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Scraps and .facts.
? The minister of education of Prussia
has issued a decree, according to
which the various school authorities
are directed to give the pupils a vacation
that they may systematically collect
beechnuts and acorns which are
now falling, for the sake of the oil
and fats they contain. The minister
of agriculture has estimated that 400,000
tons of the former and 100,000 tons
of the latter will go to waste unless
some definite steps are taken to gather
them. From the components of the
nuts, it has been found, a very acceptable
table oil can be made which
it is believed will go a long way to relieve
the present shortage in that commodity.
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? nepresenianvf tmuuc iuivum.
Democratic leader of the house, who
opposes the administration's national
defense programme, returned to the
capital last Saturday to prepare for the
organization meeting of the ways and
means committee this week. Representative
Kitchin said he would favor
a congressional inquiry into what he
, characterized as defense propaganda to
determine whether it may be supported
by persons allied with the manufacture
of munitions. He did not comment on
Secretary McAdoo's treasury estimates,
but said that when the preparedness
programme finally was adjusted by
oongress, he would co-operate with
the administration on measures for
necessary revenues. "First, 1 want to
keep the people from being taxed for
preparedness." said Representative
Kitchin. "but if I cannot prevent that.
I do not propose to oppose the party
in providing for necessary revenues.'*
? The British government has yielded
to the American representations for
removal of all restrictions on the shipment
of tobacco to neutral consignees
in neutral countries, word reached
Washington last Saturday from the
American embassy at London. The
British embassy sent the following
message to Secretary Lansing: "The
foreign office informs me that the
British government agrees for the
present not to interfere with the cargoes
of tobacco shipped to neutral
consignees in neutral countries and
states that in these circumstances tobacco
in all its forms destined for
Holland will no longer be required to
be consigned to the Netherlands Overseas
Trust." The removal of the British
restrictions, protested against by
representatives of tobacco producing t
states, relieve? a situation wnicn resulted
in overstocking of the tobacco
warehouses. Scarcity of ships to
handle the product and higher freight
rates now confront tobacco shippers.
? In reply to criticisms of the American
Bankers1 association in connection
with his declaration that many national
banks charge usurious interest
rates, John Skelton Williams, comptroller
of the currency, issued a statement
last Friday night again giving
instances of such practices. Mr. Williams
said it was true that a majority
of the national banks obeyed the
usury laws of the various states, but
that the reports rendered to him
showed, as he announced in speeches
and previous public statements, that
this was far from being universally
true. "The only states where there
were no national banks which admitted
under oath in their statements
of September 2, 1915, that they were
charging as high as 12 per cent on
any of their loans were Connecticut,
Delaware, Mississippi, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island. Vermont and
Wisconsin," said the statement. It added
that reports of September 2, 1915,
showed that 2,743 of the 7,613 national
banks of the country were charging 10
per cent on some loans. Mr. Williams
suggested that hereafter national
banks be required to print in their
published statements of condition the
maximum rate of interest charged.
He expressed the hope that the association
will work with the comptroller's
office to end the practices complain
ea or.
? Rudyard Kipling, the British author,
sends the following to the London
Daily Telegram: "Who a few months
ago could have invented, or having invented.
would dare print such a nightmare
as this: There was a boat in
the North sea which ran into a net and
was caught by the nose. She rose, still
entangled, meaning to cut the thing
away on the surface, but a Zeppelin in
waiting saw and bombarded her, and
she had to go down again at once,
but not too wildly, or she would then
get herself more wrapped up than ever.
She went down and by slow working
and weaving and wriggling, guided
only by guesses at the meaning of
each scrape and grind of the net on her
blind forehead, at last she drew clear:
then she sat on the bottom and
thought the question over, whether
she should go back at once and warn
her confederates against the trap or
wait until the destroyers, which she
knew the Zeppelin would have signalled,
should come out to finish her, still
entangled as they would suppose in the
net, which was a simple calculation of
comparative speeds and position,
when it was worked out she decided
to try for the double event. Within
the few minutes of time allowed for
them, she heard the twitter of four
destroyers' screws quartering above
her. She rose, got her shot in, and
saw one destroyer crumble, hung
around till another took the wreck in
tow; and said goodby to the spare
"o woo at tKo Art/1 rtf hop
supplies, and reached the rendezvous
in time to warn her friends.
? Mrs. Phillip Snowden, wife of a
member of the British parliament, who
with Madame Rosika Schwimmer of
Hungary, interviewed President Wilson
Friday night to gain his support
of the proposed conference of neutrals
to initiate peace, quoted the president
as having said: "You need not plead
with me. I am anxious, most anxious.
to do all that I can for peace. I
shall earnestly endeavor to unite offi*
cial opinion to that end." Mrs. Snowden.
through the woman's peace party,
gave out a typewritten statement of
the interview, before her departure on
the steamship Ryndam for England,
where she said she was going to ask
Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw
and other prominent English men and
women to meet at The Hague the
pacificists who sail December 4, on
Henry Ford's peace ship, the Oscar II.
"President Wilson is in absolute sympathy
with the peace idea,'* read the
statement. "There is not the slightest
doubt that he wants to do something
but he hesitates lest he might act at
the wrong time. When I su^ested
that it was regrettable that the English
people had gotten the idea America
wished the war to go on, for the sake
of the money made out of it. he said
earnestly that it was very unfair that
the American point of view should
have been so presented to Europe.
'But we cannot expect fairness in
war, can we?' I reminded him. In
our conversation with him. either Mme.
Schwimmer or I used the word
'plead.' He spoke most sincerely, saying,
'you need not plead with me. 1
am anxious, most anxious, to do all
that I can for peace. I shall earnestly
endeavor to unite official and unofficial
opinion to that end.' Both
Mme. Schwimmer and I believe that
was all that could possibly be expected
of the head of a great government."
Definite announcement that
Henry Ford had obtained accommodations?the
entire first and second
oahins?for his "Deace oartv" aboard
the steamship Oscar II, was made
Friday night by the ScandinavianAmerican
line. The third cabin will
be given over to regular travelers.
? New York, November 28: With,
choice turkey selling as high as 35
cents a pound. Commissioner Joseph
Hartiman's men from the mayor's bureau
of weights and measures, yesterday
arrested 125 butchers, accusing
them of selling short weight. Most of
them were locked up for arraignment
today, but one, Frederick Ermann of
2216 Eighth avenue, the commissioner
himself brought to night court, saying
that Ermann had one of the most ingenious
swindling schemes he had
ever seen. The commissioner said his
inspectors had suspected Ermann for
some time of selling short weight, but
had never been able to catch him.
Yesterday a woman inspector visited
his butcher shop, which is between
119th and 120th street, and bought a
four-pound turkey, paying 28 cents a
pound. She carried it around the corner
to the commissioner's automobile
where the official scales showed it to
be just seven ounces short of full
weight. So they waited for an hour or
so and then Inspector Albert Lutz
went in and bought a five-pound bird.
He weighed his outside also and it, too,
was just seven ounces below weight.
So then he entered the shop and arrested
Ermann. The commissioner
said they found Ermann had been using
a computing scale which rested
on the counter and beneath it he had
fashioned an arrangement which he
operated with a pedal beneath the
counter and which automatically increased
by exactly seven ounces the
record weight of anything placed on
the scales. Mr. Hartigan said that
Ermann had sold more than 200 turkeys
yesterday, and so had profited, at
28 cents a pound, on between 90 and
100 pounds falsely recorded by the
pressure or nis roox, a pain 01 mure
han $25. Ermann pleaded guilty
when he was arraigned before Magistrate
Koenig. He was held for trial
in rpecial sessions.
