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Scraps Jacts. ? Malvern, Arkansas, February 3: Harry Harrison, negro, w'as taken from the sheriff of Hot Springs i-ounty and two deputies at the door of a train here shortly before midnight tonight by a party of masked men estimated to number 200 and was riddled with bullets within a few yards of the raiiwnv station. The negro had been accused, of frightening girls and women for some time, his offenaes culminating yesterday when he appeared half clad before an automobile filled with school girls. He was arrested this afternoon and placed in jail. Tonight when it was rumored there was talk of lynching the officers decided to take the negro to Arkadelphia for safekeeping. They had Just boarded the train when they were overpowered by the mob. v ? Soldiers bonus legislation now Binder consideration by the house wa-vs and means committee will carry a pre vision for raising the necessary reve- j nue to finance It. Chairman Fordnej-1 announced Friday after a conference with President Harding at the White House. Whether the money will be obtained by internal taxes or the use of the proceeds from the refunded foreign debt, or both, remains to be determined, Mr. Fordney said. Arguments for and against the tax on beer as a means of raising funds for the ? * "* * ? ? ? tttno I bonus were heard oy me cumimvwo and at their conclusion members indicated very clearly that such a tax was not to be considered. Representative Green, of Iowa, the ranking Republican, declared that aside from the constitutional question involved, the arguments against legalizing the . sale of beer was so compelling that the proposition could not be entertained. Representative Garner of Texas, the rajjking Democrat, said it was a waste of time to talk about raising the question when two-thirds of both the house and senate were opposed to the beer and light wine proposition. ? Having failed to rout out bootleggers hidden in the canyons of Freestone county, says a dispatch of Saturday front Teague, Texas, Brigadier General Jacob Wolters today ordered an attack on their forces by airplane. Lieut. Y. H. Taylor, flying low over a ravine near Fairfield, found the secret rendezvous of the bootleggers and opened Are with a machine gun. ,ru? tinitiofffPi-s returned the Are and ' i. UV VVV>.?vOD-? a pitched batt e ensued. Lieut. Taylor escaped uninjured, and flew back to headquarters of the National Guard for reinforcements. He led Capt. Tom Hickman, veteran of the Mexican border warfare, with twenty-five rangers back to the site of the air battle. The rangers invaded the dense Trinity river bottoms and captured fifty bootleggers and seven stills, according to reports brought in from the "war zone." Gov. Neff declared martial law throughout the county, and reinforcements are being ordered in to move against the hundreds of bootleggers believed to be infesting the denselyunderbrushed river bottoms and almost inaccessible ravines. Hundreds of shots were fired during the engagement that followed Tay'or's air scouting expedition, . but the number of casualties is not known. There were no losses by the rangers. ? Another miserable mess among the moving picture people out in Los Angeles, California. William D. Taylor, director-in-chief of the Players-Laskey corporation was found dead in his home last Thursday morning, from'a bullet in his heart that had entered the b?*k of his ?eck*HeiWns jltfingtbyihb' A desk on which there was a canceled check. There are a number of theories j as to the motive of the murder, 11 i? known that he has been quite friendly with several movie actresses, including: Mabel Normand, Mary Miles Minter and Edna Purriance. There was a theory that the murder had possibly been committed by a butler who had been discharged some time ago for forgery and, theft. There is another theory that, the man was killed cither by or on account of one of his women friends, and that the motive was jealousy or revenge, or both. Taylor ^ stood high in the movie picture world. ' Since his death it has turned out that he has a daughter in New York state, and that his divorced wife has remarried. His real name was William Cunningham Deane Tanner. From investigation of his safety deposit box and bank account he appears to have left an estate valued at about $60,000. The police are still investigating the murder to the best of their ability. ? Providence, R. I., February 5: Announcement was made today by National Organizer James A. Dick of the 1 Amalgamated Textile Workers of 9 whn is conducting the strike of more than 2.500 cotton mill workers in the Pawtucket valley, that a series of conferences have been arranged for tomorrow between representatives of the strikers and the mill g operators to attempt to arrive at a settlement. The textile workers went on a strike after a wage reduction of 20 per cent. Labor organizations both J in the Pawtucket valley and in the Blackstone valley, the two chief textile centers in the state, gave over the day to a series of organization meetings. Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, the labor organization active in the Blackstone valley, addressed a meeting of union delegates in Pawtucket this afternoon. While no new walkouts were announced, plans were discussed for asking the aid of other branches of organized labor in the fight against the wage reduction. It was reported today by President McMahon that outside the Pawtucket valley between 8.000 and 9,000 textile workers are out of work in Rhode Island, 5,000 of which are members of labor organizations. ? The prediction that the Democratic party would make gains in every state in the North, East and West i*d would retrieve in the coming campaign the ground lost in Tennessee and Texas in the last election was made Sunday by Representative Arthur B. Rouse of Kentucky, chairman ot the Democratic national congressional committee. In a formal statement Mr. Rouse announced .that the congressional committee reorganization would be completed within a week. "We have been proceeding energetically," the statement snid. "and have about completed our organization in each state. Our committee includes in its membership a representative in congress from every state in the union that has Democratic representation in the national law-making body. There are now 23 states without Democratic representation. In all except five of these 1 have appointed a prominent Democrat to represent the state on the committee and the organization will be complete within a week. "The committee also will have a woman representative in each state and about half of these appointments have been made." Regarding political conditions throughout the country, Mr. Rouse said that reports from every state and many districts therein "indicate that the people are not satisfied with the present administration and are especially displeased with congress because there has been a complete failure in redeeming the promises of relief that were made during the last campaign." He described business conditions as "rotten," asserting that they were worse now than thrc? month* a?o, and were continuing to grow worse. The emergency tariff law, Mr. Rouse declared, has been "an absolute failure," and instead of helping the fiurner as it was passed "ostensibly" to do, "we find farmers burning corn for fuel and wheat selling lower than when the bill was passed. As a result of such con-it*-*?-?? " *? ? J * ttrUl malrn I UHIUIIS, I1U lUIlLIUUCU, v?c mil munv | gains this year in every state in the I East, North and West and will redeem the districts we lost in the last election in Tennessee and Texas." . She ^orkndc inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mall Matter of th* Second Class. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922. The man who undertakes to decry the idea of a farm bloc In congress, has; in mind about this: 'Trivileged legislation is for manufacturing and financial Interests only. These interests Jive mainly on agricultural production, and must be free to exploit agriculturists as they please. If the agriculturists are to bo given the same ' ,A- 1 ? * no V?non whn hp _ | ngrntH 111 it^isianuu ao tuvuv ?wv long to the manufacturing and flnan| cial interests, then all benefits from [ special legislation will be destroyed or at lca^t neutralized." While it is admitted that a United States circuit judgeship is a most dc! sirable berth to almost any man who f might be elligible for the place, it Would have looked much better if Senator Kenyon of Iowa, had declined the appointment under the circumstances. Whether the president appointed KenyonI for the purpose of embarrassing the farm bloc or not, there is no question of the fact that the farm bloc is much embarrassed by Kenyon's appointment. Political experts in Washington, however, are throwing out the idea that instead of demoralizing the element that has constituted the farm bloc it might drive that element into a third party, with the result of giving the Democrats another show similar to that which resulted in their success in 1912. Another mistrial in the Ar <uckle case; but this time the jury came pretty near getting him. It stood 10 to 2 for conviction. It will be remembered that in the first "trial the jury stood 11 to 1 for acquittal, and the "stubborn" or "unreasonable" juror was a woman. That woman came In for quite, a lot of sarcastic criticism ovogjtb* *?1V U seems that she was about right. There was but one woman on the second jury, and sha was one of the ten who voted for conviction. The district attorney Bays that although satisfied of Arbuckle's guilt, he had decided that if a majority of the jury had been for acquittal he would have dropped the matter. As it is, however, he proposes to try again. That idea of having state and county authorities to buy all public supplies in the state, where possible, as presented to the senate in a bill, is a good one. There are times, possibly, when supplies may be bought outside of the state a little cheaper, apparently; but the difference is only apparent. Money spent in South Carolina is still here, but sent abroad it is gdne. That makes a difference. The principle of home buying toukl be carried much further with tremendous advantage to the state. It is a fact not generally appreciated, that even in 1917, i ioio Knforn tho ravaces of lc'lO cl j IVt MV.