Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JSwaps anil ^arts. ? Robert I. Young of St. Joseph, Mo., candidate for the Democratic nomination for "United States senator, in a letter made public in St Louis Friday, said he had received a notice from Jihe Ku Klux Klan, to remove a campaign advertisement which he had contracted for insertion in the Jewish Record,' a local Hebrew language newspaper, because "the Jew is after the almighty dollar and to hell with the country." Fred Welssmann, attorney for the newspaper, made public the letter which Young w/-ote to H. D. White, advertising representative of the paper, in explanation of his refusal to Ailfill the contract. An excerpt from the letter read: "I have always been very friendly to the Jewish people and am yet. I am no moral coward, but I do not care to get a coat of tar and feathers." Counsel for the paper announced suit would be filed against Young to collect money due it under the contract. ? Evidence secured in an unlawful manner by ft state officer may be used by federal officers in securing convic " ?V>?. r>,.?hiKitir,n lions lur VlV/ianuii xjl HIV (/> viwviv.vM laws, under a ruling handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals at Asheville, N. 0., last Saturday. The review was by Judge Charles A. Woods, Judge Martin A. Knapp concurring and Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr? dissenting. Th? decision is in the case of Louis Kanellos, plaintiff in error, versus the United States, defendant in error, to the district court for the eastern district of South Carolina, at Charleston. The opinion affirmed the decision of the district judge, who refused a motion of attorneys for the defense not to allow the testimony of the state officer, who searched Kanellos without a warrant and found two quarts of whisky, it is alleged. The testimony of this officer being the main evidence of the government in the securing a conviction, hence the appeal. ? Eighteen months of finger-printing depositors or posiai savings nas prut en the system to be highly successful, meeting the most sanguine hopes of postal officials who inaugurated it, and winning over those who said it wouldn't "go." The criminal suggestion connected with making linger prints, according to reports from officers throughout the country, has been virtually wiped out and the aversion to that method of identification is disappearing. On the other hand the denizens of New York's East Side. Chicago's South Side, and the other sides of various cities where the foreign population is segregated, are reported as being "tickled to death" with the system. Many of them cannot read nor write and in the old days when Guiseppe G.uillermo affixed his cross-mark to a postal- deposit, he had no means of knowing but what some pseudo Guiseppe would collect his hard-earned coin by making a similar mark. Now, like the kings of old who used their signet rings to seal state papers, tiuiseppc has confidence that his savings cannot be drawn upon by one who lives by his wits. ? James W. Tuck, prominent saw mill owner of Winterville, Ga.. near Athens, was taken from his home early Thursday morning by masked men, sp-id to be wearing the regalia of the Ku KlUr. Klan, driven in an automobile to'Duniap, about two miles awry, where he was stripped and beaten, and then made to walk the entire distance. hppie (on fpQt, according to reports reaching Athens Friday morning. He was met on his way back from the scene by the marshal from Winterville who had been summoned to the "Tuck heme by Mrs. Tuck, who is reported to have screamed and then summoned the officers. It is said that when the officers asked Mrs. Tuck the direction in which the night riders had driven she could not tell them and was only able to say that she had had a nightmare and a dream in which she saw Mr. Tuck driven away. Blooahounds worn nnt rm thp troil nnH flip ii'fli'prs were going in the direction 01 Dunlap. the scene of the alleged beating, when Mr. Tuck was met. Bloodhound ; and officers are scouring the country, but no trace of the masked men has been found, it is said that attack on Mr. Tuck followed sealed threats of violence if he did not discontinue doing things that did not meet with the approval of the unnamed sender. ? Here is the telegram that Governor , Morrison, of North Carolina, sent ' President Harding in reply to the president's call upon the governors for state military co-operation in connection with strike control: Gov. Morrison, of North Carolina was the only state executive to disagree with the president's policy. "1 am truly sorry," Gov. Morrison wired, "that a Judgment long formed and repeatedly expressed heretofore in my state prevents my agreeing with your position as set forth in your telegram. I deem the whole policy of national and state governments trying to adjust labor disputes unwise. It always forfeits the confidence of the side to such a controversy finally decided, against by the government and creates suspicion of the impartiality of its exercise of police power. I believe the full duty of the government and the part of wisdom is to uphold the law with fearless impat i.iality and permit parties in industrial disputes to fight the economic battle to a finish. Your position is