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Scraps and facts. ; < ? The senate got back Wednesday to , the lash of tax revision with an at- ' tack on the pending bill by Senator , Moses, Republican, New Hampshire, f and criticisms of supreme court decisions in tax cases by Senator Nelson, ( Republican, Minnesota, and Watson, Democrat, Georgia. Senator Nelson complained about the supreme court decision holding that bonds issued by i states, and sub-divisions were tax- I . Exempt, while Senator Watson saiu that the decision of the court in the I ptock' dividend case was regarded by ,"all lawyers as a perfectly rotten decision." The Georgia senator argued that the court had no authority to set aside acts of congress. Senator Jones, .democrat, New Mexico, expressed regret i?hat the pending bill did not contain a provision taxing undistributed .fcroftta of (corporations and said that he would offer an amendment within a day to make this possible. ? The administration's peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary, were ratified by the United States sen- j ate last Tuesday night by a vote of 66 ' to 20 in the case of the first two and j 66 to 17 in the case of the other. The difference in the vote was because of the absence of minority senators, who left the chamber after voting on the treaties , with Germany and Austria. Except for the formal exchanges of ratifications the peace programme of the ^adnVinistration is now complete. Only three Republican senators. Borah of Idaho, La Follette of Wisconsin and Norris of Nebraska, who was absent on account of illness and paired against ratification, voted against the treaties. Fourteen Democrats, on the other nana, supported the treaties while two more were paired in favor of ratification. Before final action was taken a Democratic effort to substitute for the tierman treaty the treaty of Versailles with the twelve Lodge reservations, was defeated and the foreign relations . committee reservations prohibiting American membership on the Allieu reparations commission or any other' intefHifiottal commission without the | consent of congress were adopted. ? Following closely upon the British government's announced determination | to aid in solving the unemployment situation by the extension of extraordinarily large credits and the declara-I tion that no Briton is to starve, David | Lloyd George, the prime minister, delivered a notable address in parliament Wednesday outlining the govern-, ment's policy both with regard to trade ! and unemployment. The premier declared that the entire situation was the result of the world war and that a ' good understanding between nations j together with trade rehabilitation was j the essential remedy for a cure. In outlining the government's proposals to alleviate unemployment, Mr. Lloyd George made the following striking declaration: "Peace and good understanding among nations is vital. Let us get out of the atmosphere where if you talk about German without a frown on your brow you are no patriot. Trade can not start in siaii an atmosphere. If you intervene to make peace, i your motives- are misunderstood, but if Great Britain will not do it who will, I We stand for stability. We want to see the nations begin again the tasks I of peace." The entire speech was a plea that the country is suffering from the results of the war end a declaration that restoration rests upon the revival of industry and the rehabilitation of the purchasing power abroad and that a revival in trade depends , iurgoly upon the bringing about of a ; good understanding among nations. ? On his way to Williamsburg, Ya., last Wednesday, President Harding delivered an address at Yorktown, Va? from the spot where Loid Cornwallis surrendered the British forces of the Revolution to General Washington in 1781 and announced to the world a policy of Anglo-American friendship i for all future time. The United States and Great Britain, the president asserted, had consecrated a long time friendship by association in the com! mon sacrifice of the world war and * found themselves "arranged together" in a trusteeship for tlie preservation of civilization," he spoke also a Word of gratitude for the aid givi n by France In revolution and declared the time had come for world wide co-operation and amity among nations. That part of I .tiie A'ouktown speech devoted to British-American relations was in the form of a brief declaration of policy on 4 Which the president did not elaborate. " The^triumph of freedom in the American " colonics," he said, "greatly Strengthened liberal views in the old j world. Inevitably this liberal public j *u>inion, deliberate and grown domitvit, brought Great Britain and America to a policy of accommodation and jxtcific adjustment for all our diff.r1 Wices. There has been honorable and : unbroken peace for more than a century, we came to common sacrifice and ensanguined association in the world -war, auu a iuiua- mivmvu , ful and friendly relations is unthink- | a"ble. In the trusteeship of preserving civilization we were arrayed together and the convictions of a civ- j iLization worthy t?f that costly pres- ' ervation will exalt peace and warn < ngainst conflict for all time to come." In the general discussion of world I relations which followed, the pr< si- j dent declared American participation in world affairs "inevitable," and | voiced