-. v w_ the holl weevil had become appreciably felt, South Carolina spent more than her entire, cotton crop for foreign supplies?that could have just as easily been produced on her own farms. If this had practice could he corrected to the extent that we would not go abroad for anything that we could produce at home, this state would soon become one of the richest in the Union. The Mellon idea would give the soldiers a liberal bonus and then take it away from them according to the number of cigarettes they smoked. We have all seen the old trick in the circus in which one fool gives another a ball with a string attached, and laughed at the joke when the ball is jerked back as the pleased recipient Walks off. That is the Mellon trick in a different form. Of course more than half the boys will blow the bonus in as rapidly as possible after they get it. That's nobody's business, however. It's theirs and they should have a right to do what they please with it. But let's give them the bonus in a different way. Let's give them greenbacks. That's the way to put the tax where it belongs. It will cause a certain amount of inflation for the time being, j and that will mean higher prices; but > harder than anynouy eise u win mi the fellow whose income is coming from tax exempted securities. Yes, I let's give the boys greenbacks. We have found the oldest subscriber I to The Yorkville Enquirer. He is Mr. i T. E. Harper of York No. 8, and he has | been taking the paper continuously since the first issue in January, 1855. : In fact he goes back beyond that. lie , took the Yorkville Miscellany, published by L. M. Grist in 1853, and continued as a subscriber when The Yorkville Miscellany became The Yorkville) 'Enquirer. On reference to the records, I i we find where the late L. M. Grist placed a mark on Mr. Harper's label i : indicating "that this paper must never I be stopped without spccinl orders." This mark has never been placed on as I many as a dozen other labels in the ] i history of the paper. The mark re- t mains and from hence forward no more i subscriptions will be collected of Mr. T. i E. Harper. If there are any other sub- i scribers of The Yorkville Enquirer who have a similar record, we will gladly i extend the same compliment we have < extended to Mr. Harper. 1 . 1 Selecting a New Pope. All the Roman Catholic world with t tremendous interest, and all the bal- , ance of the civilized world, v/lth no ( less curiosity, has been watching devel- ( opments in connection with the selection of a new head of the Roman Catholic church just concluded in the Papal palace at Rome. There are sixty cardinals or princes of the church, who since the death of the pope, are supposed to be equal In power and right, and of these flfty-^, 1 three were able to be present when 1 the proceedings were commenced last 1 Friday, with others on the way. These sixty cardinals are housed in 1 the Vatican, one of the immense rooms having been previously divided up into l snug little cells, a cell for each, while around the altar of the Sistine chapel ! there havo been erected sixty screens, one for each cardinal, with a canopy over each, the canopy symbolizing sovereignty. 1 In their respective cells the cardinals are supposed to be devoting themselves to prayer, importuning God thntf chall for guidance as iu iur wuiuu .... . vote, and upon call, each comes out -and takes his place under his canopy < in the Slstine chapel. As the name of each cardinal Is call- 1 ed he three times announces his choice, and after the record of the votes of all the cardinals Is completed there is a solemn count of the ballot from the urn in which they have been placed. If the count does not agree with the number of cardinals present the ballots are burned; but if it does agree, there is a tabulation of the vote, each cardinal taking down the names as they are called out, and if one has received two-thirds of the votes recorded, the ballots are burned In a little stove that has a pipe running out the chapel window. Finally after an election has been arrived at, announcement Is made in < solemn form, after which the canopies ] are removed from all the screens except that occupied by the newly chosen pope, indicating that the new pope Is supreme head of the church, and that the others though still equal to each other, are subject to the pope, who Is thence forward sole sovereign. None but the participating cardinals and their attendants are allowed within the Vatican walls while the centuries old ceremony is in progress, but in accordance with tinie-honored custom, thousands of eager and zealous < ."people crowd at points of vantage on t the outside, mainly on the porticoes of St. Feter's, close by, to watch the smoke from the stovepipe of the Sis- i line chapel as each non-resulting bal- i lot is burned and wait the final out- ] come when the herald from within ap- . pears to announce, "I proclaim to you j tidings of great joy," etc, 1 The balloting began on Friday, and \ at the seventh ballot on yesterday re suited in the election of Cardinal Achil- i les Ratti,.Archbishop of Milan, who j was announced as Pope Pius XI. He is to be crowned on February 12. I . I Federal Reserve Profits. The Yorkville Enquirer was incor- ( rect in its recent statement to the effect, "That there is no requirement in ! the law as to how the Federal Reserve 1 board should spend the profits they ' make after paying the 6 per cent dlv- 1 Idcnd to member banks." 1 Although the editor had the law a'. 