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Scraps and darts. ? If the Georgia senate concurs in a resolution adopted by the house of representatives, the people of the state will v?te on the question of levying an income tax for the purpose of raising revenues. The proposed bill is fashioned after the Federal income tax law and carries an exemption of $1,000 for single persons, $2,5C0 for heads of families, and $200 for each child under eighteen. The tax is 3 per c'eht. on net incomes. It is proposed also to reduce the ad valorum tax from 4 to 3 mills. ? Forcible ejection from Colorado by State Rangers Monday of William Z. Foster, leader of the big steel strike two years ago, and nationally known labor organizer, was "for the best interests of the state" and "no law was consulted," Adjt. Gen. Hamrock said Tuesday. Foster, who was characterized as a "dangerous radical" by the adjutant general, was taken from a hotel u; r.Mtral fi-nm tfalt Tjlkft CltV. iUtCI Ills aillTUl 14 V.U r placed in an automobile and escorted to the Kansas state line, Hamrock announced. Previously it had been roported he was placed on a train. Foster told the Rangers his mission to Denver was "legitimate," but ho offered no physical resistance. A grip Foster carried, and said by Hamrock to contain radical literature, was seized and its contents confiscated. Foster, who is alleged to be president of the society "Friends of Soviet Rusisa," was denounced by the adjutant general, who said: "We have characterized him as an undersirable in Colorado and so we decided to have him keep right on golug without any stop in Denver." ? An epidemic of duelling has started among Argentine deputies. Five duels have been fought In forty-eight hours, and more muy develop as a result of Friday night's debate in the Chamber of Deputies on governmental administration of the Argentine oil - " - ~ '?* Unn. fields, unc cumiai v??? iuUb?i day with sabers nnd another was ..ought Tuesday. Three sets of seconds were busy Wednesday afternoon arranging: other encounters. All combatants participated in Friday's debate which terminated in the early hours of Saturday morning Just in time to avert I a free-for-all. One of the lemuining duels must be postponed indefinitely because one of Tuesday's duelists so far forgot the ethics of duelling as to wound his opponent. It is a long time since there has been a similar outbreak in Argentinea. One of Tuesday's duellists already has fought two others since being a member of congress, but the record still is held by a prominent Argentine Socialist, who was expelled from his party because of the large number of duels he had fought. His plea against his ouster fr6m '.he^ party was that he never even by chance had injured an opponent. ? Bumper crop production m geunai this year, resulting from highly favorable growing conditions during July, was indicated by the government's August crop report issued Tuesday. A 3,000,000,000 bushel corn crop for the fqurth time in the history of farming in the United States was forecast. A record crop of hay, estimated at 93,100,000 tons, is being harvested, surpassing the record made in 1019 by 1,300,000 tons. The second largest crop of white potatoes ever grown was reported in prospect, the total production being forecast at 440,000,000 bushels, or 2,000,000 bushels less than the record crop of 1917. Sweet potato production this year probably will make another record, according to the August forecast, which equals the record crop of 1920. The fourth largest urop of tobacco ever grown is forecast, with a total production of 1,425,000,000 pfeunds. Another 200,000,000 buslTel ** ? * ? ? 1M O'i iron fa 4c I Crop OX apples, me itui nt uu jvu.o indicated, with this year's production more than double that of last year. Peaches are a plentiful crop, with a total production this year second only to the record year of 1915. July vif ather's influence on the growing crops was said to have been extremely benefleial, as indicated by the increases in forecast of production this as compared with those of a nu>ptb. ago. Spring wheat showed an increase in its production forecast amounting to 15,000,000 bushels; corn, 157,000,000; oats, 64,000,000 bushels; barley, 10,000,000 bushels; white potatoes, 11,000,000 bushels; tobacco, 10,000,000 pounds; apples, 12,000,000 bushels, and peaches, 1,700,000 bushels. ? Typhoon-stricken Swatow, a mangled and miserable caricature of the port of a week ago, says a Kong-Kong dispatch, doggedly goes about the first arhastly task that falls to the survivors of the storm?burial of the dead. Bodies of 28,000 have been recovered, a death toll that triples former estimates and cuts in half the former population of the nationality. The figures were given in a circular issued by the Swatow chamber of commerce from its branch in Hong-Kong. Rude coffins have been hammered together with lumber salvaged from the wreck of the city. But these canhot be mado fast enough to dispose of bodies which are a .sanitary menace. Gunnysacks and mattress bags have been made into crude shrouds. Graves are hurriedly dug in the alluvial flats on which the port was built, that bodies may be interred as they are recovered from the wreckage. Shortage of food may prove another menace. British in HongKong have sent $10,000 for relief to the British consul at Swatow. Rice is being shipped from the British colony. The Swatow municipality charitable association has organized a relief fund, to which sgbscriptions are being sought. Benevolent societies in HongKong are uniting in relief measures for the sufferers. Bandits, making grim capital of the city's disaster, are reported to have raided homes and robbed pedestrians in the native sec ?K,. 