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Entered at the Postofflee at York as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORK, S. C.:
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1915.
Many editorial paragraphs appear
In the newspapers of this county which
are not intended to be taken seriously.
One such paragraph there was In
the issue of the Times of November
11. Facetiously rather than seriously
we referred to the differences which
lately have arisen between The Yorkville
Enquirer and the Rock Hill
Record over the distribution among
the county newspapers of certain legal
advertising. In its issue of Tuesday,
November 16. The Enquirer reproduced
the Times' paragraph and referred
to it editorially in a way that
indicates that Editor Grist has unwittingly
misconstrued its meaning.
The position The Enquirer takes with
reference to newspapers exceeding the
rates prescribed by law in their
charges for legal advertising is of
course unassailable. If newspapers
have overcharged the county for advertising,
The Enquirer does the public
a service in calling attention to it.
Further in connection with the Times'
paragraph, we wish to assure me inquirer
that it was not intended to be
offensive, but was spoken as so much
pleasantry.?Fort Mill Times.
Because we had always been accustomed
to take the Times quite seriously.
we were too surprised when we
saw its paragraph to think of the idea
of facetiousness. This more especially
because of the seriousness of the subject,
and likewise there is something
disreputable in the idea of "squealing
against the other fellow." It seems
to carry the suggestion of complicity
and betrayal, and our skin is not quite
thick enough for that. But we are not
surprised at the explanation of the
Times as published above, for to do
the square thing is in accord with its
real intention.
We are not familiar with all the details
that have led up to the trial of
Tom Watson for#sending obscene literature
through the malls; but as we
understand it the prosecution has
grown out of Tom Watson's fight
against the Roman Catholic church.
Mr. Watson is one of those men who
believes that the one great end to
which the Catholic church is striving is
the re-organization of the temporal
power that was wrenched from it by
Garabaldi about the middle of the
last century. He thinks that all the
efforts of the present day church are
dedicated to this end, and that America
is an especially promising field of
operations. He holds to the conviction
that all Roman Catholics believe
that temporal power is the especial
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prerogative ur men cuuau, tmu mm
any service that any Roman Catholic
can render to that end is regarded by
him as service to Christ. In his fighting
Mr. Watson has used some very
plain language to certain alleged beliefs
and practices of the church,
some of it in the guise of Latin quotations
and some of it plain English.
We have never thought of Mr. Watson
as an obscene man, and we cannot
conceive of how he can be held
guilty of dealing with obscenity unless
it is deliberately intending to befowl
and lower the minds of others,
and this is hardly credible. Watson is
a remarkable genius in his way, and
whether he is right or wrong in his
beliefs is a question of very grave
difference in very great minds; but
somehow we are unable to think that
he is really guilty as charged in the
indictments against him. Of course
he may be technically guilty; but in
a case like this technical guilt can
hardly count. And if it is only a
technical offense on which he is being
prosecuted, the prosecution cannot be
held to be of very great credit to his
prosecutors. In our opinion a church,
especially a great church like the
Roman Catholic church, should have
too much confidence in itself, too
much faith in itself to be sensitive
about the abuse or revilings of any
man or any set of men. However,
this is not our fight, and we can only
lot It <ta nn Tho ennromp nmirt nf
the United States, we feel sure, is big
enough to settle the matter aright.
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"Those merchants in Anderson and
Greenwood certainly believe in adver- 1
tising, and it is no wonder people go I
from Abbeville there to trade. The <
Daily Mai) and Daily Intelligencer of
Anderson, carry from 8 to 16 pages ]
every day, and the Farmers' Tribune
also has a large amount of advertis- '
ing, and in Greenwood, the Daily
Journal carried two whole pages of
bank advertisements on Friday, not
to speak of other concerns, and the
Index has to print from 12 to 24 |
pages to handle its advertising, but .
a great many of our business people (
figure they will get your business any- (
way, that it is a cinch, and rather
than pay the Medium a fair price ;
based on its . circulation they will j
freeze us out and get your trade anyhow.
You don't have to trade with
them do you? The Medium has had
a good deal to say about trading at '
home but if you can't find what you :
want with our advertisers our advice
is get it where you can."?Abbeville !
Medium.
We thank the Medium for the com- .
pliment he pays the merchants of
Greenwood, but for his consolation we ,
will state that there was a time when '
only a few merchants in Greenwood
were regular advertisers, and we know '
when only one bank ran ads at all, and (
it did not do a great deal along this '
line, but that day is past, and the '
business man who expects to do any- '
thing in Greenwood knows that he
must advertise, and so nearly all our 1
merchants are good advertisers. Our 5
people have found out that money
spent for advertising is money well <
spent and so they use space freely.
If our contemporary will allow us to <
make a suggestion, we would venture <
to say to him that it seems to us that <
he is not going after the merchants J
of his city in the right way; for there i
are just as good business men in Abbeville
as there are in other places. They
need only to be convinced that it is
good business to advertise. That i'
brings in valuable returns and they
will come across, but this must be
done before by persuasion, and reasoning.
and not with a stick.?Greenwood
Journal.
It is undoubtedly a fact that Greenwood
and Anderson are two of the
livest and most progressive towns in
South Carolina. It is also a fact that
the business people of these two towns
are among: the livest and most libera!
advertisers. There may be some question
as to whether the progressive 4
spirit makes the liberal advertiser, or 1
he liberal advertiser makes the progressive
spirit; but it is unquestionibly
a fact that one is characteristic
if the other and the two are always
'ound together. As to how far the
excellent ADDeville Medium may be
o blame for the lack of the advertising
spirit in Abbeville, we cannot say:
nor can we say how much credit attaches
to the Greenwood and Anderson
papers for the liberality of their advertisers.
All of these papers an^
most excellent, and somehow we are
inclined to think that they have as little
to do with the situation in the one
case as in the other. The fact remains.
however, that a progressive
people are an advertising peopie anu
an advertising people are a progressive
people.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
?George D. Brown, state superintendent
of mill schools, reports that
24 high schools have been organized in
Spartanburg county.
? Federal Judge Smith on last Saturday
appointed Jacob Phinizy of Augusta
and R. G. Rhett of Charleston,
receivers for the Graniteville Manufacturing
company, of Aiken county,
and empowered them to begin the operation
of the firm's three cotton mills.
Creditors, represented at the hearing,
presented claims aggregating $500,000.
? Sam Lee, a well known white man
of Olanta, Florence county, was killed,
his son, Olin Lee, probably fatally
wounded and Policemen George Ham
and Charlie McElveen were more or
less seriously wounded in an affray
which took place in Olanta, Saturday
afternoon, following the arrest of Dr.
H. B. Lee, a kinsman of the dead
man, on the charge of adultery. Carson
Lee, another son of Sam Lee, was
uninjured in the fracas. The two policemen
have given bond to answer,
the charge of killing Lee.
? The ten big, gray battleships of
the Atlantic fleet which will come to
Charleston within the next few days
as a feature of the Southern Commercial
congress, lifted anchor in the
North river, New York, yesterday
morning, where they have been anchored
during the Thanksgiving season.
