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Scraps and .facta. ' - 7?~ ? A mob of about 150 men and boya, many of them cowboys, last Saturday night entered the Maverick Theatre at Thermopolis, Wyoming, xwhere a "Fatty" Arbuckle film was being shown, and shot up the screfen and seized the film, taking if into the street and burning part of it. F. Z. Buzzetti, manager of the theatre, said today that renresentatives of the Purity | League had visited him earlier in the day and asked him not to run the pie- ] ture. "I had the picture booked an? < saw no reason why I should not run' 1 it," Buzzetti said. "I refused the re- t quest of the Purity League represents- 'i tjves because I believed I had a right ] to run the picture and did not need ] their advice." No damage was done to < the theatre other than shooting up the , . screen, Mr. Buzzetti said, and no at- ( tempt was made to injure him. ? The home makers' cottage at the pklahoma A. and M. College, at Stillwater, is complete, for it has a baby? the one essential which in years before ; instructors in home economics have j complained was lacking. David, the college baby, was adopted this year, or rather borrowed, from the Oklahoma Children's Home at Oklahoma City. He is to be kept for the school year. Plans are under way to make this boy, whose mother died when he was ten ( days old, a month after she was desert- ! ed by the father, the most scientifically raised child in the state. Half a dozen j senior &irls for six. weeks at a stretch j will make the home makers' cottage 1 tHeir own, cook the meals, make the % beds, prepare David's diet, make his clothes?in short, play "foster mother" - to him. Meanwhile an experienced matron will keep a practised eye on the cottage and David. ? More than 30.000 Americana will rest forever in the soil of Prance, near the battlefields where they fell, Secretary of War Weeks has informed the American Legion's legislative committee here in response to an inquiry. Bodies of American expeditionary forces dead to be returned to the United States total ,43,670 the secretary added, with more than 40,000 of them now in this country. The 30,162 members of American forces who were killed in action or who died in Prance will be buried in six Prench cemeteries an done in England, according to the war secretary. The cemetarles over which the Stars and Stripes will forever fly are the Meuse?Argonne at Romagne, the Aisne?Marne at Belleau, the Somme at Bony?the Oise?Aisne at Seringes-et^Nesles; the St. Mihiel ( at Thiaucourt and the Suresness near t Paris. The permanent American cemetery in England will be the Brookwood, ' near London. * ? District Attorney Brady of San x Francisco, has announced that the state 1 is ready to proceed against Roseoe C. t (Fatty) Arbuckle on the charge of ^ murder. As the result of the Jury of inquest four charges were brought 8 against Arbuckle, two of manslaughter 1 and two of murder. One of the Jury- j men submitted a minority report in which he said that while he was con- f vinced that the woman, Virginia Rappe, 1 had come to 5her death from violence,; r he was not sure at whose hand. There- ( fore he sought only to charge manslaughter. Attorneys for Arbuckle ( sought to secure bail, but were unable s to do so, the judge holding the case not s bailab'e. The body of Virginia Rappe t was taken to Los Angeles for interment and her friends made a big fune- c ral for her. Further proceedings in the \ case against Arbuckle were postponed t until next Thursday. The prohibition enforcement officers have information j that Arbuckle carried twenty qUarts of I t liquor in his car from Los Angeles and J c further they have information that twenty more quarts were delivered to the party in the hotel. e ? First official action by local au- ' tlvorities against the activities of the 1 Ku Klux Klan was taken in Chicago t Saturday. It came in the form of a t definite declaration from Chief of Police Charles Pltz Mdrris that parades ' of rneVnhers of the Klan or other or- c ganlzations whose members appear a masked will not be permitted in Chi- c cago streets. "Reports have reached me that a loop parade of clansmen is f being planned," the chief said. "No 1" permit will be issued for such a par- c ode. If clansmen, or other masked persons attempt to march, the police will break up the parade, roughly if I J necessary. Masks are all right in ball | t rooms, lodges, or in other private j t places, but they will not be permitted | r\? ati'/tatu " Whilp thf? fhipf WflS I statins his attitude, the Illinois com-: t mittee of the National Unity Council,, \ recently formed to fight the Klan, was t drawing up lines of battle at a meeting in the Morrison Hotel. Former Gov. Edward F. Dunne, chairman of ! 1 the organization, stated that it was. growing with the same astonishing rapidity with which the Kian has | swept the nation. j j ? Decision to resist all attempts at c further deductions of wages in the . textile industry and to inaugurato a permanent campaign to organize the c non-union workers of the South was t lannounced in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday j after a conference between more than 200 Southern leaders and Samuel ' Gompers, president of the American s Federation of Labor. While the 48 t hour week was not mentioned in the j. announcement here dispatches from Washington said it would bo one of 8 the subjects to be discussed at a con- c fercnce next Tuesday in Washington a on wages and working conditions in the textile industry. Charlotte, N*. C., is to be headquarters for the campaign c * * 1 .1 ~ P nnu a rneeiuig ui icnuna ui uk: i iiucu j; Textile Workers of America will be f held there September 22 to formulate