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a ? Names are. to replace the clocks
5 and other adornments on women's
e stockings, according: to the models exhibited
at the first annual Fashion
Show in Atlantic City. N. J.f last Friday.
The show was given in the open
air this afternoon and those attending
the exhibits were surprised to see
j the names of the wearers of silk hosiery
spelled out in full, not merely in>
itialled. In some instances?in cases
where the names are long?they start
. near the knee and end just above the
shoe-top the letters are embroidered
. or beaded and are in harmony with
*?.?? nnlnr nf tho utnpkinPK. Red bead
ifc ing is used on black ones and white
on bro^n. The promoters of the
j. show predict that the innovation will
? be taken up all over the country.
? Ignoring the advice of President
? Harding and the recommendations of
? the Navy Department, the House Appropriartions
committee last week re'i
ported Its .bill reducing the enlisted
? strength of the navy to 67,000 men.
f. Of this number the bill provides
> that the enlisted personnel for manJ
ning the navy afloat shall be limited
? to approximately 50,000; for shore service,
10,000; apprentice seamen and
unassigned men, approximately 7,000.
5 The administration wants 90,000. The
House Naval Affairs Committee, after
a careful study of the navy's needs,
recommended 86,000 men. The fight
to reject the Appropriation commit
tee's recommendations ana suusu?
tute figures which will nearly conform
to the Navy Department's figures will
- take place this week or next week.
?'The British government has ad\
dressed a note to the Allies declaring
that, owing to the fact that Great
Britain liag to pay the interest on her
debt to the United States, she reserves
Jo herself the right to call upon the
Allies in turn to pay the interest on
their war debts to Great, Britain. }n
this connection it is pointed out that
Great Britain is now fully prepared
? to ;pay the. interest due the United
Stifles. The three years' agreement
?- between Great Britain and the United
States lapses April 15. from which
time Interest on the debt due by Great
Britain to the United States begins to
accrue so that Great Britain will pay
six months' interest the coming fall.
Similarly, the agreement between
Britain and her debtors terminates
almost Immediately, and lc not to be
renewed.
? Ireland is close on to the verge of
civil war, if indeed that condition
does not already exist. The nllignment
is between Patrick Collins, supporter
of the treaty on the one hand
. and the Republican party under DeValera
on the other hand. Collins
stands for free Ireland within the
Ill-itish empire and De Valera stands
for free Ireland absolutely free. The
rebels under De Valera on last Saturday
captured the Free State strong
noia IU fUUUUJiit", . auu .???meme
quantities of arms and am
munition. Also they raided the custom
house at Dublin and destroyed
$10,000,000 worth of whisky. The
Free State authorities estimated that
De Valera had 12.000 soldiers at his
call and was in a position to largely
increase the strength of his army.
# The common belief was that it was
. the intention of De Valera to attempt
;j.a coup by which he would seize the
' 'Free state government. While doing
A'hat he can to get his forces together,
Michael Collins is warning the country
that civil war will bring Great
Britain back into the country to restore
order. '<?f '?4 fr '
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bureau of engraving and printing,
r>whlch was reorganized last week under
an excutive order by President
Harding removing James L. Wilmeth,
its director and other high officials,
was ordered closed tonight by Secretary
Mellon for an inventory of the
stock valued at many millions of dollars.
Mr. Mellon's order applied only
to the divisions of the bureau which
handle the paper used in making bank
notes, stamps and government securities,
it being explained that a quicker
~ and more accurate check of the paper
stock could be made by a temporary
shut down of all paper work. About
1,500 employees of the bureau force of
6,000 would ordinarily be affected by
the order, officials sa"d, but about 600
will be used as counters and all others
having annual leave to their credit will
- be given the benefit of it. According
to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
.Wadsworth, in charge of the bureau,
the inventory is to be taken as a
check of the stock on hand in the plan
against the boosts in much the same
. fashion that stofk is taken by a manufacturer
for the year. Checking of the
? bureau's store of bank notes, stamps,
- government securities, paper, plates
and supplies, which officials said total
an enormous amount in value, will be
hoirn n InmrtiTAw hv n pnmmittna or\_
pointed by Mr.. Mellon,1 representing
all of the departments which have
work done at the plant, and a staff of
justice department agents. Mr. Wadsworth
said he expected the count to
be completed within a week at the
outside.
? The Leviathan, once the pride of
the German merchant marine, later a
transport that carried thousands of
doughboys to and from European battle
fields, is expected to arrive at
: Newport News, Va., today to be converted
into a palatial American transAtlantic
liner. 'Fog interfered. Sunday
with the sailing schedule within
two hours after the giant vessel had
left her pier at Hoboken, where she
had been idle for more than two years.
Her skipper, Capt. W. J. lternard,
was forced to cast anchor when about
five miles off Ambrose channel. It was
nearly noon before the fog lifted sufficiently
to allow her to nrofeerl smith.
wqrd. Hey departure, was without incident
or 'ceremony. On account of
the early hour comparatively few persons
saw her great gray hull gliding
. majestically through the haze down
the Hudson. A few passing craft
opened their whistles in farewell sa"'lutes.
