Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 28, 1922, Page Page Four., Image 4
'r Recaps and |act?r,
? Mrs. Sarah L. M. Robinson, the
NeW Jersey woman who was arrested
last week on the charge of having
framed up a robbery at her house in
order to get the insurance on $50,000
worth of Jewelry that had been insured
for $70,000 hps confessed. She said
that she had been desperately embarrassed
as the result of real. estate
transactions and she had adopted that
expedient in the hope of recovering
herself. The police suspect that she is
the same woman who collected $10,000
from ah insurance company for the alleged
theft of gems in Columbus, Ohio,
a year ago.
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? Alleged to have defrauded fourteen
or fifteen society women of at least
$580,000^Alfred L. Lindsey, a broker of
Hbxith) I Jtyack, New York, is being
sought to face charges that he made
off with the entire personal fortune of
Mrs. Lillian D. Duke, divorced wife of
James B. Duke, the "tobacco king."
Mrs. Duke 'charges Lindsey got all her
cash, $325,000 and Jewelry worth $50,000.
Papers filed at New York allege
thia.t Lindsey, who was known also' as
Alfred *E? Post and Richard Roe, with
Mrs, Lindsey, said to have gone by the
' rame1 of Stole Behr, "learned Mrs.
Duke was a woman easily influenced
and deceived and they deliberately contrived
to take advantage of her." Mrs.
Duke's attorneys say she had suffered
a nervous breakdown. Lindsey's home,
an extensive country villa at South
Nyack, is one of the show places of the
west bank of the Hudson river. Mrs.
Duke* declared in her complaint that it
had been bought and iroproveu witu
money she lent Llndsey.
? It will be a new experience for the
peasants of the .Volga area to be cornfed
when the famine supplies from
America arrive there. While Indian
corn has been generally used for bread
and cassia in the Ukraine, which is as
much of a corn country as Indiana or
Iowa, the Volga area has confined its
cultivation chiefly to small grain. It
has short seasons and less precipitation
than ideal corn country. So the
peasants know 'little about corn meal
and the art of making corn bread,
hominy and cornmeal mush. When it
became known that the American relief
administration would send large
quantities of corn through the Black
sea for the immediate relief of the
famine, Soviet officials in the Moscow
food administration, wired to all officials
ulong the \ olga urgiqg them to
be prepared to instruct the peasants
in the use of the strange grain. Plans
were made, to rush it immediately to
Rostoff-on-Don and thence to famine
^ relief central stations in the southern
Volga area and into the hands of the
peasants without any effort at milling.
The Volga country is full of winddriven
mills which can probably be adjusted
so as to grind the corn., Or in
case the peasants canhot'get ft ground
in mills, the Soviet officials say the
Russians are so accustomed to pounding
up grain in mortars that they will
manage somehow to crack it sufficiently
so that it can be boiled into a
coarse.mush. Russians are fond of
cassia, or mush, which Is made of mil W'
buckwheat and other coarse grain.
-^-.The beginning of the sixth week
in Rhode Island and the third week in
New Hampshire of the strike which
closed many cotton mills finds mill'
owners and strike leaders in both
states apparently determined to maintain
thehv positions. Some 45,000 ope,
ratives are idle. In Rhode Island the
state board of mediation and conciliaA*88manufacturers
and the
/mm f tea& .<?(>fcthft HiuRttixet and
JBltatnotfrtieftmlfoys* totreply by Tuesday
afternoon to its proposition that
its chairman. Judge J. Jerome Hahn,
j be appointed sole mediator of the
wage dispute. This proposition would
inVolve the return of the operatives to
the mills at once at a rate of wages to
Hatormin*?ri hv .liulffp Hahn and to
be -effective until "his final decision and
at the hours of labor that prevailed before
the strike. He would make no
decision In regard to working hours,
which the.hoard considers a matter for
the legislature to determine. No mediation
move is pending in New
Hampshire. The governor and council
last week refund to call a special session
of the legislature to consider the
enactment of a 48-hour law for mill
s^or^era, qn the ground that a bill for
siich a pumnlnse was decisively defeat wat
tbedit regular session and that
its success at a special session was
.improbable. Disturbances last week
in the Pawtuxet and Blackstone valdeys.
in one, of which a man was killed
At Pawiu^t by shots from the police
when they drove back a crowd making
a demonstration near one of the mills,
have not been repeated. National
guardsmen are on duty in both of
these strike areas. .In New Hampshire,
where th?r principal strike center is the
great plant' of the Amoskeng mills at
Manchester, there has not been any
disorder since11- the walkout.
? Miss Marcine Matthews, 17 years
pld, *h?t and" instantly killed J. S.
in 1 V. ? ,11,.
\>ruoouu uu11115 pi vvwuiiifso in viiv uiotrict
court at Waco, Texas, last Friday.
He was charged with criminally
attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged 59 years, was tried, convicted
and sentenced to nine years in
the penitentiary but the case was reversed
on an error in the admission'of
testimony and remanded for trial. The
preliminaries had been completed and
Miss Matthews had been called to the
witness stand. . "He disgraced n?e,
ruined my health and deprived me of
school privileges," she stated after the
killing. "But he will never ruin another
girl." Miss Matthews walked to the
witness chair, then turned with a pistol
in hand and fired straight at Crosslin
who sat in a chair beside his attorneys,
15 feet away. She then took two or
three steps forward and fired again.