a hope that general cooperation "to the common good would usher in J a. new day of international relation- i ship." lie sounded a warning, how- I ever, against impairment of national sovereignty in the name of international unity. ? A small oblong package wrapped'; id plain white paper, tied with a strong cord and marked, "Perfume," luy on a table ip the American < mbassy, in Paris) j<Ttll Wednesday, it was ad- j dressed personally to the American ambassador, Myron T. Herrick, and had been. elelivered by registered post. Thinking it was a gift, the ambassador's secretary, Lawrence Norton, car- ' ried it to the ambassador's residence, j Early in the evening, the ambassador's valet, Hlanehard, saw the package on j a desk and following bustom started , to open it. The removal of the paper ! revealed a small pasteboard box such I as might be used for holding soap, j Almost immediately a spring was re- : leased and as illanchard lifted the lid ! ( he heard a familiar noise which brought hack the days when lie was 1 a bombet* in the Hritish army. lit* s hurled th" box through the open . bathroom door and ran from the 1 j room. The bomb exploded in the doorway two fragments hitting the valet in the back. He was not si riously ] injured The ambassador, his da ugh- , ter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick, and , her seven year old son were just at this time ascending the stairway, pre- 1 paratory to entering Mr. Ilerrii k's i suite. Itlanchard came running out as t the ambassador rcaehtd the top. "A1 bomb has exploded and I am hit," the valet shouted. "Thank (Sod von 1 ' ' " I'l,n..],.,,-,l tin n , Wereil I III lilt i ""iii> ... . , collapsed an<l was carried down stairs. The ambassador motored^inm< diately to the Hotel t'rillon to ask (Setieral Pershing the best think: to do and the ' prefect of police was summoned. The 1 t bomb is believed to have been sent by . French' Communists as a protest , against the conviction of two Communists in the United States charged 11 vith murder; it contained the deadliest i >f explosives, according to the prefect j ind his staff of bomb experts. Proof i af the strength of the explosives is I shown by the fact that the bathroom ivas wrecked, that much damage was lone in the bedroom and that seven fragments went through a thick steel wardrobe, while others made deep [lents in the metal aiors of a cabinet. (The \iovlniltc vCnquircr. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of thi Seconi Class. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921. But still that strike will probably be settled. . Dor.'t sacrifice cotton on account of the strike scare. Although the Soviet government will be glad to get as much aid as .it can in the form of food from the outside, it does not want and will not have any propaganda against the institutions it proposes to establish. Up to this time this has been made quite clear. Tf our government cannot withstand - - Ulff> the settlement 01 :i ruiiuu.v.i,, .... that involved in the railroad strike, it is not much of a government. Hut don't let anybody get the idea that there is any doubt about the matter. We have the greatest government the world ever saw, and it will wax still greater instead of less. Almost anybody excejrt a lawyer is able to see the ridiculousness of a procedure which brings about a situation under which only the condemned man himself can lawfully say whether he will be electrocuted on the day previously fixed by the court. J!ut under our system there are many situations that arc fully as ridiculous. There are many theoretical reasons why the government should not accept HenTy Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals; but when it comes to the practical side of the question, the ayes seem to have it. While the government has spent many millions In the development of this property, it has not seemed to get any where. Let Ford have it, and he will make it a go, and after all that is what the country would like to have. The Southern Hallway wants it known that it was not represented at the meeting of railroad executives in Chicago, that asked for a reduction in the wages of employes and has not asked for such a reduction. The Southern is one of the greatest railroad systems in the country, and it is cnnnltln nvenmntion that if it had considered wage reduction reasonable and right it would have asked for the sarre. Otherwise it would be open to the charge of cowardice. Of course, there is no tilling what the speculators are going to be able to do with the price of cotton. There is good reason to believe that the supp'y is far short of the demand. The spinners however are doing all tlu-y can to avoid such a scramble as would ordinarily put prices out of sight. The threatened railroad strike has been us;d as a club with which to beat down prices; but if it had not been that it would have been something else. There are those who believe that prices will be higher in the spring; but of course there are others who believe that prices will be lower. The judgment of one man in this regard is about as good as another. The interest in the meetings that are being conducted by (Sypsy Smith, Jr.. in Keck Hill, continues to grow in volume and strength. The big tent, which is said to hold three thousand people, is full at every service, and at the overflow crowds at the night services number other