Scraps and facta.
? By a vote of l?7v to 90, the Walsh
bill providing for appointment of 22
Additional federal 'district^udges was
passed late Saturday by the house and
Bent'tb the senate after an amendment
which would have required federal
Judges to devote all their time to judicial
duties had been ruled out on a
point of order. Creation of the ^udgeBhtps
was advocated by Chief Justice
Taft, Attorney General ,paugherty and
#f group of] federal ju4^s and district
attorneys, which made a survey to determine
the cause* aftd-extent of dock.
et congestion in vapous districts and
the means of expediting the handling
of cases. Under the new bill new
judges would be, allotted to the mid-t
die Tennessee and southern Florida
district* in ,the South. The bill also
provides for thepolding annually of a
conference to be presided over by the
chief jdstice of the Urtited States with
oenior pircuit judges, district judges,
Jf de?fnj,ed advisable, and the attorney
general participating. Reports would
be submitted as to business transacted
4n various bditrts during the year and
plans m;ide lor relieving delays in the
admintftratteh' of justice.
? Toifi Slaughter, who teas one of the
most 4?t01&9Us desperadoes of the
Southwj?9t,:tra8 killed last Friday after
a sensation*}.escape from the Ljttle
Rock, Arkansas, penitentiary. Slaughter
was under sentence of death and
had beien in the death house for some
time aVaitfh'g execution. He called to
a guard complaining of being ill, and
'When the ktiard handed him an extra
blanket, ho "presented his pistol, dis
armed ,tne guara ana iuckcu nnn m a
cell. Then.he made a canvass of the
entire prison, holding up guards, taking
away their pistols and -locking
them in cells. Then, accompanied by
J. C. Howard,.under sentence for three
years for forgery, and four negroes
who were awaiting the execution of
death sentences, he went to the nearby
hoiqe of "Wariteri Dempsey and taking
r the warden, his wife and children, he
locked them in cells also. The next
atep was to get his party into an automobile,
standing in fhe prison yaTd,
and belonging to Mrs, Dempsey, sped
away. having beeh given,
finally the-escaping car was attacked
at the .tojrn pf Benton, by. officers and
one oX 'tRer negroes was mortally
wounded ?t the fight." Later on
Slaughter gfcs kilVod by Howard, who
shot him in the back, and cxpiaiped
*0 the officers that such had been his
Intention all Hie while at first oppor*tunity.
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? Early consideration of the Dyer
anti-lynching bill in the house was asf
sured last Thursday, the rules committee
voting to give the message
privileged status on the calendar.
Chairman CtLmpbeU said the bill wou'd
be tgken up before the Christmas holidays.
The committee vote was six to
four, three Democrats and Representative
Dale, Republican, Vermont, opposing
a 8poeiaI rule, while all voting
in the affirmative were Republicans.
3>emocrat8 opposed to the measure
predicted a hot fight on the floor when
debate gets under way. Urging th?
rules committee not to give the bill
privileged status Representative Sumners,
Texas, a Democratic member of
the Judiciary committee dec'ared that
the bill was without constitutional
warrant. "There isni a lawyer on
rearth who can defend it on constitutional
grounds," Mr. Sumners declared.
"It gives Washington the right to
f dictate to states how they shall exercise
pfcfce powers. ThwWiJHxver vwus a
propovtfbn like it evenLlol^consOucJ
tion d^ys. It permits the federal gov'
ernment to lay coercive hands on states
and establishes a precedent of sweeping
encroachment and fines for persons
participating in lynchings and stiff
fines tof officials who, through nejcrligence
M to prevent mob disorders.
? Louisville, Ky., December 9: Federal
prohibition agents in Kentucky
have Just concluded one'of the largest
raids ui-.'the history of prohibition enforcement
in the state. Whisky bandits
likewise have just completed one of
the mgnt successful distillery raids
I ever made in Kenttfcky. Instead of a
breathing speil today, following a busy
week in three Kentucky counties, federal
araatefatie off. in search of a score
of wh$kyt!trahdits, who last night, in
a spectacular raid, got away with 194
cases of bottled in bond, and ten barrels
of .whisky from the T. B. Ripy
distillery at?Tyrone, Ky. Early in the
week, thirty prohibition enforcement
agents invaded Nelson, Washington
and Marlon- Qounties: When the agents
came QUt late yesterday the raid had
yielded sev^n prisoners, ten stills and
thirty-?eignt iounuauuns were uimen
Up; and 3,000 gallons of beer and sixty
eight gallons of moonshine destroyed.
W&rrajits ffor a number of other alleged
law-violators have been issued as a
result .?? <jthe ,raid. Meantime several
raids In L/ouisville have ne.tted sma'l
* quantities of wet goods. The bandits,
in raiding tl?e Ripy distillery, captured
four guards and three passersby and
after handcuffing them, put them in a
vault in the distillery office while they
loaded the whisky into motor trucks
and automobiles and drove off.
r? Pausing between shots to explain
his action-fold with pedestrians looking
on. Angelo (liurlando of Rockford,
111., shot Andrea Anato to death
in one of principal streets of Independence.
La., la-it Sunday. Five shots
were fired" into Anato's body and l>etwben
each^jbpt Giurlando hesitated to
exclaim taTtJic crowd of witnesses a
word or .explanation of the act
which he was carrying out slowly and
determinedly. "I wanted everybody to
know I killed him and why it was necessary,"
Giurlando shouted at the top
of his voice and went on to say that
Anato had ruined his home. The two
mor. m-ii-vUrf sixtprs. Giurlando told
Dr. J. H. MiiLfcndon, coroner, and other
officials, that two months after his
marriage- his wife told him that Ana to
had attacked ' her a week before the
ceremony. Giurlando said he was so
Infuriated "wt the 'time that only a
shortage of money stopped hint from
coming here from Rockford sooner.
