Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 14, 1922, Image 1

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established 1881. ^ ir <j^m i ' w. l ' 1,1 ii "t GJPFNEY DEFEATS LOCALS* Fort MSB Ebrm Cow Down m State . The Spartan bars Joarnal of| Satur- 1 day afternoon printed the following account of the footbaHggamet,on|Wofford * ? field between the Fort Mill and Gafiney high school teams Friday: "Uaffney high school went into the i ujv-htate ftials Friday afternoon at ,1 Wofiord park when the scrappy little fort Mill aggregation, some 13 , pounds lighter, were defeated in a . v hard-fought game by the score of 6 1 to 0. A break in the second quartet was converted into the only touchdown of the afternoon, Gaffney recovering av fumbled punt on Fort Mill's six-yard line and Capt. Clary carrying *ue ball over. Gafiney had many chances to score, but Fort Mill's brilliant *and sturdy defense, coupled. (with costly fumbling ou i Gaffney's part, denied the Cherokee team the scores they might* have made. ?Four times inside Fort Mill's 10yard line, the York county lads held so that the Gaffney team was unable to go the remainder of the distance. two gairnyy passes over the goal line grounded, once the ball went < over on downs and once a fumble was recovered on her own threeyard line by Port Mill, Gaffney"U 1 weight counted principally in the power of Clary and Butler. Fort Mill's line fought the Gaffeny wall to a standstill. "Clary and Butler were the ground gaining stars for Gaffney, Clary es-. pecialty. These hefty backs were seldom stopped without some gains, though the Fort Mill line held them well when the ball was deep in their ' territory. Gatfney's line was a stone ( i wall aud Fort (Mill was never able to gain consistently, though Moser at T full made several good runs. In the llrst quarter he gained 3G yards on an end sweep. Ho hit the line hard. Uoth teams tried the forward pass with varied success, a few forward flips being completed on both sides. "As the game was about to end, Fort Mill scored a 20-yard gain on a long heave. Cooke and Clary were Gaffney's aerial treat, completing two long passes. Gaffney intercepted " JWl MIITb passes tour times during 'the game. Throughout the game Gaffney was In possession of the pigBkin much more of the time than was Port ) (Mill, which was usually forced to i yield it. - . "The clouds and threatening appearance of the day kept the crowd down, though both the contesting schools were well represented. The studeuts of Spartanburg hlgtf and Hastoc supported Fort Mill. "The game performance of the Fort ; - Mill team, foatured by tenacious fighting and vicious tackling, was a splendid exhibition of what a light team pan do against a heavier aggregation. Though beaten, Fort Mill wa* not outplayed and to the vanquished little eleven there is the satisfaction of knowing that they made a gallant stand, worthy in every re? spect. Fort Mill was well coached fn the fundamentals of the game Knd fought like demons from first to last. "Galfney scored 13 first downs to Fcrt Mill's six and gained three times as much ground as Fort Mill. "Friday's victory by Gaffney throws that team into the final contest tor the up-State football title with * Thornwell orphanage of Clinton. This game will be played)next (this) week and the winner will meet the Char \ leston Bantams, the down-State representatives, for - the high school | championship of the Stae." - As Unfounded "complaint The following communication from * Miss Christine South, home- demonk stratton agent for South Carolina, PT ou oe?n received by The Tiipes: "I am enclosing two articles relative to the' home demonstration work which 1 would appreciate your publishing in. tfcanext issue of your pa. per. 1 have^recently heard of some t articles t&tt appeared in your, paper whM'wer* .nether <de*oscatonr in I their spirit toward home demonstraJtaAB)* work. 1 feel sure that you will * J^iiiee with me that your paper owes *j?w.lhe same newspaper Courtesy that I Iter? shown the opponents of our 4 WOl*# and-therefore 1 hope you will f publlfti these articles." (Somebody has imposed upon Miss 1 i South. So far as the editor Bf The ) -Times Is Informed, this paper fees 1 ^ never published --Khytfclng criticising I t H(he work of the county home demonI j titration agents. The ^urUcJes Miss . II0 ! >'?> >? ' ' I f Mr. it * !