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_ _ _ . p _ ^ ; ; _ a - " ga , ? ^ ^ ?I l.??I 5rM|. WEEKLY. _ ____: . ' *111 L. m. grist's sons, Pubiishert. %^amitji gleirsppcr: 4%x tt< promotion of the political, ferial, Iprirultpal and tfommerrial 3ntrr?sts of <ht jjjfoplo. ESTABLISHED 185.5 YORK, 8. C., TUESDAY, JA^TJA^YT^Toaar jsrb.'g7 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED DP Bf ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "I notice," said, one yesterday, "an I advertisement in the Fort Mill Times | of a barbershop in that town which has i reduced the price of shaves to 15 cents and hair cuts to 25 cents. That is another indication of the fact that prices generally are coming down and that the reduction in barber shop prices may spread to other cities and towns around." Diamonds Are Down. "The price of diamonds has come down considerably within the past few months although I don't think there will be much further reduction," said C. M. Joye, "well known jeweler of ltock Hill, who was talking about diamonds the other day. "There has been u reduction in diamonds of from 15 to 20 per centMr. Joye went on to say. "For Instance a one carat perfectly cut stone that sold for $700 a year ago can now be bought for around $550." Regardless of the Weevil. "Yen. the old chap is going ahead and plant cotton regardless of the boll j weevil," said M. L. Ford, well known merchant and farmer of Clover, when asked about the agricultural outlook the other afternoon. "Of course we never know when we plant a crop whether we are going to make anything or not. There is a lot of talk about the boll weevil and by the way, I for one have heard so much of it that 1 am sick and tired of it. Of cousc 1 am going to try to make enough corn to do me and some more besides and I have sown a lot of small grain; but I am going on and plant cotton as usual. I have ordered a j>art i of my fertilizer and expect to carry on as heretofore." Out of a Job. He wanted to flivver over to Rock Hill with Views and Interviews the other morning. He was invited to hop in. He explained that he had a wife and three children and that he had no job. He wanted to go over to Rook Hi'l to see if he could. And something: to do. "I've got a brother in Rock Hill," he went on to say, "who is a plumber. He makes ?10 a day whether it Is raining or whether the sun is shintng. While my brother was. learning his trade he was getting only $1.25 a day while I was geting $2 a day and my board. Now he gets $10 a day and I do not even get my $2 a day because there is no work. In those days I thought that I was better off than he was, but now I find that I was wrong," he said. > Athletics Pro and Con. James A, Page, the well known cashier of the Bank of Clover was discussing athletics the other day. Mr. Page, as is well known is a great baseball nnd basket ball fan. "I've got two boys at tsrsKine. ne sum, unu i them that while I wanted them to study hnrd, I did not want them to study too hard but I did want them to make the baseball team if possible. Got into an argument with a minister about athletics, the other day," Mr. Tage went on to say. "This minister doesn't believe in athletics which he v considers a waste of time." 'The message that I want my boy who is at college to send me,' said the minister will read something like this: "1 have stood at the head of my class this year.' Mr. Page said he replied: 'The message 1 want one of my boys to send me will read something like thUr: 'Knocked a home run with the bases full.'" For 1922. "Here," said a thoughtful one yesterday, "is a New Year resolution in verse that I clipped from some paper and which I believe is well worth passing along:" This I would like to be?braver and j k?ua.. Just a bit wiser because I am older. Just a bit kinder to those 1 may meet, j Just a bit manlier taking defeat: This for the New Year my wish and' my pica; This I would like to be?just a bit! finer. More of a smiler and less of a whiner, j Just a bit quicker to stretch out my Hand Helping another who's struggling to , . stand; . . This is my prayer for the New Year to be: Hord, make a regular man out of me. This I Would like to be?just a bit fairer. Just? u - bit better and just a bit squarer, Not quite so ready to censure and blame. Quieker to help every man in inej game, Not quite so eager men's failings to; see? I^ord, make a regular man out of me. I This I would like to be?just a bit J truer. I ..ess of the wisher and more of the! doer, Broader and bigger, more willing to give, Living and helping my neighbor to live; This for the Xew Year my prayer and my plea: Lord, make a regular man out of me. Patridges and Weevils. ' There has been much discussion as to whether or not the partridge, eats the boll weevil," said a thoughtful farm woman yesterday. "I for one don't know. Anyway, I clipped this , letter of a little girl from a farm paper the other day. It has something