Advancing to within three feet of the
man who had collapsed in his chair she
shot at him for the third time. Officer
Burton seized the girl in his arms and
carried her out of the court room. He
took uW'weapon from her and locked
her in a room in the sheriff's office.
Confusion reigned in the court room.
Judge Monroe dismissed the jury indefinitely.
Loiter a murder complaint
was- filed against the girl. Crosslin
was in the real estate business and
when the charge was filed against him
it created a sensation. He had a wife
and several children. The Matthews
girl then was only 15 years old. She
is a little girl, weighing not more than '
pounds, and was as calm as any man
while shootinc and remained so. Shr;
is the daughter of W. E.' Matthews,
who resided, when the alleged attack
was committed, in one of Crosslin's
houses. The family now resides, at
Ilos< i>ud, Texas.
? The northwest, according to dispatches
received in Chicago, has just
)?a.ssed through a blizzard which sent
springtime temperatures to zerto and
below and scattered heavy falls of
snow and sleet over a wide area of
?lontana, the Dakotas, Minnesodta arid
Wisconsin down into the northern -part
rf Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Northwest where t,he storm was V'eat(3t,
reported a death toll of ' twelve
and millions of dollars dam' i^e to
property. Five persons met df' ath-in a
train wreck near Minneapolis when a
passenger train crashed iny j a snow
plough. Four men were tr< ,v -n to death,
in Minneapolis and St. .paul, and a
v.-om in was frozen to d v,atn near Longford.
South Dakota, a. woman was
electrocuted near K'ych^?te.r. Mtrttl. and
- i*>v? o..T. si;' Jt * -Tu?*t
a-man was frozen at Dilmore, Minn.
Only ljttle dapatge wag' reported frOm
the 'southwest .Whet*?' staking rains
were followed by sleet and snow with
low temperatures. In the Deep Creek
and Millorgan sections of Montana
wolves in droves were driven by the
heavy snow to' populated districts and
* Al- Covonfv
attacked aomesuu uiuiuuio. ^, ? ,
head of cattle were reported killed at j
one point. Wisconsin was battling- with
an enveloping mantle of snow to restore
normal conditions. Railroad service
has been paralyzed by heavy snowdrifts
and damage estimated at. several
millions of dollars due to the arrival of
cold weather, however brought relief
from flood peril which in many localities
had been the most dangerous
aftermath of the storm. No funerals
have been held in Greenbay for two
days because of the deep snow drifts.
Nebraska relt a thirty mile wind accompanied
by sleet which put 20,000
triifes of" telephone' lines "out Of commission,
while South . Dakota.' dispatches
said that heavy damage had
been caused in that state by wind and
sleet.
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Entered at the Postofflce at Yprk, as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
TUESDAY," FEBRUARY 28, 1922. "
The outlook now is that the general
assembly will probably be in session
I about two weeks longer.
To congress the adjusted compensation
proposition appears to be a bigger
problem than was the war Itself.
It will be next December before the
people will be able to appreciate the
4 ?Ul"w V?r?arti hOon f'Ynlflit
k extent iu wiutn mcj ww<. v?,
ed by the present legislature. In the
meantime it will be quite easy to claim
what preat things have been accomplished
and it will be quite difficult to
show the contrary.
The records of the internal revenue
department will probably show as
large a percentage of farmers among
the income tax payers of this section
as it will show of any other class. We
have not the figures at hand; but from
such information as we have on the
subject we have confidence in the general
correctness of this proposition.
Ine complications arising over the
Genoa conference seem to emphasize
that after all the money question is
the most important question. Nations
that will agree to sacrifice armies and
ships are not so accommodating when
it comes to money. The .larticlpation
of defcired becatiao She has
the money and America is reluctant to
commit herself until she has a complete
understanding as to what she
will be expected to do.
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The governor of North Carolina is
very indignant at the Canadian government
for its refusal to extradite the
negro, Matthew Bullock, wanted at
Norlina for inciting to riot, on the
ground that Bullock would be lynched
if returned to North Carolina. The
governor of North Carolina is not to
be ^l^med for his indignation. People
who know the facts feel that there is
as little danger of the lynching of Bullock
in North Carolina as there would
be Jm Canada.,
The Yorkvllle Enquirer has installed
a new ami Improved stereotype box
by which it is able to reproduce news
pictures, advertising cut?, etc., directly
from matrixes. For instance i': was
by means of this box that we were
able to publish on last Friday a picture
of the wredk of the Roma that occurred
on Tuesday. And In the same
manner ,we expect to be able to give
to our advertisers and readers many
now nnrl features that we
have not been able to handle heretofore,
for the lack of our recently acquired
facilities.
That is a large amount of space that
we are giving to Congressman Stevenson's
speech on Andrew Jackson. We
have many readers, no doubt, who
think it is hardly worth while; but we
have no apologies in that connection.