Last week, he said, he made the trip
and immediately set out to find Anato,
carrying with him a knife with
which he charged Annto had threatened
Mrs. Giurlando at the time of the
attack. This knife he carried when
the two men started down the street
together .th^ morning, but it >vas not
'/brought in the; execution of
his plap. j.Cttirlando, held in the par"
ish jail Sunday night on a murder
charge, said his only regret was that
ho did not killTVnato sooner.
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? Tommy O'Conner, two-gun man,
sentenced tq be hanged next Thursday
for murder, and two other notorious
criminals escaped from the county jail
in Chicago Sunday, lighting their way
past half a. dozen guards, most of
whom were.beaten into unconsciousness
by the desperadoes in their dash
for liberty. Starting in the fourth
floor "bull pen." where the prisoners
were exercising at 11 o'clock in the
morning, the break for freedom led
flvo flnnrs thrniitfh the basement
into the jail yard and over a 12-foot
wall to a Street where an automobile
was confiscated. The dryer, a pistol
poked into his face, was told to "drive
like hell.'! A few minute^ later the
machine crashed into a telephone pole,
but the bandits continued their flight.
O'Conner. commandeered another car,
and when:Iry?t set^i ;tl)e murderer, who
Jias beeii characterized by the police
as Chicago's most desperate gunman,
was headed toward the southfeide underworld,
armed for battle. Two other
prisoners who attempted to escajae
with the trio, were captured in the jail
grounds. The escape, carried out in
broad daylight, was the most sensational
in that part of the country in
many years, and apparently was cftrefully
planned in advance. It was suc->
cessful despite the fact that several1
jailers refused to heed the threat of
O'Conner's pistol ? and risked their
lives in trying to obstruct nim. The
two men who escaped with O'Connor
were Edward Darrow, charged with a
560,000 robbery, and James La Porte,
alleged to have been implicated in a
$30,000 robbery.. O'Conner had. been in
trouble with the police on many occasions
but his apparent immunity from
bein# convicted earned him the title of
"Lucky Tom." *
^otlmUc (fnquutr.
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Entered at the Postofflce at York, a9
Mail Matter of thj Seconi Class.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1921
Now If the senate will quickly ratify
that four-power agreement as to the
Pacific ocean, a'l will be right.
I
From this distance, it is difficult indeed
to see why both parties in Ireland
cannot agree to the arrangement
'under which Ireland will become a
free state.
All the more progressive thought of
the country is drifting toward hard
surface /roads, and tile commonest inquiry
is not can we afford them? but
can we afford to do without them?
. m , / %
Let's do away with that state highway
commission, at least to the extent
: of having arbitrary authority in the
location of roads and the expenditure
of road funds and return the powers
that have been taken away from the
counties.
Last week's number of the Baptist
Courier, published at Greenville, is a
centennial edition, of remarkable interest
and value. It tells all about the
Baptists of South Carolina, past, and:
I pr<s nt, and glvos a comprehensive,
basis.of estimate for future .achievement.
Altogether it is probably the
most creditable special edition of a religious
journal that we have ever seen,
and that the whoje Baptist denomination
will give the nublishers due credit
for this splendid work goes without
saying. Copies of the edition should
I t>t> ill < Vf ryUJHpiJ*a.V?UIR?, uniu a.aw >
should be filed in all tho libraries of |
the state, and wherever public records j
are kept. This edition of the Baptist}
Cburier is.a notable publication. , '
v
Do VaUra is still standing in tl^
way*of the Irish settlement. He .will
have nothing but an absolutely free!
and independent Ireland, which will ac-1
knowledge no recognition of the British
empire or of the king. Sir John Craig,
the premier of Ulster is also dissatis- j
fled.' De Valera, has secured the endorsement
'of several members of his
eabinet; but the majority of his parly
being against him he is seeking to
organize a minority party that will
continue the fight. Most of tho people
of Ireland, both the north and the
south seem to look upon tho proposed
settlement as entirely satisfactory.
There has boon much comment, some!
serious and some humorous, about the'
recent feat of Secretary Fall, in shoot-}
ing a big rattlesnake through the head, i
while passing through the Yosetnite!
valley. The shot was fired from horseback
with a pistol, and killed the snake j
dead. Severance Laidlaw, a "former:
cowboy and big game hunter," is quoted
as saying:
"Far be it from me to detract from
the feats of the great, bftt the fact isi
that the rattlesnake aimed as carefully i
at Secretary Fail's rifle as he aimed at
the snake. The eye of an aroused rat -j
tier is one of t*he quickest things in na- |
ture. When a weapon is pointed ati
him he keeps his head in line with the
weapon in readiness to strike and his
aim is deadly accurate. I am no re-1
markable shot, but 1 have killed hun-1
drcds of rattlesnakes from the back of
a moving horse, and have never missed j
shooting them through the head. The
snakes are equally sure of getting a I
horiH on tii?> arrows of Indians, hence i
the old Indian saying that a rattle-[
snake cannot be missed. The Indians'
say, '.Manitou makes the hunter's arrow j
I fatal to the singin?- snake.' "
Among the readers of this there will;
j be many who will be willing to confirm
I all that Laidlaw says. Even though
they make no claims to especially ex-1
I>ert shooting they will tell of how, at
times, they have shot snakes, through [
[ the head in a manner which, to them,'
! seemed simply unaccountable.
i ?
