Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 24, 1915, Image 2
Scraps and .farts.
? Death decreased the government's
civil war pension roll nearly ten per
cent during the last fiscal year, according
to the annual report of Commissioner
of Pensions Saltzgaber.
made public a few days ago. A total
of 396,370 Union veterans remained
on the roll July 1, 33,255 less than a
year ago. Payments to Civil war pensioners
during the year totalled >156,668,771,
compared with >172,417,546 in
1914. Pension office records show the
total death toll since the close of the
war has been 1,816,995. In that period
the Federal government has paid to
' * * * * ? ? ? J rtWil/lr??n
veterans, tneir wiaows mm tuuuiv?,
$4,614,643,267.
? A German estimate of the physical
results of the first year of the European
war was received by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce last
Wednesday in a report from the
American association of Commerce
and Trade of Berlin. The report said:
"It is of interest at the close of the
first war year to record the amount
of hostile territory occupied by the
belligerents. In regard to prisoners
taken, only German data is available.
The territory occupied by the Allies
consists of: In Galicia, 3,861 square
miles; in Alsace Lorraine, 405 square
miles, a total of 4,266 square miles.
This territory is about the size of the
state of Connecticut. The territory
occupied by the central powers consists
of: In Belgium, 11,197 square
miles; in France, 8,108 square miles;
in Russia, 50,193 square miles; a total
of 69,498 square miles. This territory
is about the size of the state of Missouri
and about one-third the size of
the German empire." .The estimate
fixed the number of prisoners taken
by the central powers at 1,694,869, of
which 8,790 are officers, and the number
of guns captured at 8,000 field
pieces and 3,000 machine guns.
? The commission on industrial relations,
after two years of work, says
a Washington dispatch, was unable to
agree on any programme of social
legislation to be submitted to congress.
The life of the commission expired on
August 23. Two reports have been
prepared?a majority report signed by
the three representatives of the capital
and by Prof. John R. Commons and
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and a minority
report signed by Chairman F.
P. Walsh and three representatives
of labor. One of the rocks on which
the commission was hopelessly split
was a recommendation in the report
drafted by Chief of Staff Basil M.
Manley and fostered by Chairman
Walsh that congress enact laws confiscating,
upon inheritance, all great
fortunes In excess of $1,000,000. In
other words, Mr. Walsh and the three
labor members of the commission
proposed to forbid heirs of wealthy
Americans from inheriting more than
$1,000,000 from any one estate. All
in excess would go to the Federal government.
Prof. Commons, Mrs. Harriman
and the three members of the
commission representing employers,
refused to give serious consideration to
such a proposal.
? The killing of three wild ducks by
Harvey C. Shauver of Arkansas, is to
be made the basis for seeking a supreme
court decision on the constitutionality
of the Federal law authorizing
the department of agriculture to
regulate the killing of migratory wild
game. Although the law was enacted
in 1907, this is the first case involving
its validity to reach the supreme
court. Shauver killed the ducks on a
day prohibited by the department,
but when the government sought to
prosecute him, the Federal district
court In Arkansas held the law to be
an unwarranted interference by the
Federal government with powers invested
in the states. On Wednesday he
filed a brief in the supreme court at
tacking the law. The brief to be filed
within the next three weeks. "There
is no decision by any court, Federal or
state, that supports a Federal right of
property, in migratory game," Shauver's
attorney urges in his brief, "and
there is nothing in the Federal constitution
authorizing congress to assume
superintendency, authority or
control over such. Game and fish, by
the English common law, were the
property of the crown, and in the several
states of the United States they
are the property of such states, and the
states individually may exclusively
control their taking in the same manner
as it may control any of its property."
? Economic conditions in Germany
after one year of war are described in
a report compiled by the American
association of Trade and Commerce in
Berlin and received last Tuesday at
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce. It says the financial record
has shown "the results of rigid organization
and discipline," and draws
particular attention to the fact that
Germany has raised $2,250,000,000 in
war loans, and the Imperial Reichbank
has accumulated a gold reserve
of $600,000,000. The change of the
entire economic activity from its peace
conformation to one of war, says the
report, has with the aid of the Reichsbank
taken place rapidly and thoroughly.
The establishment of the
official loan banks and credit institutions
has provided credit accommodation
in abundant measure. It is significant
that in the past war year,
when Germany was not only in a military,
but also in an economic sense
confronted with superiority of hostile
forces, the issue of industrial securi
icka rl i^ nAf Anma to a ofnn RpsidPS
the official new corporations, organized
as purely war measures, quite a number
of new corporations having no
war connection have been established.
Many existing concerns have increased
their capital stock. From the outbreak
of the war up to August 1, 1915,
altogether $125,000,000 have been invested
in new and existing industrial
undertakings, as against new issues
of $250,000,000 in 1913. During the
month of July, 1915, $10,000,000 were
invested in industrial undertakings.
This result is overshadowed by the
amounts reached in subscription for
the war loans, as after seven weeks of
war. $1,125,000,000 were paid in, and after
nine war months $2,250,000,000 had
been paid. The enlarged field of the
Reichsbank activity was followed by a
healthy strengthening of the gold
cover, and at the end of the war year
the gold cover reached $600,000,000,
as ugainst $312,000,000 on July 31, 1914.
? Charlotte Observer, Wednesday:
"If the presidential election were held
tomorrow, I am persuaded that Woodrow
Wilson would be re-elected by the
largest majority that any chief executive
ever received," declared Congressman
E. Y. Webb of Shelby, yesterday,
who is spending several days in
the city with friends. The discussion
centered about the national situation
apropos the great struggle abroad and
its multitude of vexatious diplomatic
questions arising therefrom, and Mr.
Webb paid a high tribute to President
Wilson. "The manner in which he
has held true the ship of state on an
even keel, varying neither to the right
nor to the left, amid the shoals of intricate
diplomatic tangles, has been
the admiration of all disinterested
persons and the great statesmen of the
world. If the war should close tomorrow,
his would be the one figure in
this country looming large upon the
world's horizon. And you tell me that
his fellow citizens would turn him
down whpn he has handled himself
and the nation of which he is the head
in such masterly and supurb fashion?
I am confident that if the election
were held tomorrow, he would receive
more votes for president than
any man that ever offered for this
high office." Congressman Webb
spoke most interestingly of conditions
at home and abroad. He expressed
his firm belief that the submarine issue
with Germany would be settled
altogether satisfactory to this country
and that thereafter the questions with
Great Britain would be handled likewise.
