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? President Wood row Wilson was
married last Saturday night to Mrs.
Edith Boiling Gait. The ceremony
look place at the bride's residence and
was performed by Rev. Hubert Scott
Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Protestant
Episcopal church, of which the
bride is a communicant. Only a few
members ot tne immediate families or
ine president and his bride were present.
After the marriage, Mr. and Mrs.
\\ ilson had dinner at the White
House and then they went to White
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remain for ten days provided the pres- |
ident is not called back to Washington
in the meantime.
? A Copenhagan dispatch to Reuters,
says that members ot the Ford peace
party spoke on Sunday before the
.Norwegian student union in Christiana.
The American minister, A. G.
Scnmedeman and the rector of the
University of Christiana, were in the
audience which crowded the hall.
Henry Ford was prevented from
speaking by influenza, but the Rev.
Jenkins L. Jones, Miss Katherine M.
Brewster and Lieut. Gov. A. J. Bethea
of South Carolina, addressed the
meeting. Lewis P. Lochner, general
secretary of the expedition, explained
the intentions of Mr. Ford and his
co-workers. The Norwegian chairman
of the meeting gave assurances of the
students' genuine interest.
? It has come to the attention of
Chairman Lever of the house committee
on agriculture, says a Washington
dispatch of Saturday, that the
prices of nitrate of soda and acid
phosphate for the coming crop year
have been doubled practically over
prices of last year. To the mind of
Mr. Lever, the matter is of such serious
importance to the cotton growers
of the south as to warrant him In
asking the trade commission to make
a thorough investigation into the
matter with a view of ascertaining if
these increased prices result from
a combination of the sellers of these
two ingredients of commercial fertilizers.
Mr. Lever has the promise of
We J. Harris, the southern member
of the commission, to look into the
situation very promptly and thoroughly.
? A rural credits bill to be introduced
in both houses of congress afier
the holidays, was vin. Jly completed
last Monday by the special Joint committee
created by the last congress for
report at this session. Only a lew
details remain to be decided. The
measure provides for a system of cooperative
local associations, federated
with regional land banks, which
banks would have the power to issue
bonds based on the land mortgages of
the local associations. The land banks
?12 in number?would be supervised
by the government through a board
appointed by the president. They
would be distributed in accordance
with the agricultural needs of the
country, and would have a combined
capital stock of not less than $6,000,000.
European systems of land mortgage
credit have been studied closely
by the committee in working out its
schema
? The Question of national prohibition
says the Washington correspondent
of the Charlotte Observer, will
come before congress as soon as it
re-assembles after Christmas and
Representative Webb will inaugurate
the measure in the House. He stated
last Saturday before leaving for Shelby
that he proposed to introduce a
resolution he has prepared as one of
his first acts after returning to Washington
in January. He will not, however,
introduce a bill for prohibition
in the District of Columbia. Section
one of his resolution provides that
"The sale, manufacture for sale, transportation
for sale and importation
for sale of intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes in the United
States and territoi^ subject to the
jurisdiction thereof ana exporiauun
thereof be forever prohibited." Section
two provides that "The congress and
the states shall have power independent:
or concurrently to enforce this
article by all needful legislation."
? Washington, December 20: The
seventh cotton ginning report of the
season, compiled from reports of census
bureau correspondents and agents
throughout the cotton belt and issued
at 10 a. m., today, announced that
10,303,250 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, of the growth of
1915, has been ginned prior to December
13. That compares with 13,972,229
bales, or 87.8 per cent of the entire
crop ginned prior to December 13 last
year, 12,088,412 bales, or 92.5 per cent
in 1913, and 11,854,541 bales, or 92.2
per cent in 1912. The average quantity
of cotton ginned prior to December
13, in the last ten years was 11,476,189
bales, or 89.5 per cent of the
crop. Included in the ginnings were
100,940 round bales compared with
42,796 last year, 91,686 in 1913, and
75,772 in 1912. Sea Island cotton included
numbered 83,816 bales compared
with 71,401 last year, 69,520 in
1913, and 60,445 in 1912.
? Further details of the bombardment
of Belgrade and the abandonment
of the city by the Serbians
were related in New York, Saturday.
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an American Red Cross surgeon who
arrived on the steamship Espagne
from Bordeaux Dr. Downer said that
with Dr. Edward Ryan he remained
in Belgrade through the bombardment.
He confirmed cable reports
from Dr. Ryan that the American
flag was respected by the invading
forces. "The battle for the possession
of Belgrade was a three-day bombardment
followed by a hand-tohand
encounter," said the doctor.
"Where the Austro-German forces
crossed the Danube the loss of life
was greatest. I saw entire battalions
of Hungarians swept from boats and
rafts by machine gun fire. For a time
the river was so thick with bodies
that it resembled a etream filled with
logs from a broken mill dam. "In the
three days of fighting we treated
more than 3,000 wounded. Five doctors
and five nurses worked almost
constantly. Nurses in stress of emergency
handled wounds alone and unaided
that in times of peace would
be entrusted only to a specialist, and
achieved a remarkable degree of success."
? Gen. Francisco Villa has given
up as hopeless his struggle against
the de facto government of Mexico,
according to authentic advices last
Saturday from Chihauhua. The followers
who still remained faithful to
the man once all powerful in north
Mexico have been warned to "take
care of themselves," and are said to
be scattering in all directions. Many,
it is said, are preparing to make their
peace with the Carranza government.
Villa in addressing the council of
war at which his determination to
abandon the struggle, was made public,
is said to have declared he would
no longer sacrifice men needlessly.
He is said to have been urged to
abandon the revolutionary movement
by his staff and advisers, and also by
his wife. Just what the plans of the
insurgment leader are have not been
made clear, although he is said to
have declared he would come to the
United States if he were permitted,
and if not would go to Europe. The
Carranza forces under Gen. Jacinto
Trevino already are demanding the
surrender of Chihauhua, but few
persons familiar with the country
question Gen. Villa's ability to escape
capture in that section where he
Vnruva ?v#rv hill and water hole, and
where he has many friends. In fact
it is but Ave years ago that he roamed
that same territory as a bandit
with a price placed on his head by
Gen. Porforio Diaz. His real name is
Doroteo Orango, and he was born in
Las Nieves, Durango, in 1868. His
parents were of the poen class, and
on the death of his father he became
a cowboy in western Chihauhua. He
soon attracted a number of desperate
men to him, changed his name to
Francisco Villa and lived as a bandit.
Many stories are told as to the reason
why Villa became a bandit the
most widely circulated being to the
effect that he was outlawed for the
killing of an army officer who had
wronged his sister. When Francisco
Madero took the field against Diaz,
Villa voluntarily cast his lot with the
Maderistas and performed such valiant
service that Madero was forced
to recognize him. After the retirement
of Diaz, Huerta. as the commander
of the army under Madero. was
sent north to put down the Orozco
rebellion. He and Villa clashed and
Villa was taken to Mexico City under
arrest. While in prison there he
taught himself to read and write.