a definite plan of action. "It is not a c declaration of war," said Jerome t Jones, editor of the Atlanta Journal | a of I^abor, who acted as spokesman for [ t the conferees, "but it is a step toward | active resistance to the effort to re- I a 'duce textile wage scales l>elow a liv- i s ing figure." South Carolina was to j t have been represented at the confer- | . ence, but the edelegates fuiled toj arrive. "As for the trouble in the I c Southern textile districts I expect I c to witness soon a great ameliora- i j tion of present conditions." Mr.! t Compels said. Mr. Compehs visit- 1 ed the Atlanta federal penitentiary * this afternoon, making- a brief address t to the prisoners who were assembled j in tiif cnapei, ana nniuing a zu mm- i ntt's conference with Kugene V. Debs, { r Socialist leader, who is serving a ton ' 1 year sentence for violating: the war ^ time espionage laws. ? A tax of approximately $30 is laid j ^ upon every man, woman and child in ! ' the country by the revenue bill com- | s pleted Saturday by the senate finance \ i committee. The measure is designed j t to raise $3,200,000,000 for the fiscal year I 1022. Treasury experts, now whipping * ' 1 ? l.MI In4n uli-inc frit* ppnArt tik Ihp ! 1 lilt! U! 11 1IIIU om? pv ?. v.-? . senate tomorrow, say that the changes I made by the senate committee in the j house bill will make little difference In the total revenue yielded. The increase f l'r< m 12 1-2 per cent, as provided by * the house, to 15 per cent tax on in- l comes of corporations made by the . senate, it is said, will almost cover the loss of $80,000,000 resulting from the, J repeal of the capital stock taxes and i t the $18,000,000 loss from the reduction | | <>f sur-taxes. One of the eleventhhour provisions adopted Saturday by ' the committee was an amendment bv 1 k Senator Calder of New York, imposing i tax of $6.40 a gallop on all distilled spirits withdrawn from bond, except that used in manufacturing. Calder ieclared his amendment would raise between jeu.ouu.uou ana ?su.uuu,uuu a. rear, as he said about 90 percent of alcohol withdrawn is diverted*for beverigre purposes. Calder announced that lie will submit an amendment imposing 1 tax of $5 a barrel on 2.75 beer when the bill goes to the senate. The committee adopted an amendment providing for a tax of 10 per cent on hotel rooms in excess of $5 a day for one person and *8 a day for two persons. Chairman Pefirose declared that this tax will be paid by hotels and not by quests. Important items repealed in the bill, include: Retail sales taxes on proprietary medicines; policy taxes on life insurance and premium taxes on other insurance companies on next January 1, and taxes on soft drinks sold ,at soda fountains. (The \|orkfilt? (Inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of the Second Class* TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921 There is a hitch in the proposed final conference bettveen the representatives >f the Sinn Fein and the British cabinet, because tie Sinn Fein has been insisting on going into the conference as though representative of a sovereign nation. The British cabinet is willing to confer with the Sinn Fein only as he representative of the majority sentiment of South Ireland. Correspondence is now hinging about this point ind unless the Irish yield, to the Britsh view of the matter the conference rill not take place. Should the Fatty Arbuckle plays be :ut out of tbe picture shows? That juestion has already been answered by i good many towns and cities in ,the ifflrmative. There are lots of others hat have taken no action, and which irobably will take no action. What ere he facts? This fellow, an ordinary tind of a loa/er, the/ ike of which there ire thousands, drifted into the movies Ike many others, and by chance struck >ublic favor.' Through the aimless but teneral applause he won, his salary vas inci eased to a point where he did lot know w^at to do with his money. )f a low ordfer of intellect, and without apacity for enjoyment of other than ensual pleasures, his Inclination ran olely to the gratification of the brute hat is within him. His money he spent >n whlcky anrl women?in debauchery, vithout regard to public or private de-1 :ency. Of course there are thousands i if Fatty Arbuckles, not only among he movie stars; but in every town, iity and hamlet in the country. He irobably is no worse than many othirs; but now he occupies a different losition. Formerly to patrons of the novies he was only a big fat clown, he centre of more or less possible fun; ?ut from now on it is different. Peo>le cannot look at him any more with-; >ut associating him with his real cnar- | icter, a lumbering letcherous debauhee, who knows no higher use to make I >f the golden shower that the publicj las rained on him than to indulge in, irgies of debauchery. Yes, there are nany who will continue to enjoy Fatty Vrbuckle and they will enjoy him all he more because of this development )f his real character; but there are nany others who will have no more of his creature. Of these there are many vho are too clean of themselves to derate him and many others who will aboo him out of their regard for pubic decency. The public announcement that has ust been made by the South Carolina ommittee of the War Finance board, he text of which appears in another olumn, is of much more significance han is generally appreciated. While it s a fact that the recent advance in the JMUt? U1 UJllUIl I1HN IlctU lilt Vlicv-U laving from ruin many farmers and lusiness men who would otherwise lave been unable to keep their heads ibove water, the contemplated action if the finance board promises additionl1 and further relief. For instance, ven with) the advance