thousands. There is nothing especially sensational about Smith's preaching; but there is something very striking, and that is the i closeness with which he stiiks to the all-powerful message of Jesus and his love. He makes professing Christians feel how unworthy they are, and makes thorn conft ss to themselves that they lack n great deal of filling the measure that the gospel holds up to them. It is some wonderful preaching that Clypsy S'mith, Jr., is doing. In an address before the convention of postal employes in Washington the other day. President Maiding said: "I'm not averse to postmasters being interested in politics. If any one comes to see me and says lie is seek- j ing a pnstmnstership and has 110 party j i (filiations. he is going to be wiped ; ff the slate right away. I'd rather ' lave a hard-boiled Democrat than aj vcllow Itepublican." < >f course the, [ resident has been criticized for this [ leelaration; but he is dead right. I'cople who are lacking in political rinciples have no l ight to politieal \ ecognition. To be sure there are housands and hundreds of thousands vho have no idea where they stand " litieall.v, who know nothing about olities and who care nothing about lolilics. They have a light to occupy i hat position if they want to; but they an nev? r expect to have any say in heir own government. They belong 0 the governed classes and rightly so. I'he president has no refcicnee to; 1 < : i. ii.i ? i it . . .1.'. 1 il' i?\ i:? l Ul.ill-, cur: |iru|#iu ' who arc always seeking political recognition for its own sake who would just as lief have such recognition from one party as the other, and who would truckle to or betray cither <v... c?r.h Virnnfit as thev mifjht see coming to themselves. Such people often find advancement for themselves by deceitful hook and crook; but they are never worth anything to the public. As *i matter of tact they have no desire to be worth anything to anybody but themselves. S. J. Kirby, one of the ni?>n convicted of the murder of William Brnzcll, has decided that he will no: sit in the electric chair today, and he will not. There is no good reason for his decision other than that he does not want to, a reason with which by the way/almost anybody who might be similarly circumstanced with Kirby might sympathize. It is this way. A. I). Martin, Kirby's attorney stuck - ?4 .rvtw.il That acted as JI1 il JIUlltC V/? (((/j/vm.. a stay of execution. Afterward .Martin served notice of the abandonmert of the appeal; but having; acted in the matter without Kirby's acquiescence, t was agreed among the lawyers that Kirby had a say. Upon being asked whether he desired to go off today or wait a little later, Kirby very naturally said he preferred to wait, That means that in the absence of further proceedings, Kirby cannot be executed until after ho has been resentenced at the next term of the Lexington court. If, however, he perfects his appeal within thirty days from the date on which he was sentenced, he cannot be re-sentenced until after the supreme court has sent his ease back to the court below. Hut in the meantime If. A. I. Itosenburg, an attorney of Columbia, has taken charge .of Kirby's case and also of the case of C. O. Fo'x. Attorney Rosenborg has given out that he does not consider that either Kirby or Fox have any chance to escape the electric chair o: any right to escape it; but it was hi; intention to get out a writ of habeas corpus yesterday for the purpose o' taking Fox before the supreme court in an effort to get time in which to perfect an appeal. All Rosenhurg wants, so he says, is to see that Kirby and Fox get an equal showing with Gappins. Word to the Wise. Here is some wisdom that is offered for the mutual benefit of those whe will heed it, and of The Yorkville En quirer. If it did not pay to advertise, the most substantial, intelligent and progressive people of the country woult not spend their money in that way. The Yorkville Enquirer has the largest circulation of any county papa | in the stut *, and circulation considered j its advertising rates are lower than i any other county paper in South Caroj lina. In proportion to the number of busii ness concerns in this community tht percentage of local advertisers in Tht ; Yorkville Enquirer is larger than thai of any other county newspaper 01 single community in the state. Every advertiser who brings business to himself because of his advertising also brings business to his fellow business colleagues, and to thai extent Jie business man who docs noi advertise is being benefited by tht business man who does advertise. The non advertising business man therefore is not only unfair to himself; but U the advertising business man. There is 110 bettt^ index to the enI terprisc, progress and co-uporulivt j spirit of any community than the number and variety of its advertisement} i in the local newspaper. And in a cast | where the newspaper is clearly equa to any requirement or demand thai I can be made upon it from a husitiesf I standpoint, all the time that it is bear| ing positive testimony to all the liv< I business concerns whose announceI nieiits are- appea-ing in its p.ig s, it is ! iki less :i living reproach *t? thos( \v!io ought In he but are not making a proper showing. The most progressive comnuiuitios | arc those which do the most constant j and vigorous advertising and it is beI cause of their constant