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tumorous* Department. Public Taken in Confidence.?Th< Rock Hill school board has taken ihi public into its confidence by publishinj in one of the newspapers of that citj a statement of its receipts and dis bursements for the last year. The action of the board seems to have beei entirely voluntary, but it will, all th< more, leave a good taste in the mouths of the taxpayers and patrons of Rock Hill's schools. It would not be a bad ided for the boards of trustees generally throughout South Carolina t< follow the example of the Rock Hil board?not that there is suspicion o] the misappropriation-of school funds but because in every community there are people who like to know Just how the public money is being spent.? Fort Mill Times. . ? . ? Thought He Was Seeing Double.? A college processor who prided himself on his self-control, and who never drank anything, was invited to a dinner party by a society woman whose dinners were Known io oe rauicr although she was a mother. As the professor expected, however, there was champnlgne, and, keeping himself well in hand; he drank a couple of glasses. Just at this point in the dinner, somebody suggested that the hostess should exhibit her children. She rang the bell, and the nurse appeared with a dainty pink basket in which reposed twins. When the nurse got ai-ound 10 the professor he rose, steadying himself and exclaimed: , "What a beautiful baby!"?Success. A Born Salesman.?A small boy was complaining to a sympathetic neighbor of his father's suddenly acquired penuriousness. He wasn't giving his off-spring mon?y for ice cream and soda water as before and the latter was greatly stirred over the change in his parent's nature. "Papa's saving his mouey, but I tell him it's foolish," he observed. < "Saving, eh?" commented the neighbor. "Yes. Papa says he's saving to buy a baby, but I think I'll be able to talk him out, of it." Tactic*.?The war brought a number of military phrases into civiljan usage, as everybody knowsN In a newspaper office recently the city editor looked wearily at the bright young reporter who had submitted a big bundle of copy in a description of some trival incident, "Deploy that!" he snapped. "Deploy it?" repeated the new man. "I don't understand." "Turn that column into a line." ^ A Noted Man.?She?"My friend tells me that you work in the composing room! I think that is perfectly wonderful." , . He?"Yes, I have been there ever since I started to worn, nueen ioug years." She?"I do wish you would sing something:* that you have composed yourself." What He Thought.?"Did it ever occur to you," said the minister, "that thousands and thousands of people on earth die every day." "Yes, parson, it has," said the person addressed, " what is more, it has set me thinking." "Indeed! And what has been the result of your thinking?" "I have come to the conclusion, sir, that living is a very dangerous thing." Finders Keepers.?Mrs. Jones was rather astonished when she went to see how the new maid was taking care of the pantry. She found a policeman locked up in it. "Why, Mary, what does this mean? Mow did this young man get locked up in here?" "Sure, and I don't know, mum, he must have been left by the last cook. A Clean Life.?In answer to the old lady's advertisement for her lost poodle, a young boy appeared at her door with a very wet and dirty dog. She immediately went into raptures. "And where did the good mans find my little ducky darlings?" "Sure, mum, I found him with a feller who had him on the end of a stick jind was washing windows with him." JThe New Tone.?Grandma: 'Girls aren't what they used to be. Today they don't even know what a needle is." Little .Lucy: "Don't Ik.* an old silly egg, Grandmother. They are to play the phonograph, ? anybody knows that." Expensive Simplicity.?"How do you lil.e my new evening gown, darling?" "It looks very sweet and simple to me." "It's not as simple as it looks. A hundred dollars wouldn't cover it." "Oh, i think a hundred dollar bill would,?that is if'you spread it out." The Missing Linx. ? Smith?"Sir, could you tell me if there is a man in this hotel with one eye by the name of John Head? Jones?Maybe I could help you. Dr you know the name of the other eye? ?Gertie Sevin. In the Garden of Eden.?Professor: "Can you give me an example of a commercial appliance used in ancient times?" Student: "Yes. sir, the loose-leal system used in the garden of Eden.' Black and Colored.?."Let's osculate. Miss Johnsing." "No, sah. I ain't no 'petting pahty. M never 'lows no gen'leman frien' tei do anj' mrfdah'Klss me.'""