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* * * ' ' Vi ... Cvf> V- *J 1 * v , \ iifA '> | . ^ _ ; "' M 11 ?i J IJ5UEO SEMI- WEEKLY. l. m. grist's sons, Publisher.. $ tfainili) lleirspaper: Lt'or tlu promotion of the political, Social, Igrirultural and Commercial Interests of the jJeopty. TER^^^B^piEJiviNc?wA,^B ESTABLISHED 1855 YOR^ sTcT TUESDAY, ygVEMBER*!, 19%1. ' ~ ISTO. 87 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Inferest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS ^ Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. J. L. Temple ton of Smyrna No. 2 and \V. B. Rudisill of Clover woreMnj Yorkville Saturday afternoon with th? back seat of their Ford loaded down with 'possum dogs. "Rudisill and I have been on a little dog swapping and buying trip," said Mr. Templclon. "Good 'possum dogs are mighty scarce in this section but we have picked up a few that we have :to trouble irv disposing of at a good price." The State Fair. "Well, I have attended my last state fair," said a well known York county man who attended the fair in Columbia last week. "There's mighty little satisfaction in going to a state fair. ( Hotels and boarding houses are always crowded; it looks to me like Columbia merchants put up the price of everything during fair week and there is such a jumble and confusion that it isn't worth while going and 1 think I i am done." Religion Still Sticking. "Good effects of the Gypsy Smith evangelistic campaign held h 're recently are still 'evident on every side and indications are that they will be evident f<u- years to come," said a Rock Hill man last Saturday. "Ry that 1 mean that there are lots of people attending church and Sunday school now who formerly did not do so. Some people here who had been at ouls with other people for years made friends again .as a result of the meeting and it has helped in Just lots of ways." He's Against It. , "1 am not going to have any more hunting on my place," said Mr. W. L. Hemphill of the Reersheba neighborhood, Saturday. "1 don't want my birds shot lip and I am not going to have it. Whether the partridges eat boll weevils or not, 1 cannot say yet., 1 have never examined the crops 01 in birds to see. But we all know thut the birds don't do any harm, and 1 know they do a lot of good. Anyhow I am siVnply not going to stand for any shooting on my place." And he looked as if he meant it. The North ftc^d. "Looks like the authorities building the North road through Kings .Mountain township to the (laston county line are going to have trouble getting teams and hands unless they raise the price being offered for teams and hands," said a Bowling Green citizen. "I understand that the sunt of p< r, day has been paid for a team and 1 hand and numbers of poop'e who h iv been furnishing them at this price sav that it is not enough, and they will have to have more or else. The work has been at a standstill for*some time: now because a'l hands we: < busy with the crops; but when the work is resumed the price for teams will lik lj have to be increased." Trouble About Income Taxes. , "Quite a number of I took Hill people. including myself, are having tumble with I'ncle Sam's income tax collectors now, the collectors claiming v.*e didn't pay enough income taxes in lOL'O," said a prominent Iteek Hill citizen the other evening. "In my ease the mistake was made through ignorance although I don't reckon that is going to k'-ep mo from paying the extra tax and a penalty as well. 1'nderstand theacollc-ctors are after quite a. number of allege.! back ?axes and j ll.it they are going to be busy with people in all sections ?f York county for some time to come. Lots of folks worrying about it, including myself." Boll Weevil in Fairfield. "We made around 30.000 bales of (otton in Fairfield county lasi yeai and we may make one-third that . ,'ivr-t: X,,'; amount im? .*v?u. some idea of what tin* I?>11 weevil lias c'one for us," said \Y.* K. Turner prominent livestock dealer aid farmer of Fairfield county to Views and Interviews the other afternoon. .Mr. \ Turner was in York county on business. "In my own immediati community, the Lebanon section of Fairfield," said Mr. Turner, "we will make about one-half as much cotton as we did last year. In :i piud many r a tions the crop is cut fully two-thirds or more and it is worse in Itichlaial | < unty than in Fail licit'. You pi >i i up in Y.ork will I?