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* it : *. - j ' v ' 'IJ ? , k -> * * '* , .?. ._L , l_ ... _ Li ', ' ' ) -IIS ^ SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ______?? p* ...... . . . I ifflifPg l. m. grist's sons, Pubiiihers. g, ^amils) >1 cir5ipapei*i ^f'or tlu JiJrotnofioR of the political, fecial, Jjpiritltop! and tfommci-cial interests of the fjeopty. TER^^^^,EwyiNcBS?f,^a I l. '- ??_________ ? T, r i i ESTABLISHED 1855~ ZZH I YORK, s7C.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4,1921. . ISTO. 88 ' VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of Afore or Less Interest. PICKED CP BY ENQl'IKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Kr.ow and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. Western York county doctor Was discussing the interview of a doctor in the last issue of The Yorkville Enquire **in which it was stated that the doctors were even more poorly paid than preachers for service rendered. "But the doctor has the edge on the preacher in one respect," said this doctor, who was discussing the article. "* * /Inou nnt ne cun cums uir icuun <>nv Hw? pay him and the preacher can't do that." The Boll Weevil Down State. "I talked to many farmers from down state while at the state fair last week who drew tragic pictures of conditions in their representative communities as a result of the boll weevil's depredations," said W. E. Ashe of McConnellsville who was in Yorkviilo yesterday. "One farmer who lives near Leesville told me that last year he made twenty bales. The boll weevil did not show up to any appreciable degree. This year he made 600 pounds on the same acreage. One sees signs of the work of the boll weevil at Blaekstock in Chesler county. From there to Columbia the fields are bare." Adult Schools This Winter. "In all probability ten schools for adult illiterates will be held in York county along about the first of next year," said Superintendent of.Education Carroll yesterday. "Miss wil Lou Gray of Columbia, state supervisor 01 ' adult schools was in my office Wednesday and expressed herself as being anxious to start ten schools in this county, so well pleased was she with the work done this summer, Due to the fact that there is always considerable moving from this time on until ubout the first of the year it is deemed well to wait until then to begin this work." Stepped into the store of the Garrison-Faris Setd company in Rook Hill, the other day to get/h peck of Abruinsi j rye and some narcissus and hyacinth bulbs. Was struck with the big piles of different kinds of seeds the company has in stock, ur.d a'so with the number of other customers there were in i!:< that time of day, i SpeCiUllj oiuiv .... about 12.30 o'clock. While he was waiting on me I arkrd Mr. Ganison: j "Are they going to sow any wheat?*' "Well, I should say they are," he replied. "Got a full car of seed wheat less than two weeks ago. Those few bags are all I have left and most of, that is sold. People camo in and bought and said to just leave it here. They were afraid to take chances of not being able to get sei?d when tin y needed it." Almost Fooled. Fat colored man walked into a York county merchant's store the other evening. "Boss," he said to one of the numbers of the firm, "I have a half bushel of pinders back here?great big ones? that 1 want to sell you for 8a cents." The other member of the firm was back in the store where the peanuts hail been placed and was helping himself to them, but without much satisfaction because every two out of thn r - t,.,rt no "goobers ' in jhcni. Ill* UlJVlicu ? ? Cut the merchant first addressed wanted some peanuts for his family, and was about to buy. About the time he started to purchase he heard a bell ring in the back of the store and he walk d to the rear. "Try 'em,'' suggested the part no: who had already tried them. The first partner tried them and found them no good. "I guess 1 won't take them," he told the negro. "Know what that negro did?" said the merchant. "He washed those p<anuts as you see and he had picked ovci his whole lot, taking out the last ones and leaving those that had sprouted, and were no good to sell me or somebody else. "Great old world with all kinds of people in it, ain't it?'' Old Resident Here. Mr. Wade 11. Hicklin, who will be rc? iiv many of the older peop'v lllClllmivx as a resident of the Uuthricsville taction twenty years ago, was a visitor in Yorkville this week. -Mr. llicklin is now living at Sheldon, lteaufurt county, where he in manager of the Canipbell-Hicklin Live Stock company, the iirm specializing in pure bred Duroc and Hampshire hogs. Jh luid a truck load of fine hogs with him on his trip into York' county this week, having come up from the state fair in Columbia, where lie had ids stock on exhibition. The big auto truckload of I lampshires and Duroc ? 