Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 07, 1922, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 19*32. . INTO. 28
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs ol lore or
Less Interest.
PICKED CP BT ESQUIHEK E?POSTERS
8tories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
8om? You Don't Know?Cslndensed
For Quick Reading.
"If I could Just call back ten years,"
. said J. R. Haile, of Fort Mill, the other
day, "I might get in that race for
treasurer myself." Mr. Haile has been
Deiore mc vuwni vi iuo wouuvj ??.
ber of times, and generally he has been
elected. He is now magistrate for Fort
Mill township. He continues to take a
lively Interest in affairs political. He
has no idea of entering the race for 1
treasurer, however.
Just Didn't Think.
Heard a man who knows what he is
talking about the other day say:
"I have seen that fellow go to that
service station at least four times to
get free air and free water for his car, ,
and I know to my certain knowledge ,
that he has never bought a gallon of |
gas there. Wonder what any of the j
service stations furnish free water and
air for? Seems to me that If I was (
in the business I would make 'em pay, ]
especially if they did not have appreciation
enough to buy their gas ,
from me." ,
, Will Take no Medicine.
"Sale of olive oil has increased con- i
siderably since the sect known as ]
'Holy Rollers' has begun to spring up i
in this section," said a drug clerk of ]
a# V*r? swviirit^r trKn ,
iUC wroiciu OCV.IIVU VI vuv cvuuv J fTiiv 1
was talking about the Rollers the
other morning. "It is said that the
members of the sect believe that it is
wrong to take medicine when they are
sick and they do not believe In doctors.
Their idea is that prayer and rubbing
with oil will cure all ills. We sell various
members lots of olive oil, which
is the kind of oil preferred by them in
ministering to the sick/'
Going rn For Cattle and Hogs.
"If the boll weevil gets the cotton
crop over this way and lots of us believe
it will, although we are going to
plant cotton just the same, a good
many farmers are going^to turn theit
activities toward cattle and bogs in the
future," remarked a Hickory Grove
farmer, tvho was discussing the situation
the other morning. "That's what
I am going to do and I know of others
who are'thinking the same way. But
maybe the price of hogs and cattle
would hit rock bottom about the time
we got started. You never can tell in
this farming game."
Will Ask tho Supremo Court.
The code Commission is in somewhat
of a quandary because of a recent act
of the legislature that is calculated to
mnki> nnnfiminn if rarriixi nut? hut
which the commission is not disposed '
to try to carry out, until it can get the
advice of the supreme court.
Col. W. W. Lewis, of the code commission
was talking about it Wednesday.
It is like this, as Views and Interviews
understood Col. Lewis.
"The constitution provides for the
codification of the laws every ten
years, and provides that the laws of
not more than ten years shall bo included
in a single code.
"The commission had completed its
work up to January 1912, the period
contemplated for in due season/ and its
report was duly adopted by the general
assembly.
"At the last session of the general
assembly, however, there was passed
an act providing that acts passed at
that session amendatory to acts already
in the code be codified along
with the others, bringing the code up
to date.
"We do not see how we can do this,
without causing confusion. If we
should make revision of acts that have
oeen amended by specific reference to I
the sections stricken out or changed, i
as seems to have been intended, then f
we would leave a great many acts to
be taken care of in the next codiflca- i
tion?some of this year's acts in the
present code and some in the next. I
"The unconstitutionality of this act >
was pointed out tb judiciary com- I
mitttees of both the house and senate,
and the updei standing was that the
bill was killed: but it appears to have
passed somehow and there you are.
"The commission sees no other way
for it than to. get a ruling from the
supreme court."
Joke on the Jokestera.
"Quite an amusing incident occurred
in Hickory Grove last Saturday (April
Fool's Day) but as it turned out the
Joke was on the jokesters," said a.young
cltlren of Hickory Grove who
was telling Views and Interviews about
it over at that town the other day.
