BENJAMIN WO F FORD. Story ( Life ( Footer of Grart Methodist t'vlkfe. On* hundred and forty-two years ago, a tew miles below Spartanburg, in a country home, was born Benjamin VYoitord. Octooer, 1780?this was the dark year of the Resolution, particularly in South Carolina. From the mountains to the sea the State had been overrun by British and Tories, and -Joseph Wofford, the father of the boy, was a fugitive from bis own home the day Benjamin was born, says the Spartanburg Herald. The boy grew up during the last triumphant years of the Revolution ahd beard the discussions that led to the formation of the Union and the founding of the Republic. He became * a Methodist preacher and as a circuit riutr took his orders from the "Apostle of the Long Road/* Lishop Francis Asubry, a man who perhaps lived . more in the saddle and rode more miles horseback than any man in the hiatory of America. Benjamin Wof- 1 ford'* nrdara a* o nlvnnU no? ried hint with the pioneers who fol- 1 lowed the oid trails across the moun- ' tains into Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky. He was thus among those in- 1 trep*d Knights of the Cross who 1 helped to vitalize with religion that 1 turbulent "Adavance Guard of West- 1 em Civilization" which was claiming the rich domain between the moun- 1 tains and the "Great River." About 1816 he returned to his na- 1 live State, making his home in Spar- 1 tauburg and Bteadily amassing through the remaining years of his 1 life what at that time was considered 1 a large fortune. He dlpd December 2, 1860, is a house which used to ' stand on the corner of Wofford and 1 Magnolia streets and left 910M00 for 1 the founding of a "literary and scien- 1 title college'' In bis "native district." The pioneer preacher thus became the pioneer giver to great causes. For 1 up to that time no man in the South had sought to serve the welfare of ' future generations in so significant * and so large a way. 1 When the provisions of Mr. Wof- : xjP ford's win became known and the ececutors were appointed to locate the new institution, a keen competition' developed In Various sections of' the "Spartan district" ? Woodruff ?and Glenn Springs in. particular wanted It. In a letter from the latter place in a contemporary periodical thn wrltar urMi tk? han#Ht? nf the "healing waters" of the springs | and offers to donate $600 to the en- ] tarprtoe. guaranteeing that several ] Others will do the same. But the ex- i ecutors decided to locate it in the ] 'Milage" of Spartanburg in spite of the fact that an editorial in a contemporary periodical published in Charleston in May, 1861, calls special attention to the Inaccessibility of the Tillage of Spartanburg on account of the badness of the roads leading into . It. For most of the year, it says, they are but a series of mud holes and the best the occasional stage from Columbia can do Is three miles an hour. The editorial therefore urges the cltisens to proceed at once to butld a railroad. With this and - the college, it argues, the future progress of the community is assured. In August 1854, with a president, two professors and nine students, Wofford college began Its first session. By spring the* nine had grown '/ to 26 and when this number increased to 36 the next year everybody was hopeful and happy. The first class graduated in 1868 and consisted of one man, the Hon. Samuel Dibble of Oranaahtir* who afterward* retire seated his district in Congress and became one' of the most Important ctttnsaa of the State. Sixty-eight years hare passed since these August days- when 25 begs entered the new college. The "tillage" got its railroad and more, r*-*md has become the city of 8partsnburg, the real "textile center of the (Booth" and all the other things we say It is. On the old csfopos toil*. Founder's day (October IB), as it-,Is called, there are 540 students, - Y jdlfelBC from all sections of South ? Atijpollna and many other State# of - Snie id 1550 was the real buildiipfr IfclirtWgg end South Careii-the prophet with the longest ? Igjk ahead, the man who knew best to ' 2 to**** that count for meet In the ammi vision of mmabsm "WWII wh V *$ : S.V-; ;*SM ? T^mbv2#? wEgv#X'"'-* %' "* % 'v rC "he F stajlk mmucnoh rum. All over the boll weevil section of the South the farmers are being urged to destroy their cotton stalks as the most