Straps audi partis.
? The Capper-Volstead cooperative
marketing bill, which legalizes cooperative
associations.of farmers and]
producers far marketing purposes and i
exempts them from the Sherman anti- i
trust law was signed Saturday by j
President Harding. The signing of
the bill sponsored by the agricultural
bloc,.was witnessed by Senator Capper
and Representative Volstead, its authors
and others. The pen with which
the president signed was presented to
1 limits fhp I
JUT. VU191CUU. xiav i*vv ?..? .
profits of cooperative associations to
eight per cent and Stockholders to one
yote each, no matter how much stock
ih$y may _ hold in such organization.
Jts administration is under the secretary
of agriculture.
; ?Decrease' of more than '200,000,000
tons in thb world's production of coal
in 1921, compared with the output in
1920, was noted in a statement on
mining activities just issued by the
United States geological survey. From
reports so far received, the statement
said, the total world output of coal
last ye^r ,wae 1,100,000,000 metric tons,
with Ifra^ce ^and Germany the only
natioas showing an increased production.
The chief factors in the
lessened output in other countries, it
was said, were the strike by British
miners and "a world-wide industrial
depression." Progress in restoring the
> ruined mines of France was seen in
the steady increase in output of the
last three years. German production
of bituminous coal also was still fur
.below the pre-war level, although an
Increase was effected in 1921 as
against 1920.
nfimnlntinn f\f nnn nf thp
largest private land deals in the history
of Mexico was announced at El
Paso, Texas, Friday, when A. J. McQuatters.
president of the Alvarado
^lining Company, announced the purchase
of the six million acre estate
in Chihuahua of General Euls Terrazas,
former governor of Chihuahua.
The land,*in two pieces, consists of
smore than 9,000 square miles. The
Northern boundary is approximately
60 miles south of the American border
and the southern boundary r.oout 100
miles south of Chihuahua City. Dur,
ing the revolution the property was
restored tq the owner by President
Obregon. It is the purpose of the syndicate
represented by Mr. McQuatters
to resell the land in small farms and
ranches and it was announced they
would spend approximately $25,000,000
in irrigation work and other improvements.
Geueral Terrasa?.. who is
9$ years old, was for many years reputed
to be the wealthiest man in
Mexico.
? Photographers at Princess Mary's
weddinir on Februarv 28. to Drocure de
sirable vantage spots for their cameras,
says a London dispatch, will pay
>huge sums. From forty to fifty motion
picture cameras will be employed and
about 100 press cameras for snapping
photographs of the procession. A fa'Vored
place for taking pictures will be
near the "Westminster Abbev giteway,
where the bridegroom. Viscnnt Lascelles.
King George, Queen Mary and
others of the royal family will alight
from their carriages and enter the
building. For the privilege of taking
pictures there the Abbey authorities
are said to be asking $5,000, the money
to be added to the fund for restoration
of the edifice. Westminster hospital,
directly opposite the Abbey, has a portico
over the doorway affording a
splendid positlpn for several cameras.
;Space for each of them is assessed by
*the hospital.authorities at $500. House
"owners along'the line of the procession
also are trying to reap "golden hay"
from the photographers. Fifty-five dollars
is not an unusual price asked for
a, window or a door from which tc
"shoot" the UHdal party as it drives by.
? The large brick house barn at the
-Indiana state fair grounds at Indiana- (
?olis, and about 100 head of valuable ,
orseS"1 were burned early Sunday
morning, causing a loss esumaieu m
$20,000. Three horsemen also were
very seriously burned while attempting
to rescue the animals. Ac- ,
hording t?: Assistant Fire Chief Hoyl,
the fire started from an oil stove, and !
as the*, lofb'was filled with hay and
straw the flames spread rapidly, trapping
aftiqZAIs) and sleeping hostlers in
the bUfhiQa jtructure. The slate roof
on the bam Is believed to have saved
tl^e large> o coliseum just across the
rdad from serious damage. Harvey
Busby, owner of Lord Busby, a valuable
safer, >which was burned to
death, narrowly escaped, after being
seriously burned when trapped in the
stall with his horse. Fifteen hundred
dollars iji. currency which he is said
to have had with him was burned also.
A horse which Frank Meyers was trying
to rescue became panic stricken
and fell on him, pinning Meyers to
the floor and he was seriously burned
and trampled before freeing himself.
Edward Word, another horseman, was
slightly burned. The dead horses arc
said to Include 50 of the 57 sent here
from Camp Knox for use of Battery
A and several polo ponies. Gov. Warren
T. McCray's riding horse, "The
Great Hose," a $15,000 mare r.-cently
purchased by Thomas D. Taggart and (
several show horses owned by I.on \
McDonald, Grand Circuit rac,i driv?r. t
The horses that escaped roamed the ^
northwest section of the city and a
number had not been rounded up to- c
night. i
~-The soldiers' bonus situation, nc- r
cording to a Washington dispatch, i
has simmered down preceptiblv fol- (
lowing the first reaction from President
Harding's suggestion that the ad- ?
justed compensation be financed by a 1
vales tax or that the enactment of the t
legislation be postponed. There is, j
however, no apparent slackening of
the determination of house leaders to *
pass the measure at this session. *
Majority members of the house ways t
pnd means committee met yesterday ^
to tackle the whole problem anew.