In fact Mr. Webb stated that
negotiations have been pending between
Washington and London for
some time past, with notes following
notes, but that, for special reasons,
little publicity has been given to this
phase of the question. Mr. Webb
hazarded the belief that as a result of
the able and effective work of Secretary
Lansing that the $150,000,000
worth of goods held up in Rotterdam
and other Dutch ports, would be allowed
to be moved through. These
goods were ordered and contmeted
for before the orders-in-council
were issued and are such as should
. be permitted to move without interference.
The state department has
been working on this matter for some
time and it is believed that at an
early date the necessary arrangements
will be concluded. Mr. Webb is very
optimistic along business as well as
political lines. He stated that in the
west there was general prosperity
while in the south business was picking
up to a marked degree. He expressed
himself as confident that there
would be an abundance of money in
the south this fall and winter. Germany.
he said, was buying cotton
right along and the market was slowly
hut snrplv risine. Manufacturers
and merchants are reporting larger orders
and commercial life is showing
gratifying signs of abounding prosperity.
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Entered at the Postofflco at York as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORK, S. C.:
.FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915.
The latest information from the
foreign loan negotiations is to the effect
that the amount originally asked
for has been scaled down from $1,000,000,000
to $500,000,000, and that there
is more or less question as to whether
the last named amount can be raised.
And we believe that Mr. Lever's
law that requires future speculators to
deal in real cotton is neiping me sn.uatlon
some too. The cotton bear, no
matter how bold, is Inclined to think
many times before he will sell unlimited
quantities of cotton that he might
bo culled upon to deliver in specified
grades. The future market position
is a very different thing from what it
was before the Lever bill became a
law.
Charlotte, Greenville and other
towns have been having "Dollar Days."
The idea is for each merchant of the
town to offer one or more especially
attractive bargains for a dollar. In
some cases the dollar offers consist
of articles that are usually worth (2,
and in other cases there are combinations
of several artices worth altogether
much more than the dollar
asked. The result of many attractions
of this kind is quite a large crowd
of buyers and an increased volume of
business.
Dispatches from various belligerent
capitals indicate that the Germans
have sent quite a large army in the
direction of Turkey with a view to opposing
the operations of the Allies
against the Dardanelles. The figures
have it that army numbers 800,000
men with full and complete equipment.
It is understood to be the intention
of the Germans to march
through a corner of Servia and to
make a Junction with the Bulgarian
army, which is being mobilized, presumably
with a view to assisting the
Germanic allies.
The constantly recurring slides in
the Panama canal are a source of
increasing uneasiness and expense
for' the United States. Although it
was anticipated from the beginning
that there would be slides, it was
hoped that by this time the annoyance
and inconvenience would have
ceased. At this writing, however, the
canal is blocked by a tremendous slide
that cannot well be removed before
another week, and there Is reason to
expect that it will be necessary to
spend many millions of dollars before
the trouble can be entirely eliminated.
USURY MUST BE DESTROYED
Secretary McAdoo Gives Opinion in
Letter to McLaurin.
Hon. John L. McLaurin on yesterday
gave out the following correspondence
between himself and Hon.
W. G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury:
Mr. McAdoo'g Letter
"Dear Mr. McLaurin: Please accept
my hearty thanks for the copy
of your letter of September 1, to the
president, which I have, read with interest,
and also for the copy of your
speech, which I was glad to receive. I
inclose copy of my statement about
the (30,000,000 deposit in the Federal
reserve banks and copy of the Federal
reserve board regulations concerning
commodity paper. If the banks of the
south do their duty, the farmers of
the south should be able to get money
at 6 per cent, to help them market
their crops, or carry their crops of
staple commodities for a reasonable
length of time, until they can be
marketed in an orderly manner.
"I agree with you fully about the
c.urse of usury in the south. I hope to
live long enough to see usurious practices
destroyed and to contribute
something myself to that end. I believe
it can be done and that it will
be done. The states, however, must
do their part. Usury ought to be made
an offense subject to grand jury investigation
to be prosecuted by various
state's attorneys. So long as the
remeuy ior usury is fiiatcu in mo
hands of the borrower, not only he,
but the average lawyer Is afraid to
raise the issue. The Federal reserve
system will, by extension of its bonetils
to the masses of the people, educate
them to the necessity for upholding
and preserving this great piece of
legislation.
"I congratulate you on the splendid
work you have done for an intelligent
warehouse system in the south.
Cotton seems to be doing well."
McLaurin's Reply.
"My Dear Mr. McAdoo: 1 thank you
sincerely for your letter, and can assure
you that the farmers of the south
appreciate the courageous stand you
take for right and justice. Your
statements, with those of President
Wilson, have inspired a new patriotism
and given fresh hope to the producers
of the country.
"Many of our South Carolina banks
are giving loyal support to your efforts.
"I am inclosing an extract from a
speech delivered in Atlanta on the 21st,
which is. creating a storm among
some of the bankers in South Carolina.
but which is accomplishing just
what I expected it to do, in bringing
forth protestations of ability and willingness
to loan money at 6 per cent.
"The national banks have a splendid
opportunity through the reserve
system, but our state banks are, generally
speaking, at a disadvantage, unless
they can get accommodations in
the money centre. Those who ventured
most in 1914 to aid their customers,
and who are therefore most
worthy of consideration, as a rule, find
their bills payable so extended that
they are not in a position to comply
with the requirements for entering the
federal reserve system. It is not that
they are not willing and anxious to do
so, but cannot until tneir customers
can sell a sufficient amount of cotton
to reduce their liabilities, which are
treated differently under the Federal
law. I am undertaking to assist them
in securing accommodations in New
York to tide them over until such
time as they can nationalize. 1 have
not talked to a single one of these
state hankers yet who has not expressed
the intention of entering the
Federal reserve system as soon as he
could. I have found the New York
banks very reasonable, and entirely
willing to extend accommodations
when convinced that they are safe in
so doing. There are those in South
Carolina, however, who, from selfish
interest, have been trying to discredit
the state system with the New York
banks.
"I know that you have nothing to do
with state banks, but your moral support,
generally speaking, is of tremendous
value even to them, and as
your letter is such a gratifying in
dorsement or my wont, i um usius
for that purpose.
"With kindest personal regards and
assurances of my profound appreciation.''
SENATOR SMITH ON COTTON
Discusses the Situation from Standpoint
of Finance.
Senator E. D. Smith on Tuesday,
gave out the following to the press
from Florence:
"Some weeks ago I met with the
Federal reserve board, for the purpose
of discussing the practical operation
of the new banking and currency law,
as it relates to the farmer. I propounded
certain questions to them, in
the form of a letter, to which letter
the governor of the board replied.