'attracted much attention and Mr. llicklin, who was accompanied by his son, -Marion D. Hicltlin, renewed many acquaintances while here. "IJcaufort county, as you know." said Mr. llicklin in talking about his adopt "' n.frrf in tin raising of ed cuum.v, i.-. ......, Jive stock and t^<- gr wing <>f true];. Practically 110 cotton is raised and a (I the farmer*.either devote all their time to cattle and hogs or to the crowing of i truck, lettuce being especially proflta| b'o. "We arc getting along nicely in the j hog raising business. We are devoting i our attention to pure bred hogs alone ! and we expect to branch ofut into all sections of the state." Mr. Hick'in d?voted much time tt> i the raising of fine Jersey cattle v.hcn ; he lived in Ybrk county and was re i puled to have ownojjl some of the finest iJerseys in the state. "I am out of the cattle business entirely now." he said. "I operated a j dairy and ire cream factory in Columbus, CJa., for seven years after leaving | i York county; but my boys did not like I the work, so we turned to hogs. A hog: j ' is easily raised and easily handled.) | With th"1 boll weevil invading the, ' entire st Ue. it is evident that farmers 1 are going to have to turn to something j else and I believe that there is going to be a r vival of the bog raising in- j dustry over the country. Py being: able to furnish the farmers with pure breeding stock I believe that I am going to be able to do them a great ser1 vice, which will be profitable to me as well." WANTS EQUALITY. Negro Ex-Soldier Creates Sceno In the spanariDurg wu> i nvum, I Evans Bobo, a negro ex-service man, { was tried yesterday for assault and battery with intent to kill, relates a Spartanburg dispatch. The testimony was that lie went into the field where W. K. Cannon and his family were at work, and asked about the boll weevil. He then turned to T. E. Cannon, a son of W. R. Cannon, and ' said: "i'ou have some pretty girls here; how abofot one of them?" The negro I had a gun and the girls left at once, { | going toward the house. The man | tried to get the negro to go off, but instead ho shot at thV elder man, re| loaded and shot again, hitting both i j men. Bobo was tried with handcuffs on, i which is unusual, but he is considered a dangerous negro. Ho claims to r be, I crazy, but a commission of physicians j say he is suna. When he went on the i stand he made a rather dramatic i speech. He said: "What thev said about the shooting i I is true. 1 shot at Mr. Cannon and did ' ...v.... i ,iid It was me who! did it. The reason I lost my mind was ' because I'resid r.t Wilson promised the colon d man that if he would go to France and fight like a man, when he came back he would be equal to the white man, and would have the sam- ! show as the whit" m tn; and you all ) know that we ain't got it. 1'resident j Harding promised when ho was elected that he would get all the people in the ! league of nations, and make- all the people ciiua', but he did not tell the truth. He only wanted to 1m: elected. You may shoot me, or sbnd me to the electric chair, but if you send me to; ! the chaingang I won't do a lic k o; . | work. I don't propose to work any- l where any more." The jury was out but a few minutes, and returned a verdict of guilty. Judge: J. S. Wi!s.;:i, presiding, sentenced the! negro to te n years in the state i>enilentiary", telling him that the condi-j tions wou'd bo reported to the authorities at Columbia, and if it was found that he is crazy he will he sent to the asylum. As the negro was taken back to jail he saiil: "The next time you hear of nio, 1 won't he crazy." The trial was a most unusual one. The negro was defiant . id was apparently seeking to cause trouble, lie' may be crazy, but physicians believe !: is pretending. ? ? RELIEF FOR MINISTERS Senator Dial