1 hand, he allowed himself to be lei inlojl this assumption because ot me ivay the banks have been handling the 'money under their control, and failed to lonk the matter up. There is,a law as to what should be 1 done with the Federal Reserve profits; but it is a very loose law, and leaves ' the governors of the board to do very * much as it pleases. It is Congressman Stevenson who has kindly called our attention to our i mis-statement. Mr. Stevenson under- ( stands how The Yorkville Enquirer ( prides itself on accuracy in such mat- < tors, and being in position to know the < facts, has given us a clear statement l of them, along with some level-headed : comments, as follows: s "As a matter of fact the law is that j the banks shall pay (after paying expenses), first, a aix per cent dividend to the stockholders; second, shall hold a surplus of 100 per cent of the sub- ' scribed capital stock, which is 200 per < cent of the capital stock paid in. as ( there has never been but 50 per cent of the stock paid in. All profits made over and above that 1 -ball be turned into the United States i trononrv as n. franchise tax. with the , exception that after the surplus has , been accumulated ten per cent of the profits shall be set aside each year as 1 additional surplus and the balance : paid into the United States treasury. ' The surplus has been accumulated ' for a year or two and in the neigh- I be rhoofi of one hundred million dollars * franchise tax has been paid into the ' United States treasury, according to j my recollection of the figures, so that von will see that the -United States is ? getting some benefit from it. ' "The expensive buildings they have ' been erecting are being paid for out of < and carried as part of the su plus 1 which they have accumulated. "I do not justify their extravagance < in these matters, but I know you want ! he correct facts, and the buildings are < being paid for out of the hanks' stir- j ' plus. ) "The indefensible feature of their p proceedings is the enormous increase j 1 in salaries, which is of course a part | 4 of the operating expenses and which i ? directly reduces the franchise tax 1 which would go to the United States ( treasury and help to reduce the gener- ' al taxes on the people. < ' 1 think it is very reprehensible to t pay the extravagant salaries they are t paying at some places." (l . From this very clear statement, it . appears that although the law does i irovlde the manner hn which the profts may be disposed of, it leaves it in he discretion of tho board to fritter iway the profits in ex ^nses?to diride the profits up among the manigement in salaries. While it is true that we were in er-or in stating that there was no law lirecting the divison of profits beyond ;he requirement to pay 6 per cent to he member bank stockholders, and (vhile we are not able to offer good ex- j :use for this error, still it is a fact ; .hat the law is of very little importance. It seems to be in the power of the Federal Reserve board to use up Lhe earnings in expenses, if it sees proper. Pay It With Greenbacks. Henry Ford, in speaking of the Muscle Shoals plant, made an observation about money that shows the advance in economic thought.- He called attention to the fact that gold was not wealth; that real wealth was cotton, wheat, iron, copper and steel and said that power was a much better basis for the issue of currency than i'old. Mr. Ford must have meant that power turning wheels, taken as the u wkUU +? Knon niirnpnPV Ulllt uyuil W 11 J VII iu U(U>C m. , would automatically make the amount In circulation in the ratio of business needs of the country. The World war was fought on bond issues, and has left the world overwhelmingly in debt. The amount of gold in existence is inadequate for the nation to trade upon. In fact gold does not, nor has Jt in the past nor will it in the future .exist in sufficient quantities to furnish an honest basis for a sufficient quantity of paper money. This government is perpetrating a folly to purchasV,gold as a basis for its own currency. At the present rate of imports, all of the available gold of the world within five years will be in the United States. How then can we trade with other nations? If the basis is then changed the United States will bear the loss of all of this gold. Like Henry Ford says, the water power, mines, lands and productive energy of " * ' 1? <? ?ha nrnnpr mo American ycupic 10 mu ? basis for currency issue. That ic what the Federal Reserve law was supposed to do, give us "an elastic curren:y," which would contract and expand to meet the needs of the country, but it seems to be controlled now by a syndicate of bankers, and money is our master, not our servant. Why not try an experiment with the soldiers' bonus, of paying it in notes of the United States treasury, bearing no interest, and with But the single promiso to receive it fc/r dues to the government. We believe that for all practical purpose;, it Wgftild make a valuable addition to t .circulation and would cost the taxpayer nothing. John C. Calhoun did not Believe in a currency which was convertible, that is, whose credit restc^ on a promise to pay and Henry Clay in 1838, said in the senate that "Whatever a government agrees to receive in payment of public dues, Is a medium of exchange ?is current money, no matte, what its form may be." Currency issued in this way, with but the single promise to receive it for ' government taxes, would form a perfect paper circulation; it