Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? Ten thousand dollars worth of banknotes was found in the Potomac river not far from the treasury building last week. The notes were four on a'.sheet of $5 denomination. It ie believed that the money was stolen last fall and buried on the flats of the Potomac from which it has since been washed up. The new head of the bu?? nnomtjinc and m-intinfir says he icau vi _ does not consider that the find has anything to do. with possible embezzlement of stocks from his department. ?'Charges that the war department "Jias sold property and. is today eellproperty at ridiculously and criminally low prices to favored customer, concealing -from congress and deHperatelx misrepresenting the facts/ Were made in the'house Tuepdai* by RepresWJtatl've Johnson, Republican, South -TDt^kota. As- "proof of the .fact tpat the war department Is misrepresenting the facts to congress,* Mp, Johnson, charged that a report by Secretary Weeks relative to sale of mpperty, transmitted to the house list December, was "the most fraudulent, misleading' and criminally deceitful document that was ever submitted to' the American congress." Mr. Johnson declared the evidence | he had obtained showed that the war department "is trying to control the j department of justice by putting men i who ought to be In the penitentiary * * - nnv roll I on tne aeporuucui v>i juav.ww ,?? ??id asking congress to appropriate for j If." ? The United States owes 23 times as much money nonV as in 1917, when the public debt was about $1,000,000,(M)0, Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the treasury, declared Tuesday In a speech In Chicago. "This huge deht we must pass on to the future citiznns." he said. "For this reason it is the intention of financial leader? ,of opr government to pay all new debts from ' current funds. We axe Just standing still financially as our expenses this year just about equalled our revenues. ,'Next year there will be some deficit fcecauso pf shrinking business, loss of foreign trade ? and - suspension of activities that came into ;being during the war. without aqy- surplus of revenue over expenses we can not decrease our ppblic debt, of $22,500,000,000. Government expenditures must come down, although the Confederate war is 60 years behind us >'et the annual bill for pensions is $250,000,000. Only 15 per cent, of our public expenditures Is tot peaceful purposes, as it were. The remainder, 85 per cent., goes to pay for debts and activities based on the war." ? Memphis, April 11: Flood water, held within bounds along the Missis* * * *A * ? ..?U sippl, was taking: US ion in nuuuinu Arkansas tonight as a result of a break along: White river, which let in Sater which ultimately will engulf awards of 25 square miles of cultivated lancf and dozens of towns and rice farming settlements, in what is khown as Laconia circle at the confluence Qf thje White and Mississippi rivers in Desha county. Thus far no loss of life has been reported, but heavy damage to farm property was anticipated as a result of the force with which the. flood was driven through the gap fn the embankment by high winds which prevailed last night and today. According to dispatches received here, the break occurred last night near the town of Snow Lake. Henrico, Laconia, Knowlton and Ferggtfwvara .tha, tpwps. wit^t,he circle over, which the water, is spreading. Reports received over railroad wires indicate that the water late today had reached a depth of from five to eight feet in the flooded area. Reports from points along the Mississippi river tonight indicated that the levees on that waterwav. menaced for nearly a month by high water and facing a prolongation of the flood, as a result of. heavy rains over the northern watersheds, were intact at all points with no more serious trouble developing thus far than wave wash and minor slides. Rising stages were reported in the Mississippi today from New Madrid, Mo.', 174 miles above Memphis, while the Ohio, which empties Into the Mississippi at Cairo, was either falling or stationary. At Memphis the Mississippi is falling. ? Revival of the whipping post, Judge W. M. Gcmmill at Chicago last Tuesday told the committee on law enforcement of the American Bar association. would have a great effect on the reduction of crime. He cited examples where flogging tended to reduce crime, and presented figures shewing the number of murders in tjie large cities. In 1921 his figures showed that St. Louis had 426 murders. Philadelphia 346, New York 261, Chicago 206, Boston 102 and Washington 69. A speedy trial for crimthals was advocated to reduce crime by Herbert Harley of Detroit. "In the majority of cases the criminals are apprehended but it is months before they are given a trial and even longer in many cases before they start paying the penalty for crimes committed." he said. "The courts are responsible for this and were the criminals given a speedy trial, regardless of the politician with whom they are friendly, justice would be more efficiently served. Newspapers could cooperate with the courts, but that is the fault of judges who are afraid of the power of the press. If less crime and more constructive news was printed the* eflfett on crime would be large. However the newspapers are not responsible for this condition. They are institutions for the purpose of making money and -they are giving the public what they demand?the sensational news. The police judge