Would Help Those Who D-?w D<sre-\Mina Tnvafinn ' "/ '"""""Sv j Senator DinI has prop* :.cd an amendment to the tax hill, which, if, . if opted, will relieve minister;* of the (ios;#d hereafter from having tc pay | I an income t-x on the parsonages which they now occupy. At the present time, the rent value of a parsonage is counted as a part of the minister's salary and he must retiii >i this rental value whei: he makes his income tax returns. For instance, if a parsonage is worth forty or fifty dollars a month, he must pay on this ! rental \uluc. } This matter was presented to Sinntor Dial recently and at onee he saw Ike injus ice of The present lav.*, lie; look ii up with Commissioner Blair, who informed him that nothing could be done, inusmui h as the law now requires that the rental value of the pars; nage he counted in. ' S'T.ato;* Dial lien c.infers'cd with Sen;.(or Demos* of 1 'ennsy lvani j ehaii'iv.en of the llnr ece lommittee of the senate, l?ut decided to offer an amendment himself. Ife said he considered the law unjirt and unfa'r and that in many eases tlie minister's salaries were >o small that this extra hi iven should t;ei he placed <>n then, lie sahi he would do all he could to si en re the passage of this amendment. The I'hooi p< nidation" of tlie United States is 3S.250.S70, the census hoienu aniiei'nt ed \\'i <l"erda.v. Ml" tlii.s irumicomprising nuzrns iivc u? _'il >! : i s <;!<I. iliiii'i tlru: 1M XVlMMMI wi-pr Mi'i'v ' 1>? ?>1 ItcSv. ''ii S?'i>ti niln r, : ml JiUMinry, 1 when the l ic i'sii \v:is t I t. ii nppnrently is 11'r nii'i't studious ?t:it?\ Til per cent. ic l.u' citizens i I'frililo l?y cue beitvr ri -; stcTi'd in schools. Mnrisnchiisott.* lends Jn tlit; 7 to Jyour ?Toiiji with . |!)C.l per cent. unci Louisiana cotVws 1;*::t with 75.0 r? r t ent. WATSON MAKES CHAHUtS ! Georgia Senator Declares Men Illegally Hanged in France. |U. S.,SENATE WILL ORDER PROEE Firebrand Charges Enlisted Men Were Hanged on Officer's Orders?Exhibits Picture of Soldienj on Gallows. Investigation by a special committee into ^charges by Senator Watson, D? mocrat, Georgia, that American soldiers in France were hanged without courtmartial or other trial was ordered Tuesday by the senate by unanimous vote. The committee will be appointed by the president of the senate, and Senator Watson will be invited before it to produce proof. The special committee as named by Senator Cummins, of Iowa, president pro tempore of the senate, will be headed by Senator Brandegee, Republican, Connecticut, and will consist of Senators Ernest, Republican, Kentucky; Willis, Republican, Ohio; Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, and Pomerone, Democrat, Ohio.' Charges by Senator Watson, that American soldiers serving in France were hanged without court-martial or other form of trial precipitated a heat-* ed debate in the senate. Senator Watson produced a small photograph of an alleged hanging and insisted that his charges were true. Senator Dorah, Republican, Idaho, said he had examined the photograph and had been told by two former service men that the charges were true, but that he was "unwilling to proceed on such evidence." "How many senators know," Senator Watson had asked, "that a private soldier was frequency shot by his officer because of some complaint against officers' insolence; and that they had a gallows upon whic.i men were hanged, day after day, without courtmrrtial or any other form of trial? I had and have the photograph of one of those gallows, upon which twenty-one white boys had already been executed at sunrise when the photograph was taken; and there were others waiting in the camp jails to be hanged morning after morning." Senator Wadsworth declared that this charge could* not be "lightly brushed aside," nor "excused on 'the ground of excitability in debate." He demanded that Senator Watson produce the proof. S.-nator Watson rcp'ied that lie resented the "demand" and wou'd teh him, "loot to foot, and shoulder to shoulder" that bo was the "equal of any senator" afid assumed full responsibility for his charges. He said he would refuse to go Lterore any nimnmt e with his evidence, or to htoduce his witnesses unless they were guaranteed immunity. "I moan every word I said," lie added, "and I did not over paint the picture. 