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Scraps "and facts. ? In a preliminary hearing of C. M. Sawyer, prominent business man of j Winston Salem, N. C? charged with ! arson, Willie E. Chatmon, 18, who lias j been in prison several days in connec- ) tion with the case,, asserted that ho set fire to the Nissen building where Sawyer's store'was located because of offers of money and threats which Sawyer made. Chatmon alleges that Sawyer mapped out the plans, told how the gasoline should be poured over inflammable material and how Chatmon was to escape after the fire started. ? Harry C. Hammit, claim agent for ..the Southern railway in Atlanta, was found dead Saturday, in his room at ;the Hotel .Pennsylvania, in New York. On a iable near his body was a bottle containing poison and several letters in which Hammit said his suicide was caused by a prominent society Bin ui Rome, Ga., and her family. To this girl, whose name the medical examiner withheld. Hammit left a note saying he hoped, to meet her in heaven. Other letters prepared for mailing w^re addressed to his mother, Mrs. Ella H. Jlamniit of Bristol, Va., Miss lde Patten, Judge Harper Hamilton and Mrs. George G. Stiles of Rome, Ga. There also was a written request that the recorders of the Shriner temples in New York and Knoxville, Tenn., be notified. ? Jackson, California, Sept. 3: Gold, for years the principal product of ^his region, has all but been forgotten in the effort being made to reach the 47 men who since bust Sunday night have been entombed in the lower levels of the Argonaut mine. It was announced today by officials in charge of the rescue work that 60 feet of green stone and about 19 feet of virgin ground remained between the 4,200 foot leVel of the Argonaut mine shaft and the excavators who are working In a tunnel which once connected the .Kennedy mine with the Argonaut. It was estimated that it would require another week of continuous labor to reach the entombed men, although considerable headway was made yesterday. An analysis of pases in the Argonaut mine sjiows there has been'a reduction .In the lyuoiint of iujdriotis pas frt>m 8 to 3.1 per cent. Thisf indicated, chemists said, that fresh air frotn some . "source whs petting into the Argonaut mine. Pear was expresstd that when -the first men wore entombed there 7may have been in the mine too much gas to permit them to survive. ..?Jim Reed Long, negro, who was arrested early Saturday for striking _ MjSSL Violet Wood, 19-year-old daugh"ter of Rev. John H. Wood, of Rome, Oa., over the head with an iijon bar when she screamed on finding him in the act of burglarizing the house of her aunt. Miss Pearl Saunders, of Winder,. Oa.. whom she was visiting, was taken from Sheriff Camp, just out of Winder, late Saturday by a mob, strung up on the limb of a pine tree and lynched. Sheriff Camp had been successful in spiriting tue negro from | the Barrow county jail in Winder where a large mob pothered and was in me act 01 iqkiiig uic negro to Atlanta for safe keeping under the orders of Judge Elan ton Forts on, of the superior circuit court, when the road was blocked and the negro was taken from the sheriff. It is said that the lynching was conducted in an orderly manner and that no more trouble is anticipated. Hundreds of automobiles have gathered since the lynching was carried out and many curious spectators arc said to be looking at *the bullet-riddled body of the negro. ? Jackson, Miss., Sept. 3: James K. Vardstman, former United States senator and Hubert D. Stephens, former congressman, candidates for the Democratic nomination in nex Tuesday's runoff primary for the Sea', to be vacated next March by Senator John Sharp Williams, prepared today to bring their. whirlwind campaign to a close tomorrow. Rallies and meetings throughout the state weie scheduled to be held during the day and tomorrow night. Strenuous efforts have -been made by both candidates and their supporters to bring out the delinquent vote, which is cstinuUed at 30,000 to 40,000, and to secure an ndmntnmi liv nnllini' n mnioritv of tllf 1S.0UU votes east for Miss Bellp Kearney; eliminated in the first primary on August 15. Miss Kearney lias since announced her support of Mr. Stephens. Mr. Vardaman has visited nil parts of the state during his campaign, but has made few speeches. Numerous friends, however, among them former Gov. T. G. Bilbo, have delivered addresses in h's behalf. Mr. Stephens has led his own speech making forces, carrying his campaign to all corners of the state. .Among others who bare assisted him is Seualor Pat Harrison. ? The body of Frank 11 PuPre the 19-year-old youth who was hanged in Atlanta on Friday for the minder of Detective Walker, when he tried to rob the Jewelry store, of Nat Kaiser, was. brought here on the Seaboard train at an early hour Saturday morning and taken to the homo of his aunt Mrs. J. C\ Cox where funeral exercises were held at 1 o'clock today, says an Abbeville- dispatch of Saturday. A large number of relatives and friends of Dul're and of Mr. and Mrs. Cox attended the funeral and an unusually large number of beautiful floral tributes were sent in. Services were conducted by Rev. Howard W- oks, assist ed by the Kev. C. J. Tyler, a young minister from Atlanta, who had been constantly with the young man. llis father, brother and Mrs. C. J. Osborn of Atlanta, accompanied the body here. Rev. Mr. Tyler in reciting the conversion and recent life of the young1 man brought forth tears from the audience. Frank was