Scraps and drafts.
? Descending- from an automobile
into the midst of the throng of holiday
shoppers on upper Broadwo.y Saturday
night, three men smashed the window
of a jewelry store with a brick wrapped
in towels and escaped with 71
diamond rings which they snatched
from trays in the display window.
The rings were valued at $10,000. The
robbery was carried out with the utmost
daring. Parking their expensive
looking car in the line of automobiles
which stood at the curb, two of the
bandits, fashionably attired, strolled
nonchalantly toward the Jeweler's display
window, leaving a third companion
at the wheel. A dozen persons
were inspecting the jewels behind the
glass when one of the new arrivals
drew from, under his arm what appeared
to be a parcel?the brick wrapped
in towels. Before any of the pedestiians
realized what was happening,
the parcel was hurled at the window,
shattering the thick plate glass, and
making the gems readily accessible
through the jagged opening ....
Gathering up two trays containing the
71 valuable rings, the bandit pair
quickly withdrew to the curb, climbed
into their car and disappeared into the
streams of traffic along the brilliantly
lighted thoroughfare. Two customers
and eight clerks were in the store
v/hen the robbery occurred.
? Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho,
exploded a bomb in the senate last
week during the discussion of the naval
appropriation bill. The recent arms
conference at Washington dealt with
tii'.' scrapping of certain warships undc
10.000 tons, and a ten-year cessati<
i qt further construction of sue":
vessels. Since then the nations have
been devoting their resources to the
construction of smaller craft under 10,000
tons and increasing their aircraft
and submarine armaments. Senator
Borah took the position that there was
no way of restoring conditions to normal
except by an international business
and economic conference. He said that
the reparations question has to be set
tied; that Europe is unable to pay or
buy our farm products and manufactured
goods, and the result is stagnation.
Further, unless something is
done by way of relief that there will be
another war, and that will cost more
than we will lose by way of giving up
the debt that Europe now owes us.
Senator Borah's proposition points in
the direction of the league of nations,
of which he was one of the most violent
opponents. He says there is no
use in spending money on a ship subsidy
when there are no cargoes to send
and nobody to buy them, and with
American farm products rotting in the
fields because a starving world that
needs them has nothing to give in exchange.
The senate farm bloc is behind
Senator Borah in his proposition,
and also the almost solid Democratic
party is in sympathy with his underlying
principles.
? There is a seething situation in
and around Mer Rouge, La., that is
concentrating the attention of the entire
country because of the conflict be
tween the Ku Klux and the constituted
authority. On the night of the
24th of August last while large numbers
of people were returning from
a good roads meeting, a party of five
was held up by a crowd of hooded,
men, taken to a point some distance
from the roadside and given severe
thrashings. While an old man of 70
named Daniel was being thrashed his
son Wat, pulled the hood from the
face of one of the tormenters and called
his nam? loud enough to be heard
by Thomas Richards. The hooded
crowd, supposed to be Ku Klux. allowed
three of the men to go their
ways and carried off Wat Duniel and
Thomas Richards, who were not again
heard from. As the result of detective
investigations extending over several
months, it became a moral certainty
that Daniel and Richards had
been killed and their bodies thrown
into Lake La Fourche, loaded -lown
with wagon wheels. It was known by
the license tags of their cars that the
Ku Klux came from Louisiana, Arkansas
ond Mississippi. Governor Parker
invoked all the resources of the state
in tinting down the murderers, and
. t'ti making sure of what he thought
w -:i<u<ient information, last week
nt 1 : < ops to drag Lake La Fourche,
. id ;hcr lakes if necessary. It was
. own that the other side was also
is> ; ! event the finding of the bodi<
?. in! there was l'ear of danger from
i i pel s with high powered rifles.
Wi i't the military was making unfiling
search, on the morning of
I'n ember 22, a fisherman discovered
two headless bodies floating near a
l>?at landing. The boat landing had
been badly torn by dynamite explosions,
and people reported having
heard the noise. Thie was at a point
several miles from where the troops
were stationed. The common theory
was that the Ku Klux had undertaken
to recover and make way with the
bodies before they could be found by
the authorities in order to obliterate
the evidence. The bodies were identified
as those of young Daniel and
Itichards. At least the idehtity seemed
satisfactory to relatives and friends.
The coroner took charge of the bodies
and made some investigations that
were not made public; but there is to
be a public investigation January 3. T.
