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. ' '-ii1...1 ' ^frajjs and Jacks. 1 ? Eleven airplanes, operating as a ( prohibition enforcement squadron, seized the British schooner Annabella at tjie point of machine guns off the coast forty miles south of Miami Fla., on Monday A cargo of 11,500 cases of Whiskey was confiscated and the crew <?f ttventy-one men were taken into custody. The value of the liquor seized is estimated at $3,000,000. The schooner was anchored under guard off Jewflsh. The Annabella was first sighted by a submarine chaser. The commander wirelessed Its location to tho air squadron, which quickly assembled . and swooped down on the schooner in battle formation. No resistance woe offered. Each of the airplanes, was equipped with a machine gui- firing 400 shots a minute and with wireless apparatus employing a wave / code other Instruments cannot interpret, ^'according to Capt. L. P. Johnson, piiot of one of the planes. ? Three alternations in the proposal made by Henry Ford for lease and purchase of the government's nitrate and power projects at Muscle Shoals, have been agreed to by the Detroit manufacturer. They are: 1. To write into the proposed contract a definite guarantee to produce fertilizers in their finished form at a given annual minimum tonnage. 2. To capitalize the operating capacity which is to be created for the purpose of supplying the Muscle Shoals operations. 3. To revise the language of the so-called farmers' clause in order to insure the delivery of fertilizers from the producing plant to the consumer at a profit not exceeding ' * J nf munii 6 per cent, oaseu <ju hr twoi v.. ....... facture. Mr. Fora's approval of these modifications was announced Wednesday by W. B. Mayo, chief engineer for the Ford company, upon his return to Washington from Detroit, where he went last week to confer with the Detroit manufacturer. Formal announcement to the house military committee ? members who are investigating the offer in congress will be made by Mr. ; Mayo probably today or tomorrow. ? Approval of final plans for a maglii^cent building in honor to Wr-shtng4 ton to be erected by the Masons of the United States at Arlington, Va? seven * miles from Washington on a ridge commanding a view of the capital was given Tuesday nt the 12th annual meeting of the George Washington v National Memorial association. The structure and 'surrounding grounds s, will cost approximately $2,000,000. Rising 200 feet above the ground the memorial building will be in plain ?view of the national capital, and will be passe.! by all who make the pil-* ^.grlmage ..from Washington to the Mount Vernon nome 01 me ruwci ui His Country." The proposed memorial. with its collection of Washington heirlooms, is to be the result of a movement begun more than 12 ycr.rs ago by the Masonic lodge at Alexandria of which Washington at one time w:a master. The lodge now known as Alexandria-Washington lodge No. 22, A. P. and A. M., was lodge No. 39 in Washington's day, Among its souvenirs of the first president is a. letter in his own hand written at Mount Vernon. Primarily the building is to be a memorial to George Washingtori, the man of the Mason. The plan of its form was inspired by the great memorial monuments built in the ancient , days of^'Greece and Rome at harbor / entrances and some whose summits' burning, flares pointed the way to incoming mariners. ? Thidty-four out of the forty-four passengers and cfey, of.. Ihe Ualian , built airship Rcfma fonj tnfeir liv^s during a trial trip at Hampton Roads last Tuesday afternoon. The great airship, . the largest of its type ever constructed, was received in America some weeks ago, and army authorities thought it would be better with Libert y Jh<HftrS>, than with the Italian motors Jjvljn) which it was equipped. The change YiltVing been completed, the trial > trip was attempted Tuesday. ' After the ship had reached a thousand <eet or mors, however, something went ?wrong with the rudder and pointed the nose of the ship downward. Attempts were made to rectify the trouble by changing ballast, but without appreciable result. The big ship went on to earth, struck an electric wire of tremendous voltage and bursted. The hydrogen gas with which the big hag 410 feet long was inflated, immediately caught fire and flames shot up a height of 800 feet. Observers from the ground quickly saw the plight of the big ship and they observed men dropping out. map started with a parachute; but 'tjhe parachute failed to open and the hiati was smashed to ?. jelly on the grouatd. All that jumped of course were killed. Firemen fought the flames for several hours; but of course, without result. Less than a dozen men ^-escaped with their lives and th?;se wore so badly burned and bruized as to leave but small hope for their recovery. ' ?Ultimate pur|iqipation in the Genoa ecohcmic< cbhference by the United States was intimated by D. R. Crissinger, Comptroller of Currency, a few days ago. He spoke before the New York chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Stating that the financial community must consolidate the "good beginning" of the Washington arms conference, Crissinger said: "Already we are looking forward to the conference at Genoa in the hope that it will make as good a start on the economic and fiscal side as Washington made on the political. There are times in which it is dangerous tc be contending with the narrow and provincial side. Great forces are at