11UU. VIIIUUIR DVU^III IU ivui HIV but were promptly stopped by native police. The tidal waves which swept the road along the harbor while the storm was at its height completed the devastation which the storm started. Waterfront buildings, crumpled before the assault of the water, lie in tangled nondescript pi Irs. Three steamers caught in the storm were piled, on the beach. Smaller craft, demolished*when they sought shelter in Swatow harbor, add to the tangle on the waterfront that swirls with the tide. Bodies of many victims have drifted out to sea. They have beer, sighted by steamers as far as 15 miles from the devastated port. Many will never be recovered. ? With the races for the gubernatorial and senatorial nominations on both the Republican and Democratic tickets definitely settled, interest lias turned towards the attitude of Ohio voters on prohibition as shown by their ballots in Tuesday's state primary election. R< turns from approximately fourfifths of the precincts of the state gave Carmi A. Thompson, administration candidate for the lb-publican nomination for governor and recipient of anti-saloon league endorsement, a plurality of almost. 100.000 votes over the closest of his opponents, among whom were advocates of progressiveism and the return of beer and light wines. Congressman C. L. Knight, of Akron, characterized as a "Roosevelt progressive," was running second, and C. Homer Durand, who made his race on a light wine and beer platform, was third. Harvey C. Sinitli, secretary of state and another liberal candidate was running fourth. The wet and dry issue in the election probably was better typified in the contest of the Republican nomination for' attorney general than in the gubernatorial race, according to political leaders. C. C. Crabbe, of London, floor leader in the state house of representatives and aut! - of various state prohibition enforcement laws, and E. E. Corn, of Ironton, were principals in the Republican attorney general race which was foreseen as a test of the strength of those unfavorable to prohibition in the state. Later indications showed Crabbe increasing a small lead. Crabbe is recognized as one of the most prominent dry lenders in Ohio and the anti-saloon league strongly urged that he be supported. As in 1917, when Ohio first swung into the ranks of prohibition states by adopting a bone dry amendment in the constitution, early reports from the ! cities indicated Crabbe's de.feat by sev I eral thousand votes. At one time Corn I was leading by more than 25,000, but when the urban vote had been completed, dry . rural precincts began cutting down Corn's lead. Returns from 5,882 precincts of the state's 7,886 last night gave Crabbe 129,602 and Corn 125,659. She (Snquittf. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mall Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922. The indications are now that the "Big Four" brotherhoods are going to call a general ran striae ana. uim t w ldent Harding is-going to ask congress for authority to seize tlio railroads un- j der government management. The railroad shopmen take the position that they cannot make a separate peace with the Southern because the issue is national, with the life of unionism at stake, and they cannot abandon their fellow craftsmen for their own temporary advantage. They are having some warm politics over in Lancaster, with the JonesSprings quarrel one of the disturbing factors. The fire works center mainly in the race between Dr. Strait and Mr. Stewart. The road question is figuring largely and any man who is dissatisfied because the principal efforts of the road commissioners is elsewhere than before his door, is being urged that things can be straightened out only by a change of the leg lslative personnel. The senate has agreed to an amendment to the tariff bill that will put potash on the free list. It developed in the discussion that the big fertilizer companies had already made contracts with German concerns for their supplies of potash. That the farmer will get any benefit from the implied concession is doubtful. Senator James Reed of Missouri, told the Republicans that an American who would buy potash from Germany when he could get it in his own country ought to be put in jail. White arsenic is adso to go on the free list. j The Allied premiers are still wrestling with the reparations question and ' from the reports that are coming from liondon they are facing a crisis that seems lO SUggCSl a gcuciui aiuuou-u*.. | Germany r.ot having come to time with reparations payments, France wants to put an end to' the matter by seizing German state-owned mines and other property in the Ruhr region, and also administering German customs generally. Belgium is in agreement with France. Lloyd George is dead against the proposition on the ground that it will not get the Allies anywhere and that it will mix things up worse than ever. He is positive that such a step will result in the breaking up of