It ia well worth while, and hundreds of
renders who will read every line of it,
will lind themselves more than repaid
in the pleasure, satisfaction and instruction
they will receive. Of course
there are people, who will continue to
claim that Andrew Jackson was born
in North Curolina; but there are people
who have no regard for the facts in the
case and they don't matter.
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Senator Capper, of Kansas, has been
regularly chosen as leader of the senatorial
farm bloc, vice Senator Kenyon,
of Iowa, who resigned from the senate
t/o become a Federal judge. Senator
"Kenyon was accepted as leader by
common^eonsent, and Capper is the
first leader to be accepted by formal
agreement, rne litim uiui; m>.iuuvo
about 25 -members. One of the first
measures that is being supported by
the farm bloc Ls a proposition to empower
Federal land banks to discount
agricultural loans, including loans secured
by warehouse receipts and to
issue bojnds against such discounts.
The purpose is .to widely extend the
range of agricultural credits.
Efforts are being ma'de to start a
propaganda that only the soldiers who
i have suffered serious disabilities in the
line of, duty should be entitled to adjusted,
compensation. .Sponsors for this
idea represent themselves as being
willing to give just anything for those
who have really undergone physical
. Hi
Buffering; but they cannot see-the reason
for paying over money to the physically
sound only to be wasted. There
is nothing new to that propaganda. It f
has generally prevailed heretofore; but
really there is no justice to it. While ]
it is undoubtedly the duty of the country
to look after those who were '
wounded and who lost their health,
that does not lessen the obligation to
those who left their homes, business
and friends and placed their all in the
scale in defense of their country.
The various treaties recently negotiated
at the disarmament conference, ;
are up against the same troubles in
' the senate to which the Versailles
treaty was subject. It looks like the
senate is not going to ratify, the principal
objection being that the senate
is unwilling to commit this country to
anything looking like a pledge to enforce
the treaty or any part of It by
going to war. The senate takes the
position that the president cannot
cbmrtilt this country to a possibility of
war without the consent of congress.
The president takes the position that
it is very well understood that under
no circumstances can the country go [
to war without the consent of congress;
but it is unnecessary for the
senate to emphasize the fact again in
connection with this treaty. The especial
hitch is in connection with the
"Four Power" Pacific treaty, the one
that undertakes to adjust differences
with Japan.
Results of several years' study of
the biology of the chinch bug, conducted
in South Carolina with a view
to the control of the insect in this section,
has now been published by the
United States Department of Agriculture
as department bulletin No. 1,016,
Bionomics of the Chinch Bug, a professional
paper by Philip tuginbill,
entomological assistant. The pest is
of considerable importance, especially
in some of the northern counties of the
state, and many planters will plant no
small grain, giving as a j-ea-on that
attempts to do so result in producing
chinch bugs, and as a consequence
they are unable to make a corn crop.
Coincident with the field investigations,
some time was devoted to a
siuuy 01 me mseci in ine juooniiory ut
Columbia, S. C., which arc not yet
complete. Among the novel facts
learned concerning the life history of
the insect is that in this locality it has
six instars or moulting stages, exclusive
of the egg stage?five immature
stages, the sixth being the adult stage.
Heretofore the insect has been represented
as passing through five instars
in its development. The bulletin,
which is well illustrated, discusses the
insect as to its seasonal history in
South Carolina, behavior, mating, life
history, description of the egg and
nymphal instars, and the sexual differences
among adults. "Very little is
yet known/It 13 said. Concerning, Phorantha
occidentis Walk, the newly discovered
fly parasite of the chinch bug.
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-Truth of History.
It is not a matter of a great deal of
importance as to where Andrew Jackson
was born; but the truth of history
is of tremendous importance.
Jackson's birthplace has been a sub
ject ?of controversy ever since his
death, notwithstanding the fact that
he had lived his whole life in the belief
that he was a native of Lancaster
county In South Carolina.
The controversy waxed warm, some
ten years ago amongst zealous contenders
in North and South Carolina,
and although the proof was In favor of
the South Carolina contention, in 1912
North Carolina zealots managed to insert
their contention Jn permanent
Congressional Record.
But Congressman Stevenson has not
been willing to rest under this deliberate
perversion of the truth of history,
and after careful and painstaking research
has presented the matter to
congress and the country in a manner
which can leave no doubt as to the
facts.
Elsewhere in today's issue The
Yorkville Enquirer is glad to be able
to reproduce Mr. Stevenson's admirable
speech in full, in order that those,
who may have been in doubt may
hereafter have the facts.
We are informed that the editor of
the Congressional Record says that he
j would never have accepted the statej
ment that Andrew Jackson was bornv
j in North Carolina in the light of such
j facts as Mr. Stevenson has presented:
| but as to whether or not he will correct
| that obvious misrepresentation remains
I for the development of the near future.
j ?Rev. J. E. Jones, a well known
Baptist minister and secretary of the
Chester Associated Charities, was
struck by an auto in Chester Sunday
night as he was returning from
church. He was painfully injured.