Burnett, a former deputy, has been I
arrested on the charge of murder and I
on Tuesday Dr. B. M. Koin. former
mayor of Mer Rouge, was airested in
Baltimore. It is known that the whole
country around Mer Rouge, as well as
a large part of Louisiana is like an
armed camp for and against the Ku
Klux. The sympathizers with the Ku
Klux are denouncing the other side as
boot leggery and black legs and the
other side is denouncing the Ku Klux
as maurauding midnight murderers,
etc. Distrust and terror exists thro igh- j
out the whole country. A number of a
additional arrests are promised for s
next week, and in the meantime
anonymous threats of death and burn- 1
ing are floating around almost every- f
where. c
(the IJctfcwlfc (Enquirer. ;
Entered at the Postornce at xorx, a? Mail
Matter of the Second Class.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922.
The Yorkville Enquirer attains its
68th birthday on January 1.
Grade crossings should be abolished.
The cost of doing the work is not to be
measured against the lives that are being
destroyed on account of them.
Will H. Hayes, chairman of the motion
pictures industries, has decreed
that Fatty Arbuckle pictures may be j
shown again after January 1. Fatty t
is supposed to have been ruled out for {
the sake of decency. That was right, j
To put him back again seems like an
apology to indecency. (
There has been commenced a nation- j
wide movement to require the equipment
of all automobiles with automatic
speed regulators and to make something
like 25 rriles an hour the maximum
limit. Theoretically this is a good
idea; but as to how it may work in
practical operation suggests many
complications. For instance, think of
the advantage that hold-up men would
have in an 80-miles per hour machine,
.with 25-miles per hour machines in
pursuit.
At the instance of the s:ate highway
commission a bill will be introduced in
the next general assembly to require a
state license at the hands of all automobile
drivers. The idea is not to
charge more than a nominal fee for the
license; but to impose a heavy fine on
those who neglect to take the license
out. And persons who transgress the
laws of the road will probably be deprived
of the right to drive.
Governor Harvey has reprieved Ira
?? {! l?ch)Minrv 1fi TVflFF I
o. iiauiouu uiuu a mv?. j
son, one of the murderers of J. C. Ar- i
nette, was sentenced to die last Friday J
with Frank M. Jeffords. His attorney, 1
B. B. Evans, managed to stay his exe- t
cution by means of an appeal to the I
supreme court. It will be remembered ?
that the attorney first asked Judge <
Mauldin to appoint a lunacy commis- t
sion to inquire into the sanity of liar- i
rison. It had already been judicially
established tnat Harrison was sham- j
ming and the Judge refused. Evans 1
then went to Justice Cothran, who also 1
refused; but he could not prevent an !
appeal to the full court, and that acted <
as a stay of execution beyond the date c
on which Harrison had been sentenced 1
to die. The clear purpose of the whole *
proceeding was mainly to secure delay. f
According to the usual course of such *
things Harrison would have been safe 1
until next fall. Then there could be 1
another appeal on some other ground, 1
equally frivolous. After each delay 1
extending beyond the time judicially
fixed for the execution, the prisoner
would have to be sentenced again, and
that would mean a further wait until
the next succeeding term of the Richland
general sessions. So in the effort
to eliminate all this the governor
reprieved the prisoner until February
16. It is probable that the court will c
dismiss the appeal as frivolous before '
that date, and unless Mr. Evans gets ^
up another appeal, the execution will 1
take place. Otherwise, if Mr. McLeod 1
follows the precedent set by Governor
Harvey, there can be other reprieves, '
and Mr. Evans will be kept quite busy I
hatching up new schemes to circum- *
vent the execution of the law. ^
f
Roads and Taxes.
We are reproducing from the Andcr- d
| son Daily Mail its comments on what I 1
I The Yorkville Enquirer recently had to 11
say in regard to a state highway sys- c
tern. d
? V.
There are few newspapers in soutn "
Carolina for whose opinion The York- 1
ville Enquirer has more respect than it
has for the Anderson Daily Mail; but t
just as it appears that The Yorkville c
Enquirer did not make itself exactly c
clear in the paragraph reproduced in t
The Mail, it is hardly conceivable that F
The Mail would be satisfied to be judg- ii
ed as viewing the matter in the exact d
light its remarks would suggest. v
Certainly it will take taxes and more 1
taxes to build a state highway system. $
The Yorkville Enquirer does not want v
to be understood as teaching otherwise.
There is rarely such a thing as
getting something for nothing, and C
when such a thing is so gotten it is e
of very little account. n
But the proposition that to an owner v
who does not want to sell, it makes t
very little difference, except for pur- h
poses of taxation, whether his farm is s
valued at $15 an acre or $150 an acre, t
is .absolutely unsound. n
We know of farms in York county, k
plenty of them, which are mud-bound o
because of bad roads for two or three a
months out of each year. Suppose t:
these farms were mud-bound the whole 1
year, what would they be worth? ai:d d
what do they lose by being mud-bound, t
two or three months out of the year? v
Whether they are for sale or not, would 1
they not be much more valuable to s
their owners if loaded wagons, trucks, A
or automobiles could go and come at o
til times? The question answers it- ^
lelf.
