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FOE ROAD BOARD.
fiOggestion for Membership of J
> Township Commission.
]The names of W. B. Meacham,
* ( nr., Col. T. B. Spratt -ai)d C. P. 1
Bl&nkenship will .be submitted \
ii is week to the.York county leg- f
| plative delegation by W. R. (
9 Bradford, member of the delega- ,
I t ion,for approval as members of
| the Fort Mill township road com- i
I mission, which will have charge <
( of the improvement of the roads j
of the township with the proceeds
of the $75,000 bond issue j
voted a few days ago and $20,- ?
000 the delegation several months ]
ago agreed to appropriate for <
the same purpose. Should a majority
of the delegation approve i
the list submitted by Mr." Brad- \
ford, the recommendation will be <
forwarded to the governor with- i
& out loss of time and it is pre- j
sumed that the appointments will I
be made within the next* week or j
ten days. <
In connection with the selec- 1
tion of..Messrs. Meacham, Spratt
and Blankenship as the men he t
will ask the York delegation to j
recommend for snnointment on
the Port Mill township highway j
commission, Mr. Bradford de- j
sires to make the following 1
statement to the citizens of the |
township: ,
"As readers of The Times will g
recall and as I have said person- (
ally to many, it has been the pol- ,
icy of the York delegation in se- |
lecting the various township road ,
commissions, always composed
of three men, to select these men t
from different sections of the \
township. This policy I intended .
to be guided by in recommend- f
ing to the delegation the men for ,
the Fort Mill township eommis- j
-aion. It was ray purpose to sug- j
gest the appointment of a citizen ,
of the town, one from the Gold ]
Hill community and the third (
from the neighborhood south of t
town. A few days ago, however, ,
I received a petition signed by ,
practically every citizen living ]
south of town requesting that Col. |
T. B. Spratt be put on the com- ,
mission as the representative ,
they understood that set ion of
the township would get. This ,
petition I cannot ignore, nor have ?
I any inclination to ignore it. If
these good citizens prefer to ,
come to town to select the repre- ,
8entative they are entitled to on
the board, that is their business,
and many will compliment the
judgment they have displayed."
TEST DATE YET TO BE SET.
Mo Announcement Made Concerning
Fort Mill Postoffioe.
So far as The Times is able to
learn, no information has yet
come to Fort Mill from Washington
as to the date on which the
usivil service commission will or?der
an election to he held to select
a permanent postmaster for the i
local nostofflcp Pros* tches
a few days age announced that i
jio one 011 the eligible list for appointment
as postmaster in any j
isection of the country as a result
Sformer examinations would he
tinted/ This means that a ,
find examination will be held
1o select a head for the Fort Mill i
office.
Heretofore the civil service 1
commission has recommended for
appointment applicana with the 1
highest rating made in the ex- 1
animations, but some weeks ago
a ruling waa set up by the post- (
office department that this method
of selecting postmasters had
been changed and that in the future
the department would exercise
its discretion in selecting for
appointment any one of the first
three applicants with the highest
rftting. Business qualifications to
fill the nnflitinn nf nr^tmntitcr will
It was announced, weigh even
mora in the choiee of postmasters
than book teaming and the ability
to answer the usual catch queA ??*,wri%jtjven
in the civil service examinations.
Boy'a Body Recovered.
The body of Burse Alexander, !
1ft year old son of J. P. Alexander
of Steel Creek, Mecklenburg
county, who was drowned in the
Catawba near Steel Creek school
kouae Sunday afternoon on his
lftth birthday; waa recovered
> Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, j
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rELLS OF NAVY GRAFTEB8.
Daniels Exposes Men Who Tried <
. to Rob the Government.
.Joseph us Daniels, who was seerotary
of the navy during the 1
ipht years of the Wilson admin- I
[Stratum, has written the "inside <
dory" of the work qf the navy i
department during that history- 1
nuking epoch. 1
Probably no man connected
wirn me w lison administration i
was denounced and lampooned to \
i greater extent than Daniels, j
Vet those who were in position to ]
tret a close up view of his work j
my that he was the greatest sec- j
retary the American navy has <
?ver had.