The Leviathan's engines be *
haved p^rfec^y. She carried a crew
of 676. Capt. James G. Peabody of
^ the Virginia Pilots' association, who
"will guide her into Chesapeake bay,
was aboard. On her trip down tne
Lbay she was in charge of Pilot Wilfliam
S. McLaughlin, who had charge
:'?of her passage in and out of the har vbor
during war days. Off quarantine
*the Leviathan passed the Rvndam of
Ithe Holland-American line inbound
v rx .. ?
irom noueraam. me Kyndam's pas?<sengers
lined the rails and cheered,
^the band played "The Star Spangled
^Banner" and her colors were dipped.
^The Leviathan dipped her flag in acknowledgment
and a few moments
jJater was swallowed up in the inist.
It will take a small army of workmen
*>in the Virginia shipyards more than
."two years to put the Leviathan into
^condition again.
V, ?Ruby Lee Helms, 13 year old girl,
. 'horror stricken and helnless. saw hpr
father, John Helms, slay two of her
little brothers and a sister in succes'
sion with a wood axe and then saw
vfhim detytjgrately blow off'the top o^.
his own head^ wlth a shot gun, according
to"the story she, the only witness,
iold Coroner Frank Hovis. The quadruple
tragedy occurred at the home of
Helms, who occupied a tenant house
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cm the: farm of Robert Rice; ll^milea I
east of Charlotte, about 6:30 o'clock |
Sunday morning. Coroner Hovis said
the evidence indicated that Helms had 1
become rather suddenly insane, prob- i
ably as a result of continued ill health, i
as he had been snffering from a ,
chronic stomach disease and had appeared
depressed when talking with a
brother a day or two ago about his
"hopeless" condition. According to
little Ruby Hee Helms, she was walking
about in the yard with the nine
months old baby, Hazeline, while her
mother prepared breakfast, when her <
father approached with nn axe and
with the handle knocked the baby
from her arms, then he went into the
house and with the axe brained two
children in bed while she looked on
through the window, the two being
Brocho, aged six and Bleeker, aged
four. He then grabbed a shotgun,
went out into the yard, placed the
muzzle against his cheek, the gun
standing on the ground, reached down
and pressed the trigger with his
thumb, the load blowing off the top
of the head. Mrs. Helms and another
child, in addition to Ruby Lee
Helms, escaped without injury and
gave the alarm. Soon neighbors
were on the scene and later Coroner
Hovis. The baby did not die instantly,
but was taken to a hospital in
Charlotte, where it died about two
hours later. It was said that Helms
was formerly a cotton mill operative
at Charlotte, but soon moved to
the farm.
^orkriHe (Enquirer.
Entered at the Postofflce at York, as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1922."
If the cooperative marketing plan is
j put over, the New York Cotton Exchange
building will be for rent for
other purposes.
Let it be understood that the signer
of the cooperative marketing contract
only binds himself as to such cotton as
he actually makes. If he signs for
twenty bales on a basis of last year
and makes only six bales this year, he
is not expected to turn over more than
six bales.' /
There is still a lot of work to be
done before the cooperative marketing
proposition is safely over in York
county. The men best qualified to put
the proposition over are the farmers
who have given evidence of their ability
to see through it all by signing the
contract. These are best qualified to
convince others who have not yet been
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now is to join in and help convince the
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There are rumors from Washington 1
of wholesale stealing from the bonds
and notes in the stocks of the bureau
of engraving and printing. The stock
of Federal Reserve notes that should be 1
in the bureau should aggregate more 1
than one billion two hundred and fifty 1
millions. Also there are hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of Liberty
bonds. It is rumored that immense
amounts in both notes and bonds are '
missing. It is officially declared that l
the government has no knowledge of *
any shortage; but a complete count is <
now in progress, while the 6,000 or <
more employes of the bureau are out
of work until further notice. It is ex- 1
pected that it will be a week or ten '
days before the bureau can resume op- '
erations. '
The history of South Carolina, by
Wm. Gilmore Simms, edited by Mary 1
C. Simms Oliphant, a granddaughter of
the author, and revised up to date, has
just come from the press in Greenville, 1
and is now ready for distribution.
This revised edition contains many
new maps and illustrations, and although
more especially intended for
sixth grade use in the public schools, 1
is well worthv of the careful perusal
of all South Carolinians, as being calculated
to give them much worth \jhlle 1
information about their state that will
be new to most of them. The author '
of this history, William Gilmore, '
Simms, was, in his day, the leader of 1
American letters and, in his particular
field?history and historical romance?
lias lost but little to this day, except
perhaps that his works arc still more '
generally road in the i?arts of the country
where people read than in South
Carolina where the people do not read.
