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semi- weekly | l. m. grist's sons, publisher.. g, <jfantH]| ^1 cirspiipcr: ^jt'or the jjromofion of the political,'Social, Agricultural and <fommerkrial Interests of the $fopty. J8 ESTABLISHED^7855 YORK, S. C.. T CJKSP A, Y, QCTOBER^o, 1921. NO. 8ft ^ 1 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interesf. PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks ?nd Things, Some o* Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "There will be no railroad strike on October 31," declared James Cansler, of the South Carolina railroad com- : mission who was in Yorkville last Friday. "The railroad brotherhoods haven't got the nerve to pull a strike because they know good and well that public sentiment is against them. You will find that the strike will be settled befor^the day set for the walk-out." The Battleground Property. "If there has been any defacing of the monument at King's Mountain Battlegi*>und I was unable to detect it during a visit of several hours to the historic spot last Sunday," said yesterday a Yorkville man who went to the Batt'eground Sunday with a party of friends. "Looked to me like the premises were in pretty good shape. Even the grand stand there appeared to me to be in pretty good condition all things considered. The Battleground appears to need a pretty | thorough cleaning up but if there is | any thing else wrong with it I wasn't able to tell." When Small Game Was Numerous. "Noticed in The Yorkville Enquirer Friday where a couple of 'j>o.ssums were caught in town," said a citizeri of many years'" residence yesieraay. i, guess those 'possums had been caught by hunters and caged and then got i loose. However there was a time when one could go. a half mile in almost any direction here and catch them. Forty years ago I remember shooting partridges nlong Main street and there are numerous garden spots just off Main street where I have killed them , on numerous occasions." Work on the Road. Talked to Mr. A. J. Parrott a few days ago about the progress of road v work, and especially about the * fine work he -has been doing on the Rock ! Hill road between Yorkvi'le and Tir zah. He did not appear to be at all I satisfied. "We have too much to do and not [ enough to do it with," he foxid. "Those i old trucks with which we are trying to work were worn out before we got them and you can't keep them going ihan n fmv dnvs out of each month. We have to put in too much time fixing the trucks. If we had some good machines, we cojild do more work and. better work in less time and at less expense." Safest Anaesthetic. Stood by a day or two ago while Dr. j W. G. Ward, of the Fennell Infirmary | was performing som? minor surgical I operations?or in other words remov- i ing adenoids for a couple of little j children. Views and Interviews was i responsible for the children and of, course there was no objection to his \ presence. And under the circumstances of course, Dr. Ward made no objection to j answering any and all questions, of which Views and Interviews asked quite a number. The doctor was not anticipating any publicity, however, and if there is to be any quarrel about repeating some of the things he said. Views and Interviews will have to answer for that later. "This thing of removing adenoids." he said, "is about as simp'e a thing as j we take up the knife for. There is no j danger to it, and not a great deal of pain. The worst thing about it is the fact that the seat of pain cannot be | reached by a local anaesthetic and we [ have to render the patient unconscious by the use of ether." "Well, doctor, how much danger to the patient is there in the use of ether?" "We don't consider that there is any. 1 have never known a fatality or a serious consequence from it. Of course a person could be killed with it; out i can hardly conceive of a fatality under circumstances where those who were administering the anaesthetic had the slightest knowledge of what they were doing." "What about chloroform?" "That's different. Chloroform is useful in its place;, but we have to be more careful with it. There have been cases where patients have died of chloroform aftei; getting on'y a few whifs of it, and before getting under the influence of it. Such cases are rare; but they have occurred. We never use chloroform where ether will do and cases where ether will not do are rare. "The biggest thing in an operation like the removal of adenoids is getting the patient under the anaesthetic. Alter that the balance of the operation only takes about a minute." This conversation and more like it was taking place while the patients were being put under the influence of the anaesthetic by specialists in that line of work. When they said "ready," the doctor got busy and in less than two minutes afterward lie had eomul" ?">> e it tnnk about the |HPUU III--. ..v.n. .. -- -same time for eaeh ??f two patients, and two hours afterward both were on