At last they have got what amounts:
to a league of nations. It is a quadruple
alliance for the preservation of
peace in the Pacific ocean. The nations
signatory are America, Great
Britain, Franco and Japan. Under the
agreement what has heretofore existed
as the British-Japanese alliance has
been scrapped, and all of the nations
now controlling groups of islands in
tho Pacific ocean bind tnemscivcs vaco,
to respect the rights of the other. Tho1
agrecemnt is to be binding for ten
j years, after which it may be terminated
on twelve months notice from any
one of the signatory parlies. All 0011!
troversies that cannot be settled
through diplomatic channels are to be
submitted to a joint conference of the
signatory powers, and there is to be no
war until there has been a cooling oft
period at the end of which in case of
! failure to reach a settlement, each of
jthe four powers will be free to act as;
it may see proper. Thero is nothing
in tho agreement that binds any of the
powers to guarantee the claims of any
of the others, and in this particular the
association is different from the Wilson
league'of nations. It. iB understood
that under this settlement Japan
is to accept the 5-5-3 proposal of
Secretary Hughes as to naval strength.
The agreement takes no cognizance of
matters relating to either the Asiatic,
or North American mainland.
; j
The general public of the United'
States findg it difficult to understand i
the grievance of Prof. AdoJph iitrenz, j
tho .famous Viennese orthopedist and)
proWably 110 wonder. The situation is1
about like this: While the medical!
profession! as! represented, by say tbe|
Johns Hopkins school; recognizes spe-j
cialists jp ,the. treatment of different j
diseases, it does not recognize any cx-i
cept thoj>e who have regularly been I
graduated from a recognized school of
medicine. Dr. Lorenz is not n. regular
medical man. His talent, amounting to
a genius, runs in the direction of pro-i
venting and correcting deformities andi
diseases of the hone, and so-far as is
known he lias attained greater eminence
in that direction than any htiri
man being who has ever lived. He is
not a wizzard or performer of inira-|
cles; but lie works cures which before^
bis day, werp regarded as impossible.
His deckuod purppse in coming to
America tvas to snow ins grau.une iui j
what America did in saving the lives of,
hundreds of thousands of Austrian}
Vhihlrcn. He has been doing what he}
could helping hundreds of Anerica^j
cripples; but tfie rbgular medical men
have shown him scant courtesy, and
that was why he talked of going hack.
Some have suggested that the doctors
were unsympathetic because of Austria's
former status ad an enemy; but J
there is nothing to that. The opposition
to Dr. Lorenz is tho" same as it is
to the chiropractors, the osteopaths and
others who do. not belong to tho regular
school of medicine?the same as it
wouM have Jfcen to Mr. 'Pasteur, had
he attempted to prescribe for any of
the illS^of mankind.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? Converse college, Spartanburg,
closed last Friday until after Christmas,
because of the development of
several cases of scarlet fever.
? Hardin M. Crawford, alleged bootlegger
was killed-jit Anderson Saturday
night by Jailer Rogers. Rogers
approached a car in which bo thought
Crawford was'carrying whisky. Crawford
fired striking Rogers in the neck.
Rogers came back with two quick
shots, both of them, taking effect, one
of them in Crawford's ear. Crawford
was killed instantly. There were two
kegs of whisky in Crawford's car,
twenty gallons in all. The shooting
oocurrgc^ji^r l^e jP^p'.e-, faun ,wiu to a
quantity of liquor had recently beon
found in a well.
? The Greenville Piedmont has information
that Attorney General Daugbertv
has asked for the resignation of ]
Marsh.il Lyon of tho Western District)
of Smith Carolina, and that Major John !
F. Jones, of Rlacksl.urg will bo appointed
in his place, unless something i
happens to save Lyon. Following- due |
course Lyon has a year and a half to j
serve, and according to tho Piedmont j
Senators Smith and DiaJ are trying
to persuade Mr. Da uglier ty to let himi
serve out his term in accordance with |
a common impression that Democrats
were to ho allowed to do that. The i
final outcome i?f ihe matter will he 1
known wjthin the next few weeks. .
? Kingstrce, December 10: Lewis
Disher, who with his brother v.as in '
the swamps looking after their hogs
yesterdav morning was shot and killed ]
in the Moii/on in lion of this country
by an unknown party who is supposed)
to have heei\.'io the swamp trying to
Steal hogs. . The dead body of Mr.,
Disher was found lying near a hog,
that had'boen killed only a short time.
He was separated from his broth- r,
who heard n shot filed in iho vicinity
where he 'supposed his brother to be. i
and* knowing that his brother was 1
without a gun he hurried to She place]
where he heard the shot. Tln re is no
clue as, to the party committing the i
murder and a Searching, party is still
in the swamp looking for traces of the
guilty persons. The murdered man
was about 40 years of age, married
and had several children.
? Ferdinand Foch, marshal of Franco
bade Washington a final fare veil Saturday
in a fleeting 15 minutes' visit.
Tho special train which carried the
marslia' to the Pacific, arrived from the
south at 8:50 o'clock and at 9:05 o'clock
stoamcd out of the station with the
French military leader, surrounded by
members of his touring party, at salute
on the rear platform an?l a snil'.e
on his l'aee. fTho marshal left his
train f<>r a moment to greet eight
Nuns of the Order of Presentation,
stationed at Holy Cross college. Am- |
bassador Jusr-oraml of Kran.ee an;f!
Mine. JiisseramJ, with a number of:
French officials and a sprinkling of'
American officers and officials said I
gcod bye aboard the train. S'.ops wore
made by the marshal at West Point 1
and Albany. He visited Ottawa and
Mnntr.nl ' Sunday,' Quebec yesterday
and Niagra Falls today, and rails for
France frorp New York tomorrow. |
? Greenwood, December 9: Before n
throng of 10,000 to 20,000 people gathered
from many sections of South Carolina,
Marshal Ferdinand Forh in a
short address this afternoon expressed
his gratification -'it the great reception
given him by the. people of this state. 1
Marshal Foch was introduced by Gov.