He had executive ability, integ- |
rity and* conrager He drove !io- ,
lor out of the navy. He gave the j
ioraraon sailor an opportunity to i
win a commission and he exposed (
?nd -ended the grafting contracts
between the department and the (
powerful concerns which furnish ,
?d the navy with supplies of all ,
cinds.
In his reminiscences Mr. Daniels
ells of his victory over the armor
plate makers. Here it is:
"But the grcutest sin 1 commit- {
ed, certuiuly the one responsible ,
for the "continued organized and j
well oiled criticism which never
et up except during the war, was }
uj successful contest with the
iteel cotuDunics and nowerfnl eon
ems which made armor plate
uul projectiles and smokeless
lowder and other munitions for
he navy.
"Wound upon examination that
ill three of the armor plate plants, 1
jy some hypnotic method beyond
ny understanding, bid exactly the
mine .price to a cent when bids 1
sere asked for armor plate. 1 1
round that they had sold armor
>late to Russia for less than they
charged to the American navy. 1
jeeame convinced that there later
mine into existence an umleritauding
that manufacturers of
urmor at home or abroad would
not compete; that our navy was
being churgqjl a price that had
little relation to the cost of production
and that competition was 1
it sham.
44 In" smokeless powder I found
ihe navy could manufacture it for
15 cents and that the powder trust
was charging the navy 53 cents
per pound for it. I found that
iome years before, under the dynamic
advouacv of Senator Tdliunn,
Congress had appropriated
money and authorized the erection
[)f an armor plate plant, but that
the word 'provided' had by soMt
_il 1 O A l 11
uu-MiiN or oiner ueieaieu xne con- j
gressioual intent for the government
to make its own armor anil
free iself of monopolists.
"What was my duty! First, to
give Congress and the American
lieople the facts. It was done, and
is a result Congress gave the mousy
early in ray administration to
enlarge the smokeless powder
plant and later to construct a
plant in which armor for our
ships can be made. ,
"But the last was obtained
after the hardest and most bitter
fight 1 had during my 8 years' ,
term. Certain manufacturers of
armor plate, thinking they would
lose their part of the monopoly
in business and in price, imitated
the silver smiths of Ephesus, who.
when Paul endangered their craft
by preaching the true doctrine,
cried out for the space of hours.
Great is Diana of the Kphesians 1'
"There was no such noisy demonstration
at Washington, but
those armor plate makers for i
weeks, in frenzied appeals and
criticism of the secretary of the <
navy, sought to prevent the ar- <
mor plate appropriation. As n
matter of fact, without my knowledge,
because while in Washing
ton I did not manage my paper,
1 found that the Raleigh News i
HJid ftlmppvor u'nu r?rintin? ml.
vertisements telling what an aw. i
fnl fellow I wah to interfere with ,
tl.e tripartite method of 'all
Gaul waft divided into three i
porta' pratieed by the makers of
armor plate. 'It was a ahame to
take the money.'
"I won the fight in the year i
before war was declared. But I i
had commit ted the unpardonable i
am in the trust circle, ami their i
sycophants addressed themselves
to the delectable task of trying <
to prove that a country editor i
was ruining the nary."
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NEWS or YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.
There are good judges who say
[hat the present cotton crop will
tie raised at about one-third the
lost o last year's crop; but even
at that it is Still a question as to
whether the crop will bring a
profit on the market.
The penalties on deferred payment
of taxes in York county
this year amount to approximately
$6,000. A considerable
part of this sura was collected
In due course and the balance remains
to be collected.under execution.
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Farmers over York county are
busy just now harvesting, their
?at crop and dealers in plantation
supplies have for the past
several days been selling large
quantities of binder twine aud
mowing machinery. The oat
crop, according to a number of
experts, is up to- standard in the
county this year.
The flesh wound inflicted on
Deputy Sheriff Tom Quiun in a
scuffle with tlohu Hudson, white
prisoner at the county jail, several
days ago when Hudson tried
to escape, is not healing as rapidly
as could be hoped for. The
pistol bullet grazed th* deputy
iheriff's stomach and thigh. The
wound in the thigh is not yet
completely healed.
All members of Philanthropic
lodge No. 32. A. F. M., of York/illeand
members of other lodges
.hroughout this section are expected
in Yorkville Thursday afternoon
for the occasion of the
laying of the cornerstone of the
new municipal building. Following
the cornerstone laying adjournment
will be .taken until 8
p. m.. win'li the tluril degree will
be conferred on five and possibly
<even candidates.