would be uniform in value and * ' '? K.r 4V,r? not subject to mamiium.iuu u? Federal Reserve board. It would, be far safer than the policy of allowing government bonds to be used as bank deposits and then without notice sudlen'y withdrawing the privilege. This currency would be in fact noninterest bearing treasury bills bottomed on taxea and would take the place of so much geld. "With the growing scarcity of gold abroad, the American dollar is at a. heavy premium, this makes the rate of exchange almost prohibitive. The remedy is to make American dollars more plentiful. One reason of stagnation here is that the American dollar isj being sent abroad, making it scarce at home. This mon py would stay at liomc and stabilize value. Money la lfkc a good dog, the j floser it stays at home, the more useful it is. ? Lancaster, Feb. 3: The new administration has decreed that cold Irinks shall not be sold in Lancaster m Sunday, and the "lid" was clamped town tight the past Sunday. It is unlerstood that gasoline comes under Lhe head of "necessities" and will be jold on Sunday's as usual. At the drug stores, only "medicines and magazines" are sold. ? A plan for shippers throughout the country to use American vessels as carriers for their foreign exports in the interest of the American merchant marine was voiced by United States Senator William M. Calder in an address before the Forum of the Institutional Synagogue, in New York last Tuesday. Public opinion, he said, should be aroused to appreciate the necessity of keeping afloat freighters built during the war at a cost of hunIreds of millions of dollars and to win back the country's earlier distinction of carrying nearly 90 per cent, of its exports in domestic bottoms. He said he would back legislation to this end. The lack of interest in the maintenance of a merchant marine has been caused largely by the fact that our business men have found other lines )f endeavor more profitable," Senator Odder said. "In the beginning of our listory the populous ports of our country were ranged along the eastern seaboard. We had to maintain a merchant marine. Today the center of J copulation is a thousand miles from | lie Atlantic and 2,000 miles from the I'acific. Our internal affairs occupy he attention of the business of our country more than our overseas trade tnd we have not appreciated the advantage of maintaining a fleet to carry >ur products to the furthermost parts >f the world. L atn in favor of the enactment of measures which will nature this being done,and I am certain bat the vast majority of the people I f our slate would support legislation o assure this result. If we are to exend our foreign commerce we must lave the chips with which to do It." ' LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS J. R. Barnwell, H. P.?Royal Arch Masons take notice. ( Southerland-Wnkefleld Co., Charlotte? Know how and skill. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?First showing of ladies' spring coat suits. Garrison-Faris Seed Co.?Nitrate of Soda and Su'phate of Ammonia. McConnell Dry Goods Company?Great clothing value. Bank of Clover?We invite you to come _ to dollar day. First xvaiionai tsanit 01 uiover?i-ca- | nuts. J, M. Stroup?Men's better clothing. Nathan Feinstein?Special low prices. Cash and Carry?The great and small. W. H. Sherer, Clover?Be sure to visit us next Saturday, Dol'ar Day. Clover Drug Store?Come to Clover next Saturday. Parrott's Clover?Drive Dollar Day. The City Pharmacy, Clover?Visit us on Dollar Day. M. L. Ford & Sons, Clover?We have slashed prices. First National Bank of Sharon?The bureau drawer is a dangerous place. R C. Blarkwell, Secretary?Attention Odd Fellows. Mrs. T. S. Sandifer?Time to pay. Miss Sallie McConnell?Time to pay. P. D. Hopper?Time to pay. S. M. Sifford, Principal?Tacky party. T. M. Ferguson, Commander?Attention legionaires. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager ? Thomas Melghan today. W. D. Thomasson, Clerk?Woodmen re-instated. W. W. Barron, Contractor?B'Golly Cash will do it. The Millinery Parlor, Mrs. J. M. Ferguson?Leaving for Baltimore markets today. There is a new rule at Winthrop college that permits mothers to spend the week-end with their daughters. "Clover merchants who are interested in the big Dollar Day sale to be held in that town next Saturday are busy this week cutting- down prices on goods of every sort and they are looking forward to about the biggest day's business in the history of the town," said a Clover citizen yesterday. "Seventeen of the leading merchants and other business houses have gone in for Dollar day next Saturday and they expect to make things hum. The advertising committee consists of Messrs. S. A. Sifford, J. Clyde Ford and Dr. J. E. Brison. If the weather doesn't break into arrangements business is going to boom in Clover next Saturday and no j mistake about that." MORE THANYORTY YEARS. So far the following responses have been received in response to the request for information about subscribers who have been taking The York.