This school history covers the story of i
the state from the first settlement up |
till now. In style and purpose it fol- |
laws most conscientiously the projec
tion of the author in the earlier period i
of the life of the state, and shows de- '
velopment rather than deviation from '
original principles. The story of the
state is delightfully told in both words
and pictures, and it is a dull sixth 1
gradq pupil who would fail to find it of
interest. ' Almost any reading adult
coukl go through all of its pages with- J
out being willing to put it down to the
end. This is a book that should be in ,
every home.
They've got Gen. Gregorle Seminoff,
who was in command of Admiral Kolchak's
anti-Bolshevik army in Siberia
in 1920, on the grill in New York.
Shortly after his arrival in New York
recently, Seminoff was arrested on
proceedings of John N. Boyle, representing
the Yourovetta Foreign and
Home Trade cornoration. claiming to
have a Judgment against Seminoff for
$478,578. The judgement had been
awarded, by the courts of Harbin, China,
on account of alleged unlawful
Seizur e of goods by the forces under
Seminoff. Seminoff denies knowledge
of or responsibility for the seizure. He
says that the defendant may have suf
Tered loss by some of the troops under
his command; but he knows nothing
ibout it. All kinds of charges are being
brought against Scminoff. Colonel
Charles} H. Morrow of Frankfort, Ky.,
who was in command of American
troops in Siberia in 1920, writes Secretary
Hughes that Seminoflf "is a cowardly,
unscrupulous enemy of America,
a robber and a murderer." Seminoff
is accused of having caused the
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aeam 01 a uumut:i ui ajhcu^.?u
Russia. It was announced last
Saturday that Senator Borah, chairman
of the senate committee on education
and labor, would immediately seek
authority for a special investigation of
the presence of Seminoff in the United
States. The senator also seeks to develop
some information as to what the
American government has had to do
with the anti-Bolshevik activities in
Russia anyway.
Progress.
In connection with the cooperative
marketing proposition it is common to
hear the question:
"Yes, it sounds like a good thing;
but are they going to let it die like
they did the Alliance and the Farmers'
Union?"
Quitd a logical question that; but
while it is echoed by honest farmers,
it did not originate with them; but
rather with people who are hostile tc
any and everything that seeks to improve
the condition of the farmers.
Big, broad-minded builders recognize
that the prosperity of the country as a
whole depends upon the prosperity ol
the farmers.
A narrow, ignorant, doless class ol
leeches on the body politic find it easier
to feather nests robbing ignorant farmers
than to make an honest living out
of prosperous well-to-do farmers.
Real progress and prosperity always
mear.s the elimination of the dishonest
little pikers of every class.
The Grange is dead, perhaps, but the
work it did is still living.
The Farmers' Alliance did more tc
contribute to the uplift of agriculture
than has any other agricultural movement
in the history of the country.
The Farmers' Union has been ol
great value in the same direction.
The South Carolina Cotton association
has been built on the Grange, the
Farmers' Alliance and the Farmers'
Union.
Without the warehouse movement
and the cotton association the marketing
movement would never have been
possible.
The marketing association is ? good
thin? and it is groin? to succeed.
Cooperative Marketing.
It was a wonderfully clear and forcible
presentation of the cooperative
marketing proposition that Clarence
Poe made in the courthouse last Friday
afternoon; and it is strange indeed
that any farmer who is interested in
the highest welfare of himself and other
farmers should continue to hold
back.
Mr. Poe showed in the first place,
that the cotton farmer has no system
of marketing; but he dumps his cotton
on the market at the other fellow's
appraisement of its quality and at
whatever price the other fellow is willing
to give. He showed in the second
place that cooperative marketing has
been successfully worked out with regard
to other crops, and that cooperative
farmers generally are getting better
prices for their products than noncooperative
farmers.
While making it clear that he would
nnf rnflnot nt-wtvt aw ki?i>Ai>i< An n
uvt icacvL ujaju V/Vibuu uu) ci o txo a
ivhole, nevertheless he made it equally
clear that cotton buyers had a system
jf cooperation among themselves, and
ihat as the result of this system cotton
ivas often undergraded, and as often
purchased for less than its value.
Next he pointed out the fact that for
ack of system in the matter, there are
nany more cotton buyers than are necessary
to handle the crop. All these
buyers who get anything at all out of
the business, get what they do get at
the expense of the cotton crop. There
ire at least three times as many cotton
buyers as there should be, and. the
cooperative system will cut this part
of the marketing expenses two-thirds.
It was made clear that the signing
of the cooperative contract could not
possibly hamper the cotton producer
financially or otherwise; he would still
be able to get as much money as he
could have otherwise gotten and he
could probably get it at a less rate of
interest.
? Representative Thomas L. Rlanton
of Texas, has written to The World
that he was nob correctly quoted in
the report of his speech-making tour
of Texas and Oklahoma, published last
Sunday, in which he made charges of
graft against his colleagues in the
House of Representatives. "I did not
say," he writes, "that all members of
congress got the articles kept in the
stationery room. I said that for each
term there was rreilite/1 41 >? In r?ni
individual accounts in the stationery
room, which makes $375 each conpress;
that some members drew thetr
allowances out in cash and spent it
for what they pleased, but that the
stationery room, with the salaries of
its manager and clerks, paid out of the
public treasury, kept there for sale
to congressmen, and would sell to any
congressman desiring them, and
charge against his $375 credit such
articles as carving knives, steels and
forks, fine pocket knives, whiskey
flasks, poker sets, chafing dishes, ladies'
fine manicure sets and ladies' fine
bags, covered with ostrich skin."'
