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GARNERED WITH SCISSORS ?:? News From Within . end Without the County. ) < i ? CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING 1 * ' i m? Sain* Items of Fact, 8ome of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Ooinn. Fort Mil! Tims*, April 6: Speaker J. B. Atkinson of the state hqnse of representatives has reappointed W. R. Bradford of the .York county legislative delegation a member of the joint committee on printing. Mr. Bradford ; has been a member of the printing ( committee since .shortly after the act . creating the committee, of which he was the author, was passed In 1916. The other members of the printing committee are Senator Christensen of Beaufort, Senator Pearce of Richland , and Representative Hughes of Marion. ( 1.State Senator S. B.-Bailes of Lan- ( caster county Monday informed The | "fames that he would not be candidate for reelection in the campaign next , summer. His term expires this year , and if he wished to sit in the senate , any longer it would be necessary for < him to seek reelection.- In making ] the announcement that he would not again ask for the office, Senator Rail- < es stated that the duties of the office ( were pleasant and that he enjoyed as- ( ,sbc?ation with the public men of the i state,' but that the legislature met at e a time he could ill afford to be away | from home. It Is understood lri Fort | Mfll that Representative Robinso i t and former Representative Htnes win i be candidates for the Lancaster sen- i atorship this year.... Henry McGutrt < Is now a police officer for the town i who will be on duty Saturday after- j noons and Sundays-.-'......Many of the i sidewalks of Fort Mill have recently | been gTeatly improved by a liberal l application of ground rock secured < from a quarry near Columbia Joe 1 F. Lee was able to return to his hbme J in Fort Mill Saturday, after being a- 1 patient for several days at a Rock Hill ] hospital where he underwent an oper- i atlon So far as The Times yes- t terday was able to learn, Capt. S. W. 1 Parks will be the only citizen of the 1 community to go to Rock Hill Satur- r day to take the civil service examln- \ atlon for postmaster of Fort" Mill. 1 Capt. Parks has beep acting postmas-- a ter for several months and if the J wishes of the patrons of the office ? were consulted in tilling the vacancy i he would perhaps be given the per- ? manent appointment without a dis- i aenting voice Miss Edna Tindal, 1 teacher in the high school ^department. J Fort Mill graded school, left yesterday t fof^her home lit" Beaufort*, after returning to Fort Mill .Tuesday from Rock Hill, where she had been a patient at a hospital for several days. Frank Ashec of McConnellsville was a visitor In Fort Mill for a short time Tuesday afternoonl Mr. Ashe is one of the county's well known citizens, who has the distinction of being the only surviving member of York's delegates to the constitutional convention of 1895 _.Fourth corps area headquarters, Fort McPherson, Ga., has just announced that full federal recognition had been extended Willje H. NHns, first lieutenant, National Guard of South Caro'?na, in command of headquarters company 3d battalion 118th regiment .'. Members of the ;Culp family of Fort Mill have received a newspaper clipping stating that their relative William Cullen Bryant ,Culp of New York city has entered intp his 41st year at Columbia college. New York. He has taken nearly all of the courses offered by the institution and his only concern is that in the course of a few years there will ."be nothing left for him to take and .he will have to leave college. A number of degrees have been awarded to "him and the other students have dubbed him the degree of "Doctor of Perpetual Motion" because he keeps on coming year after year. The why of it is that when he started at college a rich uncle agreed that he should re- I ceive an annuity as long as he went to school and William has been going to school ever since and drawing the annuity. Lancaster News, April 7: R. F. Wajde, manager of the Palmetto Music company, Lancaster's newest business venture, was notified Wednesday that he had been elected president of the Southern Society of Music at a meeting of its officers held in New Orleans this week. Mr. Wade is a musician of ability and his election is Indeed gratifying to his friends in I the city Quite a number of our ! citizens are enjoying good sport fish- ! ing on Beaver Creek, where are back < Waters from the Catawba river. The i n/-?oiol Q,1 | mvrov vativf/nifi |xn v,< vvuoiowvu v? ??