work in the world which no matter how insistently we may wish to t ke the narrower view, absolutely prohibit us from doing so. We arc compelled to regard banking in the light of its world-.wide concerns?we recognize that it is inevitably interrelated with the fiscal and financial concerns bvort'U'h ora tn nn/loreto thnt u*o can not block ourselves off from intif mate associations and relationship with the leade--s of business, of government of financial operation, everywhere." The financial world also must confront the task of beating off the ^onslaughts of Bolshevism on Western civilization, Crissinger declared. Bol shevism, having failed in its attacks , .on Western Europe and America, has turned its energies toward the East, seeking to arouse antagonism and hatred for the West, he declared. The most effective counter-measures, he said, are international trade and better social relations. Establishment of the gold monetary standard as a universal system was urged by Crissinger as a means of re-establishing and put.ting world trade on a solid footing. ?The Citizens Welfare league, says the Charlotte Observer is concerned about the many eases of disorderly conduct In automobiles along the rural highways and in secluded sections of woods that a.c being dally brought before the various magistrates and of late, the number is said to be or the incease. Particularly it is said that the number of young girls of the city between the ages of 16 and 19, who arc being found to be delinquent, is farming and in this connection the' Citizens Welfare league alleges laxity on the part of many parents who permit their daughters to ride- until late at night in automobiles throughout the > county wtth? young: f men of early acquaintance. In this ] connection it la stated that a girl of about 17 years of age was apprehended on a rural highway near midnight in s the early part of last week in the c company of a man several years her g senior. They were brought into the city by Jim Paxton, rural policeman, 8 and ordered to appear before Magis- f trate Stokes at 9 o'clock the next * morning. When they appeared in ans- * A - 41? onn _ wer iu me ciiuikc ui uioutucnj w.. duct on a public highway they gave 4 assumed names to the magistrate, t which was found out after the man ( had gone to a lawyer's office to secure . legal advice in fighting the charge. The lawyer, when he entered the court, ( read the warrants and admitted that the names given by the two were false. This incident incensed 'Squire Stokes , to a considerable extent, particularly J since the name given by the girl was , that of a married woman of Charlotte who would have suffered ill repute by j connection with such a case. The man , was found to be married and the father of three children. Magistrate ' Stokes bound them over for their apt pex^rance in superior court under $100 ( bonds. Site ^odtviNe (Suqturcr. : Entered at the Postoffice at York, as i Mail Matter of the Second Class. J FFRIOAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922. The senatorial farm bloc Is strongly against the sales tax method of raising the soldiers bonus on the ground that this method aims to saddle the burden on those least able to bear it. Senator Borah, of Idaho, one of the strong men of the senate not heretofore prominently identified with the farm bloc, says he is with the organization on this j proposition. One of the most miserable individuals in the world is the man or woman who puts in or her time carrying1 false yarns and making people miserable by breaking up friendships. There are not many such people and for this all should be thankful. Only two or three in a community can do enough harm for a multitude. While of course all who aye afflicted with this terrible dis- ' position sooner or later ceme to grief by losing the confidence and respect of all who come to know them, the harm they may have done in the meantime is rarely ever corrected. Abraham T. Hardin, vice president of the New York Central railroad, who died Tuesday, was a native of Blacksburg, a son of the late Ira Hardin, of that place. His ancestors for more thai1 150 yeaus w?ne>*intives of 'York < county. Mr. Hardin began the railroad j business as a telegrapher for the Southern railroad, and while still a young man went north. He became assistant to the late A. H. Smith, president of the New York Central, and several years ago was promoted to the vice presidency of that gigantic organization. The friends of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon answer the arraignment of.Senator Tom Watson that the secretary is holding his office in violation of the law with the claim that while the secretary is a stockholder In many corporations he is not the technical owner of uny business. The law provides that the secretary of the treasury must not be engaged in private business. Secretary Mellon Is one of the wealthiest men in the United States. There are those who say that he is even wealthier than John D. Rockefeller. There has grown up a big difference between the Rritish Federation of Transport Workers and the Rritish brewers on account of the high price chairman of the senate finance com- 1 mittee suggests a possible frame-up with reference to next summer's political campaign. Mr. Christensen is a conspicuous leader of the dominant political faction; strongly backed by the Columbia State crowd, and regarded by many as the best bet of that faction for the gubernatorial