of the price of otton there is in South Carolina a rreat volume of "frozen credits." By rozen credits for one thing is meant, redits that are not sufficiently secured o warrant attempt at collection, and I Jso credits, the liquidation of which at: his time would ruin the borrowers. As t general thing the banks can now J tave themselves whole; but should hey attempt to collect all past due | oans the general effect would be ex-1 expect that the resulting relief will be still more appreciable. Collective Bargaining. The most aggravated difference between corporation executives and organized labor hinges on the question of collective bargainings involving the right of organized labor to do business with corporate direction through duly selected representatives. Corporation executives/are generally opposed to this principle and organized labor insists upon It. As we see it the contention or organized labor is reasonable and Just. Let it be remembered that the most important, advantage of a corporate state is relief from individual responsibility. The corporation has many privileges and exemptions that do not attach to the individual. But it is the rule rather than the exception that the directing officials of ' ; the corporations are inclined to handle i labor on basis of individual capacity rather than of corporate capacity. For instance from the corporation side the employe is treated impersonally, and the disposition is to look upon him merely as a unit rather than as ft man, and when the employe goes up against the employer with an individual grievance, the employer usually ( retreats from his individual status and ' becomes the representative of the cor- ' poration. ' Under such conditions the employe , has but little show?he is one against many. With the unincorporated individual employer the relation of employe is , different. Then there is scune reason j in the proposition that if the employe | does not like his treatment at the ( hands of the employer, or vice versa, relations may he dissolved?that the ; employer can get another man and 1 the employe another Job. ( But the assumption of such a posi lion uy uie uu ctimg unit iaio ui ?. w. poration is illogical ami unfair, be- ( cause just as he is the representative of and backed by the corporate authority and power behind him in dealing with an individual employe, the individual employe, In order to be on even footing, should be backed by the power and authority of a labor organization representative of and < founded pn the interests with which i he is concerned. l. ? Two negroes from St. Stepehns, in ' Berkeley county, came to Orangeburg, 1 Sunday, to lodge complaint against , eight white men of their section and 1 others, who, they charged, took them ' to the woods on September 12 and hanged them by their necks to get in- ( formation as to who had shot up a 1 road construction camp a few days previously. The negroes engaged local | counsel, but no official action has been / taken by the solicitor. < ? Three hundred and twenty-five , names were included in a blanket in- i dictment. charming murder, returned 1 by a Logan county, Va.. special grand . jury last Saturday. Indictments fallowed an investigation of recent dis- I turbances on the Logan-Boon county ! border. Among the names are those of , C. R Keeney and Fred Mooney, pros- t ident .and secretary, respectively, of District No. 17. United Mine Workers 1 of America, and H. W. Blizzard, also a ' United Mine Workers official. In ad- ' dition 200 indictments charging in- ' trurrection and "pistol toting" were J returned. The blanket indictment ' charging those mimed with being prin- ( cipaJs and accessories to the killing of 1 John Core, deputy sheriff of Log*an ' county was based on an alleged viola- ' tion of the Redman net. That act * chussifiod such deaths as murder in the first degree. Gore was killed August 29 in an exchange of shots between armed men ana snenn s ui-pum-o u> the eastern part Of Logan county dur- ' ing the attempted march across the ' county of a number of men who had * annouced their intention to proceed ' into Mingo county and there protest ' state martial law invoked several 1 months ago. The special grand jury ' further held in the indictment that a "conspiracy to inflict bodily harm and ' punishment," had existed and that as 1 "the result of such conspiracy. Gore j had come to his death." The remainder of the indictments charged "conspiracy to formcnt revolution and insurrection" and "the carrying of weapons in violation of the Johnson ! Law." It was believed generally the ! cases will be Liken up at the October term of t.he circuit court. Apart from * the union officials the names of those indicted were not made pubfic. J ? , MERE MENTION 1 The treaty of pea<e between the United States and Germany, has been formally ratified by the German reichrath or upper chamber Unmasked robbers obtained between $28,000 and $30,000 from the treasury of the 1 Sells-Floto circus, at Vancouver, Washington, last Saturday ?...David < Lloyd George, the British prime minis- I ter, lias been incapacitated from illness ' for several days because of an abcess- f ir.g tooth. The abcess has been lanced, 1 and it is expected that the premier will f be out again shortly Ernest Dan- i iels. a young negro, was taken from the ! Pitlsboro, X. C? jail last Sunday and 1 lynched, he having confessed that he was the negro leaning over the sleeping | body of a white girl when the alarm i was given in her home in Pittsboro , last Friday Twenty-two members j of the Tampa and Miami baseball | teams were arrested at Miami, Fla., ( last Sunday for violation of the law s against Sunday baseball. They were , released on bonds of $50 each { There