Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 15, 1915, Image 1
YORKYILLE ENQUIRER.
ISSUED SKMI-WKEKLT.
l l. x. grists sons. publisher!.} s ^amilg jit u'sjjaper: jt'or lite promotion of the political, .social, sjjrieultiiral and commercial jntcresis of the $tayl{. { t"" ia',."" ? p* " vj cmc'
" ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY .15, 1915. NO.5
1 - - - - ? ?- ??? j a ITni n nv I nr 41 rvnlllirrpI of aoDarel and other things have been| GENERAL NEW8 NOTE8.
"THE HOUR
Sermon Preached
Sunday, in Phila<
Following Is the text of the formal
' prepared sermon delivered by Mr.
Sunday in Philadelphia, last Sunday i
afternoon, and again at night, and
was heard by 48,000 persons at the
two services. There were many deviations
from the written sermon, de- i
livered in his picturesque and char- I
acteristically forceful language. There
were more than 1,100 persons who i
"lit the saw dust trail," when Mr. i
Sunday extended invitations to converts
to give him their hands as a l
pledge to Christian living: '
"The hour is come. It is very evident
to me that Jesus knew that the
Father would understand what he <
meant when he said, 'The hour is i
come.' He did not say I have met i
with a difficulty down here In my <
mediatorial work, something he had '
. no thought about, or expected would 1
I ever occur, but, the hour is come for i
r which all hours in the history of the i
k world center. That hour meant more
^ for you and me and all generations of
the world than all the hours in the
history' of the world. Jesus did not <
mean a period of 60 minutes. It was 1
many days after he had uttered tnese
words before the incident to which he
referred to in my text took place?
his crucifixion. The Lord knew of
our great struggle with the powers of
darkness and God had given his
promise that the seed of the woman
should crush the head of the serpent,
and the world had been looking forward
for mtiny thousands of years
to that very hour.
"Imagine what would have been the
feeling of the people of Jerusalem if
Jesus had failed, as it had been
prophesied he would, to arise after
three days. I think they would have
draped their pulpits in mourning and
nailed a black cross over the door of
hope if the three days came and went
away and Jesus was still in the tomb.
But at the end of the third day, as he
said he would, he arose from the
\ grave and walked forth from the
grave a supreme conqueror from the
dark domain of death, and he lives
forever with the saints and reigns, and
I am not worshiping a dead Jew in
the tomb of Joseph of Aramathea, but
a living, reigning Christ, who sits at
the right hand of God, from whence he
will come to judge the living and the
dead. The hour is come.
"A man who sins places limitations
upon himself. He places intellectual
limitations upon himself, physical limitations
upon himself, and if he lives
in sin he is a fool, and a man who
champion's the cause of the devil does
not deserve the name of a man and
forfeits all rights in my opinion to
respect and decency, and I don't care
a continental who he is.
"The cross of Christ was the connecting
link between the Old and the
New Testament.
"I don't intend to confine my remarks
to the historical facts, beneficial
as it would be. but I would like to
draw a few lessons. First, the hour
is come to realize that the church is
not the end. The church is the means
to the end, and if you think when
you come into the church that that
| is the end, God have mercy on you
and the church if you are in it. You
are not in the church to keep a little
space 17 inches square warm, but that
k church is in the community and you
ft are in that church to make this com^
munity a better community and overthrow
the sin thai is in it. And if
you do not. the ohurch is a flat failure.
I?TU ? kAtt? U AAMAA. C
l lie uuui is tunic, tunic iui auinc- ?thing
else. It has come for plainness
of speech on the part of the preacher.
If you have anything to antagonize,
out with it; specify sins and sinners.
You can always count on a decent
public to right a wrong, and any public
that won't right a wrong, is a good
one to get out of.
Preaching Made Plain.
"Charles Finney went to Europe to
preach, and in London a famous freethinker
went to hear him. The freethinker's
wife noticed a great change
in him; he was more kind, more affectionate,
more affable, less abusive,
and she said: 'I know what is the
matter with you: you have been to
hear that man from America preach.'
And he said. 'Wife, that is an insult;
that man Finney don't preach, he just
makes plain what the other fellows
preach.' I wish to God you could say
the same for me when I leave here,
for if preaching could save you, you
would have been in heaven long ago.
You need something else, and by the
grace of God, I am going to give it
to you. Now, the foremost preacher
of his day was Paul. What he preached
was not so much idealism as practicality;
not so much theology-, homo- .>
letics, exegesis or didactics, but a
manner of life. I tell you there was 1
no small fuss about his way of preach- 4
ing. When Paul was on the Job the
devil was awake. There is a kind of
preaching that will never arouse the l
devil. (
" 'He that believeth not is condemn- i
ed already.' He that has not bellev- *
ed in Jesus Christ, the only begotten ]
Son of God, is condemned where he t
sits. <.
"Too much of the preaching of to- l
day is too nice, too pretty, too dainty, i
it does not kill. Too many sermons >
are Just given for literary excellence i
of the production. They get a new
adjective or noun or pronoun?you ]
cannot be saved by grammar. A lit- 1
tie bit of grammar is all right, but \
don't be a big fool and sit around and t
criticise because the preacher gets a ]
word wrong. If you do that, your '
head is filled with buck oysters and (
sawdust, if that is all you can see in it. i
"They've been crying peace, peace! i
There is no peace. Some people won't I
come to hear me because they are s
afraid to hear the truth. They want t
deodorized, disinfected sermons. They j
are afraid to be stuck over the edge ]
of the pit and get a smell of the brim- <
stone. You can't get rid of sin as
long as you treat it as a cream puff 5
instead of a rattlesnake. You can't ?
brush sin away with a feather duster. 1
Go ask the drunkard who has been <
. IS COME."
by Rev. "Billy"
ielphia, Sunday.
made sober whether he likes 'Bill.'