should be eliminated and his power given to .the iiiricrtu who have unlimited power. The police judge is the footstool for politicians. For instance, the criminal friend of hie politician may; after an appeal, he released to again menace society." ? Admission of Russian and German representatives to the principal committee of the economic conference was strongly opposed Tuesday by both French and Belgian representatives. Premier Lloyd George together with Premier Facta and Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy intervened; however, ahd their conciliatory attitude finally roRuItdd in the admittance of both the Russians atid the Germans. The oppo sltion was an outgrowth of the FrancoRussian incident at the opening of the conference. M. Barthou, for France, but more especially M. Theunys, of Belgium, placed themselves in opposition to the German and Russian representatives being admitted to the principal committee while the representatives of the smaller countries which fought with the allies were excluded. Premiers Facta and Lloyd George and Signor. Sohanzer maintained it would be impossible not to permit the Russians and the Germans to be represented on a committee which was to deal chiefly with the problems affecting Germany and Russia. They argued tb*it. the exclusion of these delegates would stultify the object of the committee,., because all were in agreement tWrfv the cooperation of Russia and Germany were indispensable to the reconstruction of Europe. Premier I Tt\euyns, ho his argument, declared the Germans were unworthy of taking part I ht fhtt werfc "'6f,&::eohimlttee' of' such importance in association with the rep-' resentatives oC'.honorable countries.' The discussion became so heated that Mr. Lloyd George declared emphatically that if such an intransigcant spirit was going to prevail it might be as well to immediately break up the conference, the principal object of which was to re-admit Russia and Germany to the European family. The work of conciliation undertaken by Premier Facta and Signor Schanzer was finally successful in bridgihg the crisis and securing the admission of the Russiart and German delegates. The discussion over membership of the committee arose at the first meeting'of that body Wednesday. . As originally planned it comprised British, pfench, Italian, Belr.noneofl fJormnn and Russian fticwif ua|^%N>^vF| ? delegates. In addition, to these, representatives qf . 'Poland, Jtoumania^ Swftztrlartd and Sweden were admitted Titesday afternoon after tho. morning's' argument in whfch Premier Theuyna of Belgium urged " the desirability o? having the smaller countries represents' ff -Z $be ^tJoxhviUe <6uquirrr. j Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. adcii 14. 1922-AYV rniwn i . m <>_ ... . _ / The Genoa conference means .either peace or more -war, and if Lloyd George continues to run it as he has been doing, it wiil mean peace. Russia and France appear to bo the . most discordant elements. Russia demands that Japan get out of her territory and in this she is right. France insists that the Russians should pay back the money they have borrowed from the French people and in this she is right. Lloyd George does not think that France should maintain an artny that makes her a menace to Europe and in this he is right. Also Lloyd George admits that while Russia should have the right to administer her own government in her own way, he is opposed to Russian interference with the form of government that is preferred by other nations. Health Laws. It would be an ignorant and narrow minded man indeed who would object to reasonable and proper-health regulations, or who would'withhold his assistance in the enforcement of the same. South Carolina has sruch regulations, but they are not properly enforced and we are inclined to the opinion that they wilt nbt bb enforced until there-has been considerably more educational work along much broader lines than have been followed heretofore, or are being followed now. The health rules and regulations have been framed by the state board of health in the Iignt or an existing wisdom as to the best means of preventing and handling disease, and so far as we know there is not a single regulation that lacks the backing of good sound sense, especially as to the object sought. But in a number of cases the regulations are impracticable 'from % the standpoint of enforcement for, the reason that they assume too much arbitrary authority on the part of the enforcing officer, with too little regard to what the average citizen considers his fundamental rights. For instance, as speaking by the book, Dr. Hayden of the state board of health, was right the other day when he told Dr. Hunter, "You have more power than a king," but he seemed to have lost sight of the fact that in this country, kings no longer have any power. There is nothing the matter with the principlo of compulsory vaccination, or the law that requiros every child to be vaccinated during Its first, sixth and fifteenth year, with its parents liable to punishment in case of neglect; but with so much law to begin with it seems Just a little unreasonable to put a penalty on teachers and trustees for allowing that child to come to school without being able to show a vaccina If law hiiH pnforc ed in the family, the question could not have come up in school, and if nothing has been done by way of enforcement in the family, why should the trustees and teachers be held criminally