporting goods shops. ? The Clover Tigers defeated the Clara Mill team of Gastonla on Hawthorn Field, Clover, Saturday, 21 to 3. Johnny Walker and Lee Killian did the hurling for Clover while Herbert Hogue caught. It was pretty much of a one-sided affair as the score would indicate. ? Bethany defeated Cotttp. Belt at Cotton Belt last Saturday, 15 to 4. Lee Geltys pitched for Bethany with Garland Davis catching. A couple of Smiths (Cotton Belt is full of 'em) pitched for Cottpn Belt with M. Thomas doing the receiving. ? Vic Martain, who has played left field for the American Legion Larrupers of Yorkvilld brought the semi- professional championship of the Carolinaa to the Cowpens team at Cowpens Saturday in the deciding game with Shelby when he hit one for the circuit with two men on bases. Martin Lived in Cowpens before moving to York No. 3 and when the S. O. 8. call came from his old home he just had to go over and help. . THEIR FIRST uuakrcl They dropped In from Charlotte a la Henry Ford bright and early yesterday morning:. There was a smile on his face and a smile on hers. Anybody could see that something was up. He parked the flivver in front of a local drug store and then he inquired where the probate judge's office was. He made his inquiry in serious and solemn meln while she tittered and giggled. The information was given and he started to crank the flivver and go on over that way toward the office of the dispenser of marriage licenses. Then she said something about that new dress you promised to buy for me tc bo married in. And he was heard ot say, "well go get it; but don't pay over ? for it." And she said yes, and went into a store on the corner. And when the lady clerk who waited on her inquired whether she was married or about to get married, why, womanlike, she wouldn't say. So she bought the dress and then the lady clerk took her up stairs and helped her to put it on and to fix everything just so. And then she came out and up to the flivver where the prospective husband was waiting. She called his attention to the dress and she wanted to know if "you don't think it's pretty," and he said "yes." And then he inquired the amount it cost. And the drug clerk and the loafer and the newspaper reporter who were watching the whole proceedings from a distance couldn't catch Just what she said; but they figured that It had cost more than he had expected because he frowned and gritted hi is teeth like, and then she pouted a little bit. Then he shrugged his shoulders and brightened up a bit and told her to get in the car. And she did just that and snuggled up rather close to him despite the fact that the thermometer was around 80 and they went over to the office of Judge Houston who did the rest. .And a short time afterward he was smiling and she was admiring her woddinc dress as the little flivver start ed back toward Charlotte in the county of Mecklenburg. And the drug: clerk remarked to the J loa/er. "if they fall out about the bills this early in the game, how'll it be a year from now?" And the loafer shrugged his shoulders and smiled. ABOUT PEOPLE L. H Good of Sharon was here yesterday. Mr. John Cobb of Hickory Grove was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. John F. Gordon of Tlrzah was in Yorkville yesterday. John A. Hnrshaw of Guthriesvllle was in Yorkville on yesterday. Rev. R. C. Wilson of McConnellsville was in Yorkville yesterday. C. G. Castles, of Smyrna, was among the visitors in Yorkville, yesterday. Mr. S. L. Latimer, of Columbia, visited relatives in Yorkville, last week. Mr. George Jenkins, of Laurens, recently visited the family of Mr. R. B. Riddle on Clover No. 2. Mr. Cody Ferguson, has returned to Yorkville, after a visit to relatives In Atlanca. H. P. HTorton of Bullock's Creek township was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Rev. J. K. Walker is conducting a scries of :>ervices at Philadelphia Methodist church. Miss Ada Dee McElwee, has returned to her home in Yqrkville, after a visit to relatives in Asheville. Mrs. M. B. Crosby, of Yorkvijle, is spending the winter in Spartanburg, with her daughter, Miss Ruth Crosby. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ashe and Misses Ina and Ruth Ashe of McConnellsville were recent visitors to Saluda, X. C. Miss Florence Cody and Mr. T. C. O'Farrell, of Yorkville, visited relatives in Atlanta, this week. j Miss Beulah Ferguson, has returned to Clemsdn, after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ferguson, in Yorkville. Dr. J. B. Kennedy, who has been spending the summer in Yorkville, has returned to the Presbyterian College, at Clinton. Mr. John Bowen, has returned to Washington, after a short visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. N. Bowen, in Yorkville. Rev. J. L. Oates of Yorkville, is preaching ut Bethany this week, and j expects to continue to serve through next Sunday. Miss Beulah Jarrett, of Clover No. 2, is spending the winter in Yorkville, v/ith the family of Mr. D. T. Woods. Miss Jarrett will attend the Yorkville Graded school this session. Mr. Floyd Stephenson of the Hickory Grove section was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. It was Mr. Stephenson's first trip to the county seat since February.' Col. and Mrs. Asbury Coward, returned' to Orangeburg, this morning, after a visit of several weeks to their daughter, Mrs. P. R. Bratton, in Yorkville. Mrs. Brattor accompanied them i home. The condition of Mr. C. H. Sandifer, who has been confined to his home for many months with partial paralysis, remains about the same. He is able to be up and about the house; but does not venture on the streets without assistance. Mr. G. H. Sherer and family or Columbia, are visiting relatives and friends In Yorkvtlle and vicinity, at present being the guests of Messrs. G. W., J. A. and C. Sherer, of Yorkville. Mr. Sherer has the management of the Gonzales dairy in .Columbia, the largest in the state and has more than a hundred cbws in his charge. T. K. Thomasson, well known blacksmith and repair man of Yprkyille, who has been critically ill at his home for several months past, has so far recovered as to be able to be on the streets again. Mr. Thomasoon has recently returned from a Chester hospital, where he was carried several weeks ago, and he expects to soon be able to go to work again. B. B. Robinson of York No. 1; E. B. Oairison of York No. 3; Henry Brown of Filbert and P. A. Smith and Jas. D. Grist left this morning for Newberry, where they will represent Meech Stewart Post of the American Legion at the annual state convention which will be held in Newberry tomorrow and Thursday. The Yorkville delegation traveled to Newberry In Mr. Garrison's Ford and expect to return Friday. The condition of Mr. John >S. Sandifer, who has been very ill at his home in Yorkville during the past twenty days, has been showing signs of improvement Bince Saturday. For a week or more after he was stricken, the attending physicians were uncertain as to the nature of his ailment; but thought they saw in it predominating symptoms of malaria. Later there ,were indications of typhoid; but because the symptoms were not sufficiently positive and typhoid is so very rare in a patient of Mr. Sandifer's years, there wag continued doubt, until a blood test established typhoid beyond question. During last Friday Mr. Sandlfer hovered between life and death with an uncertainty that seemed to threaten the end at ^ny moment; but since then his progress has been more hopeful, although he is not yet thought to be out of danger. J. S. Brlce, Esq.. who has been confined to his bed in his home in Yorkville for nearly a month, is steadil> improving. During more than two weeks of his illness he seemed to hovpr between life and death to an extent that made his friends fearful to ask about him after an Interval of a few hours; but for the past week he has been showing signs of slow but steady improvement. One evening last week he recalled that it was the night some of the children were to go to the picture show and instructed accordingly, and yesterday he told Dr. McDowell that he was going to sit up in a few days. The doctor, however was not yet ready to make any positive promise along that line. There seems to be every reason to hope, that within another week at least the patient ought to be. ablfe to be up and about his home. WITHIN, THE TOWN ? The thermometer at the postofflce went to 112 degrees in the sun, at about 1 O ClO'v'K OUIIuuy nuciuwii. ? Rev. Dr. T. M. Lowry of Memphis, Tennessee, preached to a large congregation in the Associate Reformed church last Sunday night. ? The ginnery of the Yorkville Cotton Oil company has the record of having ginned cotton each and every month during the year. Along with the first bale of new cotton last Saturday several bales of old cotton were ginned. ? If Yorkville telephone subscribers have a grievance as to rates, and they have, it has not helped their case to take it up to the railroad commission and abandon it without any attempt to present the grounds of grievance. It would have been much better to have left the &ise where it was. ? Yorkville's first bale of cotton was ginned by the Yorkville Cotton Oil comppny for Ed L. Patterson, colored, of Bullock's Creek township last Saturday and was bought by J. A. L&tta for 18 cents. The bale weighed 472 pounds and was classed