vigorous advertising that they are progressive. More advertising will make this i newspaper more prosperous, and il | will make the advertisers more pros| peru us. MERC MENTION The college of William .and Mary at Williamston, Ya., has in slowed the degree of doctor of laws on President Harding An equestrian statute ot Stonewall Jacksop was unveiled at Charlottesville, Va., last Wednesday, in connect ion with the annual reunion of the Coal ( delate veterans of the state of Virginia at that place An attempt was made to assassinate Philip Scheideinann, a leader of the Herman majority Socialists at Ludcrs In if, tiermany, a i< \v days ago. Several shots \\li? ? ?I at Jiim, l>ut liti scaped without injur**. ? J. T. J farris, former ltidgo Crest mo-chant and brother-in-law of the late I ailed States Judge .Jeter C. i'ritchard, was * h rtrnruted at the state prison in Maleigh. yesterday morning1 at 10:8u for the killiti c of K \\\ .Moaned), philanthropist of Tusealoosc, Ala., at Midge Crest on September ;{. Two shocks were repaired to produce death. Harris left no statement regarding the killing. I.ed by his spiritual adviser, the lie v. <?. I!. Mit lieil of the Mantis! church of Cameron. I hurls ;i man :> r?.*i ><:u's of aye, walked without tall* rim; from liis ie alii chamber. lie clei-lin< <1 the assistance < r two prison pruardis to assist him lellinjr lie m he preh rrod lo walk alone. \s In passed tic cells of other lie n illnler death till lice lianas 1.??<! ?I in. lail s : ! init 11im; iin rely vnviii" his I,and as a farewell to ihem. When Harris took -his seat in the chair, lie eahnl.v watched the | ri- >11 ailac! <s i-tri'ii him in. showitiK no a'y:: o! (iintion. Atcorilin:r In Mr. Mil 'hell, the pi isoin r ale u hearty hreakla*?t rind told hint lie had slept well. LOCAL, AFFAIRS, I NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Klrkpatrick-Belk Co.?Cotton goods of; any and every kind are now here. Hardware Slaughter?Additional low prices. J. M. Stroup?Your shoes. Peoples Bank and Trust Co.?Do it yourself. McConnell's?You are invited to visit the big bargain centre. Robert Wylie,?Clover?Is agent- at Clover for the Columbia State. J. S. Riddle, No. 2 Clover?Is able to supply as much as 200 bushels of first Mass seed wheat. Carroll Bros.?Have cut price on bagging and tics. F. E. Quinn, Sheriff of York County? Sale of lend under tax execution. Geo. W. Williams, II. P.?Special meeting of Mackcy Chapter Royal Arch Masons next Wednesday night. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Shirley Mason today, and other good programmes following. Chester Fair Association?Fair begins November 1. ' Clover Drug Store?Eversliarp pencils. I Standard Mil Company, of New Jersey I ?Not accidentally good, made that way. It. .1. Reynolds Tobacco Co.?Prince A'bert. Louis Ruth?Norfolk Selects. The round trip rate for the state fair from Yorkville will be $4.70. Ford dealers are again finding difficulty in getting as many cars a.4 they can sell. The annual meeting of the Upper South Carolina conference is to be held tlii*f year at Lancaster, beginning November 2, \yith Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, of iluntington, West Virginia presiding, i When The Yorkville Enquirer recently stated that there were more than 1,300 "exhibits" at the flaston county fair it had intended to say more than 1,300 "exhibitors." The cx. hibits probably numbered something nearer like 13,000. Farmers around Clover have generally made good crops of cotton, and as a rule these crops have been made i on an ex|M>ctation of having to take i 10 or 11 cents for it. While of course ' they did not object to 25 cents .which figures thoy still believe among, i the possibilities of next spring many have sold around 20 cents, some as ' high as 21 cents. Much cotton has i been sold and a great many of last year's debts have been liquidated. At this time last year each subscription to The Yorkville Enquirer, if I even at $3 a year, represented tin > actual loss to the publishers; but now . there is some profit at $2.25 in clubs, provided the subscription list can be . raised to more than 3,000, and if we . can get it up to 4,000 or 4,500 we can i add manv interesting and valuable i features, without additional cost j either to the advertiser or subscriber. I Nothing would please us better than I to be able to do this. i 1 It is to the interest of every club- ' . make.* for The Yorkvllle Enquirer, us I well as to the*jhierost of The York. ville Enquirer itself, that the drive . for new subscribers be conducted as . vigorously as possible. The subscrip- j II tion price of The Yorkvillc Enquirer . j is remarkably low for a newspaper of its size and quality, and for those who .; know how to appreciate it. that offer J wffereby we arl proposing to give,the , paper to new Subscribers from the I time they subscribe to January 1, 192.1 l for the price of a year's subscription . is worth while. It has not been a great while since .! The Yorkvillc Enquirer had reached a > crisis during which it was reluctant to add more names to its mailing lists . for the reason that its facilities were ? already taxed t<? the utmost. Hut now The Yorkville Enquirer is equal to 5 any possible demand that can be made . up? a it either as to circulation or I advertising' spare. If necessary, we > could furnish 25,000 eight page papers j . twice a week, or