Try . .... > > ?. r-v V * ^ ai' ^ "i&" ' /' " K *' S/( . ' . . "/ ' n - bUblklwd 1891. OmTT TICKET DEFECTIVE. v Himn of Four Denoetitte Candidates Omitted In Printing. A serious error occurred in the printing of the official York county . ballot for use in the general election Tuesday by the 'omission therefrom of the names of Hugh O. Brown, can dldite (or supervisor; John &. Carroll, candidate (or superintendent' o( education; J. L. Houston, candidate (or probate judge, and W. R. Bradford, candidate (or the house of representatives, all of whom were nom inoted in the recent primaries to go in the general election as Democratic candidates. Before the ballots were distributed i Monday from York to the various election managers throughout the county, the omission of Mr. Brad-| ford's name as a candidate (or the house was discovered and the managers were Instructed by the clerk Of court to write his name on all the party ballots, which seems to have been done generally. Eut it was not (intll several hours after the pollB opened Tuesday that the discovery also was made that the ballots did not carry the names of the * candidates (or supervisor, superintendent of education or probate judge. Telephone messages were then sent from York to the various precincts requesting friends of the candidates to see that a few ballots we* e prepared and voted with the names of these candidates on them along with those of the other candidates. The request was complied with and thus the expense and trouble of holding a second election was obviated. - The defective ballots seem to have been printed in Columbia, as a telegram relative thereto from W. Banks Dove, secretary of state, says that "upon advice of C.- C. Muller I am sending telegram to H. N. Edmunds, secretary State Democratic Executive committee. Muller is the manager of the job prlniting department of The State company, Columbia, and the inference is that The State company printed the ballots, otherwise there would have been- no occasion for Mr. Dove to consult Muller about the error. I Prior to 1914, when the act specify' ing the site of the balldt to be used in general elections in this State was amended, the omission of the names of the four candidates from the ballot would have necessitated a second election; but the General Assembly that year changed the law to read that the name of the candidate to go on the ballot "shall be written or j printed or partly written or partly printed thereon in black ink." Thuft was York county enabled to elect Tuesday three county officers and a member of the General Assembly who otherwise would have had to make the race in another election. in sort Mill mere was much criticism of the carelessness which produced the error and a number Qf citi- j sens were heard to remark that if the ballots had been printed In York county the error would not hare occurred. Nothing of the kind had ever before happened in York county politics, so far as any one recalled. Pert Mill Tronnees Win as bo ro. Although the Fort 'Mill high School football eleven was handicapped by the absence from the lineup of tour of its regular players, the local boys had little trouble in vanquishing the high school team front' Winasboro in Fort Mill last Friday afternoon by the one-aised score of 74 to d. The Winnsboro boys were not the equal of the local lvds in aqiy department 01 the game, as was dsmonstarted within a few minutes aftar play began. Wlnnsboro's only score resulted from a costly tumble by Fort Mill on her own 20 yard line, giving thevisitors the opportunity to drop a field goal over the bar for three fcolnt*. The score against Winnsboro was the largest of the season in the games of the Catawba association. 'Fort Mill made 11 touchdowns. Might goals wore kicked by Luther Patterson.- vThe Winnsboro boys tried hard to win the game, but could not r> f overcome the euperior knowledge o* the game displayed by the Fort Mill team. The next game of the local boys Will be With Che Lancaster school in Lancaster on November 17. ^ Oray Uae brewing Thin. \ Only . 76,006 Confederate soldiers . .-'?upe still Siting, according to ^statistics 1 ' Compiled by Col- Francis M. Burrows ^ Washington, serving on the staff ? v ' ^Qe?, JnMan 8. Carr, commending o?*erof Xhe Ualted Confederate Vetsijj,. ', ^2^.tw^^e bospsoMfc ' : ak . , ">.'- 'iWJ?. '-&SU "'^-'-.J - -/.