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?ctaps and Jatts.
? C. O. Robertson, representative of
a large packing house of Chicago, made
public at Helena, Mont., last h'ri^ay, a
copy of a cablegram from Liverpool,
sent to the Chicago house, asking that
un estimate be furnished of the cost of
one million head of American beef
cattle, delivered at Liverpool. The order,
if tilled, said Robertson, would require
a payment of about $100,000,000,
and would make vast inroads on the
nvniiahle cattle in the United States.
? Columbia August 13: B. A. Morgan
and Sam J. Nicholls, having received
the two largest numbers of votes in
the Democratic primary in the Fourth
congressional district last Tuesday,
were selected today by a quorum of
the state Democratic executive committee
for entrance to the second primary,
which will be held Tuesday,
August 24. A special committee of
nine will meet Friday following the
primary to name the Democratic
nominee. The official vote follows:
Blackwood, 1,832; Gantt, 151; Johnson,
1,817; Morgan, 3,522; Xicholls,
5,052. The committee adopted resolutions
on the death, February 3, 1915,.
of Rufns Franklin Smith, who was a
member of the state Democratic committee
from Pickens county. W. F.
Stevenson, of Chesterfield, vice chairman,
presided at the meeting in the
absence of John Gary Evans, chairman.
? After a three months' visit to the
hospitals in the European war zone, as
wetll as those in Dondon and Edinburg,
Dr. S. A. Cunningham returned to
Marietta, O., Friday with interesting
information which has not been allowed
to leak through strict English and
French censorship. Probably :he
most important news brought over by
Dr. Cunningham was that the English
have devised a method that has resulted
in the capture of 42 German submarines,
and caused the undersea boats
to give the English channel a wide
berth. Dr. Cunningham's information
came from a member of the admiralty,
who stated that the captures were
made with the aid of enormous steel
nets, which are fastened to the hulls
of two trawling vessels, which are
then separated for a distance of several
hundred yards and start a drag
through the channel. Some of the
submarines have been hauled in as
fish are seined, and others have been
capsized by the nets and foundered.
? J. Pierpont Morgan, fully recovered
from wounds inflicted by the wouldbe
assassin. Frank Holt, last month,
returned to his desk in the financial
district of Manhattan yesterday. He is
as carefully guarded as any European
monarch. The steam yacht Corsair,
from a cruise on which with the New
York Yacht club, Mr. Morgan returned,
will carry him every morning from
his estate at Glen Cove. The landing
piatv nas rvc^i a ocuci. iiiiivusiuv
met the yacht. Detectives in various
disguises were on duty at the pier.
After Mr. Morgan was seated in the
car the curtain was drawn, so its occupant
could not be seen from the
street. The detectives in another car
accompanied the Morgan automobile to
Wall and Broad streets. No unidentified
craft was allowed to enter the
private boat basin in East Island
where Mr. Morgan embarked. The
land entrance to the Island is blocked
by heavy gates and chains. None of
the servants on the estate may leave
or return to the island without giving
detectives, stationed at every possible
point of departure or approach, a
countersign. Hereafter, it was said,
Mr. Morgan will spend most of his
leisure time on the island. Carpenters
have been busy building houses for the
detectives.
? Increased manufacture of cotton in
the south, the heavy use of linters and
almost normal cotton exports, which it
was thought would be greatly reduced
this year by the war, were the features
of the yearly cotton consumption and
distribution report issued from Washington
last Friday by the census bureau.
Cotton consumed during July
was 498,476 bales of lint and 48,864 of
linters, against 448,333 and 23,486 in
July last year. Cotton on hand July
31, in consuming establishments was
1,401,484 bales of lint, and 192,873 ot
linters, against 905,762 and 84,218 last
year, and in public storage and at
compresses, 1,784,812 bales of lint and
89,401 of linters, against 425,102 and
32,366 last year. Exports during July
were 245,522 bales of lint and 14,364
of linters, against 126,211 and 8,644
last year, and for the 12 months, 8,543,573
bales of lint and 219,111 of
linters, against 9,150,801 and 259,881
the previous year. Imports were 35,667
bales against 23,790 in July last
year, anu for the 12 months 382,287
bales against 260,988 the previous year.
Foreign cotton consumed in July was
21,641 bales on hand July 31, in consuming
establishments, 108,872 bales,
and in public storage 35,987 bales. Efforts
are being made by the census bureau
to determine how much cotton is
being used in the manufacture of explosives.
Director Rogers, in a formal
statement last Friday, explained that
numerous requests have been received
for estimates. The bureau finds it difficult
to get exact information, as much
of the cotton used in explosives is first
purified by establishments not connected
with the explosive plants.
? Representative bankers from eight
cotton growing states at Galveston,
Texas, last Saturday, pledged themselves
to stand solidly behind the producers
in an effort to secure a fair and
uniform price for cotton, and in this
they were pledged the support of the
four southern Federal reserve banks.
Tha moatincr i\f tho Km nLroru roanlto/1
a iiv >w\ ?p> vi iiiv vuiinvi v a vounw
in the perpetuation of the cotton states
bankers' conference, the next meeting
of which will be called for sometime
in November or December. The means
by which it is proposed to secure to
the producers a fair price for their
staple is the gradual marketing of cotton.
The bankers have agreed to advance
money to the farmers on cotton
securities and the Federal reserve
bank representatives agreed to re-discount
this paper. Thus they hope to
offer no more cotton than the market
will instantly absorb. In the meeting,
presidents of five state bankers' associations,
representatives of three Federal
reserve banks and numerous prominent
clearing house representatives
took part. There were 72 bankers
present. That the Federal reserve
directors are in sympathy with the
movement was indicated by a telegram
from W. G. P. Harding, chairman
of the Federal reserve board, who expressed
a willingness to meet with a
committee of southern bankers in Birmingham
on August 26. A committee
was appointed to confer with Mr.
Harding on the general subject of cotton
marketing. The committee is
composed of one representative from
every state. Most of them are the
presidents of their respective state
bankers' associations. The formation
of an association of southern bankers
had been one of the plans of the leaders
in calling last Friday's meeting,
but after the delegates arrived it was
decided to abandon this plan.
? The present position at hill 60, near
Dunkirk which the British military
authorities recently admitted had
lapsed back into German possession,
is peculiar and of great interest. The
hill is really nothing but a knoll of
gently rising ground that forms the
end of the Klein-Zillebeke ridge.
The German trenches run in a double
tier along the edge of the lower slope.
The Germans are at the top of the
hill, while the British are a little way
up the side of it. The whole face of
the hill presents a picture of the wildest
confusion. Everywhere are large
craters, the result of mine explosions
on the night of the British attack.
