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ESTABLISHED 1^55 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL ^5, 192*2. ' NO. 33
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of lore or
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BT ENIJUIKEH HEPCHTEKS >
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8toriss Concerning Fonts and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
8om? You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
That the strawberry crop throughout
this section, is pretty good this
year is the testimony of a number of
people who grow strawberries each
year. "I brought several quarts of
strawberries into town today," said a
farmer living near Yorkville, Satur,i?v
?r Hotel them'at 15 cents a quart"
and could have gotten 20 centa a quart
just as easily. But 15 cents is enough
for strawberries and besides the crop
this year is better than usual."
Money on the Side.
"Picked up. around $130 on the side
by trapping minks and other animals
r round home tho past winter," said
W. Brown Gaulden of York No. 3, the
other day. "I didn't pay a great deal
of attention to it and considering that
fr.ct, I think I* did pretty well. But
tho result is that most of the minks
and other small animals have disappeared
from my section. I didn't
catch 'em all understand; but I have
noticed for years that in any cection
v/here there is more or less trapping
the small animals soon become aware
of the fact and leave for safer regions."
Yorkville Good Show Town
"I've always wondered why so many
road shows pass up Yorkville," said
one connected with the Ona Demorest
Comedy company show that played
Yorkville last week. "I've been in
here with shows several times In the
past few years and I have found Yorkville
to be one of the'best show towns
in the south. All they've grot to do is
to show these people that they've got
a pretty good show and they'll attend.
The Demorest show left Florida several
weeks ago and we didn't make
expenses until we hit Yorkville. Here
we have had a good week despite bad
weather. I'm going to put all the
best tent shows I run across wise to
thia town.*'
The Fishing is Good.
"If some of you York county folks
want to enjoy a day or two of real
fishing jiist come down here," said
Chief of Police J. Cal Steele of Great
Falls to whom Views and Interviews
was talking the other day. "We've
got the flsh in Catawba river and the
creeks around here. There are cats
and carp and bass -and perch and in
fact almost any kind of fish. The
fishermen don't have a thing to do except
throw their nets and most of the
time those who flsh with hooks pull
'em off almost as fast as they can
throw the hooks in the water." Fishing
is a popular sport with people of
Great Falls, according to Mr. Steele.
i nose wno cto not care to nsn may
buy any quantity they want almost
any time and at most reasonable
prices.
Old Newspaper Receipt.
Mr. L. A. Harris, of Fort Mill wtfs
in Yorkville this week, a member of
the petit jury. At the request of his
aunt, Miss Addie Harris, he called on
The Enquirer t9 show some ojd papers
in connection with newspaper subset
iptions and advertising in the long
long ago..
The papers included a prospectus of
the Yorkville Compiler issued in 1841
by John E. Grist then publisher, and
also a receipt for a subscription to the
Yorkville Compiler, issued by John E.
Grist to Col, James M. Harris, in
October 1841. i
"I have no doubt," said Mr. Harris,
"that your records should show that all
the papers published by yoltr grand
father, your father and your present
firm, from the Yorkville Patriot down
to The Yorkville Enquirer of today,
have included subscribers in our im
A Notable Scholar.
"That incident that was told by Boss '
I.nthan. about himself and other little
fellows irt connection with that old
clock at Winnst^pro, was suggestive of
Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer," said a j
Chester gentleman to Views and Inter- I
views the other day, "but if you will
allow ine, I will suggest that the story j
might have been more fully appreciated
if you had told more about Mr.
.Lathan himself,
"Do you know," the gentleman con- |
tinued, "that Mr. S. B. Lathan is on*e !
of the most scholarly men in this
state? If you don't know it already,
you would be surprised to be told that
even at his advanced age, over eighty
years, I believe, he rends Greek and
Latin today with as much facility as
you and I read English. Well it is a
fact. And if you find a mathematical
problem he cannot work, whether in
algebra, geometry or calculus, you
need not take it to any of the college
professors, because they cannot do it
either. And as for history, ancient or
modern, he has it all in his head, and
he can give it to you off hand when
ypu get him started. All you have to
do is to get him started."