effective way of fighting the weevil. Though repeated warnings have been given by the entomologists scd though county demonstration sgents are preaching stalk destruction right and left, many farmers apparently are not convinced of the need of taking this precaution and do n<# realise that this Is practically the most important single step in any system of fighting the weevil. Boll weevils multiply in cotton until frost kills them. Many thousands Of weevils may occur in each acre of cotton. iWeeevils hibernate?that is, they pass the winter?only in the full grown stage. Hibernation usually begins with the first killing frost. They hibernate principally in cotton fields # and standing stalks make for them splendid winter homes. It is claimed that the most favorable condition for the successful hibernation of boll weevils is fuuud .n fields where ' cotton stalks, straw, grass, weeds and dead leaves are left during winter. Under such conditions the farmers may expect the greatest number of weevils to survive. There U little prospaot for succtosfu! cotton growing under such coudUhud has the serious disadvantage, it is pointed out, of destroying a large imouht of vegetable matter which ibould be turned under Whenever the termer is equipped with plows and mules so that the stalks amy be :urned under five to six inches after ;bey hare been cut down with a chopper, it is an effective plan. A i? st sflective method is to - graze off all sreen cotton within a period of a few lays. But whatever method is employed, the nestruction of the sUiks should be thorough. Home-coming Day for Baptist* The congregation of Pleasant Valey-Baptist church, of whici^ Lho &svF. W. H. Dyches is pastor, is looking lorward wltlT much interest and pleasure to the annual home-coming lay of the church, to be observed Sunday, October 29, with both morning and afternoon -services. Special music numbers and an address by the RJsv. Dr.'T. J. Taylor of Warrenton, M. C., will be features of the services, the program of which is as fol' i lows: MORNING SBSSION. Doxology?Congregation standing. Prayer?Rev. D. W. Thomasson. Hymn No. 19 by the choir. 8cript(ire reading?Rev. T. J. Taylor. Singing of hymns No. 60, 78, 121, 212?By the choir. Selection ? Weddington Quartette Weddtngton, N. C. Cornet solo?Arthur Bartlett, Charlotte, N. C. Address?Rev. T. J. Taylor, Warrenton, N. C. ~ Offering. Hymn No. 68?Congregation. Announcements?A. L. Helms. * Adjourn for dinner. AFTERNOON SBSSION. Hymn No. 7?Congregation. Selectionr-Fort 'Mill Quartette. Cornet solo?Arthur Bartlett. Selection?Weddington quartettq. Address ? Rev. W. 8. Ham iter, Plneville, N. C. Selection?Fort Hill quartette. Reading church history?By the . ' ^ \JV ^ pg I ^ J. "" v" *> . ORTl - i 1 ai-w . . a |nwwit n?v> wr .1. w. ti. ltjcnes. Hymn Ho. 49?Congregation. B?a?4lct!oah>4leT. T. J. Taylor. Jackson's *H>ld*lIlekery'' MMum. An Interesting story to told of how Oen. Andrew Jackson, distinguished South Carolinian who was born In Lancaster county 25 miles from Fort Mill, came by the nickname of "Old Hickory. -During the Creek war la which Gen. Jackson played a conspicuous part his troops were moving rapidly to meet the Indians and were without teats. A cold ...arch rain came on, mingled with sleet, which lasted for several days. Gen. Jackson got a severe, cold, but did not complain as he tried to sleep in a muddy battens swung the kail tmea soldiers. One of kts officers cutddprn a stout hickory tree, peeled- at ihe ilp till mm! i Mill* a oovirtdf t# tV liiiwl, vM Wil wlthr tttBcoUy >tr'aiaMM laeiaMfc. tato H. 1W aportf a draakaa rtti?a wtanl iAexBM^.at# se?aS4ia WefcetFbatli MeV.IMtl H o?ir. it Jiclnti Jrvm ihm nti tki t#ir wl?l iiitirlWl. til# fWekonr! 