They were expected to pass upon the r
provisions of the measure before go- 1
jng into the question of ways and j
means of raising funds. Proponents
of a sales tax appeared to be confident
that the Republican committee would r
decide on this form of taxation as a 1
means of raising the approximately b
$800,000,000 that would be needed to ^
cover the cash payments as now provided
for the measure. It was cer- 1
tain, however, that the sales tax would b
not be voted in without a sharp fight. 0
It was said that any'sales tax adopted ,
would not be a general one. A manufacturers'
tax similar to that pro- *
posed by Senator Smoot (Republican) r
or Utah was one or the suggestions v,
advanced. It was claimed tlint this
tax at a rate of 1 per cent, would raise v
the amount of money required. Sov- Q
eral other forms of sales tax are
known to be under consideration and
it is not expected that there would be
a hasty devision as to any of them.
It was learned that treasury experts f,
recently had prepared a form of sales j{
tax which, its framers contend, can be
easily administered and can not be
evaded. Whether a bonus bill with a b
sales tax attached could be put through
the house still seemed to be a mooted
mestion. some leaders declaring that
the situation in this respect was one
defying analysis at this time. Mean- v
time farm organizations continued c
their attack on the tax. Gray Silver, .
Washington .representative of the
American Farm Bureau federation,
- : . i >
addressed a letter to each member of
congress protesting against it. "Taxes
are already exceedingly high," the letter
said, "and a sales tax would only
mean further burden UDon the average
individual, and when we stop to consider
that the average income of each
man, woman and child in this country
whose income is below the income tax
level is only $333 a year, the American
Farm Bureau federation believes it
would be a rank injustice to raise further
revenue for the soldiers' bonus by
this method. It would take away from
these people any prospect of accumulating
and competence, no matter how
small, and would blight the battering
of their condition.
She ^orferilfc (Enquire*.
Entered at the Postofflce at York, as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.
So far as The Yorkville Enquirer is
concerned, we do not care to see a restoration
of the "pre-war basis." If the
war did not put the world forward at
least a little bit, it will yet have to be
fought out."
Judge Kennesa Mountain Landis
has resigned his Federal Judgeship in
favor of his larger and better paying
job -as supreme dictator of organized
baseball. That is the right thing, except
that he should, have given up the
judgeshhip immediately on his acceptance
of the baseball job. He would be
in better favor with the people had he
done that.
>
A dispatch of Friday said that Arlington
Cotton Mills at Lawrence,
.Mass., employing 3,t>uu operatives, naa
closed for a week on account of "lack
of orders." In view of the commonly
conceded fact that there Is not nearly
enough cotton in sight to keep the
spindles running until the next crop,
this ought to be a tip to the farmers
not to plant any more cotton until the
mills begin to receive orders. It is quite
possible, however, that the Arlington
plant closed in obedience to "orders,"
for if the Arlington plant had orders,
and not cotton, its efforts to get cotton
would put up prices.
Since there is wry considerable difference
in respectable opinion throughout
this county as to the wisdom of
maintaining the farm and home demonstration
agencies in cooperation with
the government, it might be well for
the York delegation to provide for a
referendum on the subject. The principal
argument'withsome people in favor
of the annual county appropriations
in this connection is that for every
dollar appropriated by the county,
the Federal government pays such additional
sum as W. W. Long, in charge
of the extension, department for Clemson
college, sees proper to allow. Theoretically
the iustifieation of the aRDro
priation is the practical value of the
Instruction that the farmers, their
wives and daughters get through these
Agencies. There are thoughtful farmers
who hold that these agencies are of
Put little practical value, and that the
ippropriaions really amount to waste.
Members of the legislature usually encounter
as much opposition among the
people as they do approval, and they
ire in doubt as to whether the appropriation
is the right thing or not. It
seems to us that it should bo for the
people to say, and the place to give
hem a say is in the general election.
It was a wonderful piece of work
hat the clubmakers for The Yorkville
Enquirer accomplished for this paper
ast week?work that evidenced loyaly,
faithfulness and zeal of which we
ire more than proud and of which any
nstitution in this whole section would
je proud. When February 18 was fixed
as the day of final settlement there
vas no way, of course of knowing what
Miserable weather would prevail, the
veek preceding and what a trying time
>f it the clubmakers would have round
ng up and collecting from those clubnembers
who had postponed payment
jntil the last hour. For many of the
dubmakers it was not practicable to
jet to town even on Friday or Saturlay.
The roads were too bad. But
hese conditions' were not allowed to
nterfere to any considerable extent
vith final settlements. In spite of the
veather many clubmakecr came to
own in person, as did also many inlividual
subscribers; but most of the
eturns came by mail in the form of
>ost office money orders, registered
lackages, and checks, the checks
urgely predominating. There were
nore than five hundred of these checks,
'hey were drawn on practically every
tank in the county and some on banks
a other counties. It was not until yeserday
that the clerical force of the
usiness office could get it all straight
n account of the upprccedentcd rush:
ut barring a few probable errors, we
hink the account is now about corect.
