Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ v- f ? ' J^cvapo and facts. 1?Two hold-up men robbed the ticket office of the Piedmont and Northern railroad in Charlotte of about $150 last Tuesday evening at about 7:30 o'clock. While the office was deserted by all except J. 1'. Wright. Mrs. Wright and Miss Mary Zeman, in charge of the office, the men appeared ^ith ugly looking pistols and made them stand with hands up until the robbery was completed. Then the robbers beat it. and when the police arrived , in response to a telephone alarm no information could be had as to their whereabouts. S?The state of North Carolina is try- { ?n ?ecore from Toronto, Ontario, , Ihe extradition of Mutthew Bullock, a fiegrd, who is wanted on the chargfc of ynclting to riot. Canadian lawyers Jfnd negroes are fighting the demand *ur extradition on the claim that if Jjakcn back to North Carolina Bullock Hyill be lynched. Among the precedents t/iat are being cited is a slavery jlime cose, in which the extradition of ; At negro slave was denied on tlpj iVround that British law provided that i*no slate remains one when once on J ((Jfritish soil." Bullock was arrested in | 'IMarch, 1921, and the immigration au- ; .tfhorities had already ordered his do- 1 iportation when the fight developed, j The negro population of Canada is do- j fjfng all it can for him. ? A mob of approximately 1,000 per- ; ,soi:s overpowered officials at Mayo, fi'lia., Wednesday, took a negro who killed \V. K. Taylor Saturday night uuul lynched him on the outskirts of phe town. Taylor, the son of a wellknown naval stores operator, and himself a rural mail carrier, was shot and "instantly killed at midnight Saturday, " k"" ontoreH ?h#> npcro's home tO investigate a quarrel. The-negro used u shotgun, the cartridge of which was so tyranged, that the discharge entered Taylor's body as one solid piece. "When the officers returned to Mayo with the negro Wednesday following - .his capture, several miles from town, they were intercepted by enraged citizens who clroppetf* their daily'tasks and quickly formed. The officials had little chance of projecting their prisoner and the work of the men bent on 'lynching was short. The negro's body was riddled with bullets after having been hanged to a tree. The negro, whose name developed-to be Charles Strong, before his death said another negro also had a hold on the gun which caused Taylor's death and the search for him then began. ? Henry Ford will address the southern Sroyp of the American Farm Im reati federation at its meeting at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, today and tomorrow the Farm Huron u federation an- j nounccd a few days ago. The southern group of the American Farm Bureau Federation comprises the states of Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama. Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ok la hdma and Texas. In addition delegates will bo present, the headquarters of UnAmerican Farm Bureau Federation said, from fifteen other states in the corn and wheat belt sections of the Mississippi valley. Organization, need . of more efficient community units to develop initiative and leadership cooperative marketing of the major southern crops such as cotton and tobacco, community marketing of local products, and farm finance arc on the program of the meeting. Other subjects expected to be considered include .the American Cotton Growers' association, development of dairy a\vd live-., sttfc'k industry in the southern states, and corn syrup making. The meeting will be organized in Florence, Ala., und an extensive examination of the iviuscic axioms piujcvi is ^ be made by the delegates. ? The senate on Tuesday adopted an amendment to the Federal Reserve law under which the appointive membership of the government board will be increased from live to six. The specific provision heretofore requiring the president to name two bankers on the board is wiped out, and in its p^ice a provision specifying that appointments must have "due regard to a fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial and commercial interests and geographical divisions of the i country." The significance of the change is the prevailing sentiment j that the Federal Reserve system is too largely dominated by professional bankers: that the agricultural interests of the country should have mere direct representation. In the debate it was brought out tnat mere are mosr who think the nation's finances are too largely dominated by fi class in the interest of a class. In other words that what is known as Wall street has too much say. ' It has beer, proposed to require the president to put at least one farmer on the hoard: but a compromise was reached as stated above. That the change in the law is of important significance there is no reasonable question: but'.'what the ultimate effect will be is uncertain, except the indications are that the people of the country, as sucTi. are going to have more to say about the conduct of the country's banking policy than they have been having to say. ? Secretary "Hughes, as head of the American delegation to the Washington conference, defined at a meeting of the Kar Kastorn committee on Tuesday the American policy concerning the open door in China, his statement, it was said, being based on a note he sent as secretary of state to Alford Sze, the Chinese minister at Washington, on July 1. last. Without referring to the note or quoting from its language. Secretary Hughes was under stood to have followed closely tne principles covered by the following statement, which was said to he contained in the note: "The government of the I"nited States has never arsociated itself with any arrangement whirl) sought to establish any special rights or privileges in China which wduld ahridge the rights of the subjects or citizens of other friendly