their feet and ready to travel. Although not a "specialist" in this - line, Dr. Ward is a thoroughgoing ex. - 'i!,r v pert. He served five years as an interne in a great hospital and during that time handled literally thousands I of cases. During the past few years ] since he has been out of the army he I has been handling many hundreds : more cases at Fennell's, and there are ! few if any fo:ks in his line wno nave ja better understanding of their buslI ness." EGYPTIAN LIFE IN ESAU'S DAY" __ Excavators Made a Great "Find" in March, 1920. i Visitor!; to the Metropolitan Museum in New York will find in the Egyptian department a rare collection of objects taken from one of the Theban tombs in March, 1920. The Egyptian expedition of the museum was about to end a rather fruitless year "when workmen who were removing debris from the tomb of Mehcnkwetrc, a steward of the royal household at Thebes in the eleventh dynasty, uncovered a crack opening into a secret chamber that for four thousand years nns escapea me snurp eyes of archaeologists. When they opened the chamber they found that it was crammed with myriads of little statuettes of men and of animals, sawed from wood and brightly painted. They represented the spirits attendant on the spirit of Mehenkwetre, whose image is conspicuous among those of his servants. In Mehenkwetre's time it was the custom when anyone died to place in such a chamber a statutte of the dead man and beside it a few figures of servants at their daily tasks, eternally preparing food and drink for the dead owner of the tomb. Thc*o had been small finds of that kind before, hut none so interesting. Mehenkwetre was a man of great wealth and power, and ir. order to duplicate the bountiful existence he had led he had during his lifetime supplied himself with the largest collection of models that has yet been found. The models depict minutely the daily life of the Egyptians who lived when Jacob and Esau were playing at their mother's knee. Among the objects are little images of stall-fed oxen and a model of a slaughterhouse with the cattle trussed and thrown on the ground nnd the head butcher and his assistants standing by.. There is a granary in whicn clerks with their paprus rolls and tablets are keeping the accounts while two men scrape up the wheat in measures and load it into sacks and carry it upstairs to dump into capacious bins. There is also *a carpenter shop in which men arc working on beams and planks. Among the most interesting of the models are those of ox boats and their passengers and crews as they moved up and down the Nile in that distant day, two thousand years before Christ was born. The boats arc about four feet long, and the statuettes are eight or nine inches high. The boats are manned by from twelve to eighteen sailors besides the helmsman, bowman and captain. In each boat Mekenkwetre is at his ease, in some cases smelling a lotus bud, with his son on one side and on the other a singer, who is patting his mouth with hie hand to give his voice a warbling sound. A spirit of humorous fidelity inspired the man who made the boats. In the cabin of one sits a steward beside a bunk, under which are tucked two little round-topped traveling trunks much like those in use a generation ago. The carving of the little figures is sc arcely on a high arctic pie no, oiu the maker has shown observation, and with the brilliancy of the color there is a liveliness and cheerfulness about them that much of the more formal Egyptian work lacks. By Egyptian law one half of the find remains at Carlo. PAYING TAXES WITH CORN Money is Scarce hut There is Plenty of Corn in Georgia. The following story relating to a very novel way of paying taxes was gr thered at the Richmond County Court House from one who has recently returned from Evan.. Columbia county, and who actually saw taxes paid in that manner, relates an Augusta, (la., dispatch. It seems that the official:: of Columbia county have hit upon a most . convenient and unique system for collecting taxes ii that they allow the citizens* of that county to pay their road tax in corn, not the liquid hut 1 I he commodity. The corn is valued : at one dollai a bushel and is accepted i at that rate in lieu of cash in the payment of road taxes. Many of the citizens are taking advantage of that novel j way of selling a crop and jsaying their i taxes by the wagon load. The probable reason for this unique method of collecting taxes is the fact that money is so scarce and the freight rates so hi^li that Hie prom irom .1 crop would lie very little more to the farmer if it were sold than if it were used to pay the taxes and also the fact that Columbia county needs corn as food for its stock. The idea has its appeal and its advantages to both the county and the farmer. You can fool some of the people all the time, but they don't include youi wife's relatives. Secretary Davis urges us to trust , one another. Hard experience ha* I proved that there is no profit in trying 'to-bust one another. [ ECONOMIC DISCONTENT ! Age Old Trouble Coming to a Crisis. FLIM-FLAMMERS STILL IN SADDLE Federal Reserve System, Theoretically j Perfect in its Quality of Elasticity, j I Allowtd to Fall Into The Hands of; Financial Manipulators Who Use ft as a Means of Oppression. J In no state in the union probably i have the people a keener appreciation i UI mf RlHIIIlCr 111 V?Illl? mc liuna their toil are commandeered, and appropriated by great financial and industrial combinations than in North Dakota. And in no other state have the people been waging a more vigorous or intelligent fight for the right of enjoying a. fair share of the n.