A brief stop will be made at
Hampton Roads in making the journey
south. From Charleston the fleet
will advance to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
where target practice and manoeuvres
in battle efficiency will be ordered.
Vice Admiral Mayo is in
command. The vessels are the Virginia,
Rear Admiral Coffin's flagship;
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Georgia,
Louisiana, Texas, Minnesota, New
York, South Carolina and the Arkan
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? Greenville Piedmont: The latest
and most unique manner in which to
peddle liquor in prohibition territory
was brought to light early this morning
by the police department. Officers
Alexander and Patterson, while returning
from a call to the edge of the
city about 1.30 this morning, noticed
two negroes walking up Laurens
street near College street, and a small
hand satchel carried by one of the
men aroused the suspicions of the officers.
They investigated and found
that the satchel contained a gallon jug
of whisky, the mouth of the bottle
protruding slightly from the end of
the hand bag so that the liquor could
be poured out without opening the
satchel. When asked by one of the
officers to account for himself, Thad
Johnson, the negro carrying the grip,
said, "I ain't got nothing an' I ain't
goin' nowhere." He was, however, la boring
under a misapprehension, for
he went at once to the police station.
? Greenville News, Sunday: As a
result of a melee at Judson mills Saturday
morning, in which several men
participated, and knives were used as
weapons, Dave Freeze, a striker was
seriously cut, and is now in a critical
condition at the city hospital, while
J. M. Humphries and Gordon Brown,
employees of the mill, received lesser
knife wounda D. G. Huggins, another
employee of the mill, narrowly escaped
injury. His clothes were slashed,
but the knife did not go deep enough
to injure him. SherifT Rector was
called to the scene, and arrested four
men?Gordon Brown, J. M. Humphries,
D. G. Huggins and T. A. Harvey. These
men were lodged in the city police station,
pending developments. Deputy
Justice of Judson mills, was on the
scene and attempted to stop the
trouble at the outset, but the situation
soon got beyond him. The fight occured
a few minutes past six o'clock,
whilp it was yet dark, so it is next to
impossible to get a coherent and accurate
account as to detail. Statements
concerning the trouble vary
widely, the strikers alleging they were
aitacKea, wnne xne same siaiemem ??
made by the employes. How many
men took part In the soruggle is noo
known, though there, were not more
than ten or twelve, if that many, according
to reports. Deputy Justice
could not distinguish all those in the
mix-up. The fight started about the
time for the mill to open. Many of
the operatives were on the inside of
the building, and others were coming
in. Several strikers and some of the
operatives, for one reason or another,
became engaged in an altercation,
which developed into the fight. The
men were between the mill office and
the main entrance to the plant. Freeze
was terribly cut. being partially disemboweled
and having several ribs
severed. Injuries to others were not
sufficient to warrant confining them
to the hospital. Sheriff .Rector stated
Saturday night that he had no idea
there would be further trouble and
that he hoped for an early settlement
of all the trouble growing out of the
strike. Magistrates Stradley and Ballinger
have ruled that the strikers notified
to leave their houses, must do
so. There were twenty-two cases of
this nature in the magistrate's courts,
the strikers being summoned to show
cause whv they should not remove
from the mill's houses. It is not the
intention of the mill management to
work a hardship upon any of these
men by causing them to leave precipitately
and before they have plans for
residence elsewhere. The surgeon who
is attending Mr. Freeze stated Saturday
night that the wounded man had
possibly one chance in ten to recover.
Hemorrhage and infection are feared.
[Later: Freeze died after the above
was put in type.]
MERE-MENTION
Sixteen deaths resulted from foot- i
ball during the season which ended
Thanksgiving day, according to a Chicago
statistician Mrs. Nancy Brock
died at the home of her daughter near ,
Birmingham, Ala., Saturday, aged 115
^ears. She was born in North Carolina
In 1800 According to a dis- 1
patch from Brussels, a French soldier <
whose confession to the Germans re- |
suited in the arrest and execution of
Miss Edith Cavell, an English nurse, '
ay German troops several weeks ago, '
?ommitted suicide in a military prison ]
by hanging himself R. B. Sims, ,
warden of the Oklahoma state penilentiary,
has been summoned to ap- 1
pear before the state supreme court to '
show why he should not be fined, imprisoned.
or both, for refusing to execute
Wm. Falten, a prisoner who was 1
condemned to be executed Saturday. 1
\ committee of physicians recently 1
leclared Falten Insane and for this <
eason Sims refused to execute him.
. .. .The steamship Trivoli was burned '
near Thomas Point, Md., Friday night, '
several passengers losing their lives. <
Albert Wakefield, a blind man ]
nf Bessemer, Ala., shot Miss Ruby
Walthall to death on Friday and then 1
committed suicide Charles C. '
Crowley is under arrest in San Fran- <
Rsco, Cal., charged with conspiracy to ,
further the destruction of ships bearng
munitions for the Allies. Crowley
is a German. His bond was fixed at j
15,000 Fire in Eastman. Ga? on
Friday destroyed a cotton mill valued
it $250,000 Rev. Francis H. '
[yosslie. an American missionary in Ar- I
nenia, is reported to have been killed ]
ast week by Turks at Urfa, Mcsopo- j
amia, while trying to defend Armenians
from Turks. .Walter C. Whiffcn, '
i correspondent of the Associated Press I
with the Russian army, is reported, to <
have been shot in the thigh last week. ,
Re will recover Dr. K. V. Wei
ington Koo, recently appointed Chi- 1
ncse minister to the United States, ar- t
rived in New York Sunday Fire ]
n the warehouses of the Pine Bluff
.'empress company of Pine Bluff,
Ark., Sunday, destroyed about 15,000 1
nales of cotton, valued at $1,250,000. s
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Carroll Supply Co.?Will pay 65 cents
a bushel for cotton seed. See them
for flour. Grain drill for sale.
James Bros.?This morning received
their fifth car of mules?the best
animals they have ever brought to
this market.
A. M. McGIll?Tells you why you will
find it to your interest to trade with
him this month. Special prices are
quoted.
Committee?Invites the public to a
supper at Cotton Belt school next
Friday night. Oysters.
City Pressing Club, Clover?Has removed
to new quarters. It wants
your cleaning and pressing.
Charlie Wright?Will pay for trouble
of return of a lost red hound bitch.
W. D. Grist?Wants information as to
the establishment of the Ebenezer
academy, in operation in 1824.
Trustees District No. 54?Give notice
of special tax election in said district,
at New Zion school house on
December 16.
York Drug Store?Suggests cigars and
pipes as suitable for Christmas souvenira
It has lots of both of the
best qualities.
T. W. Speck?Reminds holiday shoppers
that the time is short and invites
you to visit his store for gift
goods of all kinds.
Carroll Bros.?Have lots of buggies on
hand now. Farm tools and lmpleents.
Rice meal for hoga
McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Makes a
special offering of $3.50 to $5.00
silk waists at $1.48 each.
Thomson Co.?Invites attention to $15
coat suits at $10; new line of coats
at $5 to $10; crepe de chine waists
at $2.50; boys' clothing, etc.
J. M. Stroup?Wants you to see him
for Herman's English walking
shoes for men, and also for new
styles of Stetson hats.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Has Just received
big line of mackinaws for
boys and men. Big lines of clothing
for men and boys; overcoats, etc.