states. And 1 am happy to assure you." th j noU? continued, "the purpose of this govenufn-iit Is neither to participate nor to acquiesce in any arrangement which might purport to establish in favor of foreign interests any superiority of rights with respect to conimercial or economic development in designated -regions of the territory of China or which might seek to create any such monopoly or preference as would exclude other nations from undertaking any legitimate trade or industry or from participating with Chinese government in any category ? A bank of nations, with the United States as majority stockholder, an in- | ternational "trade dollar" as n suosn- | lut*' for gold, anil conduct of world business on :> credit instead of a cash j basis, was advocated bv I'nlted States Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, in an i address before the American Manufac- | turers* Export association in New, York. Wednesday. Senator Hitchcock discussed a bill which he has intro- ' ' duced in the senate providing for es- i ' tablishing such a bark of nations, with $2,400,000,000 capital. The I'nited |{ States, he said, would hold $1,300,000.- j O00 of the stock and bankers, import- 1 ers and exporters <>f this eobntry and . others $20,000,000. leaving the remain- ! ' ing $900,000,000' to be purchased by th*-j leading nations of the world through the president. Th'* t'nited States, by ' 1 virtue of its stockholders/ would choose ,13.of the hanks' "I directors) ( Headquarters would, be at Netv York The directors would have power to issue currency to he known as the international dollar, which would eliminate the continental shipment of cold j between countries, according to Sena- I 4*v?? UUoK/titpl/V nlin Inir 111;11 lV" " r, . credit represents the difference be- . twecn the vast business enterprises of civilised man and the insignificant operations of primitive man.' Senator Hitchcock told the association that the practical collapse of national commerce is due to the fact that nations are "trying to do business for cash-" Nations, within their own boundaries, conduct nine-tenths of their business on credit, the senator said, adding that if the United States or any other njjf tion suddenly was compelled to <^? business for cash there would be an enormous shrinkage of business. Burmess between this country and Europe has been slashed in half in a sinAp j year, he asserted, because America djfmands cash on delivery and Europe cannot pay Speaking of the eqormogs amount of fold now in United banks. Senator Hitchcock said: ought to use it as a basis for currency and seize this opportunity to maJte the international dollar the money pf the world, the medium of exchange between countries. If we do not do this our gathering of all the gold here in the United States is worse than folly. It would he almost an international crime. We are playing dog In the manger with it. We have drawn l_ it in here and we nave very muvii more than we are using." ?ht ^orfewUr (inquirer. ? r Entered at. the Posto'fice at.York, as Mail Matter of th 3 Second Class. ~ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922. Yesterday was observed througliout the South as the birthday of Gen. Robert E. 1/er, who still stands without a peer as the purest and noblest specimen of exalted manhood that America has produced. The first duty of every* individual is to pay his honest debts. The man who does riot pay cannot keep his own respect. much less the respect, of the other fellow. There are people who can pay all tho.v owe: but who will not even pay a part. These arc a far more serious drawback to the well-being of business than are those who are really unable to pay anything. Most of the business paralysis is because of thor? who owe and who do not even want to pay. It i.s hardly probable that the general assembly will pass the Toole bill t,-ottou.<MviU.uwp4x>Vi? Qf' the right to close down their mills when they see proper. The obvious purpose of the bill is to circumvent the use of the closing1 down expedient as a means of compelling employes to accept lower wages and in intimidating them otherwise. and front this standpoint the measure is fully justifiable. But there is danger on the other side as well. There conies legitimate depression in the mill business?times when the product cannot be sold except at a loss, and to force a mill to run at such times as that would mean bankruptcy, i In that tragic array of figures show ing the ravages of the boll wee\ il in ' South Carolina last year as compared j with the year previous, York shows up i with conspicuous good fortune. We | are referring to the report of the Department of Commerce, giving the ginning figures of South Carolina by counties^ It will be noted that only York, Pickens and Oconee show ginnings in excess of those of the-previous year,'and that in the case of most of the other counties the comparison is simply appalling. Dut there is probably nothing to boast about irt the situation, for more than anything else, it is merely a matter of good luck. Among other things it may have been due to the course the wind was blowing when the midsummer hordes of weevils were flying?something that gave us a respite of say two weeks at the most critical time for the crops. , r*u Uinil'ilU \*\ II.HHH I" Ifiianv *??.?selves into believing Hint we am immune by reason of climate, altitude or some other such fanciful consideration; let us return thanks for the special favor that we have received so far and keep out of further temptation. , ^ , i Sjncc it is practically certain that , the government will never do any- | thing with Muscle Shoals, now that ' there is no immediately pressing wai , need for further a? tPity in that fi< M. j \ common sense says that the property 'i should he turned over to Henry Kurd. r Hooks might he written on "Conscrvatlon" in connection with the matter; I< but there would he nothing to them j1 except fine spun theories. There c.anj' he no bet'er conservation than ford's! plan to make the property useful and | productive, especially under conditions I, that bind him to pay a reasonable' 5 price for it to begin with, to say noth- P ing of his offer to turn it back to the ' people at the end of a hundred years. 