"Some young folks of the town persuaded
the telegraph agent here to
compose a fake telegram to a popular
young lady advising her that her best
beau would come in on the evening
train to see her. The telegram was
f
sent and the young lady for the time
being believed it genuine and made
preparations to receive the swain. A
number of young people of the town
made it up to be at the station when
the evening train came in to view the
disappointment of the young lady, who
would also be on hand to meet the
yourtg man who would fail to get off.
But before train time the telegraph
agent advised tho young lady that the
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telegram was a fake and suggested
that the joko be turned on her friends.
Communication was had with a young
man living1 between Hickory Grove and
Blacksburg, who was urged to come
down on the train and greet the young
woman. She was described to him fully
and it was all fixed. Just before
train time the young woman who had
received the fake telegram was at the
station, as were also a number of other
young people, snickering up their
sleeves. Well, the train came. A nice
looking young man got off and recognizing
the young lady from the description,
greeted her as though he
were really an old friend. The chagrin
and amazement of the Jokesters was
great. Their faces turned red; they
wore a surprised expression and really
they didn't know what to do about it.
Finally one of them suggested, 'We'd
better be going,' and back to town they
went. They didn't realize until next
day that the joke was on them.'*
KLAN ATTACKED
Texas Senator Defies Organization and
Demands Its Destruction.
The progress of the Ku Klux Klan
should be promptly arrested and the
organization destroyed, according to
Senator Culberson (Dem., Tex.), who
B a candidate for re-election, says a
Washington special. This is (he first
Jme a prominent aspirant for office
tias emphatically and openly defied the
Klan, which is especially strong and
rigorous in Texas. It indicates a new
attitude on the part of public men.
Some members of the Texas delegation
in eontrress and others prominent
ly Identified with the politics of that
state, tonight Bpoke of the courageous
position assumed by Senator Culberson.
They applauded his sentiments
tnd declared that it required unusual
jourage to express his opinion openly
ind frankly.
The views of the senator were outined
in a letter to Major H. V. Fish5r
of Houston, Tex. It follows:
"Your recent letter asking my politlon
with reference to the order
tnown as the Ku Klux Klan, which is
tow in operation in our state, was
luly received, and I answer at the
sarlicst opportunity.
Threatens Civilization.
"I have not affiliation directly or indirectly
with this organization and I
im unqualifiedly opposed to its operitions.
If not curbed, it will usurp
:he" functions Of the state and be destructive
of government itself; it will
hdeed overthrow our Anglo-8axon
civilization in its relation to govern
ment.
"Steps should be taken, therefore,
ind at once to arrest its progress and
Inally to destroy it. Appeal cannot
Pe made to the Federal government
for this purpose, for it is without Jurisdiction
unless application is made by
rexas to the United States in the manlifer
provided by the constitution for
protection against domestic violence,
ind this is unthinkable.
"Fortunately, however, the power of
the state is ample, and if no law now
fxists adequate to the occasion the
legislature may be called in extra seedon
to supply this deficiency."
Work Opposes Ryan Bill.
Postmaster General Hubert Work
Iocs not think the Post Office Department
should be required to keep the
names of members of the Ku Klux
Klan or other organizations as proposed
in the Ryan bill.
In a letter to Chairman Stcinerson
pf the House Post Office and Post
Etoads committee he said:
"It is found by reference to almanacs
and year books that the membership
of the vast number of social,
fraternal and benevolent as well as
political organizations includes many
millions of persons. Manifestly, therefore,
the preparation and maintenance
of a list of all members of such organizations
would impose a tremenious
burden and great expense upon
:he Post Office Department and the
Postal Service, in fact far greater in
my judgment than would justify the
xccomplishment of such purposes as
the proposed legislation may be designed
to fulfill.
"T therefore rernmmerul that the .id.
ministration of the proposed law, if
enacted, be not placed in tho Tost Office
Department."