It has been a splendid piece of
;ork on the part cf clubmakers and as
,'e havo previously remarked, we arc
uite proud of it.
A 4 A 4UA YA/ IC A
"Where I came fit>m makes no difference;
but what I came for shall be
nown of all men.
"I am a reformer?the great reJrmer.
"AIL great reformers are villified and
bus*d at the beginning of their work,
t has been so always and it will always
be so. "Why not? Men are so
onstituted that they think they are
oing the best for their own. interest,
r in all the world there is one thing
that they aro absolutely sure of It is
that. One man gets support and
strength for what he is doing from others
who are doing the same thing. And
when a whole nation falls into an error
that is backed by generations of approval,
the correction of that error is a
task beyond human power.
Ann Ai-nn HVRtom nf the South
XUC VllVi V4 V|# ,
was an economic error of stupendous
proportions. It was the most tremendous
economic error that has ever been
known in the history of the world. It
has made slaves of the 0nest race of
people that God has ever created. It
has robbed untold millions of their
birthright, and kept to the free agency
of that short sighted humanity, there
was no possible hope of relief.
"I am not human. I am not of human
origin. I was especially created
by Providence to do for the farmers of
the South what they would never do
for themselves. And because of the
Omniscience that is responsible for me
and my mission, my work is a success.
'"'And who am I? I am the liberator
?the emancipator.
"I am the boll weevil.
"Thirty and three years was the time
allotted for my work, and within four
years more it will be completed. I
have only about 200 miles further to go
until I will have covered all territory |
that was the blighting' grasp of the
crop curse.
"The same power by which I was
created, limited my progress to gixty
miles a year, or approximately that. In
this dispensation there was wisdom and
mercy, for had I been spread over this
vast area at once, I would have stricken
down the only economic system the
people had, and spread such despair as
would have eliminated the energy and
intelligence necessary to correct their
error along the line of diversification.
"Just as my approach has been met
with anathema, through each succeeding
year, within threei years after my
arrival, for anathemas has been substituted
blessings.
"In the light of the foregoing full and
true statement, I desire to give you
good York county people an extra personal
message.
"As a matter of course you can see
that I claim to be your friend, and I asr
sure you that my feelings for you are
the kindliest.
"I have been giving you the same
warning that I have been giving to all
your fellow sinners along my path. I
got into your top crop last summer and
destroyed it as a warning of what I am
going to do to your whole crop next
summer. That is what I have been doing
all along. In all my experience of
twenty-nine years only a few of the
wisest in each belt have heeded the
warning. These have reasoned that it
was better to begin diversifying while
they still had some^ilng, than wait until
they had been completely stripped,
and those of course, have had a year's
Btart on the ihore foolish. Taken as a
whole you York county people have been
diversifying all along. You have raised
cotton mainly as a surplus, and what
you made was yours. If you had lost
the crop it would not have hurt you
much. Others, however, have been
raising nothing but cotton, and that on
a credit. These if they can get the
backing will do the same thing this
year, and they will come to grief, worse
than ever. I advise you to don't.
"I am the boll weevil!"
MERE MENTION
Judson D. Albright has been nominated
as Postmaster of Charlotte, N. C.
The Georgia Supreme court has
decided that the counties of the state
connot legally pay their pro rata proportion
of the salaries of the demonstration
agents in the state Joseph
M. Schwab, brother of Charles M.
Schwab, and one of the original
members of the Carnegie Steele company,
died in New York Friday aged
55 years George L. ("Tex.") Rickard,
president of the Madison Square
Garden sporting club of New York,
has been indicted for criminal assault
on two girls under fifteen years
of age, and has secured his release on
$10,000 bond. Following his indictment
his associates in the management
of the club removed him, and
elected John Ringling the circus owner
in his stead The Standard Oil
company has definitely suspended work
at its Tampico, Mexico, refineries and
j discharged more than 1,000 employes,
keeping only the pumpers at work
A disoatch of Friday from Ogdensburg,
New York, gave the temperature at
Rainbow lakes in the Adirondacks at
45 degrees below zero The French
committee having charge of the Olympic
games for 1924, has rejected baseball
as an official sport. It is reported
that more than t'?,000,000 Chinamen
are facing starvation 'because of
floods that destroyed a large portion of
the rice crop in the province of Kiangsu
The low thermometer record
for the year in New York was made a
few days ago at 4 degrees above zero.
_...As the result of careful inspections
growing out of the recent Knickerbocker
theatre disaster, seven Washington
theatres have been ronuemned
as unsafe and accordingly closed
The German Bakers' association has
petitioned the food ministry for the
admission of American flour, which
sells in Berlin for 1,250 marks a barrel
against 1,400 marks per barrel for German
flour of the same quality Eddie
O'Brien has been arrested in Los
Angeles, California, charged with participation
in the $1,000,000 postofflce
robberv in Toledo, Ohio, on February
17, 1921.
