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SEMI- WEEKLY. < f '. >' " ' essbssssss k ' ' ! ~r*?t^g^s . i- m. grist's sons, Publisher*. g, ^antilg Denwpper: cdfor the Jlromotion of (he political, Social, Jjricultat.al and (Tommtrcial interests of the |)eopt<. vTER"i?o'?ooPT.B?iT?NoBmAN ESTABLISHED 1855 ~ YOUK,"a C., TUESD V V,-DECEMBER 13,1921. . ' INTO. 99 ' VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ? Uriel Local Paragraphs ol More 01 Less Interest. PICKED DP BT ENQUIRER REPORTED! a 8tories Concerning Folks and Thingi Some of Which You Know am Some You Don't Know?Condenser For Quick Reading. "Well," said one yesterday, "it !: getting about time that somebody wai issuing a call for a taxpayer's*convention to be held at the county seat nov that It is only a short time until th< general assembly meets. I reckon w< will have a taxpayer's convention ii January and that there win De a 101 o: talk and hot air and nothing done t( reduced the tax levy as usual. Ain'( human nature funny?" Confederate Veteran. "Well we have obtained a site fron the city for the new ConfederaU monument," said a prominent U. D. C of Rock Hill, the other day. "Tin handsome Confederate monument *foi Rock Hill will very likely be located-ii ^ the vicinity of Oakland Avenue. Th< * monument is now complete and 1: ready to be erected in Rock Hill. It 1? a handsome memorial to the men ol the Confederacy. The Daughters ol the Confederacy have not quite sufficient funds t pay for it; but hufe nc doubt that they will be able to rais< the necessary funds without much trouble.'' McConnollsville School. * "Yes I guess we will build our new school building at McConnollsville during the next year," said Mr. J. Frank Aahe of McConnellsville, who wai talking about the school the othei % evening. "Our bonds for the now school *;ui)ding were sold some time ago, you remember; but the trouble it we wero not able to get the site wc wami-u uniu revi'iiiijr ?nu hoti l)ecn wanting a better school building than wo could build with the money available. I am not a member of the board of trustees but naturally I an interested in the school and I rather think that the new building will bt started early in the new year." Proud of Erskine's Record. "Dody" Phillips of Chester, king ol South Carolina collegiate footbul players and eligible to a place on any old All, Southern Collegiate football team, wis a visitor In Yorkvilio Friday nigbt and Saturday. Pblttlptr i? well known in this section, havin,: played baseball In Yorkvllle and Clove; the i?ast summer. Talking footb ll Friday evening he said: "I am mightv proud of the showing that Erskine, the college that I attend, made during the past football season. Despite the facl that we have an enrollment this yeu ' of only ninety-eight boyB at Erskirn and therefore not a gvat deal of football material to pick from we crossci' the goal line of every college field or f which we played during the season, a record that few college teams in this state can boast. It has certainly beer a great year for football at Erskine." The Case of Perry.4 "What was the motive of that fellow Jesse 15. Perry of Columbia, in holdinf up that party of Yorkville people or the Rock IIU1 road Thursday night?' There has been much discussion of tin ^casc Since i>ub!ication of the story ir The Yorkvillo Enquirer about it lasi Friday. Had Perry deliberately startec out as a highwuytnan or rather as t fake si?e<-d cop with a view to touching motorists over the country for a smal line for alleged speeding? Or had la become obsessed with the idea thai since he hud taken a correspondenc< course as a detective he had a right t< hold people up and warn them not t< drive fast on the public highway' Nol>ody knows just what to thinknot even the officers. L. E. Odoni. tin young fellow Who was with Perry, bu who had nothing to do with thi holt up of the Yorkvillo car doesn't knov what to think about Perry. "I didn' have nothing to do with it and I an not in it," he said with a grin the otlie day. The Right of Search. it was inconvenient for Shorif Quinn to go after some gamblers win r had been reported to him a>s operatini down the road not long ago. "Mrs Quinn was sick and so was he, so In asked Chief Steele to look after th matter. Proceeding to the si>ot indicated th chief found the parly; hut they s;i\ liitu in time to got all evidences of th game out of sight. Nearby, Jiowevei was an empty fruit jar that had eon tained white lightning and the chic proceeded to look around for sum more. lie