- V, rHE f ' ' P;' . \ ' . - X 1 -. u'" ' PLAT FEIDAY AFTKB100L ' 4?" r * Interest in the football guse to be l played In Rock Hill Friday afternoon between the high school teams of Rock Hill anA Chester is at fever beat in those towns and has spread 1 to other towns in this section of the State. Rock Hill and Chester have been rivals for athletic honors for several years and when teams rep re- 1 santing the two towns come together either on the diamond or gridiron public interest in the' contest always is aroused in those communities. Thla VAO? ?k. ' * * 1? . - J cm lUO luuiuau iwmi U1 the RocJT Hill and Chester schools are said to be unusually strong and u close and stubbornly contested game Is expected In Rock Hill tomorrow afternoon. Neither team has been defeated (firing the season and each has had what appeared to be an easy time in disposing of the other teams in the Catawba Athletic association Interest in the result of the. game this year has recently been height-, ened. if anything by newspape? publicity both teams have received from _ihe charge that each has a number of "ringers" in its lineup. Douglass Nims of Fort Mill, who is playing with the Rock Hill team, is one of the number who has been accued of Ineligibility because of the alleged fact that he is a professional athlete. Ah the story goes, he accepted compensation for playing professional baseball with the Columbia and Charlotte teams of the South Atlantic league and^ with Lumberton in the Eastern North Carolina league. Superintendent turts of the Rock Hill school denies emphatically, however, that Douglass is a professional athlete and aays that he Is a regularly enrolled high school student in that town. Schultz, another Rock Hill luuyer, hi no i8 accused oi Detng I "ringer." The home of Collins, a Chester player, is said to be in New York, where, It also-is- charged, he has s wife and two children. A further claim set up to prove the charge of Ineligibility against Collins Is that he Is an ex-service man. Another Chester player, whose right to participate in games of the Catawba Athletic association has been questioned Is said to have been brought to Chester from Great Falls solely to play on the -school's football team and that ho Is not therefore a bona fide student of the school. But whather these stories are true or not, they do not seem to excite much interest in either Rx>ck- Hill or Chester, although there usually Is some one connected with the two football teams to deny them as often as they are made. Outside of Rock Hill and Chester, however, and especially in the other towns whose schools have teams in the Catawba Athletic association many people believe that the stories are true and that neither school is represented by an eleven some of whose members will hear close scrutiny. This year will Just about wind up the Catawba Athletic | association,' yesterday said a Fort I LM'lll roan. "And at that it won't be a nviafortune," he continued, "(or the end of it will afford, the pupils of the various schools a little more time to study their books-" Row May End Football League. At a meeting of the football pommittee of the State High School league held in Abbeville Saturday the committee took up a dissuasion of the verbal and written reports which have been unofficially given them relative to alleged "ringers" said to be playing on the Chester and Rock Hill high school teams. The chairman of the committee was instructed to write the superintendents of these two schools to make every effort to officially clear themselves of. th?_ notoriety which thefe schools are gaining by the circulation of these reports, in the public press of the upstate The, committee deplores the lllfeeling which is being- brought about among the high school- football* teams and predicts t^e disruption of. the high school league unless.superintendents ahd principals of the schools take direct charge and assume absolute control of'athletics in their schools. Only It egress in Fort the first Une In several years all the prisoners in the York county Jail are negroes. There are nine prisoners in tbs jail at prssent and not one of them Is white, according to a statement made a day or two ago .by Sheriff Prod E. Qutnn. On several occasion# last year white, prisoners la th? York jail wore as**morons as aegvoss. w Engineers are-engaged- tn fcnaMnf a stdtng trowi tb# Seaboard ssaln Ens to ths site of BopofcHc cotton mill No. t at Oreat Flails, Chester county, ?rbe third nnlt of the Bepnhlle mOi* will ? : . ? . i jL vv* ??*. ? -^jS; \* \ ' JMMppMA FO.tr MILLS- C? Tm>mt NEWS 0E IOBK COUNTY. Items ( General Interest Feud In - tin Yerktllle Enquirer. There is quite a quantity of small grain being sowed over the county and farmers wh have not yet sowed are arranging to do so. But of course there are those who wiil keep on piomiatug themselves to sow and not* dr. it. Two additional teachers are badly needed tor Clover's high school and | they wiu likely be employed soon, thus bringing the faculty up to Id. There are 66 pupils in the third grade und the tourth grade has an enrollment almost as large. One teacher is not enough for 65 pupils, hence the need tor more teachers. The school committee of the York county grand jury has been out with Superintendent of Education John E. itrroll among the rural- schools oJ the county. The work of inspection was to be renewed this week. The school committee of the grand jury consists of Jurors W 13. Flannagan of Bowling Qreen. J. P. Williamson of Bethesda and A. V. Sutton of fcort Mill.' Messrs John Mcllwaine and R. A. Bcrnett, .both of Ebenezer township, who were in Yorkville Monday, said that the farmers of their respective neighborhoods are certainly not fooU lug about sowing small grain. They have never seen so much plowing at thlfl RAAUAII O n/1 fKn ?