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? The ship subsidy plan which President
Harding was expected to recommend
to congress in a message today
I will provide for raising a revolving
fund of about $30,000,000 a yeair
! through diversion of a percentage of
j the customs receipts, it was underI
stood from callers at the White House,
j President Harding was said yesterI
day to have completed the main out
i lines of his message. Hills carrying
I out the ship subsidy plan it was said,
would! be introduced simultaneously
in the senate and house by Senator
Jones and Representative (Jrecn of j
I Massachusetts, chairman, respectively
of the Merchant Marine Committee
of the house and senate. Advocates
of the plan hold that the fact that it
will not require a direct appropriation
will probably cause it to meet with
more lYfvor than former ship subsidy
schemes. Senator Capper chairman
of the unofficial agricultural senate
bloc who bad a conference with the
; president yesterday, said the president
| believed he had a plan which would be
i supported by the farmers and . the
I country. *The exact percentage of the j
j customs; receipts to.be diverted under
1 the President's plan is not shown, but |
the shipping board recommended ten
I per cent. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS, i
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Sfork Hardware Company?For Cash. I
r. M. Ferguson, Commander?Atten- <
tion legionaries. !
R. E. Steele, Chief of Folice?Keep up
the cnicKens. i
J. L. Houston, P. J.?Notice of appli- i
cation for letters of administration <
on the estate of William A. Barrett,
deceased, Jas. A. Barrett applicant.
J. L. Houston, P. J?Notice of application
cf R. M. Burris for letters of
administration on the estate . of
Mary H. Burris, deceased.
Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?
The Wild Goose today.
Ferguson & Youngblood?Cotton seed
wanted.
Carroll Brothers?-Lest you forget.
Clover Drug Store?Sporting goods.
Loan & S.avlngs Bank?In your dealings
with every individual.
J. S. Bell & Co., Inc., Rock Hill?A
cat has nine lives.
First Nutlonal Bank of Sharon?Money
looks bigger.
Sam M. and S. E. Grist, District
Agents?To Mutual Benefit policy
lfolders.
The Millinery Parlor?Mrs. J. M. Ferguson,
Proprietor?Beautiful pattern
hats.
W. F. Jackson?Automobile casings
and tubes.
Nathan Feinstein?Spring will soon be
here.
The City Market?Sells stall fpd beef.
York Supply Company?Timothy hay.
Speaking of the roads out his way,
Mr. W. A. Nichols, of the New Zion
neighborhood said the other day: "We
have been having some promises of
work on our.roads; but about the onlyreal
help we have ever got has come
from the Lord."
Out of the half dozen or.more good
men who were suggested for the position
of magistrate of King's Mountain
township, made vacant with the
death of A. J. Quinn, the York delegation
could not have made a better selection
than R. E. Love. Mr. Love, besides
being a man of good hafd sense,
fine character and wide experience in
practical affairs, has been closely and
intimately associated with the late Mr.
Quinn for many years, and has a good
understanding of the duties of the position
to which he has been chosen.
His selection as the magistrate will no
doubt give general satisfaction.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Since the last publication of the record
in The Yorkville Enquirer, rer.i
estate transfers have been indexed in
the office of the county auditor as folInuro
Broad River?T. ,E. McMackin, C. C.
C. Pis. to I. F. Seay and Horace L. Bomar,
1 lot; $800. (Consideration includes
other property?Martin property.)
Ebenezer?Vestry1 of Church of Our
Savior to Wm. E. McCord, 1 lot; $7,500.
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THE MARRIAGE RECORD.
Since the last publication of the
record in The Yorkvllle Enquirer, the
following marriage hcepees have been
issued by the judges of probate to the
foliowing: 1 $. ,
- Feb. 20?Ben J. Marks and Catherine
Chisolm, coltyed,'Rock Hill.
Feb. 22?Clarendfe Springs and Mamie
Brown, colored. Hock Hill.
Feb. 22? William"McKee and Iks-/
sie Sherer, colored, Hickory Grove.
Feb. 23?-John F. Dixon and Julia
W. Bolin, King's fountain township.
Feb. 25?Hleorge w. Trent and Bessie
Thompson, Rock-Hill.
Feb. 25?J. Westley Huntsinger and
Lillian Lee Crawford, Yorkvllle.
Feb. 25?Robert Stillwell and Ola
Harris, Gastonia, N. C.
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BUILDING A SHACK
"trustees of Miller School District
No. 48. in which district two school
houses, and a church building' used for
school purposes, have been burned by
an Incendiary within the past three
months, now have in mind the idea of
building a temporary shack on the site
of the last school building which was
burned on Friday, February 17.
School for the district is now being
held in a building on the premises of
Chas. A. Dellinger but siuce it is not
centrally located it is not satisfactory
to all the patrons and pupils, it is said.
The trustees have in mind the erection
of a shack strong enough and adequate
for the needs of the school until
the end of the present school session.
There is still no clue to the identity
of the person or persons who have
burnt three buildings used for school
purposes although people in the district
are . still very much wrought up
over the incendiary fires and are said
to be making considerable effort toward
trying to locate the guilty.
It is the idea of the trustees to erect
a cheap shack so that if it is burned
the loss to the district will not be very
great.
