Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 20, 1921, Page Page Four, Image 4
Scraps and .facta.
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? 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.
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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
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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. .
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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