the present alliance. The statement of Mr. Bradford to the effect that politicians are after him from Columbia, is entitled to more than ordinary consideration. The Yorkville Enquirer is not sufficiently well informed on the subject to warrant it in attempting to take up the fight. The Yorkville Enquirer understands, however, that when by right or seniority of service Mr. Hradford became entitled to the chairmanship of the ways and means committee therewas an effort to persuade Mr. Cothran not to appoint him. Mr. Cothran was unwilling to deviate from the established usage, and Mr. Hradford was appointed chairman of the ways and means committee. He refused to become a rubber stamp, however, and the opposition continued to grow. On the organization of the next house Mr. Cothran pro|>osed a change in the usage >under which he agreed to appoint as chairman the choice of a majority of the committee. Through this arI rangement Mr. Hradford was deposed, ! Kn* lmooiicn nf lnnf *?yr?#*ru?nrp h<* continued :i factor in the deliberations of the committee, and whether right or wrong, a somewhat disturbing factor. It has been understood for quite a while that the majority element was anxious to get rid of hint. Then also as a member of the committee on printing, with a considerable knowledge of the subject, he has been making trouble with folks who wanted to do the state printing in their own way at their own prices. There have been whispers for some time that different outside interests are trying to make trouble for him in his own county: hut as we have stated we have no knowledge of the facts except by hearsay through sources other than Mr. Bradford and we do not feel warranted in trying to adjudicate the case. We will say, however, that if the fight against Mr. Bradford is emanating principally from Columbia, York county voters will do well to understand what they are doing before casting their ballots. There could be and there should be a less cumbersome and involved system of county government than we have in York county. Formerly the county was governed by three county commissioners, each with equal responsibility and equal pay. One of them served as chairman and another as clerk. The three commissioners had jurisdiction over roads, bridges, the county home, public buildings and the business of the county generally. Next we had a system of government consisting of a supervisor for the county and three commissioners from each township, the chairman of the respective boards of township commissioners constituting a board of county commissioners, with the county supervisor as ex-offlcio chairman. The pay of the township commissioners was on a per diem basis, not more than a limited number of days per year. The supervisor was vested with executive authority, and J the duties of the commissioners were mostly advisory. The duties of clerk were performed by an officia' chosen for the purpose. The system was found to be cumbersome and unsatisfactory in that there developed a tendency in the" direction of pulling' back to each township all the revenues derived from that township for the purposes of that particular township. Next the Jaw was changed so as to provide for a county supervisor with two county commissioners, with general jurisdiction over the county; and a township supervisor to have jurisdiction over the road of each township. Under this arrangement t.he county board of commissioners were relieved of all jurisdiction over all except specified roaas and an Drioges 01 less man mteen feet in length. The resources of the township supervisors* were confined to the proceeds of a two mill property levy in h's township and a capitation road tax collected from the citizens of his townJijp. He was answerable to nobody for the way he spent the money at his disposal or what he spent it for. Next the law was changed so as to provide for the appointment of a township commission in each township to administer about the same revenues that were administered by the township supervisors. The county board of commissioners now have jurisdiction over the public offices, the county home, the chaingang, certain main highways, and bridges over fifteen feet in lentrth. The countv board of commissioners has nothing to do with the township boards ajid the township boards have nothing to do with the county board. Most of the main highways that were formerly under the jurisdiction of the county board are now under the jurisdiction of the state highway commission, which is in no way responsible to any local au| thority. None of the township commissioners are under bond. All of this system or lack of system has been the result of years of effort to patch various makeshifts into workable shape, until now confusion is worse confounded. We really do not think there is anybody to blame very much, and we would not put the blame on anybody. But we do think it is time we should work out a comprehensive and adequate system of county government that will admit of more thorough and efficient road work at less. cost. Or rather u system that will ensure better results for the money expended. We would have understood, however, that these suggestions are intended to be absolutely without prejudice either to the legislative candidates who are asking for re-election, or those who arc asking for a trial. We recognize that