< 1 t!ie full force oi the weevil in 10lT'. in my opinion. I ' was in York county in Align: i and I :aw the boll w?evil in the bolls just in the same manner as was the care i when it first s'ruck Fairfield.'* Pay for the Doctors. Prominent young doctor of the county was talking the oti.i r day about the hard time dot'ors Iiiim in making colle.lions. "You Kinnv," n* sr.id, "the situation is Itin nvll> desperate with ir.c and it i the sane v ay with <iuilc a l"t of other physicians I Know. You Know I tl'ink l'i doctors and the preachers have ;t hard r time uct'.iir; money out of people for service ivdercd t.'ian aej other flsisst s. The lil't ache;* fares Itelle; than the doctor because some loll, will occasionally s u.?l, ii:n ;t Ijicheti ci a mess pi- greens 01; a, ham or. . . an thing but lots ol them look on Ujc | doctor as a kind of animal that cn r< t along without mohi-y. Doc tor ! have collected mislity li'.t'.c money th I'j'.Kt eighteen mortihs end if the I don't make good. oollections hetwee r.tAv and Christmas 1 don't know win ! in the world lot of them arc gnieig t | do another year." COTTON STALKS Should Be Plowed Under to Kill Be Weevil Says Authority. A'^"' ?'?'? 5?v*o li? fldhf t ho IiaI weevil with more deadly" effect thai at any other .season of the year, do dared l>r. Andrew M. Senile, presiden of tlit- State College of Agriculture, Ii Atlanta, Thursday afternoon. "Fijjlit him," said Dr. Soule, "b; plowing' under the cotton stalks it the field. An?l plow thctu under now Don't wait for the frost to drive thi boll weevil out < f the soft bolls inti winter quarters. I'low him under be fore he leaves the eotton stalks. "Practically till the cotton has beei picked, so the stalks are useless. 1 won't pay to burn them, because tha would destroy from 40 to 50 pound of nitrogen per acre, and all of out lands are deficient in nitrogen. I would be better to plow up the staiki and l?-t them die and rot in tlie field than it would to burn them, plow in, them up won't be as effective as plow ing them under. "Plow them under deep. P.ur\ then anil smother them. Hit the bol weevil while lie is down. It may no be good sportsmanship,* but it a mighty good economics. "My opinion is. based upon a care fill survey, that 50 per cent, of nex year's crop of boll weevils cab be de> stroyed by plowing under the eottoi SliiiKS. w lilll iii,- i i u.iv i uiik .... \vc( vII nl once leaves the soft holl stil on the stalks anfl hunts winter ?iunr tors. He pets under hark on dead log: under berk on stumps in the fields, un der the shingles on the farmer's hour* aud barn, pets into the hay barn, pet: an>whole he oan keep warm and dry "And whorT a pair of Iy>11 weevil: cotno out in the .sprit:?: and start pro pagalinp they o;m ;md do preduee ii one season from seven to eleven mil lion weevils. So that < very time a i<aii of weevils are plowed under now, aru destroyed, we have destroyed fron seven to eleven million unhntchei weevils that will prey upon us nex year. "We haVe the plows, the mules th< tractors and the labor to plow tindpi the cotton stalks. We have the tim< to do it IiH'oiv tli" frost comes. Ilu we have ii" turn to lose. Plowing t: 11 d r the stalks not only destroy thous ands of boll weevils, but will improvi the soil of every field where they an plowed under. "The drop of weevils now in tin scft bulls which will n ver open am : re. therefore. useless, are what migh be termed the seed crop. They an the carry-over. They will go in'< winter ipiarters if not destroyed now and will eomo out i: \t spring and I e pin to multiply with their prodipiou: rapidity, and begin to devastate oui cotton crop. "The time to fight Iho wievil. as said bob re. is who:t,ho is down. Kiph no., ! in0 . iittun is coir- for him t< f< < .I i?:i. Kitrht him by plowing him un der. debt him l>.v destroy inK wherev ! |m?:c ibb\ the places in whirl l:r ran take rrfinrr from thr coii wenther ar.d reins of winter. "I'lowinK under thr cotton stalks r this timr, while the fields are still alivi with evils, will dc.'troy infinite): more than a hard. e?>ld winter or a dr; : mnmer. * Kidimc this afternoon frotn Macni to Atlanta, I saw thousand:: of acre of cotton stalks, picked out. don* v illi, standing in thr field, hnrhnrinmillions upon miilioms of boll wcevib "fifty |h r emit. of the boll wervi sir-.! rrop. at the \ery lowest, cm b killed b> plowing under the cot tot stalks." - To show that Xe\v Yorkers nr the " nsiest" people in the world, ae eordintf to The World, two men von out the other nhrht in the ra.iment e hob?? and siiooah-'d what (hey eoitl mt.ocii. One ?