looked under the seat of the eai raised the hood of the engine and mad ether investigations without lindin anything. "Have you got any right to scare that ear without a warrant?" aske rne of the party. The chief contemptuously ignored th question for an instant; but as th other men, thinking lie had an advun tage, proceeded to follow it up sonir what impudently, nc eumu uuiuca * this: 1 "If in the case of a party like thi with no signs of any lawful reuso "why you should be here, every su* pit-Ion of gambling and tlys fruit j?i I\ing here smelling of liquor, if I ha\ not got a right to search that car, yo .nn hnye my bndee | don't want i be an officer. But just take note of the fact that I have searched the car." Knocked Him Cold. \ j . Lloyd McNair, Southern railway en- j| ' gineer, related a laughable incident in the experience of the late Barney Brickman, Southern engineer, who ran . between Yorkville and Columbia for r ^ several years, a few evenings ago: "Barney was running out of Charleston," said McNair, "and he had a negro' ^ fireman named John Williams, who didn't have any more sense than the 1 law allowed. One morning coming out of Char'eflton, Barney ran over a negro s and killed him near La'dson. It was an 3 unavoidable accident in which Birne> . was in no way to blain?. Coming , back next day as he approached the * , point where the negro-was killed, Bar- ( 9 ney was very naturally thinking of the a j accident tho day before. At Just the 1 ( point where the negro waB killed John r , jumped down off his box and shouted c t at Barney, 'Yer knocked him head r oVer heels,' All excited Barney threw a hhi brakes into emergency, and ex- e claimed "What's the matter?' 'Yer c knocked him head over heels,' repeated ^ John. 'What was it?" asked Barney as * [ his ti^iin came to a stop. 'A little * English sparrow,' said John, and there u came pretty near being another negro l> "* - ? - * tf-ifAi., n\ > i killed rignt were,' conciuaea mcnau, ^ "as Barney was some mail at John." h 5 Philadelphia Camp Meetings. " f How many people are there living In ^ I York county now who remember the great camp*meetlngs that were held at- E ( Philadelphia Methodist church foety n 5 years' ago or more? A well known , citizen of the Eastern section of the county who passed Philadelphia church r In company with Views and Interviews * the other evening fell into reminiscent 0 mood when he passed the o d church v ' and told of the camp meetings. "I re- h c member them as a little boy." he said. r ' "They would last for two weeks at a time and people not only from all sections of York county but from all tfver a the state would come to Philadelphia 11 J and camp out. Entire families ilving in Yorkvi.le would come. Preaching p | services wore held in a big tent. There | ' would be fifteen or twenty Methodist ministers there for tho meeting and C they would take time about preaching b ' to the peop'e, holding several services' H a day. But what I remember most ls( t: tho fine eating. I was a little shaver c of a lad then and naturally the food ti appealed to me most. Such food you j h ^ never saw?cakes and pies and ham h ' and chicken. And they fed you that c kind of food during every m?al while v, the camp meeting was in progress. But; *1 the camp meeting days have passed on tl 1 never to return perhaps. I for one jo I wish they would." P ,| WILD MAN IN CAVE IP ' ' Si > Illinois Hunter Wounded in Hand-to- 1 ^ Hand Encounter. J A wild man. living in a cave near j . Ml. Sterling', 111., is thwarting all cf- ^ . forts of police and armed citizens to [ k I capture him and is keeping the coun- t ^ i tryside in terror of his raids on outly- i Q L ing farms. A price has been set on his ; j head, but desperate attempts to cap- i i ture him in his lair have proven vain. t( The wild man recently mn.de a ec- l f] l ies of bold robberies near Mt. Pleas- ' ^ .; ant, carrying off calves and sheep in a f( ,] deserted mine where he stays hidden ^ , j in the daytime. Ambrose Smith, a Q | dead sbot and a tireless'hunter '.vas , ,: seHbusly wounded ir a terriffc ha.ul to , I hand encounter with the mysterious , II man monster. I Huge Creature with Pony Hands. ^ t "The wild man has long, wiry hair ^ : that bristles about his savage looking j face." Smith, said in his home, where j' ,: he is recovering from the encounter.) II "In the uncertain light of the cavern. I a , j made him out to be a great towering , M ! creature. His hands are thin and the 1 c j j flesh is stretched over tho bones like | > leather." 