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''""ftfejis nhA ^artjs. & fch w.-ts a record month for'violence in >?ew York. Thirty-seven persons were murdered, according to rec? ords in the chief medical examiner's office. Among them were three women, one of whom was shot and two stabbed to death. Of the 34 slain, 30 were shot, three clubbed or blackjacked and one stabbed. Twenty-nine murders were committed in Manhattan, the others in Brooklyn. In the last 48 hours of the month one murder was committed by a woman, four bandits were captured in an attempt to rob a construction company's payroll; three men shot and Seriously wounded, a department store sub-station managei, in an attempt to frob Mm or *9,000, ana inree inner dits clubbed a watchman and a guard Ipid took $1,000 from the counting room 6f a dally newspaper. *? Recognition of the Soviet regime as jttie de Jure government of Russia will ie sought at the Genoa conference "not Ifecause this form of recognition has Baaglc power, but because it will aid jn ^storing trade relations between Russia and the rest of the world, said Foreign Minister Chitcherin, head of the Soviet delegation, in his interview at Jtiga, a few days ago, with the foreign Correspondents. The Soviets hold that fhe entente powers were instigators of Vie campaigns conducted by General T)enlkine and General Baron Wrangel, it- said and the delegation is preparing to present claims in that connection ?t Genoa. The success of the conference depended upon the extent to >'hlch the powers were prepared for Sponciliation. The Bolshevtki would not liold themselves-culpable if the other Stations represented at Genoa were irreconcilable and presented impossible Conditions. ? The great coal strike, involving apfiore than 500,000 men, .who with their families, will embrace approximately 2,500/00 persons, is now in effect. The significance of this tremendous upheaval i9 set forth in exclusive statements by Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, giving the side or laDor, anu \.rt?oiBc M. Cushing. managing director of the wholesale coal association, giving the side of the operators. Woll says: "If the attitude of the mine operators and owners is correct, then our whole conception of contractural obligations has been in error. Honor between men has been destroyed and anarchy will reign in the relations of mankind." Cushing say's': *1f this strike is any supreme test at all it is the test of the central competitive field. It really reflects the tendency of the operators to go it alone each for himself. If the public is wilIing?to pay the operators' bill the operators will grant' the miners' demands." ? The death of Rosa and Josefa Blazek, the "Simese Twins,'' has left the Cook county probate court, according to a Chicago dispatch, with a legal problem which apparently is unprecedented.' In determining the disposition of the >100,000 estate of the twins the court must decide if 11-year-old Franz Is the son of one or both of the twins. A scientific controversy which began before the death of the sisters early Thursday has resolved itself Into the question: "Were Rosa and Poscfa one individual or did" they constitute separate entities?" |f they were one personality, the spa will inherit the entire fortune which "was accumulated by the twins during their exhibition tours of the world. If they were two distinct personalities, Rosa heijlg the mother and Jose(p thl* aurit, only Rosa's,half of th% estate would go to the lad, while Josefa's closest relatives, including the 85-year-old father and lour oroineis, would be ontitled-io-her- half. Physicians say there are physiological facts to. support each, .contention and attorneys agree that a legal opinion must be based upoh qci&ntiflc analysis of the bodies. So far a postmortem has been opposed by the brother, Frank Blazek; who is in Chicago. It was he who prevented an operation before death which physicians urged as the only possible means of saving one of the sistera. ? Entire mountains were destroyed in the violent earthquakes und volcanic eruptions which took place in southern Chile near ,the Argentine border last December, says Eric Vplkman, who has returned to Valdivia, Chile, from a I visit to the desolated -district. Details J of the volcanic disturbances which destroyed pasture lands, forests and cattle are only becoming known there. - "The center of the disturbance was in the region known as the (jdrdillera Pelade, northeast of the Puerto Montt," Mr. Volkman said. "The lava composition i3 almost entirely volcanic, whose heat had parched and destroyed ' pastures. The surface is strewn with flaming gases and steam from which arises a strong odor of wood vinegar. The rocks have no consistency and the lava field, about 3,100 feet above sea level, apparently still is !n process of formation. -Subterranean rumblings { are still very violent." The affected area is sparsely populated and no cas- I ualties have been reported. The waters of the Rinihue river, Mr. Volkman reported, have been poisoned by gases and acids derived from the eruptive material including huge stones that fell in its bed. He said another eruption had occurred in the Los Azufre3 cordillera, also in the Pelada valley. The eruptions in Chile last December were attributed to the volcanoes of Caulle and Kinehua. They were accompanied by violent earthquakes and it was stated that deep crevices had formed in the mountain sides from which-steam was pouring. Enormous damage was caused to grazing lands on the Argentine side of the frontier, which for 30 leagues was covered with cinders apd volcanic ashes from the erupting peaks, which swept across