Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?ct';t|io and facto. ? By a vote a? Igfc to 1 the hpuse of representatives jo* last Thursday passed a bill to ejrtend the war time passport restrictions hgainst foreign immigrants for one year. These restrictions make it exceedingly difficult for foreigners who are not well vouched for to get-' Wiflission into the United States., The legislation is based upon the* idea of making it mors difficult for agitators against the social order in the United States, most, of these agitators being foreign- , ers. ' i T? <-*he actual. number,. of (. American troops now in France is ress than " 15,O?0 and is rapidly dimishing.j Gen- J eralVW. D. C#arwij cq/nm, ancuau, mt | American troops lb mnbd. rdphrted a few-days ago. Within a month. ..he stated, virtually all' the sefdiers \ylU be gone, j tabic .-of repatriating tbe German "prisoners is now, completed. Only four or five Germans novr remain .-under the- chargp of the American fordfes? and* these ire ill in hospitals. They will be sent home through Coblenj as soou as they can ' travel. The work of completing the liquidation of army supplies, squaring accounts and the policing of American J peace conference headquarters, arc "I now the only tasks detaining the sol- j diars and officers in France, and Gen- I J era! Connor said he expected that this ' liquidation work too will be terminat ed within one month. I ? ? The right of labor in the matter of i l collective bargaining is the great is- i, sue before the industrial conference which has been In session in Washing- j( ton since October 8. Samuel Gompers, | r who had been ill for three days, ap- i j peared in the Conference again last Friday, and. made vigorous replies to I 5 ' the employers who had", objected to the I right of labor to deal 'with Its em- j c ployers through, duly constituted rep- T resentatives. L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware^ . and Hudson river loa/Hnff* ronrpsen- I 1 i ttiuvau, vuv v* vkv - , tatlVes of capital, had on Thursday 1 charged t$at labor bod during the war; j used Its power to cbefde the country ' into] granting concessions that could ;1 not have been obtained . under normal i ' conditions. Mr. (tampers denounced j1 this statement with much heat, pro-1. testing.that the labor of the country I had,bora patriotic from stprt to flnish j and that it had faithfully carried ouU the-promises it had made to President j Wilson bofora the country entered the war. It became evident that there 1 Y would be no agreement on the col- 1 V lecttve bargaining proposition and! ? there was an adjournment until yes- j t terday. There Is talk of the probability! that the labor representatives will i 1 leave the conference. : 1 ? The long debated Shantung amend- , l ment to the peace treaty, presented by f Senator Lodge and approved by the foreign relations committee, finally' was rejected In the senate on Thursday with a majority of an even score , against it. i In the vote of 35 to 55, 14 Republicans swung over to the pro- 1 treaty forces while three Democrats i lined up with those supporting the pro- , posal. , Of the six senators absent, two Republicans were put on record as In favor. of the amendment and * one Republican and three Democrats t V as opposing it The roll call, which , came at, the end of another six and a half hours of sharp debate, in reality * swept away six amendments Instead of < oner .each change in the treaty text , having been numbered separately by , the committee in its decision to strike out the word "Japan" and substitute 1 the word "China" throughout the sec- ! tlortS relating to the province, of Shan- , tunc. By unanimous consent, b6\vdver/^Wie' stf chftn&fcA~W3re debated and voted on as one. Only throe of the committee's 45 amendments notf re- ( main to be acted on bjr the senate, 36 previously having been rejected. Of 1 those remaining, one relates to Ameri- i can representation of the reparations j commission,* and two to equalization of voting power in the league of nations assembly. 1 ? A tentative agreement on collec + Ko?*<yatn1no> urQQ rnnohoH hv thft l M?V ?* w . ~ 2 general committee ot the national in- , dustrial Conference last Saturday r night after an all day session. The f. committee agreement was reached by ? taking the declaration of the public > and labor groups as a basis and add- y lug to the sentonce recognizing the right of wage earners to organize "in 1 trade and labor unions" the words r "shop and other 'industrial associations." The proposed compromise also substitutes for the sentence of the original declaration recognizing the i right of organized labor to be repre- } sented "by representatives of their n own choosing" the words "by representatives chosen by a majority of 1 their own members." The tentative v declaration retained the form of the c original, and was broken up into . . twelve different parts, each item stating a specific principle, in order to be a readily subject- to amendment. The s discussion in committee which totaled r eight hours, hinged almost entirely on the right of "outsiders" to represent 1 employes in negotiations with em- s plovers, tt was a day of ups and s ti'hioH ot i imn<3 thp uvmio um Ulg, " im/11 ?V >.