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? The tax on corporation ' capital
stock -which the internal revenue bureau
is preparing to collect this month
is expected to bring ?90,^K?^ from
325,000 separate sources, according to
notice made public ..today. Blank
forms for making' the' returns have
been sent to all listed corporations, according
to the' bureiu but officers of
corporation liable "'for'the l$x:,are requested
to make the payment without
notice. The-levy is.$1 on- each;; $1,000
of (japital over $5;6(KJ utillzed;/during
tha^Vear; except for foreign corporation
transacting 'business in;the UnitedftStates.
?president Harding has. no plan for
resubmitting -the; tr'eatyr.af .-Versailles
to ^the senate, Senator Lodge, Republican
leader, annotmceKb-.tniitkensenate
lastsiFriday in response -to- "-a query.
frc^f Senator -Harrison,. Democrat;- of
Mississippi. ''"All taiknofnthjaapresident
following up the -peace resolution by.
sending treaties off. peaca up. ;to <the
senate are "sheer nonsense" Senator
Brandegree . of the foreign relations
con^nittee said. He pointed out that
negotiations with' Germany and- AustriA^-wili
naturally take place, but
thbge will occupy considerable time.
Following the negotiations, he said, a
German ambassador might be sent to
Washington, but added. .tha.t this .would
be^n ordinary procedure. The resolution,
he said,, is simply an expression
of\opinion that there is a state of
pea$e, and leaves treaties of commerce
andt amity- to.be negotiated, by the
president..-. . "
-?The site of Armageddon in Palestiriei
is-to be excavated by an expedition
from the University of Chicago.
This has been made.-possible by John
D.-jftockefeller, Jr.;-who. has donated
$60,900 to help defray the expenses.
Urtjfeual interest ^attaches-to-.this en-,
tej|f>rise. Armageddon, -.or Megiddo, is
thetsite of the first battle of which
history carries ajnytdelails,..-; The book
of;, Revelations ,calls it the world's last
battle. Dr. Geotge )Auetf, Secretary , of
thei.; Oriental Institute, at the university,
said Sunday:" "It'was 'in 1479 B.
minion over Palestine and Syria and
to the Euphrate'6r~-Ftft*'t00 years his
predecessors had had a foothold there.
The battle of Megiddo took place in
the first campaiH ? Thtl^ose- captured
Meggido, but- it -was ' twenty
years before he completed his cam
-? ? <-< ' - a..
paign. some urging nus uireuu>
been done on the site of this battle
by an Austrian, - but- much remains to
be doner- The K3ermarte..: putun thirteen
years' work on the site of Babylon
when they were stopped by the
world war." " *"
? Orders will be .issjjfcd.^y^he War
Department immediately "encouraging"
withdrawals among the enlisted
personnel of the army.. , TMs is the
course first to be "pursued oy Secretary
of \Var Weeks in effecting the
reductions from, tjie present army
strength of around 235,o6u- offfcers and
men to 150,0.00, made necessary by the
army appropriation bill'. The reduction
does not need, to .be m^de until
October. 1, and it probably iwili..be until
the .last mihutes thatrara%tjc discharges
will be put into effect. Weeks
is anxious to make, the reduction voluntary.
He believes the government
is morally bound to live'up to its enlistment
contracts. In addition to the
moral obligation which "\\"eeks feels
is imposed on the government, he hes1itates
to throw .approximately 70,000
soldiers a,nd 30,000 civilians on an unemployment
^market already staggering
*nvii&v4,^0(bQ0O'(. idle mVn. , W)iile ;
the pfe^mdnt'in nfs"message indicated
that it might not be possible, to comply
to the letter ..with congress' wishes
in the matter of reducing>the army.
Weeks holds that the congressional
act compels him to effect the reduction
by October 1.
? Marshal Ferdland rPtich oPFhancfer
c'ommander-in-chfef of thV aftiecl armies,
on Sunday sent through' ttie Associated
Press a me?aa.ga-t?-th?-American
nation on the occasion of the anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence.
The message embodies a
tribute to the American army, paid by
the man who led to victory tie allied
forces with whfch that army* fought,
and to the people of the Unttfed States
ass'a whdfe1 for thejr' ^pnracplleled effort
in .every brandn of nanonal acti*
vifcy," which did so'"rriffch"*to bring ultimate
triumph-to ^^^l^d,4$ms. It
wes Gefthany's' intention, says the
marshal to settle the fate of the entente
before the United States could
get effectively into the*" struggle, but
America, "acting dad quickly
ruined the plans or ouf ^adversary."
Marshal Foch goeg, fully_ ito the record
and details-' anoTWafrSusi steps 1
through which American help was !
given the forces;ajjnayed against Germany
in the grea#smiggl&^He-points
out the needs oJi ,allied '.fighting,
front in the early--stages- of; the crucial
1918 campaign lio\flf,item by
item, the American aid to meet those ,
needs was givenij-iflfraefl<r-ships and
supplies?as a' rfeserrtf'Mfr*the-vc*oncen
trated national etrort ana nnauy me
great and telling 'jfort'Tilhyed by the
American army.'organization on. the
battlefields a'mt behind the lines in
France.
-A-The cost of running the United
States government#,.'during the fiscal .
year which-ended Friday was $5,115.- ,
927.689, according to- the treasury department'^
'stateni'ent fo'i' the 'close of
business June 30. The figures, however,
are subject to final adjustment.