0?a? ** #* ? #3? FORT MILL, S. C, THUR HEW8 OF TOiK COUKW. Item ef ttoaeral latemt Feol In the lerfcvQle Enquirer, Ralph Oates, custodian of the Tlrzah State warehouse, has received notice from J. Clifton Rivers, State warehouse commissioner, that the Tt^sah warehouse has heed designated as a storage point for cotton of the Cooperative Marketing associaand he has orders to receive this cotton as fast as it is brought in. The York county friends of E. W. Parsley, of which the Yorkvllle Enquirer is one, will be pleased to see him elected by-the Legislature-to the position of superintendent of the penitentiary. Mr. Pursley is competent, honest, conscientious and efficient. It he should be chosen to the position for which he is a candidate, the people of the State may rest assured that the management of the penitentiary will be in good hands. With the Rev. W. A. Hafner doing the preaching, revival services began at Woodlawn Presbyterian church at Sharon Monday and the understanding is that the meeting is to continue through Sunday. Rev. Mr. Hafner is well known In this section and it is expected that there will be a large congregation to hear him at every service. Two services are to be held each day?one in the morning at 11:45 and the other in the evening at 7:30. Centering the interest of not ofoly the members of the Presbyterian denomination, but members of all denominations, was the fall meeting of B6thel presbytery, comprising 46 churches served by 26 pastors, which was held at Woodlawn church at Sharon, of which Rev. Carl McCully is pastor, last week. Not only did many members of the local Presbyterian congregation attend the sessions of presbytery, but there was a goodly representation of other denominations at practically every session. Indications are that along about the first of January the honorable members of the Legislature from the county of York ^re going 'to have to pucker their brows, and say "ahem" several times in arriving at the naming of three citizens of Bullock's Creek township for appointment of tho road commission of that township. It is learned that three separate petitions are now being circulated among the citizens of the townhtp In the Interest of various persons for appointment as commissioners- The word from Eullock's Creek is that there has for some time past been more or less quibbling and quarreling about the control of the township's road work and that various factions are busy. Black Angus cattle exhibited at the York County fair in Rock Hill last week by N. S- Black of York No- 5. attracted mpch interest of people in attendance. Jersey cattle exhibited by W. T. Williams came in for much praise. W. H. Spencer of Catawba had six high grade Gurnsey heifers on exhibit and R. S. Riddle of Clover No. 2 had a number of sheep at the | fair. In the swine department the nx- I hibits included some tine Poland-Chinas, the property of Mqssrs- A. F. Davis and John A. Benfield, while A. A- Ashe had some fine Durocs there. Dr. W. W. Fennel had a number of the Tamworth breed on display. Among the farmers taking prises in the field crops department were J.< M. Campbell, S. W. Draffln, Hugh Campbell, S. U Patterson and S. H. Faries. H. L. Johnson, for several years past a State constable, serving under appointment of the governor, on Friday tendered his resignation. Tlu? dally papers of the State on Sunday forming carried the following dis >atch from Columbia, dated Baturda>: "'Governor H array announced today that ha had suspended State Cons table H. L. Johnson-of Yor>c for improper conduct and that he .would prohfcbly suspend Constable Bob'I^ee of York county as a result of the charges filed against him. John?on and Lee are charged in oom plaints filed with the geyernor ot baring been occupants of an automobile in an unfit condition, when It ran Into another machine on the public highway." Already a number of person* in Yorkrille and fa other,parte of the eotinty, it eras learned Monday, were seeking. Uie place made vacant by~the dismissal of Johnson' The position, it 1s understood, pays a salary of 11,800 a year and trareltng expenses. (Colored Teachers U Meat 19m October meeting of the Colored Teachers' Sdaoptatfon of York county wiU be held in the colored graded srtwo! at Ytik ea October 18 at U o'clock In the moruiug. ?. L. Amy, principal ef the Ibrt Mill colored graded school, ^ pfbssldeaj^gt tho p pi . Mill ? ^ * * * -> S&AY, OCTOBER 26.1922^ A DEMOCRATIC TEAK. Sfens of B?pihlku Dtsnffortien Iacrraslif Otmt *aitry. With election day drawing neai" the Republican situation in many secttoas looks desperate and in many flliflrx hanslMH ?avn > Waahlnvtnn dispatch to The Times. Confirmation of this view is found in the fuel that President Harding has felt constmtaed to write a letter to Republlctm Floor Leader Mondell designed C> rate? Republican hopes, and in which he pleads for the reaiectbtn 01 the present Republican do-nctl iu;; Cohgress; that William K. Wood, chairman of the