Torn and giping sandbags are scattered
in profusion, and a mass of
other debris lies in bewildering variety
down the hillside, the whole half hidden
in the long grass that has sprung
up between the trenches. The trenches
twist and wind up in a remarkable
manner. ?\t one point there is an old
communication trench running from
the British lines straight into the
heart of the German position, ami
down this two barricades have been
erected, one on the English side and
one on the German side. Here the
opposing forces come within six yards
of each other. Between the rival barricades
there stretches a short patch
of ground shut In on either hand by
the crumbling walls of the old trench.
At one spot a railway bridge spans
the British position and in the cutting
beneath it a large pool of stagnant
water has collected. Beyond it
stretches the railway line, the rails
torn and twisted and partly covered
with the weed? growing between the
ties. The line is under direct tire
from the German lines, and to cross
it in the open would mean certain
death from snipers in the opposite
trench 40 yards away. In the pool
below the bridge a score or more of
bodies have been lying for some
weeks, and no man dares approach
to bring them out for burial.
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Entered at the Postofflce at York as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORK, S. C.:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915
If it becomes necessary for the United
States to take Vera Cruz again on
account of the anti-American rio's in
progress there, the situation will 1 \rdly
be passed over so lightly as oefore.
In our opinion, the Augusta Chronicle
is more thoroughly American in its
dealing with the European war situation
than any other representative
American daily that comes to this of|
flee.
That the pound sterling had fallen
to $4.64, the lowest point in history,
and that the American dollar Is the
measure of currency value throughout
the world, was the startling financial
news of yesterday.
, ^ ,
The Balkan states have made no
| hesitation In declaring their purpose
to be governed solely by their own interests
as to whether they join in the
war or remain neutral. Selfish interest
is about the only thing that any of
them have been considering.
As to Mr. Feathersone not being in
politics, we are not authorized to
speak, but we should like to know
where The Enquirer got its information,
as we have heard repeatedly
that Mr. Featherstone was a prospective
candidate for congress from
tnis district.?crreenwoou juumioi,
We had reference to gubernatorial
politics only. The Journal's information
is news; but not disagreeable news
to us.
" "
It's only a guess, of course; but we
have an idea that all that disturbance
on the Mexican bordei has been
brought about by Villa or Carranza, or
possibly both for the purpose of forcing
the United States to step in and put a
stop to the rumpus that has been going
on for several years. As to whether"
this is the cause of it or not, we are inclined
to think that the result indicated
will soon develop regardless of the
supreme patience of the president in
the matter.
Editor DePriest of the Shelby Highlander,
is in trouble because of a
clipped editorial that appeared in his
paper without credit during his absence.
Some of his contemporaries
have been throwing thlhgs at hirti; but
it is not fair. DePriest does not have
to resort to the scissors for interesting
editorial matter. He can write it
himself; matter more timely and appropriate
for his columns than anything
he can clip?whenever he wants
to. Everybody knows how easy it is
to lose a credit line in the make-up or
elsewhere, and that was all that happened
in this case.
The Spartanburg Herald has come
out strongly for Sam J. Nicholls for
congress?he of dictograph fame. The
Herald admits that Capt. Nicholls is
able and capable, and urges the people
of Spartanburg county to get together
and forget all factional lines. Mr. B. A.
Morgan has rather been identified with
the opposite faction; but both candidates
are now promising that if elected
they will "represent" all the people.
We do not feel that this Fourth district
fight is any of our business; but nevertheless
we find the situation interesting
from more standpoints than one.
Although we would not detract from
Mr. Morgan, who is a good man, it is
particularly interesting to know that
the people who abused Sam Nicholls so
unmercifully a few years ago are able
to see that after all. he is not only
competent and capable; but worthy.
Strange indeed are the mutations of
politics; but most of us understand
that.
The Anderson Daily Mail having seen
proper to disagree with Hon. John L.
McLaurin in his suggestion, as to the
advisability of a government purchase
of 2,000,000 bales of low grade cotton
for the purpose of steadying the market,
Mr. J. Clyde Pratt of Iva, took up
the cudgels in behalf of the warehouse
commissioner and sent the Daily Mail
a reply, which was duly published.
For one thing, Mr. Piatt thought that
the Daily Mail sought to reflect upon
Mr. McLaurin's character, ability and
oiiiv-tti icj, aiiu ."Mi iiiiiiuaicu, uui 111 una
Mr. Pratt was mistaken. Replying to
the communication, the Daily Mail
said:
"Bless your soul, young man, we
know Mr. McLuurin probably a great
deal better than you do, and have the
highest regard for him, and will say
there is no higher type of gentleman
in South Carolina. Mr. McLaurin is
also one of the brainiest men in the
state, but somehow there has always
been a missing link somewhere in his
schemes, and they have never been
able to materialize. We hope Mr. McLaurin
will be able to make good with
the warehouse proposition, and the
Daily Mail will lend any aid it may be
able to render."
tine of the strangest situations we
know of in the state is what for want
of a better name, or possibly for a
better understanding, we might describe
as the Rector-Gilreath feud in
Greenville county, of course the people
of Greenville may understand it;
but we do not. The most we can say
is that from the smoke and steam arising
from what appears to be a seething
cauldron of all kinds of mysterious
stuff, we see and smell things that are
not appetizing. Gilreath and Rector
ran for sheriff in a primary and Rector
won. Gilreath's friends bolted the party
and undertook to put their man over
in the general election. They failed.
Since then the legislative delegation
has changed the compensation of the
sheriffs office from a salary to a fee
basis and taken away from the sheriff
the right of appointing his own deputies.
All along intimations have gone
out that Rector is a most terrible fellow:
but what it is that he does that
other men do not do, we have not
learned. In fact, we have no intima
tion. From the newspapers and dispatches,
all of which appear to be hostile
to Rector, wa have noted that the
sheriff has been placed iri some very
close places, some of them endangering
his life; but in every instance he appears
to have conducted himself with
remarkable courage and self-restraint.
He has refrained from killing: under
circumstances where the law would
have excused him, and at the same time
he has left the impression that his
reasons for not killing were other than
fear of those who provoked him. At
the present time the politics of Greenville
county appear to be pitched on the
sole proposition of "How do you stand
on Rector?" It is a miserable situation
indeed, and a situation that seems
to be developing into state-wide importance.
Theodore H. Price is still calling for
an outright declaration of contraband
I In nenfornnpo to thp nrPSPIlt
frictional system of blockade, and we
are beginning to believe that Price is
about right.?Charlotte Observer.