*>< vw ??V . breach widened and compromise seemed impossible. The committee recess- c ed fre<idehtly 'to'allow the labor and 1 capital groups to caucus, and during p therday numerous drafts of a declaration were submitted and rejected. ? ? As remarkable as was the flight v of Lieutenant B. W. Maynard from i Mineola Field to San Francisco, the s return flight has been even more remarkable, because added to the speed with which the aviator makes his way I through the air, he gave an exhibition s of determined perseverance under nd- j, verse circumstances which seems almost superhuman. While the flying ^ parson was approaching Wahoo, 1; Nebraska, last Thursday afternoon, a j crank shaft broke in his motor and he was forced to descend in a stubble field. It looked as if all was up, for j his next nearest pursuers. Major 'j Spatz and Capt. J. O. Donaldson were f less than a day behind. Most men would have been willing to give up ' nnrl thnro* lint nnt vn with I .ir?n- I ( tenant Maynard. Capt. Itoy Fischer ' had come down in a hip damaged booming plane at .Omaha, Neb., forty miles away.' a d.ty.or two heSore, and was preparing to ship the plane back to the nearest factory for repairs when he heard of Maynard's plight, and immediately he offered to get the motor to Maynard if the lieutenant, thought he could use it. After getting permission fromjjthe, war department. "Maynard told #MoAercf6 deipe on. and-then while the htotor Was- rolling toward Wahoo in a motor truck, Maynard's mechanician, -W. K. Kline, was pre- j paring to make the necessary repairs. I There beipg no facilities for such work 1 at Wahoo,' KTlne rigged a block and tackle on a nearby tree and with the assistance of farmers, drugged the airplane underneath. It was now night. Hundreds of visitors who had come on the scene in automobiles encircled the improvised workshop with their cars in such manner that their headlights. lighted up the circle within like day and the work of repairs wont on i throughout the night. While the old motor was being taken out and the new one was being put in, Maynard got some sleej) in preparation for the strenuous work ahead, and after the start at 8 o'clock Friday morning, Kline who had been working eighteen k boulS W the pratre anu Temaineu asleep until 1 \ le was pretty well rested. Maynard eached Chicago a few hours latei' and it 5.30 p. m. he landed at Cleveland., )hio, having made 750 miles since eaving Waihoo tt\at morning. His learest competitor .Captain J. O. Donildson. was still at Des Moines, Iowa, i50 miles behind him. Maynard landid at Roosevelt Feld, Mineola, at .50 o'clock Saturday afternoon, having ;ompleted the entire trip in 92 hours, 12 minutes and 38 seconds, of which ime he was actually flying 24 hours, 15 minutes and 8 seconds. - ; ' i i i i- i i : <?hc 3garfcvUU (Snquim. Sntered at the Postofflce 'at ?ork as Mail Matter of the Seoond Class. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919. It looks now as If the industrial conrress, in session at Washington, Is gong to split over the question of colective bargaining, the majority of the tmployer group, insisting upon the ight of employers and employes to >argain individually. Most of the people who aro selling otton now-a-days! are depositing their noney In the banks and paying their lehts by check. And it is a most slgliflcant fact that after a person who las not been making use 6f the banks pegins to do so, he seldom goes back :o his old custom. This, of course, neans but one thing and that is that :he bank account is the best' for" all :oncerned. Senator Lodge, who has been makng a long fight Against things to vhich he had voluntarily committed limself before he had flowed himlelf to be persuaded that it might be o party advantage to advocate the opposite, is now learning about where le stands. From a great big man be'ore the country, the senator has ihrunk into a little bit of a manikin. One of the points in connection with ;he Shantung affair that had been tencrally lost sight of by the public vas that Germany originally became possessed of Shantung through fore-1 closure of a mortgage giveq by China. \.nd of course. If Japan were required :o give Shantung back to China, China nrould mortgage (the province again, lapan took Shantung from Germany Fairly and she is entitled to all the Ights in the province that Germany lad, to say the least of, itv Of course, ivhen the original German lease for )9 years runs out, China will have a right to defflahd'ifte province. buck . I It was Judge DeVore who used to emphasize before every grand jury the mportance of . enforcing the vagrancy aws against every unemployed ablf>odied man who was without visible neans of support. That was excellent solicy in those days and it , Is still letter policy in these days. It is the people who work who have to feed tnd clothe those who do not work. Phe number of people wh<f could work ind who won't work is increasing, vith increasing burden to those who vill work. It' is only justice to the vbrkers that the non-workers be nade to get busy or get out.The Associated Press has collected nformation on the strength1 of which t makes with assurance the announcement that tho Lcnine-Trotsky regime n Russia cannot last more than a few veaks longer. According to the Assoiated Press, the masses of the rjeople lave lost faith in the Bolshevist idea, nd although the Bolshevist army is till some 500,000 strong, in point of lumbers, it is spread over a large erritory, has lost co-hesion and deertions are increasing in number depite a large rear guard of Chinese nercinaries that is being used in an iffort to keep the troops at the front, t is admitted that there has been no leneral break In the Bolshevist or;anlzation; but tho claim is that the rhoie thing has reached a point where t requires only a determined and lightly sustained push to topple it iver. Tho British are giving the antiJolshevist considerable