Revenues from all sources, although
shpwing. a,, dropjof a billion under the
previous year, amounted. to $5,624,932,960
and there was h balance of
ca?h in the general fund amounting to
$549,678,105. enough to meet expenses
fori several dhys- Expenditures averaged
around''. forty million dollars a
day for- the week before the fiscal
years ended. For the year ending
June 30. 1920* the government's income
was fi6,694,565,388, -and its expenditures
$6,403,343,8gl. All types of
taxes collected dtiving the- 1921 year
shpwed losses compared with 1920 returns.
but the big decrease Was in the
income -and profits levy, which produtcd
$31206,046.157 in 1921 and $3.--n.-inMi
v?or Tliii-inir
sn.a'ia.-o i mc iJitMuun ? (
the year of 1921, the government obtained
$S,S64,99,S.332."-from -sales of its- ,
securities arid fetlrcd $D,7S2,027,"i70
wcjrth of securities- Listed in the ordinary
disbursements was . $999,144.731
paid-,d.uring the year as, interest on
all; classes of debts. The gross national
dobl.at the end .of the year. was j
S2i.97V.450,552, while at the end of the !
1920 fiscal year it was $24,299,321,467.
The highest beinti ift tpo debt of the 1
United. States for all time came Aug- {
tist 31, 1919, when it was $26,596,701,- 1
64S. " ''
? A billion dollars which* should be :
in circulation to assist t|ic coming in- |
dustrial revival is being boarded in \
American stockings. W. II. Hays, post- ;
master general, declared yesterday in (
announcing plans for revision of the ?
postal savings ,system'to make'it more ;
attractive to potential depositors. <
Through^ his reorganization-plans Mr. (
Hays hopes to draw the hoarded j
wealth of the po^ntrjvoul -erf its hid- t
ing places into .useful ^'channels. The i
present statem^frt of depository in the i
postal savings >ba-ftks,M-he said*tonight" c
aft?r conferences with Middle West- ?
erit bankers, amounts "almost to f
l'raSYft~*WtTttrTft?^Worfffteh'f"ha s 'pm*" *1
March* After the armistice in designating
the officers' titiiform in the United.
States? returns to power as GcnerhT
March steps out of office and Genera]
Pershing steps in. Not that there'is
going to be any official move by Periling"
right away tb reinstate the licit,
for he is concerned, it ui said, wjth
rnore.impgrtant problems. But if the
question is raised, army officers in the
,'liief of staff's office declare, Pershing
ivilL. stand sponsor for Sam Brown.
There was amazement and deep resentment
among officers who served In
(Europe when they learned that the
iniform was to be conspicuous for the
ihsenee of the belt they had. learned to
lierish abroad. When General Perching
returned still wearing the belt
ind continued to wear It on all oeca- (
sums a "diplomatic incident" was re- i
mrted to have occurred between Perilling
and March. When March went i
,o pay his respects to president Hard- |
ng last week, on the occasion of his
ast day in oftice, the Sam Brown belt ;
lid.not. go alp a g.. When General Porting
stepped into March's slToes, bow- j
ver, immediately thereafter, the Sam
?rowir?helf?? went ' wrrtfMiim.*,,*u -.-j,
LVIIU tu Wlliv;il Vino WilOIUCKlHUH
revenues' is still to 'be figured out.
Without .pretense to. expert knowledge
wc w6uld venture the loose opinion
that while tbc automolfile truck has
had a. most positive effect on the raili^oad
short haul, this effect will not
necessarily be permanent; The difference
will eventually^he made up in
other ways. But nevertheless the automobile
and automobile truck are
dill adding to rather than taking from
the perplexities of the rate problem.
? Major Rufus "YV. Grant, who has
been acting adjutant general since the
death of \V. W. Moore, his late chief,
to whom he was assistant, has bqcn
appointed Adjutant general by Governor
Cooper, the appointment having
been made public last Friday night.
General Grant came from Mountville,
Laurens county. He first saw service
with the Sumter Guards and afterward
served in France with the Thirtieth division.
He was a close friend 01 General
Moore, besides being the assistant
of that official and. will as far as possible
continue the plans of General
Moore.
? Xhc Sam Brown belt, nifty harness
of American officers while, in .Eiuope
anrl dpel:n*p<l lalinti hv Chipf of ?niafl" :
,bc at lier&UcgJvjaj\p call.,, r ^ .
There is a very common conviction
on the part of the public that freight
and passenger rates must be materially
reduced before business can be returned
to normal and this conviction is
not without reasonable basis; but as
to how well-founded it is not alogether
certain. American freight rates
previous to the world war were the
lowest in the world, and while these
rates were wonderfully advantageous
to business it was never quite established
that they themselves- were on
a sound business basis. Some of the
roads were being operated at a profit;'
but many were not, as was-evidenced
by frequent reorganizations. But since
then there has entered a new quality
the full effect of which has never been
analyzed. No one is yet able to figure
the extent to which the automobile
and the automobile truck has cut.into
freight and passenger traffic, especially
the- short freight haul and the ex..pU'JrtU
i'KSt* o ff not c
mey snrieKea oecause 01 uic murderous
blows that the sluggers rained on
each other and at the sight of the
blood that flowed rather freely from
Carpentlcr. \
v.
"VVe are fully prepared to believe the
statement of Baron Shindehara, the
Japanese ambassador to the United
States, that "by no stretch of the Imagination
can the Anglo-Japanese alliance
be honestly described as hostile
to the United States even tor purposes
of defense. In the first place it is absurd
to think of Japan going to war
with the United States on her own account,
and it is just as absurd to think
of Great Britain going to war with the
United States as an ally of Japan. In
the first place nobody. knows better
than Great Britain that she and Japan
could not o\*ercome the United States
and in the second 'place all the world
knows that if such an impossible thing
as war with Great'Britain should develop
and the. United States wanted
help, al' the balance of Europe would
fiteered at the expense of the depositors
to the sum in the last year alone
of $1,720,000. His general plan of reorganization
which will be submitted
to congress, has been approved by
bankers of the east and middle west
at conferences in Washington, New
York, Terre Haute , and at his home
here."' Mr. Hays assured the bankers
that he had no intention of, entering
the postal savings bank in competi!
tion with prjffate savings banlts, but
rather hopes to make a valuable feeder
of established banking instltutitions.