-oceeds of their labor. The fight is going on despite terrific odds and it is making headway educationally at cast. Unable td accept a pressing invitation to again go on the North Dakota hustings at this time, Hon. John L. McLaurln has undertaken to do what he can with an open letter, the contents of which will be of Interest to many people in South Carolina. Bennettsville, S. C. Oct. 7th, 1921. Hon. Wm. Lemke, Atty. Gen. Bismarck, North Dakota. My Dear Sir: It is a source of sincere regret that I am unable to accept (at this time) your invitation to deliver a series of speeches in North Dakota. I recall most pleasantly the many delightful acquaintances I made on a former occasion. The radlcnl action of the Federal Reserve board in 1920, brought ruin to every agricultural section in the United States. South Carolina is suffering Just as you are and from the same cause. In a bro'ad sense this country is in | thp throes of a revolution, but as yet we have not fully realized it. The ! present eivi'ization reached its climax ! on the day the armistice was signed ! and mighty changes are before us. I am no sensationalist and 1 am too old to enjoy th? sound of an alarm bell, but I do feel sure, that unless present tendencies are checked ana conditions changed, speedily changed, I distress nnd violence in this country,' within ten years, will work a ruin to I which the loss and damage of the great i war will see m puny by comparison. I have Just read a thoughtful address delivered by Hon. Jas. M. Heck, Solicitor General, to the Uar Association in Cincinnati. Its subject is "Our Lawless Age." Mr. Beck refers to the unprecedented challenge the world over "to all constituted authority, reaching the great primitive institutions of mankind, like the family, the church and the state." It is a powerful address, but I think Mr. Beck is wrong in that he attributes this Condition entirely to moral or spiritual causes. He aoes refer to the "aversion to work so prevalent everywhere"; and this is thekey to the prob'em, my own belief being that it is fundamentally a rebellion ' against an industrial system, which ( denies to the creators of all wealth a I fair share of the product of their toi'. i I IT. :-w1l?ia,.al ta nn I I i rit' SMi y & mac nits iciuviuum 10 longer the unit of society, which is j absolutely true. The class or combination has superseded individualism?a j logical sequence of this age of trusts, i ; These have taught us the lesson of ; accumulation through co-operation. .Association in the future will be the 1 dominating principle of human civili: zation. The genesis of what we call [ "a lawless age" is. that under our presi ont system, there is association only [ for the favored classes; therefore sill : pro|>erty naturally gravitates toward 'he already rich, and opportunity each day becomes smaller for the outsider. If Mr. Beck had come into contact with the mudsills, (as I have for 25 years), he would see that the agitaj lion and discontent of one generation | with its propaganda, is now finding expression in deeds rather than words, j and that moral and spiritual manifes- , tations are merely the reflex of material conditions. The subt'e unseen and unconscious working of the masses ! for the enthronement in government of the principle of association for all j mankind instead of favored classes. 1 This makes it an iconoclastic age. The unceasing brooding over wrong has ever been the tremendous lever by, which from ago to age mankind has been lifted from one epoch into I | another. A mighty evolutionary force j .< . is now at work, and the "rebellion ( against all constituted authority" with , < j the moral and spiritual conculsions i which excite the attention of scholars | like Mr. IJeck are only the tremors'! which precede the earthquake shock j and the final settling down. 1 believe in an over-ruling God. We ( are wandering in the wilderness now. hut when we are prepared through , trial, suffering and sell denial, we will I I pass the Jordan into the promised i land, where men shall know each I | other as brothers. i Take your financial troubles in North , Dakota?they are of a kind which are occurring in every agricultural see- ( tion. They are directly nttribulabl ?: i to the administration of the Federal! i Reserve banking system, which was,. ! prostituted to the interest of a small! fuvored class of our citizens,. who| actually produce nothing:, but live by manipulating the products of others. The report of the comptroller of the currency shows that four or five times as much money was loaned to nationr? 