nomination. That he is a man of great ability and wide political experience there is no question and that he and Cole Blease have long been political rivals between whom reconciliation is logically impossible, is known of all men. Neither has ever lost an opportunity to strike at the other. But Christensen's county Beau- , ort is a small one, and being from the J 6w: country Is something of a handi:ap In the gubernatorial race. To be iucceBsful from that section a candi- j late must have an issue that will overihadow his sectionalism, and this icheme of martyrdom in behalf of the , r armer seems to be about the right itunt. From what some of the sena- I ors said, the way they said it, and the feneral hullabaloo that they made of j vhat otherwise might have been passed off as an insignificant incident, it is Ufflcult to avoid speculation as to the ' a use of it all. 1 A thorough knowledge of historical r ind geographical facts of Gaston coun:y, it appears to The Gazette, ought to t?e part of the course outlined in the ( r)ubiic schools of the county. Hundreds | it the county's school children, tec in stance, can tell you a whole lot about Afghanistan and Paraguay, but how many know the population of the ' county? They can tell you the altitude af MU Everett, but can they give you j the heights of Crowderk' and Spencer ^ Mountain? (1) How many school children know the area ol Gaston county? (2) Name the townships, giving the size and location; (3) How many acres of land are under cultivation? (4) What minerals are found in 1 the county? (5) What trees grow i ufhot i'rn.? nre crown? (6) l How many different kinds of manufacturing enterprises in the county, and 1 what amount of available waterpower 1 is being used? (7) What rivers and j creeks flows in or through the county? , (8) How many mines have ever been worked in the county? (9) What is ' the highest peak in the county? (10) i What is the population of each town j and township? (11) How many miles , of railroad in the county? (12) In the manufacture of what does Gaston ' county excel? C13) How many cotton i mills, operating how many spindles in the county? (14) What is the illiteracy rate in the county??Gastonia Gazette. ' All are familiar with the story of ' the astronomer who while engaged in < looking up at the stars to which he I could never hope to attain fell in a ] well under his feet,' and the point of ' the comments of the Gazette is that < the reader, should try to avoid a ' similar misfortune. In this connection ' we are reminded-of a story told, by the ' late Dr. Robeft Lathan, the first school i commissioner of York county, after i reconstruction. A candidate for per- i mission to teach a public school came : to him after the examinations had i closed, and with excuses for why he had not been present sought to be permitted to teach. "Trace Broad river 1 from source to mouth," said the prac- ! tical old educator, "and I'll give you a i first grade certificate," but the candidate was unable to make good. Rice and Pindere. ( In our column ot Views and Interviews today we are printing a rather t vigorous letter from our friend, James ] Henry Rice,. Jr.,. on the subject of pindcr.s and ovher things. It was a private letter, not intended ( especially for publication, but as our friend Rice docs not generally say anything in private that he is unwilling to 1 make public from the housetops, we have no hesitation in giving the letter to the public. nr r>o?rse The Yorkville Enquirer has . not undertaken to guarantee fortunes in the planting of peanuts; we have not | told anybody that pinders planted in . the spring will insure a crop of greenbacks in the fall. Unless it is tobacco, there Is no othsr crop as easily converted into money ^ is cotton; but most farmers are willing to agree to the proposition that it is almost as difficult to sell a crop of cotton as it is to make it, and this is even more pronounced with reference to peanuts. There is no established market n this section for peanuts, and if aur people go extensively into peanuts they are not going to be able to market them satisfactorily without a great ieal of preliminary intelligent organi- : sation in that direction. It mav be true that hogs fed and fat tened on peanuts are not fit to eat or 2 to sell. In fact we are more than willing to take Mr. Rice's word for that, for he is an acknowledged authority on whatever he sees proper to speak about. But everybody knows that a few weeks good, sound corn will make good * pork of any hog, regardless of what it pad been raised on previously. And then again, hogs are sold by weight, I with few questions asked anyway, 1 whether in the local or general market. 