Funeral services for Marshal
Shillingiaw, ex-service man of
Catawba township, who died in
the United States public# health
hospital'at* Greenville; were held
at Mount Holly church Saturday
afternoon, conducted by Revs. J.
C. Bailey aud R. li. HolroydShillinglaw,
who is survived hy
his widow and several children,
was 29 years of age. lie is also
survived by his parents and a
number of brothers and sisters.
At a called meeting of Bethel
presbytery, held with the First
Presbyterian church of Yorkville
Monday morning. Rev. A. E.
Spencer of Bowling Green, pastoi
of Bowling Green and BethShiloh
churches, offered his res
ipnatiou. Presbytery ordered the
pastoral relations between Mr.
Spencer and the two churches
dissolved tmd granted him permission
to labor outside the
bounds of the presbytery. It is
understood that he will move
with his family to Florida.
"That Fort Mill baseball team
is a game and pepperY bunch,"
remarked a Yorkville ran in diseussing
the game between Kort
Mill ami the American bo>'ioQ
team of Yorkvjlle, Tuesday afternoon.
"1 have seen them play
four games against the the Legionaires
of Yorkville. They have
won two ami lout two. Hut the
thing that lias impressed me
about them is the fact that they
are on their toes all the tinffc,
whether the game la goiirg against
I Item or for them. They are clean
ball players, too. and mighty fine
fellows personally. I like to see
baseball teams like Fort Mill
come here."
/MiilimilV<*nium WHN JllSUe Monday
morning that the !>ockinore
cotton mill will huiUl an addition
100 by 143 feet to the present
manufacturing plant oast of the
Southern depot. Construction
work under the supervision of
Contractor Padgett of Rock If ill
will begin right away. The addition
will cost at>out jMO.OOO
mid will be constructed with the
view to the addition of new machinery.
Superintendent F. C.
Wood of the mill said Tuesday
morning that while the present
plans did not call for the building
of additional houses just now
such houses might be built in the
not far distant future. The mill
management, it is understood, is
very anxious to get the new addition
in operation and construe-1
tion work will be pushed as rapidly
as possible.
SELECT BRIDGE SITE.
York - Mecklenburg Structure to
Be at "Buster" Boyd Ferry.
Whatever \ remaining doubt
'there may have been as to the lo-.
cation of the Catawba river
bridge York and Mecklenburg
counties are to build jointly was
dispelled Tuesday at a meeting
of the boards of commissioners of
tne two counties. The bridge
will be located at "Buster" Boyd
ferry, about 14 miles up the river
from Port Mill. This decision
was reached when the boards met
at the proponed site to settle definitely
the location of the bridge
and to agree upon other matters
looking to the early erection of
the struoture, which will cost
about $120,000, two-thirds of
which is to be paid by Mecklenburg
county and the remaining
third by York county.
Following an informal meeting
in port Mill Tuesday morn in p.
the commissioners of_ the two
counties, with their engineers
and attorneys, went to the river
to inspect the "Buster" Boyd
site. There they quiokly reached
the aerreement that it was the
motet desirable place at whieh the
hridpe could he "Vacated and bids
for its construction will be invited
at once
While in Fort MilT Tuesday
morninfir. Thomas Griffith, chairman
of the*Mecklenburg board of
commissioners, said that if Fort
Mill township would improve the
Streel Creek road from Fort Mill
to the North Carolina line he
would see to it that a similar
road was built to connect with
the Fort Mill road from the intersection
of the hard-surface
road Mecklenburg will build
from Charlotte* to the new river
br;dge.* *Advooates of the Fort
Mill township road bond issue recently-approved
by the voters
stressed the prospect of new
trade territory being opened to
Fort MHl if the Steel Creek road
were improved and those of the
number who Tuesday heard Mr.
Griffith's promise of cooperation
j l i opening up this territory were
, dfr lighted with his statement.
Gt&LS WHO DISAPPEAR.
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Howard A. Banks Writes of Danger
to American Homes.
Howard A. Hanks, well known
newspaper man, who, a few years
i ago, woe a irequent visitor to his
relatives in Fort Mill during the
time he was on the staff of the
Charlotte Observer, is now one
of "the editors of The Sunday
School Times, Philadelphia. In
a recent issue of that paper Mr.