{JJOJ uuio ojoux JOJ .lajjnbua OJIJA years: T. E. Harper, York, No. 8, 67 years. . S. H. Epps, Sr., Fort Mill, since 1867. M. S. Carroll, Filbert No. 1, since 1867. S. L. Pursley, Clover No, 4, since 1880. J. M. Brian, Yorkvllle, since 1S78. A. H. Merritt, Fort Mill, since 1S70. , ?. ? .... j - j . THE MARRIAGE RECORD Since the last publication of the record in T^" Yorkvllle Enquirer, the following . - . iage licenses have been I 1 laaucu uy tuc juu^o ^ivuuw vw vuv following: Feb. 1.?Dock Lowry and Irene McCaw, York township, (colored). Feb. 3.?Frazer Collins and Lizzie May Thomas, Bethesda township, colored). Feb. 4.?Clarence Sumner and Letha Benfield, Belmont, N. C. Feb. 4.?Jim Lindsay and Alice Miller, York township, (colored). Feb. 4.?Frank Barney and Lizzie Jackson, Ebenezer township, (colored). REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?Martha Wylie to Isabelle Spur lock, 1 lot; $1 and love and affection. W. II. Gladden to Martha Wylie and Sallie Jones, 1 lot; $700. Hugh L. Milling to F. D. Frcssell, 1 lot; $3,859.11. I. T. McFadden' et al to Victoria Mills, 1 lot; $1 and exchange of property. Harry Barnes to Henrietta Barnes, 1 lot; $1. ' rc Cn.,n,?nl1 In I TT f'nrnvvpll pt a I, 6'acres; $300. Ebenezer?York L. Wilson lo Jerushia. M. Johnson, 1 loi, $3,900. York?H. W. Witherspoon to H. D. } i tiffs to tier, l lot, $1,200. J. Ross Cannon to C. Frank Sherer, 150 1-2 acres; $1,113 and other considerations. ABOUT PEOPLE C. S. Pratt, of Sharon, was a visitor in Yorkvillc, yesterday. J. M. Williams, of McConnellsvillc, was in Yorkville, yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Brandt, are reported quite sick with influenza at their home j in Sharon. J. Ed Harper, of York No. 8, was among the visitors in Yorkville, yesterday. I.. M. Allison, of Hickory Grove, was among the visitors in Yorkville, last Saturday. Messrs. J. A. and J. L. Whitesides, have recently moved into new homes which they have built at Sharon. Mrs. R. Neil, of I^ancaster, spent Sunday in Yorkville, with her sister, Airs. M. A. McFarland. James Cansler, of Columbia, a member of the state railroad commission was among the visitors in Yorkville, yesterday. Mrs. John S. Jones, of Bowling Green { spent Saturday and Sunday with her | daughter, Miss Sarah Jones, at kock Hill. Miss (lay Alexander, of AVlnthrop College, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Alexander, in Yorkville. Reports from the bedside of Magis- ' trate A. J. Quinn, this morning were to I the effeet that his condition continues | favorable. Mrs. M. 1j. Carroll, who has been j undergoing treatment at Fennell In- i Urinary, Rock Hill, has returned to her ! home in Yorkville and is recuperating 1 rapidly. George Ferguson, son of Mr. and r Mrs. I.#. G. Ferguson, is ill at the home J1 of his parents, in Yorkville, with pneu- i| monia. Mr. "tin d Mrs. Ferguson and,' Miss Virgie Ferguson have been ill for the past three weeks with influenza, but are all able to be up again. ( Dr. L. W. Burbee, dental surgeon ] of Springfield, Orangeburg county, ( and a member of the house from t Orangeburg, was in Yorkville jester- < rlay, prospecting for a location to the 1 practice of his profession. Ciastonia Gazette, Monday: Dr. J. C. Galloway leaves today for Due West 1 to attend a meeting of the board of trustees of Erskine Theological Seminary. The business of the board is to elect a successor to the late Dr. J. S. MoiTatt as treasurer of the seminary. Returning, Dr. Galloway will stop in Spartanburg to hear Biiiy Sunday. Mr. M. L. Carroll, of Yorkville, has been confined to his home for about ten days Because or a serious swelling on one of his legs. The trouble started from an insignificant scratch and developed into something closely akain to erysipelas. Information this morning, however, i3 that he is able to sit up and is very much better. ROAD TO CLOVER "How is the best way to get from Yorkvillc to Clover," asked the reporter of Supervisor Brown yesterday. "I guess you had better try the C. & N.-W. if you haven't got an airplane," the supervisor replied smiling through a worried expression on his face. "How did you come to town?" was the next question. The supervisor lives just south of Filbert on the Clover road, and besides a flivver he has several mules that are available for traveling purposes. "I walked in and I expect I will get back the same way," he explained. Then he went on to say: "There is no good road to Clover now. The best is the country road that turns off at the right two miles from the courthouse and goes by the Tom Hopper place and tho Butlor Thomasson old place. But this has been used so much of late that it is in very bad fix, and being but a single track if you happen to meet anybody, you arc both in trouble. The King's Mountain road is impassible from the Courtney place past John Hall's to the Quinn place, and even if you were at the Quinn place you could not get to my house because of the loose mud on those fills we are malting. mere has hecn some travel today by way of Black & Dickson's store; but the road is bad that way also. If we can have a few days of clear weather, however, I think we can get along fairly well." "What's the chain gang doing today ?" "Not much of anything. We had it out on the roads last Saturday; but today it is not doing anything but cutting a little wood.", All the roads are bad in every direction except the travel is fairly good toward Rock Hill and McConj nellsville. WITHIN THE TOWN | ? There was some trading stock in | Yorkville yesterday but not a great | deal. 1 ?Chief Steele said this morning that j he had not done anything in the past few days worth