1 People feared black damp in the j 1 a long oni|tly galleries of the mine so ;c I j much that even a reward of fori II the wild man. dead or alive, failed to] r I rehult in his apprehension. At last j 1 t ] Smith, accompanied by J. M. Blair and j a J others front Mt. Pleasant, all quick; s 1 with a gun. went 1" the cave. It was j I late in the afternoon. Smith had the ! others stand back L'OO yards from the ] *" ' mouth of the cave and entered alone,! l' I I fl |ann?Mj only with his large hunting knife, llis dog followed him. !> Fought in Damp Cave. Night foil and the watchers waited . c in vain for Smith's return. Then I' I c I there was :t great i.olse and the . ran out whimpering. The men then) 1 went into the eavern in search of! ; V: n I Smith. Tliey gi'oped along through 01 r the twisting'passageways in the dark'| iiess, hut were unable to lind any trace j" f of liim. At midnight Smith crawled j * ( i from the cave 0)1 his hands and knees I and foil faint and exhausted at the feet of his l'liends. ' "I did not get inure than 5o feet into | j tin- cave, boys," he said, as they car| rled him to the doctor, "when I saw ,J the wild man glaring at mo a few feet i ^ I away. Then lie sprung at nio and held ! [ me in his steel like grip. I tried to , knife hiin but. he held my w;ist. Fur j c i I more than an hour we fought together , e j I oil the wet Hour of the cave. j "I weakened and he slipped from " ^ j iny grip. I felt his hot breath en ni> i face and then a hoa\\ blow on my j ] heud knocked mo unconscious. I don't i know what happened after tlistt,. W'hoti j I get well I'll make another attempt, and next time I'll get him." LI" e ' * ' j I u ?It will be a hard winter. The hide J , I cf politicians seems to be unusually | "I thick * " ROCK HILL NEWS BUDGET ndlcatlons Are That There Will he Only Two Candidates for Mayor. ITIZENS INTERESTED IN EDUCATION Nonstable Allen Captures Two Men I and Twenty Gallons of Liquor? Hundreds of Fruit Trees Will be Set / Out?Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of York County. (By a Staff Correspond'.'!!?.) Rock Hil\ Dec. 10?Now fl.ut Dr. J ). Johnson has announced his candln'cy fqr mayor in the January election ? i 4 tn T uln 4m oil nnnKa. gciUlSl JL?I. uanu -uy 1C in aw, wutility the lists for that office will close, talph Armstrong tho present mayor an't offer for re-election without ccigning and going into tha lists anew gain for the reason that he was elcctd mayor by the present board of three ouncilmen. Armstrong isn't going to ' o it. The race between Jol nson and' ?yle will likely be a spirited one. lotli men have lota of friends. It is nderstood that Lylc's friends :iave cen busy for him for quite awhilp and e has been putting in some good licks imself. Ho has a wide acquainUnce nd is popular with his friends. Now he Johnson forces have begun to g?t usy and they are not going to let the raas grow under their feet between ow and election day. Woman for Council. There was talk on the streets today hat a well known woman of Flock 1111 might enter; tho race for a place n tho council. This lady who is a .-ell known civil leader would mahe It ot for Mr. Anybody if she decided to nter the lists, it In said and if she a.kes a notion to run she will do just hat. Hut there is nothing definite ' bout it. Registration for the aproaching elect on is picking up and cneral interest In the mayor's rac.j is ickiag up. Distributing Fruit Trees. Secretary Fewe.l of?thc Chamber of 'ommerce and assistants have been usy within the past several days de- ;, ivering the several "thousand fruit ; rces that were sold to farmers of the j ity and community during the fruit j ree campaign conducted by tho chamcr and Miss Juanita Xecly, woman's ome demonstration agent some weeks j go. About ? 1,600 worth of fruit trees ;, 'ere sold during the campaign and j he job of distributing them among ( ,ie several hundred purchasers wink- | ( ut making mistakes is now up to the | ro'motera of the campaign. Win for Chester. ^ Tn the presence of a crowd of poo- i le estimated at 2.000 Choster high j, chool defeated Gnffney High school . l t foot ball here Friday afternoon by , ( score of 28 to C. The game was I ( laved here to decide the high school |, oot ball championship of tho Upper | cction cf the state. Chester will play i hurleston high school, the champions f the lower section of the state for the tate championship in Colun/biat next rrek. Tho game here today was rt?ndcd by many foot ball enthusiasts rom Rock Hill and