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GARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Wlthou the County. CMKREB FOR QUICK READ1NC Some Items of Fact, Some of Commenl and All Helping to Give an idea 01 What Our Neighbors Are Saying anc Doino. Fort Mill Timet, March 30: Col. T. EL Spratt and X+ A. Harris, chairman, respectively, of the Fort Mill township .road commission and the street commission of Fort ^Vlill, with W. B. Meacham, member of the former commission, are in Columbia today to consult with the state highway *Jepartraent relative to a misunderstanding which has arisen over the employment o| engineers to do the surveying for the roads and streets of the community which the commissions arc planning to improve. When the highway * * * n rrr\ ronnm. QQ|Ninmeni oumc nmv ?ov ? mended federal aid for the road from the county bridge across Catawba river to the town limits and ou* through the town toward the North Carolina line, the understanding of the commissions was that they were ,to employ the engineers for the work. Recently however, the .highway department has taken another View of the matter and now lnsipts upon selecting the engi-, neers, after the contract has been let to a firm of engineers In Savannah, Ga. Whether the highway department will Anally agree to allow the engineers employed by the commissions to do the work remains to be seen, but &c a member of one of the commissions yesterday, remarked, the wishes of the department will prevail unless the township and the town are ready to forfeit the federal aid allotted them. " Ninety-odd pupils are now enrolled hi the night school which was established at the Fort Mill graded school a few weeks ago for adult illiterates and other grown people who had received cnly the rudlmonts of an education. Seven teachers are employed to Instruct the various classes fhom the first to the fifth grades, in which the ages of the pupils range - from 15 to 50-odd years. The sessions -of the schbol are held on Monday and Thursday nights and marked progress is being made by most of the pupils, according to the statement of one of the teachers. Among the plans for the success of the school is a public entertainment to be given by the pupils when the session closes a few weeks hence. The 14,000 worth of Fort Mill waterworks bonds recently sold to the Loan and Savings bank of York have been received and signed by A: C. Lytlei majrer, and C. S. Link, town treasurer, and delivered to the purchaser. The bonds were sold several weeks ago at 98 and accrued interest Among the number of bids received for the bonds was that of the First, National bank of Fort Mill, whose offer, the second highest, was 97 and accrued interest A. number of Fort Mill citizens, representing the town council, the board of health and the board of trustees of the public school, last Thursday night listened to an Interesting address by Dr. A. H. Hnyden of Columbia on local health ccndltions. Dr. Hayden is connected with the state board of health. His visit to Fort Mill was the result primarily of the report by the local board of health of a" case of smallpox in t(9wn. Dr. Hayden in his address called attention to the provision of law which makes vaccination against the disease compulsory and urged that the law be enforced in Fort Mill The Rev. J. B. Massey, D. D. professor of Bible at Hgimpden-Sydney college, Virginia, recently spent several days at the home of his mother, Mrs. B. H. Massey, in Fort Mill More than 600 Fort Mill school children, white and negro have been vaccinated since a case of smallpox was reported in the upper section of the town two weeks ago. Many grown peoplo living in Fcrt Mill also have been vaccinated during the last fortnight J. E. Smith is preparing to move next week with his mother, Mrs. A. K. Smith, and his sisters, Misses Sallle Smith and Cammie Smith, to the Catawba Junction neighborhood in the eastern section of the county, where Mr. Smith will take charge of the family's farm, from which they moved to Fort Mill several years ago. The Smith home on Clebourne street will be occupied by J. F. Oates and his fumily. Chester Reporter, March 30: If the criminal court had no more to do in all of the counties than is usually the case in Chester county one term a year would be ample, or the abolishment of the county-to-county