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OAKNEREO WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Wlthou the County. > A. CONDENSED FOB QUICK REAB1NI Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying anc Do inn. Lancaster News, April 25: It Is Interesting to the traveling public to know that- the overhead bridge at Pleasant Hill Is much Improved in reconstructing same with a better angle. Tills will lend greatly to diminish the danger of such bridge crossings over the high raHroad cut .Mrs. Pearl llelms, died Monday April 17th, after several weeks of lllncks, and was Imried next day at Upper Camp Creek cemetery, the funeral sendees being ecndlicted by Rev. W. A. Roach.? The Lancaster High by a score of 8 to 7 won the game between Lancaster and Chester on the -home grounds last Friday Mrs. Hasseltine Octavla Crenshaw, widow of the late Troy Crenshaw, passed away in her eightythird year at the home of her daughter, M 1*8. G. W. Cauthen, or Dry Creek, on the 19th of April. Surviving Mrs. Crenshaw arc one daughter, MrsCauthen and two sons. L J. Crenshaw, of Houston, Texas, and L. M. Crenshaw, of this county? Mrs. R. M. Robinson and children returned Sat* urday from Clover, where Mrs. Robinson represented the Ijxncaster church as delegate to the Catawba Presbytery and also visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newman Plajfco. _..Mr. Palmer ShOhan abd Miss Inez Ellis, both of,Lancaster, were married at the Methodist parsonage on April 17, Wy Rev. E. R. Mason. Chester Reporter, April 24: One of the most impressive sights ever witnessed in Chester county occurred yesterday afternoon at Sandy River Just below the dam, 'when Dr. Robert C. Lee, pastor of the First Baptist church, baptized 92 of the 125 converts at the recent meeting. Twenty others were baptized at the church last night. The exercises "at Sandy Riter wore witnessed by a crowd variously estimated at from 3,000 to 6,000 persons. Twelve persons united with Ihe eh'f'oh yesterday morning, comprising with those who connected before the meeting closed, a total of 167 as the iruits of that most remarkable- campaign Mr. M. A. Carpenter met with a peculiar and very distressing accident yesterday, as a result of which he has a pair of badly burned hands and narrowly escaped more serious Injury. Mr. Carpenter was Altering some gasoline through a chamois skin when the fluid was ignited by the sunlight, and before Mr. Carpenter could jump to a place of safety ho had been most sinfully burned on his hands, which were wet with gasoline : _...Thc machinery and supplies for the Community creamery arrived Saturday, and the officers are seeing to it that no time will be lost in installing the equipment. The machinery was purchased from the Creamery Package company and was sent here complete%from their warehouses in Chicago. A representative of the company is expected here in the next day or so to have complete charge of the Installation. The creamery will be completely equipped in every detail and will be a modern plant and a cred it to Chester Mr. and Mrs. S. Q. Myers will leave in a few days for Lenoir, NT. C., Where they will take charge of the Carlheim hotel, which Mr. Myers recently purchased. Mr. Myers says he is not leaving Chester l?ermanently, but plans to be at Lenoir until he can get everything in good running condition. Mr. Chas. N. Myers, of North Wilkesboro, N. C., a nephew, will havo charge of the Myers hotel here Associate Justice J. H. Marion signed a*p order Saturday granting Joe Queen bond in the sum of $1,000. Queen, who shot and killed Rich Peay Monday, April 10th, is represented by Messrs. Gaston & Hamilton. Gastonia Gazette, April 25: In a simple, but very beautiful ceremony taking place Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. VV. J. Clifford, on Itroad street, Miss Annie Clifford and Mr. Walter Thomas Tucker were united in marriage, the bride's pastor. Rev. \V. C. Clifford, pronouncing the ceremony Four men were taken from Gastonia to the state prison at Raleigh Sunday. They were Arthur Bender, white, convicted in superior court last week of second degree burglary and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor; Prcssly Adams, colored, convicted of the same offense and sentenced also to twenty years; Frank Furr, white, convintori nf lnropnv nn/3 coninnrvi/1 to serve two years, and \V. C. Krout, white, the check flasher, who was being; held in the county jail pending the reviewing of his case by the supreme court. Krout is under a sentence ol ten years. His case has not been heard but it was deemed advisable to transfer liirn to the state prison for safe keeping, there being evidence to thf effect that he-had made efforts to secure his freedom from the county jail These men were taken through tht country by Deputy Sheriff J. W. Coh and Policeman Tom Rankin. The tri| by automobile required seven hours and was without incident. Cleveland Star (Shelby), April 25 J. W. Pell and wife, were arrested Pat' urday at Casur by Deputy Pearly Hoyh for transporting liquor. The wife con coaled a gallon jug under her dress and when the officers were about t< arrest her she brok? the jug with u eo cn-cnln hnttle nllowini? the contents ti MAKES STARTLI) ? Capt. Francis McCullagh, now await long absent visitors to Irek Dublin Is once more Gaelic, with writers in use, the Sinn Fein flaj army on guard, but that the revo are moderate compared with ?the eastern Europe Republics, saturate the car and the ground.