other sections of 1 lie state and by hundreds of Chester , \r.s vhilo a large crowd came over 1 rom Gaffney. Tho GafTney boys were imply outclassed and never hud a hance to win. Big Liquor Capture. Gilbert Goodman and I). H. Haml!r>r, white men claiming Concord. N. as their home were arrested in a j urn at Boyd Hill, a suburb west of < own Thursday night by Cor.stab'c J 'rank Allen nnd other officers end bout twenty gallons of moonshine li- I uor said to bo their property was npturod along with a new Ford jr. i'hleh it is alleged the men were trailing. The two men wlil l?c held for lial in both tliq state Federal j ourt. CJn..t:?n iaintiiti/Mi (Irnaniied. At a nicotine of interested cducaors held in the Chamber of Com- ! lerco ho.ll here Friday morning' tlic Eastern York Citizens' Education as- j eolation was organized v.-ith the elccion of J. C. Cauthen as president and ). K. Williams as secretary. Five 1 lelegates to the meeting of the state ssociation to bo held in January were j looted as follows: Mr. Sliarpe of Lessle, Dr. D. B. Johnson, lh-of. John F. j 'homassen, Prof. B. C. Burts, J. A. turber. The principal talk of tho or-1 .T.nlzatiori meeting was that of Superntendent of Education John E. Carroll vho spoke of the great no d for such I n organization which would assist in | >roviding more teachers for the I ichools of the state and assist In re- j living a teacher shortage that is now | neater than ever known before. He leelared that were it his job to employ j he teachers in York county he would I >e willing to contract with Winthrop Jollego for her entire output of teachrs for the next five years. Winthrop rollcgo, ho said, . houlu have a caparity of 5,000 instead of a fourth that lumber and steps should Ire taken immediately to increase the facilitie< vliereby llio enrollment could be rought to at least. 2,500. Thero are J cores of ways in which air education- . il association of citizens can assist ii uomoting tlie cause of education and io expected tho association just or- | janized to bo of great benellt to tlicl :ause. Loses Mp.ny Turkeys. Tliore'ri simply no use lor :i farmer iving oil nil extensively traveled road J o try to raise turkeys, according to I It S. Poag, vol! kr.oun liethcsda | township farmer, who lives or Saluda road between Rock Hill and Chester, ill*. Poag has lest several fin? turkeys this year which' were run over by n ruthless automobile drivers and he has about come to the conclusion that It will be cheapest for him to go out of the turkey business. T1 , , II LIVE AT HOME. G Govornor Corner Indorses Diversified Crcp System. Governor Cooper has issued a proc- j lamation indorsing the action of the American Cotton association in setting aside December 20 as "Live at Home ' Day," and urging the farmers of the staf to gather at the respective coun- s] ty seats on that day and p'rdge support in the effort to raise more food ^ crops and less cotton next year. a] The governor urges a hearty cooper- *c, ation^on the part of a1! c'asses of peo- j! p*.e in an effort again to bring about a stabilized stato ^ith prosperity at ev- ^ rry hand. The proclamation is as fol- ai lows: w . "King Cotton has long rolgned su- ^ pjeme in the fertile fle'da of Dixie, but w the pcop'e of our Southland are^now w standing with re'uetant feet on' the jg verge of a new era in our agriculture. H( It has b?en said that the dark isl hour comes Just before dawn, and t is my firm belief that beyond the Trth of tribulation, through which we ha e trav- D e'ed for the past two years II s a pe- ^ rlod of unparalleled prosper! f. Oar hops lies In the dlversiflcatla of our c' crops, better marketing facll Lies, in P .... - bi raising' commodities tor our use, ind in keeping oyr money In^drculation among ourselves by buyifcg-what P we cannot raise at home from our own 'a merchants and manufacturers. "The Am?riean Cotton association, bl realizing the importance of strict adherer?o to these principles, has desig- w natcd the 20th day of December as 'Liv? at Home Day* throughout the Southern states. I heartily indorse 8< this#actlon on/the, part of the Amerl- *? can Cotto-t association, and as govern- ei or'of the state, I cajl upon our farmers, 81 In accord&nco with the policy-Outlined, P* to gather at tho county seat of their respective counties, between the hours V( of 10 a., m., and j p. ra., to p'dfc ge their H wholehearted support in reguflUing the P1 1922 cotton production bjfl planting ^ other staple money crops a^d estab- v 'ishi^g a sound and santv basis