The people of this country got some
ittle idea of what an embargo 011 j
reights meant to them. They got an- i
>ther taste during the recent strike of
he railway shopmen. In neither case
vas the lesson as drastic as it might -3
inve been if the tie-up had been more
:omplete. But in this connection just 1
hink of what a slowing up we suffer j
ocally each year by reason of impossi)le
highways! Surely no one is going I
0 argue that this slowing up does not
:ost a great deal more "than would be j
lecessary for the construction .of good
ill-the-year-round roads. '
The Yorkville Enquirer believes that ^
t costs the people of South Carolina
1 great deal more to do without good ^
oads than it would cost to build them; "j
hat we are now paying double road
fine nnv benefit what- I
:ver. It is difficult for any thinking
ndividual to believe the contrary, ^
nuch less prove it. Of course we can- j
lot get the roads without paying for
:hern; but if we do pay for them W2 1
vill get the benefit. Then why not <
luild the roads and relieve ourselves
if the surplus taxes we are now pay- I
ng to no purpose .
MERE-MENTION.
Highwaymen killed a paymaster of a. i
Pittsburgh coal company, on a lonely
oad near Pittsburgh last Saturday an I
jot away with $20,000 in cash that was (
ntended for the payroll of the miners.
< President and Mrs. Harding gave J
?ach employe of the White House a $5
jold piece as a Christmas present j
Prcd Allison, an automobile mechanic
>f Charlotte, died on Christmas day as
:he result of wounds received in a fight j
jetween prohibition officers and whisly
runners near Lincolnton, N. C
The last German prisoner in France k
vns released on Christmas day, they <
having been held over on account of
loramon law violations -....Madam
Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous ac- r
tress in the world, is seriously ill at
icr home in Paris The Seattle, 1
Washington, police have a tip that
Cleveland Bergdoll has been landed in
hat city from Germany...: Twentythree
persons were admitted to the i
lospitals of Detroit, Michigan, on *
Christmas day, supposed to be sufferng
from drinking poisoned liquors
William Henry Melchor, aged, 30, was
-111*** lTfl?oinn_fin1om V P. Tues- ,
\11icu at ?? ?, t
lay, when he got in the way of a de- sending
airplane Former Presl- j
lent Woodrow Wilson celebrated his ,
56th birthday Tuesday ?.The Bal- j
:imore and Ohio railroad company has j
lust distributed half a million dollars ,
imong those of its employes who re- ,
nainod loyal during the recent railroad s
itrike The senate last week con- t
Irmed the nomination of Pierce Butler
:o be an associate justice of the United
States supreme court? Ed Feath;rstone
of Belmont, N. C., was killed on j
Christmas day when his automobile
:urned over down a grade near Clare- j
nont, between Statesville and Newton.
The Pennsylvania grand lodge of
\. E- M? has passed resolutions out- ^
r.wing the Ku Klux and saying no good
Mason will countenance the organi:ation
Senator Lodge announc- A
;d Wednesday that the president is 1
:onsidering the calling of an internaional
conference to consider the econ- 5
>mic problems of Europe So far the J
>um of $800,000 has been contributed
oward the Wilson foundation fund of f
>1,000,000 The death rate of the \
Jnited States for the year just closing s
vas 11.6 per 1,000 population, against l;
.3.1 per 1,000 last year. i
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Gaffney won the up-state football
ihampionship from Thornwell orphan- 6
tge at Greenville on December 19, by
l score of 32 to 14. 1
o
? L. P. Boswcll, CO, painter by trade, .
ommitted suicide in an Easley boardng
house, Wednesday of last week,
vith a rifle. He was found in a dying (~
:ondition shortly after the report of 11
he shot.
e
? Governor Harvey has been sufferng
from a severe attack of influenza.
Je spent Christmas day in bed.; but b
las since been getting1 along very nicey,
although for several days there was
ear of pneumonia.
ti
? Frank M. Jeffords, one of the murC;
lerers of J. C. Arnette, his partner in j
he conduct of a filling station in Co- ^
umbia, on the night of May 9 last, was j
xecuted last Friday. He went to his
c
leath calmly, claiming to have made
lis peace with God and to have no furher
fears. n
o
? C. P. Sims and J. G. Southard, atei
orneys of Spartanburg, -have been
ited to appear before the supreme
ourt tomorrow, to show cause why 'r
hey should not return $2,000 to W. W. b
thame, a former client. Rhame hav- b
ng been convicted of conducting a s
isorderly house, was fined $3,000, "
,-hich he turned over to his attorneys. ?
