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Jcraps awl -facts. Disasters in the United States in Jf>70 cost 425 lives and injury to 2,700 persons, according1 to.- the American Red Cross. Fifty-seven "major disasters" affecting 159 communities swept away $11,250,000 worth of property and caused S7S0.000 additional to v l-e spent- in relief work in addition to *.">00,000 expended at Corpus .Chrisli, Tex., last year for the disaster there late in 1919. Tornadoes were unusually numerous, the Red Cross said, and caused 11 disasters, wh'i!c; twonty-two relief expeditions followed tig ores. One relief expedition succored 7; grasshopper plague in North Dakotii. > Besides domestic aid, emergency ivlief was given to famine sufferers in China and earthquake victims in .Mexico and Italy, the report said. ? Balances of the United War Fund ' -suiting from the drive of November. I x IhlS, and remaining in community chests' will be turned over to Herbert Hoover's European Relief Council pending, a decision from the president i :?s to the disposal of the $3,500,000 of II <he~United War Fund in the hands of the committee of eleven. Following a the lead of the Knights of Columbus - board of directors in voting that organization's share of the fund balance ? to the Hoover fund other organizations have. intimated their willingness to surrender claim to the $1,500,000 of the total $5,000,000 balance of the war fund now in community chests. "We ? have been assured by Air. I-Ioover thai starving children in Ireland will he X eared for by his council." said Supieme Knight James A. Flaherty. ? Secretary Daniels on Friday officially welcomed the seven little Rus* sinn orphans, adopted by Rear Admiral Newton McCuIiy. into "the navy > family." The admiral called at the Vpartrnent and for half an ho?'r the usually quiet office of the secretary j looked like a Russian kindergarten. Mr. Daniels said afterwards that while qualified as an expert interpreter of "baby talk." because of his own large family, he found some difficulty 5 in' understanding it in Russian. DurZ. 'Ug a picture taking ceremony all seven youngsters insisted on sitting ;on dther the secretary's or the admiral's hjp and the pair were literally swamp"d in Russian children. It took strat~ on-v tn lot the nhotocranhers get their pictures. Admiral McCully will keep r the children here until formal' adopv tion proceedings have been completed, 7 Then take them to his home in AnderZ son, S. C., where they probably will "" reside permanently. ? Motherhood is safer in any 17 for t-ign countries than in the United Z States, and babies in ten other coun' tries have a better chance of living ihrough their first year, according to i lie house commerce committee's re,jp port on the Sheppard-Towner bill to appropriate $1,480,000 for safeguarding the health of mothers and babies. The report classed the bills as emergency legislation and said there was practically no opposition to it. The'committee found, it is said, that maternal rnAi'illtv in 11m Unitoil Sr.)tea was not decreasing, statistics. La-fore it showing a 15 per cent, inrivnse in deaths from child birth bo-tw.'on 1919 and 1920. Infants under liiie year of age are dying from preventable ailment at the rate of 250,000 a year, the report said. In rural w-dtionsi studied, it was ascertained, the report added, that SO per cent, of mothers -received no advice or trained are preceding the birth of children. ? Two men held up Cashier E. F. Smith at the American Railway Express company's main office at the union station at Tampa Fla., last Friday afternoon and escaped with a confederate, in an automobile. It is said Limy obtained S19.700 in cash and two packages of merchandise from the -af?\ According to Smith, he was acla.-stod by two neatly dressed men who re 1 nested a money order (illicitly. A* ^mith was in the act of opening his f.'ige. one of the men thrust a revolver against the back of his head with the order: "If you make any noise. I'll liPivv' your brains out." Smith was lh*'*n thrust through the door, handcuffed and compelled to lie behind a counter'. While one man -guarded hitu ti!<- otner gauiereu up uot.-e " currency from the safe and two packages of merchandise from a desk. The men then slipped quietly out of the building, joined'a confederate in : waiting automobile andVspod away. \ few minutes later a follow employe iearned of Smith's predicament. The express company, it was announced by ,\?;nager Eve, offered SI.000 reward r the apprehension of the alleged robbers. ^ ?--Sgnator Kcnyon. of Iowa, has in*" tr'oduced in congress a bill to establish a'rural credit system to stnnrinrri, productive farm credit paper in the open market. The bill creates two orporations by special charters, namely a rural credit society and general insurance league. The credit oojpty will consist of one central in ink of Sl'5.000,000 capital to be furnished by the government without in-' forest, which will be retired by a sinkf :ug fund1 created by the hill. The credit also will consist of forty-eight j branches, one for each state, with ? 