1 <. We are strongly disposed to bolio\;jc that the principal thing in tnc way oij-. turning the property over to Kurd is ? the fear of the effect it will have onj< billions of dollars already invested in ^ industrial enterprises of the country, j j, Just as Ford has demonstrated that's he ran build and distribute a cheaper |a automobile than anybody e'se for th<* ' money, big financial interests .are s afraid that lie might break up their,a playhouses in many other directions. ! They are afraid that niatty. <>f their profitable monopolies will go bankrupt and that Ford will supplant theiu I y ? f M in thr'.iiulutftrial, .powc^ Ihsft; ip .now* theirs, Hut' unless Ford doo.i k't control of Muscle Shoals, the probability is that the unlimited potentiality will remain an unlimited potentiality and nothing more. There is probably no other function in ail America that is of more farreaching importance to the weal or j wou of the American people than the | government of the Federal Reserve board. It, is in the power of this board to make credits tight or easy as It sees proper, or as may suit the flpqnclal viewpoint of the element by which it is dominated.^-, Uefore the. creation of the Federal reserve KJsfcepi Autdrican credft'was urfdei* the control of what is commonly. designated.,as'Wall fitreet interests, meaning thai, powerful organization of private capital that centres in New Yorit. The fundamental idea of the Reserve bank was to transfer thij from jryvjda discretion and reijwiiiibflity tb froV^tdraontal rosponsibility?this on thf theory that a thing so vast as the weal or woe of this great nation should not be even within possible private domination. During the past two years there has been widespread conviction throughout the whole .nation that the same , private interests that formerly con- ! trolled are now controlling, even more effectively and with as little responsibility through, the medium of the duly constituted representatives of the government. This is the meaning of efforts on the part of the United States to bring about redistribution of the individuality in which capital is vested. Theoretically the senate is correct; but the mighty question in connection with it all is the possibility of creating human machinery that will carry out the great function sought with just impartiality to all interests and all sections. < AIMED AT THE MILLS. Bill to Prevent Cotton Factories from > Suspending Operations. The forcing of cotton mills to maintain the .operation qf their plants even when the owners of the mills might desire or consider it advisable or necessary to suspend operations indefinitely is carried in a bill introduced in the house Wednesday morning by Representative F. W. Toole of Aiken. The bill was referred to the committee on judiciary. The bill would make it unlawful for a mill to close its doors longer than 10 consecutive days in any year without :he approval of the governor and the state bank examiner, who, under the provisions of tho proposed measure, is authorized to make an audit of tlie J books of any mill.so closed down and report his findings to the governor, who may then order the resumption of operation within a period of ten days, I a fine of $1,000 being imposed for every day the mill disregards the order of the chief executive. The text of the bill reads: "When any tlrm, individual or corporation engaged in the manufacture of cotton within this state either as a cotton mill, textile industry or by whatever other name known or called, shall close Its plant, factory or mill for 1T0 consecutive days in one year and such notice of the closing of said business be brought to the attention of the governor he shall immediately instruct the bank examiner to proceed to audit the bookR of the said manufactory and if in the opinion of the said bank examiner, who shall report the same to the governor, he shall order the said manufactory to resume operation within a period of tendays. "The suspending of operation of business within one day of the 20 hereinabove provided shall be deemed as a move to defeat the object of this aet and shall be considered a closing of 20 consecutive days. "Any person, firm or corporation! violating the provisions of this act, . shall be subject to a fine of $1,000 for each day business is not resumed after j notice to such corporation by the governor." "The act would become effective im- | mediately upon approval by the gov- i ernor. , ^ | MERE MENTION The cost of living is said to' have dropped 7 per cent in London during the month of December When two automobiles collided in the darkness near Albany, (la., last Wednesday night, C. W. Varner was killed ai.d John It. Irwin, Jr., and John Massey, a negro, were severely injured Republican legislative leaders want the country to understand that they are determined upon bonus legislation at the present session of congress; but there is still a great deal of division of opinion as. to how best to raise the! money Germany on Wednesday .. nf 1 (100.000 COld I instill* ?t |ia,> invii" w? -,. . ., murks on her reparations indebtedness, Avit li the understanding that sihiilar payment will be made at ten-day intervals, pending a final derision on the whole reparations issue. The American Tobacco company, P; Lorillard company and Liggett Si Myers have been charged by the Federal Trade commission in a report, to the senate, with engaging jobbers to keep up tlie prices of their products. Cleveland. Ohio, has instituted a vigorous enmpaign intended to break up the organized ]>oliee court rings lawyers" runners and crooks, through a-hose prnetiees criminals arc escaping punishment So far J30.16n,j>43 have been collected on the IJaptist I campaign... The ceremony ?f honoring Italy's unknown soldier ( ook place, at Home on Wednesday, ( "eprtfsent 11ive.s, ol the Fritted States ( iniiy',)kiiti< t|iatiiig in the programme. ^ Herbert P. rrdwell, vice presi- . lent of the New York National ftunk ?t' Conur.ercf, advjsps that this is a ] ;ood year to remember that business , ? tiii".iii<>v^ -iiwl lint s'lieeulation. ]inrl( T1 ill. January IS: The total 1 lie nf material produced I?