As it is now, we ship cotton with
the understanding that it has a free
right of way, and England captures it
and holds it up for such disposition as
suits her pleasure. To all intents and
purposes we are unable to ship cotton
to anybody but the Allies anyway,
and if England should openly come out
and declare cotton contraband, we are
unable to see wherein the United
States would be affected more injuriously
than heretofore. The principal
difference, according to our view,
would be that when England captured
American cotton intended for
one of her belligerent enemies, we
would understand that the cotton is
lost so far as we are concerned. It
would not help America, of course, and
it would not hurt her a great deal.
Rut such action on the part of England
would justify that which will
probably oome anyway?retaliatory action
on the part of the United States.
The Greenville Piedmont of last
Saturday contains the interesting announcement
that Mr. Lewis W. Parker
has Joined the staff of the paper
as associate editor and that Mr. Geo.
R. Koester is to continue as editor and
publisher. That, as we, understand it,
means that Mr. Koester is to have
charge of the business management
and that Mr. Parker is to do most of
the editorial writing. The editor of
The Enquirer is very well acquainted
with Mr. Koester and considers him
to be one of the most ideal newspaper
men in the state. He knows what is
news and never hesitates to print it,
regardless of whether it is to his liking.
He is an able editorial writer,
and a business manager of remarkable
resource and ability, who has
withstood the tests of many a sore
pinch. We know of Mr. Parker
principally by reputation. Up to about
+ KI0 tirMo loot ooo r R a woo nrooirlont
of the Parker cotton mill merger and
was generally recognized as the foremost
southern captain of industry
along this line. The European war
found him the holder of a large
amount of future cotton contracts,
bought at prices that seemed to be
fully warranted by conditions existing
at the time, but as the result of the
heavy slump immediately following,
he was almost if not quite financially
ruined. In the days of his prosperity
he was the principal financial backer
of the Piedmont; but we'are fully prepared
to believe the statement of Editor
Koester that he had nothing to
do with the control of the policy of
the paper, and also we are prepared to
believe that under the new relation,
the two gentlemen will continue to
work in harmony. In spite of his large
manufacturing interests, Mr. Parker
has all along kept in close touch with
general political conditions in the
state and has more than once figured
in incidents of state-wide importance.
There is no question of the fact that
he is a man of much knowledge and
experience of men and things in South
Carolina, and neither is there any
question of the fact that he wields a
trenchant and able pen. As to just
what his present political status is, we
are not fully informed, and we are
hardly well enough acquainted with the
social, political and financial line-up
of Greenville to readily understand;
but from things we have heard and
seen, we have gathered that he is at
odds with the political combination
now dominant in Greenville county,
and unless we are mistaken in this,
we expect to see some lively doings in
that connection. That the newspapers
of the state will watch the Piedmont
with very great interest at least
for a while, may be taken for granted.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? Governor Manning has granted a
respite to Joe Malloy, the Marlboro negro,
who was to have been electrocuted
on August 18 for the murder of two
white boys on Thanksgiving day in
1910. The respite is based on alleged
after discovered evidence, and the
date of execution has been postponed
until September 29.
? Governor Manning, on recommendation
of Eugene B. Gary, chief justice,
has appointed the following as
special judges to hold court, owing to
the illness of Judge Thomas H. Spain:
C. J. Ramage, Saluda, to hold the regular
court of general sessions for
Greenwood county, commencing September
27. F. L. Wilcox, Florence, to
hold the regular court of common
pleas for Abbeville county, commencing
October 11. Thomas G. McLeod,
Bishopville, to hold the regular court
of common please for Newberry county,
commencing November 15. Thos.
F. McDow, York, to hold the regular
court of common pleas for Greenwood
county, commencirg October 25.
? Sjmrtanburg Journal, Saturday; In
his decision tiled late today in the case
of the State vs. J. Hamlin White and
Richard F. Ferguson, Magistrate E. E.
Correy construes that it is not a violation
of section 700 of the criminal code
for persons to participate in the game
of golf tin the Sabbath. The decision
today comes as the closing chapter in
the now famous "Sunday golf case"
and the return of the court has been
awaited with interest by many people
of the city and state. The proceedings
were begun after Sheriff White
.acted in behalf of complainants living
in the vicinity of the Country club who
alleged that members of the Country
club played golf on the Sabbath.
LEO M. FRANK LYNCHED
r>i>?Ti?u 10 i no inquirer.
Atlanta, August 17.?Leo M. Frank
was taken from the state prison at
Milledgeville late last night and carried
to Marietta and handed to the
limb of a tree where he was found
swinging this morning. No shots were
tired into the body, and it was evident
that death wiis due to strangulation.
The hanging was done by a mob of
men supposed to be from Marietta and
vicinity, who made the trip to and
from Millegeville, a hundred miles
away in automobiles. Marietta is the
home of Mary Phagan, the young girl
for whose murder Frank was serving
a term of life imprisonment. The people
of this city have as yet been unable
to realize the situation.
A Word for the Stickers.?l^iinc.aster,
York and other towns are having
"home coming weeks." in honor of the
men who come back to visit the old
home. We want to see a stay at home
week, in honor of those men who have
stuck to the old town and never moved
away.?Newberry Observer.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8
Reily-Taylor Company?Talks about
the goodness of Luzianne coffee
which is sold by good grocers.
J. M. Stroup?Has received the newest
fall styles in ladies footwear.
York Trust Company?Which has office
in the First National Bank building
makes is bow to readers of The
Enquirer and announces its preparedness
to handle all kinds of trust
funds.
First National Bank?Says that the
merits of a good bank lie in its
strength. It is strong and safe and
wants to serve you.
Clover's Booster Club Chautauqua?
Will be held August 31 and September
1 and 2. Season tickets are now
on sale at Clover.
Southern Railway?Announces an excursion
to Atlanta, Ga., Chattanooga,
Tenn., and Birmingham, Ala., on
Tuesday. August 26.
The Thomson Co.?Announces its August
clean-up sale, which will extend
over a period of ten days.
Committee?Announces a picnic and
nmhihitinn mllv at Forest Hill on
Aupust 21.
McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Announces
the arrival of a shipment of new fall
hats and other new poods.
First National Bank, Sharon?Advises
you to open an account with that
bank in order to be prepared for a
rainy day.
Bobs?Is announced as the chewiest
chewinp pum to be found anywhere.
Lippett & Myers Tobacco Co.?Want
you to know that taps and coupons
taken off their products can be exchanped
for valuable premiums.
Standard Oil Co.?Talks about the New
Perfection oil stove which is sold by
hardware dealers and peneral stores
everywhere.