1 have a photograph of the gal- j lows uporV which white soldiers were hanged and 1 can produce witnesses who saw it, if it is safe for them to appear." "A picture of white men hanged lik dog.--. 1 can produce men if it were i safe who saw men shot without trial.! I cannot compel men to come here and incur the danger "1 say that food was piled up mountain high in France and virtuafy given to the French when our men were, starving. I can prove that our men j we re unnecessarily exposed and left to I die on the road. 1 know tx-service men who saw these things and told me j a limit tin m Told me how letters were i censored and stereotyped to conform to [ regulations, amd how soldiers who! would not comply were subjected to | barbarous treatment. "These men will not go back to Eu rope again to fight. 1 have heard them i state they would die before tV.ey would 1 do so. Tlic mciK were treated inhumanly and told me so themselves." "The senator from Georgia owes it to the country to produce evidence of this," declared Senator Edge, of New .1 ersey. Mr. Watson shouted in reply that "Hardboiled" Smith had not been punished and that Sid liatflold, the farn- J oils West Virginia clansman, had been assassinated alter testifying before the senate labor committee concerning the Mingo mine war. Senator lam root, Wisconsin, offered the resolution providing for a committee to investigate the charges. Charges Called Monstrous. "Tile charges are monstrous and the senate should investigate if the war department does not," lie said. Senator New, of Indiana, stated that the judge advocate general's records' *' * *10 1 1 ennlniiciw VVPl'C ! sMuwu mai _ > uiiiiii imposed on nn mIters of the A. E. F., in France by court martial, of these, nine were oxecutnl, lie said, and the ( i t niiiiudt r modified or disapproved. "In every esise," said Mr. Xew, "the m n had trial hy eourtinartial. In no ease was the offeP.se charged a military off i use. St nat< r Watson, wliil stating his refusal t > produce his evidence before tiie miliary committee, said he would I t. lore another and "inipartiai" com, mittee. Si najor Wads worth vigorously challenged the truth of Senator Watson's , charges. "The infin nee to Ik- diawn that numbers were hanged without a eourtI martial is utterly asiiL' from the facts and the truth," said Senator Wails worth.' "The number of men executed in France under courtmartial could be counted on one hand. Charge Is Denied. "The senator from Georgia declines to produce any testimony to substantiate his charges," Senator Wadsworth continued, "on the ground that witnesses mfght incur some danger. I i need not comment on an excuse of that i kind. "If the senator will not substantiate his charges, the responsibility is his. 1 leave the senate and the country to judge." Senator Wadsworth asserted heatedly that "not one man in our vast i army was executed without a court1 martial." Senator Watson then produced hit small photograph of an alleged illegal execution. It was passed around among senators who examined it carefully. Senator Watson said it had been sent to him "by somebody" during the debate. Senator Borah arose and said he had 8?nt the photograph, which, the Idaho senator said, he obtained from Senator Watson after publication several months ago of the .senator's charges and the photograph in Senator Watson's magazine. "The picture speaks for itself/' said Senator Borah. "Or course it does not show where it is. Two ex-service men have confirmed to me the statements regarding: the picture. Senator Borah than added that without further substantiation he was not willing to bring the matter before the senate. 1 / Senator Watson slid that "numbers" of former service mln had told him of the alleged executions, which were conducted, the Georgia senator said, "in a wooded deli," fcehind one of the camps in France.- his informants, Senator Watson said, asserted they had seen the gallows. Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, said that Senator Watson "owed it to the country," to produce evidence." Cites Smith Case. "I am not willing," said Senator Lenroot in reply to Senator Watson, "that any officer shall go unhung when guilty of such charges as made by the senator from Georgia. The senator has refused to go before the military affairs committee. Very well. I move that the president name a special commitee of five men to invite the senator to present his case." Senator Watson said that senators wouM remember th^Afeihe cases of soldiers condemned to be shot "for overstaying their leave or drinking a little i too much wine in some French city had been sent to President Wilson for final judgment." "I ask senators," he continued, "was there ever a case appca'ed to the president where a soldier was to be strung) up on u gallows? If'the men hanged j whose photograph I have in my pocket] were courtmartialed, why did not their cases come to President Wilson? "In speaking of this the pruposc is not to condemn the army. It is to bring punishment to men like "Hardboiled" Smith and those who gave him his orders. There was an officer who was accused by the present secretary of state of embezzling $600,000. He was never brought to trial. "The esprit de corps protects them. "What I said, I said deliberately, and I will stand by it." OCTOBER GINNINGS. Output of 1920 Compared With State Output of 1921. The Bureau of the Census, of the Department of Commerce, announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned by counties in South Carolina, for the crops of 1921 and 1920. The total for the state was made public at 10 a. m., Tuesday, October 25. (Quantities are in running bales, counting round as half bales. Linters not included). Counties 1921 1920 Abbeville 10,854 12,076] Aiken 11,207 23,576! Allendale 3,879 9,942 Anderson 43,315 26,548 j 3 307 13.256 Anderson 43,315 26,548 I Barnwell 7,286 18,136 j Berkeley 506 3,1761 Calhoun 3.853 17,421 1 Cherokee 8,581 4,090 Chester 15,714 9,6161 Chesterfield 14,836 11,407! Clarendon 6,698 21,071 j Colleton 1,521 3,966Darlington 15,183 15,1721 Dillon 23,456 12,546' Dorchester 1,126 5,594' Edgefield 5,325 13,433 Fairfield 6,222 9.0S6 Florence 14,995 13,057 (irernville 24,542 10,798 | Creenwood. 8.707 14,670 Hampton 2,371 5,176 Horry 1,709 1,664: Jasper 555 56x1 Kershaw 8,461 13,4621 Lancaster 8,710 4,469 Laurens 23,401 22,427! Lee 14.366 18,882! Lexington 5,953 14,983' I McCormick 3.155 7.000 j I Marion 8.155 6,203 j Marlboro 31,949 25,211 I Newberry 11.67S 16,562 < '?? A OAK I < >ConeC Orangeburg 14,111 43,248 I Pickens 12.314 3,831 ; Richland G.14G 15,780 Saluda 0.170 13,280 Spartanburg 38,747 21,8291 Sumter 14,098 22.446 Union 9,015 7,305 | Williamsburg 4.958 12.945 York 21,740 9.790 j All others 479 * 1,424 493,225 562,097 ? More than 40.000 women are engagi cd in embroidery work qn the Island of Aladicra. NEWS ABOUT SHARON Bogus Red Cross Representative Tries to Round tip'ttie Negroes. CALLS FOR IUN1TED STATES CHECKS " t Sharon Man Buy? McConnellsville Telephone Exchange?Palmer Hope is the New Policeman?Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of Western York. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Sharon, Nov. 3.?Little negro, kind of lemon colored, kind of crippled and with the air and manner of one of those Washington "nlggahs," dropped into Sharon this week. "Ah is er representative of President Harding an' de United States government to' dc purpose of gittln' de colored populashun of Sharon Interested In dc American Red Cross an' fomentin' er organizashun ob you," he told several leading colored lights of the community. "Da idea," he elaborated, "is for yo' culud citizens to pay me er dollar or mo' ef you is able to' er membership in de Red Cross which is er part of de gubernment ob dis great country ob ours. Lcadin' nipguhs all ovah de country is assoclatin* derselves wid de Red Cross. De mo' yo' all pays mahself de mo' yo' all is held in regard by de gubernment." He handed this line to quite a number of colored fo'.ks throughout the town and community ana ne cocecieu quite a few dollars and'more from those colored brethren who desired to be regarded a little higher than a dollars' worth by the government. He dropped Into a local bank Tuesday and wanted to know if they had any United States checks on hand. The cashier gave him the once over and told him, "oh yes, plenty of them." Then the sclf-confessed Red Cross worker stated that he was working among the negroes for the government and that he would probably open ; an account within a day or two. The cashier explained to him that new accounts are always welcomed at his bank and the negro with visions Ifi his head of uttering all sorts of checks perhaps, sauntered