BUSINESS PICKING UP
50 Per Cent Increase In Employment
Reported by Eastern Cities.
An increase of more than 50 per
cent, in employment is shown by a
survey of seventy-one cities from New
Hampshire to Georgia, made by the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
Not only are the number of opportunities
for employment increasing, but
business in general is optimistic as to
the future, the report stated.
In response to the questionnaire sent
out by the chamber, thirty-seven cities
reported an increase in employment
over July 1921. A decrease was shown
in only thirteen cities, all of them in
Pennsylvania. Thirty-three showed
neither decrease nor increase.
Among those showing the greatest
improvement in employment were
New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford,
Conn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Heading, Pa.;
New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Utica
and Uingrhamton, X. Y.
? After close observation we conclude
that the minimum on which a
family of five can live is the sum the
provider happens to earn.
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' MUNICIPAL FINANCE
Story of Town Hall That Ate up the
I Town.
IMPORTANT LESSON IN INTEREST
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Experience of Wallingford, Connecticut
is Being Duplicated in Hundreds
of Other Amer'can Town*.
Chaa. Albert Collman m Dearborn Independent.
It was a raw and blustery day. As
we stepped out upon the sidewalk, we
could hear the wind soughing through
the branches of the great double row
of elms and maples that lined Main
street. The selectman, having the subject
on his mind, stopped for a moment
to look back at the old town hall.
The town hall was a very old building,
and a stranger might have been
pardoned for remarking that it showed
its age. Its style was that of bygone
days. In fact, it stood back from the
corner, apart from the busier
thoroughfares, - as if it were half In
hiding, and ashamed of the part it had
played. It was a three-story structure
of red brick, with a mansard, and a
tower with a black-faced clock that
overlooked the town. In its doorway,
the town signpost was plastered with
probate court notices. In the basement
was a barber's shop. From an
upper window of the tower protruded
a-transparency t>f the Owenoco Tribe,
No. 44, L O. R M.
The building housed the offices of the
selectmen, the town clerk, the judge of
probate and the court of burgesses.
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"Wow is youf town financially? T
ftow muchtof your taxes goes for
thirty or fifty years ago? 8omebody ir
Back in 1891 the town or city c<
year bonds at four per cent. Posterity
Well, here is posterity?now. We
1891 has amounted to ene and one-fiftl
is, the "improvement" (which probably
the books) cost two and a half times
more, it tne doot nas Deen '"tunaea.
Posterity is carrying a load that i
was a good old horse, but he's breakini
The story which follows is the s
part of the country where all the final
what happened to that town.
Look up your own town's affair
taxes it paying for "dead horses." Fi
about y9ur community's neck. Find oul
town and its surrounding country trie
banks into big bank*, and then into bi
money?which are provided by the inter
ties, and used in the wildcat financieri
When the small towns of America
to run dry.
When the small town wakes up, t
be lifted. The whole deceitful gold fallr
And the^manipulators of the peot
For purposes of thrift, the upper floor
of the tower had been let to the
Cheyenne Council, D. of P.; the Red
Men's Club and the Owenoco Tribe.
The auditorium on the second floor was
used for social gatherings. The wings
on the stage were in a state of bad
dilapidation. So in a way were the
adjoining rooms, the offices of the
town officials and the much used stairway.
Floors, ceilings and walls plainly
showed the wear and tear of two
generations.
In fact, the question of repairs had
been the subject of conversation.
"I know it ain't a credit to the town,"
observed the selectman.
"Then why don't we put up a new
building?*
He shook his head.
"Well, I don't know why they named
the get-rich-quick man after this
place, but our town's too poor to afford
a new town hall."
The speaker's eye roamed across to
Main street for a moment. Rather inadvertently
he said:
"Our bank over there's just got out
plans for a fine new building. Well, I
reckon the town of Wallingford's paid
for It."
This remark was an epitome of the
town's history.