1 As we see it, it will be a sensible thing for the people to experiment with peanuts, along with other things. Of :ourse we would not suggest that just , iny and everybody should plant great ! lelds of peanuts, until they have some 1 dea as to what they can do with them. ] But peanuts are good for feeding all i dnds of livestock and also peanuts j rield a most excellent oil that is available for many and varied.purposes. And this we are going to guarantee: i For every man who raises a crop of peanuts for which he gets no return, ' we will show from three to a dozen who have had the same experience with ?otton. ? Governor Coooer has signed a bill | to prohibit the use of a cutout on nny motor driven while on the public high- , ,vay. The penalty for violation is not less than $25 nor more than $100. ? Benncttsville February 23: Rev. , Raxter McLendon, better known as j 'Cyclone Mack," said to be by many i the greatest evangelist the south has ; produced, closed a campaign in Cori)in, Ky., last Sunday, preaching four times on the last day to a crowded nouse and thousands turned away. His next campaign opens at Pasadena, ( 2al., February 26, in one of the largest ( churches on the Pacific coast. He and . tiis party are already on route. His J next meeting will be at Fort Worth, ' Texas, with Dr. Frank Morris, in the j Pirst Baptist church, one of the larg- ; ?st churches in America, with a mem- ( net-ship of about 6,000. Dr. Norris will j ne at Calvary Baptist church in New 1 Vork city, conducting a meeting for ; Dr. John Booke Stratton, who has 1 created such a sensation over the na- i lion in his fight against popular evils. I \fter Fort Worth "Mack" returns to ( North Carolina, where he will hold u nnion meeting at Kannupolis. i LOCAL AFFAIRS* | NEW ADVERTISEMENTS . L. Houston, P. J.?Notice of application to: letters of administration estate of A. J. Quinn, deceased, P. E. Quinn applicant. Jathan Feinsteln?All merchandise is now advancing:. rirst Baptist Church of Yorkville? Kveryoody invited to attend protracted services. 'irst National Bank of Clover?Meeting of Clover Peanut Growers Association. Grkpatrick Belk Company?Our buyers just back from the'New York market. loe M. Inman and C. II. Siebenhausen ?Dissolution notice, rhe Star Theatre. Q. Wray, Manager?Antonio Moreno .today. Fampbell-Quinn Company, Clover? Ford dealers. . ^herer & Quinn?Seed Irish potatoes, i'ork Drug. Store?Rexall every day tonic; First National Bank of Sharon? Roosevelt used .to say Fash and Carry?We pay extra. It. E. Allison anA Mayme C. Allison, Administrators?Notice of application of final discharge. "It is a rattling good road we have iiraon IT inb/>?Mr Csnn/i nnd CJm Vl*no jiivxvin jr Uiuvc auu wiujiiin low," said Mr. John K. Allison, of rlickory Grove yesterday. "We could lot break any speed limits over that .vay before the completion of the road, f we had wanted to, but I guess we will need watching now. And if we 3on't speak to you when we pass, don't lold it against us. To have a road tike that when we have never hud anything before is calculated to make anybody proud. You will have to give us i little time to get used to it." "Pork raised on peanuts is not anything like equal to corn fed pork," said C. F. Sherer, former proprietor of the 3ity Market, yesterday. "I used to have a customer who sold me such pork. You could not see the difference, of course, until the hog went to the cutting block. Then you noticed that the meat was soft and flabby and It was not as desirable as corn fed pork. But while this is true, neither the wholesaler nor the retailer concerns himself lbout anything except the condition -a T f (a an ana ine weigni 01 iuc uu^. n 10 much a pound for either. But this Is also true. No matter what a hog may have been raised on, even to the offal of the butcher pen, feed him on corn for from a month to six weeks before killing, and the difference is not to be discovered/' REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Since the last publication of the record In The Yorkville Enquirer, real estate transfers have been Indexed in the office of the a.tyinty auditor as follows: Betheeda?Cornelia K. Pressly et al. to W. G. Darby, 70 3-10 acres; $500. C. L. Moore to Mrs. Hattie W. Moore ?t al., 100 acres; $1. Broad River?J. S. WhitesideS to Martha I. Whltesides, 1 lot; $1, love and affection. Catawba?J. Lee Garrison to The Peoples Trust Co.flOO acres; $5. J. B. Johnson to John B. Nicholson, 1 lot; $825, Ebenezer?N. M. Bagley to N. B. Williams, 85 4-10 dcres; $5. King's Mountairv?G. W. Knox toVirrie B. Jackson, 1 lot; $600. York?Paul N. Moore to Hal It. Mackorell, 1 lot; $1,500. MORE THAN FORTY YEARS^ ( So far the following responses have been received In compliance with the equest 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. K. A. Patrick, White Oak, 52 years. H. J. Sherer, Sharon No. 2, 52 years. J. N. Roberts, McAdenville, N. C., 52 ^ears. W. J. Gordon, York No. 6, 50 years. W. S. Lesslie, I^esslie, 48 years, j. J. Matthews, Rock Hill No. 4, 45 >'ears. J. M. Brian, Yorkville, 44 years. S. I#. Pursley, Clover No. 4, 42 years. J. M. Williford, Yorkville. 42 years. L?. R. Itoddey, Catawba, 41 years. G. R. Wallace, York No. 2, 41 years. OFFICERS GET STILLS Four distilleries complete with the ivorms were found hidden in the ground on the Wilkes place just over *? r?*w1 nhnnt the line in unesier cuum* .? nineteen miles southwest of Yorkville yesterday morning by Constables H. L. Johnson and Carson Hedricks of York county and Sheriff Anderson and Deputy Sheriff Howze of Chester county. Two barrels filled with mash ind ready to be made into liquor were tlso discovered. The officers suspected John Coleman. a negro living on Turkev Creek, of having some knowledge of the stiMs and they undertook to search his house. Coleman didn't like it and cursed Jearn Gregory, a member of the searching party. Then he made at Gregory with a shoe knife and it was necessary for the officers to handle him a bit rough. Coleman was brought to jail in Yorkville where he is held on a warrant charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill. Constables Johnson and Hedricks raided a still on the Dickey place in King's Mountain township Wednesday. The distillery was in operation