THE K. M. ROAD
In spite of many difficulties with
which the authorities have had to contend,
and with which they are still contending.
the King's Mountain road be"'
* a T7*: lo ohnur_ I
tween lorKviiie una ruucn, ia guvn
ing promise of soon becoming the best
rood out of Yorkville.
That the work was undertaken at an f
unfortunate time is very well understood.
The weather has been unfavorable
from the beginning, the rains
soaking the plowed-up road bed before
it could be sanded, and the heavy traffic
churning It into a loblolly. Then
when traffic became impossible over
the main roads, it was directed over
other routes still less capable of carrying
its weight.
The authorities have had and are
having a time of it, and they have
come in for much more or less unreasonable
criticism?unreasonable because
unwarranted by conditions beyond
human control.
But in spite of it all. much excellent i
work has been done. With the exception
of several hundred yards of unsanded
road, three miles north of York- ,
ville, the King's Mountain road is now j
in better condition than could have
been expected without the work that is
being put on it. There can be no great
improvement over present conditions
without the help of roine favorable
i...? ..nncnni ntnns are !
weuintT, uul wnuii i??vov..v
completed the road between Vorkville
and Filbert will be all that can be de- |
sired.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Lucy Jones of Home, Ga.t Is
visiting relatives in Vorkville.
W. L. Jamison of Vorkville. left yesterday
for Norton, Va., where he expects
to spend several days.
Mrs. S. C. dofi*l8oo of York No. 1,
is visiting her brother, Rev. J. S. Land,
In New Orleans, La.
Mrs. M. B. Crosby of Spartanburg,
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s visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. A. i
Worrell, in Yorkville. i
Miss Mary McMackin of Fennell inIrmary,
Rock Hill, viBited the family I
jf Mr. T. E. McMackin, in Yorkville, '
Sunday. i
Dr. J. D. McDowell, who has been !
suite sick at his home in Yorkville for
some time past, is able to be out 1
again.
Miss Frances Allein of Winston-Salem,
N. C., visited the family of her
mother, Mrs. R. C. Allein, in Yorkville
this week.
Mrs. John S. Jones, who is teaching i
at Howling Green, spent Saturday and
Sunday with relatives in McConnellsville.
Prof. L. W. Jenkins, of Spartanburg,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Jenkins, in Yorkville, Saturday and
Sunday.
Clarkson McDow, a student at Hastoc
School, Spartanburg, spent Saturday
and Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. F. McDow, in Yorkville.
Mr. Leon Castles and Miss Ruth
Castles of Chester, and Miss Aggie
Barnes and Mr. Walter Barnes ?of
Lowryville, visited Mrs. F. A. Beaver
in Yorkville last week.
Miss Nannie Reid, who was recently
stricken with parnlysis at the home of
her nephew W. C. Potts, at Sharon, remains
in a critical condition and little
hope is held out for her recovery.
Rev. D. L. Hill, of Paxville, S. C., who
recently accepted the pastorate- of the
First Baptist church of Yorkville, arrived
in Yorkville today to be present
during the evangelistic services being
conducted in that church this week by
Rev. J. M. Kester, D. D., of Shelby.
MRS. HUGGINS RELEASED
Mrs. Effie Huggins, charged Jointly^
.with Albert Zimmerman with the murder
of Pink Huggins, the woman's
husband, on the Charlotte road near
the. Cannon Mill village, on Sunday
night, November 6, of last year, has
been released on bond of $300 signed
by Robert Witherspoon and'H. E. Neil
of Yorkville. The woman gained her
release Saturday night and she is said
to be wandering aimlessly around with
no fixed place of abode since relatives I
in the Cannon Mill village drove her
atyay when she came to them after be- J
ing released from jail where she has
been a prisoner since a short time
after the finding of the dead body of
her husband in a ditch off the Charlotte
road /early on the morning of
November 7.
Albert Zimmerman, co-defendant in
the case and alleged lover of Mrs.
Huggins, remains a prisoner in the
county jail and has made no attempt
to obtain bond.
Because of the fact that Mrs. Huggins
is an .expectant mother she will
nrobably not be tried at the April term
of the court of general sessions; ana
there is little or no probability that
Zimmerman will be tried at that time.
When advised of the woman's condition
Solicitor Henry did not oppose the
motion of T. F. McDow, her attorney
for bail.
Mrs. Huggins, a red headed woman,
was on the streets of Yorkville yesterday
wearing a blue coat suit and without
a hat. According to Sheriff
Quinn, none of her relatives will give
her shelter and it is quite probable that
; she will have to go to the county
home.
Her father lives in the Cannon Mill
village with his second wife who is
the mother of the slain man.
Mrs. Huggins spent Saturday night
and Sunday night with acquaintances
and last night she stayed with a family
in the Travora Mill village.
Her own childrtn, it is said, refuse
to have anything to do with her.
Pink Huggins kept a small store on
the Charlotte road. He met his death
by pistol wounds and the theory of the
state is that he was killed by Zimmerman,
with the knowledge of Mrs.