Banks printed the following article,
which was suggested by the
statement made some weeks ago
at the annual meeting in Washin
gionof the Congress of Mothers
and Parent-Teacher associations,
that 65,000 girls disappear yearly
"in the maelstrom of the big
eities" of America:
"At the World Conference on
Christian Fundamentals in Philadelphia
in 1919, l)r. J. C. Massee
told of two girls out 'joy
riding' who were injured in an
automobile accident about 2
o'eloek oue morning in a Western
city. Late editions of morning
newspapers hail accounts of
the accident without giving
names, and 186 mothers telephoned
to the hospital to which
the girls had been taken to ascertain
whether or not the girls
were their girls."
Commenting on the statement
of Mr. Banks, a writer in another
religious publication observes
that "the two items given above
carry a serious implication. Th>American
home is indicted. Immodest
dress, movies, sensuous
dances, light and frivolous views
of life, all tend to the path in
which are hidden the deep pits
into which the silly fall and are
seen no more. In the great majority
of cases they are the chil
dren of parents who failed God.
In such homes heathen darkness
reigns and over the door God's
judgment is written."
"Cyclone Mack" McLcndon,
who conducted a revival in Fort
Mill several years ago. will he
invited to conduct a month's
meeting in Atlanta during October,
according to announcem Hit
in Asheville, where he is now
holding a six weeks' meeting.
TEST FOE NEW TIE.
Invention of A. L. Crane to Be
Tried Out in Charlotte.
The coucrete tie recent!/ invented
by A. Ij. Crane of Fort
Mill, a description* of which was
printed in The Times several
weeks ago. is soou to be given a
tlinfAiioli nn *li" ..... J?. 11? ?' '
tv.n UII uic uifini tiiir* vj*
the Southern railway in Charlotte,
N. C. Following '? conference
which Mr. Crane was to have in
Charlotte today with .1. S. Lemond
chief engineer of maintenance
of way anil structures of the
Southern, he expects to begin the
manufacture in Fort Mill at once
of a number of the ties, so that
the teRt can be made with as little
delay as possible.
Mr. Crane "is certain the tie
will stand the strain of the heaviest
traffic to which it may be subjected.
and this opinion is shared
by numerous railroad men who
have seeh drawings of the tie and
I understand how it is to be maim.
factored. Should the ti?? stand
the test it soon will be given in
Charlotte, officials of the Southern
assure Mr. Crane that the invention
will prove of inestimable
value to the railroads of the country
and that it will he worth
many thousands of dollars to
him.
Mr. Crane a few davs ago received
the following letter from
R. E. Simpson, general manager
of the Southern, with whom he
had been in correspondence rela- j
tive to testing the tie in Char-j
lctte:
"Your letter of the 2nd inst.
?n regard to testing your cement
tie an rail fastener on our line.
"We are agreeable to doing
this, and in onler that a satisfactory
test may be made I suggest
that the test be made on our
main line at Charlotte, where the
amount of traffic handled would
afford good means of demonstrating
the merits of vour patent.
"If yon will kindly get in
ouch with Mr. J. S. Lemond. our
ehief engineer maintenance of
way and structures. Charlotte. N.
w, lie will make tlie necessary
arrangements."
METEORIC DISPLAY.
, Earth Soon to Paaa Through
Tail of Heavenly Wanderer.
On June 27 the earth will he
treated to 11 special meteoric display
due to the passage of Winin
cke's comet, one of the periodic
"tramps of the solar system." according
to weather bureau officials.
Monday the comet made
its nearest approach to the sun
r?:.i t
*1 an .V1IU III lit- III I J; I! UNI MI
that time.
On June 26 or 27 it will pans
within about 1 million miles of a
point on the earth's orbit, which
the earth will reach about two
weeks later. This will "mean that
the comet will pass within 12 million
and 20 million miles of the
earth, which is a small distance
as distances go in astronomy. The
earth is practically certain, astronomers
think, to pass through
the eomet's tail, which streams behind
it, always turned away from
the sun.
Tt is this trip through the comets
tail, composed of gasses in
highly attenuated form, that is
supposed to provide earth dwellers
with their meteoric fireworks,
quite spectacular, perhaps, but
doubtless harmless expected on
June 27.