? The money powers of this country
manipulated by the international investment
bankers decreed that the
farmers should be made to bear the
brunt of the war costs, Benjamin C.
jMHrCfl, IUUIIHKIIIF; UIICHUI wi niv
Farmers* National Council, told members
of that body in session in Chicago,
Saturday. "During the past three
years," he said, "farmers have lost
$20,000,000,000 through the deflation in
prices which they received for their
farm crops and through the foreclosing
of mortgages and high freight
rates. The international investment
bankers deflated prices in order that
the loans which these big financial interests
made to the government out of
their scandalous war profits might be
doubled in value through shrinking
the dollar tone half of its value when
thev loaned it to the government. The
profiteers of America Jointly obtained
$250,000 net profit for every American
boy who lost his life during the world
war."
LOCAL AFFAIRS,
/
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
McConnell's?Dollar .Day, Thursday,
February 23.
York -rniture Co.?The Great Outdoors.
York Hardware Co.?Bright sunshine.
Southerland-Wakefleld Co., Charlotte?
Lost nerve force.
J. M. Stroup?New Spring Styles in
Men's Stetson hats.
r?oi<t>iann_U,oi?la CPn PArlr "Hill?
For sale.
J. H. Carroll?Goodrich tires, Goodrich
tubes.
York Supply Co.?Want to buy corn,
cane seed and peas.
The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?"Sentimental
Tommy" today.
D. M. Parrott, Clover?Trade at Clover's
Leading: Dry Goods store.
J. Clyde Plexico, Sharon?'Tenshun exservice
men.
J. R. Cannon?Used agricultural machinery,
cheap and on easy terms.
Loan and Savings Bank?The- officers
and Employes of this Institulton.
J. C. Hardin & Co., Rock Hill?Special
reduction on tiros.
Johnson's Paint Shop, Rock Hill?Automobile
tops of the latest design.
Nathan Feinstein?Closing out line of
men's hats at half pi Ice.
First National Bank of Sharon?Exsoldiers
of Sharon and vicinity will
organize Post No. 99.
Liberty Service Station?5 Cents.
The Millinery Shop?Ladies!
A. M. Grist, W. M.?Special Communication
nekt Friday night of Philanthropic
Lodge No. 32, A. F. M.
Certainly the graves of the dead
should be marked with suitable stones.
No one can be really comfortable so
long as this duty remains in a state of
neglect.
Why not build a potato house at the
j county home? As it is Superintendent
Boyd, is able to feed his boarders with
potatoes during a good part of the year
and he says that if he had a potato
house, he could raise and save enough
potatoes to go a long ways in helping
to feed the chain gang also.
There are few men of his years in
York county who .are more generally
loved and esteemed than was Andrew J.
Quinn. He was kind, he was gene'rous,
he was just. There were none who
would go further out of their way to
accommodate their fellows without
hope of any reward other than the
I eoHnfnrflrm of doing a good deed. His
I "V _ ?
friends dearly loved to tease him; but
none could provoke his even temper.
He was a man of physical courage and
of moral courage. His word was his
bond, and what he said as truth was
always so accepted. His friends were
legion, and his death is an occasion for
widespread mourning.
Yorkville bankers report very considerable
liquidation of debits since
January 1. A situation that looked
very, gloomy during the latter part of
the year has been growing perceptibly
brighter. There has not as yet been a
great deal of demand for new loans.
Farmers are hesitating about extensive
operations in cotton planting. In fact
very few of them are inclined to plant
more than five or. s}Jc acres to the plow
even where they haye the means. The
bankers are not inclined to make loans
* ,A? -4Ufnr? nnfV
witnoui security uuiei luuh >.vi.wu ~?
the supply people are showing a like
disposition. There is still a large quantity
of cotton in th<t hands of the producers?more
probably than there has
ever been at this^sepson of the year,
and except where the cotton is pledged,
there is very littli disposition to let
it go.
The death of Perry Ferguson has removed
an old and honored landmark
who has outlived the generation that
knew him best anct lingered into a new
generation by which he is honored because
of traditions of the past. For a
full generation Mr. Ferguson conducted
a general merchandise store and
operated a farm about the base of
Nanny's Mountain, and during that
time Ferguson's store was one of the
best known gathering places in all that
section. There are many now living
who remember the generous hospitality
that was dispensed at Mr. Ferguson's
h"mn oven from earlv manhood
on until sons and daughters became
men and women and bad homes of
their own. And a delightful family it
was. Mr. Ferguson was always looked
upon as a leader in his community and
neighbors were frequently willing to
abide by such settlement as he saw
proper to make of differences that
were submitted to him, for ho was
recognized by all as a wise, just and
upright man. He has been relieved
from active business for many years
but in his passing he still had the love,
respect and esteem that he had won
In his long years of useful right-doing.
MORE THAN FORTY YEARS.
So far the following responses have
been received in compliance with the
request for information about subscribers
who have been taking The Yorkville
Enquirer for more than forty
years:
T. E. Harper, York No. 8, 67 years.
S. H. Epps, Sr., Fort Mill, 55 years.
M. S. Carroll, Filbert No. 1, 55 years.
J. B. Wood, Clover, 53 years.
A. H. Merritt, Fort Mill, 52 years.*
It. A. Patrick, White Oak. 52 years.