The recent statement in The Enquirer
to the efTect that the overcoat
found by Mr. J. C. Wallace, belonged
to Rev. J. J. Byers, colored, has turned
out to be a mistake. Byers saw the
coat found by Mr. Wallace and discovered
that it did not belong to him.
Mr. Wallace still has the coat he
found and Byers's coat Is still lost.
It will be very much appreciated by
us if our friends, the clubmakers, will
kindly get in all renewals for The Enquirer
as soon as possible. While of
course these renewals will be properly
credited in the mailing list whenever
they may be received, the more time
we have for handling them properly
in books and mailing list, the less
probability of confusion or errors. New
subscribers returned now, get one full
month extra for the price of a year's
subscription.
That Rock Hill idea of establishing
a school for cooks is a good one, well
worthy of emulation over the state.
When Secretary Timmons of the Rock
Hill chamber of commerce, was asked
about it, he took occasion to give full
credit to Superintendent Burts of the
Graded schools, and Manager Guard of
the Gas company; but at the same
time he stated that the movement had
the endorsement and approval of the
chamber of commerce. He also suggested
that Yorkville could probably
also secure a part of the time of the
expert teacher in charge, if it were so
desired. He explained that the matter
could be arranged so the teacher could
give a part of her time to Rock Hill
and a part of her time to Yorkville.
HOW TO SELL THINGS ,
A country merchant who lives near
Yorkville, stepped into the store of
Mr. G. W. Sherer (Old George, . the
Butcher) a few days ago, and made
inquiries about his advertised guarantee
to rid a house of rats "within
forty-eight hours."
"Old George" promptly produced a
package of a well known rat poison
which he offered for 25 cents.
"Why," said the merchant customer,
"I have had that stuff in stock for
two or three years, and I have never
sold a package yet."
"Well, I have sold more than a dozen
packages this week," Old George replied,
"and the trouble with you," he
further advised, "Is that you do not
understand the well established fact
that if you have a good thing that you
want the public to know about, you
must advertise it."
GENERAL SE3SION8
W. E. Gardner, a young white man,
who formerly resided in Rock Hill,
was found guilty of issuing fraudulent
checks. He has not yet been sentenced.
James Stevenson, a young white man
of the Bullock's Creek community, was
tried Friday on the charge of shooting
John W. Hafner, also white, to death
several months ago. The Jury declared
him not guilty.
The motion for a new trial on the
part of counsel for Ed Robinson, a
negro boy, who was last week convicted
of larceny, he being alleged to have
been a party to the attempted robery
of the safe of Sherer & Quinn
in Yorkville several weeks ago, was refused.
and he was sentenced to serve
one year In the reformatory for colored
youths.
It is understood that the work of dis
posfntr or criminal cases win De continued
next week.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Mr. C. F. Sherer, the owner, is Installing
plate glass windows and making
other improvements to the store
room now occupied by John Demas.
? Collections taken for the benefit of
the Church Home Orphanage at the
Union Thanksgiving service here last
Thursday totaled $220.
? On account of the large number of
visiting negroes in town Sunday and
the fact that many of them had to be
fed, the officers of Clinton Chapel asked
for and obtained permission from Mayor
Wilbom to sell soft drinks and
lunches to such as wanted this kind
of service. The mayor granted the permission
on the assurance that the
privilege would not be abused. During
the entire day the best of order prevailed
and everyone appeared to be on
lis good behavior.
? Owing to their inability to manufacture
cotton seed oil products at a
profit, such condition being due to the
oigh price of seed the Yorkville Cotton
Oil mill has suspended seed crushing
operations for the balance of the season.
Superintendent V. L. Smith of the
>il mill, has taken a position with the
Lancaster Oil mill, which position was
r.ad*1 vacant by the killing of Superntendent
E. M. Watkins of the Lancaster
mill, by a negro several weeks
?go.
? Her death coming entirely unexpected,
Mrs. Myra Elizabeth Dickson,i
elict of the late William Dickson, I
[)assed away at her home here yeserday
morning at 9.25 o'clock of
icart trouble, and was buried in Rose
Hill cemetery this afternoon, following
'uneral services conducted at her late
home by her pastor. Rev. Henry
Stokes. Mrs. Dickson was in the 77th
'ear of her age, having been born In
Georgia on April 23, 1838, the dnugh:er
of the late Joseph E. and Mary
Howell. On February 4, 1863, she marked
William Dickson, and with her
lusband came here to live. Mr. Dickion
died February 6, 1911. The de
ceased is survived by the following
children: Messrs. Joseph G., Jaire?
H., William S. and Walter W. Dickson
of this place: C. W. Dickson of Smyrna
R. F. D., Misses Mary and Margrarel
Dickson who reside here and Mrs
Robert Smith of Filbert No. 1. A halfsister,
Mrs. Jennie Queen, of Gainesville,
Ga., and a half-brother, Mr. Geo
Howell, who lives In the west, alsc
survive. Mrs. Dicks.on was for manj
years a member of Trinity Methodist
church and had many friends and acquaintances
in the town and through
(out the community. The funeral was
attended by many relatives anc
friends.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Court of common pleas for the regular
fall term convened yesterdaj
morning with Judge Rice presiding
but adjourned until today soon aftei
opening. the case of Sutton vs. Catawba
Power Co., which was set for th<
initial date not being ready for trial
It is understood the case will not be
brought up at this term of the court.
When court convened this morning
the case of Buenna Vista Woojls vs
the Rock Hill Fertilizer Co., was entered
into. This case, in which the
plaintiff asks damages of the defendant
company on the ground that odors
gases, etc., from the company's planl
makes her residence in Rock Hill ar
undesirable place in which to live, was
tried in the court of common pleae
here in the spring and resulted in a
mistrial. It was carried to the supreme
court and remanded back to tht
lower court for a second hearing.
Judge Rice gave the lawyers to understand
this morning that he will tolerate
no delay in the trial of clvi!
cases. There was a few minutes' delay
in getting things under way this
morning and his honor said: "Gentlemen,
I will tell you right now, unles<
you are ready with your witnesses
etc., this court will adjourn." In a
few seconds thereafter the judicial machinery
was running smoothly.
It is probable that the Woods cas<
will engage the attention of the courl
all of today and part of tomorrow at
least.
Following are the cases set for trial
at the present term of common pleaf
court:
13. Sutton vs. Catawba Power Co.
4. Duncan vs. Southern Railway Co
34. D. E. Finley ot al., vs. M. E
Robinson.
38. Henderson vs. Beckham.
39. Caston vs. City of Rock Hill.
40. McGill vs. Hartness, et al.
41. Blackmon vs. Jenkins.
4*1. Bank vs. Castles.
45. Carroll vs. Branch.
47. Cook vs. Singer Sewing Machine
Co.
48. Small vs. W. U. Tel. Co.
49. Chllders vs. McGill.
54. Perry va Miller.
55. Rock Hill Supply Co. vs. Wilson
56. J. L Phillips & Co., vs Wilson
59. McFadden vs. Equitable Life Insurance
Co.
fO. Bank vs. Peoples' Trust Co.
CI. Bank vs. Peoples' Trust Co.
CLOVER'S NUISANCE ENDED
The town of Clover is no longer providing
a whisky depot for Gaston and
other North Carolina counties thai
border on the South Carolina line, af
has been the case for the past few
months.
The traffic came to an end on last
Saturday.