The comet is not expect**! to
be visible to the naked eye, a fair,
ly powerful telescope being required
to detect it. astronomers
predict.
Ten Living Ancestors.
The remarkable instance of a
child having ten living ancestors
is presented in the case of the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Walker, horn May 26, ut
their home in village No. 2 of the
Fort Mill Manufacturing company.
Besides its mother and father,
tfer baby has two living
grandfathers, Alex Watford ami
: Ij. C. Walker; two grandmothers,
Mrs. Alex Watford and Mrs. L.
j ('. Watford; one great-grandfather,
J. A. Walker, and three
great-grandmothers. Mrs. Mandie
Alexander, Mrs. J. I). Wilson ami
Mrs. R. D. Walker, all of whom
are residents of Fort Mill. The
. little girl has been christened
| Ruth Estelle.
T-iw? ? ?t I MT.
SUMMER SCHOOL OPEN.
Many Teachers Attending Session
at Winthrop.
The slimmer school for teachers
at Winthrop college opened
Tuesday and hundreds have since
uri-ivtHi to atteiul the sessions.
All available space in all the dormitories
has been taken and the
practice home has been opened
to Accommodate students. ApplipMcations
are still being received
by the college authorities and it
is expected that a hundred or
more will secure lodging in private
homes near the college. The
enrollment is larger than ever.
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock,
there was a meeting of the summer
school faculty, though regular
work was done Tuesday and
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" V>UUt?SUHV.
Much interest is being taken in
the course in social science aim
in tl*o courses in Sunday school
work. These are new courses
which are expected to fill a great
need in the educational life of
the State,
From 12 to 1 o'clock each day
will he known as "open hour."
when the students will assemble
in the main auditorium. The
speaker for the first week is Kdwin
Minis, head of the department
of English at Vamlerbilt
university. At night talks on
music are being given and Friday
and Saturday nights of this
week Henry Oldys will give his
imitation bird notes.
COMES TO TOWN AT LAST.
Tuesday Robt. Saye Riddle Visits
Fort Mill for First Time. .
Although his entire life has
been spent in Bethel township,
within 17 1-2 miles of Fort Mill.
Tuesday liobt. Saye Riddle, leading
citizen of that section of the
county, was a visitor here for the
first time. With him came Kd
Brandon, another well known
Bethel citizen. They exepeted to
take up here with the York and
Mecklenburg hoards of county
commissioners the location of the
Catawba river bridge which the
two counties are planning to
build. They failed to meet the
county hoards here, however, owing
to misinformation given them
as to the hour they probably
would he in Fort Mill.
Asked why it was he had never
before been jn Fort Mill. Mr. Riddle
said the town was an exeeedinglv
out-of-the-way place lor
Bethel township citizens, and
that although he h-td several
times arranged to come here,
something had as often happened
to prevent the trip. '"It
may surprise you." said Mr. Kiddle.
"to learn that while it is
only 17 1-2 miles from here to
my home if one crosses the Catawba
at the nearest point in
Mecklenburg county, ihere is no
bridge across the river up thee
and it is necessary for us to
travel 45 miles through the central
and eastern sections of the
county to get to Fort Mill."
Mr. Kiddle was one of the first
citizens of the county to urge tin
legislative delegation t?? make an
appropriation to build the proposed
river "bridge jointly with
Mecklenburg county. Tuesday
lie expressed the opinion that after
the bridge is built many people
will come from Bethel township
to Fort Mill to trade.
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Umpire Was Wrong.
Wilburn Ferguson, manager of
the . Fort Mill baseball team,
which withdrew from h kimte in
Chester h few weeks ago with the
Eureka mill team of that city because
of a decision of the umpire,
has received a letter from the
manager of the Eureka team, M.
<Kirkpatrick, in which it is
stated that "the umpire's decision
against you was not correct,
for which 1 wish to apologize, as
it is our sole aim to plav clean
hall."
Senator Harrison of Mississippi
Monday introduced in the
senate a resolution requesting
President Harding to inform the
senate whether "there is us
much reason and justification for
a reprimand or the recall of Ambassador
Harvey for his l*ilgrims'
day speech of May 19.
1921, as for the reprimand or recull
of Admiral "Wm. S. Sims for
his speech of June 7, 1921.''
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