While asking congress to make
the interest rate double the average
paid now, he pointed out it would still
be below the average paid by the majority
of .sayings banks. Private banks
are not and /can not hope toreach. the
vast hoarded wealth which offers a
particular field for postal savings expansion,
Mr. Hays saldi He pointed
out that 70 per' cent, of the present
508,006- depositors are of, foreign ex-,
traction and'that fhey as well as others
of' their courifryrtien who are accusLt'djtiefls
:to 't>pstal savings 'systems
abroad will trust no . one but the Uni|
ted States government:
She ^jorkuiUc inquirer.
Entered at the Postofflce at York, as
a Mail Matter of the Second Class.
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921.
There were large numbers of worsen
at the Dempsey-Carpentier fight
last Saturday afternoon. They wanted
to go and as they had the price there
was nobody, to. say them nay. About
the only'mention of the'women in
subsequent . proceedings was when
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
York Hardware Company?Your Hardware
needs.
Sam M. and S. E. Grist, District
Agents?He determined, not to buy
the agent's gab.
York Furniture Company?Furniture
buying.
L. G. Thompson?Lower prices on
Nash cars, effective July 2.
Dr. J. D. McDowell, M. D.?Has located
his office in the Wilson building, op'
posite the courthouse.
Th^Star Theatre.-J. Q. Wray-,-ManaPeck's
Bad Boy again today,
ijfVjGidiJaldine Farrar tomorrow ana
tj'Dsfamount- Wednesday. '
u.j (SiWilborn,-Real .Estate?Additional
.Lara-active offerings.
iYoflC; Supply ' Company'?Nitrate of
fgspda. 1 ! '
p?eojHes Furniture Company?Buy It
ta. Carroll?Much obliged.
ji^Drug Store?Come again; you
a^e: Always welcome. . ;
irdthry Market, Lewis Ferguson
pi^pTTetoV?Right -on the job.
castti ana carry store, wycn .c^uei
Proprietor?At your service.
The City Market?The Fourth is gone;
but we continue right here.
June, just past, was the hottest in
this section since 1888. The highest
temperature in the shade was 98 and
the lowest 62, though during the greater
part of the month the heat was
.nearer 96 than 61.
Communications having to do with
the business of The ' Yorkville Enquirer'
establishment should be addressed
either to The Yorkville Enquirer
or L. M. Grist's Sons and not
"to individual' members of the-firm or
employes. Communications, having to
do with the newspaper-or, the job-department
are liable to go'estray unless
addressed as indicated.
, Speaking of aeroplane stunts, Aviator
Shealy and his mechanician, D. M.
Jamicson of Charlotte, had people look
ing skyward all day yesterday by reason
of the exhibition of Mr. Jamieson
in walking on the wings of the plane
while it was thousands of feet in the
air. Jamieson cut all kinds of capers
and his performance was an exhibition
of daring that furnished, real thrills
for the great crowd.
Aviator Shealy, who was here yesterday
operating a commercial plane
for the pleasure of those who sought
the novelty of a short trip into the upper
elements, is one of the most experienced
and expert birdmen in the
country. He went into government
service at the beginning of the war,
soon mastered the plane in all its details
and became an instructor over
the thousands of young men who aspired
to become aviators. He has had
all kinds of experiences incident to his
trade; but has never had a serious accident,
and claims he would rather
trust himself in an airplane than in an
automobile. What he would like more
than anything else, 3 says, would be
the ownership of a big airplan<\ that
would carry 25 passengers and make |
rcg-uiar Liips uckwcvrn nuauwa. u??v?
York at $100 per passenger.' ^He says
he would make the trip in seven hours,
and considering the saving of time, he
thinks that the cost of the trip would
be much less than by rail. The ^cost
of such an airplane as Lieutenant.
Shealy has in mind is about $40,000,
and he believes it could be made to
pay in the course of a very few months.
Mr. Shealy is thoroughly well acquainted
with all the United States
government has done and is doing in
aviatibn and he feels humiliated. The
United States, he says, has more money,
more material, more competent
man mnro innHlntr fields than any oth
er country in the world, yet in the
matter of aviation it is far behind all
the leading: European governments. Do
you know, it is a fact that in spite of
all those millions' that we spent for the
building of airplanes during the world
war up to the time of the signing of
the armistice, we did not have a single
American-made airplane in France
that was capable of going up against
a Grerman war plane with even/a fair
chance of coming "out even ?
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Since the last publteatl.oiv.of the record
in The Yorkvllle Enquirer the
following real estate transfers have
been indexed in the office of the York
county auditor:
Broad River?Robert Westmoreland
to J. B. Wilkle, 1 lot $60.
C. C. Leefch and J. S. Wilkerson to
J. B. Wilkio, 1 lot $37.50.
Catawba?H. M. Dunlap and W. M.
Dunlap to Ella and Charlie Ruff, 1-14
acre, $500.
W. Stark Alston to Louise L. Alston
1-14 acres, love and affection and
other considerations.
Catawba Real Estate Co. to W. D.
Dunlap, 1 lot $S00.
York?J. C. Wilhorn to IT. M. Pinnix,-cl
ul., 55 3-4 acres, $1716.33.
* 1?ir inDDuec Dtrroon
I n C. mnnnmwu at i-ww i j
Since the last publication of the
record in The Yorkville Enquirer, the
following marriage licenses have been
issued by the judge of probate to the
following: * :
. .Turn;. 38?Clarence M. Phillips, 25, i
mid Estello l^Hrt, 22, Hickory, N. C. i
June 29?R. Edmund Hamrick 23,
and Clara Dale-.Pry or 19, Chester. i
June 29?Craig Carrel], 26, Reepsvi-lle,
N. C. and Daisy Price, 21, New- j
ton, N. C. ... i
.June 29?W. Ward Moss, 23, and I
Maggie Plylcr, 21, Gastonia. <
June.-29-^-Guy A. Martin, 22 and i
Koena. Jieavnor. 20, Gastonia. <
June 30?W'ylie Crosby, 19 and 1
Etliel Terry, IS, colored, Rock Hill. :
June. 30?Ernest Holt, 22, and Ona
Farmer, 19, Gastonia.