practically to use the power of the government against the miners and in the enforcement of police regulations and. the upholding of the law the strikers will naturally have little confidence in the Impartiality or fairness of soldiers or other agencies of force directed by a government which has taken a decided stand against them, however good the reason for such a stand may be." ? The government's future cdurse in the situation created by the strike of railroad shop craftsmen was still left in the realm of conjecture Sunday, though President Harding, who was in personal touch all day Saturday with the problem and personalities in it, cancelled his week-end engagements to stay at the White House Sunday, where he could be in close communication with whatever other government ngeneies were active. Whether _ Chairtrtan Hooper of the railroad labor board,' who returned to Chicago Saturday night after an extended conference with Mr. Harding, carried new atid Highly confidential instructions for a reopening of negotiations with the union leaders, or whether the administration intended to stand unyieldingly by the labor board award against which the men struck, were matters concerning which no informed and responsible official in Washington would talk. While there were numerous reports that a new step l? the government was imminent, these were utterly without official continuation, the only definite development today touching upon the railroad strike, being in its relation to that-in the coal industry. Every possible contingency in connection with the rail situation has been canvassed by President Harding in his conferences with advisers in the cabinet and with members of ! the senate. It was understood the I suggestions placed before the govern- i ment included even Federal control ! both of the railroads and mines :.s a I step ' to be considered in the final emergency. Other suggestions were said to have been that the strike be left to wear itself out. the government maintaining a policy of protecting interstate commerce meanwhile; that labor representatives lie charged in court proceedings with conspiracy to interrupt interstate commerce; and finally, that railroad managements l?e required to yield on the seniority rule, while the railroad labor board be induced to modify some of the conclusions against which the sbopcrafts have struck. To date every White House pronouncement has been of a nature supj>orting the railroad lr.bor board and the actions of Chairman Hooper. Opinion that any modification of this kind was intended lacked official support Sunday night. 5The \|orkvuUc inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922. Undoubted^- there has been too much experimentation in spending the peoples money. Since we come to think of it, it has always been easy to find ways to spend the other fellow's money. There is never any mistake in road building provided the people get a dollar's worth for a dollar. They are picking many boil weevils out of the white blooms these days. And that is a good place to get them. If it were possible for the Southern railroad to get hold of the C., C. & O., and complete It to Charleston, it would mean a great doal for South Carolina and help speed the day when Charleston is to become the greatest port on the Atlantic. The best thing that can be done with that car of sheep that has been brought into York county by Messrs. Ford, and Burnett is to get it distributed among the people in the shortest possible interval, so that still other cars may be brought in. There has been some decline in the price of cotton during the past week. Improvement in crop conditions is assigned as the principal reason. The real reason.* however, is that the bears I on the exchange have the upper hand of the bulls, for the time being. Supply and demand for cotton really has very little to do with the matter. The railroad shopmen want the railroad executives to: 1. Discontinue giving shop work to outside contracttors; 2. To agree to the establishment of national, boards of adjustment; ? . To continue the seniority rights to striking shopmen. The railroad executives are holding out on all three of these propositions. Dispatches from Washington persist in the statement that President Harding will veto the bonus bill unless it comes to him with a sales tax tacked on with which to pay the bonus. We do not exactly like that. If possible, we would rather see the bonus paid by the people who made the big money out- of the war and who still have it. But we will stand for a sales tax rather than forego the bonus. Perhaps a year or two of the sales tax will help the people to see a more equitable way | of raising the money. Recalling his previous outburst against the Wilson administration at that place, the, Charlotte Observer is looking for former Governor Blease to break out in still a new place at Filbert next week. Possibly, however, some of (he other candidates will contribute to the interest of the occasion by refuting some of the things that Mr. Blease has previously said. Rut we warn The Observer that if there is anything along this line, it will probably have to cotno from Mr. Duncan, who can say it with less danger to his chances in the coming primary. As yet the senate committee to Dm !, rwwii tit inonl .,f .1 \V. Tol bert to be marshal for the Western district of South Carolina was referred, lias not made its report. The understanding: is that both Smith and Dial arc lighting? Tolbcrt's confirmation and the claim from Democratic sources is that they have presented evidence that tlic committee simply cannot turn down. The nature of this allegod evidence has not- been mfplc public. Republicans, who claim to be on the inside, laugh at the Democratic claims and say that Tolbcrt's appointment will be confirmed in due time. The Knights of the Ku Klnx K!nn have been ordered to discard their robes and other regalia except when in their lodge rooms. The order was made public last Saturday in a letter j from K. V. Clark, imperial wizzard pro tern., to Covcrnor Hard wick . of Ceorgia. It became necessary because of the frequent outrages that bad been J perpetrated in different parts of the country in Ku Klnx disguises. The j order has begun to realize how easy [ it is for outlaws of any kind to com- | mit acta of terrorism in Ku Klux xdis- 1 guises ; nd throw the blame on the Ku i Klux. It is quite clear thai the only | way by which the Ku Klux can clear! j themselves of the suspicion thus imputed Is to forbid the wearing of dis- I ' V ' T . r I guises in public. This new onlef, if1] lived up to, will remove much of the11 existing objections to the Ku Klux organization. As to whether South Carolina will have more than four delegates in the Republican national convention of 1924 will depend upon the number of votes cast in the congressional elections this fall. Under the new rules as revised considerably after the Republican national convention of 1920, each state will be credited with four delegates on account of its party organization, and one delegate for each 2,500 votes cast in each congressional district. There were eleven delegates from South Carolina in the convention of 1920, and the indications now arc that there will be seven less in the next convention. This will depend upon the showing made at the general election. It is presumed of course that the Republicans will put up a candidate in each of the seven congressional districts; but as to whether any of these candidates will be able to muster as many as 2,500 votes is a very doubtful propo sition. It is not probable that the itepublicans will begin to show their hands to any considerable extent until after the Democrats have made tliolr nominations in the August primaries. Of course the whole country is interested in the economic controversy between the railroad shopmen and the railroad executives. And it is well that it should be, because the question affects everybody. Down beneath it all is a question of master and man? a question as to exactly what are the rights of the laborer, if he lias any, and what are the rights of the employer. It is a question as to whether labor is to be ruled with and by money, or whether the man who handles the hammer should have a right to say something about working conditions. It is a question as to whether money shall have all the say?whether law Is based on fundamental principles of right, or law is only Ihe whim of money. The controversy between the railroad executives and the shopmen is in reality a test. It originates back behind that. The real aggressors in the fight are the leaders of finance?the people who control the entire economic situation by controlling the price atid distribution of money. They seek to preserve or increase their power by lowering the standards of living. The railroad is the greatest employer of labor, and the wage scale there, has the greatest bearing on all other labor. Hence the strategic point of attack. The shopmen conquered, the other divisions will fall one by one or altogether, and then the conquest extends | to all other workers in whatever emI nlovment. It will mean reduced standards of living for workers, and increased power and prestige for those who control the workers. It is an Issue of tremendous proportions, to he sure, with a stake as great as that which was involved in the World war. Kansas has an industrial court that is authorized to settle labor disputes of whatever nature, and the laws of Kansas have undertaken to abridge the right of free speech in connection with such disputes. That is, when the courts take hold of a labor dispute, all citizens who are not able to endorse and commend the action of the courts \ must hold their peace. Business men 'all over Kansas are In sympathy with the striking railroad shopmen. In the city of Emporia business men put placards in their windows reading: "We are for the striking railroad men 100 per cent. We are for a living wage and fair working conditions." These placards were ordered out by Governor Allen as being of an incendiary nature and in violation of the anti-syndicalism law, whereupon Will Allen White, the world-famous editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, put up a placard reading: "We believe in the striking working men CO per cent. We believe in a living wage and fair working conditions." He explained in his paper that while he was not willing to go the whole way on the strike, saying that while the cause was just, the time to protest was not; nevertheless he believed in free