Argentina obscuring the sun. Ashes were reported to have fallen all the way across to the Atlantic ocean. ? London, March 31: Troubled Irish history today entered a new phase with the double achievement of the Free State bill safely reaching the statute book and the conclusion of the | agreement between the north and I south and the imperial government opening a better prospect for eventual Irish unity. If Premier Lloyd George was the hero of the Irish treaty, Winston Churchill, secretary of the colonies, admittedly is the hero of Thursday's agreement. Mr. Churchill has 'ho recioient of universal tributes of praise and admiration, beginning with Joseph Devilin's speech in the house of commons Thursday evening, after being mainly responsible for bringing the opposing parties in Ireland together in a conference which had such ?speedy results. Austen Chamberlain in a speech delivered tonight in Birmingham, joined in the chorus of plaudits when he said of the colonial secretary: "Mr. Churchill displayed patience and parliamentary skill which places him in the forefront of the parliamentary leaders." Warning voices, however, are heard in the press, especially in Belfast, and Mr. Chamberlain himself in the house of commons today beged the public not to indulge in optimistic delusions, but on the whole tno disposition seems to be to take a hopeful view of the situation. In Dublin today the signing of ncrreement was received with great rejoicing. There seemed to be an impression-that Michael C&Uins, head of the provisional 'government in Ireland, and Sir James Craig, the Ulster preuifler, would not have signed the agree j ment withdtrt'Tlrst having &rrfved'?t a tacit understanding as how. best tc deal with the admittedly difficult prob-i letn of activities of the Irish republican army In Ulster. The attitude of the followers of Eamon de Valera gives the greatest cause for anxiety, but or this subject little reliable opinion could be obtained today. She IJorimUc (inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922. I" =Z When will cotton go up? As soob as it gets out of the hands of the farmers and others into the hands ol the spinners. 11 Col. L. G. McNutt reports that when he and his prohibition squadron got over to Nassau, the bootlegger roughs .1 ? I n'lint io , V,r lUICUlCliUU IIIUU IIUCO. f * *> way of that kind of cattle. They ar< willing to murder or do anything else in the desperate belief that it will help (hem hold on to tremendous proilts they are getting out of their illicit trade. Querulous critics have that Washington preacher who left the name ol Jesus Christ out of his peace conference prayer badly worried; but as we see it neither the preacher nor his critics have touched the main point. The preacher if ho profess to Jje a Christian, has no business offering any kind of a prayer, anywhere, except in the name of Jesus Christ?not unless he wants to start the cocks to crowing. Rut Christ has nothing to do with any kind of a conference that seeks to bind the conferees to bloodshed, und^r any conditions, and that was certainly no place to name the name of Christ. As to praying to God by a man who knows , of Christ, without naming Christ?that is unthinkable. Dr. Clarence Poe. That announcement by Dr. J. B Johnson, President of the South Carolina Cotton Association to the effect that Dr. Clarence Poe will be in Rock Hill and Yorkville next Friday ought to prove of especial and particular interest to every reader of The Yorkville Enquirer who is able to be al either of the places named on the da> mentioned. All that Dr. Johnson says of Dr. Poe is true and a $reat deal more. He is one of the best informed men In the United States on all that pertains tc the highest interest of agriculture, and he is able to tell what he knows in a way that can be understood by everybody. Dr. Poe has spent his whole life from early, manhood seeking to advance the best Interests of the Southern farmer, and though not yet an old miin has accomplished much in that direction. Indeed there is no telling how much of the progress the south has made should be marked up to his credit; but all well informed people who are fairly well acquainted with conditions now as compared with | twenty-five years ago are 'willing tc I concede that Dr. Poe has been oi\e oi the most important single factors they [ can name in connection with the marked improvement. That the people will turn out to hear 1~*?- Pno lvo sinnorelv hone. To do SO will be worth the while of any man or any woman. On our own responsibility we promise that everybody who comes v.'ill feel well repaid. We promise that there will not be a suggetsion of demagogic bunk, and the address will be clear, forcible and within the easy comprehension of everybody present. ? Greer's new high school building erected at a cost of about $125,000 is nearing completion. From Lisbon to Rio Janeiro.?The Portuguese aviators, Captajns Countinho and Sacadura resumed their hydro-airplane flight from Las Palmas, Canary Islands at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. They are bouiul for the Cape Verde Islands on the second leg of their long journey to Rio Janeiro. The Portuguese hydro-airplane left Lisbon on the morning of March 30 on J the tirst leg of the flight to South America, covering 710 miles* to Las Palinas in 7 1-2 hours. The distance I from Las Palmas to the Cape Verde Islands is 810 miles. The next leg, from Cape Verde to Fernanda Naronha. near the coast of Brazil, measures 1,390 miles. ? T. C. Sturkie, attorney for Jesse (Inppins, one of, the Brazzell murder trio, has completed the appeal to the supreme court for Gappins and the r\"noi'i; in tho