-WWW u MMU ?U? >9UUU15 OCVU19 IU l*e only a question of getting the seed. . There is need for hard surface road between Yorkville and Rock Hill and the only way to get it is to build it.' The road from Yorkville to Rock Hill is the most important in the county, judged by the amount of traffic it carries and the road from Yorkville to Howling Qreen is .the next most Important. There is no use in any were cold feet In connection with building these roads. At a meeting held in Clover last Wednesday it was decided to organise a 27 piece band la that town. M. L. Smith, manager of the Hawthorne and Hampshire mills, announced that the mills would donate $1,000 fbward buying the necessary instruments and in assisting in the employment of an instructor. Prof. R- J. Herndon was employed at the meeting and arrangements were made to order the necessary instruments. The ladies in charge of the Yorkville country market have demonstrated the complete practicability of the idea and they need now only the loyal support of all those who sell p;oduce to enable them to standardize prices to the permanent advantage of both buyers and sellers. The local consumers have been patronizing the market quite liberally and intelligently, as is evidenced % by the fact that they have been on fcand to buv evervthlnff thnt Hub Koan nffaMMi Clover's march of progress and program of new Industries and enterprises calculated to build up the town does not lag. Last week there was announcement of a fertiliser mining plant. It was learned Monday that a wholesale grocery business will also be opened there about January l by D. A. Page, well known wholesale grocer of Gastonia. The Clover business will be in charge of John L- Page, who will move from Cherryville, N. C-, where for the past two years he has been in charge of a similar concern. At a special meeting of feethel presbytery held in the hirst Presbyterian church here last Tuesday it was decided to expel dtev. D. A. Miller, former pastor of Liberty yill church, trom the ministry. The presbytery' met Tuesday to hear the report of a special committee to investigate charges of immorality against the minister. The recommendation of the comsnittep which made its report was followed by a vote of the presbytery finding him guilty of disgraceful and heinous oondnct- Rev. Miller was present, -but made no defense. The presbytery, although expelling the defendant'from the ministry, left the door open foir bis reinstatement* at some time in the future if his couduct warranted, it was stated. He had not ^been preaching (or some time, It was learned. Saadaj School Program. The following l? the program (or the Fort Mill fiaptlat Sunday school next Sunday morn'ng, November t): . 1. Quiet DMMiC' 1/ Song by school. 3. Prayer. 4. Scripture reading. A. L. -Park* 5. Song by children. ti. Sentence sermons by inwrntS* ate*. We 8hall Spe'l at Our Hemes," by Helen Ferguson.* T r' ; t. BeaVtng. "Some One," by Mies fillsabeth Mills. ^ ^ ^ cbo}r Mill .J++. -..Jf ' %* * ?jiL-s* '* - Tm. . " .i* * * . r * -v' " * >VY. NOVEMBER#. 1922. tgigaerggwegBeeeBaaggati-i jtu KLAN8MEN VISIT CMJRC H. ^ Mi Klu Prewit Pirte to the Rev. ; W. R. Boaktlfht, Tike organisation 0C1 a laymen'? evangelistic club at "tha Fnrt Mill Baptist church last Sunday evening was momentarily "interrupted, while Alexander Long of Rock Hill was speaking, by tour men wearing the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan entering | the church and marching, two abreast, down the aisles and delivering to the Rev. J. W. U. byches, pastor of the church, a letter addressed to the -Rev. W. K. .Bouknight. pastor of St. John's Methodist churcn. The letter, which was read to the audience, spoke in complimentary terms of (he work of Mr. Bouknight as a minister in this community and contained u substantal check made payable to him. C So quietly did the members of the I klan enter the church and so quickly I was their mission performed thut j several who were at the time glaucing over a paper that had been distributed in behalf of the laymen's club did not know of the presence of the klansmen until they had departed and the reading of the letter was , begun. Aside from the surprise caused by tbe -visit of the klansmen to the church, it was