help in. the hape of troops, tanks, guns, machine ;uns, ammunition, etc-, and also they lave been co-operating with Finnisji and forces in the bombardment of Cronstadt, which is said to have fallen. Congressman Stevenson has secured in amendment of far reaching importance to the United States revised statutes regulating the liability of inns, companies and individuals to :orporations, companies, etc. This lability is limited to 10 per cent, of he capital stock. That is, no company or corporation is allowed to loan my other company or individual more han ten per cent, of its total capital >r surplus, and no individual, compnnjr >r corporation can be held liable for nore than 10 per cent, of the capital ind surplus of any other firm or corporation. Mr. Stevenson's amendment lecures the recognition of warehoused ind insured cotton as being a collat;ral within itself, without regard or elation to the owner thereof, and peril its banks to lend on such warehouse cccipts as much as 25 per cent, of heir capital or surplus to one man, inn, or corporation, the receipts theniiclves standing good for the loan so ong as the market value of the wareloused cotton continues at or above 15 per cent, of the face of the note videncing the loan. Under this arangement the owner of cotton is auhorized to borrow on all the cotton he ias up to 8$ per cent, of its value, and he hank is authorised to lend him up i to 25 per cent, of its capital stock. Heretofore no single borrower was allowod to borow more than 10 per cent, of the capital or surplus of a bank, no I matter what kind of security he was J able to give. The great trans-continental aviation race which was won by Lieutenant B. W. Maynard, when he / landed at Roosevelt Field, Mineola, Long Island .Ja^t, Saturday afternoon' at 1.10! o'<flo?l$!u Was Worked ont' arid-'directed' by the army, with the co-operatibh of'1 the American flying" elub.i' There Were' twenty control stations serosa. ,thej continent, and at-; each apic- ,-wca prq^ vided extra supplies pf gasoline, oil and machine parts. 'tTHder tH0>rules,'\no contestant was allowed to leave a con ' ' -i-11? 1V/i lift/1' Umn' in iroi siawuii umcoo u? ... , which to make thq next station ..before I sundbWn. The s^art wah* madfe on October V simultaneously, from each side of the continent. In aJl there were sixty-two entries, forty-seven from Mineola, Long Island and fifteen from San Francisco. The round trip | distance is 6,200 miles. Up to Saturday evening ten lives had beeh lost in the race. Col. Townsend F. Dodd and Major Patrick' Frissel were killed in their machines whlle^ on their way trf the starting Held at Mineola. Major. Dana H. Crissy and Sergeant Virgil Thomas, his mechanic were killed in landing at Salt Lake City. Lieu- | tenant E. V. Wales died as the resqlt oi driving his plane into the' side of a modntaln during a haze at Overt Pass, Wyoming, and others were kill- i ed In various other accidents. Several dyers.came to the'ground in tail spins, j arid otherwise, smashing their ma-1 chines but escaping with their lives. It is stated that within a few days, as soon as a suitable plane can be pro?<; -- - - '?? j i- t. wJ! video, Mcuienani xiitt.yuu.iu ia iu w ordered to attempt a one-sttfr , flight between Mineola, New York and San J Diego, California, the stop being at i Dallas, Texas. . | , a , V " I Collective Bargaining. ' The biggest problem, Indeed the one problem, before the national industrial conference in session in Washington, ^Involves the right of collective bargaining, insisted upon by organized laljor; but which certain rcpresenT tatives of capital.are inclined to deny. By collective bargaining Is meant the right of the labor of any employer,' whether an individual, company,- firm I or corporation, to take up with that employer; through duly chosen representaiives, questions involving hours j ! of labor, wages, personal conduct, and other matters of concern between em-I ployer and employe. | , J That the employer should hold to the primitive idea that he alone should j have the right and power to adjust all ! matters as between his employe arid himself, is at legist natural, if not altogether reasonable!. It is natural because it has been ! sanctioned so long by usage. , ' . V . " **4/' " I And the common argument or the employer, that since thqre arc plfenty of other people that r can get to do your work, and if you do not like it you can quit, also seems natural to some people, so natural in fact that, they simply V'1 not see anything else. Where there is but one employer and one employe, or even two or thnpe employes, of course it is a plain prop osition of agreement, and If an agreement cannot be reached, then there Is nothing left but a dissolution of relations. Hut in the ens^ of one employer, or one representative of a collection of employers having^ to do with a Marge number of employes, the representative of the employers Is naturally concerned more about dividends than he is about the rights and pe'rsonnl concerns of employes: and it is but logical that the rights and concerns of employes should be committed to the charge of tlifcse best qualified to safeguard the same, and who could that be other than some fellow employe or employes recognized by the majority as possessed of tlie necessary qualifications for such duty? It will have to be admitted that the system is .open to many objections from the standpoint of the human equation; but in spite of this, it is the best tiling: that can he done, and employers , can do no better than recognize the fact. Thirty-Five Cents Cotton. Thirty-five