Wallingford, Connecticut, is about as
American a community as one may
find. It was settled by Puritains in
1670, and many of their lineal descendants
live thero today. Its stately
elms and maples shade some of the
few remaining streets in New England
which represent the Colonial grandeur
of the residential avenues of its forefathers.
From the windows of nearly
every house one can gain attractive
views of the Blue and Hanging Hills.
The town played its part in the history
of the Revolution and the Civil War.
Then when the period of reconstruction
came, the future looked bright for
Wallingford. One of its citizens had
learned the secret process for the
manufacture of German silver, the
town was to become the father of the
silver trade in the United States, and
the future home for the manufacture
of w'hitc metal and electroplated wares.
It was known as the richest agricultural
community in Connecticut, and
during the fruit seasons, Wallingford
peaches were the contested prizes in
the markets of Boston and New York.
The process of development of New
England towns was radically different
from that of towns in the west and
middle west. Perhaps early stirring of
civic consciousness, becauso its settlements
were so much older. At any
rate, this small Connecticut community
took a great stride forward when it
abandoned its old frame edifice and
built itself a fine brick town hall, with
a tower and clock.
Wallingford built it in 1869, at a
cost of $45,000, borrowing $40,000 tb
pay for it.
Today, a half century later, that debt
remains practically unchanged.
For purposes of illustration, the hu
miii jiiutKUKiiitHi, it i uit* rciunen tu
go back more than fin yonrs. In 1872,
-tfl zw '
Wallingford had a population of 3,500.
Today its residents number between
12,500 and 13,000.
This is not a story intended to deal
with predatory finance or political mismanagement.
Undoubtedly, the municipality
of Wallingford has always
been honestly managed, and. as concerns
its two banking institutions. But
had Wallingford, In its early days, established
a sinking fund and paid off
its $40,000 debt. It would have tremendously
altered its coming history.
All would have been well had it adopted
the business man's policy of paying
its way. Instead of that. It decided, to
live on borrowed money. In this it
merely followed a fallacious principle,
born of custom and tradition. But, as
will bo shown, in adhering to this
principle, the town retarded it?
growtn, crippiea us imure, ana piacea
a burden upon its townsfolk which has*
handicapped them for half a century.
On September 30, 1872, the report of
the selectmen and the treasurer of the
town of Walllngford showed Its financial
condition to be as follows:
Town bonds outstanding: $40,000
Notes outstanding ?,. ;? 30,718
Interest paid on town bonds
and loans *. % 3,461
Total indebtedness ? .... 75,894
Total assets 11.980
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Balance against the town....$58,914 ,
Year after year, Wallingford consistently
pursued the same principle.
Whenever it paid a debt, it contracted
a larger one. Instead of slightly increasing
its assessments, it merely borrowed
more notes. The balance against
the town in 1875 was $45,794; in 1876,
the adverse balance was $43,783; in
he chances are that you don't know.
interest on debts contracted twenty or
i voiip town knows.
>uncil sai "Let ua sell bonds?thirtyought
to help pay for thial"
are posterity. The interest alone since
i times the original expenditure. That
you cannot find except as a record on
what it was said to cost?and maybe
t cannot carry much farther. Posterity
j down.
tory of an American town located in a
icial brains are supposed to be. Read
s. Find how much of every dollar In
ind out what constitutes the millstone
: through what leaks the wealth of your
kles into little banks, and from little
ig speculative pools-^he vast pools of
*est and the savings of small communing
of New York.
begin to shut down, New York is going
:he usurious interest burden is going to
soy is going to be exploed.
pie's money are 9*0*9 to work.
1877, $44,554.
The situation regarding the adverse
balance became so embarrassing in
1880, that the selectmen took counsel.
The first selectman was a man of imagination.
He conceived a stroke of financial
genius that-was worthy of Wall
Street. In fact, it was an adoption of
Wail Street's financial methods.
"Look here," reasoned the first
selectman. "Didn't we borrow $40,000
to build the town hall? Well, then,
why not put dow .he town hall as an
asset?"