perhaps equally surprising to many to learn that there is such an organisation in Fort Mill. Several months aso an effort was made to organise a local klan here, -but the effort apparently failed and so far as some of those who were then invited to join knew had been been abandoned. The letter of the klansmen tn Mr. i Louknight follows: "We ab a committee of the Ku Klux Klan of Port Mill township, including in our membership representatives from all the churches of the town, desire to donate the enclosed sutu to Htev. W. in, ===== HITTING THE BULLSEYE. Lloyd George was not defeated?he got tired and quit. it will be too much if Turkey begine to crow over her victory. Few jokes are as dry as those cracked abou? prohibition. Honesty is the best policy, fcr you ?gn never tell who may be watching. Give some men plenty of rope and still they refuse to hang themselves. Send your Christmas presents early < and you may get something in return. Being poor, The Times is seldom bothered by book ageuts. It seems to be ugaii^t Germany's i principle to pay the interest on her war debt. 1 We still cherish the hope that some day the press disputches will tell of ' an Armenian killing a Turk. 1 It may-be mean to hhv it hut h?r?> i goes: Football stars do not as a rule 1 shine much in after life. You have noticed, of course, that ! there is usually a drop in the price 1 o? overcoats just after . you have1 bought one. Be" patient. A trude paper says coal will be cheaper und more plen- \ tiful next spriug. j The one comforting thought about the Near East is that it is so far The world do move> Charleston has invited Billy Kunday to hold a revival there. A statistician, as we understate! it, is a bookkeeper who has landed on the government payroll. It is hard to tell whether the idle rich or the idle poor ure the more dangerous to the country. It is encouraging to read in the daily papers that our grand old Democratic statesmen are making the Republicans hop about in O-h-i-o. When a husband objects to playing second fiddle there is apt to be discord in the family. beware of the man who does you a favor that he may be able to ask one of you a little later. If he lends you a dime he is apt to want to borrow a dollar. You are making some progress, when you can tell the difference between your conscience and the feaf of being found out.. When a man begins to talk of moving to another town where the people are not so narrow-minded you * may know that he has been caught 1 ... N ll up W1U1Lloyd Qearfe Last of "Big Four." David Lloyd George, whose term as premier of Great Britain ended with the disruption of his coalition ministry on October 19, outlasted all the statesmen who guided the great allied nations through the Wo*-ld war. In the turmoil of readjustment that followed the great conflict, he kept his office when those all around him were losing theirs. The men with whom he sat at Paris as the "big four" of the peace conference' long ago were toppted over. Premier Orlando of Italy was the first> to goHis cabinet resigned in June, 1919. The following January, Glemenceau, "The French Tiger," was cast aside. Two months later the senate of the United States refused for a second time to ratify the peace treaty Woodrow Wilson had brought home from Versailles, and not long afterward his party was beaten at he polls. After all of the other three had been put aside in their countries Lloyd George became probably the most outstanding figure among all the men of the world who were engaged in public affafcs. His position, constantly' in danger from a possible dropping away of one of the groups forming the coalition on which his c government rested, was stregthened, c * ?? ,.nnnarn?il a ft AT I _ D J 4Ol no uiotui j so vmuvs ? . u all * the other war statesmen had I e gene, because It was he who acted j <] ar> Oreat Britain's spokesman in the t parleys last winter with the rebel t lious Irish leaders?parleys which led ? to the creation of the Free State, and t peace, after 700 years of strife be- a tween England and Ireland. , York Wiping Oat Illiteracy. j' York county is leading all the counties of the State in wiping out illiter- s acy among its adult population, ac- 6 cording to the report of Miss Will 9 Lou Gray, supervisor of this branch of instruction for the State depart* G mcnt of education. During the last I scholastic year^York had 1,180 adult 4 * t Alft QnentaviKiirn H |Mk|HU gailisi i,VT? tut ?|m>MiiiHuiat York's* nearest competitor. York's c lead Is more Impressive whed- it is ' recalled that Spartanburg's white c population Is about twice that of I this county's. 1 According to Miss Gray's report, H the results ot.the work cannot be shown fn statistics, bat are seen In s the more enlightened citizenship of if the pnplls, with their htghef aspirw- i tlons and Ideals. Her reports show l that In ltot South Carolina's percent- g age of Illiteracy was.85.9, against -18.1 s today. White OlHefcacy Is now t> a per cent and negyo Ullteracy 2P.8 per 1 j ? 