*he E 5rF>v; - /*' <?? " ii" ' 11 * CWAMB fiCHOOL HOKOB ROLL. The honor .roll of the Fort Mill graded school for the month of Norember Is ae follows First Grade?Dorothy Culp, Meredith Kpps, Alice Gambia, Myra Kimbrell, Mary Elizabeth Meacham, Mary Dickson Parks, James Ferguson, Charles Lewis Qarrlson, Murray Mack. Jr.. Kenneth Wilkerson, Paul Wright, George Pectus, Marjorle Fall, A ?i*1 Ur>i?kt ta? . mil., n 4 rxuuivw fT A 15UI, D1UUBI> t OlHUy Walker, Isabclle Epps, Allyce Mills, Myrile McKinney, Paul Harkey,. J. W. Baker, Gladys hitch, .Martha Dost?r, Pitman Lookado, K'obert Hood, Jim Bryant, Elizabeth Withers, Elizabeth Watford; advanced first grade, Lilly Hay Archie, William Bradford. Second Grade?First honor roll, Lola Fite, Emily Meacham, Wilma Reeves, Preston Thomas, Ruth -Car-* ter, Zudle Carter, David Rogers, Raymond Dyches; second honor roll, Jennie Louise Bradford; Lily May RaVley, James Wilson, Fred Harris,A. Y. Williamson. Third Grade?First honor roll, Stel- i ler Bryant, Frank Lowery, Frank Carothera, L'eady Wilson, Fenton Rogers, David Plyler, Inez Armstrong, Jane Barber, Alma Eason, Ruth Miller, Anne Nims, Johnnie Spinks; second honor roll, Elizabeth McKlbben. Jauie Mae Ritch, Lillian Starnes, Annie Lee McKinney, Crawford Bayne, Mathew Crowder, Jasper Klmbrcll, Oren Wright, Jake Parks. Fourth Grade?First honor roll, Mary Morris, James Allen Ferguson; second honor roll, Jennie Lou Garrison, Harriet Carothers, Maria Culp, Ziza Mills, Sarah Armstrong, Braxton Shaw, Eulyn Robinson, Ethel Miller, Carl Lambert, Eugene Patterson. Fifth Grade?First honor roll. Milbred Medlin, Howard Patterson;-second honor roll, Mildred Ferguson. Josephine Hood, Sara Neely Thompson, Ethel Wright, Elizabeth Wright,. John Ardrey, Sarah Barber, Pearlic Hoheycutt, Clement Potts. .Seventh Grade?First honor, roll, Mary Garrison; second honor roll, Fiqley Lee, Garland Dyches. Eight Grade?Roy Hunter, Faulk* ner Parks. Ninth Grade?Cora Massey. Eleventh Grade?Earle Steele. Demonstration Work Considered. Arguments for-a continuance of tho countv annronriatinn for hnm? Haiti. onstration work and (arm demonstration work in York county next year were made before the legislative delegation in York Monday. Speaking in behalf of homo demonstration work were half a score of wornei), the majority from the town c( York and vicinity. A. A. McKe^wn, district farm demonstration agenf|""Who lives in Rock Hill, presented the cause of he faTm demonstration work. The delegation was asked to appropriate $1,260 for home demonstration work and $500 for farm demonstration work, the remainder of the expense to be paid by the federal government The delegation took the matter under advisement and it was stated that no decision-will be reached nntll after the-annual meeting of tljo delegation at the court house in York early in the new year. There is said to be considerable sentiment in the connty both for and against the work and the opponents will have an opportunity to be heard at the court house meeting 'of the delegation. Dr. W. 0. Moore's Father Dead. Dr. W. C. Moore of Fort Mill Monday afternoon received a telegram informing him of the de&h of his father, D. F. Moore, ab his home ht Jefferson, Chesetrfleld county. The immediate of Mr. Moor'es death was apoplexy, two strokes of which he had sustained during lucent years, and he had been an Intense sufferer tor many months. Mr. Moore was 72 years old and was a member of Plains Baptist church at Chesterfield. He Is survived by his widow and three sons. Dr. tMoore returned to Forf Mill Wednesday,. afetr attending Tuesday afternon at Chesterfield the funeral and burial- tft Ms faher at Chesterfield. \ m m + ' >' No Guns on LnstUnla. The Cunard liner lAuttani*, sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1916, causing many Americans aboard to lose tbeir lives, carried no gone, explosives or troops but did carry several thousand cases of ammunition, according to an ofljoial announcement sent out from Washington a fsw days ago. The cases.of ammunition were carried by special permission. soak President Wilson wt a note4b OmaW?y Ul In reply ta informed that the fcdelUnla carried ftuhs add troops for the allies. Mr. Wilson *fcpi sailed. Bor a report? frfta ahlr ;<?*??(* and UUa Is the report that has last recently been made public, ' . e >e h Is hard to hats a family qaarrel 1 Nf* ' * ^ ^ .. ' ' ' ^ FORT MILL, S.C..THUR3 Hl^frs OP TOOK-COUNTY. Items of. General Interest Found In the Yorkiille Enquirer. Most of-the rural pchools of the county will continue their work right up until Friday afternoon before Christmas, which comes on the following Monday, it was stated at the office of the supreintendent of education. Most of the rural schools will suspend ten days for the Christmas holidays. 