Mr. Roy Carroll who farms about
three miles east of this place is said to
have some of the finest cotton in his
section of the county. Mr. Carroll did
not put a sinple pound of commercial
fertilizers under his cotton this year.
Mr. Lee Campbell of Bethel township,
has twenty acres of younp corn
that looks as if it will make fifty bushels
to the acre, provided the seasons
continue as pood durinp the next two
weeks as heretofore. It is the kind of
pood corn that follows crimson clover.
Dr. D. B. Johnson of Winthrop, is a
candidete for the presidency of the National
ICducational association in session
at Oakland. California. The election
is to be held Thursday. The doctor's
principal rival is Miss Grace C.
Strachon of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wind did considerable damape to the
fine fields of bottom corn belonpinp to
Mr. W. L. Williams on the old Dobson
place two miles north of this place last
Wednesday. There are about seventeen
acres of this corn which is said to be
ho Vioot nnvwhere around. The heavy
wind practically flattened all of it but
most of it was raised.
Mr. R. R. Allison of Tirzah. who has
long been of the opinion that there
was gold on his place, thinks he has
located the vein within about a hundred
yards of his home. There is no
doubt of the fact that gold is plentiful
in the neighborhood, and it is quite
possible that Mr. Allison has something
worth while. At any rate, his many
friends will join him in the hope thai
he haB made no mistake.
The Rock Hill Herald of last Friday
published a statement to the effect that
the Smith-Fewell company of Rock
Hill, had shipped a carload of wheat to
the roller mill at King's Mountain. The
wheat had been purchased from the
farmers of the surrounding country at
a dollar a bushel. The Herald thinks
this is probably the first car of wheat
that has ever been shipped from Rock
Hill; but that is not altogether certain.
Wheat was shipped from this section
by the carload in the old days before
the civil war, and it is quite probable
that many carloads were shipped from
Rock Hill. However, that is not important.
The circumstances for real
concern and very great gratification is
that wheat is again being shipped from
the county.
We paid our license tax to the town
Saturday. We paid it notwithstanding
the fact that we had advice from as
able lawyers as there are in the state
that we could stand firm on the proposition
that the tax was laid in direct
violation of the constitution and the
statutes, and that the tax could hot
have been collected. But we did not
care to do this, for various reasons,
among others, that it would have cost
us more than the amount of the tax
to maintain our rights, and final decision
would not have affected anybody
but ourselves. However, we hope that
our money, or no part thereof, will be
used for the support of the competition
and opposition without our being allowed
so much as a show. We do not
think this is fair or right.
Referring to the incident of T. T.
Davenport, who was estopped from
selling Bibles in the town unless he pay
a license of $2 a day, we .are not disposed
to argue that the mayor was
technically wrong. On the contrary we
are inclined to think he was right. It
looked pretty hard that one should
have to pay a license to sell Bibles in
a Christian community, maybe; but
there is more than that to the proposition.
No matter what the agent sought
to do with the money, the fact remains
that he was engaged in the business
for profit and on that ground he is legally
as well as morally subject to the
same conditions that would apply to
any one engaged in any other business
for profit. Of course if this agent were
engaged in giving Bibles away, no one
would think of charging him for the
privilege.
The experience of the pioneer alfalfa
growers of York county has demonstrated
beyond question not only that
alfalfa can be produced in this section;
but that it can be produced as
plentifully and as profitably as in the
west or elsewhere. Of all the progressive
farmers who have struck out
along this line within the past few
years, only a small per cent have fallen
down and given up the undertaking
as a bad job. The others have been so
well pleased that they are adding to
the patches and fields already started
off successfully and some have become
so enthusiastic as to seriously consider
the idea of going into alfalfa to the
practical exclusion of everything else.
Mr. R. I* Sturgis who has just returned
from the San Francisco exposition,
reports that alfalfa does not do well
out in Nebraska and California as it
does here, and besides we can get
about twice as many cuttings during
one season as the western farmers can
get.
TOWNSHIP ROAD FUNDS
There is considerable work being
done on the roads in the various townships
at present and it is quite likely
that there will be more work done in
the next few days. It will be noted
from the statement below that several
of the townships have considerable
funds on hand while others have but
little.
The county treasurer has furnished
The Yorkville Enquirer with the following
statement of the amount of
money which the nine townships had
on hand Saturday, August 14:
Bethel $ 509 99
Bethesda 800 07
Broad River 1.256 81
Bullock's Creek 1,657 02
Catawba 1,125 23
Ebenezer 982 26
Fort Mill 225 55
King's Mountain 1,290 22
York 119 62
COULD NOT SELL BIBLES
' I have been engaged in selling
Bibles for seven years in half a dozen
states, and today is the first time I
have ever been asked for a license."
This was the complaint that T. T.
Davenport, a licensed exhorter under
the jurisdiction of Cokesbury district,
Upper South Carolina conference,
made to The Enquirer last Friday afternoon.
"Upon Retting oft the train, I immediately
began a canvass for the
sale of Bibles, and was doing a good
business until the chief of police stopped
.ue and sent me to the mayor. I
explained my business to the mayor,
who told me that there was a license of
$2 a day for selling books, and when 1
told him that I was not selling anything
but Bibles, he repeated that the
license was $2 a day.
"I told the mayor," Mr. Davenport
went on, "that I had never run upon
such an experience before. Only yesterday,
when I tried to sell a Bible to
a policeman in Rock Hill, he sent me
to the mayor to see about license. The
mayor bought a Bible and told me to
go ahead and sell as many as I could,
but the mayor of this place gave me
to understand that they did not make
any difference as between the Bible
and any other book."
Mr. Davenport said that Rock Hill
was the first place in which he had ever
been questioned and this town was
the first place he had ever been refused
the right to sell Bibles. He
claimed that he was selling Bibles
mainly for the purpose of helping
spread the knowledge of "the kingdom."
and that he was using such
profits as he might be- able to make
to fit himself for still more efficient
preparation of his favorite work.
THE CORN CLUB BOYS
Asked Saturday as to how the
members of the Boys' Corn club were
progressing with their prize acres and
about prospects, John R. Blair, farm
demonstration agent for York county,
said that several of the boys had especially
fine acres of corn and that
from the way it looked now several
would make 100 bushels of corn on
their acre.
"All things considered, it looks
pretty good," said Mr. Blair. "Each
boy has this year reduced the amount
of fertilizer on his acre to the extent
of $5. I can't see that the reduction
of fertilizer has tended to curtail the
growth of corn. In some sections the [
drouth has materially affected the
corn.