cents looks to most people like a good price for cotton, and possibly it is; but taking into consideration the profits the spinners are making there is some question as to whether 35 ccnis is as good a price to the spinner as it is to the producer. When cotton went to 35 cents and above there was a tremendous rush to sell, not so much because they thought 3D cents was a fair value, as because during the months since the price has becrt below 35 cents, so many people have been telling themselves how they should have sdJd at that figure when they had an opportunity ;lnd promising themselves that whenever they got the opportunity again they would certainly take it. Hut that cotton is not going to remain at 35 cent* is reasonably, certain ?not long. The nrjy rcaflon ?hat cotton went to 35 cents' whs bfccat'isf! spinners were running low on their supplies of raw material, and they had to keep bidding up to where they could get supplies on which to keep their mills in operation. The profits thiit were being realized on the manufactured products were fully large enough to warrant 35 cents and tnorc, even 50 cents, and they raised the price until the farmers were ready to turn loose. The probabilities are that the price of cotton is going to drop again with- j in the next few days, possibly a Wnt, two cents or even more. , Why? That's easy enough. Nobody knows ' better than the spinners what' cotton ij is jvotlti. .Thee,' IcnoM' Hiatal- Is worth't twice 35 cents to ^hem on a basis of t'no prices they are now receiving for theslr profit^ and , they would pay twice 35 cents rather than do without cotton, or the profits they can make on cotton at that price.. But the spinners arc not going to pay 35 cents for cotton so long as they can buy it for less. Would you? Most of the spinners having gotten temporary supplies at' 35 cents a pound, enough fo keep them comfortable for t^e next several Weeks" at least, they Sviil take" a shot rtt dropping [out of the market for a while. f They rWon'tMndp 'out entirely of course? bat t?cy will be less'k&n to buy/and the 1 tendency will be1 to ease tlw price a little. Of xiduiWe the i'wSthdrawal' ?*of f fhli spinners does not necessarily mean tfoat thte price ,of cotton irf'left Without support. There arc lot# of people who understand that cotton is a good speculation at 35 cents or less and who arc willing to buy It up against the time when they can realize a long profit. There, are many fanners who will continue to sell at .35 cents and who will continue to sell eVen at lower figures, which 16 their right But fanners who think cotton ought Xo bring more and who are willing to do what is necessary to make it bring more, are very foolish In our opinion to take 35 cents or less. In spite of the advantage the splnnors have secured in piling up great wads of cotton at 35 cents, there is coming another <Jay of need during the next few' months, and the next spurt will probably take the price still higher: Wd would hot advise any man who owes money to wlthhojid his cotton frt.n the payment of his debts; but most people who have cotton now can arrange to pay their debts without selling their cotton, and according to our way of looking at the situation this is a good time to warehouse the cotton, borrow money, if necessary to nav dfthtil- Hnn't hnnrnw nnlneo sary; but in any event hold the cotton until the pried gets nearer right. Somebody la goin$r to. make a big profit out of the present cotton crop and the farmer might as well make it as anybody else. * ' ' MERE MENTION. There 4s a shoratge of $3,500 in the accounts ctf the Commercial Bank of Unadilla, Gat The cashier, Robert A. Collins, Is missing....*.: Henry Bruns, white, a ship carpenter of Wilmington, N.C., was shot and-killed'in that city last Saturday. The- police are looking for Tom Mitchell', h negro Authorities in Washington' see no hope of averting the strike-of a half a million bituminous coal ralnbrs called for November 1 .....Owing ito the illness of President Wilsdn;i T-Klng Albert and Queen Elizabeth ?t,Belgium, and their son the Puke of Brabant will not be entertained In the white House during their stay ill Washington from October 27 to 30; but liutead they will be the guests of Vice Resident and , Mrs. iuursnHii A creoit or I.VIU.OIKJ to-, Tt&nr>*&a' announOcdtt*iturday by the- ' treasury department in /Washington. So far (he United 9 States-has loaned $9,647,419,49-1 tb.'allithc Allies The strike of metal -workers in the city orBerlin has been settled Dr. Clar-> enee Wilson, secretary of,the Temperance Board of (he Mtthodist church on Saturday at thie International convention of the Disciplok of Christ declared in an address that the elimination of the cigarette would be the next crusade undertaken Ifr^his church.... ^ Thomas Fitzgerald/ :a janito* was hanged in Chicago last Friday, having been convicted of the murder of Janet Wilkinson, a 6-year-old white girl Fairfax Harrison was re-elected president of the Georgia, Southern and Florida railroad at a meeting of the stockholders in Macon, last Friday .. Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, who won the American trans-continental derby recently, and whose' hoibe was formerly in Sampson County,*N. C., has accepted an invitntion to give an exhibition flight at'Clinton, N, C., on November 1 The boll weevil has been discovered In New Hanover county, i>. v., oi wnicn -wumingron is me county seat, . It is proposed to establish an aeroplane line between Ha- 1 vana, Cuba and t Miami, Fla., and i thende to New York, saving forty- | eight -hours In the tprefeent time of the New York-Ha van no. journey, accord- ' ing to Hannibal J..Mesa, wealthy Cu- ' ban whoi is promoting the project... i The French forces still under arms number today between 650,000 and 700,000 men according to semi-official 1 advices from Paris Commander Evangeline Booth ty the Salvation Army has been awarded tf?c distinguished service rhedaI the United States ' government for "exceptionally meri- 1 torious and distinguished service" , Frank Parks, 29, of Richmond. Va., . was killed in an automobile accident ' in that city last Sunday. Three other | men suffered painful injuries and a , fourth is in jail. , m t ( SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS \ ? T. H. Wannamaker of Columbia, < has contributed $1,000 to the Roose- ' veil Memorial Fund of South Carolina. * ? Joe Douthit, well known Anderson county citizen, was severely injured last Saturday when an automobile in ' which he and a party of friends were returning from Atlanta, was struck by a train. ? Army Y. M. C. A. officials are preparing to withdraw from Camp Juckson, Columbia by October 31. All Y. . M. C. A. activities at Camp Jackson are to cease after that date. r? Burglars operating in Columbia robbed six stores lust Friday night and rsrnncd with n mrinll amount nf goods. . I ? Ten cor loads of merchandise, the- c property of the M6!Tatt Grocery Com-' pany of Chester, were destroyed by a tire in that city Saturday evening. The company's warehouse alongside the a tracks of the C. & N. - W. railroad and just across from the Southern passen- 5 ger station was a complete loss. c ? Governor Cooper has appointed Charles Carroll Himins of ^Barnwell to 1 he a special judge because of they illness of Judge John S. Wilson. ? ? ?iur ?iMin WUH tuin itini in tin: Sumter county court of general ses- j sions last week of the murder of Fritz Behre, and sentenced to life imprison- ^ ment in the state penitentiary. The killing occurred several weeks ago ^ shortly after Behre had returned fom shortly after Behre had returned from ? service. ? Capt. J. A. Black, since the begin- ci ning of the administration of Mayor Hyde, chief of police of Charleston, R has resigned that position in order to 4i ero on the road as a salesman for the Southeastern-- -Republic- Distributing R Company.' Jf* " * * ti LOCAL. AFFAIRS, new Advertisements York Hardware Co.?Invites you to sec the Caloric exhibit at the York county fair and ask for full information about it. Standard Oil Co.?Gives reasons why you ought to have a Perfection Bloc Flame heater in your home. People* Bank & Trust Co.?Says It has nearly half a million in resources and thanks its patrons for co-operation and support. / Peoples National Bank, Rock Hilb?Extends invitation to you to make yourself at home at , its pUttp of business whep visiting the York county fair this week. First National Bank. York?Urges you to save a part of what you earn against the time when things are not so prosperous. It Invites you to do business with it. L. 91. Grist's Sons?Requests Enquirer clubmakers to .send In their names fqr publication > in the issue .of November 4th. Feinstcin's Bargain Is showing a big express shipment of georgette and crepe-dechine Waists and Russian blouses. J. D. Hope, Sharon?Tells you thnt it is no use to wait ifd#' lower prices and asks you to come to see him foe your needs. He has the goods. Star Theatre?Has a Universal feature for today. Florence Victor and Zasu Pitta tomorrow. Lipe's Garage?Has something to say in regard to the advantage of vulcanising and re-tread' ing worn tires. All work guaranteed. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Asks you to see it for shoes. Douglass $6.00 English toe shoes ars now on hand. Kirkpatrick-Bclk Co.?Has big stock of wool skirtings, storm serges, outings, ginghams, percals, comforts and blankets. J. L. Oates. Chairman! for Western York?Invites attention to tho purposes of the South Carolina Memorial Commission. J. N. McGill Sons Company?Says cash gets the prices and that it has a very complete line of all sorts of goods. Loan A Savings Bank?Says that with its resources of nearly a million dollars it Is In position Ho take care of all legitimate business intrusted to it. T l?o S*Aolf Cj> QharAn?TTn* a nr of choice horses and mules just in from Missouri and invites all interested to come to see its offerings and got its prices. York Furniture Co?Calls attention to an elegant line of go-carts, push-carts, sulkies, etc., for the babies. Sam M. Grist. Special Agent?Insists that you cannot lose if you buy a Mutual Benefit policy. You do not have vto die to win." ( O. L. .Jones, Co. Organisei^Has a message of especial interest to Baptisti concerning the "75 Million Campaign." Up to the present time ther^ have been comparatively few applications for positions as census enumerators in York county, and most of the choic-' est places are still open. Applications, however Bhould be made at once to 8. C. Carter at Chester, director of the i s for the Fifth Congressional district ' . v J THE MARRIAGE RECORD Marriage licenses have been issued by the probate court as follows: Oct. 16?Jackson Varnes to Mary Jane McCoy, Rock Hill, (colored)^ x Oct. 16?^Talmer Cash to May Finger, Lincoln county, N. C. / Oct. 17?Held Clemmer to Ruth Ostes, Dallas, N.