?Backfires \ FOR*. FARM DEMONSTRATION . , * lj i ? ... i (Continued from Page Four.) e 9 penses of the farm demonstration f agent. r A. A. McKeown of Rock Hill, district . demonstration agent requested that the . delegation immediately make known j its decision as to whether or not the ; appropriations would be granted for s another'year. This the delegation de, clined to do, reserving its decision un , NI a later time. , Addressing the delegation at the j hearing held yesterday, MiS. & C. I Ashe of Yorkville said she thought [ York 'county would be taking a step backward if the delegation declined to , continue the cdunty appropriations forj r the support of the- farm workers. \ Mrs. W. B. Moore of Yorkville said< she thought the farm demonstration workers had been responsible for an improvement in tbe cooking of the rural population of the county. She thought the appropriation should be continued. * 1' Mrs. J. M. Bricc of York No. 4, appeared as a representative of the Woman's Home Demonstration club of Sharon She told of the value of the | home and farm demonstration agents to the farmers and farm women of York county. She said that the curb market established in Yorkville had been of untold value to not only the farm women but the town women. Mrs. W. Grady Adams of York No. 1, said she appeared before the committee in the interests of the Dixie club. She thought that the services of the agents should be continued in the interests of the farmers of the county and in the interests of the farm women. . Miss Lula Smith, president of the Yorkville Marketing Asociation said that if the services of the woman's home demonstration agent were discontinued that the market in Yorkville would be discontinued. She said it was impossible for the women- of this section to conduct ihe curb market in Yorkville without the help and advice of the agent. Miss Lesslie Witherspoon said she spoke for the women of Yorkville. She said that while she had not kept up closely with the work of the woman's home demonstration forces recently, she was in close touch with it during the administration of the late Miss Lillis Ashe. She had visited many of the rural districts with Miss Ashe and was convinced of the value of the work. She thought the ladies of Yorkville wanted It continued. Miss Tarrant of Greenwood, district tku vi mman'o Vinmo Horn On - tX&XZl 11 LXJL liiv nvuiauo *<v?**v stratlon work, told the delegation that there were twenty-six curb markets established under the auspices of the worlf -during the year coming to a close. The two markets in York counr ty, she said, those in Yorkville and Rock Hill, sold produce valued at $3,748.82 during the year. Total sales for the twenty-six markets in the state during the year were 372,220.22. Demonstration Agent. ' A. A. McKeown, district farm demonstration agent of Rock Hill said he was before the delegation relative to an appropriation of $500 for the York county agent another year. A number of counties, he said, had voluntarily made appropriation for the next year without consulting him. If York county wanted the services of a farm demonstration agent another year, very well. If they did not want the services of an agent another year, it was well. Mr. McKeown said he had declined to bring people.before the delegation to testify to the value of the work this year. He could have gotten plenty of such testimonials, however. . Referring to the per capita cost of the farm demonstration work to the citizens of York county, Mr. McKeown J nresentod figures taken from the I comptroller general's report of 1921: The value of farm lands and buildings in 1921 as returned to the comptroller, he said was $3,765,780. The. value of all taxable property in the county was $13,816,094. The amount of taxes for all purposes in York county last year was $632,750. The amount of county funds necessary to maintain the farm demonstration agent last year was $500. The amount that would be paid by taxes from farm lands and buildings would be 27 per cent. The amount paid by taxes on other property in the county would be 73 per cent, of the whole. The amount paid by , taxes on each 100 acres of farm land i with buildings would be 3 cents. The various representatives having been heard, the meeting adjourned. LOCAL LACONICS J. C. Dozier Secretary. Mr. James C. Dozier of Rock Hill, was on last Saturday elected secretary of the State Board of Public Welfare to succeed Rev. G. Croft Williams recently resigned. Masons at Hoodtown. | Hoodtown lodge No. 289, A. F. M. I at its regular monthly meeting last Saturday evening, elected the following to serve as its officers during the next Masonic year: John R. Hlair, W. - M.; O. S. Dowdle, S. W.; R. H. Cain, 1 J. W.; J. E. Latham, secretary; J. C. 1 Kirkpatrick, treasurer. , III With Influenza. ' 1 Clerk of Court T. E. McMackin and I son. Deputy Clerk J. H. McMackin ! failed to shop up in the court of comj mon pleas yesterday morning because , , of illness with influenza. Another son 1 of the clerk, Mr. Alton McMackin, is also ill at the home on King's Moun[ tain street in Yorkville, with flu, while I