at the time and was taken complete. The copper boiler was of about eighty gallons' capacity. Fifteen fruit jars and a number of other receptacles for liquor were found about the place. While none of the operators were at the still several white men ere found nearby who were unable 10 give a imttsf.mtnrv amount of their presence. \To arrests were made, however. DUMB MUTE ARRESTED Charged with issuing checks without funds to cover, E. B. Craven, a leaf and dumb mute who live3 in the McConnellsville section, was arrested this week and lodged in the county iail on warrants sworn out before Magistrate F. C. Black. Fifteen "turnid down" checks totaling ubout $90 ire held as evidence against Craven ?y the magistrate; and it is understood that there are a number of i'orkville business people and others ivho hold checks marked "insufficient 'unds" given them by "Dummy" as Graven is generally known. Craven is the first deaf "and dumb nan to be confined in jail here in a long while. Information of the mag- r istrate Is that he has been issuing e worthless checks 'or quite a while and J lias made no effort to make them good. Communication between the magis- t trate and Craven has of course been I by correspondence. Shortly after Craven was placed in Jail, the magis- j trate wrote on a slip of paper: You II j have to make these checks good or It j will be necessary for you to go to the } chaingang." Craven wrote back: "I don't know just what about that; my health is not very good." The check flasher has two boys who j ! live with him in the McConnellsville > section. It is understood that ar- | i rangements are being made to send l the older of these to the state reformatory while the younger will bo placed ] in an orphanage. It is said that he , has neglected his children a great deal and that people of the community wanted to put both boys in an orphanage some time ago; but the plan failed because he would not agree. Craven was formerly employed as a carpenter around Yorkville. MILLER SCHOOL STANDS* The tenant house on the premises of C. A. Dellinger of York No. 4, loaned to Miller School District No. 48 for school purposes since the third school build ing was burned last Friday still stands I and the community fire bug has as yet made no effort to burn it so far as the authorities know. Still there is not the slightest clue to the identity of the persons who have burnt three buildings used for school purposes within the past three months. Burning of the school buildings continues to be the chief topic of conversation in the school district and in the community surrounding and, people are greatly incensed over the matter. "If we can locate the person or persons who have burned those school houses, it is trouble for him," said a man yesterday. "No fire fiend is going to prevent thirty or more school children from going to school in Miller district and that is all there is to It." But the citizen who-talked had no evidence tending, to incriminate any one. Inquiry of police officers and school authorities' drew the information that they are about as much at sea as they have ever been. While the trustees of the district and other school" officials appreciate the generosity of Mr. Dellinger in lending his building for school purposes and running the risk of having it burned, it is said that the building is not very suitable because of the fact that it is not centrally located. There has been some talk of buying a tent and locating it on the site of the building burned last FViday; the only draw back to the plan being- that it is feared a tent would not provide sufficient light. WITHIN THE TOWN ? Pupils of the Yorkville Graded School had a half holiday on Wednesday on account of Washington's birthday. ? Hal Mackorell has bought a lot on King's Mountain street between the residences of Sam M. Grist and H. E Ferguson from Paul Moore. ? Is it not funny that while everybody seems to be agreed that a potato house would be a good thing, nobody has seen proper to go about the building of one. ? The McConnell Dry Goods Company had a very satisfactory dollar day yesterday, their special offerings stirring up considerable trade from the town and surrounding country. ? The management of the Yorkville Cotton Oil company has decided upon the complete remodeling and re-equipment.of its ice plant, and the necessary machinery for the purpose has been purchased. The capacity of the present plant, which makes "white" ice, ia between five and eight tons a day. This remodeled plant, which, will make .i.i" i/>/? will hp from ten to flf . ux jaiai iw, ?... ' teen tons a day. It is expected that the change will be completed before the warm weather sets in. ? Theo Mackorell, Joe Herndon and J. B. Grant have their flivver recently purchased from Hamlet Can-oil in pretty good running order and they are about ready to start on their trip over a good part of the country In the car. They expect to go to Florida where they will remain a while and then start to the wheat fields of the north-west and from thence into Canada. It is their intention to camp by the roadside at night and they expect to make the trip with comparatively little expense. ? Have you joined the Ku Klux? It is understood that two organizers of the Order of the Ku Klux Klan made famous by Col. William Joseph Simons of Atlanta and the New York World have been in town this week and have secured the pledges of a number of local people to join a local klan which will