1 Vtnnlru i n Vfttl.' Vr?T*lr n n/1 PViinn err* Sn CXI M<xiil\D IK v*? * vi a aim silica 111 proportion to their resources, on bills payable and rediscounts, as to all of the country banks in proportion to their resources. The Reserve Act in theory is the most just and scientific plan of finance yet devised by human thought, but in its administration the most rapacious and autocratic with which our people have ever been cursed. While Mr. Beck was talking about "the rebellion against all constituted authorities," he seems blind to the cruel and flagrant vio'ation of the spirit of this law, by those so highly placed as to be above law and immune to punishment. The banks where there was no distress were lavishly supp'ied with money and credit, while tho country hanks were ham-strung. The products of their customers were forced en bloc on a declining market. Our cotton fell from 43 to 8 cents, rendering the Collateral worthless to protect advances by the country janks. Mr. John Skelton Williams, exZtomptroller of the currency deserves the thanks of all good citizens for his qilendid courage in exposing this in justice and ho'ding its authors up to public reprobation. In his testimony before the congressional committee, he taid "four or Ave large banks in New fork p.nd Chicago were borrowing 'rom the Federal Reserve as much as 'our or five thousand banks"' in western and southern sections embracing !1 great agricultural states. In replyng to Mr. Williams ths chairman of :he board, beclouded the issue by dating that in October, 1920, the board lid grant $712,000,000 of discounts, jut he neglected to state that $500,100,000 of this war dispersed through :hose same New fork and Chicago ?anks. In addition to this the official Igures wilj show that four banks in Mew York, were loaned twice as much ts the maximum amount loaned at any >ne time on agricultural products in he whole United States in 1920. Mr. Williams also states that the igricultural banks were carrying two million more paper' than New York, Chicago and St. Louis combined. What jinister purpose could have inspired piling up practically all of the money >f the country in these- large cities, :xcept to force deflation at the expense )f agriculture L. Your state is purely agricultural ind your banks and farthers were hit ,vith the balance of us. Your political jpponents are taking advantage of a general condition to attack your state tank and other institutions, instead of lupporting them. I believe your peotle are too intelligent to be deceived by such rot. I do not think I know a nan in public life, in whose honesty ind patriotism I have more confidence han Gov. Frasier. With kindest regards and sincere vishes for your success. Yours truly, Jno. Lowndes McLnurin. POWER COMPANY SUES Cotton Mills Refused to Pay Increased Rates. Suits were filed last Thursday by he Southern Power company of Charotte against 10 leading cotton mills n this section of the state for alleged 'ailure to pay their power bills ns almvnrf liv the Inst rate increase under he ruling of the Corporation comnission. The aggregate of the suits amount o somewhat between $50,000,000 and 175,000. The initial papers were filed In Sreenshoro by W. S. O'B. Kohlnson, )f the legal staff of the plaintiff fomnnny. The hearings will be in federal ourt for the Western district of S'orth Carolina at a time and place to jo fixed by the court. The 10 mills against whom the suits .vere brought are: The Jewell cotton nills of Thomasville; Wiscasset mills ompany, of Albermarle; A. M. Smyre Manufacturing company of Gastonia; ['atterson Manufacturing company, of ^hina Grove; Kesler Manufacturing ompany of Salisbury; Groves mills. Inc.) of Gastonia; Kflrd Manufacturing ompany, of Albermarle; Carbarrus otton mills of Concord; Arazon cotam mills of Thomasville, and the Gannon Manufacturing company, of Concord and Kannapolis, The suits represent the difference letwecn the old rates and the new ates. which is greater in some cases :han in others, though each of the wits involves amounts well above $3,100. There has been no difficulty in collecting the charges under the old ates. The bills unpaid are for August and September. Gasoline Prices.?In Lexington gasoline sells for 18 cents a gallon; in Dillon it sells for 24 cents. You may not want to believe it but the figures ore there?in an advertisement in this week's issu? of The Dispatch-News. Why this difference? Dillon has superior freight advantages. Are Dillon consumers being over-charged for gasoline or are the distributors discriminating against Dillon? It is up to local dealers lo investigate the mat ter. If Dillon is neing tliscnminnieci ugainst the federal authorities should he asked to take a hand' in the game. ?Dillon Herald. SMITH TO SOLDIERS ? \ i Qrnroc nf rnnvorfo Vieihlo Doenlt nf UUUI IrO Ul UUIIfUllU VIUIUIU I1UUUII Ul Services Friday Nlgbt. MANY EX-SERVICE MEN WERE PRESENT . 