000 capital each to be furnished by Hie insurance company accepting tlie Kod _ eral charter created l>.v the bill. This f tock will be paid a 0 per cent, cum illative dividend ami become a ;rnar- i ?. anty against I he loss of the government's capital. Any number of community associations or comniimes may T. bex organized by fanners with not less than seven members each. This commune stock will be owned by farmer members and divided into shares of$S each. Three commissioners are to be appointed by the secretary of ngrienl ture to negotiate willi one of the large life insurance companies, lor the pur pose of inducing it to accept, .such federal charter in lieu of its state charter and make an investment in the credit society aggregating $7.-00.000 and choose the society's auditor and deputy auditors. The. fart, that the capital of- such an insurance eoinpanv becomes a guarantor of every piece of that rural credit paper and the insurance company is placed in a position to acquire accurate information as to the conduct of the credit society's business is bound to inspire the confidence of inventors in sucn paper. ? A strongly nationalistic foreign policy says the Kansas t'itv Star, is to he initiated l?y I'rosidetit-elect Harding iirunediatcly upon assuming office '^'according to senators returning from the final conference at Marion. To help ourselves .as well as others-in contrast with the Wilson policy of helping others and not ourselves?is said to he the keynote of the policy Senator Harding plans to pursue. The information the president-elect has received concerning the state of affairs in Europe has convinced him , it is nothing short of providential that | America has heen saved from en- I tanglement in the rivalries, jealousies. I t , agreed, imperialistie designs and in- I ternal concerns of European states. | ... such as would have heen produced l?y ratification of the Versailles treaty and league of nations without change. Mr. Harding is represented as more strongly than ever of the opinion that America should keep clear of participation in European affairs and stand pat on the principle of the monroe Doctrine tliat European nations should keep hands off the affairs of the American continents. Under, the circumstances, therefore, the president-elect doubts that it is feasible to accept the Versailles treaty unless it should be modified very materially, not only in respect to the League of Nations (Covenant, which in any event it would be necessary to eliminate, but in respect to the peace terms proper, front which it will be necessary to exclude provisions for the participation of the United States in the multitude of commissions which arc to regulate the affairs of Europe for. years to come: He still is intent however, upon ending the fictitious stale of war with tiermany, and. therefore, morn inclined than ever to favor the restoration of peace by legislation, such as the Knox resolution vetoed by President' Wilson. ^1*^ /fH'U Att'ttM) ei'ju' v/mjmuv* Entered at the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921 There is no getting away fiom*the proposition that we have got to build our roads. If we expect to slay in this country, we must make it fit to live in. The probability is that Atkinson of Spartanburg, will be elected speaker of the house, and while he is a very good, man, The Yorkvillc Enquirer would prefer to see the place go to Owens of Marlboro. It has not required a high order of 11 iJtiiiVJic! 1 timing LU U1111& auuiit ouvii deflation as lias been brought about up to this time by the Federal reserve board. The board has simply shut down on loans and taken a holiday. Wish some o? the big fellows who have never performed a stroke of manual labor in their lives and who think how easy it is to ntake cotton, could be compelled*to work a crop on shares one year. The .experience would, teacii them that the laborer is worthy of his hire. According to Mr. Stevenson's figures, at 20 cents a pound for the product the south loses $G5,55(1.000 on jts last year's cotton crop, the loss falling upon the people who furnisdt..the land and upon the people who furnish the toil. Somebody has certainly benefited by that loss of the landowners and laborers. Thfe $50,000,000,000 in gold reparations money that the Allied supreme council has fixed upon Germany, is not nearjy so sign mean i as ine u per cem tax tliat is to be required on exports: That tax is to be in the nature of a protective tariff for the benefit of competitors. Germany has long since demonstrated her ability to turn out most kinds of manufactures cheaper than any other country, and the Allies want to give her a 12 per cent handicap. Mow it is going to work out remains for the future; but the probability is that before a great while the Allied council will be chagrined to find that it has made its burden too light. What is known as the "Norfolk Idea" has gone into the hands of a receiver. Last July when 2!) ship repair shops of Norfolk adopted the open shop, workmen opposed, to that principle undertook to conduct a closed shop on their own responsibility. With about $-10,000 advanced by the International Association of Machinists they establish ed a plant r>r tncir own. only strictly union men were employed. The business slump came on, and then also the "Xnrfolk Idea" people found it diflicult to buy materials or pet work from people who were not in sympathy with them. The business was finally run to ruin for lack of patronage, as much as for lack of proper management. It seems to be the well-nigh unanimous view of the gene-ally recognized financial experts that the final fixing of a definite amount for I lie Germans lo pay as reparations will have a stimulating effect on the business of the world, and that from now