speech regardless of all efforts to restrict the same, and that lie was ready to be arrested whenever the officers of the law should come along with their papers. Editor While and Governor Allen are close friends. The understanding was that White was to lie arrested and the matter was to lie fought out. Hut in the meantime Editor White is sticking to his guns, holding that the right of free speech is fundamental and that there ran t?r no abridgment of that right. Mr. White was arrested Saturday night, and promptly gave bond for his apj pearance in the district court in Oclo| ber. ? F. M. Jeffords, one of the trio convioted of tlie murder of J. C. Arnette, Columbia tilling station proprietor, and sentenced to die on June 15th, but whose notice of appeal stayed his execution perfected the appeal Friday, when he served on Solicitor Springer, of Columbia, the papers setting forth the grounds of his ap|K'ul. H. G. Southard, of S|Kirtaul?urg and Barron, Barron and Barron, of Union, represent Jeffords. The appeal contains eleven exceptions to the rulings of Judge Townsend in the case. The appeal also alleges that as the trial started on May 15, when the crime was committed on the 9th, there was intense public feeling against the defendant. The appeal also sets forth that the trial judge erred in denying separate trials for the three men, Jeffords, Harrison and Treece. Another point raised in the appeal is that the chief evidence against Jeffords was the testimony of his partners in crime and it is alleged that this was hostile. It is also set forth that the statements of the defendants to officers of the law, often repeated, were inndmissnhlc as evidence as their frequent repetition served to prejudice the case. j LOCAL, AFFAIRS* ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS J. F. Faulkner, Treasurer?License tax due August 1 to August 15. Bank of Clover?Money makes a man laugh. Loan and Savings Bank?Grow with us. First National Bank of Sharon?You vs. the boll weevil. J. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Notice of application of Mrs. Augusta May Leech for letters of administration on estate of J. W. Leech, deceased. J. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Notice of application of W. W. Lewis, Esq., for letters of administration on the estate of Catherine C. Dickson, deceased. H. E. Love, Clover?Candidate for magistrate in King's Mountain township. T. O. Blackmon, Rock Hill?Candidate for magistrate in Ebenezer township. E. A. Crawford, Guthriesvi,lle?Candidate for magistrate In Bethosda <mvnshin Porter B. Kennedy, Sharon?Candidate for house of representatives. G. P. Smith, Rock Hill?Candidate for probate Judge. J. A. Marion, Chairman Democratic Executive Committee?Notice of a meeting of the Democratic executive committee on Monday, July 31. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Mary Miles Mintcr today in "Her Winning Way." Carroll Bros.?Votan coffee. Clover Drug Store?Toilet articles. W. Li. Wallace?Paint up. York Supply Co.?Seed Irish potatoes. The Ca?h and Carry?If you are looking for attractive prices. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Specials. J. P. Carroll?Buggies. Kirkputrick-Belk Co*?New goods for great clearance sale coming every day. B. P. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, O.? Announces new tire prices. Gillette Safety Razor Co.?The Brownie Gillette, $1.00. W. E. Hansen, Prop.?Notice of purchase of Thomasson's Repair Shop. Friends?Announce Dr. J. L?. Spratt for House of Representatives. There have been a few country watermelons offered in local markets; but most of them have been small. All indications point to the probability that the state campaign to be held at Filbert tomorrow week will break the record for attendance so far. Of course all the cotton mills should shut down on Wednesday of next week ?at least all the mills that are within reasonably close proximity to Filbert The mill workers constitute a large and important element in York county citizenship, and they not only have a right to see and hear the future officers ol the state; but they should be given the opportunity to see and hear. THE MARRIAGE RECORD. v Marriage licenses have been issued by the judgo of probate as follows: July 18?Oscar Bradley and-Bertha Carpenter, Hock Hill. July 18?Charles F. Eifert and Mary C. Wilson, Farniville, Va. July 20?George Boyce and' Hoxie Steele, Hock Hill, (colored). July 22?Willie White, Charlotte and Gertrude Riggers, Hook Hill, (colored). July 22?T. Brady Polk and Eula Kezioli, (iastonia, Ni C. July 22?McDoweJl Hudelson and Florence Wright, Hock Hill. July 22?P. J. Honeycutt, Hickory, N. C., and Viola N. Bradley, Gastonia. ' July 24?William R. L. Wright and Leila Wright, Smyrna. TO FIX ASSESSMENTS Candidates for York county offices who have been eager and anxious to know what the assessments against them will be and those who have been anxious for the date for the closing of entries to be fixed will be in possession of all that information after Monday, a meeting of the committee having been called by John A. Marion, county chairman for next Monday in order to fix those matters as well as to arrange a campaign itinerary for the county. Enrollment books for the various precincts will also be in the