>* home . lemons'ration girls and women cf . Eolith Carolina during 1921 is $;!,9G7,! 1S.r? 1. The federal Smith-Ix'ver appropriation for this work is MO.CIXII.: I S20,2?i7.7l is the amount of the state Smith-I?ovor appropriation and the . ounty appropriations for the past year { imountcd to $4-1,370, making a total of , >3.933,794.09 earned by the state heme * lemonslrut inn department. The sale >f meat products lay the club women nought in the largest amount, this bcng $2,955,1.so.o;i. The girls of the va- J ious demonstration clubs had the best, t access with tlie sale of the vegetables; , nd fruit products, this amounting tol ::r,.:,07.r?3. Tiiese figures are accordingi o the. report of Miss Christine X. [ . South, stale home dt monstratiun kcm. | J 1 v A liil! lias been introduced to r iinend the present statute so as to 11 aise the speed limit on the public [l lighways to 35 miles an hmtr. 's IOCAVAF ?AIR8.'. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. York Furniture.Company?Yes, sir; we need tlie money. i Peoples Hank and Trust Co.?Pertinent, questions. I; Dank of Clover?We thought we would mention. York Hardware Company?See otir window. Hugh CJ. Drown, SujK'rvisor of York County?Semi-annual report of disbursements. rvimtvOi ??> >?VM/Hoim* Convention and I Box Supper at Philadelphia school Wednesday evening: January 25. The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?Alice Joyce today. Thd Cash and Carry?With many people. Carroll Brothers?Buy the right plow. Nathan Feinstein?Attention ladies. Sherer <Sr Quinn?Prcsh groceries. W. B. Wilkersonr-^NoUee to farme-s. ' The Gaetortia city council has passed an Ordinance requiring that all gasoline jpwurs find tilling stations I must b^' located1 "wltfiln."the building line, and those now located on the sidewalks must be inoved'to the building line withiii she months. ' REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Real estate-transfers have been Indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Bethesda?'W. H. Dunlap to C. E. Strait, 1 lot, $207.50, Catawba?W. J. Cornwell to J. Cornwell, 45 acres, $1,000. A. E. Hutchison, et al., to Taylor Massey, 1 lot, $5 and other consider UOIIH. T. E. McMackln, C. C. C.. Pis., to R. T. Pewell, Trustee, 98 1-4 acres, $5,000. T. E. McMackln, C. C. C., Pis., to W. E. Simpson, 1 lot, $105. Fort Mill?W. L. Hall to J. M. Epps, 1 lot, $600. . 1 G. H. Anisleyto H. G. Hammonds, 43 acres, $3,000. York?E A. Hall to T. E. McMackln, 1 lot, $1,575. ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. John S. Sandifcr, of Yorkvllle, who has been quite ill with branchial pneumonia is able to sit. up. Mr. Paul Ferguson, of Sharon, is ei ceding a handsome bungalow in that town. . ? J. Cal Steele, of Great Falls, former chief of police of Yorkville, was a visitor in Yorkvllle, yesterday. Dr. Miles J. "Walker of Yorkvllle, who has been a patient at the Tranquil Park Sanitarium in Charlotte, for some time past continues to improve. . Miss Eliza Blgham, who has been nnito ill at the home of Mr. J. H. Big ham, in STiaron, for some time past is improving. Senator John It. Ilart came up this morning1 from Columbia, finding it necessary to return home for a day on account of legal business. Mrs. I*. E. Qulnn, of Yorkville, who ia undergoing treatment in the Fennell Infirmary, Hock 11 ill, continues to im-. prove. }; Mrs. J. K. fhnfleld and Miss Zoe McFarland nf Yorft^No. 3, s|>ent Sunday with Miss Mary McFarland in Oaalunia. .1. F. Pavis of Marion, a South Carolina field reitrerientative of the If. X. Yeteian'a Huronu, was in Ynrkvill^, this week look big after compensation claims of disabled soldiers. Mr. C. rt. Crook Ik suffering with a [severe attnfck of influenza at the home of his brother. Mi*. W. H. Crook, in the (iO*d Hill section of Fort Mill township, having beeh stricken on Wednesday night. t r Miss MargareC' McDoje, a student at Agnes Scott CtdJcge, Decatur, (la., is reported to bo kitting'along nicely fol-j lowing an operation for appendicitis. The young lady is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. McDow, of Yorkville. Rev. .]. S. Moffatt, D. D.. former president of ErjsTtlne College and now pastor of the Ah R. P. church in Col- J umbia. is reported critically ill in a j Colombia hospital. According to Col- I urabia dispatches. Dr. MotTatt is suffering' from a deadly malady and there is little or no hope of his recovery. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Less than 40 bales cf cotton have been sold on the Vorkvllle market during the past ten days, according to a statement made yesterday by R. E. MeClure, public weigher for the town. ? G. W. Roof and sons who have been conducting a pool room here for some time past have' closed their place. C. W. Ruff said yesterday morning that they proposed 40 move to Statcsviilc, North Carolina,. ? Tried in hts absence in mayor's court Wednesday morning on a charge of assaulting ll$w wife, .1. R. Rector, who lives off the Lincoln road was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $50. Rector tohl Chief of Police Steele that he expected to appeal the case. Mrs. Rector appeared in the mayor's court to testify against her husband. ? A large amount of building material has been laid on the ground to be used in the construction ot tne new mgn school building. The excavation work 1 has about been completed and the car- j penters and brick masons, if. is understood, will begin work within a very short time. The building' is to be completed by September 1, of this year. ? T. Mack Ferguson was elected commander of Mecch Stewart l'ost No. GS of the American I.egion at the annual meeting of that organization held in Legion Tla 11 Wednesday evening. K. 15. Harrison was elected vice commander; S. E. Grist, adjutant; W. S. Moore, finance officer and Jits. i>. Grist, publicity and service'ofilcer. Itev*. J. L. Gates, former .clerk of the Local Exemption Gourd for York county was elected chaplain, while Itobert J. .Morrow of York No. I, was elected sergeant it arms. An executive committee eoni|H>scd of tlie following was elected: it. K. Love. Clover! K. E. Moore, Yorkrille; It. M. Sadler, Tirzah; Chess i iVoods, York No. C; 11. It. Mackorell, Yorkville, A. II. Guructt, Clover No. ;t; 5V. 11. J'.oilfield York No. .1. There werci :hirty-fivc members of the post in at-! endance upon the meeting. One oil lie princiiviI features of the mooting .wis an address by .Mr. Ecu 13. Adams if Charleston, adjutant of Charleston Post No. 10 and chub-man of the cxeeu- | tve cummmiLce ui mi- ouu>. v^........... ( [department of the Legion. Reviewing he accomplishments of the American -egion since its organization three '( ears asu, Mr. Adams predicted thai luring the coming year it would be a s no re powerful organization of greater-I'.1 service to ex-soldicrs and to tile conn-, " ry at large. He spoke of the efforts ^ hat the American Legion had made in I'/ aring for disabled soldiers especially J1 md of tlie activities for the down and | niters at the present time, "if the|a region had done nothing else so far!8 xcept bring a lighter heart to some IIsabled tnsiwthen it, has been wdllj' forth wh^e."^ie said. ;lieffri ng to ther ItU'Siloh of a soldier bonus he stated lis advocacy of adjusted compensa-1 b ion for. -service men as a matter pf|*:' imple right and justice. "Congress is'li ijoiug to pass the adjusted uonipcnpa* lion bill," he "'There is notpicsiWm about that. Whether congress is going to pass the hill it. is right or because they j-onsider it good po'itics I don't know and don't caVo. It is right, however. In our effort to help our disabled nu-n, to secure adjusted compensation. promote patriotism, foster educational movements and lend our assistance to worthy civic undertakings we must proceed along sane and well defined lines. Let its always recognize the rights of others hut bo ever ready to defend our government against attacks whether thev come from foreign sources or from within our own j ranks." In conclusion the speaker urged his hearers to continue theih interest in the AibflrlcaM Lcgiotl'?"the one organization that ijo /ither organization dares fight because it stah'ds'aYifo will continue to< starid for"' 1/nited States supremacy." He pledged his continuefliafgistance hi nutting <the !? > gion' larger, find biett^fj i*i AvcA' /Krayj At tmr conclusion 4>i *Shv Adanfe's Ja<ldress lie was given a rising vote of appreciation. Rejiorts of the finance of.flcer and the post commander on legion j activities.during it lie past y?5a>> werel submKi$(|/ The; American Legfqii Club| was re-organized \vlth'tire fdection of, the following officers for a. period of j three mojit'rs: President, Perry Ashe; j vice president., J. Albert Riddle; treasurer, J. H. McMackin. On motion of .las. D. Grist, the post voted to allow non-legionaires the privileges of the club provided applications for membership were approved by the Post. Before the meeting was concluded the newly elected commander pledged himself to carry on for the Post in every way possible and asked the co-operation and assistance of tlie members. ROBHER CAUGHT IN STORE When Fred E. Smith, Jr., went into the store of his father F. E. Smith, at Tirzah shortly after midnight Tuesday to get an automobile tire patch for Otis Boyd and Frank Caldwell an unknown man demanded that he "halt there." Smith did just that while Boyd and Caldwell who were in the store made a break for the door. Covering Smith with his pistol the stranger who had gained admission by the back door, backed out of the store and made his way to his waiting automobile near the home of J. M. Campbell several hundred feet away. He drove hurriedly away in the direction of Rock Hill. Boyd and Caldwell with Tom Myers and George Williams, Jr., of Yorkville, had been to Rock Hill and had" tire trouble on the way back home. Stopping at Tirzah they encountered Mr. Smith who had also been in Rock Hill. Going to the store for a tire patch the fact that the back door was open was noted but Mr. Smith was under the impression that his father had probably left the door unlocked. Hardly had the three young men gotten into the building when the command to "halt" came from a room in the rear of tho store in which the telephone is located. Boyd and Caldwell paid no attention to tho command but mado for .1 II- UK un UIO uuur. lur. CUIIUI mien up Utu hunds while the robber with a flash light in one hand and his pistol in the other hacked toward the rear door and into the darkness. In a short time he disappeared in an automobile which had been left by the r<vid side near the home of Mr. CaJTipbell and which the boys had noted.