out Negroes began to drop in and tell the bank people about the Red Cross negro and the invitations they were receiving to become vital forces in the government through Joining-. ?The bank president saw the stranger up town yesterday morning and invited him in for a chat. After a few minutes' conversation he was convinced that the Red Cross agent among the r.egrocs wasn't the real article. ;Furthermore, he was dubious of a negro 1 who asked for United States checks. "Nigger," he said, "I am going to give you one hour to shake the dust of this town from under your shoes. cti?nftm If von are to tSIAiy IIIIIIUICO Hum ikwii .? ,, ( be found in this section it is the Jail for you." The lemon colored, crippled negro walked out with a dejected air. "Is you going off soon?" he Inquired of Sam Gill, colored citizen of Sharon, whom he met. "After a while, I is, niggah," Sam is reported to have replied. "But you better not wait on me. Dat white man he done say you had better done hab been gone in sixty minutes." The Red Cross negro was last seen hoofing it in the direction of Turkey creek at a pace remarkable for a ( crippled man. < Plexico Buys Exchange. J. M. Plexico, manager of the Farmers' Telephone Company of Sha- j ron, has purchased the McConnells- i ville telephone exchange and expects to take over its management within a , few days. Mr. Piexico who has been in charge of the Sharon exchange for about twelve years, will continue in | charge here as well as have direction of his new purchase which will be in direct charge of an assistant to be^ named later. There"' are about sixty subscribers to the McConnellsvi'le exchange. Hope Elected Chief. Palmer Hope has been elected chief of police at Sharon, to succeed Sep Huey who resigned to take a position as night policeman in Yorkville. The new chief has already entered upon his duties here. He is an ex-service man who has been making his home near Sharon for some time past. 'To Celebrate Armistice Day. J. W. Shealy, superintendent of the Sharon school is outlining plans for exercises to be held in the school auditorium on the evening of November 11, in celebration of ' Armistic^ Day. Prof. Shealy said yesterday that school children would have a part in the programme and that the principal feature would be an address by a well known out-of-town speaker. Another Creditor Benefited. Well known Sharon merchant wasi trying to persuade a number of his debtors to observe Pay-Up week re-: cently. He sent out quite a number ; of statements, not using printed forms; j but merely signing his name instead. | Among those who were recipients oi i me siaiemeiiia ??o ?. ?.. ? ~ township negro who owed him $14.51. The merchant neglected to sign his name to this particular statement. A few days later the negro came to Sharon and walking into the store of another merchant he owe1, he said: "Cap'n. 1 got dis statement the other day. Wasn't no name signed to it but I ;eckon it was from you 'cause I owes you." , *ft it wasn't from me it should have been," said the merchant addressed and who had not sent out any statements. ? "Well, I want to pay something on account," said the negro and he did. And then Merchant No. 2, thanked Merchant No. 1 for assisting him in the collections, even though it was through error. Picture House for Sharon. Sharon people are to enjoy all the thrills of the movies without having to go to Yorkville, Rock Hill or some other larger town to see the glimmers Wild west scenes, lovey dub, "tender scenes" as a minister calls them and everything are to be shown right in town. The enterprising business men have recently opened a picture house and are determined to give Sharon folks pictures as good as the best every Friday night. The more folks who come to the weekly shows the better the pictures will be the next week, they say. MEMMINGER WA8 RIGHT One Judge Who 8tandv for the Integrity of the Law. Greenville Piedmont. On August 31, Tom Harrison, slayer of his wife, was found guilty of manslaughter by a Greenville county Jury. On September 1, Circuit Judge R. W. .Memminger semeiieeu nairiouu iu serve fifteen years and ordered him to be taken at once to the state penitentiary. His Honor thus explained his action: "I feel that this community should be protected against you and that you must be made an exaniple, however