if there was suffi, cient demand for advertising spare we j , could get out from sixteen to twenty- j . | four pages each issue?and that with- j , out additional facilities either in the I way of labor or machinery. If the bishop who presides over the l.'pper South Carolina Conference at ; I^'incaster fails to send ilev. M. T. j Wharton hack to Hickory drove cir- J . j cuit, there are a good many people in j that charge who are going to lie very I | much disappointed. During the two, i! years through which Mr. Wharton lias, 'labored in this charge, lie seems to have inspired his people with more: | earnest enthusiasm than lias hereto-j j I'oiv !?? ? : 1 developed :uui gcnci 'i haw a feeling that tin- energy, tact and I earnestnovs <>f Mr. Wharton have had I mui !i t<> dn with it, and they are 110 1 duul>t right. Of course good Metlio 'dists always acquiesce in whatever the bishop does and those people out in J I that Hickory drove charge are good 1 .Methodists; but also they are human, j and when humans ail to get what they ' want they simply cannot help being ; disappointed. DOX WAS COSTLY A box of cats which some Rood I ' brother brought to N'ew Ifomo church, colored. several miles east of York-J ; villt*, Tuesday night to a brx suppet i held there for the church benefit cost ! I eight young negroes th" sum of $1.0. | j The $120 however did not go into Unchurch treasury but into the coffers i of Yoik county through the medium I of Magistrate Fred C. Black. It was quite a Id : box supper hold I at the church end there were all I kinds of nice looking boxes to be :.uoI tinned. dn<- box especially nice was act near a w indow and some young lo gin v.bo > identify'was not mad 1 known slipped i! out of the window to other negroes on the outside. It I was taken into the woods win re it wa opened b\ eight negroes and its < i'li * \. i iiotiiii'd :in?I warrants' I \v<Ti> (."I WViliiosilay fur tlio iM I'c.-t ill" I i:;!it r!i,"l 'ci| .villi lll?' tlll'ft. | j Trial v is i in;- \\ r?l nfler. ! noil :il ,\ \V Home i lllll rll I! Mil V.lH'tl i ".lilil" III.'i !. v. "ill (Hit I" u;mmi cuiii t | t li< v.iTc uluiit I"" sihtIj: I urs wait-' illK l<> li: : I* tlti* 'iili'lli'l*. 'I'll'' (Mil ' I'l it ili iilfd tha< il wiailil Ik- lies! In j pli'-ail ;jii 111 v >} tin* lullowiinr w< r j I; \i'il. $15 each fur their little 1 ;?; I: Roy J.'imcivnn, Charlie, Greer, Ernest Adamr;, Arnese Blake, Hill Gaston, Ladle Burnett, Haskell Tate, Bud Allison. Each of the negroes was aaid to be under 21 years of ukc. HERE AND THERE ? The Yorkvillo Graded school football team left this morning for Winns ooro, wnere tncy engage me uinns- i boro High school in a game of foot- j ball this afternoon. ? "Lancaster county farmers suf- I ferod terribly from the drought of September with the result that the cotton crop in that county is very short," said yesterday Rev. J. L. Oates, D. I)., who returned Wednesday from Unity church, Lancaster county where he attended the fall meeting of Catawba Presbytery. It was Dr. Oates's first visit to that section in about twenty years. ? "If formers of the Clover community show that they are interested in the cultivation of sweet potatoes to any extent and will give us some idea of the amount of storage room they would be willing to use collectively wc will be pleased to build them a potato storage house of any capacity they want," said V. Q. llambright, cashier of the First National Bank of Clover, in conversation with Here and There the other evening. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Workmen are engaged .in painting the interior of the new townhall ? It is time to begin fattening hogs and a number of Yorkville residents who raise a hog or two every year are beginning to buy corn from the farmers of the community to be used for hog fattening. ? There were forty bales of cotton either totally or partially damaged in tho cotton tire ot jxnvry k, .?l UUI c, which occurred on the public cotton platform early Sunday morning; according to \V. it. Litiiner, bookkeeper for tho firm. The cotton was fully covered by insurance and the claim has been adjusted. ? 'Possum hunters living in this town of several thousand people do not find it necessary to leave Main street to catch 'possums. J. R. Can7 nou caught a 'possum last night on Main street and Auditor Rroadus Love killed one last night while it was trying to kill some of his chickens at his homo on East Jefferson street. ? Sa'es of cotton on. the Yorkville market sinc e September 15, total 1,500 bales according to report made this morning by K. E. McClure, public weigher. A sharp decline in selling is noticeable this week. Only 10 bales were sold Monday; 12 on Tuesday and 12 ou Wednesday. There was a slightly increased selling movement yesterday, sale of -10 bales being recorded. CATAWBA PRESBYTERY Financial reports from the twentyfour congregations constituting Ca^ tawba Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church which held its fall meeting at Unity church in Lancaster county were especially gratifying to voik county elders and ministers of the denomination who returned to their respective homes Wednesday afternoon after attending the meeting of Presbytery. The fall meeting of Presbytery opened at Unity Tuesday morning, being called to order by the retiring moderator, Rev. R. C. Urier. president of Erskino College. Rev. R. D. Byrd, pastor