^ The Fort Mile Troras! ^^BKSkh?d 1891. - yo*T s! 0- tHPBSP^T. JUMK ^ ltttt . ^Hrt* polk south bound? ^^^Becolation Caused by Observe |^Htion of London Astronomer. Hid the latitude of Fort Mill H^Bangingt Is your home closer the equator or to the pole than ouce was These may appear to be fool^^H?h questions to the average man. ^^Hie has no'd'ougbt grown to look j^Hupou* the earth's ''belt" and its { as lmuovaDie lines even ? ^^nhough they are imaginary. But I ^^Ban astronomer in London wa? l ^Hquotednhe other day as asserting < ^^ that the distance between Naples, * HH Italy, and the equator has been > shortened by a mile and a half 1 during the past 51 yeurs, and ( that Greenwich has apparently t moved half a mile toward the t tropics in less than two decades, n V The possibility of such changes > V in latitude is discussed in the fol- f lowing bulletin from the National i Geographic society: ' "There is no question that latI itudes change, but there is u very 1 [ large, question whether the chan- t ' ges are of any considerable mag- *s nitude and whether they eontin- 1 Ue for any great length of time t iu the same direction. The varia- f tions that have been established c are due to a slight wabbling of t the earth like that of a top which c is not spinning evenly around its t axis, 'this irregularity does not * change the direction of the axis c itselt but does change the point " of the earth's surface (the pole ? point) from which the axis emerges. liy such changes most points on the earth would have their positions altered with reference 1 to the poles and to the equator, / which is always 90 degrees from .] the pole point and tnereiore toi- r lows it in any movement which i it makes. v 's simplest possible n hid had a Mingle wabhte i added to it, the pole point would 1 trace a clouded path?that is, it j would return to the suiue posi-. i tion again and again after the t completion of definite, equal pe- 1 riodsL But there are at least two 1 distinct and unequal wabbles u known: one completed in a year f and one in about 14 months. Their t combination causes the pole point r \ to wander in a rather \ineven y , vniy, tracing lines that are very o roughly elipticul and which cross J and recross each other. But these ,] wabbles cause only a very slight ? variation from a steady rotation, c M Whether there is a progres- 1 live change of latitude hus long i interested astronomers, in 1900 f the International Latitude Scry- c ice was formed uud a string of a 1 stations was established form- t ing a band around the world, t Observations were made at all c the stations for 14 years and tho information assembled by the Service has been interpreted in various ways. The changes ob- t served in latitude were very t small and it is recognized that s th$ possibilities of error due to v imperfect instruments, inacura- t oies in atar declinations and the c human equation were many. One 1 I careful analysis by the United t States Coast and Geodetic Sur- j Vey, however, seems to indicate ^ that the pole point is shifting pro- * - greamvely southward toward the t continent of North America. This \ would mean in effect that the 1 cities of the United States are fc moving slowly to the north. jj "One need have little worry, i though, for the ^likelihood that c the North Pole will turn up some t day in your back yard. Even j -v though one becomes generous c With assumptions and assumes t that there is & decided southward \ movement of the pole point and ? that it will continue steadily, its i Jowness makes the assumed shift c Ojdmh|t negligible. The analysis c .^ referred to seems to indicate * v L southward drift of the pole t I - amounting to a trifle over six f inches a year. This would amount i ^eflB *han one m^e m 1^,000 f INsetrdsy was the last day for } sv v tiitpf uf Port Mill to pay their t %iMjgWstreet tax. $3, to the town s 1-wPsrt Mill Without penalty, and ^ v the dAee of the to\tn treas&jfcr#.?loaeiW. late in the afternoon 1 H>but about 60 of the 400 and f subject to the tax c Boll Weevil Sprays Useless. A warning against liquid-spray}r attachments to cotton poisonng machinery is issued - by the United States department of ag ieulture. Calcium arsenate ap>lied us a dust, it is pointed out, s the only certain means yet 'ound for controlling the boll veevil and any effprt at control >y" liquid sprays is useless. Spray i uviacmuems are mereiore not n:ly unnecessary but an added mrden.