-The car was either a Chevrolet or an ;Overland, according to Mr. Smith. Examination of the store stock revealed that the would be robber had kyd out soino shirts and caps, Thq crash register had not been tampered with. It was evident that the burglar had not gotten on the side of the store where the register was kept. A number of two cent stamps on the register drawer had not been touched. ' '< Although he had a pistol in his pocket at the time the burglar gave his command, young Mr. Smith very prudent'y made no effort .to draw it. Because Of the flash light which the burglar threw in his face ttie young man could not distinguish fully the features of the man. He is sure, however that lie was a white man. The senior Mr. Smith is quite positive that the back door was locked when the store was closed for the night. Officers and others are following up a number of clues. HERE AND THERE "I have been living pretty high for *1 * 'Ini.n' - /liivlnir whipVt tut; past Bt'vci'ai uu.jo uuuiib ? %* time 1 have been engaged in taking tax returns over the county," said Rroadus M. hove, county auditor yesterday. "I have been invited to a number of big dinners in various sections. I mean real big dinners. It's going to be hard to got down to every day living after this is over." "St'L'ms to mo like the number of automobile wrecks and buggy wrecks on the Yorkvillc-ltock Hill road is on Uie increase," observed one yesterday. "1 go from Yorkvile to Rock Hill at least once a week and I generally see one or more buggies and automobiles broken down or wrecked as the result of collision pretty neatly every time I makel the trip. I don't ace the same vehicle every time either." "I'm having a time trying to impress York county teachers with the fact that they must make report on attendance and enrollment monthly before they are. entitled to their i>ay warrants," remarked Superintendent of Education Caroll the. other day. "The school laws require this and I'm prohibited from endorsing those variants until this information is given me. So many of the teachers do not seem to regard this matter of ajiy importance." "Nop"," said a county official the >tlier diiy in answer to a query, "I'm lot hearing any county politics talked these days. "A little caily for York :ounty, you know. Oh occasionally ionic fellow will try to kid mo with a statement that the voters should elect ill women officials another year since ivomon arc employed to do a good part if the work in several of the county ifflces, J tut. nowhere d>> T ln ar any rally serious political talk." ! York county fanners are beginning to iimv imvii'!)i hi in*- |'i u|M>m:u ? South Caruliiui Cooperative Cotton .larkcting Association. Thet'o. was a Meeting of farmery hold at Tiizuh 1 cHool house Wednesday afternoon at vhieli time tlio plan was explained to i lie citizens of that community by U. S. < *oa g, John II. I'.lair and others. It is | inde.rstood that similar meetings are to i ie held in practically every scliool ilis- i riot in the county. I "I am expecting that the county ' L'gis'ative delegations of the respectiv? j ! ounties where woman's home demon- i ' tration agents worked last year will j * gain make appropriations for continu-, ' ng the home demonstration work I ithout exception," said Miss Christine j I louth of Winthrop College, state agent 1 charge of the Woman's Home L )e tnonstration agents when asked f bout the matter the other day. "The|g gents have done good work in each; r oenty in which agents were stationed I t lie past year." said Miss South* "and 11 think that every legislative delega-jt ion will make tiie ntreessaiv appro-j.. riation for continuance of tile work." if A well known old man who noWta Yes in 'Cherokee county hilt wholii formerly lived in York county ap- i proa eked a young: lady stenographer in Yorkvillc, when lie dropped into town i the other day. Knowing the young i lady (luite well he sought to have some < fun at her expense. "Why, don't you get married?" he asked and the quick ?"l" "IO?viiie,< I ilnn'i vvnnl to"! i The u!d inun looked at her in a. solemn manner as lie replied: "Now young lady, you shouldn't answer inc like that. All of 'cm want to get married except those who are dead." Publication of that article in The Yorkville Enquirer a week ago under the headline; "Do You Remember?" and the reference to the Fishing Creek wreck especially, caused Mr. R. S. McDonnell to grow reminiscent the other day, "I remember the wreck quite distinctly," Mr. McDonnell said, "I think I was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the wreck after the news was brought to Yorkville. I have,,ifi, my room a chandelier that came, put of one of the passenger coaches, somebody having taken It out of the wreckage and presented It to me." A "noted York county jokester was telling this one yesterday: A farmer went into a barbershop for a shave. The razor pulled and the barber wasn't an especial'y good one. Following the operation the customer paid and left the shop. Xext day he rode up to the same shop on a poor, measly miserable looking little mule. Going Into the shop the customer of the day before said to the barber: 'How about swapping you | my mule for that razor you shaved me with yesterday?" And the barber anjswered: "What do you want with that razor?" the rarmer replied: vveu i believe it pullis 1>etter than my mule," j was the reply. "I'm being called upon to collect a lot of chattel mortgages now," said a York county magistrate the other day. "There's really no necessity for my being called upon to collect them since in most instances the security is gilt edge. But there are a number of people wh<> have given other people chattel mortgages and who have been stalling foreclosure by begging for more time to raise the money rather than turn over the property. A number of the holders of these mortgages have turned them over to me here of late in order to bo in position to tell their debtors that the matter is in my hands and not in theirs. And when they are turned over to me there's nothing for me to do except get the money or the chattels." g > j LOCAL LACONIC8 Bethosda Vital Statistics. Bethesda township like the other townships of York county showed more births than deaths during 1921. According to the report of Registrar S. II. Love there were 108 births and 71 deaths in the township during the year. Residence Burned. ( Fire in Rock Hill Wednesday, damagod the residence occupied by J. Harry Fester, Esq., of Rock Hill. There was considerable damage to the furniture, as well as the house and the understanding is that some insurance was carried, on both the furniture and the house. Sunday Coming to Rock Hill. Billy Sunday, famous evangelist, is to speak twice at Winthrop college -in T >.... 