Some time ago the Campbell Boys,
Sam and Alex, at Tirzah; had about
the prettiest prospect for bumper
crops that I had seen. The drouth of
the past several weeks has hurt their
acres though, and while Sam Campbell
might make 100 bushels on his
acre, It is doubtful.
Young James W. Draffin who lives
on Lesslle No. l, ana wno grew iuo
bushels on an acre last year, Is in a
fair way to exceed his own record this
year, according to Mr. Blair. However
there are several other boys who have
prize acres of corn about equal to that
of Draffln's. Mr. Blair mentioned the
acres of John Smith of Hickory Grove
No. 1, Sidney Carroll and Bratton
Land of the Cotton Belt section and
William Love of McConnellsville.
At present the race for first place
in the corn growing contest appears
to be nip and tuck among these boys.
However there are other young farmers
who have crops that have a chance
to turn out better that these even
though they do not look so well at
present.
CROPS IN BETHEL
They have good crops this year all
throughout that section of Bethel
township which was devastated by the
hailstorm last year, and about the only
things the Bethel people have to worry
about are the prospective price of cotton
and the debts that had to be carried
over because of last year's crop
failure.
A representative of The Enquirer
who had business at Clover last Saturday
afternoon was rainbound for half
an hour in one of the drug stores with
several Bethel farmers, among them
Mr. W. W. Stanton, who though among
the hail sufferers last year, as chairman
of the local relief committee, did
so much and such effective work
among the other sufferers with the
generous aid that was contributed
from the outside.
Although the rain was coming down
in torrents on the immediate outside,
Mr. Stanton was not paying a great
deal of attention to the immediate outside
at the moment the reporter first
saw him. His eyes were fixed on a
blue black bank of cloud several miles
out to the eastward, and from the look
of pleased contentment on his face, the
reporter felt encouraged to remark:
"Looks to me like there is something
doing over there that you have no special
objection to."
"That is right," Mr. Stanton smilingly
replied. "We are getting all this
bully rain over in Bethel. I don't know
that we needed it especially; but it is
not going to hurt and I like to see it.*'
Asked about the condition of crops
generally in his neighborhood, Mr.
Stanton said they were fine.
"There has been a good average crop
of wheat and oats. Old corn is doing
fairly well and late corn is promising
all that we could ask for. Cotton seems
to be doing about all we could expect
of it. and generally speaking, we have
no cause for complaint," he said.
All present seemed to agree that the
only cause for concern was the probable
price of cotton, and they were
agreed also that if they would only go
to work and put up state warehouses
in which to store their crops there
would be less reason to worry about
the price of cotton.
A GOOD NEGRO FARMER
There is a farmer down in Bullock's
Creek township who, although he operates
on a small scale, sets an example
which if followed by numbers
of York County farmers, would raise
them to a state of financial prosperity
much higher than that which the
great majority of them now enjoy.
And the strange part of it is he is a
negro. His white neighbors think
well of him and in fact he is a resected
citizen .of his community.
These facts were gotten by the reporter
from Mr. W. P. Youngblood
who is the meil carrier on Sharon No.
2, and the story of the negro's success
followed an inquiry of Mr. Youngblood
as to who in his opinion had the best
crops on his mute. He unhesitatingly
replied: "John Roseborough, a colored
man."
"John is a leader of his race in this
section," continued Mr. Youngblood.
and the negroes should be proud of
him. There is not a better citizen in
the community. Still he knows his
place and stays there."
Roseborough was boin on the old
Andy Hafner place down in Bullock's
Creek township and all his life he
has lived there. He started out to
make his own' way with nothing but the
clothes on his back. He worked hard
and instead of buying line clothes and
other things as is the usual want of
negroes, he saved his money. Finally
he bought a little place and he has
built it up to a wonderful state of
cultivation.
The negro lives at home. He raises
a little cotton but he doesn't think
about cotton until he has planned for
plenty of wheat and corn and potatoes
and meat and other stuff which most
farmers in this section buy. He never
buys feed for his own two mules. It
is said they are good mules and anybody
can tell by looking at them that
they get three good feeds every day.
There are few idle days with this
negro Roseborough. There is ever
something around his farm which he
can put his hand to do. He is up before
day in the morning and he Is
early to bed at night. They say he
hardly ever "knocks off" on Saturday
afternoon. He hasn't time.
Roseborough dosn't buy stuff on
time. He pays cash. He is a level
headed business man too. Keeps his
money in the First National Bank of
Sharon and he has money there in
June just the same as November. He
doesn't know anything about hard
times except from hearsay.
This negro farmer is fond ?of watermelons.
He raises lots of them and
good ones, too. He brings a load of
them to Sharon for sale every once in
;> while- and it is said that the melons
which he raises are about the best
which are brought to town.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Local merchants report a fairly
good day's business last Saturday.
? The work of laying the cement
sidewalk on East IJberty street will
very likely be completed this week.
i ? Jim Anderson, colored, is in jail
charged with having stolen a Colt's
revolver from Mr. J. E. Johnson.
? Messrs. M. E. Plexlco & Son have
discontinued the livery business, in
which they have been engaged for
some time past.
? The town authorities have a force
of hands cleaning off the grass and
ntLn. nkntmmtlAna r?r? nATYIQ nf tho
IHIiCI UUOll UCIIUIID \j a guutv vi v?iv
streets of the town.
? There was no preaching at any of
the local churches except the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian last Sunday
morning and the service at that
edifice was attended by a congregation
that taxed the seating capacity of
the spacious auditorium.
? Wallace Smith, a negro who stabbed
Hattie Jackson, a negro woman,
pretty badly several dnys ago and who
made his escape, was captured near
Smyrna by Policeman Carson Lattimore
of Hickory drove, last week, and
is now in Jail. He will answer to the
charge of assault and battery with Intent
to kill.
? Seventeen happy members of the
local troop of Boy Scouts left over
the C. & N.-W. this morning for Gastonia,
from which place they expect
to hike to All Healing Springs, where
they will stay until Saturday. The
party was in charge of Scoutmaster
Oates and Assistant Scoutmaster D. T.
Woods. Archie Barron and States
Pinley also accompanied the party. In
the line-up of Scouts were Willie Marshall,
A. Y. Cartwright, Floyd Allison,
Cody Ferguson, James Knox Ewart,
Rowell Dorsett, Andral Sherer, Thos.
Woods. Joseph Wardlaw, John Finley,
Floyd Wray, John Carroll, William
Darby Glenn, James Glenn, Alf Carroll,
Withers Adickes, and Edward
Marshall.