Republican cougies siohal committee, has been contpeiled t # revise downward his predictio i 01 a Republican majority in the next house, and that practically ever) member of the president's cabinet hat beih sent out on the stump. The Republicans, panic stricken are playing t^ieir last cards and exhausting their last resources. The Democrats, on the other band, art approaching election day with confidence. They are indulging in no extravagant claims. They have placed all the tacts concerning this Congress and this administration and the issues of the campaign accurately before the public and they feel now that no amount of letter writing tht president may do or belated campaign oratory by members of the cablnel can explain away the facts which constitute the record of this Republican Congress. They cannot explain away the following outstanding facts of that record: That this Congress passed a profit eers' tariff bill which taxes tluAmerican people from 3 billion to <1 billion dollars yearly, an unioun. equivalent to the total sum necessurv to run the government, and which will greatly increase the present hi ;h cost of living. That this Republican Congres: passed a tax bill which relieved the frig corporations and multi-million aire taxpayers of more than half a billion dollars, and increased the taxes of every small corporation, a bile granting no relief to tje small individual taxpayers. That Truman H. Newberry . was iiven a purchased seat in the senate of the United States, with the open support of President Harding, and was condemned by the very men who vbted to seat him. That the administration is now facing an admitted deficit of 650 million dollars for the currunt fi*cuj year, which will be at least 800 million before the end of the-year, while pretending that it was economizing and saving money. That thex expense of running ever) single department of the governmem has been largely increased by thit administration when fairly compared with the last Democratic administration. That the last of the naval oil re serves in 'Wyoming were secret!) leased by the secretary of the interioi to a subsidiary of the Standard Oi company, wfth great loss to the na tion and the State and to the Unite< States nayy and the oil burning 8nips or tne American merchant ma rlne. That the administration is now at tempting to pat through legtslatioi to dispose ot 3 biliioa dollars wortl of the finest merchant ships afloa for one-tenth of their cost, to pay 75< million bonne to the purchasers, 'ti icnd them 12& million at 2 per cen and to exempt them from taxation. That under an executive order o ^resident Harding a midnight rai( was made upon the officials of th< Bureau of Ehigraving and Printing and that men and women who ha< won their positions through men were cast into the street with a bus picion amounting to the charge o dishonesty against them, which hui been disproved, but brought them n< redress. That the civil service has beei trampled under foot and supplanted ,by the spoils system, and that ii some instances it Is charged that ap pointments have - been bought an< sold outright. That without exception every ple<;< of beneficial legislation passed b; this Congress had the support r Democrats, and much of the bed leg (blatlon passed would have been stil worse except for Democratic-amend ments which woh the Support of tb mall nrnarAialv, ? aUmant itmnni Republican legislators. That the one bouUfe achlsvemen oX Uto a danhi ft rati osf the disarms bint eostbrm^hu msIM la m btMftt whaUrer. No ships bar bsea ?era?p?d, ao numay has baa saved art as desired reed# aebhni : Neither Warn apr Italy has ratios jsyjawhythsyds sot Intend to ratlf .1 -. . . -V ;v. . - . \ , i - s $1.50 Per Ytar. WANT LAWS ENFORCED. H M % H . .H H I V I ' ji THE BANKER. In looking through the country B town for men of prestige and renown, * who build and advertise a place, we . find the banker sets the pace. There d r arc some slant-eyed money kings who a t keep small towns from doing things, w , but they are scarce?death seals their CM doom and then their towns enjoy a \s . boom. When youv'e a chance to make 3| a haul by "buying pickles in the fall ni I and peddling pickles in the spring ^ i and thus become a pickle king, you w i do not seek your maiden aunt and w > spring your coin extracting chant, fj , you don't salaam