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Scraps and Jnrfcs. ? %"hile living costs generally in the United States were 23 per cent, lower ' last month than in June, 1920, and two-tenths of 1 per cent, lower than f in March, this year, they were 66.6 per cent, higher than in December, 191?, the bureau of labor statistics of the_depnrtment of labor announced yesterday. Food prices showed an upwagji trend from March to June, the figures revealed, but were offset in the general average by declines in clothing," fuel, light, furniture and miscellaneous necessities, while housing remained stationary. ? Importation of British mined bituminous coal to avert a fuel famine o miirw imnnran industries "is so ap parently futile and absurd as to constitute d huge joke," John L. Lewis, president of the United Workers of America asserted Wednesday. "They tell me 50Q.00O tons of coal already hasr been contracted for at the mines in Wales," said he, "enough to keep therminers of America digging just two and a half hours a day of average production. "When it is realised that the normal requirements of this cotlntry'tare 8,000,000 tons a week, while the utmost unloading capacity of all docks on the American sea coast is less than 25,000,000 a year, it becomes apparent: how facical are attempts to break the miner's strike with foreign fuel" Mr. Lewis said he had not been in Communication with English union leaders or sought any agreement with Welsh miners which would result in a refusal to load union-dug coal for shipment to America. ? While Secretary Hoover's plan, under the decision rendered by the attorney general to use the routing of cars nn ? r?inh t'n enntrol the orice of coal. is expectod to keep tilings going until the strike Is settled, there is in reserve a still more formidable weapon in the president's "hands. Attorney General Daugherty has furnished President Harding with an opinion that he is empowered to seize the. railroads or the coal mines or both and operate them in the public interest whenever the emergency becomes so acute as to demand such an expedient, without any legislation from congress or other preliminary proceeding. This opinion has not been made public and probably will not be unless the president feels called upon to act under it. The government is bringing all the pressure it can muflter on the roads to get them to yield on the restoration of seniority rights to the striking shopmen. Some of the roads did not declare the seniority rights forfeited, others are listening to the Federal arguments and arc expected to y eld. With the seniority obstacle removed there is a growing hope that the whole businets of the railroads will be settled shortly and with ih? r? iirnnds functioninR normal ly the prf phecy is ventured, that the mines can be reopened and a sufficient quantity >t coal can be procured and dlstribut'd to avoid the worst consequences >t the prospective famine. ? The United State* government's reques . for cooperation of British authorities to curb liquor smuggling into America from Bermuda and the Bahamas was officially indorsed by the London foreign office Tuesday, and steps will be taken immediately to prevent bootlegging from the West Indies. Both the state department at Washington and Sir Auckland Geddes, since his arrival in London, l ave represented to Downing Street the serious complications if British cralt persist in running through the United States revenue cutters' blockade, as eventually ? it Is feared bloodshed will ensue, with resultant diplomatic tension. The American authorities emphas.zcd their determination to prevent bootleggers from landing whisky through forces, ana investigation has snowed tnat some British vessels, manned by desperate crews anxious to enrich themselves by smuggling valuable cargoes of liquor, carried arms and were prepared to fight rather than surrender. Hereafter the British coast guards, customs authorities and police in Bermuda and the Bahamas will exercise more, careful surveillance of suspected vessels, and tipp off revenue cutters and American authorities by wireless if necessary. A watch will also be kept on airplanes leaving the British West Indies. The Canadian authorities Will also be requested to cooperate with.ihe United States to prevent vessels ostensibly carrying liquor from Canadian ports from unloading it in America. Heretofore no liaison between British and American authorities Otter smugglers has existed. ? Imports of wine and liquors have been.banned by Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue until supplies already in the country for non-beverage uses .are insufficient to meet the national requirements. Drastic new regulations were issued by Mr. Blair covering the entrance of alcoholic beverages into the country designed to shut off one of the sources of illegal liquor supply. In determining the supply of spirituous and vinous liquors the regulation^ declared that such distinction will be.made between the various kinds as may be necessary to insure a sufficient supply for the various needs and in the case of wine for sacramental purposes, importation will be permitted Upon the affidavit of a rabbi, minister or priest, that there is not sufficient domestic supply of the particular wine required. Except as to sacramental wines the regulations provide that a basic permit to import wine, withdraw and use may be granted only to one using liquor for manufacturing or other lawful non-bever^age purposes and a basic permit to iinrt. withdraw and sell may be granted, only to a wholesale or retail druggist. Other persons, the regulations add, may obtain permit to import, withdraw and sell sacramental wine and to import and sell other liquor witiiout withdrawalA by means of customs warehouse receipts. The regulations further provide that nil permits to purchase intoxicating liquors shall expire 30 days after date of approval, except importation permits and permits to purchase alcohol for manufai till ing for selling, which shall expire !