- C. UCl. 1 I *J. A10HZO 11UBKIUO, JUIU IUI1, N. C? to Mabel McKnlght. Rock Hill. ' Oct. 18?Farley B. Huey to ' Lucy DdAa Merrltt, Rock H11L Oct. 18?Will Sutton to Maggie Wallace. Rock Hill. Oct. 18?Torrence Melton to > Kittle Braddock, Rock Hill. Oct. 18?Lewis Clark tdl Bertha Carter, Rock Hill. . / ^ * ' / ' ' * WITHIN THE TOWN ? Altogether the Lockmore mill,has paid to Its stockholders 102 per cent, on their stock this year?one dividend of 66 per cent- and another of 52 per cent. - -H. k. Ferguson has purchased id 27-100 acres of land, near .the waterworks from P. W. Ixjve. The transaction was made through the t;eal estate agency of Geo. W. Williams and the purchase price was $1,700. ? The Yorkville Graded school football eleven defeated the Winthrop Training school team of Rock ,Hlll, in a game on the local field last Friday afternoon. The score was G to 0, and the game was attended by a' large numfcer of football enthusiasts. ? It is not to be understood that any of the local cotton dealers got out of the market last -week on account of 35 cent cotton. This was not the case. At least two of the buyers were out of the market during Thursday nnfh Friday; hut It was a question of necessity in each" case. During the days previous they had bought more cdtton than they could mark up and ship, and it was absolutely necessary to stop for a while until the decks roujd be cleared, so to speak. A good mnny hundred bales were shipped out on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. But at .no time wa? it so that cotton :ould not be sold for 35 cents. ? Tiie Yprkville Cotton Oil Company is making an extensive addition to its lotton seed warehouse. Between the ocal wagon seed and the "car" seed the warehouse has been filled to ca-? pacity and without the additional ; warehouse facilities the mill would have to go out of the market. Another hfng the mill has-been doing that is of significant interest has been the overcoming of the labor shortage by 1 jsing a number of highschool boys in he afternoons to unload seed from ' he cars. 'The boys like the work, and hey like the pay, and they arc filling i gap. i REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS The following transfers of real esate have been indexed in the office of ' ho county auditor since the last pub- : ication of the record. Bethesda?J. Irene Garrison to Thos. ^ r. Sandifer, 72 acres; consideration, ] 4,680. i Broad River?H. Mariah Whitesldes o Geo. C. Leech, 502 acres; considera- j ion. $7,500. ( Bullock's Creek?T. H. and J. S. t x>ve to Claud M. Inman, 77 1-2 acres; , onsideration. $1,937.50. l H." B. Pratt to E. B. Hunter, 2 41-100 j cres, consideration, $100. K& B. Hunter to K. B. l'ratt, 10 38-100 v crew; consideration, $100. Catawba?Hamilton Carhartt Cotton ililht to Anderson Motor Co., 1 lot; : onsideration, $5,250. Ontawhfi lteal Est. Co., to Cora B. * toss, 1 lot; consideration, $1,350. , A. Kllwood Holler, et al to Ander on Motor Co., 1 lot; consideration, ' 5,000. < s Bast Rock Hill Realty Co., to J. W. a farmond, 1 lot; consideration. $250. A. Ellwood Holler, et al, to Eugene 5 1. Holler, 1 lot; consideration, $2,100. ? J. B. Johnson to 'Victoria. Cotton c 1111, 1 lot; consideration, $1,450. r Ella I.ake J-tunter to John D. Good, b lot; consideration. $7,250. d H. L. Talley to J. R. Dover, 1 lot; I' onsideration, $2,000. c Leona Meekins O'Dell to Christine b ;. Cauthen, 1 lot; consideration, $1,- b [)0. a Mrs. E. F. Dillingham, et al, to Rock P fill-School District, 2 lots; conslderan <% Tellulah D. Chaplin, et al, , to Thomas P. Cartwright, 1 lot; consideration, $4,362.60. P. W. and S. R. Spencer to Clarence E. Wylie, 1 lot; consideration, $1,725. Harry E. Ruff to Leonora Sloan Rawllnson, 1 lot; consideration, $5. N. G. Walker to Jessie H. Massey, 1 lot; consideration, $500. Tellulah D. Chaplin, et al to Theodore A. Moore, 1 lot; consideration, $2,362.50. H. B. Powell to E. E. Cloud, 1 lot; consideration, $5,400: Ebenezer?W. W. Lewis to Mrs. Hattie I. Pope, 97 1-2 acres; consideration, $5,850. " Fort Mill?Mamie Nivens Thomas to Thomas F. Lytle, 2 lots; consideration, i $100. King's ' Mountain?Clover Cotton Mfv. Co.. to Clover Mills Co.. 82 ' acres; consideration, $10. i W, M. McCarter to W. S. McCarter, ] 32 acres; consideration, $1,300. J. F. Faulkner, et al to W. C. Wllburn, 201-2 acres; consideration, $5. / , T HERE AND THERE. 'Confederate veteranB of York and adjoining counties who attend the York County lair at Rock Hill next Thursday are to receive special attention at the hands of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Rock Hill. The two Rock Hill chapters are making arrangements to serve dinner free'to the veterans who visit the fair Thursday, , J. Boliver Scott, well known farmer of the Philadelphia section is just a little disappointed over the pecan production in his orchard this year. Mr. Scott has, a large number of pecan trees of a desirable variety. Some of the trees are fifty feet high or more, and eighteen i Inches in diameter.' "I should have gotten a hundred bushels of pecans off my trees this year," he said Saturday in talking aboujf them; "but I doubt if I am going to get more > than ten or twelve bushels." \ i. Many Shriners from all sections of York county expect to go to Greenville this week for. the institution of the new Hajaz temple which will begin with 600 old members, re-inforced by the 300 or so additional candidates who will travel the sands of the desert there this week. Among the prominent Shriners who will be in Greenville for the occasion are W. Freeland Kendrlcks, imperial potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order, Mystic, Shrine of North America, who will personally Institute the new temple. Numerous Shriners from a number of York county towns and other communities will | attend the opening, of the new temple ?n Greenville. t f. It takes