hands of the county committee on Monday, and all those names improperly placed on the rolls will be stricken off. Although the number of candidates i in the county is unusually large this year, that does not necessarily mean that assessments will be reduced because the holding of the primary election is a very expensive matter and much money will be needed to pay expenses. The meeting of the county executive committee which is composed of one member from each precinct, promises to be rather lengthy next Monday. There is much work to do?many matters to thresh out. But suspense of candidates is at an end next Monday until August 29, when the primary election is held. OFFICERS QUITE BUSY Prohibition officers operating in York county have been quite busy during the past several days, destroying several distilleries and taking a small quantity of liquor. Last Thursday a gallon of liquor was found hidden on the premises of A. A. Laiighridge in King's Mountain townnot far from the North Caro Unit Iin<>. on Friday a distillery war: captured t>n the A. C. Stroup place in Kind's Mountain township and about 200 gallons of beer were destroyed. The plant, with the exception of the worm was found and demolished. The same day a "run out" distillery was found on the farm of T. K McMackin in King's Mountain township. A distillery was found on John Itr. Davidson's place several miles south [ of Yorkville on Saturday. Mr. Davidi son who ehitnecd to be walking about bis premises found the still going In j full blast, lfe notified the officers who captured the still intact. A small quantity of liquor was captured. According to officers, activities among moonshiners appear to be on the increase during the past few weeks and considerable information is in the hands of the prohibition sleuths who expect to make several profitable raids within a short while. WITHIN THE TOWN ? At a meeting of the congregation of the First Presbyterian church of Yorkville, Sunday, Messrs. I!. M. Dove, K. A. Ilall and J. S. Mackorell were elected ciders. ? "The lid" in on again relative to the sale of soft drinks on Sunday. Folks accustomed to their regular Sunday morning "dope" were told last Sunday that there was nothing doing and many of them had to go without. The police officers have been instructed to tighten up in enforcement of .the j ordinance against Sunday selling. The ladies society of the Associate : Reformed Presbyterian church has 1 presented Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D.. the j retiring pastor, with a beautiful silver' pitcher, and rhb officers of the church j have given him a handsome gold j watch. Dr. Oates will preach his last sermon as pastor of the congregation next Sabbath. ? Lizzie Howe, a white woman forfeited a $5 l>ond to the town when arrested yesterday morning on a charge of begging on the streets. The woman seemed to have plenty of money and readily came across with the necessary bond demanded by the policeman. According to Chief of Police Steele the woman worked at the Lockmore Mill in Yorkville last week. She is said to have told people that she was out of employment and numbers of them have fallen for her "hard luck" story. ? Few people were interested enough to attend a public meeting held last Wednesday for the purpose of, hearing the annual report of the board of trustees of Yorkville (iraded school district. The report of George W. Williams, secretary nnd treasurer showed that during the year a total revenue of $32,S01.6fi was in the hands TUIn ...n , \Ji nit' uuaiu. i 111n suiii Wiin uinmnnvn as follows: Teachers' salaries, $19,109,!)9; substitute teachers, $196; fuel, $486.65; incidentals, $316.68; repairs, ?1C!1.70; rents, $395; Interest on borrowed money, $134.24; salary of secretary and treasurer, $150; insurance, $177; expenses in re school bonds, $456.5?; borrowed money paid back, $9,600. The balance on hand on July 19, was $1,757.92. PICNIC AT FILBERT. Unless all the experience of the past shall prove at fault, there will be a mighty crowd of people at the picnic to be held at Filbert on Wednesday of next week. And it is right that there should be. It is good for i>cople to get together at least once in awhile on occasions like this to renew old acquaintances, make new acquaintances and by actual contact get an idea how the general pub I lie feels about social, economic and | political conditions. There is much to be learned by such contact. Again it is well for people to see .and hear for themselves what they are bein*? offered politically. It is a fact that hearsay testimony is not always to be relied upon in matters of this kind. Some people will try to tell the thing straight; but everybody cannot convey | his own honest impressions to another. , no matter how hard he may try. The other man cannot always understand it as it is intended. And again every man | does not try to tell it as he sees it. Very often he seeks rather to carry his impressions as he wants the other fel1 low to be impressed. The same thing , is true of many of the newspapers. I Some try to tell the whole truth; but they can't. What will interest one writer will not interest another. Then some of the newspapers do mot want to ' tell the truth. Taken all in all, the , best way to get the best impression