The suggestion met with instant ap
proval. The report of the selectmen rx"
September 30, 1880, was made out as
follows:
Town bonds outstanding
?... $39,800
Notes outstanding 22,972
Interest paid on town
bonds and loans $3,850
Total indebtedness ........ $63,971
Assets:
Town Hall, including
lot and furniture .... 36,000
Total assets 53,051
Balance against the town $10,920
So, at one stroke, an actual balance
against the town of $46,920 was re-!
duced, on a paper showing, to $10,920,
and the selectmen felt proud of their
achievement. From that day until the
present time, the town hall has been
carried as an asset.
Unfortunately, the better appearance I
of the annual report failed to reduce j
the growing debt of Wallingford. In
spite of the increased paper assets, the
selectmen had to keep on borrowing
money, as the following figures indcate:'
Sums borrowed on notes:
187 9 $21,171 1881 $23,557
188 0 22,972 1882 27.606
1883 $26,140
Again something had to be done. The
banks began to object to loaning larger
sums on short term' notes. Besides,
most of the old town bonds were falling
due. But at every town hall meeting,
the taxpayers vigorously protest- j
ed against having the valuations on
their properties raised. The selectmen,
in 1883, faced with the necessity
of meeting a debt of $61,000, tried to
raise themselves by their bootstraps.
They decided to pay the maturing
bonds with another issue, and to fund
the short-term debt into an additional
issue of fixed inteiest-bearing bonds.
They made another loan of town bonds
in the amount of $35,000, and a second
loan of $25,000.
Wallingford now had a bonded debt
of $04,000 although its real assets had
in nowise been increased.
From 1872 to 1883, inclusive, Wallingford
had paid out $38,283 in interest
on its loans, which was almost enough
to have paid off the original loan made
for building the town hall.
Wallingford had not paid off one
dollar of its old debts, and it still kept
on borrowing. In 1894, it raised $25,000
on notes; in 1895, $32,000; in 1896,
$33,360. And the balance against the
(Continued on Tage Six.)
CLOVER NEWS BUDGET
Peanut Growers Ready to Plant 130
Bushels of Peanuts.
SERVICES HELD IN NEW CHURCH
Clover High Wins Firsi Game of Season?Farmers
to Use Much Less
Fertilizer?Other News and Notes
of Northern York County.
(By a Staff Correspondent).
Clover, April 6?V. Q. Hambright,
secretary and treasurer of the Clover
Peanut Growers Association has ordered
150 bushels of peanuts which
members of the association will plant
this year. The peanuts ordered for
seed aro the White Spanish variety
end are expected to be received here
within the next few days. The association
has about twenty-five members
all of whom are anxious to give
peanuts a try-out and Secretary
Hambright said that Inquiries are being
received daily as to whether or
not the peaffuts had been received.
The secretary said that all members
of the association would be notified
as soon as the peanuts arrive in order
that as little delay as possible will
be had In getting them in the ground.
According to Mr. Hambright, more
farmers than usual will devote some
acreage to the cultivation of sweet
potatoes this year. Farmers of the
Clover section have been in the habit
for a number of years of paying a
great deal of attention to potatoes;
hut (ho inrtfrntlnna ara thAt thev are
going1 in for potatoes on a muQh larger
scale this year than formerly.
' To Use Less Fertilizer.
It is estimated here that farmers of
the surrounding country have bought
at least 40 per cent, less fertilizer this
year than they did last and last year's
supply was reduced about 40 per cent,
as compared with the former year.
The great majority of those farmers
who have bought fertilizer this year
have paid cash for It, the practice of
selling it on "time" having almost disappeared
here.
Cotton Sales Brisk.
Much cotton has been sold on tho
Clover market during the two weeks
prior to this week. In fact until about
Monday the local buyers had been
kept -pretty busy. Most of the cotton
sold was in the hands of farmers of
the community who had it stored on
their farms and tho sales included
very little taken from the Clover
Warehouse which is still packed to
about its capacity.