Go ask the girl who was dragged from
the quagmire of shame and restored to
her mother's arms whether she likes
'Bill.' Go ask the happy housewife
svho gets the pay envelope every Saturday
night instead of it going to the
filthy saloonkeeper, whether she's for
'Bill.' Some people say, 'Oh, he's sensational.'
Nothing would be more sensational
than if some of you were to
suddenly become decent. I would
rather be a guldepost than a tombstone.
Truth Will Convince.
"I repeat that anbody who is decent,
or wants to be decent, will admire
you when you preach the truth,
although you riddle them when you
do it. The hour is come, my friend.
The hour is come to believe in a revival.
Some people do not believe In
revivals, neither does the devil, so you
ire like your daddy.
"I am in favor of everything the
devil is against, and I am against evsrything
the devil is in favor of, the
dance, the booze, the brewery, my
friends, that have cards in their
domes. I am against everything that
the devil is in favor of, and I favor
jverything the devil is against, no
matter what it is. If you know which
jide the devil is on, put me down on
the other side any time. If you have
lot got religion enough to believe in
evivals, get down on your knees and
?ray until you get it, or get out of the
:hurch.
"Did you ever hear the story of the
Scotch shepherd that drove his sheep
nto the fold and counted them over,
me, two, three?95, 96, 97. and then
tame into the cabin and spoke to the
tollie dog lying in the corner with her
mppies and he said to her, 'Cls, there
ire three of them gone; you better go
>ut and find them.' She jumped to
ler feet and rushed to the door. The
itorm beat in her face and she turned
jack to her puppies, and he said: 'Go
>n, I counted them and there are three
nissing; get them.' She jumped
hrough the doorway and was gone.
Vfter a while he heard her at the
loor. There she stood with two of
he sheep. He went back into the fold
md counted a second time, thinking
hat he had made a mistake, 94, 95,
>6, 97, 98, 99.
Lost Sheep Is Found.
"He came back to the cabin and
vent over to the corner where she was
ying with her little ones, and he said:
I was right the first time. There were
hree. You found two; there is one
'et out on the mountain. Go and get
t. Hurry up.' She Jumped to her
eet and rushed to the door, and she
vinced and turned back again to her
ittle ones. He said: 'Cls, you won't
et that sheep die, will you? Go and
ind it.' She looked at her master
ind she couldn't say no, and she
jounced through the open door in the
eeth of the storm and was gone. One,
wo, three, four hours went by and at
ast he heard her scratching on the
rabin door. He threw it open and
here she stood, torn by thorns, batered
by the storm, torn by the ragted
rocks, but she had found the
iheep that was lost and brought it
jack.
"Tenderly the shepherd took the
theep in his arms and carried it to tne
'old. He counted the third time, one,
wo, three, four?95, 96, 97, 98, 99,
100. He locked the door and came
n. She attempted to reach her little
rnes in the nest, and had fallen exhausted.
He spoke words of encourigement
to her. He patted her wet
ind drenched coat. She made a su>reme
effort to reach her little ones
ind fell dead. She was a dumb brute
ir.d would do that for her master!
3h. God. she had no thought of thee!
She had no thought only that she was
villing to serve her master; she only
hought about obeying his commands.
Vhen Jesus extends his hands and lifts
lis thorn-crowned head and says:
They are lost to the church of God.
Jo and bring them in.' we wince and
lowl and murmur and are not wiling
to do something to bring them to
Tesus Christ. The hour is come.
"It would be a great thing if we
rould sing the doxologyy full metre.
Sow about it? Let's have it.
"The hour is come to offer yourselv s
to God. The hour is come. He that
lelieveth not is condemned. It may
)e the man who bears your name. It
nay be the one who sits across from
he table when you eat. The hour is
:ome. Oh, God, help them, we pray,
ind guide them aright. The hour is
ome. How many of you men and
vomen are willing to come down here
ind accept Christ. The hour is come.
"Say, Jesus, I think there are thousands
going to help God, help them
ve pray and guide. Sing the 'Niney
and Nine." How many of you men
ind women will come down here?"
Belgian Farms for England.?Engand
is to reap benefits from the agri ultural
skill of the Belgian farmers
vho are exiles in Great Britain. As
i token of their appreciation of the
British hospitality, says a London let:er,
the queen of the Belgians has
suggested that the agriculturists from
ler country instruct English farmers
n the ystem of intensive cultivation,
vhioh has made. Belgium famous the
.vorld over.
a onnnnittoo htciriprl hv Sir Richard
Pgaet, has been appointed and arrangements
are being made to delegate
Belgian experts who will direct
heir fellow countrymen in preparing
English land for intensive cultivation.
The British and Belgians alike are
?ager to have all Belgians return to
:heir homes as soon as possible, but
meantime there is a desire to make
:he Belgians as little burden as possible
on the British, and the agricultural
colony plan has been hit upon
is a desirable means of employing
Pelgians where they will not be in
lirect competition with Englishmen.
As many as five crops of vegetables
tie grown in a single year by the Bel;ians
on tracts under glass. Only
ough frames, with ordinary winl?.w
irliiGii ire roonirpf] for this work
The Belgian farmers are able to make
these themselves, and in many places
in England they are already employed
preparing the frames.
The Belgian knowledge of soil culture
is the secret of the great success
the farmers of the little kingdom
have achieved. A tiny tract of land
is sufficient to support a Belgian family
in comfort, and the refugees are
willing to impart their knowledge of
soil treatment to their British hosts,
who are in no sense competitors in
the continental markets dominated
by Belgian gardeners.