June 30?William Joyncr 22 and El- I
sic Farmers. 21, Gastonia. 1
July 1?Wanley F. Rradshaxv, 24, t
Gastonia. and Vida Mac Bradshaw, 19, i
Stanley, N, C. a
July 2?John L. King, 20 Rock Hill,
and Margaret Helncr, IS, Pincville, N. c
C. t
July 2?Whitman M. Neal. 18, r
Charlotte and Lois L. Nahors, 19, Clin- o
Ion. S. C. g
July 2?Pressley W. Boyd. 2S, and i:
Fliza Adams, 21, Bethel township. 1
July 2?P^yi L,. Tray wick, 21. and b
N'ellie E. Reep, 22. Belmont, N. C. ' a
July 2?David Varnadore, 19 and r
1 <?ss i p- Morris, 'l
linu.
The main feature of the occasion,
outside the sheetings to* Grandma
Clinton, and. the meeting together of
her descendants, some of whom had '
tiover seen-each-other* yras d-he picnic
dinner' from h 'long ' "table- under the
oaks. This included everything, that j
was good to eat in an abundance that J
made the groat crowd seem small.
Grandma Clinton is the only surviv- ..
ing child of the late Daniel'rin"d Isabella i
plflfk. She was born in the neighbor
aobd in. which, she* has' spent her life, ?
on June 29. 1834, and, was married to I'
:ier husband on December 7. 185/r.'Mr.
Clinton died January 31. 1870. Tliere
iverc six children; of whom three are
dill living,-"Mra/rE. A. Dickson, Mr,
rames A. Clinton of Clover, and Air. A.
r. Clinton of Filbert. The others were
VIrs. Elizabeth Shaw, Mrs. Fannie 1
jynn and Airs. Emma Brackett, and j
he six were represented at the re- '
jnion by thirty-three grand children !
md thirty great-grand children. '
Grandma Clinton's mind is still as J
dear as a bell, and she was easily able
0 call everyone present by name. A 1
epresentativc of The Yorkville En[uirer
brought up the subject of the (,
rreat drought of 1845. "Yes, I remem- i
ier that well," she said. "I was only t
1 years old at the time. There had i
teen np rairr sinqe early injjhe spring \
nd by the middle of"the spmmer most i
if the small streams had gone dry. If
Bratton, chairman; Mrs.'W. B. Moore,
Mrs. Geo. Cart wright, Carl Hart, P. C.
Riddle, Dr. Robt. Glenn. ' ,
Publicity Committee?Miss Elizabeth
Grist, chairman; Miss Belva Saunders,
E. A. HaJl, E. A. Montgomery.
Committee-o'rC Erecting "Tents?P. C.
Riddle, chairman; L. G. Thompson, J.
R. Hart,- Qujnrhr Wallace, H. B". James,
Robt. Glenn.- ' > .
! ' , r; .? -?- *.
OCTOGENARIAN BIRTHDAY,
The eighty-seventh birtffday of
Grandma Clinkirt tfas the occasion of
an'unusual gathering -at the Jiome ot
Mi-.' and Mrs. E. A. Dickson,' three
miles northwest of Yorkvilfe'lAs^'Friday.
-. ..... ..fc.Mrs.
Clinton's <fcilrthday occurred on
June 29; but foiythe convenience of the
many relatives,' the re-union celebration
was deferred "until'Sunday, when
the scattered, members of the family
would be able to.be present in larger
numbers.
The people commenced coming in
shortly before -1-0 o'clbck and kept
coming in a continuous stream until
about 12, when'-the'gathering included
one hundred-and fifty-one people, all
relatives except five.. - . '
Most of the people were from the
immediately surrounding country in
western "York county; but there were
also quite a number from Lancastet
and Chester counties and from Gaston
uftd Lincoln counties in North Caro
J. A. W. Mitchell .._ .l. York
J. L Ferguson .*.. Catawba
W. L. Barron'.? Ebenezer
M. C. Willis'.:.;..: York
INSTRUCTION FOR
Indications ia're' that there will be no
less than flfty'girls in attendance upon
the three-day ,?hort course for members
of the Girls' Canning club, which
is to be held at the Yorkville Graded
school building, July 19, according to
Miss Juanita Neely, Woman's Home
D.emonstration Agent for York county,
Who--is in change- of arrangements foi
the holding,of "the institute. Miss
Neely this md-fnfng announced the appointment
of the following committees
of Yorkville people whom she is rc
questing to adsist her:
Executive Committee?Mrs. W. D.
Glenfi, chairman; Miss Lesslie.*.Withers'poon,
Mrs. 9; M.-McNeel, Mrs.-R. M.
Bratton, Mrs. S. C. Ashe, Miss Bessie
Barron. I.:;
Committee..on-Jiecr.eation and. Entertainment?Miss'
Margaret Marshall,
chairman; Misses Esther Ashe, Louise
Barron, Fredrica Lindsay, Margaret
Cartwright, Rachel Wylie, Wilmore
Logan; Mrs. J. ,JE. Hart, Mr. E. A. Hall,
Mr.. E. A. Montgomery.,
Committee - to -Meet Trains?Milus
Carroll, chairirfan; J. H. Carroll, Edward
Marshall, Misses Maude Stroup,
Margaret McDow, Sara Carroll, Mary
Bowers Macljorell. ?
U.,?lnmont XIVc .T? A
July 2?Pink 6oyd 22, and 01a! Burns,
IS, Rock Hill.
July 2?Richard D. Peeler 22, and
Lola Carter 20, N. C.
July 2?Thad Buchan 22, and Ester
J^ee ilurchfield 18,.Lowell, N. C.
NOT MANY CERTIFICATES.