responsible? There is not a medical man in the world who will claim that he knows positively how Influenza is communicated, whether by contact, by floating germs or spontaneously developing conditions in the system, and this being true, is there little wonder that there should be feeling at an arbitrary order for the closing of a picture show or even a church on account of influenza? It might be different, of course, in the case of whooping cough, measles, mumps or other disease about tho contagion of which there is less doubt. The principle criticism of the board of health is not so much as to its dogma as to how best to preserve the health of the people as to its methods of procedure?its inclination t?? assume authority without responsibility, and to undertake the carrying out of its ends in disregard of due process of low That the doctors should be upheld in their efforts to preserve the public health, there is no question; but there are involved in these rules and regula- : tions some exceedingly delicate questions of constitutional liberty, and it should be remembered that in the final show down before the courts the rights of the individual will take precedence oyer the "power of a king." LOCAL. AFFAtRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Royal Baking Powder?She knows. McConncll Dry Goods Company?New low prices. Plexico's Cash Garage, Sharon?Has junked a Ford and is selling the parts cheap. Knight's Templar Committee?Annual Easter celebration. York Supply Company?Assortment of galvanized roofing. Loan and Savings Bank?We want you to keep in mind the fact that? Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray Manager?Antonio Moreono in a guilty conscience today. Calhoun Drug Store?Easter egg dyes this afternoon and tomorrow. Kirkpat rick-Bel k Company?Corsets and Brassieres. . . Peoples Bank and Trust Company?Forward Looking Farmers. The Planters Bank. Sharon?Big protection for little money. Robinson Shoe Company, Gastonia?Special invitation to friends in York and surrounding county. York Furniture Company?Fiber craft furniture. , j j, , J. lA. Stroup?Dress up for Easter. Ona Demorcst Comedy Company?Coming all next week, at popular prices; 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. E. A. Hall, Mayor?Let me ask youto clean up now. Calhoun Drug Company?Clean up your promises. ' Nivehs Brothers?Buy your soaps from us. J. M. Brian Cmopany?Cleanliness In cooking. Logan Lumber Yard?Worth while lumber. Peoples Furniture Company?Paint up is right. Kirkpatrick-Bcik Company?See us for shines. Fcinstein's Department Store?Get into summer togs. The York Hardware Company?Need a lawn mower.York Furniture Company?Paint saves the surface. E. A. Hall, Mayor?The wagons will be around next week. York Drug Store?Say It with a box of candy. Louis Roth?Will have shad at bottom prices tomorrow. J. A. Marion, Chairman?Notice to Democratic precinct clubs. J. A. Marion, Referee?Notice in re J. E. Brison, doing business as City Pharmacy, Clover, bankrupt. Loyal Order of Moose, No. 1061, J. E. Stroup Dictator?Notice of regular meeting next K.?J?. -:-kt A UCOUOJ illgiivi Now is a good time to kill rats. What about the conditions of the cemeteries, town;and county? Some ol them, of course, are in fine shape; but others show neglect in every feature, All of them need attention. ' Jt .is going to take a good many thosuands of dollars in road work tc make that Boyd's Ferry bridge on the Catawba accessible to travelers between York and Mecklenburg counties There is practically no approach tc the bridge from the York county side at the present time. There is a kind of a trail that might be followed or foot, 01* possibly with a strong two horse wagon, running empty or practically so; but it is not safe for Ford cars, at least not until many of the ruts and holes are leveled up somewhat. If the bridge were complete at this time the traveler from Yorkville or Clover to Charlotte, would far better go by Belmont or Fort Mill than by the new bridge. And to make the trip at rill practicable, k is going to be neces* sary to make a new road not only frorft the. bridge site, to the present ridge road; but the ridge road itself has got to be worked on considerably. An . anonymous correspondent, writing from Sharon encloses a dollar and explains that he wants it understood that the new religious denomination that is establishing itself at that place is known as the "Church of God's People," and not the "Holy Rollers." "Holy Rollers," the correspondent goes on to say, "is the name the Devil gave them, for it is more than he could carry, so he had to put "rollers" to it so he could handle it." The only mistake of the correspondent in the letter is failure to sign the same in order that the editor might know to whom to return the dollar, the sending of which was entirely unnecessary. * PRISONERS IN JAIL. I Following are the prisoners in Jail awaiting trial at the April term of the court, which convenes next Monday with Judge I. W. Bowman of Orangeburg, presiding. Albert Zimmerman, murder; Mann Burris, murder; Mitchell Burris, murder; Henry Jones, alias Joe Banks, and Iko Sanders, larceny of horse and buggy; Fred Mai shall, violation of prohibition law; Sanders Linner and Odell Foster, injury to railroad property; Tump Hickman, alias Jim Moore, violation of prohibition law; Will Carothers and Andy Tate, forgery; Leonard Smith, attempt to ravish; Sam Price, statutory rape; Frank Smith, murder; Belton