>.? j known sportsmen. Dr. R. C. McManus, ji Dr. G. W. I'oovey, Mr. R. W. Sis tare i and A. F. Hammond. We assume, ? without any special report, that much moro than the usual fisherman's luck resulted. These men have the knack! i ..R. A. Williams, of East Lancaster, was called to Rock HIM Tuesday night to see his mother, Mrs. T. P. 1 Williams, who is critically ill with pneumonia. G. Walsh Williams, of Jtcksonham, a kinsman of Mrs. Williams. went over Wednesday afternoon. Chester Reporter, April 6: The election of officers at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tues- I day evening resulted as follows: President?Harper R. Woods: Vice Presidents?R. E. Sims ard E. R. Lucas; Directors?F. L. Fox, W. A. Corklll, Robert Gage, N. M. McDill. Jas. I. Hardin, Robert Frpzer and T. 11. White, and the officers. Mr. H. S. Adams, the Chamber's most capable treasurer, Is elected by the board of directors The big tout meeting that the congregation- of the*| First Baptist church is holding will have to be conducted in the church tonight, owing to the damage sustained by the "Gypsy" Smith tent in yesterday afternoon's rain and wind v,.,* It la Vinnoil' fb/it if the BlUMU, UUt u iu **v|/v?. ? weather turns pretty within the next few hours the necessary repairs can be made, and the tent got back into service tomorrow evening J. B. NVhitten, a white boy aged sixteen, had one of his feet badly crushed this morning at the Seaboard Air Line depot. He is at the Chester Sanatorium, and is getting along very nicely, though in all probability his foot will have to come off. About one chance out of a hundred or even less is the way the surgeons speak of the probability of being able to save the injured member. Young VVhttten had been working in Gastonia, and had reached Chester on his way to his home it Greenwood when his funds bocaihc exhausted, and in endeavoring to beat a ride on the trajn his foot slipped between the couplers. Had he paid attention to hi3 mother, the young man told some of the bystanders, the unfortunate accident would not have accurrod._ Chester Chapter, U. D. C., Is already planning for Memorial Day exercises on Wednesday, May tbth, and haa Invited Hon. J. L. Brlce, ^Superintendent of 'Education of Fairfeld county, to deliver the annual ndlress Parcel post delivery In the business district of Chester was Instituted Tuesday. Mr. Frank Tlmmie is the carrier, and the deliveries are nade during- the afternoon with an automobile. Postmaster Douglas has been working on this proposition for several months, with the aid of the Chamber of Commerce, and finally tvhen a check of the parcel po3t business of the local office was secured the desired service was readily ob:ained Mr. James S. Fischel has sought the Ross Sims tract of land, containing seventy-one acres, about :hree miles from Chester on the Ash'ord Ferry road, and is making arrangements to start a poultry farm, tfr. Fischel has already bought a lumber of fine White Leghorn chickrns and is also raising others which le will put on the farm. Mr. Fischel las had several years experience in rising chickens and his many friends vish him much success in the poultry >usiness ......The ''Ehrlich" ditch, vhich figured cohsiderably in the current history of the' city a few years igo, and was responsible for divers neetlng of council, special surveys, ?tc., bids talr to got back into the news. Folks whose property is traversed by this ditch say it is utterly nadequate to carry off the vast volimo nf ivotni* tKot nntnrc if o rwl fhr* cnaupdeope that tbetr* T'opWty is