known by many lKsiple in Abbeville, haying been a frequent visitor to his aunt, Mrs. .1. C. Cox. A large number signed the petition for his pardon or commutation. Croat sympathy is l'elt here for the relatives of the young man. ? The boll weevil, destroyer of potential wealth in cotton and bugaboo of the cotton grower, had a record year and did itself proud in *he fields of the South last year by preventing production of G,277,000 bales of cotton, while the seed that would have boon ginned, was worth $010,3"0,000 based on farm prices of .December 1. A careful stueiy of the damages tei cotton by the boll weevil and,other causer, has just been concluded ' by th^ eh put nun t of agriculture, wkosu repen t shows that | during the i:j years, 1903-21. the hypothetical value of th * prevented | production of cotton freon all causes totaled $11,473,599.000. (?f that amount ! the boll weevil damage amounted t" $1,101,152,000. The farm value of rotton. including, seed, produced in there 13 years aggregated $15,C-iij.523,000, or an average of $1,203,57$,700 a year, Actual production of cotton in those 13 years aggregated 159,048,000 bales, while damage from all sources aggregated 109,434,000 bales, of which the J boM weevil is credited with preventing! production of 28,770,000 b; les. The po- j tential pi eduction of cotton in the! United States for those years, therefore, aggregated 269.082,0o0 bales, or an average of 20,098,015 bales yearly, while tiie reduction of the crops hecause of damage from all sources averaged 8.118.000 bales annually and the boll weevil's average toll 2,219,538 bales yearly. From point of loss in production tlvrough , all causea 1921' was a record year. The estimated ]>u-1 tential production aggregates 18,666,-1 000 bales, prevented production being 1 10,712,000 bales, for which the boil | weevil was responsible for 0,277,000 j bales. The actual oroduction was 7,- j 954,000 bales. Prevented production | therefore far exceeded the acual crop j and the weevil caused a reduction equal to 70 per reft, of the acutal crop. Had it not been for the weevil last year's crop could have been obtained from 60 per cent, of the acreage cultivated. The , weevil was more destructive than all I other causes of damage combined, beins credited with 59 per cent, of the total damage. iifhc \lorluittc tfnquim'. Entered at the Po?to?Qce at York, as 1 Mail Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1922. The vote in last Tuesday's primary was approximately 60,000 short of the enrollment, and although the papers have expressed much surprise at this, they do not seem to comprehend the reason. Some of the shortage is to bo accounted for by failure of the enrolled Democrats to so to the polls; but that is by no means all. It is fair to estimate that no less than 300 ballots were thrown out uncounted in York county by reason of their being in the wrong boxes, the voters having deposited their county ballot in tho state * -1 n+olrv Kollnta in flip UOXes .III 11 men ouuv ... onupty boxoS. Tbbso figures aire only est I muted; but the estimate is probably under rather than over. Taking York bounty as an average and assuming that the same thing occurred in the other counties, the probability is that as many as fifteen thousand votes were thrown out uncounted. The present task of the South Carolina papers in general is in analyzing returns and figuring out how Blease is going to be left in the second primary. The Charleston News and Courier, for instance, has not been able to discover "a single new center of Itlease strength in the' state." On the contrary, The News and Courier says it is clear that Blease's following has perceptibly weakened in some of the counties where he was strongest, as for example iit Anderson. There, in 1916, lllease received a vote of 4,81:5 to 2,977 for Manning in the second primary. This year MeLeod in the first primary se cured 3.613 votes to uieases -?,i?u. The News anil Courier is sure that "Anderson county, when the LaneyColeman^Cantey vote is counted in, is well over in the anti-Mease column."? Charlotte Observer. But let's sec a little. Was it not n little before that that Manning and his crowd bought out the Anderson Intclilgencer and did they not own the paper at that time? That is our recollection. The Intelligencer had previously been the anti-machine exponent of Anderson county, and Manning and his "crowd put it to grinding out accompaniments to the discordant music of the Columbia State. The machine spents lots of I money in Anderson county in 11)10 and 'much of it on the Anderson IntclliIcencer. Because of the heavy expense of maintaining the Intelligencer however that paper dieil. The Daily Mail and the Tribune this year have both been neutral and fair. Mr. Laney has yielded to the machine. He is out in a statement in which he says lie will vote for McLeod. We do not know the price; that will probably come out in due time. It may be that they have offered him the governorship four years from now, pr even two years from now. Or perhaps they are going to let him run against Dial for the senate. But of course it is something. Mr. Laney entered the race as a free lance. He didn't even seem to be aware of the existence of a machine until he had traversed a number of counties; but having come in contact with a number of wheels, cogs, springs and the like in the meantime, at Marion he made a fling with his monkey wrench that threatened a smash up. lie accused Me Lend as being a candidate of the machine and accused