'Judge Peurifoy has been receiving a stream of letters from all over the State since the recent announcement of his proposed retirement from -the office of the superintendent of educacolleagues on the bench, from prominent lawyers in every section and frpm laymen?all'. expressing deep and sincerb regret at his determinatiqp in the matter. Some even*go so far as to beg bim to reconsider, If possible,* notwithstanding the reason ho' has assigned for the step he has taken. - "Thi^ has been the quietest meeting of the county commissioners we have had since VI have been supervisor," was the reply of Supervisor Hugh Brown when asked Wednesday afternoon about the "proceedings of the county commissioners who held their regular monthly meet'Ug that day. "We have had many claims presented ua today as usual, but we have paid none of them for the reason we have had no money with which to pay. The truth is, the county is out of money. The tax hooks, you know, usually open on October'lb, but this year they have opened December 1. Last year's tuuds are exhausted and this year's revenue has so far been coming in ratner siowiy. we have no authority now to borrow any money aiuT there is nothing for those who have claims against the county but to wait until v.e get he money." "York county will losp hundreds and probably thousands of dollars uncollected taxes this year by reason of the fact that the tax books were aot open until December 1, whereas .hey are ordinarily opened on October 15." commented a county official yesterday. "For instance, there are many* negroes who would have paid what taxes they owed by this time. Now they are broke and furthermore icores and scores of them are leaving ihe county and going elsewhere* in search of work. The same applied to white people who would have paid; but who between now. and January l,' will pull up stakes upd leave. Their taxes will go unpaid because they have left nothing to levy on. I know of many negroes, particularly, who inquired at the bunko over the county before November 1", about paying their taxes. When they were told the bpoku would not open until December 1, they worried no longer.' And now they are gone." I. P. Boyd, superintendent of the York county almshouse, when abked a' few day ago about conditions out his way, said "We are getting along quite nicely at the home. The county home has recently been plastered and otherwise improved inside and is now in the best condition it has ever been in. You remember that since the county home was built several years ago we have been having much trouble because of faulty plastering, but Supervisor Brown recently had it done over and it is now all right. We have 20 iiftnatcs in the home at present. There are 9 whites \ and 14 negroes. We made three bales 1 of cotton on about three and one-hair acres this fall. I haien't measured the corn yield, but wo made enough to do and some over. We have about Pft bushels of sweet potatoes, a pretty >'good turnip pgtch, $ number of hogs and other produce. Folks were good to the inmates of the county home at Thanksgiving and. 1 have no doubt that they will be remembered at Christmas as they generally are." Warning to Newspaper Borrowers. A man who would not take his home paper sent his little, boy to borrow the Copy token by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a hive of bees and in ten minutes looked like a warty squash. His cries snnohni) Kl? - ? * * ? . uio Miuvr, wuu run io nia assistance, falling to note a barbed wine fence, ,which he ran into, breaking it down, catting a handful of flesh from' his anatomy, and ruining a%>'pjbr of pants. The cow toon adran iage of the gap loathe fence and got into the corn. Heating the racket., his wife ran out, Upsetting a fourgallon chnrn of cream into the bos kct of kitten# and drowned them. In , M kattoa^t lost a $17 set of teeth. The bally, left, alone, crawled through the cream into the parlor and ruined a hew |20 carpet. During the excitement the dog broke up seven settings of eggs. A sorehead never gets ahead In the world. Opportunity pasoss the man who smNHWH. " -y-- r i .A v;' , VTtt.t.' \ lsS^?EE55&S59fi55S3S35E5S0MHE&BSBSflBIII iDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1922.' ODD RIYER* ACCIDENT. One of the older citisens of Fort Mill a day or two ago was telling a nurabei of hit friends of an odd accident that occurred man years ago at the old Nation ford on the Catawba river between Fort Mill* and Keck Hill. 