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AMERICAN Conducted by Jas. D. Grist. ' ] .? As a result of the efforts of Clyde Plexico and other ex-service men of Sharon and vicinity, a p"st of the American Legion will be vI"&&Tliz(,d at ' V ...til l.? TfAai Mm (ll snaron lomgni. ? wm ^ x ?* and the indications aro that it will start off with' a healthy membership which will doubtless increase. There arc u number of live wires around Sharon and vicinity and the boys are going to do their best to make the baby post of the county *100 per cent, strong in membership, l'lexico estimates that there arc 40 or 50 white ox-service men living in Sharon and vicinity. An interesting programme has been prepared for tonight in connection with the organization,mooting. A purade of ex-scrvicc men in uniform is scheduled for C o'clock this afternoon and shortly after that a "feed" wlil l>e nerved by ladles of Sharon to the boys. There will Ik? a number'pf short talks made at the organization meeting and officers to serve this year will be elected. Let's Pull for Rock Hill. The Kock Hill correspondent of The Yorkville Enquirer had a story in the i.njf Tnosdav that Prank Roach Po3t of the American Legion wants to entertain the 1922 convention of the South Carolina department. Information comes to the writer that Florence, which considered, Inviting the convention, has decided not to extend the invitation and that the outlook is now that there will be only two invitations extended the executive committee?one from Columbia and the other from Rock Hill. . Now who wants to go to Columbia to attend an American Legion convention and have a good time? As a convention city of any kind Columbia is not. The only thing in its favor is that it is about the geographical center of the state. It's .dollars t.i doughnuts there'll be no free entertainment for the delegates if Columbia should get the convention. As a general thing restaurant prices and hotel charges take a hop every time a con vcntion comes ,off in that city. Besides the Legion is assured of a better time In a smaller to\fa).' ^The convention in Newberry last year was the best that has ever been held and there is every assurance that there'll be as an elaborate entertainment provided in Rock Hill as there was in Newberry. Word comes that every organization In Rock"Hill is rearing to have the convention come there. So far a$ York cpunty is concerned the holding of the convention in Rock Hill would furnish the opportunity for every cx-servlc'c man itt York county ti> attend. The "Good Town" is not far removed from any of the lads and it would do every -? cx-service man good to go. Speak to the post commander of your post about it and ask him to write Ben Adams at Charleston, chairman of the -state executive committee urging that'the convention go to Rock Hill. Seed for Soldiers. IIow many of you ex-servicc men are going to plant a garden this year? It'll be a good thing-to do .and since the most of you are farmers no doubt you will.-.But what the writer was going on to say is that Representative William Fruncis Stevenson has sent him a supply of garden seed for distribution. Mr. Stevenson would like to give every ex-service man of York * county a package of seed if he is going to have a garden. Included in the lot that came the other day were a quantity of flower seed. If you've Rot a wife or sweetheart or mother oc.sia.tcr or mother-in-law who would like to plant some flower seed, they ai'S* hCue for you. Drop into my office at The York- | ville Enquirer any day you're In town and the seed will be here for you. Victory Mcdats. Commander Mack yorguson <>f Mcech Stewart Post is still tfrdering Victory Medals for ex-servico men. If you haven't got your medal bring your discharge to Mr. Ferguson and the medal will be delivered to you wijhin a few days afterward without eos{. Getting Along Nicely. Friends of Fred and Claude Frown, ex-service men of Hickory drove who are undergoing treatment in a government hospital at Johnson City, Tenn., lor lung trouble will be glad to know that they are getting along quite nicely. Hath these lads served with the listh Infantry of the 30th Division and were j gassed. Fred hopesto Soon receive his discharge from the hospital; lmt it j will l>e some time before Claude is able > to come away. . Service Man Seeks Job. Emmetl Love, an ex-service man is i a candidate for magistrate in King's i Mountain township to succeed the late j A. J. Quinn. So far as the records I show Mr. Love is the first tx-service man of York county to seek a political appointment lie is a member of Meech Stewart Post of the American Legion and hhs many friends in Clover, King's Mountain township and over the county. Of Interest to Veterans. New York?Twelve majors, five naval commanders, 27 captains, and nearly j<>0 lieutenants have applied for. jobs at American Legion employment headquarters in New York since September. Fairmont, \V. Vn.?A cemetery in Fairmont, AY. V., where