the machine of being lined up behind MeLeod. That was the substance of it, and engineers of the machine became fearfully alarmed. They begun talking to Jitney like a Dutch father to his son. This is not suspicion. I We know it to be a fact. They told him: "See here man you are going to spoil oveiything. MeLeod lias a political following to begin with and being the stronger man politically is the logical man. You are an unknown i quantity yet. You go to fighting Mc- j Lend and spoil tilings and the machine will never forgive you. You will kill , yourself politically. tlo ahend and j plav the game. You are not going to 1 he elected this time; but if you run second >ou will be in the line of sue- j cession." Yielding to this argument!1 fancy let up at once and continued in:' the service of the machine during the j l)'il:iiii-r> nf tin. ..;i m?n IfH Snnin ti'il ' : machine politicians voted for him In,', the fall knowledge that tin- vote would ; J he us good as a vote for McLcod. A | < good many thousand others voted for t him in the honest sincere belief that ' he was working for -Mr. Common < Citizen and was till right. lint \ now by saving that he is tor AleLeod 1 i j he has invited all his supporters I" d<> | likewise. Many of thun of eourso will | follow his advice; hut others will have I > been undeceived. They will go instead j j to Mr. l>!easc because they know he ) ' is against the machine. I; ' 1 The most interesting comment on < < the gubernatorial race tint: we have i seen is that of former Chief Justice } Ira y. Jones in his newspaper, the j I*ancaster News, and reproduced clscwhoro in The Yorkvillo Enquirer of t?w)ay. Mr. Jones thoroughly understands the injustice of the assaults | that have )?een made,on the Democracy of Mr. Itlease, and also lie appreciates their futility. Not only that ho known exactly what Mr. 1 (lease stands for. He has heen in a position to learn it. and he learned it?"the protest of t lie people who feel that the common man needs a leader against the organized power of corporate wealth and allied political ambition." But since McLeod is so obviously the candidate of "the power and combination of organized big business," as was Mr. Jones in 11)12, we cannot see what ground Mr. Jones has for believing that he will develop sympathy for tho other side. Surely Mr. Jones is not accusing McLeod of deliberate attempt to turn traitor to the interests that are behind his candidacy. Then as to Mr. Jones's reasons for supporting Mc Lcoil. Of course it was known and understood that he would never support Blensoi and there was no occasion for his giving any reasons. But "third term" bunk. It has been nl.own that the governorship has been almost as hereditary in South Carolina as the crown is in England, and what kind of a situation is more disastrous to Democratic institutions? Hut third terms in governorships are common in almost every state in the Union. Nobody really regards that as significant of anything except the availability of the man. The other reason is equally puerile. We must not take away the power of tho machine, because the machine will continue its strife to get that power hack. In order to avoid strife, wo must lot the machine .rule forever! According to that reasoning why should the .Democratic party make another effort to take tho presidency away from the Republicans? And if IJiense should win this time, why should the Columbia State's crowd not be as willing to take its medicine as it expects the Mease side to do in tho event it wins? An able man is former Chief Justice Jones; but this is a cr.sc in which white pannot be made to appear black, nor black white. "All Good Men." About the commonest propaganda of the machine newspapers throughout the state is the stuff about the "good" men and women being against Blease, and the non-descripts being on the otlicr side. In the first place this goody-good business makes us tired, and wo are sure that for any sensible man or woman to think about it is to laugh. Who's "pood", anyway? Do you, reader, think you arc pood in the sense that you are so much better than other people? Surely you do not think that those people who are always harping on their goodness, are so very superior to you. In the election ol' last Tuesday morethan 75,000 men and women of South Carolina voted for Cole L. Blease, a man who has been held up by the machine newspapers as the antithesis of all that is pood, and thoy did it deliberately in full knowledge of what they were doing. Has not Cole L. Blease been prominently in public life for more than twenty-five years, and has lie not been charged with every sin in the decalogue? Has he not served two terms as governor of the state, and as a matter of fact is ho not the l>cst known man in the state, barring none?the best loved and tlie most hated? Yet 75,000 people were willing to give him their proxies above all who had offered. So far as the general understanding of good ,is concerned it is admitted of all men that the people of York, county are -as good as any in the state. Note our churches, our schools, our charitable institutions, our industries. Of these York county people 2,671 voted for P.lease and 1,482 voted for McLeod. Those who voted for Blea.se knew what they were doing as well as did the others. YvTjo in York county is going to say that the 2,671 are not as good as the 1,182? Some of the machine newspapers of the strife make insinuations along this line; but really are not those insinuations quite absurd? After all are we to believe what designing propagandists tell us, or are we to believe the actual facts as we 1 see and know thein to be true? The Democratic "Split" in 1895. 