'A North Carolina mountaineer," said he, ^'traveling with his wife and baby, 1 in a two-horse wagon, was on the way to some point in this State. The . party reached Nation ford early one night and notwithstanding the fact tnat the man was unfamiHar with the lord and the river was considerably 1 swollen he decided lb try to cross. ' He drove in and was getting along all right it seemed until the wagon had passed midstream. Then the hordes became frightened at a train passing over the railroad bridge a short distance below the ferry. In spite of all he could do it looked as if the wagon would be upset in the river, so the man jumped from his seat to go to the horses' heads to try to quiet them. About that time the horses gave a lunge and tilted the front end of the wagon upward in such a way that the body slid off into the stream, * with the woman and child still in it. The man heard his wife scream, but before he could go to her assistance the body of the wagon had floated off downstream, carrying in it the woman and child. Tht inari*made every effort to reach his wife and child, but the water was too deep below the railroad bridge I for him to follow them. The only thing he could do was to lisetn to his wife's cries for help. "Finally he decided to go back up stream to see what had become of his team and then he discovered the horses standing about where he had left them. <Coming back to the Fort .Mill side of the river he gave \he alarm ut the nearest house he could find, but the night was well spent botore a party could be organized to go ill search of the woman and child. The next morning they were ^discovered several miles below the ford, whore the wagon body had lodged on a rock in the river. Except for the nervous state in which the harrowing experience through which she had jiist gone had left her, the woman wan uninjured as was the baby, which was too young to know what it was all about. The wagon body in which the woman and child had taken the ride down the river had been otft in the samp rains Which caused the rise in the river and had become practically water-tight, so there was no danger of it sinking." Wants All Vehicles to Carry Lights, "One of the things it is hard" for t me .to understand is why the South Carolina Legislature does not pass a law requiring every vehicle using the public roads at night to display a light large enough to bO seen for several hundred yards," a day or two ago said to The Times a physician who frequently has to an?w?r calls at night that sometimes carry him considerable distances from the t9wn .in which he lives. "Only one night last week," he added,"*"1 barely missed running into a wagon between the county river bridge and Rock Hill, and if there had been an accident it would not have been due to carelessness on my part. The glare from the lights on my car made it impossible for me to see the wagon until I was within a few feet of it. It would seem that the drivers of all vehicles on tho public roads at night would carry a light as a matter of self-protection and not wait to be forced to do so by law, but it looks as if a law on the subject is necessary. And then I do not know who trould enforce the law." , \ "Ben Hop#** Asks Friends' Aid. Editor Fort Mill Times: ( Will you print from me another communication, a few words, thanking my friends and helpers for what they hare done for me this year? 1 have no other way of returning my grateful thanks, no way other than through the ' far-reacting medium of te press of reminding my many personally unknown! admirers that I am still .striving against the adversities of a shut-in, "physically^ handicapped life. Friends, I thank you. Your thoughtfulness has helped me immensely this year. Your lettersvand gifts have softened many a hard place for ma And 1 have had much sorrow during tk'? last 12 months; Just how much I could not tell, it X would. Now that the Joyous Christmas season has come again, 1 hope to he remembered by everybody who may react tnta. 1 aeairs letters end fUU from every om willing and able to end same. A frank rtgnest, I know bat my need really is argent. Address J. S. Love .