Civil War soldiers were buried, had become a thicket of briers. The American Legion cleaned it up to do reverence to the dead heroes. Albany, N. Y.?The Star Spangled Banner, rendered on a handorgan with a monkey accompanist, is taboo with I PRINCIPALS AND CATH1 I the American legion in New York. A hill before the legislature would pro- I hibit collections belli); taken for playing the national anthem. Hartford, Conn.?Plans for a Connecticut state hospital for ex-service men have been endorsed by Governor Lake. It will bo named for Frederick W. Galbraith, late commander of the American Legion. New York--A federal appropriation of $10,400,000 for hospitals for wounded ex-soldiers has been asked by the American Legion in New York, where continued investigation has revealed inadequate facilities. Emporia, Kan.?Kansas women have organized to put over a state bonus. Mrs. Ida WaiKor, woman legisiuiui, told the" American Degion slio wants nurses included in the compensation. SAYINGS OF LAND1S Original Utterances of Famous Jurist' are Recalled. Judge La ml is' resignation was the chief topic at scores of discussions and many interesting incidents in the judge's judicial life were recalled relates a Chicago dispatch. During bankruptcy proceedings before him the judge discovered that one bit of property in litigation was a saloon. ' "Call up that saloon," be ordered, | "and have it closed at oncc. I'll be j tjarncd if I'm going to tend bar while sitting at the federal bench." "Never write a letter to your moth er-in-law when you are sore," the judge told a man who had fought his j wife's mother. "Remember to treat | her with respect. She is your chit- j dren's grandmother and a grandtnoth- j er in a family is a blessing to the children." "Change that clock," ?ai<l the judge ! when daylight saving went into effect here last summer and all federal building cloeks were hoing kept on a standard time. "This is a court-room ami not a railroad station." T.nst winter a score of baseball magnates, whose total salaries run up to seveia 1 hundred thousand dollars, had an appointment with .Judge Lnndis at a hotel. After waiting an hour anil a half and sending half a. dozen messengers, one of the magnates noQUITS U. S. DISTRICT COURT. r '""iT;r\ T:2aj : " \ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis has set his critics at rest by resigning from the Federal bench in Chicago to retain his ?42,500 job as baseball dictator. EDRAL IN WHICH ROYAL WED! ~i;: r 1 I ? ' Viscount Lascexles ticed a tuli figure In a /lowing cape watching a kids' hall game across the way. A messenger was dispatched. "Sorry, gentlemen," explained the judge, "but that was the first hall genie of the season and I couldn't get away from those kids." Judge Landis was holding court when the baseball rrvignates came to oft'er him the $50,000-a-year job as baseball commissioner. |' "Tell them I'm too busy to talk about such things now," the judge told tne ' bailiff. if they want to they can 1 wait." The baseball men waited two hours to make the offer. Some time ago a reporter asked Juilgo I/indis about one of the numerous rumors that lie had resigned. "Doesn't that beat the devil?" re- , I lied the judge; "soon as a man gets somewhere they want him to resign. Then, if he resigns they raise th2 dickens and want to know the real reason for it. I guess when I do resign they'll figure up ten thousand reas< ?s for it, and none of them will be right." WOMEN BOOTLEGGERS They Conceal Liquor Containers in Garments and Detection Difficult. Women who engage in bootlegging *!..I4I _ I dUUVUItn UIU IUUIMIi^ |;i uiuuuivu v? | forcemeat difficult in- soma sections of < the country, prohibition officials said i recently. Detection and arrest is far ? more difficult than that of the male : '.awbreakcrs. Cases involving women 1 are pending in many large cities. Mem- < hers of the.sex are arrested almost 1 every day in New York and Chicago. .' Several have been given heavy fines ! during the last six weeks. 1 , The case of a woman arrested at I Mount Vernon, N. Y., .Tuesday inter- ? ested dry agents there. She peddled i liquor, according to the evidence in court, from n metal container concealed within her garments. On the Canadian border, inspectors i arc constantly on the lookout for wo- 1 men bootleggers who try to smuggle liquor into the United States in container.; also concealed in their clothing and in false bottoms of trunks and , traveling bags. On a train crossing into the X'nited i States from Canada at Buffalo, dry | agents recently found that women boot- ^ ! loggers wore trying to conceal bottles j of liquor by placing them in the small | windows of sleeping cars. The winj dows opening inward were easily ; j reached from the Upper berth, and pro' vided a niche in which a quart bottle ! could easily be held. The _ but lie, however, proved visible . I from ihe outside of the car. This was I a detail which the fair smugglers had I overlooked. But the fact that the ' berths