envi. hnv? been filed with the clerk of the court. The appeal will .be heard on the call of the Eleventh circuit, which will be some time in May. So far the Gappins appeal is the only one of the three to reach the supreme court and it, is very probable that the alleged appeals of C. O. Fox and S. J. Kirby will be dismissed bji the supreme court as soon as Solicitor Callison makes the proper motion for the dismissal, as attorneys foi both of these men have never completed their appeals, so far as is known, and the time has long since elapsed. The notice of appeal to the | full supreme court from the refusal ol Justice Cothran to grant a stay of execution in the Fox case is all that has uvou ivimveu i>j ine mm i miu wi?.will, in all probability, it is thought result in the throwing out of this case In his appeal (lappins bases his entire plea on the grounds that no official record is available showing that the grand jury which indicted him was sworn. On these grounds. (Sappins says that the court was without Jurisdiction und that he was deprived ol hi& life and liberty without due process of law as provided for by Article 5, Section 1, of the United States constitution. 4 - - JLOCAL AFFaXRS. h ! _J ^ : 'I NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 4 i J. M. Stroup?Ready with tho goodB. c i Nathan Feinstein?The newest Emer- a t son Oxfords at Feinstein's. 0 I First National Bank of Sharon?It p isn't what you make that counts so . much. J. B. Johnson, President South Caroline Cotton Association?Dr. Clarence Poe is coming next Friday. : Mary Jane Brown, President?Tom f Thumb Wedding:. p City Market?When you buy meats at j the City Market, you know you are petting the best in town. - Sa m ivi nnri K. E. Grist?No other 1! company would have paid one cent. Liberty Service Station?A place of real service. The Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray Manager?David Powell and other good programmes. Alice L Garrison?Fiddlers' Convention at Philadelphia School house, Friday evening, April 7. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Since the last publication of the re: cord In The Yorkville Enquirer, real t estate transfers have been Indexed In i the office of the county auditor as fol' lows: Rulln/.L-'* W T? Haves to W. A. and E. A. Latham. 105 acres, $525. Ebenezer?Catawba Real Estate Co. ' to Haize Cash, 1 lot; $70. GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY The jury commissioners this morning drew the following venire of petit purors to report April 24 and serve during the second week of the approaching term of the circuit court, Judge Bowinan presiding, J. M. Hunter Catawba W. A. Hucy Catawba Pride Raterreo L Catawba L>. M. Pairott . King's Mountain Fred T. Bell Catawba J. B. Ford Bethel C. A. Stewart Catawba C. J. Youngblood York K. A. Foster Broad River W. D. Thomasson York T. F. Dunlap York A. E. Burns Broad River E. B. Lowry ....I ; York J. H. Hayes Catawba J. S. Hope Broad River Thoa W. Boyd Catawba J. M. Love Bethesda W. VV. Riddle King's Mountain W. R. Laney York J. O. Pratt Bullock's Creek J. Brown Nell York t x> York 1 , C. H. Ratterree King's Mountain 1 Clyde B. Smith ? York 1 J. A. Smith Bethesda W. G. Hartness York S. W. Thomas King's Mountain T. E. Patton Catawba W. X. Jackson King's Mountain *W. B. Armstrong Fort Mill A. L. Jonas York Y L. A. Harris Fort Mill c W. B. Ardrey Fort Mill : J. B. Deal King's Mountain t B. W. Carson Bethesda R. N. Whitesides King's Mountain BACK FROM "ST. PETER." ' Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Crawford of McConnell8ville, who have been spending : the winter in St. Petersburg, Fla., rei turned to their home Friday evening, s having come through in their car, a i distance of seven or eight hundred I tai^es. "We came through in four days,'' 1 said Mr. Crawford yesterday; "but we wefe not traveling all the while, having made stop3 in Jacksonville, Savan, nah and Columbia. The best days' travel was about 250 miles, I guess. ' We got to Columbia Thursday afternoon and did not leave there until FriI day after* dinner." Mr. Crawford said that he made the entire tiip without mishap, not even a ' puncture, and the roads were fairly i good all the way except for soft stretches in the swamps, and washouts ' by recent rains down in Georgia. The , 1 toughest traveling we had was in Fairi field county between the Richland t county line and Winnsboro, where the 1 ( red clay had been cut into deep ruts, 1 , making progress slow and difficult. The winter tourists are leaving i Florida by the thousand, said Mr. t . Crawford, most of them traveling in cars. They seem to come from all i parts of the United States and Canada., i ' With most of them their route is up to whpr?> thev branch off to , Camden and strike up through Raleigh J and Richmond; but others come by Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg ' over the National highway to Char- c , lotte. ' . ' I Mr. Crawford said that many of the s Florida towns are complaining of dull business; but things have been lively i enough at St. Petersburg. s t WITHIN THE TOWN. ? There is a strong demand for > houses in town and. people who have 1 houses to rent should, let the fuct be known. ' ( ? Mr. C. F. Sherer has commenced ( the erection of a one story brick store i building on his lot opposite the post 1 office. ? A new siren fire whistle has been j installed on top of the city hall. It is i a double ender, much larger and more 1 powerful than the old one. and al- \ though it has not been tested yet, it is f expected that it will awaken the people when it is used to give an alarm. o ? Rev. D. L. Hill, the new pastor of c the First Baptist