11.60 Per Year. SOUTHERN PLANTERS ROBBED. . ' aV * How Willi Street Gambler* Control Few understand the technicul one ration of the cotton exchanges and the inBide machinery conducive to the manipulation of prices, says a writer in the Dearborn Independent. To this lack of*kuowledge may be partly attributed the deficient legislation that has from time to time been enacted against the cotton exchanges. Exchanges in general, and the New York Stock and Cotton exchanges m particular, are like giant spiders spinning an interminable web over the commercial economy of the nation, catching the unsuspecting adventurer in business. The spinning tras been carried on so long, and has so many ramifications of political strength, thut the threads of the web tiave become . like cables of steel, which can be cut and destroyed ouly by the steel saw of public opinion sharpened to the uctuai truth of the :nse. * * ~ . * " The mystery of cotton exchanges? heir history, fuuctiou, use and abuse, uid how these giant gambling palaces keep within the law and' thrive, :oustiCute a story well worth relating. At the feast of the New York Cot- . on exchange in 15*20, in celebration )f the 50th anniversary of its organisation, a pioneer member told how sotton exchanges came into existence, rie said that buck in the '50s and 't>0s :otton merchants traded in a more primitive way, more from hand to nouth, atMi had not developed the sroat system 01 buying and selling or future delivery, or ?ou?racting for teavy deliveries far ahead, -y-hlch system, as we know, gives a tremen ious expansion to business, and, fur- . her more, instills into it a hlgk^Beusej^ >f honor and trust and develops busness acumen. Their trading was on i narrow scale before they lacked he protective- facilities for largeicule trading, such as highly organzed insurance companies to assume he risks of their stocks. As the demands of trade grew, - ? iiowever, one New York merchant ook the initiative by offering to <1*-** liver cotton to^?i foreign buyer, at a fixed price on ft future date several nontlis ahead. This transaction was he forerunner of the establishment )f the New York Cotton exchange. A ew^years later, in 1870, the exchange vas established. Thus the cotton vorld was given u liquid truding eener for dealing in cotton for future lellvery. v There are four great cottoA-futur* ^changes in the world, the two In America, at New York and New Oreans, one in Liverpool and one in Alexandria, Egypt. A seat on the *?iew York or New Orleans Colon ex:hange sells as high us $18,000. The s'ew Orleans Cotton exchange occu>ies a magnificent new structure, a ihow place of that city. The Nc w fork Cotton exchange is constructing i $2,000,000 building for its future ?ome. There is a distinction between a :otton-future exchange and a regular :otton market where the world buys lupplies of cotton. Cotton markets ire located principally in the South-, trn States, where it is sold to street >uyers and inerchauts, or stored in warehouses to toe sold to (actors and * , nills. The life blood of the cotton- / (rowing world flows Ihrough the f tig spot mavketss, where transactions / or actual cotton take place. v' " ij-jkj On the futures exchange, however, :otton is never seen- A visitor to one >f the exchanges at first has the lmiression that he Is entering bedlam, ?r-perhaps a wild animal show. A lease crowd of 50 or 60 men is hov- red over a sunken pit, waving arms ind yelling in hoarse voices, loud mough to awaken the Seven Sleepers. I'he yelling is wholly unintelligible o the visitor. The uproar continues rom 10 a. m- to 3"p. m. They are all trokers of the exchange and are rading in cotton on paper?that is to ay, are auctioning off contracts, which represent 100 bales of cotton iach, 5W pounds to the bale, the colon supposedly to be delivered at ome future date. But owing to the lasticity of the contract, only a very mall portion of it is ever delivered. When a contract is sold over the tfllclgl trading pit, the price per tound and month of delivery named n the contract are Immediately narked on the blackboard of the exhange, and this quotation Is then lashed by wire to all parts of the ottou world, as the latest off: da I trice paid for cotton for future deivery. Contracts thus bought and old are called "futures.'' "Futures" excite in man the paa- %::[ ion to gamble on the ontcome the nture. The majority of traders, and a brokers themselves, see so tttle of raw cotton that tl}ey lose appreciation of its merits, and do not ?mx to know or care whether they re trading ia cotton or dralk.oMurke. 'heir consuming. purpose Is to ?rah