Among other questions propounded
was: What would be the rate of rediscount?
In other words, what interest
would our regional reserve bank,
Richmond, charge our state banks,
that is the national and member banks
of this state, on cotton certificates.
I suggested to the board at that time
that in view of the fact that cotton
always was an extremely liquid asset
the world over, and especially now,
when the consumption by virtue of
this war and its uses as the basis of
high explosives, and in view of the
other fact that it was practically imperishable,
when properly protected
from fire and weather, that I thought
it was entitled to a special rate. On
last Thursday, I again saw the governor
of the board and was informed
by him that the board had determined
on a special commodity rate for cotton.
I was informed that it had issued
a statement to the member banks
throughout the cotton belt that In case
any bank would agree not to charge
the party or parties obtaining a loan
on cotton exceeding 6 per cent that
the reserve bank, in our case Richmond,
would not charge but 3 per
cent discount. I was greatly gratified
to see that at last the commercial
and banking value of cotton was being
recognized by the Federal power.
faper lasuea upon couun prupruj
stored. Insured and grade ascertained
and the ownership established, is under
the law the basis of the issuance
of Federal reserve notes. Therefore,
the local member bank that takes such
paper assumes practically no liability.
The cotton Itself guarantees the loan;
now it does seem that every national
and member bank In the south would
gladly accept this proposition. They
receive the money from the reserve
bank at 3 per cent, and give It to the
maker of the paper at 6 per cent,
which means a gross profit to them of
ino per cent with practically no liability
on their part.
"Under such terms as these with the
present price of cotton, every farmer
who so desires can hold a part or all
of his crop from the market without
a serious per cent of its value being
taken up in interest.
"The present crop is undoubtedly ore
of the smallest that has been made in
years. The demand for cotton, both
in this country and abroad, has not
abated a particle. Therefore, withholding
the cotton from the market
and only selling at will may , rapidly
enhance the price and tend to recuperate
losses sustained last year.
Under our present banking and currency
law. as administered bv th?
present officials, the financial status
of the seller is made approximately
as strong as that of the buyer. This
is the condition which we have
'ought for for all of these years. As
long as it was hard and costly for the
farmer to finance his cotton, and practically
easy for the buyer to obtain
credit, the fight was unequal and the
prices disastrous.
"Mr. Harding of the Federal reserve
board, who was made chairman of a
committee charged with the investigation
of conditions, made some
startling revelations at a banquet last
night In Raleigh in reference to the
rate of interest charged by certain
banks in certain southern states. The
comptroller of the currency has promised
in his official reports hereafter to
Rive the amount of paper discounted
by member banks on farm products,
the kind of paper, the rate of interest
charged the maker of the paper and the
rediscount rate of interest charged the
bank by the reserve bank. I am of
'he opinion that this will help.
"I gather from the opinion of certain
correspondents that their estimate of
the present crop is that it will not exceed
12.000,000 bfiles, with the possibility
of ll.OOO.OQO bales being nearer
the mark. With, the confusion occasioned
by the unexpected war last
sioned by theaoin aoinad. ..qjvsbresu
year, with the demoralization of both
the financial and marketing world and
with a sixteen-million-bale crop after
a temporary depression, the market
rebounded to nine and ten cents, with
order having been restored, with confidence
returned, our new banking and
currency law put into operation, with
abundance of crop money and a small
crop, it is almost impossible to say
what would be the price of cotton with
proper marketing.
"While in Washington last Thursday,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels in
sisted that I should accompany him to
Raleigh as a guest of the chamber of
commerce at its annual banquet last
night. Mr. Harding' discussed the
cotton situation from the standpoint
of the Federal banker, and I from the
standpoint of a customer of that bank,
We were in hearty accord and the audience
seemed also to be unanimous.
It seems as if North Carolina borrowers
have been more fortunate than
even South Carolinians, in that it was
developed that the rate of interest in
that state has been around 6 per cent,
while in South Carolina it had been
considerably higher, and in one instance
at least as high as 15 per cent.
In the country, and particularly at
Raleigh, there were evidences of returning
prosperity. To me the outlook
is more hopeful than it has ever been
in the history of the cotton belt."
PUBLIC OPINION
Fundamental Element Not Subject to
Editorial Caprice.
The "State" of Columbia, is reputed
to be the greatest single influence In
South Carolina. Many contend that
its locks were shorn when Wm. E.
Gonzales went as ambassador to Cuba,
but even these folk look to the
State as a guiding influence.
Last Tuesdays referendum election
raises an interesting question.
When Cole L. Blease was twice
elected governor in spite of the State's
consistent and unrelenting opposition,
the matter was easily explained by the
fact that the State's clientele is limited
to the most intelligent people of
South Carolina, while it has practicnllv
no rirrulntion and therefore no
influence among the class to which
Blease made his greatest appeal.
But this referendum election was
another matter. The majority of the
men of South Carolina who vote for
gubernatorial candidates could not or
did not vote in this election. Those
who voted were qualified electors,
presumably of the class that supports
the State.
The State has stood for local option?or
at least has opposed prohibition?not
with its usual sureness and
skill, to be sure, but in a rather hesitating.
shame-faced way that yet left
no doubt as to its desires.
Wherefore, then, did prohibition
win? Has the State lost its iniluence
even among the clientile it cherishes?
Hardly that, I fancy. The truth of
the matter is the State tried to lead
its following into a moral wrong and
the followers, proving more righteous
than the leader, balked.
From which it follows that, since
newspapers are but a reflection of the
minds of their readers, the State will
shortly see a great light and take one
step up in the moral scale. It maybe
stubborn about it. for editors will get
bull-headed and swell-headed, and
love to preach at without being
preached to, but the change will come,
for a' that.?Fountain Inn Tribune.
? Robert H. Rawl, a young white
man, was exonerated in the court of
general sessions of Lexington county
this week, of the charge of attempted
criminal assault.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8
T. B. Glenn, Manager?Gives notice
that the Tirzah Ginnery has been
thoroughly overhauled, new machinery
added, and will gin cotton
at $1 per bale.
Love & Black?Give notice that they
will thresh clover In Yorkville oh
TucsdEys.
Jno. J. Jackson, R. F. D. 6?Will pay
liberal reward for return of two $20
bills lost on the streets of this town
last Tuesday.
R. D. Dorsett?Wants to sell his restaurant
and pressing club business
and has two pool tables for sale or
exchange for automobile.