H. J. Sherer, Sharon No. 2, 52 years.
J. M. Brian, Yorkville, 44 years.
S. L. Pursley, Clover No. 4, 42 years.
L. H. Itoddey, Catawba, 41 years.
G. R. Wallace, York No. 2. 41 years.
W. J. Gordon, York No. 6, 50 years.
TO GROW POTATOES
Hickory Grove farmers are going in
for the growing of sweet potatoes this
year and the outlook is now that there
will be 150 acres or more in Hickory
Grove and community planted in potatoes
this year. The Hickory Grove
Sweet Potato Growers' Association has
recently been organized and the membership
is growing. W. H. Wilkerson
is president of the association and
Grover \V. It row n is secretary and
treasurer. Secretary Jlrown said yesterday
morning that so far about
twenty-five farmers had announced
their intention to affiliate with the association.
They represent about 150
acres which will be planted in potatoes
and he is rather of the opinion
that the total acreage will be far in
excess of that figure.
"I for one," srtid Mr. Brown, "am
convinced that there is as much if not
more money in sweet potatoes at $1
a buihel than there is in cotton "at the
prevailing: price and because of the
presence of the boll weevil there is no
question of the fact that the farmers ;
are going: to have to turn their attention
to some other crop.
"Our association proposes to en- '
courage the building of individual
sweet potato houses and we also pro
cose 10 Quua a storage nuuse ur lii .
community, although we have not yet
completed our plans along that line."
Hickory Grove farmers went lit for
potatoes pretty heavy last year. Mr.
W. B. Wilkerson made something like
500 bushels and ho has already sold
part of his crop at a pretty good
figure.
Most of the farmers there have lerned
how to save the potatoes, and according
to Mr. Brown, hardly more
than two per cent, of last year's crop
was lost through rot.
THE MARRIAGE RECORD.
Since the last publication of the
record In The Yorkvllle Enquirer, the
following marriage licenses have been
issued by the Judge of probate to the
following:
Feb. 13?Jack Fewell and Mamie
Wilson, colored, Bethel township.
Feb. 13?Sump Robinson and Ella
Dye, colored, Sharon No. 2.
Feb. 18?A. Banks Ferguson and
Mattie Lee Cooper, Charlotte, N. C.
Feb. 18?Herbert ,E. Martin, Blacks
-a i? all UII1
ijurg, ann meeita /\uum?, xwv;i\ mu.
Feb. 18?Charlie Allen and Gertrude
Gallman, Rock Iiill.
Feb. 18?George H. Evans, Belmont,
N. C., and Ella /Trull, Mount Holly,
N. C.
Feb. 18?Herbert Hanna and Cora
Stone, Lowell, N. C.
Feb. 20?Rufus McOill and Essie Gill,
colored, King's Mountain township.
ANNUAL CLUB CONTEST.
The Yorkville Enquirer's annual club
contest came to a close last Saturday
with a total of 2,363 names returned,
against 2,238 returned last year, an increase
of 125 names returned in clubs
this year over last year.
The total number of names on the
mailing list at this time is 2,682.
The first premium of $100 cash, goes
to J. H. liigham of Sharon, for 150
names.
The second premium of $75 cash goes
to J. Stanhope Love of Yorkville, for
137 names.
The third premium of $50 cash, goes
to J. D. Whitesides of Hickory Grove,
No. 2, for 117 names.
The fourth highest club, for which
the maker will receive commissions instead
of a fixed lump hash offer, was
tK.ot nf Mrs w TY Morrison of York
ville?95 names.
As usual the club makers have done
careful, intelligent and effective work
for The Yorkville Enquirer, which work
it is not necessary to say, has the highest
appreciation of the publishers.
And of course, it is understood by all,
that The Yorkville Enquirer stands
ready to conform to its part of the arrangement
at the convenience of the
clubmakers.
Many premiums have already been
delivered, and numerous cash commissions
have been paid, and all the other
clubs will be taken care of as promptly
as our friends the clubmakers advise
us of their pleasure.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFER8.
Since the last publication of the record
in The Yorkville Enquirer, real
estate transfers have been indexed in
the office of the county auditor as follows:
Bethel?T. F. Kendrick to R. C. Kendrick,
162 1-2 acres; $1,117.
Bethesda?R. R. Hafner to M. L.
Samuels, 34 9-10 acres; $500 and other
considerations.
Broad River?Addle J. Miller to j.
Ernest Scoggins, 69 1-3 acres; $5,000.
W. T. Hartness to Mary Eliza Hartness,
1 lot; $1 and other considerations.
J. J. Scoggins to J. E. Scoggins,
138 1-2 acres; $;t,uuu.
A. J. Hensley to Dr. C. C. Leech, 1
lot; $190.
W. J. Moorhead to C. C. Leech. 1 lot;
$20.
Dr. C. C. Leech to Mrs. Reola Leech,
1 lot; $190.
Laura D. Allison et al., to Reola N.
Leech, 1 lot; $20.
Bullock's Creek?J. T. Keesler to the
Planters Dank, 54 acres; $000.
C. E. Wilson to W. J. Blair, GO 1-2
acres; $1,700.
