Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps and .farts. ; c -The War Department has $121,- T 000,000 worth of surplus food on hand. ? Much of this could have been declared 1 surplus and released to the public last c February, Chief of StalT March said ( Friday before the house subcommittee J investigating war department ex- * pcaditures. He also admitted that the subsistence division of the quar- ( termaster's corps is open to criticism | for allowing millions of pounds of ham and bacon to deteriorate in army warehouses. Latest official figures 1 furnished by Gen. March showed the following surplus Jpod stores on July ; 8: Corned beef, $24,000,000; bacon OO fiAAA AAQ- nArno^ hodf hflsh. HO. f mO,UVVV|VW| VV? MVU T , 000,000; roast beef, $20,500,000; frozen meats 'including poultry), $20,000,000; canned vegetables, $23,000,000. The big British dirigible, which left Mineola field, New York, shortly after midnight last Thursday morning, arrived at Pulham, Norfolk, England, on Monday morning at 6.56 o'clock, having made the trip across the Atlantic in 75 hours. On the second day out ; one' of the three engines of the ship failed; but the other two engines continued to perform nicely and no trou ble or inconvenience was experienced. IMiring twenty-four hours of the Jour- J ney the airship was enveloped in fog so far as being able to see the ocean 1 was concerned; but it was able to see < the moon and stars overhead. The ^ ship left New York with 4,900 gallons of gasoline, and still had 1,000 gallons when it landed. Majdr Scott, the commander, said that it will be a question , of only a short time when airships are making regular trips across the Atlan- ' tic with passengers- ' President Wilson has interposed 1 his Dersonalitv into the fight o?er the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment, telegraphing Governor Kilby to ] express his earnest hope that it will be j ratified by "the great state of Alabama." The president, continuing, de- s V. clared that it would constitute a very < happy augury for the future and add greatly to the strength of a movement which in his judgement is based upon the highest consideration both of jus- 1 tice and expediency. The message re- 1 ceived at the executive office late Sat- t urday evening was not commented upon by the governor, and very few members of the legislature knew of it. In legislature circles It is practically conceded tlfet the amendment is going to be repudiated, and those hearing of . the president's message were not con- 1 strained to believe that it would turn s the tide for the amendment. Under t legislative enactment Friday, the amendment is set for a special order of 1 business Wednesday when the govern- r or is expected to transmit it to a joint l session of the two houses. { Sergeant Alvin C- York, this coun- i try's great war hero, and Lieut. Commander A- C. Read of the NC-4 were the idolized favorites at the Methodist Centenary exposition at Columbus, ' Ohio, last Saturday. Separate recep- 1 lions were accorded the heroes in the c Coliseum, which was crowded to the doors. Sergt. York, in a brief response x to his Introduction said: "I wish I c could make a fine speech to you, but > I am not a speaker; I'm just a plain , mountain boy from Tennessee. All I v have to say about the war in France is 1 in honor of God, for without His help t we would not have won." Sergt. York ( is deeply religious, and this fact was brought out in the few words he said to the assembled thousands today. "I live and practice a full salvation," he < said. "And I believe in continual pray- , er. While I was in France I prayed continually to God that I might come home without a scratch from the Ger- 1 mans, and I did." Lieut Commander j Read, is response to his introduction, t commented on the lack of enthusiasm . over flying in this country as compared with that manifested in England and ' France. He modestly stated that the j entire Navy departm&it deserved ere- ( dit for his crossing the Atlantic. York and Read met each other for the first time at a luncheon tendered them by the centenary officials- During the day thousands pressed forward to ^ shake hands with the heroes, who were protected from the anxious crowds by a guard of soldiers from the Columbus > barracks. The two heroes were pre- * sented with medals struck in their j honor. * Last week in the cotton market ac- s cording to a New Orleans review the range of prices was more than two 1 cents a pound and the close was near ? the top, the active months showing net grains of 211 to 233 points. July rose to 36.35, the highest price ever made in the history of contract trading. In 1 the early part of the week the con- c tinued rains in the eastern belts was i the main buying influence, but highest . prices were made on the announcement of the lifting of the blockade I acrainst Germany. Larger exports, the s settlement of the Lancashire mill strike, more tonnage and easier ocean freight rates and the extreme favorable accounts from the dry goods markets of this country contributed to the strength of the market. This week the main thing at flrst will be the effect of opening trade with Germany. Bullish traders think this will stimulate the export movement and the spot demand in the south but bearish traders seem to be of the opinion that such cotton ! already has been bought directly for German acre and that no immediate or severe buying pressure will be felt , in order to supply the immediate needs of that country. Weather conditions i will be a feature of hardly secondary ] importance because of the claims from i many sections of the belt that the crop , is doing- better, under a smaller rainfall. The weekly reports on Wednes- 1 day will probably be regarded as < among the most important of the crop , reviews thus far this season. The spot ' demand will be closely watched, partly ' on account of the situation in Germany 1 and partly because of the theory held ( In some quarters that the buying of the actual stuff will be stimulated on the 1 part of both English and domestic < spinners now that the competition of j mills in the central countries of Europe 1 is to be felt oace more. Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company, says the New York Sun, will undertake to finance the com- i pany through a syndicate that is to provide $75,000,000 to purchase all holdings of minority stockholders, with tl\e exception of James Cousens, it was i announced in this city to-day. Mr. j Cousens will remain as a director. The financing will be conducted by A. ' Stuart Webb of Webb & Goodwin, New < York; the Old Colony Trust Company ] of Boston, and the Chase Securities , Corporation. The syndicate is expected to provide a credit of one year for the ' venture. The Ford company has i heretofore never borrowed to finance j any of its operations. The obligation is backed by the company's promissory ( notes, which mature in ninety days, ] with three renewals, and they are to j be discounted at the prevailing market . rates for commercial borrowings, the first notes being rediscounted at 5 j per j cent. The company reserves the privi- ' lege of anticipating payments against ^ this eredit on any maturity date. The Ford company is capitalized at $2,000,- ] 000, has total assets of about $255,- 1 000,000 and a profit and loss surplus in i the neighborhood of $213,000,000. Its shares until now have been in the 1 hands of eight stockholders, Henry ' Ford's holdings amounting to 58i per j cent. The Dodge Brothers, automobile manufacturers, were among the minority stockholders. Under the new * scheme the Fords will gain complete control of the company, with the exception of the interest held by James Cousens. In 1917 the minority stock- ( holders of the Ford Motor company 1 brought suit against the Fords to com- t pel them to disburse about $60,000,- 000 of accumulated dividends and to give the smaller interests in the com- f pany a more important voice in the > transaction of its business. At that ( time Henry Ford announced that he } hoped to use the accumulated money to increase the company's business. 