Representative Blanton says that his
$2,100 mileage "graft" figures applied
only to the eighteen congressmen
from Texas, the mileage "graft" for
congressmen from states r>ot so far
uiovuiii. Hum uir inpildl IJt-'IlK UUviously
much less; that he iic! not
say all barber shop service was free,
but that the government paid the barbers
$75 per month and furnished
them with their shop and what was
needed to run it besides paying $95
per month to rubbers in the bathroom.
Many congressmen, he says,
do not approve of this petty graft, but
hesitate to fight it because they are
always called demagogues for so doing.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Kirkputrlck-Belk Company?This is
the week before Easter.
Nathan Felnstein's?A bombardment
of bargains.
Liberty Service Station?Goodrich
tires, Ford sizes.
A. M. Taylor?Tomato plants in leading
varieties at 10 cents a dozen.
Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray Manager?
Douglas McLean today, and Rex
Beach's famous story tomorrow.
Yorkville Camp No. 38?Fiddler's Convention
and dancing contest at the
City Hall Auditorium, April 27.
Carroll Bros.?From |30 to $40 cheaper.
V orK jjrug oiure?ur. nwoo icmcu.vo.
Millinery Parlor, Mrs. J. M. Ferguson
proprietress?New hats coming eveiy
day. -;
Mackorkell Drug Company?Half price
sale on tooth brushes. )
First National Bank of Sharon?A
tenth will make you rich.
? J. M. Stroup?Special for Easter.
Logan Lumber Yard?Devoe paint.
Sure Fit Caps?All dry goods stores.
First Baptist Church?Dr. W. J. McGlothin
to make an address.
,, S. J. Bell Co.. Inc., Rock Hill?Well
dressed people.
The cooperative marketing farmers
, are making their "Victory Drive" dur1
ing this month.
The alfalfa Fields are looking fine
; just now, and most of them are prom,
islng heavy crops next month.
The outlook is that there will be a
1 good many oats harvested as early as
the first week in May this year. This
will be especially true of oats sowed in
* September and October. They aro
1 heading out in many fields, and hurry
ing on to maturity at a rapid rate. '
( The big reservoir at Bridgewater, N.
C., known as Lake James, which has
been receiving the flow of Catawba
river since last summer, including the
freshets, lacks yef about 15 per cent of
being full to the top. The reservoir is
' tlio mounn nrhv tViPPP hftVP been nO
' floods on the lower reaches of the river
during- the winter.
At the cooperative marketing meet(
ing in the courthouse last Friday, Dr.
J. B. Johnson made graceful acknowledgment
of the broad liberality that
was exhibited by the York county
, banks in agreeing to put up the money
that enabled the pushing of the cooperative
marketing work In the county,
and his statement was received with
applause.
The diary of the Boll Weevil Special
t by Theo Mackorell, makes up quite an
interesting column elsewhere in today's
issue of The Enquirer. The Enquirer
came by this diary through the
I courtesy of Mr. H. R. Mackerel; but
as to whether there w(ill be further contributions
of the same kind will depend
upon the pleasure and inclination of
Theo. * i .
It is quite satisfactory now?the
( road between Yorkville and Rock Hill.
It is somewhat cut up just east of Tiri
zah and again after, it crosses the railroad
east of Newport; but taken altogether
it is in good condition. The av,
erage automobile time between Yorkville
and Rock Hil^is about 40 minutes
but many drivers make it in 30
| miputes and some. <n even less time
than that. There, ns probably more
travel on this road than on any equal
stretch of mileage Tn the county.
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THE MARRIAGE RECORD
i Marriage licenses have been issued
by, the Judge of probate as follows:
April 5?John Bridges and. Winnie
Taylor, Gastonia.
April 7?Feaster Collins and Anna
Givens, Bethesda^ township, (colored).
April 7?William Coin and Bessie
Ratchford, Yorkville, (colored).
April 8?Tom Hall and Zula Clifton,
Rock Hill, (colored).
April 8?Willie Haywood and Johnnie
May Kee, colored, Rock Hill.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers have been indexed
in the office of the county auditor
as follows:
Broad River?J. S. Wilkerson to W.
S. Wilkerson, 1 lot, 51 and other considerations.
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Catawba?Jesse Ci Deese to Rena H.
Duncan, 1 lot, $3,75w.
Paul Workman to John E. Gettys, 2
lots, $10,000.
J. H. Ramseur, et al, to Hattie E.
Ramseur, et al, 1 lot, $30.
D. L. fletts to John G. Kee, 1 lot,
$590.