1 A newspaper in York, The Enquirer, having in mind the interest of Mr. Blease, said lust week that W. W. Bull, editor of The Stale, voted against 1 \V. .1. Bryan in IN'.pij. It is just as ' well to say plainly that Mr. Ball lias never denied, this hut lias scarcely lost ! an opportunity to make it .public. In that year when the national Demo era tie. party was s: pi i t into the "gold" ' ami "silver" factions, Mr. Ball voted 1 for an electoral ticket in South Caro linn favorable to the wing of the Dein- 1 ocratic party of which 1'aimer and j Buckncr were neimiiiees. That electoral ticket was composed entirely ol ' white nn n and Democrats, some of whom were Frank Evans of Spartan- ' burg; Nat cist of Newberry, the late j Colonel James I), Blanding of Sumter jj ind the la to Colonel I"'. \Y. MeM.astcr ' if Columbia. Sympathetic with the | I >n1m/<i' ami 4 . t. i ......... ...... .....mi. i ih'm i 111 numm-1 * il ;iflairs was Wood row Wilson and ilso .Itids'iii Harmon of Ohio, wlio was 1 Mr. It lease's candidate for the Demo- 11 era tie nomination in l'Jl:;. CS rover * Cleveland was the real head of the 1 cold Democratie party and Judson Harmon was a mi-mln r of his euhinct. I ' Other Democrats prominent' in the ' .old Democratic movement in lS'.'fi | ' vere lie late Senator Don Caffeny, of !! Louisiana, Postmaster General William |' l<\ VIIns, Colonel John It. Fellows, a ; f . onfedcrate veteran then living in j I W'w York and Colonel Ilenry Walter- i son. The truth of history is that on ' ihe iiuestion of "Sixteen to one" the ' [Democratic party all over the I'nitod 1 Stales parted into two companies that ' fea r. ( The division in the Democratic par y in 1S!iG was wide. When the South Carolina Democratic convention met l> n Colunihia in May, it was not known f ivhether (lie "gold" or "silver" men I r .vould control the national convention <1 a Chicago. The late United States e Senator J. V- M. ,Irhy made a splendid fight for action, pledging tlio South Carolina delegation, to the Chicago convention, "Silver Men," to abide by its decision. That proposal was voted ] down. Thus, in advance of the nomination of a presidential candidate i permission was extended to South Carolina Democrats to vote as they chose between the "Silver" and "Gold" . wings of the national party--at least); Mr. Bali and those who agreed with him so construed it. ] In 1896 no pledge was taken in the j primary to support tne nominees, jki- tional or state. Finally, neither the editor of The ] State, nor The State, is now or over has been a candidate for governor or any other oflice.?Columbia State, ] September 2. Just as we have pointed out before, whatever The State does is right while ' The State is doing and everybody who ^ is doing otherwise is wroirg. When Tho State rfops, what was wrong bo- 1 foro becomes right and people who refuse to flop with it become wrong. For years The Columbia State was for the gold standard as against free ' coinage but eventually it flopped to free coinage. For years The State was for high ! license for the liquor business, and 1 finally changed over to prohibition after'tlie fight had been won. It charges Rlcase with having failed, to vote a Democratic ticket, which 1 says he did not do, and yet it defends I its editor who admits such failure. In the 1898 contest between Feather- 1 stone and Ellerbe, when Ellerbe was ' about to be beaten in the second pri- l mary, it. pledged its good faith to its i readers that Ellerbe was the man to < vote for and defeated Feathcrstone. I Afterward it turned out its plea was i based on -a claim that Ellcrbe had i promised to send a high license I message to the legislature. < The Columbia State has but one idea I in politics and that is to dominate < public men and public affairs and to i this end it docs not mind taking on 1 and putting oft principles as a cloak. I And the only thing in which it has i ever been consistent is the insistent j protest that its inconsistency is con- < sistcnt. "And finally" we are quite well aware that neither The State nor its editor is a candidate. That is the trouble. If ( the editor of The State would come out as a candidate against Blcase we < would be glad to stand aside and leave 1 them to fight it out. But this way The, j State has of running its candidates by proxy?of having subservient principals < to take the responsibility while it exercises all the power and authority, , we do not like. This thing is aubver sivo . of Democratic principles unu dangerous to liberty. ? The gubernatorial figures as tab- J ulated by H. N. Edmunds, secretary of the state Democratic executive com- : mitteo last Saturday, all the returns official except In two or three cases, stand as follows; Blease, 77.610; Cantey, 1,258; Coleman, 3,789; Duncan, 1,777; l?aney, 23,015; MeLcod, 65,6X2. 