- They increase the cost, >? machinery and make it more lifticult and complicated to ope ate. The liquid spray, even it' it vere as effective as the dust ucthod, would be decidely more ixpensive. It would necessitate he use of water carts, to feed he machines, would demand an tmple and constant water supply vhich is not available on mosr arms and in various ways would nerease the cost of poisoning opu at ions. Orchardists and others who >ave to conduct poisoning operaions regularly are constantly earching for poisons that can be lusted instead of sprayed. Cot 011 growers, it is stated, are very ortunate in that the only really 'ffective method of controlling he boll weevil is the dust methv >d and they should not waste ime and money in experimenting vith the expensive spray meth* >ds that farmers in other lines ire so constantly trying to get iwny from. Death of J. T. Darnall. The Pineville section of Meekcnburg county lost u good citi;en Saturday, June 20th, when f. T. Darnall succumbed to pneunonia at his home, following an llness of only a few days. He vas reared in Fort Mill township tnd as a youth attended the old ^ort MiH ir?tdemy; -of-whieh the i ate Col. A. K. Banks was nrinci ml. Several years ago Mr. Dartall moved with his family across he line into North Carolina and lad since made his home near Jineville. He was 47 years old tud is survived by his widow, ive children, four sisters and hree brothers, Mrs. R. L. Ben- i lett and Mrs. Walter Medlin of ort Mill, Mrs. 8am McElhaftey >1! Piueville, Mrs. Will Medlin of tfaxton, N. C., Walter Darnall, loe Darnall and Zeb Darnall, all < >f Pineville. The funeral servies and interment Vere at Flint lill Baptist church, of, which dr. Darnall had been a member or mdny -years, in the presence >? a large number of his friends tud neighbors who had assembled o pay a last tribute of respect to he memory of a man whose leath all deeply deplored. Basis of Promotion. F. M. Mack, superintendent of he Fort Mill graded school, yeserday said that he had received o many inquiries from parents vhose children failed of promoion to higher grades as a result their work for the sessiu that le desired to make an explanation of the rules governing such noinotions. "A pupil's final jrade," said Mr. Mack, "is the iverage of the monthly or. quarerly grades throughout the rear. * For instance, a pupil who las the quarerly grades of 70, 75, 10 and 85 would have a final ?rade of 771-2. A pupil who uakes a grade of less than 70 on >ne subject may be promoted on rial, or conditioned in that sub- i ect. A pupil who fails on two IP innPu uiiliiontu immt pamain in he Kame grade and take the same vork oyer next year. Reading., irithmetic and English are very raportant and failure in any one >1 these clearly indicates a lack >f preparation for the next high1 grade. Poor attendance was he cause of the majority of the allures* during the past year. It s only the exceptionally bright mpil who can be absent a large >art of the time and still make he next grade. It is also a fact hat pupils who ate habitually i ardy are nearly always poor tudents." Charles H. Bradford of Fort, dill is this year a member of the (raduating class of the pharmateutieal department of the Medial College of Sooth Carolina. NEWS OF YOEpL COUNTY. IUm of Ckaanl Xatintt Found in the YorkviUe Enquirer. There is a probability that Rock Hill will have six Voting precincts by the time of the^ holding of the biate primary election in August. It was learned Tuesday morning that D. L. Moss and other voters will probably petition the York county Deiuoeratic executive committee to establish a .voting precinct #it the Aroade-Victoria mills in Rock Hill for the convenjpnPP nf tho mon. unman era of those two communities. Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D., for nearly 13 years pastor of the Yorkville A. R. P. church, who on Sunday announced to his congregation his acceptance of a call to the pastorate of Columbia A. K. P. church, said yesterday that he expected to take up the duties of his new pastorate about August 1. That, however Dr. Oates said, is only a tentative date, and he may go to Columbia a short time before that date or a short time later. "As to how much damage the boll weevil is going to do in York county this year, i think depends largely 011 the weather in June end July," said County Demonstration Ageut John R. Blair the other day. "If there is a lot of ruin durnu; these two mouths the weevil will likely increase into millions and may take a toll of 60 per cent of the crop. If it is pretty dry 1 don't believe he will damage the crop wore than 15 per cent. 1 have information that he is showing up even now in practically every seetion of the county." There is a probability that C'arhartt mill No. 2, at Carhartt station, betwene Rock Hill and Fort Mill, may resume operations pretty soou. B. M. lvey, manager of the Carhartt mill in Rock Hill, who also has charge of the plant at Carhartt, has just returned from New York, where he went on business connected with the mills. The mill at Carhartt station has been.* idle for quite a long while. Hamilton Carhartt, owner of the two mills, who is now in New York, expects to sail for Liverpool* England, in a few day8 on business in connection U'ith Ilia mill tkofa " o *u?it ibivav/* When the spindles in the new cotton- mill at Olover begin humming some months hence, Clover's population wiM be well cA*er the 2,000 mark, The cens'.s of 1920 gave Clover a popuation of 1,608 and it is a practical certainty that the building < of the new mill village which will house the employees of the newest manufactory will, mean at least 500 more people for Clover and-very probably more. Information is that since announcement- in The Enquirer of the- biuldmg of a second mill in Clover by the Hawthorne interests^real - estnte values have gone up considerably. It is quite probable also that several new building firms will be looking toward Clover for a location. That textile magnates of the East, realize that they can no longer compete with teh spinningmills of the South in the manufacture of yarns and are making plana to build their future mills a? n i it # . _ ^ in me ooum is ine iniormaiion brought by. John R. Hart, Esq., who has returned from ortiiampton, Mass., where he couferred with mill men whom he represents an attorney in York county. "The textile business is looking much better in the opinion of Massachusetts textile man and others in the East with whom I talked," said Mr. Hart Monday. "While thev are not exDectinir bom timet like 1919 ami the early part of 1920, they ore expecting to tee the textile business* of the country get back to normal." Only nine of the 27 members of the seventh grade of the-Port Mill graded school were unconditionally promoted to' the high school and received certificate! at the closing exercises of the school last Thursday evening, the nine pupils being: Goldie Alford, Frances Bradford, Bay Hunter, Louis McKibben, Faulkner Parks. Owen Patterson, Myrtle Beeevea, Lueile Robinson and ' Thomas Spwtt. . 7 n. IV - ^4- AWMK-T - ' A* ?. \ '': vi \ - '? v * . V*' s PUUUOTt COTTOK rAWKX. Commissioner Hcrrit Writ** of Ortp Conditions in Texas. . Returning to his office in Columbia a few days ago, B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture for Booth Carolina, wrote for the press of the State the following impressions he gained of the cotton crop prospects for the year on a trip he recently made to the Sontlnfest: On MftV fi I loft mv Affina mill started on my way to attend a pure food and drug convention to -be held in Galveston, Texas, on the 8th, 9th, 10th and ilth. In ordeF that 1 might see as much of the present condition of the crops as poduble, from .New Orleans 1 went over the suuset Route to Houston, Texas, and ' in coming bgck 1 came over the Southern Pacific railroad to Dallas and Port Worth. From Fort Worth 1 came over the Texas Pacific by way of Little Rock and Memphis through - northern Alabama by way of Birmingham and horth Georgia ?. ..v.. sa I H.- - J a * -wi Partial to South Carolina. J. T. Young, well known business man of Fort Mill, returned to his home Saturday after spending several weeks at Rochester, Miuu. Asked yesterday if he thought he would rather live in that section of the country than in South Carolina, Mr. Young answered very promptly in the iHgative. 