("Cen Hope"), York, & C. - TBen Hope/' It may be that nobody loves a fat manb but he is generally at peace with Uie ICrtA' X""; - > Times WILL HEAR CITIZENS. / i York icfUtatlTe Delegation to Meet 1 in Rock Hill Next ''Thursday. Senator John R. Hart has called a meeting of the York county legisla- 1 tive delegation to be held* In Rock 1 Hill Thursday morning, December 21. ] The Rock Hill meeting is one of two 1 annual meetings held by the delega- f tion, the other being at York, to ! give the citixens of the county an opportunity to express their views | 01 mutters affecting the welfare of ] the county which are expected to { come up for consideration at the ( meeting of the General Assembly a few weeks later. f The ir.eeting of the delgation In York probably will be held during the first week in January. Among-other matters which likely will be brought before the delegation at both the Rock Hill and York ( meetings is the county road laws, ineluding the law under which the townshps' roads are worked. During the campaign last August it was sug: s gested that the township law was not proving as satisfactory as had been hoped for when it was enacted and that it 'might be the part of wisdom to make some changes in it. F*>r se\eral years prior to 1921 each township in the county selected a road supervisor by popular vote. This supervisor had control of the township's road funds and was authorized to employ an overseer who had immediate charge of the road work. The plan did not appear entirely satisfactory to all sections of the county, however, and at the 192? session of the General Assembly the supervisor plan was set aside and instead three commissioners were created for each township, these commissioners to be appointed by the governor on recommendation of the legislative delegation. Now there is complaint that the new law is work ing even less satisfactory in Bome 1 sections of the county than the old 1 law. It remains to be seen whether x there will be sufficient demand for a 1 change in the law Iff warrant the delegation in taking steps to that end. * Another matter which is expected < to be called to the attention of the delegation at the Rock Hill and York 1 meetings la the employment for an- ' other year of the county demonstra- 1 tion agent and the woman's home ' demonstration agent. York county ' pays $1,500 for the salaries of the two ' agents, $500 for the former nnd ! $1,200 for the latter. Opposition is said to have been expressed by tax- i payers to the employment of either i during 1923. ' 1 Invites World to Ipaugural Party. , * J. C. Walton, Demoorat, governor- , .elect of Oklahoma, has invited the < world at large to his inaugural party < to be held at the Slate fair grounds j in Oklahoma City on January 10 and j 11 He expects his guests to come j by ox train, airplane, motor car, spe- ] clal railroad trains, riding the rods ] and the cushions, afoot, horseback, and by all available other methods oi , travel. He will serve a barbecue and give ' a square dance on a completely floor- , ed-in circle of a half mile race track, j A committee of 3,000 members is ar- ( ranging for the festivities. A tenta- ] live list of the supplies for the bar- ] beuue follows: x j Five hundred beef cattle, 200 hogs, ^ 200 sheep, 5,000 chickens, 1,000 tur- . keys, 3,000 rabbits, 1,000 squirrels, 1 200 opossums, 500 ducks and geese, 10 buffaloes, 10 bear, 10 deer, 10 anteloupe, 5 tons of coffee,' 5 tons of 1 st- It, balf ton of pepper, 250 bushels 1 of onions, 100,000 loaves of bread, ' 100,000 buns, 16 carloads of firewood and 3 carloads of pine knots for kindling. / 1 Three thousand persons will be 1 employed to serve the multitude and 1 500 expert butchers, slicers and barbecuists. The new governor will tako the oath of office on a stand erected in the race track paddock. The two ; houses of the State Legislature will J convene in joint session on the the , stand and swear into office the chief ; justice of the supreme court who will then administer the oath to the chief oxecutive. This is to take' place on January 9 and the two day celebration will follow.No More Whiskey Permits. Further indorsement of requests ! for whiskey to be used for medicinal purposes will not be made by Dr. Jar. A. Hayne, State health officer, who has decided to discontinue the ' practice until he receives an opinion t; regarding the legality of the proced- , uro from the United 8tates attorney | general. Tne state laws and the federal laws' on the subject of whiskey ! for medicinal purposes conflict in many respects and until there Is a ruling hy the Washington authorities ' the South Carolina laws will he fal- J tow* b, to. tel. Ml o?ce. ' -Maybe If we would kill off eU tbe i diplomats It wouldn't