>f them was Major Kd v, id Cnderwood of the Salvatio Army, the i tlier was (fay l\ (jutes n ll. .loini Appiieation Hoard of th Irdtis'rial Aid Commission, Depart nnnt of I'n'die Welfare. This is th story Alit.i. I'a. lerwood telis about it "\Y Carted oat in l.ie <t Hroadwa and toned ihi-'us bail for two reason: Cirri, then were few people w h looked : i! tbey < mlil stand a touch (Mid. s<j nd. Lower Iho: dway is jam t::o! with (ops who. very likely, wei f a; m i a a us for biirplars. So wo,too lie two diin > we had gathered i from kind ped-strin.ns am! went nort l<t tin- white lights. In :iit hour w I:: ?5 / flu ud *8.35. Men : | < I'lRl/.e for tni'iiinif down. Others v.?in int stuns .ml liiani; d hills to jtive i h? l)>. H id \\(- kept lip the sp?cd w would 1..i\( made at least *10 oil part.; My *l"i before the liifrkt w." m y old. The only men who till lie us dowa (?!. 1 veio noil estoilin ladies to tie- theatrc. We then talke v i !i a lot of other muoehois aroiin III. rot I'ark. ! '< r eacli one who w ? :?!!y (' .- rvioy there were twentj five \\ h(( were prol si ioiid hefptai <M:r ( xpe; ict.ee c i.xiuc a us that ll charity of \ew Yorkers should tie d I retro i. to ( ' laurels white there ;.i>i : n :ii*:iy 11 I 1! niii rt iievt* :i? i it.'.I . uffi i iiit iu'lji nviHy \in t |t _ - I*'i;*i::i"j; v.hi:i p.*? in'.li- : rilizt'll "'I' A1 ii'l ! was .* Mid <1 .id tin < (If.i* hi :i ? k.'it'itin oil nil'* nf Ii !ilr?ntiitinns lit ::r A1 nd il?*. ,vi slfi'ili mil Mill- ! \\ ri< two liiiilct lin'i*s i*i i* n?:<:i of lit limit. Tilt* rircini t 1111 . - ii?(l: ili(l ;i |? is-JiiHly of mi ciilt* fi/r n isoi-s ui.ki LV.'ll Ian fo ::y v.a:; Siisjiyrtril. : THE USE OF THE X-RAY ? j , Expert Makes Some Interesting Obt; sen aliens. \ ' I REVEALS SECRET OF PERSON'S AGE Still Dangerous to Hqndle; But Fas- j II cinatcd by the Possibilities of New Discoveries, Scientists Continue to 1 Ignore All Risks. it fiy Frederick J. Haskin. Washington, D. C., Oct. 2*1?How i i old arc you? r. People have always lied in reply to that question. Criminals seeking to y conceal their identity, women wishing i to appear yoifhgcr than they arc (that . is a!! women past 20), young couples e seeking marriage licenses, men seeking ' jobs, have all mad? a practice of claim j ing whatever age seemed most con- j i venient and not too obviously belied by " their looks: Young boys wanting to j t lie soldiers and sailors e'a^jn to be old1 i or than they are. Professional ath- I *|letes frequently claim to he younger.; i" The list might be lengthened indeflt nitelv. a j Well, science has found a new age test, which will make it mucn nam-i , ' , cr for any one, who can be subjected ( - to an investigation, to conceal his age. i , I Tills scientific test was first used quite 1 recently in connection with Chinese | 1 immigration. According to the law, j j ' Chinese fathers in this country may > ( Itring in sons under 21. Now a China- ( I man's age is the hardest thing in the " world for an occidental to guess. The . , ' Chinese face is a slow-changing mask, j j " A' Chinaman 'of '20 often looks almost! ( 1 , like <>:.e of -la. So that a horde of sons ( claiming to tie under 21 were pouring ^ ' j into this country and no one could ! ( ' successfully dispute the claim?until , s" the X-ray was turned upon the prob" ',,m- ! J ' > The <lo.-tor who tolls the story ex- j ^ " plained that age can he determined to j ^ a considerable extent by looking at the boars of th< individual with the X-ray. i The doctor add d that X-rays might ( 1 be used to advantage in other . conncctions to determine age. For in- ' i I 1 stance, ho suggested that it might he ' employed in issuing marriage licenses! 1 when the couple appears to be of un- i , 1 1 I certain maturity. And if women ever , f ' ' become so eager to vote thiit they | claim to b of age before they really are. It might be used to test their L ' | claims. | Dangerous to Handle. Tii" sprcia'iat who to'.d this story wi lit on to recount some interesting experiences in this field of m dicine. I The life of an X-ray surgeon has a tragic cast because constant use of , the rays and exposure to them is apt to i I result in cancer or terrible burns. 