to say on the subject:" I am going to tell you what I know about quail. In July my brother and I went with papa to the watermelon field to gather melons and as l was puiung a big watermelon, a quail flew up from her little nest. 1 looked and there were 1 v little eggs in the nest. By taking away the melon 1 disturbed the nest and she never came back to it, so we took the eggs and set them under a Bantam hen, and in three weeks all of them hatched. For the first two or three days we kept the little birds in a coop. As soon as they were turned out, they began to gather little p'ant lice so small you could hardly see them. As they grew older, they went into the garden where they would hunt all day for the little green cabbage worms and small millers. They are a'most brown now and hunt all day long for insects and will catch four or five before the mother-hen can kill one. They will come to me when I call them. They feed on boll weevils, grasshoppers, melon bugs, melon lice?in fact, I have never seen an insect they will not try to catch. Besides this they eat all kinds of grass and weed seeds that are troublesome. Vivian Baugh (Aged 11) Weatherforc', Parker Co., Texas. FriJay the Thirteenth, Raid one this morning: "While it is? true that last Friday was the 13th day of the month, Friday the 13th isn't such a had day after all the superstitiously inclined to the contrary notwithstanding. History shows that Friday has not always proved unlucky, especially for Americans. For instance? It was on Friday, August 2, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain. On Friday October 12 of tho same year he made land in the new world. On Friday Henry VII gave tho commission to John Cabot which led to the discovery of North America. On Friday St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States was founded. On Friday the Mayflower, with the Pilgrims, landed at Plymouth, Massa cnuscus. On Friday Washington was born. On Friday the Declaration of Independence was adopted. What's the mntter with the sixth day of the week? How comes this idea of Priday-being lucky or unlucky? Mohammedans hold that Adam and Eva were created ou Friday, ate the forbiden fruit on Friday, and lied on Friday, and that , Friday is the Mohammedan Sabbath. The day takes its name from the Scandinavian godess Freya or Friggn. The hardy Norsemen were a little afraid of this third wife of the god. Odin, because she was supposed to j know the fates of men. The early Saxons and the Teutons also believed in her, and while they watched her out of the corner of their eye, they regarded her day, Frigedeag, as a lucky day. In the Roman Catholic church, the Greek church and the Anglican church it is recognized as a day of abstinence ar.d fasting in memory of the crucifixion of Christ. Just why thirteen is regarded as unlucky is uncertain. Man is a creature of small numbers. He deals in units, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, billions?when he gets beyond twelve figures there's no intelligence in his eye, it has stopped long since. He starts at the right slowly, cautiously and painfully works in ones, twos, or threes toward the left. When puny little man camcs to thirteen he says, "Unlucky number." Wonder why? Well, there were thirteen present at the Last Supper just before the Crucifixion of Christ; but the superstitution goer, back centuries before that. One can trace it Ivack to the old Norse mythology which tolls of a banquet In the Valhalla, the hall of the slain, where by direction of Odin himself, the souls of those slain in battle were borne to Immortality by the Valkyries, the beautiful maidens 1 . 1. ? l.^nnlinl nf Vn 1 . wno scrvi'u ui nu halln. I.oki, an evil giant god, intruded at the banquet of Odin and Krigga and instigated the killing of their son Haider. Lokl was the thirteenth persoa and brought death with him.'* FARM WENT CHEAP Horse Brought 50 Cents at Greenwood Bankrupt Sale. Proceeds from tlie sale of the bankrupt farm of J. P. Stockman yesterday amounted to a total of approximately $22,000, it was an noticed this morning, the land and home place liavir.g been bid in by J. It. Park, attorney for $17,000. According to those who attended the sale, much of the livestock and farm products sold for a song. One horse was sold to Chris l'cnn for 50 rents. The first ton heart of registered Hereford rattle put tip for sale were sold for an average price of $100 each. Twenty-six heart of registered Herefords were sold in al^. purchasers from j various sections of the state in artdij tion to local breeders bought them. : In addition to the horse which sold : for fifty rents, another horse was knocked down for $1.50. A number of mules were sold for prices varying from $12 to $50 earli.?Oreenwood In| dex-JournuJ. RELIEF FOR FARMERS An Important Problem to Receive Honest Consideration. AGBrCULTciF"MUST HAVE FAIR DEAL Baruch Thinks Warehouse Is Key to the Situatior?Eugene Meyer