- ? Two big 50-gallon capacity copper stills were discovered and broken Sunday in Burke county near the Three County Corners, a short distance from Bill Bradshaw's. The raid was made by Prohibition Enforcement Officer Willis of Lincolnton, assisted by Deputies Pearly Hoyle and E. W. Dixon, Who declared that the stills were mammoth affairs. They destroyed 2,000 gallons of beer. The operators were at work on Sunday, but saw the officers and made their escape Policeman Bob Kendrick found a large SO gallon capacity still down in the Sharon community Saturday. Several hundred gallons of beer were destroyed anu iwu gallons of brandy seized. The outfit was brought to the courthouse yesterday The entrance of Treasurer Rush Stroup and Rev. C. J. Woodson into the senatorial race in Cleveland county, will bring about a three-corT nered fight which promises to develop into an interesting political battle during the month of May for the Democratic primary which will be hold June 3rd. Mr. Stroup. who has held the office of county treasurer for about 12 years, remained hesitating for a week or more, but finally decided to cast his hat into the ring on Friday last. Rev. C. J. Woodson, who represented the county in the lower house at Raleigh for one term, has filed his notice of candidacy, but says he is only "tentatively" in the race and will decide later whether he will forfeit his fee or pursue the chase. In the event he does run, he will make eleven speeches in the eleven townships of the county. Mr. Sain Custer Lattimnrc was the first to announce several weeks ago. He is a farmer, while Mr. Woodson is a preacher, and Mr. Stroup a lawyer, so the voters should experience no difficulty iu making a choice for this office. ... Mr. Junius L. (Jrigg died at his homo north .of Lawndale Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock, following an ill ness since January (ilii with cancer of the stomach. Air. (Jrigg's death is a source of great sorrow to his many friends, not only in upper Cleveland, i hot in Shelby, where ho was well and j favorably known. WINS FIGHT WITH FISH Diver Caught Under Water by Monster of the Deep. I tattling for his life fifty feet beneath the surface of I'ugct Sound, Walter McCray, a diver, known in marine circles from Alaska to California, came out victorious at Tacoma, Wash., recently over a giant devil fish. The monster wound its tentacles sc tightly about McCray that the diver was unable to reach the knife he earlies for protection. When one tentacle threatened to cut off the ait supply, McCray, through the submarine telephone, called for a short steel wrecking bar. With this weapon lu was able to pierce the body of the devil fish, and at last, with man and monster still struggling desperately McCray was drawn to the surface b> ' his assistant and other men called tc help. j While Richard Burnett, a ' docV watchman, stood by with drawn pistols unable to shoot because the divei | ?t1111 ur \ II wvic ?*u rjiKipivi<.'i) tangled. others attacked with whai I wcapons there were at hand, ant ' i finally the devil tish released its holt ' and disappeared heneath tin water. The devil fish was one of the lersr . i est ever seen in tliese waters. ?i X'i The wooden brigantine Kssex, tlx . | flagship of the American fleet whirl i I broke up the slave trade t>n the wes -> ] roast of Afrira, is to ho stripped of it |engines and beached at Duluth as ai " | armory and station ship for Minnesoti 3* naval reserves. ? XG REVELATIONS. in Dublin, says that many surprises md. According to Capt. McCulIagh, Gaelic in the schools, Gaelic typeg over Dublin Castle and an Irish lutionists that brought It all about ex-Revolutionalres, who now rule RECORD OF THE KILLER Left Bloody Trail Over South Carolina Last Year. Nine and nine-tenths out of every ! 