of Tirzah church moderator-elect presided over the meeting. Home mission work was stressed in an address delivered by Joseph Lind| say of Chester. Trial sermons wore preached by - ? .i i utiulfnta | three soconn year iiii-u.vh><~<>. ..? of Hue West, Messrs. A. K. White| sides, R. N. Baird and Mr. Boyd. The I three will he licensed to preach at the spring meeting of Presbytery in 1922. The report of the Prosbytorial clerk showed that every congregation was I represented at the meeting by an elder. It was decided to hold the May meet* | ing of Presbytery with the Winnsboro church. I York county churches were reprej sented at tin- fall meeting by the fol| lowing elders: J. N. Quinn, Smyrna; I W. \V. Castles, Hickory Grove; V. K. I Plexico. Sharon; J. W. Quinn, York[ ville; J. J. Henry, Crowder's Creek; John M. Hartness, Bethany: George S. | Williams, Clover; J. A. McFadden. Tirr.ah; J. II. R. Jenkins, Sr.. Rock Hill: [ Thomas Pa Hon, Xcely's Cret'k. Ministers of the county attending the meeting were Revs. R. G. Pressly, i Hickory Grove; K. R. Hunter. Sharon; W. P. Grlcr, Clover; R. I), llyrd, Tirzah; ??. W. Carmicliael, Lesslle; J. L. Oaten, York ville. A30UT PEOPLE S. t,. Blair of Sharon No. 1, was in Yorkville yesterday. J. P. Ashe of McConnellsvillc, was in Yorkville yesterday. Ren Paris of Yorkville, was in Rock Hill Wednesday. J. K. I.atham. ?>l* Sharon No. 1, was in Yorkville yesterday. Sam Pb xico, of Sharon No. 1, was in Yorkville, yesterday. J. A. Riddle, of Yorkville, has a badly sprained arm caused from tr\ing to crank a Ford. * 1 * 1 * ' M "" *' "1 >n? "VIpgVR S5 Mrs. >\. if. nit-mi . ?I?I .... Robert :in?l .(.Mines of Yorkville, were visitors in (Jartonia, Tuesday. Messrs. .1. ('. and A. 1'.. 1'laxco of Sharon, were visitors in Itoek Hill on Wednesday. ('. E. Holi: on, of New Orleans, is visitir.ar ids lather, Mr. J. W. Dobson. in Yorkville. Mr. .1. W. Jackson of ('lover N"o. 3, was amoiiK the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Rev. 1'aul Stroup of Newell. X. ('., visited the family of his father, W. K. Stroup, in Clover this week. Rev. E. I>. McCJill of Davidson, X. C., visited his mother, Mrs. Alex McCJill, in the Kinjr s Creek section, this week. Mrs. Alex McCJill has returned to her home in the Kinjrs Creek section, after I a visit ty relatives in Charlotte. Messrs. W. K. Turner and Frank j I'ope of AVinnsboro R. ! *. I). No. 3. | visited relatives and friends in the I Hkiirsville section this week. Airs. l? iJ. Bebcr. of Yorkville, was called to Ilickory (Jrove, yesterday, on account of the critical illn< ss of her j mother, Mrs. K. H. A. Smith. R. Krno.st Heath, formerly in the utile lillsilH :i ill YOfkvdle, .Mild now* ? traveling salesmen. living it) i Monroe, N. \v:is in Vorkville, Wednesday. Mrs. W. |). CJIorn and sons, Mos is. ' 11??1 ;*i and .lames, lift this moniinjr for I la i it.ii, to attend the mar- j i. of I if. T. L. Glenn to Miss M,.n;;uvt U iti-hfllor. 11.1\ is r.oyd. T'f'siilert of tin* local union in Yorkvillc of the International | T :;ti!c Work, is of America, and for sc\n ral > ar.; |>a -I ill the employ of the Cannon mill lure, ha.; lost Ids plane and has moved to the Arcade Cotton .Mill in lio.-k Mill, with his family. .Mr. ISoyrl is well known in this seein.., I,,, m-,? V..t,l,. Ctand of ?? i !c Lodge N?>. 136 of < ?tl?l Fellows I and I -riv of rii.irloilf Slr?-et llapiist ohiuvli. It is said fli.it lie i- the see >rul president of the local textile union >. to be dismissed from the service of the Cannon Company. t i/M/nnw rnAwc CIDCIIIT M IUF\Un T unuvc. V/Invwi >< The fourth quarterly conference of the Hickory Grove circuit, including the churches of Mount Vernon, Canaan, Sharon and Shady Grove, Rev. M. T. Wharton, pastor, was held in the new Methodist church at Sharon Wednesday, with Rev. Geo. C. Leonard, presiding elder of the Rock Hill district, in the chair. After a sermon by the presiding elder and a sumptuous dinner provided by the ladies of the congregation, final reports were submitted by the officials of the respective churches, showing unusually healthy activities throughout the entire charge. More than nine thousand dollars nas been subscribed to the cause of Christian education, and a new church has been built at Sharon at a cost of something over '6,000, all paid but about $1,500. The suin of $225 has been contributed to Epworth orphanage; $225 to sufferers in Europe and Asia and all obligations, including the pastor s salary and benevolences, will be paid in full. Upon nomination by the pastor officials were elected to serve during the ensuing year as follows: Stewards. Recording?C. W. Kirby. District?J. S. Wilkerson. Alt. Vernon?