loodeH, and In one case at least the water yesterday afternoon was up to he second step on the back porch. The parties in question say that when tjie new streets were put down the drainage was changed and there is much nore water to be carried off by the lltch than formerly, and they think the city ought to come to their relief. .The residence of Mr. John B. Sanders bn East Lacy street was struck by lightning during the storm yesterday afternoon, and a hole torn In the roof. Mrs. Sanders and daughter, Miss Evelyn, were slightly ' shocked The Chester High school jaseball team is being pursued by a iinx that causes tear-is with which james are scheduled to call off the combats just before the hour of batJo arrives. Great Falls had to cancel a. game with Chester on the Great Falls diamond a few days ago on account of the flu situation at Great 1 Falls, and Fort Mill cancelled the ruesday game on account of a smallpox scare at Fort Mill, which resultJd in a wholesale campaign of vacciaation in the schools. Clover is due :o play here tomorrow, and will bring i star pitcher, Walker, who is hanging up a great strike-out record this year, and holding the opposition down :o very few hits ..The case of J.' W. Bankhead vs the Insurance Company of North America was the first :asc taken up when the court of com non pleas convened Tuesday morning. The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,400 and interest. The ::se of A. W. Palmer vs Sam FecmUer, which was the next case to be Lakcn up, resulted in a verdict of $200 actual damages and $50 punitive damages for the plaintiff. The case of llu Miller Rubber Co. vs A. H. Wherry, Jr., was taken up this morning. Gastonia Gazette, April 7: Delightful in every rcsi>ect was the dinner 3ervod the Gastonia Rotary club and Senior class of the high school by the domestic science department of the school under the direction of Miss Sue Rarnscy Johnston, Thursday evening at six o'clock. Parks and playgrounds for Oastonla was the subject for the evening's program and a number of interesting talks were made by Rotarians and guests on the value of parks and playgrounds for a community At a recent meeting of the board of city school commissioners Mr. W. P. Grier was unanimously re-elected superintendent of Gastonia's city schools for next year. Prof. Grier is rounding out his first year as superintendent, to which i>osition he was elected following a service of several years as principal of Central graded school. Under his administration the city schools have had a most successful year. The high school department shows an increase of 32 per cent, over last year, with the laigest number of boys in the graduating class in the school's history Despite the cool and threatening weather Monday night more than one hundred Christian Endeavor representatives and visitors heard Mr. Frank P. Wilson, state secretary of Christian Endeavor, deliver a forceful and. Inspiring address on Endeavor work, organization, plans, principles, aims and goals. Large delegations from the First Presbyterian, Armstrong Memo- I rial and West Avenue churchrs and j smaller cries from Belmont, Bessemer I City and Long Creek were well repaid for their attendance. Rev. R. C. Bong conducted the opening service, and Reverends J. J. Harrcll of Bessemer City, T. Q. Tate of Olney and G. R. Gillespie invoked the divine blessings upon the meeting. Using the four square plan and principles of Christian Endeavor as a theme. Mr. Wilson delivered ono of the most entertaining, inductive and Inspiring addresses possibly ever heard on the subject by these present Wednesdya aftnoon closing will again go into effect this summer and permanently hereafter for the summer months until [ rescinded by vote of the merchants. This was decided at a largely attended meeting of retail merchants at Jhe Chamber of Commerce Thursday night. The vote was' unanimous. The closing will run for four months of each sum- ! mer Col. Thomas L. Craig, who has been confined to his bed -for the past two weeks with a severe attack of rheumatism, was apparently somewhat