Madero saved him from immediate
execution, and later he escaped to the
United States. When the north of
Mexico rose against Huerta, Villa
made his way across the Rio Grain!e
into Mexico with two companions,
six "borrowed" horses. $7 in money
and a small surplus of corn and beans.
Inside of a year he was the head of
a well equppped army of 30,000 men
with a war chest of several million
dollars. This force was armed and
equipped with artillery largely from
the Federal forces defeated or
captured.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1915.
And now it looks as if we are to be
mixed up with Austria, which, of
course, means further complications
with Germany also.
Peace on earth and good will toward
men is the biggest thing there is in
Christmas; but the unfortunate thing
about it all is that there are so many
who fail to appreciate so great a
blessing.
Nations, like individuals, are slow
to acknowledge their own blameworthiness,
and for that reason the
people of this country' are unable to
see that somebody is going to have to
sweat for all that profitable traffic we
have been having in materials of death
and destruction.
That supreme court decision upholding
the power of the legislative
delegation to put a bonded indebtedness
upon a county ought to serve as
a notice to the taxpayers that they
should be exceedingly careful who is
sent to represent them, and also we
think it should make the taxpayers
exercise greater care as to who their
representatives elect as judges.
The North Carolina papers have
forced Clarence Poe to deny that he
has his eye on the governorship. We
do not mean the word deny in the
sense it usually applies to public men
under the same circumstances. When
Clarence Poe says he is not after the
governorship that is what he means.
At the same time, however, we want
to say that North Carolina has no
bigger and better man for governor
than Clarence Poe.
Now, if it could only be arranged
so the government could take about
50 per cent or only 25 per cent of the
profits the munition manufacturers
have made out of the stuff sold to belligerent
nations, but which they ought
not to have been allowed to sell, we
could easily be able to pay for all the
preparedness we are needing at the
present time. Honestly and truly we
thinir it unnld be a srood idea for
America to Invest every cent she is
making out of the European war in
war material for her own use, for
some of these days it is going to be
necessary to spend that much and
probably a good deal more, to defend
what we are making.
A telegram received here this afternoon
said thousands of gallons of
liquor were held at Clover, in York
county, having been ordered by North
Carolinians. The express company is
undecided as to whether to deliver it
or not, the attorney general ruling
that there is nothing to prevent the
North Carolinians getting their liquor,
and the judge and grand jury of York
county and the Clover magistrate having
been after them on the ground
that they violate the gallon a month
act.?Columbia special of Saturday,
to the News and Courier.
The correspondent has evidently
been misinformed as to the facts in this
case. In the first place, whisky in the
Clover express office is not even hundreds
of gallons. The express company
is perfectly willing to deliver liquor
to any man who applies with
proper assurance that he has not
previously received a gallon within a
month. All the trouble, if trouble
there he. arises from the fact that the
magistrate in King's Mountain township
stands ready to carry out the instructions
of the court and seize such
liquor as may start for the North
Carolina line.
Last week's issue of the Manufacturer's
Record has an interesting
article on the development of Columbia
as a stone cutting center. It appears
that within the last year or two
local capital has erected several sheds
for stone cutters, who are coming
down from Vermont in considerable
| numbers to dress granite from Rion
for sale throughout the United States,
and the world. The inducements are
the proximity of the granite in inexhaustible
quantities, and as good
quality as to be found anywhere, and
the ability of the stone cutters to
work all the year round in the open,
where in Vermont, they have to spend
half the year in closed, stuffy shacks
filled with granite dust. The workmen,
mostly Italians, but including
Scotch, English and other nationalities,
are high class people, and receive
from $3 to $5 a day, many of
them more. The business is merely a
matter of experienced management,
an expert craftsman or business man,
employing the labor, selling the product,
and keeping things going. Formerly
all this stone cutting was done
at the quarries; but now it is going
to Columbia on account of the schools
and other attractions, and it can be
carried on just as well in Yorkville as
in Columbia. More than that, if the
right people would take . hold, the
Whitesides quarries a few miles north
of Yorkville could be developed to an
extent that would rival those quarries
of Fairfield.
The opponents of the state warehouse
system having been convinced
of the futilitv of trving to overthrow
that system by a fair and square
tight, are now turning their attention
to the plan of trying to accomplish
the same result by turning out the
father of the system who has made
it what it is. We would not be understood
as suggesting that Mr. McLaurin
is to hold the place always,
for that would be unreasonable and
absurd. We have no idea that he
would hold the place more than one
more term, or two more terms, at
most, under any circumstances. But
if system is to be fairly established
he should hold it that long.
It will be remembered that when he
took the place only a little more than
a year ago, he had nothing to work
with except an emasculated skeleton'
outline of a law that conferred but 1
scant powers, and carried an appropri- 1
ation that was hardly sufficient to or- (
ganize an adequate office force. Even
this little appropriation was cut off
before any of it had been spent under !
a technical ruling of the comptroller
general, and Mr. McLaurin had to
carry the whole load of the system '
for a month on the strength of his pri- J
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vate means, wnen ne weui miu w
flee, the interest rate on warehouse
certificates was 8 per cent, and just
anybody could not get money at that
rate. There were no state warehouses,
and no public money with which
to build them. Insurance on cotton in
the country was $3.50 per $100, on a
short term basis. Now there are more
than one hundred state warehouses,
carrying considerably more than 100,000
bales of stored cotton. Insurance
in the country is only $1.58 per $100,
with a pro rata basis of cancellation,
and anybody can borrow 75 per cent of
the value of a single bale of warehoused
cotton at 6 per cent. Mr. McLaurin
has done all this through force of
his own personality, prestige, ability
and standing in the business world.
Besides, he has spfead the leaven in
the other cotton growing states. We
do not believe there is another man
in the south who could have accomplished
one tenth of what he has accomplished,
in twice the time he has
been operating. But there is still
much to be done before it can fairly
be claimed that the warehouse system
is established, and Mr. McLaurin
is needed to complete the work.
We have nothing to say against Mr.
McMahan. He is a deserving man,
and a man of ability; but his capacity,
experience, business standing and
breadth of vision are not to be compared
with those of Mr. McLaurin.
The salary would be an important
consideration with Mr. McMahan,
which it is not with Mr. McLaurin.