Catawba?C. W. F. Spencer to Highland
Park Mfg. Co., 1 lot; $1,200.
Jones Motor Co. to Highland Park
Mfg. Co., 1 lot; $1,200.
Leona M. O'Dell to Margaret B. Williams,
1 lot; $5 and other considerations.
Catawba Real Estate Co. to Bessie E.
Home, 1 lot, $400.
I Hattie I. White et al. to D. C. JolinI
stone, 1 lot, $500. t
Ebenezer?Catawba Real Estate Co.
to Hazie Cash, 1 lot; $350.
King's Mountain?Mrs. S. D. Bochtler
to M. W. White, 41 acres; $1 and
other considerations.
O. W. McCarter to B. B. Falls, 44
acres: $1,049.83.
York?Blanche Lindsay and others
to town of York, 1 lot; $100 and other
considerations.
MILLER STARTS AGAIN.
Miller school in district No. <S,
three miles west of Yorkville, resumed
work again tins morning after thrrice
being disrupted since December 11.
Inst by incendiary fires. Maybe the
fourth school house will have been
destroyed by the fire bug ere this issue
of'The Yorkville Enquirer is distributed
over York county tomorrow
or Thursday.
Charles Dellinger, public spirited
nf \fiiinr district tendered the
trustees the use of a tenant house on
his premises soon after the third
building used for school purposes was
destroyed by fire early Friday morning
and the trustees accepted the tender.
"We've got to have a school down
here if it is possible," Mr. Dellinger
told the trustees. "Here's a house to
use until we can erect another school
building. If the bug burns it. it'll have
to burn." F. E. Moore of the Logan
Lumber yard notified Chairman Brice
of the Board of Trustees that his
firm would donate the lumber to make
desks and benches and these have
been made, the work being donated
by the employes of the lumber yard. <
So the plucky little school is study- i
ing 'readin' and writin' and arithmetic i
and other branches of learning again
today. Word had gotten out that
school would be resumed in Mr. Bellinger's
house and most of the little
boys and little girls were back at
school this morning. ]
They are wondering today whether ,
the building will be in smoke when
they start to school tomorrow.
ii was siaica ai wie cinuc ui nn_- auperintendent
of education this morn- I
ing that a representative of the State <
Kinking Fund commission would like- :
ly be sent into the district to investi- I
gate soon. f
Tliere is still no clue to the identity (
of the (Ire bug. Every citizen in the I
school district, it is said is quietly in- 1
vestigation on his own account. There i
fire all kinds of rumors afloat In the
district relative to the incendiarisms
but there is little or no evidence as
yet pointing to the guilt of anybody.
"There has been a rumor going the
rounds that the school buildings have
been burned by some of the older boys
of the district who did not want to
attend school,' said Chairman Brice of
the board of trustees in Miller district
yesterday. "As a member of the board
of trustees I am prepared to say that
is a lie. I don't believe there is a boy
in the school who would burn the
building. There has been no trouble
in the school at all and while I have
no idea as to who burned the three
buildings I am confident that it hasn't
been the work of any school child."
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mrs. Thos. Kirkland, of Camden, is
visiting relatives in Yorkvllle.
Mr. K. J. nernuon, 01 lorKviue, is
spending sometime in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Dove, of Clover,
were visitors in Yorkville yesterday.
Miss Maude Stroup, of Yorkville,
has returned to her home after a visit
in Charlotte, N. C.
Dr. It. H. Glenn, of Yorkville, is
visiting Mr. ar .1 Mrs. T. L. Glenn, in
Italelgh, N. C.
Dr. W. A. Hood returned to his home
Sunday after ten days visit to his
son, Jean Hood, in Charleston.
W. I). Glenn, of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, spent the
week-end at his home in Yorkville.
Dr. James D. McDowell, has been
quite sick at his home in Yorkville, for
several days past.
Miss Eunice McConnell of Yorkville,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. Grier,
in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Miss Annie Potts Heath, of Winthrop
College, spent the week-end in
Yorkville with Miss Evelyn Shieder.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Williams, and
M . Price Bankhe*d of McConnellsville,
attended the Sunday meeting in
Spartanburg Sunday.
Mr. J. Ernest Stroup, of Yorkville,
went to Charlotte this morning with
his son, Master James Ernest Stroup,
Jr., for treatment. The young boy has
been suffering with an ear affection
for some time.
T\~ \\r 1XT Uon V/vam n^lounl.t
LJi, vv . tv . rv.jmirji xius uuru an iwudij
ill at his home in Rook Hill, for some
days with influenza. Information yesterday
was to the effect that he was
more comfortable. His many friends
over the county and elsewhere are very
much concerned because of his illness.
Rev. W. S. Patterson and little son
and Miss Florence Patterson of Lancaster,
visited the family of Mr. J. M.
Stroup, in Yorkville, last 'week.
Mr. A. W. Love of Kings Creek;
Messrs. J. K. Allison, Leon M. Allison,
R. L. A. Smith J. R. Cobb, and Mesdames
J. W. Leech, J. S. Leech and S.
W. Leech of Hickory Grove attended
the Sunday meeting; in Spartanburg
last Sunday.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Yorkville High school girls'
basketball team met defeat at the
hands of the Chester Htfch school
girls here Friday afternoon. The score
was 15 to 9 in Chester's favor.