'he fine was afterward reduced to ^
1,000, and Rhame wants to know ?
rhere he comes in.
, ? T
? New York city reports the dry^st tl
Jhristmas on record. The prohibition
nforccment officers did their best to u
nake it so. Tney naa marked in aa- ?
ance all the places that were known C
o be selling liquor on the Bly and they C1
ad an officer before each door. Con- s
iderable liquor was confiscated during 11
he day. There was not a single drunk hi
r disorderly defendant before what is T
nown as the "West Side" court. The
ldest attaches of the court were un- Vl
ble to remember a previous Christmas hat
passed under similar conditions, p
'hero were eight deaths during the c<
ay from drinking poisoned liquor and C
welve drunks were treated at Belle- g
ue, the famous hospital for drunks, tl
'he eight who died from drinking poi- Lx
oned whisky included two women, tl
lUtopsies were held in the cases of five d(
f these victims. is
LOCAL AFFAIRS,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
'. M. Stroup?We thank you.
Cirkpatrick-Belk Co.?We pause at the ,
back door.
}. W. Whitesides & Co., Sharon?Let's
make 1923 our very best year.
fork Hardware Company?Remember
the "Red W Store."
Copies Bank & Trust Co.?Three important
announcements.
Jank of Clover?Only a few more days
left.
'einstein's Department Store?It will
pay you to visit our store for anything
you need.
JcConnell Dry Goods Co.?A better
store for 1923.
fork Furniture Co.?We have no complaints.
dackorell Drug Company?We thank
you.
V. L. Wallace?Happy New Year
'. M. Brian Company?You couldn't do.
foye Jewelry Co., Rock Hill?You'll
make no mistake.
livens Brothers, York and Clover?In
1923.
rhe City Pharmacy, Clover?A big
year for colds.
jT T Pnf/1 .Q, flino Plnvnr?RpSOIVA tO
trade at Ford's.
''irst National Bank of Sharon?Start
it right
}ash and Carry Store?New Year's
greetings.
Hrst National Hank of Clover?Speaking
of New Year's resolutions.
fork Candy Kitchen, Peter Colgin, Proprietor?Is
about to start the New
Year.
Sherrer & Quinn?1922-1923.
EV. E. Ferguson?Good-bye and howdy
do.
Peoples Furniture Company?History
now.
Clover Drug Store?We certainly
thank our pa:rons.
r. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Citation
in re estate of H. D. Huffstetler, deceased.
rames A. Barrertt?Notice of application
for final discharge as administrator
of the ?stato of W. A. Barrett,
deceased.
?. E. Quinn, Administrator?in once iu
debtors and creditors of the estate of
A. J. Quinn, deceased.
Sam M. and S. E. Grist, District Agents
?An appreciation.
Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?
Harry Morey today in the "Flaming
Clue."
fork Drug Store?Miraculous.
Thos. W. Speck, Jeweler?Wedding
gifts.
3. M. Parrott, Clover?Make up your
mind.
r. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Notice
of application as administrator in re
estate of Robert L. Clinton, deceased.
Shieder Drug Store?W? thank you.
llarion & Finley, Attys.?Federal farm
loan money on long time and easy
payments.
All subscribers to The Yorkville Enquirer
get the present issue of The
forkville Enquirer and also the next
;wo. This Issue belongs to them and
so does the next. It taJes these two
ssues to make up for the suspension of
ast week. The next issue?that of
lext Friday?is thrcwn in for good
neasure. But after that all January 1
(ubscriptlons that have not been reurned,
will be discontinued.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mr. John Galloway of York No. 4,
s suffering with pneumonia.
Mr. Edgar M. Faris, carrier on York
STo. 8, is ill at his home with influenza.
Robert B. Allein of Atlanta, Ga.,
risited the family of his mother. Mrs.
L C. Allein in Yorkville, this week.
Mrs. J. M. Ferguson of Yorkville
'icited friends in Orangeburg this
veek.
Miss Elizabeth Wiiborn of Yorkville,
a visiting the family of Mr. S. M.
tones in Chester.
Mr. James E. Burns of Lancaster,
ormerly a resident of Yorkville was a
risitor here yesterday. He came to
ee his father Mr. A. E. Burns who
ives in the Beersheba section and who
s in the 85th year of his age.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Local merchants generally are enraged
in stock taking.
? Five arrests during Christmas?
wo or three for being drunk and disrderly
and two for shooting flreworks
a violation of the ordinance.
? Fred Taylor, who lives on South i
tongress street, had a shotgun accient
on Christmas day, as the result of i
;hich his left hand was badly laceratd.
He was taken to the Fennell In- ]
rmary, where his hand was properly
aoked after. The little finger had to ]
c amputated.