on things should begin l" look up. The principal difference between the international conferees at Versailles is now known to have hinged around this reparations question. Both Lloyd George and Clcinenccau had promised their people that Germany would have to pay all the costs of the war to the last farthing: but AVilson, recognizing that this was impossible, and demanding nothing whatever for the United States, persistently insisted upon the fixing of a definite sum thai was in reason. The common smise of the situation was that if the demands of the allies were of a nature that would threaten to hold the Germans in bondage forever, they would make no effort to pay at all. They couldn't; but in the light of a thorough understanding of what would be required of them, I hey could have some encouragement to get toiretlier and make the effort to dis-j charge their Ui.sk. II is yet for the Ciornuuis to decide whether they will undertake t?> pay tin* reparations liill that is rcipiircd of them bin the probability is that they will accept the situation and get down to work. It is not difficult to understand, however, that if flerniany docs gel down to a business and industrial organization that will enable Iht to pay this debt, by the time the debt is discharged she will be more powerful economically and financially than she has ever been and by that time also she will be in a position to levy on the allies such industrial tribute as she may see proper ? ?? ? v-v? | to require. If the reparation bill is icver paid, it will be at best only a loan | that will have to be returned at compound. interest. It is because of this fact, no,doubt, that/the French were so anxious for agreement on a plan that would hold the Germans in perpetual bondage. To a good many people that address of the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis to the South Carolina Bar association will sound like crazy talk; but in the opinion of The Yorkville Enquirer those people who study the address closely and take the speaker seriously will not badly deceive themselves. It was the late Cecil Rhodes, the creator of the great empire of South Africa, who had r,f ,\tir*ln-Sinvrin unitv through out the world, and who declared thai for the sake of such unity he would not make tiny complaint if Washington were selected as the capital; hut Great Britain does not share and never will share the sentiment of Rhodes except on a basis of establishing the capital in London, and the centre of government in the British parliament. London knows that this is impossible, of course, and British intelligence realises that ahout the only way that Great Britain can ever hope to dominate America is through the domination! of the balance of Europe and perhaps of Asia. The traditional policy of Great Britain in every European war since the days of Cromwell, has iSecn to align itself on the side of the weaker power against the stronger power, not exactly out of sympathy with 1he oppressed as against the oppressor; but rather to maintain her own position of supremacy. When France joined, Austria against Prussia through fear that Prussia might supplant her as the dominating power of Europe, Great Britain threw her lot with Frederick the Great, not openly, but secretly with her money, and with regiments that did not even have the status of belligerents. Her attitude in the Napoleonic wars was the samcSexccpt that necessarily it was more open. The sole reason of the Crlmeari war, fought ostensibly out of "sympathy" with Mohammedan Turkey, was for the purpose of thwarting the ambition of Russia t' become a world power, and in this France was irsed as a tool and ally. Great Britain went into the recent world war because she knew that German conquest of France meant German domination of Europe followed by German domination of the world, and America was brought in only after it was made clear tiiat Great Britain and Franco could notturn the trick without her. At this time Great Britain will not stand for I France doing what she wants to do with Germany, because that will mean that Franco will eventually attain her former prestige, a thing' fur which Great Britain could never aland. LJtil somehow, The Vorkville Enquirer in unable to imagine a very dangerous enemy of the United States in a united Europe so long as that Europe contains a Great Britain. Great Britain-jis capable of uniting almost any combination of European countries against any other combination of European countries, but it does not seem possible that she could unite with all Europe against the United States in such a way that the United States could not break up the combination. "Perfidious Albion" may not be any more perfidious than any of the rest of them; but since all of thein know how quickly Albion would, throw down any of them in order to advance her o\yn interest over all of them, there will always be some who will lake a chance on proposals that seem to promise a possibility of getting the best of her. ? The recent attempt of two al- | b-ged Americans to kidnap I trover (*. Ilergdoll and his. chauffeur, Isaac Statelier, al Eherliack, Germany, has created sensational interest thronghout the country and the circumstance is Inking up large space in the jwipers. It appears that Hergdoll had |ieen at Eherbach for some time, and among tlie people he was looked upon as quite a hero. 1.hc more" especially heeanse he was of German deccnl and:in full