A. M. McGill, R. F. D. 1?Makes lib
eral offering on mens maae-tomeasure
clothing. Talks about coffee,
dress goods, staples. Eggs,
chickens and cotton seed wanted.
First National Bank, Sharon?Wants
to loan you money at 6 per cent on
Sharon warehoused cotton. How It
is done.
Thomson Co.?Millinery opening continues
today and tomorrow. You're
invited. Coat suits, coats, men's
clothing, Stetson hats.
Carroll Supply Co.?Today is paying
45 cents a bushel, 30 pounds, for
cotton seed, and wants all you have
to sell.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Received 38
coat suits and 19 one-piece dresses
this week. New millinery every
day. Immense stock of shoes.
J. M. Stroup?Invites attention to his
grocery department. Seed oats, salt
fish, coffees, feedstuffs, white and
red onion sets. Plant now.
Bank of Clover, Clover?Is prepared
to loan money on cotton stored in
the Filbert and Bowling Green
warehouses. See them about it.
C. F. Sherer?Offers another small
but desirable farm, located near
Yorkville, at a bargain price.
The state and county tax rate in
York township this year is about $2.90
per $100.
There were 86 deaths from typhoid
fever in South Carolina last month,
and of these there was but one In
ium tuuiu/.
The farmere of York county are
keeping close up with the cotton harvest
and they have very little time to
look after other things.
Most emphatically we think that It is
Rimply absurd to Impose a license tax
on the horse swappers. We are unable
to conceive of a single reasonable
ground for such a thing.
"We need tome more knockers in
Yorkville," observed a well known
farmer of Yorkville No. 3, yesterday
morning. "The knockers In the town are
doing lots of good. They have knocked
the price of cotton seed up to a
point which It would not have reached
had they not been here. It seems
to me like the knockers are really the
boosters."
It is about time for the Yorkville
Board of Trade to have another gettogether
over sandwiches with "those
that are wanted" invited. If permitted,
The Enquirer will take pleasure
in sending a reporter to report the
proceedings for the benefit of those
who are not Invited, or who are unable
to come. Also It will agree to
provide a sandwich for itself without
expense to the Board of Trade.
Inollna _
I rioro IV a vcxjr nvbiuca'Uiy iiivini?~
tlon on the part of people throughout
this whole section to speculate in cotton.
. There is nothing new about this,
of course, for the inclination to speculate
is always present. But this year
the common feeling is that cotton must
necessarily go up, and nine out of ten
people seem to have the idea that It
is the thing to buy. Some people are
selling their cotton as fast as they
can get It out; but that is not the
rule. The larger cotton producers
feel certain that prices will steadily
grow better and better.
We do not want anybody to think
that we are asking the town council
for anything whatever. We are not
asking anybody for anything. Thanks
to the kind appreciation that the public
has shown and is showing for the
service we are trying to render we ltre
comfortable. But we desire the local
public, and the York county public
to know that we think we are being
unfairly treated. From our viewpoint
advertising and job printing are both
strictly business propositions. The
value of newspaper advertising depends
upon the circulation and prestige
of the medium used. By prestige
we mean what the general public
thinks of that medium?the confidence
and esteem of the public. Circulation,
of course, relates to the number
of readers. The advertising values
offered by The Yorkville Enquirer
both in the town of its publication
and in the county are recognized by
the business people of the state to be
second to that of no other paper In
South Carolina. It is conceded everywhere
that nobody does any better
job printing than The Yorkville Enquirer.
Common sense and common
justice requires that the business of a
municipality like this be distributed
equally among the newspapers thereof.
We desire the public to know
that the town council of Yorkville
has, for reasons of its own, seen proper
to ignore the Yorkville Enquirer in
the distribution of the business of the
town and that it has never even asked
this establishment for terms or prices.
It has given us no reason, and the only
reason we can think of is that we insist
upon being our own judge of our
responsibility to the public in what we
shall print and what we shall not
print, and also that the mayor and
his backers being interested in a
newspaper of their own, propose to
use the public funds for the support
of their, own business rather than for
the support of a business that depends
for its being on its service to the
public. As we have said before, we
do not want this to be understood as
a complaint. We are telling the public
because we think the public should
Know the facts.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Cool weather began to show up
Tuesday night, and since then there
has been more of an indication on the
part of the people to get busy.
? The King's Mountain road is now
the most popular highway for pleasure
out of Yorkville; but when the Rock
Hill road is completed a few miles
further the automobile traffic will
likely go in that direction.
? Cotton is coming into the Yorkville
Cotton Oil Co.'s ginnery at a rapid
rate now and the gins are running
steadily from early morning until
dark. Sixty-five bales were ginned here
on Wednesday.
? Boys in the local Graded school
have already begun the practice of
football and the prospects of their
having a strong eleven this season are
pretty good. There are a number of
students in the school of sufficient
size and ability to. develop into good
players.
? Mr. G. W. S. Hart has resigned
from the board of trustees of the
Yorkville Graded school. The news
was first rumored about the streets
last Wednesday morning: but it was
not practicable to get any satisfactory
information. A reporter asked Mr. B.
X. Moore of the board, for informa
tion on Wednesday morning; but he
did not see proper to throw any light
on the subject. He admitted it was a
fact that Mr. Hart had resigned; but
preferred that no publicity be given
the matter, as efforts were being made
to have Mr. Hart reconsider. Afterward
it was learned definitely that Mr.
Hart had refused to reconsider, and
the reporter called upon him yesterday
to know whether he had any objection
to giving out reasons for his
resignation. He replied: "Personally
I would not object to stating my
reasons for resigning from the board;
! but since to do so might injure the i
school, a thing I would avoid, I will
not make the matter public." Mr.
Hart was chairman of the board.
YORK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
The forty-seventh annual session of
the York Baptist association, which
convened in the First Baptist church
of Rock Hill on Tuesday morning, adjourned
Wednesday afternoon, after
completing all the work for which it
was called together, was one of the
most successful in the history of the
body. With a single exception each
one of the eighteen churches composing
the association, was represented
by delegates?the majority of them
by their full quota.
The body was called to order by the
moderator and after devotional exercises,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Machen,
pastor of the Baptist churches of
Yorkville, an address of welcome was
delivered by Prof. R. C. Burts, superintendent
of the city schools of
Rock Hill, which was responded to in
behalf of the association by Rev. J.
B. Talbert of Hickory Grove.
The next business was the enrollment
of the representatives of the various
churches, after which the regular
order of reading reports prepared on
various subjects, such as state, home
and foreign missions, orphanage, Sunday
schools, aged ministers, public
morals, education, the hospital, woman's
work, etc. Each report was discussed;
in tnru, and all the discussions
were interesting.