Cat Has Nine Lives.
. "You've often heard that a cat has
nine lives, no doubt," said E. A. Hortcn,
machinist at the Neely Mill in
' Yi rkville, Saturday. "An' Incident occurred
out at the mllrthe dthef night
that goes to prove the theory to some
extent; becadse a cat belonging to Ed
Bennett connected with 11,000 volts of
electricity and still lives although
I pretty badly burnt. The watchman at^
| the mill came to my house Thursday
night! about midnight and reported
that the switch was out and that all
the lights in town were out. Investigation
in the power house showed a
cat apparently dead lying on the floor.
It was evident that the cat had gotten
on a couple of big wires leading :
into the power house, causing a short
circuit and throwing the switch. We
figured that the cat was dead and decided
to carry it away the next morning.
Friday morning the cat was not
there. We learned that it belonged to
Ed Bennett and Mr. Bennett reported
that while it was badly burned it
would live from all appearances. The
theory is that the cat was in the
power house after birds when it got
on the wires carrying such a heavy
voltage which was sufficient to kill
naany men. If anybody was up
around midnight Thursday and wondered
why the lights were off lie is
advised that an old cat was responsible/'
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"Bud."
Sid McConnell's gone away, the call
coming yesterday morning following
a plucky battle of many months from
which there was no relief. Practically
all of his lire was speni in loritvuie,
and he was well and favorably known
to a large acquaintance, both white
and black. If there ever was a good
fellow he was "Sid McConnell and if
he ever had the enmity of any person
it is not of record. For a number of
years past he has been a member of
tl e firm of the McConnoll Dry Goods
company and his "personal" customers
were many. Prior to going into
the mercantile business he was in the
employ of The Yorkville Enquirer for
some twelve or thirteen years. There
he was known as "Bud" from the managers
of'the business on down. Never
was a more faithful employe than
"Bud." If the work was heavy and It
was necessary to work half the night
as we!l as nil day it was all right with
"Bud." Next morning he would be up
bright and early as usual. Always in
a good humor. Always wearing a
smile. That was "Bud." Maybe he
realized all the time that the malady
from which he was suffering was incurable.
If he did he never lost his
"front." To his friends and acquaintances
he was cheery and gay as long
as he was on his feet, even if he was
sick and in pain. The boys will miss
him at the baseball games. He was
for year3 an enthusiastic Mason and
his absence will be felt in the lodge
halls. Many in every walk and station
will miss "Bud." Peace to his ashes!
Winnsboro Coming.
Winnsboro is one of the older towns
of upper South Carolina. It was quite
a village when Cornwallis moved his
army from Camden to Charlotte, and
was a county seat of considerable importance
long'before the building of its
only railroad. Also it was a noted educational
centre during many years
throughout the first "half of the last
century.
But following the Civil war Winnsboro
became known as a "finished
town." There was wealth and culture
there, plenty of it. Winnsboro's lawyers
attained high eminence as did also
her doctors, and her business men
mude money r-but somehow there was
very little Community spirit. The people
seemed to devote themselves mainly
to the building of costly mansions
and the establishment of comfortable
homes. It is true that there have been
progressive spirits all along?men who
were as broad and able as were to be
found anywhere; but they seemed to
make little progress in the way of cooperation
for public service.
With the help of dispensary profits,
etc., there was some little cementing of
a few of the sidewalks, and also some
headway in the establishment of a local
electric light plant. A public water
system was established by means of a
bonded debt, and sewerage was secured
in the same manner; but very little
was done to the streets.
The streets of Winnsboro are simply
horrible. In dry weather they are dust
and in rainy weather they are mud. In
any kind of weather tbey are an unsightly
discredit to the handsome residences
by which they are lined.