sympathy with Clermany that he dodged the draft. Then also he has plenty of money with which to make himself otherwise welcome. Two men ol'tierman names: Carl Nonfatal h'ran Ziinmor, hut representing themselven as Americans sought to pull down the big reward that is hanging over Uergiloll asul at tlie same time get a good deal of notoriety lor themselves by effecting his arrest through Wild West methods. They made the attempt as Hcfgdoil and Stetcher wore on their way to some kind of popular gathering; Init the. Merman police wore prom|illy on the scene and the would l>e captors, were captured instead. They at first represented themselves as agents of the American secret service, and claimed that they entered linden from the American occupied zone. The state department, however ' - n,,. ?t_ | Ml nil If ;uiy rt^|>uiininiin(> ?#* %.nv ?.? mpl and refuses to k:iiic:tlon it. saying thai there are no duly accredited \ ui( l ira a secret service men oulsidc lot" America. As to whether the American authorities in the occupied /.one had anything to do with the attempt lias not yet been made clear. On the failure of the attempt at kidnapping Mergdoll sent a cable to American papers advising his friends of the situation and crowing a little over the affair. Also he gave out an interview in which he threw a little light on the manner of his csacpe. lie said he gave it out that lie had $100.000 in gold hidden in the hills somewhere near Philadelphia and it was arranged thai lie could go after it under an understanding of a partial divvy. This is only implied, lie was accompanied to his home by two noncommissioned officers, and his chauffeur promptly proceeded to (ill them with whisky with I he result that tliey were rendered harmless. Then, accompanied by Steteher, I'ergdoll made a run for it; mil he was unwilling to tell at this time exactly how he got out of the country. ? Senator .T. IT. Marion of Chester, is announced in the Columbia Stale of yesterday as a candidate for governor in the campaign of X922. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Sliacly Nook Foullry Farm, J. E. Jackson, Proprietor?How to*gel eggs. J. Q. Wray, Manager?Programme of the Stui Theatre. , York Drug Store?Iron and Cascara tonic v. ith Celery. D. M. Pitrrolt, Clover?It will pay you to trade with this store. J. A. Lowry?Will saw tiny thing except oak at SI per hundred. J. T. Fcemster and A. L. Black?Call for a meeting of York County stockholders of tho Fisheries Products company. J. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Notice of application for letters of administration of the estate of John/ R. Logan, deceased. Mary McConnell Ix>vc?Executrix's sale. E. \V. Dnhbs'nud Others, Committee?Call for meeting of the taxpayers of York county in the courthouse next Monday.. J. A. Marion, Referee in Bankruptcy?Notice of-first meeting of the creditors of Minnie , A. Hood, bankrupt, i . it J. A. Marion, Referee in Bankruptcy?Notice of first meeting of creditors of W. 0. Harsliaw (&. Co. J. M. Stroup?33 1-3 per cent, off on all high shoos. A. M. MeGill, York No. 1?Thursday, Friday, . and Saturday. Mackoreli Drug Company?Engraved cards. Kirkpntrick-Belk Company?Here you can buy goods at right prices. J. II. Bigham. Clubmaker?Subscribers to The Yorkville Enquirer on his club arc requested t tv j/i*/ OW V)|?,W. South Carolina comes second to Texas in the number of bales of cotton ginned,up to January 1C, 1021, for the year 1920. Texas ginned 3,862,354 bales and , South Carolina 1,506,752 bales. This is a somewhat surprising record, with which the boll weevil prbbably had something to do. Also, it is not to, be forgotten that Jjlouth Carolina used lots of commercial fertilizers, while Texas used so little that it is hardly worth counting. . This on a card from W. H. Crook of Fort Mill.is the kind of encouragement that makes life worth living to the publisher: "Put D. G. Kimball back on the list. He soys that The Yorkville Enquirer is the best paper printed and he cannot do without it. A. Ii. Mcrritt says lie is going, to take The Yorkville -Enquirer as long as he lives no matter what the price. Enter F. W. Dickson, R. F. D. 3." The Enquirer was in error in the statement that Mr. J. O. Alliison, carrier on York No. 2, did not start upon his route last Wednesday because of the heavy snow fall. Mr. Allison said Saturday that he did start; but turned b^ck when he reached the home of W. W. Alexander fur the reason that it was impossible to go further. THE MARRIAGE RECORD Since the last publication of the record in The xorKyme rjmiuucr, wu following marriage licenses have been issued by the judge of probate: Jan. 23?\\'i!lie-?Slinson, 22 and Mnrgaret GUI, 22. colored, Rock Hill. Jan. 20?GiIos.jJ,*loyd. 21, and Sallie Harnett, 20, colored. IJethel township. Jan. 27?II. Lessliu MeOorkle, 22. York tnnwship pil Lena 13. Howell, 30. King's Mountain township. Jan. 21)?James It. Wallace, 2S. and Annie L. Chambers. 22, York township. Jan. 29?James Hatch ford, 23, and Sarah Simpson,. 21, colored, Rock Hill. TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS. On recommendation of the legislative delegation the governor has appointed township commissioners for York eoifrity as follows: Bethel?J. P. 11. Currence, S. S. Glenn, 13. M. Miller. Bethesda?13. C. Lindsay, L. L. Ware, W. T. Mollis. Broad River?W. S. Wilkerson, J. S. Rainev. J. S. Quinn. Bullock's Creek?Ir. J. Shcrcr. E. M. n.inkhoed, H. C. Gourlcy. Catawba?.1. . H. Jolmson, W. Hall Spencer, C. P. Keid. Ebenezer?