? Mr. G. T. Setzer of Ebenezer, passed
through this place last FYiday evening
on his return from a visit to his old
home in Catawba county, N. C. He
came down on the C. & N.-W., and
remained in Yorkville until the departure
of the Southern. Mr. Setzer has
been living in York county for many
years and is as proud of this section
as any native; but nevertheless, he is
unwilling to go back on his old home.
He speaks with enthusiasm of the
splendid agricultural progress that
huh uwn inuue uiuuiiu ncwiuu, auu 10
at no loss to explain It. "Those people
up there have diversified their
crops," he says, "and they are making
splendid headway. They tell me that
they are unable to make anything out
of cotton, and when I see their wheat,
oats, potatoes, corn, pigs, cattle,
chickens and the like, I am not at all
surprised."
? From the advertisement in another
column, it will be seen that the recently
organized "York Trust company," is
now in 8hui?e for business, with headquarters
in the First National Bank of
Yorkville. This institution, duly incorporated
under the laws of the state,
is a new thing for this community, and
is calculated to fill needs along certain
lines that have not vet been fully
supplied. It is authorized to negotiate
loans on real estate, to transact real
estate business of almost any nature,
including transfers, rentals and the
like, and it will also conduct an insurance
business and act as administrator
or executor when desired. The
wide business experience of President
Wilkins and his associates will ensure
efficient service in whatever capacity
they may be called upon to act, and
that the Trust company will become an
important factor in the business affairs
of the community may be taken for
granted. Although having its headouarters
in the bank, and being owned
almost entirely by the stockholders of
the bank, it is a separate and distinct
corporation, with functions that are
entirely different. But these matters
will all be explained by the management
in due time.
BLAIRSVILLE PICNIC
In the woodland on the plantation
of Mr. J. C. Blair which for a number
of years past has been the scene of
a picnic at Blairsville were gathered
last Saturday about 250 people from
the surrounding country who came
to attend this year's picnic on the
familiar grounds. It was a quiet and
orderly crowd of men and women
and children and the majority of
them listened with respectful interest
to the two speakers of the day. Congressman
D. E. Finley of this place
and James Cansler of Tirzah, the
former addressing the audience In
the morning and the latter in the
afternoon. Both speakers discussed
the question of state wide prohibition
and in plain statements pointed out
to their hearers how the state would
be benefited if liquor were driven
from its bounds. At the noon hour a
good dinner for the preparation of
which Blairsville's "women-folks"
are noted, was served on the grounds.
There was plenty of it and everybody
enjoyed it.
Congressman Finley.
"Squire" J. P. Blair presided and
introduced Congressman Finley who
stated that he would talk on any subject
his good friend the "Squire" desired
and Squire Blair promptly re- ,
quested Mr. Finley to talk about prohibition.
"I have never in my life dodged a
public question," said Mr. Finley who
wanted the people to know that fact.
"Still I don't interfere with other people's
races. As long as the people vote
for me I'm satisfied." There is no
greater question in the world today <
than the prohibition question. The
era has arrived when the great
nations of the earth are beginning to
take thought on the matter and see
the evil of intemperance. England,
Germany. France and Russia are even
now tiiking steps to curtail the consumption
of liquor among their peo
(Mf. 1 llUJte OUIIUIIH gUl llllu I lie nai
through greed and avarice and disregard
of the laws of God. Each is
realizing that unless they do away
with whisky they are going to-be
ruined.
In this connection the speaker i
told of the battle of the Marne and I
the great German drive in Northern
France some months ago; how the ]
Germans had steadily driven the ,
allies toward Paris and it seemed that j
the French capital surely would fall
into their hands, how they took a great
town in the French district which is j
in the centre of the champagne
industry, and how huge cellers filled
with champagne fell into their hands.
The German soldiers consumed great 1
quantities of the beverage and be- I
came drunk. The French general Jof- I
fre knowing this, attacked them and
the Germans being in no condition i
to fight were driven back, and Paris <
was saved. \
Some say, continued the speaker,
that prohibition doesn't prohibit, and
that is true in a measure. No law can J
be enforced unless the people line up ,
behind it. Education is responsible
for this prohibition sentiment. Peo- ,
pie are learning that the laws of
nature demand temperance.
Mr. Finley said that no man in public
life in the state had enacted as
much legislation looking toward pro- 1
hibitlon as he. When he was first
elected to the general assembly In
1890 there were bar rooms In Hickory
Grove. He was responsible for their
removal. The speaker said that he
had never voted for the state dispensary
in his life.
I am no more proud of the legislation
I have enacted looking toward
prohibition than I am toward other
work I have done, said the speaker
who said he had been a representative
of the people twenty-four years. I
heard of somebody recently I don't
remember who, who was quoted as
saying that after a man has served
as a representative twenty years he
was not capable of doing anything
for the people if he tried. I tell you
those who have served in congress
longest are those who do the most
work. Champ Clark is there, Oscar
Underwood is there. Are they not
capable? The fact is the work of congress
is now done by about seventyfive
representatives.
The speaker lauded President Wilson
whom he said had the greatest
responsibility upon him of any president
since the Civil War. The people
should uphold the president's hands
in the critical European situation.
In conclusion Congressman Flnley
expressed his pleasure at being in
the Blairsville section again after so
long a time. He did not get around
the district as much as he would like,
but had to spend most of his time in
wasnington wnere ne naa mucn worn ,
to do.
Can?ler of Tirzah. ]
The after dinner speaker was Mr.
James Cansler of Tirzah, who was '
glad* to be back in the Blairsville <
section after an absence of ten years. I
Like the speaker of the morning Mr. 3
Cansler talked mostly about the prohibition
question which in his opinion. )
is the greatest Issue of the day. In days |
gone by the universal slogan was "God ]
Save the King, but now it is "God |
Save the People."
No law can prohibit the sale of j
liquor or anything else unless the peo- ,
pie stand squarely behind that law.
said Mr. Cansler. It is up to us. If I J
see a man carrying a pistpl it Is up
to me to report that man to the au- .
thoritles. If I see a man selling
whisky it is my duty to Inform the
officers of the sale. I am a prohlbl- j
tionist and have ever heen. Though I
have never held public office I have
done the public some service. I am '
responsible for the moving of the dispensary
from Tirzah several years i
ago. j
In conclusion Mr. Cansler briefly 1
touched on the war In Europe. He
paid a tribute to President Wilson
^nd advised the people to follow him j
in his dealings with the belligerents, j
Tn these grave times he would advise ]
his hearers to read one chapter In the <
Plble every morning and he thought
that if every person within the sound
of hi* voice would read the first chap- ]
ter of First Corinthians until that j
person was thoroughly familiar with
it all would be benefited. The speak- j
er was applauded when he concluded .
his remarks.
i
ABOUT PEOPLE
Dr. J. H. Wltherspoon Is quite sick .
at his home here. ,
Mr. Ben Levy has returned from the
northern markets.