1 j Danger from burns is less now as the j' , j doctors have learned better how to ' , handle the rays, llut surgeons still i give their lives, heciuse the powerful i ' rays that destroy diseased tissue so R thoroughly also prey on healthy I r j tissues. |i ICik.wIi clge or i n- gangers 10 uc ex-: ] I peoli d. however, docs not st em to deter i; t doctors from entering th s field of < , medicine. Much experimental work is' 1 being conducted to increase the uses to i which X-rays can be put. Regardless ' j of themselves, surgeons are eagerly t1 1 testing new possibilities o( X-rays to j _ diagnos - internal troubles such as ; ( tuberculosis, and to cure diseases : p ' benefited by tiie more expensive radiy I um. 1 y Rut the surg on's life has its light- i > r side. Anil this doctor chose to dwell i , j on it. i 1 s| "I have !i arned to tell a mai 'ded t woman frotn a single one.'' he said. "It < r is v< ry simple. When a pit .icnt comes , : into iiiy office to have X-ray pictures i I mole of her teeth I have to pose her. It i< important that the head be tilled ( >) exactly. And to get ibis |?roper angle, | | I mOst take t;i" head in my hands and turn ii. Single w< men have stiff necks. Married women are very pliable." This pt lneipl of physiology, he in, -ists, he has tested so many times that i (, it is well proved. Til re nr< a few ix,1 < ptions. School teachers have the stifii st necks, even when married, if I " -- : 4. . .1. Hi,,.,. ..Iwii t| 11:' > <"imi.uh- << |> i. ii. t in i i l( li:?V - a tcndimcy to ehango the position 0 i <>l the head a trifle aft -i* heing fixed. - the doctor found. i The other day he met an exception at the other extrem '. A woman patient had so responsive a neck and remained o in place so pcrlict v that the doctor looked down at la r hand to confirm hi-" deduction tli.it she was married. To k his stiipris' she wore no rings. ITc 11 to'd her ahout his little experiments and explain* d that site was a very un,1 usual type. She laughed and said that o sin was an artist. She knew what lie, |v wanted, In cans she was used to pose ,j ing ; tale s. is There is only one amusing thing, ' u!'out having an X-ray picture ta-, j la a of a stomach. and that is the I penny. In taking sueii a picture it is is i:.-t issary to local* and mark the in*1!vidual's st*'iii ie!i exactly hefore the j |*!:i!< can lie 111 III*'. The position of the i- stomach varies in diff* rent persons. >iiI tor i guide a'penny is sometimes far (I mi til"* li 'dv wi111 a l>it of atlr.: | ' . ?>r, a^iniial!y the doctor wdl .< pi I i this a 11) in rat lis, and tin ii an v'Miin inti i i'st iiiy mictions. 1 The Mysterious Penny. (in man wrote l?ai k the doctor ' > say that the |r nay had come Ifn add d that li" !iad worn it two , i\i oks and it had dune him tin ,r-'"d ulr I is! at?v r. Anotliir patient, a woman, returned the coin in some embarrassment, believing that she had somehow ? taken a coin that did not belong to her. She explained that the doctor would no j doubt be as surprised, as she was to know that a penny had in some mysteiious way got attached to her. She suppos d it must have happened at the ; j hospital and as she was sure it did n^it' belong to her sit? wished to return it.; X-rays are now recognized as a sUc- j "ooofnl moonc of r^mnvlncr trinniKt ;inrl nf treating gofter and diseased tissues i in the nose and throat. Before this] method was put into use there was always difficulty in getting the immi-! <rant mother to have her child operat- ) d on for diseased tonsils. Understanding * no English, ana alarmed by the explanations of inter- \ praters, the mother was fearful that! tier child's throat was to bo cut. The j promise that her son's health was to be | Improved by'an operation performed it the expense of the city did not reissurc hew With tlu; X-ray such eases are being handled easily. The rays arc painess. In fact, anyone who did not see Ihe apparatus would not know treatment was being given. The child can lie brought to a hospital and 1 its mother assured that he is not to be touched by a knife. The child is laid i in a table and the rays strike up from i under the tab'e through a place especially prepaied. The mother sits by the patient and holds his hand and In ess than half an ho\jr the treatment if )vcr. After s?veral treatments the tonsils are gone. One of the latest experiments with i-rays is in connection with dlph:herla carriers. The diphtheria carder goes ubout, unconscious that his j unsixs, JIUSf, uiiu rui jhioaa^e.i i ctn. with perms and that he is giving the listase to his more