Dunlap, Roy Steele and Johin Hope, housebreaking and larceny; Perry Irby, violation of prohibition law; William Frierson, grand larceny; Milus Tate, housebreaking and larceny; Robert Helms, false pretense; Walker Reid. assault and batteiy with intent to kill. ^FISH FOR YORK STREAMS Dan T. Woods of Yorkville, county game warden, would like to stock all the streams of York county with good game fish and has had some correspondence with Congressman Stevenson in regard to getting a supply for York county, learning that the government fish hatchery at Orangeburg is producing more fish than the state is using, the game warden wrote Mr. Stevenson: "1 knew of this plant but did not know they were producing as many more 'Ash seed' than were being used or would have asked your assistance in stocking our ponds and such streams as are suitable before this. I do not know about fish cul ture or wi.emor large momn u;t.-s? <inu sun fish would be acceptable to our streams as our streams would be classed as muddy. Being in the hills though, they run comparatively clear I after heavy rains." But there is little chance of getting a wholesale supply for the streams and ponds of the county. Congressman Stevenson has written Mr. Woods: "So far as I know all those who have applied for fish through me have gotten them to stock their ponds. The hatchery at Orangeburg not only supplies South Carolina: but other states as well, and I hartily think we could get a wholesale supply of them to put in . the creeks and branches. Here in Washington recently they got too much chlorine in the water in the hatchery and they killed quite a batch of fish, so they will have to draw on | the Orangehurg supply for use up noro. i win Kinn i?? w?nn mn m [any one who applioa and will assist ybu in' anywa j< tflmt. I can along this 1,nc'" -2MU : REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Bethesda?Mrs. Sue S. Necly to Mrs. Gill Neely McKeown, 4 3-4 .acres; $2,000. (Consideration includes a tract of land in Chester county). Cornelia Pressly et al., to J. B. Prcssly, 39 acres; $5 and other considerations. Broad River?D. Newton Gaston to W. G. Hughes and R. P. Roberts, 99 3-4 acres; $1,850. (L. M. Mull tract). Bullock's Creek?W. Lon l'laxico to J. S. Plaxico, 124 acres; $1,000 (onehalf interest). J. E. Latham bt al-, to W. A. Latham, 74 1-5 acres,, premises. Catawba?J. J. Long to J. P. Coley, 1 lot; $205. S. J. Paris to Jno. R. Williams, 1 lot; $250. R. T. Gillespie to E. K. Workman, 2 lots; $3,000. i Thos. F. Cartwright to J- L. McMaaus, 1 lot; $1,500. J. B. JohnBon to J. L. McManus, 1 lot; $5 and other considerations. v J. M. Hough to Peoples Trust Co., trustees, 162 acres; $5 and other considerations I <\ Fort Milly-jJ. H. Mtfrphy to H. B. Hammond. 1 lot; $960. Kino's Mountain?John F. Smith to C- A. Muliinax, 126 4-10 acres; $2,800. J. Meek "SmitK" to J. B. Hambright, 1 lot; $2W. - ? ' r York?E. N. Ledford to Peoples Building a ad >-Loan Association, 1 lot; > >; PRECINCT CLUB MEETINGS Under the rules of the party, the precinct'olubs are to b" reorganized on the fourth Saturday in April instead of the last Saturday in April, as some people?erroneously suppose. This year, therefore, the reorganization will take placo tomorrow week, on Saturday, . April 22. The Democrats of each precinct will meet at their respective ! voting places, organize by the election of a president, secretary-treasurer, and county executive committeeman, and each club will select delegates to the county convention?one delegate for each 25 votes and one delegate for i each majority fraction of 25 votes cast in the first primary election of two ' years ago. The respective clubs will be ' entitle^ to represeitatlon in the coun. ty convent'., n as follows: Bethany 3 Bethel 3 Blairsville 3 ? Bullock's Creek 2 j Catawba 2 Clover ? 10 Ebenezer 2 Filbert 4 > Forest Hill 2 , Fort Mill 9 Tirzah ... 2 1 Hickory Grove 4 i Hopewell - 1 i Lesslie ? 2 McConnellsville 3 Newport |H 1 ' New Zion 1 : Ogden if. 2 Rock Hill No. 1 . 15 Rock Hill No. 2 13 Sharon , 3 Smyrna 2 Yorkville No. 1 8 , Yorkville No. ,2 y? 10 NO TRIAL Of^HUGGINS CASE It was stated this morning that there is no prpba^Hit^f that Mrs. Effle Huggins and Albert Zimmerman charged with the killing of Pink Huggins, ) husband ofl Mrs. Huggins on November T, last^ill bo tried at the April term of the court of general sesi sions which ^conv^nes Monday. Mrs. , Hugigins who was relea^d on bond several weeks ago, the bond being signed by two citizens of Yorkville, is now an inmate of the county home aqd an expectant mother who will not be able to undergo a trial at this time. Since she and Zimmerman are Indict cd jointly for the alleged murder of the Charlotte street storekeeper, the case will prpbabl^ not be tried until next November. Thos. F. McDow, Esq., of Ybrkville represents Mrs. Huggins while W. B. Wilson, Esq., of Rock Hill is attorney for Zimmerman. Zimmerman remains a prisoner in the country, jail where he has been since a short time after the finding of the body of Huggfns in a ditch on the Charlotte 'street road just outside the corporate limits of Yorkvillo early Monday morning, November 7. The contention of the .state Is that Mrs. Huggins and' Zimmerman who had long'been intimate wanted to be rid of Huggins, wbo, It is alleged, was aware of their intimacy and who had at various times given his consent. Zimmerman was arrested in a Shelby cotton mill village shortly after the murder. Since his arrest