while it may seem an easy matter to frame up an adequate county and township government system, it is really a difficult and complicated task. At the same time, however, we believe that any four men among those who are now offering, that the public may select, can deliver the goods if they will set their minds to the task. ? Investigation of charges that "undue methods or practices are being employed by the trade in restraining the natural operations of the law of supply and demand," and depressing cotton- prices was proposed in a resolution introduced yesterday l>y Senator Smith (Democrat) of South Carolina. The resolution was referred to the agriculture committee. Senator Smith's resolution recited that the cotton carried over was less than normal and that reports ("' tho growing crop indicated a yield below the worlds' demand. It also stated that the boll weevil damage was "more extensive and severe then even before in history .... making the yield entirely problematical." "The price of cotton in the markets has failed utterly to respond to these conditions," said Senator Smith's resolution. Senator Smith made public a letter from J. S. Wanna maker, president of the American Pot ton association, reporting that New York and Knglish cotton speculators were working together to beat down Iti., ... ii i?l.- f?t "Clnnn t l>n irrici'i-nmAltCu crop report was issued?ono of tlie most bullish ever known?the market has gone down every day," said Mr. Wanna maker in his letter, "and it is the general talk of the trade that a powerful combine has been formed for the purpose of beating cotton prices down, it being stated that this combine is composed of some of the biggest financial interests in Mew York? scnne of the biggest speculators there, and some of the biggest speculators in Kngland?and that they boast that they will beat the price of cotton j down to 15 cents. Through some of1 the most reliable sources 1 am given this information." ? South Carolina's llrst bale of 15122 cotton was turned out Wednesday morning from the Farmers' Clin Company of Hani berg. The bale weighed 4!)0 pounds, and was produced by .1. C. Hewitt, a farmer who lives two miles from Bamberg, LOCALAFFAIHS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Specials for Saturday and, Monday. Casey and His Varieties?On Smith lot, York, all next week. Tirzah Picnic Association?Tirzah agricultural picnic Tuesday, August 15. Gordon Nash?Will be at It. T. Allison's stable Tuesday, August 15, to buy mules. Planters Bank, Sharon?Investment in certificates of deposit. Garrison-Faris Seed Co., Rock Hill? Seasonable seed. Committee?Campaign picnic at King's Creek. W. A. Bolin?Candidate for the house of representatives. Clover Drug Store?Sow turnips now. The Cash <fe Carry?Special drive on sugar. Rock Hill Laundry?Your laundry work. * C. N. Alexander, Secretary?Notice of increase of capital stock. tstar ineatre, j. wray, iuiMuisvi? Corinne Griffith today, and Charles Hutchinson tomorrow. Other attractions' to follow. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey ?Polarine. Mr. Ben Carroll of York No. 2, brought a Brimer tomato to The Enquirer office this morning that weighed three pounds and three ounces. The term of office of the treasurer of York county does not expire until July 1, 1923, and the treasurer continues to hold after that until he can be checked out which may be a month or two later. We want our readers to send us information about people coming and going; but unless we know who sends the information it is useless. We do not want the name of the sender of the information for publication; but as a guarantee of good faith.. In eaHO the accuracy of any information we print is called into question, we must be Hi a position to say where we got it if we see proper to do so. We are in frequent receipt of unsigned communications purporting to give information; some of the information contained in such communications is worth while if only it were properly authenticated. But unsigned communications are invariably consigned to the waste basket without a second thought as to their probable source. The average layman might be more or less curious about the possible source of unsigned communications; but not so with the average editor. He receives notes of this kind fre fluently, and more often than otherwise does not even take the trouble to read them. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Real estate transfers have been Indexed in the offlcfc of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?Fannie R Wilson to York Wilson. 