>0 days after date pf approval, and permits to purpurchase wine or distilled spirits other than alcohol for manufacturing or selling, which shall expire 60 days after date of approval. ? Defeat of the Republican party in 1912 was attributed in the senate Wednesday by Chairman McCutnber or the finance committee to the refusal of that committee three years previously to heed the demands of newspaper publishers that news print paper be placed on the free Hist in the PayneAldrich tariff act. His declaration brought demands from the Democratic side for full details and was followed by recitals by Senators Watson of Indiana, Smoot of Utah and McCumber of incidents which they said had taken place behind the scenes of congress a decade ago. Senator Robinson (Democrat) of Arkansas declared that if Senator McCumher's stat? inent that the newspapers of the country, because they could not "intimidate" xhe finance committee into giving free news print, had turned against the Republican party and defeated it were true it was "a terrible indictment against the press of the United States, tlie men who own it and the men who control its policies." Asserting that he could not accept it without firwf having: "definite and com plete" information the Arkansas senator and later Senator Stanfey of Kentucky demanded that Senator McCumber give the names of representatives of the publishers who had made threats to the committee. Stating that he wanted to< give the senate the "facts," Senator SSmuot said the late John L. Norris, representing the Newspapers uhlishcrs' association, had appeared before a finance committee of which Mr. F.moot was a member, had. refused to compromise on the matter of a duty om news print and had stated that if a duty were imposed "the Republican party would be driven from power." The Utah senator said he supposed this was the statement from which Senatcr McCumber had drawn his "conclusions" and added that he did not tijink Mr. Norris had been authorized by the publishers to make such a statement. Senator Robinson said at the conclusion of the recitals that the Republicans had been holding "an experience meeting?not a revival, but a, confession, ana, ne added, had faile d to make out their case. ?hc 3jotfa'iUe inquirer. Entered at the 'Postofflce at Tork, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1922. There is much food for thought in the cireuinqtrnce that railroad workers are expected to obey the "suggestians" of the Railroad Labor Hoard, ?vhi.'e the railroads hold themselves free to ignore such suggestions as may not seem agreeable. Now a3 never before i the time to give thought and attention to the subject of how best to mako use of the balance of the agricultural year in case the weevil gets the cotton. Heretofore ?>??, of the Kiimmor's work practically assured up to this time, there has been much temptation to let it go at that and take it easy for the balance of the year. But now the situation is char ged. In spite of fine appearances wc are in doubt as to what the harvest is going to l>e. So now is the time for more planning and more work. It is a pretty general belief that unless Senator Heed is renominated by the Democrats of Missouri, the Republicans will elect the next senator from that state. Reed has a strong following throughout the> state who Itelievc he was right in hia controversy with President Wilson, and it is reasonably certain that if the divided Democratic party nominates somebody else in his pistce, his friends "will support the Republican candidate. The Democrats of the senate regard Reed as one of the best men on their side, especially while they are in the minority, and are very much concerned over the situation. That a protective tariff was necessary to enable American industries to pet on their feet in competition with lone: established foreipn industries, there is no question. Except for the j protective tariff policy of the United States America would still be buying her steel, cotton goods, woolen goods and a hundred other things from foreign markets, and economically we would be in a class with the Hottentots and South Sea islanders. But now that our former infant industries have become giants, we do not need that same protection, or anything like it. Wo can beat the world In the manufacture of iron, steel, cotton goods, and hundreds of other commodities. However, the protective principle still has its problems and the greatest problem is to prevent imposition upon Americans by beneficiaries of American protection. ? Ex-Senator James K. Vardeman of