First, second and third grade certificates
are not as easy to get as they
formerly were. j
One hundred and thirteen white candidates
for certificates presented themselves
at the recent regular examina-v
,tlpn in York county, .and Superintend:e,ht
of Education John.tE; .Carnallvha^
' jfjst been advised of the result.
,*f Secpnd,-grade-vcertificates, 11.
ifi,Firsfi frrajde certificates, 4,
..& Third'grade Certificates, 18. "
Out of the whole number only 33
[have passed. ; . ?.
rjFormerly "the* examination" pipers
itvere graded by the :eounty - board of
Education, and as the board had4 latiitude
in taking into consideration ex|j>eriehee,
personality ;arid^ the like,
[these things had their weightvin*the'
awarding of certificates, . ..
Now it is a cdldibiooded1 question dt
being:, able to answer the. questions
prepared by the State board. Experience,
personality and teaching ability
don't count;'but of course holders of
diplomas from standard colleges of the
state are granted first-grade privileges
without being required to stand an examination
that few of them could pass.
GENTLEMEN ORTHE JURY
, The following venire of petit jurors
was drawn by the jury commissioners
this morning for the second week of
the approaching term of ihe circuit
court. The'jurors will"'report Monday,
July 18. F.
W. Morrow York
R M. P. Robimkm Tohi
J. E. Jackson ..... King's Mouptain
,J. F. Kaylor...^,... Catawba
J. B. Broadnaafc Cajawba
"VV. B. Hagans - King's Mountain
W. R. Crawford ... ... York
J. C. Miskelly York
W. T. Dowdle ....... Bullock Creek
W.-W. Campbell Bethesda
H. W. Witherspoon ...J. York
W. D. Hardin: Br.oad River
J. L. Hemphill* - York
S. H. Phjllips; Catawba
R. S. Flannagan ' King's Mountain
W. G. Falls King's Mountain
Osmond Barber Fort Mill
H. A. Elliott York
C. S. Link Fort Mill
R L. Holroyd Catawba
J. C. Grayson King's Mountain
C. E. Strait Bethesda
S. C. Smith King's Mountain
R. J. McGee - /..? Catawba
E. N. Brandon '. Bethel
B. F. Mar ley York
Cal Parish .'. York
R. F. Milhollen : ... Catawba
D. L. Glenn,::.... Catawba
W. S. Lesslie, Jr Catawba
S. W. Merrltt ....; Fort Mill
Ti. F". Wnldrnn Catawba
white and fell over dead.- Hardly anybody
made anything:. There were no
railroads in those days, and people
hauled corn from East Tennessee.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. John K. Scoggins of Rock Hill,
was in Yorkville yesterday.
Dr. F. A. Coward, of Columbia, spent
Friday night in Yorkville.. ( ?
Mr. James D. Tiddy of Shelby, was
among the visitors to Yorkville yesterday.
:
Mr. Paul T. McNeel of Union; has
'been spending several days in Yorkvine.
./
Su'pt. * E.' -A'.'Montgomery'' of ^ the
Yorkville Graded schools, dh'd'faififlyV
are spending the summsc; 4n Blanks?;
hiirrr ... - . . ..? .. . .
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commodate over 500 people and will
answer every requirement not only for
public meetings of whatever kind; but
fcr theatrical entertainments as well.
"With accommodations for the police
and fire departments, the city council,
the mayor's court, the city treasurer,
etc., the city hail will soon become a
local centre of very great importance.
,?While there is no way of giving a
reasonably exact estimate of the number
of visitors in Yorkville yesterday,
it wa^ Quite common to hear people
who have often been here on different
similar occasions, to say that the
crowd was a record breaker so far as
their judgment and recollection went.
Congress , street i was . congested
throughout .- the day,: and. at. the same
'time there was more oisless congestion
at different points along' other streets.
The automobile procession, intended to
.be one of the most, imposing, pageants
df the day, was successful enough-as
things went; but except for the tajste7:
ful and elaborate1 - decorations of the
participating cars,; it was hardly.-more
'impressive than-. the equally constant
and steady stream of . visiting i cars
pasing through, the streets -that were
lined wittr parked automobiles filleawith
Visitors- If all the cars in town,
had been stretched out In a single line
with spaces of only car lengths between,
the line would have extended
for miles. And besides the cars there
were hundreds and hundreds of horse
d^wn vehicles.
' THE FOURTH OF JULY
Ex-service men of York county,
their relatives and friends to the number
of several thousand attended the
first reunion of York county service
men held in Yorkville yesterday on the
occasion of the celebration of 145th
anniversary of American Independence.
The stajd old., county seat was
simply, turned over to the ex-service
men1 and th6':Am3fican Legion for .?he'
day'and^the "Bqtdiers conducted them^
selves in a manner that reflected credit
upon themselves and .the county. Because
of the fact that the crowd was
widely scattered throughout the day
it was almost .Impossible t& estimate
the number; of people present with any
degree of4 accuracy: Estimates ran
from 6,000' to .10,000, and-keeping'in
mind the fact that practically the entire
population of the town of Yorkville
was on the streets mingling with,
the crowd practically all day, the lat
xer .estimate is . pernaps more neany
correct. It was the opinion of old inhabitants
that it was the largest
crowd that Yorkville had ever entertaNot
only was every section of York
co'unty respresented but there wt ..
scores of visitors from counties surrounding.
Many Gastonia people were
in the crowd; there were a number of
Charlotte, Shelby,, King's Mountain
and other places. Several hundred
people came over from Rock Hill.
Numerous citizens of Fort Mill came
over with the military company of
that town which under command of
Lieut. Arthur C. Lytle,-?.took part in
the exercises of the day. The Rock
Hill National Guard under command
of Capt. James C. Dozier and
Lieut. Gordon Collier-was also present,
the two. companies of soldiers taking
part in the parade and enjoying themselves
generally throughout the day.
Formal exercises of the day began
shortly after 10 o'clock with an automobile
parade. Headed by Sheriff
Fred Quinn and Chief of Police R. Edward
Steele on horseback, the long
line of gaily decorated automobiles
crept slowly up King's Mountain
street to the Church Home Orphanage.