Ebenezer?L. P. Culp to Trustees of
Winthrop College, 2 lots, $2,375.
J. Russell McElwee to W. N. Cork,
1 lot, $5 and other consideration.
D. A. Bigger to Citizens' Bank .and
1 1a? tK ??< ! nfhr?r pnn?
siderations.
J. Russell McElwce to Catjywba Real
Estate Co., 1 lot, and dther considerations.
ASK FOR REDUCTION
Request that the South Carolina
Tax Commission reduce real estate
values in York county 20 per cent, in
the assessment for 1922, is made by
J. T. Crawford of McConnellsville,
chairman of the York county hoard of
equalization in a letter addressed to
the state tax commission in Columbia.
The request to the commission follows
a resolution passed by the county
board last Friday when the members
of the board were unanimously
in favor of such a reduction. In his
letter the chairman of the county
board points out that while a' good
many of the counties will make reductions
themselves, the York county
board decided to leave the matter up
to the state commission. Chairman
Crawford's letter to the state tax
commission is as ionows;
The York County Equalization
Hoard at their first meeting: before the
Tax Returns were passed on, decided
that they would use the old assessmon?
on real estate of 1918 as fixed by
the state tax commission, for the
basis of the new assessments for this
year.
All of the different boards of the ,
county have done this and tried to
hold total valuation up to what it was
in 1918. This was all done with the
understanding that we would then
request the commission to make a
general reduction of at least 20 per
cent, on all the real estate in the
country. A resolution was unanimously
passed at their meeting held
on this the 7th day of April. 1922, and
I. as chairman, am instructed to take
thi? mntfor nn ii'ifk.vnnr nnmmfssifin
and earnestly request that you granti
this request. You will recall that in I
1918 your commission added 45 percent I
increase on all the land values in this
county. We thought at that time
that this was a little too much increase
lor us, compared with some of
the adjoining counties.
We ftel that a great many of the
counties of the state will make reduction
themselves, but we have gone entirely
on the idea that we would
rather hold to the old valuation in
V nrLr nnnntv nnrl thnn anhmit thp
whole thing to your commission for
careful consideration. Owing therefore
to the generally depressed condition
of the country at this time, we
feel that we would he entitled to a reduction
and earnestly request that
you grant same."
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. John Faris is quite ill at his
ifiome on York No. 8.
/L Friedbeim McCarter of Rock Hill,
spent the week-end at his home near
Filbert.
T. W. Speck, Jr., a Etudent at the
University of North Carolina is visiting
the family of his father in Yorkville.
Mrs. Frank A. Stultz of Rock Hill,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gettys. of York
R. F. D. No. 4.
Mrs. H. T. Williams and little
flniKrVifoo Lovo -.rSolftSttr* Vf.O
van. 14&u it i nm/ (IU ? c ucru v iniun^ m i o.
Lawton Ashe, at Cordova, S. C., have
returned to their home in Yorkville.
s/Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hart of
Yorkville and Miss Louise Smith of
Clover, recently visited the famous
Magnolia Gardens in Charleston.
Mrs. Hal Ingram who has been
visiting the family of her father, Mr.
J. M. Starr in Yorkville has returned
to her home at High Point, N. C.
/ James McDowell who is attending
^school in Hcndersonville, N. C., is
spending several days at the homo of
his father, Dr. J. D. McDowell in Yorkville.
/ Mrs. Janie Land Garrison, of York
No. 3, who is visiting her brother Rev.
J. S. Land in New Orleans, was recently
operated upon for appendicitis.
She is getting along very nicely.
^T^Mr. R. M. Price of Hugo, Oklahoma,
arter an absence of 42 years, is visiting
his sisters, Mesdames W. G
Brown and W. J. Neil of Yorkville, and
other relatives in York county.
Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D. of Yorkville
is to deliver the address before the Y.
M. C. A. at commencement exercises
of Newberry College, Newberry,
June 6.
(Mr. and Mrs. Brittain of Sumter
county, came up Saturday in their car
to spend the week-end with the family
of Mr. J. S. Glasscock, Mrs. Brittains
father, near Harmony.
Rock Hill Herald, Saturday: M. L
Curry has returned from a motor trip
to Asheville, N. C., where he. accompanied
his young sister, Miss Jeannette,
and together they visited another
sister, Miss Agnes Curry. Miss
Jeannette was returning to her home ir
Wilmington, from attendance upon the
funeral at Bethesda of a brother
Adrian Curry, who died some days age
in New Mexico.
Mr. A. C. McGee, formerly of Anderson
who has been spending- some
time past with his son, Mr. C. W
McGee in Yorkville, celebrated hit
81st birthday last Sunday. Despite
his advanced years Mr. McGee is quite
hale and hearty and delights in nothing
better than to work in the garden
at his son's home. Mr. McGee is
a veteran of the War Between the
States.
y^/Rock HiU Herald: The Portuguese
government has awarded a war cross
to Major J. C. Dozier, along with a
diploma containing the citation of the
war department. The presentatior
was to have been made at Fort McPherson
recently, but Major Doziei
was unable to attend. The medal and
diploma were therefore mailed to him
here, having just arrived. Four othei
South Carolinians were awarded the
war cross by the Portuguese government.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Yorkville Camp No. 38 W. O. W.
is organizing an orchestfa among its
members.