\V. S. Wilkerson, J. S. Wilkerson, Al. Wilkerson, C. W. Kirby, Jno. R. Cobb, T. A. Bratton, Grover Brown, J. P. Ramsey, W. B. Wilkerson. Sharon?AL AI. Jones, O. Al". Spurlin, W. O. Sherer, M. A. Helton, K. L. Bankhead. Shady Grove?W. R. Hays, W. A. Latham, H. E. Hood, Leslie Y. Latham, Win. i). Bankhead. Canaan?Jn<>. R. Ix>ve, A. W. Tx>ve, R. J. W. Moss. E. X. Wilson, BenJ. Childers, J. W. Brannon, R. AI. Bolin. T rustecs. Parsonage property?W. S. Wilkerson, J. I\ Ramsey, R. L. A. Smith, A. W. IjOvc, W. A. Latham. Alt. Vernon church?J.. S. Wilkerson. C. W. Kirby, Forrest Buiee, J. T. Smith, Dr. W. A. Hood. Canaan church?W. A. Love, Kelly .Martin, J. L. Alartin. Sharon church?Al. A. Helton, W. O. Sherer, AI. AI. Jones, Kobt. W. Hope, W. W. Edwards. Shady Grove church?W. R. Hays. H. E. Hood. Wylie H. 1'ruett. Lay Leaders: Charge, W. Boatty Wilkerson; Alt. Vernon, Marshall I Hood; Canaan. Wesley Love; Sharon, Al. AI. Love; Shady Grove, J. F. Ashe. Treasurers for Centenary and Educational Movement Funds: Alt. Vernon, John R. Cobb; Sharon, O. AI. Spurlin; Shady Grove, H. E. Hood; Canaan, A. W. Ixive; Charge, J. Alason \\ UKer^ug. Sunday Schools: R. L. A. Smith, superintendent and Forrest Buiee, assistant superintendent at Mt. Vernon. W. A. Latham, superintendent, and T? Y. Latham, assistant, at Shady Grove. R. J. W. Moss. superintendent, and J. L. Martin, assistant, at Canaan. M. M. Jones, superintendent, and W. O. Sherer, assistant, at Sharon. LOCAL LACONICS bullock's Creek Real Estate Sold. Estate lands of the late J. \V. Carroil of Bullock's Creek township consisting of 2u3 acres have been sold to I'aul Ferguson of Sharon, for $3,500. Fell Through Platform. Will Clinton, well known farmer living on York No. 3, has a badly gprainJ t'd leg, caused by his falling through a platform several days ago. He is able to be about on crutches. Influenza in Rock Hill. Quite a number of cases of real, genuine influenza are reported among residents of Rock Hill, within the past few days according to a physician of that city. Some of those suffering with the llu arc said to be very ill. To Move Chaingang. "We expect to move the chaingang to the West road next week," said Supervisor Brown, when asked about the matter yesterday. "I do not know what day: but I am pretty sure that we will get moved next week, and we will locate the camp a short distance cast of Black's mill. Disposed of Mortgaged Property. Charged with disposing of furniture which was under mortgage, Will I'M wards, negro of the Newport seclien was committed to jail Wednes' day. He was later released on bond of $200 for his appearance at the November term of the court of general sessions. No Fever tn Rural Communities. So far no cases . of scarlet fever among children ntt< ndiug tlie rural schools have been reported to Mrs. Crawford Dunlap, compulsory- smuui attend moo officer for York county and -Mrs. Dunlap believes there are no cases of the malady among rural school children. Scarlet fever is reported in Yorkville, Clover and Sharon. x j Sermon for Ex-Soldiers. < iypsy Smith, Jr., noted evangelist, who is conducting a meeting in Hock Hill, is to preach a special .sermon to j ex-soldiers at the bin tent in Rock 1 Mill at o'clock tonight. It is expect I ed that a large number of ex-service ! men from all sections of York county, I will be in llock Hill to attend the serj vice. Weevils In Piles. I-arge numbers of boll weevils are to be seen piled up at ginneries over the county, according to information received yesterday. The weevils are in| eluded in trash cleaned out of cotton by the ginneries and at every ginnery there is a larger or smaller pile. Most I of the ginners, it is said, are burning the trash piles in order to destroy the weevils. Rev. Howard Smith. Tiie body of Rev. Howard Smith, 32, ' pastor of the Presbyterian church at j Mission, Texas, who died in a hospital : at Temple, Texas, early Tuesday morn- I ing following an illness of many months, arrived in Yorkville Thursday morning and was buried in the cemetery at ie'crshobi Thursday afternoon, following funt ral services conducted by - -* " eiiiuoi.in Tilt, florciiscd. It* V. wr. r,. i4. mm . i? - who was the son ?>f .Mr. J. F. A. Smith ! of York No. 1, is survived by his widow, his parents' and a brother, J. Robert Smith. Union Improvement Association. Union School Improvement association in school district No. 515, i.s a. school improvement association in: deed as w li as in name, according: to ! a iii< iiibci* iif the association. The iin- ! provi nient association has prox ided tin I money to paint tlie new school htiildMitr and the painting: is now being contpietcd. The association lias provided tlii^s<*ho.i| x.iih a stove . 1 on< teach-* i r's desk and expects to provide a see- | ond desk witliin a short time. Mrs. I (Jettys Met'irter is president of the association, wiiieli has a nicmb. rship of j about sixty men and women ot the school district. Mrs. Annie Lawrence is treasurer. The fall term of Union school will open Monday with Mr. Ma:on Sifford of Clover, in charge, and Miss Lizzie Wood as assistant teacher. Miss Wood has been teaching in the Filbert school for a number of years. Clean-Up Squad Busy. Scores of ex-servipe men of York, Chester and Lancaster counties, have been in Rock Hill this week to appear before the government Clean-up squad which is passing ftpon compensation , claims of soldiers. The squad began work in Rock Hill Monday morning', its offices being located in*the Chamber of Commerce hall, and will conclude it3 work tomorrow. It is stated that the examiners found large numbers of ex-soldiers in this section suffering from various causes and filed their claims with the government. Arm May Be Saved. Surgeons at the Fennell infirmary u-x * ?Ua?. ...Ml K/v utrtiuvt; uiai \> 111 ij%z <i yn; iu ?u.vt? the arm of young James Hope,.aged 7, who had his arm broketi in three places and terribly mangled when it became ' caught in a gasoline engine at the 'homo of Mr. M. H. Stephenson near Sharon, with whom he lives, early on Tuesday morning. Dr. J. H. Saye of Sharon, who