other members of the family are threatened with.'it. : . \ . MERE MENTION Sir. Thomas Iapton. who has been j visiting in America for several weeks, . I sailed from New York last Saturday 1 on his return home Bishop R. G. Waterhouse, retired, of the Methodist Episcopal church south, died at his home in Knoxvillo, Tennessee Saturday as the result of injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile Thursdny The weather burenu at Washington on Saturday ordered up northeast storm warnings Two trainmen were killed when the locomotive of an eastbound passenger train of the Chesapeake and Ohio road plunged into New river, near Charleston, West Virginia, last Friday The business district of Astoria. Oregon was destroyed by fire last Friday, with a loss of abotit 515,000,000..... Fcrmer President Wilson is said to be so far recovered from his long illness that he Is now able-to walk the streets of Washington daily without assistance...'. Major General Leonard Wood has decided not to accept the post Of Provost' of the University of Pennsylvania to which he was elected some time back; but to remain in the Philippines as governor general indefinitely King George has appointed the Duke of Abercorn to be governor of North Ireland Assisted by the Cincinnati police, prohibition agents seized 4,000 quarts of liquor in the Big Four railroad yards. The liquor was in 170 barrels, labeled "sweet potatoes," and had been shipped to Beaufort, S. C The Swiss government is very muoh disturbed over the discovery that Hugo Stinnes has Invested 271,000,000 gold marks in Swiss industries, the concern being because of a fear that Stinnes will dominate Swiss Industry and because of complications that may arise in connection with the collection of reparations by the allies. ...Opponents of the Irish government are taking reprisal for recent executions by burning the property of Free State adherents. The province of Shantung, taken from China by the Germans, and taken from the Germans by the Japanese in the World war, was restored to the Chinese by the Japanese last Sunday. ? ?i?i nm^PAUinfi THfc VAUA1N I juuuconiro General Assembly Has Important Task Next Session. With the removal by death yesterday of Judge Frank B. Gary, of the Eighth Judicial Circuit tile fourth vacancy in South Carolina judgeships was brought about The four vacancies are to be filled, by the general assembly at its meeting in January and already a number of candidates are being spoken of as successors to the three Jurists who have been taken by death and a fourth judge who resigned. In addition to the vacancy in the Eighth Circuit, a vacancy exists in the Fourth Circuit, brought about by the death of Judge Ernest Moore and another in the Fourteenth Circuit resulting from the resignation of Judge J. E. Peurifdy. It' was learned today from Senator Proctor Bonham that candidates are already in the field for judgeships of three of these circuits. Fourth, the Sixth and the Fourteenth. It is expected that developments of the next few weeks will bring about the candidacies of several prominent attorneys of the Eighth Circuit who aspire to be come the successor to Judge Frank Gary. In the Fourth Circuit, composed of the counties of Chesterfield, Darling ton, Dillon and ^arlboro, the most prominent candidate for the Judgeship of the circuit is E. C. Dennis well known attorney of Darlington and a former member of the house of representatives. Senator Bonham said today that sentiment in the circuit formerly presided over by Judge Mclver is very much in favor of Mr. Dennis and the likelihood is that he will win the election in the general eissembly. Senator Bonham stated he had heard ot no other candidates for the bench in this circuit. Mr. Dennis is a brother of R. E. Dennis, law partner of Governorelect Thomas G. McLcod. Several candidates are being prominently mentioned for the judgeship of the Sixth Circuit, comprising the counties of York, Chester, Lancaster and Fairfield, Senator Bonham said. Among them are Senator.Glenn W. Ragsdale of Fairfield, Solicitor J. K. Henry of Chester, W. M. Dunlap and J. Harry Foster, of Rock Hill. Mr. Dunlap and Mr. Foster are well known attorneys of York county. Mr. Foster has served as special judge on several occasions. The announced candidates for the judgeship of the Fourteenth Circuit, formerly presided over by James Peurlfoy and consisting of the counties of Hampton, Colleton, Beaufort, Jasper, Allendale arc W. B. Gruber attorney of Walterboro, Senator J. Henry John-! ston of Allendale and J. S. Thomas, attorney of Beaufort. While no candidates have ann< unced in the Eighth Circuit, composed of the counties or AOncvuie, wewncrry, jjau-| rens and Greenwood and formerly pre- j sided over by Judge Frank Gary, there I are a number of able lawyers 'n this j circuit and a lively contest che ' judgeship of the circuit is