he has maintained a strict silence in reference to the case. Although he has been in jail nearly six months he is apparently none the worse physically for his long confinement. Ho upends his time tn reading and writing and conversing .with many friends who call to sec him, most of his visitors coming on Sunda". Zimmerman was at one time employed at a cotton mill in Yorkvillo and it is said that he has worked at other mills in the county. At one time he atoo lived on a farm near Yorkville. In view of the fact that Mrs. Huggins, a red haired woman about 30 years of age and the mother of several children, is the first white woman to bo charged with murder in many years in this county there is much interest in the case not only in York county but throughout the state. "^ABOUT PEOPLE Mrs. Mary C. Strait of Smith's Turnout is quite ill. Mr. W: C. Bivens, of Gastonia, was a, visitor to Yorkvillo yesterday. -ilrs. J. O. Moore of McConnellsville, is visiting relatives in Rock Hill. . .jMrs. 1). M. Pairott of Clover, visited relatives in Yorkville this week. '\\V. W. Barron of Yorkville. attend- I ed a meeting of master plumbers in I Columbia, yesterday. A Edward Spencer who his been I spending some time in Norfolk, Ya., has returned to Yorkville. Mr. J. \V. Dobson has been visiting , his daughter, Mrs. Sligh at Durham, | N. C., during the past week. > Mrs. H. B. Laws, who h.as been ill i at her home in Yorkvillo for some ) time, is improving. -Mr. lirooKs mman 01 lorKviue, is I "suffering with his right hand, having j recently pierced it with a rusty nail; j Blakely Plexico of St. Matthews, , S. C. visited the family of his father Mr. M. E. Plexico in Yorkville on Sun- ' day. VjMirs T.ucile Plexico, of Winthrop college is spending this week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Plexico. Mrs. Burton Massey of Ttock Hill, left today for Washington, to represent Catawba D- A. R. at the national D. A. R. congress. Friends of Mrs. J. B. Swann of Rock Hill, who recently underwent an operation in a Charlotte hospital will be pleased to learn that she is recuperating nicely. "^>J. R. Barnwell, J. E. Hart, Geo. W. Williams and Rev. T. T. Walsh returned to Yorkville Wednesday night from Florence where they attended the meeting of Royal Arch Masons and Royal and Select Masons. The next convention is to be held .at Camden. Officers to serve this year were elected as following: Royal Arch Masons: Grand nign pnesi, ij. ri.mn. uu.H Columbia; right excellent deputy grand priest, William W. Wannamaker, Orangeburg; right" excellent grand king, Charles K. Chreitzborg, Rock Hill; right excellent grand scribe, John D. Lee, Sumteri excellent grand chaplain, H. V. Tanner, Spartanburg; right excellent grand treasurer, Walter P. Gary, Columbia; right excellent grand secretary, T. Alex Heisc, Columbia; right excellent grand captain of the hosts, R. T, Goodale, Camderf; excellent grand sentinel, E. Capers Haselden, Georgetown. Royal and Select Masons: Most illustrious grand master, William W. Wannamaker, Orageburg; deputy grand master, Samuel T. Lanham, Spartanburg: grand principal conductor of work, C. K. Chreitzberg, Rock Hill; grand chaplain, G. T, Harmon, Floret ce; grand treasurer, Walter F. Going, Columbia; grand recorder, O- Frank Hart, Columbia.; captain of guard, John D. Lee, Sumter, conductor of council, E. Johnson Browne, Latta; steward, E. S. C. Baker, Conway, sentinel, Frank W. Love, Georgetown. HERE AND THERE 'T/More people are economizing in the matter of soap now than I have ever known," said J. M. Brian, Yorkville grocer the other day. "By that I mean more people are making their own soap. Our sales of lye have increased wonderfully here of late. They are taking this lye and .adding grease to it nna mnkinc their ov/n soap. The home made kind is much cheaper than the manufactured product and just as good." "Went to Florence arid hack through the country," remarked. J. Robert Barnwell who with several other Yorkville Masons returned Wednesday night from a Masonic meeting in Florence. "On the trip back," Mr. Barnwell went on to say, "we left Florence a little after 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and get home around 9 o'clock. We found the roads in good shape except a ntretch from Fort Mill to Lancaster and just below McBee In Chester county." 1^'We are having lots of trouble in securing rights of way in connection with the road work that we aro now doing," said John S. Rainey of the Broad River Township Road commission who was talking of the road work in the township the other morning. "Some of the folks are causing us a lot of trouble and it would seem that they don't appreciate good roods judging from the kicking they are doing about rights of way." a "Wish," said a Clover business woman the other day, "that people would quit talking so much about hard times and dull business and all that sort of thing. It is that which makes times hard?all this pessimistic talk and chatter. I don't talk that way myself ?don't eVen agree with 'em when they talk dull times even though it might be true. What's the use of helping that kind of thing along? ^"Made more cotton in my neighborhood last year than we had ever made in a single year before and made it without much fertilizer," commented Mr. J. M. Barnett of York No. 8 the other day. "In fact on my own farm I didn't use any fertilizer and I made more cotton than I did the year before when I used fertilizer quite extensively. I ascribe