susceptible friends There are a great many of these carders and they i#e a serious ^menace j , :o the health of a community, though hey are not responsible for the danger I :hey carry. In one city, Detroit, a doctor is unking a series of tests to determine whether X-ray treatments will rid these persons of the diphtheria ;erms permanently. We are told , that 11 out of 15 tonsil cases, two ut of four ear eases and four out of lve nasal cases were cured by X-'fay I , 11 treatments. The doc tor is continuing his treat- I nents, but ho is chiefly intrrested in knowing how long the immunity is ( ?oing to last. ? ^ ' BLANTON APOLOGIZES ' Incident of Indecent Publication is Re- '' garded as Closed. Washington. October 2S.?An apology :o the house whioft attempted to expel 1 tim was made today by Representative [ Thomas L. Blanton (Democrat) of Texas, in a letter to Sjteaker Gillett, cad to his colleagues and warmly applauded?especially by Republicans. The Texan, occupying the same seat front which he arose to defend himtel'f against the citarge that lie had j printed fti the Congressional Record j in obscene affidavit relating to a con- 1 rersation between two printers, took 1 to part in the brief discussion preceding the presentation of his apology. |' The letter was sent to the speaker! .ml lii if! I...fin e the house hv Retire- 1 irntatlve Wa'sh (Republican) of M issachusi tts, acting in the former's ibsence. Speaking in behalf of Mr. Blanton, Representative (kirrett of Tennessee, i icting Democratic leader, prior to the j reading asked that four words used ' ?y the Texan in answering Representative Longworth (Republican) of j >hii? be striken out of the permanent record of congress on the ground j hat they had hi en uttered in the stress of d 'bate and were not intend rd. Representative Mondell of Wyom-j ing. tlie Republican leader, objeeted. Mr. Longworth had asked Mr. RIan- | ton if there was any truth in the re- ! port that he had expressed aty intention of sending out 250,000 copies of his speech, expunged front the record last Monday, and he had replied that if financially ab'e ho would put it in ( tin.' hands "f every male voter in the country just as it is. It was agreed nmong Republicans | that Mr. Longworth had put the Texan on a "limb*' .and that probably two ' core, who had been in doubt, voted for expulsion, simply because of the numb r's own statement. (liven the right to edit bis speech, Mr. Rianton said he would have eliminated the words "just as it is" before printing, but in the distress that followed a vote of censure by the house and a public reprimand by th speaker he hud overlooked them. Mr. Rianton tohl members today lie merely wanted to say in reply to Mr. I.oriKWortli, th:it he wou|^t reprint and circulate liis own speech without including profane and obscene words, abbreviated, alleged to have been used by i mp'.oycs of the printing office and put into the form of an affidavit and fihd with tiic public printer. The Texan was in his seat when the house convened and stayed there ne>st of the day. Investigation of conditions at the public printing office by a special rommii its' 01 uvr m< mui-i? ?ii? jnu- i I <>.-( (1 in u i*?*Mi*lnti??n today l>y Ropro-j scnlatiw KinlaTK**'- t Ki'publiran) of California. UurinfT his jitrht yrstcrday to ictnin his si at, H prrxrntativo' l.iantoa chargtd that it was prarticatly impossible for a non-union man to uink at the ofti ?>. ' ROCK JILL NEWS BUDGET Kerr Receives Parole From Federal Prison in Atlanta. DANIELS IS COMING TO WINTHROP Signs Indicate Large Crowd 'of Soldiers in for Armistice Day Celebration?Night Schools for Textile Workers?Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of York County. /D.? - ci?rr \ ( uy ft uitui VAJI i rnpuiiuviu< / . Rock Hill, Oct. 29*?R. Ix*c Korr, I former Rock Hi'l banker and business f ;nan convicted in United States district court here more than a year ago of appropriating to his own use bonus , chucks of ex-soldiers and sentenced kto serve ilve years In the Federal peni- , tcntiary in Atlanta ha^'been paroled, and is back in Rock Hill. Kerr was released several weeks ago and the . understanding is that he will be at . liberty to go and come at will during his good behavior. Korr was for years one of the leading citizens of Rock if ill and York county and he is well i known not only in Rock Hill but ] throughout the county. i Expecting Many Soldiers. Perry Gill, commr.nder of