100,000 population Is the record for homicides in York county, according to figures compiled by Prof. Wilson Gee, of the University of South Carolina. Not only does this average apply to York county, but the state average for South Carolina is but four persons higher. The state average is 14.7 persons out of every 100,000, or a total of 247 persons killed in homicides in South Carolina last year, one person killed every other day. Of all the counties in the state Dorchester county has the only spotless record, there being not one single homicid# in the county last year. Florence county had a total of 16 killings, Spartanburg had 14, Charleston and Bamberg 13 each, Anderson 12, and so on down the list. Rank of Counties. The relative rank of the counties, ' " ? *> 4Ka uom me numuer ui iiuiiuliu^o aiiu. u>c population considered, is shown in the following table compiled from the records of the bureau of vital statistics: Total num- Rates per ber of homi- 100,000 cides population. Dorchester 0 .0 Pickens 1 3.5 Lee 1 3.7 Dillon 1 4.0 Georgetown 1 4.6 Calhoun 1 5.4 Clarendon 2 5.7 Chester 2 6.0 Oconee 2 6.6 Uairfleld 2 7.4 Marlon 2 8.4 Newberry 3 8.4 Berkeley 2 8.9 Richland 7 9.0 i Saluda - 2 9.1 j York 5 9.9 Jasper 1 10.1 I Greenville 10 11.3 Charleston 13 12.0 I Allendale 2 12.4 Darlington 5 12.8 Beaufort 3 13.5 Sumter 6 14.0 Lancaster 4 14.0 Spartanburg 14 14.9 | Marlboro 5 15.0 {Orangeburg 10 . 15.4 Williamsburg 6 15.6 I lorry - 5 15.6 Chesterfield ? 5 15.6 I Anderson 12 15.7 | Union - 5 16.5 I Edgefield 4 16.7 I Lexington 6 16.8 j Kershaw * 5 17.0 I s 18.1 I (Ireonwood 7 19.0 Darn well 5 21.7 Aiken 10 21.7 Abbeville 6 22.1 Hamptun 5 25.3 Laurens 11 25.9 Colleton 8 26.8 Florence 16 31.7 MeCormick 6 36.5 ' Uamberg 13 62.0 The stutc 247 14.7 .1 DOG PRISONERS SHOT I . Fell Into Mountain Crevice in Pursuit J of Fox. I After their owners had several , times risked death, dangling in midair at the end of a 400-foot rope in an efi fort to rescue them, two fox hounds which had become imprisoned in a : crevice far down the side of Stone . | Mountain, (la., were shot last week, to save them from starvation. I The dogs went over the edge of the t' gigantic rock several days before 1 while chasing a fox and slipped with I ! hut slight injury into a crevice several ! I hundred feet down the side. . I \\\ (?. and Ronald Venahle. owners j of the dogs, procured ropes ar.d let J I themselves off into spree in vain ef- | p forts to reach the .crevice. J ^ t ! X' A maid in a New York hotel died | M | recently, leaving an estate of $ 1 f>,f?00 i n > rained by her own hands. Her pay . | was $16 a week, ( I TO ALASKA BY MOTOR Good Roads This Summer Where There Have Been None Before. Automobile travel in Alaska, an Impossibility to any extent in the f>ast, | will this stimmer oe a popular lourisi attraction because of completed highways, says a Seattle, Wash., dispatch. The road from Valdez, at tide water, to Fairbanks Is 370 miles long, government owned and kept in perfect condition by constant working. The scenic attraction along thin high- I way cannot be surpassed in the states because of their "newness" and the wildness of the surrounding regions. Over mountains that tower thousands of feet above the motorist, through weather worn canyons housing roaring streams of glhcial water and into dense forests which prove a welcome relief from the hot rays of the long day's sun the most northcrnly improved boulevard winds Its crooked way. r i v - -r , i - j aMiMiMMMI . From Ohio t jj "I decided to bake tw r time, using Royal BaJ and another powder cake made with Roya and delicious, so fi , wholesome that in coi : cake Was not a cake. ;S . 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Arrangements have been completed so that practically every Alaska steamer carries automobiles to and from the north. Many side trips can be made by automobile from the main artery of travel on good roads which are being rapidly widened and Improved. <t*r New nitrate bods, 11 feet below the ! surface, and containing 20 to 40 per Cent of nitrate, have been discovered In Chile. The deposit covers a district of 2,000 square kilometers. ' . V. / v - < ve hear: * i ? I , * ' ' i J , j o cakes at the same dng Powder in one, in the other. The A was so appetizing inely grained and nparison, the-other If >. *' - . . f . ' Mrs.G.P.Y. /'T.t- *0' > C ''< *\ rAL POWDER : j/y Pure Leaves No Bitter Taste look Book?It* hkEE 130 William St, New York I ?? ? '' * V-V ' ' " * V n 1111 jT, i iii iT^b/ i i 11 m m 11 nni ea^ _ RETAINS its brilliancy | and saves the surface longer because it contains more pure lead per gallon. That's why good pointers use and recommend it. 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Service j SPECIAL PRICES j on then flows, drag harrows >4 I and Barb wire. 1 i In fact you will find that wo have a complete line ! j of useful and necessary Hardware of Good Quality and at Prices That Are Well Worth Your Careful Consideration. jj IAt the rear of our store you will find a fountain ' for watering your stock, and also'a good hitching ' lot. Any assistance that we can render you at ' I any time, just call on us. We wish to SERVU- 4 ! RITE at the * J ! | RED W STORE Beginning Monday, April 3rd, we will close at 6:00 o'clock p. m., Saturdays excepted. YORK HARDWARE CO. ; j "DVirm o 1JQ Phone lfi3 c * mvuv *vv . %'" i 'it-. 11>. '