? The Marshall Oil company, with 1
eadquarters at Rock Hill, and supply
inks at other points in York and Lan- '
aster counties, nas soia us dushicss iu j
tiQ Standard Oil company, and the
larshalls will corttinue in the manage- <
lent of the business for and on acount
of the Standard.
? No fights or murders Christmas,
o fires, very little diunkenness, and
nly two or three arrests. Fire-crackr
nuisance held down to a minimum. '
? Electric lights were put out of bus- '
less the night of December 20 by the
urden of ice on the overhanging tree
ranches. Rain that had been falling t
tcadily all the afternoon, began to .
ceze in the early evening and by 11 f
'clock the wires gave way under the
rcaking of the trees. At about 2 t
'clock the ice began to thaw, and by t
aylight it was practically all gone,
he streets were strewed with fallen
ee branches. I
? The Christmas trade has been un- ?
suauy gooci iiiih year. 11 Deg?n iu row
noticeable about a week before s
hristmas and continued in steadily In- a
reasing volume up to the following 1
aturday. Business was especially J
eavy on Saturday, all of the stores (
fiving about all they could attend to. r
he streets were crowded all day and v
enerally the best of good order pre- I
ailed. A
? J. H. B. Jenkins, Jr., active vice .
resident of the Peoples Bank & Trust ! ^
ampany, said yesterday that his; ^
hristmas savings club last year agrcgated
$7,000 of deposits, and when
lis amount was paid over to the mem- e
ers of the club at Christmas, more u
mn two-thirds of it was returned for a
jposit. "That Christmas savings club c
a great thing for t.he community," t
3aid Mr. Jenkins, "and we are going to
push it harder this year than heretofore."
? Local Masonic bodies on Wednesday
night installed officers for the ensuing
Masonic year as follows: Philanthropic
Lodge, No. 32, A. F. M.: R.
P. Jackson, W. M.; A. A. Barron, J,
W.; W. R. Latimer, secretary: G. H.
Hart, treasurer: J. R. Barnwell, S. D.;
W. C. Sand if er, J. D., B. A. Correll, Sr.
steward. Lewis M. Grist, S. W., and
A. C. Ramsey, Jr. Steward, will be installed
later. Mackey Chapter, No. 15,
R. A. M.: A. A. Barron, H. P.; J. E.
Stroup, king; B. A. Correll, scribe; G.
W. Williams, C. H.J A. T. Hart, P. S.;
C. H. Hart, R. A. C.; J. R. Barnwell, 3d
V.; S. L. Steele, 2nd V.; W. L. Jamison,
1st V.; W. R. Latimer, Sec.: G. H.
Hart, Treas.; B. F. Marley, sentinel.
Absalom Cody Cduncll, No. 31: G. W.
Williams, I. M.; A. A. Barron, D. M.J
J. R. Barnwell, P. C. W.; B. A. Correll,
C. G.; A. T. Hart, C. C.; W. L. Jamlcnn
of^ujiird- W R_ Latimer. recorder:
G. H. Hart, treasurer; B. F. Marley,
sentinel.
THE MARRIAGE RECORD.
Marriage licenses have been Issued
by the probate judge as follows:
Dec. 18?Sam Gray and Edna Johnson,
Rock Hill.
Dec. 18?S. B. Chambers and Mary
W. Fcwell, York township.
Dec. 19?S. E. Reaves and Mary Lee
Dye, Rock Hill.
Dec 19?Hood Gibson and Delle
Thomas, Rock Hill.
Dec. 19?Graham Allen and Freida
B. Allen, Gasto-ila.
Dec. 20?Sam Earl and Eliza Thomasson,
colored, York township.
Dec. 20?Robert L. Hope, York No.
7 and Mary Wallace, York No. 2.
Dec. 20?Vernon Holder and Kate
Payne. Winston-Salem, N. C.
Dec. 20?Calvin W. Jones York No.
1 and Ollie Mae McAbee, Filbert.
Dec. 20?James L. Branch and Johnsie
Gardner, Rock Hill.
Dec. 21?C. J. Anderson and Delia
Tennant, Rock Hill.
Dec. 21?J. E. McFadden, Newport
and Bertha J. Williams, Ebenezer.
Dec. 21?Herbert Harris and Lenora
Hamilton, Fort Mill.
Dec. 21?Mack Smith, York No. 8
and Sadie Diggers, colored, Bethel
township.
Dec. 21?W. A. Smith, Yorkville and
Margaret Adams, Bethel township.
Dec. <12?Arthur Latta nnd Vester
Turner, colored, McConnellsville.
Dec. 22?Floy4 M. Davis and Mary
J. Glenn, Bethel township.
Dec. 22?Clifton Wilson and Azalee
Collins, Fort Mill.