plan, and instead the holding of court at some certain point in the district for all of the counties composing the district, could be considered The annual clean-up campaign will be put on next month, and Dr. F. M. Boldrldge, city health officer, says he is planning to make this campaign one of the most effective in the history of the community. Last year an immense amount of reti-nu nnrtnH mit nf !h? pitV! and If there were any definite way to tell an Immense amount of disease prevented thereby. The insurance men in North Carolina are vigorously behind clean-up week in that state, as they realize in the clearing-away and removal of trash not only an immense aid to the cause of health, but likelihood of fires is decreased considerably, John Ewing, aged twenty-one, sor of James H. Ewing of the Baldwin Mills, was killed at or near Monroe, N. C., this morning by a. Seaboard All Line train. No further particular? have been received here. The deceased leaves a wife and three-months old child at Winnsboro Dr. C. M Rakestraw has in preparation a modo-n, up-to-date revue?a pot pourri of fun and beauty?to be given at the i opera house on April 18th for the ' benefit of the Milk Fund?the proceeds from which will be devoted to the installation of refrigerators and other . apparatus for the strictest, hygienic ' care of the milk the children are now drinking at recess Alston Wilks 1 won first place, William White second, f and William Chapman third in the I contest at the opera house Monday "evening to select Chester's speakers for the Catawba High school contest, to be held in this city Friday evening, April 7th, and the state oratorical meet in Columbia. Young Wilks will speak at Columbia-; and Wm. White, winner of second place, at the Catawba contest Chester High School basehall team was no match for the Caro Una. "seconds" ni uoiummn i ucmiuj, and went down in defeat, 11 to 2. Durham, Wilkes, and Varnadore all appeared In the rifle pit for Chester, and in addition to being touched up freely, received ragged support at critical moments. Harrell played a good game at short, and old the Babe Ruth act in the ninth Inning. The flu situation about Chester remains about the same. There are numbers and numbers of cases, but the disease here as elsewhere is of a much milder type than was the case when It first appeared about here. Superintendent M. E. Brockman said this morning _ that so many of the teachers and sub' stitutes are being stricken with flu that it has become almost impossible to secure teachors to keep all of the grades going. Mr. T. B. Darby, Whitmlre, was brought to the Pryor '' Hospital yesterday afternoon for treat- R ment. We understand "that Mr. Dar- v by's condition is very serious. . I Cleveland Star (Shalby,,N. C.) March r 31: The town Is building an inclnera- C tor on the lower edge of the Sunset cemetery property where all burnable rubbish will be hauled and destroyed. * The incinerator wil be 10x12 feet of 0 brick construction and cost between ^ four and five hundred dollars. The c Are will be so that it will melt cans s and old bottles, so this will be used to * destroy, .this class of rubbish also.. 8 Dr. J. R. Osborne, one of Shelby's pop ular dentists, nas just remrneu uuo ^ weok from Umitilla, Fla., where he ^ was called last week to the bedside of ^ his brother, Dr. J. C. Oeborne who is desperately ill, suffering from pneumonia, The latter has many friends in r Cleveland oounty who will regret to y know that his condition remains criti-. ( cal and little hopes are entertained for p his recovery .Mr. and Mrs. John D. ^ Christopher and four children pf Cen- p tral? S. C., are here for a visit of a ^ few days with her parents, Mr. and j| Mrs. John K. Wells, Mrs. Christopher being Miss Ruth Wells of this place ^ before marriage. Mr. Christopher has accepted a responsible position with ^ Caroleen mills store at Caroleen and ^ he and his family are now enroute to q their new home .:..The largest crowd that has attended a term of tho Superior court, since January 1912 when John Ross and Frank Gladden were r tried for the murder of John Dixon and his wife near Fallston, was here this week. At that time the court room would not accomodate the peo- ^ pie and this was true this week when * so many came to hear the evidence in the Richards-Lutz cutting affair. It ^ required an