But Winnsboro is coming now. Recently
the Southern Power company
lias entered the town with its lines and'
also the Parr shoals company has come j
in as a competitor. One of the laigest i
and finest cotton mills in the United |
States has been erected at a cost of
$7,000,000 and it is now in full operation
on a contract that calls for all the
j goods?automobile tire material?for
the next seven yearsThe
principal streets are to be asphalted
by the use of a bond issue
now pending, and a handsome new
| school building is to be erected right
away.
MARRIAGABLE SALARY
$100 a Month Enough Is Opinion of
One Judge.
A hundred dollars a month .salary
I is enough to get married on, Judge
Asa Adams declared in the Court
of Domestic Relations iu Chicago, last
week. He expressed this opinion after
an analysis of hundreds of cases
of domestic infelicity which came before
him.
"A young man with a salary of $100
a .month can safely marry?if the woman
he , chooses is the right type,"
said the judge.
GREAT FALLS
The Story of Rapid Growth of Nearby
Town and Community.
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MUCH BUILDING IS IN PROGRESS
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Tcwn Less Than Seventeen Years Old
Has Papulation of About 3,000?
Construction Work Totalling Hun-.
dreds of Thousands or uonars n??
Under Way?Entire Town Property
of One Company.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Great Falls, April 24.?Seventeen
years ago the tawny Catawba ran
through this town and section which"
was then little more than a wilderness,
untrammeled and undisturbed.
Few of the sparce population who
made a living on the wild lands then
realized that in a few years the
waters of the turgid stream would be
in harness and that they would soon
be the basis of livelihood for several
thousand people, residents of one of
the most model towns in South Carolina
from an architectural standpoint
and in fact from almost any standpoint.
So rapidly has Great 'Falls
grown and so rapidly is it growing
that one is reminded in a way of the
boom oil towns of the southwest.
There is a great difference, however, in
the fact that Great Falls is being built
to stay while most of the oil towns
were never conceived wun mat men.
The best architects and builders are
employed at Great Falls. There are
few if any shacks that stand by grace
of the winds.
Seventeen Years Old.
Great Falls, which is situated in the
south-eastern section of Chester county,
some twenty-four miles from the
county seat, is only seventeen years
old. That is counting from the time
the Southern Power Company began
building its great power plant here.
Really the town is not that old, since
no attempt was made to begin build- J
ing a substantial town until some time
later. Only rude shacks were here to
house the workmen employed in constructing
the dams and power houses
at Fishing Creek 01* Nitrolefe, Great
Falls and Rocky Greek, all within five .
miles of each other- The original Idea
was to build them to furnish current
to towns of No"ih and South Carolina.
Then the company decided to build a
great cotton mill here and later
another one. Then Great Falls began
to grow great. It hasn't stopped
growing. There is no indication that
it will. On the other hand more than
$1,000,000 worth of construction work
nn rie-ht now. Another great
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power plant is under construction at
Great Falls. Contractors are busy
digging a foundation for it undej- the
river bed. Twelve new store buildings
?handsome, commodious store buildings
which would be a credit to any
large city are nearing completion.
Churches Being Erected.
While Great Falls just now is a i
town of 3,000 people and without a
church such a condition will not exist
long. The only church of the town
which was built by the company for
the use of members of all denominations
was destroyed by fire last New
Vear's day. Since then religious services
have been held on the Sabbath
in the two handsome school buildings
and in the picture show- But three
churches will rise from the ashes of
the Union church destroyed by the
flames. The Baptists are just now
completing a handsome brick edifice, |
built on the latest plans for a model
church and with full Sunday school
equipment. Some time ago the Metho- i
K*?crin tho hnildinir of:
CllSlS UUflUCU W uvgi.i w
a church here in the near future, and I
announcement has just been made that
the Presbyterians of the town and
community plan to build a house of
worship here. All three churches will
be large and commodious and all will
be well filled because the majority?
the big majority of Great Falls inhabitants
are church going folks.
Property of Mill Company.