Following representatives of various
enterprises fostered by the denomination
watv nresent:
Rev. W. T. Derieux, D. D., corresponding
secretary of the state mission
board; Rev. Chas. A. Jones, corresponding
secretary of the education
board; Rev. W. M. Whitesides, of
the efficiency department of the state
mission board; Rev. J. B. Bozeman,
representing the Connie Maxwell orphanage;
Rev. T. J. Watts, representing
the Sunday school board, Rev. B.
P. Mitchell, representing the Baptist
Courier, Rev. J. R. Moore of Fort
Lawn, representing foreign missions.
The financial reports showed that
while several churches had failed to
pay the full amount apportioned to
them by the executive board of the association,
others had exceeded theirs,
and that the total amount appropriated
with few exceptions had been paid.
Following were elected delegates to
the Southern Baptist convention: Rev.
F". T. Cox, J. T. Going, Geo. W. Brown.
To the state Baptist convention, M.
M. Richardson, S. P. Hair, J. H. Machen,
A. E. Willis, J. Hi Barry, J. B.
Talbert, R. C. Burts, A. M. Grist, J.
H. Dickert, .7. D. Smith, P. D. Hopper,
O. B. Paxton, S. L. Meacham, W. J.
Nelson, D. G. Howell, Jas. P. Sturgls,
D. W. Thomasson.
The following executive board was
elected to serve during the ensuing
year: Revs. S. P. Hair, F. T. Cox,
W. J. Nelson, J. H. Machen, M. M.
Richardson.
The following officers were elected
to serve during tne ensuing year: a.
E. Willis, moderator; Jas. F. Boyd,
vice moderator; Sam M. Grist, clerk;
E. B. Johnson, treasurer.
The association adjourned Wednesday
afternoon to meet with the First
Baptist church of Yorkville on Wednesday
after the third Sunday in September,
1916.
LATE8T IN MILLINERY
If York county dames and dunsels
can find nothing becoming or nothing
to suit them in the way of fall and
winter headgear at the store of the
Thomson company in Yorkville, then
indeed are they hard to please, according
to several local ladies who are
wise in the ways of fashion, and who
were asked about the mat'.er yesterday,
when the Thomson company
threw open its millinery parlors and
exhibited to a large number of ladies
from the town and country their hats
for fall and winter wear. Quite numerous
were the patterns on display
and the clerks in the store have been
busy yesterday and today assisting
visitors in trying on the many pretty
headdresses.
Exceedingly varied as regards shape
and style and almost without exception
wonderfully becoming, are the new
hats which have been prepared for the
trade by Miss Eloise Bacon, who is
beginning her second season as head
milliner at the Thomson Co., assisted
by Mrs. John F. Youngblood and Miss
Agnes Bludworth, who are well known
to the ladies of this entire section.
Those who prefer small toques and
turbans will find plenty of choice little
shapes at the Thomson company's
to suit them, while others who
may still prefer the large picture hats,
will be able to indulge to the full In
their affection for wide, shady brims,
long ribbon strings and soft plumes
of ostrich feathers. Two things are
most pronounced in the new millinery
displayed at the Thomson company's
store yesterday and today?
the crowns of the smartest hats are
very high and ostrich feathers have
returned to favor.
Black velvet is going to play a great
role in the fall and winter millinery
creations of Thomson's milliners. The
jaunty velvet "tammy" has already
established itself to a great extent and
will be popular throughout the season.
The French sailor is to be seen, rendered
in black and navy velvet and
trimmed either with a plain band of
ribbon or with a single white gardenia,
a brilliant pink camellis or a
golden rose. The high crowned hat
with negligible brim is the innovation
of the season. It really looks uncommonly
like a man's high hat.
A feature of the fall and winter
hats this season is the lack of trimming?a
direct contrast with the last
aancnr, 11'hon mnph trlmmlnc wnn In
vogue. Ostrich fancies will be used
qute as extensively as plumes, while
there is also an abundance of narrow
ribbons. Most flowers and fancies to
be used for trimming are of wool materials
and a great deal of fur will
also be used. The old stove pipe
crown will be much in evidence.
It would have been impossible for
birds to have been as important as
they have been during last summer
in all decorative motifs and in every
out-of-door effect without seeing
some echo of the bird fad in the millinery
of the winter, and at Thomson's
opening this week a number of hats
trimmed with bird's wings, etc., were
exhibited. Bird effects and wing effects
will be good on small turbans
and, also, quite apart from all feathered
motifs, is a popular bird design
in gold or silver ornament. A little
turban of velvet is made most effective
by an upstanding arrangement of these
flat bird ornaments in either gold or
silver braid.
When a representative of The Enquirer
called at the store of the Thomson
Co. yesterday morning, he found
the milliner and her assistants quite
busy. A number of hats had been
sold and orders taken Tor a number or
others. A subject of favorable comment
by lady visitors and a little news
which will be hailed with delight by
I husbands and fathers is this: The
price of millinery and notions at the
Thomson company's store are quite
reasonable this year, the hats ranging
from $2.60 to $6. Of course there are
patterns more costly but they are very
few.
What was considered one of the
pretty patterns at Thomson's was a
large picture hat with a transparent
brim of gold caught on the side with
two pink French plumes. The hat
had a large draped crown of black velirnt
nm/1 n Krno/1 V\ 1Q nl/ v<raf KinHiniT
vci aiiu a Ui vau uiavn t ci t vi
on the edge of the brim. It waft
caught on the side of the crown with
a black jet ornament.
A hat which was admired by a
number of ladies was a large shape
covered with purple velvet, the top of
the brim being inlaid with gold and a
crown of the same color. The crown
was a soft affair and rather high. Its
only trimming was an ostrich plume
in purple and fur. The under brim
of the hat was of a pretty shade of
purple.
Visitors were attracted to a large
black velvet hat trimmed in gray fur
and having a turquoise ostrich band.
It was caught in the back with an
ornament of cut steel and Jet. The
crown of the hat is very low and is
also of black velvet.
A tailored sailor hat attracted considerable
attention. It also was of
black velvet with a narrow band of
gros grain around the edge of its
wide brim. At regular intervals little
dots of hand embroidered gold appeared
on the brim. The only trimming
on the medium sized crown was
a black and gold chenille on the
front. Another beauty seen was a
large sailor of black velvet with a
very high crown. Its only trimming
was a pair of pink wings across the
front.
In marked contrast to the great majority
of pretty headdresses seen at
Thomson's was a large black velvet
shape with a particularly tall crown
of white bengaline silk. Its only
trimming was a black fancy caught
with a Jet ornament.
SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS.
Tht question of more adequate
school accommodations is beginning to
press Itself on the consideration of the
people of Yorkvtlle. There are those
who have been looking forward to the
matter for several yeat-s; but it is only
of late that the problem has come to be
a subject of general talk, and not yet
have there been any public expressions
that may be taken as showing
the trend of local opinion on the subject.
Upon the completion of the present
school building some twelve years ago,
it was deemed adequate for all reasonable
requirements for many years to
come. With the establishment of the
Church Home orphanage here, and the
admission of the orphans into the
school, some six or seven years later,
the accommodations were considerably
taxed, and certain steps were taken to
meet the situation. Later the Church
Home managed to complete the establishment
of a school of its own for
primary and intermediate grades, and
the pressure was temporarily relieved.
But now, as the result of the natural
growth of the town, the enrollment is
larger than it has ever been, and it is
apparent that additional accommodations
cannot be much longer deferred.
borne few years ago, in 1911, a bill
was passed through the general assembly
to authorize the school district
of Yorkville to vote on the issue of
135,000 worth of bonds to provide additional
accommodations by the enlargement
of the present building or
to purchase additional grounds and
erect new buildings thereon. It happened,
however, that the municipality
had Just voted additional bonds for the
purpose of constructing a filter system
and extending water mains. These
bonds had not yet been sold, and prospective
purchasers raised objection
because of the subsequent act authorizing
the issue of additional bonds.
The objection was based upon the fact
that the issue of $35,000 of additional
bonds would Increase the town's bonded
Indebtedness beyond the 8 per cent
limit permitted by the constitution,
and queer the bonds already voted. On
this account the act authorizing the
school district to vote on the $35,000
of school building bonds was repealed.
At the last election, however, the
people of the state voted for a constl
lUtionai amendment, auiuuruiug wo
school district of Yorkvllle to vote
bonds in excess of the 8 per cent limit
?that is bonds in amount greater than
8 per cent of the assessed value of the
taxable property of the school district.
This constitutional amendment "took
olT the lid," in so far as the school
district is concerned; but in so much as
the boundary of the school district and
of the municipal corporation are identical,
and nothing was said as to the
municipal corporation, there may be
some question yet as to whether all
obstacles have been removed. However,
the fact remains that the school
district and the municipality are confronted
with the need of additional
school accommodations, and the whole
matter is receiving serious consideration.
Among the plans that are being discussed
are:
1. The enlargement of the present
building sufficiently to accommodate
all the school children of the town.
2. The erection of a new building
on King's Mountain street for the primary
and intermediate grades and the
retention of the present building for
high school purposes.
3. The retention of the present
building for the primary and interme
I diate grades ana tne erecuon ui a
j building on King's Mountain street for
high school purposes.
4. The erection of a new building
somewhat similar to the present building,
and the maintenance of complete
| primary, Intermediate and high school
systems in both buildings.
As has been stated, no one having
any recognized prestige or authority
for leadership, has yet publicly voiced
an opinion as to just what is best to
be done or when; but at the same time
the whole subject is receiving quite a
lot of consideration privately, and the
facts are laid before the people of the
town in order that each and every individual
may reach his or her conclusion
as to what is best to be done.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mrs. D. T. Woods is visiting relatives
at Huntersville, N. C.
Mrs. Jos. G. Sassi of Yorkville, is
visiting friends in Norfleld, Vt.
Miss Annis O'Leary is visiting Mrs.
Grady Hardin in Denmark, S. C.
Miss Fannie Duff is visiting her
brother, Mr. J. D. Duff in Clover.
Mr. W. B. Byers of Rock Hill, was
among the visitors here yesterday.
Mr. Harvey Ferguson of Yorkville,
is spending several days in Columbia.
Miss Louise Smith of Clover, has entered
Lander college at Greenwood.
Mr. John A. Shurley of Ebenezer,
was a visitor here this week.
Senator J. E. Beamguard of Clover,
spent a few days in Columbia this
week.
Mrs. Robert Witherspoon of York
ville, was a visitor in Charlotte this
week.
Mr. Ross Love of Clover No. 4, has
secured a position with W. L. Hill In
Sharon.
Mrs. John Knox of Clover, is visiting
the family of Mr. R. D. Dorsett in
Yorkville.
Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Dibble of Clover,
are visiting relatives and friends
in Columbia.
Mr. C. H. Ferguson has returned to
Clover after spending several days In
Norfolk, Va.
Rev. W. J. Roach of Gastonia, visited
Mr. and Mrs. James Garner in
Yorkville this week.
Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Glenn are occupying
the Witherspoon cottage on
Cleveland avenue.
Mrs. J. J. Glenn, who has been
spending several weeks in Pendleton,
has returned to this place.
Messrs. M. T. Williams and John
Matthews of Clover, were visitors In
Gastonia this week.
Cadet Karl Williams of Clemson college,
visited his mother, Mrs. J. L.
Williams, here this week.
Miss Belle Quinn of Gastonia, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis
in the Bethany neighborhood.
Miss Janie Ashe who has been teach*
ing school In Union county, has returned
to her home near McConnellsville.
Kershaw Era, Wednesday: Miss
Scotta Brown returned last Thursday
from a visit to Yorkville, Belmont and
Charlotte.
Miss Bessie McCarter has returnee
to her home on Clover No. 1, after
spending sorae time in Greenville and
Gastonia.
Mrs. N. J. N. Bo wen who was recently
operated on for appendicitis in
a Charlotte hospital, has returned to
her heme here.
Mrs. K. a. muuie, ania? dhuiub
Riddle and Master Robert Gray ot
Clover No. 2, were visitors in Yorkville
Wednesday.
Miss Annie Wit hers poon, who has
been spending several weeks with
lelatives here, has returned to her
home in Columbia.
Messrs. Joe Leech and Horace Foster
of Hickory Grove, resumed their
studies at the University of South Carolina
in Columbia this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Higglns and son,
Palmer, of Baltimore, Md., are guests
of their sister, Mrs. William Caldwell,
at King's Creek.
Mrs. Newton Dickson, who has been
undergoing treatment for appendicitis
in a Charlotte sanatorium, has returned
to her home In Clover, much improved
in health.
Misses Emily Dulln, Gladys Nichols
and Bleeker Beamguard of Clover, left
Wednesday night for Columbia, where
they enter Chicora College for Women.
Among the people of the Bethany
neighborhood who went on the Southem's
excursion to Tampa, Fla., this
week were Mr. and Mrs. Meek Howell
and Misses Lena and Llla Howell.