1. 11111 ?Avt AT An rl fi \r opprirfUnf to rv'A-rx inn iivau iuv.iuu j , ??vw. v..?.D announcement made this morning. Mr. Sunday is to sjicnk to the collego girls Monday morning at 11:30 and to the general public Monday .afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The evartgelist will come from Spartanburg Monday morning in a special car and will return Monday afternoon. Rumor of Hold Up. There was a rumor on the streets this morning that an unknown motorist had been-heFd up on the highway between Yorkville and Rock Hill, at about the John F. V/llliams' place, on Wednesday night and had cxcluinged several pistol shots with the road bandit. Inquiry at the sheriff's office developed the information that the rumor had reached there hut that the officials were without additional Information. South Carolina Corn. II. Ii. Hare, official agricultural statistician for South Carolina for the bureau of markets and crop estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, places South Carolina's corn acreage for 1921 at 2,022,000, and the total production at 32,955,000 bushe's valued at $24,326,000, according to the average 1 ' 1 mi 1AOA price prevailing ueremuer i. me uiv production was approximately 34,000,000 valued at $40,000,000. York county is estimated as having planted 42,000 acres of corn last year, and the average yield is given at 16 bushels per acre, giving a total of 832,000 bushels, valued on December 1 at $615,680. Lad Suffers Broken Leg. Ira Boyd Street, young son of Section Master Street of the Southern Railway had his left leg broken last Wednesday when struck by an automobile driven by R. W. Hope of Sharon. The accident occurred in the road near Sharon school house. Tlus little boy with other schoolmates was engaged in play and had run into the road when Mr. Hope passed by driving an automobile. Tho machine which was said to have been going at a low rate of speed struck the lad and broke his leg before the driver cou'd bring it to a stop. To Hold Conferences. Conferences of Sunday school workers of Bethel Presbytery arc to bo held in Vorkville, Rock Hill, Lancaster and Chester during the month of March according to plans at a meeting of the Sunday School Committee of the Presbytery in Rock llill yesterday. A number of matters relating to the Sunday school work of the Presbytery were discussed. Attending the meeting yesterday was tho chairman. Rev. It. C. Wi'son, of McConnellsville; A. "M. Aiken of Chester, Alexander MacDonald of Blackstock, Rev. J. C. Bailey of -r> \f<nian,u ,,r rtAih. UUTTIIV/iCi , IV. *i lilinuio i ?v?uShiloh. Rev. D. Alvin Millar of Liberty Hill, John It. i'oag aiiil J. T. Fain of Rock Hill. Ku-Klux and Poker Players. Chester News': A young1 man who is in position to know all about poker and poker playing in Chester, is authority for the statement that it is now almost impossible to have a game of poker in this eitf without being inter- ( fered with by the officers of the law*. This young man states that in times past one could got into a poker game any Saturday night or Sunday in ' ['bestor. but now if there is a. game of poker played more than once in the \ iaino place the "cops" are sure ic walk j up. The young man states that all of , :his has been brought about since thelj rganization of the Ku-Klux in Chcs- j cr ami according to his opinion, and he opinion of others the Ku-Klux is ' unching the officers of the law off as ' o the games, vvSMi the view of stop- j1 ting gambling" in Chester. rort Mill Wants Tight Sunday. At a special meeting of the town'i ouneil of Kort At ill held Tuesday the'; ollowing resolution adopted at eon-1* negational meetings held last Sunday |.i norning was presented by l?ev. J. \V. [ * 1. Dycliea, 1>. I)., pastor of Kort .Mill t '.aptist church: "\Ve, the members oflii lie liaptist, .Methodist, and Presbyter- p in churches, ia congregational meet- j tig assembled on the l'th day of Jartu- ,> ry, 1?J2. with grateful acknowledge n aent to Almighty (Jod for his long- i suffering mercy In the lK-es of an unworthy people, desire to express it as our conviction thai our town and community cannot thrive and prosper, in either material pr spiritual matters while His laws are openly violated with the sanction of those whom we have called to rule over us. - We therefore ca'l on tltose in authority in a spirit of love and for the glOry' of our Lord Jesus Christ, to enforce the laws of our town and those of our state; and we do urge upon those in authority in a siHolnl manner, the enforcement of the Sabbath laws in keeping with Ills commandment which Says: "Remember the Sabbath Day and keep It'holy,' and ?-*1 ?# ?l?/k etoln At' Willi LIIC COIiailUJUlMl nw?v wi South Caroling which they have made oath to support: to the end that we may look forward to th? fiflfHlmont of promise of good to those who-love Him and keep,His comma.ndpients.". Coun-, cil expressed, itself as fav6rab|e to the action of the ministerial uhibri, and deferred definite action until the.February meeting. Thought Better of It,.. When Chief of Police Steele .and Magistrate F. C. Black Wefrt to the home of Walker BurTis, colored, Wednesday afternoon to serve a warrant charging Burris ijvi^h deposing of property under mortgage, Burris refused to answer the knock at the door. The negro lives several miles southwest of York villa. The magistrate saw Burris inside the house with a shot gun In his hand. 