for dl- T versiflcation on Southern, farms, the rstab'ishmcut of cooperative marketing associations for the efficient handling of such products and to study metk^tfs d af ik-eparing these commoditlqp to aieat oi the demands of the coattmitfAr I also c< urge the public spirited cHia?ns,<0f evv- ta pry community, the banket^' trth^ufac- t[ turors and -merchants to aU$pd these meetings, to prepare suilMrte pro. grammes for ,the day aiu^^o employ experts to assist In teaching the farm- d( ers how to successfully put into opera- 0, tlon the new system of diversification." ^ ? . qi MIGRATORY BIRD ACT. - I u - I ai Biological Survey Tells cf Results of c< Game Laws. k< The passage of the migratory bird tl Lreaty act, it is estimated, has resulted P In a total return, in actual food valdt E to the hunters of the United States, of pi more than $-0,000,000. State officials -w havo noufiod the bio.ogical survey of T. Lhe Unit.d States dei/artment of agri- d culture that in Minnesota alone hunters C report 2,055,400 ducks ki.led in 19r>. As 11 tuch of these biids may be considered jC to have a food value ot at least 75 cents j ci the toial return from them in food to m tnia one state was pbout $1,500,000. If! it had been possible to sell these birds ll.cy would liave brought twice that I amount. The great va.ue of gamo to i a the couiurj; is thus made evident. j That the passage and the enforce ment of the law preventing spring {1 shooting and marketing of migratory ' grfme birds is now producing excellent j results is pointed out by officials of the biological survey. "Without such restrictions they say the game birds not i oniy wou.d be greatly reduced m num-! C| ber, but in many instances would be n brought near extinction. Tho biologl-jn cai survey, whloh is charged with the i *-*1 enforcement of tlic federal law and, ai regulations protecting migratory birds,; a is receiving reports from all sections of j the country showing that with the pro-1 e< . -'i? ....... ? in,?,i l,\r tho hint* their! CI il'<;i?wii nuu vujvjvw ? numbers are increasing each year, andj that they arc returning in spring to 11 numerous breeding grounds which they j have deserted for several years. In addition to the food va'ue of the j ^ game thus assured by continued pro-1 ^ tcction, the restrictions on, sliooting g made by the law tend to perpetuate n hunting as a sport. This 1>uh a reerc- ^ ational value through outdoor pursuit 0 in building up their physical health and c, strength of the more than 7,000,000 p hunters in llie United States who go j( with the guns every fall. I y j. ? Chief operating officials of eastern / railroads, meeting in New York Fri- ! j. day to consider wage cuts for train i 1 g service, shop and ^maintenance of i^ay I ^ employes, agreed upon schedules call- ' ing for reductions of from 10 to 30 per cent. Tlie proposals must be submit- ! tod to the railroad labor board for rejiclion or approval. "The railroads ' propose to request the employes to ^ agree to a reduction in tfie v.ago scale i a so ai to establish Ihcm practically up- ^ on the basis in effect prior to the in- u creases which were granted by the ( I'nitcd States railroad labor board, el*- j l< fcetive May 1. liCO." said a statement : ' issued bv the executives i NEWS ABOUT CLOVER ; aughters of Confederacy Entertain Veterans at Dinner. RE HUNTERS HAD HAPPY HOLIDAY : i i dmbrell Going to Broad River Town* I hip?Bowling Green to Run Night* ?Clover Boy Elected Manager of ' Trinity Football Team?Other New* and Notes of Northern York Coutity. (By a Staff Correspondent.) , Clover, December 12.?The holiday lopping: season Is on at Clover. Mer- } lants have a wide variety of Christ- j Las goods and people of this town nd community are not without mon/. How business is going to bo after , muary 1, Clover jnefchai-.ts are not ?A?r Pllf HftV O PA lnr*lr i T\ (T frtf 'J'"8 ...V,., ?. ~ Ig business from now utitil Christmas rid they have prepared for it. One ell known firm, carrying a line of >ys and other knick knacks connected ith the Yuletide, was busy Saturday Titing- orders to whoolsaltrs replenhing part of his stock, since ho had >ld out. ' Dinner for Veterans. . 