Wants Better, System of Foreign Credits? I President Wants Results, By John Lathrop. To remove the discussion of agricultural credits from the Held of political controversy; * To consider tlieni purely as a constructive proposal, not antagonistic to, but sympathetic with, the admittedly excellent existing Federal reserve system and Federal farm loan board (longtime, amortizablo land loan) system and to develop such rural credits in co~?i?w *Waoa m-icHnnr PrAflit f UI UUUS.IIUII *>1111 lUV-iju VA>U....? ... facilities; To perfect the previous proposals by the addition of provision for scientific marketing credits, and for scientifically, officially supervised warehouses, to make }x>.ssible the gradual marketing of the ) 1(1.000.000,000 to $1.1,000,000,000 of annual products, now dumped on the markets each year in the space of a few weeks; To accomplish this by private capital, perhaps by cooperative devices, asking government, state or Federal, merely to supervise the weighing and grading of non-perishable agricultural products deposited in the warehouses, and to issue official certificates thereof; To utilize Ihcso certificates of the deposit of these non-perishable products as the basis of a credit system which will financo the marketing of products in a scientific manner; and thus To organize these extensions 01 inc country's credit facilities and the handling of the enormous annual product of our farms, plantations, sheep and cattle ranges, or financial principles, which lie at the base of the per- j manent developments thus far achiev-j od, co-ordlnatlug the urban and rural credits, operating them harmoniously, j the one inter-working with the othei?? The representatives of the several interests involved arc gradually drawv i Ing closer together, with genuine) promise of success. Certain Specific Proposition* Will be Laid Before Agricultural Conference. This opthnistto ?Hfwrtlon is justified, when one gathers and arranges logically the several proposals now under 1 j . ?n that whf?n thn Vfl L'UilBIUl'I Uliuu, o<; ....v. Clonal Agricultural Economic C'onftr! ehce assembles soon in answer to I President Harding's call, through Secirctary Wallace of tho Department of j Agriculture, there will be laid before it I certain specific propositions, the whole enabling the realization of the needs ! for the complete financial credit sysi tcm, including the more rational marketing of products, and relieve tho ani nual abnormal strain on the credit facllities of the country by the enforced I quiek financing of crop-moving in a i few weeks, and on the transport fa! ciiities by the same quick necessity. It is recognized that, if the discussion remains within the field of bitter political bloc antagonism, there will be less than financial science applied t the solving of the admittedly acute prob'em. Therefore, those who think, first, In such financial principle terms, and second, In full realization of the Inennnmie nreenov nf the needs of the 1 day, and third, of the problem in it* foreign trade relations as well as in : Its domestic production and trade | relations, may be taken as represent! ed competently by these authorities, hereinafter quoted: , Eugene Meyers, Managing Director of the Federal War Finance Corporation: Herbert Quick, an acknowledged national authority on agricultural economics; Bernard M. Baruch, framer of the financing plan for the agriculj tural associations, and Dr. Henry A. E. j Chandler, economist for the National j Bank of Commerce of New York city. Mr. Meyers on Farm Cerdits. Mr. Meyer, quoted first, because ho I co-ordinates the matter with the foreign trade problems of the United Slates, dealing especially with farm credits in relation to marketing and j the benefits to society to be derived therefrom, says: "If we provide financing fo hold our commodities for more gradual marketing o\or a longer period we will be doing only what any sensible merchant should do to handle his business. It is not a question of holding for speculative purposes; conditions compel us to j hold for gradual marketing ir we no not ! want lo cause disaster to ourselves and j to those who buy in foreign countries ! from us. "Merchants and manufacturers want a reasonably stabilized market?and we as producers must control our goods in a way to meet the financial needs of the foreign buying market. They cannot longer buy as they did before the war, a1 most a whole year's supply in the six months following the. maturing of our crops. American producers and I dealers must carry bur commodities for more gradual marketing through their | hanks. "if we are able to market our conij modifies more gradually, we shall aejeomplish more toward the stabilization : of the. international exchanges than lean he brought about by any of the artificial schemes now being proposed. "It is of the utmost importance now to recognize a new condition In our foreign trade. This condition lias no