? The Yorkville Cotton Oil Company
expects to install its new ice
plant this week.
? The Yorkville High School baseball
team is scheduled to play Clover
High on the local diamond this afternoon.
? Local dealers who handle garden
tools say that they had a good business
in that line on Saturday and yesterday.
y? The Associate Reformed Prebyterian
congregation has installed a piano
with which to lead the singing, instead
of the organ in use heretofore.
Street Overseer R. F. Parrott and
his assistants have recently made considerable
improvements to Lincoln
street by filling in the holes and dragging
the street.
? The Jamison bakery is making
good in giving the home folks as good
bread as is to be had anywhere. Many
consumers say it is the best bread to
be had here. The output of the bakery
sometimes runs us high as COO
loaves a day.
"We would like for automobile
drivers to learn to stop where they
are when they hear the fire siren,"
said Chief of Police Steele yesterday.
"Automobile drivers - who hear
the siren can not know whether or not
the fire truck is coming on the street
on which they are driving, so the best
thing for them to do is to come to a
stand still." '
? There was a double test of the new
electric fire alarm siren last Saturday,
one at noon in accordance with the
previously announced plan of Mr.
Faulkner, and the other shortly after
G o'clock in the evening because of an
oil stove blaze in the home of Mr. T. K.
Thomasson on South Congress street.
The noon test was highly satisfactory
in that the weird shriek of the whistle,
arising above the din of other noises,
made itself heard throughout the entire
town and into the outskirts and beyond;
but causing no excitement on
account of previous notice. The second
alarm created the usual commotion
incident to Are danger, and when
the fire truck appeared a minute or
two later it was manned by a half dozen
or more firemen ready for instant
duty.
? Dr. Hayden of the state board of
health inspected the children in the
white and colored schools of Yorkville
yesterday for vaccination. It was said
that Dr. Hayden found a number of
children in the tenth and eleventh
grades of the white school who had
not been vaccinated and about 100
children in the negro school. \n inspection
of the school at the Cannon
Mill showed that all children there
were vaccinated. Dr. Hayden told the
school authorities he would give them
until Monday to have all children vaccinated.
The health officer attended
a meeting of the town council yesterday
afternoon at which he addressed
them on the state laws governing
health and especially in regard to
smallpox vaccination. Declaring that
the chairman of the local board has
more power than a king, he insisted
that council pass a spocial ordinance
requiring vaccination of all schqol
children and this the council proceeded
to do, although the rules of the local
board of health already provided for
vaccination. It was stated that those
children in the white school who have
not been vaccinated are children who
have come into the school from the
country since Christmas.
BOYD'S FERRY BRIDGE
Although fifty working days' time
has already been lost on the Boyd's
Ferry bridge project on the Catawba
river between York and Mecklenburg
counties because of unfavorable
weather conditions, employes of the
Hardaway Construction Company in
charge of the undertaking are quite
confident that it will be completed
within the 150 days' working time
whic)i remains for them. They admit,
however, that it Is largely a matter of
how the river behaves. Five times already
has the tawney stream overflown
the banks and filled up the great
shafts being sunk in order to provide
a iounaauon ior me migmy piers mm
are to be the main support of the 1,300
foot bridge. Several times has it been
necessary to take several feet of river
mud and debris out of those shafts
with great suction pumps.
The main pier on the Mecklenburg
side of the river has about been completed
and the builders are now wrestling
with the principal pier on the
York county side, which is to rest In a
pocket of rock eight feet deep. While
it isn't the hardest kind of rock there
is, it is quite solid enough for the
bridge piers, according to foreman
Gooch of the construction company.
One can dig a pick into that rock to
a depth of a half inch at a strong
blow; but according to the expert
, bridge builders, the foundation is a
plenty strong to support the heavy
, bridge s 1 to withstand the pressure
when thv. nighty river gets as high as
it has ever been known to be. The
shaft for the pier is sunk to a depth
of twenty-seven' feet below the surface.
Hut the great pumps are kept
working daily to pump out the water
, from the river that persists in coining
in faster than the concrete foundation
can be laid if it is not kept pumped
out.
i While the river is only about 301
feet wide at Boyd's Ferry, it is neces,
sary to build an approach of several
hundred feet on the York county side.
' There is a high bluff close to the river
bank on the Mecklenburg county side
where it will be necessary to build a
short approach. It was because or
' this approach on the York county side
' that the project was held up for sonic
' time, the Mecklenburg authorities con1
tending that they should be responsible
for building up to the middle of the
. river while the York county authori>
ties should do likewise on their side,
The matter, It will be recalled dragged
. for a long time but the Charlotte peo,
pie finally realizing that the bridge
i would be of more benefit to Charlotte
i than 'it would to York county finally
) agreed, to pay the cost of building twothirds
of the entire structure.