-J. R Williams, K. F. (tales, T. S.' liarron. Fort Mill?A. J. Usiilcs. X. M. White, J. 'J'. Garrison. u r? King s Mountain?.1. iauuj cuntu, S. Qui nn, W. T. Renmguard. York?A. Ij. Black, W. B. Keller. W. I?\ Jackson. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Tlie following' real cstAte transfers have licon indexed irvthe office of the county auditor since the last publication of tho record in The Yorkville Enquirer: Bsthesda?It. F. Lee to James M. Darwin, 03 acres, ?9.riG. Broad River?J. 1-1 Westmoreland to ,\V. M. McKcc, -I 23-100 acres. $300. John Aloek to \V. 1'. Youngblood, 12S acres, $3.SI0. Catawba?Mrs. Cecil Arudt to C. I.. Williams, 1 lot. $350. J110. It. Williams to Ed. M. Kimbrell, 1 lot. $1,250. A. I'. Lineberger to W L. Boone, 1 lot $000. Ebenezer?.Tno. R. Logan, C. C. C. I Ms to Koddey Trust Co., 2 lot price* not given Fort Mill? William White to Butler While, 1 lot. $00. King's Mountain?W. H. Soberer to K. Jj. Barber, f?S acres, $5,800. York?E. J. Wylio to John Meek. Ill acres,- $1,700. WITHIN THE TOWN ? John Dean of Rock Hill, textile union organizer for South Carolina, delivered an address before the local textile union last Friday evening. ? Despite the fact that January is , usually an off month with them, the ' Yorkville police, department was quite busy during tho month just come to a close, according to Chief of Police J. ' Cal Steele, Receipts from lines and forfeitures for the month totaled considerably more than $200. * I ? Indications are there will be a. large 1 number of contestants, both musicians and dancers,, attendant upon the l-'id- 1 (Iters' convent ion to ne neia in me courthouse Friday evening, for the benefit of Mooch Stewart Post, American Lotion. .An interesting programme has been arranged and post officials and their friends arc hopeful that there will be a large audience in attendance. The entertainment Friday night is the first of a scries which the post proposes to hold during the coming spring and summer for the benefit of the local legion. HERE AND THERE County Treasurer li E. Neil and his clerks, Misses laic in ITeid Ewart and Georgia p,ration had a very busy day of it yesterday in issuing; receipts for- lex.pnyorsj since many people came in to pay in order to escape the 2 per cent, penalty for non payment which becomes'effective today, There ! ;ire still thousands of dollars in taxes on the hooks that remain unpaid and the outlook is that Sheriff If red Quinn is going to have more executions'to handle this year than usual. "Paid my taxes today," said a Bethel township innn in Yorkville yesterday. They totalled $1S0?just $70 more than last year. What they will lie next .year and .whether they will be higher than they were this year, the Lord only knows. But I am rather expecting they will." Reports from the rural schools over the county indicate that the epidemic of mumps whfch has been prevalent in all sections during the past several weeks, continues to rage. So far as the school authorities have in formation, there is. no influenza among school children % in any section of the county. * "There's a probability that 'the hmiuo <?r?11 lioi'ft tlm nrinrnni'intinn bill in its hands by .the, latter part of the week although, it' is not altogether certain," said.yesterday a York county member of the house. There .is going to be quite a fight over the appropriation bill this year and no mistake about that." "So called tight times have- no effect whatever on the moving picture business in Rock Hill apparently," said yesterday a Yorkville man who was in Rock Hill Saturday. "I just happened to notice the crowds trying to get in the moving picture show on Railroad street. Pretty'nearly all the afternoon there was a large crowd standing outside awaiting an opportunity to get a seat. They believe in the movies, those Rock Hill people do." GROWING APPROPRIATIONS. "No, we have not dropped our'demand for a material reduction of taxes in South Carolina," said Mr. John L. Raincy of Sharon, yesterday, "and- we are not going to drop it, either." Mr. Rainey was in Yorkville to meet with the committee appointed at the mass meeting held in the courthouse on January 6 to review the appropriations of past years' with a view to making recommendations to the legislative delegation as to where the pruning knife might be applied. "I understand," said Mr. Rainey, "that meetings have been called to be Held next Monday in all the courthouses of the state to elect delegates to a state convention to be held in Columbia on next Wednesday week, and hope there will be a good attendance on the meeting to be held in York county. If I am not there myself it will be because of providential hindrance. "I have just procured/' Mr. Rainey went on, "a statement of the annual legislative appropriations, back to 1907, and the figures tell their own story. I would like to see the statement published in The Yorkville Enquirer for the benefit of those who are concerned in seeing where we are going to." The statement referred to by Mr. llainey is as follows: ' 1907 $1.467;720 14 1908 1,647,882 61 1909 _.... 