Huggins who desired to have him out
nm-tr tn nrilor that she might live
with Zimmerman.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? A total of 125 bales of cotton were
sold on the local market last week, according
to It. E. McClure, the public
weigher.
? J. A. Marion, Esq., has purchased
from W. It. Moore, the Williams's
house and lot on North Congress
street/ Mr. Moore reserving the frontage
on the C. N.-W. railroad in the
rear.
? Ninety-nine bottles of 95 per cent.
"Try Me" ginger, a number of bottles
of ginger of lesser alcoholic percentage
and a quantity of other extracts bearing
a large per cent, of alcohol, were
seized by Chief of Police R. Ed Steeip
and Special Policeman J. Frank
Faulkner in a raid on the store of
Louis Roth yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Roth was convicted by a jury this
morning of selling and storing and sentenced
to pay1 a fine of $200.
? Church Homo Orphanage children
in Miss Alice. Hare's expression class,
presented a creditable program in the
city hall auditorium last Saturday
night under the direction of Miss Hare.
Admission was free, but as there had
been no general invitation to the public
the attendance was confined mainly
to the immediate supporters of the
orphanage and their friends. The occasion,
however, was quite enjoyable.
?J. C. Thrift, farmer, living one
mile east of Yorkville, is making plans
to build a sweet potato storage house
with a capacity of 1,600 bushels. Mr. j
Thrift expects to plant four acres in
sweet potatoes this year. "If anybody
wants to take stock with me in this
potato house I propose to build, they
are welcome," said Mr. Thrift yesterday
morning. "If they do not that is
all right. I'll ?o it alone.'
?There is no indication as to when
the Lockmore Cotton Mill, which suspended
operations last week, will open
again. Quite .a number of operatives
of the mill, it is said, have left to seek
work in other places and the search of
a number of them has been in vain.
One of the operatives said yesterday
that he had sought employment at Clover,
King's Mountain and Gnstonin,
but the mill managements had told
him they had all the help they needed.
? Chief of Police Steele gives notice
of the existence of an ordinance
against trespassing cliicKens. ?rnerej
is very little complaint about trespassing
.chickens ordinarily" he said yesterday;
"but people have commenced
gardening and complaints are coming
in. I don't want to slip up on anybody
if 1 can help it; but there is a
stringent ordinance on the subject, and
when people make formal complaint to
mo of being annoyed by chickens of j
their neighbors I will iiave to look into |
the matter,"
? City Clerk and Treasurer J. Frank 1
Faulkner, custodian of the city hall |
Ipis quite a collection of alcoholic
beverages in the "booze vault" in his
office. The stock yesterday afternoon |
included "ginger" of various kicking
degrees; "orange extract," "vanilla ex- j
tract," "diarrhoea remedy" registering
GO per cent, alcohol; and King's .Mountain
Mattlcgronnd corn liquor in a
"Peptone" bottle. When the "booze
vault" was opened "Hull," the bulldog
mascot around' the city ball who was
playing with an old rubber shoe, walked
up and sniffed and, then throwing
lp his head in disgust, started play- L
ng with the old shoe again. E
? There js some talk of attempting to -j
;et local people interested in the
luilding of a public playground on the
north-eastern outskirts of Yorkville
ind*a meeting of the Business Men's J
League has been called for tomorrow
afternoon to discjss the project. It is c
proposed to raise the necessary money r
for the project either by private sub- *
scription or through the organization r
of a stock company. Tentative plans ?
would include in me equipment ui me
community play ground a swimming '
pool, dancing pavilion and other recre- ^
ational buildings. It has been suggest- '
ed that such a community play ground r
could be made so interesting and at- ?
tractive for grown-ups as well as J
children as to make the play ground ;
not only a municipal amusement and :
recreational center but one attractive j
to a large section of the county as
well.
!
t LOCAL LACONICS ]
New Commissioner Appointed.
W. T. Youngblood has been appoint
ed a township road commissioner Tor i
York township, to succeed VV. B. Kel- I
ler, resigned. i
Road Work Progressing.
Overseer Gambtell is making good
progress in the Broad River township
road construction programme. The
township forces are now working at a
point about the home of R. W. Hope
on the road between Sharon and Hickory
Grove.
Pistol Got April in Trouble.
April Poag, a colored youth, is in
the county jail charged with pistol toting
and with firing a pistol on the
public highway, the alleged offense
having been committed several days
ago. The officers are looking for
April's brother, Raspberry Poag, who
I is also charged with pistol toting.
Baseball Season Opens.
i Despite the fact that the chill blasts
[ of whiter have not entirely disappeared,
York county school baseball teams
are already playing regular "match
games." Alex Revels of Guthriesville,
sends the information that Guthriesville
school defeated the Philadelphia
school in a game at Philadelphia Friday
afternoon by a score of 6 to 3,
while Gutl lieavllle defeated Philadelphia
the previous Wednesday at Guthriesville,
19 to 9.
Chester Ticket Office Robbed.
The ticket office of the Southern
Railway in Chester was robbed last
Sunday night. The safe in the office
was rifled- of $516 in cash and two
mileage books, it was apparent that
whoever did the Job knew the lay of
the land as an old cabinet was pried
open and the key to the safe secured.