p. ^mised. > j Senator Bonbum said. Among those j who will be mentioned for the place j will probably be W. I'. Greene, of Ab- j bevillo, who has frequently served as ' a special Judge and often has aeon spoken of as a candidate for the bench : in the event of a vacancy. Election of four judges will serve to j heighten interest in the coming session I of the legislature and the contests; for the four vacancies will draw the attention of the entire state.?Greenville Piedmont, Friday. ? Twelve years ago the Pennsylvania railroad gave away an old bridge over the Susquehanna river at Havre de i Grace to private interests; the building of a new bridge made it. apparent-. ly valueless. * {Automobiles oyer since .have iHtn crossing the structure 'P I I increasing numbers, and the men who' pot the bridge, for nothing in 1910 re- t centFy sold it the state of Maryland i for $5S5,000. And in the 1'2 years it t was in their possession, they pocketed t $370,000 in dividends, all in tolls a charges collected from motor cars, r When the new bridge made the old I of doubtful use, the railroad company a offered it first to the state and then s to the county, but without success. If I no one accepted it, the company was I confronted with the necessity of re- a moving it, which would have been very h expensive. So finally the company I ! changed it from a railroad bridge to c a highway bridge, and considered it- c 1 self lucky in finding a group of Mary- C land men who consented to accept the v j .structure which originaay cost ^,- t 000,000 as a gift. The recipients put up i $700 to organize a company. I-nst year a the pet returns from the bridge were t $65,000. The state will continue to 0 collect tolls urftll 193S, by which timo ^ it estimates the proceeds will retire v the bonds issued agiinst the purchase ^ price of $585,000. (] SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ^ ? Tom Ray, 65, was stabbed to death ? by Willie Williams, 42, on the streets of Camden, last Saturday afternoon. Tt c was the result of an old quarrel, Wil- s Mains came upon Ray from behind, $ caugni mm t>y mi' arm anu as ire % turned, struck him in the neck with a % razor. The wounded man was dead in d a few moments. a ? Federal Prohibition Commissioner a Roy H. Haynee had a conference with 3 South Carolina agents of tne depart- S ment in Columbia Friday and told the w agents what was expected of them. It a had been rum ?d that there was to be ? a big shake-jp among the prohibition w agents; but the shake-up did not P develop. -t a ? Saluda County citizens gained a '' victory over the Southern Railway a Company in the fight before the South s( Carolina Railroad Commission for the '' building of an underpass at Hobernia ' Crossing near Ratesburg as was dis- st closed by a letter addressed to offi- '' cials of the railway Saturday to the effect that the erection of the under pass is compulsory and must be begun without delay. Approximately two ?j score citizens of Saluda County were present before the commission Wednesday and the railroad company was i a represented by several officials who p] stated that financial conditions at this!sa time made it impracticable to remedy j jj the grade crossing in the near future. nj ? Ira Harrison, convicted with Frank fa M. Jeffords for the murder of J. C. Ar- of nette in Columbia last spring, was on Saturday sentenced by Judge T. J. G, Mauldin presiding over the Richland ar court of general sessions to die in the at1 electric chair on December 22. Jeffords is under sentenee to die on the same, ,?* day. On learning, that he was to be v/l taken to the qpurt for re-sentence, la Harrison dropped into a state of "coma," similar to . that of several ca weeks ago, and was carried into court al on a stretcher. Several experts testi- a( fled that in their opinion he was sham- pa ming. BarneyEvans, attorney for S( Harrison, annopneed his intention to fo apply to Chief Justice Taft of the hi United States supreme court for a writ S< of error on which the United States or Supreme court might review the case. Judge Taft refused to interfere. i"*1 ? Dr. Cleveland Bigham, brother of Edmund D. Bigham, now in the death house at the penitentiary, may report m to the prison within a short time to be- ar gin serving a three year sentence in connection with the killing of his wife at Georgetown a number of years ago, according to information received by w Edmund in the form of a published let- tv ter, penitentiary authorities said yes- D terday. Dr. Bigham has been at large n< for several years, having skipped a Tl heavy bond. Another man was con- fa victed along with Dr. Bigham and has \\ PRIZE BEAUTY FROM ENGLAi She Is Miss Margaret Leahy, and ducted by the London Daily Sketch tc JT among the screen aspirants of Grea ? arrived in the United States and will duction, giving Americans an opporl the Judges