1,631,949 19 1910 1,847,553 32 1911 - 1,939,042 30 1912 1,993,677 95 1913 1,859,077 06 1914 '2,146,253 04 1915 2,463,759 82 1916 2,486,140 29 1917 2,989,504 78 " ( *J7i: 1 qn QS l!il\) Z..." 3,'x!I2,'gS2 7S 11)20 - 0,01)1,241 31) ? / * ABOUT PEOPLE Lee Pursley of Clover No. 4, was a visitor in Yorkvillo yesterday. Clyde Plexico of Sharon, was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. R. S. Riddle of Clover No. 2, was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. Mrs. J. B. Bratton of McConnellsville, was a visitor in Yorkville today. D. Edward Finlcy of New York, was a visitor in Yorkville this week. \V. C5. Adams of York No. 1 was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. Carter Jackson of Rock Hill, was a visitor in Yorkville last Sunday. Magistrate .T. R. Hailc of Fort Mill, was among the visitors in Yorkville today. Dr. B. N. Miller of Hickory C.rov? was a visitor in Rock Hill last Sunday. Mr. Charles Simmons of Mayswori.li. N. O., was a visitor in Yorkville, Sunday. Mr.' W. M. Wallace of Smyrna No. ti.? "\r C, W.IS il V1SUUI" III lurniuit' tuai. kani.urday. Mr. John L. Rainey of Sharon, was ;imons the visitors in Yorkvillo, yesterday. Mrs. John Warren Quinn is visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Long, in ChnHottc. Mr. R. M. Harnett of Bethel was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. W. L. Adams of the Bethel section was among the visitors in Yorkvillo, yesterday. Mr. J. Jf. Brice has been quite sick at his home on York No. 4 for several days past. William Wood of Rock Hill spent Saturday and Sunday in Yorkvillo with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Whitesides of Sharon, were among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jackson of Clover, are spending some time with relatives in Mississippi. John R.oiney Save of Rock Hill recently visited the family of his father Dr. J. H. Saye at Sharon. Miss Eleanor Ilalliday of Riverside, Lancaster county, recently visucu. iuissi Maud St roup in Yorkville. Miss Liicile Hopper of Gastonia, was. a recent visitor in Sharon, the guest of Miss Susie Hartness. Ardrey Tnman of Spartanburg, spent Sunday witli the family of his father Mr. C. M. In man on York No 1. Miss Elizabeth Wilborn has returnid to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to relatives in Chester. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Scoggins and ronng son of Smyrna, recently visited relatives and friends at Clover. J Vol". L. W. .Jenkins of Spartanburg, recently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. \Y. \V. Jenkins in Yorkville. Miss Mary Maud Wylie of Winthrop ml lege, was a rccent'visitor in YorkviHe. the guest of Miss Julia "Williams. Mrs. M. V. Davis of Clover No. 4, eeently visited her daughter. Mrs. W. M. Faulkner in the King's Creek sec.ion. Mrs. G. F. McFarlnnd lias returned to ler home on Clover No. J, after being iperaled on for appendicitis in a Casual.! hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Co they of Gas.onia, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. '. 1'. Shirley and other relatives on .'lover No. 4. Miss Pearl TJncberger has returned Jo her liome in Onstonia after a risit to relatives and friends in the ielhany section. Mrs. B. Tl Jlorton and children of Sharon No. 1, recently visited the / family of-Mrs. M. P. Faris in the Bethany section. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Patterson have returned to their home in Lancaster, after a visit to the family of .Mr. J. M: Stroup in Yorkville. Mesdamcs I-I. W. Cummings and A. H. Collins of Columbia, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dickson on York No. 1. Mrs. James A. Chapman (nee Miss Martha Marshall) of Jnman, S. C., is visiting the family of her mother, Mrs. W. F. Marshall, in Yorkville. Senator Hart and Representatives Pursley, Carothcrs and Bradford returned from Columbia Friday evening, going back to Columbia yesterday: aftcrnoqn. ,, . : 1 V.KI I KSLUl iVI'JUUW, .it aiuuuill HI. lliv." Hastoc school, Spartanburg:, spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Air, and Airs. Thos, F. AIcDow of Yorkville Little change is noted, in the. condition ot' Airs. Violet Mcllwalne who' lies almost completely paralyzed at the home of her son, Air. John Alcllwaine on Rock Hill .No. 1. AI. S. Dickson has returned to the Presbyterian Coll9ge. Clinton, S. C? after having been called to his home on York No. 1, because of the illness of his mother, Airs. John C. Dickson Air. and Airs. Fred Buggei announce the marriage of their sister, ,Mrs. J Alaggie L.\Ross Brabson to Air. William Edward Alarks of,. Limestone, I Tenn., -fit St. Timothy's Episcopal church, Columbia, ? Jan. 27. Air. and Airs. Alarks will make their home at 2100 Alain Street,Columbia. i Gastonia Gazette, Thursday: The many friends of Aliss Edith Jaqkson, of AIcNeely's, will be delighted to hear that she, her sister, Aliss Bess Jackson, and mother, Airs. AI. L. Jackson, of Cloyer, are planning to, move to Gastonia to live. They expect to be J here by February 15, or as soon as they can purchase a home Mr. and Airs. Wade S. Buice returnedSunday night from a visit of two or. three days to Air. Buice's, home at Hickory Grove, S. C Air. Buice went down for a-two-day squirrel hunt, but the snow and ice frustrated his plans. He reports that the faN of snow there was three or more inches less than in Gastonia. Capt. George W. Williams, director of submarines, United States navy, spent Saturday in Columbia with his mother, Mrs. Alary E. WilliaOw, 911 Sumter street^ leaving early Sunday morning1 tor wasmngton. tic was returning from an inspection trip which took him, first to the Canal Zone and