more than a Are to make Mr. W. ,H. Hoke sell cotton when he does not want to sell. Mr. Hoke Is an Inveterate bull on the market He does not believe that cotton ever has Sold for anything Uko. what It was woVth? or anything like what the prwlucer. is entitled to receive for it in whffcn he is right and he is always believing that some day the price will be nearer, what it ought to be, in which he may be right. Anyhow, when some thirty bales of cotton he had in J. T. Koddey*s warehouse were burned he did not do a' thing but gb down about Blackstock and buy the same number of bales he had lost and ship.them to ithe Peoples Warehouse at Yorkvillt, for storage. Cotton had gone up a little after the lire and he bad to pay 35 cents but he did not hesitate at that He means to see the thing out and not sell until he gets ready to sell. While Hero and There was standing in a bank the other day, a negro man came in and cashed , a bytton check for about $<00. ^The cashier tohl the man he could get all his money if he wanted it, of course; but suggested that it would be just as well to take what he actually needed and leave the balance on deposit "I believe I will take it all," said the oA.kls.' (MibMAillniollr ur?iu aiiu me wusiuci luuiicuiatci; paid over the money. "What are you going ta do with that money?" asked Here and There?' "I am going to spend some of it, and'I am gding to keep some of it." "Well why don't you leave it all' in the bank and check out what you want to pay your debts and for other purposes?" "I Just don't know, I Just want to take It with die," the negro persisted. *Jn reply to another question the negro said he had had a bank account and it worked all right; but still he wanted that money. Of course Here and There gave it up, as a hoipeless 'jcase. i * s ABOUT PEOPLE. Messrs. A. J. ,Quinn and T. M. Campbell of Clover , are spending several days in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. an^ Mra P. D. White of Marion, visited Mr. White's mother, Mrs., J. P. White in Yorkville last'week. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Smith of Clover, and Mrs. W. F. Marshall of Yorkville, spent Saturday and Suhday with Miss Mary C. Fain at Dandridge, Tenn. Miss Mildred Mickle, formerly principal of the Beersheba school has a school at Owings, Laurens county this fall. John R Logan, Jr., is to take the position of deputy clerk of the court made vacant by the resignation of Mr. F. E. Clinton. Mr. Frank Plaxco and Miss Sarah Plaxon of Dtio "West and Mesdames Mack Robinson and lone Craig of Lan- 1 caster, visited the family of Mr. R. N. b Plaxco on Yorkville No. 1, last week. Dr. C. N. Munro, who has teen spend- * ing the summer in Yorkville, has reccived tyi appointment to a position in the State Hospital, Columbia, and * lea'ves today for that place. Mr. arid Mrs. J. E.'Johnson of York- j. rille, who have 'been spending several ^ lays in New Orleans, where Mr. q Johnson was a delegate to the World's a Cotton Conference, have returned to M their home in Yorkville. C Invitations have been received an- T lounclng the approaching marriago of J Miss lone Ashe, daughter of Mr. and f< Mrs. J. F. Ashe o'f McConnellsville to ei Mr. James H. Williams of McConnellfe- n ille, the ceremony to take place at E Purity Presbyterian church, McCon- d tellsville, November 25. d Chester, October 17: The Rev. J. K. R dair has nccepted the pastorate of the a ireat Falls and Mount Zion Baptist & churches and will assume his new 1 lut'es November 1. The Rev. J. R. Moore has been called for full time >astor of Fort Lawn and Hopewell ^ Japtist churches, but hasn't decided vhether or not he will accept. ^ First Lieutenant G. Percy Berry re- c< urned to the home of his mother, Mrs. c< iattie Berry in Yorkville, Friday, after vl pending fourteen months With w he Ameripan Expeditionary Forces, hi deut. Berry who has been on duty gj with the engineering corps expects to ft ecu re his discharge from the service c, t Camp Gordon within a few days. tr Donnom VV. Spencer, son of Mr. and b< ilrs. C. E. Spencer of Yorkville and a th ophomorc at Davidson College, acording to the Rock Hill Record, is er ecovering rapidly from the effects of Pi njuries received at the college several to ays ago while experimenting with ex- ar losives on the athletic field of the sh ollege. The youny man was badly w urned on the face and hands and w< oth eyes. With another student, he H: ttempted to discharge some ex- gr losives on the athletic field that were mi Kpected to make both a loud noise w.l nd dlfplay in titeir ^discharge a brll- th f iant and flaming light The fuse did lot burn to the discharge point and :he boys, confident that It was dead, tpproached the pile. With their faces rlose to the explosives one of them nulled the fuse out While it Is possible that the fuse was still burning t is thought that the friction pro- , ? iueed in slipping it out was the real :ause of the red phosphorus igniting ind a discharge taking place. Young Spencer wears glasses and for this reason his eyes escaped & more serious njury. . - i . r. ;n . - . ? , LOCAL LACONICS. Win for Roek Hill. The Rock Hill high school football team defeated the Winnsbo/o high school team In a game lrv Winn*boro, ? last Friday. The score we* 19 to 0; i To Have Big Automobile Paradox A feature of the opening day Of the ri, ^ York county fair at Rock Hill, w^leh* Is tomorrow will be an automobile1 " parade. It la hoped to have aa many is 1,000 automobiles from all sections yt the county In the parade. ' Committed to Jail, t, ' Marshall Turner,' white waa committed to