reporting. ? Church attendance was rather below the average Sunday on account of the rainy weather which continued throughout the day. ? William Melton, colored, son of George Melton, the old time cook is home from New York, on a short visit, for the first time in thirteen years. He says he is employed as cook in a Fifth avenue apartment house. ? The time for making returns without penalty expires February 20, and as there are many returns still to come in, the auditor's office is having a busy time of it. Both Auditor Love' and Miss Wilma Quinn, his plerk were writing returns constantly during yesterday. ? There was a considerable thunder and electrical storm which kept up most of last night and a Lard rain accompanied it. There was rain, s'eet and snow and some report hail during the night. The wind was quite heavy. The mercury fell some twenty degrees ? * a- oer ~ * ? yesterday and last nignt 10 oa ut ? o'clock this morning-. ? There have been numerous applicants for the position of night policeman recently made vacant by the resignation of Sep Huey. Mr. Huey's successor has not yet been elected by the council, although Mr. It. F. Par- J rott is serving temporarily. ? The Lockmore Cotton mills resumed operations yesterday after having been closed down for about two weeks on account of the installation of new machinery and the making of certain other important changes. Mr. W. R. Armstrong, the president, said yesterday that he expected to have the mill on combed yarns very shortly. After the 15th instant Mr. J. 11. Moore of Rutherfordton county, N. C., will take charge as superintendent, vice Mr. F. C. Wood, resigned. ? The local chapter of the Red Cross was reorganized at <he annual meeting held in the courthouse last Friday night. Mrs. W. II. Horndon was elected chairman, vice Mis. W. P. Glenn, and Mrs. It. M. Bratton was elected vice chairman. J. It. Lindsay was elected treasury and J. E. Hart secretary. Mrs. G. C. Cartwright was elected chairman of the executive committee, consisting of twenty members. The attendance was small. ? In reply to a letter on lilt; auuj?.k | from the editor of The Yorkville Enquirer, Confrressman Stevenson says that there is no question'of the fact that the people of Yorkville are 'entitled to have their village delivery advanced to city delivery, and that he has taken the matter up with the postoffice department. He promises to leave no stone unturned to bring about the desired end; hut in view of the fact that the administration is probably not as much interested in the wishes of the Democratic constituency as it would be in the wishes of a Republican constituency. he cannot promise what the result will be. LOCAL LACONICS Prisoners In Jail. Although the April term of court of general sessions for York county is about two months off there are now eleven prisoners in the county jail awaiting trial at that court. There arc also two United State3 prisoners in the county jail. Many Additions To Church. There were thirty-two additions to Sharon Methodist church as the result of a week's protracted meeting conducted there by Rev. Driggers who pieached for the pastor, Rev. Lewis. The meeting was concluded Sunday night. Each service was largely attended. Cooper Signs Hart's Bill. Governor Cooper has signed an act I introduced by Senator Hart to author- ! izc the town council or tne town ui j York in this state for and in behalf i of the town of York, and in its name, | to subscribe for shares in any building j and loan association incorporated by i and doing business in this state not ex- i .reeding in their aggregate face value the sum of $15,000. Sale Of Matthews Property. A seven room house and lot a part of 1 the estate of the late D. A. Matthews, located in the heart of the town of Clover, was sold at auction Saturday o XV. B. Xtroifp, of Clover, for $1,000. i Six other lots advertised, for sale at '* * - - . . i the auction were bid In by the owners. The lot on which tho house purchased. % by Mr. Stroup is located has a frontage of CO feet and a depth of 200 feet. Auction Sal*. An Anderson automobile, $750 worth of common stock of the Anderson Motor Car Co., a typewriter and an nnnnUInn ?ho nPAFtAPtV flf .1 \f. rlUUillg iiKlLtliiiv, vuw |/.wrv. & C. R. McGill, recently adjudged bankrupts of Hickory Grove, was sold at auction before the courthouse door yesterday morning:. The automobile brought >430; the adding machine, $35; the typewriter, $12.50 and the motor car stock, $70. Ogden Tiger Captured. Charged with selling whisky and having knowledge of a still found in a tenant house near his home, Ollie Newsome, a farmer of the Ogden community, was arrested Saturday night by Constable Frank Allen. A small quantity of whisky is alleged to have been found in Newsome's automobile at the time he was arrested and tlie ^ machine was confiscated. To Receive Decoration. Rock Hill Herald: Major J;ones C. Dozier will go to Columbia Wednesday to receive from a representative of the government, the Italian war cross, recently awarded him by the Italian government. Besides Major Dozier, Sergeant R. H. Hilton of the University: J. C. Villipigue of Camden. and Sergeant Gary Evans Foster of Inman, will each receive the Italian war cross, these four being the South Carolinians to receive this distinction. The presentation will take place at Camp