1 One phase of his plan was the con- < struction of a great blast furnace at , River Rouge. Before Mr. Ford had resigned the presidency to his son, Ed- 1 sel, last year, the minority stoekhold- 1 era won the day. The plan of purchas- \ ing the holdings of the minority Inter- < ests obviates of course the necessity ' of the Ford company making disbursements unless the management feels so 1 disposed. The Ford Motor company 1 was organized in 1903. Its production , of cars increased from 1,708 in that year to 735,000 in 1917. A cash pay- 1 ment of 100 per cent was made by the 1 ompany In September, 1910: one of 500 )er cent, was declared in June, 1913; , >ne of the 100 per cent In May, 1914, ind one was declared in June, 1915, which was not public- Dividends of mbsequent years likewise have not ?een made public. There will be no :hange in the personnel of the officers >f the Ford company or Jn the policy >f the company despite the reorganlza;lon. ffhf ^jorbvilte ?nquiwr Entered at#the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919. After all the most real mistake that Sermany made during the whole business was in running afoul of the Unit- ( sd States. But now Germany knows :hat better than anybody. Trade has been resumed with Ger- , nany in practically everything except iyestuflfs, potash and chemicals. Cot:on is now moving freely, and so is footwear, clothing and foodstuffs. The zero milestone of the^ national fiighway system has been dedicated n Washington. Hereafter milestones llong all national highways are to tell 1 listance from Washington. The demands of the world on Amer- j ca for goods of all kinds may naturaly be expected to tax the resources of i his country to the utmost and of ] :ourse that means higher prices for , iverything. i Yes there is room iur nuiduicmtuv n the social, economical and political , system of the United States; but who >n earth is capable of leaking that im- 1 irovement besides the people who have | nade conditions what they are. , Russian Bolshivists can no doubt im- I >rove Russia, but jiot the United ( States. , A big part of everything you pay 1 low is war tax. The tax is being col- ' ected from income earners of every ( lescription; but it is the consumer | vho is paying the bill. The purchaser < >f a 50 cent pair of socks, that previously cost 20 cents, pays about 10 j :ents for the cotton, about 15 cents to ! he manufacturer, about 15 cents to 1 he jobber and retailer and about 10 j ents to the government. I # I Thirteen of 25 townships in Robeson :ounty N. C., have voted $750,000 vorth of good roads bonds and four J >ther townships are to vote today. ] Robeson is the county which came 1 nto fame shortly after the Civil War ' hrough the operations of the famous , Outlaw Henry Berry Lowry. It aleady has as many miles of good roads ] irobably as most other North Carolina :ounties. ! ' * 1 i One of the maxims of the late James 1 (. Hill, who was probably one of the ' rreatest and most successf ,1 business \ nen America ever produced, was: "If , ou want to know whether you are < - - n..- i ;uini; to ue a auttt?a ui n iiuiuic ui ife, you can easily find out. The test is ( simple and infallible. Are you able to j save money? If not, drop out! You ' nay not think so, but yor will. The seed of success is not in you." * President Wilson has vetoed the ag- ! icultural bill because of a provision : jarrying repeal of the daylight saving aw and the sundry civil bill, because < t does not carry a large enough ap- 1 >ropriation for disabled soldiers and j sailors. The fight for the repeal of the j laylight saving was made mainly on the pretext that the farmers did not vant it. The principal interests adversely affected by the law are the | ight and fuel interests. The understanding is that congress will increase he appropriation for disabled soldiers ind sailors; but will fight the daylight saving's veto i As to whether the league of nations vill preserve the peace of the world ndenniteiy, we cannoi De cerain. xnc probability is that it will not dtfso. But tve will have peace longer with the league than without it. And so far as :rying to hold America aloof from the obligations of the league, that is absurd. We are the biggest nation of the Oiggest people in the world today. To think of occupying such a status without incurring the responsibilities which go therewith is absurd. It is not even oroditable that we should want to do so. To try to evade the responsibility that goes with our importance would toe simply contemptible, and that \merica could be contemptible seems mpossibl*. Clemson college has sent out the results of recent investigations in Darlington county as to the effects of American potash on crops, especially pn cotton and tobacco. It appears that ar-e-o nf cotton and tobacco. which should have shown up much better considering the quantity of potish used, are in far worse shape than f there had been no potash at all. Inleed the crops appear to have been poisoned. While the last trouble has lot been ascertained, it is believed that ;he large content of borax in the American potash is doing the harm, j The whole matter has been laid before :he ways and means committee of the i r:ouse, and it is expected that further nvestigations will follow. If it should , >? established that the American pot- , isll is as harmful as is believed, it is easonably certain that congress will ( lot insist upon placing the German lotash the prohibitive duty that has i >een proposed. It is well to remember that prices i >f all kinds are high; but the valua- ' ion of dollars to commodities is about , he same as it was before the war. This condition of affairs must necessarily continue for quite a while. If ve could get present war prices for >ur stuff and get the other fellow's stuff at pre war prices it would be lice for us; but pretty tough on the >ther fellow. The othei fellow, how ver knows about as well how to take *are of himself as we do. Therefore ive must make up our minds that if ve are to continue to build and progress we must do it without reference :o pre war prices. It is true that plants of all kinds established before :he war have an advantage in low sriginal cost, but it must be remembered also that all such plants are wearing out and that they will have to be renewed on the basis of present costs. People who have money or who are makin; money, and who want to progress, may as well go on in their usual routine. Temperature five degrees below freezing was encountered and sunset was observed at 10 p. m. Thursday night over Arcadia, Fla., by Liuet. Charles C. Chauncey and Sergt. Thomas Cook, two aviators who took an army plane 20,000 feet up from Carlstrora Field at that hour. An 85 minute flight was made as an experiment in seeking high altitudes after Hn rkness thp air service announced today in giving out the report. Details of the loss of nearly 200 Uboats are contained in an article in the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin quoted in an official report received in Washington. Of the U-boats S2 were lost in the North Sea or Atlantic and 72 off the coast of Flanders. Fourteen were blown up by their own crews. Other naval losses were 1 battleship. 