Clover Mill Closes.
The Clover Mill shut down WednesH.iv
nfternnon anil will remain closed
until Monday morning, It Is stated.
There i3 a probability that the mill
will be run on half-time schedule for
some time to come. The Hawthorn
Mill on the southern end of town continues
to run full day time while a
portion of the machinery is also being
operated at night. This mill, it
was learned Wednesday, has plenty
of orders to keep it going and at the
present time there is no indication
that it will be necessary to curtail
production?certainly not in the near
future.
Clover High Wins.
Winthrop Training school baseball
team was powerless before the curves
of Johnny Walker, high school pitcher
extraordinary in a game here Tuesday
afternoon and Clover found it an easy
matter to take the visitors in tow to
the the tuno of 16 to 0. In fact, only
thirty-one batters faced young John
during the one-sided exhibition, and of
this number twenty-one took three
swats each at the air. Winthrop
was credited with one scratch hit.
On the other hand the Clover players
slammed the pill at will, batting
honors of the day going to Hogue
and Maxwell who were credited with
honie runs. Clover High goes to
Great Falls Saturday for a game with
a team representing that town.
Coaches Rudisill and Cockran of the
high school team took the lads to Gastonia
Wednesday afternoon to see an
exhibition game played between the
Buffalo team o> tho International
league and the Charlotte club of the
South Atlantic league. The game
which was described as a regular
laree was won Dy ine wow xorKors?
5 to 1.
Services in New Church.
First preaching services in the new
First Presbyterian, church building on
King's Mountain street were held
last Sunday, the services being held
in the Sunday School rooms in the
basement of the building which part
has been completed. Special musical
services were held by the Sunday
school in commemoration of the
event. The Sunday school orchestra
is composed of Messrs. Will Rudisill
I and J. A. Page, clarinets; V. Q. Hambright,
cornet; W. P. Smith, saxophone;
Miss Louise Smith, organist;
J. Meech Smith, director. Both Sunday
school and preaching services
were attended by a large number of
members and visitors. While the new
church building lacks a great deal of
completion, it is so far completed as
to allow the holding of services in the
future.
New Filling Station.
Good progress is being made on the
building of a large gasoline filling
station on North Main street which
is being erected by M. L. Ford and
f^ons. The filling station Is being
ft).'- " ? * lv_- J- 1^ y *-J- _w'.y.-* i
built just off the main road between
Clover and Castonia and should prove
a convenience to many passing' cars.
It will be ready for use within a few
days it is said.
Hawthorn Baseball Team.
The baseball fever is beginning to
'rise at the Hawthorn mfll and in fact
all over town. The Hawthorn baseball
park built last summer by the
mill management and which by the
way is ono of the best fields in the
two Carollnas, has recently been put
In good shape. Uniforms for the
players have been ordered, practices
i are being held and the teai will soon
be in shape for a game evjry Saturday.
Lacey Parish, Will Rudlsill,
I n? .1 nd? Toolrann Wrvrx* I
yuuug Illlll X age, nuu/ ......
Cook and other good players, who
were here last year will be on the Job
again this year and the understanding
Is that there is quite a lot of new
material at the Hawthorn and in other
sections of town that is quite promising.
Overtures were made to Hawthorn
recently to enter a textile baseball
league; but the team management
declined to enter. However
there will be no trouble in getting all
j the games the locals can take on.
j Andy Jackson and Lacy Parish are to
pilot the team thi3 year.
New Star Route.
Clover people are much gratified
over the new star mail route soon to
be inaugurated between Clover end
Gastonia which has been gTeatly
needed for a long time. Under the
new arrangement mail facilities here
will be greatly improved and in fact
will give Clover all the mail service
that she needs.