Dec. 22?Roland D. Rogers and M.
Dell McCall, Clover.
Dec. 23?Robert Giles and Jenniet
Jordan, colored, Newport.
Dec. 23?Willie Reid and Nannie
Brice, colored, Lesslie.
Dec. 23?Gus Hill and Maggie Parker,
Yorkville.
Dec. 23?Glenn Nivens and Annie
Carroll, Yorkville.
Dec. 23?James Taylor and Tabatha
Adams, Yorkville.
Dec. 23?Bob McCarter and Emma
Davis, Charlotte.
Dec. 23?A. J. Smith, Hickory Grove,
and Neva Hemphill, Madina, Tenn.
Dec. 23?C. W. Galhnan and Rebecca
Black, Rock Hill.
Dec. 23?T. Edison Wallace and Ajinie
V. Ray, Yorkville.
Dec. 23?A. L. Bumgardner, Bessemer
City, N. C. and Edna M. Sams,
Lowell, N. C.
Dec. 23?Primus Byrd and Letha
Rawlir.son, colored, Filbert.
Dec. 23?Walton Little and Bertha
Bracham, Gastonia, N. C.
Dec. 23?Jack Parrott and Ruth
Dickson, Yorkville.
Dec. 25?Haskel Wilson and Nettle
Jenkins, King's .Mountain.
Dec. 25?Earl Blackburn and Ethel
Brigg, Hickory, N. C.
Dec. 25?Henry Whitesides and Eva
Green, Gastonia.
Dec. 26?Stork Robert and Alice
Good, Hickory Grove.
Dec. 26?Moses Watts and Ora
Blair. Yorkville.
Dec. 26?M. E. Helms, Lancaster and
Mary Olive Howie, Fort Mill.
Dec. 26?L. Kimbrell, Pineville, N.
C. and Vern!e Culp, Fort Mill.
Dec. 27?Fred Hanley, Florence, S.
D. and Anna Goodman. Rockwell, N. C.
Dec. 27?George Caldwell, Smith's
Turnout. S. O. and Pearl Hemphill, colored,
Rodman, S. C.
Dec. 27?Pierce Morris and Linnie
smith, King's Mountain.
ALONG THE WAY
W. Brown Gaulden, well known
'armer and trapper of York No 3
hipped the first mink skins of the
season to a St. Louis dealer this week.
According to Mr. Gaulden who in his
ime has caught hundreds of mink, the
ur is of good quality this winter and
t should bring good prices. Trappers
ronerally get from $5 to $10 each for
nink hides. There were seven in the
* *- *? a-? -a i if- /*ia..L1Am
inipment GispLitcntjci uy mr. unuium
his week.
William N. Neil, well known local
)ird hunter killed three partridges at
me shot last Tuesday, according to J.
D. Johnson who was hunting with him
it the time. Although he has only one
Lrm, Mr. Neil is noted as one of the
>est shots in this section. He and Mr.
fohnson were hunting down in Bethes
la township when a covey of partidges
arose. Johnson did not shoot '
vhile Neil shot just one time. Three
artridges fell. "If I had even shot I '
vould certainly have claimed one of
hose birds," commented Mr. Johnson 1
n telling the story. "But since I did
lot shoot at all, I had no right to make ny
claim."
The York county jury commisslonrs
were engaged this week in making \
ip the jury list for 1923. There are
bout 4,200 qualified electors in York 1
ounty and under the law one-third of
hese must be .selected for jury duty. I
The statute exempts many classes of
professional men. Practically all of
Wednesday was spent by the commissioners
in selecting proper names for
the jury box.
Louise, ten-year-old daughter of
County Supervisor Hugh G. Brown
was bitten by a small bird pup last
Friday that is believed to have been
mad. A short time after the little girl
was bitten the pup was killed and its
head was sent to the state laboratory
in Columbia. A report was received
Sunday to the effect that the dog was
suffering with rabies. Howard Brown,
a brother of the little girl and Carrie
Powell, a colored woman were bitten
by the pup and all three are taking the
pasteur treatment. They show no ill
effects from the bites so far.
While small boys and larger ones, too,
shot hundreds of dollars worth of lire
works on Christmas day and since,
stocks of local merchants have not
been consumed entirely and unless
much powder is burned on New Year's
the merchants are eoinir to find it nec
essary to carry over large quantities.
It is believed this condition is due to
the fact that more merchants carried
fire works this year than is generally
the case.
Numerous couples from Cleveland
and Gaston counties in North Carolina
have come to Yorkvllta during the
past ten days for marriage licenses.
Most of them have had the ceremony
performed by Probate Judge Houston.