hour or more to get a Jury satisfactory to the state and defense and the evidence consumed all of ^ Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Solicitor R. D. Hoffman of ' Morganton was assisted in the prose- h cution by Attorneys O. M. Mull and Q O. M. Gardner while Attorney D. Z. Newton represented the Richards broth- j ers. The attorneys fought the case bitterly and made powerful speeches ^ to the jury. ^ ? m CRIME INCREASE NOTED Jail Commitments in South Carolina Larger Than for Previous Year. A marked increase in crime in South Carolina is indicated by the county jail commitment statistics just given out by the State Board of Public Welfare, in Columbia. For the statistical ! year ending June 20, 1921, the total I number of commitments to the county 1 jails of the state was 10,890, an increase of almost 48 per cent, over the year beforo when the commitments totaled only 7,386. IS . The population of the county chain ! gangs shows a corresponding growth of population. In 1920 on the days on j which the camps were visited by the ! representative of the board of public I welfare the population was 875 negro land 80 white men. In 1921, however, i the wrvrviilo t \nr\ chnuipH 1 94ft nPflTOPS J and 200 whites, a total growth of ap- | | proximately 40 i>er cent. The alarming increase in crime that these figures show may ho attributed, in large part, to the economic reverses suffered, by the people of thej state. Money can with difficulty be' obtained by justifiable methods so the; unprincipled and needy have oftentimej resorted to illegal means of getting a livelihood, tfesiacs, me numoer 01 t persorui arrested for violation of the prohibition law has swelled the num- ! her of commitments. This increase, however, does not' seem so serious when viewed In com-! , parison with the statistics for other] [ years. In 1916, for example, just five] , years previous, the commitmentsj totaled approximately 11,743. The commitments for 1921 are actually 7 per cent, less than they were for 1916, even thoueh the 48 oer cent, increase! lover those for 1920 Is quite unpreced[ ented. [ if if' A new machine pun capable of firing 3,.100 shots a minute is the inven1 tion of a Spaniard. The gun is composed of 50 barrels, each barrel capn. i>le of firing BO shots a minute. Five men are necessary when the gun is in operation. HERE'S A BRA! Through the cleverness of t the egg was photographed to the i egg shell photo, and finally the v> COTTON AND THE WEEVIL. < (Continued From Page One!) ' i ] ng the young cotton off in a hurry and , retting a crop of fruit set ahead of the ( ireevil. Of course, for best results, , .cid phosphate should be used with it. . 'otash does not pay on our soils, but irobably will pay in South Alabama, ^ feorgia or the Carolinns. Shallow, Rapid Cultivation. Cotton, I believe, is more often hurt han corn by too deep cultivation. In iur work with cotton it is lirst side , [arrowed,.thon chopped, and then dlrtd with small shallow running heel- , weeps. Later cultivation is almost en- ( irely with heel-sweeps with very short coopers or shovels In front to hold , hem steady. We try to avoid entirely , he use of solid sweep or tiirn plows, as hcBe go too deep and deep cultlva- ( Ion of cotton hold it back in Its race ^ idth the weevil. These four things?big open fields, ' lose spacing, liberal fertilization and apld, shallow cultivation?about sum p our methods with cotton. We have ried picking weevils and squares and oisonlng, and have discarded them. rarietles I do not consider so very im- . ortant. Cook and Broa dwell have done est with mo, Cleveland is probably list as good. On 130 acres of my best cotton this ear I got 09 bales. Following the lethods above outlined my goal Is a alo per acre average. I may not get here, but J believe I can.?Memphis lonimerclal Appeal. SHERIFF LOCKS UP THREE Charged With Setting School House on Fire at Greenville. Following the burning In Fark lace early yesterday morning of a > chool building, two stoics and six < welling houses, Sheriff Carlos A. i lector yesterday placed under arrest i hree young white men, charging hem with incendiarism in connection ; rith the fire, and the three, Carl Aus- | in, Henry Swilling and Dewey How- i rd. spent last night in the county i ill. The arrests came after many i iouis of arduous efforts on the iKirt