Under ordinary conditions this would
be in Mr. McMahan's favor; but so
long as Mr. McLaurin is willing to
give the state ten or a hundred times
more than he is receiving, while it is
doubtful as to whether any otner man
in the state would really earn his salary
at this time, let us not weigh this
Item. We have no Idea that Mr. McLaurin
is going to fight for the
place. He has friends who will fight
for him, if necessary, but he is not
going to even put himself in the position
of seeking re-election. But all
the same the continuance of the warehouse
system along lines that will
promise its highest and best development
is in jeopardy. No man who is
really friendly to the system is going
to vote against Mr. McLaurin at this
time, and if the general assembly
fails to elect Mr. McLaurin, that will
mean a serious backset for the whole
thing. 1
Christmas Greeting. (
There will be no more issues after ]
this until Friday, December 31, it 1
having been decided to suspend the
issues that would have otherwise ap- j
peored on the two intervening dates, ]
because of the holidays.
By way of explanation we beg to j
say that this is in accordance with i
established custom, extending back to 1
the time when the memory of man J
runneth not to the contrary, and most ]
agreeable to those who have been i
sticking so faithfully and steadily at '
their posts during all the many weeks ,
that elapsed since the last holiday. i
This suspension does not mean that '
everybody connected with the paper (
will rest. There are those who will ]
continue busy during most of the 1
ten days intervening between this issue
and the next. Besides the work ]
of editing and publishing there are i
many other things that have to be
looked after in a newspaper office, ]
more particularly along about tne j
end of the year, and these things will
keep the editor and publishers busy, j
There will be somebody about the .
office to attend to personal business
as well as business by mail. |
In the meantime, we desire to ex- |
tend thanks to our clubmakers for the <
splendid work they have been doing,
are doing and will continue to do, and !
for their encouragement, say that al- <
though the largest club so far is not 1
nearly so large as the largest club of 1
last year, more names have been re- i
turned up to this time than ever before
at this date in the history of 1
the paper. 1
But though the paper be suspended 1
for two issues, and though we be
busy, our hearts and minds are still 1
with clubmakers, subscribers and '
readers. For each and every one we <
wish a real and true Christmas, not
only the good cheer that comes with 1
the choice things to eat and drink and
wear; but high and above all things
like these, the peace of Him who 1
brought good will to men, and who is
preparing mansions for those who are !
willing to share the eternal Christmas
that He has made possible for all.
Preparedness.
The great issue before the people of
the United States at the present
I time is that of preparedness, and the
I neonle are taking sides for and against i
the proposition.
The strongest argument for preparedness
goes like this: America,
through the sale of munitions and
supplies to European belligerents has .
become the richest country on earth, .
while the Europeans are rapidly becoming
poorer and poorer. When the t
war ends, America will have prac- <
tically all the gold of the world, without
adequate armies and armaments i
to defend it, and the Europeans will '
be stripped of their gold but possessed
of sufficient armies to make America j
disgorge not only her gold, but all <
else she has. America will be like the 1
unarmed but rich householder, at the ,
mercy of the desperate burglar with
a pistol. Under the circumstances it j
is claimed that America should arm
and prepare to defend herself while yet i
there is time and before the inevitable i
attacks. i
The strongest argument on the oth-. i
er side as against preparedness is that i
of Mr. Bryan, who appears to be in
the minority. His argument follows ;
the lines of Christian teaching. He i
does not admit that America is in i
danger of attack; but rather thinks <
that the wide oceans will protect her. <
However, carrying the argument still 1
further, he insists that Christianity <
does not approve of bloodshed under 1
any conditions. He holds that in the l
first place America should not have i
yielded to the temptation to get rich :
by^ selling munitions and engines of i
war to Europe; but since she has 1
done so, it is better to surrender everything
in the shape of wealth rather j
than sacrifice the lives of the people ,
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in war, no is out*u^puuvu w - i
paration for fighting because he does j
not want to fight?because he does not j
believe that any good can come from (
fighting. ;
However strongly Mr. Bryan's argu- ,
ments are grounded in the instruc- i
tions of the Prince of Peace, there is <
no good reason to suppose that those i
arguments will prevail. Though no f
man can find a single word in all the (
teachings of Christ that will justify j
bloodshed under any circumstances, *
even in war, mankind has not yet {
reached the point where it is willing (
to surrender its wealth or its liberty t
to avoid war. i
But with it all, it is the truth, the i
everlasting truth, that most of the j
lives that are sacrificed in war, repre- j
sent the sacrifices of men who have t
neither independence or wealth, and (
:hat the sacrifices are made to preserve
the Independence and wealth of
>there.
BRITISH EVACUATE GALLIPOLh
Situation More or Less Quiet Along
Various Fronts.
London, Dec. 20.?The announcement
of the British withdrawal from
3allipoli overshadowed all other war
lews tonight. For the British public
:he abrupt war office statement marks
;he end of one of the great chapters
jf the war's history.
The shock of the news was hardly
iroken by the fact that rumors had
seen current in the street for some
lays, and -the withdrawal of the forces
tad been a matter of widespread pro
ind con discussion ever since Lord
Ribblesdale's famous speech in parlianent
in which he declared that withIrawal
had been recommended by a
tigh military authority.
The feeling of the man in the street
was generally one of relief mixed with
egret. A popular half-penny paper
sums up the British public's attitude
is follows:
"Thus ends the enterprise of which
:he highest hopes were built and
which, if it had succeeded, would
jrobably have turned the tide of the
war. Our troops from the first to
ast were within a few miles of vicory."
The policy underlying the Dardanelles
expedition may yet be carried to
l successful issue in some other part
)f the near east but the prospect of
forcing a way to Constantinople
hrough the famous straits is apparmtly
relinquished.
British troops continue to occupy
he tip of the peninsula at SeddulBahr,
commanding the entrance to the
itraits where many British have de:lared
a new Gibraltar will one day
Lrise. The position here is protected
>y a double line of ships and it is aslumed
that this will be held.
A fair degree of quiet has continued
>n the war fronts during the past 24
lours and none of the oft-repeated
threats of a big offensive in France, in
lorth Russia, Galicla and the Balkans
las yet actually materalized.
Persistent reports of a Greco-Bul?arian
encounter, results from a
Bulgarian surprise attack, have been
beared up by the Greek statement
:hat the encounter took place in Albanian
territory. No one was killed
ind few were wounded. Order was reitored
promptly and an amicable injuiry
is proceeding.
Tt la onnnnnr>?l from Paris that no
enemy detachment has yet crossed the
3reek frontier. Meanwhile work on
the defensive lines around Saloniki is
eeing actively pushed and the Greek
villages In the neighborhood of the
ines are being evacuated by the population.
Greek military circles declare they
ire convinced that the forces opposing
the Allies will not attempt to cross
the frontier, the Bulgarians because
they realize the danger of provoking
Greece and the Germans because they
ire grateful for Greek neutrality and
because they realize the tremendous
eost which the enterprise would entail.