1 battle cruiser, C armored cruisers, 8 modern and 10 older smaller cruisers, 7 gunboats, 3 river gunboats, -19 destroyers, 20 large and 41 small torpedo boats, 28 mine-sweepers, 9 auxiliary cruisers, and 122 trawlers and auxiliary vessels a total of 490 warcraft. According to the newspaper the number of men of the naval forces killed ?was 29,685. v Rear Admiral Harry McL. P. Huae, commander of the training force of the Atlantic fleet, has the saving of the life of a sailor to his credit. As the admiral was leaving his flagship, the Columbia, in the Hudson river a fewnights ago, with his wife, by way of a barge, Seaman William J. Buckley, who was the barge's bowman fell into the river, as the result of a swell that separated the barge from the big ship. Admiral Huse immediately jumped into the river to help Buckley and held on to him until a life boat arrived. Then the admiral and his wife proceeded on to New York. The admiral said nothing about the inci dent; but it later got mio me papers. Admiral Huse was advanced fife flies during the Spanish-American war for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle and he was awarded the medal i>f honor for distinguished conduct during the American occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. W. T. Yarbrough, who was arrested charged with violation of the state prohibition law when fee reached Columbus, Ga., carrying 500 gallons of liquor from St. Louis to Habana, was acquitted by a jury in city court a.t Columbus, Friday. After {? hearing in the federal circuit court in Birmingham, where he also was arrested, Yarbrough had been allowed to proceed under a recent supreme court decision which held that persons transporting liquor may only be dealt with at their destination. At his trial at Columbus, In the city court, a branch of the state court, it was contended that Yarbrough had removed part of the contents of one bottle and Intended to sell it in Columbus. After his acquittal his liquor was ordered returned to him and he said he would continue on his way to Cuba, where he says he is to open a saloon. Yarbrough was transporting his liquor in the drawing room of a sleeping car and was taken from the train at Columbus as be crossed the Georgia line. Senator E. D. Smith, writes K. Foster Murray, the Washington correspondent of the News and Courier, having seen the announcement that in the opening up of trade between this country and Germany the embargo would be retained on potash importations into the United States called on Acting Secretary Polk, at the state department. The South Carolina senator informed Secretary Polk that he had statements frm citizens of his state as well as articles published in the press calling attention to the alleged disastrous effect of certain American potash on tobacco and cotton in the south. Senator Smith pointed out the absolute necessity of potash along the entire coastal plain from Maine to Florida, sspecially in the south. He added that according to statements made by certain witnesses before a committee of the house of representatives, German potash as well as Alsatian potash can t>e delivered in this country around $15 to $20 a ton for what is known as kaltiit, while the American article would be something like $150 to $200 a ton, but of a higher percentage of potash. Secretary of State Polk was sufficiently impressed to suggest that a conference . be held between the secretary of the interior, the secretary of war and the department of state looking to the proper adjustment ol me mane. a.tor Smith believes that the result will be the lifting of the embargo on the importation of potash. Joint action by the postofflco department and the Chamber of Commerce of the United Staees to extend and eliminate delays has just been announced. Following a conference at the department here of postmasters of the 50 largest mail centers, handling approximately half of the mail business of the country, it was agreed that the national Chamber of Commerce would undertake to have each chamber in those centers organize a committee on postal facilities to study existing conditions and then confer with the local postmaster who will be instructed by the department to co-operate to the fullest extent most cases already have been formed. When the problem of improvement or delay involves communication with another city included in the list, the committees >?a nnstmnsfrs of both Olaces Will es tablish relations with each other, and then install a joint committee represent inp the business interests which will co-operate with a joint committee eomposed of two postmasters and the division superintendent of the railway mail sendee. Having reached a conclusion, the committees will report their recommendations to the chamber and to the postofflce department for remedial action, involving changes in train schedules or additional facilities which would have to be ordered by the authorities here. It is probable, it said, that the plan of co-operation would be extended to the smaller cities later. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. -The governor has received a petition from citizens of Lexington county asking that he call an election on the rjuestion of annexing a slice of Lexington in the Dutch Form section to Richland county. About five square miles of territory is involved. Airs. Francis Wilson was fined $50 in recorder's court in Columbia last Saturday for severely whipping her five-year-old son. The mqther badly bruised the boy who will be taken from under her care. His father was recently fined $100 for giving him a hard lashiny. South Carolina is in the throos or a federal judge contest, writes the Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer under date of Saturday. A successor to the late Judge J. T. Johnson, of Spartanburg, is about to be named and great excitement prevails. The entire Palmetto state delegation is more or less interested and Attorney General Palmer is weary. Three days ago it was dollars to doughnuts that Thomas S. Sease. of Spartanburg, would win. but a monkey wrench was thrown in his machinery by Senator Dial, who intimated that he is opposed to his nomination. Representative Sam Nichols, a spirited scrapper, had gone the limit for Mr. Sease, but the senator has the whip hand and in a federal judgeship he can defeat confirmation. Senator Dial has not made public the reason for his opposition to Mr. Sease. who would have been recommended by Mr. Palmer had it not been for the attitude of the senator. The favorite today is H. Watkins, of Anderson, a friend of Representative Dominick. Another change of the wind might bring C. C. Feat hers tone, of Greenwood, in on the home stretch. A. \V. Tood, of Laurens, is mentioned .prominently. The South Carolina contest will be settled withfn ilie next few days. The attorney general has asserted that he is tired of it. A dozen or more candidates entered the race but the stickers are Sease, Watkins, Featherstone and Todd, with the odds on Watkins. Some hitter feeling will result If Mr. Sease fails, for he has a large and substantial backing. LOC/iJu. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS First National Bank, York Reminds you that it is keeping abreast of tbe times in the matter of serving its patrons. Peoples Bank A Trust Co. Says every day new customers oeme to it and it promises every patron entirely satisfactory service. Farmers hardware & Supply Co. Again calls especial attention to the superior qualities of road performance of Racine tires. S. L. Countney Reminds yon that only sixteen days remain to place an order for a Ford car for delivery before, August, 1920. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. On page four tell you that Camel cigarettes please because of the quality that is made into them. G. W. Whitesides & Co., Sharon Talk about hosiery, oxfords, keds, tennis oxfords and advancing prices of dry goods. J. Alex Neely, Anderson Will pay |5 reward for return of lost automobile rim and new tire on road from York to Blacksburg. J. A. Marion, Sec.-Treas. Tells people contemplating loans through the Farm Loan bank, to make applications at once. P. W. Wallace, Filbert No. 1 Has two fresh milk cows for sale. A. B. Clark, York No. 5 Has a fresh milk cow with third calf, for sale or exchange. W. A. Aycock, McCoanellsville Offers 100 bushels good white corn, shelled or on ear, for sale. Hugh G. Parrott and others Give notice of the opening of books of subscription to capital stock of Beoples Furniture company. Luther G. Thompson ana otners v^aii a meeting of farmers at the courthouse next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. York Furniture & Hdw. Co. Invites attention to the elegant wicker furniture it is now showing. It is especially nice furniture. Carroll Bros. Have shipment of 26-inch hog wire juaft In. Feinstein Bargain House Makes special reductions on kool cloth and palm beach suits. Clover Drug Store Can supply perfect Atting, comfortable, dependable trusses, $1.60 to $5. York Drug Store Wants you to see it for all sorts of toilet articles and talcum powders. York Hardware Co. Reminds you that its line is "Hardware" and wants to supply all of your hardware need. See it about corn cribs. J. C. Wilborn Offers the R. H. Hawkins farm, between Tirzah and Newport, for sale. A splendidly located farm. Shieder-Snelling Drug Co. Remind you that it is time to sow turnips. It has a variety of good seeds. Star Theatre final episode of "Lure of the Circus" today. A special feature for Wednesday. Serial for Thursday. First National Bank, York Publishes statement showing condition at close of business June 80. Assets total $669,612.04. If farm tractors do not come into more extensive use in this county, it will not be the fault of the tractors. Rev. R. J. Crockett, colored, agricultural instructor of the state department of negro education, wants the patrons of the Hickory Grove group of negro schools to understand that building work has bem delayed during the past two yeans because of the impossible industrial and financial conditions occasioned by the war; but from now on every effort is being made to get things in proper shape for the carrying out of original plans. TOOK COLLEGE EXAMINATION Fifteen young men of York county stood examinations for admission to Clemson College and the University of South Carolina. The examinations were held in the courthouse and were conducted by the county superintendent of education. Those taking the scholarship examination were* Cecil Hayes, Rock Hill No. 4; Otis Smith llope, Paul Plexico, Rock Hill; Bonnie Grier Fudge, Rock Hill No. 2; Robert F. Plaxco, McConnellsville; William Harris Grier, Stowe Blankenship, Fort Mill; Fulton Horton, Sharon No. 1. B. R. Smith, Jr., of-Yorkvllle No. 1, stood the regular entrance examination while applicants for the one year scholarship were Jesse Lee Barnett, Clover No. 3; Olin Glenn Stowe, Clover Ernst Guy Foster and Boyd Feemster, McConnellsville. There were only two applicants for admission to the University of South Carolina G. W. Knox, Jr., and Ted E. Sifford of Clover. MARRIAGE RECORD Marriage licenses have been issued to the following parties on the dates named: July 7 Clatie S. Anderson to Mary Jane Smith, Kings, N. C. July 8 Sam Sibley to Mamie Phagins, Rock Hill, (colored). July 8 William E. Gaskin to Cora Rollins, Rock Hill. July 9 C. Baxter Griffin, MecklenKn.-n. mimiv \fvrtle Alexander. U' n ion county. July 10 Levy Jennings to Cotell Fewell, Catawba township, (colored). July 10 Otto G. Adair to Willie Givens, King's Creek. July 11 Joe Reid, York, to Hattie E. GUmore, Rock Hill, (colored). July 11 Columbus Langley to Lucy Pry or, Mount Holly, N. C. July 11 Mose Kennedy to Mattie Chism, York No. 3, (colored). July 12 Jim Steele to Annie Bell Johnson, Bethesda township, (colored). July 12 James O. Moses to Nina Lingerfelt, Clover. July 12 Clinton Peeler to Harmie Dixon, Gastonia, N. C. July 12 Moses P- Dummon, Rock Hill, to Minnie B. Talbert, Roddey. July 12 Craig Starnes to Annie Low Curtis, Gastonia, N. C. July 12 Walter Ward to Gracle Winkler, Clover. MILL PROJECT ABANDONED. "What effect will the Waltmore Thread mill fiasco have on the plans of yourself and associates," a representative of The Enquirer asked of Mr. E. A. Hall, who was to have been president and general manager of the $500,000 spinning mill project that was proposed following the launching of the Waltmore undertaking. "No effect whatever," replied Mr. Hall; "but the probability is that our proposed mill enterprise is also dead. It is for a different reason however. The eastern parties who a few months ago offered to meet us halfway, dollar for dollar with every dollar we were willing to put in a spinning mill, say that they have invested all their available money, some $3,000,000 or more in cotton mills and that they are no longer in a position to go in with us. We wese too late. That is all." Asked as to what he thought of the wisdom of investing in new cotton mill enterprise^ at this time, Mr. Hall replied in effect: "I have as much faith in the business as I have ever had. Why not? To be sure, labor is higher, materials are higher and everything else is higher; but so is the price of manufactured goods. The cutting down of the hours of labor has resulted a tremendous decrease in production, and to make up for this decrease will necessitate the setting up of millions and millions of new spindles. But that is not all. The whole world nas gone naked and has got to be clothed, regardless of the cost. On top of that, England, France, Germany, Austria, Poland and other great cotton manufacturing countries are at a very great handicap because of dismantled mills, demoralized labor conditions, scarcity of food and the like, and America, especially the south now l.clds advantages, the like of which no other country has ever held before. "While I had nothing to do with originating that proposed enterprise, I had so much confidence in it that I was willing to put into it virtually everything 1 had and then some, and the only regret I have is that we began moving too late after the big money we could have secured had already been invested." WITHIN THE TOWN "It was so soon that I am done for I wonder what I was begun for!" The committee appointed to select a site for the Waltmorc Thread mill, had about decided upon the O'Leary pasture site. The following additional deacons were elected by the congregation of the First Presbyterian church last Sunday: E. A. Hall, H. E. Neil, F. C. Riddle, J. M. Ramsey. Mr. Fred C. Wood, who has been overseer of the spinning room of the Lockmore mill for the past ten years has been promoted to the superintendency of the mill to succeed Mr. Wm. McLoud. "A snake with feet," was killed on t the Church Home Orphanage grounds by \V. L. Baber, the plumber, last Friday morning. It was a curious and unusual specimen of the adder family. It was about 15 inches long, three quarters of an inch in diameter at the largest part, tall rather thick and blunt, and markings similar to a pilot, or copper head. Two-thirds of the length of the body toward the tail were two stem like legs, a half inch long and ending in feet that spread out in claw-like toes. Just what the feet were for does not appear, unless it be to aid the hanging on vines among which the snake was found. None of the different people who saw the -make to whom the reporter talked, had ever seen anything like it before. (jner ui euvieru L-apiiuusis iu iu?nish fifty per cent of the