be organized in the event a sufficient number of memberships are secured. One of the organizers, it is said, represents himself as a former Catholic priest who after serving the Pope at Rome faithfully for years came to the conclusion that Catholicism was all wrong and became a Protestant, I tnirinrr nn work as an organlzerj for the Ku Klux who It Is understood are opposed to the Catholic church and all of its works. It is said that the organizers are equipped with long lists of names of people of the town and community who according to their information would probably affiliate themselves with the order and that they are quite busy interviewing these persons. ? "Rose of Washington Square," musical comedy extraordinary, proved particularly pleasing to critical York' ville theatre goers at the performance in the city hall opera house here Toesday night. And Yorkville folks, whether you know it or not are critical? critical about anything?second nature with them. The unanimous decision of the court was that "Rose of Washington Square'' was all right and that Manager J. Frank Faulkner deserved great credit for his success in bringing a musical comedy of such high class here. Having a consistent plot, the comedy element, although unusually strong, was softened by delightful i touches of pathos. The company, whose personnel included a number of chorus girls, really good looking girls, was free from vulgarity, coarseness and double entendre. In fact, it was all that a musical comedy could be, and Miss Melinda Melville, 39, who sat about middleways and vamped the good looking girlies with disapproval at the hpcinning of the show, confidentially} express u the opinion to Mrs. DuffDufferdou as she went out of the theatre that "really it was most interesting and entertaining:" There was a good ( house and the management of the theatre and the management of the show were very well pleased. There were a ( few vacant seats in the bald-headed , row; bceausc of the fact that some of , the bald-headed. boys couldn't scrape | up the necessary two simoleons for a , seat there; but most of those who couldn't go to the front, managed to get ' one of the seats further back that were j sold foi $1.10. Quite a number of poo- , pie from Clover, Sharon, Hickory j Grove, McConnellsville and other 8 towns around were present and they. ? too had a most enjoyable evening. The j "Rose of Washington Square" compa- i ny arrived in Yorkville Tuesday after- i loon over the Carolina & North-Westrn in their special Pullman from tsheville, N. C., where they played the lay before. They left early Wednes- j lay morning for Columbia, where they >laycd Wednesday night. ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. D. A. Whisonant of Sharon, is spending several days in Atlanta. J. Frank Ashe of McConnellsvllle vas in Yorkville yesterday. Miss Maud Stroup, of Yorkville spent Wednesday in Hock Hill. Mr. A. C. White, of King's Creqk No. I, was among the visitors in Yorkville today. ' Mesdames J. F. Ashe and J. M. Williams of McConnellavtlle, are visiting relatives in Yorkville. Mrs. J. K. Alston and Mrs. L. W. i'errin of Yorkville are visiting relatives in New Orleans, La. Mr. John J. Matthews of Rock Hill No. 4, was a visitor in Yorkville on Wednesday. Messrs. J. K. Allison and W. S. Wllkcrson of Hickory Grove were visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Miss Ellen Crawford of McConnellsville was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. Mrs. J. H. Glenn, of Chester visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Allison in Yorkville this week. Mrs. Tracy ITnctor, of Surrimcrville is visiting her parents, Mr. and Airs. It. J. Mackorell, in Yorkville. Mrs. J. F. Love has returned to her home in Chester after a visit to her father, Mr. H. T. Williams, in York..Ml ^ viiii;. Mrs. J. M. Stroup, of Yqrkville visited her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Patterson, who is a patient in a Charlotte hospital this week. Mrs. Jas. A. Chapman, Jr., and little son of Inraan, are visiting the family of Mrs. W. F. Marshall, In Yorkville. Miss Nannie Rcid who makes her home with her nephew Mr. Potts at Sharon sustained a stroke of paralysis yesterday and relatives and friends are much concerned about her. Mr. Arch Steele, for a number of years past a resident of the Blairsvllle section is preparing to move to Great Falls. His son, J. Cal Steele is chief of police there. Walter O. Hayes, for a number of years past in the furniture business at Sharon and later in the ice business there has moved with his family to Great Falls. Mrs. Daisy R. Walkup and Miss Alice Ratchford of Waxhaw, N. C., ore visiting the families of Mr. J. M. Sims, Mr. C. L. Kennedy and other relutives and friends at Sharon. Mr. R. C. Brocklngton, or rne r-aimetto Monument Company, Yorkvllle who has been seriously ill for several weeks, is now able to be up; but will hardly be strong enough to resume his regular work until next week. He has had quite a serious time of it. Dr. S. Howard White, United States naval service assigned to the U. S. S. Kitterie visited tho family of his mother, Mrs. W. G. White in Yorkvllle this week. Dr. White's boat is now at Norfolk, Va., having recently returned from a trip to United States naval stations in Cuba and the West Indies Hartness DuBose, young son of Dr. and Mrs. L. H. DuBose of Great Falls was seriously burned and shock d yesterday morning when he w. s struck by a high powered electric wiie carrying a current of 2,300 volts. The lad's father was also badly shocked when he attempted to separate him from the wire. The top of the little boy's head was badly burned and one of his hands. He is a grand son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hartness of Sharon and a nephew of Mrs. Jas. D. Grist of Yorkville. Howard McMackin, who made quite a reputation as a pitcher with the American Legion baseball team here last 3ummer has received an offer of - A ?lib it., ..1nK n iry-uui wiiii mo kipuiuuiuuig uuu of the South Atlantic league this spring. 