BRYAN FACES ARREST
Alleged to Have Broken the Game
Laws of Virginia.
William Jennings Bryan read in a
newspaper this afternoon that the
game warden of Fairfax county, Virginia,
had announced that he intended
to ask for the arrest of Mr. Bryan and
his extradition to Virginia for trial on
a charge of having violated a county
ordinance forbidding nonresidents to
hunt game within the county lines,
says a Washington letter of Sunday.
Mr. Bryan admitted that he had gone
rabbit hunting in Fairfax county on
Christmas day, but insisted that he
had not seen a rabbit or even the track
of one.
Secretary Bryan indicated that he
knew the game warden couldn't prove
that Mr. Bryan had shot any rabbits.
The Bryan smile expanded, and the
Bryan laugh would have shaken the
If * Vioro Ha/1 hoon onv no thP
premier of the cabinet read the newspaper
article aloud with parenthetical
remarks of his own.
"William Jennings Bryan, secretary
of state," read Mr. Bryan, "is to be
haled before the court of Fairfax
county, Virginia, for violation of the
county game laws, if H. C. Cockrell,
game warden of the county, carries
out his expressed purpose. Mr. Cockrell
today said he intended to ask that
a warrant be issued for Secretary Bryan's
arrest and that he would prosecute
the secretary of state the same as
if the great commoner was an 'ordinarv
wood chopper.' (Now what has
wood chopping to do with it?)
"The offense charged against Secretary
Bryan is alleged to have been
committed Christmas day, when the
secretary went to Fairfax county to
spend the day with John S. Barbour, a
member of the Fairfax county bar.
The two in hunting garb and armed
with shotguns, it is asserted, spent
part of the day tramping over the hills
and deals in the vicinity of Mr. Barbour's
country place, but not even so
much as a single rabbit rewarded their
efforta'' ("That's right, and not even
a rabbit track.")
"The fact that the two hunters returned
with empty game bags, however"
("quite correct") "is not to save
Secretary Bryan from prosecution,"
declares Game Warden Cockrell. Virginia's
game laws are peculiar in many
respects, one of these peculiarities being
that authority is given to the board
of supervisors of the counties to establish
such regulations as they may
see fit in regard to hunting. Another
feature of the state game laws is that
hunting of any kind of game is not
permitted when the ground is so covered
with snow as to make it possible
to track game.
"The hills and dales of Fairfax county
were covered with several inches of
snow Christmas day." ("Now that's
spreading it pretty thick; there wasn't
enough snow to show a rabbit track.")
"Furthermore, the board of supervisors
of Fairfax county, at a meeting
held November 24 last, adopted a regulation
declaring it to be unlawful for
any person not a resident of Fairfax
county to hunt at all within the county's
boundaries.
"So the secretary of state is alleged
to have violated two portions of the
state's game laws. The fact that the
violation was unwitting, it is declared,
does not render Secretary Bryan immune
from arrest and punishment."
("Let me see; doesn't the secretary of
state have jurisdiction in extradition
matters? I'd have to extradite myself
like that fellow in the 'Mikado' opera.")
"Mr. Cockrell, discussing the alleged
violation of the law, said for publication:
"Can we officers of the law halt into
court humble woodchoppers." ("That
woodchopper again") "for violations of
the law, see them pay their hard-earned
money into the coffers of the commonwealth
of Virginia and then, with
any degree of satisfaction, stanu iaiy
by and wink at violations of the same
law when the violators are men occupying
exalted positions in their community
or in the affairs of the nation?
Personally speaking, I cannot,
and if witnesses can be found to testify
to the fact of the reported violation
of the law by Secretary Bryan
and his host 1 shall at once ask for a
warrant for their arrest." ("Rut we
didn't even see a rabbit or a rabbit
track.")
"There is entirely too much of a
spirit of antagonism already among
the masses in regard to privileges
granted to the classes to allow this
matter to go unnoticed." ("Umum!") 1
have the highest personal regard for
the "'"'gentlemen, but if they are
guilty of the violation of the law with
which they stand charged in the public
prints. I desire to do my duty."
("You may say that the secretary of
state has no statement to make.")
? There are now over 10,000 old
Boy Scouts serving the army at the
front and making splendid soldiers,
says Gen. Ben. Baden-Powell, chief of
the organization. The general, according
to a recent London dispatch,
has just returned from York, where
he made a satisfactory arrangement
with the education authorities in
regard to the scouts serving as messengers
and office boys in the military
headquarters there. Ry this arrangement.
the boys give one week to the
army and an alternate week to their
schools. A significant announcement
is the opening of the Scouts Defense
Force to boys of 15 which would give
them a year of training, it is said, in
case the age of enlistment in the nrmv
is lowered to 15 years.
trr The coal produced by Pennsylvania
last year exceeded by more than
twenty per cent, the entire output of
the United States fourteen years before,
and was nearly one-fifth of the
world's production.
FUUTSTEPS UEI HE hA I HtKS
As Traced Id Early Files of The
Yorkville Enquirer
NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY
Bringing Up Reco.ds of the Past and
Giving the Younger Readera of Today
a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge
of the Things that Moat Concerned
Generatiens that Have Gone
Before.
The first installment of the notes
appearing under this heading was
published in our issue of November 14.
1913. The notes are being prepared
by the editor as time and opportunity
permit. Their purpose is to bring
into review the events of the past for
the pleasure and satisfaction of the
older people and for the entertainment
and Instruction of the present generation.
104TH INSTALLMENT.
(Thursday Morning, Dec. 5, 1861).
Fire.
A fire occurred in this place on
Sunday morning, last, on the premises
of Mr. A. Cody, consuming his kitchen
and contents. The loss sustained
will not exceed $300.?Mr. Cody is
uncertain as to the cause of the Are.