unfortunate it may be, to others who may want to take up the same line of work that you have done, and you win have to be put somewhere where you will be kept from the outside world and not be allowed to go on with such method of living and corrupting other people as you have done I sent you tp the penitentiary direct because I have the power to do that, not deeming it to be wise or expedient to put you on the local chalngang here." The length of the sentence imposed , by Judge Memminger upon Harrison ( made it impossible for him to secure , bail from the circuit court at that time. Whereupon Harrison appealed to the , Supreme Court of South Carolina for bail. 4 On the morning of the day when the Supreme Court acted upon the matter of_bail for Harrison, but before it had announced its decision; Judge Memminger, who was still holding court here, said in open court, in announcing that Solicitor David W. Smoak was in Columbia to resist Harrison's motion for bail: / "Will the Supreme Court grant ball and send Tom Harrison, a full-fledged . citizen, to enjoy the society and freedom of this city?" "Yes, we will," was, in effect, the reply of the Supreme Court of South Carolina who a few hours later admit- i ad Harrison to bail. That was on October 24. i Consequently, after having been (n of oio nnnltnntlflr. iiiflt seven weeks, Harrisorf returned to i Greenville "a full-fledged citizen, to i enjoy the society and freedom of this ; city." ] On Oct. 31, the grand Jury of Green- i vtlle county in its presentment . to Judge Memminger declared: ** | "After a very thorough examination of many witnesses who came before j the grand Jury, we are convinced that Tom Harrison and Lettie Littlefleld are ' living in adultery and have been most i of the time since the killing of his wife, Gertrude Robinson Harrison, and further in defiance of the law while out on bond and is now continuing to live ' in adultery. We, therefore, recom- I mend that the proper authorities swear | out warrants for these parties. The witnesses are Sheriff Rector, Deputy Sheriff Parris, Deputy Sheriff Williams, Jailer Christopher and others." In the very next paragraph, the , irrand Jury of Greenville county went , on to say: v I "We want also to take this oppor- i tunity of expressing our deep appreciation of your Honor's unfailing fairness and great . courage in enforcing 1 the law even in the face of criticism which has seemed to us extremely un- , warranted and unjust. We trust that Soitith Carolina will yet recognize Your llfinnr'a linnlloqtlflnA(1 flnd BTfiftt &btlitV and at an early date succeed In enllstirig your services for the state in a still higher judicial position."' ? In these paragraphs of its presentment the grand Jury of Greenville county delivers justifiable rebuke to the Supreme Court' of South Carolina. In the Judgment of The Piedmont, this declaration as well as Judge Memminger's course has the approval of public sentiment in this county. The Piedmont believes that Judge ' Memmingcr's decision to commit Harrison to the state penitentiary was eminently Just and proper and that the Supreme Court of South Carolina acted unwisely in nullifying that action. This newspaper also takes oc- , casion to say that the extraordinary tribute paid Judge Memminger by the grand jury of Greenville county is al- ' together deserved. If all our judges were of his mold, lawlessness would be ,< reduced to a minimum in South Carolina and the law would be restored to its ancient majesty. If R. Withers Memminger should be elevated to the i Supreme Court of South Carolina?and i The Piedmont hopes he will be?not j only would his force of character, ripe I experience and fine ability measurably i strengthen the body, but the respect of the people for that tribunal would i be considerably increased. * < The presentment of the grapd. Jury t of Greenville county made yesterday is i t ' ^ AMERICAN ~H 61 LE0I0N '..W( 2 Conducted by Lewis *M. , Grist, Publicity Officer, Meech Stew-> art Post, No. 66. ? , ? , .Hi'MH 1,1 J M?e*f? 8t?wart Club-Room* ? * ?? . O. . T-l A |. U.^.iiX.1^ rfM aieecn oiewi^i rum u huubwi m to fine club rooms as any post of the Legion in South Carolina. Tbe^flob rooms include a hot and.co?