Including the express receipts ol
I Friday night. Saturday and Monday
and today, there are about 125 packages
of liquor in the Clover express
office, consigned to North Carolinians;
but no more of it is going out. More
than that, the North Carolinians have
quit coming after the stuff.
Upon receipt of The Enquirer last
Friday afterioon carrying the recommendation
of the grand Jury on the
subject, and the remarks of Judge
Rice in connection therewith. Magistrate
A. J. Quinn took prompt action.
He called upon the express agent, advised
him of the law. and suggested
a way to keep the North Carolinians
out of trouble. His suggestion was to
the effect that when the people from
North Carolina applied for their packages.
they should be told of the ruling
of the court that the gallon a month
law was ror soutn Carolinians oniy ana
that North Carolinians with liquor in
their possession would be arrested for
violation of the dispensary law against
transporting, the penalty for which Is
confiscation of the liquor and $200 fine
or chain gang.
The large contingent of North Carolinians
showed up on Saturday morning
as usual and with them was a
bunch of York county people, mostly
negroes from the surrounding country'
Magistrate Quinn was on hand,
accompanied by his constable, Carson
Hedricks, fully prepared to take care
of any who might see proper to disregard
the warning of the express
agent.
But there was very little trouble.
The North Carolinians took the situation
philosophically. They carried
rather gloomy looking countenances as
they came out of the express office;
but that was all. They started back
home at once, and the news they carried
spread like wild fire, and made
others that they met on the road turn
about.
There was only one arrest. A negro
named Monroe Lockhart, who said he
formerly lived at Tirzah; but now lives
near Bethany, receipted for a package
of liquor and got away with it. Some
people who knew the negro told
Magistrate Quinn that he lives in
North Carolina, and the magistrate
promptly took means to catch him.
He is now in the county Jail.
There are still about 125 packages of
liquor in the Clover express office, less
a few packages that may have been
olcrriA/l for anr\ ocnt hnr.lt Rut the
hacks and Jitney busses have ceased
coming. There were a few there yesterday;
but none have showed up this
morning so far as heard from.
The course of Magistrate Qulnn in
the matter is generally commended
about Clover. He acted on the theory
that since the practice of getting 11quer
into North Carolina by way
of Clover, had become generally
accepted as within the law, and even
the magistrate knew no better, it
would be unfair to go into wholesale
arrests without previous warning, and
this view is met with common approval.
All the Clover people and the people
along the North and South road from
Clover to the North Carolina line
wanted was to stop the nuisance, and
it has been stopped.
CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
The Upper South Carolina conference,
which has been in session in
Spartanburg for a week, adjourned
yesterday to meet next year with the
Buncombe Street church, Greenville.
During the closing hours a resolution,
aimed at the president's preparedness
policy, was voted down. The ap
pominieuis 1ui ucai yxstxi ocjc announced
as follows:
Anderson District?T. C. O'Dell,
presiding elder: Antreville, \V. T. Belvln;
Bethel, J. G. Huggin; Calhoun
Falls, J. W. Bailey: Clemson College,
J. M. Steadman; Central, B. M. Robinson;
Honea Path, S. T. Blackmon;
Lowndesville, M. K. Meadors; McCormick,
J. T. Miller; Orrville, L. W.
Johnson: Pelzer, J. H. Danner: Pendleton,
W. M. Owings; Seneca, N, G.
Ballenger; Starr, A. Q. Rice: St. John,
J. W. Speake; Townville, R. H. Lupo:
Walhalla, J. L. Stokes; Walhalla circuit,
H. A. Whltten; Westminster, J.
W. Lewis; Williamston and Belton, S.
H. Booth.
Cokesbury District?W. I. Herbert,
presiding elder; Abbeville circuit, J.
X. Isom; Abbeville Station, J. L. Daniel;
Butler, W. P. Meadors, Jr.; Broad
River, W. A. Duckworth; Cokesbury,
R. E. Sharp; Greenwood, Main Street,
L. P. McGee; Greenwood Mills, J.
Earle Steadman; Greenwood circuit,
G. F. Clarkson; Kinards, W. H. Murray;
McKendree, to be supplied; Newberry,
Central, F. E. Dibble; O'Neale
Street and Jalapa, Gobe Smith; Newberry
circuit, W. K. Bouknight; Nlnety-Sjx,
R. F. Morris; Parksville. R. L.
Rountree (supply); Phoenix. J. H.
Manley; Prosperity and Zion, E. P.
: Taylor; Princeton, J. B. Connelly; Sa,
luda, O. A. Jeffcoat; Waterloo, B. H.
Covington; Whltmlre, J. M. Friday;
I Lander College, Jno. O. Wlllson, prest
ldent, Main Street quarterly confer.
ence; assistant Sunday school editor,
L. F. Beaty, Main Street quarterly
conference; professor at lander col'
lege, R. O. Lawson, Main Street quar
terly conference.
Columbia District?James W. Kil(
go. presiding elder; Aiken and Williston,
A. E. Drlggers; Aiken circuit, J.
H. Montgomery; Batesburg, J. E. Mat
halTey; Columbia, Main Street, B. R.
. Turnipseed; Washington Street, S. A.
. Steel: Green Street. D. W. Keller;
Whaley Street, D. R. Roof; Brook'
land, D. H. Attaway, supply; ShanII
don, L. D. Gillespie. J. C. Chandler, |
supernumerary; Edgewood, E. L
Thomason, supply; Waverly, J. B.
MahalTey; Edgefield, A. L. Gunter;
Fairfield, J. A. Bledsoe, E. W. Mason,
. supernumerary; Gilbert, D. E. Jeffcoat:
Granitevllle, J. D. Griffin; Irmo,
F. G. Whitlock; Johnston, J. H.
Thacker; Langley, J. E. Brown, supply;
Leesvllle. C, E. Peele; Leesville
circuit, M. A. Cleckley, supply; Lexington,
J. G. Farr; Mlddleburg, W,
D. Quick, supply; North Augusta,
Hamlin Etherldge; Ridgeway, T. A.
Shealy; Richland; J. M. Meetze;
Swansea, J. W. Neeley; Wagener, W.
T. Patrick, supply; Epworth orphan
age, W. B. Wharton, superintendent.
Shandon quarterly conference.
| Greenville District?M. L Carlisle,
! presiding elder; Clinton, W. A. Fairey:
Easley, J. D. Holler; Fountain
: Inn, M. T. Wharton; Gray Court, T.
" W. Munnerlyn: Greenville, Bethel and
Poe, W. B. Garrett; Brandon and
? Judson, A. M. Doggett; Buncombe
Street, F. P. Gllgo; Duncan, S. M.
Jones, supply: Hampton Avenue, E.
R. Mason; St. Paul, A. E. Holler;
South Greenville, P. R. Kllgo, preacher
in charge, one to be supplied; West
Greenville, S. L. Rogers; Greenville
circuit, J. L. Singleton; Greer, W. J.
Snyder; Laurens, J. R. T. Major;
Laurens circuit, W. H. Lewis; Liberty,
G. H. Hodges; Pickens, L. E. Wlgs
gins; Pickens circuit, C. W. Burgess;
Piedmont, O. M. Abney; South Eas[
ley, W. L. Mulllken; South Greer,
. Foster Speer; Traveler's Rest, C. P.
Carter; conference secretary of edu;
cation, J. R. T. Major,
t Rock Hill District?P. B. Wells,
[ presiding elder; Blacksburg, H. C.