Mississippi, is going back to the Unit rd States senate as a successor to John Sharpe Williams. That Is the way ft has been looking for some time past and now since James F. McCall, Vnrdenians' opponent, has enlisted the sympathy of former President Wilson, it is looking that way more strongly. Some time ago Vartieman charged that McCall's father had voted for a negro in the Mississippi legislature ugainst. the late Senator P. y. C. I?intar. McCall denied the truth of the charge and Vardeman proved it. Then McCall api?ealcd to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Wilson has written, "I think Vardeman is thoroughly false and untrustworthy, and that it would be a great detriment to Mississippi and the nation, should he he returned to the senate." Vardeman has a strong following in Mississippi. Mr. Wilson, when president, and in the zenith of his power, was able to defeat the Mississippi man for re-election. Hut now Vacdeman is making capital of the president's letter to AlcCall, and the outlook is that he is going to win. The Soldier and the Bonus. Tho biggest thing in America on the ll'th day of November 11)18 was the American soldier. The American soldier was not only the biggest tiling in America; but he was the biggest thing in the world. That is what America thought, it is what I'Jnglaild thought, what France thought and what Germany thought. It was true. The American congress would have been willing to give the American soldier anything he might choose to ask for, even to half tho wealth of tho country. And American international finan dors would have endorsed the propoI sit ion. Had not the country been literally scared out of its boots, and did not the entire world realize that except for the American soldier Germany would have been master of the world? The American soldier is still the greatest proposition there is; but the country has gotten over its scare. The international financiers are now willing to give the American soldier a pitiful bonus if he will pay it himself. Making a Joke of It. There is a hot controversy in England over the alleged sale of titular honors to various people for purely money considerations. In England titles are conferred by the king upon the recommendation of the prime minister. These titles are supposed to be bestowed as rewards for superior merit and achievement in any line. They are or graaeu rana num a mcc on knight on up to dukes and' carls. During the last several years Lloyd. George has bestowed about a hundred and twenty-five titles, rather more than was ever bestowed by a previous prime minister in the same length of time. It is freely gossipped that most of the titles so bestowed have been bargained for a price?the price in some instances amoimting to $200,000 or more?and that the money is being used for party campaign purposes. Some of the British people have been very much stirred up about the matter, nmrfiMrinni refleetinir their senti ments, treat the thins: as if it were a terrible scandal. But there is no secret of the fact that other prime ministers have raised campaign funds by the sale of titles to rich suckers, and Lloyd George refuses to show any signs of repentance. It is a notorious fact that many of the ablest men England has produced have refused to accept titles when offered them being content with the fame that has come through their own achievements. And to the credit of the British people, be it said that the dominent sentiment of the great middle classes is that the hereditary title is mainly a joke. As to Lloyd George, he does not deny the sale of titles. His whole record of fho r>n?f is one of contempt for the swell headed snobs who think that their titles raise them above their fellows. In fact there is reason to believe that he is unable to conceive of any better use of n> title than to sell it to some sucker who is willing to give up his good sound cash for it. The sucker himself is useless for any other purpose; but the sucker's cash comes in handy always. PROGRESS OF THE WEEVIL. Farmers Can Hold Damage to a Minimum by Hard Work. Clemson College, July 24.?"The first generation of weevils has been active in the central and southern parts of the state for the last ten days or two weeks .-ind it is rapidly appearing in t'he Piedmont section. Infestation in the southern section of the state and the Pee Dee section has been compnrativly high in the last ten days, while the farmers in the central and northern parts of the state will observe a rapid increase In square infestation during the next week or ten days. The appearance of weevils at this time and the increase in the number of punctured squares Is due to natural developments, and this was to be exacted." The above statement was made at the weekly boll weevil conference held here today, which was attended by Directors VV. W. Long and H. W. Barrc, President \V. M. Riggs and A. F. Conradl, and his field entomologists, and other specialists, and at which there were reports made from the county agents and specialists as to weevil conditions in the various counties. Below are the details of the facts and suggestions brought out at the conference. Weather conditions in most sections of the state are favorable to weevil development, and the rains are unfavorable to weevil control. Over practionlK