A. R. Presbyterian, Sept. 22: The
new students in the seminary are: Mr.
W. W. Parkinson of Rosemark, Tenn.;
Mr. Rofft E. Huey of Arlington, Tenn.,
and Mr. P. A. Stroup of Clover, 8. C.
Mr. W. T. McClaln of Yorkville No.
1, was in Rock Hill yesterday on account
of the illness of his son, Mr.
Ed McClain, who is undergoing treatment
in the Fennell infirmary, in Rock
nm.
WInnsboro News and Herald: Rev.
W. H. Stevenson of Lesslie, one of the
talented young ministers of the A. R.
P. church, preached last Sunday to a
large congregation here on "Sabbath
Observance."
. Mrs. Jas. H. Beckham Is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Alonzo Rose, at
Leesville, 8. C. Mrs. Rose had the
misfortune a few days ago to run a
nail in her foot, and has since suffered
much pain.
Mr. Lyle Love, who has been spending
the summer with his parents, Mr.
and Mra R. R. Love, on Yorkvllle No.
3, has resumel his studies in the law
school of the University of South
Carolina.
King's Mountain Herald, Sept. 23:
Rev. J. M. McLain of Clover, filled the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church here
unday morning and night. He
preached two splendid sermons which
were heard with interest. He was the
guest while here of Capt and Mrs. H.
N. Moss.
Rev. J. H. Machen, A. M. Grist, J.
C. Comer, G. W. Brown, S. L. Courtney
and Sam M. Grist attended the
York Baptist association at Rock Hill,
this week as representatives of the
First Baptist church of Yorkvllle,
I while J. J. McSwain and J. C. Robinson
represented the Second church.
Information from Due West is to
the efTect that Dr. J. 8. Moffatt presi:
dent of Erskine college, will hereafter
put in most of his time traveling for
the college. During the absence of
Dr. Moffatt, Prof. E. B. Kennedy, the
vice president, is to discharge the duties
of the presidency.
Gastonia Gazette, Sept 21: Mra. J.
F. Pursley and little Miss Margaret
Pursley of Crowdere Creek, are in town
today. Messra. S. C. Wood and J. W.
Kirkpatrick of Yorkvllle, are business
visitors in Gastonia today. Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Riddle of Bowling Green,
are shopping in town today. Mr. Lucius
Jackson of Bowling Green, is in
Gastonia today., r.
Rock Hill Record, Sept 23: Mra.
J. K. Allison and son of Hickory
onont tnHov In tho ritV. thft
guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Whlsonant.
Misses T. Leech and Elizabeth
Allison and Joe Leech, Jr., of Hickory
Grove, spent yesterday at the
Carolina hotel en route to Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Nell and family
will leave the first of the week for
Columbia, where they will reside in
the future. Dr. and Mrs. E. W.
Preasly, Miss Youngblood and Miss
Matthews of Clover, motored to the
city today in the former's car and visited
friends. Tom Castles of Hickory
Grove, visited friends in the city
today.
LOCAL LACONICS
Until January, 1916.
The price of The Yorkvllle Enquirer
for three months is 60 cents. Upon
receipt of this amount, the paper will
be. sent to any address from this date
to January 1, 1916.
Charged With Theft
Henry Price was committed to the
county Jail by Magistrate Glenn of
Ebenezer township, this week, on the
charge of larceny. He was later released
on bond.
For Carrying a Pistol.
D. C. Cannon was committed to jail
last week bv Magistrate T. B. Glenn
of Ebenezer for carrying a pistol. Ho
was later released on bond to answer
the charge at the court of general sessions.
Many Whita Men on Gang.
At present there are eleven white
men and more than 30 negroes on the
York county chaingang. This Is the
largest number of white persons to be
on the gang since the establishment of
that institution.
Bachelors Defeated Benedicts.
In a ten-inning contest, a baseball
team of married men of Clover, defeated
a team composed of single men
on the Clover baseball diamond Tuesday
afternoon. The score was 2 to 1.
The batteries were?married men?
Moore and Nell; single men?Williams
and Parish. Umpire, J. H. Grayson.
Death of Mrs. W. T. Ligon.
Mrs. W. T. Ligon died at her home
near Rock Hill Wednesday following
a stroke of apoplexy, and was buried
in the cemetery near Catawba church
Tuesday, following funeral services
conducted by Revs. W. J. Nelson and
F. W. Gregg. The deceased was about
42 years of age and is survived by her
husband and several children.
Inspecting Alfalfa Fields.
A number of farmers from Mecklenburg
and Lincoln counties in North
Carolina, are in Rock Hill today inspecting
the alfalfa fields and studying
the methods of the progressive
farmers of that section. The North
Carolina farmers made the trip by automobile.
Their visit will not only
include the alfalfa farms around Rock
TTI11 U..? ?Ill vtAtMv 111/nLf hn oVi/vnm
run, UUi Iiiojr win rci/ Iintij uv q?iwi?m
over Wlnthrop college.
Death of MiM Sallie Howe.
Miss Sallie Howe, who lived near
Hickory Grove, died very suddenly
Tuesday night and was buried In
Hickory Grove on Wednesday, following
funeral services conducted In the
A. R P. church at that place, by Rev.
W. B. Arrowood. Miss Howe was the
last member of her immediate family.
She was 75 years of age, having been
bom in 1840. The deceased was well
known to a large circle of friends and
acquaintances in York and Cherokee
counties. She was for many years a
member of Salem Presbyterian church.
Cheaper Insurance at Fort Mill.
H. C. White of Columbia, is here today
representing the Southeastern
Tariff association for the purpose of
adjusting the Are insurance rates,
says a Fort Mill dispatch of Wednesday.
New rates will be issued as
soon as the survey is completed and
will partake of those published for
third class towns with probably a deficiency
charge of 5 cents. This will
effect a considerable reduction in
rates, especially on mercantile buildings.
Grover Bond Issue Carries.
King's Mountain Herald, Sept. 23:
The town of Grover, our neighbor,
has covered Itself In glory. The recent
bond Issue for school building *
carried In the ratio of 62 to 11. The "
issue is for not less than $6,000 and
not over $6,000. Arrangements for
selling the bonds have been about
completed and work will begin on the
new building right away. Grover has
one of the best schools in the county h
and when It is housed in the new
building, will be a monument to the
good people of the town.
Fort Mill Invention.
Fort Mill Times, Sept. 2$: R. M.