441 did uot see in Minnesota one thing which made me think 1 would enjoy life up there tnore than 1 enjoy it here," said tie. 4'To begin with, the climate is against Minnesota. During the winter the temperature frequently goes to 30 'below zero and sellom rises above zero 1 was told. tu . ? ... ine section ot the State 111 which L was has less than three months if summer, real summer, aiul when I left there last Wednesday many men were still wearing their ivercoats, although the trees were Pressed up in their new foliage and vegetation generally was in full flower. "Rochester is a city of about 12,000 people and is 125 miles north of Minneapolis. One thing that impressed tne about the place was its two excellent daily newspapers, which carry a big volume if advertising ami apparently are read by almost everybody. The people with whom 1 came in soutact were not complaining of the business depression, but 1 noticed that the stores did not appear to be doing much business. Returning home 1 spent several hours in Chicago and 1 was glad when the time came for ne to leave the city. From what [ learned by reading the newspapers while 1 was away, a man's ife may be worth a nickel in ?hicago, but hardly a dime. The sity is overrun with crooks and mtthroats." Mrs. J. M. Gamble Dead. Fort Mill people generally u-ard with sympathy ami regret fhe announcement of the death it her home a short distance lorth of town Tuesday morning >f Mrs. Blanche Griffin Gamble, vife of J. M. Gamble. Mrs. Gam)le had been seriously ill for several weeks and her death was lot unexpected. She was the laughter of the late W. G. Grifin and Mrs. Griffin and was born tear Fort Mill on December 4, LS90. .On June 14, 1910, she was narried to Mr. Gamble, who survives her, with four children, the voungest a baby only a few weeks >ld. Mrs. Gamble is also survivni by her mother and three >r others. Funeral services were tonducted at the home by the Rev. R. II. Viser, pastor of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church.of which Vfrs. Gamble had been a member 'or several years, and the internent was in the city cemetery. .herewill be no increase in acreige this year., 1 rather believe here will be a decrease. 1 have said all the time you vere going to see cotton very nuch higher, and in 1923 you vould see cotton higher than it lold for in 1919. 1 am still of the lame opinion. We now - have u 1 1 * ? cai wonu iainine in cotton?the vorld nearly naked. No one has sad anything like as many cotton joods as they need?the world is tow beginuiug to get uneasy as :? where tjie cotton fabric is to some from to clothe it. Every rard of cotton goods you buy now rou pay on a basis of 35 cents a )Ound for cotton and from this late on you will see a material ise in price. Don't sell a halo inless you have to. I receive nany letters every day now statng that the boll weevil is suckng the bud of the cotton. I want to urge the farmers to ^lant a row of corn every eighth :cet across the cotton rows. And emember to let this year be one rear that you raise everything rou need 011 your farm for home lonsumption and be sure to keep rat of debt. Let the bale of cot:on you make this yeur be yours ind sell it when you get ready, liy prediction is high cotton for 1922 crop. I want to say that the farmers now have the situation u their own hands?there will be 10 surplus on September 1. No jae now for s bale of cotton to ?ver sell without a profit to the farmer. C;< ' -j " 'S "* , >". ~ .. / In - r ? 1 _ - PUPILS ON HONOR ROLL. List of Fort Mill Children Who Win Distinction. The honor roll of the Fort Mill ^ graded school for the last month of the 1921-22 session, which closed a few days ago, is as follows : First Grade ? Jennie Louise oraurora, Jacquelyn Bailes, Martha Bou knight, Sara Lee, Emily Meacham, Frances Mae Mills, Lestina Potts. Helen Phillips, Wiluia Reeves, Inez Long. Dewitt McOnirt, David Rogers, A. Y. Williamson. Jr., Andy Morrison, Raymond Dyehes, Fred Harris. Second Grade ? Jane Barber, Johnsie Wilkerson, Marie Gordon, James Epps, Marion Wilsou, Marshall Porter, Frank Carotlr ers, Lonia Taylor, Dorothy O'Kelly, Marion llarkey,. Gilmore Pitman. Third Grade ? Gilbert Gross, Jennie Lou Garrison, Maria Gulp, Ethel Miller, Rochelle Patterson, Harriet Carothers, Annie Blease Lee, Mary Morris, Evelyn Robinson, Cleveland Lytle, Eugene Gordon, Louise Lowery. Fourth Grade?Charlie Carter, \ Sarah Barber. Odell Plyler, Tillie Mills, Eva Dell Dyehes. Mildred Medlin, Howard Patterson, Clement Potts, Guy Reeves, Sarah Neely Thompson, Louise Wilson. Fifth Grade?Allie Bradford, Lula Parks, Pansy Gamble, Howard Bass, Melvin Carter, Willie Jloneycutt, Helen Ferguson, Myra Kimbrell, Annie McGinuia, Lois Porter. Pllliils U'lin rop*