MERE-MENTION
Aroused by a recent wave of crime,
which has resulted in several muriers
and numerous robberies, Mayor
William Hale Thompson of Chicago,
in Saturday charged the Chicago police
department with shielding crimilals,
grafting and contributing to tne
orgy of crime. Mayor Thompson declared
that he would immediately
start a wholesale cleaning up of tne
police department, "even though it
eosts me my life." Seven persons
were killed and ten injured in
Spokane, Wash., Saturday, when a
street car went through a bridge over
:he Spokane rher The Local
\nzeiger, a Berlin newspaper, regarded
as a semi-official organ of the German
government, is said to have been
suppressed last week... .G. J. Thrasher,
president; R. C. Howard, vice
president and L. E. Aymard, treasurer
of the bankrupt Bankers' Bond
snd Finance company of Montgomery,
Ala., were on Saturday found
guilty or using tne mans wun inicni
to defraud The flag of Lyon
post, Grand Army of the Republic,
flew at half mast from the liberty
pole In the public square at Westfield,
Mass., Saturday, in memory of
Ira Miller, a Confederate veteran who
rode with Forrest's cavalry. Mr. Miller,
who was a retired manufacturer
3f Westfleld, died suddenly in Little
Rock, Ark., Thursday Governor
Hall of Louisiana, has pardoned Dora
Murff, a 20-year-old girl, who was
sentenced two months ago to serve
four years penal servitude for killing
J. Milton Delhaye, her sweetheart.....
It has been announced in Berlin that
the German cruiser Bremen and a
torpedo boat accompanying her, have
been sunk by a submarine in the
;astern Baltic sea. Four persons
were killed at Vandergrift, Pa., SunSay
when a jitney bus in which they
were riding was struck by a fast passenger
train Sheriff D. R. Moreand
of Leesburg, Ga., was killed and
his two brothers and four other white
men were more or less seriously Injured
in a light with negroes at Doyle,
Worth county, Georgia, Friday
night The white men were trying
to arrest Jim Keath a farm hand accused
of theft when the shooting
took place. It is feared that trouble
between whites and negroes in Worth
county will result from the shooting.
Prof. Arthur Williams Wright,
a. noted scientist died at New Haven,
Conn., Saturday, aged 80 years
Fire in Glasgow, Scotland Sunday
destroyed $<&u,uuu wcrtn 01 uquor....
..A cigar factory and seven other
buildings were destroyed by fire in
Key West, Fla., Friday. The property
damage is estimated at $150,000
Women are being employed as motor
car drivers in Berling, Germany
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? The store of C. G. Edwards in
Woodruff waA robbed of goods valued
at about $50 last Wednesday. The
thief was later captured and is now in
jail.
? John Golden, president of the
United Textile Workers of the World,
was in Greenville last week making
an investigation of the trouble at the
Judson mills. Mr. Golden held a conference
with President B. E. Greer
of Judson Saturday. The union leader
will remain in Greenville several
days.
? The supreme court has handed
down a decision in which it denies the
right of a governor to suspend a sheriff.
The case grew out of the action
of Governor Manning in suspending
Sheriff W. W. Huckabee of Kershaw,
on April 20, last. The court holds
that the statute on the subject is unconstitutional
and orders the reinstatement
of Sheriff Huckabee.
? Two former employes of Judson
mills, Greenville, W. T. Pitts and J.
H; Carman, will bring suit against
that corporation, asking $20,000 each,
as actual and punitive damages. The
men allege that a combination, or
agreement deleterious to their interests,
exists or has existed between
the cotton mills of that section and
possibly of the state, and in view of
this alleged combination they bring
suit. The suits are brought because
of the expressed belief of the former
operatives that they have been unjustly
denied employment and that their
pfforts to secure employment have
been unavailing because of a combination.
Notice of the suits has been
served upon B. E. Greer, president and
and treasurer of Judson mills. The
return to the complaint has not yet
been served.
? Columbia uecemDer, 11: nona
issues of $1,250,000 In Richland
county and $950,000 In Greenville
county, which were authorized by bills
passed by the last session of the legislature,
were upheld this afternoon by
ihe en banc session of the supreme
ind circuit judges. The majority
ipinion in the Richland case was
written by Circuit Judge Mendel L.
Smith and concurred in by a majorly
of all. The dissenting opinions were
lied by Chief Justice Gary and Circuit
Judge Gary and concurred in by
Xssociate Justices Watts and Fraser
ind Circuit Judges Mauldln and
?hipp. The decision in the Greenville
ase was unanimous. The constituionality
of the acts creating the bond
ssues were attacked mainly on the
trounds that the legislature could not
mpose them without a vote of the
>eople. The court says this is a funcion
of the legislature and within Its |
onstitutional rights.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
W. R. Carroll?Offers a seven-room
house on Lincoln street, for rent.
N. S. Ford, York No. 1?Has a small
stock of merchandise and fixtures
and a Chattanooga turn plow for
sale.
Bratton's Guernsey Farm?Has a good
family horse and a mule for sale at
$100 and $160.
T. L. Glenn, Veterinarian?Will be at
home during the holidays and offers
his professional services to those
desiring same.
Mrs. J. H. Machen?Will appreciate
return of ladies' black coat, left in
Southern waiting room on morning
of December 10th.
W. O. Harshaw & Co.?Announces
that they have bought the business
of J. T. Crawford at McConnellsville
and will take charge of same Jan. 1.
Ferguson & Youngblood?Publish a
set of resolutions relative to the use
of Stickell's high grade flours during
1916.
Carroll Supply Co.?Thank their patrons
for 1916 trade and extend the
season's compliments.
York Trust Co.?Wishes you a joyous
Christmas and offers its services as
your administrator or executor.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Reminds you
that only four more days remain to
do your Xmas shopping and invites
you to do it now at "Gift headquarters."
All kinds of holiday goods.
W. E. Ferguson?Thanks his customers
for their patronage and extends
the season's best wishes.
McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Is appreciative
of your favors, and extends
the season's greetings. Closed next
Saturday.
Sherer & Quinn?Have fresh supply
of Barrington Hall coffee?good for
Christmas. Fresh buckwheat. To
be closed Saturday?Christmas day.
Thomson Co.?With a very large line
of holiday goods, invites you to visit
it and see the goods. Low prices
and good qualities. Coat suits and
coats reduced one-third.
J. M. Stroup?Has a full supply of
raisins, currants, citron, icing sugar
jjnd other cake ingredients, as well
as apples, oranges, etc.
York Drug Store?Is appreciative of
your 1915 patronage and extends
the season's compliments.
Carroll Bros.?Say, don't buy flour until
you get their prices on large or
small quantiee. Flour is going up
in price.
Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Makes a
few suggestions relative to buying
life Insurance that may prove of
value to insurance buyers.
The plan of drilling oats into cotton
rows before the cotton picking is
completed is becoming quite general
throughout this county. Oats coming
to a good stand in the cotton rows is
a familiar sight in all quarters.
Mr. and Mr*. J. F. Youngblood and
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Beach are occupying
the R. R Montgomery house on
South Congress street. A recent statement
that Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery
were occupying this house happened
as the result of an error.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Christmas trade is booming
this week.
? Some little cotton selling, but not
a great deal.
? The college girls and boys will arrive
at their homes here tomorrow and
Thursday.
? Rev. J. L. Oates announced to his
congregation last Sunday morning
that the membership of the Yorkville
Associate Reformed church had passed
the two hundred mark.
? The fire alarm was sounded shortly
after 7 o'clock last night on account
of a blaze in the store of Mr. R.
T. Allison on South Congress street
The damage was very slight, the
flames being under control even before
the arrival of the hose wagon.
? Sophia Pierce, colored, and he
mother, Anna Pierce, who live on the
eastern outskirts of town, were accidentally
shot Sunday evening by Jim
Pierce, brother of Sophia. Neither of
the women were seriously hurt, although
the ball went through the fingers
of both hands of the daughter and
j a# Ka mAthor
I griUt'U UlC ivi oxicau ui itiw mvwivi.
Pierce, it seems, was "fooling" with
the pistol when It was discharged.
SCHOOLS ADD LIBRARIES
Another evidence of the fact that
York county's public schools are making
Improvements along every line, is
the application of seven schools for
state aid in establishing libraries,
while eleven other schools are making
application for aid in increasing the
size of their libraries.
The state department of education
gives $10 to each school desiring to establish
a library where the patrons
contribute a similar sum, the school
district $10, while the county board
of education gives $10 and a bonus of
$3. Those schools which will establish
libraries in the near future are
Forest Hill, Flint Hill, Pine Bluff,
Sharon, Brandon, Roddey and Gold
Hill (No. 36.)
Where a school desires to increase
its library and the patrons contribute
$5 and the school district $5, the state
department appropriates $5 from the
library fund and the county board of
education supplements the foregoing
with $5 and a bonus of $2.
Those schools which have met with
all the conditions and are applying to
the state and county for aid in in
thai,. Khrorioa n.re; LOWTV
UI COOillg kitvt* a*w* Ma ^
Wilson, Philadelphia, Santiago, Rock
Hill, Smith's Turnout, Bethesda, Eastview,
Cotton Belt Bullock's Creek,
Clover and Yorkville,
MAY PASS TODAY
Beaver Dam trestle on the Carolina
& North-Western railway about
two and a half miles north of Clover
was the scene of much activity Saturday,
Sunday and yesterday, a lavge
force of workmen having been employed
in rebuilding the wide span of
trestle which collapsed Thursday
morning, hurling eight freight cars
into the swift little creek and leaving
two other cars In such position that
it was necessary to topple them off
into the deep creek cut.
The Beaver Dam wreck is undoubtedly
one of the worst which has happened
in York county in many years.
When a reporter for The Enquirer
visited the scene Sunday afternoon
the contents of the freight cars had
been removed but the fill was still
piled with the wrecked box cars,
practically all of which are so badly
damaged that they are beyond repair.
Some of them were reduced to kindling
wood while others are now nothing
save splinters. On the sides of
the cut sets of wheels were lying
while other places wheels, air brakes,
connecting rods and other parts of
the cars were hurled together in a
jumbled heap.
The combination car (passenger
and baggage combined) which did
not go into the creek due to the fact
that the wheels rested on box cars
" * * 1 1 - fo 11 art wfia latpr
wnicn nau an cauy mi.?.?.? ?..? .
released and tumbled in with the I
rest of the wreckage. It is a total
wreck, the seats being torn from their
fastenings and other furniture and
fixtures damaged beyond repair.
The cross-ties on the small portion
of the trestle which held were badly
cut by the wheels of the derailed
freight car which caused the wreck
and had to be replaced with new
timbers while other cross ties at the
north end of the trestle which were
also cut, will continue in use.
There were some forty-five of fifty
hands at work Sunday afternoon repairing
the 32-foot trestle and they
were making rapid progress. Roadmaster
Fletcher of the C. & N.-W?
thinks that trains will be able to re
surne regular schedule this afternoon.
Since the accident passenger trains
on both ends of the line have been
making their regdlar schedules and
transferring their passengers and
baggage at the trestle by means of
carriages and wagons.
Since the wreck hundreds of people
have visited the scene and Sunday
Beaver Dam was a regular Mecca
for. many interested people.
What the exact damage to the railroad
company Is, is uncertain but It
will amount to several thousand dollars,
at least.
SANTA CLAUS ON THE WAY
Santa Claus Is on the road! Only
tnree more aays ana ne win De nere.
His agents have already been here and
have stocked almost every store In
Yorkville and every store In every
other section of the county with all
manner of holiday articlea It is
Christma^ time. It can be felt in the
air, it can be seen everywhere. Pretty
show windows all over town are striking
evidence that it is an unusual
time.
That Santa Claus is going to leave
in many a home all kinds of pretty
things can be proven by a look at
most of the stores where he has deposited
so many practical and pretty
articles until his coming Friday night
Toys, candies, fruits, glass ware,
crockery, dry goods and other things
of a more useful and practical nature.
Never perhaps has he left a
more bountiful supply of things in
Yorkville, so many things for the old
folks as well as the young, to look
over and decide upon what they want
And the merchants say that the
little folks and old folks are picking
over Santa Claus's offerings in such
numbers that their hearts are being
made glad. Better do your choosing
today or tomorrow ere you may be too
late.
Everything is looking Christmassy.
Everybody is wearing the Christmas
smile?the one that won't come off.
Or rather anybody who can possibly
change their face is wearing that
smile. Why shouldn't it be so? Everything
is so much better than it was
a year ago. The country is safe.
And boys: there are plenty of firecrackers
about town. Big ones and little
onea They call the big ones "Germans,
'' this year. Their smell, how- 1
ever, is not noticeable yet While
there are plenty of them it is possi- 1
ble the supply will not be as large as
the demand, so remember to buy '
yours early. Don't shoot them before
Christmas Eve, you boys in town, '
because if you do Chief Love is liable
man tX? ma oa ilia*- tho 1
iw 5CI JUU. X IV iviu HIV ov jwov vaiv
other das'. Of course the boys in the
country can shoot theirs when they please.
That's where they have it on ]
you boys In the towns.
And girls don't care much for Are- ,
crackers, they love their dolls which
are almost as plentiful as the firecrackers.