jail here Saturday by Mag^sirate E. S. Parka of Fort Mill charged with a violation of the prohibition law. He waa arrested several days ago and had been held in confinement In Fprt Mill, pending giving of bond which he waa unable to furnish. . V, Charged With Statutory Offense. Duke Claw son, a negro of Clover,, <, las been committed to jail here by Magistrate A. J. Qulnn of King's Mountain township on the charge of statutory rape, the alleged victim being a negro girl. Clawaon waa released from the oounty chalngang only j i few months ago after having served ( i long term for manslaughter. , ^ York County Federal Jurors- , Names of the following York county J citizens have been drawn to serve as srrand and netlt Jurors at United - I States district court which meets at' ' J 3recnwood, November 4: Petit Jurors -W. B. Meacham, Fort Mill; T. B. Glenn, Tirzah; J. B. Benfleld, Torkv , So. 8; Grand Jurors?A. E. Willis,' Rock pill; W. S. PercJvaJ, Rock HllF STo. 5. Rally at Fort Mill. A rousing rally of the congregation nf the Fort Hill Baptist church'- of *hU$ Rev. J. W. H. Dychea, D. D.,1a * ; L pastor was held last Sunday night un fler the auspices of the Baptist 178,- . .. 900,000 campaign. Rev. B? H. Waugh, ' if Yorkvllle publicity director, for the :ampalgq in York county was present uid d(l dressed tbe congregation on the I campaign, his subject i ' eing "What WUI it Costr Merchants Must Report > T > Sheriff Fred E. Qulnn* has served summons on thirty merchants and othsr business people of York County re- '1; luiring them to appear before tbe state ; y' ,-1^BTfv?p9s lax commission in Columbia, on Octo- 1 ber 28 to make tax returns in accordance with the law and to give reason shy they did not comply with the law it the proper thne. The summons of . the state tax commission requires the thirty delinquents to appear in Columbia, bringing with them all their aooks and inventories for 1918 and ' 1919. plover Eleetieq. Today. i '(Qualified electors of the . town of" 31oVer ,w111 vote today on the question jf whether or not the towp shall' come mder the previsions of the general issembly giving permission to assess ibutting property for road building purposes. The election today U ? , step toward the securahce of Federal , lid in the sum of $10,000 for road pur. poses to be built through the'ttfwn of Sover. The1 books of registration for , c election being held today dosed v jeveral days ago and according to lohn A. Jackson, sapervlsor of regis-, nation, the registration totals about" 106. ? Second Growth Cane Poison. ^' ? Rock. Hill Herald: That second growth sugar cane is deadly poison for cows is a fact that is probably nob well known, three cows in this comnunity having died yesterday as a re-*"' i lult of beinfr allowed to feed in Held* from which the first growth of aaM was recently cut. The shoots arw" poison, state vetcrinariano, so all farms ' \ ?rs are advised to be careful about slowing livestock to gaze in canefleldr. \. B. Mlgkie, of Ebeneser, lost a fine :ow yesterday afternoon, the animal icing allowed in the Held but a fear ninutes. The veterinarian stated this :ane shoots caused death, although heoic measures were taken to cause-the >ovine to throw off the poison. Two teller cows died suddenly yesterday^ ind the owners stated they had been >ermitted to. graze in caneflelde. * Mr. dickle requested that the fact be ' r ilaced before the farmers as he tett inly a small number were familiar vith the deadly character o? the cade ' hoots. Sale of the Woodberry Farm. Rock Hill Herald. Friday: The auc- .-*? Ion .sale of Woodberry farms, owned ? iy James S. White, yestei*day was a Jg success, the farms bringing more han $33,000. ; There were 14, tracts In ' , he property, some of which'had been old privately before the sale. There raa a large crowd present for the sale nd the bidding was lively. The home met went to N. B. Williams and W.. lull Spencer for $80 an acre. Tract !o. 10, comprising some of the famous 'atawba bottoms, sold for $158 an ere. Other buyers were W, J. Cornreli, J. T. Farls, R. H. Cornwall, E. Ilaude Collins, Henry Massey. C. J. ~ \ . 'homasson. A registered Durocersey boar, Catawba Chief, was sold Jr $65, a remarkably low price. It was Btlmated. The farm machinery was ot sold. Ladles of the Catawba laptist church provided refreshments uring the sale. The sale was conucted for Mr. White by the Catawba, eal Estate company, and both buyers < nd sellers expressed themselves as rcatly pleased with the sale. ??m~mmm?"?^ ... jii.'.' Value of Cot-rect Grading.?A slgnicant story comes from Anderdon junty as to the service which a-cotm classer.can render a* community, rites, a correspondent from Clemson )llege. Anderson Is one of the seveh junties in which the extension serice of Clumson college co-operating ith the Federal bureau of markets } . is recently placed an official cotton *ader. Recently this official grader, . C. Banks, and the county agent* . S. Patrick, made an Investigational ip to Hartwell, Ga., where cotton has icn selling from 1 to 2 cents above ic Anderson ^larket. "The reason given for this differice by the local buyers," says Mr. > 1 nl/\lr "lo V* r> o Knffor crraHa t\f Clli iwn( to mav u i/cvvbi qimuv v? ? n Is grown around Hartwell than ound Anderson, but the investigation lowed that Anderson county cotton, hen haule?' across the river to Hart- ? ell. sells for the same price on the artwell market as does the cotton , own around Hartwell. All of which r?ans that Anderson county fanners II hereafter get t?ette prices for eii- cotton." \ 'V * >*8Sv5 t-~ . r ll'. \ v' : jH;