? ? ?
Editorial Correspondence.
Centerville, Fairfax, Va.
Monday morning Nov. 25, 1861.
Dear Enquirer: Last night we had
the second snow storm of this season;
and this morning for the second time
" '. ~ .-I .V,? nt
t)UU rtU ninUUIIiaillB, uuu mr pvano V?
the Blue Ridge rising beyond, are covered
with snow. The sight is beautiful
to the eye but reminds us that the
season of hostilities is past. As we
shiver around our camp-fircs?"one
side scorchod, the other freezing"?
with wind and smoke both venting
their fury upon us, we would welcome
the humblest log hut more than heartily.?Some
of our forces about Manassas,
and in the neighborhood of
Norfolk on the coast, are already
snugly ensconced in their shelters from
the wintry blast.
The "5th" have been on picket duty
without tents; and with fires only for
the reserves, since Friday. The weather
has been severe?rain, wind and
snow combining to make it disagreeable;
and you may well imagine that
the boys have suffered no little. They
will be relieved today by Col. Winder's
regiment.
We suggest to the Soldiers' Aid and
Relief societies of York, Union and
Spartanburg?and indeed those of the
whole state?the propriety of employCANADIANS
RESTI
& ^ ifs?*:
s tlgx.y
SUojMf :*&:?Sjfc ?
A company of Canadian fighters r
after a long, hard march. They knot*
better than most of the troops engaget
ing every loom they possibly can, and
instructing them all to weave the
same kind of cloth, at least in point of
color and material: so that the volunteers
of the state may all be uniformed
alike next spring. A blueish-grav,
or gray-mixed, half wool and half cotton,
would make an appropriate and
beautiful summer uniform. However,
we leave this entirely to the taste of
the ladies. After our present term of
service expires, a regiment will at
once be raised in York, Union and
Spartanburg, for the war; and we
hope at least that the ladies of these
three districts will confer with each
other?decide upon the cloth?set the
looms agoing?and have their regiment
uniformed, uniformly.
There Is a grand review of the
troops, artillery and infantry, at this
place today. While we write the various
regiments of seven brigades are
falling into their places, awaiting the
generals to be reviewed.?These grand
i trv o unuaii) wvvui juai uriuic ?
fight; and some take this as a sign
that the Hessians are about to come
along:; but we see nothing of the kind
indicated. Everything was reported
perfectly quiet on our picket lines yesterday.
The Yankee congress meets
next Monday; and it is just a month
till Christmas today. We opine that
both will come and pass without a
general battle. Yours for a trifle,
Our Corporal.
(To be continued.)
The "Public Be Pleased."?Writes
the passenger traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania railroad to all its
patrons:
The Pennsylvania railroad is endeavoring
to render a satisfactory service.
It wants to please you and it
wants your support. Further, it wants
its patrons to know what it is doing
and why it is doing it.
Here is a vast difference from that
old principle attributed to the late
Commodore Vandebilt in his conduct
of the New York Central, and even a
step in advance over the new policy
of the railroads in taking the public
measurably into their confidence.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
in his former capacity as president of
the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
company, coined the phrase, "The
public be pleased," and enunciated it,
not only in posters, but in the conduct
of his road, with the result that
when it became necessary to raise
certain rates the public saw the
jUBiice ui nit; uuvuiiic atiu atvjuicowu
without a murmur.
Had the railroads of the country
generally adopted such a policy as |
this several years ago, it Is reasonable
to suppose that they would not have
been obliged to face so much drastic
action by so many hostile legislatures, i
Not all have learned their lesson yet,
but this evidence on the part of the
Pennsylvania of a willingness to trust I
something to Justice and the good
will of the passengers as a body will
not be lost upon the traffic managers
of the country at large.?Philadelphia
Ledger.
TO FINANCE COTTON
Union National Bank of Columbia, '
Makes Liberal Offer.
The following correspondence be- i
tween Dr. Wade Stackhouse, president 1
of the South Carolina division of the |
Southern Cotton association, is of in- (
terest and importance, and explains it- >
self fully: 1
Columbia, S. C.. Jan. 12, 1915. 1
Mr. Jos. Norwood, President, Union ]
National Bank, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir: The Southern Cotton asclation
has undertaken to secure the 1
capital stock of the Co-operative Cot- (
ton pnmmnv. which Is being organized I!
by the farmers of the south principally
to finance cotton warehouse receipts
and to sell direct, from the farmers to
the mills, cotton and cotton seed. As
pmsldent of the South Carolina div#on
of the Cotton association, I
have agreed to use my best efforts to
secure at least one million dollars
stock In South Carolina. Believing
our farmers feel too poor to subscribe
to stock in any company, even though
the aim and purpose of the company
is to provide co-operative self-help,
unless they can get loans on the balance
of the cotton they hold, I wish
to know if you cannot handle at least
$500,000 of cotton warehouse receipts
for us. We will offer to give you receipts
for cotton stored in warehouses
acceptable to your bank?in state
warehouses where possible, or provided
by the state warehouse commissioner.
We wish a loan on the cotton at
six cents per pound, basis middling, at
a rate of not exceeding eight per
cent, and the notes to run for six
months. We feel assured that as soon
as we secure the necessary capital
stock to organize the company, that
we can renew these loans for another
six months, at perhaps a lower rate
of interest.
In seeking to arrange these loans
with you, it is our purpose to confine
the loans to persons subscribing to
the capital stock of the Co-operative
Cotton company.