'Mack" received an offer for a trial with the Columbia Club of the same league some time ago as did Carl J. Gaulden who also played with the American Legion team here. Mr. Gaulden has decided to accept the Columbia offer of a trial; but Mr. McMackin has not decided whether he will try to break Into professional baseball or not. Mr. W. T. Hope, well known farmer of Newport was the guest at a surprise birthday party given by his wife and nine children Monday on the occasion of his 71st birthday. The affair was arranged by Mrs. Hope and his children, each of whom accompanied by their wife or husband reached tho borne at Newport just before noon Wednesday at about the same time. Each brought along a supply of edibles and to these were added a collection of dainties prepared by Mrs. Hope, including a huge cake with 71 candles. Despite his 71 years Mr. Hope is hale and hearty and gives his personal attention to his four-horse farm, seeing that his hog pasture is well stocked with shoats and fattening hogs all the time. He come?t from a family noti ilea ior ineir longeviiy una nus every reason to hope that he will enjoy many more years of health and strength. He has two uncles nearing the century mark?Messrs. Thomas Hope, aged 97 of New York City and Chris Hope of McAdenville, N. C. who is 91. Mr. and Mrs. Hope have been married ior 48 years and of this union nine sons and daughters survive. All of them were present for the family re-unlon Monday as follows: W. H.; J. R.; and P. Earl Hope of Rock Hill; J. K. Hope Rock Hill,. R. P. D.: T. G and Odis Hope, Gas'tonia; Mrs. H. W. Adkins, Newport; Clyde and Worth Hope. Newport. Two brothers Messrs. C. C. and John C. Hope and a sister, Mrs. R. H. Garner were also present. GASOLINE TAX. Both house and senate have adopted the report of the free conference committee on the gasoline tax bill, and with the signature of the governor the bill will become a law. The bill levies a tax of two centd a gallon on gasoline, the tax to be collected from the wholesale distributor within the state and one-half of the revenue is to be used for state purposes, while the other half is to go to the counties in the proportion that the taxable property of each bears to the total taxable property in the state. The text of the bill is as follows: "Section 1. That every oil company doing domestic or intrastate business within the state and engaging in the business of selling, consigning, using, siiipping or distributing for purposes of sale within this state any gasoline or any substitutes therefor, or combinations thereof, for the privilege of carrying on such business shall be subiect to the payment of a license tax, which tax shall be measured by and graduated in accordance with the volume of sales of such oil company within the state. Every such oil company jhall pay to the state treasurer an account of money equal to two (2) cents per gallon on all gasoline, combinations hereof or substitutes therefor, sold or ;onsigned, used, shipped or distributed for the pur' ->se of sale within this state. To i ax Commission. "Sec. 2. That every oil company ' subject to the tax provided for in Section I of this act shall on or before the 20th day of each and every month make out and file with the South Carolina tax commission a return under oath in such form as may be prescribed by the said South Carolina tax commission, showing the number of gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor which ,have been sold or eonHismed. used, shipped or distributed for purposes of sale within this state during the previous month and shall at the same time remit to the state treasurer the amount of the tax provided by this act. And every such oil company shall keep a record or records showing all purchases and disposition of all gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor; and such records shall at all .times be subject to inspection by any agent of the South Carolina tax 1 commission or tho department of agriculture, commerce arid industries. "Sec. 3. If any oil company shall fail to make the required monthly report or shall fail to pay the taxes herein provided, the South Carolina tax commission shall rnake a return for such delinquent oil company upon such information as may be reasonably obtained, assess the tax thereon, add a penalty of 10 per cent to the amount to be assessed, and certify the same to the state treasurer,, and if such tax and* penalty is not paid to the state treasurer on or before the first day of the following month, or if such oil company shall fail.to keep a record of all gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor as required by this act or shall wilfully make a false or fraudulent return, then in each such event * the oil company subject to said tax shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction snan Dt? suoject 10 a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars, or