ns middling. The Yorkville Cotton Oil company bought the seed for 40 cents a bushel. ? The $125,000 worth of Yorkville School district bond issue voted several months ago, was sold last Saturday by the board of trustees to Spitzer-Rorick & Co., of Toledo, Ohio, ror par ana accrued interest, less commissions and expenses, which reduced the issue to 94 cents on the dollar actually realized by the school district. Three bids for the bonds were offered. A bid of Seasongood & Mayer of Cincinnati, Ohio, was made through the Peoples Bank & Trust Co., and a bid of Prudden & Co.. through the Loan & Savings bunk. The two latter bids, it is said, were considerably under the offer of the successful bidder. ? Arrangements have been made for a game here Wednesday between Hickory Grove and the American Legion. On Friday afternoon the Legionaires will play Cotton Belt here and on Saturday the final game of the series will be played with Clover. The games ! have been arranged for the purpose I of assisting in making up the deficit of the Baseball assocation which lacked about $200 of making expenses and also for the benefit of the American Legion club. The management of the Baseball association and American Legion men are hopoful that there will be a good turn out of local fans for each of the games and it is expected that each of the visiting teams will bring a goodly delegation. ? Charged with abandonment of his family, Thos. P. McGrady, white, wa3 arretted in Camden yesterday and the understanding is that he will be brought back to Yorkville for trial, the warrant having been sworn out before Magistrate Fred C. Black by Ms wife, Mrs. Thos. P. McGrady who with her three children has been making her home at the residence of Miss Sallle Adickos on East L'berty Street. Yorkville. for a number of monthxr McGrady worked for the Yorkville Cotton Oil Company and it is alleged that he abandoned his family here in July last. Being without funds and Mrs. McGrady becoming sick it was necessary for the family to appeal to ?v.o. i ,.i Crnsq Chn.nter and pri vate citizens for assistance; and the facts ir. the case becoming1 karwn after assistance was given, a hunt was started for the husband. He was finally located in Camden, and it is said that he telephoned his wife last week trying to get her to drop the prosecution which she refused to do. It is * expected that he will be lodged in the ormntv iaii this week unless he is able to give bond or else make arrangements satisfactory to the magistrate. ? "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Excepts, man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," John 3-3. Using tfoe above as his text and "Regeneration4' ? as his subject, Rev. J. L. Vipperman, O. D., of Dallas, N. C., held the undi- > vided attention of his congregation at the First Baptist church of Yorkville last Sunday morning for more than for^y minutes. In the course of his sermon the doctor used illustration after illustration to make his arguments clear, and without opening his Bible or use of notes af any kind quoted more than forty passage? of Scripture, giving the book and the verse for each In order to drive home Ms points ana arguments, making' the logic of his discourse so plain and understandable that none of bis congregation could fait to fully comprehend just what is meant by regeneration and how essential regeneration'is tot man's salvation, Dr. Vfpperman Is recognized throughout the country as one of the realty great Bible students of the day, beiqg a specialist in Bible history, Ife has promised the local Baptist congregation that nit some future date he will come to Yorkville agaart and conduct a week's Bible institute, to which the Chrirtian people of the community will be invited. -r? The Yorkville Graded school entered upon the session of 1921-22 yesterday morning with open air exercises held on the school ground. All of the teachers were present and indications were, judging from attendance oh the opening day, that the enrollment this year will be greater than last year, and that congested conditions which were bad last year, will, be evfeh worse this year. At the opening session, yesterday morning short talks were made by Messrs. T. F. McDow, J. A. Marion and Geo. W. Williams of the board ot trustees; Rev. 15. E. Gillespie, D. D., ReV. J. L. Oates, D. D., and Rev. T. P. Npe, Dr. M. J. Walker and Mrs, M. L. Carroll. Of interest In connection with the opening of the school yesterday morning was the fact that it marked the entry of Miss Sudie Allison, primary teacher, upon her twenty-first year as a member of the school faculty. "Miss Sudie," as she is known to every boy and girl wbo has grown