are about 30,000 Odd Fellows from all parts of the Xorth'American . continent in convention at Toronto, " Canada Detroit, Michigan, has re- J fused to permit the exhibition of Ku . Klux pictures dealing with the reconstruction period in the South The 1 Russian Soviet government refuses to I honor foreign drafts in food supplies . on the ground that if she should do so,* . relatives of Russian exiles would fare 1 better than the other people around them Secretary Mellon has an- ' nounced that an offering of $40,000,000 ? ? j. i worth of farm loan bonds win r?e maue > October 1 It is said that an aver- ' ago of more than fiOO quarts of chant- ! pagne a day are being brought into the < port of New York for medicinal pur- poses Lowell Sherman, a movie 1 actor who was at Fatty Arbuckle's par- ' ty, has on that account been released ?' from a lucrative contract he had with a big movie concern. ....Col. J. W. t Hinsdale, last remaining North Caro- | lina colonel of the Confederacy, died at r his home in Italeigh lust Thursday. l eedingly distressing: to many of their ustomers. The purpose of the War 'inance board is to lend the banks, on he credit of the banks, money with J vhich to carry certain loans that would therwise have to be collected. But it s not to be understood that this will nean a general extension of all frozen oiins. While money is being put vithin easier reach of banks that are ilready borrowers, there is not the slightest softening up of the responlibility that these banks are now bearng, and the banks of course will rejuire liquidation whenever they deem, luch liquidation desirable. Nobody is o be relieved of existing obligations; i >ut there will be a material easing of he strain under which the whole inlustrial and financial fabric has been (weatinK. It is important that the pubic should understand that the present tdvance in the price of cotton has been nduenced to a considerable extent by he promised measures of the Federal teserve board and war finance corloration, and as these promised measires get into effect there is reason to LOCJPkJL. AFFAIB9? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. McDonnell Dry (Joods Com]?njr?Who am I? Loan and Savings Bank?Progressive service. * York Hardware Company?We have it? City Pharmacy, Clover?Now'c the time to start your bulbs. J. M. Stroup?Stetson hats. Kirkpatrick-Bclk Company?New lot of sweaters. P. A. Smith, Adjutant?Attention leglonaires. Whitesides Gin Company, Hickory Grove?Notice to the public. Carroll Bros.?Syrup buckets. M. L. Ford & Sons, Clover?Tuxedo sewing: machines Just in. D. M. Parrptt, Clover?New fall goods. H. R. Merritt?Good corn In Delhpia. Sam M. and S. E. Grist?Do you want the best? The City Market?You can get what ' you want and get the best meats in town. J. F. Carroll?Barrard ObeIi?k flour. J. Q. Wray, Manager Star Theatre? Justine Johnston today and Madge Kennedy tomorrow. Parker-Smoak Clothing Company, Rock Hill?Three things that save you money on fall clothes. York Furniture Company?No fires to build. Logan Lumber Yard?Devoe paint. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Since the last publication of the retard In The Yorkville Enquirer, real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?Mrs. Nannie R. Tompkins to W. R. Blackmon, 1 lot, $450. THE MARRIAGE RECORD 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: Sept. 16?I/>e MclJiin, 20, MnttheVvs. N. C. and Katie Freeman. 18, Charlotte, N. C. Sept 17?Alex Kimbrell, 23, and Chester Roesbum, 17, Rock HilL Sept 17?John Belk, 22 and Lois 3rey, 20, colored. Rock Hill. Sept. 17?Floyd F. Wallace, 19, and Dla Watson, 18, Crnmmorton, N. C. Sept 19?Asburg N'eely, 23 and Annie Bell McCoy, 21, colored. King's Mountain township. PASSING ARTILLERY . The main body of the 51st Artillery, on its way from Camp Jackson to Camp Eustis, is now in Chester, and may pass through Yorkville tomorrow, ind poasibly not until Thursday orFriday. The last of the heavy guns pulled up in the Chester Fair grounds at an early hour yesterday morning, and Col. Hilton, in command, is quoted in the Chester Reporter as saying that he would probably not be^in moving out >f Chester until Wednesday night and maybe Thursday morning. It was unlerstood, of course that a rain or other :ircumstance could very easily make for more indefinite delay. On the way between Columbia and Chester there was experimentation in both day and night travel and the enfines of the big tractors seemed to jperate so much more satisfactorily at night than in day time, that the ofIcers were inclined to think that they would make the balance of the trip at light?traveling by night and remainng in camp during-the day. It is unlerstood, however, that this probable plan is also subject to change. Although the engineers who had fone out a week ahead of the main tantingent, had marked a route through the town of Chester, so selectid as to keep the heavy tractors off the isphalt, this route was disregarded, The^big guns followed straight along he asphalt by whatever seemed to be :he most direct and practicable route to the fair grounds, and the asphalt was deeply indented by the wheels, esnecially by the rivets in the wheels of the heavy tractors. The artillery officers, however, assured the Chester authorities that there would be no permanently harmful result: that the asphalt would soon smooth itfeelf out md that it would be the same as jefore. According to the route marked out >y the engineers, the heavy tractors will come into Yorkville from the Chester road and turn down California itreet to Cleveland avenue. From Cleveland avenue the column is supposed to turn into Jefferson street and to Church and Railroad street and thence proceed on