imprisonment of not less than thirty (30) days: Provided, That * every dealer subject to a tax under the provisions of this act shall report to the South Carolina tax commission within five (t>) days after the date this act goes into effect a trap statement of all gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor which such dealer has or had on hand at the close of the day preceding the date this act shall go into effect, and failure to make such report shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of one hundred ($100) dollars, or imprironment not exceeding ten (10) "Sec. 4. It is hereby declared to be the intent and purpose of this act to impose a tax upon every oil company enguged lh domestic or intrastate commerce or business within the schedule provided fh Section 1 of this act, at the rate therein specified, where such gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes.therefor is originally sold, consigned, used, shipped or distributed by such oil company within this state, but nothing in this act should be construed to impose such license tax upon any selling agent, consumer or retailer, selling. consigning, shipping, aistrinuung or using any of said gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor which may have been bought from, consigned by or otherwise billed by any oil cOrhpany as defined in this act which had paid the tax as herein imposed, nor1 shall this act be held to apply in cases of interstate commerce. "Sec. 6. The commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries shall at such times and in such forms as may be specified by the South Carolina tax commission certify to the South Carolina tax commission the following: "Names of all consignors of gasoline, ? combinations thereof or substitutes therCfbr, \yhen the' said products are consigned to a resident oil company; the names and addresses of each consignee of an oil company and the quantity and kind of such products so consigned. Provided, that such information shall be in the possession of, or on ^ file in the office of the department of agriculture, commerce and Industries and to the extent such information is not in possession of said department and riot required to' be tqere kept, no such report shall be required. "Sec. 6. The term 'oil company' as used in this act shall mean and be held to include any person, firm, corporation, company, partnership, or association engaged in selling or in consigning, using, shipping, distributing for purposes of original sale within this state, gasoline, combinations thereof or substitutes therefor, as specified In this act. The term 'original sale' shall mean the firpt sale of such products or the first distribution, transfer, consignment, or bailment of such products for the purpose of sale within the state. "Sec. 7. The South Carolina tax commission shall, as soon as practica ble and before the 25th day or eacn month, certify to the state treasurer the names of all persons, corporations, partnerships, anil associations liable to pay the tax herein provided, together with the postoffice address and the amount of the tax, and If the said tax has not been paid when the state treasurer receives such certification, he shall issue a warrant or execution directed to the sheriff of the county or his lawful deputy", in which the delinquent taxpayer resides or where his business is conducted. The sheriff to whom such execution is directed shall proceed to enforce same in'the same manner provided by law for the enforcement of an execution issued by a county treasurer ac,vinst a delinquent taxpayer. That the taxes and hll penalties herein provided for ?hall be held as a debt payable to the state by the party against whom the same shall be charged, and all such taxes, penalties and assessI ?_ 11 Kn ? linn in oil nnooo uil.*iii3 audit uc a iiioi lieu iti an v,aavo whatsoever upon all property of the party charged therewith. Provided, that nothing contained herein shall be construed as imposing any tax on ker- ^ osene. "Sec. 8, All money collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the state treasury, one-half of which shall be credited to the general fund as used for defraying the ordinary expense^ of the state government, and the -remaining half of all moneys collected under the provisions of this act shall be distributed to the counties to be used exclusively for the construe| tion or maintenance of roads. Such distributions among the counties shall oe made by the state treasurer before the 10th day of January, April, July and October of each year, the amount distributable on account of the collection of the preceding three months being paid to each county treasurer in such manner that the amotfnt received shall bear the same ratio to the totil amount distributed as the amount of the assessed value of property in such county bears to the total amount of the assessed value of property in the entire state. , < "Sec. 9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. "Sec. 10. This act shall go into effect on the first day of the month after the approval of this act by the governor.*' LOCAL LACONICS Extension of Return Time. Auditor Love received notice from the comptroller general yesterday, of extension of the time in which tax returns. may be made without penalty to March 1. Sharon Athletic Teams Win. Sharon boyc defeated Cotton Belt boys at basketball at Sharon Wednesday, 18 to 8 according to Clyde Flex