Every building in the town of Great
Falls is the property of the Southern
Power Company and the Republic
Mills Company. The "two cotton mills
which are among the largest in the
state, manufacture white goods.
Workers have not been worried on account
of poor business in the textile
j trade. Roth plants are running now
day and night and there has never
been a rumor of a probable suspension
of work. Roth mills are models in
textile plant construction and everything
possible is done for the comfort
and convenience of the workers. The
~ni.. > r?nrnmunitv nurse, a I
I nil Id VIIIJ^IWJ M. ?
physician, teachers, school buildings?
everything necessary lo employes both
at work and at home. It is said to
be one of the most excellent mill
towns of the country and a visit bears
out the statement.
Talk of Another Mill.
There is persistent talk here that
the company proposes to build another
mill and residents point .out to the
visitor the site that the new mill will
occupy. In fact, it is said that the
company has had plans for its construction
for some time. Whether it
will be built or not remains to be
seen; but it is a fact nevertheless
that new people keep coming into the
town or making inquiries about it and
the fact that so many new store rooms
and other places have biien built and
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are being built substantiates such reports.
Transportation.
Although Great Falls Is some
distance away from the main railroad
lines that traverse this section of the
state, it has a railroad all its own and
is not entirely devoid of communication
with the outside world. Great
Falls's "Shoo-Fly" is a branch of the
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OCHUUiiru -nil jvnio i uui,i?K uci-mtcii
here and Catawba Junction where connection
is made for anywhere. The
"Shop-fly" has its passenger and mail
and freight service* heading in and
backing out twice' daily. Like the
famous "Due West Railroad" it adheres
strictly to a six day week
schedule and thefeinust be some unusual
reason if the train runs on the
Sabbath day. Of course there are
many here who would like much to
have a Sunday morning newspaper
but if they do get one, it must be
brought in by automobile from the
nearest large town. Most folks
though, are content to wait until Monday
when the "Shoo-fly" starts chugging
again. In addition to the railroad
there is a jitney line running to
Chester. Many residents of the town
own automobiles and therefore there is
no trouble getting in and out. Comment
on the ^ansporturflon facilities,
however, and the average citizen of
Great Falls is likely to tell you that
the town is such a good place to live
in nobody wants to leave anyhowFine
Movio Theatre.
Among the many other features of
which Great Falls has a right to boast
is a beautiful moving picture theatre,
unquestionably one of the best to be
seen in any town in the two Carollnas.
Only the best pictures $re shown and
the house is crowded six days a week
at each performance. The theatre is
equipped with comfortable opera
chairs and a large pipe organ and is
one that would be a credit to any town
ten times Its size.
The owners of Great Falls and those
who live here as well, take a lively interest
in the school. There are two
large school buildings, one for the primary
and grammar school grades and
the other is the high school building,
both built on the most modern school
plans and equipped with everything
needed in the model school. There is
a dormitory or teacherage for the
teachers employed in the schools, the
teacherage being loonted in the main
part of town, the building being one of
the best of its kind in the state.
Great Falls has a large postofflce,
one bank, a drug store and a good hotel?the
Dearborn. The hotel, by the
way is named in honor of old Fort
Dearborn, the remains of which inay
? ~ ? i?io*wi in tho rlvpr near
De seen on uu laiai.u >?.
tiie dam. Old Fort Dearborn is of
much historical interest in that it
came within one vote of being selected
as' the site of the United States Military
academy, established at West
Point, N. Y., in the early part of the
in?t centurv. Fort Dearborn, a pile of
mortar and rocks, slowly crumbling
away, Is always shown to visitors in
the city. The island is rough and
rugged and the resident of Great Falls
who tells you the story of how near it
came to being selected as the cite for
the national military academy will add
that he doesn't know where they figured
on having the drill and parade
ground. And the visitor wonders also^
The Duke Road.