churcn or yotKvine, u was greeted by a large congregation att ( his first service last Sunday morning. ? He preached at Enon in the afternoon, and at the local church again in the j evening. Mr. Hill and family are now , ' at home to their friends in the jwrson- j age on Cleveland avenue. ? J. M. Brian is the most extensive a ; bee keeper in Yorkville. lie has been , i handling bees for many years, and ( ( ! knows lots about them. At present he t | I has about thirty stands and they are j ' doinc well. The bees have been quite J [ busy during the past week, and seem c to be making up for lost time. 8 ! ?At the regular monthly meeting of t , the session of the Associate Reformed ; church Sunday morning, Elder W. D. ^ Grist was chosen to represent the con- ' . gregation at the spring meeting of Ca- j , tawba presbytery, to be held in Winns- . ] boro on Tuesday, April 18, and Elder ^ I J. S. Price was seiccte<i 10 pu iu ayuvu \ | at Old Providence, Va., in May. ' ? Bill Sandifer lias a letter from Joe s , Herndon of the "Roll Weevil Special," , dated at Sterlington, La., last Thurs- c \ day, saying amonp other tiling's: "We r are waterbound here for a while and ? ] can't go 011. I have rone to work. Not (' , what you would call first-class work? ? ! just pushing a 'Georgia buggy.' The " ' other boys are loafing, mostly." ! F ' I <1 ? Miss Kate Cody was painfully in - 11 ? jured at her home on Lincoln street i c I Sunday afternoon when a chair in L, > I which she was sitting on the front L. t ! porch collapsed and caused her to fall | s i I into the yard, several feet below the i'c . porch. While no bones were broken ^ j she was very painfully bruised and 0 . found it necessary to take her bed. K ! ?Uncle Sam has increased postoffice s box rent at the local office, despite J the fact that rents as a general thing v ave a downward tendency. Until the uarter beginning April 1, came in, he rent for the smaller lock boxes was 5 cents per quarter. It has been inreased to 60 cents per quarter. Boxes size larger now rent for 75 cents a mnrter while the drawers now cost $1 icr quarter. SON AND FATHER Here is a worth while letter on the arming problems now confronting the eople .of this section. It comes from L D. Brandon, co-operative demonstraion agent at Bamberg and its pecular value arises out of the fact that it s in the nature of a heart to heart talk rom son to father, and not mere houghtless advice. The writer is a fork county man and a graduate of ?lemson College. His father is Mr. J. 5. Brandon, of McCdnnellsville. Family natters mentioned in the letter, of :ourse are omitted: "How is farming coming along up here? Guess you are getting ready to jlant a big crop for the next year. Well, it is bound to happen; it hapjened here qnd. it will happen there within the next, two years. It's no use :o try to stop it; but it is better to lelp it along. Just advise everybody lo plant all the cotton they can plant, ind the least amount of corn, wheat, iats, peas, etc. Tell them to sell out ill the brood sows along with the lows, buy high-priced ready-mixed fertilizers, and load up with high priced mules. Then everything will >e ready for the weevil. This Is how it always happens. I am not prophesying; hut watch It. Everybody up there will make a fair crop this year, ind will think that the weevils wont hurt hereafter; but from what T could 4ee last summer, that must have been your first year with them. "Well, I should say plant cotton igaln this year; but i certainly would invest in a sow and a cow to the plow, md enough chickens to supply the farm. I would begin to break away from the one crop system, and do a little fencing, plant a row of velvet lieans for every row of corn, 'and enough peanuts to keep that old sow From starving; the fight is going to be hard and long. "Have you joined the cotton marketing association yet; if you have not I ivant you to and check on me for the fee. Do it at once ahd get it started afT In York county. I have made up my mind that if the farmers do not take to this and stick, then I am forever done with farming, unless I move to uKianoma, or XNorin uaronna, wnere they have a marketing organization. "I am convinced that we have got to take a forward step along marketing lines and if we do not, we might ns well take down our hopes and ideals, bury them and settle down to a life of Irudgery and poverty. "You can talk of it being impossible to organize the fanner so he will stick, a.nd you may enumerate the farmer organizations that have failed; but this is one organization that will succeed. Don't get the idea that cotton will not ilways be our main cash crop. Divine guidance has brought the weevil here to get us out of trouble and the oneirop system. The Lord has seen that we will always be poor as long as He allows us to make big crops of cotton and he created the boll weevil to get us out of the nit, and believe me He jure has changed them down here. Mr. B. Weevil is making them come lcross and sign that cotton crop in the marketing association too. "Some people up in York county lave an idea th?fr>they can buy livestock and field seeds cheap down here, ind hayc come down and tried it; but much to their sitfnrlse they have found jverything much higher than at home. Our people know that we've got to lave these things to beat the weevil, ind it takes something more than noney to make our fellows sell. Clyde Ftatchford, of ^Itckory Grove, was lown here: but h* didn't buy a thing? :ould get it cheattef at home." ABOUT PEOPLE. Rev. J. G. Huggin, of Clover, was a visitor in Yorkville, yesterday. Mr. W. L. Thomson of Spartanburg, was in Yorkville yesterduy, on business. McClain