Robert A. Cooper, who was himself introduced
by Morris ('. Lumpkin, state
commander of the American Legion.
Marshal Foch congratulated America
upon tlie tine soldiers that had been |
sent from this-country to aid in winning
the war. and expressed the
thanks of liis nation lor the assistance
and encouragement given the French *
nation by America. I'pon detraining.
Marshal Foch was escorted through
tho streets? beneath the "arch of triumph"
to a stand that had been built
in tho town square. "While he stood
young women of Kinder collogd sang
the Marseillaise in French. The arrival
of the famous soldier was the signal 1
for a tumult of cheers that burst trout
the throats of the multitude 'that pack- :
ed every available space. After his
address the marshal presented the eity 1
with a From h Hag and was presented <
with several memorials of his visit. A (
K'iMpji hey : :?<! :i cavei ma-ie ironi (
woo'l cut at Camp Si vUr, whore the <
Thirtieth division was trained, was 1
presented to the marshal hy ,Mayor II. M
C\ Jlarvh y et Uretuville.
XkO-C/VX.. AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Kirkpatrick-Eelk Co.?Salo now going
on.
R. M. Wallace?Application for discharge
as guardian.
Fewell & Thompson?Tires and tubes
at very close prices.
Jamison's Bakery?Opens Wednesday,
December 14. Price HSt.
Maekorell Drug Store?Holiday gifts.
York Hardware Co.?Holiday goods.
Joye Jewelry Co., Rock* Hill?Our
JexC-elry sale. \
Rock Hill Supply Co., Rock Hill?Toyland
with toys for the children.
York Drug Store?For easy selection.
J. II. Stroup?The giving of gifts. '
Peoples Bank afad Trust Co.?Are you
among the lucky?
S. h. Courtney, Tork and Campbell &
Quinrt, Clover?Fordson ,tractors.
J. <\ Hardin & Co., Rock Hill?A dollar'saved
is a dollar hiade.
Joliison's l*aint Shop, Rock Hill?
Quality is king.v . 1 4. .
Peoples Furniture Co,?Practical gifts
for Christinas. ' i' u Star
Theatre, J. Q. "Wray, Manager?
Progranlmo for today, "Wednesday
and Thursday*
J. F. Carroll?imperial-plows.
uusn unci i^urry v_o,?icu juu k?uw ?ic
art of saving?
J.IZ. Stow??Sale of personalty.
Tne Cash Garage?In the old City Hall.
Parrott's, Clover?You'll find many
articles in this store.
Clover Furniture Co.?Give the wife a
new chair, rug, etc.
C. Y. White, P. G.?iteguiar meeting of
Odd Fellows.
W. H. Sherer, Clover?Fill the stockings.
York Supply Co.?House covering;
Loan arid Havings Hank?What a lesson
has taught.
W. G. FJrileyt Trpstee?Notice of sale
in case of J. M. & C. R. McGill,
bankrupts.
The City Pharmacy, Clover?The
Christmas stom
Foinstein & KrivM?Great dollar week.
Park?r-Smoak "Clothing Co., Rock
Hill?He will appreciate a gift from
this store.
Clovei; Drug H tore?For Christmas
shopporsi
Plexieo's '-Cash Garage,Sh.aron?To
Maxwell and Cevrolet owners.
< 12
THe> are cutting the rtiorc pronounced
bur.ips out of the King's ^fountain
road between the northern Incorporate
limits of Yorkvill^ and the point where
the road turn3 off for Clover by way of
Filbert.
CHristmho comes on Sunday this
year; but the main'celebration as usual
will be on Monday, and on that account
there will be very litt'e business on
that day. The probability is that most
of the business and industrial establishments
throughout the county will
b? closed on Monday, December 26.
Thore are to bq but two more issues
of The Yorkvitle inquirer before
Christmas, those next Friday and
next Tuesday. The next issue after
that will be the issue of December 30.
Two issues, those of December 23 and
December 27 aire jib .suspended on
account eff the Chfmtmas holidays.
THE MARRIAGE RECORD.Marriage
licenses have been issued
by iho Judgd of mf>b?;t}e ta tho following.
J ,* f ^ ' * '1
Dec. 9?Luther A. Ilambrick and
Anna Smith, Chester. ? '
Dec. 1Q?John Er^ln'und Annie Mae
Wil'iams, colored, King's Mountain
township.
Dec. JO?Ernest F. Roach and Lillie
Mnc Costner, Itock II111.
Doc. 10?Will Noely and Eunice
iJackson. colored. Bethel township.
Dec. 10?Lee Rritchard and Sarah
Green, King's Mountain, N. <\
CdMMON PLEAS ADJOURNED
Court of common picas for York county
adjourned Friday evening after a
verdict had been ?ret urned in the case
of W. A. l'urr against It.' K. McCarler.
the verdict being for the plaintiff but
being set .aside on account of the irregular
form on which it was worded.
Fair, an automobile dealer of Charlotte
brought suit against McCartfer
for the remainder due on an automobile
transaction. McCarter had refused
to pay because the automobile
lie bought he claimed was worthless.
A mistrial was ordered "Friday afternoon
in the carffi of L D. McDonnell
against the Seaboard-. Air Line
railroad in which the pl.iihtiff, a young
\yhitc man of Chester sought damages
in the sum of $t'o,uOf>. The complaint
alleged that while an express messenger
on the defendant's railroad lie
contracted pleurisy on account of tho
absence of heat in the express ear and
thai his health had been ruined on account
of it.
HORSE KILLEp IN SMASH UP
A v?uablc hor.se, tin- property 4>f J.
F. Carrol^ of YorlcvUle was killed Friday
night when it was struck by a
Buick touring car, the property of J. S.