1 I- or lieutenant 1 governor: Jackson, ' elected with 74JV2S; Adams, 37,503; | Owens, 33,306. Wolfe, attorney general with 89,563, against 48,030 for Winter, and 34,611 for Eubanks. Craig is I adjutant and inspector general with | 91,933 votes, as against 80,834 votes for Marshall. Harris defeated Wigbtinan, j 107,286 to 5S.655.' For superintendent of education SvOcaringen led. Ilojie came next with 37,158, and Mrs. Drake , next with 35,091. ? Chicago, Septcinlicr 1: Enforce- i ment of the injunction obtained by i Attorney (5ener.il Harry il. Daugherty against lawlessness and violence in 1 connection with the shop crafts' strike i will be aided liy every power of the I shop crafts' organization, a statement issued by the executive committee of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor said toni11. "The officials of these organ! - i zations have done everything possible < since the beginning of the strike to , maintain a peaceful suspension of work," the statement said. "Consid- 1 ering the difficulties of preserving per- ' feet order in any group of 400,000 men ; engaged in a struggle for a decent : livelihood, it mm be admitted that the strike lias been a remarkable .demon stmt ion of the law-abiding character <. of tiie workers involved. It is unfor- > tuna to that in a tmit for the announe- t ed purpose of preventing lawlessness t the attorney general's office lias prepared. and a court, on hasty consider- t ation, has entered an order which, tin- * less carefully interpreted might be \ rated as a flagrant violation of const i- ' tutional rights of American citizens us t repeatedly affirmed by the supreme t court of the United States. Apparent- t ly either hate or failure to use the Knglish language with precision fias ' led to the drafting of an order which, ' read too literally, would end the right ' r?f free speech, or communication of I any sort, or just payment of debts, or mutual aid in lawful association to v men engaged in tho peaceful, legal conduct of their business." ? All embarrassing' incident on the ^ crowded hall room Hour of tin; t'a: Ino !i il Dcauville, France, a month ago, in (i cvhich the King of S|>ain was left standing by his dancing partner, Miss >' Katlierine Dickey, of Atlanta, while \ die hurried to greet her father, James v Dickcy, a direelor of the Atlanta National Bank, was explained by the 1 mung woman Saturday in New York, " >n her arrival on the Mauretania. The )' oyal consternation at l?< ing told to ii 'wait a minute" in tlie middle of a lance and suddenly des. rtod was issuaged, however, when .Miss Diekoj u sought out l'rince Nicholas, second son >f the King of Hounismia, and induced lini to convey her sincere regrets. The ting accepted the situation good laturedly and remsirked to Prince Nicholas on the democratic ideas of \merican girls. The story goes that u ving Alfonso sought .Miss Dickey as l dancing partner and dispatched his H secretary to arrange the formal inlro- n inctions. At the height of the gnyety diss Dickey caught sight of her father I' I 111) U is'll i ll?r In lull liiin vaifin I 1? i ii ?r . m' S 'great importance," stopped in her A racks aiul softly told tile king t<? "wail l minute." She dashed among the thor dancers in the rush for her iither, while those who observed the u/.zled expression 011 Alfonsso's face sis c< ic was left alone, gasped with as- t' onishmcnt. When Aliss Dickey return d the king was missing and realizing T he l-mlurrassing situation caused by I. icr thoughtlessness she successfully M ngaged i'riuce Nicholas as an apology earer. "Don't make mo ridiculous," >! diss Dickey said to reporters, "but the ' ;ing was so lik" us Americans, that I elt F could ask him to wait a minute, lot thinking at all of the rigorous eti- I! luetic that surrounds a Iluropean I' aonarcli," LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Lucia- Kwart Quinti?The facts of the situation. Liberty Service Station?Yes, sir. I'VwoIl & I'arrott?Oakland Roadster for sale cheap.' T. Al. Stroup?Ruy 'em at Stroup's. Mrs. J. AI. Ferguson?Rack front the Northern markets. , Pirst National Rank of Sharon?Wireless to prosperity. The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager ?Alice Brady today. Nathan Feinstein's Department StoreLargo shipment of Ladies Fall Hats jnst received. I)f moerats of '70 -Shall South Carolina J'etray the . Faith of their I*1" ' r a 1111*1 jj. Political?Home standing of Hlon.seand McLcod as indicated by Hie vote. B. A. Montgomery, Superintendent ? Notice of opening of public schools. E. F. Lynn, President?Picnic at King's Mountain Chapel. Request has been made for the cor eetion of an inadvertant error where l?y the published record of real estate transfers It. M. Anderson was represented as having transferred 70 1-2 teres of land to "It. Andral Hralton," ivhen the transfer was really made to tt. Andral Anderson. Some of the voters have an idea that because of the number on the ticket, ,uvi u n oumc ttaj ui ut'iutwvtnr) ivith the' candidates for whom they rote. There is nothing to that. The lumber does not serve any other purpose than to keep track of the tickets used. The number is on the coupon inly and not on the ticket, and when the coupon is torn off before the depost of the ticket in the box, there s no means by which the ticket can be idenLified again. The very essence of efficiency in the ballot is secrecy, and this is prevented. If a voter wants tc declare the candidates he favors he has a ight to do so, and if not it is nobody's lusiness. Anyhow no one can possibly Ind out how the voter votes unless the roter tells it, and usually people are not riven to taking voters very seriously jven when they do tell it. THE MARRIAGE RECORD. Marriage licenses have been issued )y the judge of probate as follows: Aug. 21?John P. George and Nina Carlton (Indians) Catawba Reserva:ion; Aug. 22?Green Brtitton and Pearline Blake, Rock Hill, (colored). Ang. 2<i?Fred Willmore Bamhill and Sarnie Barley, Clover. A..-. I If IVni'tm.in T?nolf Mill and Viola McCants, Smith's Turnjut, S. C. Aug. 2!)