Big dolls, little dolls, medium
size dolls, dolls that can go to sleep, '
dolls that can't talk but can squeak. j
And there are tea sets and carts and
cradles and almost everything. i
Yes, It should be a glorious Christ- .
mas for the little folks and for the
big folks as well, for Saint Nicholas 1
has left a bountiful supply of his presents
with the store keepers of
this section.
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CHRISTMAS 8ERM0N.
Matthew ii, 2 and 11: "Saying, ;
Where is he that is born King of the 1
Jews? For we have seen his star in
the east, and are come to worship j
him. * And when they were
come into the house, they saw the ,
young child with Mary his mother, I
and fell down and worshipped him:
and when they had opened their 1
treasures, they presented unto him
gifts; gold, frankincense and myrrh." {
Using the foregoing as a text and j
announcing his subject as "Christmas
Gifts," Rev. J. H. Machen preached .
an interesting sermon to his congregation
at the First Baptist church'
Sunday evening, devoted to the great
Christmas festival that will be cele- I
brated throughout the world on Satur- 1
day of this week.
'The spirit of Christmas is in the 1
very atmosphere, in our very bones, ;
so to speak," said Mr. Machen, "and
it is hard to realize that another |
Christmas is upon us without thinking
of Christmas gifts.
"What do these gifts mean? Where
did they start?" :
He then related the story of the
visit oi me mree wise men iu iuv
stable where Christ was born; how i
they had seen his star in the east.and I
following; iU guidance to the manger 1
where the Christ-child was, they
stopped to worship him and give gifts, j
"I like to think of our Saviour as (
a child," said the preacher. "Most ]
of our thoughts of him are as the son
of God. But I like to think of him ,
as a Uttle babe, it is more impressive t
at this time to think of him as a lit- <
tie child?It is more human."
The celebration of Christmas is
first recorded in the second century 1
and it is a mistaken idea with a great i
many people that it is a Divinely ap- '>
pointed feast day.
"Jesus Christ was the first one to <
receive gifts, and from this has grown l
up the idea of gifts. So we today, <
whether wisely or unwisely, is a question,
give gifts. The idea is to make j
others happy. The gifts of the wise j
men to Christ must have made the
heart of his mother, Mary, bubble
over with happiness and Joy at the ,
receipt of tho gifts. That same spirit j
is in us today. 'It is more blessed to
give than to receive,' that is the ex- '
perlence of every one. Giving brings
joy and happiness. 'We have heard 1
tho expression, 'How I would like to 1
have been one of the wise men.' You i
do not have to go far to have the experience
of the wise men," said the <
preacher. "You have the opportunity j
today. Christ said, 'If ye have done t
it unto one of the least of these, ye
have done it unto me.' Look around ,
I you. Help somebody today." ,
| Some people say they are too oia to :
indulge in the Christmas spirit; oth|
ers that the times are too hard. "Did
you ever find a man who found the
times too hard to indulge himself at
Christmas If he wanted to do so?
Times are never too hard for the selfish
man to refrain from his Christmas
liquor. 'I must have my Christmas
liquor,' they say. Christmas derived
Its name from Christ. Think of
a church member calling himself a
Christian, ordering liquor to celebrate
the birth of the Saviour! Think of
linking the name of Christ with
liquor. Times are too hard for the
children's stockings, but never too
hard for the Christmas liquor. I
wonder how many members of this
church, how many professed Christians
of this town, have ordered their
Christmas liquor. Santa Claus will
certainly visit the children where there
are christians in the homes, but where
there is 'three-X,' the visit of Santa
Claus is doubtful.
"Christ was the first great gift to
man. He was God's gift to a lost
world. He gave up his life for the
sinners of this world, and all you
have to do to have this gift is to accept
him as your personal Saviour.
Will you? When you give gifts give
them in the name of Christ."
HERE AND THERE.
Mr. S. A. Robinson, who lives near
Clover, killed a hog yesterday morning
that weighed 435 pounds net.
Many of the rural schools closed
for the Christmas holidays Friday
while those that did not will adjourn
either today or tomorrow. In most
instances, a two weeks' holiday will
be given the pupils.
The county chalngang, like almost |
every one else, win oDserve <jnnsimas.
Supervisor Boyd said the other ^
day that the convicts would be given
Christmas as a holiday and that one
or two of the county's hogs would be '
killed with which the gang would 1
feast themselves. ?
Mr. "Billie" Bandlfer of the c
Guthriesville section, who has quite 1
a reputation for raising fine turkeys,
Baid Saturday that he had sold eight- j
een or twenty of his birds the past ^
few days whose weight ranged from t
16 to 22 pounds. Mr. Sandifer has one
gobbler about a year and a half old ^
that weighed 32 pounds. a
Sam Kirby, a white man, convicted
of complicity in assaulting and rob- c
bing Jesse Jerrill in Rock Hill several
weeks ago, and who was sentenced to I
serve two years imprisonment, will
work out his sentence in the penitentiary
instead of on the chaingang.
Kirby has only one arm.
Apropos of the price of cotton Mr.
1m Black said the other day that
le had Ave bales of long staple for
which he had been offered 16} cents
per pound by a Gastonia firm. "Mr.
Z M. Inman," he said, has a quantiy
of long staple but was not willing
to take that price and he advised
Tie to hold on to mine. 1 am doing
t and we both believe we will get
i better price."
As is usually the custom at Christiias
time a lot of hard earned money
s being sent out of the state by York
:ounty people for liquor. Each train)
luring the past few days has brought
icores of packages of liquor to the
express office here as well as to those
it other places In the county. It is
laid that the quantity of liquor
U ready received at the Yorkville express
office is greater than that of
ast Christinas.
Judge Hayne F. Rice who presided
>ver the four weeks term of the court
>f general sessions and common pleas
ivhich adjourned Friday, left for his
lome in Aiken Friday night. Judge
Rice made & good impression upon
the people of the county who saw
ilm preside over the court and has
seen the recipient of many sincere
tomplimentary remarks, most of
ivhich however were unheard by
himself. Judge I. W. Bowman will
preside over the several terms of
jourt in York county next year.
"I was not surprised that the Brandon
school won a prize from the
State School Improvement association,"
remarked Superintendent Carroll
this morning. "No school in the
county has made greater Improvements
during the past year than this
school." And two pictures which the
superintendent has In his office is
evidence of the fact One shows the
>Id Brandon school building, a oneroom,
ram-shackle affair, with most
jf the window panes broken out and
the building itself looking like it will
fail every moment while the other picture
portrays the new building, a neat
(tructure built on the Clemson plan for
school houses and surrounded by a
rlean and spacious field.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mrs. R. D. Dorsett spent Sunday
Bvith relatives in, Clover.