Visitors to Great Falls are sometimes
carried to Rocky Creek power plant,
the power station of the company
which is located some three miles
from Great Falls. The road leading
there, which is of sand-clay construction,
is known as the "Duke Road." It
was built by the Southern Power company
for the benefit of employes who
necessarily have to visit the several
plants of the company located miles
apart. The road goes from Great Falls
to Wateree in Kershaw county, a distance
of some twenty-nine miles. All
of the land along the road-sides between
Great Falls and the Wateree
plant Is the property of the Southern I
Power company. They have imported |
scores of good farmers into that section
and these with the encouragement I
of the owners are building up and
greatly improving what prior to the
coming of the company into this section
was practically a wilderness coun- J
try inhabited mostly by creatures of
the wild. This "Duke Road" is a mod- j
el for road builders and the traveler
from Chester to Camden or from Camden
to Chester who knows of it always
goes by the Duke road. Great care is
taken to keep it in good repair at ajl
times. It is said that along tiie road
are some several miles of fence. The
fence is said to have been built at the
instance of James B. Duke, who caused
it to be built, not especially because
he needed a fence, but for the reason
that he wanted to provide employment
for his farmers in off seasons.
"Flop Eye."
Just at the edge of the town of
Great Falls is the village known as
"Flop Eye."
'Flop Eye" is entirely independent of
Great Falls, although it is said that the
power company would like much to
own it and has repeatedly tried to buy
it. "Flop Eye" territory however, belongs
to a few individuals who have
persistently refused to sell their hold(ings,
believing that they have a better
thing in selling to individuals.
Inquiry as to how the village of
lr-ir... vv>o" irot its name, developed
that years ago before there was any
' Great Kalis, a man used to run a little
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FASCINATIONS OF FLYING
Ross Smith Describes ! Wonderful
Sensations.
FLOATING ABOVE VAST SEA OF SNOW
I Experience that Looked Like Death;
But Alt Came Out Well, and the
Aviators Descended Safely Through
a Vast Well that Was Adapted for
the Purpose.
Kipling, not an engineer, wrote
most feelingly of the love of the man
In the cab for his locomotive; In the
field of aviation it was an aviator, Sir
Ross Smith, who has portrayed most
vividly the fascination and romance
of flying.
The aviator who met death upon the
eve of a flight around the world,
wrote for the National Geographic
Magazine the story of his epochal
London-tb-Auslrnlia air voyage?a
story which already has become the
classic of aerial travel.
This story contained a wealth *of
geographic detail and technical information,
but those portions which
described the sensation of air travel
are, perhaps, the most unusual. He
wrote:
"A small machine is ideal for short
flights, joy riding in the heavens, or
sight-seeing among the clouds, but
there is something more majestic and
stable aboiit the big bombers which a
pilot begins to love. An exquisite
community grows up between machine
and pilot: each, as it were
merges into the other. The machine
in rudimentary and the pilot the intellectual
forces. The levers and conUols
are the nervouB system of the*
machine, through which the will of
the pilot may be expressed?and expressed
to an infinitely fine degree. A
flying-machine is something entirely
apart from and above all other contrivances
of man's ingenuity.
Most Human-Like Machine.
"The aeroplane is the nearest thing
to animate life that man has -created.
In the air a machine ceases indeed to
be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes
animate and is capable not only
of primary guidance and control, but
actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.
"The lungs of the machine, its engines,
are again the crux of roan's
wisdom. Their marvelous reliability
j and great intricacy are almost as
awesome as the human anatomy.
When both engines are going well
and synchronized to the same spded,
t the roar of the exhausts develops into
one long?sustained rhythmical boomboom-boom.
It is a song of pleasant
harmony to the pilot, a duet of contentment
that signs of a perfect firing
in both engines and says that all is
well.
t
"This melody of power boomed
pleasantly in my ears, and n\y mind
sought to probe the inscrutable future,
as we swept over the coast of
England at 90 miles per hour."