We wish to know if your bank will
act as trustee for our proposed company
until the million dollars capital
stock can be secured. In taking subscriptions
we will limit the time for
securing the necessary capital stock
to May 1st, 1915. By that date, if we
cannot organize the company, we will
return to subscribers their warehouse
receipts and subscription contracts,
less their rata share of expenses,
which cannot exceed eight per cent. If
vrm otrrao tn ant no trnatoo fnr the
company, we will forward to you all
stock subscriptions, together with
warehouse certificates for cotton subN6
AFTER A MARCH
eating in a field and cooling their feet
r the art of keeping in good condition
1 in the war.
scribed.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Wade Stackhouse,
President South Carolina Division,
Southern Cotton Association.
Columbia, S. C., "Jan. 12, 1915.
Dr. Wade Stackhouse, President S. C.
Division Southern Cotton Congress,
Dillon. S. C.
j Dear Sir: Replying to yours of the
12th, inst.. I beg leave to say that the
Union National bank will take pleasj
ure in acting as trustee for the proposed
company in so far as its charter
will permit, which, I believe, would
I cover all your company would require.
We would also be glad to handle a
liberal line of loans to which you refer,
and havp no doubt we can arrange
the amount you suggest. You would
11.. no fonrl that a vprv
net luruiiy uiiucioiauu ?. ?*?. ? ? ? ? ,
large portion of this would have to
be handled by the writer through other
connections, as such an amount
would be too large for a bank of this
sizo to undertake to handle alone, and
for this reason there may be some
minor details not covered in your letter
which would have to be adjusted
to the satisfaction of our connections,
but substantially, your letter covers
all that we should require
Thanking you and your association
for taking the matter up with us, and
assuring you of our best services. we
remain. Yours very truly,
(Signed) Jos. Norwood,
President.
In speaking of this correspondence,
on Wednesday, Senator John L. McLaurin,
state warehouse commissioner,
said:
"It will be noted that the receipts
are to be for cotton stored in warehouses
acceptable to the bank?'in
state warehouses where possible, or
approved by the state warehouse
commissioner.' This is a complete
vindication, to my mind, of the wisdom
of the state warehouse system,
where the receipts guarantee the title
weight and grade of each individual
bale. The receipts could not be
m ctoto u?urnhniiQP? nn ftp
count of the fact that the Southern a
Cotton association is to organize the i
company in all of the cotton states. I
and there are no state warehouse sys- a
tenis. except in South Carolina, Louis- a
iana and Texas. f
"In addition to the funds that are s
provided for loans, we are continuing 1
our negotiations with the Reserve r
hanks, and by the first of February I
we feel we will he able to make some k
announcement in regard to the dis- o
counts of six months paper, which t
will result in the rates of interest be- t
ing lowered. a
"With present financial conditions, v
it has been extremely difficult to get ti
access to money in any considerable 1
amount. We are gratified to state a
that South Carolina is the only one of r
the cotton states that has been able a
to accomplish what we have done In a
providing- this loan fund, and the p
part which the state warehouse sys- F
tern, under the act of the legislature, o
has taken, will easily appeal to all tl
thoughtful minds." tl
IULU HI LUIAL LAbnAWULO
News Happenings In Neighboring
Communities.
CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING
Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire ot
Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster
and Chester.
Rock Hill Record, January 14: John
C. Pharr died Friday night at the
home of his father, Samuel Pharr, at
Highland Park, aged 39 years. He
was unmarried. Death was caused by
pneumonia. Interment was in Laurelwood
yesterday after funeral services
at the home.....A telephone message
received here this morning from Beaufort,
stated that James Carberry is in
a most critical condition. He is still in
a Savannah hospital, having been operated
on. Complications have arisen
and his people are greatly worried
over the change for the worse A
change of special importance in the
drug business will take place on or
about Feb. 1, when Dr. W. R. Sims will
take charge of the Standard Drug and
Manufacturing company, and Mr. Jas.
H. Huey, now with the Sims Drug
company, will become a stockholder
and take charge of the store on Railroad
avenue. Dr. Cecil Cowan, who
has been connected with the Standard,
will dispose of his holdings and will
possibly leave the city, as he has some
offers under consideration now. Dr.
M. H. Sandifer, while he will not retire
from the business entirely for the
present, will not devote the time to It
that he has in the past Jim Scott,
a well-known negro of this place, who
went through the civil war as a servant,
and who always attended the
Confederate reunions, died last night.
Jim was always well liked by tne wnite
people W. R. Timmons, secretary
Df the Chamber of Commerce, is in receipt
of a letter from a party who
wants two carloads of No. 1 pea vine
hay. Farmers who have this commodity
baled and ready for shipment,
should notify Mr. Timmons by phone
cr letter, or in person and he will tell
them the price offered Yesterday
iftemoon at the First Presbyterian
church, Dr. Reavis of Columbia, who
has been holding a meeting all week,
preparatory to communion, gave a very
interesting lecture on his trip to Africa
some years ago. The church was
crowded with men, women and children
and all enjoyed the lecture.
Chester Reporter, January 11: A letter
received here this morning from a
member of Mr. Joe R. Terry's family
it Baltimore, stated that there is no
change in Mr. Terry's condition. We
understand that the physicians hold
out no hope at all of permanent improvement
Miss Cornelia Howze
died Saturday evening at the home of
her brother, Mr. Lucius Howze, at
Bascomville, after an illness of several
months, though her condition was
not considered critical until immedlitely
before her death. Funeral services
were held this morning at Cedar
Shoals church by the Rev. F. Q. Hartman
Mr. F. M. Hough left this
morning for Columbia to push his candidacy
for sergeant-at-arms of the
house of representatives. Mr. Hough
has received numbers of assurances of
support and feels that his chances are
ijood A peculiarly sad death was
that of Mrs. Maggie M. Gregory, wife
of Mr. B. P. Gregory, which occurred
Friday evening at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mayfleld, in
the Baton -Rouge neighborhood, after
several months of declining health.