Hood of this city, on Saturday received
Information from Washington of
the granting by the United States
patent office of letters of patent upon
a car wheel fender which Mr. Hood Invented
some months ago and for which
application for patent has been pending
for some time. The serial number
of the patent Is 744211. The
fender can be attached to the trucks
of railway and street coaches and Is
designed to prevent the wheels of cars
passing over any object which might
fall upon the tracka Mr. Hood will ^
arrange to give a demonstration of the
merits of his invention to railroad offlclals
within a short time.
Oats Will Come in Good.
"1 tell you my oat crop Is going to
come In good this fall and winter,"
remarked Mr. J. Claude Bell of Outh- ?
rieeville, who was a visitor here Tuesday
evening. "Corn In my Immediate
section is not good this year, while
the oat crop Is good, and where we
don't have enough corn to do we can
make out with oats." Mr. Bell said
that he made over 200 bushels of oats
on his place and more than 160 bushels
of wheat. The cotton crop In the
Guthriesvllle section, he said, was
pretty good but was short The great
majority of the farmers In his community
intended selling their crop as
fast as they could get It out Mr. Bell
said that he was unwilling to sell bis
cotton crop at 10 cents per pound, because
he believed that It would bring
a much better price between now and
spring. a
Electrification Talk. I
Charlotte Observer, Wednesday: A
month ago the Observer outlined a
i number of railroad possibilities for the
Blowing Rock section of the state, and
L one was the running, at some future
i time, of electric cars from Indepen- 1
dence Square through Oastonla and W
. Lenoir and on to some point of the
! extended Carolina ft North-Western
' railroad. The reoent trip of Mr. Duke
in that section of the state has re'
vived speculation and has inspired
new hopes In the minds of the mountain
people. The electric car trip
spoken of Is not only a possibility, but
may be said to be a probability. The
electrification of the Carolina it Northwestern
road would bring it to pasa
The C. ft N.-w. Is not only a pros
peroua line, but it has been always
under a progressive and aggressive
management It is surrounded by cir,
cumstancea that create natural advantages
for its operation by electric
power. The cost of changing from
steam to electricity would be an item
of much consequence, but one that in
a short time would be more than
offset by expedition in service and
economy in operation. There may be
great possibilities in store for the
Carolina A, North-Western.
To Tax Shareholders Direct.
Auditor Love has received from the ^
state tax commission a list of 46'/ '
snare holders in York county banks,
witn instructions to add to the personally
already charged against each one
oo per cent of the book value of his
or ner bank stock holdings Heretotore
the banks have been making returns
for their stockholders, and pay- *
ing taxes for them. The tax commission
sought to equalise bank returns
on this basis according to their own
ideas of Justice and equity. The banks
went to the courts, and Judge Watts
held the commission up. It seems
now that it is the Intention of the com
miss I on to require the banks to pay
taxes on their realty only, and require
each shareholder to pay taxes on his
own stock holdings. The assessment
laid by the tax commission is nearly
twice the amount most of the banks
have been returning heretofore. In
other words, the commission is evidently
seeking to get from the shareholders
the same amount it originally
sought to get from the banks. The
auditor will have to carry out on his
books the amount charged against
each shareholder and the treasurer
will have to include all these amounts
In the different receipts. That this
new move on the part of the tax commission
will be resisted as strenuously
as was the effort to raise the assessment
against' the banks goes without
saying. The tax commission however,
claims that it is only trying to enforce
the law as it has stated all along.
Issnhowsr Cass Comes to York. %
Winnsboro special of September 22,
to the News and Courier: At the
opening of the court this morning,
Judge Rice announced that the case of
the state against Jesse Morrison. Jas.
Rawls and Ernest Isenhower, charging
them with the shooting of Sheriff
A. D. Hood, Rural Policeman Boul- *
ware and the negro prisoner, Jule *
Smith, on the courthouse steps in
June, would be transferred for trial
at York. During the day a formal
order was signed by the Judge directing
that the case be tried in York
county. The question of granting the
change of venue has caused considerable
discussion since the Judge ordered
the case to be heard by the Jury
of another county, and a great many
citizens have expressed themselves as
desiring the cases disposed of by a
Jury composed of Fairfield men, believing
that the county should not
shift the odium of trying one of the
most deplorable and terrible tragedies
that ever occurred in South Carolina
to another county in the Judicial circuit.
Solicitor Henry requested the
grand Jury, who were in session, to
make a report in the matter and ac- .
quaint him with the views of the peo- >
pie, and in their report, which was
not read yesterday, but which waa
made a part of the record, they unqualifiedly
reported that the cases
should be tried in this county. However,
it must be stated that few people
with whom the correspondent has m
talked are of the opinion that a Jury
free from bias or passion could be secured
without great difficulty, as almost
every citizen seems to have a
conviction either on one side or the
other. The next term of court of general
sessions for Tork county convenes
November 23, but whether these
cases are to be tried at this term has
not been determined.
MERE-MENTION
W. B. Slaughter, president of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo,
Col., which failed last March, has been
arrested by Federal officers on account
of his connection with the bank's failure
The Central of Georgia railroad
proposes to place an order for-_^_
500 freight cars and 500 refrigerator
cars Jas. W. Alexander, former
president of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, died in Tuxedo, N. Y.,
Tuesday night. J. J. Mendenhall
is on trial at Clearwater, Fla., for the
murder of Mrs. Bessie Elliott and her ^
daughter, Susie, on the night of July 2.
... .Two men were killed and four seriously
injured in a pistol battle at the
commissary of the L. N. Dantzler Turpentine
company at Dantzler, Miss.,
Sunday night. Seventeen miners
lost their lives in a Are in a coal mine
at Nuneaton, England, Tuesday
William H. Baker, manufacturer of
the famous Baker chocolates and a
leading banker of Virginia, died in
Winchester, Va., Tuesday, aged 65.
Queen Wilhelmina and her little
daughter were badly bruised Monday
when an automobile in which they <
were riding, collided with another ma
ouigana is i c^/ui icu tv
have mobilised 100,000 men Chatham
county, Ga., of which Savannah
Is the county seat, has voted a $900,000
bond issue to be used in building good
roads Victor D. Rush is in Jail
In Cros8vllle, Tenn., charged with the
murder of his brother, Will Rush, and
his brother's wife Joseph B. Foraker,
former United States senator ^
from Ohio, and one of the most famous
lawyers in the United States, is in
a critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital
Dr. Richard P. Strong, head
of the American sanitary commission
in Servia, is on his way to this country.
Mrs. Beulah Hoover of Woavers- ^
ville, N. C., was killed Wednesday,
when an automobile in which she was
riding dashed into a tree.