1 lot. $1,260. Oscar B. Wilson to W. F. Faulkenberry, 1 lot, $315. Peoples Trust Co., Exor. W. J. Neely, deceased, to Anna Horton, 1 lot, $3,050. J. L. Phillips to Mrs. Jessie H. Massey, 1 lot, $225. Ethel Fleda Steele Smith to Harry L. Dunlap, 1 lot, $550. Catawba Real Estate Co., to The Peoples Trust Co., Trustee, 1 lot, $5 and other considerations. York?Thon. F. McDow to M. L. and C. W. Carroll , 1 lot, $85. (Herndon property). Evay B. Hogue, et al., to Martha V. Baber, 1 lot, $1. (Right, title and interest). WITHIN THE TOWN ? R. D. Dorsett has purchased the interest of W. J. McCarter in Ihe New System Bakery of Yorkville. ? Officers in North and South Carolina have been requested to watch out for R. E. Montgomery, Jr., who is charged with taking a car, the property of T. K. Thomasson of Yorkville. Montgomery who is 19 years old is alleged to have left Rock Hill with the Thomasson car on June 18. traveling with Guy Dcering ,a friend. Montgomery is classed as a deserter from the United States army at Camp Bragg, N. C. It is believed that the two boys are somewhere in the mountains of North Carolina. ? Mr. W. I. Faysoux, of Gastonia, is the proprietor of the tent show that is to play in Yorkville throughout next week. Mr. Faysoux has been in the show business some twenty years, and is well known as one of the leading hypnotists of the country. He has more than once demonstrated his remarkable powers in this line here. However, hypnotism is not to be featured in next week's programme. According to the reports that have been published in the papers, it is quite a clean, wholesome show, presented by good talent, and worth while in the way of first-class entertainment. BULLOCK'S CREEK BRIDGE York county will build a bridge over Bullock's Creek on the township road between Sharon and Hickory Grove. This matter has been under consideration for quite a while; but no special provision having been made bathe expenditure in the supply bill p issed at the last session of the general assembly, it has been a question as to where the money was coming from. Hut at last Wednesday's meeting of the board the matter was finally and definitely settled. Upon inquiry of the treasurer, it was found that reci ipts from the gas tax have swelled the road and bridge fund to a point, where it will be safe to undertake the work, for if there is not enough actual cash on hand now. then- almost certainly will be by the time the work is to b<5 paid for. Delegations from Hickory Cirove ami Sharon presented the matter in effect like this. "Heretofore we have had nothing hut a low water bridge over what in time of freshet is a big creek over a wide bottom. In times past it has been a matter of frequent occurrence that crossing has been made impossible in times of high water. Doctors have been held tip on their way to visit tin; sick. People have I been kept away from church, and electors have been prevented from ex- | emitting their right* of franchise, all i because of this creek at critical times. | We have now built a new road to the creek at another nearby point: but we have not got the money with which to build the necessary high water bridge. The structure will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of five thousand dollars. We will build the i approaches; but we must have help from the county for the bridge proper. | Otherwise all the effort we have been puttin? forth for a bettor road goes for nothing in time of freshet." The county board of commissioners has all .along recognized the necessity for a bridge at this point, and has de- . Sired to build it; but. as stated, has | been hesitating for lack of the necessary means. The problem having at j last been solved by the gas tax, "how- j ever, it was resolved to build the bridge without further delay. TIRZAH HOME COMING Hon. J. Steele Brice of Yorkville and ' Rev. Dr. A. S. Rogers and Dr. J. Rod- j dey Miller of Rock Hill were the principal speakers at the home coming day celebration held at Tirzah church last Tuesday. Neither Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway of Gastonia, Rev. E. B. Hunter of Sharon, or B. H. Grier of Camden, Ala., the only three living former pastors of the church were present. A feature of the exercises of the day was the presentation to | the congregation of an maiviouni communion sot the gift of the relies Aid Society. The speech of presenta| tion was made by Rev. A. S. Rogers, D. D. Dr. J. R. Miller of Rock Hill, read an interesting sketch of Tirzah church, reviewing its history from its organization in 1802 down to the present time. While the church wn" agonized in 1802, the congregation had no regular pastor until 1821, when Rev. W. M. McElwee l)ocanie pastor. In 1S35 there we're 60 members and in 1861 there were 65 white and 9 colored. All the colored have drifted away and many of the white members have withdrawn to unite with the churches in Rock Hill, Yorkville and other places, in Rock Hill six of the present officers were former members of the Tirzah church. Two have gone forth as ministers, Rev. John Miller and Rev. W. R. I'resslcy. Nine former members are now physicians. The present church was erected in 1901, but the original building was on a lot across the way from the Methodist church, the lot still being owned by the congregation. The church at present has a membership of 70. Rev. K. D. ltyrd is the present {wistor, being the ninth to servo the congregation. THE CANDIDATES ARE OFF If the interest shown by voters of McConneHsvillo at the opening campaign meeting of the county at thai [ lace Wednesday is to be taken as an indication of the interest that is to prevail at the several meetings, then the candiates for York county offices are not going to address many voters. Not more than seventy of the 150 people attending the McConnellsvllle meeting, heard the speeches of candidates for the legislature and others. The crowd of picknickers were more interested in social conversation with relatives and friends than they were interested in the "lines" handed out by the various candidates. Still the candidates were able to get in a lot of good work