tho ontiro rnttnn Is still continuing to fruit, but in those sections where infestation runs from 40 to 60 per cent, and with showery weather, fruiting may not be expected to continue. Attention is particularly directed to the fact that we have arrived at the critical period in the production of cotton in 1922 when the utmost attention is necessary to keep the plant fruiting and to reduce the weevil infestation as much as possible. Karmers who are poisoning are urged to follow the directions laid down for this work with great care, and to make the different imison applications at the intervals recommended just as nearly as possible, weather permitting. Attention is directed to the fact that because of the showery and moist weather conditions in many sections of the state, the characteristic (taring open and yellowing of the punctured si|ua>resl is not so noticeable as it is in dry weather, and this fact is deceiving many farmers as to the abundance of the weevil, for tinder stich weather conditions the punctured squares remain green and keep their normal shape for a much longer period than under dry weather conditions. ? An agreement has been signed at f'bnttnnomni Term between nffirinls of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and the Southern Railway, which definitely averts the threatened walkout of clerks on the Southern and its affiliated lines, local officials of the brotherhood announced Tuesday. The agreement was formally signed Tuesday afternoon, according to the message received by the local union chiefs, and compromised concessions from both sides, the employes accepting a reduction of from 3 to 4 cents an hour and a reduction in minimum entrance salaries, while the management agreed to grant 12 days' vacation with pay annually, full pay for a definite period during sickness, and half holidays on Saturday. The agreement affects some 6.000 clerks throughout the Southern system. The annual vacation privilege has been generally granted, according to officials of the road, but now is to he placed in writing for the first time. The reduction accepted by the clerks was described ns nn adherence to the provisions of decision 1074 of the railroad labor board. LOCaLAFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Marion nncl Finley and Others?Long time and easy payment on Federal Farm Ix>ans. Country Store?Choice produce will be offered tomorrow. McConnell Dry floods Compay?School ?iays are coming. Peoples Hank & Trust Company?One of your friends. Nathan Feinstein's Department Store ?Feinstein's emergency sale. Hock Hill Laundry?Let us do your laundry. York Furniture Company?Ice tea glasses. Johnson's Paint Shop, Rock Hill?"A fine job." Logan Lumber Yard, F. E. Moore, Prop.?Rough and dressed lumber. J. A. I'urcell, Sharon No. 1?Don't forget that now is the time to look after your automobile, etc. James 1*1 Heamguard, Clover?Is announced as a candidate for the house of representatives. J. A. Marion. Secretary?^Farm loan money to the amount of $40,000. Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Alice Calhoun today, and other attractions following. Garrison-Saris Seed Co., Hock Hill? Seed Irish potatoes. Farmers of York County?Fight the boll weevil. Standard Oil Co.? You btiy gallons, but you get mileage. Old Field Tires?How the Master Driver Became Master Builder. York county farmers are fighting the boll weevil with intelligent persistence that is worthy of the stake. There are a few slackers in each neighborhood, but they are the exception rather than the rule. "Yes," said Congressman Stevenson the other day, "I have been attending1 .some of the state campaign meetings, and I have been struck with the improved character of them. They arc more orderly, more instructive and more helpful than they used to be and altogether worth while." It is some faithful and energetic work that the candidates for the various county offices are putting in now. The quiet of a few weeks ago is entirely changed and the campaign has developed into a house to houSe canvass. Comparatively speaking, it is a long time since candidates have put in their work more thoroughly. The state highway commission is receiving complaints against the operation of automobiles under dealers' license tags. ' The commission construes the law to mean that dealers' license tags can be used only for demonstration or sale purposes. Private individuals, however, are using these tags instead of the regular tax paid tags, and sheriffs and other executive officers are being asked to keep closer tab on the matter. RPAI FSTATF TRANRFFRR Real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Bullock's Creek?