Asked yesterday why so many couples
come xo iotk county iruiu i>unu v^tii olina
to be married, a young bride
groom said: "We have a fool eugenics
law in North Carolina, that was made
for th - benefit of the doctors. Under
this law both men and women have to
undergo a physical examination before
a license is issued. The doctors don't
really examine but they charge from
$5 to $20 for the examination. Young
men and young women have come to
the conclusion that it is much cheaper
to come to South Carolina and get
it done with license, ceremony, taxi
and everything for less money."
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,
Real estate transfers have been indexed
in the office of the county auditor
as follows:
Bethel?W. E. Adams to Ed C.
Adams, Margaret Adams Bris'on and
G.,W. Pleasant, 162 acres, $4,970.
Broad River?R. T. Castles to W. W.
Whltesides, 1 lot $15.
T. E. McMackin, C. C. C. Pis., to J.
T. Mitchell, 65 1-10 acres, $1,302 (Morrow
land).
J. S. WiWrson, Trustee of M. A.
Hood, Bankrupt to B. N. Miller, 1 lot,
$187.50.
W. W. Whltesides to R. T. Castles,
1-6 acre, $25.
. Martha E. Warth to J. Thomas
Smith, 260 59-100 acres, $5 and other
considerations.
Bullock's Creek?Jno. T. Latham to
Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church,
2 1-2 acres, $1.
Catawba?C. N. Steed to Powell and
Tucker, 1 lot, $100.
J. W. Hicklin, et al., to J. T. Fain, 1
lot, full value (1-12 Interest).
Sam Brown to J. W. O'Neal, 1 lot,
$350.
Hattle I. White, et al., to Effie Abee,
1 lot, $250.
Powell & Tucker to V. O. McSwaln,
1 lot, $5 and other considerations.
Alberta Erwin to Powell & Tucker,
1 lot, $150.
Miss Orrie Steele to M. C. Parrlsh,
et al, 1 lot, $2,000.
Mrs. J. M. Dozier to J. T. Devinney,
1 lot, $5 and other considerations.
J. T. Devinney to Henry G. Neely, 1
lot, full value, (Mrs. J. M. Dozier lot).
Catawba Real Estate Co. to J. L.
Phillips, 1 lot, $5 and other considerations.
Hattie J. Sanders to J. Ed Reid, 1
lot, $5.
Alex Long, Sr., to Mrs. T. B. Williams,
1 lot $22C.
W. G. Stevens to J. B. Johnson, 2
lots, $690.
Peoples Trust Co. Exors. Estate W.
J. Neely to J. B. Johnson, 579 3-4
acres $1,000 (Right title and interest in
Johnson, Neely and Williford tract).
T u T aooIIa /-* TJorhor T.limhPP C*0..
J* I J^COOIIC IV Wb? ,
122 5-10 acres, $1 and other considerations).
Hattie I. White, H. H. White a,;d B.
T. White to J. W. Neal. 1 lot $250.
Ebenezei?Roxana T. Boyce to Basil
H. Matthews, 1 1-10 acres. $650.
Catawba Real Estate Co., to Mrs.
Mildred K. Barron, 1 lot, $5 and other
considerations.
S. H. Epps, Sr., to Grover C. Epps
29 acres, $600.
King's Mountain?J. L. Wilson to J.
F. Pursley, 1 lot, $2,500.
E. B. Price to Hawthorn Spinning
mills, 1 lot, $2,500.
M. M. Deal to J. H. Gordon, 1 lot
$1,785.
S. A. Sifford, C. N. Alexander and
R. L. Wylle to Hawthorn Spinning
Mills, 1 lot, $1,250, (part o' Ida Robinson
lot).
J. I.. McGlll to W. B. McGill 52 1-3
acres, $1.
W. B. McGill to J. * It. McGlll, 50
acres $1.
M. M. Deal to J. I,. McGHl, 125 acres,
$4,000.
Willie T. Jackson to J. Howard
Jackson, 1 lot, $200.
Mattie Turner to Willie Jackson, 1
lot, $200.
C. N. Alexander to Hawthorn Spinning
Mills, 15 2-5 acres. $3,000.
V. C. Stroup to C. N. Alexander,
15 2-5 acres. $3,000.
York?Thos. P. McDow to Walter B.
Moore, 1 lot, $675.
Thos. F. McDow to E. B. Jjowry, 1
ot. $650.
J. J. Thomas to A. L. Black, 35 acres f
1962.50.
Thos. F., McDow to Carroll Bros. 1 >
ot. $75.
T. E. McMackln, C. C. C. Pis. to W.
}. and A. M. Grist. 1 lot, $3,000 (Right
title and interest of heirs of 0. E.
Grist, deceased).