Frank < Roach Post of the American Legion under whose auspices an Armistice 1 Day celebration is to be staged at the i Ycrk Cpunty Fair Grounds and in < Rock Hill on November 11, said yesterday that he had assurance that I scores of soldiers from all sections of I ?? IV Williwviv tuimi g 4VI uic w easion. A most attractive Armistice Day programme is being arranged by ] Secretary Fewell of the York county 1 Fair Association with the co-operation < of officers of the several American ] Legion posts in the county. * One of i the principal features of the day will i be a sham battle between the Rock 1 Hill and Fort Mill military companies ] which attraction it is believed will i prove of interest not only to ex-soldiers but to people of the county gen- ] rrally. The big Armistice Day parade is to include not only cx-soldiers but ] members of several patriotic organize, tions, Confederate veterans' and i ethers. The mayors of all York county towns will bo invited to be present j and ride in the parade. It is proposed to run a special train from < Hlacksburg to Itock Hill on the morning of November 11 on account of the ; celebration. Josephus Daniels Coming. Jovephus Daniels, secretary of the navy during the Wilson administration and now editor of the Raleijh News and Observer, the most influential I North Carolina daily newspaper, has accepted an invitation to deliver an address before the student body of Wiffthrop College on November 11, Armistice Day. The college is arranging an Armistice Day celebration with Former Secretary Daniels aa the principal attraction that will take up practically tl entft-e daj'. Delivery Truck for Postoffice. The Rock Hill postoffice which entered the first class postoffices of the country last July proposes to put into 1 service beginning Tuesday a motor 1 truck for the delivery of parcels post packages in Rock Hill. The motor:ycl? service and horse drawn vehicle now being used will be done away j with. The motor truck will also be used in hauling the mail to ar.d from Winthrop College. * W. S. Lesslie III. The many friends of Mr. \V. S. Less lie, prominent citizen of 'Lesslic will regret to learn that he is quite, sick at his home and that he lias been in bad health for some time past. Mr. Lesslie is able to get about only in a ' wheel chair. Rack Hill Night Schools. Night schools are to begin work at several of the Rock Hill cotton mills , next week, arrangements having been made for teachers by Superintendent It. ('. Hurts of the Hock Hill city schools and Miss Mary Eva Hite, superintendent of night schools for , South Carolina. Teachers have been assigned for the schools at several , mills as follows: Highland Park? Walter Jenkins, assisted by Miss Ixhs Ifentz and Miss Orlena Mill ford; Carhartt?Mr. drier, assisted by Mrs. Jno. (1. Harron and Miss Virginia Barron; Wymojo?Karl Barron, assisted by Miss Virginia Miller; Areade-Victoria | i ?Mr. Westhrook, assisted by Miss Era. Littlojohn, a id another teacher to be selected: Victoria No. 2?Mrs. J. K. j Roach: Aragon-Blue Buckle?Casper Holroyd, assisted by Miss Gallic | Thomas and Miss doldic Sunders. Road Deep in Dust. Automobil" travelers over the York- | ville-ltock Hill road comi lg into Itock Hill an; complaining because of the I dusty condition of the road which is the result of the drought of the past several weeks. They say that in some sections the dust has reached a depth of live cr six inches and that when a big car passes a little car the dust raised is so great that there is nothing for tlie driver of the little car to do except come to a stop and wait until the cloud has settled. While the streams in the surrounding country arc getting pretty low as a result of the long dry spe'l, there is no danger nf .'in immediate water famine here I as is said ti> he the ease at I*incaster, i ("biffncy a ml other towns in South Carolina. The waters*of Catawba river are lower than have been known In a great while anil it is no trouble to see the rocks in the river at the bridge . f / between Rock Hill and Fort Mill on the concrete road. Gypsy Smith in Town. Kev. Gypsy Smith, noted evangelist who concluded a series of services in Rock'Hill a week ago came here today < from his home in Westfleld, New Jer- | sey to consult Dr. W. W. Fennell in 1 regard to his physical condition. Rev. | Smith has been in poor health for i some time it is said and all during his meeting here was under the care of