Mr. M. W. Smith of Hickory Grove,
was a visitor here yesterday.
Col. J. R. Lindsay is ill at his home
here with typhoid fever.
All80 naiue lxrwry 01 oneioy, in
spending several days here.
Mr. J. R. Lindsay, Jr., of Columbia.
Is visiting his parents in Torkville.
Mr. J. T. Steele of Waxhaw, N. C.,
visited his brother, Dr. S. L. Steele,
lere this week.
Miss Kate Hunter, who is teaching
in Gaffney, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. J. J. Hunter, hero,
Dr. Jas. B. Shirley expects to spend
:he Christmas holidays with relatives
it Honea Path.
Miss Irene English of Michigan, is
the guest of Misses Annie and Mabel
Ashe here.
Mr. W. W. Jenkins, Jr., of Spartanburg,
is visiting his parents in
Yorkville.
Mr. R. M. Love of Smyrna, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Love, near Yorkville, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Clinton of
Mayesworth, N. C., visited Mrs. Mattie
Jenkins here this week.
Mr. EI M. Whlsonant of Yorkville
Mo. 6, is preparing to move his family
to Clover No. 2.
Dr. L. L Campbell of Bethel, was
among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday.
Miss Azle Cherry of Rock Hill, visited
Miss Nannie Plexico here this
week.
Miss Martha Smith of Tatum, S. C.,
is spending the holidays at her home
in Hickory Grove.
Mr. W. H. Hagans of Clover, was
the guest of the family of Mr. S. T.
Enloe here this week.
Mrs. Henry Hunt of Lowell, N. C.,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Wallace In Yorkville.
Prof. L. W. Jenkins of Spartanburg,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Jenkins here this week.
Mr. P. D. White of Chester, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. White, in Yorkville.
Superintendent Jas. p. Pulp of the
Fort Mill Graded school, was a visitor
here Saturday.
Mrs. F. C. Riddle, who has been
spending several weeks with relatives
in Aiken, has returned to her home
here.
Misses Annie and Mabel Ashe, who
are teaching in Spartanburg, are
spending the holidays at their home
here.
Mr. John Smart who has been living
on Yorkville No. 4, is moving
this week to the Aycock place on
Sharon No. 2.
Mr. Howard White of the University
of Maryland, Baltimore, is spending
the holidays with his parents, Dr.
and Mrs. W. G. White, in Yorkville.
Mr. P. W. Patrick is obliged to walk
an crutches due to a wound which he
inflicted on his foot last week while
cutting wood.
Mr. Robert Turner Allison of the
Fiastoc school, Spartanburg, is spending
the holidays with his parents in
iTorkville.
Congressman D. E. Flnley and son,
Mr. W. G. Finley, have returned
home from Washington for the
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^iiiiswiicia ii'inuti>a.
Mr. Scott Hartness of City Point,
Va., is spending a few days with the
family of his father, Mr. R. B. Hartness,
on Yorkville No. 5.
Mr. Stark Slaughter of Hodges, S.
If., is spending the holidays with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Slaugh:er,
in Hickory Grove.
Mrs. M. L. Thomas son and Miss
Mozelle Thomasson of Yorkville No.
5, are spending some time with relaLives
in Tampa, Fla.
Miss Estelle Mclver has returned to
tier home in Gulf, N. C., after a visit
to her sister, Mrs. E. E. Gillespie,
iere,
Mr. Albertus Moore of WinstonSalem,
N. C., visited the family of
tiis father, Mr. W. T. Moore, in Yorkville
this week.
Mr. John S. Wallace of Wofford college,
Spartanburg, is spending the
holidays with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. R. Wallace, on Yorkville
So. 2.
Mesdames Helen Adlckes and J. R.
Gannon spent Friday in Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Glenn of
Theater, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
fVllison here Sunday.
Misses Mary Pant Herndon and
rtachel Wylie of Converse college,
Spartanburg, arrived Friday evening
:o spend the holidays with their parents.
Miss Mary Har3haw. who is teaching
the Forest Hill school, is spending
:he holidays with her parents, Mr. and
VI rs. J. E. Harshaw, at McConnellsrille.
Mr. Fred C. Black of Yorkville No.
>, who lost his arm in a corn shredo
iirnro 1 nmnUa oan fa nftt TPPftV
;ring from his injuries as rapidly as
vas expected.
Chester Reporter, Dec. 20: Mr. J.
[J. McAfee of R. F. D. 2. has sold his
>lantation to Mr. J. S. Stone and will
move to the Jones place between
juthriesville and York, which he rejently
purchased. Mr. McAfee is one
>f Chester county's best citizens, and
te and his excellent family will be
riven up with great reluctance.
LOCAL LACONICS,
fork County 8chools Win Prizes.
The South Carolina School Imirovement
association has awarded
>rizes of $25 each to the Blairsville
ind Brandon schools in York county,
>n account of school development.
To Buy New Fixtures.
H. E. Hood, J. E. Latham and F. M.
'ruitt, trustees of Shady Grove school
listrict No. 10, expect to confer with
he superintendent of education Thurslay
regarding the purchase of new
lesks and other fixtures for their
chool. <
)eath of Mrs. Morrison.
Rock Hill Record, Dec. 20: Mrs. i
.izzie Morrison died at her home at
the Wymojo mill, Saturday, aged 38
years, and her remains were burled
in Laurelwood cemetery Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock, after funeral
services by Rev. P. T. Cox.
Bethany Defeated Hickory Grove.
The strong Hickory Grove basketball
team met defeat at the hands of
the Bethany team Friday afternoon by
a score of 22 to 11. The game was
played at Santiago school house ana ?
was witnessed by a goodly crowd. The
playing of Lee Gettys of the Bethany
team, was the feature of the game,
which was said to be the best ever
seen at Santiago.
Isarron vs. i own oouwn.
The case of W. R. Carroll against
the town of Yorkville, for the return
of license money alleged to have been
unlawfully collected from the plaintiff,
as a cotton and cotton seed buyer,
has been argued before the court,
J. S. Brice, Esq., appearing for Mr.
Carroll, and W. W. Lewis, Esq., for the
town. Judge Rice took the papers and
today tiled his decision against the
plaintiff. Mr. Carroll will appeal.
Fort Mill Masons Elect Officers. ^
Catawba lodge, No. 56, A. F. M., hefd
its 56th annual communication
the election of officers Friday night HirBiM
with the following results: W. I
Carothers, W. M.; F. E. Ardrey, 8. W.;
F. M. Mack, J. W.; W. B. M each am.
Jr., treasurer; 8. W. Parka secretary.
The following officers were appointed ^
to serve for the next year; L. M. Mmsey,
senior deacon; J. W. Collins,
Junior deacon; J. L. Lyles, tiler; E. L
Hughes and T. L. Culp, stewards
Delegation in Rock Hill.