less to do with credits to foreigners than to Americans. We must now realize the necessity to sell our agricultural products more gradually than we did in former years; and, therefore, a corresponding necessity to carry our commodities here in America in larger quantities for a longer period of mar-! Keung. This Is strikingly illustrated in the j export of our cotton. In the cotton (year 1910-11 81 per cent of the exports j for the entire year were concentrated in the six months from September to February inclusive. In 1919-20 only 51 per cent, of our exports for the entire cotton year were forwarded during the same six months. This means that we must carry forward into the second six months of the crop year the cotton that formerly was exported in the first six months." Mr. Meyers simply uses the cotton as an illustration, app'ylng. the principle of marketing finance equally to other non-perishable products. Study the Proposals, Says Mr. Quick. ' Then Herbert Qu(ck, one of the most generally accredited authorities on agricultural subjects in the country, thus states the issue: "We have a splendid system of co- 1 n.\n..,i fli.A In n/1 ni',. .1 i I n in tl, n 1?A^nnnl Farm Loan System, which is well founded In the best accepted financial princip'es. It is sound and strong and getting stronger aJl the time. But the farming interests need a better personal credit systemi The Federal Reserve System is a good thing for the country, but it is built up on the needs of the city man. The farmer needs longer time personal ei edits. They need to be longer, because the farmer's operations are slower. The short time credits which are perfectly adequate to the merchant will not do for the man who is building up a dairy herd, for instance, or draining a farm. There are thousands of operations which are necessary for successful farming which run over several years of time. "The present system- cannot provide for them. Nowhere have the financial affairs of farmers been better taken care of by city banks than in this country; but the two things caJl for different systems of banking. The present system is not anir cannot be made a success. "In this connection we should study the McFadden-Kenyon proposals for credit and multiple insurance. It provides standardizing and organizing the whole matter of rural personal credits, and, through the use of some one of the great insurance companies, at a small cost tho debtor, getting the endorsement of his paper by a financial organization known to the financial world. This Insurance company would thus become a great acceptance house for rural borrowers). The significance of this to co-operative credit societies would seem to lie in the fact that they cou'd get the acceptance at a lower insurance rate than individuals. "I am not finally committing myself I to the McFadden-Kenyon measure, but j believe we should study that and all | other proposals, with the utmost care, ' and from them all evolve the system of I rural to sunrdempnt the other! j credit facilities a'ready provided for the city man for the agricultural com! munities by the long-time land mortj gages, amortizable, so that, the several ! taken as a whole, will give the United States a complete system of credit facilities for city and country which would be (and we may easily make it so) the best in the world. "I have long said that, unless the states themselves create some good system of rural credits for their farmers, the National government will have to do so. 1 should prefer to have the matter handled by agencies closer to the farmer than the Nat-ional government, but few of the states have moved in the matter. "The principle of co-operative credit is sound. But the American farmer, while he has made successful use of it j in some cases, has not shown himself I o.n>abIe of creatine these agencies for himself." This is in no senso a reflection on the acuteness of the American farmer * or planter or stock raiser, for in none J of the European countries in which ; admittedly sound systems of rural credits are in operation, did the farmers themsselves evolve or organize thei i system. In fact, they originated in i 17G7, when Frederick the Great errat- 1 ed, the rural credit system of Silesia, i which spread over Germany and be- 1 came ti e basis of most of the European i rural c.