is to go and see and hear. There is not a thing about this picnic I run Ciin ut; fifiu uujrviiuuawiu iu uuj body. The attendance will be made up largely by earnest, intelligent York ' county people, who will be there to see and hear?to get all the information they can. They will be people who know how to behave thetnselves, and who can be depended upon to see that all the proprieties are observed and respected. Nobody, no matu >w delicate their sensibilities, whether man or woman, need fear to trust themselves into any representative York county crowd. Everybody knows that. The importance of this campaign picnic is groat enough to warrant the attendance of every citizen who can arrange to attend, and everybody who can should be at Filbert on Wednesday of next week. ABOUT PEOPLE 1 Frank James of Galax. Va? recently visited relatives in Yorkville. W. B. Thomasson of Savannah, Ga., was a visitor in Yorkville, last week. Air. George O'Farrell of Atlanta, is visiting relatives in Yorkville. J. W. Grist of Columbia, was among the visitors in Yorkville this week. Aliss Nellie Hart of Yorkville. is visiting relatives and friends in Charleston. S. I.,. Courtney of Yorkville, is spending severaln days at Glenn Springs, S. C. A. P. lice, formerly of Gastonia, has a position as superintendent of the Lockmore mill in Yorkville. Miss Minnie Florence Ferguson has ! returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to friends in Gastonia. Misses Alma and Mozelle Holler of Rock Hill, spent Sunday in Yorkville, with Miss Annie Nunn. Mr. W. \V. Jenkins. Jr., of Spartanburg, is visiting his parents. Air. and Airs. \Y. \V. Jenkins, in Yorkville. Miss Lucile Porter of Charlotte, is visiting Aliss Alartha Pegram in Yorkville. Miss Nellie Milholland of Rock Hill, is visiting Mr. and Airs. John M. \ViIliford in Yorkville. Air. and Mrs. John A. Marion have returned to Yorkville after a visit to New York. Airs. Allan Plexico of Sharon, was among the visitors in Yorkville yes terday. Mrs. XX'. XV. Miller of Bock Tlill recently visited the family of Mr. L. It. Williams in X'orkville. Mrs. ('. II. Siehenhauscn has returned to hei- home in X'orkville, after a visit to relatives at Mlackville, S. (\ Mis. T. (lordon White, of Abbeville, is visiting Mrs. L. XV. renin and Mrs. J. K. Alston in Yorkville. Masters Carl and Otis J? ffeoat of Nini ty-Six, are visiting the family of Mr. II. A. Correll, in Yorkville. Miss Oladys Neil of X'orkville, is visiting her uncles, Messrs. It. Y. and J. XXr. Crist in Columbia. Mrs. Iteka Hitch of Blaekville, is the truest of her daughter, Mrs. C. IT. Stcbcnhausen in Yorkville. Miss Dorothy Page of Clover, is visiting Miss Mary Hunter Hart, in Yorkville, Masters Joe and Earl Clemments, of Yorkville, are visiting Mrs. Ceo. Ferguson, in Chester. Mrs. Hose Smith who is suffering with a broken hip at her home in Yorkville is getting along nicely. Dr. and' Mrs. McCain Nichols of Hock Hill, visited Mrs. M. E. Nichols in Yorkville, Sunday. It. Hrandt of Sharon, has a position with the Federal revenue department, | with headquarters in (Ireenville. Mrs. .1. K. XX'hitesides who has been j Jill at her home in X'orkville with! typhoid fever for several weeks past! j is able to be out again. Misses Frances, Elise and Mary Corn 1 | Fishburno, of Walterboro, are the | guests of the family of Hev. T. T. XX'alsh, in X'orkville. Judge and Mrs. S. E. Stephenson of i Covington, Tenn., are .visiting Mr. E. j N. Stephenson and other relatives on j X'ork No. 5. I Charles L. Curry, who has hern j ] spending some time with relatives in ' 1 Yorkville. lias gone to Columbia, where he has obtained employment. Mrs. William H. Benfleld is reported critically ill at her home on York No. 3. Little hope is entertained for her recovery. Mr. and Mrs. \V. M. McConnell and children have returned to Yorkville, after a visit to the mountains of Western North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Barry of the Ebenezer section who have been ill with typhoid fever for a number of weeks are able to be out again. Miss Sarah Boyd returned to her home at Lenoir, N. C., this morning, after'spending several d?ys in Yorkville, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Coryell. Mrs. John S. Jones of Yorkville and Miss Grace Atkinson of Lowryville, have been re-elected teachers of the school at Bowling Green, for another year. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rawls. Mr. Jack Yarborough and Mrs. W. I?. Ha wis and son, Billy, Jr., of Monroe, N. C., and Miss Mary Jane Thomasson of Lowryville, spent Sunday in Yorkville, with the family of Mr. C. T. St roup. LOCAL LACONICS Pauper Claimed by Death. Dick Strain, G9, a pauper died recently at the county home. He was a native of Lancaster county. Chester Campaign Opens. The Chester County Democratic campaign opened at Armenia this morning. Congressman \V. P. Stevenson was one of the speakers. Hawthorn Lost to Arcade. The Hawthorn Mill learn of Clover, lost a game of baseball to the Arcade Mill team of Rock Hill in Rock Hill, last Saturday. The score was 13 to o. Clover Mill Defeated Mutual. The Clover Milt baseball team won over the Mutual Mill of (kustoniu in a game of baseball on the Clover Mill grounds last Saturday. The score was ?