Dy speaking to each voter personally. Candidates for county treasurer drew a laugh when thoy made a break for the little stand in McConnell's nasture from which they were given opportunity to present their claims for suffrage. Seven of them accepted the opportunity to briefly address the voters. Mrs. Lufcia Bwart Quinn, the woman candidate for treasurer, was not present and John R. Logan. Jr., did not attempt a public speech. Each of the seven had had more or less experience as a bookkeeper and was eminently qualified to be treasurer. Pledges of J. Lee Spratt of l-'ort Mill, a candidate for the house of representatives and Ernest W. Guy of McConnellsville, a candidate for treasurer reached Clerk of the Court McMackin Tuesday afternoon. It was explained that the pledges had been delayed in the mails and Chairman John A. Marion ruled the explanation satisfactory. In The Yorkville Enquirer the name of D. L. Shieder was omitted from the list of those who had qualified with the clerk for the position of treasurer. This omission came nbout by reason of the fact that the pledge had not been placed in the file with pledges of other candidates but temporarily placed in another section or trie merit? uince. uniuuuuf Shieder had filed his pledge early Tuesday morning, however. Candidates for county supervisor and county commissioners did not avail themselves of Chairman Love's invitation to discuss road matters with the voters from the public platform. Candidates for those offices never make any public speeches, although there are many voters who think that they should do so. W. J. Talley of Hock Hill, a candidate for the house of representatives observed the 33rd anniversary of his birth by making his maiden speech as a candidate for the house of representatives. Among those in attendance upon the aliening camnniam meeting were ?a number of citizens of Hickory | Grove. There were also a number of ! citizens of Yorkville in attendance I upon the meeting?some of them present merely for pleasure and others there in the interests of candidates of their choice. One beard a lot of talk at MoCon.nellsvilie about tlie necessity of reducing taxes now if it is possible to reduce them. Practically all of the legislative candidates dwelt at more or less length on the matter of tax reduction and it. was made plain that tax reduction was going 11? be the principal subject of political discourse throughout the campaign. Young boys and girls at tho MeConncll.svilic picnic had a nice time of it. Of course they were more interested in one another than they wre in a bunch of old fellows looking fur political plums. The Yorkville Kn<iuirer representative went to thi picnic with one of the candidates in an automobile driven by the candidate's i son. The young man hadn't been on tno grounds long neiore in- mei an i attractive young woman and his interest was centered on her rather ( than the political picnic. "One of you | gentlemen will lmve to drive this Kurd j back home." he said. "I am engaged. ; I'll get !>;' !< some how later on it I i have to stay until tomorrow ami come on the train." Candidates for county offices spoke to the voters of Ogdcn yesterday. Tonight they are invited to speak to the ! voters of Aragon-Rlue Hackle .Mills in I Itock Hill and tomorrow they address the voters of Rock Hill. ? fluff noy, August 9: Magistrate W. \V. Daniels heard an interesting case yesterday, that of the state vs. .letT Harris for slander. C. Y. Allison candidate for sheriff was the prosecutor. Harris, who is a candidate for , county commissioner, was charged with stating at a number of campaign meetings that Allison had curried a negro to Supervisor Lipscomb's homo ! ill CafTney, and that he had recoin- j mended the employment of the negr^ an a detective to assist in stopping the I whisky traffic. Allison admitted | carrying the negro to the house, stating that he was instructed by the j sheriff to do so, but denied that he ! recommended his appointment, but on the contrary, told the supervisor that ! he was not in favor of the appoint- j meal. After hearing the testimony, | and argument of counsel, the magistrate discharged the defendant. The ! trial was hold in the courthouse, and I more than a hundred people were in attendance. . ABOUT PEOPLE Landon Louthiun of Yorkville was a recent visitor to Lenoir, N. C. William Drakeford of Durham, X. C\, is visiting his mother in Yorkville. Mrs. Adah Faulkner of Yorkville is visiting In Charlotte, X. C. Miss Martha Faulkner of Clover Xo. 4, is visiting relatives in Atlanta, Ga. C. X. Alexander of Clover is a visitor in Philadelphia, Pa. .miss saran vviiKins 01 unaruuie, is visiting relatives in Yorkville. Miss Virginia Bratton of Yorkville, , has returned home after a visit to Spartanburg. Mrs. J. D. Clark of York No. 1, has returned home after a visit to relatives in Itock Hill. Misses Annie and Mable Ashe of Yorkville are visiting relatives in Brevard, X. C. Miss Holly Brown of Sumter, h visiting the family of Mr. Robert Withcrspoon, in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. W. 15. Moore of Yorkville, nro spending some time in Charleston. Mrs. J. E. Johnson and daughters, Misses Veola and Thelma Johnson, are visiting in Matthews, N. C. Ur. William Jones of Charleston, is visiting his mother Mrs. J. S. Jones in Yorkville. S. R. Courtney and Jos. B. Thomasson of Yorkville, were visitor^ at Blowing Rock, N. C? this week. j\i r. ami iviin. v... r. nifi n family ?