it to benefit derived from fertilizer cast year before last. But wc are going to use fertilizer this year, knowing well and good that the old fertilizer supply !s playing out." \it's getting mighty hot in norma, according to Mr. John I* Stacy, well ki'.own surveyor of Clover, who is spending some time in that state. Mr. Stacy writing from Palr.tka, Fla., says: "I noticed one thermometer on the street exposed to the sun which registered DO degrees Saturday afternoon late and 91 degrees Sunday afternoon." Farmers in tho lower section of South Carolina are not much further, along with their work than are those of York county. Speaking of the journey to Florida Mr. Stacy says: "As you know we had heavy rains in York county Wednesday night and Thursday morning. There had also been heavy rains on down to near Charleston. All the rivers were almost in flood stage, the swamps were flooded and small streams running full. There was very little plowing done along the route even as far down as Monck's Corner. I saw two fields of cotton planted between Columbia and Sumter. From Charleston on it was comparatively dry. After leaving Lanes I began to see fields of Irish potatoes up from six to ten inches high and also saw a few beans up." DIDN'T RAIN HARD "Well he di-'n't rain hard on me? just thirty days, that's all," remarked Caiviri (Happy) Ellison of Rock Hill as he greeted Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinn, when he stepped from the Southern passenger train yesterday morning, coming from Greenville where he had pleaded guilty before Judge H. H. Watkins in F'ederal court to violation of the liquor laws. "In fact the judge was a lot lighter on me than I thought for," continued the smiling "Happy" as he handed the deputy sheriff the court order requiring him to pay a fine or $100 or serve thirty days for violating the Volstead act. "Got your own papers, eh?" said the deputy sheriff to Constable Frank Allen of Rock Hill who had brought Ellison from Greenville remarked: "Oh, [ Ellison's all right." Ellison who has been living at the Aragon Mill in Rock Hill and who I played third base on the strong Ara| gon baseball club last summer got in dutch with the authorities on account of the liquor laws some time ago and the Federal sentence requiring him to stay in the York county jail a month "gets me square and out of the liquor game" as he out it. He has been in the county jail for some time past awaiting his trial and now he is back to serve his sentence. They dubbed him "Happy" down at .InII because he is always talking and laughing. "Hut there's nothing to the liquor business and I am through. T got st: rted in it over in Anderson county j hauling liquor into that county from Georgia. I thought I was making money. One time I had 300 gallons | i v?/-?11? ?-? r i w| UUUmv lib iii.> liwunc iliiu * 'iiv u? 7 l sold $1,700 worth. I wont that way for a while. "Then the officers prof wise to me. They seized $6,500 worth of automobiles and booze from me in a single week. 1 paid out lines to clear me in the state courts. Then T moved over i to the Aragon in Rock Hill and play- I ed baseball with the boys last sum- 1 mer. Yep, I played in Yorkville i agr.itist the American Legion crowd. "I learned to read and write a little after I moved to Rock Hill. I am going to devote the energy I used to put in the liquor business to getting an ] education now. I can't read and write | much but I'm coming. "That Judge Watklns, he's all right. T thought ho was going to rain down < on me hard; b"t 1 was prepared to take my medicine. 1 didn't hire no lawyer. I was my own lawyer and Just come clean about it. Deputy Mnt-vVinl Tlriii><? mnilo n littlo unofrli for mo and a follow from Rook Hill? I don't know who he was, said something about me. "Then tho judge, he called me to one side to have a little talk v/ith me. He said he was coming to Rock Hill pretty soon- to hold court and he wanted me to come to see him. I told him I would and I am going to." "You enn' pay a flno of $100 and not serve this sentence," Deputy Quinn told "Happy." "Nothing doing," said Happy. "I ain't got the hundred. Of course I could borrow it but I am just going to knock off those days. Two of 'em gone now." The reportor got out of the deputy's car at the court house square. "Want me to get in front with you sheriff?" inquired Happy who was not handcuffed, as the car started toward the jail. "Nope," returned the deputy. "So long fellow," waved Happy, "I'll be out playing baseball pretty soon." WITHIN THE TOWN ? Court convenes Monday. ? Next Sunday is Easter. ? After all labor is not so plentiful, especially garden labor, when everybody wants so much of it at the same time. ? Supervisor Brown has had a force of convicts from the chalngang busy this week filling in and leveling the lot fromerly occupied by the law range in the rear of the courthouse. ? There are no indications that building is going to be any dheaper and there are no indications that painting . is going to to any cheaper. Both are down to clow} to pre-war prices, as close, probably, as they will be for a. i long time. ? A petition is being circulated In Yorkvjlle asking the. postofflce department to extend the star mail route now in operation between Gastonia and 1 Clover on to Yorkville. Quite a num1 ber of business people have signed the petition. ? There is no question of the fact that the new fire alarm siren can be | heard distinctly. People of the town and community