Jackson, with full military honors. School Will Open Next Week. The new Miller school building In District No. 48, will be completed very probably the last of this week, accord I ing to J. M. Brice, one or tne scnooi trustees. Miller school building, it will be recalled, was burned several tveeks ago and this fire was followed by the burning of Harmony Presbyterian churclj into which the school had been moved. Mr. Brice said that it was expected to resume school work in the new building next week. Cannery Proposed At Fort Mill. Farmers and business men of Fort Mill and community have been called to attend a meeting in Fort Mill this afternoon to consider the organization of a cannery to be located in Fort Mill. It is urged that the prospective invasion of the bo'l weevil in Fort Mill and vicinity may prove disastrous to the farming interests and that a canr nery would provide a comfortable source of income to the farmers who ' would bo urged to grow certain vegetables for the purpose. Fort Mill Woodmen. White Oak camp, Woodmen of the World, served its annual banquet Thursday evening In the armory, at Fort Mill, and the affair was attended by about 150 members and their guests. Among the guests from out of town were.C. B. Bryant and J. W. Wilson of Rock Hill, both of whom responded to toasts during the evening. There were also several short addresses by local speakers, and the occasion was voted to be one of the most pleasant In the long history of the carip. The officers for the new year are B. C. Ferguson council commander; J. D. Lyles, adviser lieutenant; Li. J. Massey, banker; T. A. Mills, clerk; T. N. Reeves, escort, Sam srt,>?,hpnn inside sentinel and T. L?. Pitman outside sentinel. MERE MENTION A'len S. Williams, 64 author, naturalist and friend of the late John Burroughs died in New York x Sunday night Two men were drowned and two others narrowly escaped death when an automobile in which the four were riding at Toledo, Ohio, early Sunday morning skidded on a slippery pavement and plunged into a creek thirty feet below the pavement ? Mrs. Martha Smith Beatty, idow of Dr. Robert Beatty, famous surgeon and oaid to be the first white child to live in Floyd county, Ga., died at her home in Rome, Ua^ Sunday, aged 91 years. Thousands of horrified spectators looked on at Cooge, a seaside near Sydney, Australia, last Sunday while a shark attacked and fatally bit Michael Coghlan, an 18-year-old bather The end of danger within a week from influenza and pneumonia was foreseen Sunday night by Health Commissioner Copeiand of New York, who said he based his optimism on the mildness of the epidemic and the low death rate this year. He recalled that during the same period of the 1918 epidemic there were hundreds of deaths daily from both diseases ..Smallpox is reported to have become epidemic in many districts in Costa Rica and a commission of physicians and Red Cross workers is beginning a sanitation campaign and taking other measures to ?'' ?niHomir Gen. Christian Dp Wet, commander in chief of the Boer forces in flic war of 1899 died at his home in Dewetsdrop, Union of South Africa, last Friday Operations of the postal service for the three months ending September 30, last show a deficit of $25,252,358 according to an official statement issued by the postoffice department Sunday New cases of influenza, are being reported In New York at the rate of more than one thousand a doy_? President Harding, in a talk to government officials Friday said, that while government expenditures up to December 81 forecast a deficit on July 1, the indications now. are thr.t on July . 1 the receipts will show a surplus over expenditures On motion of Senator LoFollette, the senate has adopted a resolution intended to -forestall modifications of the United States court requiring the "Big Five" meat pickers to relinquish their unrelated lines of business Mrs. Delia Sanford, aged 108 years, of South Norwaik, Conn., says that the one ambition of her declining years is an airplane flight The public executioners of Karlsrhue, Germany, have notified the minister of justice that they will go on strike unless their pay is raised, alleging that it is Impossible to properly beneaa criminals m ent prices Matt Dottson, village marshal, shot his brother, Al, t#? death at Becorah, la., Friday, when the latter interfered in an arrest being made by Matt .More than 75,000 railroad workers of Germany are on a. strike for higher wages. Transportation is almost completely tied up ? Dr. B. C. T. Loder, former member of the Dutch supreme court, has been chosen president of the International Court of Justice, which begins its formal sessions at The Hague on February 15 Mis3 Elsie Hill, a daughter of the late Congressman E. J. Hill, hits announced her candidacy for congress from the Fourth Connecticut district on the farmer-labor ticket Miss Ruth Muskrat, Cherokee Indian student, will be one of the American delegates to the World's Student Federation convention at Peking, China, next April The entire Atlantic fleet of the United States navy is now r? Guantanoma, Cuba, for winter practice work._ Ussel mountain, in France, is said to be sliding toward the village of Malmon at the rate of one mile a week. The 8,000 people of Malmon are terror-stricken The Chilean ministry has resigned following censure of the finance minirter by