1 Andrew Jackson Chapter, United , aughters of the Confederacy, enter- , lined tho Cenfcderate veterans of lis town and community at a three Durse dinner at the homo of Mrs. J. ^ . Brison, one of tho chapter mem- , p>rs, Friday. Eleven veterans were | resent and becanso of tho generous , lans of tho dinner committee and the Tge hospitality of yie hostess, a 1 oodly number of the chapter/memers were served also. Decorations In | 10 hall, living room and dining room ere attractive and artistic and quite tting for the occasion. j After tho dinner hour, Miss Lila Jackin, president of tin chapter, called ^ >r war reminiscences, to irhich sev- ( *al veterans responded by relating \ )mo very interesting and thrilling exeriences. Inquiry developed that Mr. ( jhu J. Knox, veteran yitixen of Cloor, was the oldest veteran present, e is 85. Other Confederate soldiers , resent were: Messrs. J. J. Wilson, j mHam Armntronir. William Barber. rill lam Ashley, J. M. Cook, John hompson, W. H. Sparrow, S. J. Clin- , >n, Fdix Qninn. , Back from Big Hunt, i Two deer, a wild turkey, numerous ucks and other gnmo fellAo a party 1 f Clover hunters who havo but re>ntly returned fi?m a trip to the Ed-' to river in Charleston county, where 1 icy arc accustomed to go once or 1 vice each year. The fall hunt this car was about as successful as usual. T. 'Howard Riddle shot ono of the ( eer, whllo J. Meek Smith shot the thcr. Tom: Dilling got a wild turkey, r.d other members of the party killed uite a number of ducks. The deer in ( io wildernesses of Charleston county re as numerous this ydhr as ever, ac- 1 irding to the hunters. Few wild ture.vs are to be found yet because of 1 ie unusually warm winter thus far. lenty of flsh were to be had In the 1 dlsto and adjoining streams. The arty lost two dogs which they carried 1th them. In the party were: Dr. IT 1 Campbell, J. Meek Smith, R. S. Ftidle. T. H. Riddle, Dr. M. B. Nell, J. I iydo Ford, W. R Rudisill. Tom Dilnc wiliinm Allison and George Mc all. Ed Adam*, well known colored ' sok, also went along. The huntei-8 1 lade the trip by automobile, Gambrell to Broad River. J. R. Gambrell, expert road builder, ho has been employed for moro than year past as ovorsecr of road buildig in King's Mountain township, will lovCfto Broad River township the rst of the year to supervise the road ork to be carried, on in that townflip. Mill to Run Nights. Arrangements aro being made to oprate the Bowling Green cotton mill at ight as well :is day. according to anounceinent by C. X. Alexander, genral manager of the mill. The spindlcgo of the mill has reccntl; befcn Inreased from L',500 to 5,000 and other r'.ditional machinery has been install- , i. No troublo lias been found in seuring operatives, accortfing to Mr. lexandcr, despite tho fact tliat Buwng Green is a very small place. To Manage Football Team. Of interest to relatives and friends erw will bo tlie infonnution thn,t Hcrrrt Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs, W. P. inith of Clover, has been elected lanagor of the Trinity college football tain at Durham, X". C., fuir the season f lOL'li. Mr. Smith, who is himself an nthusiostic athlete, is one of tho most opular students at Trinity. The cplrgc has been playing football only two ears and her balloou-liko rise has :stiflod tho arranging of a schedule n* licxt year which will equal that of ny college in tlie two Carolinas. So ir Manager Smith l:c.s arranged amcs wltn tno university 01 ?urui urolina, Wake Forest and Davidson. Odom Visits Wife. L. K. Odi'in, who claimed ho was cn jiiIc to Clover Thursday night to see is wife, when he was arrested with J. !. Perry after Perry hud held up an utomobilo carrying a number of orkville Indies to ltock Hill, rr.cl who ^ns released Friday, is in Clover with is wife. Mrs. Odom recently moved > Clover from Rock Hill and she and er husband may remain here. Odom : nn ox-soldier, bovine served in the i 144th Depot Brigade at Camp Jackson during the war. From Cloysr to /orkville. Automobile traveler* trying to get to Yorkville from Clover, find It best to leave the main road jti3t beyond the Allison creek trestle and go Into the eld Lincoln road by way of the homes of Messrs. John Jackson' Frank Jackson and others. This road Is now being top-soiled under the direction of Mr. Gettys McCarter and within a few lays will be in first class condition, it Is stated. Personal Mantion. Mr. M. L. Ford of Clover, waa a visitor in Rock Hill last Saturday. John Winkler of Filbert No. 1, has moved his family to the Hawthorn mill'village here. Messrs./ Jesse and Ben Farls of Yorkvlrte, have moved their families to tho Hawthorn mill vllllage here. HARD ON MERCHANTS. The Assessed Valuation of 4*#rsonalty Needs Re-adjustment. ? The Yorkville Enquirer says: "One result of the new system of assessing mercantile stocks for taxation has been to emphasize the in equality