Brice, Esq., of Yorkvillo and driven by
his son, Robert Brice. The buggy
which tlic- horse was drawing was torn
to pieces by the impact while Sam Krwin.
colored who was driving tlie
horso was badly bruised and shocked.
Young Bricc hud his arm cut by broken
glass of the windshield and the car he,
was driving was badly damaged.
The accident occurred on the Yorkville-Rock
Hill road just in front of j
White Hill colored church between
Yorkvillo and Tlrznh. Young Bricc ,
with G. C. McCelvey, Powell Patrick, I
Worth Your.ghlood, J. Wray, Jr. j
Daniel Shieder and John Steele Brice
were returning from Rock Hill where i
they Jtad witnessed the Gaffiuy-Cheater
football game.
Erwin in company with another
negro was driving toward Rock Hill
Young Brice who was going at a rapid '
clip evidently failed to see tho buggy, |
his machine cmrishing bead-into tjie
horse which sufTered a brokon^front
leg and had to hp killed. The ougg>'
was carried a distance of several feet
a: d left on the right side of the road.1
Bits of horse hair were found on the
radiator of the machine Saturday ;
morning.
None of the occupants of the automobile
were thrown out and strange
enough none were hurt with the ex- 1
ceptiuti of the driver whose injuries
arc of a minor nature.
.
NO CLUE TO DASTARDS
As yet there is no clue io the identity
of the two white men who, driviny
hijrh powered toui incr ear toward1
Yorkvillo Friday morning knocked)
Mrs. Crawford Dunlhp. compulsory
school attendance officer for Yolk
county and lwr Ford touring .car into i
i ditch on the Sharon road between'|
"WliirUI. t!l|ll i.IJi l\i-> V I < V IV uilMni i > Iriy
morning. Although Mrs. Dunlap,
iv ;i i pinned midn the wreckage <>t her,
machine, she w:i.4- uninjured. The ear
nrhich was IauIIj; /Jama^ed .s now un-'
dergoing repairs in a garage at Sha1
ron.
After striking Mrs. Dunlap who -hadplaced
her machine on one side of the j
road so as to give the oncoming car all j
the room possible the two occupants !
of ' the car did not .stop after they j
struck her machine head-on and
knocked it into tho ditch on top of her. j
one was noi uuia 10 uisunguisn me
two men In tho car as they passed further
than to get the impression that
one of them was a rather largo man
wearing a light colored t?at.
R. E. Shannon who lives near the
scene of the accident saw the car carrying
the two men as it- passed his
house; but was unable to ideptify
them.
Tho, car and the two men, it is said
i stopped at a garage in Sharon about
twenty n\inute3 before the Incident on
the road occurred; but they were
Btrar.gers to the gariige o^ner.
The conduct of the men in knocking
the lady and her $^r.pff the road jnto
the fill and not' stopping to tender ?,hy
assistance has caused ludcjh indifefl.atlon
throughout the county."
DENIES THEFT OF COTTON
Jesse 13. Perry, young white man
who was arrested Thursday night
charged with holding up a party of
Yorkvllle ladies at tho point of n pis
! tol on "the* it OCR Hill roau wis imis iar
been unable to obtain bond. He may
b'o tried in magistrate's court this
week on charges of impersonating an
officer and carrying concealed weap-.
ons. Perry tola a newspaper reporter
Thursday night that he had done special
detective work for. Rural Policeman
Dunnaway of Richland county
and it was'stated that he }iad also
done detective work for the sheriff's
office in Columbia. A story printed in
a Columbia newspaper Saturday
quoted Sheriff Hefse of Columbia as
saying that Perry had never worked
for any Richland county officials but
that he had a warrant for Perry
charging him with the theft of five
bales of cotton from M. Perry, his
father.
1 ' Perry denies theft of the cotton
claiming that his father who recently
moved ;to Blaney,_S. C., from Columbia
was a blacksmith and never did
grow any cotton. .
The: Columbia automobile concern
from \yhich Perry claims to have rented
the r.u,tomobile in which he was
traveling when arrested sent after the
nthchine Sunday and drove it back to
, Columbia. '
Perry who is not altogether without
funds claims to he well known in Columbia
and says that were he there ho.
qould get bond without trouble. However
he has made no effort To obtain
bond since he was placed in Jail here.
Perry's father, M. Perry, of B'aney,
S. C, oame to YOrkville, yesterday and
effected the release of his son upon
paym nt of a fine of $50 for him in
Magistrate Black's court ^and $25 to
the town to satisfy the' charge of
carrying a pistol. Father and son left
yesterday evening over the C. & N.-W.
for Columbia.
The elder Perry said that his son
had been mmtaliy unbalanced ali of
his life and that the boy had caused
him much trouble in "recent years.
. The father made an effort t) ngain
the pistol whjch was taken from the
young man wheh he was arrested last
Thursday night; but the officials refused
to give it up.*
WITHIN THE TOWN
. -"-Christmas toy3 and Christmas
goods generally are on display in unusuafy
attractive quantity and quality.
It is well worth while to corne a long
way to see what can bo had.
? Rev. W. H. Frascr, D. D., prosident
of Queen's College, Charlotte, was the
principal speaker at the annual banquet
of the Men's Bible class of the
First Presbyterian church held in the
djning hall of the Sunday school annex
of the church Friday evening. J.
I G. Wnrdlaw presided over the excri
clscs of the evening as toast master,
J and toasts were responded to by Rev.
E. E. Gillespie, IX D., Supeiintendent
E. A. Montgomery of the Yorkvillc
Graded school; Rev. Lacy Little, D
, I)., a returned missionary from China;
T. !?'. McDow, Esq., Dr. J. I). McDowell
and Dr. S. Jl. Wldto.