attended the lad after he received his injury, said that he first thought to cut the arm off, but later decided that it might be saved, and information from the hospital is that the member will probably be saved. Allison Surrendered to Sheriff. Dyers Allison, well known farmer living on the farm of his mother, Mrs. Rul'us Allison, near Sharon, who shot Walker Rice, colored, Tuesday morning, following a difficulty, surrendered, to Sheriff Fred Quinn Tuesday night, and is now in the county jail in Yorkvillo. It is reported that Rice is getting along quite nicely at a Chester hospital, where he was carried after the shooting and that he will probably recover. The cause of the shooting is ? unknown and Allison has declined to discuss the shooting. ? The Dyer anti-lynching bill imposing heavy penalties on persons involved in mob action resulting in the takling of life was ordered favorably reported yesterday by the house judiciary committee. The measure as reported provides that any member of a mob which puts some one to death shall be imprisoned for life or for not less than five years and that state and municipal officials, who, through neglect of duty, fail to prevent lynching, shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $5,000. Federal district courts would have jurisdiction. Any county in which a person is lynched, under the measure would be required to forfeit $10,000 which would go to the family of the victim. M113 oiu uennes a moo or riotous assemblage" as an "assembly composed of five or more persons acting in concert for the purpose of depriving any person of his life without authority of law." Representative Dyer, Republican, Missouri, author of the bill, said he would endeavor to bring it to a vote in the house at an early date. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? Orecnville^ Piedmont: Dr. R. F. Williams, of Roebuck, S. C., convicted last week in the United States District court on two counts for violation of the Mann White Slave Act and sentenced by Judge Watkins to serve two and one half years in the Atlanta penitentiary and to pay a fine of $1,000 was today granted bail in the sum of $5,000 for each case, or a total of $10,000. Ten citizens of Spartanburg county were here today to go on the bond and Dr. Williams will be immediately released from custody it is said. Mrs. Maud McAbee convicted with Dr. Williams of conspiracy to violate the Mann Act, and sentenced to a year and a day in the West Virginia State penitentiary, was granted hail in the sum of $5,000, but up to a i late hour today no one had put in an appearance to_go her bond and she is still in the county jail. ? There will be no execution today on account of the murder of William Rrazell, in Columbia. Attorney Rosenberg, of Columbia, went before Justice Cothran yesterday in habeas corpus proceedings in behalf of C. O. Fox, the only one of the three who had not yet itnnnro/l o etotr nf gontntinn lln UfQVPfl I lie presence of Fox. His petition set forth that the grand jury which had indicated Fox had not been sworn, and aJso that the ten-day limit in which an appeal must be filed in subvention of the constitution of the United States. Judge Co'hran turned him down on the ground that the ten day period provided due process, and that the petitioner had slep over his rights, which rights cannot not be ! restored. Rosenberg promptly appealI ed to the supreme court, which appeal, , | acting as a stav of execution, put Fox [over today, and he will have to be resentenced before he can lie executed. As to whether the case will drag in- . definitely will jlepend upon the pleasure of the supreme court. Rosenberg says that he is only trying to have all three of the murderers treated alike. STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS More Important Features in Situation Yesterday. Following were Thursday's developments in the railroad strike situation: Conferences between the labor board and presidents of five unions which have ordered a walkout adjourned with the announcement from the hoard that no definite results were obtained, and the union chiefs returned to Cleveland. Eleven 'standard" unions, representing nearly three-fourths of the country's railway workers and which have voted for, hut have not called a strike, marked time pending confer 1 J thn i-necs oeiween ine juuur muu Biff Five." Secretary of Commerce Hoover announced plans have been completed by his department for transportation of essentials in case of a rail tie-up. Chairman McChord of the interstate commerce commission and Acting Attorney General Goff conferred with President Harding over the rail situation. Eastern roads advertised for men to till vacancies which would result from a strike. Central ltailroad of New Jersey received so many replies that it announced 110 more can be considci od. American Railway Men's association, with 10,000 members, apneals to * railroad workers not to strike. Railroads announce poll of employees to ascertain how many will remain at work if there is a strike. Now strike vote ordered among Pennsylvania lines shopcraft workers. Announced that interstate commerce commission freight rate decisions in regard to hay, grain and lumber are imminent. Officials of Southern railway announce it was not represented at reel nt Chicago rail executives* meeting, where plans to seek a new 10 per cent, wage cut were announced.