aud meekly rend 3| . ycur robes before some wealthy I friend; they'd help you but?they've . i spent their jack for camisolec and ^ l bric-a-brac- The only chance to make m r that deal is at the bank; they hear ycur spiel and pave the way with gold in stacks, for you to puy an in- ^ come tax. When some subscription ' project lags, committees call on ^ , 'money bags;'' they smoke his twen- g > cent cigars, attend conventions in his ^ . cars and corkscrew ducats from the g) vault to cure the lame, the blind, the ^ I halt. In time, however, you will learn g< i that even banking worms will turn. und there's no penance that compares with bearding bankers in their lairs. , You seek their den with faltering ( , step without your usual nerve and , pep and meekly stammer that you've 'got some money coming?but you're , not?at present?fixed to meet that note, you u iiKe"?tne words won i ^ i pass your throat. The banker lays f i his pen aside ahd says: "Well, Bill, we'll let It ride." Outside the bank u your fanjily Jars. Oh, when I leave kids some pants and several books about the yaks and get your wife a '' brand new axe. The chap in there ?' behind the bars helps head off half c< your family Jars. Oh, when I leave this earthly sphere 1 hope some a' banker will be near to supplement my stingy roll in case I can't pay 0 . Charon's toll. a 1 9 , , K< Used Other People's Property. d< ' James Parks,' 11 year old Foyt Mill Jc boy, Monday was taken to the State tl reformatory for boys in Florence as ? a result of his overweening desire to make use of other people's property 111 1 for hla own pleasure without going to O ' the trouble of gaining their consent. n i Some weeks ugo he appropriated to * 1 his own use a bicycle belonging to ^ 1 Kenyon Young which waa tak in t'roiu v him on the public road between Fort 81 Mill and Rock Hill. A few days la- 81 ter the desire for bicycle riding 1 again overcame the boy and he took Vl ' the wheel of Eugene McKibben. Af ter he had ridden to his ueurt'r tie- * > sire he parked the bicycle beside the 11 public roftd just north of town. He Ci ' next turned his attention to buggy 1 riding. While Stroud Elms and Olin 81 > Wolfe, who drive into town from their ? ' homes in the country to attend the a ? 1 I.J k -?1 In e iWftl S* CJUCU #\/UUuir n gi u |U wsav?* classes a few days ago the Parks boy J' ' hitched the Elms boy's horse to the ? ' Wolfe boy's buggy and away he went r op the concrete road toward Rock k ' Hill. He was overtaken just before 1! ' he reached Winthrop college, how- a ' ever, and the horse and buggy re- 1 * turned to their owners. ' 1 The boy's latest exploit was with the automobile of George W. McKen- c " lie of Fort Mill. Friday Mr. McKen? d 1 zie drove his car to the county fair at 1 1 'Rock Hill. After spending several 1 hours in the fair grounds he was 11 ^ ready to return home in the car, but * 3 when he went to get the car it was e 1 gone and could not be" located. The ? Parks boy had driven it to York, fa l There ha was apprehended wbon he * 1 took the car to a garage to have fa e some work done on it which was ne? cessitated by a collision he had had 1 with a telegraph pole. Mr. McKenzle t recovered the car Saturday. He will 1 - be out several dollars before it is 1 i again in as good* condition aa it wa3 g 9 before James Parks drove it to York, t > The anthoritles were consulted v about the mest method of punishing a 1 the boy and they concluded that the ( I State had provided the proper facili > ties for handling such cases at the ( - reformatory in Florence. t I v Oldest Independence Declaration. t The original Declaration of Inde- (j f pendence made and signed by the i Revolutionary patriots of Hartford - county, Md., at a meetlg in Hartford 1 J Town on March 22, 1775, is still in 0 - existence. The declaration is older 1 ? than that of the Mecklenburg, N. C , J K patriots, which was signed in May, 1776, and antedates hy more than a a I year the Declaration of Indenpend- ? . eace by the Continental Congress. I Jnly 4, l7fl. Hartford Town Ms now * s. called Bosh and the hones in which ' q th# niMtliif m b#ia *m mi ota ??. ' irn, Ik# nin of which, in yet to b# S ; poliolM. . 