were occupied by women made II lie question of search and arrest diffl> cult. Several women tried this method j before it became generally known how I easily the scheme was detected. a'.ivMmrti.n notion !i i*i? 1-ecriitfiil with having discouraged the activity of one j woman who attempted bootlegging on' ] a large stale Involving the use of several automobiles and hired chauffeurs. : Her plan was to transport liquor in wholesale quantities to Washington from New York and Philadelphia. In Washington it was distributed through the regular channels of tjio j so-called small-time bootleggers, a quart at a sale. Police captured two automobiles known to have been operated by this woman smuggler, but I wi re unable to involve her in the eases. I The woman, however, ceased her actiivjly at least in the National Capital. / t )ING WILL TAKE PLACE n : 7] ^ ttSK mL ' ' ^ ?& % ^ &h X'W '*-%* b"'-' 'i NVVA-/^/^\V.V/VAV.^/ Princess MARY - - . ! LEGISLATIVE NOTES Representative Bradford Writes of Work of the General Assetnbly. When the legislature adjourned Fri- 1 ilny night for the week-end the indi cations wore that tihe session would last at least two weeks longer, says the Fort Mill Times, The regular 40-day 1 session ended a day or two ago and . many members, especially of the house, ire becoming restive under the prospect of havipg to stay In Columbia 15 Jays beyond the time for which they ] ire paid. Nor is their dissatisfaction i without reason. If the worthwhile \ business which confronted the session ] when it opened early in January had ] been attended to as expeditiously as < Jie stress of the times demanded, the i calendars of both houses would have < been cleared two weeks ago and both j he people and thQ members would i lave been the gainers. But there are j men in the legislature this year, as 1 :here have been men in perhaps all the i arecoding legislatures, who like to hear i :hemselves talk and yvho waste time in j iiscussing relatively trivial matters. ( Not only is there much talk which j eads to nothing: substantial, but to this j nay be added the 'week-end adjourn- . nents and the sluggish attitude of jome of' the committees In reporting jills referred to them as further causes jf the lengthened spsston. The averige member Is not /^sponsible for this jondition. He is anxious to get through with the business of law-making that fie may return home and attend to the [justness of making a living for himjelf and his family. Perhaps there are io schemers In the legislature. One prefers to believe that all the members ire bent upon serving the people in the most patriotic way; but it sometimes happens nevertheless that this or that member looks wi,th favor upon tfie prosi?eet of having the session run irtto Bxtra days and he works to that end, ieeing in it an opportunity to "get by" with some pet measure which he knows ivill be considered by few members, as s always the case when the session is in its last legs. Much money been unwisely expended and many questionlble laws put in the statutes in recent years as a result of eleventh hour legislation. Only last year the socalled efficiency and economy commission was created on the last day of the sesdon. The commission spent about M5.000, most of which went to "ex-* ports" from the North, fetched in to tell the people of the state how miseribly they had failed for 140 years to -u? their government along scientific iim.s Tht! beneficial results of the work of the commission, if one may judge from the attention its recommendations have been * accorded by the legislature, are microscopic. The "new revenue*' legislation which the people were assured a few weeks ago by the house "leaders" would revolutionize the tax system of South Carolina tias about gone to smash, and there now seems little likelihood that more than a million dollars at most will be raised from these sources to relieve the levy on real property. The first of the "new revenue" bills to strike a snag was the proposed tax on gasoline. The house bill provided for a tax of 1 cent a gallon on John D.'s product. The senate thought the amount insufficient and increased it to 2 cents a gallon, 1 cent to go to the - 3 a t- nfVtntt "nnl flirt counties nna inw urnm state." This difference between the house and senate has not been smoothed out and one guess as to what the outcome of the deliberations of the j committer representing the two bodies will be is perhaps as good as another. | The senate hilled outright the propos- j ?d tax on power generator by hydro-j electric t lanti w hich' it was estimated would bring in several hundred thous- i and dollars a year. The inheritance tax measure, should the senate agree I to it. in its present form, which seems j unlikely, will produce little revenue i this year. Nor will there be much j revenue forthcoming from the corporation license tax measure of the i foreign corporation license fee bill? i not more, perhaps, than $2{>0,000 from both, an amount that will not go far