up in Yorkyille in the past twenty-one years, befan her wotk as a teacher of primary grades in 1900; succeeding her sister. Miss Florrie Allison, now Mrs. J. F. McEIweev who taught in the Yorkyilte school for several years. Through ail the years that she has taught hers "Miss Budle's" work has been with the primary grades and she is today regarded as one of the most competent primary teachers in the state. ? "Another Man's Wife," the subr ject of the first of six plays to be pre- < sented in Yorkville by the Pickert Stock Company this week was well received by a critical audience last evening. The company arrived in Yorkville, Sunday, from Hendersonvtlle, N. C.. where they have filled a three weeks' engagement and their exhibition last evening was pronounced | as far superior to that of the average tent show that makes Yorkville on its itinerary. "Bumps" Dalton, black face comedian, was the outstanding star of thte performance of last evening?at least the majority of the applause was his. Miss Lillian Pickert and Ralph Chambers, playing "heavy" parts last ovenlng were received with applause by the audience and their work bids fair to be watched with interest by tent theatre goers during the week. Especially attractive last even lngr was the work of Val C\ Clary arm Miss Louise Browning while other menibers of the company gave fine support. It was an unusually lorgu attendance last night considering the fact that it was tho opening engage- 1 ment ond Manager C. J. Dodson was encouraged to feel that the tent would be filled during each night Qf the engagement here. The Piokert Stocfcv Company includes twenty-five people in ail with fifteen actors taking regular parts in the cast of characters offered for the entertainment of the respective audiences! ? Vaudeville skits "between the ac4s" lost evening were especially good^ > LOCAL LACONICS Car Sold Cheap. Bidding wasn't very spirited on a touring car seised by Magistrate Fred C. Black and Policeman" Jack McCarter of Yorkville from A. A. Anthony of North Carolina July 29 lapt whllp Anthony was transporting liquor tp the car, the car being ofTered for sale to the highest bidder by Sheriff Fwd | Quinn before the court house door yesterday morning. The car, an Overj hand, of rather ancient model and much the worse for wear wasn't very attractive to automobile fanciers. It, was finally bid in by Special Constablp Horace L. Johnson for $43.50. Automobile experts around .the court house said that Constable 'Johnson got quite | a bargain in an automobile at tnat price since even the tires were wortji more than that to say nothing of the fact that the machine will still operate under its own power. Play at Sutton's Spring. Quite a number of people of the community attended the play "Dora Thorn," presented at Sutton's Springs school house Friday evening for the benefit of the school. The play which was directed by Miss Zula Stephenson, teacher in the school was pronounced by those who saw. it to have been well presented and the audience felt th^t it got full value for the money. The cast of characters included Efford Robinson, Brice Neil, Ernest MoClain, Melton Plexlco. Scott McClain, Lindsay Black, Ernest Robinson, Oba Robinson, Hazel Feenrister, Julia and Jeniece Robinson, Alene' McClain and Mary Neil. Textile Strike li Gastonia. Gastonia Gaiette, Saturday: The employes of the Modena mill, some 200 strong, went on a strike this W morning, practically every employe fail! ig to appear for work. The strike "" " ">"?!? a nillni lllflde lllgt week by the management which rate ed the number of working hours per wpek from 55.to 60. This would make it necessary for the mill to run until 11 o'clock Saturday morning', as practically all fhe mills of this section did until a few years pgro. The operatives were to be paid for the extra hours of work. When the operatives failed, to report for work the management closed the mill indefinitely. There were a few who wanted to go to work but they, like all the others, did pot appear at the mill. There has been no disorder or disturbance of apy kind today. Belmont Man Released. Gastonia Gaxette, Saturday: Roy Tate, the young Belmont, merchant, who was recently tried in a Justice of peace's court at Charlotte on the charge of an attempt at criminal as* ' L ? ? M/W froo sauit on a young woman, is ..? of the charge. The result of the trial was that he was bound over to superior court. The case was scheduled tq be tried last Monday, but both the plaintiff and her*witnesses failed to appear to testify against him. This confirms the belief of many that the whole matter was a frame-up in which Mr. Tate instead of the girl wa8 to be the victim. i