Dr. Fennell. While news that he was ] again in town was not generally known quite a few of his friends be- ] came apprised of the fact and he wa3 ti e recipient of many calls. i Picking Out Burned Cotton. I Employes of Williams & Co. which < firm suffered a destructive cotton fire < several days ago when about S00 bales of cotton in one of their warehouse I compartments caught fire have since < been busy picking out the burned cot- ( Ion. The damage will run into thous- j nr.ds of dollars fully covered by in- < surancel i Indian Woman Dead. j Following a long period of ill health "Aunt Betsy" Harris, 67, full blooded Catawba Indian died at the home of her niece, Mrs. A. B. Weelock at the Catawba Indian reservatfbn this morning. The . deceased was a daughter of the late Chief Allen Harris and was one of the few remaining Catawbas of the older generation. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Owl of Cherokee, N. C. and two nieces, Mrs. Weelock and Mrs. Jenkins of Cherokee, N. C. ' Rock Hil! Defeated Yorkville. Rock Hill High walked away with Yorkville High shool at football on the local field Friday afternoon, 20 to 0 in tho presence of a large crowd of interested football fans. The locals simply had the visitors outclassed making fourteen first downs while Yorkville made only four. The line up for the Lwo teams was as follows: Rock Hill Yorkville row Williams loft end Hope Patrick left tackle Huey Laws left guard Clontz Jiloore center Starr | Shleder right guard Cregg Plexlco right tackle Hutchison, E. Neil right end Dickert (Capt).' (Capt.) Wray quarter Hosier McFarland left half Steed 1 Dorsett right half Kcndrick, Youngblood full back. Score by Periods Rock Hill ~. 7 7 0 6 20 Yorkville * 0 0 0 0 0 PASTOR FORCED TO RESiGN Because Soldier Wasn't Church Member He Didn't Want to Bufy Him. The Rev. Dr. Henry D. Coe, pastor of the First Baptist church of Bristol, Conn., has tendered his resignation following a controversy because of his refusal to officiate at the funeral of a soldier, a Bristol veteran who was killed in action and whose body was brought from France for bu; ial. Arrangements had been made by Seichcprey Post of the American Legion to tqke charge of the funeral of the soldiel\ Private William Schaeffer t of Co. D. 102nd Infantry. ' Arrangements included remarks by 1 Dr. Coe. Of dears of the Legion were < Informed by Dr. Coe, however, according to the report they'made to the * members, that he would be unable to * officiate, inasmuch as Private Schaef- ( fer was not a member of the church. 1 The Legion officers then visited the chaplain of the post, the Rev. Ernest i L. NVismer, pastor of the Bristol Con-<i( gregational church, who directed the ' Legion to have the body brought to < his church, where the services were ( conducted. ! 1 The board of deacons of the church 1 called a special meeting and Vernct ' Duttcn. Commander of the Seicheprey " * '?. Mnvorsn. f I~U9l, It'dllllCU ICgiUVUlig i iv> vuikvi^. I tlon he had with Dr. Coe. The pastor ' told the deacons that he could not officiate because of a previous engagement. The board of deacons holds that whether or not the boy belonged to the church, "the fact remains that he should have a Christian funeral in whatever church the American Legion selected." OLD DEBT IS PAID Walter Templin Collected Note 31 Years Old. A debt of 31 years has just been paid to Walter F. Templin <Tf Kokomo, Ind.. who formerly was in the mercantile business in Greentown. In 18D0 he accepted a 30 day promissory note for $S.S5 from a boy who was leaving town. The other day Templin saw the "boy's" name signed to an article on business in a leading magazine and indicating that his debtor was a prominent wholesale dealer, in Cincinnati. He wrote to him, congratulating him on his success and inclosing the note. A check for $30.10 to pay the note with full interest came back immediately, along with a cordial letter. ? llhat knocking that you hear in the industrial machine calls for a liberal upplicution of elbow grease. ' THE BOLL WEEVIL Some Idea of What He Hat Done In Edgefield County This Year. The following letter from Edgefield :ounty tells its own story. It v may erive you the blues, but It is better to have the blues now and take steps to protect yourself than to go flat broke next year. t Edgefield. S. C., Oct. 15, 1921. Mr. T. D. Wood. Fountain Inn, S. C. Dear Mr. Wood: Upon receipt of your message this morning I got in touch with