Skimming Tops of the Clouds
Of another phase of the trip, when
it was determined to climb above the
clouds he wrote:
"So we climbed steadily In a wide,
amending spiral, until we reached an
altitude of 9,000 feet, and were then
just above the clouds. Below us the
snowstorm raged, but we had entered
another world?a strange world, all
our own, with bright, dazzling sunshine.
'7t might have been a vision of the
polar regions; it undoubtedly felt like
it. The mighty cloud ocean over
which we were scudding resembled a
polar landscape covered with snow.
The rounded cloud contours might
have been the domes of snow-merged
summits. It was hard to conceive
that that amorphous expanse was not
actual, solid. Here and there flocculent
towers and ramps heaved up,
piled like mighty snow dumps, topnllnn*
n rwl nriishfnp* Into nnp nnnthpr.
[ Everything was so tremendous, so
vast, that one's sense of proportion
swayed uncontrolled.
Eyes Stung by Snow-Blast.
"The cold grew more intense. Our
| hands and feet lost all feeling and
| our bodies became well-nigh frozen.
Goggles were usele'ss, owlpg to the
ice, and we suffered much agonythrough
being compelled to keep a
lookout with unprotected eyes?straining
into the 90-miles-an-hour snowblast.
"The only really cheerful objects of
the whole outfit were our two engines.
They roared away and -sang a deepthroated
song, filled with contentment
and gladness; it did not worry them
that their radiator blinds, which we
kept shut, were thickly coated with
frozen snow.
"Ahead loomed up a beautiful domeshaped
cloud, lined with silver edges.
It was symbolical; and when all
seemed dark, this rekindled In me the
spark of hope. By the side of the
'cloud with the silver lining' there extended
a gulf about two miles across.
As we burst out over it I looked down
into its abysmal depths.
"At the bottom lay the world. As
far as the eye could reach, in every
direction stretched illimitable cloud
sea, and the only break now lay beneath
us. It resembled a tremendous
ciater, with sides clean cut as a
shaft. Down this wonderful cloud
avenue I headed the Vimy, slowly descending
in a wide spiral. The escape
through this marvelous' gateway,
sevep tljqusapd.feet deep, that seemed
to lfnk the realms of the Infinite with
the lower world of mortals, was the
most soul-stirring episode of the
whole voyage. Snow was falling heav- ,
ily from the clouds that encircled us, '
yet down, down we went in an almost
snow-free atmosphere. The omen
was good;- fair Fortune rode with us.
The landscape was covered deep in J
snow, but we picked out a fairly large
town, which my brother at once said
was Roanne. This indicated that we
were directly on our route; but It
seemed too good to be true, for we
hrul been flying at over 80 miles per
hour for three hours by 'blind navi|
gation,' and had been unable to check
, our course."
QUEER ISLAND FOUND
Pacific Island Contains Great Deposit*
of Guano.
A description of what is believed to
be one of the most peculiar islands ill
the world and one of the lonliest
spots In the Pacific, Walpole Island,
which has been submerged by the
ocean at least six times from all Indications,
was given at Sydney, Australia,
recently by A. O. Mackay, F. It.
G. S. representative of the Austral
Guano company on the island.
Walpole is about 150 miles east by
south of Noumea nnd^ontelns great
deposits of guano. With Surprise Trland
and the Chesterfield group it is
leased by the Austral concern. It is
a limestone table, 230 feet from the
ocean accessible at only one rpot at
a break in the cliffs where steps have
been cut.
Mackay said that. there were remarkably
clear indications on the
cliffs of successive water levels and
that pumice, coral and other shells
on this curiously raised platform
showed that at least six times it must
have been at or under sea level. Many
traces of ancient human habitation
were found in the form of walls, obviously
built by man, columns of coral
eight and nine feet high, large tombs
and clam-shell bladed Instruments,
several specimens of which Mackay
has presented to the Australian
museum. Fresh water supplies were
discovered in two caves. Mackay expressed
the opinion that forir^rly
there was a much greater lapd surface
than at present.