Funeral services were held yesterday
at noon at Calvary Baptist church by
Rev. J. H. Yarborough, and the remains
were laid to rest in Cavalry
graveyard. A large concourse of sorrowing
friends and relatives were present
to pay their last respects to this
most estimable young woman A
darky by the name of Jim Sanders escaped
from Deputy C. Y. Young. Friday
evening near the county farm. Mr.
Young was on horseback, and the ne?ro
was walking at his side with his
hands menaeled. Suddenly as they
were passing through a dark place in
the woods Sanders made a dart, and
was into the woods and gone before
the deputy could stop him Friends
and relatives nere were grieveu 10
learn a few days ago of the death of
Mrs. Fanny S. Curtis, widow of the late
James E. Curtis, which occurred at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Morrison
Bethea, at Williamston, N. C., on the
the 6th instant, just about three weeks
after the death of her husband. Mrs.
Curtis, who before her marriage was
Miss Fanny Smith of this county, was
% devoted member of the Baptist
chrrch, and was a woman who was
?reatly beloved. She leaves two
daughters, Mrs. George Toung of Clinton,
and Mrs. Morrison Bethea of Williamston,
N. C Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
H. Hardin are moving today from Columbia
to occupy their farm four miles
southwest of the city Mr. H. A.
Brakefleld and family, who have been
living on Lancaster street for some
time past, have moved back to their
farm near Lowryville... .The Citizens'
oank of Chester is planning to enter
:he national system, and Bank Examner
Doughton is expected here in a
few days to make the examination thai
iccompanies the change.
4 *
Gaffney Ledger, Jan 12: Going to
Spartanburg on other business, Friday,
Mr. Martin Sprouse, a farmer living in
:he Thickety section of the county,
'ound that his daughter, Mrs. Mary
Phillips, who had been in the pellagra
lospital, had died on Thursday, De:ember
31st, and that preparations for
jurying the body were completed. The
shocked father sadly followed the fuleral
procession to the grave without
jrotestlng, since his daughter had been
lead for more than a week without his
tnowledge. Mrs. Mary Phillips was
he wife of John Riley Phillips of this
:ity. It seems that Mr. Phillips knew
>f his wife's death, but he did not in'orm
her relatives or make any prepirations
for burying the body...Miss
Willie Lee Adams of Grover, route 2,
ind Mr. V. C. Whetstine of Grover,
vere married at the home of the bride
Sunday afternoon, the ceremony being
jerformed by Mr. C. A. Mullinax, noary
public Friends of Miss Ma>el
Gaines will be glad to learn that
she is rapidly recovering from the llliess
which has confined her at the
lome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
3. Gaines, recently. It is expected that
ihe will be fully recovered within a
ew days Fairview school, in the
?amps Cross Roads section of the
:ounty, opened yesterday with a good
nrollment of pupils. Mr. Hustler
tuppe is the teacher for the term. The
jew school building, constructed at a
:ost of approximately $1,000, is being
ised A young man, identified as
r. C. Jones of High Point, N. C., by a
etter found in his pocket, was fatally
njured Friday afternoon when he was
cnocked from the trestle over Broad
iver by northbound train No. 12,
vhich is due in Gaffney at 4.03 o'clock.
Je was placed on the train and taken
o Gastonia, N. C., where he died in a
jospital about three hours after the
iccident.. .The Cherokee county sinkng
fund commission will today mail
Tnion county a check covering the
imount due upon the old county debt
ssumed when Cherokee county was
ormed. Spartanburg county was paid
everal years ago, as was York county,
i'he sinking fund commission is comtosed
of D. C. Ross, chairman; P. C.
'oole, Sr., and R. P. Roberts of Chero:ee
Falls Featured by the unity
f spirit shown by those in attendance,
he Cherokee County Interdenominaionai
Sunday School convention, held
t the First Baptist church, Friday,
/as successful even beyond the expecations
of the promoters of the event,
'he programme was carried out in full
s announced, with the exception of a
umber of substitutions of speakers
bsentees W. J. Wilkins & Co.'s
ry goods and grocery store on Fredrick
street, was entered und robbed
Yiday night by some unknown person
r persons. Entrance was effected
hrough one of the upstairs windows In
he rear of the store. Several articles
missed, but it is not known how muct
booty the robber or robbers secured
A reward has been offered for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of the guilty party or parties
The following officers, elected at th?
first meeting in December, will be installed
at the meeting of Cherry Camp
No. 74, Woodmen of the World, tonight:
Consul commander, N. S. Burgess;
adviser lieutenant, Logan C
Warmouth; banker, Q. D. Parris;
clerk, L. T. Vinesett; escort, W. Baker;
sentry, Q. O. Lemons; manager, T
Davenport; and camp physicians, J. N
Nesbitt and J. G. Pittman. These officers
will serve the coming year.
m m m
Lancaster News, January 12: Mr. M
C. Feaster, father of Prof. W. L. Feaster,
principal of the Central graded
school, died Friday morning at hU
Hnma noor TTnlnn Q nrt wfla hliriprf OF
Saturday at Beulah Baptist church
Although he had been In poor health
for several months, his death came unexpectedly.