> to 5. Chester Physician Dead. Dr. J. It. Coleman, a well Known physician of the Shelton section of Chester county died in the Prior hospital, Chester, Monday following n lingering illness. Bonds for Blacksburg. At an election held in Blacksburg Saturday as to whether the town should issue bonds to the amount of $20,000, for the purpose of making a hard surface road through the town was carried by a vote of 128 for the bonds and 28 against. The state highway commission has promised to pay an, additional $30,000 provided the election carried. The town of Blacksburg is showing much improvement in building recently and the voting of bonds for the improvement is another evidence of progress. Mrs. Huggins to Gastonia. Mrs. Effle Huggins recently acquitted [ in the court of general sessions of complicity in the murder ot her husband, J. Pink Hupgina who was killed November 7, 1921 and for whose murder Albert Zimmerman was convicted and is now serving a life term in the penitentiary, left Saturday with her infant son for Gastonia, where she expects to live 'in future in the home of a relative. For several months past ti e woman has been living at the county home. Catawba S. S. Workers. With President K. C. Burts presiding, the annua] meeting of the Catawba Township Sunday School Association was held in the First Presbyterian church in Rock Hill, Sunday afternoon. The principal speakers of the occasion were Prof. W. S. Morrison of Clemson College: Prof. O. B. Cannon of Newberry and Leon C. Palmer of Spartanburg, superintendent of the South Carolina Sunday School Association. Oftieers to serve next year were elected as follows: T. Fred Bell, Rock Hill, president; T. F. Held, Mount Holly, vice president: E. B. Johnston, Rock Hill, secretary and treasurer. Big 3till Taken in Union, Greenville Piedmont, Monday: Federal prohibition enforcement officers Thorne and Queen, working with State Constable C. J. Allen and his two assistants, Friday night near Jonesville, In Union county, seized one of the largest distilling plants captured in this state in many months. The outfit was a double distillery of unusually large capacity. When the officers raided the plant no whisky could be found, but over a thousand gallons of beer were destroyed. The plant was demolished, and fourteen fermenters thrown into the Paeolet river, on whose banks the still was located. No arrests were made in connection with the raid. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? Dr. T. J. f trait has announced as a ! candidate for ilie senate from Lancas- I ter county, lie is opposed by It. S. Stewart. ? Thomas W. Cooper, a young pressman of Columbia, was killed. last Friday morning when an automobile in which he was riding was run against a tree. J. It. Managua, who was driving the ear, was badly injured. ? Itev. Itjuxter McLcndon is out in a strong communication in the Pee Dec . Advocate, Hennettsville, in defense of the record and policies of former Governor Mease. Mr. McLcndon says Mease is stronger in Marlboro county than he has ever been and he thinks the former governor will get a plurality of the votes cast on the U'Jth of August. ? The recently completed high bridge over Thickety Creek, four miles west of GalTncy, was formerly' opened to the public last Friday morning with appropriate exercises. There was a large crowd of people in attendance, including representatives of the state highway commission, newspaper men, railroad men and the Cherokee county I government. 'Hie principal address of the occasion was delivered by Senator j T. i:. Butler. . *#'?! ? Florence special of July 22 to the Augusta Chronicle: Rivaling: the thunderous applause that greeted the ' closing remarks of Geo. K. Laney at his home town, Chesterfield, yesterday, j was that which was accorded Cole L. Blease, here today, when in speaking! of t!ie strike situation which lias made ! hundreds of employes of the railroad shops in this city witnout employment tc ninornrily. and referring to similar, situations during the past administra- 1 lions, tiie former governor aeciured that lie would gladly order out the state militia for the purpose of putting behind the doors of the penitentiary, strike breakers imported to take the ' place of striking workmen. The reception tendered the former chief executive was tiie most notable that has been accorded hint during the campaign. | ? Enactment of the wool duties | proposed in the pending tariff bill < would result in n burden upon the public at least as large as that im- i ' posccl by schedule K of the Payne-'' Aldrich law. Senator Walsh (Democrat) of Massachusetts declared Sunday in a formal statement. Senator Walsh, who is in charge of the Democratic tight in the senate against the wool duties, contended that the 33 cents a pound duty on raw wool alone would increase the nation's clothing bill by $200,000,000 annually. ? Inst Friday was the first anniversary of the passage of the administration tariff bill by the house. When the measure will find its niche in statute hall still is problematical, but there are increasing signs that the leaders at least, on both sides of the senate are anxious to get it into conference. Admittedly they arc weary of the grind of work on what has become the longest legislative day in the history of the