Miss Kathleen Dunbar of Chester, is
visiting friends near here. i
Miss Maud Barron of Ebenezer, is
the guest of Miss Maud Stroup here. 1
Miss Sue McElroy of Chester, is visiting
Mrs. J. J. Jones on R. F. D. 1.
Mrs. L. H. Good of Sharon, is visit- 1
ing relatives and friends In Kershaw.
n?oola TtMllrlnn rtf fSaffnev Is i
visiting Miss Marjorie Wilklns here.
Mr. J. W. Evans is visiting relatives I
in Clarendon county. .
Miss Anna Cherry Schorb of Fort
Lawn, visited friends here last week.
Mr Edward Shiver of Clemson College.
is visiting Karl Williams here.
Miss Mary Love of Rock Hill visited
Mrs. J. E. Sadler here this week. (
Messrs. Fellers and Moses Cathcart
of Winnsboro, were visitors here last i
week. * . \ 1
Mr 6lyde Plexico of Sharon, visited <
his sister. Mrs. J. H. Jenkins, in Clover
|aS? W6^ki '
Miss Louise Titman of Lowryville is I
the guest of Miss Ella Lee Byers in J
Sharon.
Miss Annie Bludworth left this
morning to spend some time at Mt.
Mitchell, N. C. ,
Miss Loula Allein has returned to ,
her home here, after a visit to friends ,
in Mullins. <
Mr. E. B. Moore of Smyrna No. 1.
has accepted a position with the Cherokee
Falls Mfg. Co.
Miss Juanita Brown of Kershaw is '
the guest of Miss Clara Alexander on
R. F. D. No. 4. i
Mrs. S. J. Lowe a~.d Miss Mary (
Bingham of Concord. N. C.. are visiting
Mrs. J. R. Cannon here.
Miss Flo Roy Osborne of Blacksburg, i
is spending this week with her grandmother.
Mrs. Mary Crosby. 1
Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Grier have re- ,
turned to their home in Clover, after
a visit to relatives In Chester.
Mr. M. C. Willis and Miss Mary 1
Henley Willis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. |
M. C. Willis, Jr., in Atlanta, Ga. (
Miss Mary Simrill of Rock Hill, visited
friends in the Philadelphia section ]
last week. <
Miss Lillis Ashe of McConnellsvllle, ,
is visiting friends in Charlotte and oth- j
er places. t
Mrs. P. D. McCord of Rock Hill, is j.
visiting her sister, Mrs. R. Sidney Mc- .
Connell, here.
Mr. J. C. Comer visited his daugh- (
ter. Mrs. B. P. Hawkins, in Spartan- f
burg this week. <
Miss Ada D. McElwee has return- ,
ed to her home here, after a visit to t
friends In Columbia. (
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moorhead and \
daughter. Miss Ruth, are visiting (
relatives in Gaffney. c
Miss Florence Cody has returned
to her home here, after a visit to #
relatives in Atlanta, Ga. 8
Mr. J. B. Parrott, who is assistant t
to H. E. Nell, county treasurer, is en- t
Joying his vacation. a
Walter Cephus, son of Mr. and a
Mrs. James Beckham of this town, is g
111 with typhoid fever. r
Misses Elizabeth and Lida Grist c
have returned from a visit to relatives
in Spartanburg. t
Miss Esther Bauer who has been g
visiting Miss Mabel Ashe, left Satur- j
day for her home in Columbia. a
Misses Evelyn and Lucile Kirkpat- i
rick of Winnsboro, are visiting Miss v
Lena Hogue on R. F. D. No. 2. a
Messrs. R. J. Mackorell, John F. Youngblood
and H. T. Williams were visitors
in Gastonifl- last week. ?
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buice and children
of Rock Hill, are visiting rela- j,
lives and friends in Hickory Grove. t
Miss Kathleen Sherer of the Bethes- I
da section, is visiting the family of n
Mr. J. C. Kirkpatrlck on Sharon No. 1. p
Miss Johnsie Stacy has returned to a
her home in Clover, after a visit to
lelatives and friends in Hickory, N. C.
Mr. Ernest Gasky and Miss Eula C
Gasky of Salisbury. N. C.. visited the
family of Mr. John Pugh here this h
week. 0
Mrs. George Wilson and daughter of d
Baltimore, are visiUng Mre. Wilsons n
sister, Mrs. Thos. T. B. Williams, in r
Clover. '
Mr. Carroll Turner has returned to o
his home in Winnsooro, aiier visuing '
relatives in the Bullock's Creek sec- w
tion. v
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Miller and s
son are visiting the family of Mr. Wil- "
liam Borders near King's Creek, this v
week.
Mr. A. Knox Qulnn has returned to c
Greenville, N. C., after a visit to his c
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Quinn, n
here. c
Miss Anna Cherry Schorb, who was P
one of the teachers of the Bullock's ?
Creek school last year, has declined S
re-election. t
Messrs. John R. Blair and R. M. r
Mitchell of Sharon, left this week for p
Clemson college where they expect to
spend some time. *
Mr. Killough H. White and Miss t
Wilma Craig White of Chester, spent h
last Saturday here, with their uncle, b
Dr. M. W. White. o
Mrs. Sam McConnell and Miss Kate a
McConnell have returned to their g
lome in Chester, after a visit to Mrs.
T. J. Jones on R. F. D. No. 1.
Miss Maggie Glenn. who is assistint
postmaster at this place, has asmmed
the duties of her position after
i brief vacation. ^
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cannon have rcurned
to their home here, after
(pending several weeks in North
Carolina. ^
Mrs. R. W. McCYeary has returned to
ler home in Aiken, aftar spending several
weeks with her s'ster, Mrs. D. E.
Boney, here.
Mr. Geo. W. Kunz, now of King's
fountain, N. C.. but for a number of
rears a resident of this place, was a
visitor here last week.
Mrs. C. E. Weatherly and little
laughter have returned to their home
n Bennettsvllle, after i visit to Mr.
ind Mrs. Sam M. Grist here.
Mrs. B. J. Currence has returned
:o her home in the For?st Hill section
ifter a visit to her parents Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Brian at this place. ^
Mr. K. H. White and Miss Ella?'
iVhlte have returned to their home in :
Chester, after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. \ ^
M. H. Blair of Sharon No. 1.
Mrs. J. A. C Love and 3ons, Messrs. \l
Flo88 and Frank Love, have returned to
Iheir home on Clover No. 4, after a
visit to Mr. W. S. Lwe at Sharor
Mr. J. A. Barber his sold his home
>n Oakland avenue In Pock Hill, to Dr.