? Theo Maekorell, J. B. Gran* and Joe
Herndon, young men of Yorkville,
bought a Ford from Hamlet Carroli
last week for $40. The flivver had only
three tires on it when purchased and
the young men say that if they can get
hold of another tire they may go on a
tour of Florida; the scenery at Palm
Beach being especially attractive Just
now.
? York Council No. 256, Junior Order
. TTnitoH Amnrlpfin \fpphnnlofl Ant^rtJlin
cd its members at a luncheon and
smoker in connection with the meeting
last night. Three candidates were
initiated and eight applications were
received. There were a large number
of members in attendance on the meeting.
? Advance sale of tickets for "Hose of
Washington Square,'* musical comedy
extraordinary which is to play in the
new opera house here tonight is progressing
quite satisfactorily, Manager
J. Frank Faulkner of the opera house
said this morning. The show played in
Asheville, N. C. last night to a capacity
house .and in fact has been greeted by
large crowds of critical show goers
wherever it has appeared. Yorkville is
the smallest town that the show has
played on its present tour and the
management of the opera house was not
able to get it without effort. "We have
every reason to believe that this show
is one of the best musical comedies on
the road," said Mr. Faulkner this
morning. "Press criticisms of the show
from other cities have been highly
commendatory and we feel sure that
local theatre goers will receive value
for their money in the way of high
class entertainment. Hose of Washington
Square had a big run in New
York, Chicago and other large cities
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artist. In the event that there is a
good house attendant upon the performance
tonight, we. are assured of
other high class shows."
? The valentine programme presented
in the city hall auditorium "last Friday
night by Miss Alice Hare, teacher
of expression, brought out a good audience
and everybody was delighted. The
program consisted of a "Valentine Pageant,"
"The Teeth of the Gift Horse,"
and the "Beau of Rath." In the "Valentine
Pageant," the cast was as follows:
"The Little Girl," Rlanche Carroll;
"The Fairy of Dreams," Fanny
Grist; "The Queen of Hearts," Mary
Hart; "The Old Fashioned Girl," Gladvs
Neil; "The Blue Birds,'' Rose Carroll,
Virginia Taylor, Anne Roth; "The
Heart Menders,'' Annabel Carroll, Martha
Bratton; "Jack of Hearts," Robert
Carroll; "The Butterfly," Jane Bratton.
The cast in "The Teeth of the Gift
Horse" consisted of: "Frank Atkinson
as "Richard Butler"; Norma Grist as
"Florence Butler, his wife"; Lida Grist
as "Marietta Williams, his aunt," Nancy
Sharpe and Grady McFarland as
"Anne Fisher" and "Devlin Blake,"
(friends of the Butlers); Minnie Thomasson,
as Katie, the Maid." In the
"Beau of Bath," like the foregoing, a
one-act play, Annis Dorsett was "The
Beau"; Evelyn Shieder was "The Lady
of the Portrait," and Sara McGee was
"Jepson, a Servant." All of the young
people handled their respective pans in
a way that reflected credit not only on
themselves, but on the splendid trainins:
they had been receiving from their
instructor. The quality of the entertainment
throughout is conceded to
have been unsurpassed by any previous
amateur performance witnessed in
the town within the recollection of any
of the best judges present.
LOCAL LACONICS.
Unusual Hcg.
Mr. J. A. Campbell of Tirzah. recently
slaughtered a two-year-old Duroclersey
hog that netted 642 pounds. .
Returned to Chafngang.
John Crockett, a nCgro who escaped
from the York county chaingang se\;ral
years ago and who was recently
wrested in Charlotte, was returned to
:he chaingang Saturday by State Constable
H. Ij. Johnson and Constable
If arson Hedricks of King's Mountain
ownship. Crockett refused to return
o York county without requisition
ind his return was delayed a few
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days until the necessary requisition
papers could be obtained.
May Adjourn Saturday.
While there is a possibility that the ,
general assembly will adjourn ??ext
Saturday or early Sunday morning, in
all probability adjournment will not be
reached until Saturday week, according
to Representative E. W. Pursley of
Santiago, who was a visitor in Yorkville
yesterday.
Agitation for Telephone Line.
Hock Hill business people are agitating
the building cf a telephone line
between Hock Hill and Fort Lawn
over in Chester county. There is no
telephonic connection at the present
time either witn Rowells or Fort
Uwn, it is said and the need for such
connection is great.
Spoiling Match for Church.
Grown-ups of the Beth-Shlloh community
participated in an old time
"Blue Hack" spelling match at BethShiloh
school house Friday evening for
the benefit of the church. There was
a good crowd of Spellers present and a
large audience, a goodly sum being
realized from the entertainment.
Successor to Quinn.
Several people were mentioned this
morning as possible successors to
Magistrate A. J. Quinn of King's
Mountain township who died last week.
Among those mentioned are R. Emmett
Love of Clover; J. A. C. Love of Clover
No. 4; T. M. Campbell of Clover and
J. A. Clinton of Clover. The magistrate
for King's Mountain township
will be appointed by the governor upon
recommendation of the county legislative
delegation.