across to Madison .k if uHll nrohahlv follow tO Wright avenue. It will pass into Kind's Mountain street from Wright ivenue and thence through the new street on the Spencdr property, coring back into King's Mountain street through the grounds of the Church Home Orphanage. After leaving Yorkville, the understanding is that the column will proceed up the King's Mountain road to Bethnny, thence hack across to Clover, ind from Clover to Gastonia. But in view of previous changes in plans, it is just as likely as not that there will be further changes and the heavy tractors may roll directly through Congress street. WITHIN THE TOWN ? The town needs more streets; but the question is how are you going to jet them? ? Grace Hemphill, well known coined nurse of Yorkville died last week 'allowing a long period of ill health, j 51:0 was a giuduato nurse and had served many white people throughout l.e town and, community and had jained the confidence and respect of ill with whom she came in contact. She was buried in the local cemetery 'or colored people. ? If Yorkville is to have u baseball team another year, there are nine good iniforms available for the players vhoever they may be. The uniforms >ought lor the use of the team recent y disbanded have been turned over to lie American Legion and have been securely stored away for use another fear in the event that the town decides to supjKjrt a baseball team. ? Fire of undetermined origin about o'clock Sunday morning uesiroyea i Chandler automobile, the property if H. K. Mackorell. The car was odged In a garage in the yard of the J esidence of Mr. R. J. Mackorell and i he building together with the auto- [ nobile was totally destroyed by the lames. Insurance on the automobile n the sum of $900 was carried. ? Less than 200 bales of cotton | tave been sold on the Yorkville mark- ! t since last Wednesday, according to j Igures ol'ained from Robert E. Me?!ure, public weigher this morning 'ales on the market for the past four lays have been as follows: Thursday. JO; Friday. 57: Saturday. 37; Monday. 12. Mr. McClure has appointed his mother, W. C. McClure of York Xo. 5. iu deputy weigher. ? Rev. F. A. Liles, for the past eighteen months ixistor of Charlotte Street Baptist church has tendered his resignation. Xo action has yot been taken >y th<* congregation in regard to the resignation. Coming to Yorkville from Camden. Rev. Mr. Liles has made many friends and acquaintances during his residence here and the Charlotte street church has been mater- i ially strengthened during his pastorate. The membership at the present i time totals about 65. Rev. Liles said yesterday that in the event he leaves Yorkville lie will in all probability en- 1 tcr evangelistic work. ? Stricter rules regarding the pres- 1 enco of visitors and non-members in ' the American Legion Club rooms and ! adoption of a motion raising the : monthly cluh dues for membein living in town were the principal matters to oome before the regular monthly i meeting of Meech Stem-art Post ArTber- ican Legion held Friday evening. It ( was decided that under no circum- < stances in future will visitors other j than eX;service men be allowed in the j club except in cases where members < are entertaining friends living out of j town. Monthly club dues were in- i croused from $1 to $1.50 per 'month in order to meet the necessai*y operat- j Ing expenses of the club. Kach mem- ] ber of the jiost has been Instructed to \ obtain from P. A. Smith, the post ad- ] jutajit a key to the club rooms which s are in future to be kept locked when ( not in use." At the meeting Friday ] evening Delegate B. B. Robinson made t a brief report of the recent state con- [ vention at Newberry which he attend- < ed along with four other members of the post. / ^ EDUCATION IN YORK COUNTY. A total of 1,959 white pupils started i to school in York county during the year 1920-21 as against 3,205 negro pupils. according to the, annual report of John E. Carroll, superintendent of education, which has recently been com- * p>!eted and forwarded to State Super- l intendent of Education J. W. Swearlngen. "Special facts," taken from the annual report of the county superin- i tendent, give an intelligent insight into ' educational progress and standing In i the county of York. The report among I othep things shows that the majority < of the schools operated in York county J last year employed two teachers and that the one teacher school for whites especially, is rapidly passing out, al- , though the majority of_ the negro ' schools employ only one teacher. According to the report, there were eigh- J teen white schools employing one ' teacher and sixty-three negro schools , in operation employing only one teach- .. or. There were thirty-five white schools ' employing two teachers and eleven ne- ' gro schools. There were four white 1 schools operated last year employing three teachers and one negro school. onhnnla niM-r.it- I 'mere were ciguv muw ~ ed in the county employing more than three teachers and three negro schools. ' The sum of $40.59 was spent on the ; education of each white child in the county last year, while the sum of $9.68 was spent in educating each negro J child who went to school. The average ' for both races was $24.75. The average number of white pupils c to each school according to enrollment was 110, and according to attendance i was 75. The average number of negro \ pupils according to enrollment was " ( and according to attendance, 65. t The average number of white _pupi<s , taught by each teacher was 35, and the J average number of colored pupils per l teacher was 68. j The average length of the school term t in days for each white rural school 3 was 137 and for town schools 170 days, c The town negroes went to school 122 t days and the country negroes 74 days. ? Four districts built new school build- g ings during the year. They were: ( Sutton's Spring, Union, Fair View and c Rock Hill. t The county superintendent made 150 i school visits during- the year. ' t There were a total of 7,397 white t pupils in the schools during the year \ just come to a close and a total of 7.