ui uic aoqcoaiu^uv vi alty. Theoretically, of bourse, the ultimate consumer has to pay. The idea is that taxes have to be added on to the cost (ft the goods, etc. But even that docs not equalise things, for very often the burden unjustly falls upon the merchant. Including household and kitchen furniture, silverware, and the like, stocks and bonds, there Is more personal property in South Carolina that is untaxed than there is that Is taxed." That's putting it mildly. The merchant's, taxes are far heavier than they ought to be, because he is toting some of the load that, ought to bo carried by property now either escaping lactation or taxed far below the level of justice. The Joint Special Committee on Revenue and Taxation reported to the legislature this year that it seems "to be a conservative estimate to place the value of all taxable intangible property In South Carolina now escaping taxation at not less than three hundred million dollars,- which is more than seventy per cent of the present assessed value of all property of every character in the state." Three hundred million dollars* worth of-*j>ersonal property now evading taxation?and' that is only a part of the property now untaxed. The Vie^chartt, the business man, the real estate owner, and all other citizens who are honest taxpayers are taxed far more, heavily than they should be, all because the legislature of South Carolina In the* past has been dominated by Ignorance and political cowardice. The personal property tax in the itate is an utter farce. Consider some facts from the comptroller general's report In 1919. Charleston, with the largest popuia-i Lion in the state, returned for taxation' Z74 pianos, organs, phonographs and victrolas, while Spartanburg returned 2,407 and Greenville 2,298. Abbevillb county returned three gold or'silver watches at a total value of 865, while the adjoining county of Laurens returned 234 watches of the total value of 83,655. On the other band, AbbeviLe returned moneys, credits and evidences of cicdlt In the sum of 830,980, while Laurens retumerd none at all, evidently being unable to sell the watches won from the Abhevllllans. Abbeville returned all ita farming implements and portablb machinery at 8195, while Newberry returned that class of properly in the value of 818,710. Nevertheless, Abbeville returned of bonds and stocks not exempt from taxation 864,949, while Newberry had only 8500 in this sort of stuff. Clarendon returned six watches, 01 a total Hlue of $295 and $,171 dogs of a value of $31,710, while Cherokee returned only 15 dogs of the total value of $225, but reported 373 watches of the valuo of $4,065. In Cherokee there Is a highly developed taste for personal adornment, while Clarendon has strong proclivities for the chase. This unanswerable indictment of our rotten tax system was handed down by the joint special legislative committee: "That a vast amount of the taxable property of the state is not upon the tax books at all is not only well known, but is acquiesced in and openly Justified by the ma. rlty of our citizens. All of which can mean but one thing? tliat the operation of the tax system in S< uth Carolina is in point of fact as much an outlaw business as the gentle art of cracking safes or of distilling moonshine whisky." ? Merchants, other business men and taxpayers will be taxed more heavily every year until tho legislature of South Carolina, whipped on by public se ntiment, develops guts enough to stop this system of extortion, whereunder the honest man Is sandbagged and looted and the tax dodger goes unharmed. ?Greenville Piedmont. ? Tracy Turbeville was suddenly killed last Saturday night about 10 o'clock when the car in which he was riding with P. L. Sitton ran off the high embankment at the Pee Dee river crossing, about one mile from Dillon, on the Dillon-Lake View^oad. Two negroes and a child were also in the car. They escaped injury. Mr. Sitton was painfully |>ui not seriously hurt. ' t v '*>) r , . MUSILt SIIUALS fKUftKM full Explanation of Deary Fortl . HW. WOULD BETELOP UNLIMITEDINDUSTIT m . V Mosf Wonderful Water Power in thd South?Full Utilization Would1 Hove Tremendous Bearing on" All of America. / J ' Florence, Ala., Dec. 7?Henry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoals, submitted July S, 1921, the first bid for the properties, contained three principle features r> Outright purchase of nitrate plants &C\ Nos. 1 and 2 for 16,000,000. Payment of approximately $1,680,000 annual "rental" as Interest on coital