money necessary to build a cotton mill in Yorkville, as outlined in a meeting of interested persons held in the courthouse here last Tuesday has been withdrawn, according to J. F. McElwee, appointed at that meeting chairman to name committees to solicit subscriptions to the capital stock of the enterprise. Mr. McElwee said that he had as yet .appointed no such committees but expected to call a meeting this week at which organization would likely be effected; and that it was possible that the project would be carried on without any outside aid. It is understood that several of those who subscribed to the Waltmore Thread mills which proposition has been abandoned, have announced their willingness to go into the latest proposed mill and there is a possibility that it will yet go through. Sheriff Quinn and Constable Peters had quite a lively little chase in Yorkville, Saturday morning after a negro whom they wanted to tell about the ownership of a cow which he wanted to sell for a song; and they now have) in possession a valuable cow without any clue to the owner, while the negro is in parts unknown. Early Saturday morning a negro driving a cow stopped at the store of Nivens Bros., on Charlotte Street and offered to sell Mr. B. M. Nivens the cow he was driving for $60. Mr. Nivens not desiring to buy at that price, the negro appeared willing to sell for almost any price, at the same time telling several, conflicting tales about thr ow. Suspecting that there was something1 wron^ Mr. Nivens finally offered the negro $20 for the cow but explained that the seller would have to accompany him up town to get the money, since he did not have it available at the store. In tha meantime the sheriff had been notified and met the negro who immediately took to flight. There was a lively chase along the C. & N.-W. railroad tracks but the negro easily outdistanced his pursuers and has been seen no more. Officers immediately got in communication with surrounding points with a view to ascertaining the ownership of the cow; but their efforts thus far have proved fruitless. ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. D. T. Woods was a business visitor to Lenoir, N. C., last week. Mrs. Tracy Proctor, of Summerville, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mackorell, in Yorkville. Mrs. M. L. Carroll and children, of Yo-kville, are spending some time at Blowing Rock, N. C. Dr. D. L. Shleder, of Yorkville, is undergoing treatment at Fennell Infirmary, Rock Hill. Ferris McDowell of Camden, Is visiting his aunt, Mrs. S. C. Ashe, in Yorkville. A. Carroll Grist of Beaufort, Ga., visited the family of his mother, Mrs. O. E. Grist in Yorkville last week. * ' ?- - ? 1*TI1 -rlal + jwl K. &. Aliein UI ? inningiuii, nomu the family of his father, Mr. R. C. Allein here last week. Rodney Love of Yorkvllle No. 3 left Saturday for a visit to his brother J. Lyle Love, Esq., in Greenville. Miss Sarah Wilkins, has returned to her home In Yorkvllle, after a visit to friends in Sumter. Misses Margaret Love and Evelyn Iffhieder, who have been spending several days at Montreat, N. C., have returned to their homes in Yorkvllle. Miss Lillis Ashe, home demonstration agent for York county returned to Yorkvllle Sunday after a business trip to Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Jnmes H. Glenn of Chester, spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Allison in Yorkvllle. Mrs. Henry Crossland and children of Bennettsville, are visiting Mrs. Crossland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Grist in Yorkville. Mrs. B. P. Lilly and children of Columbia and Mrs. Herbert Jackson and son H. C. Jr., are visiting fhe latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lilly of Filbert. Mrs. S. M. Snoddy and children of Spartanburg, are visiting Mrs. A. J. Dunlap and other relatives on Yorkville No. 3. Mrs. H. W. Cummings and Miss Annie Dickson, have returned to Columbia, after spending a few days ** ?-wi \r^a T p W'ltn ineir purcius, iui. uuu iuio. ?. v. Dickson, on No. 1 Yorkville. Miss Lois Bishop, of Heath Springs, and Seaman Claude Bishop, of the U. S. S. Terry, visited the family of Mr. C. W. McGee in Yorkville, last week. Misses Bessie Garrison of Rock Hill; Marjorie Crockston of Kershaw; Vista Lindsay of Gastonia and Margaret Riddle of Bowling Green, are the guests of Misses Helen and Kate Brandon on Clover No. 2. Mr. W. D. Grist, editor of The Yorkville Enquirer, left yesterday evening for a short stay at Buffalo Lithia Springs, in Virginia. He expects to be gone a week or ten days; but may return sooner. Mrs. J. F. Long who has been vlsitings Mrs. L. H. Dye at Newport has returned to her home in Atlanta. She was accompanied by her little niece, Miss Arneda Sutherland. Miss Alice Inman, who has been spending several weeks with her sister, Mrs. E. M. Stanton in Charlotte, has returned to her home in Yorkville. Rowe Dorsett, son of Mr. A. D. IDorsett of Yorkville, is in the Fennell Infirmary in Rock Hill, suffering with ' ' ?- I Kooahnll a liroKt'tl K'K auauimcu iu a. uain-uu.. game in Rock Hill, Saturday afternoon. Both bones of the left leg are broken just above the ankle. The young man Is getting along as well as could bo expected. Lieut. Hal Mackorell returned to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mackorell in Yorkville, Friday evening after serving many months overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces. Lieut. Mackorell went overseas in the spring of last year with the llSth Infantry of the famous Thirtieth Division and saw much active service with Old Hickory. After the signing of the armistice he was transferred from his old regiment in order to attend a school for infantry officers and received a commission as second lieutenant last January. He returned to the States a week ago on the giant transport Leviathan. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. tfonQfnra nf r Asl1 AS tate have been Indexed In the dooks oi the auditor of York county since the Inst publication of the record: Bethesda Cecil L. Reid to S. J. Kimbrell, 49 1-2 acres; consideration, $5,000. Broad River Mrs. Ida Belle Pratt to G. A. Plexico, 1 lot; consideration, $3,000. R. B. Hartness to L. E. Bolin, 85 acres; consideration, $1,500. L. H. Good to J. C. Plexico and A. B. Plexico, 1 lot; consideration, $700. Bullock's Creek G. T- Roberts to T. E. Mitchell, 174 acres; consideration, $1,800. Catawba Jas. C. Hardin to Addie C. Pressley, 1 lot; consideration, $1,825. Miller-Roddey Realty Co. to William Black, 1 lot; consideration, $200. Jno. R. Williams and Jno. G. Kee to G. T. Sullivan, 1 lot; consideration, $40. W. J. Neely to W. N. Ashe. 47 3-4 acres; consideration, $1,500. W. J. Hinson to W. N. Ashe, 19 1-4 acres: consideration, $962.80. P. W. Spencer to D. Lee Glenn, 1 lot; consideration, $2,250. S. J. Kimbrell to Roddey Reid and Cecil L Reid, 1 lot; consideration, $14,000. Dr. T. B. Crawford to D. B. McFad den, 1 lot; consideration, $4,000. ! Julius Freidhelm to W. J. Neely, 1 1 lot; consideration, $265- ; Ira B. Dunlap and J. H. Miller to W. < H. Gladden, 1 lot; consideration, $550. ] Ira B. Dunlap and J. H. Miller to 1 W. H. Gladden, 1 lot; consideration, < $50. < David Lyle to Mrs. Plain Zeigler Wilson. 38 acres; consideration, $2,000. i Ebenezer H. A- Caldwell to Mattie 1 R. Caldwell, 1 lot; consideration, $300. Hattie I. White and Hiram H. White to H. A. Dabney, 1 lot; consideration, i $276. 