in the beauty show. icrved liis sentence, it was said, but irison officers were not able to recall he /nan's name. Dr. Bighum claimed hat he thought his wife was a ghost md fired. In the recent trial and apical of Edmund Bigham the matter of Dr. Bigham's bond was mentioned leveral times, once in the "suicide ;Uitement" alleged to have been left by j. Smiley Bigham, whom, the state aleged, was killed by Edmund. In this .lleged suicide statement Smiley said le had paid the bond for Cleveland Jigham. In the published letter rceived by Edmund, according to prison ifflr?inlu tho ic m-ulo thilt fieveland Bigham had made occasional isits to the home at Pampllco prior 0 the wholesale murder of the family. ? Chester, December 9: Of consider-| ble interest to mercantile circles hroughout the Carollnas was the sale f the buildings and stock of goods of V. T. Stover & Co., at Heath Springs, ,-hich were sold at a receivership pubc auction sale Tuesday, and were bid 1 as a whole by C. W. F. Spencer, atorney of Rock Hill, at 511,100. The uildings and stocks were sold first eparately and then as a whole, the ale bringing the larger figure to be onfirmed. The general merchandise tore building and warehouse brought 3,400 on the individual bid, and the cncral merchandise stock, which in/i.Mo/1 tO '.fifi Kvonokt ACfi TKA VIUUI icu utuu^ut oi,vuv. JL IIV; rug store building- was bid at 52,400 nd the 53,718.01 stock brought 52,500, total for all the separate bids of 59,- ! 50. When put up as a whole Mr. pencer's bid was $11,100 and this sale as confirmed. Book accounts, secured nd otherwise, aggregating $27,439 rere sold for. $2,135. About $7,000 orth of these accounts had been ledged as collateral to borrowings, nd they were bid in for the most part y the firms to whom they had been ssigned. The horse and wagon were aid for $75. There was very little cometitivc bidding. It is said that Dr. immons has made an offer on drug ock, which will probably be accepted y Mr. Spencer. BURIED BY CHARITY Scottish Nobleman" Comes to Sad Death in America. A freshly turned earthen mound In Wichita cemetery marks the resting lace of Thomas Robertson, 76, who lid he was a Scottish Nobleman, who cd in Wichita, Kansas, Monday penless and apparently forgotten by his mily. He was buried at the expense his employers. Robertson said he was the son of , Robertson, a Scottish nobleman, id his brother, he said, was once an imiral of the British navy. % For seven years, ' the gentleman," : he was respectfully called by those ho knew him had worked in a Wichita undry. Robertson, according to his story, mc to America. with a young wife, so of noble blood, about fifty years fo, intending to establish an estate itterned after the ancestral home in Gotland. The young wife died, the rtune disappeared. Robertson took s three children and went back to :otland. He married again. His secid wife was not of noble blood, and irtly/because of this, he was disin rited. -Big Ben. the clock in 'he Parliaent towji in London, is wound by 1 electric motor. The bell of the ock was cast in 1858. - Three men were killed and three ounded in a gun and pistol battle beireen labor agents and planters at uckport, La., on the Mississippi river ;ar Vicksburg, Miss., last Saturday, ic dead are one unidentified white rmer and two negroes. "Williams 'eston and another unidentified, a ND HERE TO ACT IN FILM I she recently won a contest con) decide a dispute over good looks it llritain. Miss Leahy has lust I soon bo seen in a new film prounity to pass on the abilities of j negro, were wounded. District Attorney Snyder of Madison Parish Louisiana near Vicksburg, stated Saturday night that information in his possession indicated that the trouble arose over efforts by Jake Stevens, a negro labor agent, to persuade negroes to leave a plantation for work elsewhere. ? Violation by France of* its agreement to protect Armenians was responsible in a large measure for the slaughter of Christians in Turkey, according to Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who addressed a mass meeting nt the First Methodist church m New Orleans, In the interest of the Near East relief. "There never was a more shameless ucsertion or a people than that of the Armenians by France," j : Bishop Cannon said. "When the I | THIS WEEK | FOR FEINSTEIN'S I Ladies' Fancy Bedroom a# mas Boxes?Special ?j}. Ladies' Silk and Wool lie M Hood Outings?At 3j Best 36-ineli Sheeting?A 3S Ladies'IIoso?At 3a frnorl rinrfnin (rnnrls?Af |l Fine Table Cloth?At the 5# Just received a large sh m and also a large sliipm g ing, Etc. Find it at 1 FEINS' 1 Y?RK, ?*fSk. 'J^lSx "C; 1 BUY YOUR XMAS i J BUY THEM | Cash an | Sto | WHERE YOUR DOLL i 22 OUR SPECIAL CHRISI M PERTES IS AUREA1 ? AND SHOW CASES. BARGAINS WE OF |j Best Grade Sugar?At FRUIT CAKE 3 y Citron wf. 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