Magistrate on the Job,
R. E. Love, recently appointed magistrate
of King's Mountain township
to succeed the late A* J. Qulnn has
taken hold like a veteran and is administering
the duties of bis office
like an experienced official according
to Clover people. Several cases have
already come before Magistrate Love
and he has handled them in a most
satisfactory way.
Clover Swimming Pool.
Clover's swimming pool built last
summer through subscriptions donated
by public spirited citizens of
the community will be opened within
a short while, it was stated yesterday.
Some improvements are to be made at
the pool this year. It is proposed to
build a wooden rail around it and
very likely a refreshment stand will
bd opened' tbfere. Ttfe Wtrtutftug1 pdol
was a source of much pleasure and
amusement to grown ups as well as
youngsters last year and it is believed
that it will prove more popular this
year than last
Hawthorn Community Houso.
Fouhdation for the community
house to be built by the Hawthorn
mill nas oeen aug oui ana praciicaji;
all of the material for use in building
the structure has been laid on the
grounds beside the baseball park.
The community house will be completed
some time during the summer.
Still Vary III.
Reports from the bedside of Mrs.
M. A. Dorsett who has been quite ill
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Sam Pierce in Gastonia for some time
past are to the effect that there is little
change in her condition and she is
not expected, to live.
A Soldier's Farewell.?The following
letter written by a young British
officer, "to be delivered to his father
in the event of his death," was sent
recently to the Times by one of its
readers:
TO MY FATHER.
"This is a flnaJ message for yon to
read when I am dead. There will be
so little else?just the brief official
notification 'The Secretary of State
for War regrets maybe a belated
letter or two, speaking only of
the small happenings of the day;
perhaps a tale of a brother officer as
to how I fell; beyond that, nothing.
And, therefore, now beforehand I say
farewell.
"There is no need of many words.
But I want first' to thank you as
your son. You have been to me the
best father a fellow could wish. I
want to thank you for the gift of a
clean and strong and vigorous and
healthy body, straight limbs, and
thews that could} serve England at her
need. For the gift of a powerful intellect
and a discerning mind?thank
you. For tho long years of self-denial
that made my education possible; for
11 * J tkn t b o nl 1
lllK guidance iuiu icatmii^ mut nvfi. |
mo straight in the days of youth; for j
the counsel and help ever freely proffered
when I asked; for all noble
things In your example?again and
most earnestly, thank you.
"Secondly, as to my death. Inasmuch
as we be men together, there Is
little need for words. It is in a good
cause that I lay down my life. All tjie
things that I hold dear in life I willingly
give up since it is t-equired of
me. I am proud and glad to be one
of those whom England takes, one of
those who in their bodies pay the
price of her honor. And though in
your heart there will be sorrow, you
will also be proud, and you will not
grieve over much.
"All good things be unto you. May
the coming years bring wider fleids of
service, honor and honorable work,
strenokh and wisdom to perform it, and
in the end peace and.contentment, and
quiet rest. Your son, a soldier of England,
salutes you! Farewell!"?New
York Times.
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FORT MILL MATTERS
Much Local Interest Idithre to AM
Shooting of M. L Cohen.
HAT BRING A CRIMINAL, ACTWf
Money for Township Road Bonds Net
Yet Received?Bradford Undecided
About Being Candidate for Re-eJec'-;
tion?Memorial Fund Hes Reached
About 12,900.
By a Stall Correspondent.