Entrance was effected through a glass
window. Mr. Cameron who happened
to be at the depot shortly after the
robbery was discovered, said that the
officers have little or no clue to the
identity of the robber or robbers.
Craven Released.
Ed B. Craven, deaf and dumb mute
| charged with uttering wo?thles3
checks who has been in jail for several
days past, obtained his release
this morning when, a Gastonia relative
paid the amount of checks. Craven's
son, a boy about thirteen years old was
taken to the refoi^natory for white
youths at Florence this morning by J..
Q. Wray. It was said that it was
necessary to carry the boy to the
juvenile jail because of the alleged
fact that his father is incompetent to
care for him. ,
Ebenezer Negro Kills.
Frank Smith, colored, shot and killed
Jay Jackson, colored, at the home
of Lela Hutchison, a colored woman,
in Ebenezer township, Sunday. Jackson
was shot with a pistol and lived
but a short time following the shooting.
Coroner Paul G. MeCorkle held
an inquest over the remains yesterday
and the jury of inquest held Smith res|Kjnsible.
In fact Smith admitted the
killing and. is said to have made a
statement to the officers to the effect
that he was glad he killed Jackson.
Mary Smith, wile of ^ank Smith, tes
tiflec! bilore the coroner's jury tnat
her husband shot at Jackson three
times and shot at h#r one time. Jealousy
is supposed to have Veen the
cause of the shooting.
Officers Took Still.
Prohibition officers on Friday, says
a Gaffney dispatch, captured a 50-gallon
distillery near the King's Mountain
battleground, in Cherokee county,
where a number of plants have recently
been captured. Three men
were working at the plant, but as soon
as the officers hove in sight they made
a quick getaway, and in spite of the
fact that they were followed for more
than a mile succeeded in making good
their escape. One of the officers recognized
two of the men, who were :
white, and it is probable that warrants
will be taken out for their arrest.
i x\eariy a nunareu gauuug ui wn
I destroyed, together with all of the ac;
cessories. The still, worm and cap
j were brought to Gaffney and added to
' the already large collection of Sheriff
| Watkins at the courthouse.
Gift for College.
Of especial interest to York county
Presbyterians is the announcement
that the General Education Board of
Rockefeller Foundation has appropriated
$125,000 towards $375,000 for increased
endowmen* for the Presbyterian
College of South Carolina which
is located at Clinton. In order to 'be i
| recipients of this gift the college must
raise $250,000. In order to fill this
condition it will not bo necessary to
j put on a campaign if nil the money
subscribed in the recent million dollar
I campaign is collected. The General
Education Board will make no gifts to
a college until it is absolutely out of
debt and the Presbyterian college is
now carrying an indebtedness of about
$30,000. It will be necessaiy to pay
this also before the board will make ;
its contributions.
The Late Tracy Hardin.
The New York World of last Friday
has the following paragraph about the
late Tracy Hardin: "The funeral of
Abraham Tracy Hardin, vice president
and a director of the New York Central
railroad, and regional director of
Eastern railroads in 1919, will be held
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church at
10:30 o'clock this morning. He died
of pneumonia last Tuesday at his
home. No. 330 West 102d street. Mr. i
Hardin, born in York county, S. C., (
August 20, 1R6R, learned telegraphy ,
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and stenogra pny. -?? u uhvrator
on the Richmond and Danville (
railroad he earned money to enter the |
University of South Carolina und was ,
graduated with the degree of civil en- .
gineer. He then became track supervisor
of the New York Central. He <
rose to the tirst vice presidency and a ]
directorship. During his oversight of r
construction he became acquainted
practically with the entire working 1
force of the road and probably was ?
known personally to a greater number {
of laborers than any other high official.
His wife and four brothers sur- ?
vive him. His brothels are N. W.
Hardin, attorney, of Rlaeksburg, S. C.; 1
F. H. Hardin, manager of the South- j
eastern Demurrage bureau, Atlanta,
Ga.; A. D. Hardin, chief despatcher of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. c
,ouis railway, Atlanta, and Dr. L. S.
[ardin, surgeon, Atlanta."
rax Extension Question.
Governor Cooper last night returned
j the senate, without his signature,
tie Wells joint resolution to extend
lie time for the payment of state and
ounty taxes until June 1, 1922. In his
nessage returning the resolution tiie
rovernor said that he felt that the
esolution would materially hurt the
itnio'e nnd not afford the relief
hat those who supported the resoluion
thought it would. The state now
ias $1,500,000 in outstanding notes to
neet and only t300,000 to pay the
lotes, the governor said in his meslage.
"If this joint resolution becomes
aw it is my opinion that the credit of
he state will be impaired," he said.
The governor says the section providng
that nil persons who pay their
Axes within the time given in the
-esolution shall be construed as having
.mid their taxes within the time preicrihed
by law and shall be eligible to
note in any general election Is unconstitutional.
Under the law at present
(he comptroller general has the power
to extend the time for paying taxes
without penalty, with the -approval of
the governor, and the governor says he
has conferred with the comptroller
general and that the comptroller general
Informed him that fie would extend
the time until April 1, 1922.