'i :> People of All Walks of Life Hit the Godly Trail?Ex-soldiers Outsang All the Rest?Gypsy Smith's Sermon Made a Touching Appeal to Thousands. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Rock Hill. Oct. 21?Ex-service men lo the number of about 400, sat at attention without the direct word of command being given at the Gypsy Smith tent here tonight surrounded by 2,600 other people and heard a nnivorfnl miiK'jnirn frnm the ova nee list preaching from the text found in Daniel 5:27: Thou Art Weighed In the Balance and Art Found Wanting." Kx-soldiers, some of them who perhaps had not been inside the door of a religious meeting in months listened with great interest to the simple, straight-forward message from Gypsy and the hearts of many of them were moved. It was Service Men's night at the big tent. They came from ail sections of York county ar.d they began to gather around the Rock Hill postoffice before 7 o'clock which hpd been, designated as the hour at which they were fo march in a body to their reserved seats in the center of the tentea tabernacle. At the call of assembly they lined up in the street in correct formation as they used to do in their service'days and they responded with the old time snap and ginger to the terse commands of Hiram Hutchison, former lieutenant who was asked by Perry Gill, commander of Frank Roach Post of the American Legion, Rock Hill to round them into marching order. . ' v They marched with snappy step to the beating of a drum toward the big top and when they reached there the i vast congregation already arrived stood up and cheered. A fine looking bunch of chaps they were?well groomed, clean-cut, intelligent looking lads. They took their seats without making any fuss about it as most audiences are won't .u do and they waited most attentively for the exer cises of the evening to begin. Gypsy Smith's choir leader |Prof. Allen conducts a song service each evening for about thirty minutes preceding the sermon and it was said that there was more pep put into the song service tonight than usual. Most interest centered in the hymn the chorus of which includes the line: "Love Lifted Me." The choir sang it over and over again. Variojs sections of the audience were invited to sing it. That section in which the ex-soldiers were seated was inrited to sing it last. Practically every service man entered into the chorus and they fairly shook the top of the big tent with the volume of song from 400 healthy throats. They sang it like they used to sing 1 "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France," or other popular song of days a gone. Gypsy Smith was pleased and Cho'.r leader Alien was pleased while tne regular choir was apparently surprised. Man to Man Sermon. It was a regular he-mnn sermon that the Gypsy preached. It was a sermon that got next to the skins of the soldiers and that got next to the civilian congregation as well. The Gypsy shot it out in simple fashion? in a fashion that appealed to an unusual degree somehow. In dramatic fashion he recited the ! story of Belshazzar the king of Baby- | ion who was left in ?harge of the great city while his father was away with the main army fighting the hnemies of the kingdom. He vividly described the city of Babylon. He j vividly described Belshazzar as a young fellow intoxicated because of j temporary power and who conceived I the idea of holding a greiit feast dur- | ing his father's absence at which time a thousand lords and ladies would fete ! him and pay homage to him. It was n great feast, he said. Men and women were drunk with wine. Half naked dnncing women were there to amuse them. Beishazzar was not satisfied but % remembering that his grandfather Nebudchadnezzar had captured the golden vessels from the temple of the God of the Jews he sent for them that his nobles and their ladies might drink his health from them. Thus they desecrated the holy vessels of God. Then he saw an arm without a body appear on the wall and begin writing | an unintelligible writing. Beishazzar was worried. He sent for his wise men and soothsayers. They could not interpret the inscription. His mother told him that he had in jail a young fellow named Daniel, a Jew and a : prophet who could read the writing. Daniel was se.