invested for waterpower rights.,' Reimbursement of $40,000,000 spent by the government on Wilson Dejk& Reimbursement of $8,000,000 to be spent by the government In builttlnC1 and equipping Dam No. S. Outright expenditure of $16,000,000 by the, government in erection of three locks in connection with these two dams. Muscle Shoals begin at Florence and extend eastward up the Tennessee riser thirty miles, having a fall In that did- ,/; tance of ISO feet Navigation around li?? tuu? hv m?aW wia*7 ouuaio una v . ^ of the Mascle Shoals Canal, a waterway sixteen miles Ion* and containing eleven locks. This canal was began about 1820 and by intermittent effiHt was partly completed in 1880 when lit was opened for navigation. Both the state of Alabama and the Federal government participated in this "work. * ' ^ J, In 1810 government engineers recommended that navigation and power should be jointly developed at Muscle 'Shoals and in 1814 an appropriation was made for diamond drill borings which proggd the sufficiency > of the foundation for proposed dams. A survey was made of lands that would be 7f|j Inundated and options were taken bjr citizens of Sheffield and Florence in the name -*f the government When the war began, the government seeking a site for great nitrate plant turned to Muscle Shoals and the erection of nitrate plant So. *2 - - ? * ?M? Y4 Wamm was started January o. i?o. ? u<r6?? operation October 25 of the same ymfr and. before the armistice was signed severbl thousand totas of ammonium. nitrate was turned ^out - Operations Were suspended after the armistice. but work' was begun on W LI son. Dam and this work continued until May J, 1*21. when the approwlatton^waa e** hausted. The dam then uWwd* in be about 50 per cent, complete. k Three great concrete mixing plants*. ' one of them said to be the largest it) the world, were constructed and opejM atcd for the building of the Wilson Dam. Quarries were opened; resMeaces fbr employes were built, with of* ' {. flee buildings, schools, assembly halls and complete sewerage, lighting and water systems. A fleet of barges and dredges were provided to bring sand and gravel from the river channel,be* low the dam. Wharf and unloading facilities were constructed, with f. line of railroad three miles long extend* ing from'the wharf to the dam site. All of this equipment was pub in "stand-by" condition May 1, 1*20. ' (hi one siding 45 locomotives now staSt covered with grease point. . Wilson Dam, completed, would be the largest in vohimo of material used of any single construction projoctsd in tho United States, army engineers say. From river bed to top driveway over the dam, the height would be 133 feet. The available powerheod of water Impounded above the dam would be 95 feet. The length ot the data would be 4,300 feet. The original plans for the work>calI? ed for the installation of turbines and electric generators capable of produce ing 600,000 electrical horsepower, more than is now represented in the com* bitied hydro-electric developments in the states of Alabama, Georgia, fJOuth Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, according to army engineers. Dam No. 3, proposed in Mr. Ford's bid would be one mile and a quarter In length, fifty feet high, and would have an available waterpower head'Of 42 feet. There Would be installed, under the Ford plan, turbines, electrl? and electric generators in this dam capable of developing more than BW,000 electric horsepower. This dam. would be 17 miles above Wilson dam ai d navigation through the two dfctoa would be effected by means of locks in Wilson, dam and one lock la Dam No 3. ' Negotiations between the government and Mr. Ford have been in pro* gress for several months. His recent tiip with Thomas A. Edison to Muscle Shoals was for the purpose of making a re-survey of the property at the buggestion of government officials with a view of clarifying: and reconciling:, if ./osslble, differences in. Mr. Ford's estimates and those of army engineers concerning: completion of tho work. The greatest complication is understood to have been the differ- ence in estimates of the cost of oom- ? pleting Wilson Dam and the construction of Dam No. 3. ? m ? ? Marshal Foch was accorded a great reception in Chester last Friday afternoon, where he stopped for twelve minutes. His reception was under the joint auspices of the local post of the American Legion and the chamber of commerce. There were several thou- , sand people in attendance and the af- 5 fair wa.s voted a great .succefa.