Mouzon; Blackstock, George Gary
I Lee; Chester, R. E. Turnipseed; Chesi
ter circuit, J. E. Strickland; Clover,
G. T. Hughes; East Lancaster, A. A.
Merritt, supply; Fort Mill, E. Z.
. James; Great Falls, J. B. Kllgore;
. Hickory Grove, H. B. Hardy; Lancaster,
E. T. Hodges; Lancaster circuit,
S. B. White; North Rock Hill circuit,
W. M. Hardin; Richburg, W. S. Goodwin;
Rock Hill, Manchester and
mgnianu rurR, u vy . ounuug, ouy>ply;
St. John's, J. C. Roper, West Main
Street. W. H. Polk; Rock Hill circuit,
John I. Spinks; Van Wyck, J. V. Davia
supply; Winnsboro, J. B. Traywick;
York, Henry Stokes; missionary
to Korea, L. Porter Anderson;
Great Falls, quarterly conference;
conference missionary secretary, R. E.
Turnlpseed.
Spartanburg District, R. E. Stackhouse,
presiding elder; Belmont, J. F.
Golighty; Campobello, V. B. Gibson;
Carlisle. R. C. Boulware; Cherokee,
A. H. Best; Chesnee, Charles A.
Carter, supply; Clifton and Glendale,
J. P. Winnlngham; Enoree, J. K. Hol.
man; Gaffney, Buford Street, G. C.
I Leonard; Limestone Street, J. W.
Shell; Gaffney circuit, R. L. Keaton;
Inman, M. M. Brooks; Jonesville, W.
i B. Justus; Kelton, J. R. Copeland;
r Pacolet, C. M. Peeler; Pacolet Mills,
L. L. Wagnon; Spartanburg, Bethel,
A. N. Brunson, preacher in charge,
and M. B. Patrick, junior preacher;
Central, C. C. Herbert and W. S. Mar;
tin, supernumerary; Duncan, J. A.
> Cook, preacher in charge, and one to
be supplied; North Spartanburg, W.
i C. Kelley; Union, Buffalo, B. H. Harvey;
Green Street, W. F. Gault;
> Grace, E. S. Jones; South Union, J.
> H. Brown; Woodruff, S. T. Creech;
conference evangelist, J. L. Harley,
. Central quarterly conference; Textile
Industrial institute, D. E. Camak,
i president, Duncan quarterly confer>
ence.
Transferred to the soutn taronna
conference?J. A. Campbell. S. O.
Cantey, S. W. Danner, F. W. Dibble,
1 J. W. Elkins, C. S. Felder, A. M.
1 Gardner, J. K. Inablnet, John Paul,
1 D. O. Spires, W. W. Daniel.
' Transferred to the Western North
Carolina Conference?Jno. R. Walker.
Transferred- to the Pacific Conference?A.
V. Harbin,
Received by transfer from the
South Carolina Conference?J. W.
Bailey, R. C. Boulware, Hamlin Etheredge,
E. S. Jones, J. B. Kllgore, T.
1 A. Shealey, B. R. Turnlpseed.
A. M. E. ZION CONFERENCE
The fiftieth annual session of the
; South Carolina conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church, closed its session at Clinton
Chapel church, Yorkville, Sunday
night about 12 o'clock, after what, according
to Bishop Warner, was the
most pleasant and best conference
that he had ever attended in the
thirty-nine years he had been attending
conferences.
Friday night was given over to the
woman's home and foreign missionary
societies. Saturday morning and afternoon
was taken up with routine work
and reports and Sunday was occupied
largely with preaching services and
the work incident to the closing day's
sessions and the reading of the bishop's
appointments.
Sunday was the big day of the conference
in point of attendance. The
7.20 a. m., train from Rock Hill
brought at least a hundred. The 10.10
train from Blacksburg brought a
hundred more, and a special excursion
train from Lancaster over the C. &
N.-W., at 10.30 a. m., brought probably
500 more and these with several
hundred who came by private conveyance
and automobile, brought the
number of visitors to 1,000 or more.
At the morning service the bishop oc
cupied the pulpit and preached to a
packed house. In the afternoon the
house was again packed for another
sermon. Sunday night the first number
on the programme was a memorial
service to the deceased members of
the conference who had died since the
last session. This was followeu oy a
sermon by J. H. D. Bailey of Lancaster.
who preached on "Christ's great
commission," and directed his remarks
especially to the preachers in his audience
who were thinking at that time
of where the bishop was going to send
them for their next year's work. Shortly
after the close of the sermon the 1
bishop and his cabinet, composed of '>
presiding elders, came in with the appointments
made out. Various resolutions
were presented and adopted, i
among others being one in which the i
conference expressed thanks for the
entertainment of the body by the
local church, to the mayor, Mr. Wilborn,
for the cordial welcome extended
to the conference in behalf of the
city; to the railroads for their courte- ,
sies extended, etc. .
At every service or session of the
conference, a collection was taken, ,
and at some sessions two or more, and ,
the total of the free will offerings, ,
mostly in pennies, nickles, dimes and ;
quarters, has totaled approximately .
$140. In addition to this a purse of
$39 was presented to the bishop. The
pastors in ine iuur uismuia ui mv ,
conference, each presented their pr.esiding
elders with purses amounting '
to from $10 to $20 each.
During the past conference year the
churches of the conference, under the
heading of general claims, which includes
the bishop, officers, publishing ^
houses, missions, church extension, 1
schools, widows and orphans, etc., have '
raised $6,234. This does not include ]
home expenses. The church property j
included in the .South Carolina con- '
ference is valued at $197,000, and the !
membership totals 10,600. 1
The conference adopted a resolution
endorsing the work of Bishop 1
Warner, who has presided over this '
Episcopal district for seven years, and t
asked the general conference to return J
him to this district. The resolution
also endorsed the candidacy of M. (
Ingram of Yorkvllle, presiding elder 1
of the Lancaster district, for a bishop- '
ric, and W. M. Robinson, presiding
elder of the York-Chester district, 1
for financial secretary of the general i
conference. ?
Commenting on the candidacy of c
M. Ingram, the bishop said that the t
Rev. Ingram stood a good chance of
being elected bishop, as It had been
75 years since the general conference
had elected a light colored bishop and
that he was the last one to be so
elected. Both of them are of the color
of pure blooded Africans.
The bishop, whose full name Is Andrew
Jackson Warner, said he was
born In Kentucky and was the first
negro in nis pari or ine siaie 10 ever
leave that community to be educated,
and that he got his education by his
own efforts and without assistance
from any one. He also said that he
hears people sometimes say there will
be a collision between the whites and
the blacks. "If there ever is," he said,
"it will be rear-end collision, because
the white people are so far ahead of
us that we can't ever hope to run into
them from the front end."
The appointments of the conference,
po far as the local negro churches
are concerned, are as follows:
York-Chester District?Rev. W. M.
Barber, presiding elder. Chester station,
H. S. McMullen; Brooklyn station.
R. A. McCreary; Zion Chapel, D.
C. Crosby; Richburg circuit. J. J.
Stradford; Fort Lawn. P. T. Barber;
Chestnut Grove, R. L. Houston; Lowryvllle,
J. L. Roseborough; Clinton
Chapel station, R. J. Crockett; Clover
circuit, S. M. Douglas; Ebenezer circuit,
R. J. Lee; Wilson Chapel, J. E.
Goins; Hickory Grove, F. N. Newton;
Piedmont, W. M. Harris; Blacksburg
circuit, R. T. Bailey, M. D.; Grover circuit,
W. M. Byrd; Robinson Zion, C. G.
Black. W. H. & F. Mis. Dept.?Mrs.