Ford, who has been studyng pharmacy in Atlanta, has returned ;o his home at Clover Rev. Dr. R. M. Stevenson, of Due Vest, has just completed a protracted neeting at Edgmoor, Chester county. Mr. O. E. Wilkins and daughter, Vliss Marjorie of Charlotte, were visiors in Yorkville, ^yesterday. L. Don Matthews has been elected :aptain of the Rock Hill military com>any to succeed -Gordon Collier, religned. Mr. W. L. Wallace, who has Y>een 11 witW grip at his home on Charlotte itreet Yorkville, for some weeks, was >ut on the streets again yesterday. Miss Margaret McDow, student 'of \gnes Scott college. Decatur, Ga? is ;isiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. rhos. R McDow, in Yorkville. Miss Esther Cloud has been appolnt d to represent the Rock Hill Music Jlub at the meeting of the Federation >f Women's Clubs to be held in Coumbia, this month. Miss Emma Dowell who for several roars past lias Poon engaged in mis- i sion work for the Baptist church in lock Hill, has gone to Raleigh, N. C., vhorc she will make'her home in the uture. J. Howard MeMackin, deputy clerk if court for York county who was re ently offered a contract for a try-out is a pitcher witli the Spartanburg club if the South Atlantic league has decid;d not to go to Spartanburg. Mr. T>ixon Losslie of Rock Hill, was n Yorkville yesterday as the traveling cpresentative of the well known ltclublic truck factory, of which Ruther 3aber of Yorkville, is local service igent. Mrs. M. A. Dorsett is criteially ill at he home of Mr. S. A. Pierce, in Gasoniu, and is not expected to recover, drs. Dorsett, well known-as the pro- j irietor of the Dorsett hotel at Clover j ?ver a period of many years, is in the 1st year of her age. Her illness is in , he nature of a general breakdown. j Miss Mary Ratchford, better known "Granny" Ratchford and who has | elatives in York county, celebrated j ler 97th birthday at her home in the Jnion section of Gaston county last Phursday. A birthday dinner to which . number of her relatives and friends ...ou ?i.,an ria'ori snin- ! ,llC ??? ??.?.-> f,I.I .. -O . ter on the occasion of her birthday. Mr. P. W. Patrick, a pent for the Southern .Railway in Yorkville was ummoned to St. George, Dorchester ounty last week because of the death if his brother John A. Patrick who ' lied in Charleston Friday nipht of | tir.tol shot wounds inflicted five weeks po. The followinp from the Charles- j on American of Saturday tells of the ase: John A. Patrick, a well known itizen of St. Georpe and Dorchester ounty. succumbed last nipht at Baker anatorium to pistol shot wounds reeived about five weeks apo while on lis way home. He is about 40 years Id and is survived by his widow and everal children. '"The body will be hipped to St. Georpe this morninp by . Henry Stuhr. Mr. Patrick was rounded by Willie Carr, a young man 1 of St. George and who comes from a promiftent family of the town. Carr was arrested the morning after the shooting by a deputy sheriff. Carr, it is said, admitted the shooting. It seems ihat a boat belonging to Mr. Patrick was destroyed by fire and Canreports that he was accused of it and it is declared that he admitted the .charge hut did not like to be accused of it. Several other pieces of Patrick's property suffered fire damages and on Saturday night, February 25, while he was on his way home out on "Wire Grass" road he was assaulted. He was wounded in the abdomen and in the hand. He was brought to Charleston the morning: after the shooting. The following from the Greenville News of last Friday will be of interest here since Rev. Marion Stokes is a son of Rev. J, L. Stokes, D. D., deceased, who was one time pastor of Trinity Methodist church in Yorkville: After 14 years in the mission fields of Korea and seven years absence from the States, Rev. Marlon Stokes and family arrived in Greenville yesterday morning on a year's furlough. Remaining in this city with Dr. J. T. Carter, brother-in-law, until Moniay Rev. Stokes will visit in North Carolina and the lower section of the state among relatives, it was said. With Rev. and Mrs. Stokes are their four boys: Lemacks, aged 13, Carlisle, aged 11; Marion Boyd, Jr., aged 9, and Charles Davis, age 7, all having been born in Korea with the exception of the youngttfit, who claims American citizenship by birth. Though the family had intended reaching Green vine some montns later, tnetr. journey was hastened by the news that Mr. Stokes's father, Rev. J. L. Stokes, was ill. Taking the first boat sailing for America, they were caught in midocean when advice of Ms parent's death was received. Landing at Vancouver, they, started inland by way of Portland, Canada. It was at this station that a robber flashed a pistol on Mrs. Stokes and forced her into a dressing room in order that he might l ifie .the baggage which had been examined by the government revenue officers. In pushing the gun aside Mrs. Stokes let fall her purse which the robber seized, and succeeded in escaping with. After reaching Greenville yesterday, Canada officials telegraphed Mrs. Stokes to return to Portal and identify a suspect being held; but unless plans are chhnged it is not probable that she will attempt the trip, it was stated. LOCAL LACONICS Burts to Head Schools Again. Prof. R. C. Burts has been re-elected superintendent of the Rock Hill public schools. Mr. Burts has been superintendent of the schools in Rock Hill, for the last eight years. New Zion Farm Sold. John F. Smith of the New Zion section has sold his farm of 125 acres to C. A. Mullinax of Grover, N. C. The purchase price was $2,835 and the deal was made through the real estate agency of J. C. Wilborn. Monument in City