IV. M. Patrick and is making prepara,lon8
to move to his country place beow
Lesslie.
Mrs. C. H. Keller of this place spent
Sunday with her husband who Is undergoing
treatment for appendicitis
in the Fennell Infirmary, Rock Hill.
Mr. Keller is getting along nicely.
Mr. T. A. Matthews and family who
lave been in Pottsville, Ark., for the
>ast five years, have returned to Rock
Bill, with the intention of making that
place their future home.
Mrs. Mason Clark has returned to
tier home on R. F. D. No. 1, after a
visit to the family of her father, Mr.
J. C. Kirkpatrick, in the Bullock's
Creek section. ? 4^
Mr. Broadus M. Love, auditor o SB
York county, was elected treasurer |Bj
the South Carolina association
Auditors and Treasurers tit the meet- w
Ing held in Columbia last week.
Reports from Mrs. C. A. Nabors of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., nee Miss Minnie
Whitesides of Sharon, who was operated
on for appendicitis last week,
are that she is recuperating as quickly
as could be expected.
Messrs. Paul and Brown (Crosby and
Misses Jo Byars and Edith Porcher of
Spartanburg, Misses Mae Smarr of Columbia,
and Cathleen Cable of Charlotte,
visited Misses Ruth and Claire
Crosby here this week.
Lancaster News, August 13: Master
James Wylie of Y irkville, is visiting
his uncle. Mr. J. ". Wylie. Mr. John
McDow, Jr., returred yesterday from
Yorkville, where he visited his uncle,
Hon. Thos. F. McDow.
A party composed of Messrs. A. J.
and J. B. Parrott, Hugh Wallace,
Thompson McAbee, Walker Lynn,
R. E. Cloud and Starr Parrott of the
Filbert section, left yest.-rday for
Turkey creek for a short fishing excursion.
Mr. J. L. Sanders, formerly of this
place but for several years past a
resident of Chester, has moved his
family to Rock Hill in order that he
may be in closer touch with his work
as a special officer of the Southern
railway. I
Charleston Post, Friday: Mrs. Mattie
B. Door, who has been enjoying
eight delightful weeks in Columbia,
Yorkville and places in North Carolina,
Is again in the city, and has resumed
her work for St. John's parish. While
In Yorkville, Miss Doar visited the
Episcopal Church Home Orphanage,
In which she is greatly interested.
Gastonia Gaze.te, Aug. *13: Dr. J.
W. Campbell, Mr. Haskell McLean,
Mr. Ernest Allen and Messrs. W. P.,
M. L. and J. M. Smith and Mr. J. A.
Page of Clover, came up for the LenoirGastonia
game yesterday. Mrs. W. L.
Baber of Yorkville. was the guest yesterday
of Mrs. W. N. Davis. Mr. J.
R. Davis of the Bethel section of York
county, is a Gastonia visitor today.
Trenton, Fla., West End, August 13:
Capt. W. E. Bell has Just returned
from a trip through the western states.
He says that the harvest this season
will be a tremendous one, as the fields
are in splendid condition. This is specially
true in the grain producing states
of this country. While in Chicago,
Captain Billy sold a large tract
of land to Mrs. Benner, which means
a new family in Trenton besides added
capital.
LOCAL LACCNICS
On Charge of Abandonment.
John Barnes is in Jail. He is charged
ivlth having abandoned his wife. The < |
committment was by Magistrate Win- |
?ate of Catawba.
\ Crazy Negro.
Constable Floyd Stevenson of Broad
River last week brought Aaron Armstrong,
a negro to the county jail for
wife keeping. The negro is crazy and ^
ivlll be committed to the state hospital
for the insane.
Charged With Housebreaking.
Magistrate A. J. Quinn o' King's
Mountain township has committed
Bam Wright and Richard Wallace to ^
he county jail on the charge of housebreaking
and larceny. They will be
ried at the fall term of the court of
jeneral sessions.
rurkey Creek Won.
There was a good gome of baseball
>n the diamond at Blairsville school
touse Saturday afternoon the Turkey
Z!reek team playing the Blairsville
line. Turkey Creek won the game 7
0 6. The batteries were?Turkey
'reek, Jones and Robinson; Blairsfille,
Sherer and Sherer; Umpire?
jouriey.
Sharon Has New Enterprise.
Sharon has a new enterprise. It is
1 garage and from the looks of things
iround there Saturday it appeared
hat the new establishment was geting
plenty of work to do. There are
i number of automobiles in and
iround Snaren and the need of a
rarage in the little town has been
ealized for some time.
iood Game Went to Bethany.
l/ockridge was easy for the Bethany
>atters last Saturday afternoon in a
ame of baseball between the Neely
dill team of this place and the Bethiny
team, the game being played on
he Bethany diamond, and the latter _
ran, 7 to 1. The batteries were: Bethmy?Grayson
and Parish; Neely Mill
-Lockridge, Helms and Cook; Umpire
-Whitesides.
>hot Him in the Mouth.
John Jackson and Rose, his wife, are
n jail, charged with assault and batery
with intent to kill. John is al- ^
eged to have shot Hugh Byrd in the^^v
aouth with a shotgun, the gun being^^^N
irovnueu oy Rose. The arralr occurred
in Parks Wallace's place last Wednesay.
A preliminary hearing in the
latter was held Friday.
>e?troyed by Fire. '
What was known as the old Roach
louse and which was the residence
f R. T. Wright, of Rock Hill, was
estroyed by flre early Saturday
norning. The residence of T. H. Simill
and Mrs. Jerusha Johnson adjoinng
were also damaged severely. The
rigin of the flre Is unknown. The
louse was insured. The Roach house '
rhich formerly occupied the site uponJ^^\
/hieh Rock Hill's postofllce h*vCv
tands was one of the oldest landnarks
of the city.
Vanted in Gastonia.
W. X. Davis, sheriff of Gaston
ounty was in town last week having *??.
ome after "Long John" Stowe a
egro who is wanted by the Gaston
ounty authorities. About a year has
assed since the negro's ulleged
ffense, but he was captured in the
myrna section last week and brought
o the county jail (o await the arival
of the Gaston county sheriff. ^
nterested in Prohibition.
Many citizens of Rullock's (Veek
ownship are very much interestpo 'n
he election on the question of|
libit Ion which is to In- held Septem-^^^M
or 14 and predict that the majority
f the voters of that section will vote
gainst the sale of liquor. Several
ood speakers will very likely make