S. G. Byrd, vice pres.; Mrs. E. E.
James, sec. Y. W.; Miss A. G. Branch,
sec. B. P. Daughters of Conference?
Mrs. Harriet Full, Miss S. J. Branch,
Mrs. Etta McKinney.
Rock Hill District?Rev. S. N. Barber,
presiding elder. Rock Hill, W. O.
Carson; St. Matthews, W. M. Thomas;
Rock Grove, J. R. Izzard; Pineville, W.
M. Carter; Red Oak, O. N. Dawkins;
Rehoboth, I. C. Tims; Mt. Vernon, El
5. Anderson; Old Zion, J. J. Byers:
Fort Mill, W. M. Wltherspoon; Pleasant
Valley, J. C. Hood: Mt. Zion circuit,
J. D. Jackson; EHbethel circuit,
J. D. Morrow; Sharon circuit, W. L.
Dunlap; White Hill circuit. J. D. Cauthen;
New Home circuit, H. G. Boyd;
Liberty Bill circuit, E. Brown. W. H.
6. F. M. Dept.?Miss L. E. Whiteside.
vice pres.; Mrs. u. J. wamseur, aec.
B. P.; Miss Minnie Grant, President
Daughters of Conference.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Master Farris McDowell of Yorkville,
visited relatives in Camden last week.
Miss Mildred Hobbs of Rlon, is visiting
relatives In Yorkville.
Prof. C. D. Guess of Bullock's Creek,
was a visitor here Friday.
Mr. O. Ll Sanders of Yorkville, was
a visitor in Rock Hill yesterday.
Miss Mamie Moore of Charlotte, is
visiting friends and relatives here.
Mr. R. M. Love of Smyrna, visited
his parents near Yorkville this week.
Miss Bessie Gettys of Rock Hill,
visited relatives In Clover last week.
Mrs. Rudolph Brant of Athens, Ga.,
visited relatives In Sharon last week.
Mr. Joseph A. Howe of Rock Hill,
was a visitor to Yorkville Friday.
Messrs. Hoyt and Wllborn Cunningham
of Gastonla, spent Sunday
with relatives in Yorkville.
Miss Wilma Hill of Yorkville, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her mother.
Mrs. Mary L. Hill, near Sharon.
Mrs. M. M. Jenkins and Miss Laura
Jenkins of Yorkville, were visitors In
Clover Sunday.
Misses Beasle Thomasson and Eflle
Thomas of Yorkville, visited relatives
in the Clover vicinity last week.
A. B. Lindsay, a former resident of
Rock Hill, died In Lancaster yesterday
morning, aged about 60 years.
Mrs. J. M. Ferguson has returned
to her home here, after a visit to Mrs.
El B. Clements In Lincolnton, N. C.
Mr. FYed McFarland of Roanoke.
Va.. is visiting relatives In this vicinity.
TTWWJVI n^ffO/vn A T*A IAO
misoca Ciiuoi ui ay ouu aim tvia
Bracket t of Clover, visited Mrs. Bert
Gordon in Yorkville this week.
- Robert Turner Allison has returned
to Spartanburg, after spending: several
days at his home here.
Mr. John B. Paysinger of Sharon,
visited friends in Newberry last week.
Mrs. W. T. Slaughter and Mr. Gowl
Slaughter of Hickory Grove, were visitors
in Spartanburg this week.
Mr. M. W. Smith has returned to
Hickory Grove after spending several
days at Hartwell, Ga.
W. G. White, Jr., of Chesterfield,
visited relatives in Yorkville this
week.
Dr. Catherine N. Munro of Winthrop
college, visited Mrs. J. R. Ashe here
this week.
Dr. Clarence Thomas of Chesterfield,
visited the family of his father,
Mr. Thad Thomas, near Clover, last
week.
Messrs. Carson Lattimore and Fred
Brown were among the Hickory Grove
people who were here Friday.
Miss Ruth Crosby of Yorkville, visited
relatives and friends in Columbia
last week.
Mr. William Jones of Davidson college,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. i
J. S. Jones, here last week.
Mr. Clifford Allison returned to
Blacksburg Sunday, after spending
several days with relatives in Hickory
Grove.
Gastonla Gastonlan, Nov. 29: Mr. 1
Frank Saunders and family spent yes>
terday with Mr. Tom Dilling in York
county.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Boyd of Yorkville,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
the family of Mrs. Mattie Boyd at Paw
Creek, N. C.
Misses Beulah Childers and Minnie
Brackett of Clover, have been visiting
Misses Eva and Alice Cook in Yorkvine.
Mr. Wallace Marshall, who is working
near Marion, N. C., spent Sunday
with the family of his mother, Mrs.
W. F. Marshall, in Yorkvllle.
Mrs. W. D. Glenn and Misses Maggie
Glenn and Sue Meek Allison have returned
to their homes here after
spending several days with relatives in
Sumter.
Miss Marion Bankhead has returned
to her home in Washington, D. C., after
spending several days with friends
here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Marion and little
son returned to their home here yesterday,
after a visit to relatives in
Chester.
Rev. W. A. Hafner, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Fort Mill, was
on Sunday tendered a call to the Limestone
Presbyterian church of Gaffney.
Misses Mary White and Fannie
Ballinger and Messrs. George Dailey
and Roy Climmer of Gastonia, were
guests of Miss Robbie Brown on
Yorkvllle No. 1, last week.
Pageland Journal: Mra T. E. Cato
returned yesterday from Rock Hill and
Yorkville, where she has been visiting
while recovering from an operation in
a Charlotte hospital several weeks
ago.
Mr. R. O. Alexander, one of the
i is _!?I nh?. w c
Ifiiumg t'liuriiD ui vuai ivuvi 4i? x/?i v
was a visitor in Yorkville Friday and r
while here made an address, at the
request of Bishop Warner, to the ne?ro
Methodist conference. t
Rev. Joseph T.. Dendy, pastor of v
Ebenezer Presbyterian church, an- t
nounced Sunday that he had accepted a
x call to the pastorate of the Presby- v
terian church of Belmont, N. C. He
?xpects to enter upon his new work n
ibout January 1. y
Announcement was received in Sha- jj
ron last week of the marriage of Mr.
M. D. Sims to Miss Blake Parker, the j.
jeremony taking place in Greenwood, 0
Vliss., where both the young people re- n
iide. Mr. Sims is a son. of Mr. J. M. c
Sims of Sharon, and for several years n
past has been residing in Greenwood,
Vliss. g.
Charlotte Observer. Nov. 29: Master ti
VIorris Teeter, son of Mr. D. W. Teeter h
jf York county, route No. 8, will enter b
he hospital at Rock Hill tomorrow n
'or treatment by Dr. Lynn Campbell of d
fork. Master Teeter has tuberculosis jj
>f the bone and will be operated on h
igain Wednesday. His friends wish
'or him a speedy recovery. e
Charlotte Observer, Monday: The it
tighly interesting suit of Mr. Tom e
Vrledge et al, vs. Mrs. Mamie Burns el G
il. regarding the validity of the will s'
>f the late McD. Arledge, father of tl
joth plaintiff and defendant, which p
was on the calendar, for today, has
been continued and will not be called
again until the February term of civil n
court. This suit has to do with an V
es'ate conservatively estimated to be
worth $100,000 and hence the interest
that attends it
Gastonia Gazette, Nov. 26: Mr. R.'