? An unknown automobile! driver
smashed into the rear of an automobile,
the property of Deaver Little of
| Great Falls. Sunday night, bending one
of the-fenders of tiiq car breaking the
rear guard and otherwise damaging
the .machine. Mr.' Little's car was
parked on the curb in front of the residence
of J. M. Strou'jf, when it was'
I struck by a roadster occupied by two
men proceeding in the vicinity of Roclt
| Hill. Aftor striking the I>ttlo car the
other machine, though evidently damaged
.by the impact did not Ltop; but
kept on rapidly in the direction of
Rock Hill. Chief of Police It? E. Steele
followed the* automjobile on to Rock
I Hill but was never able to locate the !
! machine.
? The York County Baptist Younfc
Peoples Association convened in the.
First Baptist church of Yorkvillc, Sun-,
day afternoon at 2:110 o'clock with!
! President Bass of Rock Hill, presiding. I
i Delegates were present to the number I
J of seventy-live from the Baptist
f churches at Fort Mill, Rock Hill First, J
I West End, Rock Hill; Cover, Union,
i Charlotte Street and Yorkvillc. Devo- !
tioiral exercise's were conducted by Mr. j
j C. \V. McGee The convention wasi
I welcomed by Mrs. C. W. McGee, of thej
Yorkvillc union and response w: s [
made'by Mr. Chas. A. Scott of Clover.i
1 A number of short talks were made by I
I 1? legates on subjects of interest to the|
union and its upbuilding. The con-;
vent ion will hold its next county meet-;
flng at Union Baptist church on the
j fifth Sunday of April, 1922, convening,
at 10:20 a. m.
THE NORTH ROAD.
Between Clover and the North Carolina
line there are about three mi'es of
as perfect sand tuid clay road as is to!
be found in tly? state. >
That is the way it looked to a representative
of The 1'orkyiUe Enquirer,
who went over it last Saturday afternoon
with Mr. Vi. T; peamtfuard, the,
chairman of tlic Kind's Mountain town-1
ship road commission, and Mr. J. R.
Gambrcll. the common-sense roadman
under whose supervision it was constructed.
,
The exact length of the road, according
to speedometer measurement, is
three and three-eighths miles.
The road has just been completed,
and is a beautiful piece of work. The
top is perfectly rounded, the drainage,
is all that could ho desired, and th.
surface is ideal. But as to whether it
was going to require more attention,
according to Mr. Gambrcll, depended !
upon the weather of the next few
days.
"Give me a week more of sunshine,
or j.t least ^Iry weather," said Mr.
Gamhrell, "and I will guarantee you a
road that will stand through the winter
and for so mo tinr to come; but on
account of the soft places that you see
!fi?v rind rhere, if we have more rain i
ri,"hl away, \vc arc going to have to do i
a lot more dragging find sc-rdping bofore
\v<? can hope lor the best resu'ts. j '
There Jias not becA a great deal of(l
heavy ?T.adinc OU tlnj road, except up1
V '
about Bowling Green, whei? they eliminated
two of the^many gfradc crossing.?;
but they have a good high-gear
strairhtaway over the whole route and
when the road settles down into what
is expected of it those three miles from
the North Carolina line to Clover "are
going to be very short ones for motor
cars of all kinds.
Mr. Beamguard estimates the cost of
the road at something like fifteen hundred
to two thousand dollars a mile;
from five hundred to nine hundred dollars
for-the surfacing and the balanco
for-the grading.
"But one thing that helped; us more
than anything else," he said, "was the
liberal cooperation of the people along
| the route. We did not Tiave any right
! of way to pay for except in one in,
stance, and they Just'gave us till* tho
top soil we wanted for nothing/ These
| people were Intelligent enough to real;
ize what they were getting. They knew
I they were being benefited many times
! more than the top soil was worth, and
while of course they knew they could
| have demanded pay if they wanted to,
, they just simply did not think of such
a mingy ^
HERE AND THERE
"Despite the fact that almost nil the
landowners around Hickory Grove refuse
to allow hunting on their prem|
ises this fall and winter, we have sold
; nl)0ut 180 hunting- licenses so far,"
j said Leon M. Allison, l cashier of the
! Bank of Hickory Grove, who was
j among the'visitors in Yorkville yester:
day. Most of the licenses have been
| sold to negrdes, Mr. Allison said, arid
moot of the negroes hunl nothing but
rat. . N - .
e are going to start, our road
i building programme in Bro:id River
soon after January 1," said John S.
Rainey of Sh&ron, a member'of the
! Brodd River township road comml?j
I sion, who was in Yorkville yesterday':
i "We now have $50,000 available to
spend on Broad River township roads
for improved highways," Mr. Rainey
went on to say, "and we expect/ to
build about/thirty miles of good rood8
with that amount of money. Road
i work will probably begin In the vicinfi
ty Of Sharon, although it has not been
, decided just where we will start."
Hickory Grove Post of the American"
Legion is considerirtg the idea of
or'.nnlziijg a brass band among exset
vjco men of that town and cammrnity.according
to Grover W. Brown,
ex-so!dier of the Hickory Grove section
who was among the visitors in
Yorkville yesterday. Mr.* Brown said
that there were a number of men livj
!ng at Hickory Grove who had had
' some band experience and that at a
! recent meeting of the nost it was de.
cided to make further investigation in
the hof>e and belief that a band could
be organized at Hickory Grove. "It all
depends on whether or not we con
raise the money to buy the instruments,"
he said. *
The day of the 15 cent harp has
pasred, it would seerrv A man dropped
j ii.to a Yorkville store yesterday /ind
cnlie^ for a 15 cent harp for his little
' boy, saying that the 15 cents kind
would do as well as a dollar harp, because
all the little lad wanted was
-omething with which to make a noise.