- i 773 negro pupils, the negroes outnum- l beririg the white by 376. 1 The following figures showing the 1 branches of study and the number of t pupils, white and colored, pursuing r each, are Interesting: t White Negro t First reader 1,959 3,205 q Second reader 900 1.260 j Third reader 897 894 ^ Fourth reader 792 718 t Fifth reader 646 460 j> Spelling 6,185 5,375 Writing 6.413 4.665 Arithmetic - 6.286 4.287 } Algebra 789 51 1 Geography 2.640 1.939 s English Grammar _..t 3.900 *2,153 ' English literature 865 357 * South Carolina history 662 363 1 United States history 925 814 a Civics 368 42 J Agriculture 193 / 177 1 Physiology and Hygiene 1,245 1,243 j Drawing 3.420 2.687 \ Composition and rhetoric 684 105 Latin 603 6 1 H ? t HERE AND THERE [ "This is a great fail for musca- a dines," observed a Shatx>n man the ^ other evening. "1 recently visited the j home of Mr. Jim Martin who lives j near here and walked around in the a woods. He must have twenty-five , bushels of muscadines' on his place r and. his neighbors also have oodles of { them. If 'possum hunters are not able f to find 'possums in that section this s fall, especially around those musca- v dine vines, then I don't believe there a are any 'possums in this country." t "Well," said a prominent physician t | the other afternoon, "I haven't col- t I lected anything scarcely in the past a two years and f am making it a rule p | to carry my t>ooks with me on my p rounds now. Lots of people are sell- r ing cotton you know, it is bringing i: [ a good price and there's no reason why t they should not pay me at least a part s of what they owe me. I collected $140 a in old accounts last Saturday and I a have several thousand dollars out that I am going to get if cotton stays around twenty cents." Reports from Smyrna and vicinity where Contractor H! X. Huffstetler a j and a sub-contractor are building the West road are to the effect that they continue to make rapid progress with c the work and that the grading has been practically completed, while the e contractors are about ready to begin top soiling. However, this work is ^ being put off as long as possible because of the fact that the top soil is ? * ???. |? I to !)G UiKen irum unus nun m vu.?. , vjution and the idea is to give the crop j* owners all possible time to harvest I their crops. "Howard A Knew whom we all knew ^ as 'Rube' when he caught for York- fc ville and Clover this summer caught a few games for the Greenville team v of the South Atlantic league this v week," said Saturday Mr. James A. Page of Clover. "1 noticed from the h l>ox score that the 'Rube' caught good r< games and hit the ball." By the way, there is a strong probability that Mr. f Page's two sons, James and Rupert jt will play on the Erskine College base bull team next spring, james jiiuyru second base for Erskine last sesison and according to the Erskine coach, Rupert the younger of the lads has the making* of a good baseball player in E him and there is a strong probability d that he will land a regular berth on the college nine next spring. v "What in the world made the York it county commissioners ever agree to build a bridge over'the Catawba at the Buster Boyd site is more than I am able to understand," said E. N. Miller, wellknown Bethel township man ,who was talking about the proposed new bridge the other day. "The bridge is so located that it will be of little value to York county people." Mr. Miller wer<t on to say, "and it is going to cost a lot of money to build a roa<l reaching to it. 1 visited the bridge dte for the first time a few days ago und I tell you t believe that people ire going to be disappointed." Mr. Miller said that work on the bridge had not yet been started. Quite a large number of Yprk county people went over to Charlotte last tveek to attend the "Made in Carolina" exposition now noiaing rortn in inai city. The exposition is as its name implies, an exhibition of articles made tnd manufactured, in North ajid South Carolina. Most of it is of course S'orth Carolina, and South Carolina ins comparatively little on exhibition. According to visitors one of the most attractive exhibits wtis sent over from Flock Hill. It was originally proposed Lo observe next Friday as "Rock Hill Day" at the exposition and to run a ipecial excursion from Rock Hill to Charlotte for the occasion. However, toek Hill people did not take on to the idea in such large numbers as had *en expected so it has been abandoned. "September," observed a Yorkvllle man today, "is the month of snakes and typhoid fever. It is a mean old month any way you take it. But speaking of snakee, I've run across two black snakes in the road in the past three weeks. While flivvering over to Hickory Grove the other day I saw a small blacksnake in the road and killed It by running over it. Saturday afternoon while returning from Clover to Yorkvllle I saw a big blacksnake in the road at a point about op-, poslte the residence of Mr. J. F. Pursley. I cut the wheel suddenly thinking to kill it but the big snake was Loo quick and glided off Into the grass along the roadside. I got out and looked for it but was never able to locate it. I'd like to have killed that snake just to show you how big it was." A trained nurse was talking to Here ind There over at the Fennell Infirmtry last