>l' Yorkville, are visiting in Columbia. Henry Massey of Rock Hill was among the visitors in Ynrkvillo >esterduy. Misses Wilma and Ida Miller Quinn have returned to Yorkville, after a visit to Hendersonville, N. C. Mrs. Cleo Gibson and sons of Greenville. recently visited the family of Mrs. V. C. Faulkner on Clover No. 4. Miss Nora Allgood of Hickory, N. C., has returned home after a visit to Mrs. \V. R. Chambers on York No. 7. Mr. Robert Finley o? Washington, P. C? wive recently visited his mother, Mrs. D. E. Finley in Yorkville, has gone to Lancaster for a few days. Mrs. J. E. Xisbit of Van Wyck and Rev. and Mrs. Grady Hardin of Charlotte, are visiting Mrs. G. H O"Leery, in Yorkville. Miss Mary Bird Ashe has returned to her home in Newark, N. J., after a visit to her grandmother,- Mrs. S. C. Ashe, in Yorkville, Joseph Ward law, who is employed by a construction company in Gastonia, recently visited hiH father, Col. J. G. Wardlaw in Yorkville. R. Ed McClain of Charlotte, is visiting- the family of his father, Mr. W. T. McClnin in the McConnellsviile section. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ashe of McConnellsville nas been very ill in a Chester hospital for the past several days. Palmer Dixon of the Bethany section who recently underwent an operation in a Gastonia hospital is recuperating rapidly. Messrs. James and Edward Barry of Charlotte, recently visited the family of Mr. W. S. Barry in the Bethany section. Mrs. R. C. Allein and Miss Lula Allein, have returned to their home in Yorkville after a visit to Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Castles and Mr. R. T. Castles, Jr., of Baltimore, and Mrs. W. E. Hill, of Union, are visiting the family of Mr. R. T. Castles at Smyrna. Rev. X. A. Hemrick, pastor of Clover Baptist church is spending some time in Athens and other Georgia cities. He was accompanied by Mr. Paul Hedgepath. Miss Estelle Brown is expected to return to her home in Yorkville tomorrow after spending a wek with her aunt, Mrs. E. B. McCarter on Smyrna, R. F. D. Xo. 1. Lindsay Thomas of York No. 1 who was badly bruised about the head some time ago when he fell from an automobile truck in Clov-r is able to be at work again. Mrs. W. R. Carroll, Mr. William Carroll, Miss Sarah Carroll and Miss Louise Quinn of Yorkville are spending some time in the mountains of North Carolina. A. T. Harnett and family and Mrs. W. M. MeCarter of the Clover section hgve returned home after a visit to relatives in Greenville, S. C., and Demurest, Ga. Mrs. Ora Glenn Roberts of Sanpauio Minns, Brazil, Mrs. Ralph Glenn and children of Columbia and Mr. Lee Glenn of Rock Hill, visited the Misses Bludworth, in Yorkville, recently. . Lancaster Citizen, Aug. 10. Mrs. W. P. Robinson and children are spending the week with relat'ves at Rock Hill. air. aim jtira. n. un spending their vocation with relatives hj York eountv. Rev. Earl S. Watson and family have returned to their home in Poulan, (la., after a visit to Rev. Watson's father, who lives near Hiekor.v fine e. They were accompanied by Miss Hlanehe Watson. Members of the Reth-Shiloh Sunday School and the Christian Endeavor Sority of Reth-Shiloh church enjoyed a moon light picnic at the home of Mr. W. I?. Chambers Monday night. Tin re were about 12"> present. Supper was i served on the lawn. Mrs. Annie E. Thomnsson. Miss Hattie Thoinassson and Mr. Jos. R. Thoin- j asson of Yorkville, and Miss Janie : Smith and Mr. R. R. Smith of York No. 1, left this morning for chimney j Rock and other Western North Caro- j Una points. Mr. It. J. fRob Jack) Ts)vo is very! ill at the home of his son Mr. ! Rroadus M. Love in Yorkville. .Mr. | Love who has been spending some iiron wii.h his son. Magistrate |{. E. Love in Clover come to tlie hone- of his son in Yorkville on Sunday and soon after became ill. Mr. Love is in the SOtIt year of his ;ipe. Relatives and friends are much concerned about him. BY THE WAY? John E. Carroll of Yorkville, candidate for re-election for superintendent n! education, told the McConnellsville voters ut the county campaign meeting that he proposed to conduct a campaign free of niudslinpiitK and he ft It j sure that Ills opponent, W. T. Slaughter of Hickory Grove would do the same thing. To prove that he was on the best of terms with Mr. Slaughter Mr. Carroll said that he was going to invite his opponent to eat dinner with him when the campaign party spoke at Yorkville. At the campaign meeting at Ogden yesterday, Mr. Slaughter said that he wanted Mr. Carroll to be his guest at dinner when the candidates spoke in his home town of Hickory Grove. Decline in the price of cotton during tho tiiisf wi?t?k hn? hart th?.? keeping cotton off the local market. Charlie Caldwell, well known local buyer said yesterday that not a single lot of cotton had been offered for sale i this week. Treasurer Scarborough of the South Carolina Cotton Grower's Cooperative Cotton Marketing association has accepted an invitation to talk to the farmers at the big agricultural rally to be held at Tirzah next Tuesday. Mr. Scarborough is expected to explain to the audience some of the workings of the marketing association. Hon. J. Skottowe Wannamaker of St. Matthews, president of the American Cotton Association