Park. kock Mill's new uonretierate monument built through the efforts of the Rock Hill Chapter U. D. C. will be located in the new City Park near the Fennell Infirmary. The name of the park will be changed to Confederate Park. Rock Hill Man to Jail. Robert Helms, young white man of Rock'Hill, was committed to jail yesterday in default of $300 bond following a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Wingate of Catawba, oa a charge of obtaining goods undter false pretenses. Taken Back to Asylum. Berry Wray, white man living near Yorkville, who escaped from the state asylum several days ago and returned to his home was carried back to Columbia yesterday. Because of his mental condition it was deemed best to take him back to the state institution for the insane. Sentence for Adams. Andrew (Buck) Adams, young exsoldier of Rock Hill wrs convicted of housebreaking and larceny In the court of general sessions for Chester county last week and was sentenced by Judge Bowman to eighteen months on the chaingang for carbreaking up until a few months ago when he was paroled by the governor. | Turney in Trouble. C. M. Turney, who lives near Tirzah, was arrested in Rock Hill, last week charged with uttering worthless checks. It is understood that the magistrates of York and King's Mountain townships have a number of worthless checks alleged to have been issued by Turney. Jail is Full. There were twenty-nine prisoners in the York county jail yesterday afternoon. >Vith the exception of five who are serving jail sentences im posed upon mem in unneu ruaies court, the other twenty-four prisoners are awaiting trial at tho April term, of the court of general sessions. Thirty Days for Richard Moore. Richard Moore, Rock Hill negro was carried out to, the York county chaingang yesterday, to serve a sentence of thirty days on the public roads. Richard was convicted of theft before the recorder of Rock Hill and being unable to pay a fine of $10 was under the necessity of doing the days. Registration Board Busy. Messrs. J. D. (Iwin and 7<\ E. Clinton of York county registration board had quite a busy session of it yesterday at their office in the court house. Most of the citizens applying for registration certificates were people of Yorkville who desire to vote in the approaching municipal election. Most of the ccrti nc.ncs isKiiuu .vesiiTuaj wvrc renewals. Between Gastonia and Clover. The postoffice deparlment has established a star service from Gastonia by Pinkney rural station and Howling Green, S. C., to Clover, S. C., 12 mile's and hack, six times a week, one way only. The postmaster at Gajstonia is authorized to employ a temporary carrier at not exceeding $750 annually. The carrier will lie required to carry first and second class mail only. Sharon Roa'd Work. Itoad Overseer Gambrell and his road force engaged in building Proud River township roads are now working through the main section of the town of Sharon. The road workers arc engaged on tljo road between Woodlawn Presbyterian church and Sharon A. R. P. church. The road is being widened and put in iirst class condition trennr.nllv To Attend Oratorical Meet. Five York county high schools will bo represented at the annual contest of the Catawba Oratorical Association to be held in Chester Friday evening. On Saturday athletic contests among teams representative of the several schools that are members of the association will be held. The list of York county school speakers and their subjects at the contest Friday night are: I lock Hill?Crosby Steele?Lay Down Your Arms; Clover?Phillip Jackson, The Greatest Battle Ever Won; Fort Mill?Elmore Alexander, Decoration j Day Speech; WInthrop Training; : School, Bruce Fewell, Belshazzar s Feast; Yorkville, Grady McFarland, Defense of Annageddon. Numbers of pupils from each school Are expected to go to Chester for the contest. i "Nine-Mile Bridge" About Completed. Rock Hill Record; The new bridge to take the place of the condemned "Nine-Mile bridge" on the Rock HillChester road, is nearing completion and when finished will be one of the handsomest bridges in York county, if not in the stata It is entirely of reinforced concrete, of splendid lines and has an elevation sufficient to take out all the road grade at this point. It should last for centuries. Mrs. Huggins in County Homo. Being without friends and money I and unable to work, Mrs. Pink Huggins ! who is charged jointly with Albert Zimmerman with the slaying1 or ner husband last November, near his little store on the Charlotte road near Yorkville, has found shelter at the county home. Mrs. Huggins was released from jail several weeks ago on bond of $500 furnished by two citizens of Yorkville. No Pension for Fourteen. J. L?. Houston,, clerk of the pension board of York county, said yesterday that there were fourteen Confederate veterans in York county who have a net annual income of $1,000 or more a year and who therefore would not draw a pension this year. The recent general assembly amended the pension law so that any veteran having a net income of $1,000 or more would not receive a pension. Sharon Policeman Resigns. People of Sharon ore so orderly and law-abiding that there is no need for tliO services of a policeman there. ' Consequently J. P. Hope, who has been employed as polipcman there for several months past has tendered his resignation. At a mass meeting of Sharon citizens held last wftek it was suggested that the 'polic.eman should resign for the very simple reason that no jjolicema'n was needed. Hope's resignation followed. Sheriff's Sale. Two parcels of property were sold at auction by the sheriff before the court house door yesterday morning in the case of Thos. J-'. McDow, Administrator of the will of Corrie E. Mobley, deceased against G. H. Greene, defendant. One tract of 47 3-4 acres known as the Gordon tract was bought by Wilson & Wilson, Attorneys for $1,000 and the other known ns the Darby tract and containing 91 1-2 acres was bought by the sum$ att".