"I found undoubted signs of prehistoric
habitation." he Id. "I also
found in places, where the guano cements
on to the coral, the rejjnalns of
the horned turtle which 1 am Informed
have been found nowhere else except
in South America and Lord Howe Island."
Mackay said that probably the for- ,
mer inhabitants had escaped in boats
when the ocean rose and submerged
the Island or that they had been
drowned in the rising tide. The present population
of the isle consists of six
white men, 30 Japanese and about loo
Loyalty islanders. The . singing of
these islanders serves to make life
less monotonous than it would be
otherwise. Mackay said, poultry and
goats are raised for food while vegetables
and fruits grow luxurientiy,
tomatoes growing as large as 2 1-2
pouttds In weight. Cricket and Ashing
are the main diversions of the residents.
On Sundays the Loyalty islanders
hold two church services,
which the whole population attends,
he said.
HIS WIFE'S SECRETARY
Viscount Astor Plays Sacond Fiddle to
Mrs. Astor.
Waldorf Astor may be a viscount, a
member o'f the house of Ijrds and a
lot of other grand things in England,
but in America he is just a pleasant,
youthful chap who is the husband of
Lady Astor, says a New Ycrk dispatch.
During the excitement of Lady As-tor's
arrival her*husband gamely undertook
the pinch-hitting function,
acting as her social secretary and
doubling in brass when it was necessary
to rescue his wife from the sharp J
questioning of Afty eager reporters.
But he was regarded in about the
camn Uchf na n ornnm of a tvAtfH in<y
All day long Inquisitive visitors
rang the bell at the home of Mrs.
Charles Dana* Gibson, with whom
Lady Astor ^s staying. She saw no
one, but if the visitor seemed, important
enough, Lord Astor was sent i
out. i
"No, I'm sorry, but it will be ira- i
possible for Lady Astor to see you," i
he would say. Then realizing that
he was being taken for the butler,
he would add: .
"You see, I'm her husband, that's y
why I can speak with authority." t
Lord Astor takes obvious pride in ^
his wife's career and acts as her political
adviser. He managed her cam- ^
paign for tlje house of commons, ,
He isn't alarmed over the entry of
women into politics, and having seen ,
probably one of the best of them in {
action, isn't afraid that men will be
crowded out.
"After all the number of women t
who can go in for that sort of thing j
is extremely limited. We have only ,
two in commons?and I'm the hus- I
band of one of them."
Iff" American-born children of Japanese
parents, even though the parents
were natives of Japan and never have i
been American citizen, ma t own, buy y
and sell land in California, according: to
a recent decision made by a superior I
court judge in California. However, i
the father may not advance the pur- j
cfiase price of the land for the "benefit' .
i of his children who'ttte mindrs:' " "M*
it:1 * . t- ^ .At,'
NEWS ABOUT CLOVER
?
Democrats Elect Delegates to Cosaty
Convention in TorkvtBe.
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SUNDAY SCHfiOL DAT WAS OBSEWED
Many Fresh Fish Sold on Local mar-net?Well
Known Furniture Man
Leaves?Other Ntws and Nbtes of
Motropolis of Northern York County.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Cloyer, April 24?Clover Democrats
meeting here Saturday afternoon reorganized
the club and elected dele*
grates to the county convention. J.
K. C. Love was elected chairman;
rhad P. Clinton, vice dhairman; Fred $
K. Jackson, secretary and treasurer
xnd J. E. Beamguard, executive cohimitteeman.
Delegates to the county
convention were elected as follows: g.
P. Clinton, J. E. Beam guard, J. A. C.
Love. Tfrad P. Clinton, A. T. Barrett*
r. Clyde Ford, G. W. Adams, Fred ff.
JackHon, I. J. Campbell. Tho women
lere did not "show the slightest interest
in the re-organization present, not
l single woman being in attendance
jpon the meeting. , ... Si
Sunday 8?hoo| Day Observed.