-t for and Beishazzar - - - - - . I offered to make him the third ruler In the kingdom if he would read the writing. Ho wanted to buy Daniel and felt sure that he could buy him. Many Belshazzars. "There are lots of chaps In the world today like Belshazzar," said Gypsy turning aside from his recital. "They believe that their money can buy , anybody and anything. They say that every man has his price. I say to you it is an infamous lie. Daniel was willing to interpret the writing all right; In in noi ior price. Well'he interpreted the inscription! on the wall which meant that Belshazzar had been found unworthy, that he had been weighed in the balances and found wanting and that he was to lose his life and the kingdom of Babylon was to be divided unto the Medes and Persians, And it was so. The enemy changed the channel of the river Euphrates that night and then marched under and into the city by means of the dry river bed. A thousand great lords and ladies were slain that night and Belshazzar along with them. We are all to be weighed in the balance as was Belshazzar said Gypsy as he nroceeded to aonlv the storv to present day people. The same scales that weighed Belshazzar are going to be used to weigh us. Ask yourself now, How must do I weigh in the sight of God? It is possible to be a heavyweight in the sight qf Rock Hill and a lightweight in God's eye which is the only standard that counts. If you are not worshiping God you are a heathen and there are heathen in Rock Hill and throughout York county just as there are heathen in the wildest parts of the world, Some men worship money as their god; otners worsnip amouion; oiners have no thought for worship save the worship of fame or position or other god. Money is a good thing. God wants us to get all we can honestly but when money comes between man and God money is wrong.. There are other weights that cast us down. Some men and lots of women are cast down by the weight of society. The social swim is their god. They live for society and for the clique to which they belong. What society does is their rule and guide regardless of whether or not it is right or wrong. Society and social matters are the weight that will cast them into outer darkness. Sin of Profanity. Turning to the ex-service men Gypsy dwelt at length on the sin of profanity and taking the name of God in vain. Lots of you men and you women too, do not think and do not mean it when you curse but it is a sin all the same. It is a sin that is growing among the women as well as the men. I followed two young business women of Rock Hill down the street the olher day following the woman's prayer meeting service. I heard one say "Oh My God. this " No gentleman swears and. no lady swears. You had better watch the habitual cusaer. Personally I wouldn't trust him with my wife for five minutes. It is wrong, it is wicked and ugly. "You can always tell what kind of wheels a man has in his head by the spokes that come out of his mouth." He made a most powerful appeal to his hearers to honor their parents. Almost all that we are and will be, he said, we owe to the fathers and mothers who have reared us. There is many a chap wearing a striped suit who wouldn't be wearing it if he had listened to his dad. There is many a girl behind the redlight door wjio wouldn't be there if she had listened to her mother. Don't call your dad ' the old man." Don't call your mother, "the old woman." Be respectful to your parents, young men. Don't hurt their feelings or wound their sensibilities. Remember that there are other ways of killing them besides shooting them with a gun. The evangelist closed his sermon with warning against the sin of adultery and spoke of the evils that It caused. The state holds you responsible for your acts only; but God's law holds you responsible for your thoughts. Be clean in thought as well as deed that you may inherit eternal life. Many Hit Godly Trail. Following his sermon he issued an invitation to all to make profession of faith in Jesus Christ. Response^ were slow at first, but as the choir sang they increased and scores and scores made the promise to live right and clean. Ex-soldiers with tears streaming down their faces gave the Gypsy their hand. Old men and women went up. Young husbands a?d their wives went. A notorious gambler of Rock Hill marched up. Evidently one Rock Hill blind tiger went up because an exservice man was heard to retnark, "there goes a fellow from whom I have bought many a quart of liquor." m'- - 4 a olrtnr and thn 1 IK* CIIUU IUMUHUCU IV/ PIU5 UKU ???v converts continued to come?some smiling, some with an expression of sadness and remorse; others in tears. The service was closed with a benediction and prayer by Rev. R. D. Bryd of Tirzah who fervently thanked God for the manifestation of the preaching of His word that night. The sen-ice was unusually leng; but no member of the great throng remarked the fact. Practically all of these present were stirred. ? A negro named Ed Kirkland was burned to death at Appleton in Allendale county yesterday for the killing of Eugene Walker a farmer in a dispute arising out of a rent settlement. The dispute began last Saturday. Walker met Kirkland on the streets of Appleton yesterday morning and demanded a settlement, Kirkland fired on Walker killing him immediately. The negro tried to make his esceoe but was captured by the sheriff. A mob was already forming. The negro jumped off a train on which he was being carried to Columbia anu was shot to death as he ran. The body was burned. i ROCK HILL NEWS BUDGET Interesting News of York (jwntys j| Metropolis. PROMINENT-UNION LEABEBS COME j Big Armistice Day Celebration la Be* ing Planned?Order? Taken Among Farmer? for Thousand? of Fruit Traaa r.Uaw.llw .Qmiad I nUrv iouPoW 235 Ex-soldiers. (By a Staff Corretpondent.) , Hock Hill. Oct. 22?The United States government Clean-up squad today | completed six days of strenuous labor helping out disabled veterans here and they did a most thorough Job of It, Interviewing no less than 2S5 ex-service j men of York, Lancaster and Chester counties during the week end. 