-edit systems now in vogue in ; Germany. Austria, Itelgium, France, i Italy and others. In each instance it has been a mo- 1 hilization of the little personal respon- 1 slbilities and property holdings of the i mi'lions of agriculturists into one vast ; system of solvent, sound, dependable | credits capable of and actually doing 1 billions of dollars of annual business, 1 the actual operations on the European 1 continent being not less annually than 11 1 from $000,000,000 to $R,000,000,000 pro- j < I war. I Mr. Baruch's Marketing System. Mr. r.arueh, whose marketing flnanc- 1 i intr nlan for agricultural products was 1 i first accepted officially by tlie Kansas l |Farmers' Association,and now isadopt ed by tho American Farm Associa- ' tion liureau at "WafrbfnKion, thus out-:' I lines his proposed system: "The theory of my recommendations 1 is that, in the marketing of his pro; ?: i (Continued cut I'a^e Six). ROCK HILL NEWS BUDGET Mayor-Elect Johnson Proposes to Enforce Law Against Sunday Selling. HE WILL WORK FOR W utilfoi THIN ? Defeat of Old Politician Surprise of Election?Confederate Veteran Diet of Burn*?People Anxioueifor Billy r> ... _IL.. ? ' /? . Ail ^ kl 1 I i ?unaay to Lome?'uinw new* ana Notes of th? County Metropolis. By a Staff Correspondent. Rock Hill, Jan. 14.?-in a, t^uple of weeks or maybe a little longer it is going to be as hard a matter to get a "dope" or any other ordinary article on Sunday as it is to get a drink of liquor during a week day. And while Rock Hill liquor heads can get a drink of liquor during week days and maybe on Sunday too, it isn't the easiest thing imaginable to do. The mayorelect, Dr. J. B. Johnson is going to enforce Sunday closing?at least he is going to try to do it. Folks ' who know him say that lie usually does what he sets out to do. In an interview with the correspondent of The Vorkville Enquirer this morning he outlined some of the changes he hopes to make in the city. One of the first problems he proposes to tackle will very likely be the Snrulnv closins' nronosition. "There's no reason why a drug store should remain open on Sunday any more than a grocery store should for the salo of soft drinks, cigars, cigarettes, etc.," he said. "The grocery stores don't sell things on Sunday In Rock Hill and the other stores should he made to cut It out. I think that Sunday hours should he fixed. for the sale of gasoline and 1 think that there should be more Saboath observance all along the line." Mayor-elect Johnson let It be known that there were other vices going on in Rock Hill that should be checked. He referred especially to the number of immoral women dropping in and out of the city and he Intimated that the police department would be directid to keep a more careful check on them. The present police officers will In all orohability be re-elected, the mayor ?lect indicated this morning1, and so will other elective officers of the city. One Election Surprise. Now that the municipal election is )ver the local political prognostlcators I ldmlt that It gave them one great surprise. That was in the defeat of W. O. | Stevens for councilman. Stevens ia:i been on the council and has been prominent In local politics for years, i ind the 'dopesters" had it that he < would be elected along with Webb dTh'te, Now the talk is that it was he vote of the women that defeated lim. What the opposition of the wonen voters to him was there is a dlf'erence of opinion. Any way, it is said :hey went after him pretty hard and i eft him among the "also rans." It was a rather peculiar old election for Rock Hill. Usually there is a i ot of talk of sacheting around in plain . lew. Rut this year the sachetirig was lone on the quiet. Died of Burns. Clark Staines, Confederate veteran svho was burned in some mysterious nanner Thursday, while a patient at a ocal hospital, died of his injuries Frilay and was buried in Laurelwood vemetery here today, funeral services 1 jeing conducted by Rev. Alexander ' Martin. The deceased was a native of Mecklenburg county and was born in ' LS42, being in his 80th yeur at the 1 ime of hla death. He served in a cavalry company from Mecklenburg ' luring the War Between the States ' ind was captured by the Federals * luring the Pennsylvania campaign. ' He spent eighteen months in the Federal penitentiary in Albany, N. Y. Upon his release from prison at the ?nrt of the war he returned to Meckenburg and soon afterwards moved :o ltock Hill, where he lived until his leath. He is survived by the follow- , ng children: Mrs. John G. Kee and Mrs. Ixmis Hayes, Hock Hill; Mrs.-V. I. Williams, Lesslie; J. Frank Starnes, , riastjpiia: Mack D. Starnes, Edgmoor; Morrow Starnes. Oakeebee, Fla.; Wade Starnes, Wichita Falls, Texas. Want Billy. Sunday. Hock Hill people would like very much to have Rev. Billy Sunday come over one day while he is conducting ] his meeting in Spartanburg and speok , to the folks. They are already trying lo get him to do it and it is possible that a big delegation will go to Spartmburg to invite him over. Mr. Sun rlay has never been, in Rock Hill, but his choir leader, Ilomer Rodehenver tins spent much time at Winthrop Col- , lege on various occasions and knows , many people in the city. Rock Hill representatives are just now trying to get Rodeheaver to tell Mr. Sunday what a good town Rock Hill is and how the people would like to hear him. If he comes he will preach in , Lho large auditorium at Winthrop , college. Not Interested in Politics. "No, I'm not much interested In politics and have been paying little at- i