'Haven't got nr.y la cent harps," re'
plied the store manager. "I haven't
~ 1 .-AO ??? o Wrl {r> fant
I;-r*f?n unc hi sc^cim >ouia u?*^ ?.? >?
about fho cheapest harp that'can be
bought now, retails for 35 cents." The
rutin went/out, saying that he would
"ome. hack if he couldn't find the. 15
cent kind. "He'll netfr find it," said
the store manager, "becauso there
i r iirt any such animals any more."
ABOUT PEOPLE "V
Mrs. D. C. Clark, of York No. 1, is
visiting relatives iii Gaffney.
Mrs. C. \V. Carroll and little daugh(
ter of yorkville are visiting relatives
I in Atlanta.
Mrs. R. S. McConnell of Yorkville
' spent Sunday with relatives at Grover,
| N. C.
Mrs. J. F. Carson of Gaffney, is
.visiting Mr, J. F. Carson and Mrs.
Bolivar Carson in Yorkvlllo.
Miss > Maud Stroup, who has been
undergoing treaiment at Fenr.ell Infirmary,
Rock Ilill has returned to her
home in Yorkville.
S. T. Enlo'e of Yorkville who recently
underwent an operation'for appendicitis
at the Fennell Infirmary, Rock
I Ilill, is getting along.rticely.
. Mrs. li. A. Brown of the Hickory
! Grove section who- has bt^en very ill'
with pneumonia, for several weeks past
j is improving. ?.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hartness and
! Mrs. Ij. IT. DuBose of Sharon; and
.Misses Evelyn Sanders .of Chester and
Facile Hopper of-Gastonia spent Sunday;,
with relatives in yorkville.
Miss Louise Dohson. of the Income
Tax Auditing * department, of theTreasury,
of Washington*, spent Snt[
urday in Yorkville with her father, Mr.
J. tv. Dobson.
R. S. Hartness, who has been critically
il! at the home of his brother in
Gastonia for several weeks past is now
recuperating,at the home of his father,
.Mr. R. B. Hartness, on York'No. 5.*
Mrs. S. If. Carroll, who has been undergoing
treatment at the Wiederhold's
Sanatorium, Baltimore, has returned'^
her home in Yorkville. She
was accompanied by "Mrs. P. W. Love.
Miss Eleanor Herndon, a student of
Converse College, Spartanburg is with
her mother Mrs. \\". H. Herndon in
Yorkville. The college was closed recently
on account of on epidemic of I
scarlet fever among the students.
Mr. J. Z. Stowe of Filbert No 17 will J
t ell out a part of his personal property
next Friday, witl a view to coming to I
Yorkville to work for the Logan Luni |
her Yard. lie expects to reside In the1
Crawford house on Lincoln street.
First Lieut. Joseph G. Nichols, In-1
fantry, Columbus. Ga., has received i
notice of his promotion to a captaincyj
in the regular army. Lieut. Nichols,
who is a graduate of the Citadrl, j
Charleston, is the eldest son of Mrs.
M. E. Nichols, postmistress in Yoikvij'e.
Mr. Charlie Morrow, for several
years pa?t agent for the C. &\N.-W. j
Railroad at Clover, has been given a
60-day leave of absence by his company
because of the state of his!
health. Mr. Morrow has been in bad
health for some timo past and his phy-;
sicians advised that it was absolutely j
necessary for him to take a rest. ' i
Information from Messrs. Frcil and j
Ward Brown of the Hickory Grove
section who are now at a United |
States Public Service Hospital at
Jchnson City,- Tenn., where they are
undergoing treatment for tuberculosis
incurred while serving in Franco is
that they are getting float quite nicely.
Both men arc suffering from the
effects of gas.
FOR EDUCATION WEEK
- - - ,.,1
"Despite mo iinanciai :;innt,T my auu i
tight times we must not and we can- i
not afford to allow any break down in i
our education svstem," ^aid John E. ;
Swcaringon of Columbia, state super- :
intendent of education who was the I
principal speaker at a meeting of par- j
tufts and teachers held in the court )
house in Yorkville last Saturday. ; j
While it may be tjiat it will be im- ' i
I possible to extend the educational system
of this state the next year because
of financial conditions, all persons Interested
in the cause of education in
South Carolina must act well their
respective parts in seeing to it that
there is no declension in any part of
the educationnli machine," Superin- \
tendent Swenringen told his hearers.
There werir about 100 parents and
teachers in attendance on the meeting
Saturday which marked the close
; of education week .in York county.
Miss Will' Loif Qray, state super- J
I visor of adult schools was present and
j made a talk on the work among
grown-ups wno are being given the
opportunity by..-; the state-to learn to
read and write. Miss Eva May Hite,
supervisor of adult schools in the.Rock.' it.
Hiirdistrict was. also present and made
n hMof toll, nn tha wnrb amnnfJiiHlU f
in her territory.o She'brought with her
throe pupils from the adult shool at
the Aragon Mill In - Rock Hill and ' . r.
'these gave a demonstration of their. .>?"
progress fov.' tho benefit of the audi- - %
et:ce. *
Before the meeting adjourned the -v
York County Teachers' Association' ?
was organized with the election of
Prof. W. S. Reid of Clover, president;
Miss Carrie J. Jjtrvp of Miller School
No. 48, vice president and Miss Alice
Garrison of Philadelphia school, secretary
and treasurer.