Saturday. "Do you know." wild she, "there is a greater shortage ot graduate nurses right now than there has been In this section in years: The demand for nurses Is Just simply greater than the supply because there are comparatively few girls who are entering the hospital for training. I haven't had a vacation in months and months because the demand Cor my jervices has been so great. I don't ilame girls for not taking up nursing :hough, because if there is a profession that is any harder I don't know what it Is and I tried other things before taking up nursing." And, then the lurse proceeded to climb a step ladder cward the ceiling in order to attach tn electric fan to the connection for the freeter comfort of l\pr patient. "Yee, we sold lots of felt hats durng Thursday, Friday and Saturday," was the statement of a number of leulers in men's haberdashery over he county who were asked abont it. \ custom, the origin of which Is un<nown, has it that straw hats should >e discarded or\ September 15, each rear In favor of felt hats and while he weather is so hot that folks still ream for the cooior straw, still lots >f peope following the custom change o felt on September 15, with the reiult that dealers have been doing a rood ' business in men's headgear. Iver in Rock Hill an enterprising lerk in a men's clothing store underook to popularize the derby last Saturday. Four young men including limself bought derbies and pledged hemselves . to wear . them for two veeks on pain of a forfeiture. The den is that since'the four young'men n question are regarded sis fashion eaders in that town other young felow8 will follow their example and >uy derbies. Whether the advertisenent will bring results or not remains o be seen this next week. However, here are still lots of men over the 1 ounty who are still wearing their traw hats, palm beach clothes and vhtfte shoes and will wear them until he weather becomes decidedly cooler, |i egatdless of September 15. I Claude Smith, ex-service man and >rofes9ional minstrel* blew into town ast week and for a few days has been ' " ' ' a?* J*- tkn fahlo nf his lllCKin^ nm icci uuuci buv vu-v.w ather, Mr. Joe W. Smith on York No. 1 . For several months past Smith says 1 le has been conducting a minstrel how playing1 one-night stands and veek stands in Tennessee and Ala- ' >ama. There were fifteen people in j he show with Smith as manager and 1 >usiness for a time was pretty fair, tt least all the members of the company got three square meals a day ind a place to sleep, which iiccording o Smith, is a whole lot more than lots >f show people have been getting in ; he past several months for the good ind simple reason that business has j teen on the blink. The show travelrig in Fords blew into Birmingham, Ua? a few weeks ago and the actors | rnd the management had visions of a | egnlar Klondike of picking from the < niners of that section. All went well or a short while and then suddenly ( he show went on the rocks. Smith ays he told his company that they . rould have to shift for themselves and j ,s for him he was going to beat it , ?ack to a certain hospitable home in ' he Cotton Belt section of York couny where he was always welcome and , ssured of plenty to eat and a good . ilace to sleep. So the show went to ieces and the manager arrived on his , lative heath last week. He says he 1 i going down into Florida this winer where he is again going into min- , trelsy and that he expects to carry , big supply of patent medicines as . side line. . . t ABOUT PEOPLE ^ J. L. Plexico of Hickory Grove was ] mong the visitors in Yorkville today. , Miss Rose Lindsay of Yorkville reentlv visited friends in Gastonin. J J. Lee Plexico of Sharon hag enter- | d the Presbyterian College, Clinton. Mr. Porter Hollig of Rock Hill, has een in the Fennell infirmary for the ast ten days. Rev. W. E. Sharpe of Lowryville, unerwent an operation for appendicitis t the Fennell infirmary last week. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. >tis Love of York No. 2, is ill with pdnal meningitis. Deputy Sheriff D. T^Quinn of Yorkille was a visitor in Florence last reek. Mrs. Edward Gettys has returned to er hoine In Yorkville after a visit to ?latives at Newport. Messrs. R. C. Black well an J Thos. J I'Farrell of Yorkville were visitors * i Charlotte last Saturday. A. M. McGHI of the Ramah section f as among the visitors In Yorkville ' esterday. ^ Miss Sallie Allison of Sharon R. F. ? >. w&s a \isitor in Yorkville yesteray. ' I Dr. Asbury Coward ("f Columbia, f isited his sister. Mrs. Pa^l R. Bratton i Yorkville this week. / 1, Mesdames C. S. Pratt a^<l Paul Fer- f -A guson of Sharon were visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. Malcolm Johnson, of New York, visited the family of Mr. Robert Witherspoon, in Yorkville, this week. Misses Leslie White and Veola Johnson of Yorkville, have returned to the College for Women, Due West. Vernon McDowell, of Camden, has entered the employ of Lotfry & Moore, of Yorkville. Messrs. J. Bratton Mendenhall and John D. Wood; prominent citizens of Greer were visitors in* Yorkville today. Frank McElwee and Alf Carroll, of Yorkville, left this week for the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta. Joe WardJaw, Edward Marshall, John E. Carroll, Jr., and William McCorkle, of Yorkville, have returned to the Citadel, Charleston. The disorder of Mr. John 8. Sandifer .has developed into a well-defined case of sleeping sickness, according to Dr. Walker, the atterdirtg physician. Mi's. J. Forest Smith and chtld who have been visiting relatives in Gaston county, N. C., have returned to their home in Yorkville/ , . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carroll who have been making their home in Atlanta. Ga, have returned to Yorkville where they wi'l reside in future. Dr. A. F. Doty of Sardinia, S. C? came to Yorkville today to accept a position as pharmacist with , the Mackorell Drcfe Co. Rudolph Logan, J. W. Quinn, Jr., Floyd Wray and William Barron of Yorkville, have returned to Clemson College. Mrs. J. A. Ramsey, has returned to her home in Gastonla, after a vi*lt to Mr/ and MrB. J. M. Ramsey, in Yorkville. Miss Hattie McAfee of Atlanta and Mr. and Mrs. Brantley Estes of Louis vine; Ky., are spending some iime :ti the McAfee bungalow in YorhvfBe. Mrs. Malcolm Johnson, of New York, and Mrs. Dan Hey ward, of Columbia, are visiting the family of Mr. Robert Witherspoon, in Yorkville. Mr. Haskell Howell of the Bethafiy section who has been, a sufferer from rheumatism for several years paat, is undergoing treatment in a Charlotte hospital. \ William Jones who has been spending the summer at his.home in Yorkville left yesterday for Charleston to reeume hh? studies at the Charleston Medical college. Mrs. John 8.' Jones who has been spending the summer In Yorkville left yesterday for Bowling Green to resume her duties as a teacher in the school at that place. Messrs. J. I* Grier and W. W. Caffey of West Palm Beach, Fla., arrived li? Yorkville last Saturday to spend a few days hefe as guests of Mrs. W. H. McConnell at her home on College street. Mrs. John B. Bowen and son, John B. Jr., who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. N. J. N. Bowen, in Yorkvttle, have returned to their home in Washington, D. C. Robert Brlcev United States navy. Hampton Roads,' Va., has returned to his station after a visit to the family of his father, Mr, J. M. Brice, on York No. 4. Miss Alice Garrison; who has been doing truant officer work in the office of the superintendent of education for some time past, on yesterday took charge of the school at Philadelphia, with Miss Marie Moore as assistant. The following young ladles of Yorkville leave this week for Winthrop College, Rock Hill: Mary Alice McDowell, SUe Meek Allison, Gila- Rhoda Mackorcll, Sarah Jones, Elizabeth Carroll, Pauline Oates. \fr Baxter C. Riddle has returned to New York, city after a visit to his mother, Mrs. Margaret Riddle at Bowling Green. Mrs. B. C. Riddle will remain at Bowling Green for several days. Miss Ada Elder of Lumber City, Qa? _ is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wyche Elder in Yorkville. , Miss Elder, is an accomplished teacher of voice and if she meets with sufficient encouragement will organize a class in Yorkville. Mr. Robert Wltherspoon la quite 111 at his home in Yorkville as the result of a stroke of apoplexy sustained Sunday morning. Mr. Wltherspoon was sitting in the front yard at his home when the stroke came. He is about 71 years of age. Miss Annie Ray of Barnwell has come to Yorkville to take over the management of the local office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. She succeeds J. W. Caldwell who goes to I^aurinburg, N. C. witnin a few days to take over the management of the office at that place. Mr. Edwin K. MacClain, formerly of Yorkville; but for many years past of Houston, Texas, spent a part of last Monday In Yorkville, accompanied by Mrs. MacClain and their daughter, Miss Louise. They were on their way to New York where Miss Louise was to be put in college. Mr. MacClain left yorkville in 1882 and came back on a visit about 1890. He is a member of the firm of Carrow, MacClain and Garrow, cotton factors, one of the leading concerns of Houston. Rea*. Howard Smith is in a critical condition in a Temple, Texas hospital Ficcordlng to information reaching hip parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. A. Smith cf York No. 1. Rev. Smith has been suffering for some time with appendicitis and his presont condition is regarded as so critical that little hope I.. rtnf fnr his recovery. For some iime past Rev. Smith has been pastor if a Presbyterian church at Mission, Texas but was forced to give up his tvork several weeks ago on account >f his health. He is a graduate of the Theological Seminary of the Presby:erian church in Columbia, and for a :ime was a supply pastor for one of :he suburban Presbyterian churches of .hat city. J. S. Brice, Esq., is now in the sixth veek of his very serious illness at his lome in Yorkvllle. He continues to nake progress, at least to the extent that every day in which there is no narked backset the outlook is more lopeful. But it is not fair to say that Mr. Brice's condition is not longer se ious. There are still periods of anloying temperature, and days on which lis lungs are not so clear as on other lays. But he feels that he is going to jet well; he knows that his friends are graying for him and he believes that :hcfr prayers are having much to do with the resistance he has been able to iffer to the disease. All along he has ieen patient and cheerful, and he con' * 4 mo r\f mlnH and unues in jutu iimi i>au<? ...... ipirit. He does not talk much, however, even to Mrs. Brlce, because as yet le cannot speak more than a very few vords except at the expense of painful ;xertion. It is not practicable to prelict the course of his illness; but it is lardly probable that he will be able to >e up and about for several weeks yet. First Lieut Joseph O. Nichols, 51st nfantry United States army is spendng a few days with his mother, Mrs. J. E. Nichols in Yorkville. Lieut. Nichils, who has been stationed at Camp Jrant, 111., for some time past is en oute to Camp Benning. Ga., where le will spend several months in ofIcers' school. Lieut. Nichols, who is l graduate of the Citadel, Charleston >as been an officer in the regular army or several years, serving throughout i