<i water shower, a pool table, reading1 and .writing rooms and other equipment. Join the post and vou join the club. Meet your old comrades at hea'dquarlefa. You'll find the $5 you i*jfcst in a year's membership to vestment. - ? ?! '9 r f ' Armistice Day. % All roads will lead to Rock ^XUl next Friday on the occasion of thes celebration of Armistice day in conn'ecfion with the York county fair.1 l2very exservice man who can possibly make it suit to do so should be in Rock 'Hill 'for /wtnaeinn A vnrul (mn let n ilirad each and every one who "fW to 'the Good Town. There is to be pleat/ of dinner for all which is to be furnished free of charge. A most interesting programme has been prepared for the occasion. Eli Bailee Post. W. H. Kims, commander of Eli Balles Post of the American Legion hopes to have some thiMyio&if ^ exservice men of his community who are not now xyembers of th^'tfost' in as members before the end of the year. Commander Nlms said the other, day that there are about seventy ex-service men of Fort Mill and- -vicinity * e'igible for membership in the American Legion and he vasvhspelufcdhat all of them could be made to see the value of a membership In: thai Legion before the end of the year. Big -Feed for Soldier*, n Me^ch Stewart Poet will entertain all white ex-soldiers of this section at a big feed in the legion dub* rooms some time during the month of November. Plans and preparations f 'for the "hand out" have not as yet been completed but announcements regarding the details will be made in the near future. Expense of the "feed" will be borne by members of Meeeh Stewart Post. The tare will bsstep* and plain; but there will be plenty,U j it. An effort will be made to hdve several good speakers present for the occasion and to make the event one well worth while to all-exservice men who will come. Many* Apply ior Victory Medal*. The commander of Meech Stewart Post of the American Legion is fcdsy these days making applications tor Victory Meda's for ex-service men. Many of the ex-service men have received these medals and are well pleased w'th the neat bronse souvenir of the war. presented by tTncle Sam. However there scores of, exBoldlers in York county who have not received these medals and who are entitled to them. If you haven't gotten yours yet bring your dlsoharge to Jaa. D. Grist at The Yorkville Enquirer office and he will take pleasure In getting the medal for you. It doesn't matter if you are white or if you are black pc whether or not you are a member of the American Legion. Bring youf discharge in. A copy of It will be made; ind you will receive the medal pronto. Membership Drive. Meech Stewart Post No. 61 hopes t? have at least 200 members by December 1. The membership driWttf fca! Is now on and every new member who Joins now wllL receive the benefit; of two extra months' membership. At a. recent meeting of the post it _waat decided to discontinue the mon&iy charge of 50 cents to Legi&mires living outside the corporate limits bf the ' town. The anual dues now are 15 although a new man who joflfts this month will get fourteen months for tha* price of twelve months, i Every white man who served in the late war should De a mcmoer 01 me American region. It is the great association of the men who served and its total membership is more than a million living In all sections of the nation. Your fellow soldiers who are members want you to become a member. They believe that membership in the Legion will help, you in many ways as it has helped them. The South Carolina Department of the American LegUm,)s growing. Meech Stewart P^>st of tlie rLegion is growing. Join now. tiryw with the gang. Send your name, outfit, present address and check or ifloijey order or cash for $5 to Jas. D. Grist, post commander; or T. M. Ferguson, finance officer, York, S. C. If It doesn't suit you to see either ' of these two, hand the money to some member of the post who will turn It over to the proper officer. Do it now! one of the boldest and best ever mad* in this county and is entitled to the warmest commendation from the lawloving and law-abiding people ol thla county. When all petit juries i and grand juries do their duty, as our grand jury did yesterday, thep .aojl not until then will the law be paramount in the Palmetto State. God grant that the juries of this county shall ever have the conscienoe and the courage boldly to attack wrofig and error wherever they shall And them! r-- u' ' . _