^larie - C. Wallace to W. C. Robinson, 484 acres, $4,250. Ann Land, et al., to C. M. Ininan, 41 29-100 acres, $1. (C. Robbins tract). C. M. Inman to Aindcrson Motor Co., 321 3-5 acres, $9,375. Catawba?Catawba Real Estate Co. to Oran S. Crawford, 1 lot, $5. M. P. Hall to Anna J. Hall, et al., 1 lot, $150 and other considerations*. M. P. Hall to Anna J. Hall, et al., 1 lot $150. M. P. Hall to Anna J. Hall, et al., 1 lot, $1,500. Mrs. Jennie Miller McCarter, Mrs. Robbie Miller Neil and John J. Miller to Miss Annie B. Miller and John Henry Miller, 1 lot, $1 and love and affection. W. M. Padgett to E. R. Cherry, 1 lot, $6,500. Melissa Ward Padgett to Peoples Trust Co., Trustee, 1 lot, $5 and other considerations. E. R. Padgett to Mrs. Melissa W. Padgett, 1 lot $5 and other considerations. Ebenezer?C. A. Boone to E. R. Langley, 1 lot, $180, E. R. Caldwell to C. A. Boone, 1 lot, $500. Fort Mill?Elliott W. Springs to Fort Mill Mfg. Co. 25 1-5 acres, $2,500. King's Mountain?R. M. Robinson to M. L. Smith, 58 3-10 acres, $14,575. nf T* t/v Uamnchira S-Tt?inninpr 1U. J~i. OIIIILII it/ xiaui|/oiii> V Co. 2 2-5 acres, $3,000. R. A. Jackson to D. A. Westmoreland, 1 lot, $500. WITHIN THE TOWN ? John M. Davidson of York No. 4. is serving temporarily as chief of poliec, while Chief R. E. Steelb is enjoying his vacation. ? According to R. E. McClure, public weigher, about 125 hales of cotton were sold here the first four days of this week. ? In a slow and listless game of baseball here yesterday afternoon, Yorkvillc won from Sharon, 7 to 4. Despite the fact that no admission fee was charged there was only a small number of people out to see the game. Batteries: Sharon: Cain, J. Smith and Sherer; Yorkville: Hough and Mackore! 1. ? "All right, sign him ahead," said the conductor of the west bound passenger train, to the baggage master, yesterday morning. The train had discharged and taken on passengers and was ready to leave. "Air not work[ ing," said the baggage man. The conductor waved his arms and the engineer pulled out. "One of those engines in bad order because of the .strike," remarked a bystander. ? Enrollment in Yorkville for the primary election totaled !*"!) when the hooks closed Tuesday. Many women enrolled during Monday and Tuesday due to the efforts of Magistrate F. C. Black and Constable R. F. Lee who made a house to house canvass in order to give the ladies the opportuni- j ty to put their names on the rolls. The I enrollment books of the three local j precincts stand as follows: No. 1, 40G; ' 'on. ^ ? % t *11 t >n\ i\o. -lUts; Liinnun ."uui, ? This paragraph appeared in the j Rnltimore Sun of July 21: Mrs. Annie t Southern, through Abraham Rosen- j thai, attorney, yesterday file<t a I>111 in the circuit court at Towson for an absolute divorce from William Southern on statutory grounds. Married January 2!', 1 ! 14. at Yorkville, S. C? they moved to Dundalk in July, 1920. Mrs. Southern asks custody of their youngest child, Frances Southern, the Uvo older children being in the custody of i their father, who is said to have re- i turned to South Carolina. ? Several changes are to be made among local cotton buyers this fall. J. j 1 11. Neely for the past year in charge : of the cotton office of Williams & .< Company here will he succeeded by i Charles Caldwell, who for several : years i?ast has been in the employ of < Paul Nr. Monro. Perry Ashe, formerly a member of the cotton firm of Ashe & McCleave which has gone out of j i business will be in the employ of Paul N. Moore. Lindsay Davidson who has been with Williams & Company here will go to Shelby, X. C., as the representative of Mr. Moore, while Mr. Neely will return to Rock Hill, where he will be engaged in the cotton ( business. ? The annual district conference of 1 colored Methodist Episcopal church, Spartanburg district, is being held with Wesley M. E. church of Yorkville, 1 this week, having convened Wednesday morning, with Itev. J. C. Martin of fJieenwood, presiding as district superintendent. The attendance includes about seventy delegates fr<>m the various churcheu in Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union, York, Lancaster, Chester, Chesterfield and Kershaw counties. The delegates are being entertained in the homes of the members of all the local colored churches. The work of the conference will continue through next Sunday night. ? The postoffice department, has for the present declined to change the star mail route between CJastonia and Yorkville into a two-way route thus giving Filbert, Clover and Bowling Uroen pcopje mo uuviiiiiiiKt' ?' <v ni.m from the south in the afternoons. The fourth assistant postmaster general in a letter to Congressman Stevenson relative to this star route which by the way is No. 18,529, says: "As the office of York has an afternoon dispatch by railroad, It does not appear that service by a return trip on this route would be of sufficient importance to warrant the department in incurring a material additional expense therefor. However, if the person to whom the sendee has been awarded would agree to carry mail on the return trip for practically a nominal additional amount, consideration would be given to an offer of that kind from him." While in Yorkville yesterday Congressman Stevenson said that he proposed to go further into the proposition with the postofllce department since he saw no good reason why such a double service should not be had, especially in view of the fact that there is no afternoon, man service netween Yorkville and Itowling Green. Mr. Dulin enters upon his work as permanent carrier between Gnstonia and Yorkville next Monday, succeeding Mr. Clyde Karris, of Clover, who has had the place temporarily. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. and Mrs. R. It. Allison of Rock Hill, arc visiting relatives at Tirzah. Mr. and Mrs. YV. P. Smith of Clover, were visitors in Yorkville yesterday. J. A. C. Love of Clover No. 4, was in Yorkville today. Dr. and Mrs. I. J. Campbell of Clover were in Yorkville today. Mr. Ben Levy of Yorkville, has been spending some days in Baltimore and YVashington. Thos. P. McDow, Esq., of Yorkville, is a visitor in Ashevillc, N. C., this week. Mrs. John R. Hart and daughter of Yorkville, arc visiting relatives in Columbia. Capt. G. 1'. Smith of Roclc Hill, was among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Former Senator J. E. Bcamguard of Clover, was a visitor in Yorkville yesterday. MY. H. F. Horton of Sharon No. 1, was among the visitors in Yorkville today. Miss Annie Wallace Marshall of Yorkville, is visiting Mrs. Mary Fain In Dandridge, Tenn. ' Miss Martha Pcgram of Yorkville, is visiting Miss Lucilo i'ortcr in Charlotte. Mrs. Morris Cobb and little daugher of Laimberton, N. C., are visiting relatives in Yorkville. Messrs. Hope Sift'o^d and C. N. Alexander of Clover were among the visitors in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Johnson, of New York, are visiting the family of Mr. Robert Witherspoon in Yorkville. D. T. Byers of Dillon, visited his parents, Mr. and, Mrs. John A. Byers, in Sharon, this week. Mrs. Meachanr Thrower and children of Yorkville, are visiting relatives and friends in Fort Mill. Misses Margaret and Norma Grist of Yorkville, are visiting relatives in to. noir, N. C. Misses Rocena Woods and Catherine wyne 01 l oik vine, are visuui); me family of Mr. John A. Harshaw at Guthrjesville. Misses Elsie Pressly of Greenville and Mary Patrick of Winnsboro, are visiting Miss Jeanette Moore of Yorkville. Mrs. J. N; Russell of Sharon No. 1. recently underwent an operation in a Spartanburg hospital. She is reported getting along nicely. M. L. Carroll and \V. M. McConnell of Yorkville, attended the meeting of the South Carolina Retail Merchants association in Columbia this week. Messrs. Alva A. Kelly and T. ! '. Clyburn of Hishopville, were visitors at Mr. T. F. Dunlap's on York No. 3, Sunday. i Mrs. Deioaeh Whitesides has returned to her home oil Filbert No. 1, after undergoing an operation for appendicitis in a Gastonia hospital. Misses Addie Lee and Elizabeth Mitchell haw returned to their home ' in Yorkville. after a visit to friends and relatives in the Armenia section of Chester county. William.II. McCorkle who has been , attending the Citizen's Military Train- ^ ing Camp in Anuiston, Ala., is visiting , his father, Mr. Paul G. McCorkle in ( Yorkville. Mr. S. S. Itartness and family have j returned to Yorkville after an extended Ford tour into the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia and Tennes Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Carlton and children of Virginia, are visiting Mrs. Carlton's parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. J5. McDaniel, on York No. (5. i Herbert Laws, Floyd W'ray and John ' E. Carroll, Jr.. who have been attend- i ing a training camp for officers at ' fort McClellnn. Anniston, Ala., have i returned to their respective homes in ^ Yorkville. ? George Laws and Grady McFarland 1 of Yorkville and flay Plcxico of Sha- ' roil, left this week for Anniston, Ala., J to enter the Citizens' Military Training i camp. They will be away several i weeks. Messrs. O. C. and G. R. Taylor, who (. have been in the employ of the York- ^ ville Cotton Oil company for the past j v two years or more, the former as su- ' perintendent of the oil mill, and the[ ( latter as assistant, have given up their j respective positions for work else- , , where. Mr. O. C. Taylor left recently! and Mi1. G. It. Taylor is to leave within I j t few days. i Lancaster Citizen. July L'7: Mr. J. C. j s Robinson of Itock Hill, spent Sunday J here with his father, Mr. \V. I). Robin- n son Mr. and Mrs. \\\ f. Howell j \\ npent several days of last week visit- n ing relatives in York county Mr. i ind Mrs. Willie Strait spent the week- I n . tul at York.? Mr. and Mrs. W. 1'. .\ Robinson spent Tuesday at Rock Hill. Mrs. W. 1'. Robinson had as her guests last week her sister and her niece, Miss Annie N'eely and Miss Annabel Poag of Rock Hill. York county friends of Rev. John A. McMurray, formerly pastor of Hethesda j Presbyterian church and for some lime past pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fayetteville, N. C., will be interested to learn that Ijc has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Abbeville, S. C. Rev. Mr. McMurray will enter upon the duties of his new pastorate about September 1. A singular co-incidence in connection with the acceptance of the call to Abbeville by Rev. Mr. McMurray is the fact, that he is the second former pastor of Bethesda church to accept a call to Abbeville, the late Rev. Dr. Lowry Wilson, for many years pastor of Bethesda having accepted a call to Abbeville years ago. A. it. Marwick, for the past two years engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in Rock Hill at the Aragon Mill, has accepted a position as Y. M. C. A. secre - ? a milio lury Willi nil.