'Kutrls-1 had the idea that only one officer was present and his Idea either was to make a run for It with the gun or else resist. Anyway he started out the door when Chief Steele grabbed him while the magistrate covered, him with & pistol. The negro threw up hW h'fifnds and came on to inJl without fnrtWer trouble. Alleged De??rt?r Held. Wanted on a number of charges John Boone, white, was arrested In Charlotte Tuesday and brought.- to Rock Hill. Boone is alleged amp rig other things to be a deserter, frdm the United States army.' He is' said fco nave fleeced a number of cjtizens around Rock Hill and other places, for alleged Violation of a Federal statute which .prohibits the wearing of arnwr uniforms or Insignia by citizens.",He. is also said to have posed as a special officer comihisiontd to catch atitotnobile speeders and is alleged to have' collected bond from a nupiber qf speeders. Tried before Magistrate ^Wirtg^te of Catawba township Tuesday* afternoon, he was sentenced to serve thirty days' imprisonment. He must face the Federal court after service of the township sentence. i. .,L L. r * 80UTH CAROLINA NEW8 ? There is a fight on over the proposition of having automobile license t.O 7o /liotrilBitivl H\r oAimttf olurbu i/j viiu vivi no of courts Instead of the state highway commission, and the money therefor kept in the counties. {.< ? The Peoples Bank of Anderson failed to dpen its floors Wednesday morning, because of-failure to realize' loans and because of withdrawals. The bank has a capital of $300,000 and deposits amounting to nearly $2,000,000. ? In the joint assembly yesterday, A. H. Hawkins qf Prospsflty, was selected to fill om? of dtie vacancies on the board of penitentiary directors, J. A. McDermit of Horry, having previously boon selected-to fill the other vacancy. Dr. F. W. Butler of -Columbia, and C. F. Brooks wore olfecbed trustees of thte nqgro college, Mr. Brooks succeeding * himself, and Dr. Butlqr,,succeeding C. it. White.pf. qbctitfii-ft , ? Representative. J. K. Hamblin, of Union, iias rc-1ntroduced: tlu; bill pt'oviding for a 4$ hour*, law for cotton mills. The bill would mako it '.'unlawful for any textile Industry," whether Incorporated, or otherwise to require more than 48-hours, per 'week" and would a'so 'limit th&" wirkihg day to nine hours. A virtually similar measure was killed ia-the; sonate-r last iyear, after having passed, tbe. house. It is expected th'atthfercwijl be a big light on the proposition this year. ? Hon. J. H. Marion, recently elected associate justice of the supreme court to fill the unexpired term of Hon. G. W. Gage, deceased, and reflected on Wednesday to flu," the full terra, on yesterday handed |n Jiis resignation as state senator from Chester county, and immediately took the oath ,ns associate inet lee a f t Vi a aaiik! A *> aIaa _ JIiouvc vi,, viir oupiuuic vvui u au citi. tion to s'etpct Mr. Marion's successor as senatpn from Chester .county is to he held wTUiout unnecessary delay. ? The house has,sent to a third reading a hill passed by the senate last year providing, that "any person who shall falsely and wilfully and with intent to injure, circulate any report or make any false oral statement as to the assets or liabilities of any bank in South Carolina, or bo its solvency or to its ability to. meet' its obligations, or as to its soundness."1 The bill carries a penalty of not less than $100 or more than. $500, or a prison sentence of not more than one year or both at the direction of the court. . ? The forfowing statement was issued by the Greenville weather bureau yesterday: "L?i?ht to moderate rains are general east of the Mississippi river, while west of the river It is fair and much colder with freezing temperature extending into central Texas, and near zero in northern Oklahoma. Rnir is likely to continue in this vicinity during tonight and early tomorrow, followed by clearing and much colder. Conditions favor fair weather for three or four days after the rain with low temperatures .5 to 10 degrees below freezing." ? An Income tax bill, introduced by the ways and means commitee on last Friday, was advanced to a third reading in the house Wednesday without opposition. The bill would provide for the levying annually upon the net income of every individual of a normal tax of " jter cent of the amount in excess of the divers, exemptions allowed, u provision being added to make tho rate upon the fifst $4,000 of such excess amount, 2 per cent in the case of an individual taxed ak a resident of (hp state of South Carolina, ltv addition to the normal tax there will also be levied a surtax of 3 per otitt of, Ilirt amount liy which the net income,' that is the gross income minus the exemptions allowed, exceeds I6,0f*>, Thc/tast*? on incomes of corp\*rations will be 3 per cent. The personal exemptions granted under the hill correspond exactly with the present federal income lax exemptions of $1,000 for each single person without dependents and 12.300 for married persons or heads of families unless the income exceeds $5,000 in which case the exemption alowed is only $2,000. A husband anil ivife. living together, are granted hut jr.e personal exemption, an additional xemption of $400 being allowed, how ver, fur each additional dependnt. The state tax commission will lave charge of the administration of he tax. should the bill become a law, icing authorized to appoint and renove an . income tax director, who thall have control of the assessment md collection of the tax with the nsistance of such clerks, agents, deputes and officers as may lie deemed lecessary. The income tax inay be aid in quarterly installments except n certain instances when it will he ollected at its source. The bill is nade retroactive to apply to the year 9-M. ' *" ; . ?o Viir .