?Noah Sanford and Mittie Wilson, Cliarlotto. Sept. 2?Jess Lincoln Riddle and Druisilla 1'itpe, Arden, N. C. Sept. 2?Harvey Jirel, Chester and Bculah Moore, Rock Hill. Sept. 2?John Walter Hood Roek Ilill ind Mary Addie Collins, Fort Mill. ERROR IN THE VOTE. The JIoLeod vote in York county last Tuesday was "1,482" instead cf '1,532,'' (lie ofticial figures published last Friday. The figures as published were taken from the record filed with the clerk of the court, as required by law; but a second addition of the detailed vote at the various precincts showed these figures incorrect. The figures have been corrcctod on the official record and (hey now stand it 1.482, instead of 1,532 as published. In his official publication of the figires to the executive committee. Dr. s'aye gave "1,532" as the vote of McLeod, and those figures were sent to he state executive committee; hut since then the correct figures have >ecn established as being 1,4S2. THE SHARON EPISODE "Sorry all this hullabaloo about the illcgcd stuffed ballot box at Shardn >ccurred," said Dick Norman, well cnown young man of the Sharon secion who was in Yorkvilh? yesterday. T.nt 1 am glad that you printed my tame as the person against whom the nsifiliation was made. You see, if rou hadn't why folks all over York ounly would have had practically very Sharon voter under suspicion as he person attempting to stuff the >aIlot box." "Seriously speaking though," coninucd Mr. Norman, "it happened this vay: "one of the managers inadcrtently handed me two state tickets instead of one. I used one of "them o vote for Hole L. itlease and seeing hut I had two, called the attention of he managers to it. "1 voted once?didn't want to vote >ut once and on September 12, if I am 1 iving and nothing happens I will vote gain?Just onco and for Cble L.J Mease. "As for any Investigution?1 11 gladly rclcoine it." 5- S. CONVENTION TODAY The annual convention of t!ie York I 'ounty Sunday School convention is : u-intr 1 uTi 1 at Bethany today and a | ig Sunday School picnic Is being held ; I connection with the convention. l)r. ' V. I). .Melton, president of the iTni- ( ersity of South Carulihn is expected | he prt seat as the principal speaker > f the day. Following is the tentative 1 copra mine as arranged lor tlie meet- 1 ig today: ' to a. in.?Prayer and praise service, 1 nnducled l?y lie v. W. 1*. drier, pastor I Bethany church. , 10.30 a. in.?The Convention Theme, ' Working Togi tiier to Win," by Dr. * !. W. Pressly, of (ireenville. 10:50 a. hi.?Song. * II a. lii.?Address by Br. W. D. Mel- < >n. President University of South Ca I ilia. 11:1'O a. m.? Business reports of of- ' ccrs, record of attendance, appoint-jv lent of committees. | e 11:41! a. in.?Jesus. The Master I i nelier, by lam C. Palmer, (b noral 1 uperintemit nt, S. C. Sunday School j I ssociatiot). i v 12:10 a. in.?Announeimelits. Adjourn !" n dinner. i ' Afternoon Session. e 1:30 |\ m. I'rayer and praise service, s udueled by Kev. N. A. Hcinrick, pas- I1 ir Uaptist el aire b of Clover. 1:45 p. ni.?The Value of Teacher t raining in the Sunday School, bv I lev. v W. Lewis, pastor lliekory (iroy t lethodist eiiurch. 'J 2:t?3 p. m.-j-IUiildinpr up the Adult Hi- r Ic Class, by Dr. K. i-J. (lillcspie. pastor s irst Presbyterian ehurcli of Vorkville. t 2:25 p. i".?Si>n^. e 2:.1C p. in.?-The Superintendent and v is Work, by Rev. P. \V. f;i pastor t irst Presbyterian church. Hock llill. jo 2:00 p. in.?Open l'urlianr.'ul and Question J Sox, conducted by I^con C. i 'aimer. :J: lo p. m.?Reports of Committers, I election of officers, selection of next i place of meeting. Adjournment. HOW TO VOTE. Many votes were lost in last Tuesday's primary for various reasons, some because improperly prepared and somo because tliey were placed in the wrong boxes. Under the rules a state tickot placed in a county box is thrown out and a county ticket placed in a state box is thrown out. There is no good reason for this except to keep the state and county tickets separate, and to prevent the voter from putting a state ticket and a county tickot in both boxes. That list reason is not very urgent. Formerly when the voter had access to all the tickets he wanted without regard to the managers, it was iH>s;-iblo for him to put identical tickets in both of the boxes. Hut that is different now. Tho voter has no legitimate way of getting more than one ticket of oath kind, and no special harm is done if he should get them mixed. Hut according to the rule, if a ticket is placed in the wrong box it must be thrown out. Then where two or more candidates are to he voted for for tho same of lice, i the voter must vote for the specified number or lose that part of the ticket. (.juite a number of tickets were thrown out because all but one, two or tlueo of the legislative candidates were scratched, and others were thrown out because none were scratched out. incorrect mnrKing no re noes not nullify the whole ticket; hut only the vote for that office. At Clover there were a dozen or more tickets on which the voter attempted to vote only for Mr. Beamguard. Mr. Beamguard lost till these votes. Tho voter must get his ticket from the managers, then go into a booth and mark it, and then fold it so as to leave tho numbered coupon, projecting, and after the managers have torn off this coupon the ticket is placed in the box. ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. Lt. Ct. Ferguson and Ola Mason Ferguson of Yorkville are visiting in Landis, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Love and Miss Margaret Love of Yorkville, spent Sunday in CJaffncy. Miss Eleanor Herndon of Yorkville has returned home after a visit to Spartanburg. Miss Margaret MeDow has returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to Charlotte. Mrs. E. M. Stanton and little son, LMnrln Imvn rot nrnnH tn thoir ImMlP in ! Charlotte, after a visit to Yorkvillc. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dent of Columbla, an' visiting the family of Mr. C. \V. McGec in Yorkvillc. Miss Betty Hemphill of Chester is the guest of Miss Rita Witherspoon in Yorkville. Mrs. S. L. Latimer, of Columbia, is visiting Misses Goorgie and Annie Witherspoon in Yorkvillc. E. L. MeSwain has been promoted to overseer of weaving at the Cannon Mills, Yorkville. Messrs. W. M. McConnell and J. L. Cain of tin- McConnell Dry Goods Co., have gone to the Eastern markets. Mi-ss Margaret Robinson of York No. I. left this morning to enter Greenwood Business College, Greenwood, S. C. Miss Adah D. McElwce of Yorkville, who has been spending the summer in New Orleans, lias returned to Yorkvillc. Gladys, aged 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Dickson is critically ill at I lie home of her parents on East Liberty street, Yorkville. Mr. T. A. Matthews and family of Ronton, Texas are visiting the family of Mrs. N. A. Simrill near Yorkville, and other York county relatives and friends. Misses Georgia and Annie WJtherspoon of Yorkville and Mrs. 11. M. Dunlap of Rock Hill, have returned to their respective homes after spending some time at Rlowinjj Rock, N. C. Mrs. .1. S. Glasscock of Harmony, who has been visiting at Blowing lloek, passed through Yorkville last Saturday on her return home. Flic was accompauied by her son Eurle and Miss Whl to,sides. J. M. Simpson, carrier on Lesslie No. 1, was found in an unconscious condition in his buggy last Thursday. While he remains quite sick at his home at Lesslie, he is getting along as well as could lie expected. MOUNTAIN ISLAND TRAGEDY. Yorkville people who went to Mountain Island, Gaston county, Sunday, to view the scene of the big dynamite explosion there Saturday, in which three negroes lost their lives, brought back ... Htm-v of the Imtredv and [minted a tragic picture of the acciilent. ft is estimated, that tliere were no less than 2,000 people at Mountain Island Sunday from York, (Jaston, Meeklenburgr, Cleveland and other counties, who wore anxious to view the scene. A tame force of men, hoth white and colored, is employed <>n the 1 .*onstruction of the bipr dam and power plant there. Many of these employes ire from York county. The throe negroes who were killed ny the explosion have been identified is James P.etbcw of Hani let, N. ( ., I ind Haywood Douglass of Newberry. 1 The third negro was known as Nor- < nan Johnson and is said to have conic ? Voni Charlotte. Two of the negroes I were buried in the cemetery near the i it-tie country church not far from the ' scene of the explosion, while tile body if the third negro was taken by rela- ' ives to Charlotte for burial. ' A gnat cavern, resembling a little t ,'olcauie crater, about sixty feet in ' lianieter at the top and with the sides i- 4 * /.nntne lilvn fin intfph'il .v ili'iUIl.H i*? nit' i nuvi ...? ....... .. one. was ill! that was left to mark the ? lite of the house that won used by the instruction company for the storage ' if tlnlr explosives. Scores <>f houses 1 n the construction camp are window- * ess ami the tops of practically every ' hitnnoy in the camp w< rc missing Sun- 1 hi y moraine, having been shaken 1 mm their position by the force of the ' ;x plosion. Do/ens of pine trees in a v hicket near the scene of the explosion ' rc re prostrate and the trail leading to he spot where the store house was onm rh located was covered with a nrpet of loa.\os snowed down from the urmunding trees which were shaken 1 I y the blast. r It is said that particles of clothing ' * hat had been worn by the negroes : li rere found at various places from f>a j <i o 1.1a feet from the site of llie house, o 'he clothing was torn into strips anging from one inch .square to the ze of a small handkerchief and two or ( v liree inches wide by six or eight inch- i 1" s lens. The shoes of the negroes. ' J iili the sides ripped and t >r:i from j b lie force of t.iie shock, were scattered ill ver a dozen ?arils". Iv A half dozen rabbits were found i:i l tin''vicinity of the scene of the explosion. killed liy the detonation, and numbers of birds were also killed, it is said. 'J'ho exact cause of tho explosion will probably, never be known. The value of the dynamite that was stored in tho building was estimated at around Ooi) and the damage to cauip buildings at around $700. WITHIN THE TOWN ? A ease of scarlet fever is reported in town. ? It. W. C. Wished, of Chester county goes on duty today as night policeman. ? Tho find bale of the new crop of cotton was sold on the local market this morning l>y J. 11. Connolly, fu-incr of York No. 3. The hale, which weighed Clio pounds, wax ginned at A. 1,. I Hack's ginnery, it was purchased by John A. Eatta for 113 cents a iMHiud. ? iioyce Caldwell, aged 12, suffered a deep gash in his right leg when ho fell on the front steps of the home of his mother Mrs. S. A. Caldwell here several days ago. It was necessary to take a number of stitches to elose the wound. The young man is now getting along nicely. ? There were preaching services in the Yorkvillo A. K. 1*. church last Sunday morning by ltcv. Earl