then to Key "West. Jie came to Columbia from Key West arriving early Saturday morning. Captain Williams, a natjVe of Yorkville, has a distinguished record in the navy, having had a large number of choice assignments. He was appointed to the naval academy froip Yorkville, and while he has been able to spend but littjle time in South Carolina since entering the service, he has many friends who alwa.ys welcome him to his home state. I-te is a son of the late W. B. Williams, for years auditor of York county. . / * .. LOCAL LACONICS For Benefit of School ' About ?30 was raised for the benefit of the school library as the result of a piny presented by Ninth grade students of the Clover High School in Smith Bros.'s opera house at Clover, lust Tuesday. . , . Auditor in Rock Hill Hundreds of tax returns were taken A xr T f\\'rk .Itirinrr y ai1u1LU1 ijiumuo ATX. jjv? t uui his stay in. Rock Hill last week, anil although the auditor put in a full week there were a number of Rock Hill people who failed to come to see him. Under the law all tax returns must be made by February' 20. Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition. Greenville Piedmont, .Saturday: A petition asking: voluntary bankruptcy judgment was filed in the United States District Court today by Mrs. .Minnie A. llood, of Hickory Grove.. Mrs. I-Iood, who conducts a general merchandise business, gives her liabilities as ?G,349.50 and assets as $5,705.52. ifork C cunty Magistrates. Magistrates for the various townships of York county, nominated in the primaries of last summer, have been appointed by the governor as follows: .1. it. Ford, Bethel; E. A. Crawford, Bethesda; J. L. Duncan, Bullock's Creek: R. L. A. Smith, Broad River: J. F. Wingatc, Catawba: J. R. Haile, Fort Mill; T. B. Glenn, Ebonezer; A. J. Quinn, King's Mountain; Fred C. Black, York. Got Part of Distillery. Officers Tom Quinn and H. L. Johnson operating in King's Mountain township yesterday found a part of .a distiller's outfit on the MeGill lands about two and onevhalf miles south-1 west, of Bethany church. A sugar barrel and a coffee box filled with maeh that had not soured was poured out by the officers. It was evident that a distillery had. been operated there but had been carried away. Sold by Court Order. In accordance with a decree of the court of common pleas in the pn.se of S. A. Lee, plaintiff vs. T. B. Ramsey, defendant, an Overland automobile, the property of Ramsey was sold at auction by Sheriff Quinn at Clover, Saturday. The car was bid in by J. \V. Smith for S. A. Lee l'or the sum of $100. Lee brought suit against Ramsey for damages at the last term of the court of common pleas because of alleged injuries to his automobile in a collision with Ramsey's machine. Condition of the Roads. Information is that a number of the roads of the county are not in as bad condition as had" been expected as a result of the heavy snow of last week. King's Mountain township roads are in pretty fair condition, according to several people in Yorkvlllc yesterday. Several Sharon people were in Yorkville yesterday, making the trip by automobile. The Yorkville-Sharon road was reported in passable condition. Living Expenses in Columbia. Board and lodging in Columbia goes up in price as soon as the general assembly convenes, according to a York county mem?er ol ine nouse. l-uvaie families who take in legislators during the session charge $30 a month for a room. Many of the legislators take their meals at Columbia restaurants because it is more convenient for them. They can get along with an average meal cost of GO cents. Most of the legislators spend the week-ends at their respective homes throughout the state, since they find that it is'choapor to come home than to remain in Columbia. Charged With Burglary. Floyd Hunter and Paul Sistare. young white boys of Rock Hill were arrested in the wholesale grocery store of the P.lankenship-.Iobnson Company of Rock Hill last Saturday and will face charges of burglary in the court of general sessions in April. The two boys were arrested in the store by Frank..,Aden,. 17-ycar:qld..son of. Coil-1. r stable Frank Allen of Catawba' township who with his older brother had ' t been sleeping in the store for several nights in- the hope of catching ^parties who have broken t into the place on several occasions. .When feistarc and Hunter entered the store Saturdaynight young Allen pointed a revolver and ordered them to! hold up_ their hands. One .of the boys held a "flash- * light-in Allen's face blinding him temporarily; but tlied-llght was withdrawn when the boy ^threatened to shoot. Young Allen -alien telephoned Albert Jolmsbn . of the firm who soon arrived with officers dnd took Sistare and Hunter-into custody., * - ' '?: MERE'MEtiTidN . I Petition?" for the pardon of Eugene V. Debs, serving a te?Tmin the. Federal ^ prison in Atlanta for violation of the espionage laws are to)vreccivo the" consideration , of President Wilson' this week; but so far there has been no intimation as to whdt th^ president, vylll do.'..'!?. .A' man 'Jj'y the name of' Evans Bowman Thompson was killed in a battle with Polddeman Collins in . the police court 'at''Glassgow, Ken{tucky, last Saturday.f, The, policeman had taken one revolver from "the pris oner and the prisoners atterwara wmp"ped out an'other revolver and commenced firing! ].'