There'-a turn- was made and; the par-;
ade headed down King's Mountain
street and tl*;nce down South Congress
to the end of the asphalt pax ing
where it doubled back to the corner
of South Congress and East Jeftertn
streets from whence the line of
arch followed East Jefferson to the
Yorkville Graded school where tne
speakers of the morning were heard by
several hundred people.
Following the marshals in the parade
was an. automobile bearing M^y?r
and Mrs. E. A. Hall, Lieut. Col. T. B.
Spratt, and the commander of Meech
Stewart Post of the American Legion.
In the next car were lions. J. S. Brice
and H. E. Neil, Dr. R. A. P.ratton and
Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D., members or
Local Exemption Board No. 2, for
York county. ? ? , . .
Then came a line of gaily decorated
automobiles of individuals and business
firms. The Tlrzah band under
the direction of James Campbell
was sandwiched in between the cars,
the band riding in the big automobile
truck of Paul N. Moore. . The Rock
Hill National Guard company had a
place among the automobiles while
the Fort Mill company which arrived
a little late, brought up the rear.
Numbers of bedecked automobiles
were .not in the parade but their drivers
were content to drive their cats
alongside the main parade. The parade
was directed by Mr. Jf H. Canull
under whose guidance everything went
along smoothly and without a bobble.
Arriving--;?t( the speaker's .stapd iR,
the Yorkville" Graded' school ground^
the exercises-were opened-with an invocation
by Rev. Dr. J. L. Oates.
The commander; of. Meech Stewart
Post American Legion, presiding, introduced
to the audience Mayor E. A.
Hall who delivered an address of welcome.".
He-spoke as follows:
; Hall's Address.
Veterans of the Late World war,
Ladles and Gentlemen:?
It gives me pleasure as mayor of
he town of York and as a citizen of
he town to see you here today and to
extend to you. the official glad hatfd
if welcome. The mayor, the members
>f the town council and every citizen
>f the town of York deem, it an honor
o greet you and to entertain you in
such manner as we may be able to do. |
t is my hope that each and every one
>f vou shall thoroughly enjoy th%,day :
,-ou will spend in the county seat. As
he advertisements have stated: The
own is in the hands of the American
jegion for the day." ,
The people of York now realize and
lave realized ever since that April
lav in 1917 when the United States j
if America entered '-the World wdr -In ,
he hope of making the World Safe tor" ^
democracy, that it* was you -soldiers
vbo did -it?it was you stalwart and
irave young, men from every section $
if York county and from every se<?- t
ion or every othe^:county-,inrther Unied
State's; -tyiat stemmed .-thd-, tide of J
Iuji invasion and put the :.7K.nsei ^
/here he ought to be. .
There is. nothing too great for us to ?
o for you. ,
I am requested to say that if an>
lember of Meech Stewart Post of the
,merican Legion can be of service to
nv ex-service men or his friends here
aday. all that soldier or his friends a
as to do is to say the word..
I will also say that if the mayor or
ny citizen of the town of York can h
o" anything for any of you, we aie i
ours to command. "
There are people in. th,%nfrfhe G
udience today who are here for the
rst time. We trust that the> will t<
ke our town and our people and that e
ley will come again. We want you. o
re need you and T assure you that t
e ll extend-.- the same glad hand that t<
e are extending today whether >ou p
'mf^lf^'th 9f July or?a?^ 11
rmfc''-? *?
despite the big crowd in Yorkville yesterday
and Chief of Police Ed. Steele
and his assistants had no trouble at
all in handling1 the situation. There
was little liquor, or rather little effects
of, liquor in, evidence. ,.Eyeryr
body was in a good humor and appeared
to be having a good time,without
being unduly boisterous or rough.
Lieut. Lester E. Shealy, aviator of
Charlotte arrived in his plane from
that city Sunday afternoon at 2.25
o'clock accompanied by his mechanician
and almost immediately McFarland
field just off the Rock Hill road
was lined with people who came out
to see the aeroplane. The aviator
said that it took him 25 minutes to
come to Yorkville from Charlotte.
Miss Sarah Logan, stenographer in
the office of Clerk of the Court T. E.
McMackin. was the ,rst person to take
a ride with Aviator Shealy after he
arrived in Yorkville. She .went .up
early Sunday afternoon. It was her
first trip and she said that she thoroughly
enjoyed the experience.
An amusing story in connection
with that squabble between Chester
fans and American Legion baseball
I players at the ball game in Chester
last Wednesday Vas told this morning.
According ?o the story several
of the- Chester fans were pretty hot
under the collar and declaring that
the whole Legion team should be Uck,ed
and were expressing their willingness
to start something. Bob Dorsett,
well known Yorkville man whs
"in Chester with the American Legion
.team and he got enough of the brag-'
fging., Joe Herndon,. Yorkville boy '
and incidentally the champion boxer
at Washington & Lee University, at
which he is a.'student, was also there.
'.After awhile Dorsett walked out in
front of the Chester fans and taking
a. roll of $100 Ln bills from his pocket
said: "See here, I've got my seventeen-year.
old son along with me
(poiiiiing/to Joe Hern don') and I'll bet
any df you .this $100 against $1 that
my boy can whip any man in Chester."
Some of the fans said something 1
about going after, a man to fight Herndon.
If they did go they never came
back, according to the story.
WITHIN THE TOWN ]
? Friers are selling on the local mar- (
ket at.25 cents a pound. .. (
? The postoffice, banks, express and (
telegraph offices observed holiday (
hours yesterday.