Senator J. E. Beam guard of Clover,
and Representatives E. O. Nunn, W.
R. Bradford, T. F. Lesslle and W. J.
Cherry, who compose the York county
delegation in the legislature, held a
meeting in the chamber of commerce
hall, Rock Hill, yesterday to consult
with citizens In regard to needed legislation
at the next session of the genral
assembly. A number of matters
were' brought to the attention of the
delegation. _ ^
Blackleg in Bethel.
Mr. R. B. Riddle of Clover No. 2.
lost a calf by blackleg last Wednesday ^^k
night Several weeks ago when black- JflB
leg was more or less prevalent in
Bethel township, Mr. Riddle had all his
cattle Inoculated with the blackleg jfl
serum except this calf, and because of ^^k
Its wildness, failed to inoculate the
animal, and the disease made its ap- jM
pearance last week with fatal results. ^
Several other head of cattle that have
come on the place since the scare of
several weeks ago, have been given
the serum the past week.
Coromonv at Bowline Groan.
Clover Leaf council, Jr. O. U. A. M..
presented the Bowling Green school
with a Bible and flag Saturday in the
presence of a large number of friends
and patrons of the school Quits a
number of members of the order also
attended the exercises which were
held In the handsome new school house
at Bowling Green. Jas. A. Barrett
presided over the exercises. The flag
was presented by Senator J. E. Beamguard
and the Bible by Dr. E. W.
Preesly and the gifts were received
for the school by Rev. A. A. McLean.
Districts Vote 8peeial Levies.
Voters of New Zion school district
on Thursday voted a two-mill special
tax levy for school purposes The
vote was 18 to 6. The trustees of this
district are J. F. Smith, W. A. Nichols a .
and W. M. Wallace Broad River din- * j
trict No. 25, of which Jeff D. Whitesides
and John A. MoGlU are true- '
tees, has also recently voted a special A
two mill levy for school purposes
Fifty-four of the fifty-six school die
tricts in the county are now carrying m
a special school levy. Those which ^
have no such levy are Shady Grove
No. 10 and Bethel No. 3.
Clover Masons Elect Officers.
At the annual meeting of Alpine
lodge, No. 208, at Clover, held last
Friday night, the following officers
were elected for the next ensuing Masonic
year: W. T. Beam guard, W. M.;
J. E. Brison, S. W.; Jas. E. Beamguard,
J. W.; J. Walter Smith, treasurer;
Thoa T. B. Williams, secretary.
The appointive officers are as follows:
R. Emmett Love, S. D.; M. T. WilIiom.
T Tk T U RMrila and Rnaa
Parrish, stewards; W. J. Mulllnax.
tiler. After the election refreshments,
consisting of oysters, sandwiches and
coffee, were served. The lodge was
then re-convened and the entered apprentice
degree conferred; 'this was
followed by the installation of the
newly elected officers, Mr. W. J. Mulllnax,
the tiler, being installed in that
office for the fifteenth consecutive
time.
Plessed With the Silo.
"My silo is the best investment 1
have made since I have been interested m%
in dairying," declared Dr. R A. Bratton,
proprietor of the Guereneey Dairy J|B
Farm yesterday. The declaration was
made in reply to a question of the reporter
who happened to be familiar r
with some of the doctor's operations in '
connection with the farm. "How much ' i /
did the silo cost you?" the reporter
asked. "Three or four hundred dol- *
lars?I do not know exactly," was the
reply; "but it cost me a great deal
more than it should have cost That
was because I very foolishly used unskilled
labor when I should have given
the contract to somebody who understood
the business. But the silo pays.
It gives me all the rough feed I need
at the lowest possible cost, and enables
me to use a lot of stuff that has
heretofore been wasted."
8. M. Garrison Dead.
Charlotte Observer, Sunday: Mr. S.
M. Garrison, a well known citizen of
lower Steele Creek, died last night at
his home at the age of 80 years. Mr.
Garrison had been ill for several days ^
with indigestion and his condition yesterday
became more serious. Funeral
arrajnrements had not been completed ??
at midnight, but the service will prob- "11
ably be held some time today. Mr.
Garrison is survived by his wife, who a
before her marriage, was Miss Mar- I
garet K end rick. The following chil- A
dren also survive: Mr. A. o. Garrison, jjA
Mr. Edward K. Garrison and Miss
Amy Garrison, all of this county, and .wi
one sister, Mra William Boyd of
York county, 8. C. Mr. Garrison was \/
a Confederate veteran, having rendered
effective service during the Civil
war. He was a highly esteemed
member of Flint Hill Baptist church.
Death of Mrs. F. B. Harris.
Mra. Fannie Barron Harris, widow
of the late Frank Harris, died at her
home at Pineville, N. C., Friday morning
at 6 o'clock, following a long period
of feeble health, aged 78 years. Mrs.
Harris was a devoted Christian woman
and much loved in the community ? ,
in which she lived. The funeral services
were conducted from the Presby- i V,
terian church at 11 a. m. Saturday by 1
Rev. W. W. Orr of Charlotte, assisted \
by Rev. J. C. Hardin. The body was p[^JH
laid to rest at Blackstock, the family
burying ground, two miles in the
country. Mra Harris is survived by v
five daughters: Mrs. C. P. Heningur 4
and Mra Nellie Costin, Birmingham,
Ala.; Mra O. W. Potts, Pleasant Valley;
Mrs. Rena Cunningham and Miss
Janie Harris of Pineville. Rev. Al- W
bert Harris of Louisville, is a grandson
whom she raised.
Rock Hill's New Church.
The Baptists of Rock Hill will soon
begin the work of constructing a
handsome and commodious house of
worship, costing in the neighborhood
of {50,000, says a Rock Hill special of
Friday to the Columbia State. At the
recent state convention, held in Greenville,
it was voted to contribute to the
k,,fnn/S rtf th!s church the sum
of $4,000 annually for a period of five ^
years, making a total of $20,000. The
home mission board has already
agreed to pay the sum of $5,000 thus
making a total of $25,000 that will be
received from outside sources. The
congregation has already subscribed
around $10,000 to the building fund,
leaving a balance of about $14,000 to
be raised. To offset this it is planned
to dispose of the present church edifice
and lot and the present residence
for the minister, for which several
thousand dollars can be secured.
Death of Mrs. M. A. McFarland. * s
Following a briof illness with uraemic
poisoning, Mra Sallle Agnes McPari
and, wife of Mr. M. A. McFarland.
died at her home on Yorkvllle No. 4,
about 11 o'clock last night. Mrs. Mc- f m
Farland, who was about 41 years of "
age. was a daughter of the late Henry
Keller, and was born on the place