better yesterday, but had a very bad night last night and is suffering a great deal today. His friends are hopn nuuvlv ITKfOMtiOn tO health. Cleveland Star, (Shelby), April 7: Fire qf undetermined origin destroyed a small frame house said to belong to Grover Howell and located beyond, the city limits southwest of Shelby, Tuesday midnight. The firemen received an alarm and wero on the go in a few mpments, but the fire was too far from water hydrants to stretch a line of hose. The house was unoccupied, Mr. Howell haviqg moved out of it the dav before Officers destroyed a blockade still at the Quin-Harrill old mill a few days ago. The still has a capacity of 35 or 40 gallons and was set up ready for operation, but no one was at the plant at the time of the raid.. About 500 gallons of bqcr was destroyed ... Leroy Smith, colored, was arrested a few days ago along a public highway by Policeman Bob Kendrick, who found three gallons of muddy liquor in his buggy. Recorder Falls gave him 12 months, but he appealed and is at liberty on $500 bond Charlie Bailey, tried tlWs week before Recorder Falls for disposing of mortgaged prop-1 erty was found not guilty because it was revealed to tho court that when Bailey gave the paper and when ne disposed of the mortgaged property that he was under age. His home is at Forest City Mr. G. M. Blunton, oner of our prosperous farmers in No. 7 township called at The Star office and presented^ with a luscious booking strawberry which ripened in his garden on April 2. His arc the earliest strawberries of the season that we have heard of in this section.. Bailey Mauney, Aster Ramsey and Osley Ramsey were seriously hurt on Monday evening when the car in which they were returning to town, missed the small bridge at the McArthur place just outside of Shelby on the King's Mountain road and plunged down n steep embankment. Mr. Mauney who was driving an Overland car had both arms broken near the wrists and >vas otheiwise bruised. Aster Ramsey was stabbed in the left pidc by a plank and received a wound which necessitated seven stitches. He was also cut across the top of the head and this wound required eight stitches. He was otherwise bruised about the body. Osley Ramsey has a dislocated shoulder and it is possible that it might be brpkon. There is a painful wound on his right arm and he complains of his side. When Osley was picked up lie was uncon i1*????p??? "The Bank With the ( ?? ??? IMBWMWMM???? ???? V* ' - ' ' OPERATOR OF VVMO ICS I This photograph shows Clarem dig his apparatus previous to sen< WNO is one of the busiest broadcast uated in Jersey .City, scipus and remained unconscious until the following morning. Both are sons I of J. T. Ramsey of southwest Shelby, j who operates a shoe repair shop on S. ' LaFayette street. There was a fourth ! man in the car, but it is not known ! positively who he was. He is reported, to have jumped from the ear when he saw it headed down the embankment and has not been seen since. His | name has been given as Lackey and j the injured men say they did not know him well as he was picked up on the | road at the flat rock quarry as the I car was coming to town late in the ! evening when the Ramsey boys were ! being brought home from J. K. Klrkj i?trlck'a house where they were work1 i? J ASHE I Fertilize J | JHI6H FERTII builT UP l I (Reg. U. S. Pa FOR S A. H. I I ROCK h . . 1 I J'T'"'1" ~ you in ?''-S|i 1! Mi / Aa ] I : ii-i 3himes Clock." mmmKmmmmmmmmrntmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm HNC HIS APPARATUS. 