Geo. H. O'Leary, Exor., to J no. C.
Thrift, 20 85-100 acres, $1,730 (Miles J.
Walker Estate lands).
Tom Hardy to Charlie Hynes, 1 lot,
$50.
BROAD RIVE* R. R. BONDS.
Does it mean the beginning of another
suit to establish the .validity of t
the $24,000 worth of bondr that Broad
Ktver townsnip vorea in aia 01 ine
Charleston, Cincinnati ano Chicago
railroad?
That is the question that was raised
when a 570 interest coupon was presented
at the cashier's window at the
treasurer's office one day last week.
The bond from which the coupon
was clipped was of the denomination of
$1,000, and of the Broad River issue of
1887, due January 1, 1897. The coupon
was presented by the Peoples Bank and
Trust company, having come to that
Institution from a bank in Charleston, ^
and to the Charleston bank from some
bank in the west.
Treasurer Nell turned the coupon
down flat, informing the bank that it
was "no good," and it goes back to the
holder with a notation to that effect.
The circumstance of the presentation
raises the question as to whether this
coupon is the property of some innocent
holder who is unacquainted with
the status of that $24,000 issue or
does it mean the beginning of a new
campaign of litigation to make Broad
River pay? ,
The $24,000 bond issue in question
was subscribed by Broad River township
on a vote of the people in aid of
the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chica- M
go railroad, with the understanding: fl
that it was to income the property
of the raiload company on the comple- ^8
tlon of the railroad through the township.
fl
This was in Maj% 1887. The road not
having yet been completed, the issue
was placed In the hands of the Boston H
Safe Deposit and Trust company, pending
the fulfillment of the railroad's part
of the contract.
In November, 1888, while the bonds
were still in the hands of the Trust V
company, the supreme court filed a decree
in an Abbeville case in which it
held that the legislature could not authorize
a township that was not clothed
with a corporate purpose to invest
in the stock of a railroad company.
The decision fit the case of the Brpad
River township bonds, and the Boston
Safe Deposit and Trust company was
requested to hold on to the securities.
In December following, however, the
legislature passed an act providing for
the payment of the bonds issued in aid
of railroads in this state, and this act
having been held constitutional by the ,
supreme court, the Massachusetts and
Pouthern Construction company applied
to the United States circuit court
at Charleston and procured an order ^
airecung mat tne cosion ouie uepuoa
and. Trust company turn the bonds
over.
This order of the court was complied
with in 1890; but as the decree in no
way attempted to pass on the validity
of the bonds, the county commissioners V
refused to levy a tax to pay the interest.
As the next step in the procedure, R.
M. Morse, claiming to hold due and unpaid
coupons, petitioned the supreme
court to mandamus the county commissioners
of York county to levy the necessary
tax.
The commissioners responded with a
showing that the assessed valuation of
the taxable property of the township
of the time of the validation act, December
22, 1888, was only $271,350, and
j that the bonds were no good because
i $24,000, the aggregate amount of them,
was in excess of 8. per cent of the assessed
valuation of all the taxable
property in the township.
Article 9 of Section 7 of the constitution
of 1868, which governed at the
time, prohibited the state or any municipal
subdivision thereof to issue
bonds in excess of 8 per cent of the assessed
taxable valuation thereof.
This contention has been upheld by
the state supreme court, by the United
States circuit court, and by the United
States circuit court of appeals.
LOCAL LACONICS
Boyd's Ferry Bridge.
Work on the Boyd's Ferry bridge has
progrevijeu iu me puuu ui la^iuu mv ,
floor; but the problem of approach
from the York side remains unsolved.
York County Cotton.
The output of York county gins up
to December 13, 1922, was 25,347 bales, v
against 40,139 bales up to December 13
of last year.
King's Creek to Smyrna.
The Cherokee highway commission
has decided to connect Blacksburg
with York county's West road at
Smyrna, going direct ^o Smyrna from
King's Creek, south of the railroad.
Chester Calls Rev. Paul Pressley.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
congregation of Chester, has extended
a call to Rev. Paul Pressley of
Louisville, Ga. The general expecta- ,
tion is that Mr. Fressiey win accept.
Accepts Gastonia Call.
Rev. Dr. Ernest Orr of New Albany,
Miss., recently called to the pastorate
of the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church of Gastonia, has notified
the congregation of his acceptance
and will enter upon the work at once.
Big Stock Dividend Declared.
Stockholders of the Aragon Cotton
Mills of Rock Hill on Wednesday ?
voted to Increase the capital stock of
the company from $500,000 to $750,000
and to declare a stock dividend of
133 1-3 per cent. The dividend is payable
to. the stockholders of record on
December 1 and already has been ap(Continued
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