*neys at $300, York County Federal Jurors. The following York county men have been chosen to serve ns grand and petit jurors at the April term of the Federal court for the western district of South Carolina to be held in Greenville beginning today: Petit jurors? J. M. Russell, Rock Hill; F. C. McCain, Yorkville; T. C. Dunlap, York No. 3; W. H. Hope, Rock Hill; J. B. Benfleld, York No. 3; Grand jurors? C. J. Henry. Rock Hill; R. H. G. Caldwell, Sharon: A. E. Willis, Rock Hill; J. A. Williford, Rock Hill; W. L. Hill, Sharon. Not Candidates. T. M. Ferguson of the Loan and Savings Bank has been talked as a possible candidate for county treasurer; but he has no idea of running, re gardless of the assurance of frineds that he could beat anything In the race. "Not me," said C. W. McGee, cashier of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, "no I thank you. I have a hard enough job as it is, if you please." Mr. McGee was oiice treasurer of Anderson county, and he gave up the place voluntarily just as Harry Neil is doing. Fort Mill Road. Representatives of the Fort Mill township road authorities were in Columbia on Thursday and after a conference with state highway department officials an agreement was reached to proceed with the construction of two and one-half miles of the Charlotte highway through Fort Mill. The section, it Is estimated, will cost about $75,000. It will be hard surfaced. Following the conference an engineer was directed to begin the surveys immediately and the actual construction work is expected to start * within a short time. York County Live Stock. B. B. Hare, of Shluda, agricultural statistician for South Carolina has issued statistics on the number and value of live stock in South Carolina by counties. He gives York county 5,500 head of cuttle valued at $75,900; 250 sheep valued at $750 and 18,800 hogs valued at $172,960. Horry county leads the state with 50,000 hogs valued at $460,000 and Colleton county leads the state with 16,000 head of cattle valued at $220,000. Chester county has 4,900'head of cattle, worth $67,620 and 13,000 hogs, worth $19,600. Lancaster county lias 3,400 cattle worth $46,920 and 12,000 hogs worth $110,400. Additional Federal Jurors. The following is a list of York county citizens who have been summoned to serve as jurors in Federal court in Greenville for the third week o"f the criminal division of the April term of court and also the jurymen who are I I Afr... 1 IV,,. Jhf? civil division: First week civil court? John A. Kelt, Fort Mill No. 3; T. F. Losslie, Lesslie; J. P. Allison, Hickorv Grove. Second week civil court? W. 11. McOill, York No. 1; N. M. McDill, Hickory Grove; \V. Tj. Pursley, Filbert. Third week criminal court? W. H. livers. Itock Hill; I. S. Kldd, Rock Hill; O. W. rotts. Fort Mill No. 3. Mule Sold at Auction. One little black mule was sold at auction before the court house door yesterday morning; by the sheriff under confiscatory, proceedings. The mule was bid in by Clair Harper of Tirzah for $35. The sale was the result of the seizure of a wagon and two mules by prohibition officers in Hethel township, March 13 while engaged in carrying .a quantity of corn beer or mash to a point near Oak Ridge school house to be madb into liquor. Claim and delivery proceedings were instituted for the other mule and the wagon and hence the sale of only one animal j although the entire outfit had been ad- ! I vertised for sale. The bidding on the [ mule started at $5 and it required a j considerable struggle for it to reach j $35. "That mule seems to have lost Ms ' reputation since he got in trouble on ! account of liquor," was the comment I of a spectator. To Improve Property. Members of the Associate Reformed I Presbyterian denomination especially j will be interested to learn that plans | have been perfected for beautifying j the assembly grounds of the church | Un.?ln,.cAnvlllo V (' n r,a Wnnun j ,.V??. ... v. p as Hon darken. Contracts have been let for repainting anew the hotel that stands on the property and for the placing- of modern plumbing in everyone of the sixty rooms of the hotel. Running water, both hot and cold will also be in every room. The hotel is | expected to be open about June 1,1 ready for the accommodation of I gruestd, permanent or transients, and for any conferences or assemblages lha.t may be held there. In addition to the sixty hotel rooms there are parlors and recreation rooms of various kinds and a large auditorium. The place is three miles from Hendersonville and one mile from Flat rook, in one of the most picturesque spots In the mountain country. Sixth Circuit Cases. The Clerk of the Supreme Court of South Carolina has issued the roster of eases to come before that body at the .spring term. The sixth circuit, which includes York county, will be called on Monday, .May 1, and three days will be given over to tho hearing of appeals from this circuit. The roster of cases follows: Rufl! et aL vs. Hudspeth; Duncan vs. Southern Railway company; Wilson, executrix vs. Southern Railway company; Percival et al vs. F&ires et al.; Percival et al vs. S. H, Faires; Hilton vs. N6w Jersey Insurance company; Curlee vs. Southern Railway company: Mcjfaster, Sr., vs. cv n n J ?