Professor Feaster, who U
an only son, was summoned by telegram
and went home Friday morning
Besides his son, Mr. Feaster leaves his
wife and many relatives and friends tc
lament his death A beautiful event
on Sunday, January 10, was the happy
marriage of Mr. Ernest Catoe, a young
merchant and farmer of Kershaw, being
of the Arm of Catoe Bros., and Miss
Stella Mungo, the handsome daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Mungo of the
Charlesboro section. The ceremony
that united the two hearts was performed
by Notary Public W. F. Estridge
in the presence of a few relatives
A retail credit bureau has
been established by the local merchants
for the benefit of the retail
trade, and the officers are now busily
engaged in compiling these ratings In
a card index system. The association
of the merchants and professional men
will be known as the Retail Merchants'
association of Lancaster and under the
working plan adopted much good is
expected When the bureau is completed
some ten or twelve thousand individual
cards, containing from three
to fifteen reports on each, as to the
credit standing of each individual who
buys on a credit basis, will be at the
disposal of the retail merchants and the
business men of the city who are members
of this association The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Farmers' Bank and Trust company
woo holH thin mnrninar and the follow
ing officers were elected for thd ensuing
year: W. T. Gregory, president;
W. P. Robinson, vice president; W. H,
Millen, cashier; R. Thomas Beaty, assistant
cashier. The following board
of directors were also elected: W. T
Gregory, A. B. Ferguson, W. P. Robinson,
W. P. Bennett, N. P. Robinson, J
E. Craig, W. H. Millen and J. A. Cauthen....Mr.
W. F. Nesblt of the Jacksonham
section, killed a hog Friday
which weighed 400 pounds The hog
was one year old Married or
Sunday, January 3, Mr. Hartford
Faulkenberry, son of the late L. C
Faulkenberry of Longsvllle, and Mis?
Gladys Connell, daughter of Mr. and
Mm Henry Connell of the Fork Hil!
section. The ceremony was performed
by Notary Public W. F. Est ridge, at
his home.
*
Gastonia Gazette, January 12: "On<
of the great lessons that the United
States is going to learn from thli
war," remarked Mr. J. F. Thomson
manager of the Thomson Mercantile
company's big store, to the Gazette
man recently, "is that we can make
in this country most if not all the articles
which we have for all these
year8 been importing from France
Germany and England at a great cost
to our own Industrial life. For instance,"
he said as he drew down front
a shelf a pasteboard box containing ai
imported article with "Made in Germany"
stamped on the label, "here ii
an embroidery cotton which the ladies
use in doing practically all of theii
fancy work. Heretofore we have always
bought it in Germany. It is mads
out of raw cotton shipped to that country
from North Carolina or some othei
southern state. On account of the demoralized
conditions in Europe resulting
from the war it is not being
manufactured now and as a result the
supply was practically exhausted. An
American manufacturer has duplicated
this article and is now putting it or
the market. We bought some today
It is exactly the same thing, just ae
good as the imported article, and the
beauty about it is that it is being
manufactured in our own country. Another
interesting thing about this particular
article is that the manufacturer
has just closed a contract with a
Gastonia mill to furnish the yams
from which it is made. So it is not
only an American product but in large
measure a Gastonia product. If this
war will get the American people out
of the habit of demanding imported
goods and demanding American-made
goods it will have taught them a lesson
that will result in millions of dollars
being kept at home which has
heretofore gone abroad."... .The committee
of the A. R. P. Synod on Young
People's Work and Sabbath School
work, is in session today at the First
A. R. P. church. Six members of the
committee are present, namely, Rev.
J. W. Carson, of Newberry, S. C.,
chairman; Rev. W. H. Stevenson, ol
Lesslle, S. C.; secretary, Rev. W. B.
Lindsay, of Charlotte; Rev. W. P.
Grier of Clover. S. C.; Rev. W. S. Patterson,
of Lancaster, S. C.; and Rev.
J. B. Hood, pastor of Pisgah church.
The principal work of the session, besides
the usual routine, is the planning
of the programme for the summer institutes
and conferences to be held at
various places throughout the synod.
....At a meeting of the county board
of health held at the court house yesterday
afternoon, Dr. L. N. Glenn was
re-elected county physician at the
same salary he has been receiving,
namely $500 per year. Dr. Glenn has
held this position for the past four or
?aJ
five years. Tne ooara is compuwu m
the chairman of the board of county
commissioners, Dr. G. Falls; County
| Superintendent of Schools. F. P. Hall
[ and Drs. R. M. Reid and J. M. Sloan.
Mr. L. M. Robinson, of Gastonia,
a well-known lumberman, died Sunday
at Eagle Springs. Moore county,
where he was engaged in getting out
and shipping a large quantity of hardwood
timber. Sunday afternoon a telegram
received by his wife here simply
stated that her husband was dead
at Eagle Springs and asked what disposition
should be made of the body.
All sorts of rumors were afloat as to
how he met his death. It was persistently
reported that he was killed
in some manner or other and no particulars
were known until Mr. Ben
Douglass, of the Ford Undertaking
company, returned to Gastonia with
the body on No. 39, this morning. He
brought with him a verdict signed by
Coroner J. V. Larklns, of Moore county.
certifying that Robinson came to
his death from an excessive use of alcohol.
From the information Mr.
Douglas secured while at Eagle
Springs, Robinson was seen on the
streets of that town Sunday morning
shortly before 11 o'clock. He was seen
to stagger into a barn, the supposition
being that he did not want to meet the
people who were then going to church.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the
owner of the barn, knowing that a man
had gone in there in an intoxicated
condition, went to investigate and
found him dead. He was identified as
I,. M. Robinson and his wife here was
notified.
? The retail Grocers' and Butchers'
association of Chicago, announces its
intention to start a movement in behalf
of an embargo on the shipment of
flour to Europe. An expert in the
wheat exchange says it is not so much
a question of price as to wheat as it is
a question of supply. He says it ir
arrowing to be very doubtful as to
whether there is going to be enough
wheat to supply both continents, and
the farmers of the corn growing states
who are already receiving 78 cents a
bushel on their farms for corn, are
calculating that the price will soon be
advanced to a dollar. It looks as if
the embargo on wheat is going to be a
matter of necessity.