F. Robinson of Crowders' Creek,
brought The Gazette Tuesday some
samples of second-crop Irish potatoes
which are splendid. One weighed 15 m
ounces and the other an even pound.
These, he stated, were not the largest
nor the smallest of the crop, but
a fair average. He planted half a
bushel the last of August and got from
the planting ten bushels of most excellent
potatoes. This is the first time
Mr Rnhinann hn? trlml spconii nlnnt
ing of Irish potatoes and he is convinced
that the cobbler can be raised
in this manner to good advantage.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Page and children
of Clover, S. C., spent Thanksgiving
day in Gastonia as the guests of
Mr. Page's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Page, at their home on North Marietta
street.
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REV. BLACK BEGINS MEETING
With a congregation which filled
the seating capacity of the large auditorium,
in attendance upon the initial
service, Rev. William Black, Synodleal
evangelist of the Presbyterian
synod of North Carolina began a protracted
meeting in the First Presbyterian
church here Sunday morning
which will continue throughout the
week and probably longer. Two services
will be held each day, the first
in the morning at 10 o'clock, the second
at 7 o'clock in the evening. Dr.
Black is accompanied by Prof. Andrew
Burr who is directing the singing,
which is a distinct feature of each
service. Dr. Black has had large congregations
at each of his services thus
far and he has made a very favorable
impression upon his hearers.
There is nothing sensational about ft
Dr. Black's preaching. In plain and ]
simple language he brings his mes- M
sages home to his hearers In a way
which never appears to make his services
seem tiresome, but of real interest.
In introducing the evangelist to the *
congregation Sunday morning Rev. ^
Dr. Gillespie stated that Dr. Black
was not a stranger here, since a little
more than 7 years ago, he and Professor
Burr conducted a protracted
meeting in the first Presbvterlan
church here. Dr. Gillespie said that he
believed the community was In the
mood to derive great blessings from
such a meeting at present and that he
hoped and prayed the spirit of Qod
would enter the hearts of the community
in a fervent and earnest manner.
Dr. Black said that he remembered
his visit to Yorkville seven years ago
quite pleasantly, that the meeting at
that time had been greatly blessed and
he believed and prayed that in the
present series of services, much good
would be done for the Gospel cause.
At the request of the evangelist the
congregation and choir joined in the
singing of "Lord Send Us a Revival,"
at the service Sunday morning. While
the collection was being taken. Miss
Marie Inman sang "Rock of Ages," ^
and at the conclusion of the sermon
Dr. Black and Prof. Burr sang "Bternity."
to the inspiration of the con- 1
gregation. J
1. Kings, 19:3: "And when he saw ^
that, he rose and went for his life and
came to Beersheba, which belongeth
to Judah and left his servant there," ;
was the text of Rev. Dr. Black's ser- j
mon Sunday morning. He wished to
speak only on the first clause, "And
when he saw that" He said the lesson
from which the text and sermon
were taken was the story of the
Prophet Elijah, how he destroyed the
prophets of Baal, how a famine was
made to come upon the land of Israel,
how Elijah was nourished together
with a widow and her son from a
meal barrel and a cruise which were
never empty, how the messenger of
Jezebel, the queen, came to Elijah
and told him that she would kill him
even as he had done unto her prophets,
and how Elijah disregarding the command
of God, then fled for his life before
the queen.
"What do you see, my friends?"
asked the preacher, "when you look
over the panorama of life?" Some of
you can see only difficulties, while
some of you can see opportunitiea
If you do see those opportunities and
take advantage of them you can see
victory and glory further ahead. Elijah,
a wonderful man, had a wonderful
victory over Baal at Mount Carmel,
but he did not stick at his post
and therefore the glory of his victory
was dimmed.
Elijah was a great man and was
meant to be great He was ever a M
lover 01 me i_<ora. xne very name n;ii- ^
Jah means, "My God is Jehovah."
Elijah realized that God could do with
him as he pleased. If we who stand
here today could only be brought to
realize that God stands behind us and a
that God is our Jehovah, what won- 3
derful powers for good we could become.
I am sorry that Elijah didn't stick
at his post, continued Rev. Mr. Black.
Yet we are told that he was only human,/subject
to passions as we are. I
wish there was some man in history
who has not failed God. It seems to
me that Elijah should have been that
man, yet he ran for fear of Jezebel,
one of the lowest down women in history.
Jezebel's message was nothing
save bluff and bluster. Had she intended
killing him she would not have
ariven him twenty-four hours warning.
Elijah did not stop to consider
He heard the message and left his
work, his God and everything.
We are like Elijah. When we hear
'that," when we encounter tempta inn
o nH nlffo 11c nrn fnrcof nilr ro.
?*VM e?ee%? piviuuo, ??v 4v?0Vk vw? v
ligion. The Lord Is with us as he was
with Elijah. He went after Elijah and &
brought him back. He reaches out
ifter us and gives us chance to repent.
,
"Do you remember the question
3od asked Elijah when he found him
n the cave: "Elijah what doest thou
fiere?'' Elijah had no good excuse and - fl
leither would we were God to ask us
why we have discarded prayer or quit
ittending prayer meeting or other
posts of duty which we have aband>ned.
There are doubtless lots of us
lere today not doing our duty toward
3od.
But although Elijah abandoned his
post of duty, said Dr. Black in contusion,
God did not abandon him,
put merely set him aside, and appointed
Elisha and others to take up his
vork in his stead. I wonder how many
>f us have been set aside- because we
vere not willing to continue at the
post God has given us. It is a horrible
hing to be set aside by the Lord. Our
mpetuoslty and discouragement often
teep us from being in favor with the ?
jord as was the case of Elijah. Had j
Slijah not abandoned his post it is V
possible that the Children of Isreal ^
t-ould never have been cast into'bondige
and it is possible that there
vould today be no follower of Baal.
3id we all today stick to our posts of
luty as God would have us ao, this %
night be a better world.
Yesterday Morning.
Before a large congregation in which
here were almost as many men as
tomcn, a circumstance quite out of
he ordinary. Rev. Mr. Black preached
. sermon full of good, practical adice
yesterday morning from the text:
Even so let your light shine before
nen that they may see your good
forks. and glorify your father which is
n heaven."
We have no light, said tne evangei3t.
unless we accept Jesus Christ as
ur Savior. He is the light. There is
aturally no light in us to shine. God
ompared Christianity to two of the
nost beautiful symbols known to us
n the 5th chapter of Matthew. Those
ymbols are salt and light. "Ye are
he salt of the earth; but If the salt
as lost its savour, wherewith shall it
e salted? It is thenceforth good for
othing. but to be cast out and troden
under foot of men. Ye are the *
ght of the world. A city set on a
ill cannot be hid."
Salt, as we all know, continued the
vangelist, is a great pieserver. God
itended all Christians to be preservrs
of the world about them. I believe
rod would destroy this world in a ' 9*
hort time were it not for the Chrislatis
here. The gospel, like salt, is
enetrating. Christians should be that