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When the bridge is completed some
time this fall York county is going to
find itseK having the use of a perfect'
ly good bridge with no way to get to
' it unless all signs fail. There is prac[
tically no road to it now after one
[ leaves the main road just about a
quarter of a mile below the home of W,
' P. Boyd. The only approach is a field
" road, rough and soggy, mighty danger1
ous for Fords and which in the opin!
ion of some road experts will take much
more money to put in traveling shape
! for all kinds of weather than the legis>
lative delegation has appropriated so
i> far.
i Traveling to the new bridge site yes
terday afternoon from Yorkville to
take a look at the project, two repreI
sentatlves of The Yorkville Enquirer
l elected the Armstrong Ford route to
Barnett Brothers store. The Arm?
strong Ford route to the store must
, be worked a lot before it is popular to
travelers into Mecklenburg. Picking
up Mr. J. M. Barnett at the stpre the
party proceeded to the bridge by A. H.
Barnett's, Davis's Mill, the Finley
. place and on to Mr. Boyd's. And (hat
i road from A. H. Barnett's on to Mr.
Boyd's is not one that would make the
owr rs of Cadillacs and Packards
, smile over the garage man's bill for
broken springs and crankshafts and
other costly auto parts.
"Can you drive all the way to the
new bridge in a car?" inquired Mr,
Barnett of a young man he met at Mr.
Boyd's. "You can go part of the way
and you might go all the way; but its
mighty rough," was the reply.
And it was.
That flivver hadn't turned out of the
, main road which as aforesaid is hardly
any road at all before it was stalled in
thick, red, sloppy, greasy, red Bethel
mud. And if it hadn't been for the 240
pounds of Mr. Barnett behind the car
pushing while the plucky motor strained
and tugged the flivver would bo
right there now.
Finally it was pushed out and
traveled on a way, the road getting
worse and worse until it was decided
by the party that safety first lay in
traveling the rest of the way a la foot.
So the flivver was parked in the firmest
looking spot around which wasn't firm
and the party started to hike. Finally
the home of a colored man named
Andy something or other was reached
and Andy said it was about half a
mile from his house to the river. It
was a half all right and then some.
The eldest member of the party
thought it was several.
But finally the river and the bridge
construction camp hove in sight as
work was being knocked off for the
day. The camp of the construction
gang is located on the Mecklenburg
side, several small boats serving to
take the workers to and fro. There
are about thirty-five hands working on
the bridge. It was said that the gang
would be laying steel on the York
county side within another month,
the weather permitting.
Hiking away from the bridge and
oacK to me nivver secmra one several
more miles going up grade. Then the
flivver had to stall in another mud
hole and Mr. Barnett and the others
had to sweat some more, really not
feeling safe until they got on the main
road nearly to the store.
People woh want to see how the
new Boyd Bridge is coming on are
advised to drive their cars to the dam
of the Catawba Power company, get
a gasoline launch or row boat there
and take the river for it to the new
bridge.
LOCAL LACONICS
Memorial Day Speech.
Congressman Stevenson is to speak
in Rock Hill on May 10.
! CcAwaM DntliM',,!,,
Thos. S. Kester has been made postmaster
at Grover, N. C., to succeed S.
C. Ratterree, resigned.
Negroes Building Church.
Colored people of the "Holiness"
faith in Bethel township are building
a church on the Armstrong Ford road.
Rock Hill Dairy Sold.
James Greenwood, a dairyman of
Gastonia, has bought the Community
dairy of Rock Hill, from W. B. F>her
and J. B. Talbert, the now owner hav ne
already assumed charge.
Turney Released.
C. M. Turney, lodged in jail in Yorkville
last week, charged with uttering
worthless checks in Ebenezer, York
and King's Mountain townships has
been released after making the checks
good. y
Oats are Heading.
There are some fine fields of oats
and wheat to be s^en In Bethel township
on the road to the new Boyd's
Ferry Bridge. At a point near the
bridge site off the main road there is
an unusually fine field of oats which
are now heading, the earlier* that have
been seen this season., ,
Rock Hill Masons Move.
Rock Hill Herald: The Rock Hill
Masons are now quartered in their
new lodge room on the tnird floor of
the London building, Hampton street,
over the London Printery. The quarters
have been remodeled and converted
into up-to-date lodge roofns, with
adequate facilitiea for floor work.
Training School Led.
Winthrop Truining Scnool of Rock
Hill scored the most point9 in the field
day events of the Catawba Oratorical ,
and Athletic Association held in Chester
Saturday, making a total of 35 1-2
points. MOCK nm Il'K" EKIIUUI tanu
second, scoring 31 points. Chester
High School was third with 16, Winnsboro
fourth with 7 and Lancaster fifth
with one-half a point.
Odd Fellows With Rock Hill Lodge.