some of the more intelligent negroes and will jndeavor to send some help up;four way next week. The people in'your immcifliLie Miction no doubt feel just like the farmers of this country felt a yfeai*4?go, that they could make one more' ?rt>p ind ^ct rich before the weevil did any / Jamagc. The result is it is taking iround ten acres to the averi'g'^'ttf'jiet i bale of cotton. Gdorge T. Swearlngchnr,- of Trep- j ton, is the most progressive farmer we have, running about 100 plowis or more, with as good land as'tliere'Is In the state and in a high state of cultivation: where he has beOn 'mattldg i bale and upwards to the acre, 'is jetting a i&le to each four wiih ill the poison and fast cultivation and ' ;arly planting; so If yoir caHrVkTUnfiling up there to niake th?P people ictually realize their cohd'ftitm," fou will certainly do'a great good. You will make very little cott'dh'ailtettrtr rear, and you can gamble everything rou have got on it. The conditions lcre are deplorable; in the clay section, which is the character of land rou have, about a bale to the plow is he average. How the' negroes are "fang to get through the winter is a serous plotter with land owners^o* they lave no work to offer then. " vl J On top of the debts of this year, hough they are small, thena is a leavy carry-over of debts from last ' rear, and that makes the; situation he mdre acute. You have seen the >arren fields in passing* through he train, and you saw the best porion of the country. Pronticatly'fell >f the cotton has been ginned, and here is nothing to do around beret i If you have any man in your secion who has not been in the asylum vho does not believe the weevil is joing to hurt him, ask him to. take, i trip through this section. It is only m hour's ride by automobile from Ireenwood, and .when he gets back lome he will have a different idea lbout' this matter. They had better proceed to get oats in the groupd, ind buy seed corn, because they have jot to make their own living out of heir own land. Of course very few people are capable of having a proper :onceptlon of what the boll weevil imounts to, and hence they will make preparation, to make another big crop, ind then you are going to see a lot >f that high priced land bought on a :redlt go through the sheriff's hands. Many people who are in line for the weevil look upon it about like they io judgment day, that it will not come luring their life time. With kind personal regards. O. B? Anderson. > SQUIRRELS EMIGRATING T"Housands are Going from Oregon to Washington. Thousands of grey and red squirrels ire emigrating from Oregon to Washngton by swimming the Columbia lver, says a White Salmon, Wash, lispatch. Capt. T. R. Rupert of the river boat lane reported navigating through seviral miles of the rodents, many being caught in the heavy undertow of the .-easel's paddle wheel. The squirrels are attracted by a jrcat crop of acorns in the oak groves )n the Washington shore and grJn pft by reapers in the fields. Some )f these little animals Instinctively :ling- to sticks, pieces of b*;k and floating leaves, permitting the current to carry them down to points nearer the desired side of the river. The point where hundreds of squirrels iwam directly across is probably 1,000 feet wide. . . "Editor Will Make Them Pay.?Dur~ rig the last month the publisher of the S-'ort Mill Times has mailed statements' :o a number of persons who are In ireos for their subscriptions to the paper. Within the next week or tw6' , dmiiar statements will be sent all :hose who have not paid for their paper and it is hoped there will be a cady response to the request for the noney which most of those who read his will agree has been earned. But :here is reason to believo that some if those to whom statements have peen sent, and others to whom they vill be sent, do not .take them serously and intend to try to beat the paper out of what they owe it T6 ill such, if there be such, the follow i:g announcement may prove Interfating: A reasonable length o( tint vill be. given those who are indebted o this paper for subscriptions to setle their indebtedness. If within a ew weeks, the accounts to which eference is made are not paid, tht )ul>lisher will go before a magistrate ind secure judgments against the irxties involved, following which he vill endeavor to get his money by df? ering for sale, through the colunina )f this paper, all such accounts.?Fort dill Times. - ~ ^ * rfr"