j toward meeting the annual fi million appropriation. The luxuries-tax measure on which the house "leaders" were. backing principally to cut the levy for the year, apparently has gone up Salt creek, the senate committee to which it was referred having given it an unfavorable report. One is safe therefore in predicting that the tax levy this year will be little, if any, less than 10 min? T.ast vear it was 12 mills. Late Friday night the house passed the appropriation bill, which carried about a million dollars less than the appropriation bill of 1321. The bill undertook to fix the levy at 5 mills. A mill on all the property in the state raises about a half million dollars. Since 1921 there has been no marked increase in taxable values to produce many more dollars. If it took 12 mills to false 6 million dollars in 1921 how will 5 mills on practically the same property in 1922 raise 5 million dollars? The house seems to have indulged its appetite for bunk. The socalled new sources of revenue may enable the legislature to reduce the levy to 10 mills, depending upon the amount the senate adds to the appropriation bill. The York delegation decided definitely a few days ago not to put in the county supply bill an item of (1,500 to employ a "boll weevil expert." Representative Carothers was the only member of the delegation who favored the proposition. Not one slmon pure farmer had requested the delegation to employ such an "expert." It 1? worth otn#{nc? in I Ma eonnoptinn thflf t hP Pm ployment of farm demonstrators and other special county agents to "teach" the farmers of South Carolina things they already know will be a thing of the past in most counties of the state in a few years. Already a numl>er of county delegations have cut off from the pay roll their demonstration agents. "We found upon investigation," said a few days ago a representative from a low-country county, "that our demonstration agent did next to nothing to earn his salary; lie loafed arourtd his home most of the time and seldom went out in the county in connection with the work we are (laying him to do. All such agencies are fancy adjuncts of government that produce little." To John E. Swearingen, state super inienaeni 01 eaucauon, may ue cuai?cu in indiscretion one seldom hears of in the history of the South Carolina legislature. Last Friday morning Mr. Swcaringen was in the house gallery tvhen the education section of the annual appropriation bill was up for lonsideration. Taking offense at iomething a member had said about the amount of money asked for the public schools, Mr. Swcaringen interrupted the speech of the member to say in a loud voice* "I wish I could ! reply to you." Nothing came of the , ncldent further than general criticism 1 if Mr. Swearingen for violating the i rule which forbids visitors to the house ] 'rorti interrupting the proceedings. , 1 I II JL i.lM 1 Rulb It In for *j 5 o I Colds in the Chest, Sore Throat, Grippe an*. Inflammation of Any Kiati The pure oils in Mexican Mustang Liniment soothe instantly, penetrate quickly and reduce swelling of glands. Mustang is particularly effective tn treating Croup, Diphtheria, Rheumatism. Lumbago, Frostbites, Cuts. Burns, Piles?all ailments that can posstbly be reached by an external remedy. Contains no alcohol?DOES NOT SMART OR ST.NG. 73 years'success. No home should be without it Doctors Prescribe It ?Read This Dr. J. C. Compton, Ratliff, Miss., writes; "I have prescribed your Mexican Mustang Liniment for Sore Throat, Chilblains, etc, and the results were entirely satisfactory. I think very highly of it." PPFP WITH 25c TRIAL BOTTLE * IVLiEj A .olid bnua* -T?V*j'' TODDUB TOP.' iuv?'un--bc poptilar i JvnJ 25 cer.u in or coin tor Triol Rottfo (Housohold sijo Muatjuur Unl?n*nt?ndrrtT<x]dl<'Top. uhsnlMttlyfrsc. Lyon II v. Co., 41 South Fifth Brooklyn. N. Y. 2Sc?SOc?$ 1 .OO Sold by Drag and General Stores " The Good Old Standby Since 1848 " W*TT3TVWWTS lkVliK|Masi I Hastings' Seeds 1922 Catalog Free It's ready now. 100 handsomely Illustrated pages of worth-while seed and garden news for Southern gardeners and farmers. This new catalog, we believe, is the most valuable seed book ever published. It contains 100 full pages of the most popular vegetables, flowers and fann crop plants, the finest work of its kind ever attempted. With our photographic illustrations and color pictures also from photographs, we show you just what you can grow with Hastings' Seeds even before you order the seeds. Our cata1 ? ? ~"> l"*n rrnn/^nn OT1H fl flWflP IlldACO gUl UUU UUW **w .. planning easy and It should be In | every single Southern home. Write us a post-card for it, giving your name j and address. It will come to you I by return mail and you will be mighty glad you've got it. Hastings' Soeds are the Standard of the South, and the largest mail' order aeod house in the world is back! of them. They've got to be the best. Write now for the 1922 catalog. It is absolutely free. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. . 