About twenty members of York
Lodge No. 146, Independent Order of
Odd .Fellows, went to Rock Hill Friday
night, where they assisted Rock Hill
Lodga No. 54, in conferring the initiatory
degree on two candidates. The
members of ^he Yorkville lodge had
entire charge of the initiation of candidates
and they did the work In their
usual thorough manner. Refreshments
and smokes were served during the
evening.
Six Bridges Down. ?
-Supervisor Browr said yesterday
ho had information that six small
bridges jn the western section of York
county were washed away by the
heavy rains last Wednesday and
Thursday. The McElwee bridge over
Clark's Fork was badly damaged.
Morgan Leech, a farmer living near
I Hickory Grove had revdn head of cattle
dro,wned by the high waters of
Bullock's Creek last week while a colored
farmer living near Mr. Leech
lost two head.
1 Rector Released.
J. R. Rector, white man who has been
lu jail for gome time past charged
Wlin UJSpusiriK ui iiivi vjojcu i>iv|/vivi
abandoning his wife, carrying a pistol
, and violation of the compulsory school
, attendance law was released last week
when a brother who lives in Gastonia,
N. C., came to his aid. Rector paid a
1100 fine in the disposing of mortgaged
, property case; <20 in the pistol case;
| $10 in the violation of the compulsory
attendance law -matter and gave bond
, to support his wife. He is said to have
left York cdunty to make his home in
( Gastonia in future.
Presbytery at Pisgah.
; The First Presbytery of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church,
convened at Pisgah church in Gaston .
county.at 11 o'clock, this morning, the
opening sermon being preached by the
retiring moderator, Rev. E. F. Griffin
of Charlotte. At the session this afternoon,
J. L. Hood, a theological student,
preached his trial sermon and was licensed
to preach. Tonight at 7:30 Rev.
t G. L. kerr of Spartanburg, will preach
a special sermon on the "Divorce Evil"
, by special order of presbytery. Tomorrow
will be spent in transacting
routine business of the presbytery.
fiddlers' Convention.
J. J. J. Robinson of York No. 2, won
first prize in the fiddling contest held
at Philadelphia School House last Friday
evening, under the auspices of the
Philadelphia School Improvement Association.
The "fiddlers' convention
which was attended by a large number
of patrons and friends of the school
marked the close of a seven months'
term of Philadelphia school. Second
prize for fiddlers went to Bert Clinton.
T. K. Tomasson won third place. During
the session Just closed Philadelphia
school has been in charge of Misses
Alice Garrison and Marie Moore.
Chaingang Making Good Progress.
That the chaingang is making good
progress on construction ot me yy est
road toward Sharon was the impression
obtained by a reporter who recently
visited the scene of operation.
Much grading has been done in the
vicinity of Black's Mill to a point
well beyond the home of N. S. Black.
Bridge materials are on hand to be
used in building a bridge over the
stream at Black's Mill. Taking the
fact that thefe has been much inclement
weather of late into consideration.
the chaingang is making good
progress on the road project?at* least
the work is well started.
Flannagan Elected President.
Arthur Flannagan. prominent religious
leader of Bowling .Green, York
county, was elected president of the
South Carolina Christian Endeavor
Union at the nnnual convention of the
union held in the First Presbyterian
church in Greenville last week. The
convention opened Friday and closed
Sunday night. ' Other officers elected
were: Wyatt A. Taylor, Columbia, first
vice president; J. T. Fain, Rock Hill,
second vice president; Miss Catherine
Wallace, Camden, secretary; Miss
Virginia Taylor, Greenville, treasurer;
Allen Nicholson,' Union, vice president
for ifouth Carolina of World Christian
Endeavor; Albert Y. Drummond,
Spartanburg, publicity chairman.
Winthrop Girl Hurt.
Rock Hill Herald, Saturday: Miss
Elise of Chile, student-teacher at Winthrop
college, was struck and knocked
down by the automobile of E. E.
Plmi/t this mnrnlnr at Hamilton and
Main intersection. She was rushed to
the Serv-All pharmacy and later taken
to the Fennell Infirmary for treatment.
An examination disclosed, the fact that
no bones were broken and barring a
number of bruises the young lady was
getting along nicely this afternoon.
Mr. Cloud was driving down East Main
and when he first saw Miss Elise she
was directly in front of the car, which
was moving slowly. She was knocked
down, but the wheels did not pass over
hc-r. Every attention was giver the
..'Kino- I<w1?
JV/Ullfe IC4V4JT.
Dock Left His Coat.
If Dock Hames, negro of Bullock's
Creek will call on Constable Horace
Johnson he can get a coat that he left
in the officer's hands Sunday morning.
But perhaps it would be better for
Dock not to call for the coat because
in all probability he would be held
charged with carrying a pistol. Several
officers were in Bullock's Creek township
Sunday morning looking around
for moonshiners when Dock rode near
on a mule. A pistol was seen sticking
out of his pocket, barrel up. Tne officers
called to him and one of them
grabbed his mule while another
grabbed. Dock. Then the negro realized
he was up against the law. He
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