'The ma-' ! jority of those former, soldiers who \ came before the squad were Yv,rk county men whose attention was brought to their prseence through co- i operation of the four American Legion posts of the county and the several Red I Cross chapters. "I'd Just l?'-e to say," said Mr. R. D. j Glover advance agent for the Cleanup squad in discussing its work with the correspondent of the Yorkville Enquirer this morning, "that we have gotten more co-operation and assistance from the American Legion posts in York county in connection with' 'our work in this territory than we have in any other sections of the state with 'the possible exception of Charleston, ( where the largest American Legion i post in the state is located. The American Legion poets of Rock Hill and Yorkville, especially, have beon untiring in their efforts to bring*.~tbe attention of ex-service men to the fact that we were here this week and officials of both posts have given orach !; of thetr personal time to brinJflMg worthy cases to our attention." Mr..Glover said that 8f medical examinations were made in Rock Hill and 75 new claims were completed. The Clean-up squad whlcji left here this afternoon for Laurens where they will be engaged the first three "daysof next week is in charge of John Andrews, squad manager, and Includes the following personnel: Dr. Joseph 8. Stewart, Jr., physician of tho Veterans' Bureau; James F. Davis, vocational adviser; Mm. M. T. Coleman. Red Cross 'representative; W. H. King secretary to Squad Manager Andrews; R. O. Glover, advance agent. Fruit Tree Campaign Concluded. Several thousand more fruit treos will flourish on Y<yk county farms next year as the'result of a campaign for the planting of more fruit trees which Miss* Juanita Neely, York County Woman's Home Demonstration agent has just completed la cooJuctlon with the Chamber of Commerce of Rock Hill. During the campaign which closed last Thursday orders were taken among farmers for 8,800 strawberry pianta; 2,216 peach trees; 750 apple trees; 150 pear trees; 70 plum trees; 78 pecan trees; 92 cherry trees; 2 quince trees: 18 figs; 240 grape vines and 165 berry plants. These trees and plants will be distributed about December 1, to Yorkville, Clover, Sharon, Fort Mill, and Rock Hill. Big Day for Veterans. Frank Roach Post Afh^ricari Legion ' * of Rock Hill, Perry Gill, post commander, is aniious to have ex-soldiers from every section of York county In Rock Hill on November 11, "Armistice day as guests of the York County Fair. Frank Roach Post Is co-operating with the fair association in try ing to get every white ex-soldier ot York county to come to Rock Hill that day. A big dinner will be served free of charge to all soldiers and a most attractive programme is being arranged. one of the features of which will be an address by Major John D. Frost of Spartanburg, an ex-soldler and one of the most prominent members of the American Legion In the state. Secretary Fewell of the fair as- * sociation said today that dinner would be prepared for no less than 500 exservice men. Chester Defeated Training School. Chester High school defeated Wlnthrcp Training school at football here yesterday afternoon, 19 to 0. * The Chester lads were thirty pounds heavier to the man than the Rdbk Hill lads, it is said and Won the game by sheer weight. The game was witnessed by a large number of football fans and fanettes. The Chester boys were very well behaved here It Is aaid and gave no evidence of the alleged rough and ungentlemanly condict said to have been exhibited in a game played in Fort Mill a few days previous, which caused the Fort Mill high school to determine to sever all athletic relations with them in future. ' Union Leaders Active. High officials of the United Textile Workers of the World were In Rock Hill today directing a campaign for increased membership In the local textile union which is said to now number more than 1,500 textile workers of Rock Hill. The party here today included Frank McKosky, first vice president of the United Textile Workers; A. Gordon, representative bf the American Federation of Labor and the International Garment Makers' Union and Edward F. Calahan, organizer for the United , Textile .* 7\ ' *v*' iVi(Continued on Page Two) a I . ,-j _e . ... . :..r. . 2