, J M
II'I.W ? ..irnK? n? s/lliha aa
willi of <?i0v i1uiuwi w4
well as children in attendance, "Suftiay
School Day" weus observed at
Dlover Methodist church yesterday,
.he day which waa formerly known a*
'Children's Day" by the Methodist
ihurch in this state having been'set ^
ipart by conference for Sunday school
'allies. An interesting'- programme
was carried out here, the principle
feature -being a demonstration of toe
workings of a modern Sunday School
from the Cradle Roll dspartntont
:h rough the Home department Jos.
K. Barrett, superintendent of the Sunlay
school presided-over the exercises.
Fish Bring Good Prioqs.'
Cat flsh and in fhct any kind, qf
Ssh caught in the Catawba and creeks
nearby bring a. good price ly Clover
md are much In den^d hero.
Dilling, well known'
irman ltvlnjf near the.. CatMflja
brought about eleven pounds< of 'cat
Bsh. here Saturday morning and he
had no Upubfe^id getting ft**;'**
twenty cents tf**jJbufm.'**T,hat is considered
an unusluJiy high price " at
this time and a number of people hving
along the river are making a
pretty good thing of it'just now bribing
'he surplus flsh they catch to $isfnarket
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Services at A. R. P. Church. f? X ,3
Rev. W. S. Patterson, pastor Of the
A. R. P. church at Lancaster assisted
Ftev. W. P. Grler, pastor of Clover-A.
R. P. church In a series of services
preparatory to communion, services
last Sunday morning. The . services
svere well attended and the congregaLions
wore much Impressed with Rev,
Patterson as a preacher,.' ' . >
Clover Had Walk Ov*h
Clover High walked away with Port
Mill High to the tune of 24 to 0 In a
fame of baseball at Fort Mill, Friday
afternoon. The gan^e was so one
ilded that it wasn't even interesting a
little bit Thus far the locals, have not
ost a single game and their changes
'or winning the championship of the
Catawba High School association and
possibly the state high school Championship
are very bright. It is feared,
lowever, that the team will from now
>n be' minus the services of /obBtty
Walker, star pitcher. Walker has
jeen nursing a sore arm for several
lays past and it is not healing at all l'
latisfactorily.
b-.i c li L. | ..wu
r?f r\i VMIIIII uvvvww - , [
Parks Smith, for several years peat
ivith the furniture firm o( M. "I* Ford'
& Sons here has severed tils connecion
with the Arm and win his fajn- ^
ily has moved to the fardi of iir. Jim
Ydkins near Tirzah. Mr. Smith and
its family have many .friends, and
icqualntances here and In this section
who will regret to learn of their JntOip.
;ion to move away. Eb Faulkndr . is
n the employ of the furniture firm
.ice Mr. Smith.
Ratterree Sells Out
Charles Ratterree, for several yefcrs
mst in the automobile repair business
vith W. B. Allison here, has sold , his
nterest in the business to Mr. Allison
itid has moved to Rock Hill. /
ln*-re?ted In Team. , /
The fact tiiat M. L. Smith has been
tome 3.000 miles away from the Closer
High School baseball team during
he past couple of weeks or so has not
lecreased his interest in the fortunes
>f the team. Mr. Smith has been in
California on business. Clover played
Kershaw High at Rock Hill last week
ind Kershaw was regarded by Mr.
Smith as one of the strongest rivals of
he local highs. Just before the Kerihaw
game Mr. Smith hod occasion to
lend a telegram here on business roat
...? Th? .A./IIUJIM
CIO UUIIl VO.ULU1 lliO? A UU WiiviuUAU^ '
ine of the telegram from the other
lide of the continent was to the effect:!
Tell 'em to watch that Kershaw
>unch." ' & *4
Business Looking Up.
Clover merchants report that bus*
ness has been much Improved during
he past week or so. Numbers of people
have been In from the surround*
rig country making purchases of all
rinds. Considerable cotton has also
>een sold recently.
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