C. Coletnan, pastor of the United Presbyterian church of Allerton, Iowa. Following the morning service Mr. Coleman declared the pulpit vacant on the authority of Catawba Presbytery, and announced that there would be preaching next Sunday by Rev. It. D. Byrd, of Tlrzah. ? Bethany defeated Yorkvillo in a game of baseball Saturday afternoon on the high school diamond. While it was a mighty hard matter to keep tho correct se-ore, to the best of one's Ifnnu'liulifp curl it uiu IS tn '? ? "The .Microbe of Love," a musical comedy presented by a cast of local people under the auspices of the local chapter P. A. K. in the city .hall auditorium last Friday night drew a largo audience. The.comedy which was directed by Miss Connie Morrow and her accompanist, Miss Sarah Logan was exceptionally well acted and the audionce was well pleased with the show. Following are those who had a part: Mrs. Mason Carroll, Misses Mary Speck, Elizabeth Wilborn, Lula Moore Logan, Frances Lewis, Sue Meek Allison, Margaret Flnlcy, Margaret Marshall, Louise Barron, Norma Grist, Annis Dorsett, Esther Ashe, Alee Starr, Aileen Hall, Evelyn Shieder, Sarah Marion Carroll, Sarah Gust, Janet Houston, Marie Hurt, Annabolle Cari oil, Elizabeth Plexieo, Martha Bratton, Elizabeth Ramscly, Margaret Steele, Mary Hunter Hart, Lucile Mackorell, Veola Johnson, Janet Mackoreli, Esther McConuell, Mary Alice McDowell, Mary Bowers Mackorell, EUa Khoda Mackorell, Ida Miller Quinn, Wilma Qulnn; Messrs. Kershaw Walsh, Edward Spencer, Alf Carroll, C. H. Sieber.hausen, William Marshall, Edward Marshall, Norman Walsh, Clyde Smith, Wallace Marshall, Tom Myers, James McDowell, Miius Carroll, Rudolph Logan. 1'lMIUVtlllfc mu HIV ICUIUIIHD U1 Yorkville who paid Federal income tax for the year ending December 31, 1921: J. C. Allen, D. L. Allen, Robert B. Allcin, \V. M. Allison, William J. Anderson, Thomas Walker Anderson, A. A. Ashe, L. G. Ruber and wife, J. S. Brice, W. VV. Barron, A. A. Ban-on, M. I,. Carroll, C. W. Carroll, A. Y. Cartwright, Guardian, W. T. coin, B. a. Corroll, J. F. Carrol', S. L. Courtney, J. Ross Cannon, Estate W. it. Carroll, Frank L. l-'cemstcr, T. M. Ferguson, W. E. Ferguson, W. G. Finley, Estate D. E. Finley, K. C. Gaulden, C. R. Glllam, Lewis M. Grist, W. E. Gcttys, E. E. Gillespie, Miss Maggie Glenn, E. A. Hall, It. J. Merndon, A. T. Hart, C. II. Hart, Mrs. Marie Moore Hart, J. E. Hurt, JI. 11. Hoguo, 1'. W. Hunter, John It. Hurt, 11. Meek Hope, C. M. Inman, W. F. Jackson, J. H. R. Jenkins, Jr., J. E. Johnson, Dr. W. M. Kennedy, Ben Levy, H. B.'Laws, J. R. Lindsay, S. K. Lowry, E. B. Lowry, Mrs. F. il. Lowi-y, M. E. MeCoi-kle. J. Ft McEiwee, Jos. Maclean, K. S". McConnell, W. M. McConncll, C. W. McGee, J. L. McGlll, T. P. Ale Dow, Mis. S. M. McNeel, H. R. Mackurcll, W, S. Moore, Mrs. B. N. Moore, W. B. Moore, Airs. W. Ii. Moore, J. S. Mnckorcll, J. A. Marion, Mrs. Annie W. Marshall, J. M. Miller, P. E. Moore, W. E. Morton, James L. Moss, l'aul N. Moore, B. A*. Moore, Mrs. M. K. Nichols, Willena Neil!, J. L. Oates, \V. IV l'etty, W. C. Bunnell, P. W. Patrick, Louis Both, A. J. Parrott, E. B. Saunders, J. M. Starr, T. W. Speck, Estate C. E. Spencer, Mrs. Iiattle G. Stroup, J. AI. Stroup, J. B. Thomasson, J. A. Tate, L. (J. Thompson, L. D. Varner, Quinn Wallace and wife, W. L. Wallace, Annie L. Wallace, J. C. Wallace, Thomas t. Walsh, J. (J. Ward law. Dr. AI. W. White, Airs. Kittle II. White, N. Jane White, W. I. Witherspoon, Geo. W. Williams; W. L. Wallace, D. T. Woods, William S. Wood, Miles Wood, T. E. Wallace, Lieut. Samuel H. White, \V. G. White. Karl A. Williams, (Miss) L. D. W'ithcrspoon, Ida II. Wylie, Est. W. IJ. Wylie. ALONG THE WAY Monday, sahsduy fop September brought quite ;i number of horsctraders to town carrying with them u large number of horses and mules, ranging ftom "plugs" to "good uns." Most of the traders were looking for "boot" in connection with trades and since the "boot" was rather scarce, there was not a great deal of trading in horse Ilesh. An amusing incident occurred in olio of tlio back lots when two liorsunon seeing that they were going to-be unable to conn* to an agreement in their respective mounts began dickTing for a trade between personal effects. One of t lie men had a silver ivateli which lie valued at $7. Another' col Willi >iiin a mandolin called a 'pun'kin" in the horse jockey vernacuar. Frequently he played a tune for be benefit of the traders around and he man with the watch appeared to lave a strong desire to own the 'pun'kin." The owner was willing to iwap it even for the watch hut the wner of the watch held qut linn for 'hoot" of Although they finally ailed to trade his concluding argunent was: "You can take my watch ? J ...ill 4. .11 i? o any jewcicr mm nv win im yym n. s worth $7. But if you can find any>ody who will say that*a darn 'pun'kin' s worth S7 I'll shore be proud to ?ro lim." The argument had no weight nth the owner of the musical instrunent who went tril playing on his 'pun'kin." The ltock Hill lodges of Ked Men, '"id Fellows and Junior Order 1'. A. M. lave leased the quarters in the Batterer building in that city which for cvcrnl years past has been I ho mine of ltock Hill Hodge, Loyal Order f Moose. The lease is for a period f ten years. The fact that the polling precinct ias about a mile and a half distant rem her home did not worry Mrs. J. Harvey, 7",-year-old woman of Filert at all wiien the time came to cast cr ballot on August 29. Mrs. Harvey allied, the distance cast her vote for he candidates of her choice and re