senate, a day that now has run 2.20S hours, or 121 more hours than there were committee amendments to the bill. In the senate it still is 12 o'clock noon, Thursday, April 20, 1922 ?the hour the tariff was called up? this bit of legislative fiction being indulged in with the hope of facilitating final action by keeping out all other except the most prossing legislation. Hut this fiction has not prevented the senators from talking on most every subject under the sun. I m TV, iflo T?vuu Till,, ">.4 Tlw, TV,VI a election bureau 'announced tonight that It was virtually certain that Former Governor James E. Ferguson has' nosed out Senator Charles A. Culberson as the run off man to opiK>se Earle B. Maytteld, who led the Demociatic nomination for United States senator in Saturday's primary. Governor NefT was renominated without necessity of a run off primary which is to be held August L'ti. having a substantial majority over the combined vote of his three opjionents. Leaders in the congressional races are: Black, First district; Box and Burns, Second; Bayburn, Fourth; Summers, Fifth; Garrett. Eighth; Manns and Flynn, Ninth; Connolly, Eleventh, Williams, Thirteenth; Cunnihgham and Hertzber. Fourteenth; and Garner Fifteenth. The nomination of the following ap- pears assured, the election bureau announced; Black, Summers, Garrett, Connolly, Williams and Garner. 1 ? ? ? A conference between David Lloyd George, the British prime mlninter, and Hapmonrt I'oincare, the French premier, to discuss the question of a moratorium for Germany, has been arranged for the first nart of August. says a I'aris dispatch. It is exacted that the conference will assume the , proportions of a meeting of the supreme council as it is generally understood in Paris that Belgium is sure to be represented and if the Itillan cabinet crisis is solved in that time that Italy also will have delegates present. Realization that the reparations question has reached a decisive crisis is held responsible in French circles for Premier Poincare's overcoming his oft expressed aversion for supreme councils and his decision to have the matter of a German moratorium discussed before the first supreme council he has agreed to attend since he was called to the premiership. The fact that M. Poincarc will be accompanied to London by Minister of Finance Do L?.steyrie, and Count Peretti de la Rocca, director of political affairs ;.t the foreign office, as well as several technical experts from both the foreign affairs and finance ministeries and the premier's acceptance of 'he invitation to meet Mr. Lloyd George without waiting the decision or the reparations commission on the moratorium question are regarded in I'nris as indicating that the fate of a German morr.torium is more likely tp be decided at London than in Paris. MERE-MENTION. It is estimated that or 810,000 coal miners at work before the strike, only about 185,000 are still on the job A solid trainload of peaches, including 75 ears, was shipped north from Aberdeen. N. C.. last Friday. It is said that the train included about 5,000,000 individual peaches.. There is now some serious talk of having the government take over the railroads unless the shopmen give in Two striking shopmen were seriously wounded at LakelAnd, Fla., last P'rlday in n clash with strike breakers Mrs. Betsy Coffee, aged 87. of Humble, Ky., has reached' her lSth day of a voluntary' fast, during which she has taken a very little buttermilk and lots of water. Frank Ardiduinai, a striking shopman, was killed and Charles Cesare, another striker, was seriously wounded in a battle with police at Hornell, N. V., Sunday. Several other strikers were arrested and jailed It is announced from Chicago that the railroad board has no further plans to end the shopmen's strike William A. Caldwell, general early news service editor in the New York oftice of the Associated I 'l ess, was drowned while bathing at Lake George, New York, last Sunday Governor Neflf of Texas, has announoed his intention to assist in the moving of trains, whether the trouble be lack of help or to protect strike breakers One federal prohibition officer was killed and another was fatally wounded while raiding an illicit liquor making plant at Titustown, Vn? last Saturday night. The authorities have since been prosecuting a search for a negro named Henry Chambers the alleged lUvnnn /,!' 111,. ut ill Txillia I\ Cannon of Jacksonville, Fla., ran. down n party of pedestrians last Saturday, killing a -1 -months old child and injuring live others, two of them fatally. He was rushed to jail for safe keeping: Incomplete returns from the senatorial primary in Texas indicate the probable defeat of Senator Culberson. jOarl H. May Held of Austin'was lending One hundred automobiles and a large quantity of accessories valued at $200,000 were destroyed by lire in Atlanta, last Saturday The Democratic primary campaign in Louisiana is progressing with only one candidate in each of the congressional districts The Soviet government has sent a pro.est to Great Britain, Franco and Italy against their allowing Greek war ships to pass through the Dardanells to bombard Turkish Black Sea ports London hotels are said to iiave advanced their rates on account ->f the great influx of American tourists.