1 " - . There will be a number of new faces in the South Carolina delegation in congress after March 4, 1923, if the plans of a trio of members of the legislature do not meet with obstruction. In the 6th district, E. L. Hughes, representative from Marion county, will undertake to oust Congressman Stoll. Sam Sherrard, member from Oreenwood county, has decided that the time is ripe for someone to take the measure of Congressman Fred Domlnick and thut he is the man to do it. Claud N. Sapp has reached the same conclusion respecting Congressman Fulmer and will try to dislodge the Orangeburg man. Landing a seat in congress is easy to talk about. Governor Cooper Thursday intimated to the house and senate committee (i ASHE - - ? Fertilize HIGH G FERTIL ,u.lT UP I >' I (Rtff. U. S. Pat. FORS A I A. Y. B III ROCK HI i ?WWMNWWMW<WWM<WMM< IY0RKV1LLE C0TT01 Millers, Ginners, Manufa Meal and Hulls, and Dec BARGAIN ] (Until March 6th we will of 7 per cent Meal for | FIGURES Egg Jellico Block Jellico Blue Gem Jellico ; Prompt attention given tc | YORKVULE COTTOI The Utility Side? FINE FEATHERS are good to look at; but after all what is a hen for? Why of .course to lay eggs and that is just what mino do. I gathered 1,126 eggs in January and up to Feb. 15, 611 eggs. Get sorpe eggs early and see how veil they hatch, and how fast the chicks grow, and they will lay for you next winter when eggs are high. S. C. R. I. Reds, pen No. 1, $5.00 per 15 eggs; $9.00 per 30; $13 per $50. Pens 2 und 3, $3.50 per 15; $G.OO per 30; $9.00 per 50. Pens 4 and 5, $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. Dark C. !. Game, pen No. 1, $4.00 per 15*, $7.00 per 30; $10.00 per 50. Pens 2, 3, $2.00 per 15;' $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. S. C. Black Minorca, pen No. 1, $4.00 per 15; $7.00 per 30; $10.00 per 50. Pen No. 2. $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. Write tor prices on larger quantities. SHADY NOOK POULTRY FARM, Route No. 6, York, S. C. THE PUBLICS Tile life insurance record for the year 1921 demonstrates thnt life insurance was practically the only business in the United States that did not show a big- slump as compared with the years 1919 and 1920. The report shows that the falling off in the number of policies issued was only ONE ITCR CENT. It also shows that the public has more confidence in the absolute safety of legal reserve life insurance than any other form of saving. Until within the past 20 years the public looked upon life insurance as an expense, but today it is generally recognized by all thinking people as ABSOLUTELY THE BEST FORM OF SAVING, both for the assured and his denendents. that has ever been devfs- | fid. It is practically the only means by which a person can.make sure of leaving: an estate or guarding against a poverty stricken old age. FOR SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company has been engaged exclusively in this work, and by reason of its long experience and our 23 years connection with it, we are in position to demonstrate that no other company has, will or can do as much for its members. If you are from Missouri, ;isk us to show you. SAM M. & S. E. GRIST, [ District Agents. i ? which had in;charge th#s bilj e^q^ding the time to ~Septeftiber*l Tof th? payment of state and county taxes that he might use his veto power id ah effort to defeat the measure, which has passed both houses and is now ready for his signature. Should such action be taken by the governor, ^determined effort will be made to ifctertide the veto. The provisions of the bill afe for fl n?n?ltv f\t 3 npr pnnt UlnrAK ft rw>r cent, in April, 7 per cent, in May, and 8 per cent, in June, July and August. No property is to be sold by the sheriff for non-payment of taxes before September L ? The Ganges, India's most important riverr is 1,557 miles long, and is navigable for a distance of 850 miles from the sea. POO I r Works 11 iRADE I I .IZERS > a standard | NIOT Down I oir.) to a price ] I lLE by I YNUM I ft ? O i> H LJLJLf) D?,v? v Jf/I 9-OIL COMPANY jl i? .. ! cturers of Cotton Seed > ilers In Coal, Ice, Etc.1 1 '; [N MEAL ; .tO , | grv& y oil" 2,200 f-und's ; ' j One Ton of Sound Seed... 1 *' 3 IN COAL . < I | -I' ?v j ' ! $7.50 Per Ton. j $8.50 Per Ton $9.50 Per Ton ' > all orders. . i OIL COMPANY ; i HEKE'S MUi'UMi ma; evcijruuuji w York county will have a year of great prosperity and be enabled to largely overcome the shortcomings o( the yoar just gone. It could have been Worse? this year can be mhch better?Let's Go. Whatever your needs may be1 In first class Livestock?Mules, Mares or good Horses we believe we will he able to supply that need. JAMES BROTHERS ?9 ?fl Aluminum QCC Percolator for ^ Each Can of VOTAN Coffee you purchase from US contains a Cou- , pon. Bring this Coupon and 95 CT3. and we will give you an ALUMINUM PERCOLATOR If you make your Coffee !h a Percolator you will always use it. 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