4 J* With til### feet# Mon it th# com- i tiy know# th*t the pr##?nt Concres# la c arawell Women Call on Men to Do Their Duty. s "A Btrong arraignment ot present ay justice" is the title ot a stateleut signed by 42 prominent Barnell women and published in thu aunty paper, in which a challenge is sued to the men of that county to Lund for law enforcement, for good ten to serve on juries, for u retuedvig of the trouble said to be existing ith the courts and for a stand that ill save the children of the country om the present "state of evil. ' The dement follows: "Since a republic is a government f the people and by the people' we ike it that every citizen of our com-, ion wealth is responsible to the limed extent of his or her influence for te kind of government we have, and ecause our hearths huve, for years ast, been made sick at the flagrant liflmrHnirn nf {uuHnn 1?* outh Carolina and in Uarnwell counr in particular, we can no longer retrain ourselves from publicly exressing our horror and distress at iich conditions. Men are shot down i our streets; the prohibition law Is penly defied; gumblers pursue their nrighteous business and either no unishment is meted out to them in tir courts or none worthy of the ame. Men say our courts are a lockery, that our court house had n well be pulled down so far as lere is any hope for justice within s walls. The lawbreaker walks unTraid, with no restraining hand laid pon him by the officers of the law. "Is there no man, are there no men, i our county who will come out penly in our papers and espouse the iuse of law and justice und use leir strength and influence to bring bout better conditions? It is said tat nothing can be done because >ur Juries will not convict.' Then i there not some defect In the laws pverning the drawing of Juries? We p not know the names of the mairity of the men of our county, but ie names of men known by us to be t upstanding character seem to ppear among the list of juryten drawn much more rarely tnun lose of men who do not enjoy th?.'putution of lawabiding citizens, aud e do not believe there Is u larget roportion of men of the lutter type. i'e supose this is chance, but should iich a matter be left to chance? Intend, should not every man in his trn serve, unless unavoidably preented? "Again we note that so frequently 'hen men of a type apparently well j 11 ted to render a just decision are I tilled they are so often met with the f ?gal, 'I object.' It would almost /' eem that our lawyers, who, above any ther class, arc sworn to maintalu nd uphold the law, have a prefernce for men on the juries whose I'dgment is against the punishment f criminals. "We do not in any wise pretend to now the underlying causes.but there } something wrung with our courts, nd is it not time for lawablding men o come together and find out the rouble? "If there are none who love their cuntry and the right well enough to lo this, then we w4ll take comfort in he fact that 'One with God is a ntaDrity.' We believe in His righteousices, His justice and His power, and le will yet hear our cry and save our biloren from this present state of vil, but will nut His condemnation >e upon those who 'Cume not to the ielp of the Lord, to tho help us (he ?ord against the might} ?' " Chester Defeats Fort Mill. The football team of the Fort Mill dgh school went down to Chester ust Friday afternoon for its annual ;ome with the high school eleven of hat city and brought back home vitli them the small end of a 42 to 0 core. Speaking of the game, the hester News said in part: "The game started with a rush and Chester gained a touchdown the first hree minutes of play. However, it ras apparent that the local boys felt hat* the game was theirs and they lid not put the push to It. "One must not Judge by the score , hat the Fort Mill team is a ragged ne. They fought all the way through he game and made a number of good days, and it must be said that Fort till has a nice bunch of players who .cted the part of good sports throughout the entire game. Fort Mill was landicapped for lack of substitutes ind doubtless felt this fact long beore the final whistle. "Chester made may substitutions luring the game, Coech Mag ill gtrittg ila entird outfit an opportunity t to [ t into the game. During the last [uarter 'the Fort Mill boys were gtrng the locals right much of ft fight tnd onoe or twice it looked as If Fort ifilf would score, Wnd many gro of fcocofiniott they would hum M the tame hud lastod fire miutee leaser.** * vj >" * ,v X