Federal Jurors.
York county men have been drawn
to serve on the grand jury and petit
Juries at the March term of the United
I Ctal no r?Miirt u/hl/ih r?r?nnr>u In
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Rock Hill, March 14, as follows: Grand
Juror?J. D. Clark, York No. 1; first
week petit Jurors?J. S. Wilkcrson,
Hickory Grove; J. B. Fewell, Rock
Hill R. F. D.; J. F. Ashe, McConnellsville;
R. E. McFarland, York, No. 3;
second week?W. R. MoGill, York No.
1; H. M. MoDllI, Hickory Grove; W.
W. Castles, Smyrna; W. L. Pursley,*
Filbert.
Rev. Tucker Accepts Call.
Rev. J. P. Tucker, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Rock Hill, has
accepted a call to the pastorate of the
First Baptist church of Selma, Ala.
Rev. Tucker will take up the work of
his new pastorate on April 1, his resignation
at Rock Hill being effective the
third Sunday in March. The growth
of the First Baptist church in Rock
Hill and the progress of the work under
the leadership of Rev. Tucker has
been remarkable. The Sunday school
with an enrollment of about 300, has
Increased its membership to 740 with
an average attendance of nearly 700.
The congregation has grown until the
new auditorium with, its seating capacity
of 1,000 Is practically filled at
every servioe and at times it has been
impossible to accommodate the congregationsK
assembled. A handsome
phureh building has been erected
at a cost of, approximately $150,000 and
a parsonage purchased at a cost of
$12,500. The valuation of church property
has Increased from $15,000 to
$175,000. Selma, Ala., is a city of about
25,000 and the ...church to which Rev.
Mr. Tuckef has been called has a
membership df about 1,200.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? Citizens of.Conway are promoting
a movement to build a potato house.
? Spartanburg's Sunday night free
will offering tp Billy Sunday, amounted
to $22,654.80.
? Federal'prohibition enforcement officers
raided the Elk's club in Charleston
lust Friday night and got eight
packages of different kinds of liquor.
? Gaffney, February ID: The remains
of It. R Johnson, who was killed
Thursday at the Musgrove mill by
coming In contact with a live electric
wire, were today taken to Bessemer
City, N. C., where they were Interred.
A delegation of Masons from
Granard lodge accompanied the body
to its last resting place, where it was
interred with Masonic honors. It is
sdid that C. L. Dixon, the other young
man who was shocked by the same
wire which killed Johnson, and who .
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tained no serious injury, and will soon
resume work.
? Both houses have odopted the conference
report on the Wells resolution
to extend the time for paying taxes until
June 1 with graduated penalties and
executions not to go into the hands of
the sheriffs until after September 1.
Under the report, which will be the
law, executions are to be made up by
the treasurers after June 1, but held
after September 1, a taxpayer being allowed
to pay his taxes during this period
without the cost of collection, but
with a penalty of eight per cent. Penalties
are provided as follows: One per
cent for January, two per cent for February,
three per cent for March, five
per cent for April, six per cent for May
and from June 1 to September 1, eight
per cent;
? Columbia, February 17: A verdict
for $40,000 was awarded to Mrs. Lyde
McDonald today, in her suit against
Richard S. DesPortes, prominent Columbia
financier, in which she sued
for $150,000 in an alleged breach of
I promise action. The trial started
I Wednesday morning, and the jury was
ut all of last night. Mrs. McDonald
alleged that she and Mr. DesPortes
had lived together as man and wife
for 20 years; that they had been westtogether,
registering at hotels as man
and wife; and that he had paid her
many attentions and that ho left her
recently. Mr. DesPortes is a director of
a large bank here; he 19 owner of
large properties in the city and is a
member of a prominent family.
? Spartanbirrg, February 19: H. F.
MoGee, a former president of the
Spartanburg chamber of commerce
and a leading merchant of the city,
shot and killed a negro burglar in his
home on East Main street here tonight.
The negro walked into the bedroom
of the home in which Mr. and
Mrs. McGee were, and discovering their
presence, started to retire, when Mr.
McGee snatched a pistol from the
dresser and fired four times, and followed
the man into the adjoining
room, where he fired two shots, all of
which struck the man, killing him in- ,
stantly. The negro is believed to be
Albert Perry, a local character vyith
a police record.
? Ernest Netherton, a white man,
about 55 or 60 years of age, was run
over by a Ford car driven by B. M.
Berree, a farmer, of Caroleen, N. C.,
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county last Friday afternoon. An inquest
was held and the verdict was
that the death was accidental. Mr.
Feree was held by the coroner. Mr.
Feeree and two companions wfere on
their way to the Billy Sunday meetins
when the accident occurred. Mr.
Ferree started by a wagon in the road
and the man started across the road,
stopped and ,ran back in front of the
car. Netherton was badly cut about
the head and one leg was broken. He
was rushed to the general hospital,
where he died in a short while.
? Clyde Brown of Pacolet, was shot
and killed on the lnman road near
Spartanburg last Friday afternoon by