Item* of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
A dispatch from The Hague says
that the Dutch government's war loan
of $110,000,000, has been oversubscribed
by $50,000,000.
Emll Franqui, a prominent Belgian
banker, says that it takes $6,250,000
worth of food per month to
feed the destitute people of Belgium.
Capt. von Muller, commander of the
famous German raider Emden, Is now
In prison at an English prison camp
| in Wales.
1 Marshall P. Wilden, one of the best
1 known American authors and humor[
lsts, died at St. Paul, Minn., Sunday,
aged 56 years.
I
New Jersey factories last year,
turned out a total of ) 19,706,378 worth
| of clay products, Including brick,
pottery, tiling, etc.
The official press bureau at Berlin,
Is authority for the statement that
[ Germany yet has 6,000,000 men avail(
able for military service.
The United States Steel corporation
Is reported to have virtually closed a
deal for the purchase of 200,000 acres
i of coal lands in Greene county, Pa.,
valued at 234,000,000.
A Pittsburgh, Pa., broker is advertising
for bids to furnish 6,000,000
1 pairs of shoes, 60,000 bridles and saddles,
2,600 mules and 60,000 dozen
i socks for European armies.
1 The government of Turkey is reported
to have moved Its treasury
' from Constantinople to Kolna (the
| ancient Iconium), in Asia Minor, 290
, miles from Constantinople.
1 "Tipperary," the song of the British
soldiers, has been translated into
> French and into German, and the
German troops are reported to be
singing ti with much enjoyment.
During the hunting season in
Pennsylvania, which ended January
[ 1st, 30 hunters were killed and 96
. wounded. Deer to the number of 10,
000, and 260 bears were slaughtered
| by the gunners.
The German cruiser Kolgsberg,
> which was bottled up In the Ruflji riv[
er, German East Africa, several weeks
I ago, has been destroyed by British
shells directed by aeroplanes, accord|
ing to reports received In London.
I Because of the European war and
' slack demand for diamonds, the DeBeers
company of Klmberly, South
Africa, will not pay a dividend at the
close of the fiscal year on June SO,
1916.
Up to January 9th, the cargoes of
food, clothing, medical supplies, etc.,
contributed for the relief of the Belgians
by the people of the United
States, and either delivered or in
transit, totaled $14,000,000 in value.
At Terre Haute, Ind., Tuesday, Mayor
Doon Roberts and 11S others were
indicted by a Federal grand jury on
charges of alleged election frauds In
the last general assembly. On arraignment
eighty of the accused men entered
pleas of guilty.
The French dreadnought Courbet is
reported to have been sunk by the
Austrian submarine No. 12, on De
' cember 21, off the coast of Italy, In
| the Adriatic sea. The Courbet was
[ built in 1913 at a cost of $12,000,000,
i and carried a crew of *98 men.
J A Rome dispatch says that because
> of German machinations in Italy's
' North African possessions, the Italian
government has been forced to give
. up the conquest of the interior and
i has hurriedly sent an additional forpe
1 of 10,000 men to Tripoli.
> "The Bill-In-Hand," one of Boston's
> famous old tavern, established in
j 1795, by Jlmmle Wilson, the town
> crier, located In Pie Alley, and once
the favorite resort of Daniel Webster,
is to be torn down to make way
for a modern office building.
The American production of qulck'
silver for 1914, was 16,567 flasks of
i 75 pounds each, with a value of
$811,832, compared with 20,213 flasks,
1 valued at $813,171 in 1913. California's
production last year was the smallest
, since 1860.
Mrs. Ida S. Rogers Is facing trial In
New York on the charge of murdering
her two young children by bichloride
of mercury poisoning. It is
alleged Mrs. Rogers poisoned the
children and then attempted suicide.
The children died in a few days, but
she is expected to recover.
The national house of representatives
on Monday passed the Clark anti-miscegenation
bill by a vote of 238
to 60. The bill applies to the District
of Columbia. Alaska and insular possessions
and provides for a fine of not
less than $1,000 or imprisonment for
marriages between Anglo-Saxons and
negroes.
The Berlin Morgen Post published
a story on January 10, to the effect
that a British attack on Tanga, German
East Africa, was badly defeated
by the Germans. The story says that
the first landing of 8,000 British and
Hindus was repulsed by the Germans,
who numbered 200, the British losing
6,000 killed or wounded.
Just as Governor Hatfield of West
Virginia, was preparing to pardon
Wylle Lewis, a negro under life sentence
for murder, after serving 16
years, the governor received an anonymous
letter telling him the negro had
murdered six persons in Columbus,
Ohio, in 1886, by setting a house on
fire and cremating the inmates.
Up to January 9, Great Britain had
lost 1,174 officers killed and 2,300
wounded, and 660 reported missing.
The people of Vienna are preparing
to send EmperOr William 1,000,000
post cards, bearing his portrait, on
January 27, the occasion of his birthday.
This is to be in lieu of the usual
round of dinners, theatricals, dances,
eit'M limi usually laivc piawc uu tiic
occasion of the kaiser's birthday.
Jess Willard, the western cowboy,
who has been matched to fight Jack
Johnson, the negro champion heavy
weight pugilist, is a veritable young
giant. He is 27 years old, weighs 230
pounds and is 6 feet 6 Inches tall.
Willard began his ring career in 1911,
losing his first fight on a foul, und
has won 15 fights by knocking out his
opponents. Johnson is guaranteed
J30.000 win or lose, and Willard Is
to receive $15,000. The fight is to be
staged at Juarez, Mexico. Johnson
| has been champion since July 4, 1910.