5ESSBB :e Bowyer, operator of WNO, teatling his regular nightly program, ting stations in the East and is siting at the carpenter trade. The cni was nlmost completely demolished ii (,he accident and it wa3 miraculou: that the young men cmaped with thcii lives. The car dashed at a rapid rat< of speed, over a 16-foot perpendicula bridge abutment, struck front-foremos on the ground and turned completely over. ittr Germany's first skyscraper wil soon be constructed in the did busines section of Hamburg. It will be 16 sto ries high, topping the highest buildinj In Germany at this time by five stories ? After nil, happiness doesn't depeni on an automobile. Even a poor mai can run down his neighbors. POO I >r Works 11 GRADE 1 f ?? j t L1ZERS to a standard Not down : t. off.) to a price ALE BY *YNUM J [ILL, S. C. M : : i?? ?' EARNEST. [ INVITATION- :: NVJTE YOU to join rffo number of careful msidcraie people who my years have found I milking relations with h agreeable and profit\ 3 Bank Has a Sucful Record of Active : Progressive Banking. this record and eonfiin our ability to serve l tlic future, IE INVITE YOUR CCOUNT. Burnt $c ^51 i UM00 mm | YORK, S. C. OFFICERS: OORE, President IRICE, Vice President I. FERGUSON, Cashier > E. McCORKLE, Asst. Cashier ; | * A Masterpiece.?Customer?'Tfs it really a Tudor table? Shouldn't have thought so; don't sec any worm holes." Dealer?"Ah, sir, even th^ insects didn't have the heart to deface its beauty." i jJurcS fflf Y ~i? I It's Only YOU APPREGIATI I SONAL ATTENWK DOES. NO ONE L3 i NESS WHERE HE ; I IS NOT APPRECJ ; j ALL QUITE HUIH ; I SPECT ' I That's one reason why th y pleasure in giving perso I y tomcrs?looking after e\ i X ness, no matter how smal ? sonal touch with each qf c \ $ SERVICE?to extend ev . $ modation consistent witl WE INVITE YOUJ I WILL TRY TO W f. THAN HALF WA$ I PEOPLES BANK AN C. L. COBB, President $ J H. B. JENKIN8, Jr. X Active Vice President C. W. McGEE, Cashier | SAFETY FIRST?SEjE1 | ALW <5 We believe the day is fast this section will "live at home an saying goes. In our opinion tfior devoted to diversified crops this ever before. Numbers-of farmers are pla crops, sweet potatoes, canc, peanu who have never done this before. Right here we want to say Association is going ahead ill a ' that ample acreage will be plai Picker. In fact, the purchase of by some of our most successful Starr Stacy,' Hamp Stowe, Arthur Jeff Davis and others. Those who have not handei call at this bank and do so. We for Seed Peanuts from any who i The First Is CLOVER, ,| SAFETY FIRST ? I -For I | Ye | SHIS IBANK 1IA& | keep the Best intei YORK COUNTY t Field of Endeavor | WE ARE ALWAYS ( || TO RENDER a R ei's of this County ; glad to lend our Se try and enterprise, II JOIN THE MANY (HUNDREDS .OF? that this Bank has age of a Banking fi Valuable. if BANK OF If THE OLD v M. L. SMITH, President JAS. A. PAGE, Cashier F f|| Miss SALLIE SIFFORD, Asst. Cas j| Safety Satisfc That Wins.?Binx: "They say old Tltewod Is rather stingy." Jinx: "Rather stingy? Say, when he went to talk to his dead wife through a medium ho tried to reverse the charges." 4 * < ? Human ] 3 A LJTTLE PER- | ON?EVERYBODY S KESTODOBUSI | FEELS THAT HE . | [ATED. WE ARE | [AN IN THIS RE- ;; " 'K :: : . <? is Bank takes particular j) rial attention to its cus- ;j erv detail of their bitsi- *\ * o, I. We try to come in perhit patrons?to be of real ! j < i ;eiy courtesy and accom- j j 1 safe banking. ..... * J ACCOUNT, AND <j [EST YOU MORE . 4 i A i > i> I d trust wany i J. M. 8TR0UP, Vic* President , X . J.T.CRAWFORD, Vie* Pr**id*nt X WM. 8. MOORE, Asst. Csshitr | VICE AND PROGRESS | AYS ?? | 9 FARM^' approaching when the -Farmers in <| id board at the same place" as the f e will be more acres of farm land 7 year in the Clover territory than Z nning to plant, in addition to grain j> its, etc., and un\ong these are many Y that the Clover Peanut Growers Z businesslike way. Indications are & ited to justify the purchase of a this machine has been guaranteed y farmers such as Lucius. Jackson, x Quinn, Darby Smith, Martin Smith, J, j i ? nnmau nnil nere_n*e may Y LI 111 IHCU KMtMVO ? ?.? ? r. -T . have agreed to receive orders also $ vish thera. < , National Bank I sc. - THEN PROGRESS < Wary I ars , I } ENDEAVORED to | rests fcf CLOVER and | in the Front lanes of its | GrLAD | eal Service'to the Farm- | and in fact we are always | rvicc to any Legal Indus- | SATISFIED Customers ;j and tlius obtain advant- \; >crvicc that is Really J! < > m Airm ?! ijLU v rviv | RELIABLE I S. A. 8IFF0RD, Vice President f L. McELWEE, Asst. Cashier ? hier JNO. R. HART, Attorney A iction Service f