i f the sheriff and his deputies, and he sheriff expressed the belief after he last arrest was made last night , hat he has conclusive proof of guilt a the case. The men deny the 1 "The Bank With the C ?? MD NEW KIND OF EASTE ;~' p v. . - '-' " - -/ iW'-" %#" ?' J j&fc $$ * fyr*'t $"* he photograph the baby appears to iropor size, then the smiling baby fa< hole was rephotographed. ;hargcs against them. That antagonism engendered agajns !Ome residents of this Grecnvilll mburb because of their stand agaJns llicit liquor dcftls wns the probablt inOLIYC WUJj lilt* U(/iuivii vaj/i vmbvw officials, Sheriff Rector saying that h< is well satisfied with the evidence hi has obtained In nls long work on th< case. All of this evidence has no been made public yet but will likelj come out wtthJn a few days. Two Attempts Made. It seems to be the general opinloi that two attempts to start a fire ii that section of park Place were mad before the conflagration, which bega: around 2 o'clock yesterday morning sot .under way. About 10:30, it wai stated, an effort to fire a barn wa made, but the flames were discoveret and the effort frustrated. Shortl; afterwards, another outhouse, i parage, was set on fife, and this blnzi likewise was extinguished withou serious damage. When the schoo house was fired, however, the higl wind carried thp flames on to othe structures and efforts of the Po Mill, and Sampson fire department: to check tho /blaze were of no avail The city department was summonei but was powerless to stop the fire be cause of lack of water. Kerosene at School. Of the incendiarism of the fire then seems to bo little doubt, it being gen eratly stated that a good portion o the school building was saturated ii kerosene when the Are started. Offl rials of the Park Place school sa; they know of no reason why anyoni should hold a grudge against th school. The flrc originated in .the schoo building, swept to the home of Ton Raines, then to the Raines Grocer; Store, and on, destroying the home of Sidney Williams, Ben Stone, _Fre< Cooper, J. R. Daniels, and destroyini also the Coleman Grocery company" store. Carl Austin, one of the young mci arrested, lives in Park Place, whlli Henry Swilling and Dewey Howard the other two, live on tho Andersoi road. They suy that they were no connected with the flrc In any way.? LSrccnvllle News Monday. ' ? It is understood, of course, tha those who really don't need the bonus will decline it as a matter of patriot Ism. % V0Ui if , Uiimes Clock." R EGG CHICK^ be breaking out of the shell. First :e and legs were overlapped by the \ I -i AIR FORCE DECLINING ! t ' < N ^ ?* ? ? ' 11!? 11 I ! ? ?? CAfrA BR 'Vsencrpi mi illicit uryna i ? ??? ?-v? ?l Kept in Readiness. - The United States is wasting seven >' billion dollars worth of war-trained e aviators while. Europe is utilizing hers 1 in commercial and military flying. B This is the warning brought back 1 to Washington by Brigadier-General 1 William Mitchell, who is on the job again as assistant air chief, after a tour of inspection overseas. He said: 1 "It cost us about $22,000 each to,train B 10,000 aviators during the war, but the e replacement value of each aviator, a every expense considered, is not less * than half a million dollars each." 3 As not more than 2,000 of the 16,000 s are now engaged in flying, cither' mili* tary or commercial, that put3 the total y valuation of the 14,000 disengaged 1 fliers at $7,000,000,000. General Mitch5 ell continued: 1 "The airplane is driving the battle* ship under water, and the big lighter\ .than-alr ships, rather than largo water r craft, will be the aircraft carriers of p the future. s "In Europffc they know this and the " air is being made the llrst line of dcrl fcnsc. Just as the overland airplanes drove the infantry under the ground, so is the ovcrwater plane driving the battleship under water, and prnctie callv the onlv useful naval craft of the future will be submarines." General Mitchell wants to send a , fleet of American army planes around the world. Turning to a revolving ' globe In his office, he pointed oilt his proposed route, saying: 0 'T would start from New York and j head for Greenland cross over It and ^ thence to Sweden and across to Siberia, then to Alaska and back to New V s York by the same route our army fliers j took when they made their flight from , Mlneola, L. I., to Nome and back." s Discussing the commercial aviation lie predicted that most cross-country , travel will be by air within ton years. | L> He added: ,< "The long transcontinental runs of ' j i the future will be made in the big < t dirigibles; the trunk lines will bo fed | l>y airplane lines for the shorter dis- 1 tances." . ? , ( ?Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his ' wife could eat no lean. You see, they - I spent their money for the jitney's gas- ' I olene. EARNEST . I INVITATIONINCITE YOU to join irge number of careful jonsiderate people who lanv years have found banking relations with tli agreeable and profitis Bank Has a Sucsful Record of Active :1 Progressive Banking. i tliis record and eonfi- ; > in our ability to serve n the future, j: VE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT. Sinan Sc uttrniR Hank * . . . YORK, S. C. OFFICERS: rtOORE, President BRICE, Vice President M. FERGUSON, Cashier /I. E. McCORKLE, Asst. Cashier "I \W In a recent proclamation Govcrnr McRca, of Arkansas, declared his elief that the general use of tobacco >y men and women, from youth up, cneration after generation, is contribting to unmistakable and certain degeneracy. He set March 12 as "No tolaceo day," in Arkansas. JjjBPKIfgi l % The Roa [ Happine f 18 MADE MORE I SUBSTANTIAL 1 COUNT. 2 | MONEY ISNT EVERY | BUT IT CERTAT L< RO UG H SPOTS I ? ; '?" at t THE INBORN FEELTN ' * a mm-n a mrita It Dil l ID J AV 1XV I . AND CONTENT] COMPANIES AG | SAVINGS ACCOUNT* CAN ONLY BE BY THE MAN 0 HAS ONE. OPEN AN ACCOUNT B AND BUILD FOI | PEOPLES BANK ANi V C. L. COBB, President | J. H. B. JENKINS, Jr. '/ Active Vice President ? C. W. McGEE, Cashier | SAFETY FIRST-SEH | ALW V I BETTER We believe the day is fast * this section will "live at home ar X saying goes. In our opinion thcr ? devoted to diversified crops this |> ever before. x Numbers of farmers are phi x crops, sweet potatoes, cane, pcani 6 who have never done this before. & Right here we want to say J> Association is going ahead in a x that ami)le acreage will be p'ai X Picker. In fact, the: purchase of a by some of our most successful & Starr Stacy, Hamp Stowe, Arthur y Jeff Davis and others. Those who have not hande X call at this bank and do so. We & for Seed Peanuts from any who 1 The First ^ | CLOVER, | SAFETY FIRST ? " 4 For I Ye THIS BANK HAS ;; keep the Rest into ;: YORK COUNTY Field of Endcavoi | WE ARE ALWAYS < f TO RENDER a R ers of this County glad to lend our ftc try and enterprise f JOIN THE MANY I HUNDREDS OF! | that this Bank lias ? v^lriv*n? S ui ii j-juiiiviiig ? * Valuable. BANK OF THE OLD M. L. SMITH, President JAS. A. PAGE, Cashier I Miss SALLIE SIFFORD, Asst. Csi Safety Satisfi .t^'The "^hird degree" for obtaining confessions has been discontinued in Pittsburgh by. jirdw of the sui>erlntendent of police of that city. _ I ;t5j,Each acre of walnut trees in bearihit will imxluoc every year food ap proxiraatinff 2,500 pounds of beef. ^ ^ I rfto I i ss | < c<ArArvrri:r T*V A nuivvjii jui XT. A SAVINGS AG- :S , . .? / ; v ' ? o THING < ;i sly helps over < n life. i FG OF N~ I vfENT THAT AC- 2 I ROWING 2 ' " . :i - : i| appreciated vi r woman who :] [ERE? \\ i happiness. o 0 TRUST COMPANY I J. M. 8TR0UP, Vie* Preiidenl J5 J. T. CRAWFORD, * ? Vie* President \ ? WM. 8. MOORE, A.?t Cashier $ VICE AND PROGRESS | AYS J approaching when the Farmers in "/ id board at the same place" as the t c will be more acres of farm land x year in <he Clover territory than Z inning to plant, in addition to grain a> its, etc., and among these are many t that the Clover Peanut Growers <| businesslike way. Indications are 2 uted to justify the purchase' of a ?> this machine has been' guaranteed 'tfarmers such as Lucius . Jackson, x oninn Uarbv Smith. Martin Smith, <{, d in their names and acreage may have agreed to receive orders alqo V ivish them. T National Bank I - - s. c. f - THEN PROGRESS | Vlany f ars" I 5 ENDEAVORED to 33 rests of CLOVER and 31 in the Front Lines of its 33 GLAD ! < > 'cal Service to the Farm- 3 3 and in fact we arc always < > Tvicc to any Legal Indus- I <> < <? < > < > SATISFIED Customers ;; and thus obtain advant- <; Service that is Really \; l : < > ulvj v r^rv | RELIABLE | S. A. SIFFORD, Vice President F. L. McELWEE, Asst. Cashier V ihier JNO, R. HART, Attorney o action Service <;