? There were comparatively few peo- i
pie in Ybrkvllle last Saturday. Busi- t
ness people and others in position to j
know gave it as their opinion that peo- t
pie stayed away'Saturday in order to t
be on hand, yesterday. ]
? Absolutely the . only unpleasant
sensation" about going up iri art. air- I
plane "has to do with parting" with the c
ten dollars,'and all . those, who were c
able to nerve themselves up to that I
point testify that it was worth the I
money;? ? v
? Theic-.are but,-ismall and unimpqrt? -1ant
.pyidepces to be seen yet in the f3
street' paving work'- ot the town, ab'd *
Visitors gonaraJ-ly ,seem, to., be agreed *
nothing that the town has ever done *
in the wftyj.bC improve; a(dds -mo re v
to comfoit; i*>py,enienc^ /Apd.'appearance.
' . , (1
? Montgomery's "swimmin'hole," just n
off the Lincoln road, about a mile A
northeast of the courthouse, is prov- ^
ing immensely popular mui smau uuJO
and larger boys as well. The pool is h
hardly more than five feet deep in any
place and ranges down to a depth ot a
i foot or more. There were large ^
aumbers of swimmers in the pool on .?
Thursday, Friday a-nd Saturday afternoons
of last week. a
? Work on the new city hall is pro- fi
pressing nicely and as the building )il
levelops, people who at first seemed to tl
hink it. would be too small are agreeng
that its proportions will be ample, w
The bililding .is eft quite substantial w
icnstructibn'and'*li?'\vii! be'complete ir>
is appojn-tujpiys thrppghnut,The. an- ol
iiioriunriWj'.tlmtewoiidjsioi-ji wjllfiic
Col;i atiff 'Mrs, A.' Coward; of Orange burg,
arrived in Yorkville, last Friday*:
to s^epd the, summer ,witi\ .tneir.
daughter, Mrs'.'P. H.. Brgtton..
Mr.,-.arid Mrs. . ?}. W.;,Adic]kes^ J/>f
Chairlotte visited the..6.mily,;.of ,pr..;A'
Y.:-Oartwrignt and, other*, relatives, in
Yorkville this week. .i'.'y
Henry McCaw, of I^ew Qrleans, La.,,
a' former -.j'esident' of ;Yorkville 'visited
his aunt, Mrs. J. K. Alston, in Yorkville
this week.
Cottrell" Thomasson, for some time
past in the United States navy at Norfolk,
Va., has been released and has
returned to his home in Yorkville.
Rev. J. Furman Moore, D. D., of
Greenville, filled the pulpit of the First
Baptist church, Yorkville, Sunday
morning and evening.' x .
Eugene and Margie Turner of Stanford,
Fla., are visiting the family of
their grandfathetr, Mr. W. G. Turner
on Sharon No. 2. t
- Miss Beulah -.Tarrett and ' Master
Robert Gray have returned to .their
home in Bethel after a visit pf several
days to Yorkville relatives and friends.
There -is-i little improvement to be
.noted in the condition' of Mr. T. K.
Thomasson who has been critically ill
a.t his home in Yorkville for several
months. past..
Gastohia Gazette Saturday: Mr. C.
L. Allen returned to Gaffney, S. C.
'this morning1 after spending a few
days with homefolks at Clover
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Harper of
the Bethel section, spent Friday in the
"city.
Congressman John J. McSwain of
Greenville, one of the principal speakers
here yesterday returned to his
home in Greenville yesterday afternoon.
Congressman McSwain was unable
to stay over.-because of the fact
that he has a little daughter who is
very ill. While in Yorkville he and
Col. T. B. Spratt of Fort Mill, the
other speaker of the day, were guests
of Mr.. W. B. Grist, editor of The
Yorkville Enquirer.
.HERE AND THERE ; "
A hard rain that' fell about? 7 o'clock
Saturday afternoon literally ruined
some of theFourtp of July decorations
that had been placed by some of tne
local business houses, requiring them
to do the work all over again. Most
of the decorations consisted of buntipg
in colors and when the rain came
in contact with the colors there was a
riot Nothing daunted, however, the
people did the decorating over again.
There was mighty little disorder
and as a citizen;' bid'you WELCOME!
.Suggests Annual Re-union.
Introduced . tp.jhis^aucUence. as . the
"most popular pfficer of the 118th Infantry
of the Thirtieth Division by
verdict of buck privates and not officers,"
Lieut. Col. Thos; B. iSpratt of
Fort Mill, the -first- of the two distinguished
visiting speakers to address
the audlence^prefaced, his address-with
a suggestion that re-unions of York
county service merf ibfe" made an annual
affair t(r be held in the principal
towns of the? county. ' \
Reviewing ".the experiences of the
soldiers in the training camps of this
country after the entry of the United *
States'into the-World War and. then
their work in'/France, Col. Spratt pre- rl
tVio t Acr ilia iraft o/i .liir
Utraut. J'VUt CJ QV WJ CA'TCil vice
men are :going-' to be drawib choser:
and -closer -together in bonds'.of ~mu-\-'
tuar interest-as wfts. the -caser; just :zr>oa
few short yearar ago when the:inatoif
purpose of ails was-, -to stem the tide jot 'Hun'invasion-rand
to make the world;--,
safe for civillzatiqn.--'.i ;u -j v.*' n y.-.\
He paid glowing, .tribute 1t to ;.<4those?-whom,
we lOftsover-yander," and';tc\the .: t
gallant Yor^ :county?.men ...whbse; rewjf,:
mains were-ibrdught- back - and- who;
now'sleep In'York county-soil<
\ He- concluded his , address ; with an;.
appeal to hia. soldier/comrades to face
the problems. andi-difflculties of civil
life with t^iehsame spirit that they *
showed on .the:^battlefields of.France
and Belgium^ v?r... ; '
>' Congressman MoSw?in, ...