* ? uiu v^uuvu iUKio. LOCAL LACONICS Negro to Jail. Richard Ruff, negro of Rock Hill, has been committed to the York county jail on a warrant charging him with grand larceny. Summer School Closes Today. The summer school for teachers which has been in progress at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, for the past several weeks came to a close today. The enrollment for the school was about 2,148, the* largest In its history. Passed Medical Board. Dr. W. M. Jones of Yorkville, was among the doctors who passed the examination given by the state medical board in June, it has just been announced. Among the nurses who passed were, Sarah M. Sturgis, Mattic A. Williams and Amelia Drown of Rock Hill. Clover Takes First. Clover took the first of a three game baseball series with the Gastonia "All Stars" at Hawthorn Park, Clover, yesterday afternoon. The score was 5 to t Tim two tpnmB nhiv nirsiin this afternoon and will also play Saturday afternoon, the contest beginning each evening at 5:30. The line up of tlio Clover team has . been materially strengthened it is stated and Clover feels like she should be able to cop the "serious." Blease Will Get Big Majority. Hlensc will get a larger majority of the votes at Filbert this year than ever before in any of his campaigns, according to political prognosticatorsof Filbert. "If there is a full turn-out of the voters at Filbert on election day," said a Filbert citizen this morning. "I venture the opinion that Hlease will j get 175 out of the 313 voter's enrolled there. With possibly a dozen exceptions every voter of the Filbert community, both men and women are enrolled." Presbyterian College Alumni. Rock Hill, July 36: The York-Chester Association of South Carolina Alumni, was formed at a meeting and banquet of former Presbyterian college men here. II. T. Eichelberger of Presbyterian college was here from -Clinton, and talks were made by himself, Dr. I Alexander Martin and Dr. F. W. Gregg. It. T. Fewell was elected president; Dr. W..R. Wallace, vice president, and l\ K. Clinton. Jr., secretary ancl treasurer. J. Arthur Flanagan and A. O. Jones, Jr., were named as tho York members of tho board of directors. Rock Hill Enrollment. The Herald says: "With tho enrollment in Kock Hill totaling around 1,850, more voters have qualified for the primary than ever before. The record year of 1916 found a total of 1,400 names on the book. About 350 women enrolled, this showing1 a gain of approximately 100 male voters over six years ago. Tho enrollment is double what it was two years ago, if not more. Ward 1 has a total of 396 names, 71 of which are names of women. Ward No. S has 474. with J12 women. Ward No. 3 has 320 names, with approximately 25 women enroll- | ed. Ward No. 4 is the banner so far as the women are concerned, there being 117 out of an enrollment of "364. The Aragon precinct shows approximately 300 enrolled, with the registrars estimating 25 women among the number. MERE-MENTION. Representative Blanton of Texas, has been re-elected by an overwhelming majority The Norwegian catch of mackerel has been so great this year that the flsh are selling in home ports at a cent each. Silly Superstition.?What has been told as an amusing' story regarding the superstition of negroes in Anderson county and their reluctance or refusal to combat the boll weevil by means of burning the squares, has developed into what may be termed a menace to the county cotton crop, according to prominent Anderson farmers, who are entertaining great concern over the matter. With the new crop of boll weevils, the rapidity with which the weevils multiply Is being impressed upon the farmers and they are realizing the result that will he brought about if drastic methods of combating the weevil are not employed speedily. A number of farmers coming to Antlerson during the past few days have expressed great concern over the situation as the result of negroes refusing to burn the squares and weevils. Unless the squares are burned r>r otherwise destroyed, there seems little need of gathering them.?Anderson Daily Mail. FORT MILL MATTERS ntercsting News Notes From the Town ___ Across the Catawba. Port Mill. July 27.?News has boon received by his father of painful iniiries received by James T. Young, Jr., n an automobile collision on the highvay in western Xorth Carolina near \shevil'?. X. C., in which also his car ,vas badly damaged. Details of the ac ident iiave not been received, but an njury to Air. Young's knee caused his letainment in a hospital, from which ic hopes to be able to make his way tome in a few days. Col. and Mrs. Thomas R. Spratt enertained a number of their friends at i unch Tuesday, the occasion being i omplimentary to Maj. and Mrs. Krs- j :ine Ardrey of Port McPherkon, Ga.. : rho are visiting relatives in Fort Mill. Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson of,, 'harlotte were week-end visitors in 'ort Mill, guests in the home of Mrs. I icssie Massey. |! Alphonza 15. Withers of Jacksonville, j 'la., is a guest in the home of Mr. . nd .Mrs. Withers .Massey on Spratt treet. Montague Crook left Port Mill Wodesday morning for Anniston. Ala "here ho will servo in the citizens' j 1 lilitary training camp for a fortnight. .Mrs. Alice A. Slough and her child- J en of Cornelius, are visitors in Fort j? till, guests in tho home of Dr. and * Mrs. J. L. Spratt. t Mrs. Roy Patterson of Mount Holly is u'guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. .J. H. Patterson on Tom Hall street. Mrs. Bessie Brunson of Sumter, S. C., visited relatives and friends in Port 4 Mill, during the past week. Mr. anil Mrs. Prank Kimbrell of Charlotte, spent the past week-end in Port .Mill, visitir.g Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Kimbrell. Mr. and Mrs. L>. L. Branson of Canton, were guests on Sunday of Mrs. Alice Harris. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Oldham of Charlotte, spent the week-end in Fort Mill, visiting the lattcr's mother Mrs. M. H. Ardrey. T. W. Taylor and his daughters. Mrs. Minnie Carothers and Miss Molivia Taylor of I^ancaster, S. C., were visitors here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar T. Culp left this week for a visit to relatives in Santuc, S. C. Mrs. M. H. Ardrey is absent this week on a visit to her son F. E. Ardrey and his family in Aiken, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The third extra meeting of the state Ccami>aign was held at Mullins * last Tuesday night, the candidates having been invited there from Marlon. All of the candidates were present except former Governor Bleose and Secretary of State Dove. Mr. Blease declined the Invitation on the ground that he did not care to speak fn m the ss me platform with John T. Duncan; that If Duncan was invited, ho would not come. ? On the face of the enrollment books, which closed Tuesday at noon, 10,457 men and women in the city of Charleston qualified for the approaching primary elections. It is believed that the county clubs will show about 1.500 men and women on their rolls, which are to be delivered at once. County Chairman Daniel L. Slnkler was in the office of the county auditor when the city plub books were being delivered. He has nlready arranged for the typewriting of all the" names in order that, pursuant to law, they may * be published for inspection by the public. ? There was an out of the ordinary diversion in the state campaign at Marion last Tuesday because of the statement of Senator Laney to the effect that machine |>oliticianH arc seeking to control the election of the governor of South Carolina, Ho stilted that he had heard men talking of the desirability of centering on a man to beat Hlcaso, and from whet he said it appeared that AIcLeod was the man the machine wus centering on for the purpose. He disclaimed allegiance or responsibility to any ring, faction or machine; but sold that if elected ho would be governor of all tho people. Mr. McLeod took note of wluit Mr.Lanev had said, and denied that he was the candidate of a m ichlne. He said that tl:e only ring around him was a majority of the men and women of the state, and that was the ring Into which tfie other candidates were trying to break. AT THE CHURCHES FIRST BAPTIST Rev. D. L. Hill. Pastor. Sunday Worship?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11. *B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. Evening service at 8:15. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Rev. E. E. Gillespie, D. D., Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11. Junior ^ C. E. at 4 p. in. Young Peoples C. E. at 7.30 p. m. TRINITY METHODIST Rev. J. K. Walker, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 o'clock. Morning service at 11. Evening service at 8. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Rev. T. T. Walsh, Pastor. . No services Sunday. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. L. Oates, D. D. Pastor. anrviniM tllivl HVPII.hir at j 8 o'clock, Saturday morning at 11. Sabbath school a't 10 o'clock. Morning1 services ut 11, followed by communion. Evening service at 8 o'clock. CHARLOTTE STREET BAPTIST. Rev. J. M. Trogdon, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11. Evening service at 7:45. ^ppcinl $oiircs. Clover and Union. Clover?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. Union?Sunday school at 3 p. m. Preaching at 3:30 p. m. , , N. A. Hemrick, Pastor. Clover Circuit. King's Mountain Chapel?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11. St. Paul?Preaching at 3.30 p. m. Clover ?Preaching at 8 p. m. J. (J. Huggin, Pastor. Revival at Ramah. F will conduct a series of revival meotlngH at lUunah Presbyterian church, b 'ginning Monday nigl t, July 31, and continuing through tlio following Sunday night, August 6. It John L. Yandell. FIT FOR YOUNG GIRLS , "I have used Hagan's Magnolia Balm ever sinoo I was 18 years old. I am now 48 and I .know from experience that it i.s ;the l?cst and only reliable toilet preparation now made that is absolutely fit for young girls to use on tluir face at all times, that it will positively remove freckles and tan, and not promote the growth of hair or fuzz on the face. Respectfully, (signed) Mrs. J. H. Burke, Manse, Gcrrr.rd Co., Ky." Liquid Face and Toilet Powder ? Brunette, white, pink, rose red. 75 cents at druggists or by mail. Lyon Mfg. Co., 41' So. Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.?Adv. 4 HYMENEAL MARRIED?Wednesday, at the home >f Mr. H. M. Stephenson, near Sharon, Rev. E. R. Hunter, pastor of Sharon A. j ft. I'. church officiating, Mrs. AGNES ROPE and Mr. S. T. FERGUSON, Sr. In Yorkville. Thursday evening, Mr. OF I NX I'ARltOTT and Miss MARTHA SMITH, both of Clover. ? lev. E. K. Gillespie, IX P.. officiating. Mr. Pa not t is the son of Mr. IX M. \arroU of Clover and his bride Is the laughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Smith of Clover.