* Aomnnnv \T n . rwx-i i v* a,y , f<?v Master, Jr., vs. Southern Railway company; Belton vs. Wateree Power company; Fairfield county vs. Richardson et al.; Fairfield county vs. Gadsden; Keistler company vS. Retner Insurance company; Wallace vp. Mobiey; First Trust und Savings Bank vs. Pruitt; First Trust and Savings Bank vs. Spratt; Foster vs. Roach; Sumter vs. Bankhcad. MERE MENTION Several children were slightly Injured. when fire destroyed a rpovlng picture theatre at Ocilla, Ga., last Thursday. George E. Dennlston, G4 and his wife were drowned at Daytona, Fla., last Thursday while bathing in the surf, "IJhrce prohibition / agents were exonerated at Soperton, Friday on me cnargc ot K|im>g ?" " Barwlck, a moonshiner with a criminal record Two automobile racers, Jules Deveroux of Portland, Oregon, and John J. Cosla of Anthony, Ark., were killed and W. Tj. Fisher; member of the British r lyal flying corps during the war was seriously injured at Macon. Cfa., Friday when an aeroplane in which they were planning to cross the continent crashed into a tall chimney at the railroad shops in that city. The roll of fatalities from the factional disorders in Belfast, Ireland reached a total of sixty-four for the month of March?the blackest month in the history of Belfast Jean Note, a noted Belgian baritone, died in Briissel3, Belgium on Saturday faK lowing an, operation...? Francis R. Arnold, father of Miss Dorothy Arnold, whose dlsappjearance on December 12, 1910, has hever been cjeared up, notwithstanding a world wide search died in New York, Saturday. He was 86 years old and for the pafit ten years had been an invalid shattered in health from the long strain and mental suffering due to his .ignorance of his daughter's fate Harry Smith, a catcher with the Charlotte club of the South Atlantic baseball leaguo died of pneumonia in a Charlotte hospital, Saturday Willie Hoppo, former champion billiard player o f the world has announced his retirement from the game ? Burglars and murderers are placed in the some class in a law passed by the Kentucky general assenbiy at Frankfort, Ky., in the closing of the-1922 .session, the penalty for breaking into a dwelling house at night being taOfjat liM imprisonment or death in the discretion of the Jury - A small bomb was thrown into a church at Green Bay, Wis., where William E. (Pussyfood) Johnson famous prohibition leader was speaking last week. It exploded without doing any harm The c^ty of Chicago has agreed to settle a damage claim of $100,000 filed by tho Illinois Central railroad for $88,060 In paymCiTU lor a iruip <JL uv* vara oileged to have been flred by strikers In the American Railway Union strike in 1894 ?..Thirty-three persons were shipped from Chicago to New York lest week for ^epoftation as undesirable aligns. All were persons who had been smuggled Into tfye country, came in on false passports or were suffering from Insanity Trousers as the national costume for Albanian women are to disappear within the next generation, Mohammedan mothers having dccree.d this after seeing the smart, comfortable and sensible dresses worn by the women members of the American Red .Cross, mission in Albania and observing the results of their work among the girls....; A nail imbedded in a man's spine for 21 yVars has been removed and the patient, Isaac Campbell of Calerlnia, Canada probably will recover, it was stated at a Toronto, Canada hospital where an operation was performed on him Saturday. It was found necessary to remove three vertebrae to get the nail The Georgia Cotton Growers Cooperative Association has obtained pledges for 210,OrtO bales of cotton in Georgia to be marketed by pooling arrangements. Georgia is the seventh state to complete its minimum quota of 200,000 bales and will bo federated v/lth the other states into the Americnjn Cotton" Growers' exchange Charles R. Forbes, director of the Veterans' Bureau has summoned the heads of the Boston office of the bureau to Washington to answer charges of inefficient administration that have been lodged against them there ...A. M. Weir, widely known throughout the south for his newspaper articles under the Don name of "Sarge" Plunkett, died at his home near Decatur, Ga., last Saturday The New Orleans Association of Commerce has completed arrangements to tender to the home mission hoard of the Southern Baptist convention a cite for the $2,000,000 hospital the* hoard proposes to build in New Orleans ?In a prep school baseball game at Asheville, N. O., Saturday, Bobby Burns, pitching for Bingham Military academy, struck out 24 of the 27 men facing him and allowed only one hit ~:.W. M.*Fenton, vice president of the National Bank of the Republic, Chicago, committed suicide Friday by Jumping into the Chicago river at the lunch hour. Ho was 71 years of age. There is no trouble with the bank, it Is said. The senate finance committee has agreed to continue the embargo on dyestuffs for a year It was charged in the senate Friday that the Anti-Saloon league is behind the bill to create 19 more Federal judgeships.? There was a slight fall of so w at Athens, Ga., last Friday .The Geological Survey estimates that the stocks of mined coal on the market are sufficient to last 51 days Seven hundred met* belonging to two French columns. have been killed or wounded In a surprise attack by tribesmen In the Mnulouya valley of French Morocco, according to a dispatch to the London Times from Huelva, Spain, dated last Thursday, quoting private advices received from the El Araish, Morocco, wireless station. ? George Batson has been recommended by Senator Bonham for appointment as city magistrate of Greenville to succeed his father, Eugene Batson who died last week. Young IJotonrt le n votnrnn nf WnVlrl ivnr and a winner of the distinguished service cross.