1 Eula L. Faris to J. F. Thomason, 1 lot; consideration, $800. J. F. Thomason to T. C- Haddon, 1 lot; consideration, $660. I J. S. H. Faris to J. F. Thomason, 1 i lot; consideration, $3,800,, , Willie B. Wilson to W. R. Armstrong, 1 lot; consideration, full value. , Willie Bays Wilson to W. R. Armstrong, 1 lot; consideration, -$625. King's Mountain Boyce P. Lilly to Mrs. Ida Robinson, 3-4 acres; consid- 1 eratlon, $1,500- i R. F. Nichols to W. C. Wilburn, 1418-10 acres; consideration, $75. Jno. Q.'Hall to Sam'l C. Smith, 34 1-2 acres; consideration, $793.50. Margaret A. McElwee to N. A. Howell, 125 acres; consideration, $572. W. Smith Dixon to W- M. Whitworth, 147 1-2 acres; consideration, $2,600. ^ TT -11 * TIT T"\ AlaranHnr J no. W- nan iu n. v. 18 1-2 acres; consideration, $426.50. M. A., R. D. and P. Q. Hambright, to W. I> Hope, 19 acres; consideration, $361. Mattie I. McGill to A. Moffatt McGill, 68 aores; consideration, $500. York Rachel Quinn and Susan Wallace to E. A. Hall, 1 lot; consideration, $3,000. J. A. Tate to Sam Watts, 1 lot; consideration, $43. Geo. H. O'Leary to Jas. Oscar Robinson, 1 lot; consideration, $100. Rachel Quinn and Susan Wallace to J- Ross Cannon, 1 lot; consideration, $2,000. C. R. Caldwell to Luther G. Thompson, 61 acres; consideration, $1,300. POR A FREE MARKET. As a result of a canvas made by Messrs. Luther G. Thompson, Arthur . L. Black and Cleveland Dunlap, the fact has been already established that : the people of Yorkville, both business and professional, as well as the cotton producers of the country surrounding are most heartily in favor of the establishment of a free cotton market in the town. , The petitions being circulated by Messrs. Thompson, Black and Dunlap ; as already stated, have to do with the j appointment of a public cotton weigher by the county board of commissioners as provided by law, said weigher to be recommended by the Democratic voters , living within five miles of the town at a nrimnrv election to be held under , the authority and direction of chairman of the county Democratic executive committee'in accordance with the rules of the party. There are two petitions in circulation, both to the same end. One of the petitions directed to the county board of commissioners is being: signed by cotton producers living within five miles of the courthouse, and asking for the appointment of a public weigher. The other is addressed to Hon. J. A. Marion, chairman of the Democratic executive committee of York county and asking for tlfe holding of a primary election. Mr. Thompson said yesterday that at the suggestion of Hon. J. S. Brice, who is most heartily in favor of the movement, it would be best to present the petition to Mr. Marion first, in order that the election might be held as soon as possible, and that will permit the presentation to the board of election commissioners a duly recommended nominee for weigher along with the petition asking for his appointment. Supervisor Boyd said that he would most certainly vote for the appointment of the nominee of the Democratic primary, and although Messrs. Kirkpat rick and Lumpkin have not been seen with regard to the matter, it is naturally to be presumed that they will do likewise. Mr. J. A. Marion has assured Mr. Thompson that he will take pleasure in calling the Democratic primary election as requested. At the sugestion of Mr. Brice, who offered to prepare the necessary papers, Mr. Thompson has agreed to circulate still another petition among the business men of the town, and the people of the surrounding country asking the town council to repeal so much of the license tax ordinance as levies protective license taxes on cot ton buyers wunin me lunu, x iiv a j idea is to make the local cotton market s absolutely free so as to encourage all ? the competition possible. j Mr. Thompson said yesterday that j he had the signatures of 135 cotton t growers on his copy of the petition to the county board of commissioners . that he Is circulating, and there were 187 signatures on his copy of the ' petition to Chairman Marlon. He : had no definite Information as to J the status to the copies of the petitions ; in the hands of Messrs. Black and'. Dunlap. : Included among the signatures to j Mr. Thompson's petition are the names of farmers, business men, lawyers, doctors and preachers. Mr. Thompson j said that only a few people to whom . he presented the petition had refused . to sign; not more than seven or eight in all; but people generally are heartily j in favor of the whole proposition. The names of the signers of the petitions will probably be published j later. } COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, t "r"u TTVnoat Mnore of Lan- ( W 1LII ?JUUg? caster presiding, the summer term of ' the court of general sessions began work Monday morning, Solicitor Henry representing the state, Mr. Frank Anderson of Greenville acting as official stenographer, vice H. Thomas, resigned, and the other court officials In their accustomed places. As is usually the case, there was some little delay in getting the work of the court underway Monday morning because of the | necessity for organization and the deliberations of the grand jury over bills of indictment. Judge Moore made no general charge to the grand jury because of the fact that a general charge had already been delivered them at a former term of court. Solicitor Henry took occasion to call the attention of the grand jury to the fact that since time immemorial it had been the custom to try at the July term only cases of defendants who were in jail; a custom which he thought should be abandoned and suggested that the grand jury make recommendations to that effect. He ? ii?i nUnniinn nf thp errand iury to r LiiilfU Ubiviiuvi* v* ?..v r the tact that the liquor situation in r York county was becoming serious and i suggested the grand jury to take all r possible steps toward abolishing tha t evil. He commended the work of the ? Broad Kiver Township Improvement o association and the good citizens of t the Broad River country. J. P. Adams and J. O. Neely, mem- t hers of the grand jury were excused S from attendance upon the present term o of court and the following petit Jurors n were also excused: W. H. Hope, W. D. u Dunlup, C. A. YVesterland, M. R. Falls, P S. D. Carroll, R. D. Hope, R True bills were returned by the b grand jury Monday morning against * the following: Vance London, viola- v tion prohibition law; Grady Canby, t assault and battery with intent to b ravish; John Crockett, larceny; John ? Crockett, housebreaking and larceny; r' Julia Walker, larceny; Boy Watson, s larceny; Ike Sanders alias Samuel ^ Sanders, housebreaking and larceny; P Floyd Wood, burglary and larceny; Martha Jane Thompson and Maggie Young, housebreaking and larceny; Joe Ivens, violation prohibition law; Law- c son McLeod, violation prohibition law; n James Childers, violation prohibition n law; John Edwards, Louise Edwards r< and Burris Brakefleld, violation pro- IJ hibitlon law; Clarence Jones, assault t< and battery with Intent to kill and a carrying concealed weapons. tl Vance London, colored pleaded o guilty to violation of the prohibition E law. London was one of several p negroes caught at an illicit distillery ir captured by Magistrate R. L. A. Smith o and a posse near Hickory Grove, h several weeks ago. He was sentenced C to serve two years Imprisonment, one si rear of the sentence to be suspended o luring good behavior. London will t< likely be sent to the state penitentiary P to serve his sentence since It Is claim- a ed he Is unable to perform hard labor p on the chaingang. o Julia Walker, a negress pleaded v guilty to larceny and was sentenced I to a year In the state penitentiary. t John Crockett drew a sentence of c two years and six months on the ii county chalngang. He pleaded guilty il to two indictments one charging 11 larceny and the other housebreaking e and larceny. g When court convened Monday after- t noon following the dinner recess, I