were aroused from 1 their slumbers at an early hour yesterday morning because of the screaming of the siren on account of the fire which destroyed the home of ' Alex Fewell. People living; outside of the corporate limits said yesterday afternoon that they could hear the siren quite plainly. ? That's right. Let's clean up the town. Let's remove all stagnant water and eliminate the breedine places | of mosquitoes. Let's use lime, kerosene and other disinfectants where necessary. Let's have each individual , to clean up his own premises where necessary, and where he won't do it, 1 let's resort to the process of law to make him do it. Let's do what we can to preserve the health of the i*eople. It's our duty to ourselves and to our neighbors. We never have attended i to this matter as it should be attended to and there never will be a better' time than now to begin. ? Members of the Episcopal church here and authorities at the Churcn Home Orphanage are expecting a large number of Episcopalians from all sections of the state to make the annual pilgrimage to tho Orphanage here Sunday week. Church Home Orphanage Pilgrimage day was inaugurated last spring when large numbers of Episcopalians came to visit the orphanage, bringing with them gifts and presents. Bishops Guerry and Finlay are expected to be present as will a number of other noted clerical and lay leaders of the denomination in the state. ? Fire believed to have been caused by a defective flue destroyed the home of Alex Powell on East Jefferson street about 1 o'clock yesterday morning, the house being almost totally destroyed although a large amount of furniture was saved by a number of volunteer workers who were on the scene soon after the flre siren was sounded. The members of the fire department did good work as usual and were on the scene as promptly as could have been expected; but the blaze had gotten start and there was little that could be done except to move such furnishings as possible. Insurance in tho sum of $1,000 was carried on the house and furniture. ? Both teams putting up an unbeatable brand of baseball. Yorkville and Clover High schools played a twelveinning game resulting in a 0-0 scoro and which had to be called at the end of the twelfth on account of darkness on tho graded school diamond here Tuesday afternoon. The outstanding star of the best high school game played on the local lot in ye:irs was Worth Youngblood, Y"orkville High school pitcher who hurled tho entire twelve innings for the locals and apparently as strong in the last frame as he was in the first, letting the visitors down with three hits. The veter an Johnny Walker and "Slim" Klinan. a new discovery at Clover who is about as good as John, were the slabmen for the visitors, Killian who pitched the first nine innings being relieved by Walker after the game had started into extra innings. The locals secured only one hit off Killian while Johnny Walker had practically all of them fanning the air. It was a great game from a fielding point of view? ore that held the interest of the fans of Yorkville and Clover from beginning to end. The tie bctweeh the two trams will be played off sometime in the near future?probably at Clover. Batteries: Yorkville: Youngblood and Grist: Clover: Killian, W:Jker and Hogue; Umpires, Mackorell and Har- I vey. . m ? Yorkville High's showing against I he strong Clover High school 'team 1 here Tuesday afternoon has stirred j interest mightily in baseball in the high school and the members of the 1 team propose to put in all the herd j practice possible, confident now that I they have a chance to win a place in ' i the standing of teams in the Catawba 1 i Hirrh School Athletic association. The 1 result of the came was quite a sur- ' prise?a surprise to Clover and a surprise to Yorkville. Having beaten j everything they had been up against, ( the Clover team did not regard York- j villo as a serious rival and the loads knowiqg what Clover had, didn't expoet that they would be able to interest . I them to any great extent. As it turn- . ed out, however, the locals played as good a game as did the visitors and * proved to themselves that they are reelly pretty good while the Clover * bunch, like the good spo -ts they are, , readily admitted it. Clover has played three ywtnes, .won two and tied one, I " while Yorkvllle has played two feTimes und lost one and tied one. Put since the showing of the locals Tuesday the baseball thermometer has begun to rise hereabouts. A. R. P. WOMEN MEET With delegates, representative of practically every church In the Pres bytery in attendance, the third annual convention of'the Woman's Missionary Union of Catawba Presbytery of the A. R'. P. church convened In the A. R. P. Church at Clover yesterday morning. The convention will continse through this afternoon when officers to serve during the .coming union year will be electfed. Three sessions were held yesterday and there will be two today. Delegates are being entertained in .the-, homes of Clover people of various denominations and those in attendance upon the sessions have included not only the properly accredited, delegates but members of various Clover churcnes ana visitors from other ports of the county. Tho third annual convention of the Woman's Missionary Union opened yesterday morning at 10 o|cIock, being: called together by the president, Mrs. W. H. Flennlken of Winnsboro. A devotional exercise on the topic "What It Means to be a Professing