tent ion to the present session of the general assembly," said Mr. E. Oettys i S'unn. former representative in the legislature from York county when the correspondent visited him at his little barber shop near the Victoria mill to- i day. Mr. Xunn who was the, first man) ever elected to the house of repre- 11 sennlives of South Carolina on a plat- j form representing the cotton mill people was cutting the hair of a little lad when bis visitor called. "I guess I am out of politics," he said. "It has cost me a great deal? my representing York county in the house. "I have a Job In one of the cotton mills here," he said with a knowing smile; "but not in the mill I used to be with. They decided they didn't need me. But the iob at the other mill is pretty good and thr barbershop helps." And Mr. Nunn still smiled a knowing smile as he talked of the legislature and legislators. Evangelistic Club Elects. At a luncheon of the Rock HH1 evangelistic club held Friday called mainly for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year the present officers were re-elected as follows: Alexander Long, president; James S. White, first vice president; Dr. Roy Z. Thomas, second vice president; R. E. Neil, secretary; John R, Williams, treasurer. Tucker Named Vice President. Rev. J. P. Tucker, pastor of the First Baptist church of Rock Hill, was elected vice president of the state Baptist hospital at a meeting of the trustees of the institution held In Columbia this week. HITCH IN BONUS PLAN Idea of Combining With Foreign Debt Has Been Abandoned. Washington, Jan. 13?The soldier bonus bill will not be made a part of the allied debt refunding bill, said Chairman McCumber of the senate finance committee tonight after a series of conferences had been held between senate leaders to discuss the desirability of merging the twp and it had become known at the White House that President Harding did not look with favor upon the suggestion that they be combined. The foreign debt bill. Senator McCumber said, would be taken up by the finance committee Monday in the hope that it would be put into shape at that time for reporting to the senate. It was the intention, he added, to eliminate some of the features to which the treasury department has objected and which have resulted in the measure being held in committee for several weeks. These Include provisions for semi-annual payment of interest and that the rate shall not De less man o per c?*ni. Although the merger plan was originally received favorably by a number of senate leaders the president was said to regard It as impractical find his view was reflected in further conferences today between the senate leaders. The president's objection to the merger was said by callers at the White House today to be based on hisdesire for the assurance that provisions definitely would be made for payment of the bonus. So far as the refunding hill is concerned, he was said to believe that the refunding process should be developed to insure returns 1 from the allied loans before stepn were taken to pledge them for a bonus. He was represented, however, as < not hostile to the suggestion that the interest or principal of tl:e allied loans be used for paying the bonus once 1 they were available. It was' stated I definitely that he also would not opnn?o a aalas (a* fill' the niirnoso Of paying the bonus if congress should Jecide upon that plan.. The president, however, was said to regard as impractical a suggestion that over $4,000,000 in the hands of i the alien property custodian be used for bonus payments. These funds, it was said, were regarded as pledged i technically to private individuals i whose property was taken. ABNEY'S WILL FILED Great Columbia Lawyer Loft an Estate Valued at $214,505 The last will and testament of the laic Ben L. Abney was filed yesterday | morning with the judge of probr.te and the executor estimates the vr lue of the estate to be $214,505 says a Columbia dispatch. Of this amount approximately $200,000 is in Liberty and state certificates. The real estate is valued at $14,505. John R. Abney, is named as executor. The estate is left to relatives in such shares as the statue of distribution in South Carolina directs in cases of intestacy. The lot and building at tfce corner of Washington and Bull streets is left to Mrs. Lillie S. Bloase in the will, but the records show that for and in consideration of the sum of $10,000 paid to him by Mrs. Lillie S. Bleaso, he conveyed the said house and lot to her on June 22, 1917, and consequently the same did not belong to him at time of his death. Stephen Murray, faithful negro servant, was left $2,650. 1 Tho will was dated April 22, 1019, ! and was witnessed by Mary Y. Caugh man, Sam P. Roof and W. M. Lester. 1 Classified. ? The politician rushed i past the official Cerberus in the edi- < torial sanctum. "What do you mean t by insulting me as you did in last i night's Clamor?" I "Just a minute," replied the editor. 