.Ttie great ocean blintp It-34, withjjiwhich the British , twice crossed Atlantic was blown out ' to sea after a bst'd. landing on the Yorkshire coast a' few days ago' and so badly injured tpat it cannot be repaired ..The department of labor , has decided tha!t 'Donal O'Callaghan, mayor of Cork', who came to America ,as a stowaway recently, must reship ^ as a sailor on or before February 11 or be deported. .O'Callaghan is now". , in New York, and said Saturday that up to that time he1 had not been officially notifiedsf.the orders of the department Hon. W. 'J. Bryan is quoted as saying~that lie will not submit to \ the reorga.ni z at iorf <" of ~ the' Democratic' party under the'-leaid'ership. of Mr. Cox. > ?.Henry Beatty'/ a farmer of.Tamaha^vjt, N. C., believed so thoroughly in the movement' for the relief of starving European children' that he sent as a contribution to local headquarters at '-Kndxvllle; .Tenn., his late wife's engagement ring.'. More than 60,000 checks on .the national'.'treasury for retainer's pay Xorjiaval reservists are unclaimedfat. the.navy department. Simple .ceremonies marked the permanent entombment of a "soldier of France*' representing the French unidentified war dead under the Arc De Triumphe in 4Paris last Friday? ... Thirty-three horses and'mules, prop eriy 01 me uuuce ^wi?.bvtciih<i?... were removed from box cars at "Raleigh, N. C;, Sunday, having been smothered "to deathrbetween Norlina and* Raleigh while >they were en route from Cany) Lee?, Var., to Camp Jackson, Columbia Eleven persons were burned to death in a hotel Are at Hoboken, N." J., last.' Sunday... An unidentified "hegro' who is alleged to -have attempted to strike Chief of Police Tyson of Broxton,. Ga., over the. head with an axe Saturday night was' shot and killed by "the chief _.A yelping puppy on a cake of ice' floating down the Hudson "river last Friday halted the Fort L^fc ferry boat?Edgewater in midstream while a rescue" was effected -Joseph Arlington, a tobacco farmer living near Galliopolis, Ohio, reported last Friday that his tobacco barn, containing 10,000 pounds of hurley leaf tobacco had been burned by an incendiary. Authorities believe the fire was started by persons . opposed to the sale'of the 1920 crop because of prevailing low prices. Three children were' burned to death at Perth Amboy, N. J., Saturday when flames destroyed the home of Frank Miller their father..'..,::. The Japanese sentry who shot and killed Lieut. Langdon, American naval officer has been found guilty by the preliminary court inquiry, which has reported to the court martial chigf, according to a Tokio newspaper. War Loan To Greece.?It is rcportoded in th6 newspapers that the treasury is preparing to advance $5,000,000 as a loan to Greece itbe moment the department of state' recognizes the Constantine government. The money is to be advanced under the authority of the law passed when we entered the war to assist in the financing 01 our allies. k The treasury has succeeded in discovering technicalities' which permit it to withhold payment of guarantees given by the government to the railroads. The ,'treasury, has devoted its utmost powers to the prevention of the rehabilitation of'the War Finance Board on the ground, anjong others, that no funds are? available. The treasury has held up its hands ifc horror at the mere Suggestion of any advances to American' farmers to save them from impending ruin. Yet this same treasury, Although the war is over, and although " money advanced to Greece would hot be for the benefit of any ally, but;'for the advantage of a monarch whfT devoted his every cfj fort to the defeat of thd allies and of the United States, seeks, under an old grant of authority, to send American money to 'the exchequer at Athens! The thing is typical of the sort of financial direction we have had in America these recent months. The wonder is not that Mr. Harding received a plurality ot^ 7,000,000 in the, November election, Taut that a candidate standing for the retention of . such administration as we have had recently received- any votes at all. Perhaps it merely went to show that Lincoln was light when he said you can fool some of the people all the time.?Manufacturer's Record. ? After a conference of several days in Chicago last week it was given out unofficially that the Association of Railway executives had given out information to the effect that a reduction of wages of railroad workers had been agreed upon. But the outlook is that there will be no reduction of railroad wages without some fighting. W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive . Firemen and Engineers, and L. E. Sheppard. president of the Order of Railway Conductors, made this declar ation in formal statements at Cleveland, Ohio, last Saturday. A similar declaration was made Thursday by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. All the brotherhood executives declare that reports of decreases in the cost of living are not borne out by actual conditions, but are the result of propagan- /' da; that the wages of railway employes did not increase as the cost of living or as much and, that railway men are not receiving as high a standard of wages as are paid* in many other industries. Mr. Lee asserted that, in his opinion, "some, if not the greater portion of the business 'depression has been brought about solely, for the purpose of prejudicing tlie public in the interest of reduction of wages generally." Mr. Carter declared- that "notwitligtiULding ./ajUiUieincreases