be jwcessarf to i muscle the dogs of war. v ' > , S ?' . J.' ' - Oi&C'i * * - i * "i V H , n > | f?60 *f Ywr. SULTAN'S. POWER LIMITED. Ruler of Turkey Not Splrltuul Hewl of Mohammedan World. '' Near Bust politics is inextricably >ound up with religion in ways it is ?ard for us to conceive. And soihe prevalent misconceptions about the dghammedan faith seem to add conueion to many discussions about dosiem problems. "A caliph without temporal power 3 a more radical departure in the [slam world than the Western mind it first can grasp/' says a bulletin >f the National Geographic society. "The easiest way to dispel some of hese illusions Is by pointing to several striking likenesses between the vorld's two newest among the major -elisions. The term NMohammedan.' ike the term 'Christian.' is a nick uuiv. duiu names were given, wun contemptuous intent, by enemies of ke religions. . , , "The term 'Christian' was quickly idopted by the followers of the Naza ene. The term Mohammedan never las been adopted by the followers of he prophet. He sought to avoid the , employment of hia own name by supplying one?the name of Islam?by vhlch he hoped Mohammedanism vould be known. He further sought o make this word, meaning resignaion, imply the five cardinal points >f the new faith. The first of these * loins was the brief creed, - 'There i9 to Qod but Allah, and Mohammed is As propehet.' The other four enoined jrayer, giving of alms, the est of Ramodan and pilgrimages to Mecca. "Another significant parallel beween Christianity and Mohamnedanlsm is that both are the , 'eligions of millions of people of races alien to that of their founders, jl.rist was a Jew; Mohammed was an . Vrab. It is the Mohammedanism nodlfied by the Turkb.h tempera. ont and nationality that has clashed with the Western civilization in reel nt centuries. "Most misleading 'of all the illu- . sions about Mohummedanism, how5vtr, is the tacit assumption that the Mohammedan world is a religious init. Seen a long way off the sects *rd groups fade away. In reality Lhere are two great branches of Mo* ttemmedanism, the Sunnltes and the Shiites. Among both these branches,' ind also outside them, there are sharply drawn cleavages. "'Recent caliphs, who have been the sultans of Turkey, have claimed . spritltual supremacy over the M<olammedan world of some 800.000.000 sculs. But In actual (oct the sultan jf Turkey has had little more spiritual ascendancy over the Mohamme-t lens outside Turkey than the king if England has had over the Episcopalians in the United States. In fact, there would be no urgent Near East problem at this moment had his leadership been recognized in Asia Minor. . "A very important difference beta een the Western mind and the Mohammedan viewpoint has, hitherto, precludcftr a spiritual ascendancy of the latter which would cut across all lines of temporal power and include even warring nations. The Mohammedan has no priests. A spiritual ruler up to now has been, incomprehensible to the Moslem mind. Naturally, then, caliphs have sought to rule by the sword. . "The very word caliph has an allurement that dates back to childhood days when you lived among the fantastic Arabian nights at the corrt of the Caliph Harun al Rashid. Lashld was a' bona fide caliph, and In you later years a reading. of tho historical facts about the caliphlte furnish no fewer thrills than the immortal tales." Knocks Lady Nancy Astor. "I was nl?ased to read in the news papers a few days ago that Lady Nancy Astor had been reelected to the British Parliament," said Capt. Richard Fulp of Fort Mill, discussing recently with a friend his experiences as a patient at hospitals in England during the World war. "It is my good fortune to know personally Lady Nancy," he continued, "with whom I got acquainted at her home, some 50 miles from London, during tho time it was used as a hospital for World war officers. Going over seas with the 30th division I contracted pneuinonia and when our transport touched at Dover, England, I was removed to a hospital in that city, where I remained for several weeks. Then I waa t,aken to the Astor home snd it was while I was /convalescing ? there that I became acquainted witu . Lady Nancy.. When she learned that I was from South Carolina she was specially kind to me, tor her old heme urns in Virginia, where she was / mm ot ths famous Lanshorne sisters. Da vMtor teao ls on .a beautiful *ifcu of .somo S,09d acres and is one of ths show peaces 4a . that section # of Baglaad." % ' /'f