Fort Mill, April It is reported
here that M. A. Cohen, merchant of
Fort Mill and Gaatonia, will swear out
warrants against Sheriff F. E. Qulcn,
uonsiaoie n. xj. at/nnm>u, <- vmw.i?y
V. D. fotts, Constable J. M. Pattertbn"
and Magistrate F. C. Black, charging
them with' assault and battery with in*
tent to kill. Coben was shot in the leg
on Sunday night, March 26 while op
his way from Gastonia to Fort Mill, by
one of the officers who were engaged
in looking for liquor runners. The oif
fleers allege that they shot at Cohen
only after he shot into Sheriff Qulnn'S
car while Cohen, it is said, declares
that he did not have a pistol. Cohen'
is still in the Fennell Infirmary in
Rock Hill, undergoing treatment tor
his wound and it is said that .he will
probably carry a stiff leg for the remainder
of his life. There are a number
of versions of the case being teid
around Fort Mill and there are those
here who think that Cohen got what
was coming to him for refusing to
halt when he waa ordered to do so by
the officers. There are others who argue
that the officers had no right to
stop the man. It was reported Tuesday
that Cohen has engaged M. L.
Smith, Esq., as his counsel and that he
has also approached ex-Governor
Blease relative to the case. What the
outcome of It all will be, however, re-,
pains to be seen. Cohen, whose former
home waa at Eutawvllle in Orangeburg
county, has been a resident of
Fort Mill about nine months, coming
here from Charlotte. He. operates a
store here and at Gastonla.'.
Bradford Undecided.
Hon. W. R Bradford, editor and
publisher of the Fort Mill Times and
for several years past a representative
in the legislature from York county
said Tuesday that he had. not definitely
decided, whether or not )*e will be a
candidate to succeed himself. Mr.
wrwigrty <*
house ways &rffTmefcfil> ?WHJWttee.
Memorial to Soldier*.
The subscription fund to the proposed
memorial for deceased soldiers of
Fort Mill and vlcifiity who died, in
the late World Whr now totals about
$2,500, it was stdfed, today. ; It is
hoped to raise about $5,000 for the
purpose and those who have the matter
in charge feel confident that they .
will be able to ralsd among Fort Mill *
citizens all that is desired. .The money
subscribed so far is the gift entirely-of
citizens of Fort Mill and vicinity. Ten
tative plans for the memorial would
have it to be a large marble or granite
shaft which would be placed in Confederate
Park on Main street near the
Confederate monument t
Bond Money Net Rsesived.
Although the Fort Mill township
bond issue of $75,000 was sold some
time ago to a Toledo, Ohio concern,
the proceeds from the sale of the bonds
have not yet come into the hands of
the township road commission. It Is
said that an attorney for the purchaser
has found a slight flaw in the form of
the bonds and until this matter is
cleared up the money will not be re?
1 J I# 4a hntwuH fknf tho
tXlVCU. nuncru, *v ? ? _
matter will soon be cleared up because/*
people of the town and township are
anxious to proceed With the road lm-?*
provement programme of the commu^
nity. j?Mills
Running Smoothly. M
Both of the cotton mills of Port Mjlt
are running on full time and one of
the manufactories Is running a part'of
Its plant on night work as well. Tfef
.j ?m. I? .n|/l in. lyi
management ui mrm muio id ?<?? w rexperiencing
little or no trouble In
selling its product ' >
Bad Piece of Road. <r.
One of the roughest pieces of publiO
highway to be found In York county
is the stretch between the Catawba,
river (Cherry) bridge and the corporate
limits of Fort Mill. Automobiles
must observe the "not over ' 3
fifteen' miles an hour" ordinance lest
they break a spring or an axle and.
even at that rate of speed passengers
must necessarily experience one hardjostle
and bump after another. How*
ever this road will be placed in first
class shape before many more weeks
have passed, since practically all arrangements
for its rebuilding b^ve
been completed.
Candidates Greet Voters.
Several of those candidates who
have already announced fpr county oN
flee have been over and among' th?
the voters of Fort Mill and after csjiV
vassing the town have gone out into
the country hereabouts. Fort Mill
citizens however as a whole are giripc
mighty little attention to politic^ so
soon in the game, since the most of
them have many other things more
important to look after Just now.
? The "nameless pathos" In the airof
spring isn't nameless now. It'a a
yearning for new tires.
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? Two many patriots claim to be
supporters of the government when
they are merely holding It up.