several defendants entered pleas of o arullty. John Edwards and Lonnle v Edwards of Broad River township o pleaded guilty to violation of the pro- g hlbltion law and were sentenced to a a line of $100 each. s Floyd Wood pleaded gnillty to J burglary and larceny and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Boy Watson who pleaded gnillty to larceny, was sentenced to serve j eighteen months on the chalngang. Ike Sanders pleaded guilty to housebreaking and larceny and was given a c road sentence of eighteen months. HERE AND THERE. Federal licenses for the purchase or * sale of explosives Is no longer required, according to Information re- ? ceived from the chief explosive en- ? gineer in Washington. The explosives J regulations act has been revoked by * congress effective June 30, and there- * fore licenses are no longer required by \ persons purchasing or using explosives. v Several of the county officers together with their assistants enjoyed a 8 moonlight picnic at Linwood College, t, last Thursday evening. They were ac- u companied by several of their friends, c the trip to the college being made in automobiles. The workers in the ^ county courthouse are pretty much like one big family and they are of s opinion that an occasional outing like d that of Thursday evening helps lighten m their labors all around quite a bit t According to officials of the office of ? the county superintendent of educa- u tion, there is an unpredented demand s for school teachers throughout Tork j. County just now, trustees seeking to employ teachers for the fall terms of their respective schools. Very few of the rural schools have secured teachers 1* for the fall terms and it is quite a c problem to get those desired- Practl- b cally all of the rural schools will in- C crease teachers' salaries this fall: but T thisi ncrease has thus far proved not a much of an inducement Salaries be- a ing offered lady teachers range from n 160 to $90. A Bullock's Creek township citizens propose to organize a law enforcement c society along similar lines to the Broad River Township Improvement aasocla- ? tion, organized at Hickory Grove sev- ? Bral weeks ago. "We have simply got I to do something," said Magistrate J. I* v Duncan, of Bullock's Creek township, who was in Yorkville yesterday, in dis- , cussing the matter. "The situation is pretty nearly as bad in Bullock's Creek t) as it is in Broad River and it seems n that two distilleries spring up for every d one that may constable and I manage ( to destroy." It is understood that there is to be a meeting of Bullock's Creek F township people at Blairsville school house Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, ^ at which time some steps toward or- j_ Sanization will be taken. a That sales of buggies and good C t>uggies, are increasing right along with h the increase of sales of automobiles e throughout York county is quite ti noticeable. Attention was brought to n the fact yesterday by Mr. T. Cleve- t< land Dunlap of the Philadelphia sec- c tion who said that the number of p nuggles was increasing right along fi tvith the number of automobiles and fi Fords. "Pretty nearly every colored a farmer in my section who is any p farmer at all has recently bought him w i new buggy," said Mr. Dunlap, "and ^ the number appears to be growing all A the time. Quite a few negroes are buying automobiles too. It looks like n the dealers in buggies are going to do w i good business for quite a long time lc to come." * al This spring's honey crop has been very poor, said Mr- Henry Simpson of Catawba Junction, to Here and There, ei the other day. Mr. Simpson is one of lr the largest bee keepers in the country, " ind there are few men anywhere who a 1- - 1 31- D know more aoout Dees, or wno uauuio :hem with greater profit. He says that w tie took only a few thousand pounds a >f honey from his bees this spring and * tie is sorry that he took any at all be- j* :ause owing to the general failure of v the honey supply he expects to have to S,1 feed his bees. It is the poorest sea- T son he has experienced for many years. n rhere is a chance, however, that the Y aees will be able to make another crop from cotton blooms, fall weeds, etc., Q, ind he may get a good yield yet. ai Farmer boys of York county who vi lave recently gone back to the farm ti ifter being discharged from the army, si say that the old job Is going rather fl, lard with them, especially those who g| lave been in service a year or more, a While soldiering is not the easiest Job ti n the world it is a work quite differ- ji ?nt from farm work. A King's Moun- aj :ain township man whose son recently i, eturned from overseas said to the re- r< jorter Friday: "Well that-boy of mine b] las gone back to work on the farm: v< iut he Isn't nearly so good a hand as i< le was before he went to war. He is i< >ut of practice in a way and he is limply not able to stand up to it yet. ? tVhy yesterday morning bright and larly he went to work in the fields: s< >ut he had to give up at dinner time si vhile I went along as usual. He will t( :ome around all right but it is going w o take a little time." Quite a number tl >f overseas men have said recently that A ;he old job is going hard with them, fr Expressions written on the faces of Jj1 ;he seventy-flve or more people who ?i ittended a meeting of the Broad ? River Township Improvement associa;lon held in Sharon school house Fri- JY lay afternoon is sufficient evidence of he fact that they propose to do every- M hing possible to put booze out of busiless in their respective communities. f F'uthermore, it was evident that they 10 not propose to let interest die in " he Broad River Township Improve- C) nent association if it can possibly be ?! lelped. The association wants as s nany ladles to join as will and as in- 01 lucement to get them to join, has deeded to require no rflembership fee of ady members. The association proloses to look after the abolition of the " llegal liquor traffic in not only Broad . River; but York and Bullock's Creek ownships as well and more than one ~ >f the speakers at Friday's meeting CI irged that the association members C( lot let township lines curtail their ef- B orts in trying to secure information or the benefit of officers of the law. in Perhaps one of the prettiest pros- Si >ects for a bumper crop to be found 1" n any section of the county is a 17 1-2 icre patch on the Lincoln road on the si lorthern outskirts of Yorkville which be s being worked by Mr. Raymond Car- M 011 Tho bottoms which have a repu- _ ation as one of the best corn growing t}, pots around anywhere, is the property i . f W. L. Williams of Yorkville. Al- pr hough the fine corn was planted less han thirty days ago, it is now more ~ han six feet high and is continuing to in o skyward at a rapid rate. Twenty- c? ight sacks of high grade fertilizer and cri ine sacks of nitrate of soda have been sed on it. The soda was recently th ilaced and its effects are not much ar oticeable as yet. The ground was be roken and the seed bed prepared nn rlth a Fordson tractor and the culti- _ ation has been most thorough. "If laj hese corn club boys get a hundred h< ushels of corn to the acre and some fls f them two hundred, I don't see any tw eason why I shouldn't get at least _ eventy-flve bushels to the acre." said fi~ Ir. Carroll in talking about his corn hc rospect. "If the seasons are any(ling like favorable and I don't get ~p liat I will be disappointed." Page, a new substitute for booze ~ amphor. It has a kick like a J300 ' lule and it is more dangerous than s lost of the other substitutes for squirel whisky. So say those who know. f ' fp at Clover the other day they were illing of a man who recently ordered ~ couple of ounces of camphor from le City Pharmacy, and also a couple an f ounces 'from the Clover Drug Store. m| txtracting the camphor he had enough W ure grain alcohol to produce a genu- le Jag, his breath smelling of spirits ca f camphor instead of spirits of alco- de ol. The story was being told in the trs Hover Drug Store In the presence of everal people. Taking down a bottle f camphor, Dr. R. L. Wylie proceeded a show how It could be done. Cam* hor in itself ie poison. Gum camphor nd grain alcohol make spirits of cam* hor. The pharmacist poured a little f the spirits of camphor into a glass lal and poured a little water into that mmedlately the gum camphor began 0 rise to the surface, leaving the alohol In the bottom of the vial. Pour* ig the gum camphor off or removing t with a spoon, the alcohol is left like 1 was before the camphor was put in, xcept it has the camphor smell. "I uess we will have to be rather careful o whom we sell camphor," remarked W WvKa Tirl + Vt o .mlla Dnf a laaa* /* IT / iiV| TT * Wil tb OIUAIX;. VUV A l> ivCUBV . me other man In the party who had witnessed the experiment, wax of the pinion that anybody who desired to ;o to all that trouble for a "smoogem," nd who was willing to take the phyical risk involved, should have no obections thrown in the way. LOCAL LAC0NIC8 )iacharged From Service. Among the York county men re:ently discharged from overseas ser-ice are the following: Russell Alex.nder, p. c., Filbert; Hoyer Rosetorough, p. c., Rock Hill. , ieersheba Elects Officers. Beersheba congregation elected adiitional elders and deacons last Sunay as follows: Elders D. C. Clark, J. N. Neil, W. B. Burns. Deacons W. i. Cain, M. S. Whitesides, Raymond Vhlteside, W. P. Brown. Yatldns to Receive Judgeship. Information was received in Yorkille yesterday that CapL H. H. Watins, a well known lawyer of Anderon, had been nominated for judge of he Western District of South Caroina to succeed Joseph T. Johnson, deeased. ieersheba Summer Term. The summer term of Beersheba i phnnl nnonnH Mrvnrla \r n/ith M iou Mil. m red Mickle an the teacher In charge. A 'here was a fairly good enrollment on S he opening day. Several ether rural JH chools of York county are to enter' ipon the work of their respective > ('f. ummer terms within a few days. leached No Decision. Commissioners of York and Meckinburg counties who met at Wright's 'erry Thursday for the purpose of disussing a site for the bridge to be uilt Jointly by the two counties across latawba river, arrived at no decision, 'he commissioners discussed the sltution thoroughly and looked over everal prospective sites, but no defiite action was agreed upon. mtolsts Seriously Injured. H. L. Sutler and D. R. Crelghton of Ihester, were seriously injured on the ublic road near, the Leander Parish lace about two miles-north*west of Torkville Sunday morning when the 'ord car in which they were traveling ras overturned. Mr. Sutler sustained broken nose and a bruised face while Ir. Creighton had his left arm broken t the shoulder. The steering gear of tie Ford locked when an attempt was lade to turn a curve, causing the acci- ? ent. The two men were en route rom Chester to Spartanburg. owerhouse For Lockhart. The contract for the building of the ig power house on Broad River at .ockhart, in Union county, has been warded to the Hardaway Contracting ompany of Columbus, Ga. The power ouse will be 36x160 and will be of oncrete. Under the terms of the conract, work is to begin as soon as the ecessary equipment can be brought, j Lockhart and the building must be ompleted and turned over to the ower company within eight months rom date of contract. The machinery or the building has been purchased nd is at Lockhart, awaiting the com leuon Ol l.ne power uuuoc, nucu it ill be installed. regroes Shot in Bollock's Creek. Dennis Wilkes and James Dorsey, egroes, were shot and painfully ounded Sunday afternoon in Bulick' j Creek township by Wash Wade, . Iso colored. The shooting occurred on le public road in front of Wade's ome which the negroes were passing n route home from a church meeting 1 Chester county. Bad blood, it Is nderstood has existed between Wade nd Wilkes and Dorsey for some time ast on account of alleged familiarity ith Wade's wife. As the two negroes time in front of Wade's house Sunday fternoon he opened Are with doubledarrelled shotgun, peppering both Mikes and Dorsey. Wade was later rrested and Is now in the county jail, he wounded negroes" are expected to jcover unless complications set in. ork County Motor Vehicles. York county people on June SO, Jfll ivned 1,301 automobiles' and trucks nd 13 vehicles, a total of 1,314 motor ehicles. This is an average of about venty-flve automobiles to each thouxnd population. According to the of- 1 cial record of licenses issued by the tate highway commission there was total of 58,750 automobiles and ucks in operation in the state on une 3, and 713 motorcycles, an averse of about thirty-six vehicles to each 000 population in the state. The. ?cords of the highway commission low that there were 8,959 more motor ehicles in South Carolina on June 30, 119 than ttfere were on March 30, , 119. [eld on Serious Charge. Dick Moore, a young negro is in a _ irious condition as the result of being ^ :ruck in the head with a rock alleged I ) ha\e been thrown by Dock Shealy, ho is now in the county jail awaiting 1 te outcome of Moore's injuries. V nother negro, Will James Roof, a lend of Shealy's and said to have een with him at the time of the ifflculty is also being held in jail. he alleged assault occurred at the ame of Mary King, a colored woman ho lives on the Sutton's Springs road hursday evening. It appears that [oore had some words with the Shealy egro a recent comer to Yorkville a sw d&ys ago. At the party Friday ,-enlng, Shealy saw Moore and withit warning struck him with the rock, -ushing his skull. He later made his icape and was arrested with Roof aturday in Yorkville. Moore has ily a slight chance for recovery. SOUTH5 CAROLINXINEWS A laundry to cost $76,000 is being ected at Paris Island for the benefit ' marines stationed there. A primary election is to be held in x harleston, August 26 to select a sucissor to Probate Judge George D. ryan, deceased, Willie B. Haigler of Swansea, Lexigton county, committed suicide last iturday, by cutting his throat. Ill ?alth was the cause. -The $60,000 issue of Santuc townlip, Union county road bonds has sen sold to the Carolina Bond and ortgage Company. -Governor Cooper has commutted e death sentence of James Allen, a incaster county negro, to life imisonment. -Anthony Peeler, a white man of e Wilkinsville section of Cherokee unty was arrested last week on the targe of making and selling liquor. -Clarence Poe of Raleigh, editor of e Progressive Farmer, has accepted t invitation to address the corn club a iys and girls home demonstration embers in Gaffney, July 26. Governor Cooper spent a portion of 3t week on a fishing trip at Hilton ?ad in Beaufort county. Among the h caught was a turtle weighing bereen 500 and 600 pounds. 4 -About 250 bales of cotton were riously damaged by fire on a ware>use platform in Newberry, Sunday (ominnn _ Tho Ioqq ammintaS (n vera! thousand dollars. - Rural policemen of Richland county e conducting a drive against autojbile speeders throughout the county, iveral persons have recently been led by Richland county magistrates r speeding. - E. R. Cash. J. A. Carroll, Dr. W. C. imrick, D. C. Ross, Maynard Smith d T. B. Butler have secured a comisslon for the organization of a $300,0 cotton mill In Gaffney. -Four men were Injured, two box rs burned and 250 feet of track were stroyed as a result of a freight iln wreck on the Atlantic Coast Line