Hon. JohnfJ;'McSwain of 'Grefenvillfe,;
representative in!"congress' frbnr the"- '
Fourth South' Garbliha^dist'rict the flnai *"
speaker of the morning said; iii part:'/.All
honor\ to'-:ttHe memory of the
American Soldier; 'Ordinarily, as history
does eKMly ^ShoW;'the soldier and
his service are' something apart from -
the policy and purpbse of, the T?aitlcular
nation prtsecutjng wan Thus oidiharily
the nio^t magnificeht''"&hd daring
deeds.of'mprtiaFdevbtioh may- be
disnlaved bvthe SoldlSrs of ? nation Hi '
an unworthy ^war.j ?fiut the glory of v
American', grn& la."; '3, twin jewel with' '
the ; righteousness pt 'the Ameriean
I cause.'.. ^fe-isay' boastfully ' but
reverently afid' thankfully, that-from "
the day.the American farmers.1 at 'Lex- ' "
ington in 3.775* those first fateful' '
shots, "heard round'the world,'' till the '
arms, of-: the Teutonic arid ^Allied mil- ;
llpns were stacked along the far 'flung
line from the sea to,the Swiss frontier,
In many' wars throughout nfore than
one.hundred and, fort^lyears,; the sol-' ^
dierj^pf America h#vp never knovm
There must be so'Me 'reason for this
unusual fact besides' the prowess ana
valor of the?men under arms, something
besides" the tactical and strategical
genius.of our glorified leaders. For
other nations ha.ve their braVe soldiers
too. Other nations have their leaders
trained by wi'de ' jpjperience and - en- , t
dowed with natufaj'-fhlent.
Again we cannot]/we dare not explain
this unbroken-succession of victories
by luck' and' chance. In the
light of history?the history not alone '
of this nation, , but-of all nations?there
can be but one' explanation of the' fact *
that In the game Of war we have ever
held a winning Hand. *
Believing,as ,\ye must, that God '
rules amorig'the nations of the earth,
believing as we must, that God is'encamped
with the army of those who
fight for justice, and human freedom
and against'those who seek to .afflict
and oppress mapkind, we find here re- .
vealed the ; re^sOn;'' why American
armies and the American people have
never known the. woes and bitterness
of final defeat. If'js the true glory of-the
American soidlej^'Hr'V *he glory of the j
American people, who sent their sol- 1
diers forth, to' flgbt,_t^kt the spldiers' '
sword was- neypr drawn and 'the ppb-':
pie's '..substance, h-'evpr'-'Spent, save In-a
war to' shatter'1'the'shackles of oppression.
save, in" a war to'widen :the
boundaries.of,.human''liberty and free
dom. . v;' .*
Thus the Americah soldier has become
a crUsader fo'P 'justice. For all
the countless thousands who have died '
in battle In devotion to the inspiring
and purifyirig presep'ce of that stripea
and starry syriibol of American ideals,
we offer a tribute of gratitude, and_of
love. We-do-not grieve for them, we
know the sttmy .path of hupian progress
must be- payed by the bodies of
brave and' devoted men, bruised and
broken in the ordeal of battle. Rather
do we give'thgnks fpr such deeds that
culminated in thp glory of sacrificial
death: '
"Countless . eyes' have conned their
story, ,V. .
Countless hearts have grown brave
thereby;,' .V '
Let us thank.the. Gqd of. glory,
We have giv?n,pjich to die." : .
The only cause that a nation may.
collectively maKp;,. war for is a cause
that the individual soldiers of that na-tion
may j.ustly ,'dje, fojr. War is. hot
horrible mer'.ejy-jjecause the men in the
field must .suffer ?n<T die. War is hor-'
rible because always at least one Side,
and somfe'tjmj^bp.tH. sides require, that
men - and. women ;;and children Uphill.'
suffer.'aTid'5il^?fbt,'an unjust cause..
Therefore,, tjie^all important matter,
for Amerlch, today is, not merely to^fortify
her shc)fes,''t^,build her, ships,'and'
to multiply he'r^soldiers for. some future
conflict'. I'h^.ali important matter
for us on this day is to reconsecrate
ourselves to..the principles and ideals
of the fathers, whht conceived, and
brought, forth,.this government of the
people and., to walkworthily in the
footsteps o^ .tho'sg'.<??' the people-who ?
from the first day pi|, independence to
this hour have preserved and enlarged
and delivered, to 4 up those . ideals, of
"righteousness that'epalteth a nation.','
Therefore, it is.our bb,unden duty so to.
direct the purposes pp,d policies of this
nation that, n,either, < we, nor-our sons,
nor their sons," shall ^ver be called to
wage an unnecessary and ah unjust
war. No worthy mptive can justify
our provoking the righteous- wrath, of
another nation. Wp, must now ana
ever see that no posture in affairs shall
lead to war save in defense of our own.
lives, or in ..defense .lpf that which is
to us dearer; than lif^r-liberty, justice,
righteousness and freedom.,
The influence of the republican institutions
set'up"in America" about one
nunarea ana iuny -yeais- a^u nan ucc?
profound.- '-It was highly significant-"
:ha't"'Totti-Pdlne should send to "George
Washingtori the 'Key of- 'the 'Bastille
iv-h'ert' that'' prison, '-typical ' of 'feadai "
tyranny, fell on July 14, '1789, before "
he- first mad'rush of the populace in '
:he beginning of the French Revold- '
ion. In the letter'1 transmitting " threlistoric
relic, which'hangs--in'the main"'
lall of the mansion at Mount Vernony
'aine stated" with prophetic vision-how-"
<Ya nce "and other "hatidns must' cbn- "
inue to fCel the 1 reactive force of i
American political ideas. Nation after
lation. including " even conservative
Sngland, benighted China, unredeemed
tajy, have been reformed and recontituted,
inspired ahd' guided by the
esson of our example.
This regenerative power of America
las been both'"spiritual and material,
'he Spanish colonies of .Central and
louth America received only spiritual
ssistance when Bolivar, their own
leorge "Washington, led their armies
d victory and . . to" national independnce.
Later when the old autocracies
f Europe yere restored at the oversow
of Napoleon and they conspired
j subjugate'the South American Reublics.
President Monroe- -proclaimed -;
lat the material-power of' this nation
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