1 "Didn't the story appear as you gave I it to us?namely, that you had re- i 3igned as city treasurer?" 1 "It did,'' admitted the politician. "Hut you put it under the head, 'Pub- t lie Improvements.'"?The Argonaut i (Snn Francisco). NEWS ABOUT CLOVER Newly Built School Building III Narrow Escape From Fire. MTOX CAMPBELL' OFF ITS MfW Stockholder* of Clover Banking In- * titution* Hold Annual Meetin0l^h Coupl* Off to Florida by Ford->Work on New Church BuS&ind H?'d Up" JL. ' ; By a Su(T Correspondent-, d Clover, January 16.?Fifteen minute* longer and ihe citizens of Clover school district would havo lost their handsome new Rchool building, not yet quite completed, by Are Friday afternoon. Flames which originated front some defect in the heating plant burst v out and had it not been for the fact that some of. the workmen on the building were near, the new structure would hnve soon been past help. As It happened the damage was arery slight. Will Hold up Work. It looks now thai it is going to be necessary to hold up work on the new First Presbyterian church building within the ne*t few weeks because of lack of funds. Workmen are now eftgaged in putting doors and windows In the new church building and the understanding is that paid subscriptions in the hands of the treasurer are sufficient to pay for that but thai is all. Because of the general financial stringency it Is said that the congregation has been rather slow of late in coming acrogft with subscriptions for the new building. It is beginning to look like a large brick church building only about half completed la going to adorn King's Mountain street for some time to come. To Florida by Ford. Sam McCall, well known citizen of Clover and Mrs. McCall expect j tttt> ' leave^this week for Jacksonville, Fla* where they will likely spend some time. It is their intention to go through the country, making the trl? in Ford. Mr. McCall has been busy for several days post mapping out the route that he proposes to take to tito Florida metropolis. .J" .- > Stockholder* Hold Msotings. 8tock holders of the First National Br.nk and the Bank of Ckxvtr held their annual meetings last week. The present officers and directors of each institution were rq-elected. The Bonk of ClOver paid the-wsuhl annual dividend of 10 per cefct. on the capital stock of $30,000 and added *3,009 to the surplus fund of the bank while tfto' First National paidy an anneal'difidend of 5 per centT on a capital stock of $25,000. ( Mr. Cook Well Known Here. The late Andy Cook of &etHel township who died In a Cast on la hospital last week of blood poisoning resulting from an injured foot was well known in Clover and was regarded an one of- the best farmers In this section. Mr. Cook thrice won the $5 cold piece offered annually by the Bank of Clover to the fanner selling the first bale of cotton on the Clover market. He won the prixc three tlmek in luccession. The deceased who was a loyal member of the Clover Tribe of Red Men was hurled by members of that fraternity. Off to Cuba. Mayor I. J. Campbell ierx yeaicraay for Havana, Cuba, where he expects to be rone ten days or two weeks on a pleasure trip. He was accompanied by Mr. Ft. A. Harnett of Rock Hill'and Dr. J. W. Campbell and Mr. Foster1 Clinton of (Jastonla. They expoct.ta irrlve In Havana on Tuesday nlghfi<" Tax on Films. J. Meek Smith, who runs a picture show in Clover for the personal amusement of himself and his friends and not for profit says that the South Carolina general assembly in session now is flxln* to run the motion picture Industry out of South Carolina. "'Ay ganny," said Mr. Smith tne tuner oay, "some fool legislator has a bill up to put a tux of 95 per thousand feet on films, the local theatre proprietors to pay the tax. I wrote John Hart the other day that If there was any probability of that bill being passed to let me know just before it was done and 1 wou)d Junk my whole show and send it to Columbia. By g&nny, as conditions a^c now there is no moi\ey in the moving picture buaipesn in a town like Clover and here thinhere general assembly is trying to make matters worse." AGAINST SCHOLARSHIPS / Representative Sam 8ellers Would 04 Away With Them. Abolition of all free scholarships in state institution will make its appearance once again in the general aatembly, according to Representative R. J. Sellers, of Ruby, who introduced uich a measure in the house last year. The bill, Mr. Sellers says, is now berg framed and will soon* be introiuced. The measure will carry with t'f* abolition of all free scholarships n state educational institutions and the substitution therefor a revolving loan fund. Money from, this fund will >e loaned students In instalments darns' their college careers to be paiil jack with 4 per cent interest. Mr. Sellers will also introduce a bill o make the legal rate of interest ler cent instead of 8 per cent, as oti^ tains a. present. ' '* - -J -j