Turner Pleads Guilty.
Roscoe Turner, former army airman
and commercial flier, pleaded guilty to
having in his possession stolen government
property in Savannah, Ga., last
week. He was sentenced to pay a flne
of $50 and to serve a year ^ and a day
in the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
Turner and his flying partner, Harry
Runser, spent several weeks in Rock
Hill last summer and both of the airmen
were social lions with a number
of ladies of Rock Hill during their
stay there. He also flew his plane to
Yorkville on one or more occasions
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Willie Slumping ill iwvn mil, iuv W.
lowing dispatch from Savannah, Ga.t
under date of February 24, regarding
Turner's case will be of interest: Occasioned
by circumstances and the advice
of the district attorney, Roscoe
Turner, aviator, indicted by th^ United
States grand jury for conspiracy
and having in his possession stolen
government property, brought here for
trial, entered a plea of guilty before
Judge Evans this afternoon and was
fined $50 and sentenced to imprisonment
in the Federal penitentiary at
Atlanta for a year and a day. After
his sentence Turner said: "I'm going
to servp it like a man, I am inn'ocent,
but I believe I to'ok the best way out.
And after I leave the iron doors of the
ram behind I'm going in again for exhibition
flying. I'm goinr. to commercialize
flying." Turner \ as Jointly indicted
with Harry Funs^r, who has
been arrested in Fort Wayne, Ind., for
buving s stolen plane and ' will fle
brought to Savannah within the next
few days. His trial had been set for
next Wednesday but the district attorney
is doubtful whether he will be
here by that time.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? John It. Wilkos, a well known
farmer of western Chester county died
yesieruuy iiiui ui|is. %
? Samuel A^hur Derieux, 40, widely
known magazine writer and a former
South Carolinian, died In New York
Sunday.
? Andrew J. Bethea has announced
his candidacy for governor. So far
no other candidate appears to have
deflnitly,entered this fleld.
? Rev. R. A. Lnpsley, Jr., pastor of
the- First Presbyterian church of Tarboro,
N. 0? has accepted a call to the
First Presbyterian church of Columbia,'subject
to the action of his presbytery.
? In Grtenville last Saturday, Jeff
Chandler, aged 35, shot and killed his
wife, Mrs. -Theodosia Chandler, aged
31, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Rosie
Bramlett, aged 68. The shooting was
the outcome of domestic troubles.
? Ossle Gore, regarded as a desperate
negro crltjilnal, escaped from the
Chester chalngang early Sunday
morning. While he was supposed to
be asleep Saturday night he was industriously
sawing off his chains with
a file which he had secreted abcut his
person.
? It is reported from Columbia that
Former Attorney General Tlios. H.
Peeplos Is seeking appointment as dis
A iotrlnt
int'l tlllUMll-y 1UI UIC L'aoi'wHi UIOWI IV.I.
of South Carolina. J. D. E. Meyer
and Louis Shimel, lawyers of Charleston
are also said to be after the
place.
? Greenwood, February 25: Senator
McGhee of this county, was asked tonight
if he cared to make any reply to
the charges made by Senator Christensen
that the McGhee substitute income
tax bill was an insincere measure
and certain to be defeated in the
house. Senator McGhee said that he
cotild not speak so positively for the
house as did the senator from Beau- \
fort, but as for many of his other assertions
there was nothing in the facts
whatsoever to justify his statements.
His income tax bill has been indorsed
by the South Carolina Taxpayers' association,
and by practically every one
with whom he has talked; he declared.
He added further that the select committee
bill would probably bring into
the state treasury approximately $2,000,000
and this would be done without
the exnense of probably $200,000
which the Christensen measure would
entail uDon the statp in administration.
Besides the army of inspectors and inquisitors
to enforce the Cfcristersen
bill would not have be created to
annoy and harrass the people and
which in time might become one o' the
greatest political machines in the history
of the state, Senator McGhee asserted.
Representative W. J. Moore
was asked if he knew the sentiment of
the house on the McGhee income tax
bill. Replying that he could not answer
for* the house so confidently as
did Senator Christensen. as for himself
he favored the McGhee income tax
substitute and knew many others who
also favpred it. The McGhee bill was
not before the house when the Christensen
income tax bill was voted on.
It was offered by Senator McGhee in
the senate after the house had voted
on the other bill.
MERE-MENTION,
Laudru, the French "bluebeard,"
was guillotined at Versailles last Saturdayi
He refused religious consolation
and from the time he left his cell
until his head was in the basket was
ml.. 1C s\11 sv ~
.mi j i wciuj ovv-uuuo r vuuwuig ?l
four-hour conference between Prenicrs
Lloyd fleorge and Poincaire last
Saturday, it was announced that the
lenoa conference will be held on April
10th... The. wholesale price of eggs
>n the Chicago market has' gone down
o 24 cents ...The United States
mpreme coip't has handed down a
lecision in which it upholds the conititutionality
of the Woman's suffrage
intendment to the constitution
Phe Younlgstown, Ohio, steel district'
s re-opening many mills that have
>een closed dbwn since the beginning
if the depression.
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