Organization of <h* Eastern and
Western Divisions of the teachers' association
will' be effected after Christ- 1
mas, it was announced. . ? %
That Education vWeek was well observed
in York county last week was
the statement made following the
meeting Saturday by John E. Carroll,
superintendent of education for York *
county. Hundreds of parents visited *
their respective Schools and showed a
wholesonie and .healthy interest in the
conduct of those schools. The county
superintendent said that while he had
; not received complete reports from all
,the schools relative to the number oN
visits made by patrons he had 'received
enough reports to convince him
that Education Week was generally observed.
t
f LOCAL LACONICS
Clover Lodge Names Officers. y
Alpine Lodge fcTo. 208, A. F. M., of
Clover has elected officer* for the .ensuing
year as follows: 8. S. Glenn,
worshipful n)a*ter; A. C. Burnett, ?
senior yarden; J. S. Kiddle, Junior ,
Warden; 8. J. Matthews, secretary;
J. B. Prison, treasurer; M. Q. Potty,' ,
senior dcaconr; A, H. Barnett, junior ?
deacon; C. P., Lawrence, tyler.
Oyster Supper at Guthrlesville. .
There was qulfe a large community
crowd in attipidance upon an oyster ?
supper'heldatGuthrlesville school
house last JFViday evening. Receipts
oUthe evening totaled a goodly sum
nflich will hp devoted to school pur- __
noses. Gfithriesvtlle Is in charge of
Misses Ina arid Rutl) Aahe, both of /
whom are tfeaphers of wide experience. '
Rat Killing Contest.- . ,
The Peoples National Bank of Rock ,
Hill has inaugurated a rat killing contest.
It has,offered $15. in prizes to
the person in the immediate-vicinity
of Rock Hill who, by noon December
17 brings to it the" let, 2nd, 3rd,
s.wj 4th largest number of ratCails.
The first prize will bo 38,- 2nd prize
34; Jbrd prize '33, 5th prize 32. "Kill .
the Tats and Come for thp prizes says
the advertisement,"
Work of the Road.
Five hundred and ninety-seven'cars
passed ovar the roaij. oetwe?u Ctover j ..
and the North Carolina, line In twenty ,
hours during last Saturday and Sunday.
This is not a matter of guess, but
1 of actual count. After finishing up as
far as he could. vgo last Friday, it pcsurred
to Superintendent Gambrell to
Fret an idea ofiiow muph traffic the road
had to carry, sp he put a bright, reliable
boy at a point Jupt^utside of Clover /
with instruction^tQ'.copnt -everything
going and coming between the hours of
.8 a. tp. and 6 p. tfufton Saturday and
Sunday. The boy attended to his work
i like a good fellow, and reported a total
of 597 cars. While there are no accurate
figures, it is certain that as many
: as a hundred care must have passed ?
| during <h? intervening night time.
Collecting the Oog Tax. , ,
UP to yesterday Treasurer Nell had
issued 663 dog tax' tags. It appears
Yffht there is still a lot of* misunder
standing about this fax. Many taxj
payers put their dog* oh their tax re- /
I turns and they, think that is all that '
i is necessary until they go to pay their .
i taxes. They, are unaware that in ac- *
! cni-ilrincrt with a rullncr frorr> theat
! torney general, dogs were not carried ^
np to the duplicate from the returns,
I and the treasurer has no qfflclal rec|
ord of anybody" owning a dog until the
license t;uc has been paid. The next
I step as to lieenue taxes if they are
j not paid by December 31, will be by
the trustees who will be after the dog
I owners whose doga have not been pro1
vided with the license tags. As stftt|
od before, all do;? licenses should be
j takdn out before January 1. There is
i no provision in law for the payment
j bf license r.fter that date.
Shiner Failed to Show Up.
Moonshiners failed to show up at
their place of business on the Lockhart
J?owor Company's lands in Bullock's
Creek township Friday night
j and Deputy Sheriff Tom Qulnn, Con{
stable M. M. McKnight of Broad River
I and Policeman Dick tinier of Hick|
ory Grove did not have the reward of ^
qnc or more captured shiners for their
I ordeal of lying on . the cold, cold
I ground all night in the hope of catching
somebody. The officers located a
big still Friday night about 10 o'clock.
It was all set for business and they \
decided to stick around in the hope
that the operator or opcrr-tors would
show up and start the "run." They
kept up their vigil all night but nobody
came. Early Saturday morning
they destroyed the still, a 40-gal- .
Ion sheet iron outfit with about 200
gallons of masb on hand ready t? be.
made into liquor. Thedry .of the of- y ,
floors is that dhe outfit belonged to .
several negroes wh? got wind of the
approach of the offices and "therefore
did not show up. . t
Two Miller Schools Burn. *
An unusual co-incidencc is the fact . .
4 i f AaI o i r-? Vnannt v
null k? U 1UI?11 CIIIWVIO ttt t VI a VVUIIVJ,
both bearing'tte namo-^MUly^ d*w?"i
boon destroyed toy fire in th eT pal* six. *
(lays. Miller'-School HoUse'ih District
No. 48, the second of tho name to burn
in a short period was discovered in
llames Sunday; night shortly after
dark. There b^d been no fire in tho
school building since last Friday af- S
ternoon and tho theory of officials is
that the tire was caused by some tramp
or possibly a bunch of gamblers who
bed gone Into Hhe 'building for a game.
Millar school In"bistrlct No. 3 was destroyed
by fire -on Monday afternoon
of last week, the fire being presumably
caused by a defective furnace.
Trustees of Milter - No. 48 were in
Yorkvillo yesterday making arrangements
for the immediate rebuilding of
? L. l/vlrl /
lit.* oiuuui uuudv tiiiu suuuv/i >va? iiviu
in Harmony Church nearby yesterday
without interruption. Insurance on
the building: was carried in the sum
of $1,000. has net yet been established
whethaiyor not there was any
insurance on *Mll!er No. 3;x but plans
'ire being perfected for the rebuilding
of that sohocrr liohse also within the
next several weeks. Until the fires o{