writes that he will be at Tirzah without tail. According to Tirzah people in charge of arrangements for the picnic, everything connected with the gathering has bt en arranged and they are expecting a good big crowd. While candidates for county offices will be welcomed at the Tirzah gathering, it is not the intention to allow them the privilege of addressing the "dere poepul" from the stand. A representative of the bureau of internal revenue of the Federal government has been in Yorkvillc this week checking up the returns of individuals and business firms and corporations for the year 1917, Some of the local folks are pretty sore about it, claiming that they thought the income tax business for that year had long ago been settled and that they liave lost ami destroyed many of their records for that year. Trial of lb v. G. W.'Jennings, well Known coior< u minister ui i urn vine, charged with carrying a pistol and assault and battery with intent to kill his daughter is expected to come up before Magistrate Fred Black of York township next week. Jennings was arrested several weeks ago by Chief of Police Kd Steele and other cffleers and a hig Colt's pistol taken fron: his person. It is alleged that he snapped his pistol at his daughter in the course of a family row. Numbers of farmers in the district west of Yorkville which was visited by a severe hail storm on Thursday night of last week are now of the opinion that they will make at least a part of a crop on the lands that suffered greatly from hail damage. Many stalks of cotton and corn that were beaten down and bruised are now showing signs of life. While tho hall damage In that section is said to be groat, still it could have been worse in most instances In the opinion of those who have closely examined the fields visited by hail. Thnt there would have been at least two more candidates in the field lor house of representatives from York county, making the total ten instead of eight if they had. been able to fork up the necessary $25 entrance fee is the information that comes from a reliable source. At least one cf these two would-be candidates made strenuous efforts to borrow the $25 from several people but without success, the result being that he was unable to hurl his top-piece into the ring. Hugh G. Brown, candidate for reelection to the office of supervisor says that he wishes he could make a public speech and if he was anything of a speaker he would probably talk to the voters form every stump. "When I first entered politics in York county," recalled the supervisor the other day, "I tried to make a public speech; but I mxide such a poor go of it that I have never had the nerve to try it again." Unless there is ^ decided pick-up in the cotton seed oil market within the next few weeks, the prospect is that the buyers will not be able to pay the farmers more than 30 cents a bushel for cotton seed this fall in tho opinion of a couple of well posted cotton seed oil men. The price offered for cotton seed oil is now very low and there is little indication that there is going to be any rise in the market in the near future. A Lee county man who is visiting relatives at Hickory Grove this week and who is a supporter of the candidacy of Hon. Thos. G. McLeod of BishopviUc for governor, said that while he hoped and believed Mr. Mc) Leod would carry his home county of Lee in the primary election, at the same time there was n possibility he would not. The gentleman went on to say that Mr. MeLeod was a member of the local exemption board for Leo county during the World War and that he necessarily made a number of enemies on account of his decisions in I connection with his work as a memI iioi. t lie hnjird. Some of the people whose enmitv ho incurred in that connection are doing everything that they can to beat him in Lee. McConin llsville defeated a team from Yorkvillc in a game of baseball at McConnellsville on Wednesday ufternoon. The score was 'J to 3 in favor of McI Conncllsvillc, and there was a pretty | fair sized crowd of baseball fans out ; for the game. Latteries: Yorkville? I Barr, W. Ininan and McDow; McConI nellsville?Bell and F. Simrill. _LOCAL LACONICS Indian Woman Dies. [ Margaret Brown, said to be the oldest woman of the Catawba Indian I tribe living on the reservation in eastern York county, died early Wednesday moVning. She was about SO years of age. Threo children and a number of grand children survive. Interment wax at -the reservation yesterday. Dr. McGiil Nominated. At a meeting of the York countylegislative delegation held in the of lice of Senator John It. Hart. Wednesday morning. Dr. \\\ F. McGIll of Hickory Grove was nominated for township commissioner of Rroad River township to succeed \V. S. Wilkerson, resigned. The name of Dr. Met Jill was the only name presented to the delegation for nomination for the place. Hail at Hickory Grove. Crops in the Hopewell section and around the town of Hickory Grove suffered more or less on account of a hall storm that swept that section about 10 o'clock Wednesday night. A heavy wind storm accompanied the hail and the wind is said to lmve dono about as much damage as the hail. Among the sufferers were Messrs. Howell, J. W. Smarr, R. L. A. Smith and Mr. Rush. Hail At Lowryville. Chester Reporter: Northwest portions of the county were visited by a (Continued on Pago Eight.)