Christian Today", was conducted by Mrs. B. O. Pressly of Hickory Grove. Greetings from the church of Clover were presented by Rev. W._ P. Grier and the response was made" by Mrs. Burton Massey of Rock Hill. A feature of the session was a talk by Miss Minnie Alexander, a returned mismionary of the denomination from. India. The session yesterday afternoon was confined principally to business matters Including statistical reports of various secretaries. , The report of tho treasurer, Mrs. E. B. Hunter of Sharon showed that approximately $5,500 had been raised by the union for various purposes during the past year. Ttfenty-two societies are included in the 'Union, having a membership of abdut 820. A most interesting talk on the sub- I Ject of Sabbath observance was made by Mrs. M. W. Patrick of White Oak, who conducted devotional exercises at the session last evening, the devotion-* al subject "being: "A Revival of Reveranee fori the Lord's Lay." "While our men make laws and ordinances," declared Mrs. Patrick, "they are not always enforced and it is up to the Christian motlier? to teaclv Sabbath, observance to the-young children in the home and for the SOODrun scnooi teachers to impress the importance of it on the young pupils." The speaker deplored the lnc^ensifig tendency to make the Sabbath a day of visitation and pleasure and. joy-riding and declared that every Christian mother should make greater ..efforts to interest her children- in ehtirdh Attendance and Bible reading on the Sabbath. Rev. R. G. Miller, D. D. -of Sardls, N. C. of the board of Home Missions of the Synod presented the opportunities of the eastern North Carolina field inan address, * Mrs. D. A. Garrison of Gastonia, . editor-in-chief of the'A.iR. P. Journal of Missions told of the./trials and tribulations of a publisher last evening and made a plea for more liberal support of that publication. A pleasing feature of the session was a musical programme offered'by -Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Page and Mr. W. B. Rudisill. Tiiis morning's session was opened with devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. lone Oraig, the subject beihg a "Tenth for' the Lord."-* Tho ladies heard an interesting address by Mr. H. L. Elliott of Columbia. Reports of a number of committees were heard. The next annual convention of the union will be held at Ncely's Creek church. Following are the present officers of the union; President,?Mrs. , W? H. Flenniken, Winnsboro; first vice president and junior secretarj ? Mrtf. J. R. Miller, Rock Hill, second' vice president and literature?Mrs. Jeff Hood, Unity; third vice president and home mission secretary?airs. W. D. Glenn, Yorkviije; fourth vice prcsldeut and foreign , mission secretary?-Mrs. A. G. Brico-,; Chester; fifth vice president and orphanage secretary?Mra. James nryson, ?innauuru; swuaiumnii cu tithe secretary?Mrs. Clarence McCrorey, Rock Hill: corresponding secretary?Mrs. J. L. Kennedy, Winnsboro; recording secretary?Mrs. Will Rcid, New Hope; thank offering secretary?Mrs. John G. White, Chester; treasurer?Mrs. E. B. Hunter, Sharon; district conference leader?Mrs. J. H. Cat heart, Winnsboro. Following' are the delegr.tes from the various churches in attendance upon the convention:. Btetlv-ny, Mrs. W. J. Beamjuard; Chester, Mesdames J. T. Bigham, H. E. McConneJl; Columbia, Mrs. Murphy; Clover, Mrs. W. O. Stroup; Crowder's Creek, Mesdames A. L, Ferguson, W. H. Falls; Edgmoor. Mesdames J. L. Hamilton. J. M. Whitcsides; Hickory Grove, Mesdames B. N. Miller and Allison; Hopewell, Mrs. J. C. Shannon, Mrs. Steele; Lancaster, Mrs..R. M. Robinson; Neely's Creek, Mrs. J. C. Faris; Rock Hill, Mrs. John Gettys; Sharon,. Mrs. C. L. Kennedy, Mrs. Tom Love; Shiloh, Mesdames Lizzie Blair, Lee Craig; Smyrna. Mrs. Robt. Whisonant; Tirzah, Mrs. R. B. Oates, Mrs. Sam Barron, Mrs. Joe Taylor; Union, Mrs. W. J. Rcid; Unity, Mesdames J. C. Steele, S. J. Hood; Winnsboro, Mesdames J. H. Cathcart, Ernest Gladder ; Whjte Oak. Mrs. M. W. Patrick, Mrs. Moore; Yorkville, Mrs. J. Frank Fkulkner. LOCAL LACONICS Fort Mill High Lost. Rock Hill High Sohool defeated, Fort Mill High at baseball in Rock Hill Wednesday. The" Score was 26 to 0. Presbytery to Meet. The spring meeting of Bethel Presbytery"ls to convene in the First Presbyterian church in Rock Hill next Tuesday, the session to continue through Wednesday. Will Work 60 Days for 2 Cents. Kind's Mountain Herald: v.George Bernell, the negro who stole two cents from .a mail box on Route 3 here some monthfc ago and mention of whos6 trial in Federal court In Charlotte was made in the Herald last week, was issigncd to 60 da. s in jail Wednesday. It will be r? emberod that tHo two cents was recovered "from the negro or the sentence might have been stronger. Chief of Police Irvin Allen, Rural carrier, J. F. Allison, and Postmaster A. H. Patterson attended court three days or. th% case. Two cents is t\yo cents. Well Known Drug Firm Fails. J. E. Prison, proprietor of the City Pharmacy at Clover, one of the best <n'nivn rlnitr flrma in thn oonnto Vto>a 'lied a voluntary petition in bankuptcy. Dr. I. J. Campbell has been, lr.pied as temporary receiver. Assets ire listed at $11,059.63 and liabilities it $27,525.85. Endorsements which ~)r. Brison made for a brother in the extile business in North Carolina are ia1d to have caused the crash. Dr. Prison who has been a life long- resilient of Clover has many friends and (Continued on Pago Bight.). ?i__, i .